Chronic Les: great Breaks From The Ch (2004)

Product Summary Label: Koch Entertainment UPC: 00099923961628 Release Date: 10/5/2004 Buy.com Sku: 61702654 Item#: MHLPQY Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. I Want To Do Something Freaky To You - Leon Heywood ~ Various Artists 2. Do Your Thing - Isaac Hayes ~ Various Artists 3. Express Yourself - Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band ~ Various Artists 4. Little Ghetto Boy - Donny Hathaway ~ Various Artists 5. Star In The Ghetto, A - Average White Band/Ben E. King ~ Various Artists 6. Engine Number Nine - Wilson Pickett ~ Various Artists 7. Mothership Connection (Star Child) - Parliament ~ Various Artists 8. Kissing My Love - Bill Withers ~ Various Artists 9. Who's the Man? (With the Master Plan) - The Kay-Gees ~ Various Artists 10. Brother's Gonna Work It Out - Willie Hutch ~ Various Artists 11. Breakdown, The - Rufus Thomas ~ Various Artists 12. Come Back Charleston Blue - Donny Hathaway/Margie Joseph ~ Various Artists 13. Cardova - The Meters ~ Various Artists 14. Damn - The Nite-Liters ~ Various Artists   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info If there's one thing this collection displays it's that Dr. Dre has fantastic taste. Koch -- with some help from Rhino -- rounds up the sources for all those great Dr. Dre beats on Chronicles. The collection claims to be all about his Chronic album, but it goes beyond that with some tracks that Dre sampled for N.W.A. and others. The man himself has no involvement in the release -- this probably wouldn't have the 2001 rip-off cover if he was -- but the collection isn't disrespectful to him. The liner notes do pretty good at putting all these tunes in a context young Dre might have heard them in, and they point out what tracks these grooves landed on. Even though there's no reason to put everything here except Dre copped a bit, it all hangs because of the high quality, sticky, sticky grooves. Young gangstas might be surprised that the struggle has been going on longer than they thought and Dre wasn't the first great street commentator. Funk gets its due, the mind of Dre is explored, and you get a supremely funky CD in the deal. ~ David Jeffries Producer: Bill Crowley   Technical Info Release Date : 10/05/2004 Original Release Date : 2004 Catalog ID : 9616 Label : Koch Records (USA) Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00099923961628