King of Stage [Original recording reissued]

Bobby Brown | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 19, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Mca Special Products
• ASIN: B000006OFI
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #40,326 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #76 in Music > R&B > New Jack

Track Listings

1. Girlfriend

2. Girl Next Door

3. Baby, I Wanna Tell You Something

4. You Ain't Been Loved Right

5. King of Stage

6. Love Obsession

7. Spending Time

8. Seventeen

9. Your Tender Romance

Editorial Reviews

New York Times, January 30, 2000

Lauridsen enjoys respect of music directors throughout America. Beauty, potency...grand/intimate works. Perpetual light shines on all the settings.

Masterly works, both esoteric and accessible, simultaneously popular and deep, sung with passionate intensity. Give it to your best friend.

Radiant, heart-felt, absolutely gorgeous music delivered con amore. Powerfully uplifting, intense spiritual beauty. On my Year's Best List.

Raleigh, N.C. News & Observer, June, 2000

Beautiful...a gorgeous fabric of choral sound that creates a unique sound-world ...pushes you to tears. Simply stunning.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good first album for him; several funk-driven songs here!, April 7, 2005

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Preston (nc) - See all my reviews

This review is from: King of Stage (Audio CD)

I didn't hear this album until the mid-90s. I had been more onto Don't Be Cruel and the albums after it. But this album was a good first effort for Bobby Brown. I still like Girlfriend. But the rest of the album had some funky numbers. The Larry Blackmon songs for Bobby are heavy on the funk, a little of a Cameo sound added to Bobby's post New Edition style. There were some hints of the heavy funk that Bobby would give to Cruel two years later. Brown sounds more free form here than the limited appeal that he had in his former group.

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome delivery, March 28, 2009

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent solo debut!, April 20, 2006

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andy8047 (Nokomis,Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: King of Stage (Audio CD)

Bobby Brown's departure from New Edition downgraded the quintet to a quartet. This 1986 solo debut of his spawned the Top 10 smooth smash GIRLFRIEND and later the Top 20 hit THE GIRL NEXT DOOR. New Edition continued as a quintet though,with Johnny Gill succeeding Brown. I always thought GIRLFRIEND was a beautiful slow love jam. Also,in '86,NE released their fourth album,UNDER THE BLUE MOON,filled with "oldies-but-goodies" covers. Brown rose to superstardom two years later with his second album DON'T BE CRUEL,a Grammy-winner. He also made headlines in publications like Star,National Enquirer,The Globe and National Examiner when he took the Grammy-winning diva Whitney Houston to be his lawfully wedded wife in 1992. The other songs are excellent.