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Genre:
R&B
Release Date: 03/21/2006
If the people who assembled the sequence for the first volume of
Slow Motion did, in fact, make a mistake by including
TLC's
"Unpretty" (which is neither slow nor the least bit
romantic), they make up for it on
Slow Motion, Vol. 2 by including the same group's
"Red Light Special" (which is both). Though it could've used a couple of up-to-date selections (the latest tracks were released during 2003), this disc is another decent representation of popular
R&B from the mid-'90s through the early 2000s, though it isn't quite as strong as the first volume, relying too heavily on sappy material that hasn't aged well. Again, most of these songs were major hits, and some of them were released on flimsy albums, which makes the disc all the more useful. However,
Shaggy's
"Angel" -- an ugly combination of
Juice Newton's
"Angel of the Morning" and
Steve Miller Band's
"The Joker" -- is not the sweetest way to close out a compilation of any form, and a few tracks are more suited for splitting up than hooking up.
~Andy Kellman, All Music Guide
;)
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