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SoulAlive

Finally....some Rick James remasters!

RICK JAMES GARDEN OF LOVE
Pre-order available April 2
RICK JAMES GARDEN OF LOVE
RICK JAMES GARDEN OF LOVE
Item# B001407702
$26.99


Product Description
Garden Of Love, the often overlooked fourth album from Rick James, is now, 30 years after it was first released, on CD for the first time ever. It is digitally re-mastered for the first time and, also for the first time, includes two bonus tracks: an 11-plus-minute extended version of “Big Time,” an unreleased “M+M” mix John Morales had planned to deliver back in the day, and “Gypsy Girl,” a demo version of the song “Teardrops,” recorded during the Garden sessions, that was ultimately revamped for the Rick’s album Throwin' Down. An additional bonus for fans is a newly discovered extra minute of the album’s brief, original closing track.


Garden Of Love was one of those different Rick James albums. Despite its up-tempo opening track, it was a mellow affair, released in the summer of 1980, after a successful tour with Prince as his opening act, on the heels of Fire It Up (also on CD for the first time here) and two albums with his backing band, the Stone City band. “James had made his name with rowdy disco-funk tracks like ‘You And I,’ but he was actually a much more versatile songwriter than most people realized,” writes Michael Veal in the reissue’s brand new liner notes. “On Garden Of Love, he attempted to move away from his ‘King of Punk-Funk’ image and create an album of relaxed, laid-back songs inspired by the Caribbean islands on which the songs were written.” Both the album and its single “Big Time” hit the R&B Top 20 but their chart performances were considered a disappointment to Rick and to Motown, resulting in Rick regrouping in Buffalo for the Street Songs album.


Since then, disappointment has given way to a deeper appreciation of Garden Of Love. “It is one of the great Motown concept albums,” writes Veal, “a quintessential summertime jam, James’s hidden masterpiece, and a solid testament to his vision and versatility.”


Tracks:
1. Big Time
2. Don’t Give Up On Love
3. Island Lady
4. Gettin’ It On (In The Sunshine)
5. Summer Love
6. Mary-Go-Round
7. Gettin’ It On (In The Sunshine) Reprise
8. Big Time Extended M+M Mix (previously unreleased bonus track)
9. Gypsy Girl Rick’s demo (previously unreleased bonus track)




RICK JAMES: FIRE IT UP
Pre-order available April 2
RICK JAMES: FIRE IT UP
RICK JAMES: FIRE IT UP
Item# B001407602
$26.99

Product Description
Finally. Fire It Up, Rick James’ third album for Motown, is available on a U.S. CD for the first time. Featuring the singles “Love Gun” and “Come Into My Life,” Digitally mastered for the first time, this reissue also includes for the first time the bonus 10-minute version of “Love Gun,” a promotional-only 12-inch mix. Featured in the unique, foldout booklet is the full lyric reprint as seen in the original LP inner sleeve.


Fire It Up followed the smash hit albums Come Get It and Bustin’ Out in October 1979, as Rick was honing on the disco punk-funk sound that would ultimately prove enormously popular. It was defined, as Michael Veal writes in the reissue’s liner notes, “by the funk-icon cover shot and the rowdy chants on the first two tracks, which James used to get the crowds worked up in concert. But as a whole, it was a more diverse affair… showing off James’s superb ballad singing skills.”


Fire It Up, a Top 5 R&B/Soul and a Top 40 Pop album, was Rick’s first that he produced his own – the template for his worldwide breakthrough to come, one of the “missing” RJ CDs that’s finally getting its due.


Tracks:
1. Fire It Up
2. Love Gun
3. Lovin’ You Is A Pleasure
4. Love In The Night
5. Come Into My Life
6. Stormy Love
7. When Love Is Gone
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Reply #1 posted 03/25/10 6:32am

SoulAlive

Late-70s funk flashback: Come Into My Life" by Rick James (1979)
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Reply #2 posted 03/25/10 7:32am

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YAY!!! Something official! I can't wait!
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Reply #3 posted 03/25/10 8:21am

SoulAlive

Hopefully,they will reissue 'Bustin Out Of L7' and 'Throwin' Down' next!
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Reply #4 posted 03/25/10 9:07am

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Nice. I might have to pick these up.
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Reply #5 posted 03/25/10 9:49am

daPrettyman

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SoulAlive said:

Hopefully,they will reissue 'Bustin Out Of L7' and 'Throwin' Down' next!

