Janet Jackson

Escapade / Love Will Never Do (Without You)

1989 · Rhythm & Blues · A&M Records

US · 75021 8698 7

Credits

One record at a time, and the reason for each step.

Minneapolis Sound

Linn drums, Oberheim stabs, no horn section: funk rebuilt by one city's worth of overlapping bands.

D.C. Go-Go

Percussion that never stops: congas, cowbell and crowd chants holding one groove across a whole night.