Time: 55:58
Size: 128.1 MB
Styles: Funk, New Oleans R&B
Year: 1997
Art: Front
[3:01] 1. Cissy Strut
[2:37] 2. Live Wire
[2:53] 3. Sophisticated Cissy
[3:14] 4. Look-Ka Py Py
[2:55] 5. Pungee
[2:24] 6. Tippi-Toes
[3:07] 7. Soul Island
[3:27] 8. Cabbage Alley
[5:13] 9. People Say
[4:00] 10. Hey Pocky A-Way
[4:40] 11. Just Kissed My Baby
[3:21] 12. Jungle Man
[3:31] 13. Out In The Country
[4:04] 14. Fire On The Bayou
[4:07] 15. They All Ask'd For You
[3:17] 16. Trick Bag
In keeping with the drift of Rhino's Very Best Of volumes, this 16-track disc provides a more concise, budget-minded retrospective for listeners who might not want a set that offers twice as much or more (in this case, Rhino's own two-disc Funkify Your Life anthology). That's not necessarily a criticism -- funk grooves can get tiring over the course of two hours if you're not a rhythm fiend. Should you want to keep your Meters to the one-sitting level, this smartly chosen, well-annotated set is fine, including all of the cuts ("Cissy Strut," "Sophisticated Cissy," "Look-Ka Py Py," "Hey Pocky A-Way," "Fire on the Bayou") you'd expect to find on a greatest-hits set. ~Richie Unterberger
The Very Best Of The Meters