"son of a gun" was borderline awesome ok
― dyl, Monday, 21 October 2013 16:55 (ten years ago) link
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"
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 5 September 2015 16:05 (eight years ago) link
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.
― best beloved george benson (The Reverend), Sunday, 6 September 2015 02:10 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Sunday, 6 September 2015 02:22 (eight years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Sunday, 6 September 2015 12:58 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 2 June 2016 04:05 (seven years ago) link
How did I get here? Think I’d know what I did. Always worked real hard. Maybe I missed something. I’m not into pointing fingers, showing who’s right or wrong. I just want to keep it real, cause maybe I was doing fine on my own.
― calstars, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 21:16 (five years ago) link
https://open.spotify.com/track/04vjw8agTLqxPPrP9a9yAk
― calstars, Sunday, 12 January 2020 22:18 (four years ago) link