NDRU said:

NDRU said:

nobody's going to challenge this choice?

More like ignore.

NDRU said:

NDRU said:

nobody's going to challenge this choice?

I'm not sure what's special about this album. It's no different than any other R&B singer of the time like Peabo Bryson, Jeffrey Osbourne, Rockie Robbins, Randy Brown, Carl Carlton, James Ingram, etc.

Timmy84 said:

NDRU said:

nobody's going to challenge this choice?

More like ignore.

it's music that is made to be ignored!

He was the FIRST to do this!

NDRU said:

Timmy84 said:

More like ignore.

it's music that is made to be ignored!

He was the FIRST to do this!

That said he did have some fine material in it. Not ashamed to admit "You Are" is one of my favorite songs.

Timmy84 said:

NDRU said:

it's music that is made to be ignored!

He was the FIRST to do this!

That said he did have some fine material in it. Not ashamed to admit "You Are" is one of my favorite songs.

I guess it's good enough that people did not realize I was joking

NDRU said:

Timmy84 said:

That said he did have some fine material in it. Not ashamed to admit "You Are" is one of my favorite songs.

I guess it's good enough that people did not realize I was joking

I got the joke.

NDRU said:

He was the FIRST to do this!

No, Lionel is not the first. My relatives only listened to R&B, and this is just a run of the mill album of the time. It has nice tunes, but nothing that was different. Even the later Commodores albums before Lionel left were like this record.

MickyDolenz said:

NDRU said:

He was the FIRST to do this!

No, Lionel is not the first. My relatives only listened to R&B, and this is just a run of the mill album of the time. It has nice tunes, but nothing that was different. Even the later Commodores albums before Lionel left were like this record.

again, joking

smoothcriminal12 said:

I was just joking with The ArchAndroid. Maybe one day, though.

MBDTF is definitely a possibility. I think that The ArchAndroid might become one of those "Forgotten Classics" like Dirty Mind or Controversy, that changed the game but were never too popular.

And yeah, I was flipping out when I saw that Thriller hadn't been posted yet. . I expected it to be in the first reply.

I thought that album is a better example of what the thread was asking for since I thought it was the one that, actually, introduced the Minneapolis sound to the world rather than 1999 which was just a really good album.

I'm probably wrong though.

Let's not forget about this:

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versiongirl said:

Let's not forget about this:

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I was going to mention this one also. One of my favorite albums, definitely changed music, not necessarily for the better. Still, I love this album. I have many memories attached to it.

PDogz said:

I was going to mention this one also. One of my favorite albums, definitely changed music, not necessarily for the better. Still, I love this album. I have many memories attached to it.

I just saw Ice Cube in Oakland at a small club called the Uptown and he KILLED it! Despite all the family movies he's made and how much money he has made since NWA- he is still a dope ass mc! And, he's still FINE too!! (Like Prince)

yup

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HuMpThAnG said:

yup

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If I had to pick ONE album that had the biggest impact on me since the year it was released, this would be it. Even today, my computer boots up to the wav file I sampled from the hit song:

"Good evening.
Do not attempt to adjust your radio, there is nothing wrong.
We have taken control as to bring you this special show.
We will return it to you as soon as you are grooving."

Can't believe George turns 70 this summer! I'm so grateful to that man!

PDogz said:

HuMpThAnG said:

yup

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If I had to pick ONE album that had the biggest impact on me since the year it was released, this would be it. Even today, my computer boots up to the wav file I sampled from the hit song:

"Good evening.
Do not attempt to adjust your radio, there is nothing wrong.
We have taken control as to bring you this special show.
We will return it to you as soon as you are grooving."

Can't believe George turns 70 this summer! I'm so grateful to that man!

same heah

PDogz said:

HuMpThAnG said:

yup

[img:$uid]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Sb8yYgwTL._SL500_.jpg[/img:$uid]

If I had to pick ONE album that had the biggest impact on me since the year it was released, this would be it. Even today, my computer boots up to the wav file I sampled from the hit song:

"Good evening.
Do not attempt to adjust your radio, there is nothing wrong.
We have taken control as to bring you this special show.
We will return it to you as soon as you are grooving."

Can't believe George turns 70 this summer! I'm so grateful to that man!

Unholyalliance said:

smoothcriminal12 said:

I was just joking with The ArchAndroid. Maybe one day, though.

MBDTF is definitely a possibility. I think that The ArchAndroid might become one of those "Forgotten Classics" like Dirty Mind or Controversy, that changed the game but were never too popular.

And yeah, I was flipping out when I saw that Thriller hadn't been posted yet. . I expected it to be in the first reply.

I thought that album is a better example of what the thread was asking for since I thought it was the one that, actually, introduced the Minneapolis sound to the world rather than 1999 which was just a really good album.

I'm probably wrong though.

Dirty Mind wasn't even mentioned, you're right, but I think the album's impact is that for a black man to talk about touchy issues like incest and a place where "everybody just a freakin'" (and the cover!) was definitely mind-boggling plus the sexuality in that album and its flirtation with new wave and post-punk music, it definitely changed parts of the "R&B" game. So you got a point.

Tha Carter 3 - Everyone tries to spit punchlines like Wayne now.

T- Pain's first album.

Autotune Representative.

minneapolisFunq said:

Tha Carter 3 - Everyone tries to spit punchlines like Wayne now.

T- Pain's first album.

Autotune Representative.

what about THIS:

that 'believe' song is what popularized it, even though the jamaicans (and a few others) had been using autotune as an effect prior to the mark taylor-production.

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To be honest, any P-Funk era album (Parliament, Funkadelic, George, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Parlet, Brides of Funkenstein, Quasar, etc.) between 1970 and 1979 were game-changers in music.

MJJstudent said:

what about THIS:

that 'believe' song is what popularized it, even though the jamaicans (and a few others) had been using autotune as an effect prior to the mark taylor-production.

[Edited 4/9/11 2:21am]

You are very correct about that.

vainandy said:

For the worst right??

HuMpThAnG said:

vainandy said:

For the worst right??

Yep. That one killed funk and this one buried it.....

vainandy said:

How I know you was gonna come here?

MickyDolenz said:

NDRU said:

nobody's going to challenge this choice?

I'm not sure what's special about this album. It's no different than any other R&B singer of the time like Peabo Bryson, Jeffrey Osbourne, Rockie Robbins, Randy Brown, Carl Carlton, James Ingram, etc.

That's the difference. When this album came out, Lionel was not really an r&b singer anymore. He was a "pop" singer with "country" overtones. All of the singers you mentioned were still doing r&b at the time (except for Peabo and Jeffery who also attempted to do the pop thing).

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MickyDolenz said:

NDRU said:

He was the FIRST to do this!

No, Lionel is not the first. My relatives only listened to R&B, and this is just a run of the mill album of the time. It has nice tunes, but nothing that was different. Even the later Commodores albums before Lionel left were like this record.

The later Commodores albums were all pop orientated (except Heroes). After Lionel's ballads started being million sellers, Motown pushed Lionel's slow jams and didn't focus on the r&b side of things.

suga10 said:

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Not to me. This album pretty much marked the end of an era (New Jack Swing).

People still appreciated it though- and MJ publicity machine made it popular.