You can New Jack swing on my TONY TONI TONE "The Hits" poll

"Loot" for me.

Prolly "Feels Good."

soooooooooooooo tough

hmmmm....stuck between "Anniversary" and "Thinking of You" (best Al Green homage ever?) and "Smells Like Funk Spirit"

NO OAKLAND STROKE NO CREDIBILITY

i'm stuck between all the songs mentioned so far and "Boys And Girls."

If I Had No Loot!

the blues. love them tonyies.

Oh, I hadn't heard "Little Walter" in years, at the time I didn't know that it's just "Wade in the Water".

"Feels Good" really narrowly over "If I Had No Loot" (all the House of Music stuff still belongs so definitively on the album, one of my favorites, that I have a hard time hearing it as singles)

How many of these were actually hits?

The overwhelimg majority were top tens on the R&B chart, three made top ten in pop.

The Hits thing I have has "Whatever You Want," which was an R&B #1.

Five R&B Number Ones here, with another five or so Top Ten.

Dang.

Feel's good.

Croupier, this is also missing some other hits. "Born Not to Know," for instance.

NO OAKLAND STROKE NO CREDIBILITY

TELL IT TO THE LABEL

YOU BETTER BELIEVE I WILL, BUSTER, IM PRETTY UPSET SOMEONE'S INBOX IS GOING TO GET A SPANKIN'

AWESOME

THANKS FOR THE SUPPORT

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I ended up going for "Anniversary" because I've heard the full version of it now. : D

"Feels Good."

"Let's Get Down" is seriously underrated here.

love me some TTT, but "feels good" is just too classic to not vote for it. if i voted for anything else, it would only to be contrary.

"Let's Get Down" is seriously underrated here.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

If I Had No Loot by a hair over Feels Good.

"Feels Good." Mocedes the Mellow...

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Let's Get Down 2
Anniversary 1
Thinking of You 0

BAN ILM

Tough competition. I do like "Anniversary" for its realness -- telling your supervisor you're taking the rest of the day off is about as real as it gets.

foreal and what a fucking grooze

haha groove

I forgot to vote in this poll. Consider everything to have one more vote than it has now.

girls and boys is underrated.

i mean, its basically lets get down pt 2, but better.

girls and boys is underrated.

― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Tuesday, April 28, 2009 5:32 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i mean, its basically lets get down pt 2, but better.

― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Tuesday, April 28, 2009

yes and yes

lol @ the exchange between m@tt and matos itt

Great poll, Lets Get Down is an all-timer and def where my vote would have gone. Girls and Boys is great too, pretty similar to Lets Get Down but but not better imo.

Just reacquired the band's entire catalogue.

Why'd I get rid of it in the first place? I don't remember.

Sons of Soul is such damn fine album.

Anniversary got robbed

I can't believe this is the only thread! Anyway, Saadiq is awesome.

ah, I was just thinking about these new jack years lately and went back listening to these teenage sounds over the last few days.
(I had totally missed "Sensitivity" by Ralph Tresvant at the time : it sounds so much like MJ !)
It's quite amazing how almost all these new jack swing tracks have the EXACT same snare drum sound.

The function's on
Around midnight
What time is it?
Are you inside?
Available?
To come and play?
Give me a clue...
So I don't...
Have to look for you

Over-consumption you know how it is y'all
Got your homey beggin' for some Pepto Bismol
But when my stomach's right I'll be back tonight
To get that lady I was grinding on the wall

i love this group so much
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbALbkigs8U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEH-H6BI754
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6VHzutYOFg

Man, rotten news:

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/dwayne-wiggins-tony-toni-tone-dies/3812037/

Quoting the FB post:

With broken hearts, we share with you that our beloved D’Wayne passed away this morning surrounded by family and loved ones. Over the past year, he has been privately and courageously battling bladder cancer. Through this fight, he remained committed and present for his family, his music, his fans and his community.
D’Wayne’s life was incomparable, and his music and service impacted millions around the world, including in his hometown of Oakland, California. He was a guitarist, producer, composer, philanthropist, mentor and founding member of Tony! Toni! Tone! He was deeply passionate about providing artist development and mentorship to emerging young musicians, helping to shape the early careers of many.
For now, we ask that you continue to respect our privacy. We mourn with you, and are deeply grateful for your love and support.
In Solidarity,
The Wiggins Family
Rest in Power. Party don’t cry.

