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"D'Angelo - BLACK MESSIAH??? ALBUM ON SALE AT MIDNIGHT"
Sun Dec-14-14 06:45 PM by fire

          

on itunes

Is this a teaser for the new album???

http://youtu.be/oVsiVf_eSYE









Happy 50th D’Angelo: https://chrisp.bandcamp.com/track/d-50

  

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Probably not.
Dec 11th 2014
1
One can only hope, but that's "1000 Deaths"
Dec 11th 2014
2
RE: One can only hope, but that's "1000 Deaths"
Dec 11th 2014
6
lol
Dec 11th 2014
3
via Nelson George:
Dec 11th 2014
4
smh
Dec 11th 2014
5
i hope he just releases the album.
Dec 11th 2014
8
RE: i hope he just releases the album.
Dec 12th 2014
15
      yeah, I think it's brilliant.
Dec 12th 2014
16
           RE: yeah, I think it's brilliant.
Dec 12th 2014
19
           RE: yeah, I think it's brilliant.
Dec 12th 2014
20
                That would mean he actually learned something
Dec 12th 2014
38
           I think we'll need a Pete Burns gag order for the next month
Dec 12th 2014
21
           fair enough lol
Dec 12th 2014
22
                Oh, NOW it's "fair enough"??!!!.....lol.
Dec 12th 2014
23
                D'Angelo calling the album Black Messiah.... with
Dec 12th 2014
25
                     Gag order on you too... no baiting
Dec 12th 2014
26
                     naw... I'll pass....
Dec 12th 2014
28
                     I can't change what either of you already posted
Dec 12th 2014
32
                          I hear you...I probably won't though...n/m
Dec 12th 2014
33
                          YES. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. BOTH OF THEM.
Dec 12th 2014
46
                     ..
Dec 12th 2014
29
                     lol!
Dec 15th 2014
325
           RE: yeah, I think it's brilliant.
Dec 12th 2014
78
                http://i.qkme.me/3oz3v7.jpg
Dec 12th 2014
80
Y U Mad Son??
Dec 11th 2014
10
      why AREN'T you mad?!
Dec 12th 2014
12
           nuthin to be mad about...
Dec 12th 2014
24
BRING IT
Dec 11th 2014
7
via Kevin Liles:
Dec 11th 2014
9
what did he say?
Dec 12th 2014
13
nice move on the album title.....
Dec 11th 2014
11
Great album title. Now, let's get it going !!!!
Dec 12th 2014
14
      it is? it's vomit enducing...the nerve of this joker
Dec 12th 2014
17
           that's a bit much no??? lol..
Dec 12th 2014
27
                it conjures up TTD Hardline braggadoccio (sp?)
Dec 12th 2014
30
                     hardline was TTD's debut album though right?
Dec 12th 2014
34
                          it's setting him up
Dec 12th 2014
35
                               I'm with you
Dec 12th 2014
36
                               word is it's a lyric but still..they know what theyre doing
Dec 12th 2014
39
                                    RE: word is it's a lyric but still..they know what theyre doing
Dec 14th 2014
127
                                         STOP POSTING FACTS WHILE PEOPLE ARE POSTING CONJECTURE
Dec 15th 2014
340
                                         uh huh..sure
Dec 15th 2014
373
                               I have a feeling that the titile may not be meant to be taken
Dec 12th 2014
43
                                    Irony (and humor in general) has never been D's strong suit.
Dec 12th 2014
44
                                         the fact that it's got folks talking tells me it's not suppose to be lit...
Dec 12th 2014
45
                                              nigga if he named it Baba-Loo it'd get talked about
Dec 12th 2014
48
                                                   it's probably not that deep.
Dec 12th 2014
50
                                                   RE: it's probably not that deep.
Dec 12th 2014
53
                                                        ok.
Dec 12th 2014
55
                                                   if the music should do the talking...why you talkin bout it??
Dec 12th 2014
59
                                                   co-sign to the fullest
Dec 12th 2014
76
                                                   I just dont want him sabatoging himself
Dec 12th 2014
82
                                                   he won't.... it will be fine.... look at the current music scene...
Dec 12th 2014
85
                                                   stop making sense
Dec 15th 2014
341
                                                   RE: nigga if he named it Baba-Loo it'd get talked about
Dec 12th 2014
77
cool. drop the album on christmas. perfect symbolism.
Dec 12th 2014
18
I'm geeked as fuck *shameless*
Dec 12th 2014
31
^
Dec 14th 2014
129
BLACK MESSIAH
Dec 12th 2014
37
it's perfect.
Dec 12th 2014
41
aka what you're saying = gimmick
Dec 12th 2014
42
Biggest problem with this
Dec 12th 2014
49
      no one can live up to it.
Dec 12th 2014
52
           Well I don't even believe they'll be an album
Dec 12th 2014
56
                it's right HERE:
Dec 12th 2014
60
                     *kicks rocks*
Dec 12th 2014
62
                     smart to credit it to The Vanguard too
Dec 12th 2014
63
or maybe it's not that deep.
Dec 12th 2014
47
      Nothing about D has ever been as deep as it was sold
Dec 12th 2014
51
           and he's acknowledging that w/the title, i expect.
Dec 12th 2014
54
                well bully for YOU lol
Dec 12th 2014
57
                get on my level.
Dec 12th 2014
67
                     help me up lol
Dec 12th 2014
79
                clearly the title is ironical, I agree with you
Dec 13th 2014
115
D'Angelo sure makes the bitch come out in some of yall lol
Dec 12th 2014
40
ah... including the band in the title now....ok... n/m
Dec 12th 2014
61
Photo of the CD/album cover...*link*
Dec 12th 2014
58
welp...
Dec 12th 2014
64
*itchy palms*
Dec 12th 2014
65
looks awesome.
Dec 12th 2014
66
      The guy in the tweet you linked has been told 12/16
Dec 12th 2014
68
           maaan...so itunes on sunday/monday maybe???
Dec 12th 2014
89
                RE: maaan...so itunes on sunday/monday maybe???
Dec 12th 2014
92
                     RE: The logistics don't add up.
Dec 12th 2014
107
                          like the guy that tweeted the picture of the CD?
Dec 13th 2014
110
                               RE: I'll believe it when I hear something.
Dec 13th 2014
118
                                    oh ok lol
Dec 15th 2014
244
RE: D'Angelo - BLACK MESSIAH??? [Listening Party NYC 12/14]
Dec 12th 2014
69
Listening session on Sunday (hosted by Nelson George)
Dec 12th 2014
70
Tracklisting:
Dec 12th 2014
71
. . .
Dec 12th 2014
72
...
Dec 12th 2014
74
respect to my lil dude isaiah
Dec 12th 2014
86
Well damn
Dec 12th 2014
73
Promo poster (from Pitchfork)
Dec 12th 2014
75
:shakes tambourine: Im delivert!
Dec 12th 2014
81
lol
Dec 12th 2014
84
      not kiddin: seein actual product has me giddy lol
Dec 12th 2014
87
           there is something to be said for long waits though right???
Dec 12th 2014
88
                Im sure the music will be good but the wait isnt the thing...
Dec 12th 2014
90
                     now it's here, give thanks
Dec 12th 2014
91
I think someone owes me some money since this is real...lol.
Dec 12th 2014
83
LEAKED:
Dec 12th 2014
93
Imma wait till Tuesday (hey, a play on words)
Dec 12th 2014
94
Do. Not. Play. With. Me.
Dec 12th 2014
95
Inbox n/m
Dec 12th 2014
96
Jumps in inbox line
Dec 12th 2014
97
yall waited 15 years you can wait till Tuesday
Dec 12th 2014
98
RE: yall waited 15 years you can wait till Tuesday
Dec 12th 2014
99
      natch, so do it right..open an actual cd and put it on etc
Dec 12th 2014
100
Inbox por favor
Dec 12th 2014
101
Inbox please.
Dec 12th 2014
104
RE: Inbox por favor
Dec 13th 2014
120
I'm actually excited to cop this on Tuesday
Dec 12th 2014
102
i'll download on iTunes at midnight Monday night. LOL
Dec 12th 2014
105
me too
Dec 13th 2014
113
      I've never been this excited in all my life.
Dec 13th 2014
116
lol
Dec 12th 2014
103
nice
Dec 12th 2014
108
BAMMERED^^^^^^^^
Dec 12th 2014
109
RE: **ctrl+f "wack messiah"**
Dec 12th 2014
106
no D'mumblo either
Dec 13th 2014
111
      D'mumblo was the best.
Dec 13th 2014
112
      RE: His leaving was one of the best things to ever happen to this board.
Dec 13th 2014
119
Rolling Stone article
Dec 13th 2014
114
friends don't let friends black rock
Dec 14th 2014
122
      True, because real friends Black Rock WITH you.
Dec 14th 2014
126
told ya'll mofos years ago
Dec 13th 2014
117
inbox n/m
Dec 14th 2014
123
They just ran the commercial during SNL
Dec 13th 2014
121
So Sugar Daddy....
Dec 14th 2014
124
All I got so far:
Dec 14th 2014
128
50?I'll take someone who can decipher 15% of what he's saying
Dec 14th 2014
134
Even the Black Messiah doesn't know what he's saying
Dec 14th 2014
135
i like it.
Dec 14th 2014
137
RE: i like it.
Dec 14th 2014
138
me too
Dec 14th 2014
144
I ain't mad at it. It was the one new song that I was the least pumped t...
Dec 14th 2014
147
here's an attempt lol
Dec 14th 2014
142
Like I asked over in GD..
Dec 14th 2014
148
duh.
Dec 14th 2014
166
sounds like dilla producing gang starr's manifest
Dec 14th 2014
151
Sugar Daddy link
Dec 14th 2014
125
lol@that title. hes the R&B kanye.
Dec 14th 2014
130
RE: lol@that title. hes the R&B kanye.
Dec 14th 2014
131
      hmmm yeah i dunno
Dec 14th 2014
132
           Sugah Daddy is
Dec 14th 2014
133
           this D'Angelo thing seems very personal for a lot of you guys
Dec 14th 2014
136
           true
Dec 14th 2014
141
           lol..so him telling you what the meaning is isn't good enough?
Dec 14th 2014
140
                did you listen to the preview vide on on youtube for the album?
Dec 14th 2014
150
                     if you're requiring someone to do it color by numbers style
Dec 14th 2014
164
I likes BUT....
Dec 14th 2014
139
RE: I likes BUT....
Dec 14th 2014
143
this is going to be interesting to watch...
Dec 14th 2014
146
      Good points.
Dec 14th 2014
152
           the tour is crucial
Dec 14th 2014
154
i dig it
Dec 14th 2014
145
      its like i just cant stop loving you
Dec 14th 2014
149
           sounds very new orleans\st parrish
Dec 14th 2014
153
                RE: sounds very new orleans\st parrish
Dec 14th 2014
155
                     Wassup Rez!!!!! Doing well doing well
Dec 14th 2014
156
                          ReZ, many great stories are in 3 acts
Dec 14th 2014
157
Wait, I never did know why ?uesto's name on here was 15...
Dec 14th 2014
158
Lol, no. But I feel old now.
Dec 14th 2014
159
lol!
Dec 15th 2014
384
RE: D'Angelo - BLACK MESSIAH???
Dec 14th 2014
160
I definitely didn't catch the line about 'making the pussy fart'.
Dec 14th 2014
165
      Love that line
Dec 14th 2014
169
      RE: I definitely didn't catch the line about 'making the pussy fart'.
Dec 14th 2014
170
           Hilarious if qtip or Kendra contributed that line
Dec 14th 2014
171
                RE: Hilarious if qtip or Kendra contributed that line
Dec 14th 2014
199
that's a fucking teaser!
Dec 14th 2014
161
*OBLIGATORY 'ITS A CLASSIC/IT GREW ON ME' POSTS HERE*
Dec 14th 2014
162
that nola 2nd line
Dec 14th 2014
163
So are the fashionably unimpressed posters
Dec 14th 2014
191
      it isn't something I've thought much about
Dec 15th 2014
234
WHOA !!!!! All i'm gonna say is........This album is tight as fuck !!!!!
Dec 14th 2014
167
how did you hear it?
Dec 14th 2014
172
RE: how did you hear it?
Dec 14th 2014
174
      I trust your opinion Silk...
Dec 14th 2014
180
RE: WHOA !!!!! All i'm gonna say is........This album is tight as fuck !...
Dec 14th 2014
185
^^^Ain't never lied.
Dec 15th 2014
222
ITUNES TONIGHT!!!
Dec 14th 2014
168
really...like midnight?
Dec 14th 2014
173
RE: really...like midnight?
Dec 14th 2014
175
looking forward to it... so is that PST or EST ...
Dec 14th 2014
177
      Well if your familiar how Itunes operates, it like 9 or 10 our time........
Dec 14th 2014
179
           Yup hoping for a 9pm drop in the west
Dec 14th 2014
182
                My lord, I can't wait for folks to hear "Prayer". smh !!!!
Dec 14th 2014
186
RE: really...like midnight?
Dec 14th 2014
176
      RE: really...like midnight?
Dec 14th 2014
178
      RE: really...like midnight?
Dec 14th 2014
181
           RE: really...like midnight?
Dec 14th 2014
183
      Word???!!!
Dec 14th 2014
187
      If you say that Murph, I believe you because I trust your music opinion
Dec 14th 2014
190
This is great ! I hope Cds/Lps will be available soon
Dec 14th 2014
188
      its midnight EST
Dec 14th 2014
189
i'll be up late.
Dec 14th 2014
184
very happy for Kendra Foster
Dec 14th 2014
192
absolutely....
Dec 14th 2014
194
RE: absolutely....
Dec 14th 2014
195
RE: very happy for Kendra Foster
Dec 15th 2014
326
Inbox????????????????????
Dec 14th 2014
193
the album is on iTunes already if you search for it
Dec 14th 2014
196
yeah...it's on Itunes now...
Dec 14th 2014
197
Damn, Itunes ain't trying to give you a digital booklet.
Dec 14th 2014
198
1000 Deaths is that Riot Quest was talking about.
Dec 14th 2014
200
RE: 1000 Deaths is that Riot Quest was talking about.
Dec 15th 2014
202
RE: 1000 Deaths is that Riot Quest was talking about.
Dec 15th 2014
241
yeah, it's banging
Dec 15th 2014
368
yeah this sh*t jammin
Dec 14th 2014
201
RE: yeah this sh*t jammin
Dec 15th 2014
204
Just copped it
Dec 15th 2014
203
@15.
Dec 15th 2014
205
I'm gonna need a lyric book!!!
Dec 15th 2014
206
RE: I'm gonna need a lyric book!!!
Dec 15th 2014
208
Gratitude!!!
Dec 15th 2014
209
actually
Dec 15th 2014
210
Ha ha, yeah a booklet is gonna be needed.
Dec 15th 2014
218
Spot frigging on!!!
Dec 15th 2014
220
man...Kendra co-wrote a lot of these songs...
Dec 15th 2014
219
try this:
Dec 15th 2014
269
Oh man
Dec 15th 2014
207
On my first listen...
Dec 15th 2014
211
Betray My Heart is thaaaaat shit.
Dec 15th 2014
212
YES the root.
Dec 15th 2014
215
Another Life is THE $ track!!
Dec 15th 2014
213
my life is ruined
Dec 15th 2014
385
RE: Another Life is THE $ track!!
Dec 15th 2014
400
this the shit.
Dec 15th 2014
214
yessir
Dec 15th 2014
216
Till It's Done (Tutu) needed to be 5 min longer
Dec 15th 2014
217
yeah...this is real good....
Dec 15th 2014
221
*daps*.
Dec 15th 2014
224
Better than VooDoo. Already think it's his best album. D came thru!!!
Dec 15th 2014
223
RE: Better than VooDoo. Already think it's his best album. D came thru!!...
Dec 15th 2014
225
RE: Better than VooDoo. Already think it's his best album. D came thru!!...
Dec 15th 2014
239
      I stand by what I said. It's better than VooDoo.
Dec 15th 2014
379
           it pushes voodoo down the stairs
Dec 15th 2014
386
                Troof
Dec 16th 2014
404
Checking in.
Dec 15th 2014
226
so my cuts upon second full listen:
Dec 15th 2014
227
Very curious to see what the reaction is to the album
Dec 15th 2014
228
On my third listen. This shit is fucking brilliant.
Dec 15th 2014
229
so happy to hear this
Dec 15th 2014
231
RE: D'Angelo - BLACK MESSIAH??? ALBUM ON SALE AT MIDNIGHT
Dec 15th 2014
230
i need that cd/ vinyl/ booklet/
Dec 15th 2014
232
i wonder if the release date had anything to do with prince's albums
Dec 15th 2014
233
Can we agree that Sugah Daddy is the worst joint on the album
Dec 15th 2014
235
The Door is my least favorite.
Dec 15th 2014
301
fuck no.
Dec 16th 2014
412
Its one of my favorites so far halfway through
Dec 18th 2014
520
It's wild and great how certain artists have such a unique sound,
Dec 15th 2014
236
i highly doubt this was made with the 21 & under crowd in mind
Dec 15th 2014
247
the under 21 crowd isn't his audience...
Dec 15th 2014
250
For sure, I'm just curious from a DJing standpoint
Dec 16th 2014
409
      Would you play anything off this album for a 21 & Under crowd?
Dec 16th 2014
439
fuck them
Dec 15th 2014
256
Nah, fuck people who are 30+ that only like radio shit
Dec 16th 2014
410
RE: It's wild and great how certain artists have such a unique sound,
Dec 15th 2014
264
none of that Jock Jams 'AYY!' shit.
Dec 15th 2014
270
It's become increasingly rare
Dec 15th 2014
390
Re: Under 21 crowd
Dec 17th 2014
464
another life is a good track
Dec 15th 2014
237
yo mistermaxxx himself had to come back for this
Dec 15th 2014
363
you are missed
Dec 15th 2014
370
what up Maxx..
Dec 15th 2014
383
      RE: what up Maxx..
Dec 16th 2014
407
           thought this album might bring you back.
Dec 16th 2014
408
Just made it through my first listen and ....
Dec 15th 2014
238
on some of the streaming spots (and random thoughts)
Dec 15th 2014
240
RE: on some of the streaming spots (and random thoughts)
Dec 15th 2014
387
D'Mumblo has DELIVERT!!!!!!
Dec 15th 2014
242
my bitchmade hate-filled review of this
Dec 15th 2014
243
RE: my bitchmade hate-filled review of this
Dec 15th 2014
245
this.
Dec 15th 2014
246
Well he didn't necessarily work on it all those years.
Dec 15th 2014
249
i dont see nothing wrong w/ sounding like 1997
Dec 15th 2014
253
i have lost all interest in playing armchair critic or A&R w/this record...
Dec 15th 2014
259
100%
Dec 15th 2014
374
i disagree, and I should be right with you, lol
Dec 15th 2014
266
i should prob wait to listen a few more times but....
Dec 15th 2014
350
oh... how did I miss this earlier?
Dec 15th 2014
315
i haven't listened to the WHOLE thing yet, BUT...
Dec 15th 2014
395
14 years...a not a damn thing changed...this was a very much needed
Dec 15th 2014
248
as i was telling somebody, this only works because of the hiatus
Dec 15th 2014
254
      i'm pretty sure i'd love it as much then as i do today.
Dec 15th 2014
260
           oh no doubt
Dec 15th 2014
271
Got it. Present. Haven't listened to it yet.
Dec 15th 2014
251
Another Life!!!!!
Dec 15th 2014
252
AMAZING
Dec 15th 2014
255
i'm going to wear this song out by the end of today.
Dec 15th 2014
263
Yep. KILLER closer.
Dec 15th 2014
300
Nobody better diss his guitar playing on this shit either.
Dec 15th 2014
257
is it all him? the guitar?
Dec 15th 2014
261
      Thats a good point too..
Dec 15th 2014
262
      RE: is it all him? the guitar?
Dec 15th 2014
268
           credits read him, Jesse and Isiah Sharkey
Dec 16th 2014
413
Back IN the Future or Back TO the Future?
Dec 15th 2014
258
RE: Back IN the Future or Back TO the Future?
Dec 15th 2014
265
      the official lyric sheet says 'in', it seems.
Dec 15th 2014
267
Excellent Record...
Dec 15th 2014
272
That look on my face....
Dec 15th 2014
273
^^^
Dec 15th 2014
307
Where is Side B? I hear yall talk about it but don't see it.
Dec 15th 2014
274
it's like this:
Dec 15th 2014
276
      Ooooh. Thanks.
Dec 15th 2014
277
When are the physical copies in stores?
Dec 15th 2014
275
That's what I am waiting for. And hoping the vinyl isn't at ripoff pric...
Dec 15th 2014
279
^^^^^^^^^^^
Dec 15th 2014
280
UPDATE: Next week
Dec 15th 2014
282
RE: UPDATE: Next week
Dec 15th 2014
283
I bought a physical copy at midnight.
Dec 15th 2014
298
where Fapkap at tho?
Dec 15th 2014
278
probably digesting before commenting.
Dec 15th 2014
281
SoWhat is correct.
Dec 15th 2014
287
      this is interesting.....
Dec 15th 2014
289
      Okay... let me *try* to explain this.
Dec 15th 2014
292
           no need for a back and forth man...
Dec 15th 2014
310
                leave it alone.
Dec 15th 2014
334
      as much as you always commented the past 15 yrs u say
Dec 15th 2014
296
      I don't feel the need to comment.
Dec 15th 2014
297
           ^^shoo in for the Nigga Please 2014 award
Dec 15th 2014
299
                LOL
Dec 15th 2014
302
                     i think ppl who doubted that the record would come are supposed to
Dec 15th 2014
303
                     Yeah, I don't get that either.
Dec 15th 2014
304
                     LOL. Yup.
Dec 15th 2014
305
                     yep
Dec 15th 2014
308
                     Right ? I was very loud with my disappointment, but now I have..........
Dec 15th 2014
366
                     RE: LOL
Dec 15th 2014
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                     okay... I feel ya.
Dec 15th 2014
309
                          this is just him i think
Dec 15th 2014
359
                     You know?
Dec 15th 2014
317
                     LOL
Dec 15th 2014
319
                     Afkap..your review of this album has been written for 5 years
Dec 15th 2014
333
                          leave it alone already.
Dec 15th 2014
335
                               relax son....
Dec 15th 2014
336
                                    smh
Dec 15th 2014
337
                                    your dick is bigger. congratulations.
Dec 15th 2014
344
                                         <initiates slow clap>
Dec 15th 2014
348
                                         you're making a much bigger deal out of this than it should be
Dec 15th 2014
360
      This was the best part of my listen
Dec 15th 2014
314
           yup.
Dec 15th 2014
316
i've been laughing for 24 hours straight
Dec 15th 2014
284
at what?
Dec 15th 2014
293
      she believed black music's dead beat dad was coming back for 15 years
Dec 15th 2014
318
           you don't know what the eff you're talking about
Dec 15th 2014
321
           Then tell us wtf you're talking about
Dec 15th 2014
338
           This is hilarious, lol!
Dec 15th 2014
323
Another Life is that next level shit
Dec 15th 2014
285
had a big ass retarded smile while listening to it
Dec 15th 2014
286
I was intense..just finshed hearing it
Dec 15th 2014
288
i kinda cried during one of the first times i heard 'The Root'
Dec 15th 2014
294
i cried with Really Love on Monday
Dec 18th 2014
499
Another Life was the first song I listened to once I bought it
Dec 15th 2014
332
stuck on Til it's done right now..... cold cold track...
Dec 15th 2014
290
Word...that's the one that got me too.
Dec 15th 2014
322
FRESH IS THE WORD!
Dec 15th 2014
291
He pulled it off
Dec 15th 2014
295
i was not a d'angelo fan like that.
Dec 15th 2014
311
lyrics:
Dec 15th 2014
320
      good lookin out.
Dec 16th 2014
416
The album is great. Well worth every penny I paid
Dec 15th 2014
312
If you're feeling this I'm not the least bit mad
Dec 15th 2014
313
^^^
Dec 15th 2014
342
this is better than voodoo, and its much tighter song-wise
Dec 15th 2014
352
i'm so glad this exists
Dec 15th 2014
324
another life
Dec 15th 2014
327
first thoughts after one listen:
Dec 15th 2014
328
RE: first thoughts after one listen:
Dec 17th 2014
469
RE: D'Angelo - BLACK MESSIAH??? ALBUM ON SALE AT MIDNIGHT
Dec 15th 2014
329
Its cool
Dec 15th 2014
330
just scooped
Dec 15th 2014
331
Well, the Lesson-and possibly OKP as a whole-needed this...
Dec 15th 2014
339
^^^^^^^^^^^
Dec 15th 2014
343
it gets better the more you play it
Dec 15th 2014
346
I fucks with it. Sounds like a natural progression from Voodoo.
Dec 15th 2014
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.
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RE: D'Angelo - BLACK MESSIAH??? ALBUM ON SALE AT MIDNIGHT
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lol
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ALL THESE 4-FIGURE CHARTER MEMBERS!!!
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lol
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i love u
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haha.
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RE: D'Angelo - BLACK MESSIAH??? ALBUM ON SALE AT MIDNIGHT
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lol... indeed..
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Possibly the greatest record ever recorded?
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lol not even close
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It actually definitely is.
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RE: lol not even close
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      Stevie who?
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what ?? You cannot be serious ?
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I will only listen to this album from now on.
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      You "nearly" had me there
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           good luck with that.
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                I've told him there's going to be a intervention
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lol
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I'm just surprised he came down from heaven to record it
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i'll agree; i know i'm not objective with d'angelo
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possibly one of the greats. not the greatest.
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FYI...Physical Copies are at Best Buy. Just grabbed me one.
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Thanks for the heads up.
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Fantastic look. Thank you!
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i am in no way, shape or form disappointed w/this album. loveitall.
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DiD hE rEcOrD tHeSe MP3s AfTeR DeNtAL SuRgErY???????
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So fucking good
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play it stoned.
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Just did that. Me and some friends made an event of it.
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      It doesn't really pop for me until The Charade
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      It plays like a live concert.
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      man, you don't feel 'ain't that easy'?
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           i'm coming around, but i don't think it will ever be a favorite
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      i love the door.
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FUCKING GREAT!
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DELIVERT!
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Checking in. Still can't believe this exists. Where's my vinyl?!
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Feb 10th
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I wonder how this translates live.
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per Jesse Johnson's Facebook page...
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brilliant release
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one listen in..and i like..i anticipate it growing on me
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while i personally believe that thus far, Voodoo is his magnum opus
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The string arrangements on Really Love tho??????
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RE: The string arrangements on Really Love tho??????
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the strings floored me
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      RE: the strings floored me
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I THINK I got the riot comparison
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Back to the future part 1 is funky.....
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yeah, that's my jam right there, those strings though ...
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Thats my jam !
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Still can't believe it's finally here
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Who paid for all the studio time to make this album?
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Really Love is a steppers' jam.
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I'm just in awe that it exists...
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joe corn mo album review
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^^^^^
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RE: word...
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great thoughts
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RE: I think you would
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^^^^This I can clap to. Excellent
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great review; one thing...
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I cannot stop playing 'Another Life'
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Pretty much sums it up:
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every artist new and old is reassessing their catalog after this album.
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btw, AIFF's from the CD vs. iTunes Mp3's = NIGHT and DAY
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also available here:
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THANK YOU!!!
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RE: btw, AIFF's from the CD vs. iTunes Mp3's = NIGHT and DAY
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Great to hear.
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it is a 100 times better on cd
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I'm not ready...
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So i need to find a CD rip? already got Amazon MP3s
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CD owners
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RE: CD owners
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      gracias! Hope all is well, btw! :)
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           The vinyl will have the lyric book. Didn't have time for the CD version
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                just read about that
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Copped at Target yesterday...
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bestbuy in nyc soho didn't have it yesterday..
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this is a very good album
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easily aoty
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I'm enamored...
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it's so short but that makes me want to keep replaying
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it's 55 minutes long!!
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      I know but seems to go by so fast lol
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           It's remarkable how fluid the album
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I've doubled my age since Voodoo, just happy this finally came out
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It's fantastic. Heads should stop being punks and take their Ls
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RE: It's fantastic. Heads should stop being punks and take their Ls
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i love 'the door'.
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oh hell nah, The Door is that VA #CountryFunk, Angelino
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that's actually a very acurrate description
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after 15 or so listens
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the door takes a few listens then it becomes beyond great
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prayer will reveal itself on a rough/stressful day
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      hmmm
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      *daps*. Like I said early on, "I Can't Wait For Folks To Hear Prayer".
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      Prayer is a beautiful song
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NYT piece on the release of BM (this thread is too long btw):
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This is great. It brought me back to OKP too
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aint that easy sounds JUST like kamaal the abstract
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had the same thought
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check the 15 post. Guess Tip is a huge part of the process
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Black Messiah..
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About those full liner notes...
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Liner notes aren't with the CD, smh
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      Lyrics are online. I want the personnel for each track...
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Really enjoy the album, can't wait for the europan tour
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Okay, so I have just left my wife and children
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Another Life reminds me of Heaven Must Be Like This
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thinking about lewis taylor's "lost" album
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RE: thinking about lewis taylor's "lost" album
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      RE: thinking about lewis taylor's "lost" album
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      RE: thinking about lewis taylor's "lost" album
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So the US tour should be...Van Hunt...Bilal and D...
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My long-ass 'Get A Blog, Bomb' reaction to the surprise of this album
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wow, thanks for sharing!
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RE: My long-ass 'Get A Blog, Bomb' reaction to the surprise of this albu...
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RE: My long-ass 'Get A Blog, Bomb' reaction to the surprise of this albu...
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good read and I too am with the better than voodoo crowd
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Haha...excellent!
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this was a fantastic post
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oddly similar to how I first heard Kid A, never forgot that one, either
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More Will Be Revealed...
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Deeper than music...
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RE: Deeper than music...
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RE: Deeper than music...
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It was all good just a week ago
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how could 1000 deaths NOT be track #1 on this? fatal error.
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I agree, 1,000 Deaths would've worked perfectly as an opener
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The Charade is a great follow-up for it
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RE: The Charade is a great follow-up for it
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i think &quot;ain't that easy&quot; is the perfect opener
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      *you heard this too*. *daps*.
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The Charade is a miracle
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charade starts like it could be mid 80s prince but then the main song
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it seems like D'angelo's Large Room With No Light
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I swear it would have fit just fine on The Gold Experience
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      on Parade
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Something else that makes the record incredible
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Instant classic?
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1. "Probably not."
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But it would be cool if it were.

