I found a mix CD recently, and the song "I Didn't Mean To Turn You On" is the first track. At first I had no idea what it was even called, but that line repeats a lot so I Googled it, and it seems like that's the title.
Looks like Robert Palmer wrote it, but this version is like bombastic synth-pop w/ a female voice. Is this Cherelle (again, Google)?
I AM IN LOVE WITH THIS SONG. Who is Cherelle and is she worth looking into? What else should I dig up if I'm head over heels for this?
― Surmounter, Thursday, 31 May 2007 00:10 (3 years ago) Permalink
one of my favorite dancing songs! it's a jam & lewis production so you can start with checking out their other production works. their œuvre is chock-a-block with greatness.
― Jeb, Thursday, 31 May 2007 00:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
OMG I KNEW it must be jam and lewis - wait are they the duo who did control? cuz it sounds sooo much like that
― Surmounter, Thursday, 31 May 2007 00:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
"Saturday Love" by Cherelle and Alexander O'Neal was great.
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 31 May 2007 00:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
Her greatest hits has other nuggets.
Surmounter, it was written and produced by Jam/Lewis. Read this for more.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 31 May 2007 00:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
"Saturday Love" is her greatest song, actually.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 31 May 2007 00:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
A mere 6.8 for "someone to call my lover"? MADNESS!
― Jeb, Thursday, 31 May 2007 00:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/SearchControllerServlet
― pisces, Thursday, 31 May 2007 00:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
is there a story with this and prince's 1999? i always wondered.
― r|t|c, Thursday, 31 May 2007 01:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
Wait a minute, wait a minute. Robert Palmer *wrote* it?? I heard the Cherelle version first and assumed he'd covered it, since his version didn't come out until later.
― Bimble, Thursday, 31 May 2007 01:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
Okay, allmusic says Palmer didn't write it.
― Bimble, Thursday, 31 May 2007 02:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
Anyway, I remember liking the Cherelle version a lot, it was during this time when I listened to nothing but this R&B radio station all the time.
― Bimble, Thursday, 31 May 2007 02:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
this + 1999 - in that it's the same beat, both came out 84 (which wz first?), jam&lewis kicked out the band the year before? sorry if this is some hackneyed old tale already. or if its just a coincidence.
― r|t|c, Thursday, 31 May 2007 02:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
Ahh! Here it is on YouTube! I haven't heard this song in eons!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8luxaT0JRs
― Bimble, Thursday, 31 May 2007 02:04 (3 years ago) Permalink
Mariah Carey also covered it on the Glitter soundtrack.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 31 May 2007 02:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
I remember "Fragile" being underrated as an album, even if "High Priority" has the big hits.
― Michael F Gill, Thursday, 31 May 2007 02:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
Hm...well this song doesn't sound near as earth shattering now as it did then. Sounds dated, in fact. At the time it really stood out among all the other stuff on that radio station, I swear...
― Bimble, Thursday, 31 May 2007 02:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
is this thread for real?
― PappaWheelie V, Thursday, 31 May 2007 03:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
prince, i can't believe i haven't gone there yet. i mean there's something stopping me, but i know it's one of those stupid things where when i finally do it i'm gonna kick myself.
― Surmounter, Thursday, 31 May 2007 03:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
seek: todd terje remix/re-edit titled Dub On You
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:51 (3 years ago) Permalink
As Alfred's link indicates, I love this song.
― jaymc, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
Sorry, PappaWheelie, not everyone on this thread is an accomplished music historian on all fronts, known in some circles for his extensive music archive arranged by era and genre, all in chronological order, with recordings dating back to 1877.
― jaymc, Thursday, 31 May 2007 16:00 (3 years ago) Permalink
haha some of us use that brain power to become accomplished ilx.xls historians?
― deej, Thursday, 31 May 2007 16:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
i love this song! EPIC.
it's cherrelle with 2 Rs btw in case any searches are being stymied.
