Well is it ...

With jams like "Tender Romance" I'd say yeah ...

I don't know.
To me, King of Stage still sounds like a kiddie-pop album.

I much prefer...



...Don't Be Cruel



Music for adventurous listeners

tA

Tribal Records

Bobby is his best Lp, Don't Be Cruel is his biggest, King of Stage is his most funkiest LP, and Forever is his vocally most impressive LP

I don't think MCA picked the right producers and writers for King of Stage. To me, DBC is perfect from start to finish.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

"Spending Time"
"Seventeen"
"Girl Next Door"
"Baby I Wanna Tell You Something"
"Girlfriend"

were the onyl songs I liked..the others were to cliche for me.

DOnt Be Cruel was definitley written with his personality in mind. King O fStage was written still in New Edition mode.

paisleypark4 said:

That's a very good way of saying it.

The only songs I heard from it is
Seventeen"
Girl Next Door"
Girlfriend

and I like those But I can tell Don't be cruel was a much better album

When did this cd come out?

scriptgirl said:

1987

It came out 1986

babybugz said:

No, it was 1987.
http://www.billboard.com/...bums/30377

daPrettyman said:

I checked it was 1986 lol

babybugz said:

Where did u check? Billboard and Allmusic both say 1987.

I never even saw or heard this cd or any music on it

scriptgirl said:

it's the "lost album" I seen the girlfriend video on Vh1 Soul a couple times

That pic looks like it is from 85 rather than 87

No, "Don't Be Cruel" was his best sounding album. I loved "College Girl" off the album "Bobby"
That's my next favorite album of his.
[Edited 1/12/10 10:46am]

Damn I hate Bobby Brown, Never understood his success back then and still hate him now.
I hated him even more when he married Whitney Houston. I was devastated as a kid...

A poor ass singer who can barely dance.


The only good songs from him are Rock witcha and Roni, the rest is straight garbage. Just good marketing behind him. That's why when New Jack swing died, his music career died as well.

Just an overrated artist from A to the Z. IMO

daPrettyman said:

I have the cassette. It says 1986

theAudience said:

agreed

bboy87 said:

yeah,I remember hearing the first single "Girlfriend" alot during November/December 1986.I'm sure the album was in stores by Christmas.

SoulAlive said:

How do you remember you heard a song a certain month? 24 years ago?

krayzie said:

how DARE you disrespect "I'll Be Good To You" like that

robertlove said:

If it's premiere and you love the song.....

I remember hearing Scream when it first premiered 14 years ago

SoulAlive said:

That would make sense for it to chart in January of 87 then. Especially if it came out in December.

missfee said:

"College girl" is my cut. I thought I was the only one who still loves it LOL.

The "bobby" album falls foul to some other CD albums in the early 90's. The tracks are too damn long. "Humpin' around" still sounds great but its too damn long LOL. He or MCA released that album about a year too late. Heck, MJ's "Dangerous" came out too late, and that was late 1991, not 1992 like "Bobby". Back then, just a year made all the difference.

thesexofit said:

I liked the whole "Bobby" album. I disagree with you about it was "too late" because it was right on time for Bobby.

Bobby was EVERYWHERE from 88 to early 91. It was the perfect time for him to rest and record an album. Remember, at that time, it wasn't unusual for an artist to take a year or 2 off between projects.

I'll never forget the day when Tom Joyner debuted "Humpin Around" on K104 for the first time. He cracked the mike and said "this is it? This is we waited almost 2 years for? He could have kept that". I have to say, I agree that it wasn't a good first single.

daPrettyman said:

The problem with "humpin' around" to me is it sounds abit like other La Reid and Babyface songs. To me it sounds a shade too close to Pebbles "Giving you the benefit" and Jermaine Jacksons "you said" song. Its not surprising considering La Reid/Babyface had dominated the crossover rnb thing since the late 80's, that some of their songs would get abit samey (look at Timbaland now). It happens to alot of major pop producers I imagine.

I still think newjack was on its last legs by mid-late 1992. "Bobby" should of been an automatic no.1 record, as should of Hammers "too legit to quit", but despite big first singles, the album sales of both those guys, whilst great in their own right, were less then maybe predicted I feel. Same with Jacko's "Dangerous" even. Still very impressive sales figures, but not as much as maybe it could of been if those albums came out just 6 months-year earlier.
(Though in Hammer's case it had nothing to do with bad timing).

scriptgirl said:

You never heard Girlfriend ?