Jill Jones: Jill Jones - Album Review (1987)
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- Jill Jones - Album Review (1987). Check out my review for Jill Jones' debut album from 1987. She was one of Prince's longest running proteges and churned out an amazing album!
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Songs Reviewed:
Intro (Baby you’re a trip)
Mia Bocca
G-Spot
Violet Blue (feat. Darlene Koldenhoven)
With You (feat. Steve Stevens)
All Day, All Night (feat. The Revolution)
For Love
My Man
Baby, You’re a Trip
All songs and clips included under Fair Use. Copyright Paisley Park/Warner Bros.
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Hands down, this is the best of ANY Prince protege! Jill does an excellent turn at bringing out the obvious sexuality, but also the yearning for someone to understand her. That's exactly what Prince wanted to convey, and she was the only one who could do it
Agreed
This next to The Family are my 2 favorite Prince albums ever!!
The JJ album is an excellent compliment to the Family album. Both are not too overproduced, yet funky and ethereal.
Hi prince’s friend . I use to listen this cd when i was young:) i can not find the music on spoty :(. Baby You're A Trip is the BEST! Do you have a tip where to buy ? Regards mel
Love the album ❤ For me no one can top her. I love how she screams the passion for Prince. We can tell they were soul mates
“For Love” reminds me of ❤️ or 💰.
The bass beat is on one side and the drum beat is on the other. Listen with headphones, it’s trippy.
Videos like this are so important for people like me because I just got into this album! I was totally strung out for the past year on the Sheila E. album that was released alittle bit after this one. Jill Jones quickly took over as my album of the year for 2023! 🤣😂
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I love this album from start to finish. Jill's dog's name was Koo Koo - as seen more clearly on the back cover with her - and in the back with the couple behind her on the front. G-spot was scheduled for Vanity 6's second album. Violet Blue is funk poetry. I love her rendition of With You - her voice is flawless, strong and delicate at the same time. All Day, All Night was always a personal fave. My Man is fabulous! And, of course, Baby You're a Trip is marvelous. Mia Bocca video was directed by the genius Jean Baptiste Mondino and loosely based on the film Suddenly Last Summer...
I need some Jill Jones in my life. Great music that i never knew about.
“Baby Cries” is an excellent B side.
I didn’t know she ever made an album
There's are versions of both G Spot and All Day All Night by Prince. There are both rehearsal and live (audio only) videos of Prince And The Revolution performing All Day All Night.
Yep! There are.
Like I always say Sheila gets all that she deserves, so talented! But, Jill is so worthy, talented , and fine ! This album is my joint! Loved her in Purple Rain.... fine!Ooo Weee!!!
Mia Bocca is credited as a track in Under The Cherry Moon.
Yep. It’s the orchestral part that’s playing at the birthday party if I recall correctly
Such a signature sound to my teenage years. So good. Baby You're a Trip is my fave - soulful and strong.
Baby You're a Trip is REALLY good, yeah. I think my fave on the album is Mia Bocca, but BYAT is definitely a runner up
OMG - The letters mentioned in "G Spot" spell out "Finally". I've loved that song for 30 years and never knew that.
A true alternative Banger this was like a pre BJORK for me / I knew paisley park was gonna wind up being funky art house music factory instead of hit maker machine / way over the typical chart stuff at that time / voilet Blu was more like a acidjazz hiphop banger in the 90s than 80s anything and yes this album as PR pt2 as it was gonna get /
Nice review and you can tell Jill Jones learned a lot singing back up for Tina Marie. Overall, she did a great album.
Didn’t he meet her before Vanity or Sheila E? Why did it take so long for her to get an album 💿?
Thanx enjoyed this. Me and my girl was remembering Joe Jones and I came across this review of her album and I had even said before we found this that I thought Jill Jones album was one of the best by a prince protege, other than maybe The Time.
Jill Jones held her own on this release. This was my first time hearing it. Although, the most promising Prince protege is none other than Bria Valente with her 2009 Elixer release, mingled with my two favorite Prince albums LOtUSFLOW3R and MPLSound.
My man is a great song. realy nice chord change on the chorus that totally makes the song and prince does some very nice guitar work with a delay pedal.
