Was this the album that started the "mock concept album" trend that is still very much alive in hip-hop and contemporary R&B? I mean, the way the album is put together, all the tracks are segued into each other, only interrupted by a bunch of people pretending to have a party. Janet Jackson and TLC, plus a zillion hip-hop acts, have later built their albums in the same way, within genres that are basically about as far from the ideals of prog rock as you may possibly get.
I do realise that particularly Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye were making concept albums in the 70s, but the idea of the concept album still seemed quite stone dead in most genres, but particularly R&B, by the mid 80s.
So, again, was "Hearsay" the first of these, or were there other "mock concept albums" within contemporary R&B or hip-hop before it?
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 15 November 2003 03:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 15 November 2003 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)
― its me again ! (its me again !), Sunday, 16 November 2003 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)
Top ten of all time for me. "Sunshine" -- oof.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 18:33 (ten years ago)
best album ever
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 18:36 (ten years ago)
LOVE JUST BLOWS YOUR MIND
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 18:42 (ten years ago)
Perfect plane music.
"criticize" and "sunshine" are my favs
― dyl, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 18:46 (ten years ago)
my boy
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 18:54 (ten years ago)
Bought this that summer it was released. A forever classic and Imho one of the top 3 (?) Jam & Lewis productions with "Control" and "Sands Of Time".
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 19:33 (ten years ago)
otm
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 19:45 (ten years ago)
"can i get some nasty bass?" has to be one of the best-delivered opening lines in a song that i've ever heard
― dyl, Sunday, 12 July 2015 02:21 (ten years ago)
"fake" -> "criticize" peak of music
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 6 July 2018 21:04 (seven years ago)
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 July 2018 21:33 (seven years ago)
Don't sleep on the gleaming parquet floor that is "The Lovers."
Love the title track too...when he sings the line “when they need someone to blame it on” my knees buckle slightly
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Saturday, 7 July 2018 04:54 (seven years ago)