Gold
The Ohio Players put up one of the wildest fronts of the 1970s' funk bands: towering Afros, raunchy rhythms with guitars cranked as loud as horns, kinky albumcovers. While never quite as inspiredly free-associative asJames Brownat his best, their chanted catch phrases bridged the gap between threateningly tough and playground-ready.Goldcollects high points that are still a joy to hear--can it be?--a quarter century after the band's peak.--Rickey Wright