It sank faster than an Electrik Red album. Andre Cymone wrote and produced all of it.
This did a little better -- more proto-ER:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj3ple2ZKqU
― A Chuck Person's Guide to Mark Aguirre (Andy K), Saturday, 27 August 2011 01:09 (twelve years ago) link
http://allmusic.com/artist/the-girls-p451691
― A Chuck Person's Guide to Mark Aguirre (Andy K), Saturday, 27 August 2011 01:10 (twelve years ago) link
thank you based Andy K
― my own private kanyes west (The Brainwasher), Saturday, 27 August 2011 01:15 (twelve years ago) link
this girls album is the best thing i've never heard before
http://citinite.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/girls_0.jpg?w=500&h=355
― r|t|c, Friday, August 26, 2011 8:17 PM (1 hour ago)
to use your words...any way a fellow could procure said record for previewing purposes?
― frogsb (k3vin k.), Saturday, 27 August 2011 01:48 (twelve years ago) link
It is fairly easily googleable.
― markers aurelius (The Reverend), Saturday, 27 August 2011 01:53 (twelve years ago) link
i've been googling "girls" for an hour and i keep getting distracted
― some dude, Saturday, 27 August 2011 01:57 (twelve years ago) link
today i learned that you should most definitely not google "pregnant pussy"
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 27 August 2011 01:58 (twelve years ago) link
hahahahaha
― markers aurelius (The Reverend), Saturday, 27 August 2011 01:59 (twelve years ago) link
click my name, click my name, if no one is around you
― r|t|c, Saturday, 27 August 2011 02:01 (twelve years ago) link
That Madame X song is weird as fuck.
― markers aurelius (The Reverend), Saturday, 27 August 2011 02:04 (twelve years ago) link
thx rtc
― frogsb (k3vin k.), Saturday, 27 August 2011 02:16 (twelve years ago) link
genius handoff btw
yeah, surprised no one's done that before
tonight's new fave album i've never heard before is drama according to bernadette cooper - merit this based andy k's benediction?
― r|t|c, Saturday, 27 August 2011 02:22 (twelve years ago) link
i would like a rolling rtc's fave albums he's never heard before thread plz
― my own private kanyes west (The Brainwasher), Saturday, 27 August 2011 02:24 (twelve years ago) link
Klymaxx was conceived and formed by Bernadette Cooper, who also chose the name. The dream of an all girl band became a quest she pursued after leaving college. Through many auditions and temporary members the group that became successful consisted of drummer/vocalist Bernadette Cooper, vocalist Lorena Porter (Stewart), bassist/vocalist Joyce Irby, guitarist Cheryl Cooley and keyboardists Lynn Malsby and Robbin Grider.
More recently, Irby has been involved with launching the career of young R&B vocalist and The Inc/Def Jam recording artist Lloyd. Lloyd Polite was once a member of the teen pop group N-Toon, whom Irby put together and signed to Dreamworks Records in the mid-1990s.
― r|t|c, Saturday, 27 August 2011 02:25 (twelve years ago) link
Haven't heard the Cooper album. She probably talks through the whole thing.
― A Chuck Person's Guide to Mark Aguirre (Andy K), Saturday, 27 August 2011 02:31 (twelve years ago) link
Movie Produce HerFeaturing – Teena Marie
― A Chuck Person's Guide to Mark Aguirre (Andy K), Saturday, 27 August 2011 02:32 (twelve years ago) link
The "Drink in My Cup" of 1982:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTmxyqLpHb8
― A Chuck Person's Guide to Mark Aguirre (Andy K), Saturday, 27 August 2011 02:33 (twelve years ago) link
i revisited How To Be A Lady this week and man, that album still rules
― some dude, Saturday, 27 August 2011 02:35 (twelve years ago) link
― A Chuck Person's Guide to Mark Aguirre (Andy K), Saturday, 27 August 2011 03:32 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark
man: http://hulkshare.com/wep7accsvcg1
― r|t|c, Saturday, 27 August 2011 02:44 (twelve years ago) link
― my own private kanyes west (The Brainwasher), Saturday, 27 August 2011 03:24 (20 minutes ago) Bookmark
besides the odd 90s r&b research sesh i basically never dig for old stuff these days tbh, i'm just wasted and bored right now so i'm following the k-man's trail of crumbs
can tell this bernadette lp will still be awes when i wake up tho
― r|t|c, Saturday, 27 August 2011 02:48 (twelve years ago) link
the unsung episode about klymaxx really made them seem like the real deal and made me want to investigate their stuff more
― some dude, Saturday, 27 August 2011 02:50 (twelve years ago) link
"nu boy" on the girls album melodically =
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxQdv3wZ5O0
― markers aurelius (The Reverend), Saturday, 27 August 2011 05:36 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am_5z9X0Bjk
― r|t|c, Monday, 5 September 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NWcKK2FscY
you want your name on my condo and my house deed? STUPID - done. quit my job, stay home, have your baby? huh? STUPID - ditto.
what? say you want my aretha franklin collection? STUPID - uhh.. i don't know about that. but the way that i love you baby, it's just stupid
― r|t|c, Monday, 5 September 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
this fucking album!
