Popso Jamz

Track Listings

 
1. Tempted to Touch - Rupee
2. Darlin (Mamacita Wine)
3. Call Me - Kevin Lyttle
4. Best in Me (Rock Steady) - Lexxus, Edwin Yearwood
5. Dance for Me
6. Wine & Bend Over - Denise Belfon, Ghetto Flex
7. Wanna Be (Right Dey)
8. Show Me (Dance 4 Me)
9. These Girls
10. Got to Know
11. Next to You - Edwin Yearwood
12. My Love
13. One More Chance
14. Shut Up - Meshach
15. U Got Me Wrong - Dianna Joseph

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Popso Jamz
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • Good Mood Driving Tunes!!!
  • I Don't Like It. . . But I Can't Put it Down!
 Popso Jamz
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Vp Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0009O7AQY
Release Date: 2005-06-21

Tracks:

  1. Tempted to Touch - Rupee
  2. Darlin (Mamacita Wine)
  3. Call Me - Kevin Lyttle
  4. Best in Me (Rock Steady) - Lexxus, Edwin Yearwood
  5. Dance for Me
  6. Wine & Bend Over - Denise Belfon, Ghetto Flex
  7. Wanna Be (Right Dey)
  8. Show Me (Dance 4 Me) - Christal Austin, Ruth Collymore
  9. These Girls
  10. Got to Know - Shurwayne Winchester
  11. Next to You - Edwin Yearwood
  12. My Love
  13. One More Chance
  14. Shut Up - Meshach
  15. U Got Me Wrong - Dianna Joseph

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Good Mood Driving Tunes!!!.......2006-05-19

I LOVE this album! I am Jamaican-American and love all types of Caribbean music. But I also really enjoy R&B. This album is a perfect mix of the two. It's got the upbeat tempo of Soca, but you can still hear the reggae element in many of them. The lyrics are pure R&B, for the most part, with a Caribbean flair. What I love about it, though, is that as far as I can tell, these songs aren't just "Reggae Covers" of American music. They're original songs!!

I would say that Rupee's song, "Tempted to Touch" is probably the most popular of all the songs on the album. Buy it! Buy it! Buy it!

3 out of 5 stars I Don't Like It. . . But I Can't Put it Down!.......2005-07-20

1st amongst the many strange things about this album is its title. What is popso? Popso is the exceedingly popular form of music which combines elements of pure American r&b with pure American pop and pure Caribbean Soca. If you're not a soca head then you probably won't know the difference at all and just appreciate this r&b sound with a Caribbean touch. People such as Rupee, Edwin Yearwood and especially Popso posterboy Kevin Lyttle have made a market for this type of sound and VP, ever attentive has made the first pure Popsonian (is that a word now?) record and as it says "Vol. 1", expect another one next year.

Popso can be described as a cool sidekick of the massive Soca Gold series, Soca's answer to Reggae's Strictly the Best serie. Except this time the sidekick has more of the mainstream appeal and the leader will appeal more to the aficionado (it's vice versa with the Reggae Gold-Strictly the Best series).

For my own personal taste, while I'm not the most learned Soca head, I do appreciate the sounds of the heavy soca vibe, with the heavy horns and whistles and the road march bashment sound. It is present here in spurts, but thats not the real attraction here. What is most striking about Popso is that it is entirely too addictive. Normaly when you say that, the album is usually a pure winner, not the case for Popso unfortunately. The vibes here are many but many of them miss the mark.

The goodness of the album is with Wine and Bend Over from Saucy Wow Denise Belfon, Statement's laid back Wanna Be, of course Rupee's wildly popular Tempted to Touch and Best in Me, a good combination between Edwin Yearwood and dancehall dj Lex and hard soca ace sound oddly effective over a laid back pure popso riddim (which appears more than once here). I also love the heavier feel of 3 Suns (a favorite of mind) These Girls. And Da Bhann's truly wonderful My Love, the best song on the album.

Another song here, by big time Shurwayne Winchester, is Got to Know, a ridiculously addictive piece which i dont particularly like, but can quite happily keep on repeat for about an hour without tiring of it. And even stranger song is Diana Joseph's 'counteraction' of Lyttle's megahit Turn Me On on U Got Me Wrong (which Lyttle co-wrote).

Overall, this one ain't for the soca heads out there, you will be the kind of irritated that i found myself feeling during this record about halfway through. It is completely interesting however, and should it ever be 'leaked' to the mainstream public, expect about 10 big summertime hits.

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