Anyone else dig this song?

never heard this song on my life, but i think its great ! a real nice song, jermaine had some great stuff back then

motownlover said:

yep its a great jam!

Tight track indeed. Solid funkbass, horns, guitar-chops, arrangements and more of that in the mix. Paligap posted another cool thread about this album sometime ago : http://prince.org/msg/8/298649
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I like this. Very funky.

Why did his solo career never take off??

suga10 said:

1.) Motown never fully promoted him despite him marrying into the family.
2.) They couldn't (or wouldn't) build him as much as they did Michael.
3.) Jermaine started his post-Jackson 5 solo career at the wrong time.

Timmy84 said:

4.) Word To The BAD (album)

# 3. When would've been the right time? I don't know... The Jackson's did very well after they left Motown and then MJ's solo career left the damn universe.

That's a great album my brother owned it once, I stoled it.
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TD3 said:

That's the million dollar question, I guess. But you know I'm just gonna say that he wasn't promoted properly, lol.

Wasn't he trying to revive his career in the 1990s, and then something between him and MJ occurred b/c of producers leaving him to work with MJ?

Supposedly how Word to the Badd happened.

suga10 said:

Yeah, that whole drama was posted here on the org, lol. J'maine wanted his shine. That's the impression what i got from the posted article.

suga10 said:

Yep. I think for some reason he's still blacklisted for this. This is probably why he's hesitant to go out on a solo tour now.

Funky

Timmy84 said:

It was a fucked up move on his part, considering he was living in Michael's house

They didn't reconcile until 1993 or 1994 when the first allegations came through, and even then Michael was hesitant

NMuzakNSoul said:

I need to get Jermaine's Motown catalog

bboy87 said:

Right.

He did well with Don't Take It Personal. If he didn't act so silly making a song like "Word To The Badd" things would've been cool career wise. He dug his own grave to be honest with that. That said though he has made some great jams and I enjoy them. Very talented.

NMuzakNSoul said:

Don't Take It Personal is my jam. It's been in my head for 2 weeks now

Have ya'll heard about the rumor that Jermaine was fooling around with Syreeta during '77-81?

bboy87 said:

I was just checking "Don't Take It Personal" the other day.

As for Syreeta Wright...Love her work and voice. But yep, he was working with her and producing her songs, so who knows? I got that vibe listening to their duets too. Jermaine is a flirt and Syreeta (R.I.P) had an angelic thing about her. Wouldn't be surprised.

I love this cute song, Syreeta sounds really cute here.



He also produced a version of Signed, Sealed, Delivered for her.

Then you have this one years later though:



Jermaine definitely learned a lot from Stevie musically and Jamerson playing wise.

Love this one too.

Shango said:

oh never read that article, could you post it or do you know the name of that article? thanx

This really Stevie influenced jam. Can't go wrong.

NMuzakNSoul said:

CORRECTION: Jermaine dug his own grave with THIS BS.....



Awesomely bad!

TonyVanDam said:

Don't like that either. At ALL.

NMuzakNSoul said:

That's indeed from another cool album. I dig the uptempo opening-track from that joint : "I Gotta Have Ya", and "I'm Just Too Shy" is mixed on the album right after that song :





"It's Still Undone"


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Shango said:

Any chance you could find that article again? I'd be interested to read it.

Shango said:

These are great too! Jermaine is definitely an underrated artist.

Annika said:

Okay, i just checked the archives with various keywords, but can't find it

I vaguely remember it was in a topic where Jermaine announced a Jackson-reunion

NMuzakNSoul said:

Yeah, some cd-reissues of his albums would be cool.