Decent but Flawed Companion Piece
S. Lomeli | 05/20/2005
(4 out of 5 stars)
"This cd makes a decent but flawed companion piece to 1993's Gettin' It Off; Westbound Funk CD. It's great to have a 2nd unreleased pre-P Boots (Bootsy Collins) track as well as the previously unreleased tracks by the Ohio Players and Freddie Wilson. What I don't understand is why, for instance, Silky Vincent's Funky World Part 1 appears when Gettin It Off featured Parts 1 & 2. Two other tracks repeat without variation; Donald Austin- Crazy Legs and Bobby Franklin's Insanity- Hit It and Quit It. Also somewhat mainstream tracks from Funkadelic and the Counts could have been replaced with more obscure offerings. Lastly there are at least three tracks on here that just scratch funk and would be better left on a soul compilation. BGP can and has put out better comps than this. Still with nowhere else to get some of these tracks it's an essential buy for funk heads as is the out of print 1993 comp (which by the way bears some of the same flaws)."