― lex pretend, Thursday, 31 May 2007 16:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
ah two r's :-) my bad
― Surmounter, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:31 (3 years ago) Permalink
hmmm... this was considered some pretty wack shit in my NYC circles.
I mean yeah, it was on the radio every five minutes and isn't terrible exactly but it ain't Shannon neitha.
I hate the production. SOS Band, Alexander O'Neal... All that shit sounded way too slick at the time but seems to get a lotta love nowadays. Jam/Lewis = way overrated IMO. Mobbed up shit.
Bit MOR=sounding, buppie 80's shit really for the Dennis Hopson haircut crowd.
Anyone really cool was trippin heavy on "Somebody Else's Guy" right about then, which blows this shit to pieces. That doesn't completely invalidate this piece of music of course, but just sayin, if you was around then, you woulda been into something a bit cooler I am guessing. not hatin, lovin.
Hmmm anyone heard this Lalo Schifrin 12" on Tabu?!
― Saxby D. Elder, Friday, 1 June 2007 03:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
OMG Somebody Else's Guy is on this random mix I found too - and it's great!!!
― Surmounter, Friday, 1 June 2007 04:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
yeah, this totally sounds like shake-your-hips music for the ritzy and tipsy crowd - but it's none the worse for it. "Somebody Else's Guy" is great too, of course, but pitting mid-80s club smashes against each other feels a bit silly given how spectacular most of them were/are.
― Jeb, Friday, 1 June 2007 05:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
well OK what other mid-80s club smashes should i get then
― Surmounter, Friday, 1 June 2007 12:49 (3 years ago) Permalink
Personally I feel like Jam/Lewis productions sound better today than they were back then. In the mid 80s they were a bit too "radical", whereas today, when one is used to hearing way more extreme stuff, Jam/Lewis sound OK.
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 1 June 2007 12:51 (3 years ago) Permalink
I still despise "Nasty" though!
yes i know what you mean Geir, it's like now, it comes across as really tasteful, subtle, smart.
Nasty rules
― Surmounter, Friday, 1 June 2007 12:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
I hate the production. SOS Band, Alexander O'Neal... All that shit sounded way too slick at the time but seems to get a lotta love nowadays
I don't know how SOS Band and Cherrelle can be considered slick. Explain.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 1 June 2007 13:00 (3 years ago) Permalink
Thanks for setting us straight, Saxby.
― Andy K, Friday, 1 June 2007 13:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
i like slick, in any event ::shrugs::
― Surmounter, Friday, 1 June 2007 14:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
also i do think certain music sounds better at certain times. this song coulda sounded what, not that revolutionary back then, by the standards of sound of the moment. now, because music has explored different things, it's a welcome treat.
― Surmounter, Friday, 1 June 2007 14:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
That doesn't completely invalidate this piece of music of course, but just sayin, if you was around then, you woulda been into something a bit cooler I am guessing.
oh god i am going to turn into this guy in 20 years' time
― lex pretend, Friday, 1 June 2007 14:52 (3 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, I could do without hearing a whole lot of Janet's stuff, but I've been gobbling up all the Alexander O'Neal, Cherrelle, and SOS Band stuff I didn't here nearly as much as Janet down here in rural NC. I'll always have a soft spot for "Human" as well even though it is as slick as slick could get. It just sounds gorgeously pristine. I actually found the "Criticize" 12" and the "I Didn't Mean to Turn You One" 12" both in the dollar bin at Dusty Groove during my only visit there. A fine day it was. As for more stuff to looks for Surmounter, lots of stuff recommended here:
Electro R&B/1984-1986 S/D
― matt2, Friday, 1 June 2007 14:55 (3 years ago) Permalink
Hearsay is easily one of my top ten favorite albums.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 1 June 2007 14:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
Shannon and Jocelyn Brown were somewhere around the top of the charts with Cherrelle and SOS Band. All four could be heard on the same station within the same hour. I was "around" then and have a hard time buying that Jocelyn was actually the Fugazi to SOS Band's Silverchair or whatever.
