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Luther and Janet - Best things in life are free I used to LOVE this song, back in 92 - this is the Good mix, NOT the one they used to play on TV here, dug it up:
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Yeah the single mix is pretty slammin'. I never really understood why the other mix would turn up everywhere, despit it being as good as it is. Always cry 4 love, never cry 4 pain. | |
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Who didnt Love that #1 Jam back in the 90's...That was a HIT Duet NOBODY saw coming...I"d like to know who made that pairing happen... | |
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Love this song, I never saw this version of the video. Or if I did, I don't remember. I remember hearing this version on the radio in the 90s and the mid tempo one with pianos on luthers greatest hits | |
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I had the cassingle and Mo Money soundtrack, but I am not recalling a different sounding version? | |
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I got the UK maxi CD single. Infact, it was the first CD i ever bought. I stuck to vinyl and cassettes that long. | |
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I liked the very FIRST version; not the remix. Great, funky duet! I personally think that BBD ruined it with the rap midway thru, but that's just MY opinion. Jimmy & Terry ALWAYS bring it! Hungry? Just look in the mirror and get fed up. | |
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I wonder if Stacey Dash would appear in a music video (or the movie) like this today You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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The other version they're talking about is called the "Classic Club edit." Its more mid-tempo. It's on Luther's Best of Luther, Best of Love Vol 2.
The Mo' Money version is slammin!! [Edited 7/4/16 19:43pm] [Edited 7/4/16 19:44pm] | |
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musicman said:
The other version they're talking about is called the "Classic Club edit." Its more mid-tempo. It's on Luther's Best of Luther, Best of Love Vol 2.
The Mo' Money version is slammin!! [Edited 7/4/16 19:43pm] [Edited 7/4/16 19:44pm] Yeah that's the one I was referring to in my previous post I think the version in the video is so much funkier. When it came out, what was more popular among people? Remember the time or this one? [Edited 7/4/16 19:53pm] | |
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I think they started to play the classic club version more. Even Video Soul started to play the video version of that mix more back in the day.
I have both, but I still like the version on the soundtrack more. It's just goes hard
They both came out at the same time in 1992. [Edited 7/4/16 20:14pm] | |
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I feel the track is like the love child to rn and janet era. Were people glad Janet was kind of back and talking more about her first virgin album yet? I was not following her career yet | |
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The year before the song came out, she had signed the biggest recording contract-at the time- with Virgin records. She was in the process of working on the "janet." album. "janet." came out in 1993.
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The year before the song came out, she had signed the biggest recording contract-at the time- with Virgin records. She was in the process of working on the "janet." album. "janet." came out in 1993.
Yes I'm aware. And 1992 was the year sandwiched between then and the Janet album release. Back to the original question, did this duet create buzz over what Janet is up to among the public again? | |
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I prefer the Original with BBD and Ralph Tresvant, its funkier https://www.youtube.com/w...9dp9_oOBhI Keep Calm & Listen To Prince | |
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It did. It was the first new song of the new era for her. The song went to #1 on the R&B charts and top 10 on the Hot 100 charts. [Edited 7/5/16 13:25pm] | |
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Apparently it was a huge hit in Australia as well, and they cannot buy it separately from an album on iTunes. | |
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It did. It was the first new song of the new era for her. The song went to #1 on the R&B charts and top 10 on the Hot 100 charts. [Edited 7/5/16 13:25pm] Knew that too, I'm trying to figure out what her secret was in kicking divas of her calibers asses with the Janet album she left so many of the new jack swing era in the dust. I'm also guessing around the time this was huge, mjs remember the time and in the closet, along with kris Kross from what I remember were huge. From what u remember, which jackson was more popular in that part of 1992? I've heard people say mj more and I remember mj more too at the time, but I guess it depends which part of the world you were in that time. I never hear this track on the radio anymore but hear remember the time on urban radio often , but it's amazing how that happened if Janet was a more popular staple at the time it was happening | |
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well it was a soundtrack cut so it wasnt the same as janet having a new album, she wasnt even in the video. i remember the first public appearence from janet before she dropped the janet. album being the grammy awards where she presented mike with the legends award, she debuted a new look with the braids. i dont remember seeing her much in 92 at all, fans didnt know much about the new album she was working on, we knew she was doing the movie. i dont ever remember there being that kind of competition between her and mj because they never had new albums out at the same time until 2001 and even then janet's album was released a few months before mike's. | |
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well it was a soundtrack cut so it wasnt the same as janet having a new album, she wasnt even in the video. i remember the first public appearence from janet before she dropped the janet. album being the grammy awards where she presented mike with the legends award, she debuted a new look with the braids. i dont remember seeing her much in 92 at all, fans didnt know much about the new album she was working on, we knew she was doing the movie. i dont ever remember there being that kind of competition between her and mj because they never had new albums out at the same time until 2001 and even then janet's album was released a few months before mike's. Janet era eclipsed end of dangerous era and both history and design of a decade came out few months apart and did equally as good in the us. Anyone have the version of the album with best things in life are free and whoops now? I found it one time but didn't bother getting it cause of already owning the song but wasn't sure which version was on it. I guessed at the time it was the classic club edit Thanks for answering the question btw [Edited 7/6/16 22:35pm] | |
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EDIT. [Edited 7/7/16 3:21am] Always cry 4 love, never cry 4 pain. | |
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this is/was a great song...the whole "mo Money" sountrack was good...jimmy jam & terry lewis put that magic on it... | |
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I liked the regular mix better as well. I used to listen to the radio more back then and they always played the regular version. It was a #1 R&B hit here in the US. Never liked the club video version. Kinda boring. The song is on Janet's UK version of Design Of A Decase and on all versions of Number Ones
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"You're not taping this, are you? Ha-HAHH"
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