In Effect Mode

Al B. Sure

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Original Release Date: May 3, 1988
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea
• ASIN: B000002LD5
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #34,867 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Still a hot debut today! , December 6, 2004

By	Preston (nc) - See all my reviews

Somehow, the albums from 1988, my high school graduation year, have held up very well and still get some radio airplay! Al B Sure is one of them! Although he had to compete with Keith Sweat and Bobby Brown for R&B male artist chart dominance, his album was a superb effort all throughout! The sexy Nite and Day still sounds fabulous! The new jack sounds of Off on Your Own Girl, which he won a Soul Train Music Award for, still are funky! His remake of Roberta Flack's Killing Me Softly is still fabulous. And songs like Naturally Mine and If I'm Not Your Lover are still nicely done! The high point of this album is the musicianship of Al B. Sure and Kyle West who produced most of the songs. Their construction of the songs and melodies are very masterful. And Teddy Riley produced one song, but nobody noticed it even when his group Guy was a major hit in '88. Sure couldn't match this success on his later albums, but this is a fine debut by him, one of the '80s best R&B albums!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "I can tell you how I feel about you...Nite and Day", November 2, 2001

By	High Desert Woman (Up in the Bronx where the people are fresh, NY) - See all my reviews

Al B. Sure! was the boy-toy that every girl wanted to play with back in 88'. I cannot tell you how may times I rewinded "Night and Day!" I still love this album!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars OOOH THIS MAN IS SO!!!!!!!!!!!!, November 11, 2004

By	im_so_fly20 "this_diva84" (AUSTELL, GA.) - See all my reviews

MAN,,, I HAD TO SIT DOWN AND TAKE SOME TIME OUT OF MY BUSY DAY AND WRITE A LITTLE SOMETHING ABOUT "IN EFFECT MODE",,,,,BEING THAT I AM TWENTY YEARS OLD AND I WAS ONLY FOUR YEARS OLD WHEN THIS ALBUM WAS RELEASED,,,,I REMEMBER IT LIKE IT WAS YESTERDAY WHEN I FIRST HEARD THE SONG "OOH! THIS LOVE IS SO",,, I WAS IN LOVE WITH IT AND STILL AM,,, THIS IS THE MOST UNDER RATED AND OVERLOOKED SONG EVER,,, IT IS SO BEAUTIFUL AND SEXY,,, I AM SO IN LOVE WITH THIS ALBUM ,, FROM BEGINNING TO END, IT IS INCREDIBLE... KEEP IN MIND THAT I MAY BE YOUNG ,BUT I KNOW WHAT GREAT MUSIC IS,,, SEE IM NOT INTO RAP. ITS ALL ABOUT THE 80'S AND 70'S R&B MUSIC IN MY CD PLAYER,,, NO OTHER GENRE OF MUSIC CAN TOUCH IT,,,, AND IS IT JUST ME OR DID GOOD QUALITY MUSIC DIE? OLD SCHOOL PLAYAS LIKE MR.SURE ,CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS, NEW EDITION,TROOP, AND GUY AND SO ON AND SO FORTH,, CAN NOT BE TOUCHED BY THESE BUBBLEGUMS WE HAVE OUT NOW!!!!!!!! WHAT HAPPENED EVERYONE???????? BUT TO CLOSE THIS OUT ,, "IN EFFECT MODE" IS A CLASSIC MASTERPIECE AND MY FAVORITE TRACKS ARE.....

1. "OOH! THIS LOVE IS SO"--- THIS IS THE MOST SEXY AND DYNAMIC SONG ON THE ALBUM AND ONE OF THE BEST AND SEXIEST SONGS OF ALL TIME... PLEASE LISTEN TO IT AND YOU'LL FALL IN IN LOVE WITH IT LIKE I DID.... {TIMELESS CLASSIC}.

2."NATURALLY MINE"--- THIS IS ALSO ANOTHER GREAT UNDER RATED SONG,,,THAT IS SO BEAUTIFUL AND WELL WRITTEN. BEAUTIFUL , BEAUTIFUL LOVE SONG ..... {ANOTHER TIMELESS CLASSIC}.

3."NITE AND DAY"--- I LOVE THIS ONE TOO,, THEY PLAYED IT A LITTLE TOO MUCH IN THE LATE 80'S AND THE EARLY 90'S,, BUT IT IS STILL A BEAUTIFUL SONG...

4."OFF ON YOUR OWN (GIRL)"---NICE UPTEMPO TRACK AND LYRICS, I LOVE THE RAP AND EVERY THING ABOUT THIS TRACK....

5."KILLING ME SOFTLY"-- GREAT,,, REMAKE {TIMELESS CLASSIC}



ALL IN ALL, I LOVE THE OTHER SONGS BUT THESE ARE MY JAMS.. ESPECIALLY "OOH THIS LOVE IS SO",,, I CANT SAY ENOUGH ABOUT THIS ONE THOUGH . BUT THIS ALBUM IS A CLASSIC AND AL B. SURE IS SO , SO TALENTED... HE AND THE NEW JACK SWING ERA WILL SURELY BE MISSED.


AL B. SURE IS ONE OF OUR BEST ARTISTS OF THE 80'S ASIDE FROM HIS GOOD LOOKS HE SURE IS TALENTED,, AND CAN SING THE MESS OUT OF "OOH THIS LOVE IS SO" AND "NATURALLY MINE" HE WILL ALWAYS HOLD A PLACE IN OUR HEARTS "MUSICALLY"......