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Name some albums that were classified as tough acts to follow! Well as we all know, when artists create their biggest, most widely applauded work, critics and the public start to speculate on what the follow-up to their biggest album will be like. Whether the follow-up album is a slump or a continued success, their biggest album will always get praised for not only pushing boundaries artistically, but commercially. And it also gets speculation on what the next album may sound like or what it will become. Here are some of my picks:
Michael Jackson's Thriller Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation Stevie Wonder's Songs In The Key Of Life Hootie & The Blowfish's Cracked Rear View Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite Sly & The Family Stone's There's A Riot Goin On Parliament's Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome Marvin Gaye's What's Going On Whitney Houston's solo debut What are some of your picks? Check me out and add me on:
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silverchild said: Well as we all know, when artists create their biggest, most widely applauded work, critics and the public start to speculate on what the follow-up to their biggest album will be like. Whether the follow-up album is a slump or a continued success, their biggest album will always get praised for not only pushing boundaries artistically, but commercially. And it also gets speculation on what the next album may sound like or what it will become. Here are some of my picks:
Michael Jackson's Thriller Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation Stevie Wonder's Songs In The Key Of Life Hootie & The Blowfish's Cracked Rear View Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite Sly & The Family Stone's There's A Riot Goin On Parliament's Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome Marvin Gaye's What's Going On Whitney Houston's solo debut What are some of your picks? Lauryn Hill-Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Michael Jackson's- Off The Wall(No one in million yrs expected what happened with Thriller) Eryka Badu debut album Marvin Gaye-What's Going On Janet's- Janet | |
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whatsgoingon said: silverchild said: Well as we all know, when artists create their biggest, most widely applauded work, critics and the public start to speculate on what the follow-up to their biggest album will be like. Whether the follow-up album is a slump or a continued success, their biggest album will always get praised for not only pushing boundaries artistically, but commercially. And it also gets speculation on what the next album may sound like or what it will become. Here are some of my picks:
Michael Jackson's Thriller Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation Stevie Wonder's Songs In The Key Of Life Hootie & The Blowfish's Cracked Rear View Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite Sly & The Family Stone's There's A Riot Goin On Parliament's Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome Marvin Gaye's What's Going On Whitney Houston's solo debut What are some of your picks? Lauryn Hill-Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Michael Jackson's- Off The Wall(No one in million yrs expected what happened with Thriller) Eryka Badu debut album Marvin Gaye-What's Going On Janet's- Janet I definitely agree with what you said about Lauryn! Judging from the Unplugged 2.0 mishap and what's happening with her now, sadly I don't think she will ever record an album the quite rivals the wisdom, success, quality, or emotions of The Miseducation. Check me out and add me on:
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all of them that were good and popular? that list is endless. "Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you." - Kahlil Gibran | |
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Prince from 1999 to Batman. I thought he couldn't top his self, then each album he came out with a unexpected different sound from the previous album and made me a fan all over again. http://prince.org/msg/100/263154?&pg=2
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I agree about MJ's "Off the Wall", I'm still looking for Michael to make an album as stellar as this, he's tried to do the "Thriller" concept for the last 20 years, once you do it once, you can't do it again.
I feel that Marvin hit his commercial peak with "Let's Get It On" but I say his following albums kept up with him even if they didn't fully match that album or "What's Going On" in that respect though artistically all of his seventies albums were genius. I'll also say "In Our Lifetime" is some great stuff! I agree with all the other albums listed too. [Edited 7/1/07 22:53pm] | |
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The Chronic. PRINCE: Always and Forever
MICHAEL JACKSON: Always and Forever ----- Live Your Life How U Wanna Live It | |
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Timmy84 said: I agree about MJ's "Off the Wall", I'm still looking for Michael to make an album as stellar as this, he's tried to do the "Thriller" concept for the last 20 years, once you do it once, you can't do it again.
I feel that Marvin hit his peak with "Let's Get It On" but I say his following albums kept up with him even if they didn't fully match that album or "What's Going On" in that respect. I agree with all the other albums listed too. Oh, I don't hardly agree with that comment you made about Marvin! I still think that I Want You and Here My Dear deserve the same respect and praise that What's Going On and Let's Get It On have gotten over the years. To me, he was at his glorious peak throughout the 70's era. But What's Going On's success and innovation shocked the world so much back in 1971, that people wanted to know what he was going to do next. Sure, he did the Trouble Man soundtrack and 'You're The Man', but Let's Get It On was considered as a return to form for many critics and fans (even myself). LGIO established him as the lover man crooner once again and it was a complete 360-degree turn to what he did back in 1971-72. So, that's why WGO was a tough act to follow! Check me out and add me on:
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Radiohead- The Bends
Radiohead- Ok Computer The Fugees- The Score | |
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silverchild said: Timmy84 said: I agree about MJ's "Off the Wall", I'm still looking for Michael to make an album as stellar as this, he's tried to do the "Thriller" concept for the last 20 years, once you do it once, you can't do it again.
