I was watching his Sweat Hotel show on the Tom Joyner show last night and it looked like fun. He's pretty good live and seems like a cool guy. I was never really into him though "I want her" was the joint back in the day & "Make it last forever" is a classic slow jam too. He's been around for a while now so you gotta give him his props. I'm just not really into smooth slow r&b jamz! Does he ever do uptempo stuff?

dancerella said:

He's had a few uptempo hits, but most of his stuff is medium to slow paced. Uptempo trax that I can remember:
I Want Her
Don't Stop Your Love
Keep It Comin'
Make You Sweat
Why Me Baby (Part II) remix
Come and Get With Me
Just A Touch of Love (Slave remake)

MERRY GO ROOOOOUND

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ROOOOOUUNNND!!!

daPrettyman said:

Don't forget:

Your Love (Pt. 1)
Telle Me It's Me You Want

daPrettyman said:

Oh yeah I almost forgot about "don't stop your love". That's a cool track too. I'm contemplating getting his first cd. Do you have it? Is it good? How come he doesn't really get more props in the music industry? Seems like di hard r&b fans know about him but he's not that huge considering his accomplishments.

Keith Sweat with his cryin' ass

Met him in a club in LA and asked him him if he could help me w/ a project. Hes got alot of great songs.

dancerella said:

Make It Last Forever is an excellent album with no filler and it's easily Keith's best. Get it. Another faster tempo hit from it was "Something Just Ain't Right."

FWIW, the version of "Your Love" released as a single was Part 2.

AlexdeParis said:

Damn, yes, that's another one i remember! i guess he had a lot of hits off that album. i'll be picking this up on friday. wow, i know i must be getting old now. He really is not someone i would typically listen to but music is so shit right now that i'm just going to back to the old skool getting stuff that i never owned before. it's way better than what we have now that's for sure. who would you rather listen to, Keith Sweat or T-Pain? i'll take Keith Sweat thank you very much.

bboy87 said:

lol! that is so true. home boy is always crying and begging. that's why the ladies love him.

dancerella said:

I think what happened with keith is after his first two albums which were good
solid r&b albums all of a sudden he kind of watered his sound down from pure r&b to hybrid shit hop/r&b. All of a sudden he is doing songs with snoop dogg,lil mo, etc. and he just kind of lost his older r&b fans to try and keep current. After his first two albums i lost interest,however; he has a stable of hits. I saw him on a rapfest tour in 2001,believe me only because a friend of mine worked for the county and got free tickets and took his kids, with amerie, ll cool j, tank, the rappers with the whistle while you twurk song, donnell jones who was horrible and i put that nicely, and a couple of other hip hop acts. The show was a mess. Keith performance was very average. LL the headliner was probably the best act of an otherwise lame concert.

dancerella said:

Well, he had a lot of hits period. He has a total of 14 top-10 singles. His first 10 singles (4 each from Make It Last Forever and I'll Give All My Love to You and the first 2 from Keep It Comin') reached the top 10. Besides "Don't Stop Your Love" (#9), the other 9 reached the top 4 (including 3 songs without videos, which is amazing in that era). He has 6 #1 hits ("I Want Her," "Make You Sweat," "I'll Give All My Love to You," "Keep It Comin'," "Twisted," and "Nobody") and 3 that peaked at #2 ("Make It Last Forever," "Merry Go Round," and "Why Me Baby").

His 1st album is a bonafide classic, the 2nd and 3rd ones are good, the 4th and 5th are up-and-down, and it's all downhill after that.

phunkdaddy said:

damn, that show does sound like a mess. i see what you mean though about him trying to stay current. i guess that hapens a lot to "older artists". when times change musicaly they need to figure out how to fit in but following trends imo is just not a good idea. they should stay true to themselves.

dancerella said:

Here are some of Keith Sweat's uptempo hit songs:

"I Want Her"
"Something Just Ain't Right"
"Don't Stop Your Love"
"Make You Sweat"
"Your Love, Pts. I and II"
"Keep It Comin'"
"How Do You Like It"
"Twisted"
"Come and Get with Me"

He also made quite a few uptempo album tracks I liked: "Spend a Little Time" (with Charlie Wilson), "Love to Love You Baby," "Let Me Love You," "My Whole World," and "I Really Love You" stand out. If anything, Sweat had some bumpin' uptempo stuff.
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I grew up a fan of Keith's joints.

