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6-7 Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis Week w/ Tannembaum Schmidt

i'm really excited about this

isley brothers song is crazy good

What amg says about 3+3

Recorded in 1973, 3 + 3 was a major turning point for the Isley Brothers. With this album, the Isleys moved their T-Neck label from Buddah to Epic/CBS (which became Epic/Sony in the early '90s), and it was at Epic that they unveiled their new lineup. Lead singer Ronald Isley and his siblings O'Kelly and Rudolph remained, but the Isleys became a sextet instead of a trio when cousin Chris Jasper and younger brothers Ernie and Marvin were added. This new lineup was called 3 + 3, and the addition of Jasper on keyboards, Ernie on guitar, and Marvin on bass added exciting new elements to the Isleys' sound. One of finest R&B bassists of the 1970s, the ever-so-funky Marvin is in a class with heavyweights like Larry Graham and Louis Johnson -- and Ernie is a stunning guitarist who is heavily influenced by Jimi Hendrix but has a distinctive style of his own. The Isleys had always been lovers of rock, but with the addition of Ernie, their sound became even more overtly rock influenced. Nonetheless, the rock and pop elements didn't alienate R&B audiences, which ate this album up. The single "That Lady" (which is based on an Impressions-like gem they had recorded in 1964) was a major hit, and the Isleys are equally captivating on soul interpretations of Seals & Crofts' "Summer Breeze," James Taylor's "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight," and the Doobie Brothers' "Listen to the Music." With this superb album, the Isley Brothers sounded better than ever -- and they gained a lot of new fans without sacrificing the old ones. The 2003 reissue of 3 + 3 boasts remastered sound, new liner notes by David Ritz that draw from new interviews with Marvin and Jasper, and the inclusion of one bonus track: a previously unreleased live version of "That Lady" recorded in 1980.

gonna try to limit myself to one youtube per album like Rev did upthread

lets keep to this imo

great choices btw

excited about listening to the isley bros

aargh gonna get so behind w/these threads though, still haven't got round to luther from last week!

just used my 10 free emusic token for hathaway/flack

late to the game. so how do these clubs work? listening to hathaway/flack right now.

afaik people just take turns picking records, and everyone who wants to participate can listen to them and discuss them as much or as little as they wish. unless i'm doing it rong.

ah okay. not 'getting' the flack/hathaway yet but I'll give it a couple more go's this week

just put on the vandross and this is dope imo

man d-_-b

flack/hathaway is kind of a http://img.badassbuddy.com/buddies/badassbuddy_com-slowburner.gif

yah already startin to feel "where is the love" and their take on 'you lost that lovin' feelin' is interesting

was thinking last night and I hesitate to even suggest this cause I know everybody on here is super-busy but I think it'd be cool if the presenters of the week's albums might link to some good criticism or even write a few words about the album. I know one of the reasons I'm doing this listening club is to get schooled on R&B and it'd be nice to have something to help in contextualizing/get a wedge in on an album. but like I said I'm just happy to be here & to listen to some great jams so kiu everybody!

6-7 Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis Week w/ Tannembaum Schmidt

i'm really excited about this

― J0rdan S., Monday, May 3, 2010 2:12 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

Me too! Just been adding some more tracks to the J&L YouTubes playlist i'm making and find this comment:

"Back in the 80's I used to know I cool slick cat named Lance that used to play song all the time. He was really Lando Calrission looking with sharp suits and he drove a white Lamborginhi Countach. The good old days."

I think my next week will be 90s nu-soul week

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/4109b57b723afb893eb7859c614c6d8d/135650.jpg

the good old days

this Robin Thicke is a bit too easy listening mark ronson radio 2 for me so far. Anything on it turn out as good as Lost Without U/Shooter?

Something Else was my eccentric new school pick to put alongside the old classics because it's pretty much my favorite R&B album of the last 3 years or so after ILX canon favorite Erykah Badu and Electrik Red. Kinda pains me to hear a Ronson comparison because as much as this album could fall into an overly reverent funky white boy rut, I think the fact that Thicke put together such a diverse yet cohesive album pretty much by himself (+ one production partner and + one guest rapper) and with no samples makes it a singular, impressive achievement that doesn't really belong in the Winehouse wheelhouse. And I just really love the balance of quiet storm, disco funk, and retro rock, it's an odd mix that holds together surprisingly well.

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

I think it was as much a thing of expectations. Other Thicke I've heard is just downright sexy where is this is light and breezy and summery, I wasn't expecting it. It def. deserves repeated listening, I think it could grow quite heavily on me but on the first go it didn't really stick with me.

