Remember yesterday I told you about Prince’s plans to release a pair of albums in the New Year? Well, you can find the first fruits of his labor on his website, lotusflow3r.com. Of course, Lotus Flower is the name of one of the albums the Purple One will be releasing this year. There’s video footage, a web store, and three new songs being streamed, including Prince’s cover of Tommy James & The Shondells/Joan Jett & The Blackhearts’ “Crimson & Clover”. Check it out and let us know what you think of the new material!!
Blog
-
They Put Me In The Mix – JSlow 7: The Jodecidal JSlow
After JSlow 6, I didn’t really have anything in the pipeline. With my son being born, I was buying less music so I decided to create a JSlow tape specifically focusing on one singer or group which meant I didn’t have to buy any new music to make the tape. I thought about doing Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, but for some reason, I went with Jodeci. Why? I’m not exactly sure, but I’d bet it was because of K-Ci and Jojo’s All My Life. That was “our†song. And by “ourâ€, I mean that when K-Ci and Jojo’s Love Always came out, I told my now ex-wife about the song (several months before it hit) and it became “our†song. It’s still fun to listen to that song today because while it doesn’t have the same meaning, it definitely makes me smile.
And I think roughly all the babies born between 1991 and 1994 were created to a Jodeci song.
JSlow 7: The Jodecidal JSlow (circa late 1999 – meaning only the first two K-Ci and Jojo albums were used)
1. Forever My Lady – Jodeci
2. Hello Darlin’ – K-Ci and JoJo
3. Cry For You – Jodeci
4. How Could You – K-Ci and JoJo (Bulletproof Soundtrack)Ain’t no more blue left in my sky, only cloudy moments
5. Lately (live version) – Jodeci
6. Stay – Jodeci
7. Love U 4 Life – Jodeci
8. Don’t Rush (Take Love Slowly) – K-Ci and JoJo
9. Feenin’ – Jodeci
10. Life – K-Ci and JoJo (Life soundtrack)
11. Come And Talk To Me – Jodeci
12. All My Life – K-Ci and JoJo
13. I Care ‘Bout You – Milestone (Soul Food soundtrack)
14. Tell Me It’s Real – K-Ci and JoJo- What’s funny to me is that Life isn’t even a love song. But it was a song on the movie Life starring Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence, and at the time, it was the best possible duo ever on screen for me. I also really liked the song.
- I didn’t add Last Night’s Letter for some reason, which was actually the second single on K-Ci and Jojo’s rookie album, and the single before All My Life.
- I always thought the Cry For You video was odd because Jodeci was in the desert, but wearing leather and Sox caps.
- How Could You was the lead single from the Adam Sandler and Damon Wayons movie Bulletproof which was awful and great all at the same time.
- The live version of Lately (a Stevie Wonder cover) is just fierce.
- Feenin’ was heated and all of a sudden I had a new word in my vocabulary that normal people didn’t understand.
- I Care ‘Bout You was a song from the movie Soul Food and was a made up group featuring K-Ci and Jojo, Babyface, and his brothers Kevon and Melvin Edmonds.
- Tell Me It’s Real was the lead single for K-Ci and Jojo’s second album called It’s Real.
Far more frequently you’re wearing perfume …
Previous JSlows
Jam Slow
JSlo 3
JSlow 4
JS5 (JSlow 5)
JSlow 6: A New Beginning -
Infatueighties #60: “Situation”
Was I the only person who thought that the vocalist in this song was a guy. I remember hearing “Situation” on some decade-ending Top 100 countdown in ’89 or ’90 and saying “wow, that guy says ‘he is my lover’. That’s pretty ballsy for a song from 1982.” Hell, it would be ballsy for a song today. Imagine my amazement when it turned out that the full, deep voice of the singer turned out to be that of Alison Moyet, who is definitely a woman. A whole lot of woman, too. Regardless of the singer’s sex, “Situation” harkens back to the days when dance music was as interesting to listen to for the songwriting as it was for the beat. Moyet and partner Vince Clarke (of Depeche Mode and then Erasure) were a team that should have lasted way more than two albums (although I keep reading that they disliked one another) and this song should be all the reason you need to agree. Match Clarke’s synthesizer wizardry with Moyet’s vocal pyrotechnics and you’ve got a clear winner. Hopefully their well-received reunion this past year means more music is in the pipeline for Yaz. And can you imagine an album featuring the vocals of both Moyet AND Andy Bell? There would be some serious singin’ goin’ on there (not to mention the fact that every gay person over the age of 30 would run out for a copy).Alison still has it, as this live clip attests to.