TOP 5 KOOL & THE GANG
Phill_Most
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Summer Madness (studio and live versions)Winter SadnessMusic Is The MessageGive It UpN.T.i know I am missing something MAJOR that should go on my top 5... "Joanna" maybe? naw, never that, son. 
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You Don't Have To Change
Jungle Boogie
Ladies Night
co-sign on everything on your list, particularly the 2 Summer Madness joints (the name of my college radio show back in the 80's) and ESPECIALLY Winter Sadness (very underrated joint).
would + ...
Soul Vibrations
Jungle Jazz
Funky Man
N.T.
Who's Gonna Take The Weight
Summer Madness (both versions)
Dujii
North East South West
Summer Madness
and "Sport" off Hustler's Convention
OHHHHH DAMN YOU DROPPIN' SOME BOMBS RIGHT THERE SON
NT
Give It Up
Who's Gonna Take The Weight
Sea Of Tranquility as my slow jam (never liked Summer Madness)
Deodato hommie!
Ohhh hells yeah... that's an underrated killer right there, too. Ain't no ways in hell fuckin' with Summer Madness for me, but still a dope ass song.
After hearing Summer Madness in "Rocky", that was it for me. That's one of my top songs all time, maybe even top 10. I dunno for sure about top 10, all I know is I can never get tired of that one.
I don't know the deal, Paul!!!
But Winter Sadness is like my #1 jum-pon-jum-poff.
Chocolate Buttermilk
Stop Look and Listen
Blowing in the Wind
Heaven at Once
You could almost split this list in two: top 5 KATG funk bomb, and top 5 KTAG slow jams. I always though that "Heaven at Once" off of Wild and Peaceful was a criminially slept on slow jam.
"We are scientists of sound, we're mathematically puttin it down"
Hollywood swinging
Fresh
Ladies Night
Jungle Boogie
high school sweethearts
love was so brand new
we took the vows of man & wife
forever
for life
i remember how we made our way
a little patience
the times we prayed
cant imagine that this love is thru
feeling the pain girl
when you lose
YES! TOO HOT FUCKING KILLS IT!!!
"I have, watermeloooon! Red ripe tomatoes. Apples and oranges. Idaho potatoes. So look, see what you see. I only bring things naturally. You know, you gottta eat to live. So your body can give you more to give. So eat naturally and you will see the differeeeence! The differeeeence! The differeeeeence!"
You know, that's probably the one song on the cheesy pop JT Taylor side of Kool & The Gang's career that is like
Walk on By
Chocolate Buttermilk
Summer Madness
Funky Stuff
Joanna
Cherish
..no, wait...
"Get Down on it"
Who's Gonna Take The Weight? Dujii?
Yo Phill could it be that you mixed it up with one of the best rip offs of a original composition that I know of ???
The track is called "Decision" by Bill Conti. I saw Rocky II the other night on TV and it is used in the scenes where Rocky has to earn money for the new house they bought and because he is not good in reading and doing commercials he is working in the slaughterhouse and cleaning the floor.
That tune is so dope but was not on the Rocky II OST, they released that the first time on the Rocky III OST.
Here is a soundclip:
Bill Conti - Decision - Rocky III OST
Peace
Hawkeye
Cherish
Cherish
Cherish
Cherish
2. Give It Up
3. Jungle Jazz
4. N.T.
5. Dujii
No, Phill is right. It's not in the second, but the first Rocky. As far as I remember there's a scene in his apartment where it's playing in the background. Kool, not Conti.
But still "Decision" is a great rip off of "Summer Madness"
Peace
Hawkeye
(Phill, can't believe you left this one out! Fr***ly F*re!)
Yeah, I know. Not top 5 for me, though. Bangin' like a mug regardless, just like almost all of the stuff from K&TG's first few albums.