I don't need to defend picking My Life as much, but for me this album is the perfect halfway point between that Puffy swag of her early records and the kind of daily affirmation self-help overkill of a lot of her later stuff. Chucky Thompson went in on this shit, it dropped 2 months after Ready To Die so it's crazy to think the Hitmen did both these incredible albums in the same time frame:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0M5zoSjeFk

also that song is called "I'm The Only Woman," someone on YouTube fucked up.

kind of tempted to do a "prince you probably missed" week. Not enough love for Come or the Batman soundtrack in this world!

sugar & spice has entered my list of all time jams

I thought for a minute about doing Prince's self-titled as one of my picks this week, then decided to save it for a possible second week later on. probably my 2nd or 3rd favorite Prince album.

I wish I could taste your love, lick it off of my fingertips

.-.

otm

what did you think of thicke's latest album, al? i've only heard that and the evolution - really wasn't into the latter but really do like sex therapy

am really struggling to keep up w/these threads but have given the isley bros a listen and like it

keith murray interlude always makes me smile on my life, it's such a brilliantly effective little 20-second combo of brief rugged relief, scene-setting, subliminal bad boy advertisement, and finally getting you back into wanting some more of that smooth shit

i should really start like a screwed-&-chopped type cult of rerecording albums with just traffic hubbub in the background

I like Sex Therapy but haven't really felt inspired to listen to it much -- kind of an odd mix of the kind of stuff I liked on Something Else but maybe a little campier, along with a bunch of awkward shit like Kid Cudi rapping over alt-rock guitars.

give me two minutes and we'll have this week's picks...

awesome! y'all were good sports for my picks so hopefully we can keep the thread lively this week.

WEEK THREE:

Truth Hurts - Truthfully Speaking
Spotify link

http://www.plong.com/MusicCatalog%5CT%5CTruth%20Hurts%20-%20Truthfully%20Speaking%5CTruth%20Hurts%20-%20Truthfully%20Speaking.jpg

An odd forgotten record. Halfway between the Timbaland sound that dominated radio at the time, Dre's odd awkward funk phase, Quik learning he loved bhangra samples and yet not wanting to go too crazy, so some of that Jill Scott classic-soul-done-twenty-years-later sound is still there. Plus there is an awkward rap by Rakim where he pretends we have never heard him before and he's Biggie or something. She herself even sounds a bit thin and is almost always covered by back-up singers. And yet it is freakin' awesome at times and especially post-Blaqkout love should be given a reappraisal.

TLC - FanMail
Spotify link

http://bellsouthpwp.net/p/e/perhodes/images/MyGayPlaylist_8B88/fanMail.jpg

I had the inlay poster on my wall for years. I fucking love this album back to front. It's even better than CrazySexyCool imo. Only problem, and I don't know if others have this, is that my copy doesn't have Left Eye's No Scrubs verse... like wtf?

Mya - Fear Of Flying
Spotify link

http://www.plong.com/MusicCatalog%5CM%5CMya%20-%20Fear%20Of%20Flying%5CMya%20-%20Fear%20Of%20Flying.jpg

Well, that plus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW_ePQRvrKI This turn of the century was really when I started to get into music. Listening to Trevor Nelson's r&b countdown on a Saturday afternoon, feet hanging out of my window, waiting for my best friends to finish up the shit they always had to do Saturday mornings. Even now I hear Case Of The Ex or The Best Of Me or Left Eye's verse on Come On Over or whatever and I just have the biggest fucking smile and see the sun shining. :D

Also now I figured out my albums I can post a bunch of other jams on the other late90s/early00s r&b thread :D

i've always wondered about that Truth Hurts album, if only because it's one of the most extreme instances of a single being EVERYWHERE and then absolutely nothing happening when the album dropped. did she even get a 2nd single?

I think the Addictive sample lawsuit put an end to her Aftermath deal before a second single. Jimmy would have been cool as a single tho.

I have never heard any of those albums. I'd heard all of Al's.

why would a producer not clearing a sample on a (hit) song lead the label to drop an artist or not promote a follow-up?

I dunno but as far as I could tell... that's what happened?

You've never heard fanmail rev?

i'm real busy w/ finals this week but i've def gonna download fanmail -- i'll prob be a week behind in talking about it but i'm really really excited about it

& the other two, hopefully, but i'm kinda lazy

maybe i went in the wrong order. fanmail is one of the best albums ever imo and mya is an absolute must-hear, the truth hurts is just an enjoyable record i think should be remembered as more than lol rakim.

You've never heard fanmail rev?

nope, hated "No Scrubs" and "Unpretty" at the time and still never particularly loved any of the singles from it. as I said on the other thread, all that post-timbo stuff never really did it for me.

whoa what the fuck

this is some real O_O watergate ish to me

THE REV DOES NOT DIG "NO SCRUBS"?? LITERALLY THE BEST SONG EVER

^^^^this

sorry, all that stuff just totally leaves me cold. i'm still just now warming to destiny's child. <3 CrazySexyCool (and mid-90s r&b in general) forever tho

i was listening to "no scrubs" this weekend and i was almost brought to tears (for various reasons)