Originally Posted by
whitesoxx
My experience is that if a thread does not deal with "classic" Motown artists [[i.e. before 1975-ish) it quickly disappears to the bottom of the list. But I love Teena and was devastated when she passed. I was going to see her in concert in February, but alas, it wasn't meant to be...
Emerald City is actually my least favorite album of hers as it relies too much on the mid-80's synthesizer sound that was hip then, but not so now. If you want to have a nice overview I would suggest picking up the "Icon" Universal release and the "Super hits" Sony release, both are dirt cheap and have her best tracks from both eras, but no liner notes unfortunately. See what tracks you like and take it from there. My favourite albums by Teena are her Motown releases plus "Robbery" and "Starchild", along with the brilliant later "Sapphire" album.
There are some very nice Japanese mini-LP cd's out of her Epic albums and with the two Hip-O remasters all of her Motown albums have now been remastered although "Wild and Peaceful" is now hard to get at a normal price these days. I am assuming Sony will put out a 2-cd "Esssential" collection sometime in the future.
I am awaiting delivery of the three Hip-O releases that I do think are worth having as the original Lady T and Irons In The Fire cd's don't sound that great. True, the bonus tracks could have been more exciting, but that did not deter me from ordering the cd's.
Bookmarks