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2. "One can only hope, but that's "1000 Deaths""
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6. "RE: One can only hope, but that's "1000 Deaths""
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The fact that that's 1000 Deaths--with some new drums--is what is making me hopeful.



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i would like to know who posted the video. and if it is d'angelo's
camp...why so cryptic?

the delusion continues...

  

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4. "via Nelson George:"
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https://twitter.com/nelsongeorge/status/542441146782199810


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5. "smh"
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8. "i hope he just releases the album."
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no promo. no singles. no video. just release the album and let it be.

i'd dig that.

fuck you.

  

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15. "RE: i hope he just releases the album."
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>no promo. no singles. no video. just release the album and
>let it be.
>
>i'd dig that.

same here.

but the label will want to make sure this hits. to reach those masses (again) he needs this type of big statement.

w that in mind, i kind of dig the black messiah/ 2nd coming type thing. cool imagery too. things fall apart style.

i just hope it doesn't get too serious. fortunately there will be songs like 'sugah daddy' and 'aint that easy' to lighten it up a bit.

but yeah... music first.

  

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16. "yeah, I think it's brilliant."
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>w that in mind, i kind of dig the black messiah/ 2nd coming
>type thing. cool imagery too. things fall apart style.

Set the tone by frontloading your big "comeback" album with all kinds of Christ/Messiah imagery, so that when things get rough and you lose your nerve down the road, you have the ready-made excuse of blaming the audience for having too-high expectations of you!

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19. "RE: yeah, I think it's brilliant."
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>>w that in mind, i kind of dig the black messiah/ 2nd coming
>>type thing. cool imagery too. things fall apart style.
>
>Set the tone by frontloading your big "comeback" album with
>all kinds of Christ/Messiah imagery, so that when things get
>rough and you lose your nerve down the road, you have the
>ready-made excuse of blaming the audience for having too-high
>expectations of you!

what do you mean?

he could just put this out, go on a tour w his vanguards band & then quit.

we just have a title at the moment. 'black messiah' could mean, he's coming back to show the world how he thinks popular black music needs to be done. period.

doesn't say he has to do that every year, every decade or even ever again.

and whatever. it's marketing. do what gets eyes on you right?

this seems to be done in a tasteful way.

people will always check back for this guy (they just need a good reminder lol)

  

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20. "RE: yeah, I think it's brilliant."
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>
>this seems to be done in a tasteful way.
>


you're joking right?

because a more tasteful title would be called 'Humbled'

messiah...reaaaalllly feelin oneself after 15 years of mess

  

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38. "That would mean he actually learned something"
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>because a more tasteful title would be called 'Humbled'



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21. "I think we'll need a Pete Burns gag order for the next month"
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it can be removed:

* If something actually drops
* If a label gives a bonafide date
* After a month there's still nothing more than speculation.

Sorry kap.

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22. "fair enough lol"
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I think I've really not got much new to say at this point anyway... just bring the music, let us hear.

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23. "Oh, NOW it's "fair enough"??!!!.....lol."
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Joking btw.



Sort of.


imcvspl - stay frosty!

  

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25. "D'Angelo calling the album Black Messiah.... with "
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the type of imagery...and the words of Dr. Khalid on the teaser...

is enough for afkap to spontaneously combust...lol. It's like the perfect storm.... a plethora of hate to come..

drink plenty of water brother...lol...

man..your review of this album avails you the opportunity to put the tools of hate into one mission.... it will be your opus..

THE POWER HATE COMPELLS YOU!!!!!

  

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26. "Gag order on you too... no baiting"
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28. "naw... I'll pass...."
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I mean there is no way I could have let that one pass..

before this...if someone would have said on the Lesson that D'Angelo is going to call his album Black Messiah and have the type of words and imagery in a teaser causing Afkap to spin into a whirlwind pyramid of hate....people would have laughed it off as a funny joke..

lol..

sorry...couldn't let that one pass...

  

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32. "I can't change what either of you already posted"
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I'm just saying stfu for now.

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33. "I hear you...I probably won't though...n/m"
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46. "YES. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. BOTH OF THEM."
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SHUT
THE
FUCK
UP
ABOUT
THIS GUY.

fuck you.

  

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29. ".."
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325. "lol!"
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>the type of imagery...and the words of Dr. Khalid on the
>teaser...
>
>is enough for afkap to spontaneously combust...lol. It's like
>the perfect storm.... a plethora of hate to come..
>
>drink plenty of water brother...lol...
>
>man..your review of this album avails you the opportunity to
>put the tools of hate into one mission.... it will be your
>opus..
>
>THE POWER HATE COMPELLS YOU!!!!!

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78. "RE: yeah, I think it's brilliant."
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I knew this title would be the ultimate "hater-bait" for the usual haters that are so dedicated and committed to hating on everything this man does (and doesn't do). The title is much deeper than the average simpleton/internet troll can comprehend and I know exactly where D is going with all of this. It's making a bold statement about black people in the USA and the fact many believe that black people in this country and worldwide are the true Tribe of Judah..(as was Christ the Messiah). Though in D's case..it's more hardcore (Yahweh Yahshua) based upon his spiritual upbringing and in saying this..I truly don't believe the title is on some narcissistic shit. There's a good reason why he chose to use 1000 Deaths w/Brother Malcom's speech as the trailer music. If you listen closely to some of the mumbled lyrics to the original demo of 1000 Deaths, then you'll totally get it (even though there are only a few lyrics you can actually make out). The brother is a lot deeper than most people are aware of and if in fact you have a soul, then it'll make sense to you. Unfortunately, most heads on "Okayhater" wasn't born with one and that of course makes it virtually impossible for them to look past the exterior because he's always judged and criticized by the haters for his laziness, addictions, dysfunctions, and lack of output over the years. And yeah...dude is probably a real character that lives up to all of that. But so was Sly, Marvin, George, and some of his other musical heroes. Genius cats are kinda bugged and with their talent comes all of these other things that puts them in a questionable light at times, but i take them as they are and i don't expect them to live up to any expectations I have of them. And of course just like with Voodoo, a lot of heads are not gonna get what he's on musically with this new album. But best believe..it's gonna be one of the best, most soulful and uncompromising albums ever made within the last 25 years or so. All those early Funkadelic albums that's he's been so heavily influenced by all these years away from the spotlight were on that same vibration and they packed some serious socio-political messages regarding black people in this country. Also, peep the recent GQ interview with Dave Chappelle where he briefly talks about D's radical outgoing message on his answering machine. I don't care what anyone says.."Black Messiah" is a DOPE and very fitting title for this next lp because I firmly believe that title alone is making a bold statement about the state of black music and black people in this country; especially with songs like 1000 Deaths and The Charade. With all this madness surrounding Eric Garner, Mike Brown, Trayvon, along with all this bullshit on the radio and especially on the net, people need some light and salvation and D wants to bring thru his music. You gotta admit...dude is sorely missed; regardless of all that other shit people always be trippin' on concerning him. I don't believe D thinks he himself is some messiah of any sort, but the title seems to come off like a metaphor and a desire to have his music to reach the ones that can be reached. Contrary to what many may think, real black music is a dying art form on the overground (mainstream) and he's truly one of the last of the greats who can help keep the torch lit in this game. And real talk, a lot of you nothing ass mf's on here hating on dude are like some of his biggest fans because if you weren't..then you wouldn't spend so much time on here finding the most creative ways to nitpick and tear his shit down all day/everyday. That shit gets old after a while and it always stir these bs debates about how unproductive and washed up this guy is. But I'm willing to bet anything that most of you mf's will be owning a copy of the lp when it drops; be it you going out to cop it with your own $ or you coming up on a bootleg copy. And of course once you've given it a good listen you're naturally gonna go in on him because the album doesn't live up to your bs expectations. The haters are still gonna hate because they (in truth) are nothing but overzealous music fans whose entire existence centers around tearing down others who secretly wish they could do what D does..(truth).

With that said, go on 'head D and do your thing good brother and know that I myself and MANY others are so looking forward to this new chapter.

  

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10. "Y U Mad Son??"
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lol

  

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12. "why AREN'T you mad?!"
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24. "nuthin to be mad about..."
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obviously the album is coming out...

  

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7. "BRING IT"
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fuck you.

  

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9. "via Kevin Liles:"
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https://twitter.com/kwl_management/status/543113950456721408

UPDATE:
The YouTube link was up as a KWL tweet when I posted this but then disappeared less than a minute later lol

  

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13. "what did he say?"
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>https://twitter.com/kwl_management/status/543113950456721408

this link is dead now.

  

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11. "nice move on the album title....."
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in fact...

Charade would be a nice first single too..... with a very timely video..

  

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14. "Great album title. Now, let's get it going !!!!"
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>in fact...
>
>Charade would be a nice first single too..... with a very
>timely video..


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17. "it is? it's vomit enducing...the nerve of this joker"
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>>in fact...
>>
>>Charade would be a nice first single too..... with a very
>>timely video..
>
>
>silk.later Reunion radio with Old P. & Silk
>http://reunionradio.blogspot.com/
>
>"i'm talking about *Balls Deep*....In Love (c)Cleveland Jr.
>
>He was cultivating a fine nigga farm (c)Goldmind.
>
>R.I.P Jamie Hubley

  

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27. "that's a bit much no??? lol.."
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not sure why this would conjure up such feelings...

  

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30. "it conjures up TTD Hardline braggadoccio (sp?)"
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>not sure why this would conjure up such feelings...

  

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34. "hardline was TTD's debut album though right?"
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plus..

most of the hype around TTD came out of his own mouth...

This Black Messiah thing is over the top....but over the top is good....

D's status in contemporary Black music is a bit of a controversy....by going this route...he's owning it ya know..

think it's a great move...

  

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35. "it's setting him up"
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and the title is from D like TTD's statements out his mouth

I just think its mad disrespectful and narcissistic esp after all the foibles Dangelo has had, not to mention 15 years to follow through where others made great shit year after year

its like those Voodoo liner notes again ..given all praise and glory as if this is the best music to be heard ever


>plus..
>
>most of the hype around TTD came out of his own mouth...
>
>This Black Messiah thing is over the top....but over the top
>is good....
>
>D's status in contemporary Black music is a bit of a
>controversy....by going this route...he's owning it ya know..
>
>think it's a great move...
>
>

  

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36. "I'm with you "
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I'm hoping there's a reason behind the title that's not related to him
But If it is, it's back to the same old thing again

I'm really hoping it's not "I'm here to save the world" thing

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39. "word is it's a lyric but still..they know what theyre doing "
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>I'm hoping there's a reason behind the title that's not
>related to him
>But If it is, it's back to the same old thing again
>
>I'm really hoping it's not "I'm here to save the world" thing

  

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127. "RE: word is it's a lyric but still..they know what theyre doing "
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Liner notes:

“Black Messiah is a hell of a name for an album. It can easily be misunderstood. Many will think it’s about religion. Some will jump to the conclusion that I’m calling myself a Black Messiah. For me, the title is about all of us. It’s about the world. It’s about an idea we can all aspire to. We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah.

*

It’s about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen. It’s not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them. Not every song on this album is politically charged (though many are), but calling this album Black Messiah creates a landscape where these songs can live to the fullest. Black Messiah is not one man. It’s a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.”

  

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340. "STOP POSTING FACTS WHILE PEOPLE ARE POSTING CONJECTURE"
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373. "uh huh..sure"
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>Liner notes:
>
>“Black Messiah is a hell of a name for an album. It can
>easily be misunderstood. Many will think it’s about
>religion. Some will jump to the conclusion that I’m calling
>myself a Black Messiah. For me, the title is about all of us.
>It’s about the world. It’s about an idea we can all aspire
>to. We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah.
>
>*
>
>It’s about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in
>Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has
>had enough and decides to make change happen. It’s not about
>praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of
>them. Not every song on this album is politically charged
>(though many are), but calling this album Black Messiah
>creates a landscape where these songs can live to the fullest.
>Black Messiah is not one man. It’s a feeling that,
>collectively, we are all that leader.”

  

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43. "I have a feeling that the titile may not be meant to be taken "
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literally....with the knowledge that it will be taken literally by some...

thus making it a very clever title if you ask me...

but we shall see what it's all about

  

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44. "Irony (and humor in general) has never been D's strong suit."
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But if it's an ironic reference--ha ha ha nice one.

I'd think he'd be better served not even touching that issue at all and just concentrating on making good music.

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45. "the fact that it's got folks talking tells me it's not suppose to be lit..."
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>But if it's an ironic reference--ha ha ha nice one.

it's got people such as yourself over-analyzing...so I think it's a given that the title was designed to have some dual meaning in a sense..

>
>I'd think he'd be better served not even touching that issue
>at all and just concentrating on making good music.

I'm sure that's what you think....lol...


  

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48. "nigga if he named it Baba-Loo it'd get talked about"
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this Messiah shit isnt ironic, fresh or none of that

this is some bullshit is what it is

2uest prolly have something to do with it too lol

as already stated, the music should do the talking, not wink wink nudge nudge titles or labels

this is akin to Pookie going to The Carter just cause he got back to basics etc

Messiah..get thee entire fuck outta here with that

Because when folks came at him about his looks recently some fans and fans here were up in arms saying "but the music is tight and thats what counts"

Now this joker wanna act like he been the shit for every year gone and not a puddle of mess?