At least those 2 are available on cd (not easy to find, though). Garden has never been on cd and I don't think Fire it Up has either.
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Reply #6 posted 03/25/10 9:51am

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I like the remasters but no way in the hell
i'm paying 26.99 for it. I'll do my own damn
remasters from vinyl. lol
Don't laugh at my funk
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Reply #7 posted 03/25/10 10:05am

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phunkdaddy said:

I like the remasters but no way in the hell
i'm paying 26.99 for it. I'll do my own damn
remasters from vinyl. lol

U won't have the bonus trax.

I'll pay $27 for a cd if I want it. I'm sure if u look on ebay or amazon, you'll be able to get it for about $18.
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daPrettyman said:

phunkdaddy said:

I like the remasters but no way in the hell
i'm paying 26.99 for it. I'll do my own damn
remasters from vinyl. lol

U won't have the bonus trax.

I'll pay $27 for a cd if I want it. I'm sure if u look on ebay or amazon, you'll be able to get it for about $18.


Still too much unless you're getting a 2 fer or
a comprehensive greatest hits package.
Don't laugh at my funk
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I need a certain somebody's credit card info so I can charge it to TO him. wink


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Reply #10 posted 03/25/10 10:14am

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Oh great. They wait until I'm broker than I've ever been in my entire life to release them. I want those two 12 Inch versions but I don't have that kind of money to spend anymore.
Andy is a four letter word.
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Reply #11 posted 03/25/10 10:17am

Cinnie

woot!
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Reply #12 posted 03/25/10 12:15pm

daPrettyman

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vainandy said:

Oh great. They wait until I'm broker than I've ever been in my entire life to release them. I want those two 12 Inch versions but I don't have that kind of money to spend anymore.

U better start doing online surveys to get some extra cash. lol
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Reply #13 posted 03/25/10 1:17pm

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Well now theres some hope to get the rest of these remastered, except the Bustin Out cd in the center. A treasure, indeed.
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Reply #14 posted 03/25/10 2:39pm

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This is perfect timing for me, as I'm just getting his stuff! woot!
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Reply #15 posted 03/25/10 2:40pm

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woot!

Gonna cop both of them! smile
Glad to see they remastered "Garden", by the way. That album is criminally underrated. In my opinion, it's a very solid album nod
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On Hip-o Select's site, they have the retail price at $19.99
http://www.hip-oselect.co...626310086F
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daPrettyman said:

On Hip-o Select's site, they have the retail price at $19.99
http://www.hip-oselect.co...626310086F


Aw hell, I may have to order these now. I have Come Get It! and Throwin' Down on vinyl and of course Street Songs on CD, but have not heard the other albums in between in their entirety. Time to fill in the gaps I think.
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daPrettyman said:

vainandy said:

Oh great. They wait until I'm broker than I've ever been in my entire life to release them. I want those two 12 Inch versions but I don't have that kind of money to spend anymore.

U better start doing online surveys to get some extra cash. lol


Oh, it's official now. I'll be moving next weekend so unless one of the other tenants in the apartment complex has an internet router box that isn't password protected that I can bleed off with my laptop for free (like I must be apparently doing now from someone in the nearby area), the only internet access I'll have will be at my job, which means I won't even be able to download a music file if someone were to send it to me.

I must admit though, I'm looking forward to getting an HDTV converter box and rabbit ears for my TV and not having cable TV anymore. From what I've heard from people without cable, the new sub channels of the local channels (only accessible at the moment for the people picking up local TV without cable) are much better than the reality bullshit on all the cable channels. I'll be pissed though, if I hear that "Soul Train" on cable airs a Barkays episode after I get rid of cable. lol
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Reply #19 posted 03/26/10 12:15am

SoulAlive

daPrettyman said:

On Hip-o Select's site, they have the retail price at $19.99
http://www.hip-oselect.co...626310086F


Cool,that's where I'll order these wink
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Reply #20 posted 03/26/10 1:49am

SoulAlive

TD3 said:

I need a certain somebody's credit card info so I can charge it to TO him. wink



lol
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Reply #21 posted 03/26/10 2:04am

SoulAlive

MotorBootyAffair said:

Well now theres some hope to get the rest of these remastered, except the Bustin Out cd in the center. A treasure, indeed.


where did you find that 'Bustin Out Of L7' CD? I want it! lol I know that in the mid-90s,there was a limited edition pressing.I wish I had bought it then because it's nearly impossible to find now
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Reply #22 posted 03/26/10 2:58am

OperatingTheta
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Great timing for me. I'm just knee-deep into his Anthology and loving it.

Not sure about the UK availability of these though? Nothing on Amazon UK yet.
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Reply #23 posted 03/26/10 8:12am

daPrettyman

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vainandy said:



Oh, it's official now. I'll be moving next weekend so unless one of the other tenants in the apartment complex has an internet router box that isn't password protected that I can bleed off with my laptop for free (like I must be apparently doing now from someone in the nearby area), the only internet access I'll have will be at my job, which means I won't even be able to download a music file if someone were to send it to me.

