Consumer Guide Album

Fat Boys: The Best Part of the Fat Boys [Sutra, 1987]
A label-changing ceremony that cannibalizes half their debut, it also spices up leftovers from their depressing gold follow-up--who would have thunk their ersatz reggae would outlast Run-D.M.C.'s? A musical commodity in which personality pokes through packaging as much as it does in good Ray Parker or Go-Go's, say--and more than it does in good Thompson Twins or Kool and the Gang. A−