Box Selection Their 8 Rak Albums 1974-1983

Eight albums for $20...I'd roll those dice for any artist that had several songs I liked. Hot Chocolate has 3 giant hits from the 1970s: Emma, You Sexy Thing, and Disco Queen (they also wrote another monster hit "Brother Louie"). I took the plunge since it was only $5 more than buying a greatest hit CD. While of course not all the songs are great, there are plenty of album tracks that are just as good as the singles, with the same feel and sound.This 4-CD comp that compiles 8 full albums and 72 tracks is of course guaranteed to give you the full-length album versions and not truncated single versions as found in many comps. Some people may not care about that, but I hate shortened songs, and will always opt for the album-length version of any song I buy.These albums were remastered in 2010 and sound great for 1970s recordings. If you like "You Sexy Thing" or "Emma," you will like their albums too.

Well unless you're a fan of the band Hot Chocolate this 4 CD box set may not be for you. However, it includes the 8 albums they recorded for Rak Records. The "peerless" (as the 3 sentence liner notes proclaim him to be and I firmly agree) lead singer/frontman Errol Brown, and the band are smoking, and remain in fine form throughout. Abba, Queen, and the Bee Gees easily come to mind. The American hits "You Sexy Thing", "Every 1's A Winner", and "Going Through The Motions" are included as well as all of the beautiful disco/funk/pop/rock music that was included on their albums. The small complaint is that there is just an 8 page booklet which just covers their discography, and credit information, and there are no bonus tracks.

The Box Selection is a great way to get the near complete discography of this British R&B/funk band. The four disk set covers their first 8 albums (from 1974 to 1983). That's 72 tracks, fully remastered. That comes out to about a quarter a song. If you're someone who gets into the history of music of the 70's and 80's, you definitely want to consider getting this set.

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Great band!!!didn't know of hot chocolate until the sad passing of erroll brown!!this band was tight,consistently great!highly recommended!

Hot Chocolate needs no introduction, all the favorites are her but I was led to believe by the cover (my mistake) that I was going to find individual albums but it is not the case. As most new reissues this set is heavily compressed so I am keeping it for the sake of completion and having those tracks that never made it to compilation. Thanks for your time.

For those who likes Hot Chocolate songs. I simply loved it. The musics are very kindly and I feel happy when I hear it.

My son loves this!