Exposure

One of my favorite albums in this genre. I’ve purchased remasters of a lot of 80’s music, usually disappointed in the quality. So often, they will turn the highs way up and neuter the bass and mids, giving it the “hot” sound. I can’t figure out how someone signs off on it. THIS album is not like that, the remaster is OUTSTANDING!!! It has the crisp highs, great vocals and adequate bass, better than the original press. All of the extras are equally well done.

So happy with this

Excellent classic freestyle album with pop, dance, rock, and latin feel intertwined. Expose was a famous band in the mid to late 1980's consisting of three female singers put together by a popular DJ from Miami named, Lewis Martinee. Expose quickly rose to the top of the charts with this "Exposure" album churning out one hit after another from "Come Go With Me", "Exposed to Love", "Point of No Return", "Let Me Be the One", and "Seasons Change". In fact, they were the first female group to have four top ten hits from a debut album, one of those songs hit #1. Every track on this album is fantastic, including the remixes on the second disc. This classic album gets an exceptional remaster that is definitely noticeable over the original release. This also comes with extensive liner notes of the history of the band back then and interviews with the singers Jeanette Jurado, Gioia Bruno, and Ann Curless - all scouted and hired in that order.While I did say that the group was "put together", Gioia states in the album notes that she never liked hearing that, because they were much more than that, and she is right. While, yes, they were technically put together so to speak, these women were not without great talent. They were already in groups that were less popular and playing in small clubs before they came together, so they had some experience when they were cast to be in Expose so to speak. They each brought their own unique strengths, voices, and personas to form this classic freestyle band Expose. Their follow up CD to this is also worth getting, "What You Don't Know", which kept them at the top of the map.Where did Expose go after that excellent follow up second album? That's been the big question by so many over the years who loved them in the 1980's. Sadly, after that second album while riding the consistent wave of popularity and success for years, they seemed to disappear from the limelight so to speak. There are probably numerous theories as to why that happened. One of the singers, Gioia Bruno was diagnosed with throat cancer and went to take care of it while the group laid low for awhile. Luckily, she did recover, but it was many years later, which in the music industry in popular entertainment can be a death curse unless you're a Michael Jackson or Madonna. The band sought to cast another member to temporarily replace Gioia for awhile. This third replacement Kelly Moneymaker joined them on the third album, which was met with little success, as the songs were not as great and memorable as the first two albums. Losing the power house voice of Gioia didn't help, and the music produced for it wasn't as great as the previous two albums. Not to mention this was moving well into the 1990's, when the music sounds of the industry changed as well. Some popular 80's acts weren't able to successfully crossover into that new sound that was taking over including Expose.Their third album lost Gioia and lacked the magic freestyle essence they were able to capture on their first two albums. That seemed to be the end of Expose aside from the occasional festival or club performance over the years. Still - it all goes back to this phenomenal album that indicated something magical in the freestyle movement back in the 1980's that Expose ruled at above all others. In fact, because of their instant crazy popularity for so many years in the late 80's, this pushed record companies to quickly try and package and market other groups made up of three female leading singers, which they did with The Cover Girls and Sweet Sensation, who also soon evaporated by the time the 1990's rolled around. Expose's Exposure is a phenomenal album that still holds up today. This is a definite classic and one to get if you haven't already. It takes you back to that time and how fun the music was.

