Consumer Guide Album

Commodores: Movin' On [Motown, 1975]
More--you guessed it--funk. A lot more, in fact, which I wouldn't have guessed. Sometimes anonymous, sometimes even annoying--"Cebu"'s synthesizer, "(Can I) Get a Witness"'s title. Sometimes neither--"Gimme My Mule" is country the way Otis & Carla defined it in "Tramp," and Mary, Mary" is funnier than Michael Nesmith's. Non-funk: "Sweet Love." Hit: "Sweet Love." That I would have guessed. B−