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this album about a week ago maybe I have yet to *cough*extract maybe I'll do that today about Emerald City though that was once my fav Teena album (when I experienced it on vinyl) my faves from there are "Shangri La" and "Sunny Skies"... there's more I'm sure... I'm just not thinking right now my head is so far up this albums ass: 
does anybody else love the "nooooo!"s at the tail end of the title track as much as I do? ROTFL 
I get tickled pink EVERYtime
it never gets old LOL when it comes to picking the #1 Teena Marie album, I simply CANNOT do it... I love all the ones I own in their own way... @Ottensen - I suggest you try It Must Be Magic from top to bottom or Lady T perhaps... because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." | |
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One of Teena's BEST!!!!! I do believe she is ready for the Hall Of Fame....What do you all think?? | |
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DirtyChris said: my head is so far up this albums ass:
does anybody else love the "nooooo!"s at the tail end of the title track as much as I do? ROTFL
I get tickled pink EVERYtime
it never gets old LOL when it comes to picking the #1 Teena Marie album, I simply CANNOT do it... I love all the ones I own in their own way Man,I LOVE this album! I've done a few threads about it.It really is hard to pick a favorite Teena Marie album,but 'Robbery' would definitely be a strong contender.The latin-flavored slow jam "Stop The World" is quite possibly my favorite Teena Marie song. | |
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SoulAlive said: DirtyChris said: my head is so far up this albums ass:
does anybody else love the "nooooo!"s at the tail end of the title track as much as I do? ROTFL
I get tickled pink EVERYtime
it never gets old LOL when it comes to picking the #1 Teena Marie album, I simply CANNOT do it... I love all the ones I own in their own way Man,I LOVE this album! I've done a few threads about it.It really is hard to pick a favorite Teena Marie album,but 'Robbery' would definitely be a strong contender.The latin-flavored slow jam "Stop The World" is quite possibly my favorite Teena Marie song. Playboy is my favorite on Robbery. Its hard for me 2 get into the Epic Records albums just because the Gordy label looks like it fits better with her voice.   ANYONE FEEL ME?.
I have never heard Emerald City or Naked.....I will definitley try after this thread. Straight Jacket Funk Affair
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Hmm I have this album and haven't posted yet.
I don’t think it’s her best but it’s one of my favorites. Actually, I think the only song I didn’t care for was Crocodile Tears. Been gone for a minute, now I'm back with the jump off | |
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DirtyChris said: I recently *cough*found
this album about a week ago maybe I have yet to *cough*extract maybe I'll do that today about Emerald City though that was once my fav Teena album (when I experienced it on vinyl) my faves from there are "Shangri La" and "Sunny Skies"... there's more I'm sure... I'm just not thinking right now my head is so far up this albums ass:
does anybody else love the "nooooo!"s at the tail end of the title track as much as I do? ROTFL
I get tickled pink EVERYtime
it never gets old LOL when it comes to picking the #1 Teena Marie album, I simply CANNOT do it... I love all the ones I own in their own way... @Ottensen - I suggest you try It Must Be Magic from top to bottom or Lady T perhaps... I bugged out when i bought this album and saw that the phone number that the guy is giving Teena on that piece of paper is 777-9311  | |
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banks said: I bugged out when i bought this album and saw that the phone number that the guy is giving Teena on that piece of paper is 777-9311 
I just think Behind the Groove is one of hottest songs ever and IMO Teena is highly underrated. These young girls could learn a lesson from her but I guess they’d have to learn to a play an instrument or two first. Been gone for a minute, now I'm back with the jump off | |
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JackieBlue said: banks said: I bugged out when i bought this album and saw that the phone number that the guy is giving Teena on that piece of paper is 777-9311
I just think Behind the Groove is one of hottest songs ever and IMO Teena is highly underrated. These young girls could learn a lesson from her but I guess they’d have to learn to a play an instrument or two first. You didn't know that ? | |
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banks said: JackieBlue said:
I just think Behind the Groove is one of hottest songs ever and IMO Teena is highly underrated. These young girls could learn a lesson from her but I guess they’d have to learn to a play an instrument or two first. You didn't know that ? No but I think I read it on the Org before and I was all even then. I don't have Robbery either.  Been gone for a minute, now I'm back with the jump off | |
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Jackie,go and get a copy of 'Robbery'! You NEED to have this album in your collection,it's one of Teena's best!!! | |
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SoulAlive said: annoying drum machines and synths
But.. but.. we love those! | |
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SoulAlive said: Jackie,go and get a copy of 'Robbery'! You NEED to have this album in your collection,it's one of Teena's best!!!
