My buddy @prak_daddy alerted me to the fact that he purchased tickets to the New Edition concert. Big Money posted their early tour dates and they’ve since increased those dates, coming to the Bay Area in the summer. I’m going to have to try and figure out how to see these guys live. Also yesterday, I heard If It Isn’t Love, the hit-single from NE’s coming of age album Heartbreak, and figured it’d be a great Friday Throwback. The video features the Johnny Gill-version of New […]
Posts tagged "Ricky Bell"
Blerd Appreciation: Bell Biv DeVoe (Word to Jimmy Fallon)
New Edition was the first (and really only) group of black American kids making music in the public spotlight during the early and mid-Eighties. I spun my “Is This the End” and “Popcorn Love” 45s like they were going out of style and looked up to Ronie, Bobby, Ricky, Mike and Ralph like big brothers. By the time I was a teenager, although I was still a huge N.E. fan (Heart Break is an amazingly underrated album from the New […]
Award Show Sundays: Christmas in Hollis?
This week’s Award Show Sundays column gives props to Run-DMC with a clip from the 1986 Black Gold Awards.
Hump Day Flashback: “Can You Stand the Rain”
In light of my previous idea for a Hump Day Flashback turning into an actual article, I had to rethink my idea for this week’s column. Then inspiration hit via the emptying of the skies. I could probably fill a book with great songs about rain, but New Edition’s 1988 hit “Can You Stand the Rain” will always be at the very least in my Top 5, if not my favorite all-time. A song doesn’t have to be particularly deep […]
Never Trust a Big Butt & a Smile-"Poison" Turns 20
Don’t you hate it when you read a blog and the blogger just directs you over to ANOTHER website? Well, check out my review of Bell Biv DeVoe’s “Poison” (which celebrates its’ 20th anniversary this week) on Popdose . When I can get my shit together and start doing artist guides, New Edition will be one of the first acts that I tackle.