Funk Brothers Music

The sound on this DVD was horrible, had to turn the sound on reciever up very high to hear the music on the DVD. This is the first time that I have gotten a bad Concert. It was not worth the money.

This is a must have for ne true bone thugs n harmony fan. great cd, shipped in a timely manner in great condition

I reallyyyyyyyyyy like dis album Bizzy & Layzie "Bone Brothers" :) The dynamic Bone duo HaHa! :) All the tracks in dis album iz all dope....HaHa! :) My most favorite tracks are ("Hip Hop Baby","Blow You Away",& "Need Your Body") Bone Thugs Babyyyyyy :)

I've had this CD since it came out and its still capable of being listened to all the way through. Again, the Bone Thugs boys prove they are at their best when they're all together, Bizzy adds an element that I found their new Strength & Loyalty album (a solid release) lacking. Also if you like this, Bone Brothers 2 was released this week, though it appears to be strictly Layzie & Bizzy.

I hate people that call themselves Bone lovers but dont know nothing Look this was a album to show that Layzie and Bizzy made up and Bizzy forgave Krazyie for dissing him It went hard to me except those soft ones But wasnt "EVERYDAY" just like bone thugs, whats friends, and **** ryder is some of my favs too. man they need to drop that new album, but none of the soft stuff and they need to promote better I didnt know about this album for too long

I Agree with of the one star reviews on this album, this album is so pointless and a major dissapointment from two of the members of bone thugs & harmony, there is one good song from the album and that's it.

This is a painful experience from the bone brothers.

Big thumbs down for me.

This is a must have for ne true bone thugs n harmony fan. great cd, shipped in a timely manner in great condition

I reallyyyyyyyyyy like dis album Bizzy & Layzie "Bone Brothers" :) The dynamic Bone duo HaHa! :) All the tracks in dis album iz all dope....HaHa! :) My most favorite tracks are ("Hip Hop Baby","Blow You Away",& "Need Your Body") Bone Thugs Babyyyyyy :)

I've had this CD since it came out and its still capable of being listened to all the way through. Again, the Bone Thugs boys prove they are at their best when they're all together, Bizzy adds an element that I found their new Strength & Loyalty album (a solid release) lacking. Also if you like this, Bone Brothers 2 was released this week, though it appears to be strictly Layzie & Bizzy.

I hate people that call themselves Bone lovers but dont know nothing Look this was a album to show that Layzie and Bizzy made up and Bizzy forgave Krazyie for dissing him It went hard to me except those soft ones But wasnt "EVERYDAY" just like bone thugs, whats friends, and **** ryder is some of my favs too. man they need to drop that new album, but none of the soft stuff and they need to promote better I didnt know about this album for too long

I Agree with of the one star reviews on this album, this album is so pointless and a major dissapointment from two of the members of bone thugs & harmony, there is one good song from the album and that's it.

This is a painful experience from the bone brothers.

Big thumbs down for me.

when i bought this cd i was not expecting it to be this good i think it is one of the best bone albums they ever put out and i have all of there albums i reccomend this cd to any bone fan it is a must have. also look out for krayzie bone he has 2 underground cd's coming out soon.

Truth be told, this album isn't completely wack. Is it dangerously close? Yes. But two things keep this album from being wack: 1)decent (not great) production and 2)Krayzie Bone. If it wasn't for those two things, this album would be a certified drink coaster.

There are plenty of reasons for why I think this album is mediocre. Apparently, Bizzy Bone has completely forgotten how to rhyme. Layzie Bone still has an ill flow, but he's not saying anything worth hearing. Just about every member of Bone has been rapping about "haters", backstabbers, and weed since they came out. It's time they update their content. Also, too many of the songs suffer from drowsy production and lame hooks. "D*ck Rider" would be a perfect example because the beat is weak, the hook is awful, and it doesn't really make sense if you listen to it.

There are some decent joints to be found though. "What's Friends" is cool if you can get past Bizzy's inability to stay on beat. The sad thing is the fact that the best moment of the entire album only lasts for 32 seconds. "Felicia Skit" should've been stretched into an entire song. "Hip Hop Baby" has a nice beat to it and Lay, Kray, and Biz all hold their own. "Real Life" is another decent track where Treach (from Naughty By Nature) and Krayzie make strong appearances. Honestly, the only good songs are the ones with Krayzie Bone on them, and not even all of those are good. Don't get me wrong, it's not like I'm a Krayzie Bone super fan. In fact, I always thought Bizzy and Layzie were the two illest members of Bone.....until I heard this album.

I can't really reccomend this to anyone. I guess if you're a longtime fan of the Bone/Mo Thugs family then I guess you'd have to get this to complete the collection, but I can't see anyone else buying this. Buy at your own risk. I reccomend downloading it and testing it out first.

Standout tracks: Real Life feat. Krayzie Bone & Treach, Felicia Skit (My Favorite), What's Friends feat. Krayzie Bone, Need Your Body feat. Krayzie Bone & Kareem, Hip Hop Baby feat. Krayzie Bone, and Give It To Me feat. Felicia Howse

Extremely rare UK compilation of rare 60's and 70's funk 45's.

