POX: Mary J Blige.

My personal favourite is PMS.

giving this another go:

I Love You
I Found My Everything
Share My World
All That I Can Day
Mary's Joint
Baggage
Seven Days
Love No Limit
I Can Love You
Real Love

i am bumping this b/c i still have to think about it more but it should not be getting 0 responses

Why are the last two albums overlooked?

well I listed two songs from Breakthrough ("I Found My Everything" is a triumph, especially in the context of her discography), but Growing Pains really isn't up to the standard of her earlier stuff (besides "Hurt Again" which would make my top 20).

'roses' as well!!

yeah "Roses" is amazing ("you suck it up!!"). I should probably revisit Growing Pains, haven't listened to it in a while.

I'd rank the albums:

Share My World
My Life
The Breakthrough
What's The 411?
Mary
Growing Pains
No More Drama
Love & Life

"Roses," "Stay Down" (which almost made my top ten of the year)," and "Fade Away" are damn fine.

It's funny listening to "Roses" after those steroid allegations.

"Fade Away" and "Work in Progress" are great too.

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"YOU figure it out! HAHAHAHAHA"

http://i38.tinypic.com/19auep.jpg

"Fade Away" has one of my favorite Ne-Yo lyrics, and Mary bending her mouth around a couple of polysyllabic words.

"Til the Morning" is the only thing from Growing Pains that really stuck with me. That and the Swizz Beats remix of "Just Fine".

My one-CD mix at the moment:

1. All That I Can Say
2. Real Love
3. I Love You
4. Roses
5. Sweet Thing
6. No One Will Do
7. Work That
8. PMS
9. I'm Goin' Down
10. Tonight
11. MJB Da MVP
12. When We
13. You Bring Me Joy
14. Seven Days
15. My Life
16. Not Gon' Cry
17. Be Happy

'nother shot at sequencing:

1. Real Love
2. I Love You
3. All That I Can Say
4. Roses
5. Sweet Thing
6. No One Will Do
7. Work That
8. PMS
9. You Bring Me Joy
10. I'm Goin' Down
11. Tonight
12. MJB Da MVP
13. When We
14. My Life
15. Not Gon' Cry
16. Be Happy
17. Seven Days

Did anyone buy the new album? It's gotten NO publicity.

I did and reviewed it...
http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2010/01/08/music/cd/iq_33517529.txt

Love "Tonight," which is just dark and cool.

where's the love for this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VXjfkoGihM&ob=av2e

i've listened to this song like 80x today

Where is the love for "All That I Can Say"? Man, that's aged beautifully, even if it sounds like a Lauryn Hill demo.

All Lauryn Hill writes sound exactly like Lauryn Hill songs.

I recently showed a lot of love for "Love @ 1st Sight" on this list: al ship's top 50 rap/r&b crossover singles of the 00s -- which is your favorite?

What is the source of Puffy's loop for "Be Happy"? It's so perfect. And it fits right in with current crop of slomo house/edits business.

found it. Curtis Mayfield, "You're so good to me"

Love and Life is a guilty pleasure of mine. I mean "guilty pleasure" as in "I can't admit to liking this album without getting my butt kicked by Mary J. stans". They just have seething hatred for it and I don't know why.

i don't get it either
could someone explain it to me?

It's because they had high expectation due to Mary and Puffy working again and they were disappointed. I really don't see what was the big deal. She wasn't depressed like she was during My Life, but they still wanted her to sing about her man doing her wrong and the likes. So called Mary J. stans hate when she is happy and singing more upbeat songs (which was what Puff was doing at the time). They are such manic depressants.

weird. her happy songs are my favorites. in fact, i wish someone would POX happy beat-heavy mary songs (family affair, etc)

family affair is, like, the apotheosis of happiness. i don't think enough people get that song.

i do think because the early mary albums were so characterized by pain some people can't deal with the shift.

they should've paid attention during "real love" then!

Been really loving E-Smoove's Dub Mix of "You Bring Me Joy." I put it up here the other day.

could someone give me a list of these songs and i'll try to put together a grooveshark playlist o algo asi

i've listened to this song like 80x today

― The Great Jumanji, (La Lechera), Sunday, October 17, 2010 6:13 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark

AGAIN

I'm really feeling many of these tonight, especially "Mary Jane."

I more or less agree with your rankings here, but the Rihanna ones... not so much. Any chance of you linking that one too?

i meannnn this woman tho. could i be more in love?

i just told my younger coworker i was listening to MJB and she said "Ooh I am not familiar with Mary J Blige so I will have to run to the google momentarily."

wowza.