Bobby Brown - Gold 2CDs (2009)

A chance to both re-experience the 1980s and explore the roots of '90s R&B luminaries like Bobby Brown and Bell Biv Devoe is provided by this New Edition best-of, which features the decade of big shoulders' answer to the Jackson 5 in full-on bubblegum mode. Brown features heavily here as a band member and in his later all-grown-up solo incarnation singing hot old-school dance tracks like "My Prerogative" and "Don't Be Cruel," while Bell Biv Devoe's "Poison" is a fine example of vintage New Jack Swing. But GOLD's main pleasure lies in tracing New Edition's career path, from the early, squeaky voiced "Cool It Now" to the urbane, silky smooth R&B of "Can You Stand the Rain."

Tracklist

CD1
01. New Edition - Mr. Telephone Man 04:00
02. Bobby Brown - Girlfriend (Single Version) 04:10
03. Bobby Brown - Girl Next Door (Single Version) 04:07
04. Bobby Brown - Seventeen (Radio Edit) 05:47
05. Bobby Brown - Cruel Prelude 00:38
06. Bobby Brown - Don't Be Cruel / Cruel Reprise (LP Version) 07:03
07. Bobby Brown - My Prerogative 04:56
08. Bobby Brown - Roni (Single Version) 04:33
09. Bobby Brown - Rock Wit'cha 04:30
(Previously Unreleased Quiet Storm Mix)
10. Bobby Brown - Every Little Step 03:58
11. Bobby Brown - I'll Be Good To You 03:57
(Previously Unreleased 7 Inch Mix)
12. Bobby Brown - All Day All Nigh 04:44
13. Bobby Brown - We're Back 05:03
14. Bobby Brown - On Our Own 04:50

CD2
01. Bobby Brown - Every Little Step (Remix) 04:43
02. Glenn Mederiros - She Ain't Worth It (Feat. Bobby Brown) 03:36
03. Bobby Brown - Humpin' Around (Video Edit) 04:25
04. Bobby Brown - Two Can Play That Game 05:01
05. Bobby Brown - Get Away (Single Version) 04:38
06. Bobby Brown - Good Enough (Single Version) 03:59
07. Bobby Brown - One More Night 06:30
08. Bobby Brown - Lovin' You Down 05:47
09. Bobby Brown - That's The Way Love Is (Single Version) 04:08
10. New Edition - You Don't Have To Worry 04:44
11. Bobby Brown - Feelin' Inside 04:10
12. Bobby Brown - She's All I Need 04:30
13. Bobby Brown - My Place 04:59
14. Bobby Brown - Forever 04:44
15. Ja Rule - Thug Lovin' (Feat. Bobby Brown) (Radio Edit) 04:33

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