After debuting with 1973's excellent but neglected Show Your Hand (later reissued as Put It Where You Want It), the Average White Band switched from MCA to Atlantic and hit big with this self-titled gem. Upon first hearing gutsy, Tower of Power-influenced funk like "Person to Person" and the instrumental "Pick Up the Pieces" (a number one R&B hit), many soul fans were shocked to learn that not only were the bandmembers white -- they were whites from Scotland. Like Teena Marie five years later, AWB embraced soul and funk with so much conviction that it was clear this was anything but an "average" white band. This album is full of treasures that weren't big hits but should have been -- including the addictive "You Got It," the ominous "There's Always Someone Waiting," and a gutsy remake of the Isley Brothers' "Work to Do." [When Rhino reissued AWB on CD in 1995, an edited live version of "Pick Up the Pieces" recorded at the 1977 Montreux Jazz Festival was added. (The full-length version had been included on Rhino's 1994 reissue of Warmer Communications.)] ~ Alex Henderson
Rovi
収録内容
構成数 | 15枚
1.
[CD]
1.
The Jugglers
2.
This World Has Music
3.
Twilight Zone
4.
Put It Where You Want it
5.
Show Your Hand
6.
Back In '67
7.
Reach Out
8.
T.L.C.
2.
[CD]
1.
You Got It
2.
Got The Love
3.
Pick Up The Pieces
4.
Person To Person
5.
Work To Do
6.
Nothing You Can Do
7.
Just Want To Love You Tonight
8.
Keepin' It To Myself
9.
I Just Can't Give You Up
10.
There's Always Someone Waiting
3.
[CD]
1.
How Can You Go Home
2.
This World Has Music
3.
Twilight Zone
4.
Put It Where You Want it
5.
Show Your Hand
6.
Back In '67
7.
Reach Out
8.
T.L.C.
4.
[CD]
1.
Cut The Cake
2.
School Boy Crush
3.
It's A Mystery
4.
Groovin' The Night Away
5.
If I Ever Lose This Heaven
6.
Why
7.
High Flyin' Woman
8.
Cloudy
9.
How Sweet Can You Get
10.
When They Bring Down The Curtain
5.
[CD]
1.
Overture
2.
Love Your Life
3.
I'm The One
4.
A Love Of Your Own
5.
Queen Of My Soul
6.
Soul Searching
7.
Goin' Home
8.
Everybody's Darling
9.
Would You Stay
10.
Sunny Days (Make Me Think Of You)
11.
Digging Deeper (Finale)
6.
[CD]
1.
Person To Person [live]
2.
Cut The Cake [live]
3.
If I Ever Lose This Heaven [live]
4.
Cloudy [live]
5.
T.L.C. [live]
7.
[CD]
1.
I'm The One [live]
2.
Pick Up The Pieces [live]
3.
Love Your Life [live]
4.
School Boy Crush [live]
5.
I Heard It Through The Grapevine [live]
8.
[CD]
1.
Get It Up For Love
2.
Fool For You Anyway
3.
A Star In The Ghetto
4.
The Message
5.
What Is Soul
6.
Someday We'll All Be Free
7.
Imagine
8.
Keepin' It To Myself
9.
[CD]
1.
Your Love Is A Miracle
2.
Same Feeling, Different Song
3.
Daddy's All Gone
4.
Big City Lights
5.
She's A Dream
6.
Warmer Communications
7.
The Price Of Our Dream
8.
Sweet ; Sour
9.
One Look Over My Shoulder
10.
[CD]
1.
When Will You Be Mine
2.
Please Don't Fall In Love
3.
Walk On By
4.
Feel No Fret
5.
Stop The Rain
6.
Atlantic Avenue
7.
Ace Of Hearts
8.
Too Late To Cry
9.
Fire Burning
11.
[CD]
1.
Our Time Has Come
2.
For You, For Love
3.
Let's Go Round Again
4.
Whatcha Gonna Do For Me?
5.
Into The Night
6.
Catch Me (Before I Have To Testify)
7.
Help Is On The Way
8.
If Love Only Lasts For One Night
9.
Shine
10.
Into The Night (Reprise) - DEMREC251
12.
[CD]
1.
Kiss Me
2.
Love Won't Get In The Way
3.
Love Gives, Love Takes Away
4.
Growing Pains
5.
Pick Up The Pieces
6.
Person To Person
7.
Cut The Cake
8.
A Love Of Your Own
9.
Queen Of My Soul
13.
[CD]
1.
You're My Number One
2.
Easier Said Than Done
3.
You Wanna Belong
4.
Cupid's In Fashion
5.
Theatre Of Excess
6.
I Believe
7.
Is It Love That You're Running From
8.
Reach Out (I'll Be There)
9.
Isn't It Strange
10.
0 Love's A Heartache
14.
[CD]
1.
Let's Go 'Round Again
2.
Whatcha' Gonna Do For Me
3.
For You, For Love
4.
If Love Only Lasts For One Night
5.
Miss Sun
6.
Shine
7.
Kiss Me
8.
Catch Me (Before I Have To Testify)
9.
Into The Night
10.
0 Wasn't I Your Friend
11.
1 Love Gives, Love Takes Away
12.
2 Growing Pains
13.
3 Love Won't Get In The Way
15.
[CD]
1.
Let's Go 'Round Again [Dimitri From Paris Remix]
2.
Let's Go 'Round Again [Dimitri From Paris Club Dub]