I feel that Marvin hit his peak with "Let's Get It On" but I say his following albums kept up with him even if they didn't fully match that album or "What's Going On" in that respect. I agree with all the other albums listed too. Oh, I don't hardly agree with that comment you made about Marvin! I still think that I Want You and Here My Dear deserve the same respect and praise that What's Going On and Let's Get It On have gotten over the years. To me, he was at his glorious peak throughout the 70's era. But What's Going On's success and innovation shocked the world so much back in 1971, that people wanted to know what he was going to do next. Sure, he did the Trouble Man soundtrack and 'You're The Man', but Let's Get It On was considered as a return to form for many critics and fans (even myself). LGIO established him as the lover man crooner once again and it was a complete 360-degree turn to what he did back in 1971-72. So, that's why WGO was a tough act to follow! I agree with the Here My Dear I purchased it a few months ago and out of Marvin's cd's it's my favorite. Every divorced dude should have a copy of this gem. I haven't heard I Want You yet. | |
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silverchild said: Timmy84 said: I agree about MJ's "Off the Wall", I'm still looking for Michael to make an album as stellar as this, he's tried to do the "Thriller" concept for the last 20 years, once you do it once, you can't do it again.
I feel that Marvin hit his peak with "Let's Get It On" but I say his following albums kept up with him even if they didn't fully match that album or "What's Going On" in that respect. I agree with all the other albums listed too. Oh, I don't hardly agree with that comment you made about Marvin! I still think that I Want You and Here My Dear deserve the same respect and praise that What's Going On and Let's Get It On have gotten over the years. To me, he was at his glorious peak throughout the 70's era. But What's Going On's success and innovation shocked the world so much back in 1971, that people wanted to know what he was going to do next. Sure, he did the Trouble Man soundtrack and 'You're The Man', but Let's Get It On was considered as a return to form for many critics and fans (even myself). LGIO established him as the lover man crooner once again and it was a complete 360-degree turn to what he did back in 1971-72. So, that's why WGO was a tough act to follow! LOL, yeah they're GREAT albums. I see what you're saying, I was saying the same thing but I said it wrong. Maybe what I meant to say is yep he hit his peak with the aforementioned two albums but he kept it up throughout the '70s. In fact forgive my "divided soul", lol, but every other day, I always consider another Marvin album to be his best. I actually think "I Want You" and "Here, My Dear" were underrated because they were masterpieces, I guess I meant that in a commercial aspect that he hit his peak with LGIO but musically he always was on top of his game. | |
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daingermouz2020 said: silverchild said: Oh, I don't hardly agree with that comment you made about Marvin! I still think that I Want You and Here My Dear deserve the same respect and praise that What's Going On and Let's Get It On have gotten over the years. To me, he was at his glorious peak throughout the 70's era. But What's Going On's success and innovation shocked the world so much back in 1971, that people wanted to know what he was going to do next. Sure, he did the Trouble Man soundtrack and 'You're The Man', but Let's Get It On was considered as a return to form for many critics and fans (even myself). LGIO established him as the lover man crooner once again and it was a complete 360-degree turn to what he did back in 1971-72. So, that's why WGO was a tough act to follow! I agree with the Here My Dear I purchased it a few months ago and out of Marvin's cd's it's my favorite. Every divorced dude should have a copy of this gem. I haven't heard I Want You yet. Even if you're not divorced, I require people to get the album too. Musically it's some of the best stuff he did. You wanna know something weird, Marvin actually wrote the songs without pen and paper, he recite the lyrics in the studio and he often did it, if the rumor is correct, by laying on the couch where he felt comfortable and would sing his butt off. Leon Ware made that clear when discussing the "I Want You" album. If you hear his acapella of "I Want You", you'd be blown away because even if the writers were Leon and Arthur Ross, you were convinced that it was a song Marvin had written, his albums were that personal even without his writing credit. | |
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Sting's Nothing Like The Sun
Prince's Sign O The Times D'angelo's Brown Sugar Marvin Gaye's Here My Dear Basia's London,Warsaw,New York Michael Jackson's Thriller Rick James's Street Songs Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation Aretha Frankin's Amazing Grace Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite Luthor Vandross's The Night I Fell In Love | |
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Don't Be Cruel by Bobby Brown Ghetto D by Master P Doggystyle by Snoop Doggy Dog Live at the Apollo by James Brown PRINCE: Always and Forever
