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Favorite = U Send Me Swingin'

Personally, this is hands down the best Mint video. The lighting, the scene with the black background and everyone's eyes closed sitting in a V" shape on the stools while the microphone just keeps swingin' and its all in black and white. Also I love how everytime before a new verse is coming up after a chorus, the mic swings, and a new scene pops up from the side of it. The scene where they are grooving in the brown cabin-like room and the actual soundstage where they got the little steps going while they play and lighting zooms across the floor. etc. Everything about this video is classic. This video was WELL directed with great shots. Y'all remember around this time period, when the jazzy white/black videos became sort of popular among huge R&B hits (Mary J Blige - Love No Limit, Babyface - For The Cool In You, Jodeci - Lately etc.) Well, easily Mint Condition had the best one.

Least Favorite = Forever In Your Eyes

Wasn't really feeling this one. I know its like a continuation of the Pretty Brown Eyes video, but some parts looked cheesy, especially when their bodies were outlined in blue and shadowed looking like they were on Star Trek. And some of the background effects I wasn't feeling too much. Regardless tho, the song is obviously amazing, but the video was just "ehh".

What about y'all?

^^My 2nd favorite Mint song of time. "On & On" from DOAB.

"I'm here to comfort you every morning through the night"

^^^^That's "Just The Man For You".

"Lonely tears, they fall the same, when love is not returned"

^^That's from "The Never That You'll Never Know".....I'm gonna re-post mine from above since y'all didn't get it right. (It ain't from "Ain't Hookin' Me Up Enough" which was the wrong answer...)

"Cause I know you got that Vickie Secrets on..."

^^ That's "Aint Hookin' Me Up Enough". from DOAB.

"Cause I know you got that Vickie Secrets on"

Donny and Roberta by far... very far.

Luther Vandross - Always & Forever
vs.
Heatwave - Always & Forever

Whitney's is better to me.

Kelly Price - As We Lay
vs.
Shirley Murdock - As We Lay

Y'all are making two comparisons in each of y'all posts. LOL

^^Anyways I'm going with Stokley's on that one.

Stevie Wonder - Lately
vs.
Jodeci - Lately

Here is the video:

http://gallery.me.com/xl75000#100048/NLTS_FinalWeb-desktop&bgcolor=black

looks real good!!

Stokely voice is more clearer, can hit more notes, can change notes like nothing, and has a waaaaaay better range and projection than Raphael. Raphael has a good voice but it's one high "tenored", soft spoken voice. Raphael is really good at like 2 categories when comparing vocals. Stokley is good at like 6.

Stokely can sing in a low baritone (such as in 'Fallin Apart') or very a high voice ('My Dear', 'Queen of Come and Go Away', 'Just The Man 4 U' etc.) or his regular voice ('U Send Me Swingin', 'I'm Ready') he is also known to be able to change from the very low notes to high notes and back, in quickness (the adlibing at the end of the orginal version of 'So Fine'...around the 5:16-5:20 mark.....LOL or the very last 12 second lond held note on 'On & On'). Also his projection is clearer and has more range which is displayed in the live medley performance on "Someone to Love" on BET's planetgroove that I'm pretty sure we all seen on youtube and back in the day on TV. Or even on any ad-libing section of a song where he is show casing his vocals, such as 'Single To Mingle (Live)', 'If You Love Me', 'On And On' etc.

LOL. When it comes to R&B music listening, I know vocals like the back of my hand. and Mr. Stokley Williams is a top 5 male vocalist of 90's era artists. To me their voices don't sound the same at all are are very easily to differentiate. Vocally, Stoke is easily better than Raph. I'd put Kevon Edmonds from After 7 over Raphael easily.

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It's not often that a singer is so honest about his artistic insecurities. "I'm my own worst critic," Ginuwine confides. "I never thought I had a great voice, like a Stokely from Mint Condition. Man, I'd love to sound like him. But I'm not a 'sanger.' I think I can hold a note enough to get my point across--the live show is really what I'm all about." - Ginuwine.

http://music.yahoo.com/read/interview/12058763

Can't believe this one wasn't mentioned. Mint did background vocals for this single back in 93. You can hear Stokley doing adlibs on the 2nd verse.

'my dear' slaps 'just the man for you'.

"harmony"
vs.
"missing"

^^^ LOL, but no one picked which one they liked better from that comparison, and posted another (which is the point of the game) so i re-posted it....

Yup^^. I suspected but never knew for sure.

I don't these two have been compared to each other yet:

"Gettin' It On"
vs.
"Whoaa"

"Sometimes" wins that one. (And @ luvdamint, I'm in my late 30's and I'm a male)

"Gettin' It On"
vs.
"Whoaa"

What made you choose the name keri Lewis
You can't be a true mint fan and not know the answer to this
It is Jeff Allen's son BTW are you male or female and how old are you??
Also.....Baile de febrero was already used also because I used it
But I like Asher In Rio a little bit better

-luvdamint

"we got us"
vs.
"be like that sometimes"

Its been compared already but I'm going with "So Fine" original.

"Baile De Febrero (For Asher)"
vs.
"Asher In Rio"

(By the way, who the hell is Asher???)

So nobody else here was feeling Jodeci???

Gotta go with "Funky Weekend"...They made it sound like it was made it 1975.

"I'm Ready"
vs.
"Nothing Left To Say"

"Back & Forth"...that track is too funky!

"If You Love Me"
vs.
"Forever In Your Eyes"

I think it was called "Cupids Hunt", but it doesn't matter cuz I'm going with "Somethin" anyway....LOL.

"Let Me Be The One" (Ummah Remix Ft. Phife Dawg)
vs.
"Let Me Be The One" (Ummah Remix Ft. Q-Tip)

They kinda late..but its all good.

"So Fine" by a longshot. It's probably my favorite Mint Condition song. :)

"Good For Your Heart"
vs.
"If The Feelings Right"

"Touch That Body" wins....

"Are You Free"
vs.
"True To Thee"

Stokley is a real dude for not taking that solo route and ditching the group.

And Rick is real too for making real music and not that t-pain garbage like he says. Rick also says "some of the guys in the group wanna go too commercial" and he wont let it happen... I wonder who it is?????

Another hard one..."Ain't Hookin' Me Up" by an inch.

"Single To Mingle"
vs.
"Single To Mingle (LIVE)"

Good one!! I'm going with "Sista" but its close.

"Devotion"
vs.
"If It Wasn't For Your Love (Dedication)"

"On & On" is my 2nd all time favorite Mint song so I'm going with that.

"U Send Me Swingin'"
vs.
"If You Love Me"

^^^"Let Me Be The One" by a landslide.

I'm gonna repost my previous comparison since you forgot to answer it (its right above you Mintfan)

"Love Your Tears"
vs.
"Back To Your Lovin'"

(Don't forget, after you answer the comparison in the most recent post, you then come up with your own Mint Condition comparison. Don't forget.... "answer" and then "compare your own" in the same post like how I did it)

"Breakin' My Heart" with ease.

"Love Your Tears"
vs.
"Back To Your Lovin'"