Wednesday, December 24, 2008
"Start of a Romance," Skyy (5/13/89)
First of all, I was too hard on their previous chart-topper, 1981's "Call Me"; it's probably a B- at worst, disco-funk inoffensive if also somewhat uninspiring. But what an odd comeback, to go from being a flagship Salsoul disco-funk (ahem) outfit to a fairly synthetic (read: plastic) of-the-moment R&B combo. It worked, though - commercially, at least: a further #1, "Real Love," followed in February of 1990. That said, like its long-ago predecessor "Call Me," this "Romance" is, too, inoffensive if also somewhat uninspiring, with horribly dated hiccupping-computer production and all-too-generic femme vocals. Docked a notch for not learning anything after all those years. C+
First of all, I was too hard on their previous chart-topper, 1981's "Call Me"; it's probably a B- at worst, disco-funk inoffensive if also somewhat uninspiring. But what an odd comeback, to go from being a flagship Salsoul disco-funk (ahem) outfit to a fairly synthetic (read: plastic) of-the-moment R&B combo. It worked, though - commercially, at least: a further #1, "Real Love," followed in February of 1990. That said, like its long-ago predecessor "Call Me," this "Romance" is, too, inoffensive if also somewhat uninspiring, with horribly dated hiccupping-computer production and all-too-generic femme vocals. Docked a notch for not learning anything after all those years. C+
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