TLC's debut album, Ooooooohhh...on the TLC Tip, established the trio's image and unorthodox fashion sense, which at this point was based on baggy, brightly colored clothes...
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Even Babyface's typically airtight production can't lock out TLC's irresistible personalities. As far as songs, go, the album is 50 percent ultragroovy pop hit, 50 percent...
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On their second album, TLC downplay their overt rap connections, recording a smooth, seductive collection of contemporary soul reminiscent of both Philly soul and Prince,...
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TLC
's strong return amazes during a time when most R&B hip-hop follow-ups bore. Even if Fanmail
doesn't sell the 10 million-plus that CrazySexyCool sold, it surely...
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Crazysexycool was one of those records that defined an era. Few records before it combined hip-hop and classic soul songwriting quite as intoxicatingly or gracefully -- the...
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Crazysexycool was one of those records that defined an era. Few records before it combined hip-hop and classic soul songwriting quite as intoxicatingly or gracefully -- the...
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If the death of Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes means the end of TLC after this album, it would make her untimely passing doubly sad. Dozens of like-minded female acts have followed...
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How good is TLC? So good that they survive the tragic, early death of a key member -- Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes was killed in a car accident during the recording of 3D -- with...
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How good is TLC? So good that they survive the tragic, early death of a key member -- Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, who was killed in a car accident during the recording of 3D --...
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Released a little over a year after TLC's final posthumous 3D, Now and Forever: The Hits is a superb 19-track compilation of the trio's heyday as the greatest girl group of...
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This import compilation became redundant with the 2005 Arista release Now & Forever: The Hits. Released in Argentina, it also illustrates how the perception of a group can...
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