I really wanted to go their reunion at Radio City Music Hall - I never saw them before - but I was already committed to accompanying someone to a different show that I don't even remember. Really, really regret that move. Love this group...

rip, i could vibe to those guitars on lay your head on my pillow for eternity

very sad news. his guitar tone defined 90s r+b for a while; one of my favorite groups of the era. gonna run an impromptu tonys marathon today in honor, so please forgive any superlative posting to follow.

god the revival is so, so good. so much fun.

also why was this never adopted as the REAL cover???
https://i.imgur.com/TbPLHq0.jpeg
dwayne's striped socks♡

I didn't really know much about the group behind-the-scenes, but it was painful to find out the 2023 reunion was actually their first (and now only one) with Raphael since they split - i.e. the only chance many later fans had to catch them live.

Reading up about their last and greatest album, it's pretty startling how it was put out given the quality of the album. They were very open about discussing it in interviews at the time, but the promotion was essentially cut short due to tensions within the group and with the label. A tour overseas on two different continents was cancelled, and only two singles were pulled from the album (Raphael said there should've been four). Even though the album never charted that high (peaking at #32), sales didn't tail off that much. 300,000+ copies in eight weeks, 500,000+ by mid-March 1997, then a million sold once they hit August, long after the second and last single had been pulled in March. It's tough finding info, but it doesn't look like they really toured after the fall of 1996 - when they cancelled the tour overseas, I don't think they booked more shows, that was it. And this was after a three-year hiatus too. Pretty amazing that it still went platinum.

house of music is truly a joy of an album.

here's dwayne with a sensual deep cut:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_XhSDMedew
tony!toni!toné! ― "tossin & turnin" (1996)

going back through the group's catalogue today has been bittersweet but one thing is very clear: they always felt like their best material was yet to come.

bird otm: they were one of the last great estranged bands in my universe for a long time. it was really comforting to hear about the reunion shows... it kinda felt like "...and we're back!" but alas, no.

I've seen Saadiq a couple times solo: he delivered.

i've admittedly slept on dwayne's solo album from 2000, but on first listen, it's expectedly diverse and competent contemporary r+b. check out this guitar flex:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_otYhnRFwY
dwayne wiggins ― "tribecca" (2000)

also why was this never adopted as the REAL cover???

It was the cover on the cassette edition, I'm pretty sure — the only version I ever owned as physical media.

It's funny, I loved The Revival, it came out my junior year of college and was in heavy rotation for those years. But a lot of things about my music listening shifted after college and while I followed them through Sons of Soul I never actually listened to House of Music. I guess I should!

Confirmed, here's the cassette.

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/WGYAAOSwNE9kRqV4/s-l1200.jpg

yep, cassette+vinyl. cd cover (and subsequently all reissues) really drop the ball:
https://i.imgur.com/WpI54jv.jpeg

house of music is probably their most enduring, but sons of soul is a sentimental classic. love the streetsoul vibe on this. dwayne coming through with the best part on backup vox:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rLp9uRGAUk
tony!toni!toné! ― "what goes around comes around" (1993)

who? 3 mics
the revival 4 mics
sons of soul 4.5 mics
house of music 4.5 mics
remixes+non album jams=worth seeking

I wish Bounce Around was on spotify/youtube whatever, funk bassline of the 90s right there imo

House of Music maybe a bit too slow for too long for my tastes, but The Revival and Sons of Soul probably count as two of my top five swingbeat era R&B albums

"If I Had No Loot" was as ubiquitous on MTV in summer '93 as Dre.