I must admit though, I'm looking forward to getting an HDTV converter box and rabbit ears for my TV and not having cable TV anymore. From what I've heard from people without cable, the new sub channels of the local channels (only accessible at the moment for the people picking up local TV without cable) are much better than the reality bullshit on all the cable channels. I'll be pissed though, if I hear that "Soul Train" on cable airs a Barkays episode after I get rid of cable. lol
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We'll keep u posted. lol
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Reply #24 posted 03/26/10 8:13am

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SoulAlive said:

MotorBootyAffair said:

Well now theres some hope to get the rest of these remastered, except the Bustin Out cd in the center. A treasure, indeed.


where did you find that 'Bustin Out Of L7' CD? I want it! lol I know that in the mid-90s,there was a limited edition pressing.I wish I had bought it then because it's nearly impossible to find now
mad

I found mine at a used cd store here in town for $5. I then saw it on ebay for about $20.
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Reply #25 posted 03/26/10 8:14am

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They wont be 26.99 at Best Buy
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SoulAlive said:

RICK JAMES GARDEN OF LOVE
Pre-order available April 2
RICK JAMES GARDEN OF LOVE
RICK JAMES GARDEN OF LOVE
Item# B001407702
$26.99


Product Description
Garden Of Love, the often overlooked fourth album from Rick James, is now, 30 years after it was first released, on CD for the first time ever. It is digitally re-mastered for the first time and, also for the first time, includes two bonus tracks: an 11-plus-minute extended version of “Big Time,” an unreleased “M+M” mix John Morales had planned to deliver back in the day, and “Gypsy Girl,” a demo version of the song “Teardrops,” recorded during the Garden sessions, that was ultimately revamped for the Rick’s album Throwin' Down. An additional bonus for fans is a newly discovered extra minute of the album’s brief, original closing track.


Garden Of Love was one of those different Rick James albums. Despite its up-tempo opening track, it was a mellow affair, released in the summer of 1980, after a successful tour with Prince as his opening act, on the heels of Fire It Up (also on CD for the first time here) and two albums with his backing band, the Stone City band. “James had made his name with rowdy disco-funk tracks like ‘You And I,’ but he was actually a much more versatile songwriter than most people realized,” writes Michael Veal in the reissue’s brand new liner notes. “On Garden Of Love, he attempted to move away from his ‘King of Punk-Funk’ image and create an album of relaxed, laid-back songs inspired by the Caribbean islands on which the songs were written.” Both the album and its single “Big Time” hit the R&B Top 20 but their chart performances were considered a disappointment to Rick and to Motown, resulting in Rick regrouping in Buffalo for the Street Songs album.


Since then, disappointment has given way to a deeper appreciation of Garden Of Love. “It is one of the great Motown concept albums,” writes Veal, “a quintessential summertime jam, James’s hidden masterpiece, and a solid testament to his vision and versatility.”


Tracks:
1. Big Time
2. Don’t Give Up On Love
3. Island Lady
4. Gettin’ It On (In The Sunshine)
5. Summer Love
6. Mary-Go-Round
7. Gettin’ It On (In The Sunshine) Reprise
8. Big Time Extended M+M Mix (previously unreleased bonus track)
9. Gypsy Girl Rick’s demo (previously unreleased bonus track)




RICK JAMES: FIRE IT UP
Pre-order available April 2
RICK JAMES: FIRE IT UP
RICK JAMES: FIRE IT UP
Item# B001407602
$26.99

Product Description
Finally. Fire It Up, Rick James’ third album for Motown, is available on a U.S. CD for the first time. Featuring the singles “Love Gun” and “Come Into My Life,” Digitally mastered for the first time, this reissue also includes for the first time the bonus 10-minute version of “Love Gun,” a promotional-only 12-inch mix. Featured in the unique, foldout booklet is the full lyric reprint as seen in the original LP inner sleeve.


Fire It Up followed the smash hit albums Come Get It and Bustin’ Out in October 1979, as Rick was honing on the disco punk-funk sound that would ultimately prove enormously popular. It was defined, as Michael Veal writes in the reissue’s liner notes, “by the funk-icon cover shot and the rowdy chants on the first two tracks, which James used to get the crowds worked up in concert. But as a whole, it was a more diverse affair… showing off James’s superb ballad singing skills.”


Fire It Up, a Top 5 R&B/Soul and a Top 40 Pop album, was Rick’s first that he produced his own – the template for his worldwide breakthrough to come, one of the “missing” RJ CDs that’s finally getting its due.


