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With all songs
on "Hot Property" written by Dancefloor Maestro ROD TEMPERTON (who
would of course go on to Global fame by penning half of Michael Jackson's
"Thriller") – it should be a killer album. But like so many
Soul/Funk/Disco albums of the time (1979) – there's highs and lows. Here are
both sides...
UK released
November 2010 - "Hot Property" by HEATWAVE on Big Break Records BBRCD
0021 (Barcode 5013929032125) is an 'Expanded Edition' CD Reissue and Remaster
with Five Bonus Tracks and plays out as follows (67:19 minutes):
1. Razzle Dazzle
2. Eyeballin'
3. This Night We
Fell
4. Raise A Blaze
5. First Day Of
Snow
6. One Night Tan
[Side 2]
7. Therm Warfare
8. All Talked
Out
9. That's The
Way We'll Always Say Goodnight
10. Disco
Tracks 1 to 10
are the vinyl album "Hot Property" - released May 1979 in the UK on
GTO Records GTLP 039.
BONUS TRACKS:
11. Birthday
(7" Single Version)
12. Eyeballin'
(US 12" Disco Version)
13. One Night
Tan (US 7" Version)
14. Therm
Warfare (UK 7" Single Version)
15. Birthday (US
12" Version)
The 16-page
booklet is the usual great job done by BBR – pictures of the UK and US 7"
and 12" labels, band photo and liner notes by HAYDEN JONES (a Writer and
DJ in London) with discography info as well. And the rounded-corners of the
Super Jewel Case makes it pretty to look at (visually different). But the big
news as ever is the ALAN WILSON and WAYNE A. DICKSON remaster which is
superlative - beautiful lush sound – real presence on every track.
It opens with a
plucky "Razzle Dazzle" and continues in the same vein with
"Eyeballin'" – both obvious single choices. The problem for me is
that they’re not as good as "Gangsters Of The Groove" by any stretch
of the imagination. Far better is the boppin' magic of the deliberately
misspelt "Therm Warfare" which stretches to a floor-pleasing 6:44
minutes. It's a killer (lyrics from it title this review). "All Talked
Out" is another goody that could so easily have been on MJ's "Off The
Wall". The lone love song "That's The Way We'll Always Say
Goodnight" is syrupy and features a grating weedy vocal. Things pick up
with the final cut though – "Disco" - which sounds just like its
title.
Heatwave's
"Hot Property" is not nearly as good as the "Candles" album
from 1981 (it was leading up to it) - but it most definitely has goodies worth
owning. And if you're a fan of Late Seventies Funk and Disco and the genius
way-with-a-melody of the sadly departed Rod Temperton – then don the spandex,
embrace your inner glitterball and get sweaty with this sexy little reissue...
PS: Big Break
Records (BBR) CD Remasters I’ve reviewed:
1. Is It Still
Good To Ya – ASHFORD and SIMPSON (1978)
2. Stay Free –
ASHFORD and SIMPSON (1979)
3. Central
Heating – HEATWAVE (1977)
4. Hot Property
- HEATWAVE (1979)
5. Candles -
HEATWAVE (1980)
6. Turnin' On -
HIGH INERGY (1977)
7. Harvest For
The World - THE ISLEY BROTHERS (1976)
8. Go For Your
Guns - THE ISLEY BROTHERS (1977)
9. In The Heart
– KOOL & THE GANG (1983)
10. I Hope We
Get To Love On Time - MARILYN McCOO & BILLY DAVIS (1976)
11. I Miss You - HAROLD MELVIN & THE BLUE
NOTES (1972) [known as "Harold Melvin The Blue Notes" in the UK]
12. Black &
Blue - HAROLD MELVIN & THE BLUE NOTES (1973)
13. Love Is The
Message - MFSB (1973)
14. Universal
Love – MFSB (1975)
15. All The
Faces Of... - BUDDY MILES (1974)
16. For The
First Time – STEPHANIE MILLS (1975)
17. I Can See
Clearly Now - JOHNNY NASH (1972)
18. In
Philadelphia - O'JAYS (1969)
19. Back
Stabbers - O'JAYS (1972)
20. Ship Ahoy -
O'JAYS (1973)
21. Down To Love
Town – THE ORIGINALS (1977)
22. Ebony Woman
- BILLY PAUL (1970 and 1973)
23. 360 Degrees
Of Billy Paul - BILLY PAUL (1972)
24. War Of The
Gods - BILLY PAUL (1973)
25. Platinum
Hook – PLATINUM HOOK (1978)
26. Love For
What It Is - ANITA POINTER (of The Pointer Sisters) (1987)
27. Live:
Stompin’ At The Savoy – RUFUS and CHAKA KHAN (1983)
28. Summernights
– SILVER CONVENTION (1977)
29. Smoked Sugar
- SMOKED SUGAR (1975)
30. Spinners –
SPINNERS (1973)
31. Soul Master
– EDWIN STARR (1968)
32. Involved -
EDWIN STARR (1971)
33. Switch -
SWITCH (1978)
34 Watercolors –
THE WATERS (1980)
35. Just As I Am
- BILL WITHERS (1971)
36. Heartbeats –
YARBROUGH & PEOPLES (1983)
