Nobody Else Compares (Keith Sweat - Keith Sweat)

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Product:	Keith Sweat - Keith Sweat
Date:	08/06/09 (37 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Lots of nice tunes

Disadvantages: Little variation

Keith Sweat released his self-entitled fifth album in 1996, and it turned out to be the biggest-selling record of the R&B singer's career. It features some of his most well-known material, amongst those you find "Nobody and "Twisted".

1. "Twisted"

This is a classic R&B song, and amongst the best of its sort from the time as it was done just before all the other heavyweights in the game dropped highly-emotive songs. He had the edge though with his soulful, deep, Barry White-esque take on it, and I would be surprised if you can't recall this one as he explains a situation which his girl seems to have got "Twisted" on her head.

**Five Stars**

2. "Funky Dope Lovin'"

To move on the from one prior to it, you have more of the same sort of thing as although we progress a little with beats at a mid-tempo level, this one gets him showing you his way of getting down with the girls in a way that others simply can't comprehend. It has him working with some of the best names in the day's R&B working with him as Buddy Banks, Gerald Levert and Aaron hall all sing with him here in a monster collaboration.

**Four Stars**

3. "Yumi"

He drops the pace to one which he feels a lot more comfortable with for this one as he drops one which uses the winding synthesizers which where an essential for the low-tempo love sensual and intense songs of this mid-nineties era of R&B. It has him doing things which only he can, and to the degree which only he is able to reach.

**Four Stars**

4. "Whatever You Want"

As things progress it appears that he getting more towards the ballad type of form with the way that the song is constructed and the form which is taken with it, however it appears that he is keeping things the same with the content of the lyrics as he just wishes to do things with hi girl in the bedroom, but as this is all we've had up to this point, it seesm to be wearing out by this point.

**Three Stars**

5. "Just A Touch"

Finally you get a significant lift in the music as you get him doing a Swing tune to get you on your feet after what was a tiresome sequence of strong, low-tempo songs. However I would have to say that due to the fact that this finds him at a time when New Jack Swing, what he came up through, had completely phased out, it just didn't have the punch that they did to drive it forward.

**Two Stars**

6. "Freak With Me"

It seems that here he finds the best alternative to the New Jack Swing with the new take on Rap-influence R&B being a lot more like actual Hip Hop, he chooses to take from the type of thing which Montell Jordan did with "This is How We Do It", with a tune which takes things to the West Side with a little G-Funk bringing this side of things up, and it makes for a big jam from him.

**Four Stars**

7. "Nature's Rising" (Lude)

8. "Come With Me"

He drops the tempo right down again and chooses to get back into the type of thing which opened up the album as e puts on his deepest voice to perform an introduction to this song and really get you into the right mood to accompany what is to come with the material within this one. He does things the right here where he explores more within the usual boundaries of this type of love song. He gets the opportunity to work with Ronald Isley (of the Isley Brothers) on this one, and it gives it a great boost (taking you back to the seventies (or eighties)).

**Four Stars**

9. "In The Mood"

I'm sure you can guess what mood Keith is in for this song, as it isn't likely to surprise you to any degree whatsoever that he's down for some lovemaking at this point in it. Here the start of the track indicates that we may be in for another speed alteration, but he takes it down to the level where you expect to get it as he just gets down to what you know is inevitable (and still not for the final time on the record).

**Four Stars**

10. "Show Me The Way" (Lude)

11. "Nobody"

This was another of the big singles from the album and you really should recognise it. Due to the fact that it has had a lot more exposure than a lot of the others on the album it really stands out and brings you out of the album for a bit as he sings about how he is the best their is when it comes to pleasing girls.

**Five Stars**

12. "Chocolate Girl"

Ending the album you having him smoothing things out once again as he pulls out every last bit of sensuality for this song in an attempt to show listeners that he isn't about to let you forget wat this album was all about as he does a track where he sings to attract the only girls who really appeal to him and make him feel the way he did in track #9.

**Four Stars***

If you are into your sensual love songs then this is a perfect choice for an album as it is filled with tracks of this nature, and when this isn't the focus, its about the times when he's frustrated that he isn't able to get this. This means that it lacks variation, but goes all-out when attempting top express things in this specific field.

Summary: Keith Sweat's fifth album