CAMEO

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Deeply funky NYC act led by uniquely voiced Larry Blackmon raised 1980s roofs, making "Word Up" the code word.

An outlandish, in-your-face stage presence, a strange sense of humor, and a hard-driving funk sound that criss-crossed a few musical boundaries earned Cameo countless comparisons to Parliament/Funkadelic in their early days. However, Cameo eventually wore off accusations of being derivative by transcending their influences and outlasting almost every single one of them. Throughout the '70s and '80s, the group remained up with the times and occasionally crept ahead of them, such that they became influences themselves upon younger generations of R&B and hip-hop acts. By the time the group's popularity started to fizzle in the late '80s, a series of R&B chart hits -- ranging from greasy funk workouts to synthesized funk swingers to dripping ballads -- was left in their wake. Further separating Cameo from their forebears, they didn't have
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CAMEO Cardiac Arrest album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Cardiac Arrest
Funk 1977
CAMEO Ugly Ego album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Ugly Ego
Funk 1978
CAMEO Secret Omen album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Secret Omen
Funk 1979
CAMEO Cameosis album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Cameosis
Funk 1980
CAMEO Feel Me album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Feel Me
Funk 1980
CAMEO Knights Of The Sound Table album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Knights Of The Sound Table
Funk 1981
CAMEO Alligator Woman album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Alligator Woman
Funk 1982
CAMEO Style album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Style
Funk 1983
CAMEO She's Strange album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
She's Strange
Funk 1984
CAMEO Single Life album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Single Life
Funk 1985
CAMEO Word Up! album cover 4.82 | 2 ratings
Word Up!
Funk 1986
CAMEO Machismo album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Machismo
Funk 1988
CAMEO Real Men... Wear Black album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Real Men... Wear Black
Funk 1990
CAMEO Emotional Violence album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Emotional Violence
Funk 1992
CAMEO In The Face Of Funk album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
In The Face Of Funk
Funk 1995
CAMEO Nasty album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Nasty
Funk 1996
CAMEO Sexy Sweet Thing album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Sexy Sweet Thing
Funk 2000

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CAMEO Word Up!

Album · 1986 · Funk
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Funk has an interesting evolution to me. The 50s/60s had R&B that would go on to become a more repetitive and jam band oriented genre artists like JAMES BROWN and WAR are some examples but the 70s saw fit to evolve the genre into having synths, and larger horn sections, (PARLIAMENT being the prime example) however the 80s threw horns away, it was all about synths and drum machines and the synth funk of the 80s even started to incorporate hip hop, at its infancy. PRINCE, ZAPP and CAMEO are the big three of the 80s funk scene imo although some might disagree, this band can get very 80s at times but I honestly love it, every track here is just fun, the track "She's Mine" is a fun, funky 80s hip hop track and do I even need to mention the track "Candy"? Overall this album is a blast and has always been a personal favorite of mine, I wish I could go into greater detail about this album but tbh I don't know how to sum it up other then "It's good, it's fun" sorry if this is a lackluster review lol

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