Most of the shit he has produced is schmaltz and damn get the song titles right.

Shango said:

Chuckii Booker has been the musical-director on one of his latest tours. Not shure though if he also worked on studio-tracks for Lionel.

I know he did the Christmas cd Lionel did for Target a few years ago. It was HORRIBLE!

daPrettyman said:

Shango said:

Chuckii Booker has been the musical-director on one of his latest tours. Not shure though if he also worked on studio-tracks for Lionel.

I know he did the Christmas cd Lionel did for Target a few years ago. It was HORRIBLE!

Aha, okay lol. Thanx for your update.

This is the Lionel I like.

I still makes no damn sense how Can't Slow Down won Album of the Year at the Grammys over Purple Rain.

C'mon, man!!!

Don't get me wrong, it was a great album, but it didn't have nearly the impact that Purple Rain had then, and continues to have now.

To me, that's as big a blunder as Jethro Tull winning best Metal Grammy over Metallica.

Prince was considered too edgy at the time which is the only reason I can see why Lionel won.

Paris9748430 said:

I still makes no damn sense how Can't Slow Down won Album of the Year at the Grammys over Purple Rain.

C'mon, man!!!

Don't get me wrong, it was a great album, but it didn't have nearly the impact that Purple Rain had then, and continues to have now.

To me, that's as big a blunder as Jethro Tull winning best Metal Grammy over Metallica.

Preach that shit!!!!

Paris9748430 said:

I still makes no damn sense how Can't Slow Down won Album of the Year at the Grammys over Purple Rain.

C'mon, man!!!

Don't get me wrong, it was a great album, but it didn't have nearly the impact that Purple Rain had then, and continues to have now.

To me, that's as big a blunder as Jethro Tull winning best Metal Grammy over Metallica.

Maybe so, but you must remember that Lionel was the "veteran" compared to Prince. Sure, P had been in the game for a while, but not 20 years (or so) at the time. Album of the year tends to go to the veterans. George Michael and Lauryn Hill are 2 exceptions I can think of where they hadn't been in the business that long for them to achieve that title.

Also, P was kind of seen as a "freak" or "obscure" at the time and Lionel was the album that the entire household could listen to.

Timmy84 said:

This is the Lionel I like.

Co sign.

Throw in songs like High On Sunshine, Girl, I think the World about you, Say Yeah,

Visions, This is Your Life, Zoom, and Wonderland

These songs are > Say You Say Me, Hello, Dancing on The Ceiling, Se La, All Night Long

I do like You Are and My Love off his first album

and some of the soulful stuff off his second album like

Love Will Find A Way and Penny Lover.

Hello and Stuck on You were pure

Lionel is what he always was. He is the Dennis DeYoung of the Commodores, meaning, he could write a funky song and do one, but once he clicked with the ballad (ala Dennis Deyoung of Styx) he became a One trick Pony (however Dennis is light years better at doing records still) but thats Lionel's thing, and really without a band that is all he can do, and he does do it well when he IS ON HIS OWN, i dont need ballads by ne-yo, what the fuck is that Lionel??? No 17 year olds are feeling you or going to feel you, so lose ne-yo and akon and now pitbull (WHAT ARE YOU DOING?)

Well we know Lionel will never be this again but it's fun to reminisce

Paris9748430 said:

I still makes no damn sense how Can't Slow Down won Album of the Year at the Grammys over Purple Rain.

C'mon, man!!!

Don't get me wrong, it was a great album, but it didn't have nearly the impact that Purple Rain had then, and continues to have now.

To me, that's as big a blunder as Jethro Tull winning best Metal Grammy over Metallica.

As I keep tellin' ya'll, the Grammy's are a JOKE.

TD3 said:

Two words . . .

Pop Music

E-X-A-C-T-L-Y

Timmy84 said:

Prince was considered too edgy at the time which is the only reason I can see why Lionel won.

Lionel had a much broader audience than Prince. Yeah, they both had fans of every race but Lionel had fans that Prince didn't.....softball moms driving their little girls in station wagons.

Ok, I've seen and heard enough. I wanna get up off of this couch and feverishly shake all of they shyd out of you all:excited: . I can't believe that yall are essentially "robbing" Lionel of his "props" because he did mainstream music and ballads. I mean "Dancing on the Ceiling" was not all of that climatic but it was a "fun song" for the time. What about "All Night Long"? And I can't believe that at least one of you didn't like "Hello". What about "We are the World"?

Booooo @ you yall!

Hey it woulda been great for Lionel to show us that he still had the Funk in him. But maybe the reall Funk came from other members of the Comodores. Maybe Lionel was always just a lyric writer and played instruments. Maybe he was the least Funk essential of the group. So...when he left the group he "went for what he knew". Yall gonna have Lionel doing a Lil Richard up in this piece talking about he's been robbed.

SoulAlive said:

'Dancing On The Celiing' is when I started to lose interest in Lionel.He became too "pop" with that album.The title track and its video is embarassing One of the WORST songs of the 80s! "Say You,Say Me" is schmaltzy 80s pop CRAP.

"Love Will Conquer All" is the bomb!!! One of my favorite Lionel songs.

Dancing On The Ceiling

kitbradley said:

SoulAlive said:

'Dancing On The Celiing' is when I started to lose interest in Lionel.He became too "pop" with that album.The title track and its video is embarassing One of the WORST songs of the 80s! "Say You,Say Me" is schmaltzy 80s pop CRAP.

