Debut Album On Vinyl LP!
Features "Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg", "Baby-Baby-Baby", What About Your Friends" & "Hat 2 Da Back"!!
Ooooooohhh...On the TLC Tip is the debut studio album by TLC, released on February 25, 1992. The title of the album comes from the last line of Left Eye's rap on "Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg."
The album peaked at number 14 on the US Billboard 200 chart. By May 1996, it was certified quadruple-platinum by the RIAA for shipping four million copies in the United States. The album is TLC's third most successful album, (after FanMail and CrazySexyCool in that order) selling well over six million copies worldwide.
"TLC's debut album, Ooooooohhh...on the TLC Tip, established the trio's image and unorthodox fashion sense, which at this point was based on baggy, brightly colored clothes and Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes' trademark condom. Some accused them of borrowing their look from Bell Biv DeVoe, and their female-positive, pro-safe-sex attitudes from Salt-n-Pepa, but TLC has the boundless enthusiasm to make it all convincingly their own. What they don't always have are the songs to pull off a consistent album. The most infectious songs are naturally the singles: 'Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg' is bouncy, catchy, and sexually assertive, and 'What About Your Friends' is an equally danceable meditation on true friendship. The chart-topping ballad 'Baby-Baby-Baby' is typically well-crafted Babyface, if a little by-the-numbers. Some of the album tracks keep the sense of fun going, but others fall flat -- not that they're bad, they just aren't that memorable. On the plus side, Left Eye gets a lot of space for her distinctively nasal, girlish rapping, and the entire group drops rhymes on 'Das da Way We Like 'Em.' Although it's uneven, the best moments of On the TLC Tip deserved their popularity, and set the stage for the group's blockbuster success the next time out." - Steve Huey, allmusic.com
Features:
Vinyl LP
Selections:
Side 1:
1. Intro
2. Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg
3. Shock Dat Monkey
4. Intermission I
5. Hat 2 da Back
6. Das Da Way We Like 'Em
7. What About Your Friends
8. His Story
Side 2:
9. Intermission II
10. Bad By Myself
11. Somethin' You Wanna Know
12. Baby-Baby-Baby
13. This Is How It Should Be Done
14. Depend on Myself
15. Conclusion
Features "Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg", "Baby-Baby-Baby", What About Your Friends" & "Hat 2 Da Back"!!
Ooooooohhh...On the TLC Tip is the debut studio album by TLC, released on February 25, 1992. The title of the album comes from the last line of Left Eye's rap on "Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg."
The album peaked at number 14 on the US Billboard 200 chart. By May 1996, it was certified quadruple-platinum by the RIAA for shipping four million copies in the United States. The album is TLC's third most successful album, (after FanMail and CrazySexyCool in that order) selling well over six million copies worldwide.
"TLC's debut album, Ooooooohhh...on the TLC Tip, established the trio's image and unorthodox fashion sense, which at this point was based on baggy, brightly colored clothes and Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes' trademark condom. Some accused them of borrowing their look from Bell Biv DeVoe, and their female-positive, pro-safe-sex attitudes from Salt-n-Pepa, but TLC has the boundless enthusiasm to make it all convincingly their own. What they don't always have are the songs to pull off a consistent album. The most infectious songs are naturally the singles: 'Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg' is bouncy, catchy, and sexually assertive, and 'What About Your Friends' is an equally danceable meditation on true friendship. The chart-topping ballad 'Baby-Baby-Baby' is typically well-crafted Babyface, if a little by-the-numbers. Some of the album tracks keep the sense of fun going, but others fall flat -- not that they're bad, they just aren't that memorable. On the plus side, Left Eye gets a lot of space for her distinctively nasal, girlish rapping, and the entire group drops rhymes on 'Das da Way We Like 'Em.' Although it's uneven, the best moments of On the TLC Tip deserved their popularity, and set the stage for the group's blockbuster success the next time out." - Steve Huey, allmusic.com
Features:
Vinyl LP
Selections:
Side 1:
1. Intro
2. Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg
3. Shock Dat Monkey
4. Intermission I
5. Hat 2 da Back
6. Das Da Way We Like 'Em
7. What About Your Friends
8. His Story
Side 2:
9. Intermission II
10. Bad By Myself
11. Somethin' You Wanna Know
12. Baby-Baby-Baby
13. This Is How It Should Be Done
14. Depend on Myself
15. Conclusion
