Con Funk Shun - 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Con Funk Shun '2002

Tracks list

Tracklist
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01. Fun
02. Loves Train
03. Baby Im Hooked (Right into Your Love)
04. Chase Me
05. Shake Me and Dance With Me
06. Got to Be Enough
07. (Let Me Put) Love on Your Mind
08. Too Tight
09. Ms. Got-the-Body
10. Ladys Wild
11. Make It Last
12. Straight from the Heart

In the 1990s, the major label PolyGram released four hits compilations by the
1970s/80s pop-funk band Con Funk Shun in the U.S., the full-priced The Best of
Con Funk Shun and The Best of Con Funk Shun, Vol. 2 (both on the Mercury
imprint) and the budget-priced Ffun (on the Special Music label) and Greatest
Hits (on PolyGram Special Markets). (There was also an anthology with the
self-explanatory title The Ballads Collection.) Now, this entry in Universals
20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection series presents a
midline-priced Con Funk Shun best-of, so theres a compilation for every
pocketbook. But there still isnt a Con Funk Shun hits album that contains all
their major hits. Six R&B Top Tens the band scored between 1977 and 1983 are
featured here: Ffun, Shake and Dance with Me, Chase Me, Got to Be Enough, Too
Tight, and Baby, Im Hooked (Right into Your Love). (All six are also on The Best
of Con Funk Shun, and the first five are on both Ffun and Greatest Hits.) But
their final two, Electric Lady and Burnin Love, are not. Nor are these unusual
omissions; Electric Lady has appeared only on The Best of Con Funk Shun, Vol. 2,
while Burnin Love has yet to be anthologized. One can only assume that the band
disowns these later hits or that, since the tunes were outside songwriting
efforts and the group does not stand to earn publishing fees, they would rather
fill up their compilations with admittedly well-received album tracks like Make
It Last and Loves Train. Nevertheless, when an act has put out six compilations
at various price points, youd think that one of them (or even the bunch of them
taken together) would contain all of its biggest hits.

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