Have Purchased all 3 of these, love em all...but now it's time to break into more studio album. Teena freaks, help? I'm becoming one too but feel overwhelmed.

Ultimate Collection

Greatest Hits (1991)

Icon (2011)

Starchild

It Must Be Magic

Seek out Irons in the Fire and It Must Be Magic next. Two of her best Motown-era albums. You sure have a long way to go.

Thank ya!

Also meant to ask - are here 2000s records even worth it? La Dona - saphhire - congo?

badujunkie said:

Thank ya!

Also meant to ask - are here 2000s records even worth it? La Dona - saphhire - congo?

I think all of the albums from the 2000s are worth it, but if I was to pick one...it would definitely be her last album, Congo Square. That's one badass album and one that should've/should acquired more praise. La Dona and Sapphire had some forays in hip-hop to cater to a younger audience, but there are so many great jams.

Before you get those 2000s era albums, you should investigate more of her earlier Motown-era work like Lady T and Wild And Peaceful and her Epic-era output like Emerald City, Robbery and Naked to the World.

I started here:

I agree with everything silverchild said

but I'm like you,haven't heard

the newnew stuff from Cash Money

congo square is good, robbery, irons in the fire, it must be magic... she is so amazing! so full of light...

Although I LOVE all of her stuff...I suggest U try to find "Passion Play". I think she really put her all into it. She released it, independently on her own label, Sarai records. If U have a hard time finding it, orgnote me and I'll suggest where to look...I also love "Sapphire" and "La Dona" equally, but again, she can really do no wrong in my eyes, so I'm totally biased.

benjaminira said:

Although I LOVE all of her stuff...I suggest U try to find "Passion Play". I think she really put her all into it. She released it, independently on her own label, Sarai records. If U have a hard time finding it, orgnote me and I'll suggest where to look...I also love "Sapphire" and "La Dona" equally, but again, she can really do no wrong in my eyes, so I'm totally biased.

yeah, 'passion play' is said to be out of print, because it never got major distribution.

I'm gonna pull Passion Play out tonight

I have had it for the longest

but never heard it

I would start with this one "Lady Tee" then "Irons In The Fire". Her best to me after those are "Robbery", "Emerald City", Naked To The World, " Passion Play", & La Dona...Then back classic with "It Must Be Magic". Motown is also releasing some expanded reissues of Lady Tee & "Irons In The Fire" in June.

There is also a 12-track collection of Lady Tee's earliest Motown recordings up on iTunes and Amazon called 'First Class Love: Rare Tee.' This was a "birthday preview" of a fuller, 26-track 2-CD version coming in June also, which will include more a couple more studio tracks,

Each of those projects were discussed with Teena about two years ago but were respectfully set aside for the release of 'Congo Square,' with the idea that they would be working on the catalog ideas this year. I am deeply sorry she is not around to see and hear them.

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wow.. I'm gonna check

for those deluxe treatments!

thanx

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

I would start with this one "Lady Tee" then "Irons In The Fire". Her best to me after those are "Robbery", "Emerald City", Naked To The World, " Passion Play", & La Dona...Then back classic with "It Must Be Magic". Motown is also releasing some expanded reissues of Lady Tee & "Irons In The Fire" in June.

There is also a 12-track collection of Lady Tee's earliest Motown recordings up on iTunes and Amazon called 'First Class Love: Rare Tee.' This was a "birthday preview" of a fuller, 26-track 2-CD version coming in June also, which will include more a couple more studio tracks,

Each of those projects were discussed with Teena about two years ago but were respectfully set aside for the release of 'Congo Square,' with the idea that they would be working on the catalog ideas this year. I am deeply sorry she is not around to see and hear them.

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I'm too excited about this. This is gonna be one promising summer for reissues. Hip-O Select are the best in town. The 2-CD rarities collection is gonna be a revelation fo sho.

No mention of Wild and Peaceful? What?

Badujunkie - "I can't control the soul flowing in me." I'm just sayin', I love Badu. And for a Badu fan I would say get the albums rather than the compilations. A Lady Tee album always has a thread; sometimes it is quite clear what that thread is, as with Robbery. Robbery is the ultimate double entendre work, playing with theft of the heart extending into a metaphor for theft by Motown.

"Theft by Motown." A lotta people lookin' to bring those charges.

allsmutaside said:

No mention of Wild and Peaceful? What?

