Design of a Decade: 1986-1996

Design of a Decade: 1986-1996 Artist: Janet Jackson
Label: A&M
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio Cassette


UPC: 731454039949
EAN: 0731454039949
ASIN: B000002G44


Release Date: 1995-10-10

Design of a Decade: 1986-1996


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Tracks:

  1. Runaway
  2. What Have You Done for Me Lately?
  3. Nasty
  4. When I Think of You
  5. Escapade
  6. Miss You Much
  7. Love Will Never Do (Without You)
  8. Alright
  9. Control
  10. Pleasure Principle
  11. Black Cat
  12. Rhythm Nation
  13. That's the Way Love Goes
  14. Come Back to Me
  15. Let's Wait Awhile
  16. Twenty Foreplay

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  2. Rhythm Nation 1814
  3. Control
  4. The Velvet Rope
  5. The Immaculate Collection

Amazon.com

This decade-spanning compilation charts the singer-dancer-actress's transformation from rebellious teenager to sexy diva, along the way check-listing major hits like "Nasty," "Miss You Much," "What Have You Done for Me Lately?" and "Rhythm Nation." Two new tracks bookend the set, but even the older material--most of it helmed by writer-producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis--holds up remarkably well. <I>--Courtney Kemp</I>

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Great compliation of Janet Jackson's hits.......2007-05-15

Great CD, as contains all of Janet's best known hits.

5 out of 5 stars THE TALENTED JACKSON.......2007-02-10

Janet once again shows that she is the talented one in her family by blasting out some amazing dance tunes along with a few slower ballads.

5 out of 5 stars design of a wonderful career.......2007-02-02

This was the first janet album I ever bought and from then on I became a fan for life. This album is full of her hits from control and RN in addition to a hit from the janet. album and 2 new tracks. I love to play this album when I don't feel like switching to different janet CD's for hearing different songs. I don't think anyone's r&b/pop collection is complete without this compilation of some of the greatest pop music of our time.

4 out of 5 stars Janet is a legend!.......2007-01-27

This CD is abslutely incredible. The one and only reason that I took one star off is because of the weird concept. It inclues all her hits from A&M records, as well as two new songs and "That's the Way Love Goes". I understand the reasoning, butit is still a bit akward.

Regardless, that doesn't take away from the fantastic music. It starts off with "Runaway" which is a classic Janet 'holiday' song in the vein of 'Escapade". The camera'click sound on each beat is very catchy and unique.

The next few tracks are from Janet's 1986 breakthrough "Control": "What Have you Done for me Lately", "Nasty" and "When I Think Of You". All classic singles that have the most seductive dance beats and attitude that makes Janet who she is.

It continues with four tracks from "Rhythm Nation 1814": "Escapade", "Miss You Much", "Love Will Never Do...", and "Alright" They all have futuristic, yet 80's pop beat to them which is the tone for the RN1814 album. Of course, they'll all extremely catchy. "Alight" appears in it's radio remix form, which is a nice little treat.

The album continues with two more "Control" tracks: The amazing "Control", and "The Pleasure Principle". Jimmy, Terry and Janet did great job on these. They are R&B classics that sound even better today. Next are "Black Cat" and "Rhythm Nation. The former is also in radio remix form which is a nice luxury. "Rhythm Nation" is basically the same as it's album verison, with the excusion of Janet's 'pledge speech' at the beginning.

The last four songs are slow jams, each from a different album. "That's the Way Lvoe Goes" from 'janet.' is J's biggest hit, and with good reason. The beat is so sexy, as are Janet's vocals. The groove is absolutely blissful. Next is "Come Back to Me" (RN1814), a fantastic soothing R&B ballad that sounds ahead of it's time. "Let's Wait A while" is Janet's first hit ballad (from "Control"), and it's a very sweet song about waiting to have sex. Last but not least is anoher new track "Twenty Foreplay" which starts off as a sweet slow ballad, and then changes it's tone to a straight-up funky, love-making jam.

All-in-all,this CD demonstrates what an amazing talent Janet Jackson is, and what pleasure it is to have her as part of he music industry.

4 out of 5 stars Missing a couple of good ones, but still an affordable and mostly well-chosen overview.......2006-11-26

All of the albums whose material are collected on this set should really be listened to in their entirety, but this is still worth obtaining for the two new songs that were on it, the whimsical "Runaway" and the dreamy sex ballad "Twenty Foreplay". Both of these were great songs that sounded more like vintage hits instead of tacked-on filler.

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