LSG 2 [Enhanced]

Product Description
2003 album from superstars Gerald Levert, Keith Sweat & Johnny Gill, virtually every track is a potential hit single. 11 tracks. Elektra.

LSG 2,LSG,East/West Records,Contemporary R&B,Pop,R&B,Soul/R & B,Soul/Reggae/Rhythm & Blues,Urban

Average customer rating:

Mediocre at best
Is this the end?
Another one of those "record contract fulfillment" albums
A little too much Sweat>>>>
Headphone Masterpiece

LSG 2
LSG
Manufacturer: East/West Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Contemporary Blues | Blues | Styles | Music

Contemporary R&B | R&B | Styles | Music

General | R&B | Styles | Music

General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music
Similar Items:

Levert Sweat Gill
Love & Consequences
The G Spot
Father and Son
Groove On

ASIN: B0000A0WIZ
Release Date: 2003-07-29

Tracks:

Just Friends
Wide Open
Shake Down
Fa-Free
Yesterday
Play With Fire
What About Me
All I Know
Lessons Learned
Can't Get Over You
Cry & Make Love

Album Description

2003 album from superstars Gerald Levert, Keith Sweat & Johnny Gill, virtually every track is a potential hit single. 11 tracks. Elektra.

Customer Reviews:

Mediocre at best.......2006-03-13

I thought that LSG 2 sounded mediocre as a whole. It sounded like throwaway tracks left in the studio that could have been on a Gerald Levert album. I hate to say this, but the Gerald Levert-produced songs on LSG2 are some of the worst I've ever heard from him for this trio. Most of the album is disjointed and Keith Sweat doesn't sound his best on here. Johnny Gill sounds disconnected from the songs. And Gerald sounds like he wants to lead the group, because he's the only good singer on this album. Even the guest appearances by Loon and another rapper don't blend well with the group. I can tell why this album flopped. I can't believe their label delayed their group's album so much, because people were excited for it. LSG's superior 1997 album was far, far better than this mediocre effort.

Is this the end?.......2004-03-18

LSG - LSG 2 (Elektra, 2003)

It took seven years for Gerald Levert, Johnny Gill, and Keith Sweat to come back as LSG and release a followup to the superb Levert, Sweat, Gill album. But what's the real reason why they made this album? Was it to fulfill their contract and get outta dodge from Elektra Records? Or was it just for the sake of shutting up the fans who have been waiting forever for this?

Whatever the case, the project as a whole feels halfhearted. If you're one of the few people who bought this album, you'll notice that upon reading through the liner notes--there are none. There are hardly any shout outs; only a few people are thanked by the group as a whole, not individually. The CD sleeve doesn't have many pages in it either. As for the album, the songs aren't bad; in fact, the songs written and produced by Gerald (i.e., "Yesterday", "Cry and Make Love") are better than the songs he provided for his own album, Stroke of Genius. But you wish that he wrote more songs because the album is very short (around 45 minutes). Sadly, Keith Sweat doesn't contribute one track to the album. Moreover, "All I Know" sounds a little like SWV's "Rain".

However, it was nice to see Johnny Gill get work again, since that New Edition reunion STILL hasn't happened yet. He uses his vocal prowess on songs like "Cry and Make Love" and "What About Me" (not to be confused with the 1998 Gerald Levert song of the same name). A good album, just not great. Will there be an LSG 3? Don't hold your breath. -EJR

Another one of those "record contract fulfillment" albums.......2003-12-08

Sorry, but the people that said this album is just as good as (and even BETTER than) their first album really need to listen to their first album more closely. I know Johnny Gill has been sort of M.I.A. and Keith Sweat's last album was garbage (the one before that wasn't that great either), but I really expected more from this album.

Now, we all know that Gerald, Keith and Johnny are all great singers, but it doesn't sound like they're giving their all on this album. In fact, if I walked into a room and just heard this album playing, I wouldn't even have known this was LSG (they kind of sound like younger protégés of themselves). Check "All I Know", where, despite the smooth feel, it's hard to tell what's being said in the chorus.

With Gerald LeVert holding the pen, most listeners would expect more classics like "Door #1" and "My Side of the Bed". Sadly, the songs he wrote here aren't impressive, as evidenced by the bumpy "Lessons Learned" and the confusing and disorganized "Cry & Make Love". And what would a soulful crossover album (for lack of a better term) be without Loon? "Just Friends" doesn't really help or hurt the album. And the song that follows, "Wide Open" features a rap by someone named Bino, who sounds like Loon's brother or something.

This album probably would have been better if it was released two years after their first instead of FIVE years after their first. Also, they should have stuck with the same formula. This album is still okay to keep in your collection, but as they said back in '97, you should really stick with "what's behind door #1".

