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Instant Artist: Raphael Saadiq
Label: Umvd Import
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4988005299857
ASIN: B000063KYP


Release Date: 2002-05-22

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Tracks:

  1. Doing What I Can
  2. Body Parts
  3. Be Here
  4. Still Ray
  5. Oph
  6. You're The One That I Like
  7. Excuse Me
  8. Charlie Ray
  9. Different Times
  10. Tick Tock
  11. People
  12. Tek #1
  13. Faithful
  14. Make My Day
  15. Blind Man
  16. Tek #2
  17. Uptown
  18. What's Life Like
  19. What's Life Like
  20. What

Album Details

Japanese Version featuring a Bonus Track: 'what?'

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Pure Talent.......2002-09-21

This CD is one of the best I've heard in the past 5 years.
If you enjoyed his music and soulful voice with the Tonies, this is a double treat. Its worth the purchase. Do your self a favor and buy this CD. Just think how many albums you purchased in the last year or so that you can listen to continuously. I know that I haven't heard too many. Let that be your motivation.

Sha

5 out of 5 stars Instant.......2002-08-01

Now that 20-track CDs have become the rule instead of the exception, "sprawling" is an adjective you could slap on plenty of new R&B albums--and not as a compliment, either. But the first solo disc from former Tony! Toni! Tone! frontman Raphael Saadiq is one of those rare creations that makes a virtue of its sprawl.
More a grab bag of classic soul riffs than a collection of proper songs, nearly every cut on Instant Vintage sticks nonetheless, as Saadiq's crafty production (check the tuba on "Still Ray," or the vocals that substitute for wah-wah guitar on the Prince-ly "What's Life Like") and occasionally imaginative lyrics personalize his borrowings. What makes it all flow together like honey, however, is the genuine warmth of the old masters; it's reflected in Saadiq's supple croon and through the guests he chooses (similarly earthy artists like D'Angelo and Angie Stone), and puts him an easy cut or three above the many neo-soul hopefuls he's inspired.

Music:

  1. It's an Uphill Climb (To the Bottom) ~ Walter Jackson
  2. Modern Soul Dancefloor Classics, Vol. 1 ~ Various Artists
  3. Ain't We Funkin' Now ~ The Brothers Johnson
  4. Soul Groove ~ Various Artists
  5. Sound of Motortown Detroit ~ Various Artists
  6. Solid Gold Soul Inspiration ~ Various Artists
  7. Super Hits ~ The Isley Brothers
  8. Grandes Exitos 2
  9. Universal Masters Collection ~ Edwin Starr
  10. On a Mission ~ G-Ism

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Caminos De Michoacan ~ Federico Villa

Quiero Que Vuelvas ~ Chavos Guadarrama

Scirocco-Desert Wind ~ Benedetti & Svoboda

My Many Moods ~ Amy Stephens Group

President Plays With the Oscar Peterson ~ Lester Young

Zoot Sims Plays Johnny Mandel: Quietly There ~ Zoot Sims

Que Se Mueran los Feos ~ Tigrillos

America Es ~ Various Artists

La Musica de Armando Manzanero ~ Various Artists

Pa' Que Te Enamores ~ Various Artists