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A overlooked album.

"When I Need Somebody", "Who's The Mack" and "Graveyard" are my jams.

That man used to be so so fine. Milk chocolate just drizzling...

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It is a pretty good album. I bought it when it came out. Jimmy & Terry produced When I Need Somebody, Sex-O and Who's The Mack.

The album just got lost in the shuffle at MCA.

musicman said:

It is a pretty good album. I bought it when it came out. Jimmy & Terry produced When I Need Somebody, Sex-O and Who's The Mack.

The album just got lost in the shuffle at MCA.

Maybe there was a shuffle at MCA, but none of the NE projects did well around 1993 really. Maybe MCA just lost faith in them as solo acts?

I noticed Ralph wrote and produce some of the tracks himself, which was cool but maybe he spread himself abit too thin in general. "Graveyard", with its huge James Brown sample, still rollicks along as do a few others like the Michael Jacksoneque "Shaky ground", but Jam and Lewis came up real short when compared to the work they did on Johnny Gill's "Provocative" album. Nothing half as good as "do what i gotta do" either.

A few of Ralph's own tracks were great, but he needed different producers at that time.

thesexofit said:

Maybe there was a shuffle at MCA, but none of the NE projects did well around 1993 really. Maybe MCA just lost faith in them as solo acts?

I think Bobby's album did pretty good. Johnny's solo records were on Motown though, not MCA.

MickyDolenz said:

thesexofit said:

Maybe there was a shuffle at MCA, but none of the NE projects did well around 1993 really. Maybe MCA just lost faith in them as solo acts?

I think Bobby's album did pretty good. Johnny's solo records were on Motown though, not MCA.

Yeah, I forgot Johnny was with Motown. "Bobby" did sell well (released sometime in late 1992), but I feel that album was released too late. It did well considering the musical climate in the US was changing at the time. But Ralph and inparticular BBD, underperformed, as did Johnny Gill for Motown.

Johnny's album "Provocative" I think is still pretty good, whilst Ralph's "It's goin' down" and BBD's "Hootie mack" had a few great tracks mixed in with quite alot of filler. As I said, I thought Jam/Lewis gave Gill some jams on "Provocative", but didn't like the few songs they worked on with Tresvant.

The fuckin' man!!

thesexofit said:

MickyDolenz said:

I think Bobby's album did pretty good. Johnny's solo records were on Motown though, not MCA.

Yeah, I forgot Johnny was with Motown. "Bobby" did sell well (released sometime in late 1992), but I feel that album was released too late. It did well considering the musical climate in the US was changing at the time. But Ralph and inparticular BBD, underperformed, as did Johnny Gill for Motown.

Johnny's album "Provocative" I think is still pretty good, whilst Ralph's "It's goin' down" and BBD's "Hootie mack" had a few great tracks mixed in with quite alot of filler. As I said, I thought Jam/Lewis gave Gill some jams on "Provocative", but didn't like the few songs they worked on with Tresvant.

Ralph's problem might have been the subject matter of the 1st single. On the 1st album, he was talking about being 'sensitive' and a 'stone cold gentleman'. Here he says he's a 'mack'. I remember BBD released a song called Gangsta, but left it off the album, although I think it's on the Japan version.