Anthony Rupert

A little too much Sweat>>>>.......2003-11-11

This was a great idea. The first version of this trio was nice and one of the first times I remember artist coming together like this. Now everybody is tryin to do the "superalbum", especially in hip hop. Well after 6 years they hit us with the second part to their first classic. This..this is not a classic. It starts off with the lead single "Just Friends", which of course uses the Whodini sample "Friends". Decent cut. They actually enhanced the track a lill bit and sound good on top of it. Loon is unnecessary but then again very rarely is the hip hop verse on the R&B track necessary in today's world. The second track is decent also, entitled "Wide Open". The lyrical arrangement is cool. Johnny sounds great and it takes you back to the old LeVert tracks. After this cut is where the CD takes a turn for the worse. The key element in it's demise is Keith Sweat. I own every Keith CD up until '98. At that point the record label had grabbed him and tried to "cross him over". At that point I was out. Now dude has just lost his edge. Every now and then on this CD his voice ,which is an acquired taste, is ok but for the most part he's struggling through it. Track 3 "Shakedown" is embarrassing actually. The next 3 tracks follow the same pattern actually, Keith being unimpressive with Gerald and JG unable to save the tracks. Track 4 "fa free" starts good with JG crooning. Just a little too much Keith. Track 5 "Yesterday" is a nice Gerald selection but the track does nothing to keep you with it. Next. Another "Keith has lost it" cut "Play with Fire". Track 7 "What About Me" starts to bring the CD back. It's a mix between Stevie Wonders "All I do" and Carl Thomas "I wish". Keith is decent here. Track 8 is my favorite on the CD, "All I Know". Great song. Listening to it the chorus doesn't really sound like them but I love it. Has a definitely 70's feel with a funky drum program. The last cut on the CD "Cry and make Love" is a typical Gerald LeVert headboard banger. Overall I liked cuts 1,2,7,8 and 11. The magic is gone from this supergroup. I guess nothing last forever.........

Headphone Masterpiece.......2003-10-15

Although I thought the first one was better (just listen to Johnny turn it out on Round and Round and My Side of the Bed) this album did have some high points. If you want to get the full effect of the vocals and ad libs, listen to this album with a good set of headphones.

Average customer rating:

Oliver Lieb is The Master of electronic music
Amazing trance!

Volume 2
L.S.G.
Manufacturer: Superstition
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Trance | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

General | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music

Trance | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B000009REV
Release Date: 1998-06-23

Tracks:

Can U Hear Me
Hear My Voice
Novastorm
Get Out
Lectrolyte
Microfish
Netherworld
Freakme
Firefly
Centurion

Customer Reviews:

Oliver Lieb is The Master of electronic music.......1999-07-13

In the U.S. we hear a lot of discussion in hushed tones about Richard James, Carl Craig, Jeff Mills, and other alleged "geniuses" of electronic music. Those guys are fine, but Oliver Lieb is the Real Deal, a master of trance/techno/ambient compositions whose work always makes me sit up and take notice. He records under several names,including Spicelab and Paragliders, but his most masterful work, I think, is done as "L.S.G." This album, which includes his best-known piece, "Netherworld," is by a very small margin, his best, and is the one I would recommend to anyone curious about this remarkable man and his music.

Amazing trance!.......1999-03-17

If you like good, intelligent, layered/built trance, and you can get hold of this, or most anything by L.S.G. (Oliver Lieb), you'll probably be glad you did. I love this cd, as well as his other "Rendevous in Outer Space". His music is exciting to me because it has the repetition to make me wanna move, AND it also has intriguing melodic builds, layers of sounds and percussions and samples that add and fade at the right moments to build and release musical tensions.

Average customer rating:

A mesmerizing collection by a master of electronica

Volume 2
Lsg
Manufacturer: Super
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Trance | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

General | Pop | Styles | Music

General | R&B | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00000IBJO
Release Date: 1999-02-18

Tracks:

Can U Hear Me
Hear My Voice
Novastorm
Get Out
Lectrolyte
Microfish
Netherworld
Freakme
Firefly
Centurion

Customer Reviews:

A mesmerizing collection by a master of electronica.......2000-02-19

German trance/techno/dance composer Oliver Lieb is no ordinary musician. He records under several different names, depending upon what style of music he wishes to present. For his danciest music, he is Paragliders; for his most experimental compositions, he records as Spicelab; occasionally, he even releases tracks under his actual name, Oliver Lieb. But over the last five years, his most consistently interesting trance compositions have been recorded under the monicker L.S.G., not to be confused by the r & b group of the same name.

Volume 2, on the Superstition label, represents his second volume of "collected works," and it's a fine collection, indeed. He has taken some amazingly creative tracks and mixed them superbly. The best-known of these compositions is the sometimes-discordant but powerfully emotional "Netherworld," which has appeared on numerous dj mix compositions, including John Digweed's "Northern Exposure: Western Edition" mix of a few years ago. But this cd is no mere one-hit-plus-fill release. All of the compositions are interesting, each it its own way. Lieb's electronic works are creative in terms of varying rhythms, bass lines, and melodies. In response to the charge of many music fans that "electronic music has no soul," Lieb has developed some amazingly emotional, angst-filled musical themes here, the nuances of which become apparent with repeated listenings. The final two tracks, "firefly" and "centurion," and awesomely powerful.

What's amazing to me is how little-known Oliver Lieb is in the United States. Considering the overall growing popularity of "electronica," I would have thought that someone of his talent would have been recognize for the creative genius that he is (and I realize that "genius" is not a term to be used lightly).

For people with any interest at all in the darker, more underground side of electronic trance music, this cd will prove rewarding, indeed.

Christian Music: