The Best of Cameo (1993 album)

The Best of Cameo
The Best of Cameo
Greatest hits album by Cameo
Released	May 18, 1993
Length	72:30
Label	Mercury
Producer	Larry Blackmon
Cameo chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Christgau's Consumer Guide	^[2]
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[3]

The Best of Cameo is a greatest hits album by the funk group Cameo, released in 1993. In total, nine albums are represented by 14 tracks. The Best of Cameo, Volume 2 was released three years later.

Track listing

"Word Up!" – 4:19 - Blackmon/Jenkins
"Single Life – 6:35 - Blackmon/Jenkins
"Candy" – 5:39 - Blackmon/Jenkins
"Shake Your Pants" – 6:21 - Blackmon
"Rigor Mortis" – 5:21 - Blackmon/Leftenant/Leftenant
"Attack Me With Your Love" – 4:30 - Blackmon/Kendrick
"Talkin' Out the Side of Your Neck" – 4:05 - Blackmon/Jenkins/Leftenant/Singleton
"Sparkle" – 4:51 - Blackmon/Lockett
"Back and Forth" – 3:52 - Blackmon/Jenkins/Kendrick/Leftenant
"Flirt" – 4:06 - Blackmon/Jenkins
"She's Strange" – 6:52 (12" rap version) - Blackmon/Jenkins/Leftenant/Singleton
"I Just Want to Be" – 5:18 - Blackmon/Johnson
"Skin I'm In" – 6:25 - Blackmon
"It's Over" – 4:16 - Blackmon/Jenkins/Leftenant

Charts

Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums - #44^[4]

References

^ AllMusic review
^ Christgau, Robert. "Cameo: The Best of Cameo". CG '90s: Missing Consumer Guides. Robert Christgau. Retrieved July 12, 2016.
^ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian David (January 29, 2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9780743201698 – via Google Books.
^ Thompson, Dave (January 29, 2001). Funk. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 9780879306298 – via Google Books.

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[1] AllMusic review

[2] Christgau, Robert. "Cameo: The Best of Cameo". CG '90s: Missing Consumer Guides. Robert Christgau. Retrieved July 12, 2016.

[3] Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian David (January 29, 2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9780743201698 – via Google Books.

[4] Thompson, Dave (January 29, 2001). Funk. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 9780879306298 – via Google Books.

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v t e Cameo
Larry Blackmon Anthony Lockett Aaron Mills Tomi Jenkins Charlie Singleton Jeryl Bright Michael Burnett Thomas Campbell Wayne Cooper Merve de Peyer Gary Dow Eric Durham Gregory Johnson Kurt Jeter John Kellogg Kevin Kendrick Arnett Leftenant Nathan Leftenant Damon Mendes Stephen Moore William Morris Eric Nelson Jeff Nelson William Revis Charles Sampson Robert L. Smith Billy Allen Jr Melvin Wells Gregory B. Johnson
Studio albums	Cardiac Arrest (1977) We All Know Who We Are (1978) Ugly Ego (1978) Secret Omen (1979) Cameosis (1980) Feel Me (1980) Knights of the Sound Table (1981) Alligator Woman (1982) Style (1983) She's Strange (1984) Single Life (1985) Word Up! (1986) Machismo (1988) Real Men... Wear Black (1990) Emotional Violence (1991) In the Face of Funk (1994) Sexy Sweet Thing (2000)
Live albums	Nasty (1996) Live: Word Up (1998) Original Artist Hit List (2003) Nasty, Live & Funky (2007) Word Up! Greatest Hits – Live (2007) Keep It Hot (2007)
Compilation albums	Shake Your Pants (1992) The Best of Cameo (1993) The Best of Cameo, Volume 2 (1996) Best of Cameo (1998) The Ballads Collection (1998) Greatest Hits (1998) Anthology/Gold (2002/2005) Classic Cameo (2003) The Best of Cameo (2004) The Definitive Collection (2006)
Singles	"Rigor Mortis" "Shake Your Pants" "She's Strange" "Talkin' Out the Side of Your Neck" "Attack Me with Your Love" "Word Up!" "Candy" "Back and Forth" "I Want It Now" "Loverboy"
Related	Discography

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Charts

See also

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