Pop quotable: "Make your body cream with my sex machine, I won't stop until I hear your mother scream!" - Joe (1997)

b. Joe Lewis Thomas, 5 July 1973, Cuthbert, Georgia, USA. Raised to sing gospel by his minister father, Joe has graduated to become one of the leading artists on the American urban R&B market. As a youth he decided to move away from vocal, guitar and piano chores at his father's church in Opelika, Alabama, and relocated to New Jersey, picking up a whole slew of new jazz, soul, R&B and hip-hop influences in the process. He was eventually discovered singing in a Newark church by R&B producer Vincent Herbert. He was employed regularly in local studios to add his various musical abilities to records cut in New York studios for swingbeat acts like SWV and Hi-Five. Others who used his services included Toni Braxton, TLC and Vanessa Bell Armstrong. The success of his debut album, and the hit single "I'm In Luv", encouraged his label PolyGram Records to employ him in a dual role as staff producer for their urban acts. He relocated to Jive Records for his sophomore set, All That I Am, which went platinum thanks to the inclusion of the transatlantic hit singles "Don't Wanna Be A Player" and "The Love Scene". In addition to working on albums by Ideal and Deja Groove Joe was also a featured vocalist on Mariah Carey's February 2000 US chart-topper "Thank God I Found You". His single "I Wanna Know" also became a fixture on the US charts thanks to its inclusion on the soundtrack to The Wood. The attendant My Name Is Joe was hugely successful in America, buoyed by further chart hits with the title track and "Stutter".

I believe Joe's finest moment came in '96 with the song "All The Things (Your Man Won't Do)" from the Don't Be A Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood soundtrack, which in my estimation is one of the signature R&B songs of the Nineties. It was a beautiful ballad that still garners repeat spins on my personal stereo system 'til this day.

All The Things (Your Man Won't Do)

Spoken:
Hey baby, you said you need someone to be there for you
To love you all night long?
It's kinda funny but I don't think you have to look no further
Because I'm right here and I'm ready
To do all the things your man won't do

Verse 1:
Tell me what kind of man would treat his woman so cold
Treat you like you're nothing when you're worth more than gold
Girl to me you're like a diamond I love the way you shine
A hundred million dollar treasure
I'd give the world to make you mine (la la la la la)
I'd put a string of pearls right in your hand
Make love on a beach of jet black sand
Outside in the rain we can do it all night
I'll touch all the places he would not
And some he never knew would get you hot
Nothing is forbidden when we touch

CHORUS:
Baby I wanna do all the things your man won't do (every little thing)
I'll do them for you
Baby I wanna do all the things your man won't do
I'll do them for you

VERSE 2:
Take you out on a night cruise on a yatch just can't lose
Cause we got a lot to look forward to one two whatcha gonna do
What good is a diamond nobody can see
I hear he got you on lockdown but I got the master key yeah
I'll light up all the candles all around
Show me to the subway I'll go down
Nothing can be sweeter than the sound of making love
Baby when I start I just can't stop
I'll love you from the bottom to the top
Nothing is forbidden when we touch baby

CHORUS

HOOK:
(La la la la la)
I'll light up all the candles all around
Show me to the subway I'll go down
Nothing can be sweeter than the sound of making love
Baby when I start I just can't stop
I'll love you from the bottom to the top
Nothing is forbidden when we touch oooh yeah

CHORUS II:
Baby I wanna do all the things your man won't do (I'm gonna I'm gonna ohhh)
I'll do them for you
Sweet lady I wanna do all the things your man won't do
I'll do them for you

VAMP:
Oooh I gotta a jones in my bones for you
There ain't a damn thing that I won't do
Make your body cream with my sex machine
I won't stop until I hear your mother scream

CHORUS OUT:
All the things your man won't do...
All the things your man won't do...
All the things your man won't do...

JANFAN4Lsignature said:

"Nipplegate" James needs to re-record that tune now.

CinisterCee said:

She's already recording a "breast-oriented tune" as we speak. Heard so on NME.com. Don't know how true it is though.

Joe is Awesome, i wonder if the new CD is good?

I think he flies under the radar of mainstream. I know he wants to crossover, but I'm kinda glad he doesn't. I loved his first album, its a classic in my book. You can but on one of albums and make sweet love to your partner all night long. One of my ex-girlfriends brought over the album with NSYNC on it. (I hate that he did that) Man, oh man did it I do the damn thing that night. Thanks JOE!!!