Midnight Star - 15th Avenue [2002]


Midnight Star hasn't lost a step at all..., Belinda and the guys bring the heat. Uptempo cuts like "15th Avenue, I Like(When You Dance with Me?, and VIP", are off the chain.., And the ballads, "Movin'On, Hooked on You, and Just Because I Love You", are those red light, belly-rubbin', house party smokers....For a so called old school act, Midnight Star has broken the rules..and has not lost a step..This CD's a sleeper.
















Midnight Star – Headline [1986]

The album's title and rap influenced single of the same name as well as the funky hypnotic "Midas Touch," both became bonafied Top 10 R&B hits while the essential "Engine No. 9" found an instant spot in the Top 20.Though never released as singles, the sultry "Stay Here By My Side" and the breathtaking "Close to Midnight" are pure listenable pleasures, making 'Headlines' a definite front page story to rave about.
















Midnight Star - No Parking On The Dance Floor [1983]

While "Freak-a-zoid" is probably its best known track, "No Parking On The Dance Floor" is an album that smacks of class from start to finish. Undoubtedly Midnight Star was a group with a lot of talent. Containing what I believe are three of the most underrated RnB singers of their time (Watson, Gentry, and Lipscomb), Midnight Star was able to produce an album with all key ingredients in abundance; grinding-groovin'-sweetness. For example, the dance numbers, "Freak-a-zoid" "Electricity" and the title track, are simple in construction, yet wickedly hypnotic with a decidedly "electro" flavour and thudding Zapp-like basslines. The mid-tempo songs are upbeat and thoroughly melodic, "Wet My Whistle" is a great example of laid back Eighties groove.Only very rarely do groups produce an album where all the ingredients synergise to create something great. No Parking On The Dance Floor was "it" for Midnight Star; awesome vocals, great songs, banging grooves.


* Props 2 D-Mac *

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