Minnie Riperton - Classic or Dud?

that stevie wonder clip! yay

xxpost Oh, re-reading thread, that bit's on the record?!

lex, the Come To My Garden LP is lush, Perfect Angel is awes too.

I just found that Stevie Wonder clip a few weeks back too. Gorgeous medley of the two songs.

she just destroys this X^D

and sexxxxiest album cover ever rite??

"will you come inside me/do you wanna ride"

UGH

My other jam of hers that melts me to the floor, Memory Lane

good jow ppapa weelie

esp'incsude my love" been lovin that shit

i been told i need to chek this out

bad

O_O! Surm!

"will you come inside me/do you wanna ride"

^^^this is sexiest song ever btw

i know i'm excited

yo we should have a sexxiest songs ever youtube-off

so many ways to zing that

next post is not allowed to mention:

LJ quotes
'jackoff sesh'
'yh'/'nh'

stoked for the madness of the jackoff sesh (yh)

start the thread!

so uh, Parliament's "Placebo Syndrome" is totally ripped off from "Les Fleurs", right? Of course there's no telling whether GC had heard the latter, but those two songs sure as hell sound alike.

Well, supposedly all that Cadet Concept stuff sold some records, right? And Detroit's not that far from Chicago, etc.

Charles Stepney is kinda the Man Behind The Curtain in this thread. He produced the best of Riperton and Rotary Connection (which was most of it), and he was a mid-west staple.

The Charles Stepney Foundation website pretty much has all the stories (from the foundation's p.o.v., granted)

http://www.charlesstepney.org/

come into my garden is so perfect.

Notable non-RC/MR Stepney off the top of my head: all Cadet-era Terry Callier, Phil Upchurch's Upchurch (wind-tunnel-in-the-middle of-a-dustbowl sound in full effect, especially on the version of "Black Gold"), the Marlena Shaw album with "California Soul," the Dells' Freedom Means, Ramsey Lewis' Cadet albums (Maiden Voyage contains a bonkers "Les Fleur"), some of the Soulful Strings stuff, the Emotions' Flowers, Deniece Williams' This Is Niecy, EW&F's Open Our Eyes and Spirit.

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Sunday, October 23, 2005 6:42 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark

Add The Dells Sing Dionne Warwicke's Greatest Hits, reissued a while back by Dusty Groove.

My other jam of hers that melts me to the floor, Memory Lane

Pappa Moran, one of the Detroit stations (either 105.9 or 107.5) used to play this ALL THE TIME -- as recently as a couple years ago. (Maybe it still does.)

Well, supposedly all that Cadet Concept stuff sold some records, right? And Detroit's not that far from Chicago, etc.

My dad brought the first Rotary Connection to a party just outside Detroit when he came back to visit from Chicago... would've been around the right time... but I reckon GC was not present. (I seem to remember my dad saying the album's effect was polarizing.)

RC turned down Woodstock to play for more money in Toronto. They would have become more popular than Sha Na Na, at the least.

fact: 7 out of 10 MR releases misspell her name (including my copy of Come Into My Garden)...then again, that Dells LP famously botches DW's last name...

DW as in Dionne Warwicke? There was a brief time in the early 70s where Warwick respelled her last name "Warwicke" for numerological purposes.

RC turned down Woodstock to play for more money in Toronto. They would have become more popular than Sha Na Na, at the least.

Well, there were tons of bands that played Woodstock that were far less popular than (even) Rotary Connection. So unless RC were initially offered a good slot and documentary crew...

Fixing the broken link to Alex In NYC Who has/had the most high-pitched vocals in music?

Rotary Connection! Why have I never noticed them before. Their stuff all sounds really promising. Also, even though I've always liked "Lovin You," I've also written off the possibility that Minnie Ripperton would have much else that's worth listening to, but on the contrary, I get the impression she recorded a lot that I might like more than that, and be able to listen to more often than I can listen to that (which as others have said, I too find somewhat embarrassing to like as much as I do).

