Thought I'd keep it going, there's alot of great slept on albums from that era, two I just listened to come to mind:

Magic Lady - Hot 'N' Sassy (1982)

Carl Carlton - The Bad C.C. (1982)

in 1985,Rosie Gaines released a great album that was,unfortunately,overlooked....

Rosie Gaines 'Caring'

Jermaine Jackson - I Like Your Style 1982

Bobby Nunn - Private Party 1983

Timmy Gatling - Help 1989

The System's entire catalog!

DAV123 said:

I didn't see the first post....

prince.org/msg/8/405706

Militant said:

The System's entire catalog!

Johnnie Taylor ~ Wall To Wall {1984}

Johnnie Taylor ~ Just Ain't Good Enough {1982}

The Gap Band ~ Gap Band III {1980}

Midnight Star ~ No Parking On The Dance Floor {1983}

Janet Jackson ~ Janet Jackson {1982} (This is the Janet album I like best.)

Stacy Lattisaw ~ With You {1981}

GQ 'Two' (1980)---The second album by GQ,the band that brought us "Disco Nights (Rock Freak)" in 1979.Their second album is SUPERB!! It should have taken them to the next level,commercially.There are numerous uptempo jams here---"Standing Ovation","Is It Cool","Someday In Your Life","GQ Down" and my favorite "It's Like That".Every one of those songs is great.And there's also an impressive slow jam here,"Can't Stop This Feeling",which really should have been a single.I guess the "disco sucks" movement made it difficult for them (and other acts associated with disco) to move ahead,but this album is excellent and should NOT have been overlooked.I would even go so far to say that this record is even better than Kool & The Gang's Celebrate which came out around the same time.

MickyDolenz said:

Midnight Star ~ No Parking On The Dance Floor {1983}

Underrated?? This album was HUGE back then! It's a platinum record that spawned three R&B hits ("Freak-A-Zoid","Wet My Whistle" and the title track),plus there were a few other tunes on the album that received alot of airplay on R&B stations ("Electricity" and "Slow Jam").This was,arguably,the biggest,hottest R&B album of 1983.

High Inergy - So Right (1982)

SoulAlive said:

MickyDolenz said:

Midnight Star ~ No Parking On The Dance Floor {1983}

Underrated?? This album was HUGE back then! It's a platinum record that spawned three R&B hits ("Freak-A-Zoid","Wet My Whistle" and the title track),plus there were a few other tunes on the album that received alot of airplay on R&B stations ("Electricity" and "Slow Jam").This was,arguably,the biggest,hottest R&B album of 1983.

The Gap album went platinum too. Just because something sold when it came out, does not necessarily mean it is popular or remembered today, like Bay City Rollers or The Ink Spots. Vanilla Ice's album To The Extreme sold over 10 million, but he's mostly remembered for Ice Ice Baby. Ice's album probably is not selling much today.

You'd be hard pressed to go to the hood with any group of folks over 30 and NOT hear a song by the Gap Band played at least once or twice!

SeventeenDayze said:

You'd be hard pressed to go to the hood with any group of folks over 30 and NOT hear a song by the Gap Band played at least once or twice!

Yeah, their hits, and certain ones at that. But I was talking about the album. It's not even in print in the US (and neither is most of their other albums), but it's available as an import.

MickyDolenz said:

SeventeenDayze said:

You'd be hard pressed to go to the hood with any group of folks over 30 and NOT hear a song by the Gap Band played at least once or twice!

Yeah, their hits, and certain ones at that. But I was talking about the album. It's not even in print in the US (and neither is most of their other albums), but it's available as an import.

Oh, that sucks. Maybe there are a few places online you could possibly find it, even if you find a Gap Band fansite maybe you could find others who would know where to find that album in the States.

SeventeenDayze said:

MickyDolenz said:

Yeah, their hits, and certain ones at that. But I was talking about the album. It's not even in print in the US (and neither is most of their other albums), but it's available as an import.

Oh, that sucks. Maybe there are a few places online you could possibly find it, even if you find a Gap Band fansite maybe you could find others who would know where to find that album in the States.

Oh, I already have the record and everything I listed above. Just pointing out it's out of print. There's record stores where I live and I see used copies of the vinyl sometimes, and a few carry import CDs too, but imports cost more. The only new Gap Band CDs are compilations.

