The Rob and Fab Album

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― Nightshade, Saturday, 27 November 2004 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

My friend owned this album and I listened to it at her house. I thought "We Can Get it On" was decent. I saw them perform it on Arsenio Hall. IIRC, all the other songs are horrible, especially their cover of Cheap Trick's, "I Want You to Want Me." *shudder*

― Leelee, Saturday, 27 November 2004 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Out of curiosity, I clicked on that link and now I think my ears are about to bleed. Bloody awful so called music!

― Pekka, Saturday, 27 November 2004 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a pity they didn't sell more copies of their album. I think they sang well but people were not willing to give them a chance.

― Nightshade, Saturday, 27 November 2004 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

They only sold 2000 copies because it was crap. They did a good job on "We Can Get it On." But the rest was horrid. They sounded like Arnold Schwarzeneggar trying to rap.

― Leelee, Saturday, 27 November 2004 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

They didn't sing horribly. They didn't sing well either.

― Marcus, Sunday, 28 November 2004 03:21 (twenty-one years ago)

They didn't sing horribly. They didn't sing well either.
-- Marcus (Marky...), November 28th, 2004.
they didn't sing
their sining teacher also taught bbetty - mimed at melbourne metro- boo

― hotpants, Sunday, 28 November 2004 05:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Those were their real voices on the Rob & Fab album.

― Alicia (Leelee), Sunday, 28 November 2004 06:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, I didn't know they released an album with their real voices on it.

― Sammy, Sunday, 28 November 2004 06:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Ok, I just listened to a couple of tracks, "Let's Do It" and "I Want you to Want Me". They shouldn't have rapped, since they have such thick accents. They don't sing that bad but they aren't as good as the Milli Vanilli singers. I think they should have just stuck to modeling/dancing.

― Sammy, Sunday, 28 November 2004 06:38 (twenty-one years ago)

yuck!

― Lil Bit, Sunday, 28 November 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

the two best things I can say about it are that it doesn't rely on samples from other recordings, and that Rob and Fab trash Cheap Trick's I Want You To Want Me as the last track.

ROTFLMAO!

― Uncle Billy Bo Bob, Monday, 29 November 2004 07:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I actually reviewed this album in Rolling Stone when it came out! Have no idea anymore how many stars I gave it, though....

― chuck, Monday, 29 November 2004 09:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I actually reviewed this album in Rolling Stone when it came out! Have no idea anymore how many stars I gave it, though....

I actually saw a good review of this album. It was shocking.

― Lil Bit, Monday, 29 November 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

the cover is great.

http://www.crapfromthepast.com/millivanilli/robandfablpfront.jpg

― derrick (derrick), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 06:40 (twenty-one years ago)

who were the "guys" who actually did the vox for Milli Vanilli?

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 06:41 (twenty-one years ago)

The crapfromthepast site says it was Brad Howell and John Davis, and the rapping was done by Charles Shaw.

― Leelee, Tuesday, 30 November 2004 06:49 (twenty-one years ago)

LMAO @ the logo!

― Leelee, Tuesday, 30 November 2004 08:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I just found my review on the Rolling Stone website (which I have never searched before -- it was surprisingly easy!) Here it is:

Rob & Fab

Originally released: 1993
Joss Entertainment

Milli Vanilli is pop music's answer to baseball's 1919 Chicago Black Sox – the group's scandal will forever overshadow the way it outperformed so much of the competition during its year of glory. On the way to buy groceries in 1989, "Girl I'm Gonna Miss You" and "All or Nothing" didn't sound all that different from Bobby Brown's hits, certainly no less spirited. If the underhanded route the duo took up the charts wasn't exactly showbiz as usual, it was hardly unheard-of.

Fortunately, you can't keep a good lipsyncer down. Rob and Fab proves that Rob Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan can sing after all, more expressively than James Hetfield or Kim Gordon, maybe even than Bobby Brown himself – the falsetto pleading in "Please Don't Throw It All Away" should shame any New Jack doo-wopper. Two songs rock through ominous iron curtains of guitar, and the next two are hip-hop house music tough enough to pass for Rob's German countrymen in Snap. "The Land of the Free" documents Rob's Bavarian-orphanage childhood over cheesy space disco. The dreadlocked duo even covers Cheap Trick.

Milli Vanilli's producer was one Frank Farian, who actually hit his creative peak as the late-Seventies mastermind behind Boney M – an assemblage of West Indian fashion models who dominated the European charts with a bizarre mix of nursery-rhyme harmonies, island lilts, Cossack rhythms and astronaut costumes. Farian's new project, Try n' Be, attempts such intriguing hybrids as Bootsy Vanilli ("Body Slam") and Suicidal Vanilli ("When I Die"). But its only unflinching success is "Ding Dong," a flagrantly infantile rap bolstered by a cappella bell-tower breaks. Just like Rob and Fab, Try n' Be also covers an old hit by a humorous rock band – "Sexy Eyes," by Dr. Hook. Nice choice, though "The Cover of Rolling Stone" would've been a whole lot funnier. (RS 658)

CHUCK EDDY

― chuck, Tuesday, 30 November 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

seven years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfyspsCzMwI

― crüt, Saturday, 10 November 2012 22:32 (thirteen years ago)

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