(I seem to be in a discovery phase here.)

Adventures in Paradise is my favourite Minnie album. "Les Fleur" is probably the best single thing she ever did, but I think Come into My Garden suffers from the fact that none of the songs that follow "Les Fleur" are quite as good (though some of them are quite good). "Loving You" is another classic, obviously, but I think Perfect Angel too has a couple of not-so-brilliant tunes, whereas Adventures in Paradise is great from the beginning to the end. Plus it has one of the most awesomely over-the-top songs ever made:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sss95IO_8us

I think there's a couple tracks I like more than Les Fleur on Come to My Garden, the title track and Rainy Day In Centerville. I'd easily rate that in my all time top 50 albums. I'm surprised I never see that or Perfect Angel in any best albums lists, they are both brilliant records. Reasons is my favourite song of hers, it's her best vocal.

I think I need to dig out Adventures in Paradise as I've never really managed to fully get into that one.

"Reasons" is pretty great, yeah. I didn't mean to imply Come into My Garden is a bad album, I think all of her three first albums are pretty essential, it's just that I feel Adventures in Paradise is most consistently good when it comes to the song material. It does have a bit more conventional sound than the first two, though, so if it's Richard Rudolph's production you most like about Minnie Riperton albums, it's more mannered on AiP. Personally, I love the fuller sound on that album with horns and everything; I think Perfect Angel suffers a bit from the lack of horns, a few of tunes on it might've sounded better with them.

I'm going to put on Adventures in Paradise this afternoon. I really don't think I've played it more than twice. I think I neglected it as I got the first three albums around the same time and the first two just blew me away. I'd probably rate her as one of my favourite voices in music but I've not heard much of her late 70's period.

I recently bought the Syreeta album that Stevie Wonder made with her and it made me want to go back and play Perfect angel again.

both syreeta's albums are FANTASTIC

"Here We Go" is so HOTTT and EPIC – defs an overlooked track of hers.

listen here

it's a song with a giddy loopy string section and disco synth zaps and horns and heavy bass and none getting in the way of each other, just taking turns underscoring her amazing sexy vocals in different ways

fwiw I am accustomed to a version (from the "Petals" CD) that cuts off at 3:40

"Here We Go" is very nice, but Love Lives Forever as a whole is a bit disappointing. Though I guess that's to be expected, considering it's a posthumous album made from tapes that she left behind.

I was just listening to "Inside My Love", I'd forgotten how shamelessly double-entendre Minnie could get:

You can see inside me, will you come inside me?
Do you wanna ride, inside my love?

Such a pretty ballad, and the chorus is all about her pussy! God, Minnie was so great!

haha to be honest i dont think you can call that a "double" entendre, really it is a "single entendre," about "doing it" with minnie riperton

Well, she does sing about coming inside and riding her "love", not her pussy, so it is a double entendre.

yeah, tbh i'd never actually "got" what this song was about before.

There's another song on Adventure in Paradise, can't remember which one, where she sings "when we f...", and you can clearly gather she's about to say "fuck", but instead of completing the word she goes into one of her trademark high-pitched wails, so it's like "faaAAAaaAAah". I guess she got a kick from slipping that sort of stuff into her songs. :)

How is "pussy" any less metaphorical than "love"?

Think about it.

the p.c. anti-bestiality police would have been on to her like a shot*

*not literally like a shot. metaphorically.

Do you wanna ride, inside my volvo?

I've only just got the joke in that Suede song.

Three dude friends of mine & I were in a car, driving to see a concert, and we were listening to a mix CD I had made. "Inside My Love" came on and they all got like palpably uncomfortable. After the song ends, one of them turns around and says, "'Will you come inside me?' Seriously?" with all this pent up frustration, like I did this whole thing just to get his goat.

have you ever heard terre thaemlitz's between empathy and sympathy is time (apartheid) ??

http://www.comatonse.com/soundfiles/lovebo02.mp3

next time play that for your friends