Consumer Guide Album

Kool and the Gang: Everything's Kool and the Gang: Greatest Hits and More [Mercury, 1988]
If the glitzy, vaguely hip-hop electro-disco "club remixes" of such bare-bones funk milestones as "Jungle Boogie" and "Hollywood Swinging" are a little disorienting, they're far from sacrilegious. Together with the hits (plus the well-earned "Rags to Riches," companion piece to the well-earned "Money and Power"), they put this undependable band in its place, a step ahead of the Commodores. Maybe two steps. B