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Terence Trent D'arby:Introducuing the Harrdline | |
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nirvana - nevermind? | |
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced | |
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InsatiableCream said: The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
To me, it would've been Electric Ladlyland, Band Of Gpysys, or (if he was still alive to finalize it and release it) First Rays Of The New Rising Sun! But serious Electric Ladyland was a tough act to follow because this was the "transitional" album of his career... [Edited 7/3/07 12:33pm] Check me out and add me on:
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daingermouz2020 said: silverchild said: Oh, I don't hardly agree with that comment you made about Marvin! I still think that I Want You and Here My Dear deserve the same respect and praise that What's Going On and Let's Get It On have gotten over the years. To me, he was at his glorious peak throughout the 70's era. But What's Going On's success and innovation shocked the world so much back in 1971, that people wanted to know what he was going to do next. Sure, he did the Trouble Man soundtrack and 'You're The Man', but Let's Get It On was considered as a return to form for many critics and fans (even myself). LGIO established him as the lover man crooner once again and it was a complete 360-degree turn to what he did back in 1971-72. So, that's why WGO was a tough act to follow! I agree with the Here My Dear I purchased it a few months ago and out of Marvin's cd's it's my favorite. Every divorced dude should have a copy of this gem. I haven't heard I Want You yet.  How do you sleep at night?
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AlexdeParis said: daingermouz2020 said: I agree with the Here My Dear I purchased it a few months ago and out of Marvin's cd's it's my favorite. Every divorced dude should have a copy of this gem. I haven't heard I Want You yet. How do you sleep at night?
No, really?  That's something I want to know too, AlexeParis! How could you miss out on one of Marvin's best later albums next to Here My Dear, In Our Lifetime, and Midnight Love?Check me out and add me on:
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who's the chic in your avatar Alexa de Paris?
whoever she is, she makes your posts more likeable 93 Til Infinity - Souls of Mischief Illmatic - Nas i agree with whomever posted Miseducation by Lauryn, and Cracked Rear View by Hootie, and Don't Be Cruel by Bobby Brown Introducing the Hardline by TTD Faith - George Michael Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morrisette Please Hammer Don't Hurt Em - MC Hammer Purple Rain of course Wu Tang Clan - Enter the 36 Chambers Love Deluxe - Sade A Love Supreme - John Coltrane Rachelle Ferrell - eponymous Boyz to Men - II 12 Play - R. Kelly hate to acknowledge her but - Baby One More Time by Britney Spears (O'Connor) The Marshall Mathers LP by Eminem Appetite for Destruction - GNR Slippery When Wet - Bon Jovi Girl You Know Its True - Milli Vanilli (seriously, all eyes were on them) [Edited 7/3/07 20:40pm] | |
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silverchild said: AlexdeParis said: How do you sleep at night?
No, really? That's something I want to know too, AlexeParis! How could you miss out on one of Marvin's best later albums next to Here My Dear, In Our Lifetime, and Midnight Love?LOL! A lot of people took a LOT of stuff from the "I Want You" album from the cover to the songs and all of that, lol. Can we say this album is among one of his most influential releases? | |
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Timmy84 said: silverchild said: That's something I want to know too, AlexeParis! How could you miss out on one of Marvin's best later albums next to Here My Dear, In Our Lifetime, and Midnight Love?LOL! A lot of people took a LOT of stuff from the "I Want You" album from the cover to the songs and all of that, lol. Can we say this album is among one of his most influential releases? Yesssss.... Check me out and add me on:
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silverchild said: Timmy84 said: LOL! A lot of people took a LOT of stuff from the "I Want You" album from the cover to the songs and all of that, lol. Can we say this album is among one of his most influential releases? Yesssss.... Thought so.  I think people don't give Marvin enough credit as they should because some basically only follow him through the oldies stage, they almost couldn't accept that Marvin successfully went through different phases of music to reach a new audience. | |
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datdude said: who's the chic in your avatar Alexa de Paris?
whoever she is, she makes your posts more likeable It's Aaliyah. 
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AlexdeParis said: datdude said: who's the chic in your avatar Alexa de Paris?
whoever she is, she makes your posts more likeable It's Aaliyah. This is for your avatar:      | |
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hmmm, i didn't recognize it as Aaliyah. it was small enough to be some other fine chick at a glance. | |
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