Black Messiah? "JJ take that picture off the wall!!"-Florida



>>But if it's an ironic reference--ha ha ha nice one.
>
>it's got people such as yourself over-analyzing...so I think
>it's a given that the title was designed to have some dual
>meaning in a sense..
>
>>
>>I'd think he'd be better served not even touching that issue
>>at all and just concentrating on making good music.
>
>I'm sure that's what you think....lol...
>
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50. "it's probably not that deep."
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i see nothing wrong w/homie using a 'gimmick' to generate and/or stir interest in the album. artists have done that since art began. it's fine.

w/o knowing if this 'Black Messiah' thing is even about D'Angelo, i expect that if it's about D it's a reference to all of the expectation surrounding the project. he's embracing it and turning it back on us. he's laughing about it and we're to laugh w/him. and to enjoy the music.

Sly did som'n similar w/There's A Riot Goin On. that title was a gimmick - the title worked on 3 levels: 1) Sly and the Fam had been accused of creating a circumstance in Chicago that resulted in a riot after an audience was kept waiting for hrs for their show to begin, 2) Marvin Gaye had recently released a landmark album that posed the question What's Going On, 3) Sly used the title to comment on the rioting that'd been going on across the country since the mid-60s - he felt there should be no riots.

^ Sly did that and yet the music on the album wasn't overshadowed by the title. it wasn't compromised. that album is widely respected now as a classic.

so this Black Messiah thing doesn't necessarily have to hurt the music or the audience's appreciation of it.

it is to laugh.

laugh. enjoy yourself.

it's okay.

fuck you.

  

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53. "RE: it's probably not that deep."
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>i see nothing wrong w/homie using a 'gimmick' to generate
>and/or stir interest in the album. artists have done that
>since art began. it's fine.
>
>w/o knowing if this 'Black Messiah' thing is even about
>D'Angelo, i expect that if it's about D it's a reference to
>all of the expectation surrounding the project. he's
>embracing it and turning it back on us. he's laughing about
>it and we're to laugh w/him. and to enjoy the music.
>
>Sly did som'n similar w/There's A Riot Goin On. that title
>was a gimmick - the title worked on 3 levels: 1) Sly and the
>Fam had been accused of creating a circumstance in Chicago
>that resulted in a riot after an audience was kept waiting for
>hrs for their show to begin, 2) Marvin Gaye had recently
>released a landmark album that posed the question What's Going
>On, 3) Sly used the title to comment on the rioting that'd
>been going on across the country since the mid-60s - he felt
>there should be no riots.
>
>^ Sly did that and yet the music on the album wasn't
>overshadowed by the title. it wasn't compromised. that album
>is widely respected now as a classic.
>
>so this Black Messiah thing doesn't necessarily have to hurt
>the music or the audience's appreciation of it.
>
>it is to laugh.
>
>laugh. enjoy yourself.
>
>it's okay.

I get that but that the ego has landed stuff is dumb..and I dont think its for a laugh, I think he, 2uest, Leeds all believe he is NEO lol

  

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55. "ok."
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fuck you.

  

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59. "if the music should do the talking...why you talkin bout it??"
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its funny to me how people have so much to say about it being about the music...yet are the main ones catching feelings about a title they have no idea about the meaning....literal or not..

if the music should do the talking.... wait till the music comes out and then talk.

  

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76. "co-sign to the fullest"
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>its funny to me how people have so much to say about it being
>about the music...yet are the main ones catching feelings
>about a title they have no idea about the meaning....literal
>or not..
>
>if the music should do the talking.... wait till the music
>comes out and then talk.

cats are frustrated, angry, typing out paragraphs over a title.
haven't heard one song yet
shit is funny

over-analyzing like a mother

  

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82. "I just dont want him sabatoging himself"
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>its funny to me how people have so much to say about it being
>about the music...yet are the main ones catching feelings
>about a title they have no idea about the meaning....literal
>or not..
>
>if the music should do the talking.... wait till the music
>comes out and then talk.

  

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85. "he won't.... it will be fine.... look at the current music scene..."
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who his comp???

he could hit a double and be a hall of famer right today...he ain't got to be Hank Aaron..

but he'll be fine...

my main thing has always been for dude's health really... He don't have to make any more records.... just live...be healthy..and if he can make it back to some level of success.... he can be an inspiration for people who have had those same type of issues....

either way it's a win win for him if we look at this in a practical sense...

  

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341. "stop making sense"
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77. "RE: nigga if he named it Baba-Loo it'd get talked about"
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>Black Messiah? "JJ take that picture off the wall!!"-Florida
>

pwahhhahaaaa...

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18. "cool. drop the album on christmas. perfect symbolism."
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31. "I'm geeked as fuck *shameless*"
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129. "^"
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37. "BLACK MESSIAH"
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That's not going to create unrealistic expectations for a dude who hasn't dropped anything in a decade and a half.

Seriously this is perfect in keeping with the absent D we've all grown to know and love.
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41. "it's perfect."
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perfect marketing.

most people forgot about you or don't even know about you.

this will have everybody talking about you.

in other words they will check you out.

perfect since people will eat up a savior in popular black music.

only thing is you have to back it up w music.

he probably can.

and even if he can't entirely...

they can always hide behind the "y'all don't get it yet, but you will in years to come" argument.

and people will eat that up too.

win win.

this campaign is solid.

and he doesn't even have to drop another record after this.

or at least people won't be expecting anything new within 5-15 yrs time.

  

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42. "aka what you're saying = gimmick"
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>perfect marketing.
>
>most people forgot about you or don't even know about you.
>
>this will have everybody talking about you.
>
>in other words they will check you out.
>
>perfect since people will eat up a savior in popular black
>music.
>
>only thing is you have to back it up w music.
>
>he probably can.
>
>and even if he can't entirely...
>
>they can always hide behind the "y'all don't get it yet, but
>you will in years to come" argument.
>
>and people will eat that up too.
>
>win win.
>
>this campaign is solid.
>
>and he doesn't even have to drop another record after this.
>
>or at least people won't be expecting anything new within 5-15
>yrs time.

  

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49. "Biggest problem with this"
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>only thing is you have to back it up w music.
>
>he probably can.

We're talking about a dude with 2 real albums.. one of which is called a classic by some and most of them were going to check for a new D album any way. The other one was an easier listen for a wider audience but it's close to 20 years old and truthfully isn't all that memorable to most. This approach would be foolish for a cat like Maxwell and he's stayed much more active and has a much richer catalog imo. There is nothing D has done to make me think he is going to roll off the mat and drop a 3rd album that's going to live up to a title 'Black Messiah' If he does then more power to him.

  

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52. "no one can live up to it."
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that's probably the joke.

when i saw the title i assumed so, at least.

i seriously doubt homeboy thinks he is the Black Messiah or that his album will save Black Music from __. i expect the title is a play on the expectations projected on the album by fans and critics and whatnot due to the long delay between this one and his last one.

when i saw the title i didn't take it literally. i expect D is having some fun w/this and i immediately decided to have fun w/him. i lightened up.

fuck you.

  

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56. "Well I don't even believe they'll be an album "
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Maybe you're right

  

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60. "it's right HERE:"
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D'Angelo & The Vanguard
Black Messiah
https://twitter.com/HolidayKirk/status/543496813375156224

packaged and all.

we'll know soon enough.

  

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62. "*kicks rocks*"
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http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=5&topic_id=2912062&mesg_id=2912062&page=#2912279

  

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63. "smart to credit it to The Vanguard too"
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esp after reading that Alan Light/ Leeds interview on here.

  

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47. "or maybe it's not that deep."
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fuck you.

  

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51. "Nothing about D has ever been as deep as it was sold"
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54. "and he's acknowledging that w/the title, i expect."
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and even if he's not - this ain't worth a single second of me having my panties bunched.

it's just not that deep for me.

if homie thinks he's actually the Black Messiah then LOL @ him. but right now i'm LOL WITH him b/c i assume he wants me to.

fuck you.

  

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57. "well bully for YOU lol"
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>and even if he's not - this ain't worth a single second of me
>having my panties bunched.
>
>it's just not that deep for me.
>
>if homie thinks he's actually the Black Messiah then LOL @
>him. but right now i'm LOL WITH him b/c i assume he wants me
>to.

  

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67. "get on my level."
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it's better here.

fuck you.

  

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79. "help me up lol"
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>it's better here.

  

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115. "clearly the title is ironical, I agree with you"
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40. "D'Angelo sure makes the bitch come out in some of yall lol "
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61. "ah... including the band in the title now....ok... n/m"
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58. "Photo of the CD/album cover...*link*"
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http://catetoblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/dangelo-and-vanguard-black-messiah-new.html



Housequake retweeted
Cateto ‏@Catetocatetez 7m7 minutes ago
D'Angelo and the Vanguard: Black Messiah (NEW ALBUM… AT LAST!!!) http://catetoblog.blogspot.com/2014/12/dangelo-and-vanguard-black-messiah-new.html

  

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64. "welp..."
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█▆▇▅▇█▇▆▄▁▃
Big PEMFin H & z's
"I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am 1 thing, a musician." � Miles

"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss."

  

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65. "*itchy palms*"
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66. "looks awesome."
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looking forward to picking this up in stores.

smart how they credited the band too. esp after reading that alan light/ leeds interview on here.

  

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68. "The guy in the tweet you linked has been told 12/16"
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...THAT'S FUCKING TUESDAAAAAY!!!


But, hey, whenever...!

  

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89. "maaan...so itunes on sunday/monday maybe???"
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Happy 50th D’Angelo: https://chrisp.bandcamp.com/track/d-50

  

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92. "RE: maaan...so itunes on sunday/monday maybe???"
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That's what I'm thinking. OKP is talking about Monday, so maybe Monday Midnight EST for Itunes and Tuesday for in-store copies?

  

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107. "RE: The logistics don't add up."
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In order for it to be in stores by Tuesday, said stores would have had to know about it for at least a week in advance.

And don't you think somebody would have said something?


``they asked me what the meek would get. picture me: afraid to answer.``

http://austinato.bandcamp.com

http://www.discogs.com/lists/Favorites-of-2014/193910

  

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110. "like the guy that tweeted the picture of the CD? "
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>And don't you think somebody would have said something?

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118. "RE: I'll believe it when I hear something."
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``they asked me what the meek would get. picture me: afraid to answer.``

http://austinato.bandcamp.com

http://www.discogs.com/lists/Favorites-of-2014/193910

  

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244. "oh ok lol"
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69. "RE: D'Angelo - BLACK MESSIAH??? [Listening Party NYC 12/14]"
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>Is this a teaser for the new album???
>
>http://youtu.be/oVsiVf_eSYE
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
http://blackmessiah.splashthat.com/

Listening party on Sunday for New Yorkers

  

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70. "Listening session on Sunday (hosted by Nelson George)"
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http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/12/dangelo-has-finished-black-messiah-his-first-new-album-in-14-years/


D’Angelo has finished his first new album in 14 years and will premiere it to the public during a listening session in New York on Sunday, December 14th. The follow-up to 2000’s Voodoo is titled Black Messiah and attributed to D’Angelo and his band the Vanguard.

Fans can RSVP to the listening session, which is being hosted by renowned African American writer Nelson George. The event takes place at the Dream Hotel in Chelsea beginning at 4pm.

In anticipation, the website for D’Angelo’s manager, Kevin Liles, has shared a brief teaser trailer for the album.

  

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71. "Tracklisting:"
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https://twitter.com/ij_rogers/status/543511138227335168

  

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72. ". . ."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZpgnYhzdkI

fuck you.

  

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74. "..."
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>

  

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86. "respect to my lil dude isaiah"
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dude is THE number one d'angelo fan. always keeping the faith.


Happy 50th D’Angelo: https://chrisp.bandcamp.com/track/d-50

  

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73. "Well damn"
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regardless of what I said I hope it's good

  

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75. "Promo poster (from Pitchfork)"
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http://pitchfork-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/content/IMG_20141209_173254602.jpg?wmode=transparent

http://pitchfork.com/news/57813-dangelo-finally-announces-long-awaited-new-album-black-messiah/

  

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81. ":shakes tambourine: Im delivert!"
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84. "lol"
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87. "not kiddin: seein actual product has me giddy lol"
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88. "there is something to be said for long waits though right???"
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I mean obviously this was too long...and the reasons were nothing positive for D for sure...

but waiting for something has a payoff... of legit enthusiasm.....

which is a good thing....

hopefully...lol.

  

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90. "Im sure the music will be good but the wait isnt the thing..."
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It was all the false starts and years of "its coming..its about finished..he's a guitar god now, It's due August 2012... here it comes" stuff that made it frustrating

if these hype machinists had shut the fuck up it wouldnt have been so ridiculous and frustrating



>I mean obviously this was too long...and the reasons were
>nothing positive for D for sure...
>
>but waiting for something has a payoff... of legit
>enthusiasm.....
>
>which is a good thing....
>
>hopefully...lol.

  

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91. "now it's here, give thanks"
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83. "I think someone owes me some money since this is real...lol."
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but yeah...

happy for him...

and for those of us who want some good music..

let's get some sounboard quality live stuff too...

  

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93. "LEAKED:"
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fire just tweeted she has it. so it's out deah...

http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=send_mesg&u_id=124104

<--- NEVER FORGET THE 2000's.

  

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94. "Imma wait till Tuesday (hey, a play on words)"
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>fire just tweeted she has it. so it's out deah...
>
>http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=send_mesg&u_id=124104

  

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95. "Do. Not. Play. With. Me."
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linkorstfu

--

"You can't beat white people. You can only knock them out."

  

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96. "Inbox n/m"
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97. "Jumps in inbox line "
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>fire just tweeted she has it. so it's out deah...
>
>http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=send_mesg&u_id=124104

Eclectic Soul/Sunday, 2-4 PM est/89.3 WCSB.ORG

  

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98. "yall waited 15 years you can wait till Tuesday"
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99. "RE: yall waited 15 years you can wait till Tuesday"
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It may even be out by Monday, so it's literally a weekend away.

  

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100. "natch, so do it right..open an actual cd and put it on etc"
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>It may even be out by Monday, so it's literally a weekend
>away.

  

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101. "Inbox por favor"
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------------------------------------------
America from 9:00 on: https://youtu.be/GUwLCQU10KQ

  

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104. "Inbox please."
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phemom's the name, all-star writer/
searching 4 journalistic fame, mindframe igniter....www.twitter.com/hayabusaage

  

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120. "RE: Inbox por favor"
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Inbox please?

Thanks!

  

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102. "I'm actually excited to cop this on Tuesday"
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I really miss that feeling surrounding a new release.
Might even go at midnight.

https://digife.com

  

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105. "i'll download on iTunes at midnight Monday night. LOL"
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i did that w/Beyonce's album and that was pretty exciting.

fuck you.

  

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113. "me too"
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Just now seeing this thread (been away for a few days) and am physically giddy... packaged product = copped whenever it drops. Like, early morning trip to the record store giddy, which I haven't done in a loooooong time.

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116. "I've never been this excited in all my life. "
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We are finally getting what we've been asking for. *the album*. That's all we wanted. No hype,no more stories,no stop and go's, just a title and a release date. I'm happy !!!


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109. "BAMMERED^^^^^^^^"
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Pretty much insuring this alias will be dead next week.

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106. "RE: **ctrl+f "wack messiah"**"
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"Phrase not found."

Come on, guys. This stuff writes itself. Proof positive that okp just ain't good ol'okp anymore.


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111. "no D'mumblo either"
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maxxx aint around no more

  

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112. "D'mumblo was the best."
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the brown figures on the walls of my apart-a-ment...

  

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119. "RE: His leaving was one of the best things to ever happen to this board."
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It's just too bad he chased away any new blood long before he did so.


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114. "Rolling Stone article"
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http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/dangelo-new-album-black-messiah-20141212

D'Angelo Will Unveil New Album 'Black Messiah' at NYC Listening Party

The R&B singer will play the album in its entirety at an event hosted by Nelson George

By Jason Newman | December 12, 2014

After 14 years, numerous false starts and nearly two years of D'Angelo's next album being "99 percent done," the singer will unveil the follow-up to 2000's Voodoo this Sunday.

The R&B singer will play the completed album, Black Messiah, in its entirety at a listening session in New York hosted by writer Nelson George and organized by Red Bull Music Academy and Afropunk.

As Consequence of Sound notes, D'Angelo's manager Kevin Liles shared a mysterious teaser trailer to promote the album.
George and the singer sat down in May at New York's Brooklyn Museum for a public discussion. When the topic of "neo-soul" came up, D'Angelo hinted that he was embarking on a new musical direction with his own music. "I respect for what it is, but anytime you put a name on something, you just put it in a box," said D'Angelo. "You want to be in a position where you can grow as an artist. You never want to be told, 'Hey, well, you're a neo-soul artist.' Right now, I'm not. We're going someplace else."

D'Angelo also referenced his return to the spotlight, which began with a triumphant covers set at Bonnaroo 2012. Since then, whispers of a new album have appeared periodically.

Shortly after Bonnaroo, Questlove told Rolling Stone that D'Angelo had recorded nearly 30 tracks at Electric Lady, the same New York studio where the singer cut Voodoo. "He is about to take a radical 180 turn with this record," Questlove said at the time. "It's going to throw people off the same way that Prince's Dirty Mindthrew his R&B fanbase off. In the past few years, he's discovered Bowie and Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, Pet Sounds, Captain Beefheart and Zappa." At the time, Questlove said that the musician was experimenting with guitar arrangements and creating his own keyboard sounds.

In January 2013, Questlove told Billboard that D'Angelo's album was "99 percent done." "I would not be far off by saying this is probably my generation's version of Sly There's a Riot Goin' On," the drummer said. "It's potent. It's funky. It's an extremely hard pill to swallow.

"It's going to take you about 10 years to digest this record," he added. "Totally brilliant. Just the way this society works with music...being able to judge if something is a classic after the first listen, you can do that after 30 seconds on this. And the fact that we started this record in 2004, and it still sounds like it came out five years from now, it is a testament to the timelessness of it."

In a June interview, Liles said that the Bonnaroo show inspired D'Angelo to want to finish the album. "He very bluntly put it, 'Kev, the studio and the stage: that's my lifeblood. Now that I've touched it again, now that I see it again, I wanna be sure that the baby I'm about to have – the album – that I take it to the point where it's all it can be.'"

  

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122. "friends don't let friends black rock"
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126. "True, because real friends Black Rock WITH you."
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117. "told ya'll mofos years ago"
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no one would listen

tuh

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123. "inbox n/m"
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121. "They just ran the commercial during SNL"
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124. "So Sugar Daddy...."
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if any of ya'll can decipher even 50% of what he's saying in the song, let me know. thanks

  

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128. "All I got so far:"
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>if any of ya'll can decipher even 50% of what he's saying in
>the song, let me know. thanks

"I just wish that I could open her up, to this deeper place of love", that's all I got, for now lol !!!

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134. "50?I'll take someone who can decipher 15% of what he's saying "
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135. "Even the Black Messiah doesn't know what he's saying"
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137. "i like it."
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BRING IT!

fuck you.

  

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138. "RE: i like it."
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I was skeptical of this track based on the live performances - just a mediocre vamp - but this is great! The production detail and the piano performance slay.

  

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144. "me too"
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Good start and good confidence builder (on the part of the listeners, I mean)


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147. "I ain't mad at it. It was the one new song that I was the least pumped t..."
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a studio version of. It definitely sounds good sonically. But I seriously have no clue what he's saying. I always looked at the D'Mumblo stuff from Voodoo as more joke than reality. Vocals were low. But you could understand what he was saying. This song though. The vocals are are up. But they're really hard to decipher with the effects added to them.

  

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142. "here's an attempt lol"
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>if any of ya'll can decipher even 50% of what he's saying in
>the song, let me know. thanks

(also based on a live recording)

verse 2

(...) for my philosophy, on top of that i give you what you need
it's nice to me (...) smile, sometimes i gotta just ease it out, hold up, wait a minute
and even if i wanted to give her some of my love, i give her the pacifier (?)
(... ... ... ...)

this is the way i clap my baby on the butt
she got me hooked with only just one glance
she needs some spanking, baby that's what's up
i said i want to be the one she (... ... ... ...) romance

chorus 2

girl's got a worldly view
what's a sassy girl to do
my indecision never (...)
you best believe that i will be your shugah daddy

brown eyes that'll make you blue
eyes that'll see right through you
she crossed her fingers when she said her vows
she said i promise i'm going to sock it to you daddy

  

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148. "Like I asked over in GD.."
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...people haven't heard "Sugah Daddy" already?
I'm kinda surprised. Or...maybe not really.
Maybe people don't seek out live bootlegs like we do *shrug*

That being said, I think people are going to snap when they hear "Another Life" and "Charade". I really enjoyed those live and have been waiting to hear how they translated in the studio setting.

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166. "duh."
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>Maybe people don't seek out live bootlegs like we do *shrug*

fuck you.

  

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151. "sounds like dilla producing gang starr's manifest"
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i like it.

has a nola funk vibe to it.

  

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125. "Sugar Daddy link"
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http://20before15.redbull.com

Go ahead and Loose your shit to this. If you don't get it I feel bad for ya!

  

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130. "lol@that title. hes the R&B kanye. "
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hope the music is good. dissapointed some of these songs that have been doing the rounds are on there. did anyone really like really love that much? still, im hopeful. good to have him back. looks its real this time.

  

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131. "RE: lol@that title. hes the R&B kanye. "
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http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=5&topic_id=2912062&mesg_id=2912062&page=#2912495



*shrug*

  

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132. "hmmm yeah i dunno"
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not sure i believe that entirely, sounds like a way to deflect from the hype and self-aggrandisement of the title.

but hey, if it makes people become politically pro-active, then great.

ive never really thought of dangelo as a great thinker though really. i think his politics are basically learnt from hip hop and 70s soul. so im not really expecting to hear any great new ideas from him in that department.

  

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133. "Sugah Daddy is"
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...really underwhelming. It sounds unfinished

  

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136. "this D'Angelo thing seems very personal for a lot of you guys"
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140. "lol..so him telling you what the meaning is isn't good enough?"
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come on man...

nobody's conjecture should weigh more than the truth..

folks should just admit they over thought the meaning behind the title and just accept what dude said he meant by the title..

