Wanna Lil' Body Rockin', Knockin' Da Boots? (Fever For Da Flavor - H-Town)

Member Name: XICripZ

Product:	Fever For Da Flavor - H-Town
Date:	02/04/09 (104 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Lots of big tunes

Disadvantages: One average song

"Fever For Da Flavor" was H-Town's debut album. Taking the name from the city the represent, Houston, Texas, H-Town blazed through with this album in 1993 following the success of their hit single, "Knockin' Da Bots"; an essential slow jam for any R&B fan's music collection..

1. "Introduction"

2. "Can't Fade Da H"

To open up the album you have them doing a song which reflects the fact that New Jack Swing was ended so although you could class it as this, but they seemed to be finding a place between what was then considered to be "played-out" with something new for everyone to move on to , without reflecting its immediate past. It is a great way to open it up after an introduction which has their voice screwed to show what H-Town is about (as is seen with the current Hip Hop from their).

**Five Stars**

3. "Treat U Right"

They keep the Swingbeat flowing through this one as you have them keeping the tem,po high in order to perform a tune which has them speak up how they know that they are capable of treating their girls just the way they expect, and need to be attended to. All of what is sung sees very believable, due to their confidence, and examples of how it could be put into action, and matched with great production leaves it a big track as we continue to open it up.

**Five Stars**

4. "Fever For Da Flavor"

The eponymous track, although big, wasn't as strong as I would have expected it to be, but I don't think you should really dwell on this as they make sure that they put into it as much as possible to get the listeners back into the groove of things. I couldn't really make out what was meant by the title, but I wouldn't think that it is too important as they clearly know what they are doing with it, and do it all with great confidence.

**Four Stars**

5. "Sex Me"

With it using the same title which R. Kelly used in a very popular song from his solo debut, "12 Play", it was initially thought that this one would have them slow it right down as he did. However this clearly wasn't the case as you here it open up with some of the sounds of the early New jack Swing, the type of thing that Teddy Riley and Bobby Brown were doing back in 1988, and it leaves you in a hype over it all as all what you think you are going to get from it is twisted on its head.

**Five Stars**

6. "H-Town Bounce"

On top of Zapp's "More Bounce To The Ounce" the trio give this one the Houston treatment and make these powerful slaps their own as they do an energetic track to get you excited about what else they could possibly come up with in the album. It is amongst the best which I found on it, and the fact that that same sample had been extensively used in the Hip hop world gave it that harder edge too.

**Five Stars**

7. "Keepin' My Composure"

This one has them use an popular Hip hop sample, rather than P-Funk, to drive this one, and so course it does as the one before it was able to do in showing that they too have followed the trendsetters in going over to the Hip-Hop-inspired style of R&B, and they do it in their own unique and original way to show that there are regional differences in R&B just as with how the West Coast, East Coast, Mid-West and Dirty South have distinctive strengths in the Rap scene.


**Five Stars**

8. "Interlude"

9. "Lick U Up"

The interlude seems to have significance as it changes the pacer of the album and pulls it all down as the rest of the tunes which follow it have the trio doing so slower joints, and more this one the lyrical direction is clear. This one finds them getting down and dirty with their music, and they ensure that they live up to the expectations of a time when many new acts like themselves were coming about with endless killer tunes.

**Four Stars**

10. "Knockin' Da Boots"

This is the one song that most know H-Town for, and its great to have it this way as I would consider it to be one of the best tunes they have ever performed. It is one of the best slow jams of its time and reminds me a lot of BLACKstreet's "Tonite's The Nite", from the year prior to this. You have them getting slow and sensual and showing how good they are at structuring the melodies around the production to create the most effective sounds.

**Five Stars**

11. "Won't U Come Back"

In order to keep the low tempo thing in action as we get towards the end of the album, this one sees them go a track which takes you back a little as this one has them do a song which seems to take influence from the contemporary R&B of the late eighties, and all that that was about. It sounded as though they were able to do this just as well as they could with the progressive club bangers which you find earlier in the album.

**Four Stars**

12. "Baby I Wanna"

Unfortunately, I would have to say that this track was quite obviously the weakest offering from the whole album, and it is a shame as the quality of the record had been so high up to this point, but with this, another smooth song, it has them just loose all their energy and leave on what is quickly clearly an average one with very little in the way of originality (as a immediately likened to Jodeci's work at the time when I first heard it).

**Three Stars**

If you ignore the final song, this album has no weaknesses within it and has them display how styles were changing in 1993 as New Jack Swing came to its finals days and was forced to evolve, and the slow jams were coming to another peak, and it seems that they were able to make the most out of all these things and show that they were right in with the times.

Summary: H-Town's debut album