Monday, April 25, 2005
"Love You Down," Ready For the World (12/13/86)
R&B listeners celebrated Christmas '86 with this painfully erotic ballad sitting atop the charts, one whose rep needs some rehab, as it seems to get a very unwarranted bad rap. Points for the guitar solo (all-too-rare in '80s R&B) and the spareness of the production here - if it weren't for the echo effects, there'd be precious little track at all. Lead singer Melvin Riley sounds romantic and nasty simultaneously, and if that's not a laudable skill I don't know what is. A generation of R&B vocalists to come was taking notes. A-
R&B listeners celebrated Christmas '86 with this painfully erotic ballad sitting atop the charts, one whose rep needs some rehab, as it seems to get a very unwarranted bad rap. Points for the guitar solo (all-too-rare in '80s R&B) and the spareness of the production here - if it weren't for the echo effects, there'd be precious little track at all. Lead singer Melvin Riley sounds romantic and nasty simultaneously, and if that's not a laudable skill I don't know what is. A generation of R&B vocalists to come was taking notes. A-
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