New Jack Swing, anyone liking it?

[AC]

Today, Guy, Keith Sweat, Troop, Jasmine Guy...Teddy Riley. What do you think about this? I liked most of the stuff from that era.

AC

[GROOVE VICTIM]

I enjoyed Guy's first Album, but when everyone started on the bandwagon, I got tired of it.

Johnny Kemp "Just got Paid" was pretty nice
Keith Sweats first album was the bomb!!
Al B. Sure's first album was slammin too.

Peace

[imported_Gman]

I liked this sound a lot when it first came out.

[AC]

Originally posted by GROOVE VICTIM:
I enjoyed Guy's first Album, but when everyone started on the bandwagon, I got tired of it.

Johnny Kemp "Just got Paid" was pretty nice
Keith Sweats first album was the bomb!!
Al B. Sure's first album was slammin too.

Peace Don't know in the US, but here in Italy in 1989-1990 it was really hot. Is Teddy Riley still producing music? I was into R'n'B those years...today I'm no more into it so much.

AC

[GROOVE VICTIM]

Originally posted by AC:
Don't know in the US, but here in Italy in 1989-1990 it was really hot. Is Teddy Riley still producing music? I was into R'n'B those years...today I'm no more into it so much.

AC [/QB][/QUOTE]

New Jack Swing was all over the radio during that time period. Just about every pop star and up and coming RNB singer recruited Teddy Riley to produce either a song or an entire album.


Peace

[AC]

Originally posted by GROOVE VICTIM:
I enjoyed Guy's first Album, but when everyone started on the bandwagon, I got tired of it.

Johnny Kemp "Just got Paid" was pretty nice
Keith Sweats first album was the bomb!!
Al B. Sure's first album was slammin too.

Peace http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002H5A.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

[AC]

[/QB][/QUOTE]

New Jack Swing was all over the radio during that time period. Just about every pop star and up and coming RNB singer recruited Teddy Riley to produce either a song or an entire album.


Peace [/QB][/QUOTE]

It's like Puff Daddy today so...

[Mike Johnson]

Lemme tell you something. Late 80's r&b was on some serious life support - it sucked big time! New Jack Swing helped to rescue it, brought the edge back - that and the Soul II Soul sound. "Groove Me" is still one of my all-time favorite tracks. I'm a closet r&b head :D

[D J 1 3 8]

"I Wanna" was the jam. Chuck Chillout used to mix it PE's "Bring The Noise" on the reg.

[DeesKo]

Man...

Al B Sure (Off On Your Own, Nite & Day)
Keith Sweat (Make It Last Forever)
Bobby Brown (My Perogative etc)
Soul II Soul (Keep On Movin, etc)
Michelle (Dre's protege/wife?)
Bell Biv Devoe (Posion, etc)
New Edition
Jane Child
Johnny Gill
En Vogue


etc etc etc

The production qualtiy on those records had enough deep kick and nice clean highs that it did pretty well in Florida during the post-freestyle boom. This was also around the time where most of my group of friends had gotten cars, hooked them up, dropped a system in them, and were out dating. You couldn't get any better than leaving a nice seafood restaraunt overlooking the Gulf of Mexico at sundown rocking some Nite & Day, Make It Last Forever, or Hold On while cruising back across the bridge back to Tampa.


Some other notable things during that time period... Arsenio Hall became the first African American talk show host, Spike Lee dropped 'Do The Right Thing' and Parental Advisory stickers came into effect.

... on the less 'cultural' side of things, early in this era was when they started putting those big plastic contraptions around cassettes in the record stores to try and keep people from stealing them.

Peace

[djmarbll]

New Jack Swing was the ish when it first started aroung 1986. Teddy Riley almost single-handedly introduced the sound through Guy. I think Guy's first album defines the sound better than any other release of that time. Teddy had a heavy influence on up and coming producers around him too. Devante Swing from Jodeci studied under Teddy, along with Timbaland, and even the Neptunes.

[Bill Blake]

Originally posted by Gman:
I liked this sound a lot when it first came out. Uh dare I say........Herb?

['Magic' Juan]

"Strictly hardcore tracks, not a New Jack Swing ..." Phife Dawg from ATCQ

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