  

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150. "did you listen to the preview vide on on youtube for the album?"
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cos that isnt anyone talking about 'bring out your inner messiah', its a speech about JESUS! i would say dangelo, or his camp at least, are pretty okay with religious demagoguery comparisons... hes one video away from being pictured hanging on a cross. im just waiting for them to pull that out the bag.


  

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164. "if you're requiring someone to do it color by numbers style"
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>cos that isnt anyone talking about 'bring out your inner
>messiah', its a speech about JESUS! i would say dangelo, or
>his camp at least, are pretty okay with religious demagoguery
>comparisons... hes one video away from being pictured hanging
>on a cross. im just waiting for them to pull that out the
>bag.


and tell you exactly what they mean without you having to use any creative thought to figure out what they mean ..then yeah...maybe you wouldn't view it the way it's intended...

but I got it right away...


during the introduction to the book Malcolm X the FBI files...there is a copy of a memo that refers to them (them being the FBI) ... needing to stop the rise of a "Black Messiah"... that along with the imagery of a group of protestors raising their hands ....probably in reference to the Ferguson protests.... then adding the words of Dr. Khalid being specific about the Messiah or Divine figure being a Black man....It is clear that the title Black Messiah is referring to a populist type message that is timely to a group of people...Black people who are currently under attack in situations like we have seen with the police and even prior to that Trayvon Martin...

whereas previously the government...FBI made efforts to stop the rise of a Black Messiah to quell the rise of Freedom among Black people..... Police Brutality and a lack of justice again is attempting to suppress the rise of Black people...particularly the Black man..

if you recall D'Angelo's performance at the American Festival thing a couple years ago he dedicated the song Charade to Trayvon Martin...and spoke about how that represented a larger problem.....

somewhere on this promotional video or on something that was released there is a quote from the lyrics of Charade...All we wanted was a chance to talk, instead we got outlined in chalk....

I think with all that is happening recently ... that prompted D to change the title of the album..and rush the release...obviously because the hands up picture had to have been taken really recently....

but again..it all makes sense and to me is a very timely and clever title for the album.

  

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139. "I likes BUT...."
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Shit jams and has that grit that's been missing...

With that said....

1)i don't see this being a $ track...nice here I am again joint.

2) WTF is he saying...maybe he knows we call him Mumblo and he's playing to that.

3) I know damn well this didn't take 15 years to make. Was he really in the studio tinkering with this song for 15 years???

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143. "RE: I likes BUT...."
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>1)i don't see this being a $ track...nice here I am again
>joint.

My guess is that's all it is supposed to be. Great tune, great performance, but it's not going to be a major radio hit and my guess is that whoever decided this would be the first to come out knew that.

fwiw, Voodoo had *one* "$" track and I'm convinced that was something of a fluke... by which I simply mean that Untitled was sort of out of place on the album, sonically, not unlike Left & Right (the $ track that wasn't). I'm glad he dropped the track, but anyone looking for it to wipe away all questions or doubts (esp. if they are already a "doubter") is fooling themselves... because if this album is anything like Voodoo (and the imagery and hints suggest it is), then it's probably going to be intended as an *album*.... pick any track off Voodoo besides the aforementioned, and they stand on their own for sure but they make much more sense in the context of the whole (imo).

>3) I know damn well this didn't take 15 years to make. Was he
>really in the studio tinkering with this song for 15 years???

Does it matter?

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146. "this is going to be interesting to watch..."
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As far as this project is concerned with the current state of the biz
Someone put all their chips on him in hopes of a big win.
15 years in the electric lady wasn't cheap.

The quality of the record isn't the concern
Dude will deliver
And WE will support
The question is will it get over to the other side enough for folks to see a return on investment.
Ain't no way they're into this expecting to lose.




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Would a tour help?

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154. "the tour is crucial"
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I'm not sure how successful the US shows were a few years ago.
Did the MJB tour bring folks out....did the shows sell out?
He will get US to come out along with the so-called hipster crowd.
Will he get the Essence fest crowd?
Based on their reaction to the performance a few years ago....time will tell.

i will stop the armchair analysis for now
i am excited for him
all jokes aside, it was a huge thing for him to let this project go
I'm just trying to be realistic about the public reaction to his return

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145. "i dig it"
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i love the sparseness of this track.

it's catchy, uptempo, funky and feel-good.

good ingredients to peak interest for the record.

not sure if they see this as the money track(s).

i'd say the money track is 'another life'.

they're probably saving that for later (as with untitled for voodoo).

he didn't work on this for 15 years.

i think he has a totally diff work ethic than most (meaning no work ethic).

the mumble is whatever. it didn't really bother me on voodoo.

he might have lyrics now, but took too long to re-record.

the label probably just ordered to distort some mumbles to finish the product.

  

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149. "its like i just cant stop loving you "
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not a BIG single

but a strong song to let people know hes back

its a weird choice, its a funk jam, not a catchy radio song

but it shows him as someone not compromising (though its also pretty upbeat, so its not like its too dark), not interested in competing with dj mustard or whoever

  

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153. "sounds very new orleans\st parrish"
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Dancing down the street with all the pageantry

  

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155. "RE: sounds very new orleans\st parrish"
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Hey Rainbowchild! Fancy seeing you here! It's been a while! Lots of D'angelo action going on! Seems to be the big moment we've been hoping for!

  

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156. "Wassup Rez!!!!! Doing well doing well"
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Had to come and rejoice with him, only right.

  

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157. "ReZ, many great stories are in 3 acts"
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4, if you want the encore of the character.

Mr. Archer is no different. We got his 1994/95 intro where we were all introduced & bonded with the guy.

His second act, where there were some endearing foilibles, some misgivings, transgressions, growth & discoveries. Stones were left unturned & im certain most of us felt that redemption was needed, or that he left his business unresolved.

Now we on to act 3? Redemption!

  

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158. "Wait, I never did know why ?uesto's name on here was 15..."
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Has he been fucking with us all these years with that being a reference to how long D's absence was going to be?

"Yes I see all the nummmberrs... I still root for the dreeeamerrs... I thank God for the dreeeamerrs..." - Mos

  

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159. "Lol, no. But I feel old now."
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Many moons ago, there was a hot thread where the 15th post mysteriously disappeared. Then qoolquest became 15.

  

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384. "lol! "
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cute

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160. "RE: D'Angelo - BLACK MESSIAH???"
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B42VIeXIgAEjaGz.jpg

Sugah Daddy lyrics

LOL I dig the lyrics but I know damn well he is not ennunciating a damn word of that.

  

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165. "I definitely didn't catch the line about 'making the pussy fart'."
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Waiting over a decade for queef lyrics seems excessive, but I guess that's not for me to decide.

  

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169. "Love that line"
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Happy 50th D’Angelo: https://chrisp.bandcamp.com/track/d-50

  

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170. "RE: I definitely didn't catch the line about 'making the pussy fart'."
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>Waiting over a decade for queef lyrics seems excessive, but I
>guess that's not for me to decide.

I hope he was high as fuck when he wrote that because if he wasn't….

  

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171. "Hilarious if qtip or Kendra contributed that line"
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Happy 50th D’Angelo: https://chrisp.bandcamp.com/track/d-50

  

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199. "RE: Hilarious if qtip or Kendra contributed that line"
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Y'know, he banks on the fact that nobody knows what the hell he's saying. I mean, he got on BET awards and performed quite a few times singing about queefs and we're just like, "...yeah totally man, whatever you say". I'm sure his camp has been laughing about that for a while now.

  

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161. "that's a fucking teaser!"
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and i am pissed because

I Am Ready!

  

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162. "*OBLIGATORY 'ITS A CLASSIC/IT GREW ON ME' POSTS HERE*"
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I tend to not have expectations on albums before I hear them, but I know some of us here don't have that in us. However I figured having the hyperbole in one place would keep the thread tidy.
This also goes for the people that will hate it when it drops, then force themselves to listen to it until they like it.

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163. "that nola 2nd line"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHgJFutF5vs

  

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191. "So are the fashionably unimpressed posters"
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automatically the only ones who judge fairly and respond honestly?

  

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234. "it isn't something I've thought much about"
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considering that I haven't said anything about being unimpressed. But I do however think it's more plausible to listen to a work without a high or low expectation because you're not caught up in the hype either way.

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167. "WHOA !!!!! All i'm gonna say is........This album is tight as fuck !!!!!"
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Prayer, Betray My Heart, Back To The Future, shiiiiiiiiiiiitttttt !!!!! Welcome back,D. If you ever take this long again, though... lol !!! Y'all in for a treat. And no, I won't be sharing. It's worth the wait.

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172. "how did you hear it?"
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>

  

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174. "RE: how did you hear it?"
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A friend of mine got a copy early, and he slid it to me. The second half of the album is awesome. You'll see.


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"i'm talking about *Balls Deep*....In Love (c)Cleveland Jr.

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180. "I trust your opinion Silk..."
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Can't wait to hear it tonight!!

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185. "RE: WHOA !!!!! All i'm gonna say is........This album is tight as fuck !..."
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for real. mind be blowin'

  

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222. "^^^Ain't never lied."
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168. "ITUNES TONIGHT!!!"
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Happy 50th D’Angelo: https://chrisp.bandcamp.com/track/d-50

  

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173. "really...like midnight?"
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175. "RE: really...like midnight?"
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Yep yep. You're gonna love it,Warren. But, you already knew this lol !!!

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177. "looking forward to it... so is that PST or EST ..."
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I'm hoping I don't have to stay up till mindnight PST..

but I will I think if I have to...

  

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179. "Well if your familiar how Itunes operates, it like 9 or 10 our time........"
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.........since we're on the westcoast.


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182. "Yup hoping for a 9pm drop in the west"
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Happy 50th D’Angelo: https://chrisp.bandcamp.com/track/d-50

  

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186. "My lord, I can't wait for folks to hear "Prayer". smh !!!!"
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176. "RE: really...like midnight?"
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Yep...Midnight....

Just heard it at a listening session...Worth the wait....

GOAT of his era......long live Prince.....God is alive....

  

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178. "RE: really...like midnight?"
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>Yep...Midnight....
>
>Just heard it at a listening session...Worth the wait....

It really is, isn't it ? Damn !!! I love "Ain't That Easy", better than the live versions I heard.


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181. "RE: really...like midnight?"
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I need to go jogging, or something. Too excited.

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183. "RE: really...like midnight?"
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>I need to go jogging, or something. Too excited.

Ha ha !!!


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187. "Word???!!!"
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190. "If you say that Murph, I believe you because I trust your music opinion"
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>Just heard it at a listening session...Worth the wait....

grassrootsphilosopher

  

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188. "This is great ! I hope Cds/Lps will be available soon"
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189. "its midnight EST"
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and methinks theyve been able to keep it under wraps because they haven't sent to manufacturing yet.

  

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184. "i'll be up late."
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fuck you.

  

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192. "very happy for Kendra Foster"
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194. "absolutely...."
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I really liked her solo album from 2003..

  

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195. "RE: absolutely...."
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She's a very warm spirit and her lyrics are on point. She uses a lot of ...lofty vocab and I dig that in a soul song.

  

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326. "RE: very happy for Kendra Foster"
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i most certainly agree!


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193. "Inbox????????????????????"
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196. "the album is on iTunes already if you search for it"
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197. "yeah...it's on Itunes now..."
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198. "Damn, Itunes ain't trying to give you a digital booklet. "
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>

Guess i'll wait till it hits the store. But, for now i'll just rock with this download.


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200. "1000 Deaths is that Riot Quest was talking about."
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Like, it's so dirty/grungy and beautiful.
Like they dragged the tape through the streets or something.
Or did 7 over dubs on it.

I dig that song a lot.
a lot.

a lot lot.

also side b is amazing.
prayer
betray my heart

lovely.

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202. "RE: 1000 Deaths is that Riot Quest was talking about."
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>Like, it's so dirty/grungy and beautiful.
>Like they dragged the tape through the streets or something.
>Or did 7 over dubs on it.
>
>I dig that song a lot.
>a lot.
>
>a lot lot.
>
>also side b is amazing.
>prayer
>betray my heart
>
>lovely.
>

*daps* regarding Side B.

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241. "RE: 1000 Deaths is that Riot Quest was talking about."
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>Like, it's so dirty/grungy and beautiful.
>Like they dragged the tape through the streets or something.
>Or did 7 over dubs on it.
>
>I dig that song a lot.
>a lot.

Agreed - everything about that track is wonderful... the layers, the restrained chaos that feels like it's about to spin out of control, the drums (!), and the undoubted nod to Riot on the bass in the intro and outro --- gorgeous stuff.

-thebigfunk

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368. "yeah, it's banging"
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didn't think it could get better than the early version. will
be bumpin that shit in the car for a loooong time...lol


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201. "yeah this sh*t jammin"
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I wanna be mad and be like fuck this dude for making me wait damn near 15 years but this shit is just what I needed from a Black artist right now. "Back to the Future Part 1" is on repeat!

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204. "RE: yeah this sh*t jammin"
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Yup. I want to stay mad about waiting so long for this record but it's damn near brilliant.

  

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203. "Just copped it "
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I listened to three tracks skimmed through the rest, I'll try to listen to the rest tonight after the kids go to sleep

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205. "@15."
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206. "I'm gonna need a lyric book!!! "
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I'm not trying to be funny
I really can't understand 95% of what he is saying


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208. "RE: I'm gonna need a lyric book!!! "
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http://noisey.vice.com/blog/dangelo-black-messiah-listening-party?utm_source=noiseyfbus Lyric book right here.

  

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209. "Gratitude!!! "
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Eclectic Soul/Sunday, 2-4 PM est/89.3 WCSB.ORG

  

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210. "actually"
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I'm glad he doesn't enunciate the words "make/made the p*ssy fart"

haven't heard the other songs yet though.

  

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218. "Ha ha, yeah a booklet is gonna be needed. "
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But, was I spot on about the second half of the album ?


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220. "Spot frigging on!!!"
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Prayer and Another Life were the highlights for me upon first listen
On those, he takes it to the level that I wanted to hear....
The lyric book helped out a lot so I will have to go back to side a
But after a few listens....side B is where it's at!!

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219. "man...Kendra co-wrote a lot of these songs..."
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good stuff..

  

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269. "try this:"
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http://www.metrolyrics.com/news-story-dangelo-black-messiah-lyrics-revealed.html

fuck you.

  

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207. "Oh man"
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Haven't been here in forever, but this is the first place I thought to come.

Yes!

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211. "On my first listen..."
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On my first listen right now...

Wow...This is insane!!
It's really finally here
Literally been dreaming bout this!

  

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212. "Betray My Heart is thaaaaat shit."
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All of Side B is nuts, but that song in particular gave me the same feeling after hearing "The Root"

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or DJing AND nightlife...
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215. "YES the root. "
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Love betray my heart. So great.

I said on Twitter BMH woulda fit on Voodoo but I couldn't figure out why I thohhh that.

It is the similarity to Root!

  

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213. "Another Life is THE $ track!! "
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Eclectic Soul/Sunday, 2-4 PM est/89.3 WCSB.ORG

  

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385. "my life is ruined"
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400. "RE: Another Life is THE $ track!! "
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My favorite song on the album. Actually the best song I've heard in at least a few years.

  

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214. "this the shit."
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the shit!

fuck you.

  

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216. "yessir"
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217. "Till It's Done (Tutu) needed to be 5 min longer"
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maaan, listen. sheeeit.

  

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221. "yeah...this is real good...."
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love the vibe...and some really solid songs on here..

I'm going to bed ..but looking forward to really getting into this..


man...2014 ends with a New Funkadelic album full of funky tracks...and a New D'Angelo album...

I'm not mad....lol.

  

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224. "*daps*."
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>love the vibe...and some really solid songs on here..
>
>I'm going to bed ..but looking forward to really getting into
>this..
>
>
>man...2014 ends with a New Funkadelic album full of funky
>tracks...and a New D'Angelo album...
>
>I'm not mad....lol.


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223. "Better than VooDoo. Already think it's his best album. D came thru!!!"
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Believe it!

  

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225. "RE: Better than VooDoo. Already think it's his best album. D came thru!!..."
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I am very much a fan of the introspection of Voodoo and this is so much more sophisticated and in consistent pocket.

  

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239. "RE: Better than VooDoo. Already think it's his best album. D came thru!!..."
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Jesus - the album has been out for a few hours - circulating for a few days - simmering for *15 years* and you have already signed, sealed, delivered a final opinion on its place in his (admittedly small) discography?

My humble proposal: let's all just listen and enjoy... worry about contextualizing, situating, categorizing, ranking, assigning quantitative and qualitative merits and demerits until we've actually had a chance to soak it in a bit...

-thebigfunk

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379. "I stand by what I said. It's better than VooDoo."
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D's best work. Can't tell me nothin!!!

  

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386. "it pushes voodoo down the stairs"
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404. "Troof"
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226. "Checking in."
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Almost done with my first listen.
Betray My Heart stood out to now.
Another Day just about to start.
Gonna finish that one, then off to sleep.
I just "got" twigs, and now she's bumped.
This for the next several days at least.

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"You can't beat white people. You can only knock them out."

  

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227. "so my cuts upon second full listen:"
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Ain't That Easy
Tutu
Betray My Heart
Another Life
The Charade

This is really good

  

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228. "Very curious to see what the reaction is to the album"
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Their haven't been a lot of exciting moments in mainstream R&B this year so I'm interested to see how this plays on Black Radio, BET, Revolt, etc. A tour will go a long way in helping to tell the story as well. Good to see people buzzing/talking about an R&B record. Been to long since that has happened.

  

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229. "On my third listen. This shit is fucking brilliant. "
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Just beautiful stuff. Fucking well done.


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231. "so happy to hear this"
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Mon Dec-15-14 03:51 AM by shockzilla

          

now i just can't wait to listen to the album!

  

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230. "RE: D'Angelo - BLACK MESSIAH??? ALBUM ON SALE AT MIDNIGHT"
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I can't wait to hear this but I'm gonna wait till I can get the cd in my hand for that old time unwrap the cd experience.

I really hope I'm not disappointed!

  

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232. "i need that cd/ vinyl/ booklet/ "
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cotdammit D dropped!!!!!!!

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233. "i wonder if the release date had anything to do with prince's albums"
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this year...

  

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235. "Can we agree that Sugah Daddy is the worst joint on the album"
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The rest of the cuts are amazing compared to this song. SERIOUSLY

Betray My Heart
Back to the Future
1000 Deaths
Really Love
Another Life

etc are all stellar and "Sugah Daddy" is zzz.

  

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301. "The Door is my least favorite. "
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https://digife.com

  

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412. "fuck no."
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there is no 'worst joint'

  

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520. "Its one of my favorites so far halfway through"
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236. "It's wild and great how certain artists have such a unique sound,"
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They can take their same sound n style from 15 years earlier and create an album without having to hop on a single trend.

No Mustard on the beat ho, no "bad bitches in my section," not even the rap feature as he had on "Left, right"...no blatant track for the ladies, just all him and what he did on his last album.

I do wonder how the under 21 crowd is going to receive it...they never really had a chance to enjoy this sound in the mainstream, so it might go over their head. But I know there's some folks in that crowd who will be inspired by it, especially the young artists who go for a soulful sound.

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247. "i highly doubt this was made with the 21 & under crowd in mind"
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this is clearly 30+ music...if youngins get it cool..if not, whatever.

His core audience is elsewhere and for damn sure they don't want hear him over a fucking mustard beat

  

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250. "the under 21 crowd isn't his audience..."
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think about it...some of them weren't born when Brown Sugar was out...

others were in elementary school when Untitled blew up...

It's not his lane...

  

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409. "For sure, I'm just curious from a DJing standpoint"
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439. "Would you play anything off this album for a 21 & Under crowd?"
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I really think it depends on what kind of 21 and under audience we're talking about because as much as people want to lump everyone that young all together there are most definitely different crowds within that age bracket. I could see the Low End Theory kind of youngsters really digging this.

  

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256. "fuck them"
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>I do wonder how the under 21 crowd is going to receive
>it...they never really had a chance to enjoy this sound in the
>mainstream, so it might go over their head. But I know there's
>some folks in that crowd who will be inspired by it,
>especially the young artists who go for a soulful sound.

  

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410. "Nah, fuck people who are 30+ that only like radio shit"
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Can't disrespect the youngsters who had no control over what got played to them in their lifetime.

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264. "RE: It's wild and great how certain artists have such a unique sound,"
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I'm 21... and the only people my age or younger that I know will listen to this (and also know about Brown Sugar & Voodoo) are musicians

Even though they didn't grow up on it, as a musician they can't avoid the influences

  

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270. "none of that Jock Jams 'AYY!' shit."
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LOL

fuck you.

  

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390. "It's become increasingly rare"
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I think especially in Black music. Rock bands like AC/DC & Iron Maiden can keep doing their same style and basically giving their fans what they want without trying to reinvent the wheel and keep their core fan base happy. I'd be hard pressed to think of a recent Black artist who has been "allowed" or willing to do this. Maybe Too Short?

>They can take their same sound n style from 15 years earlier
>and create an album without having to hop on a single trend.
>
>No Mustard on the beat ho, no "bad bitches in my section," not
>even the rap feature as he had on "Left, right"...no blatant
>track for the ladies, just all him and what he did on his last
>album.

That's one of the best things about this record. This is D'angelo for better or worse. No records with Migos or T Pain or a hot 16 from Niki or Drake. It's D and his crew doing his Prince influenced, Dilla thing that he's been doing.
>
>I do wonder how the under 21 crowd is going to receive
>it...they never really had a chance to enjoy this sound in the
>mainstream, so it might go over their head. But I know there's
>some folks in that crowd who will be inspired by it,
>especially the young artists who go for a soulful sound.

