The O'Jays - Original Album Classics (2014)

Not to be confused with a three-disc set with the same title, this particular Original Album Classics box contains five albums from the O'Jays: Back Stabbers (1972), Ship Ahoy (1973), Survival (1975), Family Reunion (1975), and Travelin' at the Speed of Thought (1976). That's the group's first five Philadelphia International albums all of which went either gold or platinum. When the compact, no-frills box was released in February 2014, it retailed for a price roughly equal to that of a decent two-disc anthology. It was a cheap way to obtain some of the group's most popular releases. Each one contained here is either good or classic.