Big Dog 92-7 Music Guide

Disco Giants, Vol. 3

RELEASE
April 18, 2008
LABEL
PTG
GENRES
Rhythm & Blues, Club/Dance, Funk, Post-Disco, Contemporary R&B

Album Review

If there is one gateway into what the Netherlands' PTG label does (they reissue '80s club-oriented R&B, basically) it's the third volume of their Disco Giants series, which is packed with radio smashes and underground club favorites. It's less reliant upon the kind of post-disco marginalia that appeals only to the most hardcore fans of the era, and it will be a goldmine for anyone who knows the biggest hits -- like Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force's "I Wonder If I Take You Home" and Jellybean's "Sidewalk Talk" (featuring Madonna), both of which are here -- and wants to dig deeper. Highlights include (but are not limited to) Odyssey's "Inside Out," Skipworth & Turner's "Thinking About Your Love," Yarbrough & Peoples' "Don't Stop the Music," Billy Ocean's "Nights (Feel Like Getting Down)," Loose Ends' "Slow Down," and High Fashion's "Feeling Lucky Lately" (the closest a Jacques Fred Petrus-produced group came to repeating the shimmering bliss of Change's "Paradise"). Just about everything here was an indispensable tool for an '80s club jock.
Andy Kellman, Rovi

Track Listing

  1. Sidewalk Talk
  2. I'll Do My Best (For You Baby)
  3. It Should Have Been You [Larry Levan Mix]
  4. Crazy
  5. Inside Out
  6. I Wonder If I Take You Home
  7. Once Bitten Twice Shy
  8. Thinking About Your Love
  9. Single Life
  10. You Can't Hide Your Love (From Me) [Larry Levan Mix]
  11. Bounce, Rock, Skate (Roll, Bounce)
  12. Feelin' Lucky Lately
  13. Givin' It (To You)
  14. Don't Stop the Music
  15. Jump into My Life [Frankie Rodriguez Jumpin' Club Mix]
  16. Round and Around
  17. Nights (Feel Like Getting Down)
  18. Mr. Groove
  19. Lovelite
  20. Slow Down