Marvin Gaye - Here My Dear

SquirrelMeat said:

how did I ever forget about this
fantastic album!!!

I have to go look for it in the
attic right now. I'm sure I've
still got it somewhere.

Superb! Yes!

Shapeshifter said:

I think most fans of his music would list it as being among their favorites. Maybe you're just thinking of critics and even they were mixed about that one.

Most fans I knew at the time thought it was rubbish. The reviews I read in '95 were lukewarm too. Silly people. It's a visionary album.



I love that album. I had a hard time with it at first, but I kept at it. It's by far his most challenging listen, but it also has some of his best songs. The b-sides are killer too. Check 'em out if you haven't already.

GangstaFam said:

Most fans I knew at the time thought it was rubbish. The reviews I read in '95 were lukewarm too. Silly people. It's a visionary album.

3bogs said:

De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead



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14 shots was a very street oriented album for LL, I loved Pink Cookies and How I'm Coming. Jermaine Jackson has always been underated - didn't Hammer say that on a VH1 special? Batman, well fans on the ORG hate it and critics hated it as well but I found plenty of tracks to jam to as a 19 year old kid with raging hormones, actually their still raging, LOL.

I know the B-sides. Again, all the Tricky fans I knew stopped listening to him for good after they heard this. Reviews were almost uniformly hostile too. Idiots. [/b]

NWF said:

Weller split the Jam because he was bored with the music they were making, their sound and the fact that neither the bassist nor the drummer could play the other styles of music he wanted to experiment with. This was especially true of Rick Buckler, the drummer, who said the band's final - and musically most diverse - album, The Gift, was "not a drummer's album". Weller himself said that he preferred the drums he'd played on his demos to those on the finished tracks.

I don't think The Style Council ever made a great album, but they did come up with about twenty classic or almost classic songs. All five of their albums were very different one from the other, with the last three - Cost of Loving, Confessions of a Pop Group and Modernism: A New Decade - being the most experimental (taking in mid-eighties American soul, chamber pop and house respectively). They are also the most patchy and the least successful, commercially or critically (in fact Modernism went unreleased until it came out as part of a box set a few years ago). Unfortunately Weller, no doubt chastened by the failure of the second part of the Style Council's career, shied away from experimenting as a solo artist and returned to doing what the public loved him best for - making the sort of music he'd grown bored with in The Jam.

Cloudbuster said:

You couple of tits!

mrdespues said:

This is the shit

Better than 3 feet high.....

sermwanderer said:

i bagsie right one.

sermwanderer said:

I'd second that. Before The Source sold its soul, they bestowed the five mics on the album, one of the few, other than Supreme Clientele and Illmatic, to get that distinction.

Stakes Is High, IMHO, is their best. The Grind Date is, to me, an instant classic.

namepeace said:

Stakes is High is good, but I prefer De La Soul is Dead. The Grind Date is currently winging its way to me, so glad you said its good

My vote would go to The Style Council's 1987 classic "The Cost Of Loving". By that point, TSC was the biggest thing in the U.K. (& unfortunately not in the U.S.). But when this album was released, things kinda went downward. The music was great, but many felt that Paul Weller's political agenda was beginning to reflect very heavily in his music. So I guess that's why a ot of folks were turned off by it.




Personally, I LOVE this album. It's a great collection of Soul/Pop/Funk tunes and nice arrangements and stuff. I'm still trying to figure out why this was not a hit in America. It would've done great on the R&B charts, since the music sounded a lot like American R&B. Surrrrre, a British group like Loose Ends could break America in the Soul market, but not Style Council? Gimme a break. I guess with Paul's reputation as being thoroughly and defiantly British, it pretty much showed in the music. But then again Sade, Swing Out Sister, Scritti Politti, as well as other U.K. Soul/Pop acts were pretty hot in America too. So I'm not trying to hear that. Well, whatever the excuse was as to why it wasn't successul, it's still a shame.

Anyways, I think if you're a fan of 80's Soul/Pop, as well as left-wing politics, then I think you will enjoy this album as much as I do.

Chico1 said:

It's not as good as the first

but I love "To the 9s"

Great... But at a USED bin near you!

Great... But at a USED bin near you!

JANFAN4L said:

Yeah right! Used bin. The only Janet albums in the used bin are like Velvet Rope (inexplicably) and All For You.

CinisterCee said:

I wish I could find that one in the used bin. It's the only one I don't have on CD.

sextonseven said:

Same!

JANFAN4L said:

I think this album is great. I was just listening to it last night. You're right about the used bin, though. This is the Pink album that none of her fans want.

CinisterCee said:

I wish I could find that one in the used bin. It's the only one I don't have on CD.