Lisa Stansfield
Artist: Lisa Stansfield

Lisa Stansfield's long-awaited eponymous fourth album finds the blue-eyed soul singer at the top of her game, turning in a stylish set of smooth, disco-inflected dance-pop. The songs, from a cover of Barry White's "Never, Never Gonna Give You Up" and "Never Gonna Fall" to the ballad "I Cried My Last Tear," are uniformly strong and Stansfield's... Read More

One Wish
Artist: Deborah Cox
Community Score: 9.00

Arista set out to make a huge star of Deborah Cox. Her first album scored a couple of moderate hits, but with her second they were poised to turn the burgeoning belter into a new Whitney Houston. That didn't quite happen, but the set did make her into a considerable star, thanks in part to her monster cross-format smash "Nobody's Supposed to Be... Read More

The Boy Is Mine
Artist: Monica
Community Score: 9.10

On her second album, The Boy Is Mine, Monica is given a little more room to strut her own stuff. Previously, she was an inexperienced vocalist whose raw talent was sculpted by a bevy of producers. Here, she sticks with Dallas Austin; not only does he give her songs immaculately crafted musical backdrops -- both ballads and uptempo dance numbers... Read More

Never Say Never
Artist: Brandy
Community Score: 7.95

Shortly after the release of her eponymous debut in 1995, Brandy became a star. Not only did the album sell well, but she starred on UPN's Moesha and Disney's made-for-TV Cinderella, all before she released her second album, Never Say Never, in 1998. Needless to say, there was much more riding on the second record than the debut and,... Read More

Reality
Artist: Smooth
Community Score: 10.00

Working with a wide array of producers -- including Chris Stokes, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, and Brion James -- Smooth returned to recording in 1998 with Reality. Unlike her first two records, Reality tempers Smooth's hip-hop influences with urban soul, and the result is a seductive record that's equally funky and stylish. While the songwriting... Read More

I Wanna Be the Only One
Artist: Eternal
One Night With You: The Best of Love, Vol. 2
Artist: Luther Vandross

One Night with You picked up where Luther Vandross' first hits collection left off, including the R&B/pop Top Ten hits "Power of Love/Love Power," "Don't Want to Be a Fool," "The Best Things in Life Are Free," and "Endless Love," as well as the R&B Top Ten hits "Little Miracles" and "Your Secret Love." Also included was the Grammy-winning "Love... Read More

All That I Am
Artist: Joe
Community Score: 8.78