Home Again (New Edition album)

Home Again (New Edition album)

Infobox Album
Name = Home Again
Type = Studio album
Artist = New Edition
Background = lightsteelblue


Released = September 10, 1996
Recorded = 1996
Genre = R&B/Pop
Label = MCA
Length = 61:11
Producer = Sean "Puffy" Combs, Jermaine Dupri, Silky, Carl-So-Lowe, Gerald Levert, Chucky Thompson, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fxfwxq9hldke link]
*Rolling Stone Rating|4|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/newedition/albums/album/183536/review/5942513/home_again link]
Last album = "Heart Break"
(1988)
This album = "Home Again"
(1996)
Next album = "One Love"
(2004)

"Home Again" is the sixth studio album by American R&B/Pop group New Edition, released by MCA Records in 1996. It is the group's first album as a sextet.

Overview

History

After the successful 1988 album, "Heart Break", the lineup of New Edition: Ralph Tresvant, Johnny Gill, Ricky Bell, Ronnie DeVoe, and Michael Bivins decided to go on hiatus as a group in order to peruse separate interests. With the exception of a surprise reunion of all six New Edition members performing at the MTV Video Music Awards in 1990, and song and music video for Bell Biv Devoe’s 1991 single "Word to the Mutha" (which featured Brown, Gill, and Tresvant), the group largely went their separate ways for the first half of the 1990s.

Upon the advice of producers Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Bell, Bivins and DeVoe formed their own trio, Bell Biv Devoe. Their album "Poison", released in 1990, sold over three million copies. The same year, Johnny Gill—who had had a solo career before joining New Edition—revived it with his multi-platinum self-titled album. Also in 1990, Ralph Tresvant released his long-awaited solo debut album, which too went multi-platinum. In the mix, Bobby Brown, whose 1988 album, "Don't Be Cruel", had sold over eight million copies, continued his success with the triple-platinum "Bobby" album in 1992. By this point, the group members were becoming as known for their side projects as they were as New Edition. Though when pressed by fans and journalists, the now fragmented band mates intermittently assured that they had planned to reunite to record another New Edition album, years passed before such plans were put into action, leaving their fans to wonder if their 1988 album, "Heart Break", was in fact the group's swan song.

By 1995, however, many of New Edition's subsequent solo projects weren’t as successful as their first ventures. The year, meanwhile, had been notable for Bobby Brown—who'd gained more media attention not for his music, but for his tumultuous marriage to Whitney Houston, and various troubles with the law. The same year, Bell, Bivins, Devoe, Gill, and Tresvant decided to come together and begin production on the long awaited, long-promised sixth New Edition album. Despite his notorious reputation and worldwide tabloid fodder, the group invited Brown (who hadn't been featured on a New Edition album since 1985's "All for Love") back to join them, to which he agreed.

Release and reaction

New Edition’s first new album in eight years, "Home Again", was released in September 1996—debuting at number one on both the Billboard Top 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop album chart. The first single, "Hit Me Off", peaked at number one on the R&B chart and reached number three on the pop chart. Another top ten hit, "I'm Still in Love With You" was released toward years end. Other hits include: "You Don't Have to Worry" and "One More Day". Home Again went on to be certified double platinum, with sales of over two million, and became the groups greatest commercial success. The group originally recorded twenty songs for the project.

Their reunion tour, however, was tainted by some of the members' egos, particularly Bobby Brown’s. One evening as Brown extended his solo set, Ronnie DeVoe attempted to pull Brown off the stage. Brown responded by dropping his microphone and a fist fight between the two ensued. This led to both members' security guards confronting each other, gun play was brought in and the concert was halted. Bivins and Brown left the tour early while DeVoe, Bell, Gill and Tresvant finished out the rest of the tour as a quartet. Brown later admitted during an interview that he was intoxicated during the tour.

Track listing

#"Oh, Yeah, It Feels So Good" (Bell/DeVoe/Harris/Lewis) (6:02)
#"Hit Me Off" (Bingham/Bivins/DeVoe/Dyson/Silky) (4:21)
#"You Don't Have to Worry" (Combs/Jones/Keith/Parker/Scandrick/Thompson) (4:42)
#"Tighten It Up" (Bell/Carl-So-Lowe/Dee/DeVoe/Dupri) (4:00)
#"Shop Around" (Bivins/Carl-So-Lowe/Dupri/Gill/Tresvant) (3:25)
#"Hear Me Out" (Bingham/Bivins/Washington) (5:12)
#"Something About You" (Harris/Lewis) (4:48)
#"Try Again" (Combs/Frierson/Thompson) (4:24)
#"How Do You Like Your Love Served" (LeVert/Nicholas) (5:32)
#"One More Day" (Harris/Lewis) (5:03)
#"I'm Still In Love With You" (Harris/Lewis) (4:39)
#"Thank You (The J.G. Interlude) (Gill) (2:39)
#"Home Again" (Harris/Lewis) (6:24)

Unreleased Tracks

Old Friends

Hey Girl

Chart positions

Album

Credits

*Ronnie DeVoe: vocals
*Bobby Brown: vocals
*Ricky Bell: vocals
*Michael Bivins: vocals
*Ralph Tresvant: vocals
*Johnny Gill: vocals, acoustic guitar, producer, engineer, mixing
*New Edition and Brooke Payne: executive producers


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