James & Janes

gorgeous tune, and unlike any other I can think of, off the top of my head - in  the gait of its groove and the way the vocals soar and hover.

Rick James's finest moment?

He had some moments

This is sort of awful yet undeniable



so jumpy, so full of beans - so kitschily in yer face

Somehow I have never actually gotten around to listening to Street Songs, or indeed any Rick James album apart from the LP that this is the title track of



whole LP is excellent and was written up at the time by Barney Hoskyns as a case of Rick beating Prince at his own game i.e. synth-ified funk with a New Wave tinge