Fanmail – TLC

I don’t remember exactly when this album was released, but according to amazon.com the official date was February 23rd 1999. I guess I’ll have to take their word for it. “Fanmail” was the third TLC album, following 1994’s “Crazy Sexy Cool.” Sadly it was to be one of their last studio albums, as the member [...]

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Love In Stereo – Rahsaan Patterson

I wrote this review back in 2007.. I thought it was already on my blog, but…..obviously not. There could be a few errors in the review for all I know. Also I’m betting that a few of my opinions may’ve changed since writing the review, but I’m gonna just leave it all in there. Sure, [...]

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Stronger Than Pride – Sade

This album was released in 1988 and was the follow-up to Sade’s third album “Promise” from 1985. It was after this album that she took one hell of a longass pause and more or less got on with her life. Then she released “Love Deluxe” in 1992. Ah, these artists….and their fart-assery. Nah, I shouldn’t [...]

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Suddenly – Billy Ocean

In 1984, Billy Ocean decided that it was time for commercial success, so he decided to leave his old home, Epic Records and sign up to a brand new record label all together, called Jive. He then decided to get together with a songwriter and producer by the name of Keith Diamond who took [...]

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Secret Weapon – Marcel

This is the fifth, fully independent album by the artist born Andre Marcel Wilson. It was originally released in 2004 but brought to my attention back in 2005 while I was buying myself some 12inch singles in an independent record store down here in Sydney. One of the songs instantly caught my ear because of [...]

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Stoned Pt.1 – Lewis Taylor

The first time I’d ever heard of Lewis Taylor was on the internet some time in the late 1990s. I believe it may’ve been on iMusic.com’s old forum, or perhaps even the old Prince discussion board that I used to frequent around that time. Either way, folks were raving all about this artist, saying that [...]

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A few random thoughts about Rahsaan Patterson

On the evening of Monday July 27th 2009, I was sitting in my room, listening to a compilation that I had put together back in 2005, when the song “Fly High” by Rahsaan Patterson began to play. For some reason, I decided to do a Google search for it because I felt as though it [...]

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Maya Who?! – Maya Azucena

Maya Azucena is an independent soul artist who hails from a place in New York called Flatbush. According to the documentary featured on the ehanced portion of her debut album, she was the only girl in her neighbourhood aside from her very own sister. Hmmm. Interesting. Although the album “Maya Who?!” was apparently released in [...]

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The Colour Of Success – Morris Day

Those of you who have seen the Prince film “Purple Rain” would most probably remember the cat with the loud, pimpish voice who would always be rockin loud suits and Stacey Adams shoes. In that particular film, he fronted a funky ass group called The Time who performed songs that Prince had done pretty much [...]

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Tennessee Slim Is The Bomb – Joi

This review was written in 2006 or so…..I haven’t really changed much in the review, I just felt like I had to put it out there, so if something is inaccurate, let me know. Also some of these views may have changed over the years. Check it out anyways. Thanks.

Although this was Joi’s fourth studio [...]

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