New Edition is the greatest all male group of all time.
2nd Temptations
3rd the jets
4th backstreet boys

Do you think there will ever be a guy group as prolific as new edition?

The Jets were all male? Hmmm.....

bboy87 said:

yeah they were manly like lisa and wendy

Immature >> New Edition.

well it was about time for another one of these threads

I think "Cool It Now" is sooo funny. That guy can sing, but it sounds terrible because his voice seems to be sped up or a child one's bu he wears a moustache!!
I would cringe for laughing if he would stand in front of me.
Well, musically they're not very talented. Singing is okay, looks are average and they did not wwrite or produce their stuff.

graecophilos said:

He was a child at the time of the songs release.

Jackson 5
Nsync
the Osmonds
DeBarge (if you throw away Bunny)


New Edition was the flavor of the month like so many others

Im sorry but HELL NO !!!!!
the J5 are the greatest and every group that came after them (including New edition)
were blatantly Borrowing huge chunks of their Greatness !

LittleBLUECorvette said:

a child with a moustache? he was definitvely a teenager, no child

graecophilos said:

Wasn't he like 16 when he recorded "Cool It Now"? He was too old to still be sounding 12. He used his natural voice on the third album.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Donjuandeblacko said:

Well, I would say the Jacksons/Jackson 5 is probably the most successful male group of all time. That's just because of the sales of MJ's Thriller, Bad and Dangerous. Not including Jermaine's successful solo career.

As for talent, I would say The Temptations (from the 60s through the late 80s) were the best male group (vocally).

If you want to say best male group from the 80s and 90s, I would definitely say New Edition. Not necessarily for their songs as a group, but for the fact that the group spawned so many hits separately and together. Not to mention, Michael Bivins gave us Boyz II Men and MC. Brains

Now, the Jets, Sylvers, Debarge are family groups that have both male and female members. Besides, all of the Jets hits (except for Rocket 2 u) were all sang by a female.
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daPrettyman said:

I think LBC was being sarcastic...as always.

How very subjective an opinion.

Is this thread for real?

This has got to be a damn joke, right? New Edition? GOAT? I like them cats but they are not the GOAT and then you put them before the Temps?

FUCK OUTTA HERE WIT DAT SHIT, SON!

Nominees/contenders for the G.O.A.T.:


The Dells (Oh What a Night, Stay in My Corner, There Is, I Can See a Rainbow, Nadine, The Love We Had Stays on My Mind, Give Your Baby a Standing Ovation, A Heart is a House for Love)


The Impressions (For Your Precious Love, Gypsy Woman, It's All Right, I'm So Proud, Keep On Pushing, Amen, People Get Ready, Woman's Got Soul, We're a Winner, This Is My Country, Choice of Colors, Check Out Your Mind, Finally Got Myself Together (I'm a Changed Man))


The Temptations (I Want a Love I Can See, The Way You Do the Things You Do, My Girl, The Girl's Alright with Me, It's Growing, Since I Lost My Baby, Don't Look Back, Get Ready, Ain't Too Proud to Beg, (I Know) I'm Losing You, All I Need, You're My Everything, Please Return Your Love to Me, Beauty Is Only Skin Deep, I Wish It Would Rain, Cloud Nine, I Can't Get Next to You, Just My Imagination Running Away With Me, Ball of Confusion, Papa Was a Rolling Stone, Masterpiece, Shakey Ground, Power, Treat Her Like a Lady, Lady Soul, Stay)


The Four Tops (Baby I Need Your Loving, Sugar Pie Honey Bunch (I Can't Help Myself), Ask the Lonely, Reach Out, I'll Be There, Standing in the Shadows of Love, Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over), Bernadette, Seven Rooms of Gloom, Still Water (Love), Ain't No Woman Like the One I've Got, Are You Man Enough, Catfish, When She Was My Girl)


Little Anthony and the Imperials (Tears on My Pillow, Shimmy Shimmy Ko-Ko Pop, Take Me Back, Hurts So Bad, I'm On the Outside Looking In, Going Out of My Head)


The Isley Brothers (Shout, Don't Be Jealous, Respectable, Twist & Shout, Nobody But Me, Testify, Move Over and Let Me Dance, This Old Heart of Mine, I Guess I'll Always Love You, Put Yourself in My Place, Take Some Time Out for Love, Behind a Painted Smile, It's Your Thing, I Turned You On, Lay-Away, Work to Do, Pop That Thang, That Lady, Live It Up, Summer Breeze, Hello It's Me, Fight the Power, The Pride, Don't Say Goodnight, Between the Sheets)


The Jackson 5/Jacksons (I Want You Back, ABC, The Love You Save, I'll Be There, Who's Loving You, Can You Remember, I Found That Girl, The Young Folks, 2-4-6-8, Maybe Tomorrow, Never Can Say Goodbye, Sugar Daddy, Mama's Pearl, Lookin' Through the Windows, Get It Together, Dancing Machine, I Am Love, Enjoy Yourself, Shake Your Body Down to the Ground, Let Me Show You the Way to Go, Blame it on the Boogie, That's What You Get for Being Polite, Can You Feel It, Heartbreak Hotel, Lovely One)


The O'Jays (Lonely Drifter, Lipstick Traces, I'll Be Sweeter Tomorrow (Than I Was Today), One Night Affair, Back Stabbers, Love Train, Time to Get Down, For the Love of Money, Put Your Hands Together, Sunshine, Give the People What They Want, Let Me Make Love to You, I Love Music, Livin' for the Weekend, Message in Our Music, Darlin' Darlin' Baby, Used ta Be My Girl, Forever Mine, Brandy, Your Body's Here With Me (But Your Mind is on the Other Side of Town), Lovin' You, Emotionally Yours)

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New Edition pales to those greats IMHO.
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Timmy84 said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Thanks, I knew I was forgetting one group! Created two of the greatest soul stars of all time (Curtis Mayfield and Jerry Butler) and had a succession of hits in different styles between 1958 and 1981. They're also G.O.A.T. contenders.

Timmy84 said:

Oh yeah, and these guys.


You gave me an idea Timmy.
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LittleBLUECorvette said:

Where is my head? Of course the O'Jays!!!!

but most of these groups had ugly guys! new edition had all pretty guys

Donjuandeblacko said:

Riiiight... lol...

Donjuandeblacko said:

jthad1129 said:

THROW away Bunny....

Donjuandeblacko said:

don't make me shit myself laughing!!! Mike Bivens - butt ugly. Bobby Brown - ass ugly. Ricky Bell - just ugg. Ronnie DeVoe has had his ugly moments, in some videos he was hell sexy, in some he was hella ugly.

Ralph Tresvant is overall the most cutest in the group. Johnny Gill wasn't cute, but he isn't an ugly man either.

missfee said:

But Johnny Gill is a cross-eyed mofo... can't look at a cross-eyed man and think "sexy".

Micheal B. is a straight up tacky asshole... at my church he had a nerve to sign dollar bills and hand them out to church goers during service. The adults were like "pay attention to the pastor please", and handed him some of his bills back. He got pissed and left because no one was trying to kiss his ass. Bitch.

Ricky is a great guy, classy.

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paintedlady said:

Johnny Gill cross eyed? I've never noticed.

missfee said:

He seemed to have a "crazy" right eye... but he was always so classy. Love his voice. He brought NE to a different level.