― Andy K, Friday, 1 June 2007 15:00 (3 years ago) Permalink
Jocelyn was actually the Fugazi to SOS Band's Silverchair
Contemplating this has called me to lose what's left my nosehair, Andy. Thanks.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 1 June 2007 15:04 (3 years ago) Permalink
awesome thx matt
― Surmounter, Friday, 1 June 2007 15:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
heard on the same station within the same hour. I was "around" then
Hey there are many different types of "being around". I was referring to being a part of the indie label scene of the era, not about being within the listening radius of WBLS, ya cunt.
― Saxby D. Elder, Friday, 1 June 2007 17:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
lol indie.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 1 June 2007 17:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
Celluloid wasn't major
― PappaWheelie V, Friday, 1 June 2007 17:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
huh?
― Saxby D. Elder, Friday, 1 June 2007 17:49 (3 years ago) Permalink
nice words, now, boys
― Surmounter, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
I was referring to being a part of the indie label scene of the era, not about being within the listening radius of WBLS, ya cunt.
Please excuse my lack of decorum.
― Andy K, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
"Human" was obviously a great song, but I still cannot get myself to really enjoy that because I found what Human League had usually been doing so much better. Plus the rest of the "Crash" album was mostly rubbish.
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
While it's no lost classic, Crash showed that the League really had nothing more to say. Most of the songs are pretty good to great, and would have better served Janet or the SOS Band. "Jam," "Human" and what I think is the loveliest thing Jam/Lewis ever did the 12" mix of "Love is All That Matters" are the only things on which Phil Oakey doesn't disgrace himself.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
You're really ruining this match by failing to take up my challenge, man.
this quote nicely sums up the worst aspects of ILM right there. real-life cockfights are a bore; on-line ones are so EXTRAORDINARILY tedious and soul-draining that words don't even begin to describe them. lay it off already.
― Jeb, Monday, 4 June 2007 06:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
Ha! I knew it was the only Who album of theirs you had. Saxby, get the Who's "Sell Out" and THEN talk about The Who. Not before. Don't needlessly embarrass yourself.
Jeb, I beg to disagree. If no one ever had online fights on ILM, shit would get mighty boring.
My last statement of the night before I fall asleep is that I'm sorry I didn't quit when Saxby said he didn't care for Jam & Lewis. That was the red flag right there. What the fuck is he doing on this thread, then?
― Bimble, Monday, 4 June 2007 07:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
And Jeb, you might want to think of another name to go by than the same first name as Dubya's brother. No point in needlessly associating yourself with the family of Satan.
― Bimble, Monday, 4 June 2007 07:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
Hey clownboy, I was just kidding about Face Dances or owning that piece of shit. Bimble, how would you compare and contrast those two Who albums?
Please cop to being really fucking thick or English being your second (or maybe like, eighth) language.
Clownboy is ok, right? It's not very nasty, I think rather tolerant under these trying circumstances. Plus it just came into my head.
― Saxby D. Elder, Monday, 4 June 2007 08:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
Anyone who clocks all the shit I write knows that most of my friends nowadays are English and they all use that word MUCH MORE CASUALLY than people in the U.S. do. It can actually even be a POSITIVE THING as in "that cunt is quite the footballer".Anyway, I have grown a bit too familiar with that than is appropriate in polite company and I am herewith apologizing for essentially starting the ugliness in this thread.
Anyway, I have grown a bit too familiar with that than is appropriate in polite company and I am herewith apologizing for essentially starting the ugliness in this thread.
The implication here is that English people aren't polite company. When the fact is: we invented that shit, motherfucker. Clearly the English people you are hanging out with are lower class oiks. No cunt I know uses the word cunt. I also like the fact that instead of apologising for being a cunt on this thread you apologised for using the word cunt. This kind of style might come from hanging around with English people!
