FEATURED REVIEW:

---🎵🎵I wanna tell the world!!! I found an album sweeter than sweet!! 🎵🎵 ---Never Too Much, mr Luther Vandross's most popular album, is a seven song straight blast of some of the best songs the 80's has to offer. Excellent melodies, production, and Luther's catchy yet soul breaking tone inflections sell almost every song on the album. Never Too Much, She's a Super Lady, and Sugar and Spice are the obvious hits off this record, but Don't You Know That? and I've Been Working both manage to be just as catchy and quality as the crowd cutouts. ---The weakest song here is probably You Stopped Loving Me, which doesn't have the energy of the previous five tracks, but also isn't as tragic or interesting as A House Is Not A Home, so coupled with it's third longest run time on the album it ends up falling as quite a bore, even if the vocal performance is spot on and the track itself is far from bad. However, the previously mentioned track that follows it is probably the most notable on the album... ---A House Is Not A Home is one of those songs that actually manages to make me cry. The lyrics here about how a house isn't a home when your loved ones aren't around hits close to my heart as it reminds me of the time I had to go back to an old family home shortly after losing the parent that lived there. The memory of looking for the stuff I had there and the house just being so... uncomfortably quiet, especially after something so tragic like a murder took place there will live in my head for the rest of my life. This song captures that pain of loss, and longing, and the coldness of a house without the love that made it a home in the first place. It hits me like a brick every time, and I'm sure with more experience in life it will continue to hit harder and harder. The pain in his voice can be felt deep in ones soul; it's one of the saddest songs I've ever heard. ---An interesting effect of the last two tracks being so low energy, with the first one boring me to tears, and with the last one making me so uncomfortable that it makes me cry for an entirely different reason is that it makes me crave some sweet happy music... which is ironic because the first half of the album is just that, so I often end up putting the album on again as soon as I finish the final track to improve my mood with those first several tracks. Funny how that works, I wonder if that was intentional to make the album catch more with a listener. Either way this album is great, and a must listen for sure.