Instant [Import]

Raphael Saadiq | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 22, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Universal Import
• ASIN: B000063KYP
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,561,564 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

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

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pure Talent, September 20, 2002

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sha (NYC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Instant (Audio CD)

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

5.0 out of 5 stars Instant, August 1, 2002

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SID "Punk" (BOSTON) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Instant (Audio CD)

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.