― little lord fauntleroy, Monday, 4 June 2007 08:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 4 June 2007 12:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
@ this entire thread
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 4 June 2007 12:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
good song (i like Palmer's version too). funny thread.
― blueski, Monday, 4 June 2007 12:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
Clearly the English people you are hanging out with are lower class oiks.
Yes, and is there a problem there for you? Clearly you have a substantial amount of reprehensible class bigotry within you.
The implication here is that English people aren't polite company.
Actually, yes, if you were to read it in a manner in which it wasn't at all intended, technically you are correct.
I also like the fact that instead of apologising for being a cunt on this thread you apologised for using the word cunt.
Actually it was a pretty broad apology and I thought it basically covered that (including when I said a bit earlier that I had been a bit of a cunt myself). The apology was more about actually realizing that I had been the one to start the ugliness in this thread by off-handedly calling someone a name (and that it was basically not meant to sound nearly as severe as it did to the people who don't spend as much time slumming with the less-than-desirable classes of people from England as I do). I really meant something more along the lines of "ya git" (UK) or "ya dink" (US), but just used the word cunt instead. That was the nature of the apology. I would have no problem calling you a cunt, because you have just shown yourself to be one, whatever it actually even really precisely means.
You know, you don't really know my situation or which type(s) (if you insist on that sort of division) of English people I am friends with. I am friends with people of all different social classes. The posh ones don't really say cunt all the time, but are actually far ruder overall in many ways than the supposed "oiks" I know, owing to their vast wealth, privilege and sense of entitlement. Yeah, fine the English invented "polite company", but in so doing, they also invented about a million ways to violate its tenets and exclude people, which was its main purpose. You are essentially bragging about the invention of an oppressive class system. Personally, I think that you might want to think about apologizing to me for calling my dear friends a bunch of oiks, without actually knowing them or knowing that they are actually a lot cooler, more loyal and less phony and mindlessly trendy and bratty than the posh people I know. They are proud of their Cockney heritage, by the way, not ashamed of it. (And the Yorkies I know are equally proud of theirs and they say cunt all the time!) Frankly, I am more offended by your blatant class bigotry than I think anyone had a right to be about anyone calling someone a cunt (or acting like one, which you now have done). This is right up there with the AIDS joke on my radar.
Holding your pinky out at the appropriate time does not make you a good person. You sound as proud of having invented this ridiculous standard of manners-- which has been the subject of ridicule by many a fine writer (Shakespeare, Waugh, Mitfords etc on through to the present)-- as I might sound as an American for having invented Electricity, Blues, Jazz, Rock and Roll and Soul music. (I don't wrap myself in the flag however and would be amongst the first people to point out all the American foibles like genocide of the Native Americans, slavery, institutionalized racism, gender bigotry etc etc etc, so don't even bother trying to counter with some sort of "battle". I am as ashamed of our current foreign policy as the rest of the 75% of the country who is).
I suppose you are equally proud of perfecting (if not actually inventing) imperialism and global oppression. What are you, upper class twit of the year?
Was Chaucer English? He used the word cunt a faire bit...
― Saxby D. Elder, Monday, 4 June 2007 13:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
..............
― lex pretend, Monday, 4 June 2007 13:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
Uhm, Saxby, dude's called himself "little lord fauntleroy". Don't you think he just might possibly be a troll asking for exactly the sort of reaction you just gave him?
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 4 June 2007 14:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
thread is so next level
― deej, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
bimble vs. saxby = the perfect storm?
it's good tho, amidst all the bizarreness, i actually have gotten a bunch of recommendations out of this, and i'm gonna be placing a huuuge amazon order 2day. word
― Surmounter, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
hmmm, yeah maybe. I can be a bit of a babe in the woods about that sort of thing. I always just assume people are straight up but obviously that is really naive. Plus I really don't look at the people's names... maybe better start I guess. I just really don't ever want to become one of these people that knows the difference between Marcello and Geir. I just want to chat about music and learn stuff. If someone is DIRECTLY NICE to me, I will remember that. (and remember the people I hate too, I guess)
I didn't mind pounding him anyway. Some of these same issues came up in the LDN is a victim thread too. I feel pretty strongly about that stuff.
heh, I am SO never dealing with Bimble again, unless maybe someone offers us a lucrative reality TV show contract.