MickyDolenz said:

SeventeenDayze said:

Oh, that sucks. Maybe there are a few places online you could possibly find it, even if you find a Gap Band fansite maybe you could find others who would know where to find that album in the States.

Oh, I already have the record and everything I listed above. Just pointing out it's out of print. There's record stores where I live and I see used copies of the vinyl sometimes, and a few carry import CDs too, but imports cost more. The only new Gap Band CDs are compilations.

I think it's interesting that Charlie Wilson has been able to stay relevant for all these years. Do you (or anyone else) recall exactly how he's been able to do this?

SeventeenDayze said:

I think it's interesting that Charlie Wilson has been able to stay relevant for all these years. Do you (or anyone else) recall exactly how he's been able to do this?

Like Carlos Santana & Tony Bennett, Charlie has worked worked with young popular acts. This helped Santana and Tony have hit albums in the modern day. Lionel Richie recently had a hit album duing duets with some currently popular country acts. I think this duets formula became big with the Frank Sinatra albums in the 1990's. It worked for Ray Charles too. Charlie has been singing hooks on rap songs since the 1990's, sometimes as "Uncle Charlie", and this got his name out to younger listeners, who might not have otherwise heard of him. Not many veteran acts work with rappers, and the ones that have, generally did not do it on a regular basis. Charlie has also updated his sound with young hot producers, unlike The Original 7ven or Steely Dan, who have kept their original sound for the most part, which is not relevant to younger listeners. Charlie has done duets with Justin Timberlake, Jamie Foxx, Will I Am, and T-Pain. Many older acts do not work with popular acts or keeps an old sound that is not likely to get radio airplay. In a similar way, El DeBarge did a song with 50 Cent. Charlie is also on a major, unlike a lot of veteran R&B acts (like Latimore), who tend to be on small mom & pop labels, who can't get them on the radio and can't afford the young producers and performers. Charlie mostly gets play on the urban contempoary format with ballads and mid tempo songs.

SoulAlive said:

GQ 'Two' (1980)---The second album by GQ,the band that brought us "Disco Nights (Rock Freak)" in 1979.Their second album is SUPERB!! It should have taken them to the next level,commercially.There are numerous uptempo jams here---"Standing Ovation","Is It Cool","Someday In Your Life","GQ Down" and my favorite "It's Like That".Every one of those songs is great.And there's also an impressive slow jam here,"Can't Stop This Feeling",which really should have been a single.I guess the "disco sucks" movement made it difficult for them (and other acts associated with disco) to move ahead,but this album is excellent and should NOT have been overlooked.I would even go so far to say that this record is even better than Kool & The Gang's Celebrate which came out around the same time.

Standing Ovation was my 'ish back in the day!! I still play it when I'm feeling down-- it picks me up every time!!

nammie said:

SoulAlive said:

GQ 'Two' (1980)---The second album by GQ,the band that brought us "Disco Nights (Rock Freak)" in 1979.Their second album is SUPERB!! It should have taken them to the next level,commercially.There are numerous uptempo jams here---"Standing Ovation","Is It Cool","Someday In Your Life","GQ Down" and my favorite "It's Like That".Every one of those songs is great.And there's also an impressive slow jam here,"Can't Stop This Feeling",which really should have been a single.I guess the "disco sucks" movement made it difficult for them (and other acts associated with disco) to move ahead,but this album is excellent and should NOT have been overlooked.I would even go so far to say that this record is even better than Kool & The Gang's Celebrate which came out around the same time.

Standing Ovation was my 'ish back in the day!! I still play it when I'm feeling down-- it picks me up every time!!

SoulAlive said:

MickyDolenz said:

Midnight Star ~ No Parking On The Dance Floor {1983}

Underrated?? This album was HUGE back then! It's a platinum record that spawned three R&B hits ("Freak-A-Zoid","Wet My Whistle" and the title track),plus there were a few other tunes on the album that received alot of airplay on R&B stations ("Electricity" and "Slow Jam").This was,arguably,the biggest,hottest R&B album of 1983.

Shit that whole album gets airplay still to this day and when you go to their shows these days all the fans know the lyrics as the band plays. No

true fan of r&b music from the eighties can forget this album or the band

for that matter.

Okay, so this isn't R&B but this album is still underrated.