It's about time that Exposé's debut album be given the deluxe treatment. I loved EXPOSURE and so I was overjoyed when I found out that Cherry Pop in the UK was releasing this 2-CD expanded version of it. I'm amazed that it's usually Japan or the UK that does these lovingly expanded re-issues of older soul/disco/r&b music from the USA (look at Universal Japan's reissue of the original Donna Summer "Live & More" album or Big Break Records UK expanded edition of The Pointer Sisters "Break Out" album for example), while the US record companies just keep putting out the same stuff just repackaged (I'm still waiting for a Janet "Miss" Jackson's CONTROL album to get an expanded makeover).I only know the original album (I actually had it on cassette) and the old CD, so I don't know if many of these remixes have been released before, as another customer stated, and I think I have two remixes that are on a "Free-Style" compilation, but I'm not sure if they're the same as on this edition, so mostly all of these extra tracks are new to me.On track #6 "Point Of No Return" from the original album, the track listed here on CD 1 is the extended version and runs 6:08-minutes. I no longer have that old cassette tape, but on the previous CD version of EXPOSURE this track is only 3:29-minutes, so that's one difference that I found, but that might be because the CD version had an edited version of the song -- I can't remember if the track was longer on the original.The remastering sounds fantastic and I think Cherry Pop did a great job.EXPOSURE DELUXE EDITION comes with a booklet featuring the lyrics to all songs, track annotations by the song-writer Lewis Martineé who talks about the inspiration for each song and how it came about, liner notes by Bill Pitzonka written on Aug 2014 that includes interviews with Jeanette Jurado, Gioia Bruno, and Ann Curless discussing how the group was formed etc., discography, some publicity pictures from back then, and single/album sleeve pictures.According to the liner notes there was a different group of singers who initially recorded "Point Of No Return" and "Exposed To Love" and featured lead vocals by Alé Lorenzo, who sounds exactly like Jeanette Jurado, and in the credits on lead vocals in the booklet it lists Lorenzo as the singer of both songs that feature the 1985 mixes. Jurado --once the group was formed with the lineup of Bruno, Jurado and Curless -- went back to the studio and recorded her own vocals on the two songs and Lewis Martineé says that if you owned any of the first 125,000 pressing of the EXPOSURE album you have Lorenzo's vocals, and any after are Jurado. I didn't know that so the liner notes were very informative.However it should've been mentioned that Gioia Bruno was diagnosed with throat cancer (I think that's what it was), which caused her to drop out of the group and be replaced by Kelley Moneymaker, while she recovered, and eventually she rejoined the group. I learned all this when I saw them perform at an LGBT Pride Festival back in either late 90s or early 2000s and Bruno was back in the group, and all were in fine voice.Another interesting tidbit is the group's performance at the famed Apollo Theater in New York, which you can find on Youtube, when they were touring. They brought the house down and I remember watching this on TV.Anyhow, if you were a kid in the 80s and went out clubbing you'd know this album and so I definitely recommend picking it up. If you like "High Energy/Free Style" music from the 80s then EXPOSURE is what you need.Normally, I don't really care for remix versions of songs, but in this case all of the additional tracks are based on the strong hits from the album and the remixes are extended mixes that doesn't change the song around too much.

Lets face it Jeanette and Gioia were the Face of expose, they sang all the big hits. I've heard all their 3 albums and we all know why the 3rd album did sell poorly, it was bec. Gioia's voice was missing, that raw energy and powerful voice and this debut album was just superb from start to finish. Ale sang lead on "Exposed to Love" and it's quite ironic that I prefer Jeanette's voice over hers but that song belongs only to Ale's. I have a hard time choosing between December and Seasons Change because both songs are equally good and emotive and lots of mellancholy. And the non single track was a suprise that it wasn't even a hit "I Know You Know", it is probably top 3 of the best tracks on the album and Gioia shines on this one, what a voice.....To sum it up, it is one of the most delicious Pop album ever and they deserve that 8th spot on The Billboards Greatest Girl Group of all Time.I wish they would reunite with Lewis Martinee for one album for one fact, Anne, Gioia and Jeanette still sounds exactly the same 30 some years ago which is quite rare.....

Disc 1 - the incredible studio album, potentially the definitive freestyle album. While front-loaded with singles, side two is almost side one's equal thanks to deeper cuts like I Know You Know. Bonus tracks are the 7" edits, a lot of this stuff is on their Greatest Hits CD, but the 7" edit of December is welcome and it's about time the original 1985 edit of Point of No Return was on CD.Disc 2 - the real value here is having the 12" mixes mastered properly. Exposé have had a pair of Dance Mix CDs out for a while now but the mastering is all in the red and smashes what little subtlety was in these tracks. Also at first glance it looks like a lot of material on this disc, but the crossover mixes and remixes towards the end of the disc are really just edits of the 12" mixes. Not too special to hear. Though the tight crossover mix of Point of No Return makes amends for the awkward and over-long 10 minute extended remix that also appears. Bit of shame for the compilers to miss out the original 1984 mix of Point of No Return or the dub 12" mixes.The CD booklet is for once a real treat. Cherry Red have obviously put a lot of work into the liner notes. The interviews with the girls and producer/writer Lewis A. Martineé are well done. The album has full musician credits which list everyone including the original members; you'll be surprised how many people are credited for backing vocals, and that all three girls don't actually sing together on any songs from the debut album.This is a great set and it was never going to have literally everything. What's here is more than worth purchasing to replace your old LPs, Cassettes and CDs. Get it, play it, request that Cherry Red puts out 1989's What You Don't Know!

When I was 21 I went to Florida and these singles were all over the radio. I’ve got the original 12” singles. I’m 53 now and loving this cd with the remixes that are now available in digital form great in the car & great groundbreaking freestyle that was overlooked by U.K. radio.

Was so chuffed, when I found out this was coming out. I still most of the singles (7" & 12") on vinyl, so to finally be able to get them together on one CD I was over the moon. The only downer on proceedings was the inclusion of the 'rare' UK mixes of PONR & LMBTO. The latter just an edit of the full length mix, and the former a train wreck that took the soul out of the original. I think would've been better served by the inclusion of the totes awesome Expose Megamix (Point of no Return, Come go with me & Exposed to love).

Bought this after stumbling on a couple of music videos on YouTube. The album was a lot better than I thought it was going to be. Classic 80s pop. If you like PWL you should check it out as it's in that sort of genre (which I love!)

very good cd thanks