sometimes, men feel wronged. then they make albums about it. male-centric albums which, in retrospect, make them seem pretty foolish and even controlling. nonetheless, it remains a great album. and the words 'sexist twaddle' just sound really silly. no need to get all up on the cross on behalf of womankind about it - makes u sound mad self-righteous. xgua's review puts it nicely w/out breaking out into ilxor paragraphs
― deej, Monday, 19 May 2008 03:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Stop stalking me.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 19 May 2008 03:39 (sixteen years ago) link
hey kev if the rock critic thing doesn't pan out maybe you could be a couples therapist
― m coleman, Monday, 19 May 2008 09:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I still want to know if the Womacks stayed together.
― xhuxk, Monday, 19 May 2008 10:42 (sixteen years ago) link
The song is good... I remember when it came out, it seemed likeable but maybe lightweight and disposable, but it has really stuck in my mind.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Monday, 19 May 2008 12:12 (sixteen years ago) link
hey kev if the rock critic thing doesn't pan out
um hey mar, what rock critic thing? the presumption of familiarity here is riotous. what, did Cecil's wittle concept hit too close to home for some of y'all?
Some accounts say they are still married and that they both live in Africa; others say just Linda moved to Africa.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 19 May 2008 15:10 (sixteen years ago) link
'hosebeast'?
― the pinefox, Monday, 19 May 2008 15:25 (sixteen years ago) link
picked up this album because of this thread. it's seriously beautiful. kind of an adult contemporary version of a boogie album. in different ways reminds me of Peter Brown's "A Fantasy Love Affair" where it's like disco mixed with steely dan or Nona Hendryx's - Skindiver album that's like boogie/r'n'b mixed with david sylvian ambient soundscapes.
― jaxon, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 03:32 (sixteen years ago) link
i think cecil looks like Birdman
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf200/f251/f25130o9k0d.jpg http://www.hiphoprx.com/content/uploads/2007/11/birdman-headshot.jpg
― jaxon, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 03:35 (sixteen years ago) link
yah i just got this too, great record theres an amazing mix of that song about how life is like a game of baseball out there ... its on some danny rampling comp i also picked up
― deej, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 04:04 (sixteen years ago) link
can't stop listening to this album.
but the liner notes written from cecil's perspective really are a bummer
― jaxon, Thursday, 5 June 2008 07:12 (sixteen years ago) link
ok so i bought the single of 'missing person's bureau' & it comes w/ a 9 minute 'paradise ballroom mix' -- anyone have an mp3 of that? my record player is broken & im supposed to dj tomorrow, want to play this but have no idea what it sounds like
there is also a 'motor temple edit' and a folk version
― autogucci cru (deej), Saturday, 9 May 2009 02:07 (fifteen years ago) link
just read the notes -- the 12" is produced by frankie knuckles & david morales!
― autogucci cru (deej), Saturday, 9 May 2009 02:08 (fifteen years ago) link
YSI
― rebel without a cape (sic), Saturday, 9 May 2009 03:14 (fifteen years ago) link
so thats a no ...
― autogucci cru (deej), Sunday, 10 May 2009 00:47 (fifteen years ago) link
im an amateur in the ways of w&w, but what songs of theirs match up to teardrops and love wars?
frankie knuckles production sounds interesting
― NI, Monday, 11 May 2009 19:23 (fifteen years ago) link
honestly everything i've heard by them is close to perfection.
"Baby I'm Scared of You" (and the amazing Mark E edit)
the whole Conscience album (from which teardrops comes from) and especially "Conscious Of My Conscience".
the Love Wars album is equally amazing. title track kills it. also has the original TKO that teddy pendergrass redid into Love TKO (that's been sampled a billion times).
recently picked up the Radio M.U.S.C. Man album and while it's great, nothing's sticking out for me yet.
― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Monday, 11 May 2009 22:12 (fifteen years ago) link
i've only heard Conscience, which I love, but to me nothing on it can touch Teardrops, bar Conscious of My Conscience, which I first heard on the henrik schwarz dj kicks and which is a total jam.
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Monday, 11 May 2009 22:14 (fifteen years ago) link
lots of tracks on that album match those two songs. 'missing person's bureau' is probably my favorite right now.
― autogucci cru (deej), Monday, 11 May 2009 22:23 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't stop listening to Love Wars. Super album, especially "APB" and "Good Times."
― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 01:06 (fifteen years ago) link
xxxxpost. uh,,, that's Radio M.U.S.I.C. Man not MUSC. sounds like a bad perfume
― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 01:13 (fifteen years ago) link
werid thing is the LP cover says MUSC! this always threw me, maybe it was a typo?
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000002H2L.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
― m coleman, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 10:07 (fifteen years ago) link
oh yah! thank god i'm not (totally) crazy. i guess it's supposed to be the radio station's call letters or something?
― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 15:41 (fifteen years ago) link
cover version of Teardrops http://www.myspace.com/thexx (not my fave song of theirs)
― jaxon, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 00:31 (fifteen years ago) link
not the firsthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF3-Bin5RgI
― butthurt (deej), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 05:25 (fifteen years ago) link
that was gawdawful
― jaxon, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 07:05 (fifteen years ago) link
this is my favorite song right now. i want frankie knuckles to remix this RIGHT NOW-- i can almost hear it already.
