Res - How I Do (2001)

predictably, i love this album for the sole reason that it was an r+b record with a cure sample on it.

that incredible jam gets my vote, but "they-say vision" will probably walk this one for those that remember it.

i think the whole record is great though. writing and production are great. the ambiguous genre hopping (really dig the trippy reggae stuff on "700 mile situation") coupled with the cure sample just made me assume she was british, or not american. but nope. born and raised. anyway, without the major label budget she kind fizzled out by the looks of it. i was genuinely excited about her at the time, with a debut album that solid.

what say you? promising, but unfulfilling? or bad sade impression?

also duh: whole reason for polling this is because it's a very good album for fall listening.

golden boys is all time

I love Golden Boys, but don't think I've ever heard anything else on it.

it's not a hidden classic or anything, but the good tracks (of which "golden boys" is one) are *quite* good, so i recommend at least previewing it.

unrelated: a rumor i remember hearing around the time was that santi white (who was definitely involved in the making of this album) wrote the lyrics to a good number of the tracks — and "golden boys" in particular was about mos def. obviously pure rumors, so who knows.

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yeah, those are the best tracks. who else voted for "let love"????

Sorry I missed this poll, as "Say it Anyway" is one of my faves of the '00-'09 decade (I didn't realize it had a title! I just thought it was the part of "Tsunami" where it got really rocking).

so she re-recorded this: https://www.discogs.com/release/30168587-Res-How-I-Do-Reset

listening now and... she sounds really good! her vocals are mixed quite loud lol. songs are of course well familiar and loved. they've updated some of the arrangements a bit, but i appreciate that it feels like a "live in studio" session or something.

i always kind of lament when folks do these sorts of re-records. makes me think she isn't seeing any sort of residuals from her mca album. 'unfortunate' is kind of the sentiment i guess.

they mixed the simon gallup bassline in "let love" way down and smacked linn drum hits all over it. sigh.

Thanks so much for reminding me of this record! I had forgotten all about it, and just stumbled upon this thread. I listened so much to this in secret around 2001-2002, together with Sades Lovers Rock. In secret because at this time I was a hardcore teenage skateboarder hiphopper baggypant-wearin' sulky kid, and this music didn't really fly together with the discourse in my group of friends which mainly consisted of hiphop like Smoothe Da Hustler and his pal Trigger Da Gambler, that kind of stuff. "Let Love" is my probably my favourite jam on it.

yes! old school res fans unite!