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[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Was pointed towards this incredible incredible blog last week and I have just spent the past three hours immersed in it - '90s R&B Junkie. At first, flicking back, I thought it was just random audio/video reminiscences (all excellent, obv), but it actually started off going through all the 90s R&B No 1 hits, Popular-style. Anyway it is a goldmine of old favourites, rare remixes, the soundtrack to my youth and tracks which passed me by at the time &c &c, and also proof that R&B >>>>> any other genre you care to name.

Sort of related - this isn't a '90s track, but seeing Toni Braxton covered on the blog reminded me of this astonishing work. It's from her last failed comeback, 2005's Libra, and it's rather special: a Rich Harrison production from his golden year, it's the evil twin of '1 Thing' - same cascading drums, but this is the dark, anguished flip to Amerie's giddy thrill.

Toni Braxton - Take This Ring

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[mindtaker-cro.livejournal.com]

another overlooked gem (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpae6jPiUg0) from Richcraft's golden year

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Wow that is pretty awesome! Great video too. Where was it a single? Wikipedia doesn't list it in her discography...can understand why they didn't go for it after one Rich Harrison production in 'Get Right', but it really is a lost gem.

[mindtaker-cro.livejournal.com]

not on wiki coz it wasn't a single, and the video is fanmade :)

love this one too (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-XCkgYEwhQ) from the same period.

just checked 90's R&B Junkie: sadly i don't have time to go through it right now, but i've bookmarked it coz it's made by the guy that runs Mixtape Maestro! i check out MM semi-regularly, i love how it covers pop in the broadest sense (rock to R&B, random hipster shit to MOR)! and the write-ups are nice, too.

btw, have you heard Krys Ivory's "Next 2 Ya" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6HivK9Ik-k)? an R-Les production, so lovely. (there was also a great summery non-R-Les thing by Krys a few years ago called "Don't Know Bout U" (http://www.imeem.com/people/nU5OY/music/uDegOm8Z/krys_ivory_dont_know_bout_u/))