― Saxby D. Elder, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
okay what SOS album should i get, quick i'm adding to my cart
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 20:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
Their greatest is pretty solid; any collection with "Just Be Good To Me" will do.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 20:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
k... i hate greatests tho ; (
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 20:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
yo dude -- ha ha ha
― little lord fauntleroy, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 02:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
Saxby, I'd like it if you'd start a thread about the Paradise Garage and your memories of it. Some of the things you said above are pretty interesting. Good to get some context on this (and other) records too - would never have guessed that IDMTTYO was frowned upon by the top level DJ guys. I still love it, but it's good to get a handle on how it was perceived at the time.
Another great song that hasn't been mentioned on this thread yet: Donna Allen - Serious (Do we have a better term for this type of music other than '80s disco'?)
― NI, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 13:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
I picked up the "Serious" 12" for 50 cents last year. A pretty weak production but it was fun hearing where Strike's "U Sure Do" came from. I'd classify it as '80s R&B/dancepop. would never have guessed that IDMTTYO was frowned upon by the top level DJ guys
Listening to it again, it makes sense. Even in the seven minute mix, there's no break or real instrumental section that would appeal to clubbers/DJs. It's very pop.
― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 14:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
i only just discovered Taana Gardner's 'Work That Body'. hotness.
― blueski, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 14:52 (3 years ago) Permalink
also Sylvia's 'Automatic Lover' and Tata Vega's 'Get It Up For Love'. all this awesome endof70s disco-pop i wish i'd investigated sooner.
― blueski, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 14:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
Tch, get wit the program Stevem. I'll post you a cd-r of all this type of stuff if you pester me enough.
<i>A pretty weak production but it was fun hearing where Strike's "U Sure Do" came from.</i>
Did Strike sample Donna? Aw, it's not weak though, it's very very pop so I guess the PG bigwigs would have sneered but it sounds great played out.
― NI, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 15:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
Surmounter, I'm sure it's too late now but I'd recommend the first SOS Band album if you really want an album and not a comp. I pretty positive that Jam and Lewis had nothing to do with that one though so maybe it's not what you'd want.
― matt2, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 20:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
well, i mean i wasn't specifically looking for jam and lewis, but for that sound
and i realized that i don't necessarily have to place a big amazon order - i do like the independent sellers, so it's not like i'm saving on shipping buying everything at once
i ended up ordering: Cherrelle - High Priority, Rene and Angela - Street, and something else on the thread linked above - Loose Ends or something it was called? i'm so xcited. i also bought a ton of kristin hersh, the new bjork and a That Dog album.
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 22:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
would never have guessed that IDMTTYO was frowned upon by the top level DJ guys
Thank you! A "radio record" maybe? (btw, thanks dude, you make sense to me and I will try to remember you are saaaafe).
Saxby, I'd like it if you'd start a thread about the Paradise Garage and your memories of it.
Yeah, hey cool except I don't know if you are just some troll trying to get me to make an ass out of myself somehow (which given half a chance I probably would do). "So Larry rolled his eyes and said to me...."
The other thing really is that I aim to actually stay anonymous on here. If I really get into who I was actually running with (or really much about much), you'll be able to Google me or some shit that I just ain't into.
That Dog
Anna W. forev. <3 her solo album is also probably a nice pickup at ebay prices.
By the way, just in closing, it really isn't terribly amusing to me the way the mob took over independent dance music and turned it into oceans of buppie MOR sludge, "R&B" and "hip-hop". Support that shit if you want but I ain't about it. I hate to say it (for one thing because it's a bit painful) but if all them cool gay people hadn't died, it probably wouldn't have really went down quite the same way.
