Must admit I've got a soft spot for this album....was the first CD I bought. And Bobby Brown was actually a bit of a star. Anyway I can't be the only one who liked New Jack Swing.
Any takers??
Any takers??
Music Don't Be Cruel.
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How did you feel about the sick Glenn Medeiros/Bobby Brown collaboration?
He he. I'll check that out later. No doubt it's cool as feck.
Can't mention New Jack Swing without mentioning Teddy Riley. Folks take for granted that modern urban music owes its existence to Teddy for creating the genre and combining hip hop beats with R&B.
Some classics for me are Guy, New Edition, Keith Sweat, Michael Jackson's 'Dangerous' album, Bobby Brown, Johnny Gill, After 7, etc.
Stunning genre of music, and as time has testified, the most influential genre of the last 30 years.
Yeah Teddy Riley was the pioneer. I was into hip hop but loved NJS's hip hop beats and RnB vocals. Some others..
BBD, Mary J Blige - What's the 411?
New Jack City is a great film.
Mo' definately
Mo' definately
New Jack Hustler. I had a chance to watch NJC at the flicks but decided to watch T2 instead. Good decision.
Rock a bye baby
I'd say that Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis are precursors and their work on just about anything in the 80s, but especially Janet Jackson's Control and Rhythm Nation are especially important to the direction of the genre. To this day I still maintain that Janet had the better album than Michael in the late 80s.
Also...... Al B. Sure.
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Fair enough, you clearly know your onions. Apparently Jimmy Jam gave BBD the idea to form as a group.
Fair enough, you clearly know your onions. Apparently Jimmy Jam gave BBD the idea to form as a group.
I've gone on a nostalgia trip lately. I don't remember New Editionbas a group but I've been watching the New Edition TV bio epic. Anyway Motownphilly is another I liked from the BBD era.
This explains a lot.
My top 100 on Spotify was fairly standard in terms of the "best" music of 2020. The likes of Run the Jewels, Yves Tumor etc. But they'd be odd sprinklings of Bobby Brown, Babyface, Janet Jackson, Johnny Gill etc throughout.
For whatever reason, New Jack Swing was my shit last year.
For whatever reason, New Jack Swing was my shit last year.
Happens. Last year I was listening to The Smiths a lot again. And then dabbled into a bit of East Coast hip hop from the 90s. For some reason I've gone all New Jack Swing again.
Here's some of the more R&B slanted ones from back then.
Also, technically:
Also, technically:
That Boyz II Men album was so good. Right at the tail end of the NJS era. That along with Jodeci's Come and Talk to Me. I never watched the NE biopic. Will do now you've reminded me!
I sing 'Can We Talk' all the time when no one is in the house. For obvious reasons I don't do it with people around since I'm not actually Tevin Campbell
Saw this the other week. Perfectly sums up my response every time a New Jack Swing beat comes on
God, back then I always wished I could dance like that.I sing 'Can We Talk' all the time when no one is in the house. For obvious reasons I don't do it with people around since I'm not actually Tevin Campbell
Saw this the other week. Perfectly sums up my response every time a New Jack Swing beat comes on
I always thought the below song was heavily influenced by the then-current sound.
And a peace offering for Spoony whose rippling biceps are probably cringing at all this soft stuff.
Funny you say that I would've cringed back then, Hungry - I had a me against the world attitude which is why I loved the aggression of hip hop...however I found NJS gave me good middle ground, and at the moment I have no issue with the NE song you've linked especially since I've always had a soft spot for Bel, Biv, Devoe, Ralph T and co. Anyway I can't stop listening to Bobby's Don't Be Cruel album... it just takes me back and it wasn't bad to boot.
I suspect you've got quite an eclectic taste, Hungry??
I suspect you've got quite an eclectic taste, Hungry??
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I was joking that you were probably cringing now at my posting those more soft-style R&B-slanted ones than more hip-hop-slanted examples. So I posted Hit Me Off to try and get the thread back on track, since it was probably closer to what you were talking about. AKA it's a bit 'harder' than the other ones I posted.
You are spot on, sir. Any AI monitoring my youtube/spotify are probably convinced that mine is an account shared between about eighty people or a researcher deliberately trying to troll the algorithms.
I definitely did go heavy on the R&B back in the day, though.
Don't Be Cruel is right up there as one of my favourite all-time albums. They're all singles on that album. My favourite on that album, though, is Roni.
You and I have the same "issue" or diversity. My dad raised me on Santana, and so I linked heavily to latin music in my childhood. From there in my teens it was R&B/soul, latin, classical, pop, hip-hop and country.
The best live show I ever saw was D'Angelo in 2000 at the Brixton Academy from his Voodoo tour.
Way to go, papa Hoof.
My parents were sort of diametrically opposed. Dad never listened to any secular music; strictly classical, opera, etc. Mom, too, but she liked popular music as well and would scrounge garage sales for records by artists she'd heard on the radio. Mitch Miller, Paul Anka, The Carpenters, Anne Murray, etc.
Later on I'd listen to what friends were listening to: GnR, Metallica, Nirvana, Warren G, Pac, Snoop etc. But on my own I was buying Mariah Carey, Gloria Estefan, Kenny G, Celine Dion etc.
What are your other fav albums?
I'll just drop this banger right here...
Tryin'a battle my boys, that ain't real,
Heart and soul, d.d.DANCE!
Tryin'a battle my boys, that ain't real,
Heart and soul, d.d.DANCE!
Restricting it to NJS:
Janet Jackson - Control and Rhythm Nation
Prince - Diamonds and Pearls
Michael Jackson - Dangerous
New Jack City Movie OST
Guy - Guy
Bobby Brown - Bobby
Jodeci - Forever My Lady
Hi-Five - High-Five
Ralph Tresvant - Ralph Tresvant
After 7 - After 7
Chuckii Booker - Chuckii
Babyface - Tender Lover
Karyn White - Karyn White
Always - Pebbles
Mint Condition - Meant to be Mint
Tevin Campbell - T.E.V.I.N
Johnny Gill - Johnny Gill
Tony! Toni! Tone! - The Revival
En Vogue - Born to Sing
Boyz II Men - CooleyHighHarmony
BBD - Poison
In Effect Mode - Al B. Sure
New Edition - Heartbreak
Keith Sweat - Make it Last Forever
Wasn't sure where to put this.