What time is it?!?!
Well, not time for The Time. I've already gone through all of their albums of the 80's. In fact, the title track of Morris Day's first solo outing, Color Of Success has a vocal narration that not only informs the listeners The Time has disbanded, but that he won't be saying "What time is it" anymore. It further goes on to state that he's now a solo artist who will produce his own albums and films. Basically, don't come around here looking for The Time. This is a new era, and it's all about Morris Day.
The album would hit both the Billboard 200 and R&B charts, peaking at number thirty-seven, and seven, respectively. As a whole, singles would fare better on the R&B singles charts, where The Oak Tree (peaking at number 15), The Character (34), and The Color Of Success (the song, landing at 15) would all chart. Only The Oak Tree would cross over to the Billboard Hot 100, but in doing so, would only reach number sixty-five.
Diving in, it somewhat picks up where The Time's Ice Cream Castle left off. It features the same musical style, and even caps out at six tracks, mirroring the now defunct band's previous song limit. To further push the similarities home, Color Of Success also takes a page from the hit, The Bird for Day's new hit dance, The Oak Tree. Unfortunately, it's not as catchy as The Bird.
While Prince isn't involved with this record, Day seems to have retained poor habits from his mentor. By this, I mean that while songs are limited in number, they have excessive runtimes. All but one are under the five-minute mark, with half of them pushing six plus minutes. One would expect this would be particularly painful when said song is a ballad, such as the case with the seven minute, thirteen second, Don't Wait For Me. However, it's actually one of the best on the album.
Fortunately, as a whole, the album is enjoyable, and while it does feel drawn out at times because of each song's length, it still manages to provide a solid listening session. Ultimately though, it's just more of Morris, and depending on how you feel about him or The Time, that could be a good or bad thing. For me, it was good.
Morris produced one final album for the decade, that being 1987's Daydreaming. From it would come his most successful solo single, Fishnet. However, from there, he'd return briefly to The Time before going back to his solo career. But more on all of that tomorrow.
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