House of Music is the fourth and final album by American R&B; band Tony!
Toni! Toné!, released in 1996 by Mercury Records. Bassist-vocalist
Raphael Saadiq (pictured), guitarist-vocalist D'wayne Wiggins, and
percussionist-keyboardist Timothy Christian Riley worked on its songs
independently before recording them together as a group. While doing
most of the production, Tony! Toni! Toné! emphasized musicianship and
expanded on their previous work's traditional soul influences with live
instrumentation and balladry. Music journalists have noted the album's
incorporation of old-fashioned and modern sensibilities, themes of love
and romance, and witty, sensitive lyrics. The album charted for
31 weeks on the Billboard 200 and sold over a million units in the
United States. Critics praised the musicianship and songwriting, later
deeming it a masterpiece of 1990s R&B.; Despite its success, the group
disbanded shortly after due to creative differences and Mercury's
management of the album's short-lived marketing campaign.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Music>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1862:
American Civil War: Confederate forces won the Second Battle
of Bull Run in Prince William County, Virginia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Bull_Run>
1918:
Fanny Kaplan fired three shots with a pistol at Vladimir Lenin
in a failed assassination shortly before the beginning of the Red
Terror.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Kaplan>
1974:
An express train carrying foreign workers from Yugoslavia to
West Germany derailed in Zagreb, killing 153 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zagreb_train_disaster>
1995:
Bosnian War: NATO forces began a bombing campaign against the
Army of Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Deliberate_Force>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
xerocracy:
(informal) Political influence achieved by copying and distributing
leaflets and similar material.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/xerocracy>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Purpose crosses disciplines. Purpose is an essential element of
you. It is the reason you are on the planet at this particular time in
history. Your very existence is wrapped up in the things you are here to
fulfill. Whatever you choose for a career path, remember, the struggles
along the way are only meant to shape you for your purpose.
--Chadwick Boseman
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chadwick_Boseman>