New Formula

Today | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 11, 1992)
• Label: Motown
• ASIN: B00008FF8P
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #605,412 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I Got the Feeling

2. Every Little Thing About You

3. Self Centered

4. Let Me Know

5. Why You Get Funky on Me [Remix]

6. Trying to Get Over You

7. I Wanna Come Back Home

8. Home Is Where You Belong

9. Tennis Anyone

10. Gonna Make You Mine

11. No Need to Worry [*]

12. My Happiness [*]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars New Jack Swing Anyone?, December 22, 2003

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"retro_styled_crooner" (Tustin, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: New Formula (Audio CD)

After the foursomes successful 1989 self-titled debut, Today's (Frederick Lee "Bubba" Drakeford, Larry Singletary, Wesley Adams, and Larry McCain) 1991 follow-up titled, The New Formula, erased the quartet's choir boy image, when trying to compete with other New Jacks such as the groundbreaking Bell Biv DeVoe. Their sophomore great effort toughened the edges of its sound to compete with the unorthodox B.B.D., playing up its skittering arrangements and dropping the group's smooth, choir styled harmonies in the background, the better to cop the production style of Bell Biv DeVoe's "Poison" (Poison was produced by Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis and Public Enemy producers Hank and Keith Shocklee). And while "The King of New Jack Swing" Teddy Riley, had steered and directed much of the groups self-titled debut, The New Formula was assembled with numerous producers, such as Gene Griffin, Dr. Freeze, Charles Farrar, ect., but still arrived in the shadow of Bell Biv Devoe's powerhouse debut, Poison. The released singles "Why You Get Funky On Me" "I Wanna Come Back Home" and the albums perfect opener "I Got The Feeling" all flirted with chart success, and was much deserved of mainstream accecptance with their tightly wound arrangements. Though its very unfortunate Today got caught up in imitating other acts, oppose to riding out their own, which was headed down a positive road, say the least.

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Good, November 30, 2008

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Jocelyn L. Mcnear - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The New Formula (Audio CD)

I am very satisfied with product and service I received. Keep up the good work!

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars POSSIBLY BLACKBALLED!, August 27, 2009

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G. SMITH (San Antonio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The New Formula (Audio CD)

Either the record company or somebody is doing Big Bub and Today wrong!! You mean to tell me they have no release for either of Today's album and Bub's Comin at Cha album?? You can't tell me that their music is not good enough to put on the market, especially with the garbage out there right now! I'm thinking that Big Bub must've rubbed somebody the wrong way!!