G spot was supposed to be on vanity 6 follow up album. There is a demo of it on RUclips. Baby you're a trip is my favorite. By far his best protege. This should have been a big hit
Agreed!
The two b-sides '77 Bleeker St and' 'Baby Cries (ay ay)' are amazing.
I was pleasantly surprised by how good this was. Jill should definitely try to re release this...some sort of compilation project.
I'd be down for that.
All the songs where written by Prince. Most are outtakes from 84'
Mia Bocca -Originally written in 82
G-Spot- written 4 Vanity outtake for Purple Rain
Violet blue-87?
With you-79
All Day/All night Purple Rain outtake
For Love-86
My Man -85-86
Baby your a trip-82
Mia Bocca & baby you're a trip are my favorites
Really great tracks!
Correct...jill should have been bigger
Maybe jill Jones should have replaced vanity in the group. ..hmmmm 😎
She wouldn’t have taken it I don’t think. She had bigger dreams than heading up a girl group
Got ya
I love this album so much. So many strong tracks like Mia Bocca, G Spot, Violet Blue, With You, All Day All Night, and Baby You're A Trip.
Your review has me wanting to buy this album...love the sound of every song. Thank you! 💜
it is REALLY good, huh?
Just discovered you. I'm addicted to all your videos. I listen everyday at work. Thank you
+Danyel Vasquez thanks so much!
It’s my first time listening to this album . I also think Elisa Fiorillo has a great voice and “On the way up” charted..
Baby You're A Trip is still my joint! I just love it's one of my go to songs
such a good song!
LOVE this album! Heard about it in a Prince book called 'Prince A Documentary" in the late 90's. The notion that much of its tracks came from Prince's iconic 1986 recording sessions lured me in. Last year, found the album in the dollar bin of an antique store on vinyl. Its a true prize of my collection. And perhaps my personal favorite Prince side project-as its full of full of funk and complex, soulful songs. That's my favorite side of Prince's artistry.
Thanks for this great review. I always thought JJ was underated,, I totally love this album, You give the best reviews. tfs!
With as many music reviewers are on youtube, I take that as a HUGE compliment. :-) Thanks so much!
And yeah, I had always kind of just seen Jill Jones hanging out with Prince, but as I researched for this album, I realize now how much work she put into this and how awesome she is. Thanks for watching! Got 3 more this week!
Your welcome
Not sure if you've already heard this but G Spot was originally for the second vanity 6 album that never came to be ! Heres the demo
ruclips.net/video/f8Ntc_2yo4E/видео.html
+Dove_Stardust I've heard al the demos, but this review is for Jill Jones' versions which I think are pretty awesome
The only reason I checked out this album review specifically is because of a version of All Day, All Night he preformed (that they say was in 1985) on his birthday. From what I heard from the clips this has to be one of the most underrated old-school albums ever.
It really is! 💜💜
I don't know why in the world this album didn't blow up....
I heard the G Spot demo from 1983 by Prince. This album is great. I really like it. Great 🎷 I don't know if that is synth saxophone or Eric Leeds. Jill is underrated
I forgot I had that too. Just went and listend to it... I think I like Jill's version better. :-)
Prince's Friend Saxophone makes EVERYTHING 50% better (if played right). So I'm glad that Prince teamed with Eric Leeds. Eric is brother to Alan Leeds (Prince's tour manager, and was James Brown's tour manager back in the day). So I think that's kinda cool. I don't remember if you talked about that. Sorry if you did lol
This album was amazing btw
you forgot to discuss the 12" remixes cuz I just picked it all of hers at the goodwill last friday and I even picked up a second copy of mia bocca 12" just because its just such a RARE surprise to find anything that's Prince related or stamped with the Paisley Park label at the goodwill.
When I saw With You in the track list, I wondered if it was a cover of Prince's song. I love that song.
Great "In Conclusion" too. Lol!
thanks!
Jill Jones "All Day, All Night sounds a lot like another song Prince wrote for Sheila E called Glamorous Life because it has the same rhythms of Glamorous Life and sections or space to play the Timbales. What do you think?
