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The Essentials

The Meters

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Released: Jan 2002
Label: Rhino
There are longer Meters compilations and more complete ones. But, this 12-track tour through the collective’s groundbreaking late Sixties to Seventies heyday offers a concise, stripped-down portrait of the Meters’ laidback New Orleans funk (which, btw, could be defined as “concise and stripped-down" in itself). “Cissy Strut,” “Hey Pocky A-Way,” “Look-Ka Py Py” and others were all R&B and dance floor hits yet the Meters songs were better known than the band itself. Their fellow musicians embraced them in ways that the public didn’t - Robert Palmer and Paul McCartney recorded with The Meters and Steve Miller’s “Fly Like An Eagle” wouldn’t exist with tunes like "Fire On The Bayou."
- Nick Dedina
The Meters - The Essentials 2005-02-01
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    Cissy Strut
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    Sophisticated Cissy
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    Look-Ka Py Py
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    Chicken Strut
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    2:56
    Hand Clapping Song
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    3:29
    Be My Lady
    Be My Lady
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    Fire On The Bayou
    Fire On The Bayou
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    Hey Pocky A-Way
    Hey Pocky A-Way
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    They All Ask'd For You
    They All Ask'd For You
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    Tippi-Toes
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    Soul Island
    Soul Island
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