Track Listing

1. Intro Lude
2. Creep
3. Kick Your Game
4. Diggin' On You
5. Case Of The Fake People
6. Crazysexycool
7. Red Light Special
8. Waterfalls
9. Intermission Lude
10. Let's Do It Again
11. If I Was Your Girlfriend
12. Sexy Interlude
13. Take Our Time
14. Can I Get A Witness
15. Switch
16. Sumthin' Wicked This Way Comes

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11234 in Music
• Released on: 2003-06-18
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
Between the smashes of On the TLC Tip and Fanmail, TLC made CrazySexyCool, on which the trio made an ill-advised bid to out-diva groups like En Vogue. Despite their premature stab for respect, the albums contains one of the trio's signature tunes: "Waterfalls", a wistful take on unrequited love that was wise beyond their years. They didn't match the tune until the release of Fanmail, on which the ladies fulfilled the promise hinted at here. --Bucky Wunderlick

CD Description
The elements that had this precocious trio's debut album blasting out of playgrounds, top 40 radio stations and even rock critics' Walkmans are still here--infectious dance grooves, pop melodies and sassy raps that put '90s feminism into action.
But CRAZYSEXYCOOL also launches TLC from girlhood into youngwomanhood, with, on one hand, Janet Jackson-esque paens to sex ("Let's Do It Again") and, on the other, melodically downbeat ghetto ballads ("Waterfalls") that recall Stevie Wonder as a young man.
The scratchy world-weariness of the lead vocal in "Waterfalls" is one of several nods to classic soul singing. "Case Of The Fake People", written by Dallas Austin, alludes to the O'Jays' "Backstabbers", and "IfI Was Your Girlfriend" is a cover of Prince at his most sincere (oddly unreversing his role reversal). And the single "Creep" is a "Dark End Of The Street" for the '90s, a cheating song that walks a tightrope between young love and revenge.

Customer Reviews

Top Album
I brought this CD when it was first released, a few years ago. It was permently on my CD player then, and now years later im still listening to it. Its one of the best albums ive purchased, an would recomend it to any R&B fan, even if TLC's latest album didnt do anything for you, this one definatley will!

Essential R'n'B
Every artist has thier essential album. You know, the LP that set them apart from the others and (in some cases) made them international superstars and hot property in the music world. For TLC, "CrazySexyCool" was this LP. The album gave them hit after hit with the still-incredible "Creep" and "Wateralls" amongst them. A more mature and smoothed-down sound to thier first release, this album showed the group had grown up - and so had thier lyrics. The vocals were stronger, the lyrics more important and the production had a more classic sound to it. Truth be told, this album is probably one of the most important from 1990 and without doubt in R&B history.

The album plays like a dream, and you'll rarely want to skip a track. That said, there are some key stand out tracks. Aside from the singles, the haunting and meaningful "Sumthin' Wicked This Way Comes" is thought provoking in all the right ways. A cover of the Prince classic "If I Was Your Girlfriend" is, suprisingly, excellent even though god knows it could have fallen flat on it's face it hasn't. Stunning vocals and production here. "Switch" is rough and ready and is delivered as only as the late Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes knew how (R.I.P). But, truly, this album has no weak tracks for me, personally. Even the interludes add something (The Interlude Titled "Sexy" is truly hillarious). A stunning album that was desserving of the million-sales and total praise that it achieved.

TLC can't get any better than this
Crazysexycool is by far the best album TLC or anyone else have done... ever. Not only has it got some really hot tunes, but the messages it delivers across like in "Waterfalls" about safe sex are typical of the girls.... This album has gone 11x Platinum, the biggest selling album in the history of RnB and Hip Hop. A must buy for any RnB fans.