Dec.12.2011 at 1:16 pm | Alix B. Golden
MMM Vol Two: Faith By George Michael
George Michael’s album, Faith, was released in 1987. I remember listening to it in the summer time. My youngest aunt owned the tape. That was when the tapes would come with they lyrics, so you can only imagine how much time I spent putting on my own concerts. His music was grown. I have no idea why the adults in my life allowed me to listen to his music, but they did. My mom went as far as buying me my own copy. It was the first tape I ever owned.
This album was the first album by a Caucasian artist to hit the top spot on the R & B charts. If you remember the other songs on this album also included “One More Try,” “I Want Your Sex,” “Kissing a Fool,” “Monkey” and “Father Figure”. George Michael said to Rolling Stone Magazine: “I was much happier with Faith being No.1 black album than I was [when] it became No.1 pop album.” To put his success in context, this was out at the same time as Michael Jackson’s Bad.
My mother told me about “One More Try” because the music sounded very close to a song I had written in memory of my brother so, of course, I had to hear it – then broke a few traffic laws going to get my own copy of it. “One More Try” is the best song on the album/CD musically and lyrically and, wow, both are damned powerful in the message it brings: If I don’t know, teach me.
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