Tracklisting:
Breakdown - We The People 3:35
It's A New Day - Skull Snaps 3:08
Superpeople - Notations 3:57
Ain't No Greens In Harlem The Vibrations 3:24
Dance Girl - Fatback Brother Bill Curtis 2:54
Be Black Baby - Grady Tate 3:51
Soul Drums - Pretty Purdie 3:31
You Gotta Push - Jody Gales 2:52
Pull My Coat Eddie - Jacobs Exchange 2:48
It's Football Baby - Sticks Of Dynamite 3:11
Sexy Coffee Pot - Tony Avalon & The Belairs 2:27
Black Bag - Carl "Sherlock" Holmes 2:38
Get Down People - The Fabulous Counts 2:36
Do It For Me - General Crook 3:03
Booty Whip - Bro. Byron 3:00
The Freeze - Lifeforce 3:59
Can You Dig It? - Chico & Buddy 3:00
Bring It On Down - Bobby Franklin's Insanity 4:23

None of these songs needed to be covered again. But, hanging out with Joan and her rich voice is great! Mellow, rich and very comfortable.

Joan Osborne has won me over again, this time as the singer of 70's soul covers and the writer of new songs to fall in love with. I strayed over to this looking for a wife gift, I tend to listen to more Jazz and Blues vocalists, yet I found her voice styling and her arrangements tight and complete. I can say proudly that my wife and I sang along with her on her covers of Kiss And Say Goodbye, Midnight Train To Georgia, Sara Smile, Break Up To Make Up and Kiss And Say Goodbye. And other than the overly maudlin Baby Is A Butterfly, Ms Osborne has given us a wonderful makeout album... oops cd.

Great Kick back and relax music. Joan does a wonderful job on this album! My fav is Eliminate the Night

It is my opinion that this if Joan's best work. It is very soulful, and the sound is great. I would highly recommend this cd to anyone. I have played it over and over again. I wish that I could get it in SACD.

Joan has a great soulful voice and she has proved her versatility in handling everything from melodic pop to twangy country.
Her love for Motown favorites can be felt on "Breakfast In Bed".
A homage to early soul songs from the late '60s, "Breakfast In Bed" shows Osborne wasn't a one trick pony with her huge single "(What If God Was) One of Us".
On her latest offering, she looks toward Motown, with worshipful, full-throated covers of R&B classics plus six original songs, each written with such R&B style that you first wonder if you've heard that tune before.
After last year's little-heard Pretty Little Stranger released only seven months before this one, she wraps her husky voice all the way around a bunch of classics such as "Ain't No Sunshine", "Midnight Train To Georgia" and Dusty Springfield's "Breakfast in Bed".
She's in fine voice throughout her debut album for Time Life, but the inclusion of her two phenomenal covers from Standing in the Shadows of Motown at the end of the collection actually highlights the album's shortcomings.
The album is a real mixed bag.
Her voice is excellent but her languid and almost emotion-free interptretations are pretty far from a specially adventurous and engaging record.
There are no ground-breaking elements here, nothing's memorable, rather the album sways towards mainstream R&B which is a shame as the soul tracks are excellent and her potentials are limitless.
It seems that she and the producer have chosen to favour the marketing and the charts over quality and originality.

The Breckers were often dismissed as shallow R&B fusion at the time of these recordings, understandable given the music's rock star swagger and Michael's propensity to play as many notes as humanly possible. However, that doesn't take into account Randy's innovative horn arrangements (tight clusters that ended up gracing hits by Diana Ross and Cameo, among others), the revolutionary harmonic structure of songs such as "Some Skunk Funk," Michael's John Coltrane meets King Curtis saxophone wizardry, or Randy's chromatic approach to the trumpet. The cuts on Volumes 1 and 2 gather together most of the Brecker's better tunes and avoid their godawful attempts at pop (Fingerlickin' Good, Oh My Stars). There are a few missing tunes (the burning Tabula Rasa, for example), but the only way you could do better than this would be to collect all the Brecker's cds, burn the best cuts and make your own best-of collection.
If you would like to read more reviews like this, check out JazzboNotes.com.

The Brecker Bros. have won me over. Always a skeptic of those to dabble into the realm of modern/smooth jazz even slightly, I was very slow to get around to listening to them. However, I was delighted by my findings: adrenalized, powerful jazz-funk. Michael Brecker is no doubt at the top of today's large pool of sax players. Especially noteworthy is the complex intertwined parts, and rapid firing note changes of the Brecker fan favorite Skunk Funk. If that song doesn't move you, you are immovable.

The Breckers were often dismissed as shallow R&B fusion at the time of these recordings, understandable given the music's rock star swagger and Michael's propensity to play as many notes as humanly possible. However, that doesn't take into account Randy's innovative horn arrangements (tight clusters that ended up gracing hits by Diana Ross and Cameo, among others), the revolutionary harmonic structure of songs such as "Some Skunk Funk," Michael's John Coltrane meets King Curtis saxophone wizardry, or Randy's chromatic approach to the trumpet. The cuts on Volumes 1 and 2 gather together most of the Brecker's better tunes and avoid their godawful attempts at pop (Fingerlickin' Good, Oh My Stars). There are a few missing tunes (the burning Tabula Rasa, for example), but the only way you could do better than this would be to collect all the Brecker's cds, burn the best cuts and make your own best-of collection.
If you would like to read more reviews like this, check out JazzboNotes.com.

The Brecker Bros. have won me over. Always a skeptic of those to dabble into the realm of modern/smooth jazz even slightly, I was very slow to get around to listening to them. However, I was delighted by my findings: adrenalized, powerful jazz-funk. Michael Brecker is no doubt at the top of today's large pool of sax players. Especially noteworthy is the complex intertwined parts, and rapid firing note changes of the Brecker fan favorite Skunk Funk. If that song doesn't move you, you are immovable.