Track Listing

1. Bouncy Lady
2. Straight Ahead
3. Sassafras Girl
4. Let Me Be The One
5. Two For One
6. Tune In
7. Foxy Lady
8. Ghettos Of The Mind
9. Joyous
10. Glide
11. Strong Love
12. Ladies Night Out
13. Pleasure For Your Pleasure
14. No Matter What
15. Selim

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #32229 in Music
• Released on: 1992-06-29
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Customer Reviews

Jazz-funk that will blow your head apart
I first heard of Pleasure in an old interview with Jamiroquai frontman Jay Kay, which I came across online. In that interview, he called this 'the one CD I couldn't live without'. Whether you like Jamiroquai or not, most lovers of 'black music' who've read other such interviews would agree Jay has great taste in records. A couple of weeks later, entirely accidentally, I stumbled across it in a shop, and although it was £[...] (I never normally pay full price for a CD), took a risk on it. Walking back to my flat I thought 'for thirteen quid this had better be good...' Got home, put CD in player, pressed play... and my head exploded.

Pleasure supported a number of much more well-known bands, among them Tower Of Power, during the '70s, and frankly if you'd been to see any of those bands I think you'd have been rather cheesed off that they were outshone by their support act. Pleasure are the ultimate dream for all lovers of soulful and funky music - they're jazz musicians, playing funk. This is jazz-funk before Incognito gave that name to their debut album. If you're a lover of acid jazz, you'll dig it. If you're a lover of soul, funk, rare groove or just about anything danceable, you'll dig it.

Best tracks in my opinion are 'Foxy Lady' (nothing to do with the Hendrix song), 'Glide', 'Ghettoes Of The Mind' (in spite of the rubbish title), and above all, the most feelgood song I've ever heard, 'Joyous', which hip-hop fans will recognise as the backing track to Sugarhill Gang's '9 To 5'. There's so much to discover in this music, with well over an hour on the disc. It's hard work tracking down more of the band's back catalogue, but once you've heard this you, like me, will want to try, and you'll be richly rewarded.

If you like funk, or think you like funk, you really, seriously NEED this CD in your life. Forget Sly, Parliament, Curtis, Stevie or MJ's earliest solo offerings, this is better. And if you don't like funk, well, then this may just make you think about your reasons for not doing...