Consumer Guide Album

Barry White: Barry White's Greatest Hits, Volume 2 [20th Century-Fox, 1981]
The moribund big man having bolted for CBS with the abysmal "I Love to Sing the Songs I Sing," the moribund minor has no recourse but to piece together a best-of. Which is of course the best album released under the big man's name since his last best-of for the minor. He doesn't rap enough, but at least he doesn't essay any true ballads--the tag line masquerading as a ballad he damn near invented, and he's surprisingly OK on the Hollywood-Latin of "Sha La La Means I Love You" and the uptempo masculinity of "I'm Qualified to Satisfy You." Sha la la means anything you want it to mean. B+