Mr Entertainment is a very good compilation and to be fair will suffice. It depends on how much you like albums in your collection. Higher & Higher and I Get The Sweetest Feeling spring to mind. Higher & Higher is probably his best album and I think should be in every soul collection - it's a lost gem. Beyond that it depends on what style of Wilson you are interested in because he covered so many different styles. Rock n roll, jazz standards (ie. ones where he shows off his voice), chicago soul, showtunes. I mention Sweetest Feeling because he covers a couple of styles on that one where often he would follow one style for one album then do something different for the next one and then again and so on and so forth.
Alternatively you could tell me what songs you liked from the first compilation in particular. That might help. But as I say Mr Excitement should be enough.
And as you nominated Doggin Around for the tournament, here's a cool live rendition of that song: -https://www.yousendit.com/download/T2pFYUo5dEMwZ2xjR0E9PQ
And here's MJ's version of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKXs2czUrMg

Album Drew Wants To Make Love To* For 03/07/11

-http://www.mediafire.com/?ylzmxhdngxz

*meaning I wish to have intercourse with the disc itself.

That's a great one, Dreww, be sure to listen to Copa as well if you haven't. Much more the restrained Cooke mind you for the supper club audience.

So whaddaya people think are some of the best R&B, Soul, or Funk albums after the 80s? I'm really liking a lot of this CrazySexyCool album by TLC.

some that jump to mind immediately for me, hope you enjoy the quick reviews:


D'angelo - "Voodoo"
Untitled (How Does it Feel)
Spanish Joint
Feel Like Makin' Love
The Root
The more I listen to this album the more I think it might be one of my favorites. It was produced by Questlove, who also does the drums and most of the arrangements, and D'angelo is just a brilliant singer imo. He reminds me of Al Green with his use of restraint, which matches the music really well. It's great on headphones, as a lot of the grooves of the songs take place mostly in the low range (because of this I've been referring to D'angelo as the original James Blake, except funkier). "Untitled (How Does it Feel)" is probably the highlight for me, although unfortunately youtube doesn't have the album version of the song which ends in a crazy Hendrix/Isley Brothers influenced guitar solo. Parts of the album sound like straight up jazz, and it's always very soulful. Unfortunately the album is sometimes overlooked because of D'angelo's image. The "Untitled" video was just all these shots of him naked (from the waist up). On his tour he freaked out because he's a musical genius but all these girls would just show up and shout at him to get naked. So he hasn't really done any music since "Voodoo," at least not that I know of.

Laurn Hill - "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Doo Wop (That Thing)
Can't Take My Eyes Off of You
Those links may be unnecessary because they were such big hits, and also some might call this a hip hop album.

Dam Funk - "Toeachizown"
Rollin'
(My Funk Goes) On & On
Mirrors
10 West
Hood Pass Intact
Here's an album I've been trying to get DDD hyped up about since 2009, but to little or no avail. People have said it was cool but I don't think anyone actually became a fan of the album, which seems weird to me because it got a good pitchfork score, the dude remixed Animal Collective, and it's just an awesome funk album. It's easy to pass it off as 80s revivalist stuff, and indeed his main influences are from 80s synth funk (notice I didn't say synth pop) and 90s G-funk (he was actually a session musician for some of the lesser-known G-funk and New Jack Swing stuff in the 90s), he actually takes his music really seriously, and it shows. There's no hint of irony or jokes, it's all just fat beats with crazy synthesizer solos. He incorporates a lot of psychedelic elements into his music as well (but not all the time). He's not stuck in the past like so many indie-synth-electro-nostalgia-chillwave-etc bands are these days - instead he pretty much just picks up where the past left off, taking advantage of the advancements in modern funk while retaining the soul of early funk. The best way I can describe it is that he's making the kind of funk that 80s funksters probably imagined 00s funk would sound like. But not only is Dam Funk not stuck in the past, he's also not stuck in the present. He avoids the trappings of the modern scene, with music that is smokey instead of hazy, futuristic instead of nostalgiac, confident instead of awkward, fun instead of funny (but not without a slight sense of humor, as evidenced in the "Mirrors" video).
Funny anecdote, possibly: I saw him at Sasquatch last year and it was one of the best concerts I'd ever seen. The beats hit hard, the synth solos melted my face, and the grooves blew my mind. Being at the show was like entering another world. I talked to a friend who was at the show later, and he said, "Dam Funk sucked.," and I was like "what?" and he said, "When he sung it sounded like Michael Jackson on crack." And I was like, "I know! That's why it was awesome!"

this Dam Funk interview is what made me originally want to check him out

http://pitchfork.com/news/36418-rising-dam-funk/

Dam Funk sound awesome. I will def check that out. I'm familiar with those first two.

Anyone coming to think that this Cee Loo Green album is actually almost TOTALLY great and not just a bunch of good songs and a great one?

Cool man glad you are interested. I figured you were familiar with Lauryn Hill but D'angelo seems like more of a toss-up as far as recognition is concerned

Very Best of Kool & The Gang
-http://www.mediafire.com/?xbrne2jzfmbe94d

"kool" upload Dreww

did you ever check out Dam Funk? Anything on Stones Throw is really hard to find, I can pm you the album if you so desire

I *love* D'Angelo's Untitled <3

Yeah I couldn't find it. Send it my way if you could.

-http://www.mediafire.com/?9cskh8ddd1wq38b
-http://www.mediafire.com/?u33fceu1kqp5p38

This is some of the most essential pop music of the 20th century. If you don't have a Supremes comp, this is the one to get.

The Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-1968



-http://www.mediafire.com/?rsj5501i4ei3u1j
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-http://www.mediafire.com/?v5vcerea0i268uy

Oh my God.