Tracks:
1. Fire It Up
2. Love Gun
3. Lovin’ You Is A Pleasure
4. Love In The Night
5. Come Into My Life
6. Stormy Love
7. When Love Is Gone



This shit just made my week cool But I always hoped that these would be Deluxe Editions like Street Songs....
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xlr8r said:

They wont be 26.99 at Best Buy

The Best Buys in my area suck. They don't carry many catalog releases (new or old). confused
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Reply #28 posted 03/26/10 10:16am

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daPrettyman said:

xlr8r said:

They wont be 26.99 at Best Buy

The Best Buys in my area suck. They don't carry many catalog releases (new or old). confused


maybe their online store might have them ..hopefully for their usually ddiscounted princes
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Shiningstarr26 said:

SoulAlive said:

RICK JAMES GARDEN OF LOVE
Pre-order available April 2
RICK JAMES GARDEN OF LOVE
RICK JAMES GARDEN OF LOVE
Item# B001407702
$26.99


Product Description
Garden Of Love, the often overlooked fourth album from Rick James, is now, 30 years after it was first released, on CD for the first time ever. It is digitally re-mastered for the first time and, also for the first time, includes two bonus tracks: an 11-plus-minute extended version of “Big Time,” an unreleased “M+M” mix John Morales had planned to deliver back in the day, and “Gypsy Girl,” a demo version of the song “Teardrops,” recorded during the Garden sessions, that was ultimately revamped for the Rick’s album Throwin' Down. An additional bonus for fans is a newly discovered extra minute of the album’s brief, original closing track.


Garden Of Love was one of those different Rick James albums. Despite its up-tempo opening track, it was a mellow affair, released in the summer of 1980, after a successful tour with Prince as his opening act, on the heels of Fire It Up (also on CD for the first time here) and two albums with his backing band, the Stone City band. “James had made his name with rowdy disco-funk tracks like ‘You And I,’ but he was actually a much more versatile songwriter than most people realized,” writes Michael Veal in the reissue’s brand new liner notes. “On Garden Of Love, he attempted to move away from his ‘King of Punk-Funk’ image and create an album of relaxed, laid-back songs inspired by the Caribbean islands on which the songs were written.” Both the album and its single “Big Time” hit the R&B Top 20 but their chart performances were considered a disappointment to Rick and to Motown, resulting in Rick regrouping in Buffalo for the Street Songs album.


Since then, disappointment has given way to a deeper appreciation of Garden Of Love. “It is one of the great Motown concept albums,” writes Veal, “a quintessential summertime jam, James’s hidden masterpiece, and a solid testament to his vision and versatility.”


Tracks:
1. Big Time
2. Don’t Give Up On Love
3. Island Lady
4. Gettin’ It On (In The Sunshine)
5. Summer Love
6. Mary-Go-Round
7. Gettin’ It On (In The Sunshine) Reprise
8. Big Time Extended M+M Mix (previously unreleased bonus track)
9. Gypsy Girl Rick’s demo (previously unreleased bonus track)




RICK JAMES: FIRE IT UP
Pre-order available April 2
RICK JAMES: FIRE IT UP
RICK JAMES: FIRE IT UP
Item# B001407602
$26.99

Product Description
Finally. Fire It Up, Rick James’ third album for Motown, is available on a U.S. CD for the first time. Featuring the singles “Love Gun” and “Come Into My Life,” Digitally mastered for the first time, this reissue also includes for the first time the bonus 10-minute version of “Love Gun,” a promotional-only 12-inch mix. Featured in the unique, foldout booklet is the full lyric reprint as seen in the original LP inner sleeve.


Fire It Up followed the smash hit albums Come Get It and Bustin’ Out in October 1979, as Rick was honing on the disco punk-funk sound that would ultimately prove enormously popular. It was defined, as Michael Veal writes in the reissue’s liner notes, “by the funk-icon cover shot and the rowdy chants on the first two tracks, which James used to get the crowds worked up in concert. But as a whole, it was a more diverse affair… showing off James’s superb ballad singing skills.”


Fire It Up, a Top 5 R&B/Soul and a Top 40 Pop album, was Rick’s first that he produced his own – the template for his worldwide breakthrough to come, one of the “missing” RJ CDs that’s finally getting its due.


Tracks:
1. Fire It Up
2. Love Gun
3. Lovin’ You Is A Pleasure
4. Love In The Night
5. Come Into My Life
6. Stormy Love
7. When Love Is Gone



This shit just made my week cool But I always hoped that these would be Deluxe Editions like Street Songs....


There might not be enough extra material in the vault to warrant adding a second disc.
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