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...BOTTOM LINE: The suspense is mild, the sexual heat is low, but Whitney Houston's screen debut has its charms...
...started singing in local pubs, but quit three years later to begin recording with two Rochdale musicians. Her payoff came in 1989 when her debut album, Affection, scored two No. 1 hits on the black charts in America. Her newest disk, Real Love, is her finest yet; the breathy come-ons of Time to Make You Mine are arrestingly seductive, and in Change she shows off the glorious arc of her upper register...
...soon as he turned 17. Settling in Sheffield, he bunked with friends and worked through the night in recording studios, listening to records and composing songs. Says Lewis, 24: "I discovered Marvin Gaye, Joni Mitchell and Curtis Mayfield. I just swallowed it all up." As he was writing his debut album, his mother and brother died. Skin, as Lewis titled the album, became a record of his feelings: melancholy and vulnerability. When he sings, "Is my skin just a veil I'm wearing/ Protect me from the world," his languid baritone catches gently, and the beating rhythms wash over...
Thrilling game, yes; auspicious debut...
...first four tracks are drawn from The Teardrop Explodes' debut LP, Kilimanjaro (1980). Standouts include the dementedly jazzy hit single "Reward" (which rhymes "queues" with "Howard Hughes") and the shiny creepy "Sleeping Gas." Dissonant guitar and horn solos over driving, repetitive rhythm sections are the norm here, but this stuff is too much fun to feel avant-garde...