Favourite Singer

Day 73: “Who is your favorite singer?” The list is long. I have had so many favourite singers over the years. Some have been favourites for a short time and others have endured the many trials of fire that I have walked through. When i was younger and a bit angier than I am now […]

Favorite Music Video

Day 70: “What’s your favorite music video of all time?” Wow! I have so many videos to choose from. MTV was there for me as a kid. I saw some of the earliest videos on the channel. I saw video kill the radio star. I saw Michael Jackson make history as one of the first […]

#1055 Frank Ocean – channel ORANGE

So many people have told me to listen to Frank Ocean, but I know more about him from TikTok music. channel ORANGE is his debut album. He had previously been a music ghostwriter. I thought those days were over. The whole business of ghostwriters is weird and terrible for the person who actually did the […]

#804 D’Angelo – Brown Sugar

I have never heard of R&B artist D’Angelo. I think I had moved away from R&B during this time period. Maybe there wasn’t any on the radio during 1995 when D’Angelo’s Brown Sugar came out. This album was part of the neo soul movement that spread across the USA and United Kingdom in the 90s. I […]

#767 TLC – CrazySexyCool

If any entry into the 1001 Albums… surprised me the most it would be TLC and their second album CrazySexyCool. I actually liked a lot of the songs in 1994 when I first heard it, but I have not listened to since the 90s. I wonder if I will like them now. Okay, I remember […]

#591 Prince – Sign o’ the Times

Prince‘s Sign o’ the Times is not an album I expected to see on the list of 1001 Albums. I was a huge fan of Prince, but I really had forgotten this album. I think I rarely ever listened to it. I definitely think of my former friend Roger. He was the biggest Prince freak […]

#523 Cyndi Lauper – She’s So Unusual

I knew Cyndi Lauper‘s debut album She’s So Unusual had to be on the list. I am surprised that Madonna’s debut album is not because it was something new at the time. I remember both albums coming out in 1983 and I thought Lauper would be around a lot longer, although I was a huge fan […]

#497 Prince – 1999

Prince is one artist that I was a huge fan of in the 80s and 1999 was one of the greatest albums at the time. I bought the album when it came out. He was one of the most popular MTV artist of the 80s. The other ones were George Michael, Michael Jackson and Madonna; […]

#410 Funkadelic – One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic‘s One Nation Under A Groove was a hard album to review because I could not decide if I liked it or not. Some people claim this is where Prince learned to funk, but Prince’s debut album For You came out first in 1978. Granted his album is not as funky as this one, but […]

1001 Albums #14

Growing up in the 80s Prince was one of the magical three or four pop superstars. They ruled the airwaves and MTV. Prince was a musical genius and as androgynous as many other 80s singers. But there is one who is the precursor to Prince. Little Richard is as flamboyant as Prince, but not quite as […]