>>HECK NO.....cameo fell off and started watering down their
>>funk. Rick and the city band stay HARD and didnt water shit
>>down and i like that. the first two rick james records kills
>>almost anything that cameo ever did.....
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>This is simply not true...At all...I won't go into who is
>better because that's just a cluster fuck...lol
>
>But from 1979's Cameosis to 1985's Single Life, Cameo was the
>cutting edge in funk alongside Roger/Zapp...The irony is Cameo
>proved to be more adept at surviving than a lot of their funk
>based peers including Rick (who started to fall off after
>1983's Cold Blooded....)...it's crazy how Cameo and Zapp
>proved to be the survivors of that late 70's era when a lot of
>other bands were forced to completely bite Prince....
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>By '83 Cameo had already moved on to the new dope ("Alligator
>Woman" was cutting edge funk....Heavy on synths, a nod to that
>rockish, black new wave turn by you know who while still HEAVY
>in the funk...)
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>"She's Strange," "Single Life," "Hangin Downtown," "Attack Me
>With Me With Your Love" ect...They all came after 1983...Even
>when Cameo went "pop" with Word Up in '86 they still kept the
>funk..."Back And Forth" was THAT shit...
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>Underrated band to this day and they def. kept the funk along
>with Roger after Rick fell to drugs....

word up to alladat