This album was released all the way back in 1987, when this here cyber album reviewer was all of five years of age. Yup. I was just a child when Terry D’Arby was singin’ about Wishing Wells and Rain and what not, but hey I dug him as much as the next guy. I thought [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Introducing The Hardline According to Terence Trent D’Arby.
Posted in Reviews, TTD on May 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Vibrator – Terence Trent D’Arby
Posted in Reviews, TTD on May 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
According to Terry D’Arby, or “the man formerly known as” if you will, this album was “the last project for “the label” before the “major” fall out.” His words, not mine. To everyone else out there (ie: the unenlightended folks) he was just one hit wonder – the catalyst being “Sign Your Name,” which is [...]
Symphony Or Damn – Terence Trent D’Arby
Posted in Reviews, TTD on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Terence Trent D’Arby released his third album on Columbia Records in 1993. I always wanted to get myself a copy, but for some reason or another, I never bought it until about 2002 or so….although I did end up borrowing it from my local library in 1995. I taped it and then I taped right [...]
Wildcard – Terence Trent D’Arby
Posted in Reviews, TTD on May 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This album was originally titled “Terence Trent D’Arby’s Solar Return” and was scheduled for a release some time in 1998/’99 via a label called Java, which was distributed by Capitol/EMI. It was at this point that TTD had adopted the name Sananda (Suh-nun-duh) and had left his old record label Sony Music.
Unfortunately, things didn’t go [...]
Get Used To It – Brand New Heavies
Posted in Hip Hop, Neo Soul, R'n'B, Reviews on May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Note: This album review was written back in…either 2006 2007. I never posted it here on my blog, although it did appear on my myspace blog when I was over there. Also I put it on another blog that I was workin on at the time, which shall remain nameless. Anyways, check it out and [...]
Family Time – Ziggy Marley
Posted in Reggae, Reviews, Ziggy Marley on May 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
If you look back on Ziggy’s overall body of work, you’ll notice that he usually releases something new every two to three years. That’s what’s happened since the Melody Makers days and it’s still going on now that he’s a solo artist…even though he doesn’t consider himself to be a soloist at all. Anyways, “Family [...]
Vibes – Heavy D
Posted in Hip Hop, Reggae, Reviews on May 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One day I was flipping through a reggae music magazine at the newsagency in my local shopping centre and I saw an advertisement in it saying that the rapper known as Heavy D had just released a brand new album called “Vibes,” which just so happened to fall into the reggae music genre. This didn’t [...]
Spiritual People – Speech
Posted in Hip Hop, Reviews on May 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yeah, I kinda dug Arrested Development back in the day….they had some pretty cool hit singles – “Tenesse,” which of course sampled the Prince song “Alphabet Street,” “Everyday People,” which sampled Sly & The Family Stone’s “Everyday People,” “Mr Wendal,” which featured their lead rapper, Speech (a.k.a. Todd Thomas) telling us about a homeless old [...]
Chaos And Disorder – Prince
Posted in Prince, Reviews on May 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Prince released this album in mid 1996, under the unpronnounceable symbol that he adopted as his name three years prior. The back of the CD booklet featured a message that more or less informed us all that this was the last album full of original material that he released for the label and that the [...]
Come – Prince
Posted in Prince, Reviews on May 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Unless you count the greatest hits package, this was the 15th studio album from Prince, who, at the time of its release was going by a symbol with no pronunciation. From what I understand, the “Come” album was originally scheduled for release some time in 1993 with a much more horrendus, animated front cover. I [...]
