vainandy said:

You definitely can buy "New Edition" on compact disc. In fact, all of New Edition's albums are available on CD.

Yeah, I've seen the album that was produced by Jam and Lewis in the record store all the time. A few months ago, "Candy Girl" popped up and just recently, "Under The Blue Moon" popped up. I've noticed that the record store will keep one copy of an unpopular album and once it's sold, they don't replace it unless someone asks for it. The last few times I went, "Under The Blue Moon" was gone and not replaced.

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vainandy said:

That shit probably is in the trash bin in the back.

sosgemini said:

Save New Edition was created before Five Star and N.E. was much more popular in the United States -- and that's not even counting the members seperately as solo acts.

New Edition is one of the greatest stories in R&B music history, I think.

Not only did they have success as a boy band but they integrated it into massive success outside the teen pop market.

Plus for a brief time between 1987 and 1993, all six of the official members of the group had solo success (Bobby's being the most successful).

Last I heard, all six members (Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky, Mike, Ralph & Johnny) are planning on (or are) working on a new album next year to celebrate their 25th anniversary.

I bought their one and only copy of Rick James' latest album a few days after it was released. They still haven't replaced it. The only reason they probably ordered it is because I'm a regular customer and they knew I would be looking for it. If it weren't for completing my collection, I would give it back to them and see if they could re-sell it to another sucker.

Timmy84 said:

All members of New Edition each had platinum-selling albums as solo acts, which is still a commendable feat.I always thought the most surprising success was Bell Biv DeVoe's "Poison!" album because no one expect them to come out that hard.

Najee said:

Naw i think Bobby brown success was way more surprising, talk about a man who could have had a crazy success story, from getting kicked out of the group to upstaging and then co headlining the same tour with them, to even going on to bigger success in 89, too bad he married Whitney and got caught up in drugs, and he was just a back up singer

Najee said:

im not comparing to the two silly...just making a joke.

Najee said:

Wasn't 1990 a great year? I think "Poison" was the biggest-selling album by an R&B group that year (I forgot how much En Vogue's "Born to Sing" sold, lol). I think it did like five million worldwide.

And yeah, BBD's success was unexpected. It was actually perfect since Michael, Ricky and Ronnie never stood out of the crowd the way Ralph, Bobby and Johnny did so for them to form a splinter group was perfect.

And though they don't get the credit they get, BBD were the precursor to TLC. It's like Mike was Left-Eye (the rapper), Ronnie was T-Boz (while not much of a singer, he did sing and rap) and Ricky was Chilli (obviously the "sanger" in the group). They were the original group with the mixture of hip-hop, R&B and pop or whatever their slogan was at the time.

TLC took that concept and ran with it.

If I'm not mistaken, each portion of New Edition score a number one hit on the R&B charts away from each other:
Bobby had like five or six, I'm not too certain.
Ralph had one
Johnny had two
BBD had two

They were all successful with their solo/side projects. Not even the Jackson 5 could own up to that shit!

Najee said:

Poison is the damn JAM!!!!!

qvgangsta18 said:

True, I think both Bobby and BBD were surprises. Ralph actually had lesser success than people expected even though he did do decently for a while. I think Johnny was the second best-selling solo act of New Edition.

Yeah, too bad he married her. The same thing happened with Bobby as everywhere else she had ever been in contact with. All sense of rhythm and funk just quickly disappeared. Maybe Bell, Biv, Devoe was warning him when they released the song "Poison".
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vainandy said:

I'm old school -- when I say "album," I could mean vinyl, CD, or even cassette.

vainandy said:

Wasn't Whitney dating Eddie Murphy at the time of "Poison". I think Bobby and Whitney began dating a year later if I'm not mistaken.

I was surprised their marriage lasted long as it did... or maybe it wouldn't have if both of them didn't get hooked on crack.

I sure wish the best for them both but do you think Bobby can't do what he did in his solo career anymore?

I've still got all my old vinyl too. I used to have a few 8 Tracks too but I had to give them up when they stopped making the players.

We'll have to get the old timers like The Audience and Finess and let them tell us about their old 78s.

Timmy84 said:

But J5 comes pretty close:
The Jackson 5/Jacksons- 26 Top Pop, 30 Top 40 R&B
Jackie- 1 Top 40 R&B
Jermaine- 7 Top 40 Pop, 21 Top 40 R&B
Marlon- 1 Top 40 R&B
Michael- 40 Top 40 Pop, 41 Top 40 R&B
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Timmy84 said:

Whitney was dating 20 dudes at that time, Eddie, Darryl Strawberrys,Arsenio,Randall

and Bobby's BobbyLp was probably top three best NJS LP's and whitney made him put her friend Debra Winans Im Your Friend and Storm Away on that LP, and then that I love Whitney Lp "Forever" which ended his career, if i could find the teddy interview he touched on him telling Bobby not to marry her that he would kill all his fans

It's a shame she wasn't on drugs when she first came out in 1985. With her voice and Rick's funk, they could have made some great music together. I can just see her now on stage dressed in a slutty outfit with those skinny chicken legs of hers.



No. And even if he could, it wouldn't sell to these dead asses buying music these days.

qvgangsta18 said:

I'm telling you, Whitney was the one who got Bobby on drugs. She was doing them back in the 80s. Look at the "Whitney" cover. Tell me she wasn't doing crack then


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That was a match made in hell. It was like pairing up Tommy Lee with Mary Poppins.

bboy87 said:

True, but you do notice Tito and Randy never had a solo Top 40 R&B hit? Like I said, New Edition apart had some of the greatest R&B successes of the 1990s. But you combined them and the Jacksons do have them beat numbers-wise.

But none of those guys except Michael sold over five million like some of the NE members did.

She looks like The Bride of Frankenstein. All she needs is that white streak in the front of her hair.

bboy87 said:

Hate to be honest but she looks so fake on that album cover.

Timmy84 said:

Jermaine

vainandy said:

WOW she DOES look the Bride of Frankenstein here... damn, I never noticed it before.

bboy87 said:

Really? Which Jermaine album? The one that had "Dynamite" and "Do What You Do" on it?

Damn, I'm about to piss in my pants.

vainandy said:

I swore to God, man, look at her real closely... SHE'S OUT TO GET US WITH HER SOULLESS FORCE! RUN!