Sweat is the eighteenth studio album by the band Kool & the Gang, released in 1989 following a three-year gap between albums. James "J.T." Taylor, Khalis Bayyan and Robert "Spike" Mickens had departed, and this album showed a refocused band. Singles Both "Raindrops" (peak #27) and "Never Give Up" (peak #74) on the Billboard Hot Soul Songs chart. Critical reception Ron Wynn of Allmusic called the album "a completely faceless, aimless record…probably the worst album of their career,". Hugh Wyatt of the New York Daily News called Sweat "one of the year's best recordings". Track listing Personnel Robert "Kool" Bell - bass Ronald "Khalis" Bell - tenor saxophone, keyboards Claydes Charles Smith - guitar Gary Brown - vocals Sennie "Skip" Martin - vocals, trumpet, percussion (lead on 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11) Odeen Mays - vocals, keyboards (lead on 1, 2, 4, 7, 10) Larry Gittens - trumpet, vocals, keyboards Michael Ray - trumpet Clifford Adams - trombone, vocals George Brown - keyboards Robert "Robbie G" Goble - drums Charts References Kool & the Gang albums 1989 albums Mercury Records albums Music-related lists