Forget the under 21 crowd...I'm wondering about the under 30 crowd! 15 years is a long ass time. I think musicians & beat heads will dig it because it has a certain grit to it that I think they will appreciate and I think their favorite older producer (9th Wonder, Quest, Madlib, etc) will rave about it so much it will at least make them curious about it. I also think the Silverlake/Williamsberg hipsters will dig it as well. I went to Amoeba to buy a physical copy and they were bumping it in the store. When I bought my copy the guy behind the register said that everyone who came in to buy that album bought more than 1 copy and that a few people have been asking about the vinyl.

  

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464. "Re: Under 21 crowd"
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Not sure if my kids are any indication, but my two oldest (19 and 15) don't really truck with D'angelo at all. The grooves don't catch for them I guess, and they can't stand his singing/mumbling.

The wife and I ran through Voodoo one night with them, and they were just clowning each song.

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237. "another life is a good track"
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i'll give him that.

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370. "you are missed"
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“So back we go to these questions — friendship, character… ethics.”

  

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383. "what up Maxx.."
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hope things are good for you brother..


God bless

  

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thanks cool and the best to you brother. peace

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238. "Just made it through my first listen and ...."
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I'm just amazed! I'm really enjoying this album so far! That lyrical booklet online really helped as well. After hearing the studio version of "Sugar Daddy", I felt that this was going to be necessary. It is actually quite brilliant. People will have no choice but to hunt for these lyrics if they don't have a physical copy. Disappointed that the digital booklet wasn't delivered with this. But hey, after 15 years, I guess I just need to shut the fuck on up about that.
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240. "on some of the streaming spots (and random thoughts)"
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For those who don't want to pay for Itunes and then pay for physical, know that it's on Rdio, which means it's probably on Spotify too (haven't checked yet).

Listening now... A few thoughts:
- I've done my best to keep my expectations in check over the years... and I've *never* begrudged dude for taking his time, going through his shit. No sweat off my back, and I have no stake in a musician releasing something they're not ready to release yet... just figured the album will come when it comes, and it will be what it will be - good, bad, amazing, terrible, transcendent, a hot mess. To have it here is great, and hopefully dude's in a good place about it... good reminder that all art is a gift.

- Esp. since half-way through the record and shit is sounding really great so far. Sonically, compositionally, performance - who knows *when* these tracks were recorded, but you can definitely feel some work was laid into this. Won't make grand pronouncements on its worth yet, but no question that this is going to be an album worth really spending time with, engaging with. Hope that as listeners we can find some space to devote some real attention to it.

- I understand why folks want lyrics, complain about not being able to understand him... but in truth it's good to hear him blurring his words again w/this record... one of the things that puts and keeps Voodoo in my absolute favorite records of all time is its creative and intense approach to vocals. On that album, the vocals became instruments in and of themselves. Not just the *voice* as *an* instrument, but the full arrangement of vocals... words didn't matter as much as the dense (and unpredictable) harmonies that often left the melody floating unhinged, hinted at but undecipherable... vocals that were as much (probably more?) about texture and uncertain tonalities as they were about delivering a hook and a meaning. It's something I've come to appreciate more and more over the years, something my younger ears weren't ready for...

So to hear him taking that approach to vocals even further here (again, first impressions) is a real pleasure. All the tweaks and glitches and absences on a cut like Sugah Daddy really shows off that approach, I think...

Alright, back to listening. Side note: is Tutu this album's "The Root" - 2/4 meter (?), asymmetrical in pattern, so you're caught in something of a loop? Good stuff!




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242. "D'Mumblo has DELIVERT!!!!!! "
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even Maxx came back for this. I really do like this album. Picks up right where Voodoo left off, and thankfully didn't fall into the cliches that were advertised about the "sound" of this album.

"The Charade" is one of my favorite songs in a long time. So is "Another Love".

real glad to hear this from him. hopefully the next don't take 10 000 years.

  

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243. "my bitchmade hate-filled review of this"
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only heard it once all the way through on my ipod (who knows what i will think when i get the cd), which in itself is a weird experience, and not one i expected to have for a long time yet. i dont think it exactly JUSTIFIES the period its taken, but it doesnt dissapoint either.

my main thoughts while listening to it are, this could have been made in 1997. im slightly dumbfounde by the datedness/stodginess of some of its rockier elements. hes far from a bad guitarist, but hes not a great guitarist either, and i think id prefer to hear more rhythm guitar on this than slightly corny dubbed on acid freakouts (hes no eddie hazel). the rockier drum parts also sound a bit 90s. erykah did funk-rock better on mamas gun. i guess i dont really like his taste in rock all that much, and think its a little on the corny side (honestly, i think hes also looking in the wrong places, hes sounding more 90s BRC than tv on the radio - i wonder if dangelo ever checked out desperate youth bloodthirsty babes?) moreover, i just dont GET the insistence on wanting to become rockier. whats good for the goose (prince) isnt necessarily good for the gander.

other than that, hey, this is a cool little album. i think the shorter song lengths are good for dangelo. back to the future (corny title aside), betray my heart, really love, and the door are some of the best songs hes written (though im aware all the songs i like most are the type that blue note might put out lol). i also love the vocals on this. as ive prob said before, hes made 'hiding' into an artform. 1000 deaths is one of the most interesting (if not always that sure-footed) things hes done (it should have been the first song really), but i like straighter sounding dangelo a lot too. aint that easy makes me think of joan armatrading or chrissie hynde or 80s tina turner even.

its an interesting album, its dangelo showing how versatile he is, so it doesnt always hang together that well (in some ways i think the disparity between his ambition, his reserve, and his comfort zone is most apparent on this album than any other, but not necessarily in a bad way, but it also says that 'the dangelo sound' is pretty much what was there on voodoo, esp the dilla drums, i guess thats here to stay). its actually his most prince-like album in that respect. i dont think he pulls it all off perfectly, but its a really good third album. if he actually puts another one out in the next year, i think it will seem better, and not have to be so significant. and i really hope he does.

all in all, i give it 4.5 abs out of 6.

  

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245. "RE: my bitchmade hate-filled review of this"
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I like the album!

And I also agree it could have been done earlier.

But who are we to judge how long it should take to make an album?

Nevertheless, I must admit I thought there would never be a new album...but here it is!

Sure it is not as revolutionary sound as Brown Sugar or even Voodoo, but it is good!

I'm fine with the more "rock and guitar oriented" vibe since the chord progressions are not completely crazy and totally abstract.

Sometimes I find the way he sings a bit too over played (I'm not so sure it's the right word but I hope you'll get my point) but overall I'm into it, I still like his voice and vibes and that's nice.

Looking forward to putting my hands on the vinyl.

So good job D and I also hope it'll not take 15 years to get a new album!

Cheers from France and stay cool and easy!

  

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246. "this."
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>if he actually puts another one out in the next year, i think
>it will seem better, and not have to be so significant. and i
>really hope he does.
>

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249. "Well he didn't necessarily work on it all those years."
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Or at least, not necessarily on these tracks.

  

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253. "i dont see nothing wrong w/ sounding like 1997"
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sheeeeeiiit


does it really matter?

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259. "i have lost all interest in playing armchair critic or A&R w/this record..."
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LOL
i'm too busy being a geeked out fan who's immensely pleased w/what i'm hearing.

the more i listen to the album the more i like it.

fuck you.

  

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374. "100%"
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266. "i disagree, and I should be right with you, lol"
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Good reply tho. ill preface with three points

1)Rock is my primary genre.

2)Moderating these boards heavily during that time I was so turned off to D'angelo I only listened to voodoo from front to back in the last five years or so, LOL.

3) I hate modern 'black rock' (really funk rock) and pretty much everything you kinda described below:
http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=17&topic_id=46841&mesg_id=46841&page=7

>my main thoughts while listening to it are, this could have
>been made in 1997. im slightly dumbfounde by the
>datedness/stodginess of some of its rockier elements. hes far
>from a bad guitarist, but hes not a great guitarist either,
>and i think id prefer to hear more rhythm guitar on this than
>slightly corny dubbed on acid freakouts (hes no eddie hazel).
>the rockier drum parts also sound a bit 90s. erykah did
>funk-rock better on mamas gun. i guess i dont really like his
>taste in rock all that much, and think its a little on the
>corny side (honestly, i think hes also looking in the wrong
>places, hes sounding more 90s BRC than tv on the radio - i
>wonder if dangelo ever checked out desperate youth
>bloodthirsty babes?) moreover, i just dont GET the insistence
>on wanting to become rockier. whats good for the goose
>(prince) isnt necessarily good for the gander.


The thing is much of the great rock music in the past 25 years or so have been made by decisively shitty guitarists* or at least a heavy focus on texture and restraint as opposed to Stevie Vai skill. It's interesting you bring up TV on the Radio, because most of their interesting songs...outside of a solid gospel vocal core, is pretty much all drum beats and instruments used as textures. It's why I like the funk rock elements on the record out of anything ive heard since the 80's(minus living color) its not at the forefront and buried in the mix.

For even a 'great' funk rock band 1000's deaths would have had that main riff repeated with a simple verse chorus verse with some wah wah 10 minute long solo at the bridge, extra loud over the vocals. It's simple, but tastefully used, and really the parlament/funk vocals are are a bigger part of the melody of the chorus then the guitars.

Basically, either because of his lack of skill (or imho, his good songwriting ear) he buries the funk element depper in the mix so its NOT so cheezy. Which is why I think it succeeds when other records fail (pretty much all the neo-soul rock experiments including Badu). The acid freakouts could have been background strings, its decisively underplayed and smartly so.

  

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350. "i should prob wait to listen a few more times but...."
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>The thing is much of the great rock music in the past 25 years
>or so have been made by decisively shitty guitarists* or at
>least a heavy focus on texture and restraint as opposed to
>Stevie Vai skill. It's interesting you bring up TV on the
>Radio, because most of their interesting songs...outside of a
>solid gospel vocal core, is pretty much all drum beats and
>instruments used as textures. It's why I like the funk rock
>elements on the record out of anything ive heard since the
>80's(minus living color) its not at the forefront and buried
>in the mix.

i guess it sounds like R&B-rock, i.e more like sandra st victor, or miguel maybe, than mothers finest or the chamber brothers. actually the first song is quite a bit like van hunt (if not vocally). and that is something im fine with, but i think i maybe expected something a little more subtle or textured than dangelo doing straighter-edged funky pop-rock. bilal actually did some more interesting rock-ish stuff on airtights revenge. im not hating, i still like these songs, im just a little surprised. maybe its cos of the title that i didnt expect princey pop-rock like charade (which i love btw) on this... the whole first half is basically dangelo making his bid for hey 'i can do rock too'.

  

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315. "oh... how did I miss this earlier?"
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I'd say that is an astute and fair-minded review, though I'd give it a 4 out of 6.

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395. "i haven't listened to the WHOLE thing yet, BUT..."
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i've only had a chance to listen to the 1st 4 or 5 tracks on the way home today, but my FIRST thought was that "1,000 Deaths" SHOULD have been the opening track to the record without a doubt....THAT one's a tone setter. it eeks OUT of the speakers and comes to GET you...

similar to your thoughts here....

>1000 deaths is one
>of the most interesting (if not always that sure-footed)
>things hes done (it should have been the first song really),
>

...gonna listen to the entire record tomorrow...

  

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248. "14 years...a not a damn thing changed...this was a very much needed"
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254. "as i was telling somebody, this only works because of the hiatus"
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this album probably wouldn't have worked in 2001 during the fall of the House of Arie

  

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260. "i'm pretty sure i'd love it as much then as i do today."
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fuck you.

  

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271. "oh no doubt"
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i'm sure it woulda played for us which i think of as a success

not sure if it woulda hit overall like VooDoo especially in the great Neo-Soul crash of '02

Soulquarians had the staying power tho, so who know.

this joint is very enjoyable tho. i'd have proabably liked it then too.

  

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251. "Got it. Present. Haven't listened to it yet."
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But I will momentarily.

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252. "Another Life!!!!! "
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Goddamn this nigga made my day!

fuck you.

  

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255. "AMAZING"
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263. "i'm going to wear this song out by the end of today."
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fuck you.

  

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300. "Yep. KILLER closer."
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> Goddamn this nigga made my day!

  

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257. "Nobody better diss his guitar playing on this shit either."
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The way naysayers act like he's Lil Wayne on the guitar..D'angelo put his foot into this project and dude can play his ass off.


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261. "is it all him? the guitar?"
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fuck you.

  

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damn it i need liner notes...these digital copies left us short changed.

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268. "RE: is it all him? the guitar?"
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Yep...he's doing the bulk of the guitar work from what I've been told....

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No specifics
So the myth continues
My guess is that that the mind blowing solos goes to Jesse

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258. "Back IN the Future or Back TO the Future?"
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the lyric sheet on Vice says 'IN' but everything else i'm seeing has 'TO'.

any idea which it is?

btw...this song is THE JAM. and reminds me of 'Africa Talks To You' in all the right ways.

fuck you.

  

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265. "RE: Back IN the Future or Back TO the Future?"
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>the lyric sheet on Vice says 'IN' but everything else i'm
>seeing has 'TO'.
>
>any idea which it is?
>
>btw...this song is THE JAM. and reminds me of 'Africa Talks
>To You' in all the right ways.


Its Back to the Future... parts 1 and 2


part one he says "I been wondering.. if its only my abdomen... yall been listening toooo"

well said Yo....

This is a classic!!!!!

You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

  

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267. "the official lyric sheet says 'in', it seems."
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http://noisey.vice.com/ja/blog/dangelo-black-messiah-listening-party

^^ scroll down.

fuck you.

  

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after hearing "Betray My Heart" last night at that session is the same as it is this morning....Shit eating grin....

GOAT of his era......long live Prince.....God is alive....

  

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------
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or DJing AND nightlife...
peep Opening Set Podcast
https://soundcloud.com/openingset

also remixes: http://jonreyes.bandcamp.com

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274. "Where is Side B? I hear yall talk about it but don't see it."
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276. "it's like this:"
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Side A
AIN'T THAT EASY
1000 DEATHS
THE CHARADE
SUGAH DADDY
REALLY LOVE

Side B
BACK TO THE FUTURE (PART I)
TILL IT'S DONE (TUTU)
PRAYER
BETRAY MY HEART
THE DOOR
BACK TO THE FUTURE (PART II)
ANOTHER LIFE

fuck you.

  

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******************************************
Falcons, Braves, Bulldogs and Hawks

Geto Boys, Poison Clan, UGK, Eightball & MJG, OutKast, Goodie Mob

  

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282. "UPDATE: Next week"
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Swiped from Okayplayers front page that none of us forum members actually check out, lol

"The 15-years-in-the making follow-up to Voodoo hits iTunes at 12:00AM EST with CD and 2xLP vinyl release coming next week"

  

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283. "RE: UPDATE: Next week"
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>Swiped from Okayplayers front page that none of us forum
>members actually check out, lol
>
>"The 15-years-in-the making follow-up to Voodoo hits iTunes at
>12:00AM EST with CD and 2xLP vinyl release coming next week"
>

*inserts sad face*

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298. "I bought a physical copy at midnight. "
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More traditional record stores should have it.

https://digife.com

  

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not all of us have to be THE FIRST to speak. lol

or he could just be busy.

fuck you.

  

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287. "SoWhat is correct."
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I got the record Sunday afternoon. I have listened to it 3 times and I am still digesting it. It's a bit hard to listen to it "naked," free of all the misleading hype from the likes of 15 and fireOK but I think I have been able to block out those voices.

I probably will not be commenting on the album, though. (Not here, anyway.)

Only thing I will say is that Ascension is absolutely correct: the guitar-playing on this is top-notch (whoever is actually playing). It's not Frank Zappa, of course... I don't understand why 15 would even make such a comparison rather than, say, Catfish Collins or David Williams even. I dig it, because I generally prefer rhythm guitarists to lead guitarists anyway.

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289. "this is interesting....."
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>I got the record Sunday afternoon. I have listened to it 3
>times and I am still digesting it. It's a bit hard to listen
>to it "naked," free of all the misleading hype from the likes
>of 15 and fireOK but I think I have been able to block out
>those voices.

I'm curious why that would be so hard for you to do. I would think you should be able to judge music on its own merits.

I think it's telling that you find it difficult not to do that, being that you pride yourself on giving commentary about music. A person who does that...you know it should be automatic.... done without any effort at all to judge something based upon its own merits and not what others have said...

that's pretty telling 'kap...

  

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292. "Okay... let me *try* to explain this."
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>I'm curious why that would be so hard for you to do. I would
>think you should be able to judge music on its own merits.

As human beings, we are ALL influenced by things that we see, hear, taste, touch, etc.

The human brain is so suggestible that simple leading questions can be used to create entire false memories in people's minds.

It's not about being "weak-minded" or "strong-willed"... That is simply the way the brain works. Anybody who claims his brain works differently from that is deceiving himself.

Unless of course, he has worked hard to insulate himself and reject all outside stimulus, maybe by using a sensory-deprivation tank.

Now, when ?uest says D plays guitar like Frank Zappa you have to know that I didn't take that seriously for even one second. Even without listening to D'Angelo play one note, I already know it is highly unlikely that D is going to achieve Frank's one-in-a-million singular talent in five years.

Still... that statement is has entered my head, and it will influence me in one way or another--negatively or positively--when I am listening to D's guitar playing.

When you have all these people in D's camp talking about how "futuristic" his new music is.. I don't take it seriously either because I know D's influences and in recent interviews, he's still talking about the same influences he was talking about 17 years ago. So yeah... I expect it to be more or less the same sound.

But that statement is still already in my head, and it affects me.

There is NO such thing as "listening to music on its own terms." It doesn't exist. Every piece of music, every piece of art has a context in which it is evaluated. It is patently impossible to listen to music without some social influence shaping the way you receive it (in your case, I reckon that social influence would be something along the lines of "He is doing something nobody else is doing today, and for that alone he must be praised." That's not "listening to music on its own terms"... just so you know. You are just as influenced by contextual factors as anybody else)

I hope I have been able to explain this sufficiently, but Coolidge, I am pretty sure you will still go out of your way to misinterpret it. Still, I beg you to find it in your heart to do me one small favor:

Do not try to extend this conversation with me, as you will find no reply forthcoming. I have neither the time nor the desire to get into a drawn-out thing with you right now so please... don't even bother.

Just enjoy the record and leave me be.

Thanks!

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310. "no need for a back and forth man..."
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>>I'm curious why that would be so hard for you to do. I
>would
>>think you should be able to judge music on its own merits.
>
>As human beings, we are ALL influenced by things that we see,
>hear, taste, touch, etc.
>
>The human brain is so suggestible that simple leading
>questions can be used to create entire false memories in
>people's minds.
>
>It's not about being "weak-minded" or "strong-willed"... That
>is simply the way the brain works. Anybody who claims his
>brain works differently from that is deceiving himself.


you are correct here...but humans can reach a level where they utilize their own CHOICE on how to judge something. People can make the efforts to be subjective or objective. We have the ability to control that, and usually when we have jobs or are in situations that require us to do so, we do it because it's the right thing to do.




>
>Unless of course, he has worked hard to insulate himself and
>reject all outside stimulus, maybe by using a
>sensory-deprivation tank.

these things are not mutually exclusive...you can be immersed in other people's opinions, yet have a strong hold or your own views...and put that into practice when you are analyzing something. Other people's opinions of something only have as much power over us as we are willing to give.





>Now, when ?uest says D plays guitar like Frank Zappa you have
>to know that I didn't take that seriously for even one second.
>Even without listening to D'Angelo play one note, I already
>know it is highly unlikely that D is going to achieve his
>one-in-a-million singular talent in five years.


If you chose to ignore all that was said about the album before you heard it..you could do that. It's not about having a weak or strong mind..it's about YOUR priorities.....YOUR intention to judge something on it's own merits or not...

when I purchased this album...what ANYONE had said about it was nowhere in my mind. Why would it be?


>
>Still... that statement is has entered my head, and it will
>influence me in one way or another--negatively or
>positively--when I am listening to D's guitar playing.


again.... it's in your mind now because you've decided you want it to be there. And thus, you have decided not to judge the music on it's merits...

and I appreciate your honesty with that...and I'm not being critical of your priorities at all...

I'm just saying that your choice to place so much value on what other's have said about a record impacts how YOU view the record.

I would say that's part of why there have been so many exchanges with you about music because you are "debating" what someone else thinks of something instead of supporting what YOU think of it.



>When you have all these people in D's camp talking about how
>"futuristic" his new music is.. I don't take it seriously
>either because I know D's influences and in recent interviews,
>he's still talking about the same influences he was talking
>about 17 years ago. So yeah... I expect it to be more or less
>the same sound.


again.... what difference does it make what they said about it?

again..not saying your are weak minded....not at all... But I think it's a bit misleading to claim to be speaking about an album based on it's merits, when you're really just countering what others said about the album before it came out.

that type of analyzing seems less than authentic...

it's more about other people than about the record itself.

thus you get into debates that turn personal.... YOU have made it personal and not about the music.


>
>But that statement is still already in my head, and it affects
>me.

it may be in your head...but you have the ability to NOT let that impact how you view an album..

what other people say about music shouldn't mean so much to you..

of all people you because you have your own taste in music..and you view yourself as an expert in certain areas....if there is anyone who should not be considering what others say about a piece of music it should be you.


>
>There is NO such thing as "listening to music on its own
>terms."

uh..yeah it is. Most people I know do it....


It doesn't exist. Every piece of music, every piece of
>art has a context in which it is evaluated.

that context is based upon whichever priority the listener has decided to utilize..

it's a choice they have made.


It is patently
>impossible to listen to music without some social influence
>shaping the way you receive it (in your case, I reckon that
>social influence would be something along the lines of "He is
>doing something nobody else is doing today, and for that alone
>he must be praised." That's not "listening to music on its own
>terms"... just so you know. You are just as influenced by
>contextual factors as anybody else)

again....you couldn't be more off base...which is why you shouldn't even be considering what my priority is with the release.... other than the fact that it's wrong....your opinions are based too much on what other's are saying.....



