Soul II Soul – Club Classics Vol. One

Why they changed 'Back to Life' from the acapella to the single mix is beyond me. It totally ruins the flow of the second side.

My copy sounds flat and not very powerful. It would be interesting to compare with other pressings.

Can anyone explain why this studio album is named like a compilation? It's a bit confusing for me.

Grandioses zeitdokument. Happiness dub is the one...among other fresh tracks .

This is where R&B-inflected dance music found its foothold out of Chicville, trading the swooping strings and rubbery bass runs of yore for breakbeats and flute solos—the gospel according to McDonald and Giles. Despite hosannas from the British press, many American critics were skeptical at the time, finding Jazzie B’s shtick to be portentous; the fact that he fronted a black group from the UK probably didn’t help (cf. Sade). Time, however, has vindicated his vision, as S2S’s imprint can be found on practIcally every R&B, dance, and groove-friendly hip hop group from the ‘90s onward, especially “neo soul” practitioners like D’Angelo and Erykah Badu. His secret? An uncommon knack for musical fusion; rarely have so many disparate musical genres been blended together so seamlessly: house, hip hop, R&B, jazz, etc. Most notably, 𝘊𝘭𝘶𝘣 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘴 marked the point when hip hop and R&B finally converged, creating a symbiosis that has kept on moving to this day.

Extremely noisy pressing - probably due to the coloured vinyl. Incredibly disappointing, given how fantastic the remastering is - huge bottom-end & a great analogue sheen. The album sounds as good as it first did in 1989.

This album was the perfect start into the 90s decade. They mixed genres together in their own way. With the talented and unique voice of Caron Wheeler.

Does anyone know where to get this release? Thanks! one more

Very stupid thing is that they made an album without including their biggest hit in there " Back to life" but only an acappella version. I cannot forgive this, as "back to life" is a difficult single to buy. They only did this for profit.

This album still holds up so well, but with SIDE ONE on the vinyl version running some 26 minutes and the original CD being released before the days of stupid amounts of dynamic range compression ("the Loudness Wars"), the original CD here is the way to go until they do a 2LP reissue remastered from the original source material and allow this album to breathe properly.