Caught Up in the Rapture of POLL: Anita Baker's Rapture

I can stan for any song, but today it's that awesome closing twosome. Check out this clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soZl5t30Lhc

daaaaamn

da da da da daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
caught up in the rapture of love

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What a response!

voted for the title track but kinda wanna toss one to "Mystery"

listened to this record bc of this thread and wow i guess most of that first side is burned into my mind from radio

I have a long thing to explain why I voted "Same Ole Love" but I just don't have the energy to write it

That's what I voted for.

Been So Long by a mile

since i'm inadvertently familiar with this record i might vote and it'd probably be for "no one in the world"

THREE HUNDRED SIXTY FAHVE DAYS OF THE YEAR

I am already regretting my vote

this album (and Giving You The Best That I Got) pwn so hard

brb, registering 7 sockpuppet accounts

"Same Ole Love" has really become one of my favorite songs in the past couple years

gonna be shocked though if "Sweet Love" gets no vote. That thing is a corker.

nearly gave up and voted for that. so rich.

SPOILER: "Sweet Love" is getting at least one vote

Make that at least two.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QehVyo34nMo

i have absolutely no shame in admitting that i believe this to be the one true 'sweet love'

otherwise, a fiendish poll

ah fuck it, let's see if 'same ole love' can top this thing

Anita's cold because you don't give her love (365 days of the year).

it's a uniquely charming song besides, i mean everyone else is always fronting like true love is brand new every day but anita knows the deal

Thought it would be "Same Ole Love" for me as well, but after playing the album again just now, I went with "You Bring Me Joy". But really, every single track is up there, what a fabulous album.

(and then try playing it when you're in love...)

"your love never changes / it's like a picture in a frame / and it remains the same"

yeah baby keep talking that nasty shit

have you guys watched that clip of "Watch Your Step"? She can testify! Love her dancing.

Went for 'Same Ole Love'...the last minute of it is as good as music gets...Freddie Washington bass is slammin...nearly went for 'Mystery' just for the M8...("Lonely spirits seem to whisper in the wind")...pure Templeton magic

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Can I use my bonus vote for "Watch Your Step"?

DA DA DA DA DAAAHHHHHHHHH

This album is sublime.

Perusing the wikipedia page, I'm delightfully surprised to learn this was NME's #2 album of 1986

http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/1986.html

1. Parade - Prince & The Revolution
2. Rapture - Anita Baker
3. Control - Janet Jackson
4. Evol - Sonic Youth
5. Word Up - Cameo
6. Graceland - Paul Simon
7. Bend Sinister - The Fall
8. Rasin' Hell - Run Dmc
9. The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths
10. The Album - Mantronix
11. Nelson Mandela - Youssou N'dour
12. Life's Rich Pageant - Rem
13. Blood And Chocolate - Elvis Costello
14. King Of America - Elvis Costello
15. Your Funeral...My Trial - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
16. Schoolly D - Schoolly D
17. Rough & Rugged - Shinehead
18. Tutu - Miles Davis
19. Say What! - Trouble Funk
20. Liberty Bell & The Black Diamond.. - The Go-Betweens
21. Born Sandy Devotional - The Trifids
22. Talking To The Taxman.. - Billy Bragg
23. Candy Apple Grey - Husker Du
24. Boat To Bolivia - Martin Stephenson & The Dainties
25. London 0, Hull 4 - The Housemartins
26. Atomizer - Big Black
27. Electric Cafe - Kraftwerk
28. Holy Money - The Swans
29. True Stories - Talking Heads
30. The Unacceptable Face Of Freedom - Test Department
31. Gravity - James Brown
32. Infected The The
33. No Guru, No Method, No Teacher - Van Morrison
34. I Love My Radio - Ll Cool J
35. Please - Pet Shop Boys
36. Giant - The Woodentops
37. Kicking Against The Pricks - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
38. Song X - Pat Metheny And Ornette Coleman
39. Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc Etc.. - Dwight Yoakam
40. Communards - The Communards
41. Album - Pil
42. Force - A Certain Ratio
43. Flaunt It - Sigue Sigue Sputnik
44. Quirk Out - Stump
45. Rembrandt Pussy Horse - The Butthole Surfers
46. Out On The Boardwalk - Ted Hawkins
47. Shop Assistants - Same
48. Back To The Old School - Just Ice
49. Oben Im Eck - Holger Hiller
50. R ‘N’ B Skeletons In The Closet - George Clinton
51. Watch Your Step - Ted Hawkins
52. Folksinger - Phranc
53. Greed - Swans
54. Avant Pop - Lester Bowie
55. Manic Pop Thrill - That Petrol Emotion
56. Throwing Muses - Throwing Muses
57. Contenders - Easterhouse
58. Peter Case - Same
59. Romantically Yours - Marvin Gaye
60. Stutter - James

NME top 5 OTM

actually the entire list is great, which is an indication that I was a teenager when it was created

I have this on vinyl and I will now gp to find it

But I prob couldnt choose between rapture, sweet love and you bring me joy.

“been so long” is great too

Shocked to see this in the nme top 5

"Watch Your Step" is one of the great album closers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w6udgiojlE

oh dammit, that was supposed to be the entire playlist, one sec

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_liYib7oqpC1stwYK_2Mxue7wL_M5bzwz0

The scatting in "Been So Long."

xxxp the last three tracks really serve as a nice crescendo

Good timing

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/anita-baker-rapture/

Mystery 0

?! ... though there are no songs in the world better than "Caught Up in the Rapture" and "Sweet Love," it's true

thought the revive was maybe also related to this? https://www.bet.com/music/2021/03/16/anita-baker-masters-fight-asks-fans-not-to-buy-or-stream-songs.html

Fuck me was this the right result…that choon slams!!!

Oh man, I got the covid hitting me hard today and i’m exhausted but I can’t sleep and I don’t want to do anything but Mrs. Baker sounds good right now. Not a rough edge to be found, thank you Nurse Anita.