CrazySexyCool is a definitive album from the nineties. The massive hit singles have the ability to relocate you to the exact place and time when you first heard these songs. The album only tracks actually sound fairly modern, with a few production retouches and an update in guest rappers it wouldn’t sound out-of-place on today’s radio. This isn’t just a milestone of mid-90s R&B/pop; this is ... read more
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On their second album, the multiplatinum trio TLC have given up most of their debut's tomfoolery and have matured into a very modern deep Southern soul, watered and nurtured in hip-hop culture. The album's centerpiece is the magnificent "Waterfalls," a revival meeting of new jack swing, gospel, and Prince (whose "2
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On their second album, the multiplatinum trio TLC have given up most of their debut's tomfoolery and have matured into a very modern deep Southern soul, watered and nurtured in hip-hop culture. The album's centerpiece is the magnificent "Waterfalls," a revival meeting of new jack swing, gospel, and Prince (whose "If I Was Your Girlfriend" they turn inside out). Their spare, surprising arrangements rely on the kind of live instrumentation they single-handedly brought back in style. Lyrically, CrazySexyCool concentrates on love at the point when it's grown deeper but also more frustrating--for every great love song there's a great cheating song--and the group's singing and rapping balances sassiness with depth and nuance. --Douglas Wolk
"Remeber back in da time
When da only sign we had was picket
But now in '94 it be
This way somethin' come wicked
Gangs killin' others fo colors
Thangs that we wear fo fashion
Other brothers take it fo a reason
To be blastin' what da cuff is goin' on
Not soft like buttercupus but
Had enough of singin' dat same song
See I stayed across da street from da projects
Took out yo momma trash and groceries
To her trunk to keep my pockets
Fat like cellulite only been to jail one week
Fo some shullbit and I"
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"Cassette. 1994.
Side One:
1. Intro-lude
2. Creep
3. Kick Your Game
4. Diggin' On You
5. Case Of The Fake People
6. CrazySexyCool - Interlude
7. Red Light Special
8. Waterfalls
Side Two:
1. Intermission-lude
2. Let's Do It Again
3. If I Was Your Girlfriend
4. Sexy - Interlude
5. Take Our Time
6. Can I Get A Witness - Interlude
7. Switch
8. Sumthin' Wicked This Way Comes"
“CrazySexyCool is a definitive album from the nineties. The massive hit singles have the ability to relocate you to the exact place and time when you first heard these songs. The album only tracks actually sound fairly modern, with a few production retouches and an update in guest rappers it wouldn’t sound out-of-place on today’s radio. This isn’t just a milestone of mid-90s R&B/pop; this is a milestone album for any girl group. Never before or since has a modern girl group faced issues with such intelligence, humor and honest sexuality without resorting to silly power-slut clichés. And in a genre, girl group pop, that is better known for fantastic singles and shoddy albums, it’s refreshing to listen to an album that is great from start to finish.
""Things were not well with TLC during the making of CrazySexyCool: Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes was lighting fires, and the group was in a financial slide that would end in bankruptcy proceedings. But they emerged with the most effervescent and soulful R&B pop anyone had seen since the Supremes.""
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