>>Please just let them know that they made some long time
>fans
>>very happy. This album is so good I went out and bought 2
>more
>>copies yesterday for friends... one called me last night
>>raving about how good this shit is.
>>
>As I stated earlier in this post before I ran out to Best Buy
>last week I was copping two (one for my work homegirl).
>
>When she came back in after the weekend not only did she say
>she loved it but that she'd been bumping it in the car while
>driving her daughter & friends around (they're all about
>14/15, high school freshman) and they were all loving it
>(Cadillac & Faithful being the consensus amongst their crew).
>
>Those 14-year-olds who had never heard of The Time couldn't
>even believe these guys were 'old', they were banging it like
>it was the new Chris Brown & were getting picked up from their
>little high-school dance telling my coworker that they were
>'condensating' on the dance floor all night.
>
>I was grinning ear-to-ear when she told me that.
>
>> The more I listen to this album the better it gets. I'm
>going
>>to have to bump my rating up from an 8 to 9.5 ... even
>Trendin
>>and Lifestyle are working for me now. Only reason i'm not
>>going to give it a 10 is this album gives me faith they
>might
>>be on an upswing and could do even better with another one
>>lol. I think the problem some folks had (me included) is
>they
>>really didn't know what they wanted from a new Time album.
>Had
>>they just dropped a bunch of by the numbers classic sounding
>>Time jams I don't think we'd have really been all that
>>satisfied in the long run. What they did with this thing is
>>pretty damn impressive when you sit down and let it
>marinate.
>>The fellas have seamlessly merged the Time sound with
>various
>>styles and genres... even more they each brought their solo
>>sounds into the mix. Take a song like Lifestyle (which i
>kinda
>>passed over when the album first dropped) in one song you
>have
>>that classic "dreamy" Jam & Lewis production on top of a
>>modern sounding R&B track with a splash of Jesse's "I Want
>My
>>Girl" synths thrown in for good measure. In context I can't
>>even be mad at what they did with Trendin now.
>>
>>The album is simply brilliant imo... in fact this may become
>>somewhat of a litmus test for me. If you can't find this
>thing
>>at least somewhat enjoyable I don't think we should ever be
>>discussing music again... we're clearly looking for
>different
>>things if you can't feel this.
>>
>>The boys did good... even better than I first thought. We
>just
>>didn't know what we wanted... but more importantly they did.

True that....