| | |  | Health & Family | Home » » » Ohio Players - Tenderness | | | | | | | Product Details: | | | Audio CD Release Date:
| June 13, 2000 | | Studio:
| Boardwalk | | Number Of Discs:
| 1 | | Format:
| Original recording reissued | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 2 reviews |
| | | Track Listing: | | | 1. | Try a Little Tenderness | | 2. | Sometimes I Cry | | 3. | Skinny | | 4. | Try to Be a Man | | 5. | Boardwalkin' | | 6. | Call Me | | 7. | Sitting on the Dock of the Bay | | 8. | It Takes a While | | 9. | Hard to Love Your Brother | |
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Joke no jokeMar 11, 2011
By Gbkny
"gbkny"
This album is a joke all the way up until "Sitting on the dock of the bay". But then "It takes a while" comes on which i heard for the first time on Live365 Soulsville online. This is what the "OHIO PLAYERS" sounded like. "Hard to love your brother" is ok and comes close to the OP of old. Getting back to "It takes a while" which is so dope i had to post it on Facebook. Listen to the words and the production is top notch. Mo better than what's on the radio right now. I would download that song if nothing else.
Ohio players giving up the funkJun 05, 2010
By Fritz Langlois
This normally wouldn't deserve more than two stars, but I'm a sucker for the Ohio Players. This is the weakest stuff I've heard from them (yet). Not entirely bad, it has its moments, but these are very few and far between. The album veers rather strangely from disco to country to uninspired grooves (and it simply doesn't SOUND like the Ohio players of HONEY, FIRE and MR MEAN, apart from Sugarfoot's voice - who goes too often over the top here). The funk's definitely not here. Time has not been tender to this album, which hasn't got better for spending a good few yaers in obscurity. It's a welcome reissue anyway, for Afro-American music fans of all stripes, but is a sad representation of what (most of) Black music was like in the late 70s-early 80s: a depressed state of confusion, in sore need of a rest after the party that started in the late 60s until disco took control was over. This "jump-on-the-bandwagon" trend of the time was a dead end for a lot of acts (James Brown, Curtis Mayfield, Roy Ayers and countles others... with the notable exception of George Clinton who from the start pronounced an Anti-disco stance - in retrospect, a no less than visionary move), and a sorry time for music.
This actually happened, and is all on tape. So what we hear on records like TENDERNESS (and its follow-up, OUCH!) is the sound of good music falling over the edge, surely in an attempt to make a buck. Ill-advised, but nonetheless fascinating. A welcome reissue, but don't spend too much money on it. If at all.
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