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| What It Is! Funky Soul And Rare Grooves (1967-1977) | 
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| Artist: Various Artists
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $64.98
Buy New: $39.98
You Save: $25.00 (38%)
New (31) Used (10) from $34.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 12620
Format: Box Set, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 7.4 x 1.2
MPN: 77635
UPC: 081227763527
EAN: 0081227763527
ASIN: B000GIWS4W
Release Date: October 3, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: New sealed stock. Immediate shipment
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| Customer Reviews:
 buried nuggets from the vaults instead of "greatest hits"... December 20, 2006
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
Wow! Behold -- a major label compilation that unearths buried nuggets from its vaults instead of the same old "greatest hits" over and over again. Warner/Rhino may be a little late to the "rare groove" party, but they arrive in high style with this nifty four CD box of mostly obscure vintage funk, R&B, Soul, Disco, and Jazz tracks, many of which have never been previously released on CD. Dig it!
a Fantastic Compilation October 12, 2006
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
often when Record Companys put Retrospectives with a Various Artists take on 70's Funk&Soul it's usually the same songs that you can hear daily on your Lunch Rush Hour Old School noon special. but this time Rhino pulled out alot of stops at getting this right. these Discs contain the Organ jams with strong punchy Horns, Guitar,Bass, keyboards,Drums&overall Vamps that are timeless which have influenced countless Artists in all styles of Music. the Bar Kays,Earth,Wind&Fire, Aretha Franklin,Curtis Mayfield&countless other talents are well represented here with material that showcases different regions of the Country. back in the day long before the Internet just like with Hip-Hop back in the day you always knew a Artist from down south all the way to back East,then in the mid-west&all the way Out west by there trademark Stylings&overall presentation. this is a Collection that showcases some great treasures still in the vaults.long overdue,but better late than never. enjoy the Funk.
 Soul-tastic... All Hail Rhino! Nobody knows box like Rhino knows box January 14, 2007
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
I stumbled over this set just a few days ago, and I have to say that it's easily one of the top 10 best random-artist compilations I've ever heard in my life, and I own hundreds of them.
I won't say there's no filler--by filler I mean the cover tunes--and I'm confused as to why "What So Never The Dance" is credited to the Houseguests when this is a longtime Bootsy Collins track? What, is Bootsy in trouble with Warner Brothers and can't re-release his own stuff under his own name anymore?
But disc one is an absolute gem--you can't make your own mix better than they've done it here. If you're a fan of James Brown, Parliament, Otis Redding, Sly Stone, the aforementioned Bootsy, Tower Of Power, Prince, early Stevie Wonder, Motown, Isaac Hayes, then you shouldn't be without this set.
Absolutely worth buying.
Amazing. Mind blowing. Worth every penny. And so on. February 4, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is the real deal folks. Music with grit and soul and feeling, before the shining distraction of drum machines, computers, samplers, bling, and "MTV's Cribs". I saw an ad for this and went to several book and record stores such as Borders, and to my local hip indie CD store (headquarters to the local music scene circle-jerk), trying to describe it to various clerks. Which was about like trying to teach a card trick to a basset hound. Save yourself the agony of trying to interest a white twenty-something body-piercing pincushion in ordering this set for you, and just get it here. You'll be glad you did. The sheer quantity of great music on this is staggering. I love the mix of instruments with vocal tracks, and the mix of "name" artists like Aretha or The Meters with many very obscure ones. Whoever compiled this did a great job in selecting the track order, so it makes it perfect for a long party. Everyone will be getting up and shaking their groove thang. This is priceless music from a lost era, so grab it before it disappears again.
Mm-hmm! I can smell that funky music! June 18, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Rare indeed; I can't imagine where you would find original 45s or even LPs containing all of these songs. That would be one lifetime task. The good folks at Rhino Records with their remarkable and creative tastes took out all of that hassle for us and now offers a rather unique set of rare funky music from the vaults of Atlantic/Atco and Warner/Reprise dating 1967-1977 with 91 tracks spanning across 4 filled-to-the-brim discs. Any soul music fan will no doubt want to explore this area of the R&B category (funk and I mean pure funk), but at times the flow of the music could seem a bit too much to handle. Some of the cuts go more than 3 1/2 minutes and sound like they might not end any time soon. The other case would be some tracks sound bizarre or unusual in terms of sound due to instrumentation, arrangements, etc. Such "bizarre" tracks are the sitar-laced rendition of "Jumpin' Jack Flash", "Steppin' Stones" with a crazed flautist leading the way on a very blazing and dizzy-sounding track. The good outweigh the not-so-good remarkably, though. So get ready to hear punchy horns, infectious, simplistic and driving drumbeats, super funky bass lines, crunchy guitars, oozing organs and ultra-soulful vocals. On disc one, some noteworthy tracks are "Spreadin' Honey", "Get Otta My Life Woman", "Snatchin' It Back", "Sexy Coffee Pot" and "Help Me Make Up My Mind" (an answer to "Can I Chane My Mind"). Be sure to check out "Sookie Sookie", "Feelin' Alright" (done by Lulu (To Sir With Love)!), and "Engine Number Nine" on disc two, "Face It" (love the female backup singers on this), "Wah Wah Man", an alternate extended mix of "Rock Steady", "Suavecito", and "Nuki Suki" (from Little Richard) on disc three as well as "Moon Shadow", "Kissing My Love", "Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky", "Chug Chug-A-Lug", "Everybody Wanna Get Rich Rite Away", and "Chicken Heads" on disc four. Those were just some of my favorite tracks, so I may have missed some. Many are instrumentals, but there are a handful with vocalists singing about love, dancing, partying, social concerns, etc. Bottom line: worth checking out and worth the discovery. You definitely won't hear this stuff on commercial radio. Only about three or four songs you'll recognize; the rest is like a surprise. If you're into R&B and want to explore the funk side of it, you can't find a better pick, and about 90% of these songs aren't available (some or many) together anyplace else. The real deal of funk; that is "what it is!"
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