#2789 Quincy Jones - The Dude

At its best, The Dude's funky, cool in a kind of uncool-cool 80's kind of way. Those first couple tracks show promise. But it's a producer album, slick and overpolished to death, with soppy ballads and post-disco-still-disco pop schlock padding out most of the rest. And yet, weird little exotica flourishes and some choice keys make me hedge. I can't quite dismiss this record; it's just on the knife's edge of so square its hip, a noteworthy pop nugget from another age 3/5