Like, really, Saxby is out this bitch. Watch out for the clothing line.
― Saxby D. Elder, Thursday, 7 June 2007 03:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
Ah no I'm not a troll, I just found some of the things you said on this thread fascinating and I'd like to read them someplace where you won't get jumped on and dissed. I see your point about wanting to stay anon but I hope you stick around ILM, you seem like you'll add a lot to it.
― NI, Thursday, 7 June 2007 12:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
=) i love how this thread's responses are now counting down to 0. what happens when they get down to 0?
― Surmounter, Thursday, 7 June 2007 14:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
what! now counting up again!
I hope you stick around ILM, you seem like you'll add a lot to it.
Thanks dude, I just meant I am outta this thread... I'll be sticking around ILM. I'll try to remember you are OK then. You were smart to pick a name like NI, btw. People don't track every fucking thing you do I bet.
― Saxby D. Elder, Thursday, 7 June 2007 15:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
um, so I just put Cherrelle's High Priority on, and it definitely sounds good to me ;-)
― Surmounter, Sunday, 24 June 2007 21:04 (3 years ago) Permalink
omg Saturday Love
― Surmounter, Sunday, 24 June 2007 21:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
This is such a great thread. FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 24 June 2007 22:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
actually I was thinking about this thread earlier today.
― Bimble, Sunday, 24 June 2007 22:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
I thought of another reason I love this song: it's in my vocal range, only down a few octaves.
― Eric H., Monday, 25 June 2007 01:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
I need to hear you karaoke.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 25 June 2007 01:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
sundaymondaytuesdaywednesdaythursdayfridaySATURDAAAYYLOVE
― The Good Dr. Bill, Monday, 25 June 2007 01:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
My history at karaoke in total:
* Daft Punk, "One More Time" * Stevie Wonder, "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing" * Prince, "Erotic City"
― Eric H., Monday, 25 June 2007 01:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
Okay so Oh No It's U Again off High Priority is really, really great, EXCEPT there's this one fucking percussive tick throughout the song that WON'T FUCKING STOP and it's like BARELY keeping a reasonable beat and it's DRIVING ME CRAZY!!!
i mean like i almost feel sick from it, cuz i can't stop paying attention to it, when the rest of the fucking song is so good.
ugh.
― Surmounter, Monday, 25 June 2007 22:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
I can't find the mid-80's R&B thread.
Here's Evelyn Champagne King's "Betcha She Don't Love You". I love this song. It's been far, far too long since I've heard this kind of music, like months or something! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP9268lMQuM
― Bimble, Saturday, 14 June 2008 17:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
o_O bimble v. saxby
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 14 June 2008 17:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
I don't really think AIDS was a good thing.
― Eric H., Saturday, 14 June 2008 17:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
However I do think "Somebody Else's Guy" isn't all that great either.
― Eric H., Saturday, 14 June 2008 17:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
"i told you twice - i was only trying to be nice, only trying to be nice"
^^^such a great lyric
― r1o natsume, Saturday, 14 June 2008 18:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
high priority holding up awesomely well. it's like a little music box: pink, perfect and glittery.
― la senora (surm), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 02:15 (3 months ago) Permalink
what should i get next?
Joyce Sims - Come Into My Life LP or Very Best of collection w/ same title. It's a bit more electro (86 i think) but very good.
http://www.amazon.com/Joyce-Sims/e/B000AQ0KXQ
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 02:57 (3 months ago) Permalink
^^^actually bought that Joyce Sims CD off of Mark (Unrest) Robinson at a yard sale in Somerville, MA a couple years ago...
― henry s, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 03:09 (3 months ago) Permalink
has this been mentioned : Evelyn "Champagne" King - Love Come Down
more effervescent than Cherrelle's cool, but imho as timeless and classic
― Andrew O'H, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 08:24 (3 months ago) Permalink