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 Patricia Rushen
Straight From The Heart
Rhino | 1982
Oh yes, early 80s disco-soul-R&B that sounds so commercial but still so dope! This album reproduced a few pop hits as well as hip-hop hits. The opening joint ‘Forget Me Nots’ was not only a big hit for Miss Rushen herselves, but also for the Beatnuts (‘Gimme Da Ass’ on ‘Stone Crazy LP’) and most definitely for Will Smith (‘Men in Black’), as the entire beat of these two hip-hop songs (the one more than the other) had exactly the same loop. But besides this huge disco hit, there are some more finesse tracks that make this album so special, especially the soul cuts that dominate the B-side of the LP.
The super fantastic soul ballad ‘Where There Is Love’, looped on Mobb Deep’s ‘Temperature’s Rising’, and the gorgeous ‘Remind Me’, that’s been sampled like a trillion times and of which Biggie’s ‘Unbelievable’ and Intelligent Hoodlum’s ‘Grand Groove’ are the most popular examples. Besides these rap contributors there’s also the fresh exotic ballad ‘(She Will) Take You Down to Love’, the groovy ‘Number One’ instrumental and another disco hit, ‘I Was Tired of Being Alone’. Nuthin but hits and beautiful music; these things happened in 1982!
posted by: Engelbert Humperfunk | 02-24-2005 |
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