Souvent oubliés des rétrospectives de l’âge d’or du funk et de la soul music, The Chairmen of the Board seront à l’honneur le 4 août avec la sortie du coffret 9-CDs The Complete Invictus Studio Recordings 1969-1978. Cette intégrale regroupe la totalité des albums de la formation de Detroit, plus les albums solo de General Johnson, Danny Woods et Harrison Kennedy ainsi que deux CDs de singles, Faces-B, versions alternatives et remixes rares de Tom Moulton.
Une somme indispensable pour tout funkateer, notamment l’explosif Skin I’m In (1974), qui contient les efforts conjugués de Bernie Worrell, Eddie Hazel, Billy Bass Nelson et Tiki Fulwood de Funkadelic.
Tracklisting
CD 1 GIVE ME JUST A LITTLE MORE TIME (The Chairmen of The Board)
- Give Me Just A Little More Time 2.41
- Come Together 3.49
- Bless You 2.57
- Patches 3.31
- Since The Days Of Pigtails (And Fairy Tales) 2.42
- I’ll Come Crawling 2.36
- (You’ve Got Me) Dangling On A String 2.57
- Bravo, Hooray 2.59
- Didn’t We 2.41
- Feelin’ Alright? 3.42
- My Way 3.58
- Tricked & Trapped (By A Tricky Trapper) 3.19
CD 2 IN SESSION (The Chairmen of The Board)
- Chairmen Of The Board 3.34
- Everything’s Tuesday 2.48
- Pay To The Piper 3.06
- Twelfth Of Never 3.11
- All We Need Is Understanding 2.53
- Patches 3.30
- It Was Almost Something 2.38
- Bridge Over Troubled Water 5.15
- Hanging On To A Memory 4.11
- I Can’t Find Myself 2.31
- When Will She Tell Me She Needs Me 3.03
- Children Of Today 3.14
CD 3 BITTERSWEET (The Chairmen of The Board)
- Men Are Getting Scarce 5.19
- So Glad You’re Mine 4.13
- Working On A Building Of Love 2.54
- I’m A Sign Of Changing Times 5.43
- Elmo James 4.19
- I’m On My Way To A Better Place 4.04
- Bittersweet 5.05
- Saginaw County Line 4.09
- Weary Traveler 5.16
CD 4 SKIN I’M IN (The Chairmen of The Board)
- Everybody Party All Night 4.06
- Skin I’m In 4.15
- Morning Glory 2.20
- Life & Death Pt. I 1.35
- White Rose (Freedom Flower) 1.40
- Life & Death Pt. II 3.49
- Let’s Have Some Fun 3.42
- Love At First Sight 3.51
- Only Love Can Break A Heart 5.32
- Live With Me, Love With Me 2.10
- Finder’s Keepers 4.07
CD 5 GENERALLY SPEAKING (General Johnson)
- Saginaw County Line 4.09
- God’s Gift To Man 3.55
- It Was Almost Something 2.38
- Every Couples’ Not A Pair 4.41
- All We Need Is Understanding 2.53
- Everything’s Tuesday 2.48
- I Never Get Tired Of You 5.20
- My Credit Didn’t Go Through 3.35
- Things Are Bound To Get Better Later On 6.14
- Mary Lou Thomas 5.06
CD 6 HYPNOTIC MUSIC (Harrison Kennedy)
- Hypnotic Music 5.20
- Closet Queen 3.21
- Night Comes Day Goes 6.41
- Sunday Morning People 3.07
- Gimme A Glass Of Water 3.06
- Come Together 3.49
- You Hurt Your Mother Again 5.55
- Up-The Organisation 3.13
- Children Of Today 3.14
CD 7 ARIES (Danny Woods)
- Everybody’s Got A Song To Sing 4.03
- Let Me Ride 3.01
- Roller Coaster 3.41
- Try On My Love For Size 3.29
- Working On A Building Of Love 2.54
- Funny How Time Slips Away 5.17
- Two Can Be As Lonely As One 4.00
- I’ve Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now) 7.15
- Danny Boy 5.11
CD 8 BONUS TRACKS 1970-1973
- 1. General Johnson – Savannah Lady 2.29
- 2. General Johnson – I’m In Love Darling 2.46
- 3. Chairmen Of The Board – Men Are Getting Scarce 3.15
- 4. Chairmen Of The Board – Hanging On To A Memory 2.29
- 5. Chairmen Of The Board – Elmo James 3.30
- 6. Chairmen Of The Board – Bittersweet 3.25
- 7. Chairmen Of The Board – Let Me Down Easy 2.44
- 8. Danny Woods – Roller Coaster 2.56
- 9. Chairmen Of The Board – Everybody’s Got A Song To Sing 2.33
- 10. Danny Woods – Everybody’s Tippin’ 2.54
- 11. Harrison Kennedy – Up-The Organisation (Instrumental) 3.16
- 12. Chairmen Of The Board – Finder’s Keepers (Instrumental) 3.44
CD 9 BONUS TRACKS 1973-2014
- 1. Chairmen Of The Board – Finder’s Keepers (Vocal) 3.23
- 2. General Johnson – Only Time Will Tell 3.40
- 3. General Johnson – Only Time Will Tell (Instrumental) 4.08
- 4. Chairmen Of The Board – Skin I’m In 3.21
- 5. Chairmen Of The Board – Everybody Party All Night 2.58
- 6. Chairmen Of The Board – You’ve Got Extra Added Power In Your Love (ft. Prince Harold) 3.30
- 7. Chairmen Of The Board – Someone Just Like You (ft. Prince Harold) 2.53
- 8. Chairmen Of The Board – Come On In And Dance 3:32
- 9. Chairmen Of The Board – What’s The Use 2.46 (first released 2014)
- 10. Chairmen Of The Board – Where There Is Faith, There Is Hope 3.05 (first released 2014)
- 11. Chairmen Of The Board – You’ve Got Me Dangling On A String 4.46 (Tom Moulton remix)
- 12. Chairmen Of The Board – Give Me Just A Little More Time 4.19 (Tom Moulton Remix)
