FORCING THE ISSUE : * * * * <i> Great Balls of Fire</i> * * * <i> Good Vibrations</i> * * <i> Maybe Baby</i> * <i> Running on Empty : </i>

* * “SPANISH FLY.” Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam. Columbia. Lisa’s airy, Diana Ross-like vocals ride atop some bone-crushing percussion on this album’s best cut, “Head to Toe,” a dance jam that melodically owes a debt to the Supremes’ “Back in My Arms Again.” Full Force, the team that discovered the group and writes and produces all its material, asserts a stronger presence this second time time around--vocally, musically, and even with its picture on the jacket (that’s not surprising perhaps, since Full Force’s own records haven’t enjoyed the same commercial impact of its protege’s). Given Lisa’s Latino heritage, it would be nice if the sound had more of a distinctive Latin flavor. But who can argue with the urban one-two punch of “A Fool Is Born Everyday” or “Everything Will B-Fine,” a workaday funk exercise that’s sparked midway by Lisa’s stoic, matter-of-fact rap? Forceful funk is obviously Lisa’s forte.