― the smoke cloud of pure hatred (lex pretend), Monday, 13 June 2011 20:31 (1 year ago)
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 09:58 (eleven years ago) link
yall suckers really missing out on that bernadette cooper lp i'm telling you
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 10:55 (eleven years ago) link
https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/1533265738/guess_whos_back_single_cover.jpg
― k3vin k., Saturday, 23 June 2012 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
:O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 23 June 2012 22:11 (eleven years ago) link
highly anticipating the cover art for "guess who's front"
― some dude, Saturday, 23 June 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
al!
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 23 June 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
lol that pic's v old
― just sayin, Saturday, 23 June 2012 22:16 (eleven years ago) link
:(
― i'm a housewife, an artist, and a snow leopard (The Brainwasher), Saturday, 23 June 2012 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
oh i was just posting it for the heck of it
― k3vin k., Saturday, 23 June 2012 22:27 (eleven years ago) link
also lol @ ships
you guys
https://twitter.com/MissyElliott/status/304497472124903424
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 21 February 2013 08:10 (eleven years ago) link
ugh. alassssss.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Thursday, 21 February 2013 17:48 (eleven years ago) link
Electrik Red – will there ever be another album?
Man, someone just asked me about that today.
How to Be a Lady’s so slept on! It’s a perfect record.
Well that’s the point – it’s slept on! If everybody had just bought it then we’d have probably made four records by now. Solange loves that Electrik Red album. Every time we get a chance to talk she’s like ‘Electrik Red, that album…’. And I’m like ‘I know!’. We hit a home run with that album. But again, it comes back to marketing, there’s a lot of things that have to happen – people have to know that it’s there… It’s almost becoming a little cultural thing of its own though.
http://www.factmag.com/2013/09/05/monogamys-like-trying-to-re-do-biology-rnb-hit-machine-the-dream-on-why-sometimes-it-pays-to-be-a-jerk/
― lex pretend, Thursday, 5 September 2013 22:26 (ten years ago) link
(saw terius live last night, it wasn't so worthwhile as to bump a thread but at least he did "fancy")
only 5000 people bought the Electrik Red album, but each of them became a bass music producer
― The Reverend, Thursday, 5 September 2013 22:30 (ten years ago) link
lol
― Evan R, Thursday, 5 September 2013 22:48 (ten years ago) link
p sure each of them posted to this thread
― k3vin k., Friday, 6 September 2013 00:43 (ten years ago) link
"I thought I wouldn't really give a fuck, but now a bitch all in love, don't mean to be a hater, but OOH SHIT DAMN you're so good, so good, so good, so good, OOH SHIT DAMN.'
(What else in the world is really as... joyously and unconditionally celebratory of female sexuality as this album?)
((Probably an academic question, but still.))
― Combat Bodacious Accruals (Branwell Bell), Friday, 21 February 2014 12:51 (ten years ago) link
I watched that video this morning and it's still the best.
― imago draggin' (The Reverend), Friday, 21 February 2014 20:31 (ten years ago) link
this album is still maybe the best album released in my lifetime
― lex pretend, Thursday, 5 March 2015 14:06 (nine years ago) link
and i feel like if a group like them came along right now they would be incredibly popular
― lex pretend, Thursday, 5 March 2015 14:08 (nine years ago) link
It's insane that there hasn't been a follow-up album.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 5 March 2015 14:23 (nine years ago) link
oh shit damn
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 March 2015 14:56 (nine years ago) link
Agree with all of that
― brosario nawson (m bison), Thursday, 5 March 2015 17:43 (nine years ago) link
yeah beyond this did this record ever have much traction in the SJ or feminist community? posting on ilx always makes it hard to judge what the real world thinks of things but it seems like this was a couple years too early for both r&b's acceptance by the pitchfork crowd and the rise of tumblr etc
― k3vin k., Friday, 6 March 2015 00:36 (nine years ago) link