Londonbeat

Londonbeat | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 14, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Mca
• ASIN: B000008OOW
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #566,284 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Come Back

2. Brother Trouble!

3. You Make Me Do Things

4. Being With You

5. Build It With Love

6. Can't Help Wishing Back Yesterday

7. Hero in My Eyes

8. Perfect Skin

9. If Jesus Sang the Blues

10. Be There for Me

11. I Want to Change All This

Editorial Reviews

Londonbeat

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5.0 out of 5 stars Londonbeat's Sophomore Album More Than Avoids Any Slump, April 17, 2009

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James M. Cayon "ogam5" (Northampton, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Londonbeat (Audio CD)

Londonbeat will be forever remembered in the States, if at all, for the unforgettable 1990 No. 1 single "I've Been Thinking About You", as original as any song to ever top the charts and introducing a sort of progressive disco called 'house' to the American mainstream that had its roots in the late Eighties 'Hi-NRG' syncopated arrangement style of 100-plus BPMs, but slower and less mechanized, with a slightly psychedelic, much more trancier feel [I don't pretend to be any expert on dance music, but it's likely the transition from one style to the other can be seen as happening with Paul Lekakis' 1987 worldwide smash "Boom Boom (Let's Go To My Room)" and closely followed by the Seal/Adamski collaboration "Killer"]. In The Blood, the debut album from which it came, was full of such stunning (if less insistent) danceable soul, with a gentle acoustic sensibility despite the electronic textures of most numbers and even a pair of tunes that arguably qualified as folk (greatly influencing Kenny "Babyface' Edmunds and a Seal-like bloke named Haddaway, who had his own huge hit that copped something of the same vibe, "What Is Love?"; Londonbeat was in turn influenced to a certain degree by The Christians' earliest work themselves, and that unsung British group would take some of the borrowed sound back on their album Happy In Hell not long after).

The group's second effort, simply titled Londonbeat, is actually a much more cohesive, consistent record and it really does earn every one of the 5 stars I've assigned it, despite the only other review on this site. Like the later Lighthouse Family, it heavily evokes the Spinners but also calls to mind the Temptations, Sly Stone and, in its more gospel-tinged moments, the Impressions. There just isn't a sub-par track on Londonbeat, one of the Nineties' very best records and a classic R & B side. WELL worth the investment!

2.0 out of 5 stars Not too good..., January 17, 2007

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clodhoppersmith - See all my reviews

This review is from: Londonbeat (Audio CD)

Londonbeat's albums were good for 2 or 3 nice songs, surrounded by a lot of unoffensive filler. Sadly, they forgot the good songs on this one. For those just starting out, go with their greatest hits, then dig further if you find yourself wanting more. I would have to say "You Make Me Do Things" as a favorite track here. Has a bit of a 70s Stevie Wonder groove going.