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The Very Best of The Meters

Album

The Very Best of The Meters

The Meters

1997R&B/Soul · Music · Funk · Soul

Hear how the New Orleans funk titans found their voices.
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Details

Release date
Record label
Rhino
Tracks
16

℗ 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing

Tracks

  1. 1
    Cissy Strut
    The Meters
    3:05
  2. 2
    Live Wire
    The Meters
    2:40
  3. 3
    Sophisticated Cissy
    The Meters
    2:55
  4. 4
    Look-Ka Py Py
    The Meters
    3:18
  5. 5
    Pungee
    The Meters
    2:59
  6. 6
    Tippi-Toes
    The Meters
    2:26
  7. 7
    Soul Island (Remastered)
    The Meters
    3:10
  8. 8
    Cabbage Alley (Remastered)
    The Meters
    3:30
  9. 9
    People Say (Remastered)
    The Meters
    5:16
  10. 10
    Hey Pocky a-Way (Remastered Single Version)
    The Meters
    4:02
  11. 11
    Just Kissed My Baby (Remastered)
    The Meters
    4:44
  12. 12
    Jungle Man (Remastered)
    The Meters
    3:25
  13. 13
    Out In the Country
    The Meters
    3:35
  14. 14
    Fire On the Bayou (Remastered)
    The Meters
    4:07
  15. 15
    They All Ask'd for You (Remastered Single Version)
    The Meters
    4:10
  16. 16
    Trick Bag (Remastered Single Version)
    The Meters
    3:19

About this album

The first half-dozen tracks on this mostly chronological collection capture the New Orleans band in its all-instrumental purity. The flawless funk of early jams "Cissy Strut" and "Pungee" eventually gave way to classic Mardi Gras chants like "Hey Pocky a-Way" and the voodoo urgency of "Fire on the Bayou". Their scorching cover of Earl King's "Trick Bag" suggests they may have been the city's best rock band, too.