I"ll admit mint condition is a more seasoned, more current band.

Both are great, but T.T.T has had more upbeat dance tracks than MC. But I respect them both. Wish there were more bands like them today.

phunkdaddy said:

Don't get me wrong, what I said wasn't a slam at all. Largely, I enjoy 3T. But you can have a 'classic soul' sound without aping a classic soul artist. On some songs they did just that. I find 'Let Me Know' to be a beautiful ballad in that vein but very much a 3T song. I guess I just see less of a point in doing things like 'Thinking Of You' than some others do.

vainandy said:

Yes I know what you mean. I am a dancer and didnt even like slow jams until about 1996 or 1997 when I started listening to all the slow jams my mom used to. Vain man you got to send me some of your favorite uptempo funk jams!

I gotsta get funked up...I needsss it, likes a junkie...u know i got this Come on mayn cane ya just gimme dat fonk? Spare me one, ayy mayne...I'll suck yo .....








But i couldnt buy their cd's because all the songs they came out with basically wall slow jams. I never to be honest really heard their later albums after the one with Pretty Brwon Eyes on it

BlaqueKnight said:

Damn, where the hell have you been bruh? I ain't seen you since Michael's 3rd nose.

BlaqueKnight said:

I kind of felt that way with Sons of Soul. There were like 4 or 5 knockout cuts but then the rest was just meh. Then they stepped up their game imo with House
of Music but it wasn't a singles album for the R&b/hip hop crowd at the time like their previous albums. HOM was more classic soul.
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3Ts was a success? Surprise the hell out of me!

Imean they've been disbanded since 98 or whatevah.

MC might not have vids & hits but at least they're still together.
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neither band is greater than the other, especially when they have one major thing in common....the fact that when they arrived on the scene at their respective times, they were the last of the black bands when all the others wre non existent.... the edge i give 2 Mint is that they can play everything from r&b 2 jazz or even hard rock....
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love 'em both equally, and i wish there were more discussions like THIS instead of beyonce' ne-yo, rihanna (aka "beyonce' jr.") and the like.....

PFunkjazz said:

Dude, tell me you just didn't type that!

In terms of both groups, I think Mint Condition has more originality. Those guys not only play as well as they write and sing but they do it almost effortlessly. The major roadblock for Tony! Toni! Tone! was they were a group that had a funk-soul sensibility in the new jack swing era plus when they did try to do soulful grooves, their songs almost sound like Prince, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Isley Brothers and Curtis Mayfield ripoffs. That being said, both groups were great and I enjoyed both sets' music.

Every so often,I keep hearing that the Tonys are gonna reunite but it never happens.Anyone know wassup with that?

Mint Condition is waaaaayyyyy better than the 3 T's, IMO. So for me, the question is irrelevant.

SoulAlive said:

They have reunited although without ray sadiiq. The tonies have been touring
the past couple of years off and on with a guy named cousin pete replacing
sadiiq which brings me to the question what really went down when these guys
disbanded not long after the release of House of Music.
I know vibe did a big article on the guys saying that they may have been a
little tension in the group. They recorded some of the songs seperately.
It seems sadiiq was concentrating on outside projects and eventually going
solo.

phunkdaddy said:

Yeah,I remember that Vibe article.It's from 1996,around the time that 'House Of Music' was released.I couldn't believe that there was so much tension and drama surrounding them.However,the tension inspired to them to make one of their strongest,most amazing albums....lol...it's a shame that they broke up so soon after it was released.They could have really taken the concept much further on future albums.

SoulAlive said:

That CD is a modern classic.....the creative juice flowing all over each track it's off the scale..

LondonStyle said:

That reminds me...I need to get another copy of that CD! I loaned it to someone and never saw it again

SoulAlive said:

Finally! I agree 100%

Despite the fact that Mint Condition has held together longer, their last banging album was 1996's "Definition of a Band" and they haven't been able to maintain that originality and creativity since in my opinion. 'Life's Aquarium' had about 5 tracks that lived up to the standard they created, but everything since has been an attempt to chase and fuse R&B trends and silly-written songs. I love both groups but I give more credit to the Tonies.

Does anyone know what was supposed to be the 3rd single from House Of Music?

SoulAlive said:

I can't even listen to House of Music anymore

When it came out, I was 9 or 10 and my mom was IN LOVE with "Thinking Of You" and would play that shit all day

Intresting comparison, for some reason I don’t think of the two bands in the same breath. I tend to think of 3T as more 80s/90s nostalgic r&b and mint condition as timeless soul/funk. I like them both, but for different reasons. There are some Mint Conditon songs that make me lose my mind-the last minute of “so fine” still gets me, probably a decade after it came out. “someone to love”, same story…From the mint and luxury brown are two of the most regularly rotated albums in my collection. As for the Tonies, they have certainly had their hits, and I’ve enjoyed them all from little walter onward…, but I tend to smile and sing-along moreso than lose my mind over their music. Their best complete album for me was certainly House of Music. I rotate it fairly often, but it wouldn’t make my “desert island” list. I’d have to take some MC to the island. There’s just something a bit funkier/passionate about them.