Janet Jackson - All For You

I still just don't get "Trust a Try."

The atmospherics on both "Love Scene" and "Would You Mind" make it feel like she's getting busy at the Rainforest Cafe.

stiff house drinks!

The wash on "Love Scene" also put me in mind of cut scenes from mid-90s sci-fi video games.

I loved all of it, those four songs I used to scapegoat.

i think it's really nice that you started this thread Jordan

never heard the full album before, it's nice (the opening track!)

i have spoken with friends before about how this was like a new genre of music

... altho this Carly Simon shit is better to pretend it never happened

I love "glow of love" so much that I kinda resented this song, but now I'm over that and see it for the jam it always was

love that intro followed by the "EDIT" voice cutting in- so sick

I remember some of the longtime Janet campers clutching the pearls at her guessing she was going to have to ride his nice package tonight.

"son of a gun" was borderline awesome ok

so was the package-riding line

listening to this again this morning

it's funny how formulaic this is in the context of the two albums that came before it -- you can almost see them working off a checklist. but it's kinda enjoyable for that very reason. if you think of janet->velvet rope->all for you as a triptych, all for you holds more weight than you might initially expect.

i think the ballad section of this holds up really well, definitely just from an atmospheric perspective. the only part that is bad i think is "trust a try" ("remember 'if'?") and the carly simon joint ("remember 'got til it's gone'?")

& really it's hard to imagine a run of three consecutive pop singles for the time better than "doesn't really matter" -> "all for you" -> "someone to call my lover"

I'd somehow never heard this album until very recently and was really taken aback with how formulaic it was, especially after how much she spent her previous 4 albums pushing in different directions. "Doesn't Really Matter" and (especially) "Someone to Call My Lover" are great singles tho. I'd always take "Glow of Love" over "All For You" tho.

It's kind of experimental for her to program a 25-minutes bloc of R&B balladry right smack in the middle of the set.

if i'd first heard this album in real time having heard all the others in real time as well i'd've been sorely disappointed but because i only heard the singles at the time and the full album years later i can appreciate what's enjoyable about it much more

DJ at wedding on Sat dropped a cool mix of "Someone To Call My Lover" which was a jam! Good times, sounded insane on a real soundsystem.

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