A tie with Heartbreak for their best album to me

I thought that New Edition's second album, and their first for MCA, was a musically, well made effort. Cool It Now had that Michael Jackson kind of sound to it--would have sounded good on Michael's own Thriller album! The single they made for radio is no contest to the 6 minutes that's on the album. I still like Kinda Girls We Like, the romantic Lost In Love, My Secret, the Ray Parker Jr-sounding Mr. Telephone Man, the nice Delicious and others. One song I still play a lot is the funky, groove heavy Hide and Seek, with its slamming rhythms on the keyboards and bass guitar! Bobby Brown was better on this album out of the three he's done with the group. Ralph Tresvant had a nice falsetto on the songs. And the other three sounded good in their harmonies. This ties with Heartbreak as my favorite album by NE!

Great R&B!

In 1984,New Edition's second album,this one self-titled,was released. The previous year they scored with CANDY GIRL. The title track was a Top 20 hit. This album spawned two Top 20 hits,COOL IT NOW and MR. TELEPHONE MAN. The latter track was written and produced by Ray Parker Jr. who scored with GHOSTBUSTERS,from the movie of the same title,the same year. I remember in the music video for CIN,New Edition were hanging out near a basketball court checking out young females. I first saw it in late 1984. Several years ago,I heard MTM on a classic R&B station for the first time in sixteen years. I thought it was a composition by Parker since it sounds similar to his 1981 hit A WOMAN NEEDS LOVE(Just Like You Do). I checked the songwriting credits on the internet for MTM and I was correct. I love the "shoo-bee-doo wop" on MARYANN. New Edition member Bobby Brown would later go out on his own(his 1986 solo debut hit was GIRLFRIEND). He had other hits two years later,DON'T BE CRUEL(not to be confused with the song recorded by the late great Elvis Presley and later covered by Cheap Trick) and MY PREROGATIVE. In 1992,he'd take Whitney Houston to be his lawfully wedded wife. Brown and Houston are still husband and wife today despite occasional physical abuse and drug problems. Ralph Tresvant went solo briefly himself. Ronnie Bell,Michael Bivins and Ronnie DeVoe later spun themselves off as a trio called Bell Biv DeVoe. Bell Biv DeVoe debuted in 1990. Tresvant released a solo album the same year. Between 1985 and 1988,New Edition fullfilled their recording contract with MCA(3 more albums in that time frame). I also like HIDE AND SEEK,KINDA GIRLS WE LIKE,DELICIOUS,I'M LEAVING YOU AGAIN,BABY LOVE and DELICIOUS. The others are very good.

N E Heartbeak

Nothing compares to New Edition even the new stars. When they came to VA I was there. I had never seen so many people at the NE Heartbreak tour.

Still today I play me jams. I have all the collections and they are dear to me.