Teena Marie - Wild & Peaceful (Exp)
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Artist: Teena MarieEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: EP, Limited Edition
Published: 2005
CD Release Date: 2005-11-18
Music Label: Hip-O Select
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Free Music Review: I'm Just a Sucker For Teena Marie
Hit: 4 Stars
"Wild and Peaceful" was Teena Marie's first studio album and collaboration with Rick James released in 1979.
The pair team up on the irressistible "I'm A Sucker For Your Love", where James gives her the introduction "Give it up for Lady T". The song immediately conjures up images of limousines and cocaine and Studio 54 circa 1980. It's exaggerated baby-doll backup vocals are campy and fun and even if the rest of this album was garbage, it would still be worth getting for this song alone.
The laid-back "Turnin' Me On" coasts smoothly on a simple guitar hook.
"Don't Look Back" is more pop-funk than "Sucker" but just as catchy and Teena really tears into this song with her vocals more raw here.
"Deja Vu (I've Been Here Before)" is the big showstopper ballad of this album. Here Teena sings of racial harmony and spirituality ("Rainbow colored people, happy as can be") backed by a subtle saxophone that's so far back in the mix so as not to overpower the vocals. It's undoubtedly one of the most beautiful, heart-lifting things she ever recorded. A gorgeous harp and celestial backing vocals close the song.
"I'm Gonna Have My Cake (And Eat It Too)" won't appeal to you if you don't like jazzy piano standards, otherwise it's proof-positive of Teena's versatility.
The production and backing vocals of "Can't Love Anymore" reminds me of the big, grandiose ballads Vikki Carr and Petula Clark were making a decade or so earlier.
The short track listing makes this look like an EP but all the songs are around the six or seven-minute mark in length.
Overall, a very impressive debut for Lady T!
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Wild And Peaceful: Expanded Edition was supervised by Teena Marie and is the first of three of her original Motown albums to get the Select remastered and expanded treatment. We've added three bonus tracks to the album's original classic six: the 12" instrumental flipside of "I'm A Sucker For Your Love"; "You Got The Love," a session outtake; and a stunning closer, "Every Little Bit Hurts." Though another version of the latter, a cover of Brenda Holloway's first Motown hit, was released on a 1994 Teena Marie hits collection, the artist pointedly told us... "wait, there's a version with me and Rick. Find that." One listen you'll know why she remembered it more than 25 years after it was recorded. Lady T's tenure at Motown lasted four albums. She made a lasting mark, and her career continues to thrive more than two decades later.Dance & DJ Music CDs
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