Monday, April 25, 2005
"Stop to Love," Luther Vandross (1/17/87)
A long-awaited return to the top for Mr. Loverman himself - amazingly, it had been almost 5 1/2 years since his last visit to the summit, October '81's "Never Too Much." Amazingly, too, for the man considered by many the voice of romance in the decade (not to mention the soundtrack to a helluva lot of baby-making) (by which I mean it's all about the balladry, folks) that his second #1 was, like his first, an uptempo song. [It wasn't until late '88 that Luther'd get his first #1 ballad.] His mastery of love ballads is such that it's easy to forget how good he can be with uptempo material, and "Stop to Love" is a fine example of that, a solid, on-and-poppin' single. B+
A long-awaited return to the top for Mr. Loverman himself - amazingly, it had been almost 5 1/2 years since his last visit to the summit, October '81's "Never Too Much." Amazingly, too, for the man considered by many the voice of romance in the decade (not to mention the soundtrack to a helluva lot of baby-making) (by which I mean it's all about the balladry, folks) that his second #1 was, like his first, an uptempo song. [It wasn't until late '88 that Luther'd get his first #1 ballad.] His mastery of love ballads is such that it's easy to forget how good he can be with uptempo material, and "Stop to Love" is a fine example of that, a solid, on-and-poppin' single. B+
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