>
>I hope I have been able to explain this sufficiently, but
>Coolidge, I am pretty sure you will still go out of your way
>to misinterpret it. Still, I beg you to find it in your heart
>to do me one small favor:
>
>Do not try to extend this conversation with me, as you will
>find no reply forthcoming. I have neither the time nor the
>desire to get into a drawn-out thing with you right now so
>please... don't even bother.
>
>Just enjoy the record and leave me be.
>
>Thanks!


just makes sure you point out that what you say about the record is based upon what others said about it before it came out..and not about the record.... if that's what you choose to have as a priority..the debate should be person-to-person, and not looked at as a analysis of the record...

which by the way is really good.....

you'd probably dig it if you gave it a chance....

best wishes to you man....


  

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334. "leave it alone."
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sheesh.

fuck you.

  

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296. "as much as you always commented the past 15 yrs u say"
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>I probably will not be commenting on the album, though. (Not
>here, anyway.)
>


you better stfu with that nonsense and come with it

  

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297. "I don't feel the need to comment."
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Because at this point, a new record by D'Angelo is kinda like watching a dog play the piano.

It's kinda irrelevant to critique how well the dog is or isn't playing... The headline is the fact that the dog is playing at all, y'know?

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299. "^^shoo in for the Nigga Please 2014 award"
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>Because at this point, a new record by D'Angelo is kinda like
>watching a dog play the piano.
>
>It's kinda irrelevant to critique how well the dog is or isn't
>playing... The headline is the fact that the dog is playing at
>all, y'know?

  

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on the real, though... do you REALLY wanna hear from me?

Everybody is over the moon with ecstasy.... I'm actually enjoying watching how unified in joy everybody is, especially considering how bitter and spiteful this place usually is.

Why does it matter what I think? Just enjoy yourself lol

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303. "i think ppl who doubted that the record would come are supposed to"
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eat crow now that it's been released?

LOL

like: for what?

as if 14 yrs of absence and false-starts and false-promises and exaggerated hype didn't happen?

i mean, i'm excited as hell about the record being out and i'm glad i like it as much as i do. but i don't feel a smidge of guilt about my complaints about the annoying hype coming from the D'Fenders and the Others over the last 14 yrs. b/c it was some bullshit. LOL

fuck you.

  

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304. "Yeah, I don't get that either."
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Folks talking about "I TOLE you so!" like we didn't just wait almost 20 years... I mean, nobody doubted that he'd probably release music again *someday* but scheduling is definitely a relevant point.

And I find it interesting that you say this

>but i don't feel a smidge of
>guilt about my complaints about the annoying hype coming from
>the D'Fenders and the Others over the last 14 yrs. b/c it was
>some bullshit. LOL

oh wait... you said you DON'T.

I was about to say I feel you there, because I *do* kinda feel it... even though I know I shouldn't because, like you said, that was some bullshit.

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305. "LOL. Yup. "
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>as if 14 yrs of absence and false-starts and false-promises
>and exaggerated hype didn't happen?
>
>i mean, i'm excited as hell about the record being out and i'm
>glad i like it as much as i do. but i don't feel a smidge of
>guilt about my complaints about the annoying hype coming from
>the D'Fenders and the Others over the last 14 yrs. b/c it was
>some bullshit. LOL

  

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>eat crow now that it's been released?
>
>LOL
>
>like: for what?
>
>as if 14 yrs of absence and false-starts and false-promises
>and exaggerated hype didn't happen?
>
>i mean, i'm excited as hell about the record being out and i'm
>glad i like it as much as i do. but i don't feel a smidge of
>guilt about my complaints about the annoying hype coming from
>the D'Fenders and the Others over the last 14 yrs. b/c it was
>some bullshit. LOL

  

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366. "Right ? I was very loud with my disappointment, but now I have.........."
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........what I wanted all along. The album. So,no crow on my damn plate lol !!!




>eat crow now that it's been released?
>
>LOL
>
>like: for what?
>
>as if 14 yrs of absence and false-starts and false-promises
>and exaggerated hype didn't happen?
>
>i mean, i'm excited as hell about the record being out and i'm
>glad i like it as much as i do. but i don't feel a smidge of
>guilt about my complaints about the annoying hype coming from
>the D'Fenders and the Others over the last 14 yrs. b/c it was
>some bullshit. LOL


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306. "RE: LOL"
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>on the real, though... do you REALLY wanna hear from me?


No, but we all need some closure! lol

and actually yeah, I actually DO want to see your measured response(s)

I fully dont expect you to give it much praise just on general purposes of having 15 years of the hype AND battles over Dangelo with Warren, so it would be interested in how you finnagle a review, but would alsolike to see what you do like about the release


>Everybody is over the moon with ecstasy.... I'm actually
>enjoying watching how unified in joy everybody is, especially
>considering how bitter and spiteful this place usually is.
>
>Why does it matter what I think? Just enjoy yourself lol

I already stated why..Im not in ecstasy like the others, and it took a while for me to GET Voodoo so Im expecting this one to hit me even harder later

it doesnt truly matter what u think, but stop this coy shit "oh Im not going to say my thoughts on it here" bullshit after spending the better part of the past decade actually doing so

fucking prima donna shit I swear

  

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309. "okay... I feel ya."
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Especially since you said that you're not necessarily mindblown yourself... I can understand why you would want to hear from someone like me lol

I'll speak more about it later then... for now I will say that it is (mostly) an enjoyable listen but it's not mindblowing for me.

I feel some lessons have been learned over the past 15 years... there's a few points of growth over Voodoo (better harmonies and melodies, more efforts to deliver a lead voice instrumentally, fewer attempts at "Funk"). There are also some problems which have remained doggedly unaddressed (reliance on overproduction to disguise anemic songwriting, etc).

As a whole, though... the thing that is bugging me most is that apart from Another Life, I find it emotionally remote. I have my theories as to why, but I'll save that for later too.

(Unless you really wanna hear it now... but for real, I'm really digging how happy everybody is and I take no pleasure in being the guy who walks into the party when everybody's having fun and starts pointing out why the party's not really as fun as they think it is)

But it's a good album. Very good. Probably not a classic for the ages... but does it have to be?

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359. "this is just him i think"
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>As a whole, though... the thing that is bugging me most is
>that apart from Another Life, I find it emotionally remote.

id be interested to hear your take on it but i just see it as dangelo being a technician, a craftsman more than the (western?) ideal of the artist as an individual with someone profound and personal to present to the world. or more than that, hes just a shy/reserved kind of personality, both as a person it seems and on record as a singer/musician. the sooner he/people accept that, the better i think. he doesnt have anything he wants to *say* or share with people, apart from a few political-ish messages, hes more interested in what they hear. its purely about the music, in and of itself, for the most part. so far, he hasnt ever seemed like much of a rick james, or a kanye. unless theres one waiting to come out, im not sure.

  

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317. "You know?"
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>I'm actually
>enjoying watching how unified in joy everybody is, especially
>considering how bitter and spiteful this place usually is.
>
>Why does it matter what I think? Just enjoy yourself lol

Only reason I chimed in at all was because I had posted last week and doubted this was even going to drop.

So as you said THAT really is the story here. Everything that has followed I would have expected had it just been 60 minutes of D farting.. and this is better than that.

  

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319. "LOL"
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>So as you said THAT really is the story here. Everything that
>has followed I would have expected had it just been 60 minutes
>of D farting.. and this is better than that.
>
>

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333. "Afkap..your review of this album has been written for 5 years"
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at least...

all you got to do is insert the song titles...


lol..

just release it...folks waitin for that compare and contrast of songwriting prowess on this one v. those j.a.n.u.s. snippets..

lol..

  

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335. "leave it alone already."
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really.

just quit.

fuck you.

  

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336. "relax son...."
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over the last decade.... times when nobody on this board was even thinking about posting about D'Angelo... afkap would come out the woodworks rehashing D'hate that had been tired and played out 5 years at least before he would post it..

now he doesn't want to speak on it??? lolol..

miss me with that...

he doesn't have to respond.... not at all.... but he didn't have to waste people's time for all those years when D' wasn't releasing records either.....

so you should do what he's doing... ignore me...

you've probably noticed over the years that requests for Warren Coolidge by other posters not to speak on something haven't achieved it's desired goal...

so take note of what you're saying...and just let it go...

  

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337. "smh"
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344. "your dick is bigger. congratulations."
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i saw Af respond to posts about D but i don't recall seeing him author one - at least not in the last 10 yrs or so. but memory of OKP isn't exhaustive - largely b/c i don't care.

if Af did that then you win. you're the superior one. everybody sees it. why keep harping on it?

just move the hell on. it'll make you look like the bigger person. to just let go of whatever y'all griped about for 14 yrs.

just move on and let go and never speak of it again. that's how you win. that's how you maintain your superiority. if you keep dragging this old, tired dead horse out for another beating you look like the fool.

just let go. sheesh.

the album is out now. you were right, he was wrong. you win. you got more hoes than him. you got more dick than him. congratulations.

fuck you.

  

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348. "<initiates slow clap>"
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360. "you're making a much bigger deal out of this than it should be"
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>i saw Af respond to posts about D but i don't recall seeing
>him author one - at least not in the last 10 yrs or so. but
>memory of OKP isn't exhaustive - largely b/c i don't care.

and if you're trying to say that you don't recall afkap making any posts about d'angelo over the last decade than you are either purposely forgetful, or you don't know enough about this topic to be playing captain save em for him..

dude he just made a post a few months ago asking why people didn't agree with him that j.a.n.u.s. was a better songwriter than d'angelo...he posted soundcloud clips of #### as examples..

that post he authored within the last 6 months easy...





>if Af did that then you win. you're the superior one.
>everybody sees it. why keep harping on it?

nobody's trying to win or be superior to anyone...

again..you putting too much on this....

like I mentioned..there were times in the last decade where the ONLY person speaking on D'Angelo was afkap....

for him now to act like he's james brown getting escorted off the stage with a cap over his sholders by Freddie Ray is pretty funny to me..

again..not a judgement against afkap...have nothing against the guy at all..

but to bail out on a debate that he was the torch bearer about for years ..if I want to playfully jab at the guy about it...he nor you should have any problem with that...



>just move the hell on. it'll make you look like the bigger
>person. to just let go of whatever y'all griped about for 14
>yrs.


dude honestly... Who are you to tell Warren Coolidge to move on? lol. Honestly ..I don't need your approval to post, nor does your opinion of what I'm posting about matters...

the issue would be dead right now if you were trying to be the post monitor....

so let it go bruh...move on....


>just move on and let go and never speak of it again.


you're wasting your time man.....


you should understand that the likelihood of me continuing to speak on this is drastically increased by you asking me not to...lol You know that..you didn't just start posting here yesterday..

if you want me to stop..your best bet is to ignore the posts..

its' not that big a deal man..




that's
>how you win. that's how you maintain your superiority. if
>you keep dragging this old, tired dead horse out for another
>beating you look like the fool.
>
>just let go. sheesh.

tired dead horse???

dude..

you got this backwards man...

ain't nobody trying to win anything...


>
>the album is out now. you were right, he was wrong. you win.
> you got more hoes than him. you got more dick than him.
>congratulations.

dude..

it's not that serious....

  

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314. "This was the best part of my listen"
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It's a bit hard to listen
>to it "naked," free of all the misleading hype from the likes
>of 15 and fireOK but I think I have been able to block out
>those voices.


I pretty much knew what the reception would be though... came here to confirm after I was done with a full listen.

I'm happy they happy

  

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316. "yup."
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>I'm happy they happy

As a music fan, it's just inspiring to see so many people this passionate about an album... I am not mad at all.

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284. "i've been laughing for 24 hours straight"
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293. "at what?"
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fuck you.

  

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318. "she believed black music's dead beat dad was coming back for 15 years"
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we gave up
she patiently waited
and now she got the last laugh because he stopped by to pay a visit

  

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321. "you don't know what the eff you're talking about"
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338. "Then tell us wtf you're talking about "
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323. "This is hilarious, lol!"
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Since 1976

  

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285. "Another Life is that next level shit "
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wanna put that shit on repeat all day

  

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286. "had a big ass retarded smile while listening to it"
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288. "I was intense..just finshed hearing it"
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294. "i kinda cried during one of the first times i heard 'The Root'"
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and it happened again w/'Another Life' and 'Betray My Heart'.

i'm not sure exactly why either. lol

fuck you.

  

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499. "i cried with Really Love on Monday"
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no bullshit

me and my lady been going through some SHIT

i was in the computer lab at school, that shit came on, i brought it back, and the "your patient with me" line did some thing to my soul along with the harmony and doo wah

drove to her job, surprised her at work, and took her on a date

shieeet

  

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332. "Another Life was the first song I listened to once I bought it"
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been looking forward to it since I heard it from the Euro sets he did a couple years ago...

certainly wasn't disappointed..

has that Delfonics vibe to the music...

  

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290. "stuck on Til it's done right now..... cold cold track..."
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has a anthem vibe to it ya know....

  

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322. "Word...that's the one that got me too. "
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291. "FRESH IS THE WORD!"
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Thanks Mr. Archer!

Bumpin in the STEREO:
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295. "He pulled it off"
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I think it means something when you finish the album and throw it right back on. Not for further disection but because it was that good that you want to listen again.

Good work sir D. Didn't think you could pull it off.

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311. "i was not a d'angelo fan like that. "
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not really.
i thought his albums were nice. but I never give then as much burn as
other folks did.

one of the problems i had was with how mellow d'angelo was.



but this?

the rock influence sorta gives this stuff some bite.
i really do love this album.
another life?

i mean damn.
i love the joint from the teaser, too.

i have no idea what he's saying on this record.
ask me if it matters.

it don't.

this is really really good.

  

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320. "lyrics:"
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http://www.metrolyrics.com/news-story-dangelo-black-messiah-lyrics-revealed.html

fuck you.

  

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312. "The album is great. Well worth every penny I paid"
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I will likely buy a physical copy as well.

Anxiously awaiting the tour, because I *still* haven't had a chance to see D play live yet (long story).

  

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313. "If you're feeling this I'm not the least bit mad"
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But truthfully I had almost the same experience I had with Voodoo

This seems like it might be cool
Ok this is taking a while to build
Oh this is the song huh
Zone out from boredom before the end

It's just clear now this cat ain't for me... and that's fine. I just need a dude that can take these type of ideas and sounds and wrap them around a good song that can stand up on it's own.. all the production stuff and mumbling for atmosphere may appeal to some but still comes off to me like a dude covering his weaknesses rather than going to a strength. I've been disappointed in Van Hunt for some of the same reasons.

But really I'm not here to argue because truth be told I'm not interested in dude enough at this point to even bother.

But props to him for getting this out there... and the explanation for the title is good enough I guess.. I don't buy it but then I don't have to.

  

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352. "this is better than voodoo, and its much tighter song-wise"
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you might grow to like it....

  

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324. "i'm so glad this exists"
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and that people are receiving it the way they are.



this all played out beautifully.



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327. "another life"
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is some magical shit tho!



..:::the oracle sound:::..

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328. "first thoughts after one listen:"
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1000 deaths - here the Khalid Abdul Muhammad vocal sample works better. didn't like it in the teaser because of the combo of the album name and the source of the sample. i still think the album title and sample source are a questionable decision.
the track is dope tho.

the charade - this was the tune live and it doesn't disappoint here.

really love - i've been vibin to the demo for years... sounds a little overproduced now but i guess i'll warm up to it. anyone know where the spanish sample in the beginning is from / what it says?

tutu - this the shit people are anticipating from this dude...

prayer - has a prayer ever sounded that funky?


he really came thru after all. funny to see all the charter members to come out for this.
imo if you liked voodoo this is a perfect continuation. album's coherent. he has his own style that he pulls off really well. won't please everybody but who is?
as a fan you wish this would've been released with less delays. but i really dig that they finally kinda just dropped this out of the blue now.
on to the next one lol.

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469. "RE: first thoughts after one listen:"
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>prayer - has a prayer ever sounded that funky?

Everytime that song ends, I want that guitar solo to go longer and longer. I'm going to have to splurge for the expensive as hell ticket prices and see him perform the album live. I would imagine he will rock out in a live setting.

  

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329. "RE: D'Angelo - BLACK MESSIAH??? ALBUM ON SALE AT MIDNIGHT"
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Hyped to hear this joint...gonna old school it, and wait to cop...One!

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330. "Its cool"
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I really like

The Charade
Really Love
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331. "just scooped"
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from best buy. Good thing the price of oil is down. About to go riding with this joint...

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339. "Well, the Lesson-and possibly OKP as a whole-needed this..."
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I haven't heard it yet but still, 340 responses in a few days and it's not a Nas/Jay/Kanye/whatever record either and people are discussing music and being happy... Even if the album will suck, it's great to see...

  

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Joe Corn Mo
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343. "^^^^^^^^^^^"
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tbh, i checked for the album at 6:00 AM
just to be a part of the fun.

we all like something together.
that makes me feel not so alone in the universe.



  

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346. "it gets better the more you play it"
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the second half, from really love onwards, is pretty much perfect.
its very much an album for an older demographic... which i guess is what you need these days to sell anything.
and it could really have been finished and just sat on all these years - if someone told me that was the case (though i know its not), i wouldnt be surprised.
its the neo soul/R&B equivalent to my bloody valentine's MBV in that sense, an album so mythical and long rumoured (though that one started in the 90s), that its hard to know where to place it exactly... like for all the things he said he didnt wanna be, hes actually still all those things on this record. its not an album that makes you see dangelo in a new way, it just confirms what we already knew, and maybe improves them a bit.
im glad its out though. it made my day a happier one lol.

  

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345. "I fucks with it. Sounds like a natural progression from Voodoo."
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Dope. Gotta give it some more spins.

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392. "."
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347. "RE: D'Angelo - BLACK MESSIAH??? ALBUM ON SALE AT MIDNIGHT"
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Damn, looking at some of the names in here.. the funk is so strong it sent us into a...

*looks into camera*

#ThatSite Time Machine.

  

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354. "lol"
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371. "ALL THESE 4-FIGURE CHARTER MEMBERS!!!"
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WHERE Y'ALL BEEN??? I NEEDED THE COMPANY.

haha.


Happy 50th D’Angelo: https://chrisp.bandcamp.com/track/d-50

  

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376. "lol"
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so...if you're into DJing or nightlife...
or DJing AND nightlife...
peep Opening Set Podcast
https://soundcloud.com/openingset

also remixes: http://jonreyes.bandcamp.com

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389. "i love u"
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411. "haha."
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414. "RE: D'Angelo - BLACK MESSIAH??? ALBUM ON SALE AT MIDNIGHT"
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Haha!!
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422. "lol... indeed.."
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349. "Possibly the greatest record ever recorded?"
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351. "lol not even close"
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353. "It actually definitely is."
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355. "RE: lol not even close"
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Yah, it's not the best record.

I think it sits well with some top-notch records. But this in no way surpasses some of Stevie's chief work or a myriad of others. I give it mad props and it is at least my favorite, but not the best record ever recorded. naw.

  

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358. "Stevie who?"
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356. "what ?? You cannot be serious ? "
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.....
NEW PRINCE MIX : SHUT UP, ALREADY, JAM !!

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357. "I will only listen to this album from now on. "
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Why settle for less?

  

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362. "You "nearly" had me there"
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Now i just have to convince Jehan you aren't actually insane

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365. "good luck with that."
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jehan's pretty perceptive.

  

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367. "I've told him there's going to be a intervention "
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NEW PRINCE MIX : SHUT UP, ALREADY, JAM !!

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361. "lol"
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369. "I'm just surprised he came down from heaven to record it"
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“So back we go to these questions — friendship, character… ethics.”

  

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372. "i'll agree; i know i'm not objective with d'angelo"
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Happy 50th D’Angelo: https://chrisp.bandcamp.com/track/d-50

  

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423. "possibly one of the greats. not the greatest. "
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N/m

  

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364. "FYI...Physical Copies are at Best Buy. Just grabbed me one. "
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382. "Thanks for the heads up. "
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I was going to check tomorrow, but after hearing The Charade I went back out to the store tonight.

<-- Dave Thomas knows what's up...
__________________________

Jay: Look here homie, any nigga can get a hit record. This here is about respect.
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394. "Fantastic look. Thank you!"
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www.twitter.com/luvlee2003

  

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375. "i am in no way, shape or form disappointed w/this album. loveitall. "
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377. "DiD hE rEcOrD tHeSe MP3s AfTeR DeNtAL SuRgErY???????"
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oR gEtTiNg hIs ToNgUe PiErCeD??

WTF.

  

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378. "So fucking good"
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380. "play it stoned. "
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play it and let it just ride.

this album feels perfect right now, i swear.

  

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403. "Just did that. Me and some friends made an event of it."
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This is a great fucking record. Except for the first half of The Door.

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"You can't beat white people. You can only knock them out."

  

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415. "It doesn't really pop for me until The Charade"
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But once track 3 hits, it never let's up

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426. "It plays like a live concert."
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And I agree with you. The Charade is the first peak of the show.

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443. "man, you don't feel 'ain't that easy'?"
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444. "i'm coming around, but i don't think it will ever be a favorite"
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i get he's trying to do funkadelic, but it's only a meh effort for me. track 3 is the first time i my jaw hit the ground, but far from the last.

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442. "i love the door."
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381. "FUCKING GREAT!"
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388. "DELIVERT!"
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_______________________
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391. "Checking in. Still can't believe this exists. Where's my vinyl?!"
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Is there a release date for wax?

********************************************************************




"I *always* quote myself. I'm the only reliable source on *most* subjects" - OKP's First Lady of Knowledge, Janey

  

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393. "Feb 10th"
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396. "I wonder how this translates live."
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Highly doubt I can afford to cop what I'm sure will be expensive as fuck tickets, but I'm very curious how this record will translate when he tours for this album.

  

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397. "per Jesse Johnson's Facebook page..."
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Black Messiah has arrived! #1 on iTunes in USA and 20 other markets!!!

