Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. We've Been Waiting - Graham Central Station
2. Hair - Graham Central Station
3. Can You Handle It? - Graham Central Station
4. People - Graham Central Station
5. Ghetto - Graham Central Station
6. Feel the Need - Graham Central Station
7. Release Yourself - Graham Central Station
8. 'Tis Your Kind of Music - Graham Central Station
9. Today - Graham Central Station
10. Jam - Graham Central Station
11. It's Alright - Graham Central Station
12. Your Love - Graham Central Station
13. I Can't Stand the Rain - Graham Central Station
14. Dear Prudence [#] - Graham Central Station
15. Entrow - Graham Central Station
16. Love (Covers a Multitude of Sin) - Graham Central Station

Disc 2:

1. Now Do-U-Wanta Dance - Graham Central Station
2. Last Train - Graham Central Station
3. Earthquake - Graham Central Station
4. Stomped Beat-Up and Whooped - Graham Central Station
5. My Radio Sure Sounds Good to Me - Larry Graham
6. Is It Love? - Larry Graham
7. (You're A) Foxy Lady - Larry Graham
8. Star Walk [Single Edit] - Larry Graham
9. One in a Million You - Larry Graham
10. When We Get Married - Larry Graham
11. I'm So Glad It's Summer Again [#] - Larry Graham
12. Just Be My Lady - Larry Graham
13. Don't Stop When You're Hot - Larry Graham
14. Sooner or Later - Larry Graham
15. I Never Forgot Your Eyes - Larry Graham
16. By Popular Demand - Larry Graham
17. I Want to Take You Higher - Graham Central Station

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #44168 in Music
• Released on: 2001-10-15
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: .45 pounds

Customer Reviews

We've Been Waitin' (for GCS on CD) For So Long
Graham Central Station, with Larry Graham on bass and Lady Chocolate doing some monster vocals was always one of the greats for pure funk music. Harder than the Ohio Players, more underground than Earth Wind and Fire or the Isleys, the Station's influence is clear on successors such as Prince, Rick James and Red hot Chili Peppers, among others.
This compilation certainly has a lot of filler (most of the 2nd disc, in fact), but it deserves 5 Stars plus for getting such funk classics as Release Yourself and Feel The Need onto CD. The bass/drums/keyboard combinations of GCS are a generation out there from Larry's earlier work with Sly and the Family Stone. If your feet don't move during thiese tracks, you need to see a doctor.
We've Been Waiting, an acapella treat, is a sheer joy, and hard not to sing along with.
NowDoUWant2Dance percolates, with a popping rhythm that reminds you of everything you enjoyed about 70s funk music. (It's a shame that the album this came from, "Mirror" probably will never see the light of day on CD, because it was one of the greatest funk albums of all time).
Anyone who thinks funk is merely a thick bass line needs to hear this disc to understand the evolution of the genre, and to listen to it being executed by one of the greatest (and most underrated) bass players in history. It's a shame that Larry Graham will probably be best remembered for the syrupy "One In A Million", than for his true talent.

FUNKY 5
finally a Complete Overview on Graham Central Station&some extra tracks.Larry Graham is a Strong Band Leader with His Group here but His Bass does all the talking from start to finish.70's era GCS is Nasty Stanky&FUNKY."the Jam' Alone puts alot of Groups out of Business Showcasing GCS'S Chops How many Groups Nowadays would be as Bold??Larry Graham deserves madd Props because the Average Act would just be happy after they played with SLy&THe Family Stone but thank Goodness Larry Graham didn't He kept The Funk Going.Slamming Grooves&Laid-Back Ballads.

From Sly...to Sly?
Much of former Sly & The Family Stone member Larry Graham (Central Station)'s first few albums picked up on the "take you higher" vibe of Sly's greatest music, with a run of energetic, bass-driven funk tracks...Larry and the Family Graham wouldn't be that inaccurate of an alternative title. To me, the peak came with the 1975-1977 tracks (THE JAM through EARTHQUAKE).

After that, somehow the funk seemed to get diluted in various trends of the day, from disco (STAR WALK) to pop/soul ballads (ONE IN A MILLION YOU), albeit I do appreciate the latter track more now than when it was first released. An indication how how times change is that on the early-1980s track SOONER OR LATER a synthesized bass is heard, not Larry's trademark plucking and popping.

The album ends with a faithful-to-the-original 1990's concert remake of Sly's HIGHER, which in a way brings it all back home. Overall, this is by far the GCS collection to own, even if the group's initial consistent vision gets obscured on parts of the second disc--five stars for half of the tracks here, three for the remainder.