I know! I'm so behind. Sometimes I purposely put off buying them so I’ll have something to look forward to when I’m in the dumps. Makes no sense. Been gone for a minute, now I'm back with the jump off | |
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TonyVanDam said: SoulAlive said: This isn't one of my favorite Teena albums
Like most albums released in the late 80s,it's got alot of those annoying drum machines and synths.Still,there are a few bright spots.The singles "Ooh La La La" and "Work It" are very good.
CORRECTION: This Teena Marie album had way more drum machine programming & synths than the more natural sounding Naked To The World. THIS was her best album ever. It Must Be Magic was a great, great album. I wore out the grooves on two of those albums, but Emerald City? Can't be beat.  
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blackguitaristz said: dancerella said: hey BG what up? what are your fave tracks from this album? do you like Naked to the world too?? Yeah I do like Naked To The World. I like all of Teena's material. I have so much respect for her as an artist. She has the whole package. Great songwriter, very good musician and one of the best female vocalists ever, in my mind. Teena, Chaka and Minnie are my all time fave female vocalists. Oh and Karen Carpenter! My favorite song on Emerald City hands down is "You So Heavy". The simple fact that a woman was so in tuned to Hendrix type rock and blended it in with her thang, to have that element in "You So Heavy", is a MAJOR turn on coming from a female vocalist. Teena had Stevie Ray do his best impersonation of Hendrix towards the end of this song. And then for Teena to leave in Stevie doing his Voodoo Child type muffing on the guitar, tells me all I need to know about this woman. Totally showed where her head was at. She was like "Hey Prince, you're not the ONLY one in the 80's who can evoke Hendrix!" Someone who writes and produces her own shit, yaeh, I LOVE that song. I did a thread about "You So Heavy" in this forum a few years ago and nobody wanted to fuck with it. I was like "STILL cool. Hell, even better. There is a peace in knowing that Teena and myself are the only two people who digs this song!"  The sheer vesatility that she shows on both sides of this album is amazing.
[Edited 10/9/08 0:46am] We're about the same age, and for years, years, years, I never knew it was Stevie Ray Vaughn on that song, but loved it as one of my favorites. This album was my absolute favorite of hers, and You So Heavy one of my all-time favorite songs, precisely because of the guitar work. Even now...it just ROCKS! And yes, Emerald vs. Purple, the paisley telecaster, the eclecticism of the album, all *screamed* Prince to me, but I thought I was delusional.
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SoulAlive said: DirtyChris said: Man,I LOVE this album! I've done a few threads about it.It really is hard to pick a favorite Teena Marie album,but 'Robbery' would definitely be a strong contender.The latin-flavored slow jam "Stop The World" is quite possibly my favorite Teena Marie song. I'm about to play Robbery and sit out on the lanais wit my spiked lemonade
now again... does anybody love the "nooooo!"s at the tail end of the title track as much as me?
something is telling me Naked To The World just HAD to have been a dope LP if Lauryn Hill interpolated "Ooh La La La" (see "Fu-Gee La") @paisleypark4 - I kinda sorta know what you mean about the Gordy/Epic transition and "Playboy" is my fav I sampled that too on a remix
@banks - yeah the "777-.." bit is a trip I never noticed the 9311 I wish I still had to vinyl so I could go look closely I sold my vinyl back it was so scratched (that's how you know an album was GREAT) @Jackie - yes "Behind The Groove" is dreamy 
"uh lemme take you to Xanadu? and where's that? behind the groove... whooooo!" I live for that spoken intro so funky... and zesty [Edited 10/10/08 16:26pm] because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." | |
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I have to get another Naked to the World so I think I'm just gonna get all of what I'm missing off of Amazon in one big order. That'll be a nice pick up for myself. Been gone for a minute, now I'm back with the jump off | |
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JackieBlue said: I have to get another Naked to the World so I think I'm just gonna get all of what I'm missing off of Amazon in one big order. That'll be a nice pick up for myself.
make sure you get Robbery
anybody heard/like Passion Play? I won't even go near the Cash Money stuff  because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." | |
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DirtyChris said: JackieBlue said: I have to get another Naked to the World so I think I'm just gonna get all of what I'm missing off of Amazon in one big order. That'll be a nice pick up for myself.
make sure you get Robbery
anybody heard/like Passion Play? I won't even go near the Cash Money stuff Well I did by the Cash Money albums cause I just wanted to hear something new. There were some good moments on La Dona but Sapphire I didn't dig very much. Been gone for a minute, now I'm back with the jump off | |
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Man I didn't know Robbery got so much love on the org.. I thought it was all about Wild And Peaceful here.
