Track Listing

1. All Around The World
2. Mighty Love
3. This Is The Right Time
4. You Can't Deny It
5. What Did I Do To You?
6. Affection
7. Live Together
8. Sincerity
9. The Love In Me
10. Poison
11. When Are You Coming Back?
12. Wake Up Baby
13. The Way You Want It

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #46303 in Music
• Released on: 1990-02-14
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
Italian digitally remastered gold CD reissue of 1989 album, packaged in a digipak. 2001.

Amazon.com
Arriving as it did in 1990, before nostalgia for '70s dance music turned from irony to genuine appreciation, Lisa Stansfield's Affection was ahead of its time. Featuring up-to-date clubland rhythms percolating under sweeping string arrangements a la Barry White and classic Philly soul, Stansfield's music struck the perfect balance between looking forward and looking back. "All Around the World" was justifiably the album's smash hit, but more than a few of the other tracks--"This Is the Right Time," "Live Together," and "Poison" among them--are its equal. And it's easy to get lost in Stansfield's supple, soulful voice, which leads the way in making Affection a far more memorable affair than the usual dance trifle. --Daniel Durchholz

Customer Reviews

This album changed my life!
1990: I was fifteen years old and I was watching MTV one day, and suddenly the song 'All Around The World' came on by this new singer Lisa Stansfield. That was it, I was hooked. I literally felt like this music was speaking to me: the voice, the beat, the catchiness. I sang that song (and all the others on the album) millions of times, wishing I was Lisa. Lisa's debut became MY music, above all else. It shaped my adolescence and I haven't been able to put it down since. Now before you write me off as a Lisa fanatic (which I proudly am, and you will be too after listening to this classic album), let me agree and add to the reviews below.
1. Lisa's voice is intoxicating and hits all the right notes at all the right times.
2. Every song could have been a hit and production is amazing throughout.
3. The music wants to make you dance, cry, sing and chill to.
4. Affection never gets boring, and does not sound dated at all.
5. We Lisa fans need to keep her music alive and help it be rediscovered... it is only a matter of time before the 1990's style becomes fashionable again and this album is given even greater classic status than it already has.
And remember, 'You Can't Deny It', 'This Is The Right Time' to listen to this album 'All Around The World'.

Great Album
I have this as an album and wanted a CD version of it. I loved the music when it first came out back in the day, and still do

Classy debut from classy lady
Lisa Stansfield's solo debut pretty much showed that she was the UK's answer to Teena Marie; a Caucasian woman with vocals so soulful that you would swear up and down that she was black if you weren't looking straight at her.

The album is fantastic, and while it hasn't aged extremely well, that is okay. Standout tracks include the midtempo R&B smash, "All Around The World," the thumping neo-disco cut "This Is The Right Time," and the soulful house gem "The Love In Me." That isn't to say that there aren't missteps on the album. "Mighty Love" is happy forgettable filler and the new jack swing-influenced "Poison" seems like a song that is too hard-edged for a sophisticated girl like Lisa and as a result, doesn't quite pull it off. Despite those minor faults, Affection is still worth listening to over and over again.