J. Arena 2008-05-26

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Back in the day, when we spent the night going from club to club, dripping gold chains and polyester, sporting the most intricately blow-dried hairstyles of the day (...and the girls looked nice, too!) this was most often the music that got everyone away from the bar and onto the dance floor.

If you loved the Village People, no amount of trashing by the critics will change your mind. This is some awesome, unforgettable disco music that will make you get up and dance again. (But I'll never wear those 6" heels with the rhinestone ankle straps ever, ever again!!)

Renato S. Clarin 2008-04-21

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One of the best disco acts of the 70s. I already had this album on tape but i still prefer hearing this album on cd with highs and lows noticeably clear enough on digital transfer. Their style of music was so unique and very much different from other disco albums of the 70s, bouncy and truly danceable.

I wish those producers in the business will appreciate the quality of their style and possibly release all their albums. Many fans will surely be delighted to collect their albums not just the usual compilations available in the market today.

I followed their career for quite a long time and can assure you that their music will never be forgotten. I can honestly say that 70s disco music was THE BEST and can never be duplicated. Who can forget Macho Man, In The Navy, Sex Over The Phone, YMCA, etc. This album will surely remind you of the 70s, a well deserved place in your collection.

M. C Wright 2006-03-27

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I'd give the B-side one star, it's very lame, but side A is just golden, golden. I dig this so much that it doesn't leave the turn table, it's making all the other records collect dust and grow old. Now don't get me wrong, I am a macho man, many times have I dubbed this onto a tape and mashed to it at the health club, lifting mad wieghts and sweating profusly. I get kinda sad near the end when cool cat tells us "DO YOU DIG MY CHEST? MY THICK MOUSTACHE?" cause I can't grow chest hair and my mustache is weak (people wonder why I haven't shaved my stubble, but it took me 3 weeks to grow that!). If you are a macho man, you will dig this, it will make you want to find the first guy you see and... give him a high five, that is if he is macho. If he is weak and fat, then you will want to pound him, cause he is weak and is edge is not strong! But my edge is the strongest of the strong! I power mosh to this in the morning, then I take a bubble bath and think about how strong the edge is! Oh this LP is so good, I spun it three times in a row when I first heard it, the B-side is weak though! Sodom and Gohmorah is faking the funk, you know the Village People just wrote this cause the label was like "stop looking so gay" and they were like "well I guess a blble song would make us look less gay." I am What I am!

Tim Brough 2004-04-14

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I can't believe I found this for fifty cents at a flea market recently...at that price, how could I resist? After all, I was the whole of maybe 17 years old when this originally came out and it got played a lot at high school dances.

On the other hand, I didn't remember that the whole affair barely clocked in at more than a half hour, or that the two songs on side one were a little longer than 10 minutes. But for those ten minutes, the glorious bubble-gum disco of "Macho Man/I Am What I Am" completely obliterates the old arguments about disco, and makes a great statement about being who you are, no matter what society tells you. And it's still catchy as all get out.

After that, "Macho Man" is cheesy filler. "Key West" is marginal, but the dopey remake of "Just A Gigalo/Ain't Got Nobody" actually makes you long for David Lee Roth, and "Sodom and Gomorra" is dreadful. I picked this up strictly for nostalgia purposes, and I'm glad I did, because that first 10 minutes takes me back. Causal onlookers can probably be served just as well by "The Millennium Collection" or by any of the dozens of Village People greatest hits collections out there.

Karen Waller 2001-04-28

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I love this album and the title song. This will get your heart pumping with this one. Like on American Bandstand, when these guys appeared, it has a nice beat, and is easy to dance to. My sister brought the album home one time, and listened to it like crazy. Village People was and still is the hottest group ever. I would get this album on my wish list. Their costumes are kool. Buy this puppy, and you will never stop listening to it!!!