Badujunkie - "I can't control the soul flowing in me." I'm just sayin', I love Badu. And for a Badu fan I would say get the albums rather than the compilations. A Lady Tee album always has a thread; sometimes it is quite clear what that thread is, as with Robbery. Robbery is the ultimate double entendre work, playing with theft of the heart extending into a metaphor for theft by Motown.

"Theft by Motown." A lotta people lookin' to bring those charges.

Omg, you are so cool! thank you for the advice...

yeah, i'm starting to feel a connection btwn Lady T and the Divine Miss Erykah, like the soulfulness is a whole nother level and my current favorite is an album track ("Youngblood Get to the Party") - plus Lady Tee is deep!

i wonder if they like each other.

I know Teena said that Faith was her favorite of the young ladies.

thanks everyone for your help. i live for shit like this, discovering such a rich deep dope ass catalog!!!

when you look at TM's chart statistics it's just like...really? how did she have such an impact charting so relatively low over the years. but damn, then again, fuck the charts, the music is so amazing...never thought i would like Teena more than Rick James

badujunkie said:

allsmutaside said:

No mention of Wild and Peaceful? What?

Badujunkie - "I can't control the soul flowing in me." I'm just sayin', I love Badu. And for a Badu fan I would say get the albums rather than the compilations. A Lady Tee album always has a thread; sometimes it is quite clear what that thread is, as with Robbery. Robbery is the ultimate double entendre work, playing with theft of the heart extending into a metaphor for theft by Motown.

"Theft by Motown." A lotta people lookin' to bring those charges.

Omg, you are so cool! thank you for the advice...

yeah, i'm starting to feel a connection btwn Lady T and the Divine Miss Erykah, like the soulfulness is a whole nother level and my current favorite is an album track ("Youngblood Get to the Party") - plus Lady Tee is deep!

i wonder if they like each other.

I know Teena said that Faith was her favorite of the young ladies.

thanks everyone for your help. i live for shit like this, discovering such a rich deep dope ass catalog!!!

when you look at TM's chart statistics it's just like...really? how did she have such an impact charting so relatively low over the years. but damn, then again, fuck the charts, the music is so amazing...never thought i would like Teena more than Rick James

When they were each on point Rick and Teena were musical bookends and soul mates. Rick was rolling with some deeper charisma and fatter basslines, but Teena laid out the vocals and the bone marrow. Rick's lows were lower than Teena's, and his highs were higher - thus the charts you refer to. It is really sad that they ever got romantic with it. ...took it to a place of anger and hurt that affected the work. (Teena's heartbreak is clear, and evident in her music. Rick's is a little more under the radar - he would be the last to tell you that while he felt ok about going out on T when they were together, he did not have similar feelings on her going out on him when they were together, and thought she should be true to him. Nuts.) Thankfully in the end it is not an either or situation when it comes to liking 'em. Check out Happy on Rick's Throwin' Down - for my money hits just as hard as F & D, but is less draining/involved to listen to.

badujunkie said:

allsmutaside said:

No mention of Wild and Peaceful? What?

Badujunkie - "I can't control the soul flowing in me." I'm just sayin', I love Badu. And for a Badu fan I would say get the albums rather than the compilations. A Lady Tee album always has a thread; sometimes it is quite clear what that thread is, as with Robbery. Robbery is the ultimate double entendre work, playing with theft of the heart extending into a metaphor for theft by Motown.

"Theft by Motown." A lotta people lookin' to bring those charges.

Omg, you are so cool! thank you for the advice...

yeah, i'm starting to feel a connection btwn Lady T and the Divine Miss Erykah, like the soulfulness is a whole nother level and my current favorite is an album track ("Youngblood Get to the Party") - plus Lady Tee is deep!

i wonder if they like each other.

I know Teena said that Faith was her favorite of the young ladies.

thanks everyone for your help. i live for shit like this, discovering such a rich deep dope ass catalog!!!

when you look at TM's chart statistics it's just like...really? how did she have such an impact charting so relatively low over the years. but damn, then again, fuck the charts, the music is so amazing...never thought i would like Teena more than Rick James

Motown downplayed Teena's sales to collect more profit. They did her dirty. Paying her only $200 a week at one point. I'm glad she sued them and got a bill in her name called"The Brockert Initiative", which made it illegal for a record company to keep an artist under contract without releasing new material for that artist. now artists are able to sign and release with another label instead of being held back by an unsupportive one. It helped a lot of people, like Luther Vandross and a lot of different artists, to be able to get out of their contracts." r.i.p. Teena

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