My favorite from him has to be between "Make It Last Forever" and "Merry Go Round".

But all of his stuff from '87-'96 were boss. Especially with "Nobody" and "Twisted". After that, his shit went down the toilet though I did like his Isley Brothers-sampled "One on One" from his last album five years ago though that song didn't do much.

The Beggin Man! I still remember him singing the song "There You Go Telling Me NOOOO Again, There You Go" In the movie "New Jack City". He looked so pitiful.

I'm just grateful to him for bringing Kut Klose to my attention, 'cause I had it bad for Athena Cage

Me neither. At least not the majority of the ones that came out after 1984.



Yeah, but it's weak sounding. It's hard to explain. Maybe it's the type drums or drum machines on the songs. I guess you could maybe call it new jack sounding. I don't know. It just sounds weak. I'll put it this way, it sure as hell ain't funk.

I only have his debut album 'Make It Last Forever' which I like alot.I didn't really like anything else by him and I find his voice to be kinda annoying at times He's cool in small doses.

vainandy said:

So, I take it that "I Want Her" isn't funky 2 u? That was an 80s funk classic. That is easily some of Teddy Riley's best work.

I never like "I Want Her". To me, it sounds like it was recorded with the intention of crossing over, although it never did (I think). It just sounds so....late 80s.....which I hate. Damn, I wish I could take an eraser and erase those years.

I never liked Teddy Riley either.

vainandy said:

Dang...I'm not going to knock the music u like. U must have really hated Prince's 90s stuff then.

I like a lot of Prince's 90s stuff. In the 90s, besides house music, Prince was the only thing I listened to. Now that house music is practically extinct or has become "music you have to search for", Prince is the only thing current I listen to, except for Jamiroquai.

As for Keith Sweat's "I Want Her", if I were absolutely desperate, I might consider it a "decent" song but I was used to much harder funk in the early 80s. The late 80s in general were a time of me refusing to lower my standards because I grew up with so much harder stuff in the early years of the decade. It would be like someone shopping on Rodeo drive, losing everything, and being forced to shop at Walmart. Andy just refuses to do it....ever.

I saw Keith in concert not by choice, but he was the headliner on one of those 'fest" bills that played Radio City. I was there for "SHADES" an RB girl group that had a couple of singles, mainly i was there because i was trying to get a date with one of the group (long story) but anyway, i stayed for the rest of the show and Keith was cool, ladies in the front went nuts, but i think the craziest thing was Mark Morrison who came on before Keith, he came out, talked some shit, and got booed off stage basically. Crazy night, thought i was in the Apollo when i saw him getting booed off.

lastdecember said:

Shades - wait a minute - is that the group with four cute chicks (especially the one with the short haircut) who came out with a record that used Bernard Wright's sample and had lyrics like, "what car do you drive?". In the video, they were driving in a mustang (I think) and they were on the beach...

JesseDezz said:

Yup, they had one album and two singles, the album was actually pretty good but they were on MOTOWN and we all know that Motown is the worst at everything. The singles they had were "Dont Tell Me" and "Serenade".

I heard through the "grapevine" that one of the members was, shall we say, "encouraged" to lose a few pounds...

There was also a group around the same time on the label called "Ladae" (or something like that). If I remember correctly, Al B. Sure had something to do with the project. They were a boy band with a pretty charismatic lead singer. I heard some of their stuff, but I don't think it ever got released. They had a lot of potential.

In fact, here's the Shades' video I was referring to - haven't seen this in years:

http://www.youtube.com/wa...bGw3oaBuew

JesseDezz said:

I've heard similiar buzz as well JD.