Album info

• Title FanMail
• Artist TLC
• Year 1999
• Genre R&B/Soul

Tracklist

1. FanMail
2. The Vic-E Interpretation (Interlude)
3. Silly Ho
4. Whispering Playa (Interlude)
5. No Scrubs
6. I’m Good at Being Bad
7. If They Knew
8. I Miss You So Much
9. Unpretty
10. My Life
11. Shout
12. Come On Down
13. Dear Lie
14. Communicate (Interlude)
15. Lovesick
16. Automatic
17. Don’t Pull Out On Me Yet

Thoughts

No Scrubs has been a fixture on the 1999 Top of the Pops replays, and I suddenly realised I had only done new TLC music and not any of the classic stuff. This album is so good. There are a couple of interludey bits I could live without, but it’s not as annoying as some other albums are. And the tunes make up for it - obviously No Scrubs and Unpretty are stone cold classics, but the rest of it is great R&B with their intriguing blend of vocals and such a feeling of redemption (the band having gone through some stuff before this album that meant they may not have come. back!) Love it.

Rating: 4 / 5