gameenjoyer
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I realize I'm recycling yet another old topic, but once again, I see no reason to start a new topic about something that already has a topic for it.
I found a copy of this album on cassette a couple days ago in a thrift store. Paid all of fifty cents for it. While I feel bad about not having paid what it's worth, I can solace myself with the knowledge that the copy I now possess was paid for by somebody in the past and that his/her stupid mistake of donating it is my gain.
I've only listened to it twice. For some reason, it doesn't seem to like the tape player in my office as well as the one in my car and was making noise like it was struggling (maybe the problem is the player though, since when I checked the tape it looked fine, but I've not had any problems playing my Beyond tape in the office player). Of course, it's accumulation means two less tracks that will be new to me when I get a chance to buy a copy of Definitive Hits, but I can certainly handle that "sacrifice".
Anyway, having read what the rest of you said about the album again, I agree wholeheartedly. This album is different. I would go so far as to label the two tracks that made Definitive Hits (Diamonds and Making Love In The Rain) as the two clunkers on this album. I say that not because they're necessarily bad, but because when I put an Alpert album on to play, I expect to hear some Alpertian trumpet work, not some female vocalists of whom I am not a fan. Diamonds should definitely have been on a Janet Jackson album if it was by her, and Making Love in the Rain likewise should have been reserved for an album by the gal that sang on it, whose name I forget.
Other than those two, the style is different, even compared to Rise and Beyond (the only two other solo albums I've found copies of so far), but I don't think it's quite as different as you guys make it out to be, and I think the whole thing is quite good other than the aforementioned two tracks.
Anyway, I'm voting for the title track in the poll. The beginning is a little, well, off the wall, but otherwise it's a very catchy song in my opinion.
I found a copy of this album on cassette a couple days ago in a thrift store. Paid all of fifty cents for it. While I feel bad about not having paid what it's worth, I can solace myself with the knowledge that the copy I now possess was paid for by somebody in the past and that his/her stupid mistake of donating it is my gain.
I've only listened to it twice. For some reason, it doesn't seem to like the tape player in my office as well as the one in my car and was making noise like it was struggling (maybe the problem is the player though, since when I checked the tape it looked fine, but I've not had any problems playing my Beyond tape in the office player). Of course, it's accumulation means two less tracks that will be new to me when I get a chance to buy a copy of Definitive Hits, but I can certainly handle that "sacrifice".
Anyway, having read what the rest of you said about the album again, I agree wholeheartedly. This album is different. I would go so far as to label the two tracks that made Definitive Hits (Diamonds and Making Love In The Rain) as the two clunkers on this album. I say that not because they're necessarily bad, but because when I put an Alpert album on to play, I expect to hear some Alpertian trumpet work, not some female vocalists of whom I am not a fan. Diamonds should definitely have been on a Janet Jackson album if it was by her, and Making Love in the Rain likewise should have been reserved for an album by the gal that sang on it, whose name I forget.
Other than those two, the style is different, even compared to Rise and Beyond (the only two other solo albums I've found copies of so far), but I don't think it's quite as different as you guys make it out to be, and I think the whole thing is quite good other than the aforementioned two tracks.
Anyway, I'm voting for the title track in the poll. The beginning is a little, well, off the wall, but otherwise it's a very catchy song in my opinion.