Video Friday - More 80s
Anita Baker/ D-Train/ Force MD's.
Anita Baker, "Same Ole Love"
Here is a song whose name I actually didn't know until last night when my iTunes, playing on shuffle, spat this out. Now, I know the song. More than "Sweet Love" (recently butchered on American Idol), this was the song that made me gank my brothers' Anita Baker "Rapture" album, even though I wasn't into smooth R & B at the time (more hair metal and rap). It was, and is, just such a good song. The video adds something special to the song - a view of middle-class Detroit, which looks a bit like areas I grew up around. Made me miss home a little bit. Almost.
Damn, Anita can sing.
"You know I need you babe/ from beginning to end/ three hundred sixty five days of the year/ I want your same ole lovin' baby." Word.
Anita Baker-Same Ole Love
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D-Train, You're The One for Me (live)
The record version starts with 44 seconds or so of smooth singing. But when this jam gets going... damn. Matt S and I were trying to remember the name of this song - he wanted to play it at a wedding - and we texted Mike the 2600 King, who was emphatic about how dope this song is. It makes me want to buy a pale-colored suit and relaxer.
Force MD's, "Tender Love"
mediadork, off of a conversation we had while she was in Chicago about Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (who played the nearby Congress Theater as we walked by) sent me this smooth pants-dropper of a song. I always think it's corny at first - and it sure is - but these homely fellows have something going here. I can't turn it off. As I said in my response to mediadork, I think a bathtub is filling itself with scented bubble bath... which is really weird in an office. Slow Jamz, homey. Slow jams.
BONUS
Malcolm McLaren's "Buffalo Gals"
That's it.
Anita Baker, "Same Ole Love"
Here is a song whose name I actually didn't know until last night when my iTunes, playing on shuffle, spat this out. Now, I know the song. More than "Sweet Love" (recently butchered on American Idol), this was the song that made me gank my brothers' Anita Baker "Rapture" album, even though I wasn't into smooth R & B at the time (more hair metal and rap). It was, and is, just such a good song. The video adds something special to the song - a view of middle-class Detroit, which looks a bit like areas I grew up around. Made me miss home a little bit. Almost.
Damn, Anita can sing.
"You know I need you babe/ from beginning to end/ three hundred sixty five days of the year/ I want your same ole lovin' baby." Word.
Anita Baker-Same Ole Love
Uploaded by gourbyland. - See the latest featured music videos.
D-Train, You're The One for Me (live)
The record version starts with 44 seconds or so of smooth singing. But when this jam gets going... damn. Matt S and I were trying to remember the name of this song - he wanted to play it at a wedding - and we texted Mike the 2600 King, who was emphatic about how dope this song is. It makes me want to buy a pale-colored suit and relaxer.
Click to viewForce MD's, "Tender Love"
mediadork, off of a conversation we had while she was in Chicago about Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (who played the nearby Congress Theater as we walked by) sent me this smooth pants-dropper of a song. I always think it's corny at first - and it sure is - but these homely fellows have something going here. I can't turn it off. As I said in my response to mediadork, I think a bathtub is filling itself with scented bubble bath... which is really weird in an office. Slow Jamz, homey. Slow jams.
BONUS
Malcolm McLaren's "Buffalo Gals"
That's it.