Brand Nubian - Love Me Or Leave Me Alone

Senior year dance classic material.

Gregory Isaacs - Babylon Too Rough

Slow down bredren, you'll miss something.

The Mad Lads - Make This Young Lady Mine

Prince Paul is a genius plain and simple.

Francis and the Lights - Like a Dream

As good as it gets.

Cliff Nobles - Love is All Right

Soul funk heater to warm that ass up!

Arthur Russell - A Little Lost

Find this record.

Gilbere Forte - Pray

This kid's on the come up, don't sleep. All black all black all black!

Restless People - Don't Back Down

Fun little tune for your new years party.

Autre Ne Veut - Play By Play

That old new shit.

Tony! Toni! Tone! - Whatever You Want

I'm working on a baby makin' mix for a friend's baby shower (a brilliant idea that I wish I could take credit for) and I've discovered two things. One, slow jams have some of the longest fade-outs in the history of music and two, this song. Technically, it's a rediscovery of a high school slow dance fave that brings me right back to my high school gymnasium. Memories of clinging to my "best friend" David McGuire as we did the side step, me taking deep inhales of his Eternity for Men cologne. The billowy blouses and tightly sculpted moustaches in this very cheesy video don't really do justice to how this song still makes me swoon. As daboss88100 comments on YouTube: "The 93 poor souls that hit the dislike button could not POSSIBLY have a romantic bone in their entire body. THIS joint was the DEAL in the early 90's." Indeed.