The Color of Success

Track Listings

1. Color of Success

2. Character

3. Oak Tree

4. Love Sign

5. Don't Wait for Me

6. Love/Addiction

The Color of Success,Morris Day,Warner Bros / Wea,Dance-Pop,Funk,Pop,R&B,Soul/Reggae/Rhythm & Blues,Urban

Tracks:

Color Of Success
The Character
The Oak Tree
Love Sign
Don't Wait For Me
Love/Addiction

Customer Reviews:

The Oak Tree owner gets a Wooded Leg Chop!.......2007-07-28

You know, out of the 3 solo albums MORRIS DAY has, this was the most interesting. Although JIMMY JAM & TERRY LEWIS penned "Fishnet" and "Love Is A Game" from the sophmore "DAYDREAMING", Morris did this album alone without production or music or backing voices by the legendary TIME members!

That is about all the props I can give Mr. DAY. His album is nowhere better than any of THE TIME's four albums. Even JESSE JOHNSON's solos tell MORRIS DAY to "Walk". What gets me the most is "The Oak Tree". "The Bird" (Part 2) as RUN formerly of RUN-DMC would say. Good song to a point but if you're 'ready to debut' you don't go back in TIME to get ahead. High points: "The Color Of Success", a diss to PRINCE. Shocking! Of course PRINCE disses him back on SHEILA E.'s "ROMANCE 1600 LIVE" video with the 'wooded leg' chop! "The Character" is my favorite here. The music is a cross between R&B and new wave, sounds like ANDRE CYMONE. That's the first 3 songs. The other 3...

Well, that's my review. MR. COOL, made his best effort on this album and not the ones after this ("GUARANTEED" is frisbee bait). "THE COLOR OF SUCCESS" shows a man finally breaking out of the kingdom of PRINCE, but to go where?

Also, where is the originally here? 6 songs makes an album? THE TIME's first 3 albums have only 6 songs each album. MORRIS can't escape THE TIME. He keeps on doin' what he and they have done, again.

Morris Day Makes Us Party,But Is That It?.......2007-07-17

Morris Day ended his association with The Time after the groups wonderful Ice Cream Castle album and released his solo debut 'The Color Of Success' one year later. On the most superficial level the album is a great party album-you can slap it on,have a great time and think nothing more of it.The problem is the song quality itself.The album is credited as being Written And Arranged By Morris Day,and if that's true it's clear he obviously wasn't in that much creative control of The Time.These songs all go on forever and for the most part try at a very bland caricature of The Time's sound;The Time were fun,but one main reason for that was the fact that the musicians had such great chemistry and Morris's braggadoccio and humor glistened right through. In this case none of the songs ever do much FOR Morris;he has to do all the work with his additude holding down the fort and it just isn't a very secure platform.Which is too bad because Greg Phillinganes and Earth,Wind & Fire members Larry Dunn and Roland Bautista participate as musicians.Even the lone ballad "Don't Wait For Me" just meanders on for seven rather pointless minutes.The only truely worthy song on this recording is "Love Addiction" which has a cute melody and is a very catchy pop-funk tune.Other then that unless you want backround music for a dance party then this cruise might be a snooze for you.

HE'S JUST COOL!!!!.......2004-04-11

I LOVE THIS ALBUM IT IS COOL IT HAS SOME OF MY FAVORITES BY MORIIS DAY AS A SOLO ARTIST THE COLOR OF SUCCESS, CHARACTER, THE OAK TREE THIS IS A GREAT HAVE AND A MUST HAVE FOR ANY MORRIS DAY FAN. IF YOU LIKE THE TIME THEN I WOULD DEFINITELY RECOMMEND YOU TO BUY THIS ALBUM!!!! I AM REALLY SURPRISED HOW GOOD THIS ALBUM IS BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE DON'T DO VERY WELL BEING A SOLO ARTIST.

MORRIS IS THE MAN.......2001-08-07

Wow! This one takes me back. I love "The Oak Tree". No matter what anybody else says, he can still jam on his own without "The Time".This album proves it. After you've heard it you too will be doing "The Oak Tree". Go get 'em Morris.

He needs the Time...........2000-05-23

This is a marginal effort. Many of the songs just sound too similar to each other, and Morris shows very little of the creativity that drew us to the Time. His vocals are as solid as he can get (considering he can't really sing), but the music is terrible.

If you get this, it'll surely disappoint.

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