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Bernadette Cooper Drama According to...holy smokes, this thing is funky! I can't believe most of the world slept on this album (myself included). I just picked it up used for a cool $.80 and I am totally digging her. She's like a female Morris Day, all attitude and flash with lots of chops to back it up. Very inventive, very funny, excellent prduction and funky as hell. I never listened to Klymaxx, but I also just got their 1986 st album.
Anyone else digging Bernadette Cooper? Show some love... Stand at the crossroads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths...(Jeremiah 6:16) www.ancientfaithradio.com
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"They love me, they hate me, but they all say 'She look good, though ... gotta admit it!' ... "
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I love me some Bernadette Cooper! She is fly as hell. I really like "I look good" but strangely I couldn't really get into the rest of the album. I might need to dig it out and give it another shot. I do love Klymaxx and Madame X though!! | |
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"I Look Good" got regular play on Video Soul and Video Vibrations.
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I Look Good, Straight Jacket Love Affair was tight but like you stated much of the album was a little hard to get into. I'll admit though it was different from stuff that you were hearing around that time. Don't laugh at my funk
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You're right, that album is definitely different and i'd say it's hard to categorize it. | |
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the Madame X album is excellent.It was edgy,sexy with lots of attitude.....kinda like a late-80s version of Vanity 6.The song "I Want Your Body" is outrageous! | |
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I hate the word "swagger", but I swear, whatever those dames were doing, it must be the personification of that long before it had a word
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That Madame X project is so unappreciated.
I paid a pretty penny for the album a few years ago on ebay but I was determined to get that cd as id worn the vinyl out Life has a way of making you live it. . . . | |
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I was just going to post a thread on the album but they dont have my favorite song "MOVIE PRODUCE HER" on youtube ![]() Straight Jacket Funk Affair
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YYYAAAAAASSSSSSS!!! :excited: Thats my part! Straight Jacket Funk Affair
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Drama was my favorite album that year! Hooks galore and comic bits throughout reminded me of early Prince and The Time albums. Plus Teena Marie on backing vocals! Great record. [img:$uid]http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h227/judechristian/cooper.jpg[/img:$uid] | |
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The Drama According To.... is a fantastic album (not as good as the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Klymaxx albums though...they are funk personified!!) but I loooooved the Madame X album (which I've played to death on vinyl...anyone know if it's available on CD?) You never seem to hear of Bernadette anymore. Shame, she had a lot of style. | |
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Someone told me she runs a second-hand "vintage" clothing store somewhere?? | |
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That was true...not sure if she's still running it though.
The band's MySpace has some newsy bits & recent vids: (new album in the works for the last 4 years)
http://www.myspace.com/therealklymaxx
Bernadette is also known to lurk this very board here @ The Org from time to time.
She showed up & sounded off last November in this massive thread about her & the band:
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When I read "Bernadette Cooper", I had to look becuase I figured maybe somewhere in her career she put out some kind of pop album. I'm not a fan of Broadway type songs and I know that's her thing.... She....obviously, I was thinking of......
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When I read her album was funky....I figured I had the wrong person.
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i've been "jammin'" this CD for 20 years now. I love every track on it. Funky stuff fo sho. | |
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I love the track "The Agency Sent Me". | |
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OMG that song is DEEP and i love it as well...One of the most innovative albums to come along so far ahead of its time......Bernadette Cooper is a DAMN good musician and don't get her props. | |
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Bernadette is FIERCE. End of story lol | |
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Really? See I want to like this album more. I really need to give it another listen. A good friend of mine loves this album too. I still bump Klymaxx and Madame X all the time though.
Sadly, Oneof the Madame X girls died named Alisha Randolph. Bernadette Cooper produced her solo album which is pretty good. I wish Madame X would have done more music. They were fly as hell! [Edited 9/24/10 19:45pm] | |
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"Howard Hughes Sitcom" still cracks me up. So bizarre, so FUNKY. | |
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It's stupid how much I love this CD! [img:$uid]http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g86/assish_photos/cooper_bern_dramaacco_101b.jpg[/img:$uid]
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Wowugotit said: It's stupid how much I love this CD!
[Edited 9/25/10 11:03am] So you wanna put your name on my savings and checking account? "Stupid!" Ok.... You want my Aretha Franklin Collection? "Yup" Ummm... ![]() Straight Jacket Funk Affair
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I've read that the Madame X album was released on CD, but it's very hard to find. I need to get that myself. I haven't played my vinyl copy in a long time. | |
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