Barry White - Unlimited (2009)

Artist: Barry White
Title: Unlimited
Year Of Release: 2009
Label: UMe / Island Def Jam
Genre: R&B, Soul, Pop, Jazz, Funk
Quality: FLAC (image + .cue, log, booklet) / MP3
Total Time: 5:13:33
Total Size: 2.08 GB / 730 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: Unlimited
Year Of Release: 2009
Label: UMe / Island Def Jam
Genre: R&B, Soul, Pop, Jazz, Funk
Quality: FLAC (image + .cue, log, booklet) / MP3
Total Time: 5:13:33
Total Size: 2.08 GB / 730 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
Disc 1
01. I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More, Baby [Alternate Version]
02. Never Never Gonna Give Ya Up [Alternate Version]
03. Honey Please, Can't Ya See [Alternate Version]
04. Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe [Alternate Version]
05. You're The First, The Last, My Everything [Alternate Version]
06. I'll Do For You Anything You Want Me To [Alternate Version]
07. What Am I Gonna Do With You [Alternate Version]
08. Let Me Live My Life Lovin' You Babe
09. You See The Trouble With Me
10. Let The Music Play [Alternate Version]
11. Don't Make Me Wait Too Long [Alternate Version]
12. Your Love - So Good I Can Taste It
13. I'm Qualified To Satisfy You [Alternate Version]
14. I've Got So Much To Give [Alternate Version]
Disc 2
01. Playing Your Game, Baby [Alternate Version]
02. It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next To Me [Alternate Version]
03. You Turned My Whole World Around
04. Your Sweetness Is My Weakness [12-Inch Version]
05. It Ain't Love, Babe (Until You Give It) [Special Disco Version]
06. Ghetto Letto
07. Sheet Music
08. Ella Es Todo Para Mi [She's Everything To Me]
09. Our Theme, Pts. 1 & 2
10. Love Song
11. Good Dancin' Music
12. You're What's On My Mind [Non-LP Single]
13. Super Lover [Remix]
14. Don't Play Games
Disc 3
01. Midnight and You [Alternate Version]
02. Baby Blues
03. Love's Theme [Alternate Version]
04. My Sweet Summer Suite [12-Inch Promo Version]
05. Theme from King Kong [12-Inch Promo Version]
06. Sweet Moments [Non-LP Single]
07. Whisper Softly
08. Welcome Aboard
09. Walkin' in the Rain with the One I Love
10. It May Be Winter Outside, (But in My Heart it's Spring) [Alternate Version]
11. Under the Influence of Love [Alternate Version]
12. I Belong to You [Alternate Version]
13. He's All I've Got
14. High Steppin', Hip Dressin' Fella [Alternate Version]
Disc 4
01. I Love You More and More
02. If We Don't Make it Nobody Can [Non-LP Vocal Version]
03. Strange Funky Games and Things
04. Be Fair to Me
05. Satin Soul
06. Just as Long as We're Together (In My Life There Will Never Be Another) [Alternate Version]
07. I've Got to Have All of You
08. Oh Love (Well, We Finally Made it) [Non-LP Single]
09. You've Changed
10. Take a Look at Yourself (Before You Frown on Someone Else)
11. How I Wish We Could Do it Again
12. Falling in Love is a No No [Non-LP Single]
13. Have a Nice Weekend Baby
14. What's Your Sign Girl
15. The Erotic Garden (After Hours Version Of Secret Garden)
16. In Your Wildest Dream
Unlimited is more substantial than it appears. Looking like a five-dollar box of chocolates, with its contents printed on a large black sticker slapped onto the back, it improves upon 1992's Just for You box in breadth and (once you open the thing) presentation. The only potential problem for some listeners is that 20 of the songs appear in "alternate versions" -- a gentle way of saying "2009 remixes." The mixes were done by Jack Perry, Barry White's musical director and engineer, and they do retain the integrity of the originals. One would have to be fairly familiar with the material to discern major differences. (Did the songs need to be remixed, though? No.) Unlimited, like most boxes, does not cater specifically to casual fans or collectors. Discs one and two cover the Barry White albums, from 1973's I've Got So Much to Give through 1999's Staying Power. Disc three is devoted to the Love Unlimited Orchestra and female trio Love Unlimited, the groups he directed and nurtured, while the fourth disc compiles other production work for the mostly obscure likes of Gloria Scott, Jay Dee, White Heat, Black Satin, and Jimmie & Vella Cameron (whose "Be Fair to Me," released in 1981, indicates that White probably dug Electric Light Orchestra). That's the stuff that only hardcore soul freaks know about. With few exceptions, all the charting singles are represented, and disco freaks get some pleasant surprises with extended disco and previously-promo-only mixes of "Theme from King Kong," "My Sweet Summer Suite," and "It Ain't Love Babe (Until You Give It)." The fifth disc is a DVD containing 14 video clips -- gold for fans. Regardless of whatever reservations one may have about it, Unlimited is a generous and representative overview of one of the 1970s' most gifted and prolific do-it-all musicians. ~ Andy Kellman