Surface, Shower Me With Your Love | Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶

In the 10^th edition of Throwback Vibez (2023), we recollect and reflect on “Shower Me With Your Love” by Surface. 

The vibes, the vibes, those Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶! Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 is a column that celebrates awesome songs from the past.  The records that grace this column are older, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re ancient – no fossils 🦴! All genres of music are welcome. In the 10^th edition of Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 (2023), we recollect and reflect on 🎵 “Shower Me With Your Love”, performed by 🎙 Surface. 

“My heart is filled with so much love / And I need someone I can call my own.” Oh, the nostalgia, 🎙 Surface.  Perhaps not the first 1980s-90s music collective that comes to mind, the R&B trio – 🎙 Bernard Jackson, 🎙 David Conley, and 🎙 David Townsend – had a successful run.  That run included the top-five, Billboard Hot 100 hit, 🎵 “Shower Me With Your Love”. “Shower Me With Your Love” graces their platinum-certified, 1988 album, 💿 2^nd Wave. Clearly, matters of the heart shape this classic ballad that sounds idiomatic of the late 80s, yet remains potent in the 2020s.

Love is the superpower on this record.  Bernard Jackson asserts, “Life is too short to live alone / Without Someone to call my own / I will care for you, you will care for me / Our love will live forever.” Ah – sounds utterly perfect.  Perhaps love isn’t that easy, but in the hands of Surface, it sure sounds that way. Keeping things simple and hopeful, Jackson “Pray(s) all my wishes come true” and believes that “Fairy tales, they do sometimes come true / If you believe, it could happen to you.” Well, as they say, if you want something, you’ve got to speak it into existence.  Honestly, listening to how sincere Surface sounds on the gorgeous 🎵 “Shower Me With Your Love”, the hope is that they are indeed showered in love (“Shower me with your love / Shower me with the love that I long for”).  A super sweet R&B record, period.

🎙 Surface • 💿 2^nd Wave • 🏷 Sony Music Entertainment • 📅 1988

Surface, “Shower Me With Your Love”: Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 No. 10 (2023) [📷: Brent Faulkner, John Alan Sperry, PIRO, The Musical Hype, Pixabay]