D’Angelo’s surprise NEW album has reached #1 on iTunes in 20 markets thus far including
Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, South Africa, Sweden, and Switzerland
Top 10 in an additional 16 markets such as
#2- France, Portugal
#4- UK
#5- Austria
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445. "brilliant release"
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annonce Friday, get they hype out there, listening party Sunday so people assume its gonna leak soon then bam, drop the album on itunes that night. I wanted the physical but couldn't wait and was anxious so didn't even allow myself to wait for a leak, fuck it 10 bucks. haha first itunes purchase ever and I ain't mad.

would have been cool with a booklet but now he prob gets some people to buy twice to get the physical as well, I might be one of those dudes.

  

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398. "one listen in..and i like..i anticipate it growing on me"
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399. "while i personally believe that thus far, Voodoo is his magnum opus"
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this album is absolutely stellar. it's been years since i couldn't tear myself away from listening to new music. i just can't wrap my brain around some of the explanations for the harsher commentary. it runs the gamut from "it's overproduced/it's smoke & mirrors/it's vapid" to flat out, "f*ck this sh*t and his mumbling ass". sometimes it seems as though people are peeved that it took as long as it did and they were expecting more. but alas, i chalk it up to differing tastes and what speaks to varying palates.

Till It's Done, Back to the Future, In Another Life, The Charade? man listen. i absolutely saw what they did there in incorporating some of the nuances of material used for his shows over the past couple of years and i so appreciate it. i'm in the lab. i can sit for hours and dissect every note and i'm enthralled to do it.

i'm like a fat kid with free run of a bakery after hours. can't say how much i adore this. i'm very pleased. BRAVO D', 15, Kendra (poetic lyrics), Q-Tip, Pino, Roy and anybody else who had anything to do with this!!! the thirst has been quenched. and if it took another 14 years to produce another one of these, i'd be right there. wish them all the success and recognition this album deserves. *curtsies* i'm out.

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401. "The string arrangements on Really Love tho??????"
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My goodness...

  

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406. "RE: The string arrangements on Really Love tho??????"
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>My goodness...

The whole song just hits me (HUH!). I can't play it loud enough or enough times to get over it/past it. I can't move off of this song long enough to listen to the 2nd half of the album. And according to most, that's where this album really blows fans of it away!? Wow.

Really Love...this song is probably my favorite kind of D'Angelo song..the bluesy funk, the pace, the layered vocals, the way the song 'opens up' a little more every time you hear it again but still somehow keep you guessing because things don't happen when they are 'supposed to', AND YES...the way the vocals go from typical D'Lo 'I love the way this sounds BUT WHAT IS HE SAYING!?' to something that you digest and care about, etc. All of that.

My now-older ears are more trained to listen up, it is all the better. I loved Voodoo, but I rode around listening to it with the booklet in my passenger seat just in-case I needed to read what he was saying on 'The Root' again. It was around April before I had most of the lyrics down. That was my last year of college. And before OKP for me. I came here for Common after LWFC. And I still hear Voodoo and LWFC as cousins.

Towards the end when his D'Lo cooing/vamp stuff comes in almost out of nowhere on a bed of strings...get out of here! I just smile at this. This song is like sitting and clowning with an old friend who is back up on his feet after years of being off the scene going through some rough stuff. I'm overjoyed and borderline emotional about this album showing up after all this time. Forget borderline...I'm just happy about this thing existing after all this time. Voodoo/LWFC ran my music-listening life for a good while.

I did a good job of 'ignoring' D'Angelo news, snippets, and songs once it become clear to me that he wasn't coming back for a while if ever. I kinda sorta heard Really Love in 2009, but I didn't get into it because I wanted the finished thing whenever that was. And wow...

And the hint around about an album on Friday --> drop the album Sunday night was the right way to do it. Honestly, we live in a world where almost no one should be bringing up a 'finna be' album until it is done/coming soon (ie: less than 2 weeks). That sitting around for a year or more OR dealing with delays and shenanigans is bull (looks to Detox if I thought it was coming). And yeah, I'm bringing that up in a D'Angelo thread. Where else?

I'm gonna write a(nother) super long thing about this actual album once I'm ready. Activate M50x...

  

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430. "the strings floored me"
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so gorgeous and perfectly used. after listening to the quest leak for so long, i appreciate how well the fleshed out the song. doesn't sound overproduced in my opinion.

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431. "RE: the strings floored me"
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I agree.

I kind of wish I never heard the bootleg but then on the other hand having heard the bootleg and then the fully mastered version you can just appreciate the sheer beauty of this song.

I used to say this about "The Root" but "Really Love" could be the most beautiful song that I ever heard.

Peace,

Nij

  

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402. "I THINK I got the riot comparison "
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I can see this record influencing a generation of new musicians in the way that Riot did
Which would mean his purpose in this world isn't to be the next ______
But to influence the next ______

Eclectic Soul/Sunday, 2-4 PM est/89.3 WCSB.ORG

  

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Warren Coolidge
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405. "Back to the future part 1 is funky....."
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like really...

kind of stuck on that one right now..

has a Junie Morrison vibe to ...like When we do era Junie..


real cool...


and I mean..

"if you're wondering...about the shape I'm in ..I hope it ain't my abdomen...that you're referring to.."

lol..


right...own it man...

fukk it...

  

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427. "yeah, that's my jam right there, those strings though ..."
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433. "Thats my jam !"
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417. "Still can't believe it's finally here"
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This album is amazing. I've already bought it twice!

  

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418. "Who paid for all the studio time to make this album?"
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One of the things that really stands out when listening to it is how much time they must have spent on this in the studio.

First because of the overall sound - all the layered vocals and instruments (specifically the guitars, Roy's horn parts, and all of the keyboard instruments) had to take forever to track. Voodoo had the sound of a jam session - a bunch of musicians playing together and basically just recording everything and pulling out some tracks. But this record sounds like they were painstakingly tracking everything and separately layering it. Must have been a BEAST to mix and master it.

The second reason is when listening to the album you can tell that Russell Elevado and Quest and them were telling the truth for all these years when they'd be talking about "just left the Studio with D", and "album's almost done" (telling the truth about all the time working on the album, not the hyperbole with comparisons to Zappa and such.)

So who paid for all that time? Was RCA footing the bill year after year for it, without knowing if D would ever actually deliver the record? Meanwhile the entire industry shifted and people really weren't making albums with this kind of budget. I'd love to know how much was spent on making the album...even the biggest mainstream pop acts who are still doing platinum numbers aren't spending this much $$$. What kind of pressure were they giving him about getting it out there so they could start recouping on their investment?

  

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419. "Really Love is a steppers' jam."
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Today is about that one and 1000 Deaths.

Apparently I've played Another Life 23 times since Sunday night. Lol. So I might chill on that one.

fuck you.

  

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420. "I'm just in awe that it exists..."
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... I plan on stopping by Park Ave CDs to get a physical.

  

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421. "joe corn mo album review "
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Tue Dec-16-14 11:02 AM by Joe Corn Mo

  

          

professional writers will have a hard time reviewing this album, because
it's hard to write about it without sounding like you're talking out of your ass.

part of this is questlove's fault. quest is a low key genius when it comes
to creating a mythology. when he was struggling to blow up in the early days with the roots, he made sure that other alternative black artists got signed to his label.
partly because that's what good friends do. but mostly because he knew that
ppl like to like things that are part of a movement.

you don't like the temptations-- you like the Motown sound.
you don't like prince-- it's the Minneapolis sound.
we're not just the roots-- we're a collective. this is a neo soul movement.

knowing that questlove is always picturing his own Wikipedia page even as he
lives his life, it's hard not to think that his constant diefication of dangelo was
questlove playing a long game of chess.

"yeah d'angelo is a beast on guitar now. he's on that Eddie hazel shit."

i laughed when he said that, because the statement is ridiculous on it's face.
but it's like quest telling us not to picture a purple polar bear.
now that i have heard the album-- it's impossible not to think of Eddie hazel.
which makes me skeptical of my own thoughts when i say that this album does remind me of a lot of my favorite legends. quest planted the idea in my head that d'angelo was capable of this type of material.

and although I've only heard the album 6 times... i can't shake the feeling that this album might be a work of genius that will be go down in the ages
as one of the all time great albums.


I'm going to center my review around the album closer-- "another life,"
because that's the song that i feel is most likely to
still sound brilliant after the excitement of a long awaited album wears off
and all we have is the material itself.

"another life" is a brilliant record.
it has the soul of so many brilliant influences in its DNA.

the first thing you hear is the Philly sound influence.
think back to how you feel when you hear the opening notes to "you make me feel brand new". The sound of that harpisichord is so pure
it makes you believe in the goofy parts of being in love.

D'angelo captures that. But this is more than a throwback record.
D'angelo also digs into the prince well by stacking the vocals so thick
and putting a jolt of sex appeal in this record. The stylistics were asexual and pure.
"another life" captures the purity but also let's you know he also wants to kiss you in the
"places that please."

That line isn't shock value or prurient for the sake of it.
He believes sex would be magical as the opening harpisichord on "you make me feel brand new." It would be a true consummation. The ethereal aspects of love
firmly grounded in the bodies actually touching each other.

This isn't a fantasy-- it's a dream come to life.


Then there's the mystical aspect of it. He loves this woman so completely that
he wants to take her to the hidden aspects of his psyche.
exploring all the rooms in his mind that normally stay locked.

and just when he's laid out a perfect picture,
the hook comes in and stabs you in the chest.
it's not quite to be. "in another life," he happily laments to himself.
"i bet you wouldn't know." he smiles to himself because the dreams he has of this love affair is like some inside joke she hasn't quite gotten yet.

this is beautiful, heartbreaking stuff.



but let's be clear-- some of what i hear in this album may be quest overhyping it.
the myth is that this genius has been slaving away in the studio, cooking up something that's 10 years ahead of its time. He's been studying p-funk and Beatles albums.

because i heard that myth, i listen to the album and search for references.
and the truth is, i can hear them.

various guitar effects sound like they were recorded under water.
the you focus on one guitar lick and get lost in it and then realize that there
is another counter melody going at the same time that's equally good
and you think, when is the last time i've heard this much going on in a record.
and now-- without realizing it-- you're thinking of p-funk's "motor booty affair."

dammit quest.

is that actually there, or did you make me imagine it?




i want to talk about the engineering on this record. so many nuances.
for instance-- another song that will likely stand the test of time is "the charade."
there's a handclap that comes in in the down-beat of every fourth measure.

the handclap is so perfect there, it really adds to the groove.
but what adds to the mystery of this album is that the hand clap doesn't just clap on the fourth measure. they used some effect so that it sounds like something is zooming in, whizzing by like a slow bullet, and then the impact is that hand clap on the fourth measure.

the hand clap is so perfect, but the fact that the sound started 3 beats back before landing on that down beat makes it seem that every aspect of this album
was planned. every sound you hear is everything fitting in it's right place.

if funk is all about the one, putting a handclap there instead of a bass
is a subtle subversion of the essence of funk.
d'anglelo's funk always was more subtly disquieting rather than
knocking your ass off with a groove.

this album feels like he broke funk down under a microscope
and then rebuilt it. he was always subtle, but he went inside of that subtlety and added more sonic detail.

the ride cymbals ring out forever.
you can hear every nuance of every snare drum.
this album has more information in it than "Paul's Boutique."
it could take a decade to hear everything they put into it.
(wait... I'm just repeating what is heard questlove say, aren't i?)


this album is impossible to process.



so what's my view of the album.
we know what quest built a myth of d'anglelo...
and in order for this album to be a success, it had to validate the myth.

does it succeed at that?



maybe it's just old questlove interviews talking, but i say the answer is yes.
this album validates the myth.
there is enough here that ppl that already believe will be able to sink their ears into this one for another 10 years.

if questlove wanted to make sure this album lives, he did a perfect job.
dropping an album called "black messiah" at Christmas time,
when racial anxiety is boiling over in the backdrop of fergesun and garner...
that will make this album connect with listeners long after the initial press has worn off.

and while it's impossible to know whether I'd place this album on the list of greats
if quest didn't plant the idea in my head for a decade...
the fact is he did. and then he delivered an album that is so solid that
it doesn't make me scoff at the idea.

quest created the myth, and the album doesn't break the trance.

and really, maybe that's what music is missing these days.
we need more than just the tunes. we also need something to believe in.
is dangelo that guy?

well, no.
i don't believe in dangelo as the savior of black music.
apparently, neither does dangelo.

but i do believe in this album.

hype or no hype, this music is something music lovers have needed for a very long time.


A+

  

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429. "^^^^^"
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all of this.

--------
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449. "RE: word..."
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Thanks..stuff like this helps me work through my digestion process on this album. Excellent.

>professional writers will have a hard time reviewing this
>album, because
>it's hard to write about it without sounding like you're
>talking out of your ass.
>
>part of this is questlove's fault. quest is a low key genius
>when it comes
>to creating a mythology. when he was struggling to blow up in
>the early days with the roots, he made sure that other
>alternative black artists got signed to his label.
>partly because that's what good friends do. but mostly because
>he knew that
>ppl like to like things that are part of a movement.
>
>you don't like the temptations-- you like the Motown sound.
>you don't like prince-- it's the Minneapolis sound.
>we're not just the roots-- we're a collective. this is a neo
>soul movement.
>
>knowing that questlove is always picturing his own Wikipedia
>page even as he
>lives his life, it's hard not to think that his constant
>diefication of dangelo was
>questlove playing a long game of chess.
>
>"yeah d'angelo is a beast on guitar now. he's on that Eddie
>hazel shit."
>
>i laughed when he said that, because the statement is
>ridiculous on it's face.
>but it's like quest telling us not to picture a purple polar
>bear.
>now that i have heard the album-- it's impossible not to think
>of Eddie hazel.
>which makes me skeptical of my own thoughts when i say that
>this album does remind me of a lot of my favorite legends.
>quest planted the idea in my head that d'angelo was capable of
>this type of material.
>
>and although I've only heard the album 6 times... i can't
>shake the feeling that this album might be a work of genius
>that will be go down in the ages
>as one of the all time great albums.
>
>
>I'm going to center my review around the album closer--
>"another life,"
>because that's the song that i feel is most likely to
>still sound brilliant after the excitement of a long awaited
>album wears off
>and all we have is the material itself.
>
>"another life" is a brilliant record.
>it has the soul of so many brilliant influences in its DNA.
>
>the first thing you hear is the Philly sound influence.
>think back to how you feel when you hear the opening notes to
>"you make me feel brand new". The sound of that harpisichord
>is so pure
>it makes you believe in the goofy parts of being in love.
>
>D'angelo captures that. But this is more than a throwback
>record.
>D'angelo also digs into the prince well by stacking the vocals
>so thick
>and putting a jolt of sex appeal in this record. The
>stylistics were asexual and pure.
>"another life" captures the purity but also let's you know he
>also wants to kiss you in the
>"places that please."
>
>That line isn't shock value or prurient for the sake of it.
>He believes sex would be magical as the opening harpisichord
>on "you make me feel brand new." It would be a true
>consummation. The ethereal aspects of love
>firmly grounded in the bodies actually touching each other.
>
>This isn't a fantasy-- it's a dream come to life.
>
>
>Then there's the mystical aspect of it. He loves this woman so
>completely that
>he wants to take her to the hidden aspects of his psyche.
>exploring all the rooms in his mind that normally stay locked.
>
>
>and just when he's laid out a perfect picture,
>the hook comes in and stabs you in the chest.
>it's not quite to be. "in another life," he happily laments to
>himself.
>"i bet you wouldn't know." he smiles to himself because the
>dreams he has of this love affair is like some inside joke she
>hasn't quite gotten yet.
>
>this is beautiful, heartbreaking stuff.
>
>
>
>but let's be clear-- some of what i hear in this album may be
>quest overhyping it.
>the myth is that this genius has been slaving away in the
>studio, cooking up something that's 10 years ahead of its
>time. He's been studying p-funk and Beatles albums.
>
>because i heard that myth, i listen to the album and search
>for references.
>and the truth is, i can hear them.
>
>various guitar effects sound like they were recorded under
>water.
>the you focus on one guitar lick and get lost in it and then
>realize that there
>is another counter melody going at the same time that's
>equally good
>and you think, when is the last time i've heard this much
>going on in a record.
>and now-- without realizing it-- you're thinking of p-funk's
>"motor booty affair."
>
>dammit quest.
>
>is that actually there, or did you make me imagine it?
>
>
>
>
>i want to talk about the engineering on this record. so many
>nuances.
>for instance-- another song that will likely stand the test of
>time is "the charade."
>there's a handclap that comes in in the down-beat of every
>fourth measure.
>
>the handclap is so perfect there, it really adds to the
>groove.
>but what adds to the mystery of this album is that the hand
>clap doesn't just clap on the fourth measure. they used some
>effect so that it sounds like something is zooming in,
>whizzing by like a slow bullet, and then the impact is that
>hand clap on the fourth measure.
>
>the hand clap is so perfect, but the fact that the sound
>started 3 beats back before landing on that down beat makes it
>seem that every aspect of this album
>was planned. every sound you hear is everything fitting in
>it's right place.
>
>if funk is all about the one, putting a handclap there instead
>of a bass
>is a subtle subversion of the essence of funk.
>d'anglelo's funk always was more subtly disquieting rather
>than
>knocking your ass off with a groove.
>
>this album feels like he broke funk down under a microscope
>and then rebuilt it. he was always subtle, but he went inside
>of that subtlety and added more sonic detail.
>
>the ride cymbals ring out forever.
>you can hear every nuance of every snare drum.
>this album has more information in it than "Paul's Boutique."
>it could take a decade to hear everything they put into it.
>(wait... I'm just repeating what is heard questlove say,
>aren't i?)
>
>
>this album is impossible to process.
>
>
>
>so what's my view of the album.
>we know what quest built a myth of d'anglelo...
>and in order for this album to be a success, it had to
>validate the myth.
>
>does it succeed at that?
>
>
>
>maybe it's just old questlove interviews talking, but i say
>the answer is yes.
>this album validates the myth.
>there is enough here that ppl that already believe will be
>able to sink their ears into this one for another 10 years.
>
>if questlove wanted to make sure this album lives, he did a
>perfect job.
>dropping an album called "black messiah" at Christmas time,
>when racial anxiety is boiling over in the backdrop of
>fergesun and garner...
>that will make this album connect with listeners long after
>the initial press has worn off.
>
>and while it's impossible to know whether I'd place this album
>on the list of greats
>if quest didn't plant the idea in my head for a decade...
>the fact is he did. and then he delivered an album that is so
>solid that
>it doesn't make me scoff at the idea.
>
>quest created the myth, and the album doesn't break the
>trance.
>
>and really, maybe that's what music is missing these days.
>we need more than just the tunes. we also need something to
>believe in.
>is dangelo that guy?
>
>well, no.
>i don't believe in dangelo as the savior of black music.
>apparently, neither does dangelo.
>
>but i do believe in this album.
>
>hype or no hype, this music is something music lovers have
>needed for a very long time.
>
>
>A+
>

  

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453. "great thoughts"
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Loved this:
>this album has more information in it than "Paul's Boutique."

I've been thinking about that mythology that exists on this after going to work Monday and mentioning it was out two co-workers didn't seem to care. One doesn't really listen to soul, the other seemed to be more interested in Maxwell...which had me wondering how I'd feel if I wasn't on Okayplayer. I know I'd still dig it but would I be blaring it as loud to pick out details?

See ya, JAK
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475. "RE: I think you would"
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>Loved this:
>>this album has more information in it than "Paul's
>Boutique."
>
>I've been thinking about that mythology that exists on this
>after going to work Monday and mentioning it was out two
>co-workers didn't seem to care. One doesn't really listen to
>soul, the other seemed to be more interested in
>Maxwell...which had me wondering how I'd feel if I wasn't on
>Okayplayer. I know I'd still dig it but would I be blaring it
>as loud to pick out details?

I think you would. That's a big part of the 'D'Angelo thing' to me. Voodoo was some of that. And Quest spent a lot of time explaining things about that album here to expose/confirm that there was a lot going on with the album. And frankly, it spoiled me dramatically. It took me to a place where it almost 'ruined' 'easier' albums for me for a while. I had to get used to listening to the average jam/hit again.

I THINK I'm capable of processing lots more information now compared to 2000 and I'm still 'working through' this album, so I'm interested in the details now that this album exists. I was far less into the info before.

  

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455. "^^^^This I can clap to. Excellent"
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Thank you good sir

<-- Dave Thomas knows what's up...
__________________________

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Game: Like Gladys Knight.
Jay: Aretha Franklin.
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Jay: Nigga...

  

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479. "great review; one thing..."
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regarding ?uest creating the d'myth...

a lot of us believed that d'angelo was THE ONE before he and ?uest were even involved with one another.

"brown sugar" made that much of an impact. and in retrospect, that with "u will know"--HUGE HUGE project that was trusted with d'angelo (and his bro)'s songwriting.

matter of fact, my first roots album was "illadelph" solely because d'angelo was featured. (now, of course, i'm a total roots stan, but it all started cuz d'angelo)

and the only reason why i started coming 'round okp (99) was because of d'angelo.

?uest's praise of d'angelo--as well as praise from the likes of clapton and bb king--only verified my belief that d'angelo was the saviour. i felt that way back in 95.


Happy 50th D’Angelo: https://chrisp.bandcamp.com/track/d-50

  

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502. "I cannot stop playing 'Another Life'"
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That song is pure perfection.

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If you release what is within u, what u release will save you. If you do not release what is within u, what u do not release will destroy u.

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424. "Pretty much sums it up:"
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http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view6/4672130/high-fidelity-it-s-really-fucking-good-o-s.gif

<-- Dave Thomas knows what's up...
__________________________

Jay: Look here homie, any nigga can get a hit record. This here is about respect.
Game: Like Gladys Knight.
Jay: Aretha Franklin.
Game: Word, I like her too.
Jay: Nigga...

  

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425. "every artist new and old is reassessing their catalog after this album."
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www.pacifictrainingcenter.com


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428. "btw, AIFF's from the CD vs. iTunes Mp3's = NIGHT and DAY"
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picked up the cd at Best Buy yesterday after a day of listening to the 256kbps iTunes joints, and put the AIFF's on my pod.