― my bach penises and their contrapuntal technique (the table is the table), Sunday, 30 August 2009 18:09 (fifteen years ago) link
surprised the lovestation garage cover hasn't been mentioned in this thread!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHNT7ZdmqN8
so many great memories of this song, it was so huge
― lex pretend, Sunday, 30 August 2009 18:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Used to play the 1st album on my university radio show. Need to track down these again. "Teardrops" sounds great despite the lyrics.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 31 August 2009 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link
reminds me baby of you
― lex pretend, Friday, 24 February 2012 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
i was gonna post the lovestation version but i see i did that last time
& the musicdon't feel like it didwhen i felt it with you
otm
― just sayin, Friday, 24 February 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
nothing that I do or feel ever feels like I felt with you
^^ this is my favourite miserable lyric ever
― boxedjoy, Friday, 24 February 2012 23:11 (twelve years ago) link
I listened to this just now.
Also every day
― owenf, Friday, 24 February 2012 23:58 (twelve years ago) link
"sexist waddle"
that whole exchange up at top is pretty hilare
― andrew m., Saturday, 25 February 2012 01:05 (twelve years ago) link
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKK
― Darren Huckerby (Dwight Yorke), Saturday, 25 February 2012 01:45 (twelve years ago) link
baby what chew want
― owenf, Sunday, 26 February 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
ok so i bought the single of 'missing person's bureau' & it comes w/ a 9 minute 'paradise ballroom mix'... there is also a 'motor temple edit' and a folk version
this 'folk' version is balearic gold fwiw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0MS9q0hYvo
― psychgawsple, Sunday, 26 February 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
^^^^
― Tim F, Sunday, 26 February 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
supercool
― owenf, Sunday, 26 February 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
"baby i'm scared of you" is definitely in my top 100 songs ever.
― Peace (peaceful) (The Brainwasher), Sunday, 26 February 2012 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
These days I find Love Wars a scarier record than Shoot Out the Lights or Blood on the Tracks.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 26 February 2012 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
they sure know how to create a sense of dread within a pop song
― owenf, Sunday, 26 February 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
I got Radio M.U.S.I.C. Man today in mind condition thanks to Record Store Day -- the weakest of the three eighties releases to my ears. The singing and synth effects still top notch but there's no "TKO," "Love Wars," "Baby I'm Scared of You," or "Teardrops."
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 22 April 2012 01:26 (twelve years ago) link
Someone on Yahoo soul email group is reporting that Cecil Womack has passed away at age 65
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 2 February 2013 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.soultracks.com/story-cecil-womack-dies
― curmudgeon, Monday, 4 February 2013 02:05 (eleven years ago) link
:((((
― administrator galina (Matt P), Monday, 4 February 2013 02:22 (eleven years ago) link
Love Wars should be as immense as Shoot Out The Lights, Blood on the Tracks, and Wild Gift as makeup-to-breakup classic. RIP.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 February 2013 02:29 (eleven years ago) link
ah man, W&W is my dad's favourite music, i used put their stuff on my radio shows as a kid all the time
paradise ballroom mix of MPB is all time
― Crackle Box, Monday, 4 February 2013 11:42 (eleven years ago) link
xpost.
Love Wars is essential. And it's easily found in most record store dollar bins. You'd think this record would have been lifted up with the rest of the recent modern soul surge.
― Playoff Starts Here (san lazaro), Monday, 4 February 2013 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
It will now.
― Mark G, Monday, 4 February 2013 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
RIP
Love Wars is classic indeed
― g simmel, Monday, 4 February 2013 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
Baby I'm Scared Of You should have been a huge hit.
― jim, Monday, 4 February 2013 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, that's a good one. i used to play that on repeat when i first found it.
― Spectrum, Monday, 4 February 2013 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
''Love Wars' is a fantastic record...'Express Myself' is just lovely and their cover of 'Angie' is just sublime...RIP
― The Pastiche Liberation Front (sonnyboy), Monday, 4 February 2013 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
RIP. such a special sound
― andrew m., Monday, 4 February 2013 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
Angie cover >>>>>> Stones
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 February 2013 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
"Baby I'm Scared of You" is so amazing. I need all of the lps now.
has anyone heard Circular Motion (2007)?
― administrator galina (Matt P), Monday, 4 February 2013 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
Nope
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 15:00 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nPwnu1R6QI
― Matt Poop (Matt P), Sunday, 7 July 2013 09:06 (eleven years ago) link
the rhythm track here is subtly amazing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFq0QGHqCbc
just a great duogreat songwriting, great singing, great production
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 02:25 (five years ago) link
"passion & pain" from the final '93 album, which i haven't seen yet in the wild. i did, however, find this 12, and it's loaded with those trademark w&w chords, rhythms, production. shit, so good.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p-dEnsro5I
― andrew m., Tuesday, 19 February 2019 15:06 (five years ago) link
Listened to Love Wars and Conscience today. Really impressed with their chemistry and honest songwriting.
― Indexed, Monday, 10 February 2020 19:12 (four years ago) link
can a mod remove all the gross RIPs from these threads thx
― brimstead, Monday, 10 February 2020 19:59 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP_cQtZna9A
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 December 2021 21:08 (two years ago) link
god they were so good. why don't i have all the albums?
thanks for posting this, i played it at a dj thing last night and it sounded perfect.
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Sunday, 5 December 2021 01:38 (two years ago) link
did linda womack have the best voice? i believe so.
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Sunday, 5 December 2021 01:45 (two years ago) link
lol i posted that song in hopes that by butterfly effect it would end up in a dj set somewhere, didn't expect it to be so immediate <3
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Sunday, 5 December 2021 01:50 (two years ago) link