minneapolisFunq said:

Cool...what's on the b-side?

on an album that is thrown into the RnB/Funk genre it is quite heavy imo

but its cool i know what you were trying to say i just felt like pointing out the fact that jak has some skills (and still plays clubs to this day with soul divine)

lol i think the B-side is just an instrumental

i dont actually own that single (although i will add it to my collection in the near future)

minneapolisFunq said:

I gotcha...But would u consider Jak's album r&b? I NEVER considered Prince to be r&b and dawg, everything Jak came with on that album was Controversy/1999 albums thrown together! For real mayne. He was like "Well lets see...Prince just put out Purple Rain which is even more rock heavy than he's been fucking with so....I know!...I'll do his 81/82 sound!". Come on now mayne! You know Jak was putting the intro to Let's Work along with the chorus from DMSR and shit! I don't see that no where near r&b.

i never said i thought it was RnB but thats what it would be classified as by most people.

"Get up Everybody" is totally DMSR btw

im not trying to say the album doesnt sound prince-like. thats why i like it.

minneapolisFunq said:

I can dig it...Not only "Get Up Everbody" but "I Go Wild" has some DMSR too. But yeah man, in late 85, and all through the summer of 86, all I was blasting in my ride was MZ, Teena Marie's "Emerald City" and Jak! I'm telling ya, Jak's cut "69", MZ's "I Guess It's All Over" and Teena's "You So Heavy" was the background music for what I call DDT..."Drawers Disappearing Time" in the car with the girls.

Lol you just caused me to look at my favorite wrestling move (ddt) in a whole new light

its too bad, nowadays i get looked at funny or questioned when expressing my love for classic grooves

minneapolisFunq said:

U know what u should say to ANYBODY that question your likes...Fuck em'! For real bruh, are they paying your rent and your bills and shit? Nope. So fuck what they think. What did Hendrix say? "I'm the one that's going to die when it's time for me to die. So let me live my life....the way I want to....There...Sing on brother...Play on Drummer."
[Edited 8/23/09 23:00pm]

real talk man

its just dissapointing at times.

thank god for the internet

blackguitaristz said:

Plinko is my favorite

minneapolisFunq said:

You ever heard of Sexual Harrassment? They released an album in 1983 which is very Prince-influenced.It sounds like Prince's early 80s funk jams with dirty lyrics and lots of synths.Their album only had six songs,just like the Time albums.5 of those songs are on Youtube (the remaining track,"We Didn't Say It",isn't on Youtube but it's just an instrumental version of "K-I-S-S-I-N-G" anyway).
"I Need A Freak"

"If I Gave You A Party"

"You Are My Sexual Connection"

"K.I.S.S.I.N.G"

"Exercise Your Ass Off"



These guys were unabashed Prince fans.In 1985,they released a 12" single called "We Want Prince" but unfortunately,there was no second album and they faded away.A very mysterious band that no one has ever seen.No videos,no promotion,no TV appearances,nothing! Here in the Bay Area,"I Need A Freak" became a huge hit in the clubs and on R&B radio stations,but I don't even know how well it did elsewhere.

minneapolisFunq said:

Don't let it get to u, player. Just keep doing you thing regardless and leave all of them to wayside.

ive heard the track "i need a freak" a few times in the past

they seem to have very underground sound. i like overall sound but nothing really caught my ear

thanks for the heads up

minneapolisFunq said:

yeah,"I Need A Freak" became somewhat of an Old School classic in certain areas.And yeah,their album has an underground sound.It's like the Minneapolis Sound circa 1982-83,but without all the bells and whistles.Mostly,they stick to drums and layered synths.The best track is "If I Gave You A Party",which is the song that sounds the most like Prince.The lyrics,the fast beat,the eerie synth riff that pops up during the second verse and stays throughout the remainder of the song,the group vocals singing in unison....this is pure Prince! They're stealing all of his tricks,on this song especially.

SoulAlive, thanks for all that S. Harrassment info. I didn't know all of those were on Youtube, or how you were enjoying the album since you found it.

errant said:

Hey, I HOPE that's not my man bgz you're kissing because he doesn't kiss guys. So move out of the way please !
[Edited 8/25/09 14:40pm]

Cinnie said:

I love their album It's trashy,sleazy fun.
They're like a nastier version of Ready For The World,lol.

Just trying to keep it on topic before someone posts
a video of Bobby Nunn.

minneapolisFunq said:

I have the 12" of this

phunkdaddy said:

I can dig it.

hey soulalive is the 12" version of I Go Wild the same one thats on youtube?

Hell yeah. I can remember when I first joined the org. I would make an Ebonee Webb thread, it would get two or three replies, and then it would tank to the second page. And now Ebonee Webb has gotten three pages of replies. I think youtube has a lot to do with it. Once people hear them, they either immediately remember them or instantly love them.

Here's an Ebonee Webb mix that my drunk ass made last night to get y'all's asses shaking. Let me know what you think....

http://www.sendspace.com/file/bd0abq

i might have to upstage you and find the download links for both albums and post them later on.

Has anyone heard that Sam Bostic joint? if so give me the lowdown.

im really feeling the two cuts that are out on the internet.

ill probably just order the album in a few weeks.

vainandy said:

Bangin' vain...Simply bangin'!

minneapolisFunq said:

That Sam Bostic cat, now he's somebody that I did not check out. I never heard him on the radio and if I did, I wasn't aware of who he was. Which that was hardly never when cats that got airplay, I wasn't aware of who they were. If it was a mimimal hit or not. I remember seeing Bostic's album but I didn't feel moved to get with it. When I saw Jak's album and Exotic Storm, I HAD to get it out of pure curiousity based straight on how they looked. In Sams's case, he looked more like somebody on Michael's tip than anything. Which wasn't a bad thing certainly, BUT to me, NOBODY should have been evoking MJ at THAT time. I was expecting him to be wearing a silver glove and shit on the album cover. He reminded me of Alphonso in the Pepsi New Generation commercial where he's dancing on the sidewalk with his friends before MJ and his brothers walk up on him.

yeah, on that drive me wild cut there are some signature MJ "hee hee hee"s on there

but i was feeling the groove and the album title interests me so ill probably snatch it up.

i looked him up and he has some more recent rnb stuff out today. it looks like he had some success as a hiphop producer.

blackguitaristz said:

minneapolisFunq said:

That's cool.

Damn, y'all know everybody! I've never heard of these guys