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Thread started 04/06/18 7:50am

JabarR74

Al B. Sure! - In Effect Mode: 30th Anniversary Thread

On May 3rd, 1988, Al B. Sure! released his smash hit album, "In Effect Mode". This album featured hits like, Off On Your Own (Girl), Rescue Me and (of course) Night & Day. 30 years and its still remains Al's best known album.

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Reply #1 posted 04/06/18 1:07pm

Musicslave

If Teddy Riley is the King of New Jack Swing, Al B. was it's Prince.

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"Nite and Day" was on repeat for awhile after first hearing it. The bass in "Ooh This Love Is So" was mesmerizing in a car with 12"-15" woofers back in 1988 lol

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"Naturally Mine" was cool too. I eventually revisited this and "Ooh..." a lot.

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His son looks just like him btw.

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Reply #2 posted 04/06/18 1:14pm

Musicslave

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Maybe they've finally built a relationship. Good for them.

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Reply #3 posted 04/06/18 9:50pm

dancerella

Wow I'm stunned it's been that long. Still listen to it on a fairly regular basis. Such a great album.
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Reply #4 posted 04/06/18 10:02pm

Scorp

I still have the original CD I bought when that album came out in mint condition.

I rock this album

Naturally Mine is my favorite song on In Effect Mode.......that was a great summer

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Reply #5 posted 04/07/18 5:11pm

SoulAlive

Back in 1988,I had the cassette.I really like the song "Off On Your Own (Girl)" and a few others.

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Reply #6 posted 04/07/18 5:34pm

Scorp

SoulAlive said:

Back in 1988,I had the cassette.I really like the song "Off On Your Own (Girl)" and a few others.

that was definitely the jam......that was a great summer that year......alloooooottt of great music and new artists on the horizon..

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Reply #7 posted 04/07/18 6:03pm

SoulAlive

Scorp said:

SoulAlive said:

Back in 1988,I had the cassette.I really like the song "Off On Your Own (Girl)" and a few others.

that was definitely the jam......that was a great summer that year......alloooooottt of great music and new artists on the horizon..

This album and Keith Sweat's Make It Last Forever were essential albums back then.

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Reply #8 posted 04/07/18 8:51pm

Scorp

SoulAlive said:

Scorp said:

that was definitely the jam......that was a great summer that year......alloooooottt of great music and new artists on the horizon..

This album and Keith Sweat's Make It Last Forever were essential albums back then.

absolutely

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Reply #9 posted 04/08/18 5:13pm

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I had to think of this album while I was listening to Meshell Ndegocello´s version of Nite and Day the other day.

Back then I never really understood why people mocked him so much (and some still do). Maybe he wasn´t the greatest singer but I always liked his voice and the music and his lyrics.

Really good album !

" I´d rather be a stank ass hoe because I´m not stupid. Oh my goodness! I got more drugs! I´m always funny dude...I´m hilarious! Are we gonna smoke?"
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Reply #10 posted 04/09/18 5:27pm

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KoolEaze said:

I had to think of this album while I was listening to Meshell Ndegocello´s version of Nite and Day the other day.

Back then I never really understood why people mocked him so much (and some still do). Maybe he wasn´t the greatest singer but I always liked his voice and the music and his lyrics.

Really good album !

Why? Dude couldnt sing a lick in person.

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Reply #11 posted 04/09/18 5:56pm

SoulAlive

Graycap23 said:



KoolEaze said:


I had to think of this album while I was listening to Meshell Ndegocello´s version of Nite and Day the other day.


Back then I never really understood why people mocked him so much (and some still do). Maybe he wasn´t the greatest singer but I always liked his voice and the music and his lyrics.


Really good album !



Why? Dude couldnt sing a lick in person.



Yeah,that’s what a lot of people were saying back then: he sounds good on the record,but he sucks in concert.
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Reply #12 posted 04/09/18 10:05pm

KoolEaze

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SoulAlive said:

Graycap23 said:

Why? Dude couldnt sing a lick in person.

Yeah,that’s what a lot of people were saying back then: he sounds good on the record,but he sucks in concert.

Oh, now I understand. Because I only know about how he sounds on the record, never seen any live footage. wink

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Reply #13 posted 04/11/18 1:52am

ReddBlitz

'88 was just a bomb ass year in R&B alone!! In Effect Mode was beast mode from start to finish. The New Jack Swing era, especially in its early stages, totally dominated. Aside from Teddy Riley, Kyle West was killer too!! Awwwww, the memories!!! biggrin
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Reply #14 posted 04/13/18 9:01pm

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ReddBlitz said:

'88 was just a bomb ass year in R&B alone!! In Effect Mode was beast mode from start to finish. The New Jack Swing era, especially in its early stages, totally dominated. Aside from Teddy Riley, Kyle West was killer too!! Awwwww, the memories!!! biggrin

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Reply #15 posted 04/14/18 2:33pm

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ReddBlitz said:

'88 was just a bomb ass year in R&B alone!! In Effect Mode was beast mode from start to finish. The New Jack Swing era, especially in its early stages, totally dominated. Aside from Teddy Riley, Kyle West was killer too!! Awwwww, the memories!!! biggrin

Oh yes!! I was jamming to this whole album a couple of weeks ago, still sounds good. So hard to believe it has been 30 years, wow, takes me back to high school! razz

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Reply #16 posted 05/02/18 3:00pm

JabarR74

Happy 30th to "In Effect Mode"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Reply #17 posted 05/03/18 4:46am

domainator2010

I love New Jack Swing!

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Reply #18 posted 05/07/18 12:44am

JabarR74

Happy 30th: Al B. Sure!, IN EFFECT MODE

Thursday, May 3, 2018
Al B. Sure! - IN EFFECT MODE


30 years ago today, Albert Joseph Brown III – better known to his fans as Al B. Sure! – released his debut album, an LP which took him to the top of the Billboard R&B Albums chart and resulted in more than a little bit of swooning.

Before kicking off his music career, Al B. Sure! – and for the sake of simplicity, we’re henceforth just going to make like the Paul Simon song and call him Al – was actually a star quarterback at Mount Vernon High School in New York, but after graduation, he opted to eschew athletics in favor of studying music. That he did this despite having an athletic scholarship to the University of Iowa should give you an idea of how serious he was about pursuing his artistic side, but it paid off: in 1987, he entered the Sony Innovators Talent Search and was selected as the winner by none other than Quincy Jones. By the following year, he’d released his aforementioned debut album.

Produced variously by Al Teddy Riley, and Al’s cousin, Kyle West, IN EFFECT MODE found Al setting aside his original plan to dive headlong into a rapping career because he was so taken with the R&B music that West was making at the time. The only problem: Al had to shift gears, which resulted in a slight delay for him to straighten out the learning curve. It’s fair to say that he got on track pretty quickly, though, since the first song he recorded for the album was “Nite and Day,” which became a #1 hit on the R&B Singles chart as well as a #7 hit on the Hot 100.

IN EFFECT MODE would score no more top-40 hits on the pop chart, but it did deliver a second #1 R&B hit with “Off on Your Own (Girl),” as well as the #2 hit “If I’m Not Your Lover” and the #3 ht “Rescue Me.” Additionally, his cover of “Killing Me Softly” climbed to #14, so it’s fair to say that Al B. Sure! was a superstar straight out of the gate

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Reply #19 posted 05/09/18 3:26pm

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SoulAlive said:

Scorp said:

that was definitely the jam......that was a great summer that year......alloooooottt of great music and new artists on the horizon..

This album and Keith Sweat's Make It Last Forever were essential albums back then.

...and Guy's debut LP. I wore that shit out during the summer of '88.

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