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Wednesday, October 29, 2003

"Upside Down," Diana Ross (8/16/80)
Nearly any record which opens with Nile Rodgers's chicken-scratch guitar lickin' you is guaranteed to be at least good; "Upside Down" goes straight from zero to sensational in 5 seconds. Diana + Rodgers and Edwards = diana = her greatest album ever, period - and what an opening salvo this is. This would not be better as a Chic single, because it's Miss Ross's gale-force personality perversely playing the coquette which gets this one all the way over. Were it not for the Chic Organisation, however, this might suck. Which it most definitely does not. A

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