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

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