Track Listing

1. Boogie Nights
2. Always And Forever
3. Groove Line
4. Look After Love
5. Mind Blowin' Decisions
6. Razzle Dazzle
7. Gangsters Of The Groove
8. Jitterbuggin'
9. Naturally
10. Too Hot To Handle
11. Lettin' It Loose
12. Posin' Til Closin'
13. Sho'nuff Must Be Love
14. Hold On To The One
15. Mind What You Find
16. Big Guns

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15653 in Music
• Released on: 1996-05-06
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

top notch British soul
The only downfall in this collection is that the full length version of the evergreen classic "Always and forever" is not included, therefore we settle for the 7" version. The Best songs here are the Rod Temperton penned "Boogie nights" "Too hot to handle", the previously mentioned track, and johnny wilders "mind blowing decisions" Overall this is a great introduction to one of the great British soul groups to emerge from the late seventies. As mentioned before, only the fact that the omited full length version of Always & Forever has prevented me from giving this 5 stars.

heatwave
The british ground breaking band that wowed us in the discos with "The groove line" and charted with "mind blowing decisions"
and hit the floor and the charts with "boogie nights"
This is a best of album and has many more club tracks that remained album tracks only, nevertheless still have that rod temperton Quality about them, Who went on to be one of the most prolific writers of all time for michael Jackson.
Lend an ear to the last track "big guns" an infectious piece of jazz-funk that I cant stop playing!!

watch out, the funk's about
This album aptly summarises the best hits of the early British funk band, Heatwave. There is something fresh, light, happy, naive even in the way the band play, in the orchestrations and in Wilder's unique vocal range which means that many of the tracks have outlived the post-disco era and can lay claim to being classic funk tunes. Rod Temperton's peerless songwriting skills are in evidence on the biggest hits, Boogie Nights probably being the biggest of all.
The album contains all the best songs, although I share the previous reviewer's frustrations that extended versions were not included, specifically of Always and Forever and Gangsters of the Groove.
Only four stars because there is unfortunately a bit of padding with some truly poor efforts, notably track 9, which show up the fact that Heatwave were not a band "built to last". There's also some fairly shameless copying of the Earth, Wind & Fire style on one or two of the tracks, showing that the band quickly ran out of ideas.
Nevertheless, Heatwave were pioneers of the Britfunk scene and helped lay the path for bands like Level 42, Incongnito, Light of the World, Central Line et al. The album is good value and, with use of the skip track button, gives you half an hour or so of great music.