In the Street (CD)

Next to quot;Renaissancequot;, this is the best VP album. It follows closely on the heels of quot;Renaissancequot;'s ground breaking, eclectic sound and vision. You really can't compare the two, although they are somewhat related. Like quot;Sgt Pepperquot; was related to quot;Magical Mystery Tourquot; in a way, but it was a totally different album with a different feel to it, and it's own sort of quot;vibequot; with different songs. Just like quot;Magical Mystery Tourquot; shows that the Beatles had grown up and quot;learnedquot; from the psychedelic experiments of quot;Sgt Pepperquot;, so too does quot;In The Streetquot; have remnants of the quot;Renaissancequot; era, but with a new twist. This was The Village People's attempt at hip-hop, but not rap. One look at the cover and you can tell that these guys are coming to break-dance. The boom box on the shoulder, the whole brash, excellent New York attitude, it's all there, they look like a bunch of b-boys coming to battle Rock Steady Crew at the Roxy or something. It gets you prepared for the first few tracks which are SONIC FUNK BOMBS. Many of them are elongated funk jams that rival Parliament-Funkadelic's quot;Maggot Brainquot; and James Brown's 1970's output like quot;Make It Funkyquot; and quot;Hot Pantsquot;