"Love Will Conquer All" is the bomb!!! One of my favorite Lionel songs.

Reel said:

Ok, I've seen and heard enough. I wanna get up off of this couch and feverishly shake all of they shyd out of you all:excited: . I can't believe that yall are essentially "robbing" Lionel of his "props" because he did mainstream music and ballads. I mean "Dancing on the Ceiling" was not all of that climatic but it was a "fun song" for the time. What about "All Night Long"? And I can't believe that at least one of you didn't like "Hello". What about "We are the World"?

Booooo @ you yall!

Hey it woulda been great for Lionel to show us that he still had the Funk in him. But maybe the reall Funk came from other members of the Comodores. Maybe Lionel was always just a lyric writer and played instruments. Maybe he was the least Funk essential of the group. So...when he left the group he "went for what he knew". Yall gonna have Lionel doing a Lil Richard up in this piece talking about he's been robbed.

How long you've been on this board? You should know by now that some of us don't dig some of his stuff. Devil's advocate though his '80s stuff is WAY better than the shit he puts out now. Real talk.

kitbradley said:

SoulAlive said:

'Dancing On The Celiing' is when I started to lose interest in Lionel.He became too "pop" with that album.The title track and its video is embarassing One of the WORST songs of the 80s! "Say You,Say Me" is schmaltzy 80s pop CRAP.

"Love Will Conquer All" is the bomb!!! One of my favorite Lionel songs.

Same here.

Timmy84 said:

Reel said:

Ok, I've seen and heard enough. I wanna get up off of this couch and feverishly shake all of they shyd out of you all:excited: . I can't believe that yall are essentially "robbing" Lionel of his "props" because he did mainstream music and ballads. I mean "Dancing on the Ceiling" was not all of that climatic but it was a "fun song" for the time. What about "All Night Long"? And I can't believe that at least one of you didn't like "Hello". What about "We are the World"?

Booooo @ you yall!

Hey it woulda been great for Lionel to show us that he still had the Funk in him. But maybe the reall Funk came from other members of the Comodores. Maybe Lionel was always just a lyric writer and played instruments. Maybe he was the least Funk essential of the group. So...when he left the group he "went for what he knew". Yall gonna have Lionel doing a Lil Richard up in this piece talking about he's been robbed.

How long you've been on this board? You should know by now that some of us don't dig some of his stuff. Devil's advocate though his '80s stuff is WAY better than the shit he puts out now. Real talk.

sooooo true, but again, some of his 90's stuff was good too. Lately though, 'I Call It Love' is by far the best thing that he's put out in the last ten years.

mrpunkfunk said:

Timmy84 said:

How long you've been on this board? You should know by now that some of us don't dig some of his stuff. Devil's advocate though his '80s stuff is WAY better than the shit he puts out now. Real talk.

sooooo true, but again, some of his 90's stuff was good too. Lately though, 'I Call It Love' is by far the best thing that he's put out in the last ten years.

And even that's saying a lot.

Paris9748430 said:

I still makes no damn sense how Can't Slow Down won Album of the Year at the Grammys over Purple Rain.

C'mon, man!!!

Don't get me wrong, it was a great album, but it didn't have nearly the impact that Purple Rain had then, and continues to have now.

To me, that's as big a blunder as Jethro Tull winning best Metal Grammy over Metallica.

Yes i must agree on that he made a great album but no where near the record Purple Rain is.

And even if Purple Rain didn't win Born In The U.S.A would be second to win for me

Gunsnhalen said:

And even if Purple Rain didn't win Born In The U.S.A would be second to win for me

That too. Van Halen's 1984 is a better album than Can't Slow Down.

kitbradley said:

SoulAlive said:

'Dancing On The Celiing' is when I started to lose interest in Lionel.He became too "pop" with that album.The title track and its video is embarassing One of the WORST songs of the 80s! "Say You,Say Me" is schmaltzy 80s pop CRAP.

"Love Will Conquer All" is the bomb!!! One of my favorite Lionel songs.

That's the best song on that album.But even so,it's basically just a rip-off of the superior "Love Will Find A Way" from 'Can't Slow Down'.

phunkdaddy said:

Well we know Lionel will never be this again but it's fun to reminisce

I really wish that Motown/Universal would finally remaster the Commodores albums.I want to get the 'Natural High' album on CD.

This thread just inspired me to buy "Serves You Right", "You Are", and "Truly". Thanks.

This is Lionel's best song as a solo artist It's so damn soulful! It actually sounds like something you would find on a Frankie Beverly and Maze album.It's too bad that Lionel didn't continue to make soulful gems like this.

I like some of his solo work, mainly his first album which I still play a lot. "Wandering Stranger" off of that album is one of my favourite songs of his.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...JUIjGBz7ZY

"All Night Long" is a very good song too, but "Dancing On The Ceiling"... yikes!

His "Time" album wasn't bad either, especially the title track. Anything after that ("Renaissance" and onwards) just sucked though.

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I like his first solo album."You Are" is the gem on that album I also like "Serves You Right","Tell Me","Round And Round" and "You Mean More To Me" (yeah,it's schmaltzy,but in a good way).

I like the next album 'Can't Slow Down' even more.It showed alot of artistic growth and the production is flawless.Someone mentioned that "Stuck On You" is a horrible song,but I think it's one of his best country/pop-styled tunes.

'Dancing On The Ceiling' is where he went wrong,imo.I still can't get over how lousy the title track is It's not only his worst song,it's one of the worst songs of the 80s.