Secret Omen
Artist: Cameo
Community Score: 4.50

Cameo never recorded a bad album, but it did record some uneven ones. One such LP was 1978's Ugly Ego, which was generally decent but fell short of the excellence of Cameo's superb debut album, Cardiac Arrest. But if Ugly Ego led some people to believe that Cameo might be slipping, the band's fourth album, Secret Omen, put that idea to rest.... Read More

Stuff It
Artist: Stuff

The fact that there is a dozen people credited for backing vocals on this album, but no one for lead, says a lot. There is actually only one song, "Talkin' About My Love for You," with solo vocals, and the rest are instrumental, sometimes with vocal choruses. This could give a feeling of a karaoke record, but getting used to it one will find the... Read More

Disco-Fied
Artist: Rhythm Heritage
Community Score: 8.00

Rhythm Heritage was never a band in the true sense of the word. Best known for its disco-funk versions of themes from movies and television cop shows, Rhythm Heritage was a group of Los Angeles studio musicians that producers Michael Omartian and Steve Barri threw together. None of its three albums were distinctive -- they weren't meant to be.... Read More

Queen of the Night: The Ultimate Club Collection
Artist: Loleatta Holloway

Like Gloria Gaynor and Linda Clifford, Loleatta Holloway was one of the dance divas you turned to in the late '70s and early '80s if you liked your disco drenched with soul. In Holloway's hands, disco was a logical extension of Northern soul; it merely added another floor to the house that big-voiced goddesses like Aretha Franklin, Etta James,... Read More

Greatest Hits
Artist: Chic

Chic infused a production savvy, an elegance, and a rockish, full-bodied nature that informed all of the dance essentials on this late-1979 greatest-hits set. Taking tracks from their three albums from 1977-1979 does sound a little confining, but Greatest Hits more than works and shows the strides the band effortlessly made. The group's first... Read More

Wild Cherry
Artist: Wild Cherry

The debut album from the foursome from Ohio. It featured the ferocious single "Play That Funky Music." Robert Parissi's animated vocals were complemented by the soulful chimes of the guitar, a smokin' bassline, and some hyped backing vocals. It peaked on the Billboard R&B and pop charts at number one. They received rave reviews considering that... Read More

Living Proof
Artist: Sylvester

Rockers who dismissed disco in general as cold and mechanical never seriously listened to Sylvester, a passionate, captivating singer who had a magnificent range and was consistently mindful of disco's soul and gospel roots. In the late '70s, disco-oriented artists generally shied away from live albums because of their lack of dance club appeal.... Read More

Go for Your Guns
Artist: The Isley Brothers
One Nation Under a Groove
Artist: Funkadelic
Community Score: 8.70

One Nation Under a Groove was not only Funkadelic's greatest moment, it was their most popular album, bringing them an unprecedented commercial breakthrough by going platinum and spawning a number one R&B smash in the title track. It was a landmark LP for the so-called "black rock" movement, best-typified in the statement of purpose "Who Says a... Read More

Funk or Walk
Artist: The Brides of Funkenstein
Community Score: 4.50

Much like Prince in the 1980s, George Clinton had a long list of disciples in the late '70s. Clinton's p-funk empire wasn't only Parliament/Funkadelic, it also included Bootsy's Rubber Band, Fred Wesley & the Horny Horns, and two female groups: Parlet and the Brides of Funkenstein. The latter recorded two albums in the late '70s, the first of... Read More