vainandy said:

Babyface brother, (I can't think of his name) the brotha from After 7, I used to always think he was a female.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

...Otay...

vainandy said:

Scared of GrandMa!

SoulAlive said:

I'll give it a try Soul, here's my five for the moment:

I Just Want To Be
Knights By Knights
It's Serious
Cameosis
Rigor Mortis
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WAYNE COOPER REST IN PEACE!!!!!
ONE OF THE BEST 2 EVER DO IT!!!!!

vainandy said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Kevon.

Who doesn't love Cameo? My favorites:

Candy
I Just Want to Be
Freaky Dancin'
Single Life
Shake Your Pants

Abdul said:

To your list I'll add Shake Your Pants, Flirt, & She's Strange.
[Edited 11/15/07 9:48am]

One of my favorite Cameo releases is the underappreciated "Feel Me" album.
I can't believe it's out of print in the U.S.
Larry Blackmon still hasn't received the accolades he deserves for elevating funk to dizzying heights.

Feel Me" Track Listing:

Throw It Down
Your Love Takes Me Out
Keep It Hot
Feel Me
Is This the Way
Roller Skates
Better Days
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Copycat said:

Yeah this album tend to fall by the waste side. I still rotate the album.

Throw It Down is a monster, esp.@the break the bass and the moog or clavi. "Freaky dancin' freaky dancin".
Your Love Takes Me Out pure fi-yah "It gets the best of me, and it makes me wanna shout"
Keep It Hot need i splain
Feel Me Anthony Lockett holding it down
Is This the Way you want it to be
Roller Skates If you like this sound, throw your arms around, both hands in the air, don't be shy now we know that you can do it, lift one foot at a time now form a single line, turn yourself around don't be shy now we like the way you do it.
Better Days "I like the way you make me feel, honestly i do, i do. ooo. you make me cry everytime you say goodbye and the chances are..i'll never get to see you agaain woah, no one said that life was easy no-no
there's nothing i can do but blow a kiss and hope for better days..

Bet-ter daaaaays oh yea',(yea' yea'), a better daaaa-ays"


[Edited 11/15/07 14:04pm]

MsLegs said:

Great additions.

I love Shake Your Pants Probably my personal favorite.

"Candy" and "Skin I'm In" are my 2 favorite songs.

I bought Cameo's Alligator Woman the same day I bought Controversy & The Time. Just Be Yourself remains my favorite song of the 80's.

When I was growing up, I listened to very few albums in their entirety. I usually only put the needle on the songs I was familiar with from the radio or an uptempo jam I discovered from placing the needle from one song to another. A lot of tracks like this one slipped by me at the time.

When I got a CD recorder a few years ago and started recording entire vinyl albums onto CD, I was forced to listen to the entire albums so I could press the button at the right time to increase the track number. During that process, I discovered a lot of tracks I had overlooked back in the day. "Better Days" is a song I have come to love. Another one is "I'll Always Stay" from Cameo's "Knights Of The Sound Table" album. Even though I owned the albums, I had never realized that Cameo really had some great albums from start to finish back in those days.

vainandy said:

I hear ya' VA,

I too go back to my vinyl and discover or re-discover songs that i paid little attention to back then, ahh yes.. the power of vinyl.

I dug Better Days from the first listen, better yet i dug the entire album from first listen.

I'll Always Stay is another nice Cameo slow song, Cameo always had a slow cut on their albums that i would get requests to play.

Vinyl...keep'em spinnin'.

They seriously need to re-release Cameo's back catalogue.

And what's this I heard about a 30th anniversary box set package from the band?

LittleBLUECorvette said:

That bass line in 'Flirt' is too f-cking nasty.

NWF said:

I so very much agree with you. I'm in the process of writing to Mercury Records to ask them to do exactly that.

NWF said:

A 24 bit digital remaster with previously unreleased 12" versions, I HOPE!

NWF said:

where did you hear that rumor?

SoulAlive said:

Hell, i just hope it focus more on the deep cuts.

...If there's any truth to a 30th anniversary box set.
[Edited 11/21/07 11:39am]

Funny this thread is up. They just did a private bday party in my area. Some close musician friends of mine opened up. They stated larry and Aaron Mills came off like jerks!!!!! Shame.....cause they do have some funky cuts "Cameosis", "We're goin out tonight", the list goes on.....

etifaim said:

That song is aiight