Weekend

Kenny Lattimore | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 9, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Arista
• ASIN: B00005O7SF
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #157,721 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars not a weekend wonder!, October 21, 2001

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"madgriot" (London, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Weekend (Audio CD)

I love this album. I bought it on the first day of its release and I've played it over and over again since.

There is a great balance of up-tempo and mellow tracks and Kenny's voice is sounding better than ever. He gets a chance to showcase this on the more acoustic tracks like "Lately", but he sounds just as good on the title track "Weekend" which he makes his own despite the Maxwellesque production.

Lyrically, Weekend doesn't disappoint. When the album slows to seductive on the distinctive Raphael Saddiq collaboration "Come to me", Kenny croons "It's about that that time that we get closer/ pour my love like wine sweet and slow" and immediately you think back to the unashamed lyrics of 70s soul. Nice.

My favorite tracks on this album are "Things I'll Do for you", "If Love Is What You Want", and the Babyface/LA Reid/Simmons joint "Right down to it" but you can't help being seduced by the other tracks too.

Now we all know that the best tracks on an album rarely get released as singles, so I recommend buying "Weekend" by this weekend!!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Weekend is a Winner, October 10, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Weekend (Audio CD)

Kenny's long anticipated album on a new label, Arista is well worth the wait. The album does depart from the previous two with well crafted, mid-tempo songs with a variety of influences. Weekend is a CD you could put on and listen to all weekend. Highlights from the album are: "Weekend" (first single), "If Love is What you Want", "The Things I'll Do" . "Don't Deserve" and the amazing song "Who". This is the premier album of Kenny's career. His voice is stong and comforting and makes the listener feel the songs like few artist can do. Give it a try. This is the album that Brian Mcknight should have made.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars (2-1/2 stars) Kenny, Kenny, Kenny..., February 26, 2003

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Anthony Rupert "shut up, Shut Up, SHUT UP!!!" (Milwaukee, WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Weekend (Audio CD)

Kenny Lattimore has been great because of his smooth ballads. But on Weekend, it seems like he took a page from the Solo handbook and brought a whole bunch of bland R&B songs in place of the classic soul songs he's known for.

This especially shows on the title track. I don't remember Kenny making any uptempo songs quite like this in the past-although you have to admit the song IS catchy. And the lyrics aren't terrible either-except for the lame bridge. In fact, most of the songs on here are okay EXCEPT for the bridge (the title track) or the chorus ("Don't Deserve").

And how about songs where the chorus AND bridge are bad? "Baby You're the One" should have never made it out of the studio. And "If Love Is What You Want" has a cheesy chorus (and a cheesy beat, too, now that I think about it), while the bridge finds Kenny saying things like "Tell me any little thing that you need/And I'll be, I'll be." You'll be what? Maybe you should finish your thoughts, Ken.

Sometimes even the ballads aren't very promising on this album. "Can You Feel Me" with Shanice doesn't give anyone a reason to cheer; also, who does a duet with Shanice in this day and age? Not even the Andre Harris/Vidal Davis contribution "Lately" stands out (in comparison to their other work, anyway).

Do you know what the end of this album is like? Well, since it was 2001, I don't know...how about throwing on a gospel song to try to make listeners forget how sloppy the rest of the album was? (See also Missy Elliott's Miss E...So Addictive and Destiny's Child's Survivor.) This album would have been better if it were Kenny's first album, because his self-titled debut is much better than this, and his second album From the Soul of Man is even better than that. Take my advice: skip this album and get his first two instead.