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Artist:The Time
Title:What Time Is It?
Label:  Warner Bros.
Country:USA
Catalogue:1-23701 / 9 23701-1
Barcode:07599237011
Date:Aug 1982
Format:LP
Collection:  I Own It     I Want It 
Community: 8 Own
Price Guide:$20
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$20


TrackArtistTitleComposerRating
A1The TimeWild And LooseThe Time10.0  Rate
A2The Time777-9311Morris Day10.0  Rate
A3The TimeOnedayI'mgonnabesomebodyThe Time8.0  Rate
B1The TimeThe WalkThe Time10.0  Rate
B2The TimeGigolos Get Lonely TooMorris Day9.0  Rate
B3The TimeI Don't Wanna Leave YouThe Time8.0  Rate


Notes

BB Top Album Picks: September 11, 1982

Produced by Morris Day & The Starr ★ Company

Comments and Reviews
 
Tane1976
13th Feb 2017
 Review
The Time's second and best of their album. The funk work outs on the debut are taken further and we have a good time fun record. The opener Wild and Loose is agreat party jam about being a famous band and having fun. Includes a funny conversation with some female fans talking uo the group, but once they meet Morris, who brushes them off, they change.

This is followed by 777 - 9311 a song about the group wanting a ladies phone number, no doubt for something else. The song ahs a pleading party feel and became a huge hit on the soul chart reaching #2. In real life it was the phone number of Prince's guitarist - Dez Dickerson, who had to change it after he was called all hours of the night.

The nest song is a silly skit, but enjoyable enough, but it is a filler. Then comes The Walk, easily the best Jam on the album and possibly the greatest song ever by the Time. The walk is about showing off and includes a catchy melody and some hilarious lyrics. At the end Morris is encouraging Vanity (Of Vanity 6 fame) to lose her jeans and walk around in a camisole (After all the girls in his neighbourhood wear them and Morris always has a ready supply of women's lingere in his glovebox). Prince also offers vocal cameos and the whole song is funky but hilarious.

Finally we have two ballads, which are a vast improvement on the ballads on the debut. Gigolos get lonely to is sublime and proves there is more to Morris than some jet set meets jive ass pimp ladies man. He has emotions too, finally we I don't wanna leave you, which flies in the face of what we think of Morris. Here he sings about commitment, but this is strange from a man who pretty much is gone once he has finished you know what.

Overall this is great stuff, very funky, dancy and soulful and totally reminescent of the genius of Prince. 9/10

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Tane1976
13th Feb 2017
 Again, this album is all Prince, with him recording the tracks and using Morris for the vocals. He credits band members, but it is 100% Prince again, under the monniker Jamie Starr.
 

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