Ohio Players school me on their lps
LuckLoop
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so i got fire wich is 
and skin tight 
but i got observations in time wich i guess was released as ohio untouchables and its not really good. i know honey but havent come around a physical copy yet. and i know funky worm so i guess i need pleasure aswell. anything else recommended?
and skin tight but i got observations in time wich i guess was released as ohio untouchables and its not really good. i know honey but havent come around a physical copy yet. and i know funky worm so i guess i need pleasure aswell. anything else recommended?
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U want their Westbound stuff.
Pain Pleasure Ecstacy
The Mercury stuff - I stop at Contradiction but I secretly dig Mr. Mean.
AAAAaaaaaaaaaoooooooooOOOWWWWWW!!!!
Who produced that for Jay-Z?
From Reasonable Doubt - Biggie Duet?
I still need this foldout LP.
One of my favorite samples is that Players Ballin used by Scarface He's Dead from TWIYours.
Anyone who discovers the Mercury stuff always goes back to what they did on Westbound and are generally shocked at what they did before. Observations In Time[/b] is different but similar to what The Parliaments were also doing at the time, if one has to make a comparison.
Yes pleez
wow. i have never seen or heard of that album. i see most of the other ones regularly but never pick them up....
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i think its the only actual LP by them i own. i have both covers (other one has a Skull on it and its called "First Impressions"..i think its on Trip)
either way its got some great early stuff, but the bass is out of tune on almost the entire album!!! (has its charm though.)
other than that all i have is the Pain and Funky Worm 45s. i recommend both. haha
Is this the album with "Trespassin'," "A Little Soul Party," "Sophisticated Alabama Soupbone," "Got To Hold On," "It's A Cryin' Shame," etc.? If so, really good album, originally recorded for Compass Records around '67 or '68 (but not released as a complete LP until the seventies). This has been repackaged many times in many ways, and the version I have is on United Artists - The Very Best Of The World Of Ohio Players. Even better, I like the fact that they made this LP visually consistent with their regular LP's, with the closeup of a woman's crotch. (Although I guess a drawing of a skull, like on the Trip LP, is about as "naked" as you can get.)
No, it actually WAS released under the Ohio Players name, and later reissued by Capitol as just The Ohio Players. I think it's pretty good as a straight soul album, myself, although if you're looking for the funk, that album ain't gonna get it. The comparison to early P-Funk (when they were known as the Parliaments and were essentially another soul harmony group) is fairly apt.
Now here's something that I know many won't agree with: I don't think the Pleasure album is all that hot. After "Funky Worm," there's not much else there. And naturally I like their funk stuff (the Mercury albums from their heyday are more consistent), but that LP doesn't do it for me. Haven't gotten the rest of their Westbound catalog yet, even though I have the singles of "Pain" and "Ecstasy."
yep, this is the one.
Yeah, any band that lasted as long as the Ohio Players never starts out the same way they wound up. (I see no one is big-upping their disco-era albums...or their various comebacks from the '80s and '90s...probably for good reason!)
Big up Junie Morrison. I think he was a major force on the westbound material. And he was only 17 years old when he joined the group.
No problem. Here it is:
DivShare File - Ohio Players - Love Rollercoaster _quad m.mp3
(I tried to do the regular DivShare thing where you listen, but it's not working for me)
It's at 320kbps, so if you or anyone else wants to use it for whatever reason, there it is.
Thanx
I owe u a lapdance.
Good fuckin idea!!!
I know Mercury put out a Deluxe Comp. It was alright but not tight.
I shall coppeth.
1. Pleasure
2. Laid It
3. Pride and Vanity
4. Walt's First Trip
5. Varee Is Love
6. Walked Away from You
7. Paint Me
8. Funky Worm
9. Our Love Has Died
10. Ruffell Foot [*]
11. What It Is [*]
12. Rooster Poot [*]
13. Gone Forever [*]
14. Dimensions in Time [*]
15. Introducing the Players [*]
16. Satan's Boogie [*]
1. Pain [Mono Version]
2. Never Had a Dream
3. Players Balling (Players Doin' Their Own Thing)
4. I Wanna Hear from You
5. Reds
6. Singing in the Morning
7. Climax aka Theme from 69 [*]
8. What's Going On? [Mono Version][*]
9. Time and Space [Mono Version][#][*]
10. Feelin' Alright [Mono Version][*]
11. If You Were My Woman [Mono Version][#][*]
12. Ain't That Loving You [Mono Version][*]
13. Proud Mary [Mono Version][*]
1. Ecstasy
2. You and Me
3. Not So Sad and Lonely
4. (I Wanna Know) Do You Feel It?
5. Black Cat
6. Food Stamps Y'all
7. Spinning
8. Sleep Talk
9. Silly Billy
10. Short Change
11. Rattlesnake [*]
12. Hustle Bird [*]
13. Hollywood Hump [*]
14. She Locked It [*]
15. Trans-Maximus [#][*]
Observations In Time LP ... is that the same song
that Earth, Wind & Fire did?
Also a big fan of their Compass 45's like "It's a Crying Shame" etc ...
I also have a female vocal track on Compass where she is backed by the OP.
Helena Ferguson's "Where Is The Party?"
Some badass fuzz guitar on that track. And then there's Helena herself, who kinda sounds like Spanky Wilson: "somebody tell meeee...whe-eh-eh-eh-ehhhh...where is the party?" Great record.