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PATRICE RUSHEN Straight From The Heart 2x LP NEW COLORED VINYL Strut reissue
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March 14, 2023
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Store Categories PATRICE RUSHEN Straight From The Heart / 2x LP NEW COLORED VINYL / Strut 2022
2022 2xLP reissue on white vinyl - An early-'80s jazz-pop-R&B synthesis as durable and pleasing as any other, Straight from the Heart was Patrice Rushen's most successful album, at least from a sales standpoint: it peaked at number 14 on the pop chart, 25 slots higher than 1980's Pizzazz. Still working with a core group of associates -- including Freddie Washington, Charles Mims, Paul M. Jackson, and Marlo Henderson (along with a still young Gerald Albright) -- that went back to her earlier Elektra albums, the material here is as slick as ever, but not at the expense of lighter rhythms or less memorable melodies. Much of the album's popularity can be attributed to the club hit "Forget Me Nots," Rushen's most-known single -- a breezy, buoyant mixture of handclaps, fingersnaps, twisting bass, and Rushen's typically blissful (and not overplayed) electric piano, not to mention the incorporation of a bad bass-and-percussion breakdown. (If you were born after the mid-'70s or so, you'd be more likely to recognize the song as the basis of Will Smith's "Men in Black.") Beyond a forgettable ballad or two, the only disappointment is the Brenda Russell collaboration on "Breakout!," where rock affectations (gnarling electric guitar, grimacing vocal tactics that suit neither Rushen nor Russell) damage what could've been a bigger hit. "Remind Me," despite not being released as a single, is a sweet and low-slung groove that has been sampled and interpolated by no less than a dozen significant rap and R&B songs -- including Faith Evans' "Fallin' in Love," Notorious B.I.G.'s "Unbelievable," MoKenStef's "He's Mine," and Junior M.A.F.I.A.'s "I Need You Tonight." But it's not like anything about this album requires that kind of validation.
A1 Forget Me Nots
A2 I Was Tired Of Being Alone
A3 All We Need
A4 Number One (Instrumental)
B1 Where There Is Love
B2 Breakout!
B3 If Only
B4 Remind Me
B5 (She Will) Take You Down To Love
C1 Forget Me Nots (12" Version)
C2 Breakout (12" Version)
D1 I Was Tired of Being Alone (12" Version)
D2 Number One (12" Version)
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