In the Face of Funk is 1994 album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by funk

Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

/R&B group Cameo

Cameo (band)

Cameo is an American soul-influenced funk group that formed in the early 1970s. Cameo was initially a 13-member group known as the New York City Players; this name was later changed to Cameo to avoid a lawsuit from Ohio Players, another group from that era. Since then, Cameo has recorded several...

. This was their first album of newly written material since 1991's Emotional Violence

Emotional Violence

Emotional Violence is a 1991 album by funk/R&B group Cameo. The uneven album failed to make an impact in the charts, prompting the band to take a hiatus from recording new material until 1994's In the Face of Funk...

. The album reached #10 on the R&B charts and is now out-of-print. The group went into a recording hiatus following this successful release; barring 2 new studio cuts on the 1996 live album

Live album

A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

, Nasty

Nasty (album)

Nasty is a live album released by funk/R&B group Cameo in 1996. In addition to the live material, 2 new studio tracks were included: "Come Fly With Me", and the album's title track, both written by Larry Blackmon. The "Mega-Mix" is a remix of the album's live tracks...

, Cameo would release another full album of new material until the new millennium.

Track listing

1. "In the Face of Funk"
2. "Slyde"
3. "You Are My Love"
4. "Desire"
5. "Don't Say It's Over"
6. "BSU"
7. "The Man"
8. "A Special Love"
9. "We Can Make It Happen"
10. "Where"