Robbery is the only one I got on CD! | |
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I love how this thread turned into a good discussion about Teena's albums,even though it was supposed to be focused on one particular album This is why I love this forum....we have some great discussions here! | |
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DirtyChris said: JackieBlue said: I have to get another Naked to the World so I think I'm just gonna get all of what I'm missing off of Amazon in one big order. That'll be a nice pick up for myself.
make sure you get Robbery
anybody heard/like Passion Play? I won't even go near the Cash Money stuff The first Cash Money album was pretty good, but Sapphire was HORRIBLE!! **--••--**--••**--••--**--••**--••--**--••**--••-
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daPrettyman said: DirtyChris said: make sure you get Robbery
anybody heard/like Passion Play? I won't even go near the Cash Money stuff The first Cash Money album was pretty good, but Sapphire was HORRIBLE!! the album cover for La Dona screamed FIERCE... but that still didn't convince me I think I liked her first single "Still In Love" or "Stay In Love" and I heard the duet with Gerald Levert but I never got the urge I may get it soon, it's Lady T for Christ's sake  because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." | |
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daPrettyman said: DirtyChris said: make sure you get Robbery
anybody heard/like Passion Play? I won't even go near the Cash Money stuff The first Cash Money album was pretty good, but Sapphire was HORRIBLE!! I like both of her Cash Money era albums, in fact, I damn near wore the Sapphire album throughout 2006 and 2007. That was my favorite album of 2006. Check me out and add me on:
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silverchild said: daPrettyman said: The first Cash Money album was pretty good, but Sapphire was HORRIBLE!! I like both of her Cash Money era albums, in fact, I damn near wore the Sapphire album throughout 2006 and 2007. That was my favorite album of 2006. Really? I auditioned it in a used cd store and didn't care for it. When I see it again, I'll give it another try. **--••--**--••**--••--**--••**--••--**--••**--••-
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The Cash Money albums are decent.They have their moments.I was just happy to get some new music from Teena.
"Honey Call" from 'La Dona' 
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DirtyChris said: anybody heard/like Passion Play?
I got it years ago when she released it and since I've always been more of a sucka for her ballads, I really enjoy the mellow tracks and ballads. I haven't listened to it in a while so can't recall if there are any really funkdified tracks but my faves are: AIR I BREATHE, HYPNOTIZED, MAIN SQUEEZE & CLIMB THE WALLS. | |
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Does anyone know when Teena will be releasing a new CD? Last year,she mentioned that she was recording a new album that she described as "spiritual".She's no longer on Cash Money Records. | |
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SoulAlive said: I love how this thread turned into a good discussion about Teena's albums,even though it was supposed to be focused on one particular album
This is why I love this forum....we have some great discussions here!i know tell me about it. i wanted to discuss naked to the world and then it turned into a thread about her whole catalogue. it's cool though, i was inspired to dig out the Emerald City album because of what people were saying here and it is indeed a great album. very funky. i love me some teena marie but i can't down with her 2 most recent albums. there's no more funk. | |
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Ottensen said: I'm the wrong one to ask, I think. Outside of the albums "Wild & Peaceful" and maybe 1/2 of "Robbery", I usually prefer singles from Teena vs. hearing a whole record from start to finish...
Shadow Boxing and 365 are just 2 reasons that I love Teena's albums.. and not just the greatest hits. I have been on a mission to get CD versions of her albums... and it is not easy... some have been out of print for a while. "Remember, one man's filler is another man's killer" -- Haystack | |
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TonyVanDam said: dancerella said: I got this album 2 weeks ago and it has been on heavy rotation ever since. This album was the bomb. I was skeptical to get it at first since from the late 80's and feared it would sound too 90's but it is great. There are dance tracks, funk tracks and a couple of nice ballads. This album is one of her best imo. Anyone else dig it??
I Got Yo Number is a good track. I wish Teena/Rick would have made more funk & dance tracks together. I never heard this song until recently on a hits album. What album did it original appear on? I really like this song... Rick really showcased his singing voice on this one. I know I know what about Fire and Desire... but on this song, he sings easily (not whooping and hollering) and his voice sounds so effortless and very nice. "Remember, one man's filler is another man's killer" -- Haystack | |
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