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School me on CAMEO I've been reading about them and they seem like an 80's version of Earth, Wind and Fire who I adore. I'm familiar with their mid-80's hits but I know nothing else about them. So I need the org to educate me on them.
Give me their best albums, songs and what greatest hits would be the most beneficial to converting from casual listener to enthusiatic fan. Stevie Wonder = EARTH
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Cameosis is the blueprint. | |
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JERKIN' EVERYTHING IN SIGHT!!!!! | |
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Albums
Ugly Ego Cameosis Feel Me Knights of The Sound Table Alligator Woman Style She's Strange Secret Omen Single Life Don't laugh at my funk
This funk is a serious joint | |
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Thanks Stevie Wonder = EARTH
Prince = WIND Chaka Khan = FIRE Sade = WATER the ELEMENTS of MUSIC | |
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Why Have I Lost You, and Sparkle, classic old school slow jams. Why Have I Lost You is my favorite though. That falsetto! He went in! | |
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OK..here's my list (omitting remixes, side productions & solo projects)..
Post Mortem Funk Funk Rigor Mortis C On The Funk I'll Be With You Insane Ugly Ego Sparkle Energy I Just Want To Be Throw It Down Your Love Takes Me Out Keep It Hot Cameosis Shake Your Pants Please You We're Goin Out Tonight Knights By Nights Freaky Dancin Don't Be So Cool I Like It Be Yourself Soul Army Flirt Aligator Woman Aphrodisiac This Life Is Not For Me Style Cameo's Dance Let's Not Talk Slot Slow Movin She's Strange Talkin Out The Side Of Your Neck Love You Anyway Groove With You Hangin Downtown Attack Me With Your Love Single Life Urban Warrior Word Up Candy Back and Forth She's Strange Fast, Fierce & Funny You Make Me Work Skin I'm In Pretty Girls I Want It Now Emotional Violence Don't Crash Slyde Sweet Sexy Thing
One of THE most important bands in the entire funk genre, IMO. Brilliant catalog. Funk Is It's Own Reward | |
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..saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay Whut!! No Cardiac Arrest! No We All Know Who We Are!
  National Funk League✮✮ | |
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National Funk League✮✮ | |
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All of their music on Chocolate City / Casablanca label is amazing. The two-disc collection "Cameo Gold" is pretty good for starters. | |
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Thanks again..... I'm about to DIG IN Stevie Wonder = EARTH
Prince = WIND Chaka Khan = FIRE Sade = WATER the ELEMENTS of MUSIC | |
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Nick Ashford was someone I greatly admired, had the honor of knowing, and was the real-life inspiration for Cowboy Curtis' hair. RIP Nick. - Pee Wee Herman | |
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Start with the albums....
Cameosis Feel Me Knights of the Sound Table Alligator Woman
Then go back and check out their earlier albums before those.
Andy is a four letter word. | |
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Wayne Cooper has one of the best falsettos I have ever heard. Andy is a four letter word. | |
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it! They must be good if everybody has a different favorite from them...... I haven't seen a pattern yet.
I'll start with the hits Stevie Wonder = EARTH
Prince = WIND Chaka Khan = FIRE Sade = WATER the ELEMENTS of MUSIC | |
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Cameo is arguably my second all-time favorite band. A definitive funk band that made lots of changes with their sound, but it still was funky to the core.
My Cameo two-disc set goes something like this:
DISC ONE:
"Slyde" "Be Yourself" "You Make Me Work" (remix version) "Your Love Takes Me Out" "Keep It Hot" "Sparkle" "Feel Me" "Hangin' Downtown" "Why Have I Lost You" "I Just Want To Be" (extended version) "Talkin' Out The Side Of Your Neck" "Single Life" "Candy" "I Want It Now" (remix version)
DISC TWO:
"She's Strange" "Freaky Dancin'" "Word Up!" (remix version) "Shake Your Pants" "Flirt" "I Care For You" "It's Over" "We're Goin' Out Tonight" "Don't Be Lonely" "Attack Me With Your Love" (remix version) "Rigor Mortis" "Alligator Woman" "Back And Forth" "Skin I'm In" | |
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EWF was a mixture of many sounds in black popular music -- a utopian view of the world mixed in with some Sly & The Family Stone, throw in some harmonies from the Motown era, some pop, The Tower of Power horns, some African, Carribean and Brazilian rhythms, some gospel and some contemporary jazz.
Cameo was like a combination of The Ohio Players' funk with traces of Parliament-Funkadelic's experimental concepts. In fact, Cameo was originally known as The New York Players and Cameo's co-founder Blackmon's delivery brings into mind The Ohio Players' Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner. [Edited 2/25/12 23:42pm] | |
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