Track Listing

1. Can't Give You Anything (But My Love)
2. You Make Me Feel Brand New
3. Let's Put It All Together - Van McCoy, The Stylistics
4. I'm Stone In Love With You
5. Funky Weekend
6. You'll Never Get To Heaven (If You Break My Heart)
7. Peek-A-Boo
8. Stop Look Listen (To Your Heart)
9. Betcha By Golly Wow
10. Sing Baby Sing
11. Star On A T.V. Show
12. Na Na Is The Saddest Word
13. 7000 Dollars & You
14. Break Up To Make Up
15. Love At First Sight
16. Only For The Children
17. You're A Big Girl Now
18. You Are Everything

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7071 in Music
• Released on: 1996-03-18
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 63 minutes

Customer Reviews

Seventies nostalgia Classic Soul from a most pleasant group of singers.
Ive been a steward at the North Wales Theatre at Llandudno for over five years and have seen the Stylistics on four occasions and they are still one of the most professional and harmonious soul coloured groups in the business.
I have also met them in person and was very impressed with their willingness to sign their cds this one included and pose for photographs and also have a chat with admiring fans.Some people ive met not saying any names are the direct opposite of their stage personality but the Stylistics are really pleasant guys.

Their music on the other hand is superb with gorgeous harmonies not dissimilar to the BeeGees but very Motown Soul.

To hear them sing "Cant give you anything" for the first time having remembered it when it first came out in the early seventies was really special like the rest of this cd,its easy listening and quality music by a group which still has four of its original members still performing together after over thirty years of hit making.

If you are familiar with their music then this cd will go a long way in reliving those memories of the early seventies when they were turning out hit after hit.

Makes you feel brand new
I'll be the first to admit that I am not a soul fan but this compilation contains a number of truly wonderful lush soul ballads. Like listening to a Carpenters compilation the hits just roll on and on. I would like to single out two cuts which for me epitomise the Sylistics sound and appeal and also bring back such great memories of the 70s.

I was rifling through some 7" records in a 2nd hand shop the other day when I came across 'You make me feel brand new'. On closer inspection I found that it actually was the B-side and the A-side was 'Only for the Children'. Yikes, how could the record company have arrived at that decision ? Thank goodness the DJs realised. 'You make me feel brand new' is quite simply one of the best ballads ever recorded and is actually a rare duet for the Stylistics. The first verse is sung with much passion by Aiirion Love and Russell Thopkins Jnr (who is THE voice of the Stylistics) cuts in on verse two ("Only you, were there when I needed a friend"). How could this classic not make no. 1 in the UK ? 'When will I see you again' by the Three Degrees, that's how.

The other classic track I'd like to single out did make no. 1 in the UK. 'Can't give you anything (but my love)' has a gorgeous intro of sweeping strings and brass and fits perfectly with its promo video shot on the top of a large building in the States. The camera pans and just at the end of the intro we see the band all ready to sing. A simple yet effective interpretation of a sweeping soundscape of a song with a great hook. It was the Sylistics only no. 1 and that's more the pity but hey, it's one more than groups such as the Temptations who the Stylistics are often compared to managed.

Buy this album for great songs, great arrangements and if you're over 40 great memories.

Oh Brother!
Geoff, dear brother of mine, perhaps it's the Brains SA or the Paignton avant-garde music scene (the Spinning Wheel) but when are you going to remember that you are a product of the punk generation and get new soles on your shoes? The Stylistics? has nothing musical happened wothy of mention in the past 40 years? I'll buy you a pint if I find your equally enthusiastic review under AC/DC somewhere.

Kisses,

Bub