"mid 80's poxy synth sounds, rotten shoulder pad/jazzbar/filofax production"
in other words, my favoite music ever?
CLASSIC. definitely search the RAPTURE album ASAP.
― akaky akakievich, Saturday, 4 December 2010 03:25 (thirteen years ago) link
fAvoRiTe
― akaky akakievich, Saturday, 4 December 2010 03:26 (thirteen years ago) link
"Watch Your Step," y'all.
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 4 December 2010 03:30 (thirteen years ago) link
"You Bring Me Joy," y'all.
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 June 2012 00:00 (eleven years ago) link
christ Been So Long is fantastic.
― piscesx, Monday, 4 June 2012 01:21 (eleven years ago) link
also the cover of Rapture.. (fans self)
― piscesx, Monday, 4 June 2012 01:22 (eleven years ago) link
yep -- "Been So Long" sunk its claws into me tonight.
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 June 2012 01:42 (eleven years ago) link
"Same Ole Love (365 Days)" is so fantastic
― kel ler/pharmacists (some dude), Monday, 4 June 2012 02:08 (eleven years ago) link
I should poll this thing, only because it's impossible to choose one perf.
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 June 2012 02:32 (eleven years ago) link
she has a new single, she's in great voice, album coming out, she is the fucking best
― steven fucking tyler (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 13:44 (eleven years ago) link
I repeat, she is the fucking best
http://www.bet.com/video/celebrationofgospel/2013/performances/donnie-mcclurkin-and-anita-baker.html
― not feeling those lighters (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 12 April 2013 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
fuck it -- I'll poll Rapture. Hoping every song places.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 April 2013 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
that album is kind of unfuckwitable
― sandra dayo connor (The Reverend), Friday, 12 April 2013 21:26 (eleven years ago) link
Nooooooo.
― Eric H., Friday, 21 March 2014 12:30 (ten years ago) link
(Not an RIP.)
― Eric H., Friday, 21 March 2014 12:31 (ten years ago) link
Is she still on the run from the cops and the contractor who says she didn't pay for her house work...?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 21 March 2014 13:37 (ten years ago) link
So y'all know
http://www.thefader.com/2018/01/02/anita-baker-final-concert-retirement
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 19:35 (six years ago) link
i love compositions so much
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 29 March 2018 02:04 (six years ago) link
That's the one I heard most on car trips and remember, "Lonely" in particular.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 March 2018 02:17 (six years ago) link
i just saw her at jazzfest and it was one of the most joyous and powerful experiences i’ve ever had. she kept talking about how exhausted she was, which was fitting, bc she was pouring p much all of her energy into every song. also, what a beautifully preserved voice. the setlist was so perfect i wrote it down:
lady marmalademysterysweet lovebeen so longcaught up in the raptureno one in the worldsame ol lovejust becausegiving you the best that i gotfairy tales
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 6 May 2018 00:49 (five years ago) link
"Been So Long"!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 6 May 2018 01:09 (five years ago) link
gonna go see her next month and I am soooo amped. I'm really hoping she does "serious" from a few years back, that song is a JAM.
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 6 May 2018 02:05 (five years ago) link
joan you are going to have a BLAST
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 6 May 2018 02:41 (five years ago) link
There isn't a week I don't listen to quiet storm that I don't hear "Same Ole Love."
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 6 May 2018 02:45 (five years ago) link
off topic but: maura was watching aerosmith at the same time i was watching anita baker and they played “last child” and “adam’s apple”. wish i could’ve split myself in two
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 6 May 2018 02:46 (five years ago) link
I want underrated aerosmith bootlegs' concert report!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 11 July 2019 21:32 (four years ago) link
custos put so much work into being the stupidest man alive
― mark s, Friday, 12 July 2019 16:17 (four years ago) link
Dud. She should be shot out of a cannon into a burning lake of lava. Blecchhh!!!!
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, August 25, 2004 10:40 PM (fourteen years ago
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 July 2019 16:28 (four years ago) link
bless
― mark s, Friday, 12 July 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link
That was uncalled for. I take that one back.
― Alex in NYC, Monday, 22 July 2019 18:32 (four years ago) link
I mean, this is not to say I genuinely care for Anita Baker's music, but I don't believe she should be launchedlike a guided missile into a burning hot pool of roiling magma. She seems like a lovely lady.
― Alex in NYC, Monday, 22 July 2019 18:35 (four years ago) link
Been So Long has surely got one of the all time great vocal performances on record.
― piscesx, Monday, 22 July 2019 19:14 (four years ago) link
Some odd opinions early on here, though to be fair, sixteen years ago i probably couldn't have properly isolated this album from the associations of this as a glovebox cassette in my mum's Honda Civic alongside The Soul Cages, A New Flame and Billy Zane lookalike John James' Big Fat Soul
Same Ole Love <3<3<3
― ergonomic cher (P. Flick), Monday, 6 July 2020 20:35 (three years ago) link
Caught up in this rapture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiH3fiEM7Ac
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 April 2021 14:48 (three years ago) link
Happy birthday!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soZl5t30Lhc
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 January 2022 03:06 (two years ago) link