We are a POLL of the Rhythm Nation: Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814

went with "come back to me" over "escapade"

this is her most diana ross sounding album

<3 roxy YESS

I had to vote title track, but there's no wrong answer really.

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smh at this low turnout

Edit.

The title track is one of the all-time great sample-into-song transformations.

a lot of which was ripped from :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNmuVREvnBs

1 minute 25 seconds in.

and yes, AoC sampled it as well, but the use with the beats/cut-ups etc is very very similar.

"State of the World" and "The Knowledge" needed more votes

Wow, never heard of Age of Chance.

yeah .. its pretty hard to think that jam and lewis hadn't heard 'Crush Collision', after all, the AoC album was out quite a while before RN.

I can't believe I'd forgotten about Age of Chance

well, i have not mentioned them on ilm for a few months, so thats understandable djp ..

I liked when you sampled "RnB Junkie"...

ha ..

I want to believe

i think i stated my case clearly enough in the dedicated 'mark e' thread ...

but we digress .. back to the brilliance of janet and her sample ripping production crew

yeah, I know. I just saw you post in a janet thread and couldn't resist.

~ ilm vs a 'like button' ~

i somehow missed BOTH of these poll threads at the time o_0

think would've gone with "miss you much" - this is a weird album to listen to front-to-back though, it starts strong then kinda sags and then finishes really strongly. title track is obv classic but the other standouts for me are polar opposites - "black cat" (which invented "free your mind"! i have a bizarre soft spot for r&b/hair metal fusions obviously) and "come back to me", which sort of points ahead to the lush silken gorgeous balladry she really perfected in the '90s

plies and ne-yo broke 'come back to me' in a way that somehow can never be fixed tbh

hm i'd not heard of age of chance either. nothing i'm finding to read about them makes any mention of art of noise which seems uh, pretty absurd

yeah .. 'crush collision' was a bit of a one off (alongside their 'kisspower' remix that predated the cut-n-paste excess of coldcut).

prior to this sample excess groove for their debut major label album, they were a lot more noise/guitar based.

however, they, along with various others of the time, discovered the joys of looped samples, and tDR artwork ...

hence 'crush collision'.

which they then used to open their live shows with, aided by dj powercut, aka noel watson, cutting up the 'leeds, detroit, berlin, new yourk' chant to excess.

oh and geoff from the AOC talked re this sample lift here :

http://www.ireallylovemusic.co.uk/interviews/irlm_vs_aoc.html

i'll shut up now ..

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Good reappraisal of the album by Marcello folded into a Tina Turner review.

I never noticed "West End Girls" creeping into the outro of "Someday is Tonight"!

Me neither