Sylvester : Rock The Box

[Energyguy]

can anyone tell me about this album.. any good ?
I have two 12" singles "ROCK THE BOX" & "SEX"...Both decent tracks. is the album good ? Worth tracking down.. ?

[shives]

Other cuts off the album like Lovin' Is Really My Game and Taking Love Into My Own Hands are both decent too. And yes, Lovin' Is Really My Game is a Brainstorm cover!

[Energyguy]

Originally Posted by shives

Other cuts off the album like Lovin' Is Really My Game and Taking Love Into My Own Hands are both decent too. And yes, Lovin' Is Really My Game is a Brainstorm cover!

Thanks for the information.

[SandraDee]

This LP was originally called 'M1015'. It's been renamed 'Rock The Box' now it's on CD; I think it's a much better title! It's mainly mid-80s hi-nrg so you will love it Neil. My personal favourite cut is 'I Dont Wanna Think About It', a classy mid-tempo song.

[Energyguy]

Originally Posted by SandraDee

This LP was originally called 'M1015'. It's been renamed 'Rock The Box' now it's on CD; I think it's a much better title! It's mainly mid-80s hi-nrg so you will love it Neil. My personal favourite cut is 'I Dont Wanna Think About It', a classy mid-tempo song.

Cheers Dave. I will have a scout round for it. Found one on amazon but it was way too expensive.

[kdavid13]

Originally Posted by Energyguy

Cheers Dave. I will have a scout round for it. Found one on amazon but it was way too expensive.

I quite like this album by SYLVESTER even though I had several cuts on 12inches.When i saw it used I snatched it.

Sylvester didn't know what to call his upcoming album and when he found out that the album's number from MEGATONE would be M-1015 ; he called it that.

When UNIDISC re-released it on CD ; it didn't make sense anymore so they gave it the first single's name instead.

ROCK THE BOX was a bit of a departure from his traditional HiNRG sound ; I remember the critics in RECORD MIRROR didn't quite know what to make of this one.

[PierreConstantin]

It's one of his best albums. It's very uptempo and it' more professionally made that the two previous Megatone lp's. Its name was «M-1015» in Europe and Japan too even if it was distributed by Chrysalis/Cooltempo or Victor and the Megatone US catalogue number doesn't made any sense. I remember when I bought it, my brother and I didn't understand that strange name.
«Take me to heaven» is what I would call neo-disco; «Lovin' is really my game» is not very different than the Brainstorm original; the syncopated «How do you like your love» is my favourite.
The 12"s were:
«Rock the box» (lp vs 5:00, drum box 2:42/dub box 6:40) 12" Megatone MT-130/Cooltempo 601 562 in Europe/COOLX104 in UK
«Take me to heaven» (Ian Levine long remix 10:55)/«Sex» (Ian Levine long remix 9:10) 12" Megatone MT-133/Cooltempo 601 726 in Europe/COOLX106 in UK
«Loving is really my game» (lp vs 6:40)/«Taking love into my own hands» (long remix 8:30). 12" Megatone MT-134/Musart TI-70997 in Mexico
[Another Mexican 12" is: «Taking love into my own hands»/«Sex» with both lp versions (12" Musart 70867)]
The album was re-issued by Unidisc in 1992 under the name «Rock the box» and with the US/Japan black picture sleeve (in Europe, the colours were differents). It has all the lp versions and «Rock the box (Purple haze acid house mix)» from 1989 (6:13, originally on 12" Megatone House MH2003). The three original 12" remixes are available on the cd but «Take me to heaven» is cut (8:30 only). «Sex» and «Taking love into my own hands» are in their full-length 12" version.
For a good Sylvester discography: http://www.giorgysplace.com/syl/