Toop's 1996 Sugar & Poison

I Want To Ta Ta You Baby
Sensuality
Bedroom Eyes
Just Like A Baby
Chasin' A Dream
When Seasons Change
My Way
I Didn't Know
Never Can Say Goodbye
Coolin' Out
What About This Love?
Ken Burke / Risin' To The Top (Give It All You Got)

1. Cruisin' -- Smokey Robinson
2. People Make The World Go Round -- The Stylistics
3. Do Me Baby -- M'elisa Morgan
4. Honey Brown -- Eddie Kendricks
5. Hangin' On A String -- Loose Ends
6. Southern Nights -- Allen Toussaint
7. Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah / Nocturnal Interludes
8. Computer Love -- Zapp
9. Vanish In Our Sleep -- Bootsy's Rubber Band
10. If You Don't Want My Love Give It Back -- Bobby Womack
11. That's The Way I Feel About Cha -- OV Wright
12. Charles Jackson / Passionate Breezes
13. The Other Side Of The World -- Luther Vandross
14. At Last I Am Free -- Chic

For some reason, Gracenote doesn't have artist listings for the first CD (I remember that the first 4 songs are by Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Isley Brothers, Betty Everett and Sly & the Family Stone).

Yeah, I can't find this anywhere.
It took me quite a while (and quite a few bucks) to track down Ocean of Sound, too.

Ocean of Sound turns up once in a while on eBay, but I have yet to see Sugar & Poison on there.

Oh hey, I just found the full listing for the first CD:

1. I Want To Tata You.. - J.Watson
2. Sensuality - Isley Bros
3. Bedroom Eyes - B.Everett
4. Just Like A Baby - Sly &..
5. Chasin' A Dream - Tashan
6. When Seasons.. - C.Mayfield
7. My Way - L.Holloway
8. I Didn't Know - A.Green
9. Never Can Say Good.. - I.Hayes
10. Coolin' Out - D.Edwards
11. What About This.. - Mr.Fingers
12. Risin' To The Top - K.Burke

You can also see the cover here (it looks great!):

http://www.sainsburysentertainyou.co.uk/mall/sainsburys/main.cfm?productid=AMBT16

Avery, email me. I have a copy I can burn you.

Like no other collective group that I can imagine, you have slaked my need to keep looking for this compilation everywhere I go. I can now spend a lot less time in the V/A sections. Thanks everyone, especially for the burned copy Matos!

Avery

I didnt realise it was so rare! I play it a lot. I will rip it tomorrow if I remember and it will be on soulseek (mymble2 is the name).

i have a copy of this now!

Been listening to this again recently - a characteristically dodgy sleevenote from DT notwithstanding, this really is my favourite of his Ocean Of Sound compilation series, pinpointing the exact moment where the human voice in soul became symbiotic with ahuman electronics - from the opening guitar, seemingly played independently of Watson's vocal (or indeed the song), via the dissolute bliss of Mr Fingers and Allen Toussaint, to the heartstopping double finale of Luther's matchless "The Other Siee Of The World" - where his ecstasy is so complete that it makes him disappear, atom by atom, within the neon fabric of the song - and Chic's never-more-final "At Last I Am Free."

Now Sugar and Poison is itself a historical artefact, of a time in the '90s when majors were still prepared to become Wire-friendly and let Toop, Kevin Martin and Kodwo Eshun curate double-CD sets of the avant-friendly kind.