Love Child

Album Review

In the early days of the CD age, Motown released an astonishing number of CDs, including a whole line of single-disc sets that contained two original records on one CD. Motown's initial CD two-fers were criticized in many quarters for shoddy, unattractive packaging and indifferent remastering, but less discriminating consumers found them perfectly acceptable, since they offered a lot of music at a reasonable price. By the mid-'90s, Motown eventually phased these discs out of print, replacing them with remastered individual discs, but some of the records never were re-released on CD, which made this series valuable for Motown collectors. This particular disc contained two of the Supremes' albums from the mid-'60s: Love Child and Supremes A-Go-Go. Like many Motown albums of the '60s, they're uneven, containing a couple of great singles, a few solid album tracks, and some filler, but hardcore fans will find them to be worth exploring, especially in this context, since the highlights on both records tend to balance out the weaknesses.