Monica: 'MDA' / 'Open Roads' 2024

[wavey.]

Love your ranking. TMOM was a damn near perfect album. Murda Mo was all over that.

[Zinc.]

The Boy Is Mine is my favorite album by her. Followed by After the Storm & The Making's of Me. My least favorite will always be New Life.

[wavey.]

I'm not a fan of New Life. Only here for "Anything", "Until It's Gone ", and "Without You ".

[Caviar]

Dec 26, 2015 15:26:30 GMT -5 wavey. said:

I'm not a fan of New Life. Only here for "Anything", "Until It's Gone ", and "Without You ".

Yup. The funny thing is those 3 songs are better than anything on the album save for JRFM.

[think pink.]

Daddy's Good Girl>

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I'd rank her albums the same as Shooter but swap The Boy Is Mine and The Makings of Me. I hated that album.

Ocean of Tears is my favorite song on this, after Alone in Your Heart.

[wavey.]

Ugh. Im loving Love Just Ain't Enough . Fuck it. It just flows, even Timbaland. Suga is on my radar now, sans "Jo'zzy". Is she the next Ester?

[SHOOTER]

Dec 26, 2015 1:58:16 GMT -5 wavey. said:

Love your ranking. TMOM was a damn near perfect album. Murda Mo was all over that.

THIS. That album was the most unapologetically HER and that's why I love it. Sideline Ho >>>

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The Makings Of Me gets a bad rep, but I much prefer it to her last two albums.

[Ivy Leegue™]

Other than the mess that was Sideline Ho, I can't even remember the names of any songs on Making Of Me, let alone melodies and such. Oh...and that tacky cover.

Meanwhile, this album gets better and better for me.

[Method2Madness]

Loved "why her" and "so raw"

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"My Everything" and "Getaway" were good too.

[Zinc.]

Why Her>>

[Caviar]

Dec 27, 2015 13:04:41 GMT -5 @jazzysoul47 said:

The Makings Of Me gets a bad rep, but I much prefer it to her last two albums.

I hated the album so much at the time but it's her last great release. Swizz did his damn thing on "Raw"! Should've remained the album title.

My rankings:

After The Storm
Miss Thang
The Boy Is Mine
The Makings of Me
Code Red
New Life
Still Standing

She's never been able to consistently make GREAT albums like Brandy and Aaliyah did but she always selects the BEST material to represent each album moreso than them.

[George]

All her albums are pretty solid, but there's some that I just hardly revisit. My rankings:

After The Storm
The Boy Is Mine
Miss Thang
The Makings of Me
Code Red
New Life
Still Standing

[Linnethia Monique]

Dec 27, 2015 21:16:22 GMT -5 Method2Madness said:

Loved "so raw"

YAS!
Now you can say bye
To me being ladylike
Say peace
To me tryna keep the peace
YAS!

[newpower]

This is better than her previous two albums.

My rank:

The Boy is Mine
Miss Thang
After The Storm
The Making of Me
Code Red
Still Standing
New Life


My ten favorite songs from her:
1) Ain’t Nobody
2) For You I Will
3) Angel of Mine
4) The First Night
5) Before You Walked Out of My Life
6) Street Symphony
7) Don’t Take It Personal
8) Everything To Me
9) Like This and Like That
10) So Gone

Ironically, the top 2 are from soundtracks.

My guilty pleasure: Too Hood from All Eyez On Me

[wavey.]

Dec 28, 2015 18:48:33 GMT -5 Linnethia Monique said:

Dec 27, 2015 21:16:22 GMT -5 Method2Madness said:

Loved "so raw"

YAS!
Now you can say bye
To me being ladylike
Say peace
To me tryna keep the peace
YAS!

Swizz even dropped that fire verse.

[SHOOTER]

Dec 28, 2015 21:00:52 GMT -5 wavey. said:

Dec 28, 2015 18:48:33 GMT -5 Linnethia Monique said:

YAS!
Now you can say bye
To me being ladylike
Say peace
To me tryna keep the peace
YAS!

Swizz even dropped that fire verse.

Now get the paper, make the paper
You know I'ma come and save ya
You know where I live
I got them million dollar neighbors
I came thru ya block lookin' soooo clean
Them chicks like "damn! He got the shooooulder lean!"

[wavey.]

Dec 28, 2015 23:37:58 GMT -5 SHOOTER said:

Dec 28, 2015 21:00:52 GMT -5 wavey. said:

Swizz even dropped that fire verse.

Now get the paper, make the paper
You know I'ma come and save ya
You know where I live
I got them million dollar neighbors
I came thru ya block lookin' soooo clean
Them chicks like "damn! He got the shooooulder lean!"

if ya touch it, you can have it
If ya like it, you can grab it
We flying real far, girl I make that ya habit

[stunnedout]

After The Storm was and still is AMAZING. Just a great R&B album. I still listen to that one pretty often.

Id rank her albums something like:

After the Storm
Still standing
The Boy Is Mine
Miss thing
The Makings of Me
Code Red
New Life

[B****BetterGetNOSL333P]

The Boy Is Mine
After The Storm
The Makings of Me
Miss Thang
Still Standing
New Life
Code Red

Code Red is so not for me.... Until It's Gone from New Life is > anything from Code Red.

[Ivy Leegue™]

LOL no wonder I don't recall After The Storm. I have All Eyez On Me instead.

The Boy Is Mine is so bland. I never liked Angel Of Mine and then of course, there were other dull MOR ballads. Best songs on that album were Street Symphony, the title track, and The First Night. The rest...y'all can keep.

[Zinc.]

Monica’s Code Red at No. 27 (36,000)

[SHOOTER]

Dec 29, 2015 12:27:16 GMT -5 Zinc. said:

Monica’s Code Red at No. 27 (36,000)

Her second lowest debut to date.

After the Storm - #1, 186k (1m)

Still Standing - #2, 184k (729k)

The Makings of Me - #8, 92k (336k)

The Boy Is Mine - #8, 91k (2.0m)

New Life - #4, 69k (196k)

Code Red - #27, 36k

Miss Thang - #36, 30k (1.4m)

[Zinc.]

Where's you get the figure for Still Standing ? I was under the impression it shipped gold but didn't sell it. The rest are pretty accurate.

[wavey.]

I didn't know SS sold that much!

[stunnedout]

Last figure for SS I saw was close to 500k. Its been on sale for like $5 at Wal-Mart for a while, so I wouldn't be surprised at that 729k figure.

[Method2Madness]

Still Standing has been over 500k for a while now..almost 2 years

[think pink.]

#27?