*just listened* They both have a similar down beat, but otherwise I'm not really hearing the similarities otherwise. the melodies to the songs are also quite different. idk
Well it does sound like riffs from parts of Sheila's songs mix with pop life. I guess thats what Prince did. Mix and match. Have you listen to Prince's version of All Day, All Night. Totally a better song when Prince sang it.
As I keep saying about all of these Prince side pieces, I LOVE IT! It took so long to find this CD. I had a burned copy and the cassette, but I wasn't going to stop until I found the CD. Oh man this CD is totally awesome. Violet Blue is beautiful. G-Spot is fun. But overall the album feels so good to me. And she's also a Facebook friend of mine and I told her I loved this album first hand. ❤️❤️❤️
Mia Boca! Wow that takes me back a loooooong way. I video taped the video for this song off the TV - I can still remember Gill dancing around, hitting her stiletto shoes together in time with the beat. Great video btw! I'm subscribed, and I hit the bell thing.
I really enjoyed this album. I agree with you PF that it does feel more like a compilation than a more focused piece of work, probably because the recordings were done over 4 or 5 years. I do rate Jill as a singer and I think this album shows she can do many different genres well. I understand there are other recordings in the Vault for a proposed second album. Might be a long time before they see the light of day mind, but at least we have this and for me at least that's a blessing.
Superb album.
Wow! I really like this! She has a awesome voice! I do see prince's name all over this. Awesome album wished I had it. Awesome review.
Jill had the potential to be really big but didn’t reach that with this album. She still makes music though so no harm, no foul
@@PrincesFriend I'm glad she's staying with it. Thankyou for everything.
for this album to slip through the cracks, this was a great album.....
i wish that Prince would have kept *ALL DAY ALL NIGHT * for the purple Rain album but JJ really did the song amazingly well, but i still prefer Prince's original version better. *Violet Blue* is performed so beautiful and passionate with heartfelt convictions that...it makes you want to cry almost. I'm sure that *G Spot* was written for Vanity 6 but once again, JJ's strong voice was the better choice to sing it over Vanity or Apollonia 6. on a side note, i'm glad that Prince gave Manic Monday to The Bangles. They did the song justice where A6's version was boring and a drag but i digress. Overall, JJ's debut album was very good and deserves better reviews.
Jill Jones had a great voice....
OrbsyOrb....Agree totally have said same thing. Great Minds.
My Man was my favorite song. I wore out that part of the cassette.
Hehehehe. It is a good one 💜
I'd like to have an official release for all day/all night from Prince. Jill def rivals Prince's version!
Agreed
Thanks for this video, Jill kind of sounds like Tina Marie.
Shauna Scott jill Jones mother was Tina Marie manager
She was a background singer for Teena Marie.
Jill Jones Rocked my World!!! Wait until u come across the "For Love" remix! This record should have been huge! She was the only Prince artist I wanted 2 marry
+Eros Blake in fairness, the very first line could throw people for a loop. "I have had only one lover since I was 12 years old" MTV was very uptight back in the day.
Tru dat.
this cd is epic.i love violet blue.
epic, but it didn't chart? I'm still trying to figure out WHY!
as i recall it wasnt promoted much in the uk anyway.you had to be a big prince fan to know about the release.i had it on cassette,and now cd
"My Man" wow what a great song. I always think of my first boyfriend at the time. I was 15 when this album came out and it was awesome. A shame it didn't chart. Have you seen the "Mia Bocca" video? Sexy af.
I feel that your reviews are always spot on with where Prince may have gotten some of his tracks on Jill's album sounding music he had produced in the past. Jill's voice was much better than Vanity's...thank goodness. However, in my opinion, Prince was so smitten by many of his female artists he wrote for those songs/gifts, should have stayed in his vault. As for why Jill and other Prince proteges, not becoming big stars, again, in my opinion, it was just overkill. Too many people having the Prince sound was simply too much. I'm Not upset that they tried but Only Prince can do Prince. .Good review though, thanks for sharing.
Prince's version is way better and funky as well. Why she slowed down the tempo?
Well Prince produced the album, so that was likely his choice ultimately. But who know?