War first came to prominence through their collaborations with Eric Burdon, but as this double-disc flashback makes plain, Burdon's involvement only lasted for a couple of albums. After that, the squad of school friends from the rough LA districts of Compton and South Central pursued their own hybrid of funk, jazz and latin music, and scored a fat streak of hits before ennui and line-up changes started sapping their energies at the end of the 1970s. Their signature hit Low Rider remains the epitome of greasy LA funk, while The Cisco Kid was a pivotal moment that earned them a commercial bridgehead into the Hispanic audience. Their jazzy instrumental City, Country, City is loathsomely smarmy and River Niger sounds like background music from the original Starsky and Hutch, but Cinco De Mayo and the ballad Don't Let No One Get You Down have barely dated.