No contest. Highs are crisper, lows are smoother, you can really feel the space in the mix more. If you're like me and listen to most of your music on headphones on your commute, cop that CD!


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432. "also available here:"
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http://www.hdtracks.com/black-messiah-209416

  

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478. "THANK YOU!!!"
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never even seen this site before! this will be separating me from my money very soon.

now, onto comparing the hi-res 96/24 digi to the itunes...



Happy 50th D’Angelo: https://chrisp.bandcamp.com/track/d-50

  

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441. "RE: btw, AIFF's from the CD vs. iTunes Mp3's = NIGHT and DAY"
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I cosign this.
I copped the iTunes at midnight. Bumped it a bunch. Burned it to a CD, rode out to it.
Then went and copped the CD... put it in the whip.

No comparison! NIGHT AND DAY.
CD >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> itunes

peace,
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451. "Great to hear."
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I love it but it does seem less crisp than recent Roots albums. Amazon shipment can't come soon enough.

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458. "it is a 100 times better on cd"
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467. "I'm not ready..."
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for the album to sound better. I'm barely wrapping my mind around individual songs and trying to put it all back together. But hell...to Best Buy I go. I gotta get this album for my parents anyway...

>picked up the cd at Best Buy yesterday after a day of
>listening to the 256kbps iTunes joints, and put the AIFF's on
>my pod.
>
>No contest. Highs are crisper, lows are smoother, you can
>really feel the space in the mix more. If you're like me
>and listen to most of your music on headphones on your
>commute, cop that CD!
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>**************************************************
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501. "So i need to find a CD rip? already got Amazon MP3s"
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I DL'd the MP3's from amazon for $10, but will a rip of the CD sound better?

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434. "CD owners"
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are there lyrics in the CD credits booklet?


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435. "RE: CD owners"
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no.

http://i54.tinypic.com/2j51hj4.jpg

  

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437. "gracias! Hope all is well, btw! :)"
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www.twitter.com/luvlee2003

  

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447. "The vinyl will have the lyric book. Didn't have time for the CD version"
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452. "just read about that"
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436. "Copped at Target yesterday..."
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pure excellence! This and the Diamond District remix album are gonna
ride me right into 2015 in style!

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438. "bestbuy in nyc soho didn't have it yesterday.."
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had to trek out to willyburg and cop @ roughtrade
he byke!
looking forward to the live show with jesse & kendra
missed the brooklyn bowl because of sell out, he canceled the summer outside show, so looking forward to his live return

  

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440. "this is a very good album"
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have to let it marinate some more but

the charade
really love
prayer
another life
back to the future pt 1

are my favorites right now.

“So back we go to these questions — friendship, character… ethics.”

  

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446. "easily aoty"
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448. "I'm enamored..."
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with this album. The existence. The excellence. The eventual but extended effort that had to go into this whenever they started/finished it. The repeated 'EEEEE' rhymes throughout Another Life piercing your ears awesomely. The ease with which D'Angelo earned whatever amount of 'forgiveness' I thought I was going to stubbornly hold over his head before this album hit my life Sunday night. The fact that everyone who has ever typed into these boxes on these boards is probably going to type SOMETHING about this album. It is THE album for this board, which I still love and thank to this day for a slew of discoveries and discussions...

The real, deep, and heavily nerdy Prince homage after years of hearing some occasional 'Prince-ish' falsetto and Fisher Price: My First Time Jacking Prince Ya'll type of stuff. The layers of sounds, vocals, drums, and bass. The strings where there's strings. The funk. The soul. The lyrics. The dedication to the delivery in the D'Angelo way. The growth, timing tricks, and changes of so many of the songs as they attack your comfort with how songs are supposed to go. Or maybe moreso an attack on how I've gotten used to how songs DON'T go anywhere because I've been listening to too many folks sing over 'beats' that basically don't change for 4 minutes.

If I wasn't such a dork, I'd be embarrassed about how much I like this album right now. I'll spare the outlandish superlatives I have in the chamber for this album after 'more than it should be in this amount of time' number of listens to the whole thing and half of the songs on individual repeat. I'm gonna try to not fall onto any of the words that we've ruined over the years here.

And since I listened to it with the lyrics in front of me, I pretty much know what he's saying on every song. And it is worth it for me. And yeah, that's not nothing as we all know.

I'm now failing to not hit back and relisten to Another Life. Its been roughly 30 minutes worth of listens in a row as I wrote this. When he vamp battles himself (High D'Lo vs Deep D'Lo) starting at around the 4:40 mark, I smile like a jackass because he gave me the classic 'blacking out at the end of a song and letting what you've been given come out of you however it comes out' thing that I love so much when gifted/talented enough people do it (think about the end of Try a Little Tenderness or Al Green singing Living For You on Soul Train).

This is grand. Have we ruined 'grand'? Can I say 'grand'? Okay...for now, let's go with grand. This album is *cuss words of your choice* grand.

Jimaveli

>on itunes
>
>Is this a teaser for the new album???
>
>http://youtu.be/oVsiVf_eSYE
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450. "it's so short but that makes me want to keep replaying"
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I want most of these jams to be twice as long and I wouldnt be mad

  

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461. "it's 55 minutes long!!"
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465. "I know but seems to go by so fast lol"
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468. "It's remarkable how fluid the album"
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flows together. Perfect, concise sequencing of the album. Impressive given how rushed the album was put together according to the NY Times article regarding Black Messiah.

  

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454. "I've doubled my age since Voodoo, just happy this finally came out"
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Glad it's doing numbers worldwide too!

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456. "It's fantastic. Heads should stop being punks and take their Ls"
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Really Love
1000 Deaths (those drums and bass (Pino!)... Dilla dawg never dies)
Aint That Easy
Another Life
Back to the Future Pt. I
Til It's Done (Tutu)

have saved my fucn soul in these time socio-politically and personally, yes that deep...

Sugah Daddy (which is the accidental Purdie drumming Quest spoke of in that RBMA lecture)
The Charade
Break My Heart

are damn good as well

i think The Door is weak, and I don't know about Prayer. some times i dig it, other I skip it

  

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457. "RE: It's fantastic. Heads should stop being punks and take their Ls"
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S'posedly that bass on 1000 Deaths is all D'. I'm impressed honestly.

  

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462. "i love 'the door'."
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471. "oh hell nah, The Door is that VA #CountryFunk, Angelino "
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summertime, sweatin, sittin on the porch, whistling, sippin on lemonade, passin a blunt music lol

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496. "that's actually a very acurrate description"
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i don't doubt it growing on me

  

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472. "after 15 or so listens"
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'The Door' and 'Prayer' have emerged as my least faves on the record. i haven't found myself repeating those (like 'Another Life') and i've skipped them a few times. but when i do listen to them i dig them just not as much as some of the other tracks (like 'Really Love' and '1000 Deaths').

fuck you.

  

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473. "the door takes a few listens then it becomes beyond great"
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it's off-putting at first....you don't know what to think of it then BAM!

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477. "prayer will reveal itself on a rough/stressful day"
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>and I don't know about Prayer. some
>times i dig it, other I skip it

i'm not even religious, but it HIT ME hard yesterday--which was a day i'd been dreading all week.



Happy 50th D’Angelo: https://chrisp.bandcamp.com/track/d-50

  

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497. "hmmm"
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that's all i got right now

  

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503. "*daps*. Like I said early on, "I Can't Wait For Folks To Hear Prayer"."
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>>and I don't know about Prayer. some
>>times i dig it, other I skip it
>
>i'm not even religious, but it HIT ME hard yesterday--which
>was a day i'd been dreading all week.
>
>
>
>


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505. "Prayer is a beautiful song"
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______________________________

They're bureaucrats! I don't respect them.(c)Rick Sanchez

  

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459. "NYT piece on the release of BM (this thread is too long btw):"
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/17/arts/music/dangelos-black-messiah-was-released-in-a-rush.html?_r=0

interesting stuff...

  

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460. "This is great. It brought me back to OKP too"
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After 3 years hiatus.

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463. "aint that easy sounds JUST like kamaal the abstract"
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like, that guitar sound is straight from that album. weird.

  

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466. "had the same thought"
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498. "check the 15 post. Guess Tip is a huge part of the process"
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on this record

  

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470. "Black Messiah.."
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Yeah, I pretty much love this, seriously. It's honestly some of the best music I've heard in a long time, in any genre. Incredible album!

..."Focus on the Past your ass will be has what" - Dre3000

  

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474. "About those full liner notes..."
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Are they available anywhere online? I got the mp3, pre-ordered the vinyl. Not trying to buy the CD too.

  

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491. "Liner notes aren't with the CD, smh"
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Just bought it this morning. CD booklet is mostly just photos and song credits. Apparently the vinyl is the only one with the lyrics.

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513. "Lyrics are online. I want the personnel for each track..."
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And is there a Nelson George forward? Don't you want to scan that for your friends?

  

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476. "Really enjoy the album, can't wait for the europan tour"
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Two months is just enough time to let the record soak in.

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480. "Okay, so I have just left my wife and children"
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Headphones on, Really Love, Back to the Future (part I), Til Its Done, Betray My Heart, Another Life, on rotation.

They're back on Earth, I'm in nirvana.

14 years, worth the wait.

  

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481. "Another Life reminds me of Heaven Must Be Like This"
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Fuck, this album's a treat. Like smelling a perfume from back in the day, it takes me back.

  

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482. "thinking about lewis taylor's "lost" album"
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that one with all the prog shit on it.

i enjoyed that album, but at times it did seem "lost".

conversely, i'm really impressed at how d'angelo tried all these different explorative, guitar-driven, fuzzy, lush, jagged elements, but was able to execute it in a way that feels really coherent overall as an album (but still loose for feel).

amazed.

could very well be the best album ever recorded.


Happy 50th D’Angelo: https://chrisp.bandcamp.com/track/d-50

  

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483. "RE: thinking about lewis taylor's "lost" album"
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>that one with all the prog shit on it.
>
>i enjoyed that album, but at times it did seem "lost".
>
>conversely, i'm really impressed at how d'angelo tried all
>these different explorative, guitar-driven, fuzzy, lush,
>jagged elements, but was able to execute it in a way that
>feels really coherent overall as an album (but still loose for
>feel).
>
>amazed.
>
>could very well be the best album ever recorded.
>
>
>

It's definitely one of the greats. Rolling Stones magazine just gave it four stars. Somebody commented that, if U2 released this album, it would get six. I don't doubt.

  

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487. "RE: thinking about lewis taylor's "lost" album"
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>It's definitely one of the greats. Rolling Stones magazine
>just gave it four stars. Somebody commented that, if U2
>released this album, it would get six. I don't doubt.

haha! well at least it's good to know that d'angelo isn't squarely in RS' preferred "dad rock" zone.


Happy 50th D’Angelo: https://chrisp.bandcamp.com/track/d-50

  

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512. "RE: thinking about lewis taylor's "lost" album"
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>It's definitely one of the greats. Rolling Stones magazine
>just gave it four stars. Somebody commented that, if U2
>released this album, it would get six. I don't doubt.

Rolling Stone also gave Voodoo 3/5 stars, they called it unfocused and unabsorbing lol.

  

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484. "So the US tour should be...Van Hunt...Bilal and D..."
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the Soul Menz tour....

  

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485. "My long-ass 'Get A Blog, Bomb' reaction to the surprise of this album"
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First of all, I don't even know what you call this shit.........besides great.

What I do know is that I will never forget my first listen thru to this album, which was one of my more memorable musical listening experiences I've had in awhile listening to a new record.

I'd been sorta off the grid since Thursday, first up in the Redwoods in Sebastopol then the rest of the weekend in downtown SF for a Bachelor Party weekend with friends from home.

I vaguely saw mid-last-week that D'Angelo was putting out an album called 'Black Messiah' title alone almost seemed too funny/surreal for me to not think I had seen it in a dream or made that up in my head somehow.

Might have saw something else over the weekend on twitter, from someone I follow on here but never actually studied anything long enough for it to really register.

Sunday night doing the whole long-ass drive solo on I-5 from SF to LA after stopping off to watch the second half of the Eagle game, still nothing.

At some point around Paso Robles, the mundane-ness of the drive (about 380 miles on the same damn stretch of road with long portions of it just either farms or prisons), patches of thick fog and complete lack of other cars on the road had me feeling so exhausted that neck started to feel like a bobblehead trying to keep my head upright on it.

Shit, I gotta get off the road ASAP and at least take a damn nap.

Pull into a rest area, park and proceed to Lean Back like Fat Joe & Terror Squad.

Sleep for a couple hours on and off until we start getting into the 3 AM or so area.

I'm trying to dip back into Santa Monica by 6 AM so that I miss the morning rush hour, have time to get home, relax, shower and clean up before a 10 AM meeting that I can't miss.

Pound an energy drink, hop back on the road, somewhere around 4:45 gas looking a little low to maybe make the full go to LA, stop to gas up for the last time at some gas-station/subway/Jack-in-the-Box up in the mountains, the wind is whipping through me to a point I'm visibly shaking while some trucker on the other side of the pump looking at me and actually asking him 'son, you really that cold out here?!" while I'm trying to get the gas handle into the car with my teeth fucking chattering as I say "yeah!" in all sincerity.

For whatever reason when I got back in the car, I decide to type 'D'Angelo' into Spotify just to see, then there it is (Black Messiah) looking like it just got uploaded that morning.

You gotta be fucking kidding me.

I'm almost laughing thinking, 'WTF is happening on OKP right now with this shit?' or even 'has it been so long it might not even matter there anymore?'.

Felt like a kid discovering a Christmas present around the folks house that you were supposed to get years ago and weren't even sure was something you really cared about much anymore.

But there's no time to think long about that stuff or waste time investigating, I am after all trying to finish up the last bit of this mission.

Hop back on the exit to The 5, hit play on my iPhone and somewhere around the 30-second mark of "Ain't That Easy" when those Funkadelic vocals come in and soon I get that "oh shit" feeling, maybe I even said that to myself before turning up the volume a bit more and start pressing down on the gas pedal a bit harder.

WAZE, you just keep me posted on whether there's cops around, I gotta get home and this D is gonna help me do it.

All the circumstances leading up to that point were completely by accident but I tell you this.......there will never be any backdrop I can imagine for this dude re-entering my musical world than flying up, down, around mountains on a completely empty California Interstate Highway (save lines of trucks in the far lane I was blowing by on the left) with the sky gradually lightening up towards the dawn.

By "1000 Deaths" I'm wondering 'did I blow something on these speakers? Is this mixed right?' then turning up further only to discover moments of clarity in the sonic assault that let me know this was all by design.

At that point the road/sound/sky is almost making me feel as if inside my own videogame.

Then the beauty of "The Charade", which I had heard in grainy youtube footage earlier but was now sounding like the best Prince song P hasn't made in 25 years.

What the fuck is he even saying on most of these songs?

No idea.

Which Funkadelic, Prince or Voodoo track does this one or that one remind me of during this part?

No matter.

What song here can even remotely be sold as a single?

Who gives a fuck.

The face-scrunches, head bops, steering-column slaps and "WTF was that?-s' continued for the duration of the drive and took me home from around Castaic to the Wilshire Exit of the 405 in easily record time as I was 'travel-in-at-the-speed-of-light-en-in' without thought or care.

That 'Another Life' with the "Thank You For Talkin To Me Africa" style bass line that starts it and that funksetto D pulls out on the verse (maybe my favorite vocal moment in an album filled with great vocal moments, I might have even got a little cloudy-eyed for a second) and then the chorus being the perfect coda for the album along with my own re-entry into the real world on a Monday morning after a weekend of fun-filled madness.

As I pulled into my neighborhood with the album ending I just turned off the stereo altogether so nothing else could interrupt the memory of what I just heard.

It left me with that same feeling you'd get if you just landed on a plane at the end of a cross-country flight after seeing a movie you really didn't expect to be great and/or traveling by train then reading the last few satisfying pages just as you pulled into the station of your final destination.

That shit stays with you.......and you can carry through the rest of your day still kinda caught in that trance.

I walked into that meeting relaxed, feeling equipped with some extra little bit of something the rest of the folks in the room did not yet have and may not ever know.

By the time I walked out, smiles abounded and it seemed like they could even sense that in me.

For that morning alone, forevermore, I gotta say......Thank you, D.

I ain't gonna even act like I waited 15 years for this record, because I really stopped actively thinking about it or ever believing/caring whether it would ever come out so long ago that it just feels brand-new to me now........maybe even more than anything else since it seems sent from another dimension of time where we still sat and experienced albums like this.

But yeah, to echo what I saw Fire mention above, this album does indeed toss Voodoo down a long set of stairs.

^^^THE BAR HAS BEEN RAISED^^^

peace.

  

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486. "wow, thanks for sharing!"
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Happy 50th D’Angelo: https://chrisp.bandcamp.com/track/d-50

  

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488. "RE: My long-ass 'Get A Blog, Bomb' reaction to the surprise of this albu..."
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Good read. Appreciate that.

  

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489. "RE: My long-ass 'Get A Blog, Bomb' reaction to the surprise of this albu..."
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I enjoyed reading this. Listening to this album is an event.

  

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490. "good read and I too am with the better than voodoo crowd"
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“So back we go to these questions — friendship, character… ethics.”

  

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493. "Haha...excellent!"
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And I'll disclose here since we're mostly geeked out over this album: I've been 'cloudy-eyed' 3 times over this album (so far):

- Really love: 'When you look at me, I open up instantly' with the way the strings wrap around the vocal. Probably the 4th listen..
- Really love: 'I'm not an easy man to overstand, you feel me. But girl you're patient with me. Doo Doo Wah, I'm in Really Love with You'. Right before this lyric, he pulled a timing trick by not going fully through with the 'I'm in Really Love with you'. He stopped it at 'Love' to go into the next line. Killed me. It was like my 8th listen to the song.
- The last 2 minutes of Another Life...the 12th time I listened to it and it was time for him to black out/vamp/whatever the end of a song is called when there's basically no new lyrics left but the singer 'brings it home' by saying the chorus a few more times with ad libs and general hollering and the instrumentation amps up even more to say 'hey...we're serious right now and you need to know for sure that if we were in another damn life, I totally bet that you wouldn't know AND/OR that you were my girl'.

Jimaveli

>First of all, I don't even know what you call this
>shit.........besides great.
>
>What I do know is that I will never forget my first listen
>thru to this album, which was one of my more memorable musical
>listening experiences I've had in awhile listening to a new
>record.
>
>I'd been sorta off the grid since Thursday, first up in the
>Redwoods in Sebastopol then the rest of the weekend in
>downtown SF for a Bachelor Party weekend with friends from
>home.
>
>I vaguely saw mid-last-week that D'Angelo was putting out an
>album called 'Black Messiah' title alone almost seemed too
>funny/surreal for me to not think I had seen it in a dream or
>made that up in my head somehow.
>
>Might have saw something else over the weekend on twitter,
>from someone I follow on here but never actually studied
>anything long enough for it to really register.
>
>Sunday night doing the whole long-ass drive solo on I-5 from
>SF to LA after stopping off to watch the second half of the
>Eagle game, still nothing.
>
>At some point around Paso Robles, the mundane-ness of the
>drive (about 380 miles on the same damn stretch of road with
>long portions of it just either farms or prisons), patches of
>thick fog and complete lack of other cars on the road had me
>feeling so exhausted that neck started to feel like a
>bobblehead trying to keep my head upright on it.
>
>Shit, I gotta get off the road ASAP and at least take a damn
>nap.
>
>Pull into a rest area, park and proceed to Lean Back like Fat
>Joe & Terror Squad.
>
>Sleep for a couple hours on and off until we start getting
>into the 3 AM or so area.
>
>I'm trying to dip back into Santa Monica by 6 AM so that I
>miss the morning rush hour, have time to get home, relax,
>shower and clean up before a 10 AM meeting that I can't miss.
>
>Pound an energy drink, hop back on the road, somewhere around
>4:45 gas looking a little low to maybe make the full go to LA,
>stop to gas up for the last time at some
>gas-station/subway/Jack-in-the-Box up in the mountains, the
>wind is whipping through me to a point I'm visibly shaking
>while some trucker on the other side of the pump looking at me
>and actually asking him 'son, you really that cold out here?!"
>while I'm trying to get the gas handle into the car with my
>teeth fucking chattering as I say "yeah!" in all sincerity.
>
>For whatever reason when I got back in the car, I decide to
>type 'D'Angelo' into Spotify just to see, then there it is
>(Black Messiah) looking like it just got uploaded that
>morning.
>
>You gotta be fucking kidding me.
>
>I'm almost laughing thinking, 'WTF is happening on OKP right
>now with this shit?' or even 'has it been so long it might not
>even matter there anymore?'.
>
>Felt like a kid discovering a Christmas present around the
>folks house that you were supposed to get years ago and
>weren't even sure was something you really cared about much
>anymore.
>
>But there's no time to think long about that stuff or waste
>time investigating, I am after all trying to finish up the
>last bit of this mission.
>
>Hop back on the exit to The 5, hit play on my iPhone and
>somewhere around the 30-second mark of "Ain't That Easy" when
>those Funkadelic vocals come in and soon I get that "oh shit"
>feeling, maybe I even said that to myself before turning up
>the volume a bit more and start pressing down on the gas pedal
>a bit harder.
>
>WAZE, you just keep me posted on whether there's cops around,
>I gotta get home and this D is gonna help me do it.
>
>All the circumstances leading up to that point were completely
>by accident but I tell you this.......there will never be any
>backdrop I can imagine for this dude re-entering my musical
>world than flying up, down, around mountains on a completely
>empty California Interstate Highway (save lines of trucks in
>the far lane I was blowing by on the left) with the sky
>gradually lightening up towards the dawn.
>
>By "1000 Deaths" I'm wondering 'did I blow something on these
>speakers? Is this mixed right?' then turning up further only
>to discover moments of clarity in the sonic assault that let
>me know this was all by design.
>
>At that point the road/sound/sky is almost making me feel as
>if inside my own videogame.
>
>Then the beauty of "The Charade", which I had heard in grainy
>youtube footage earlier but was now sounding like the best
>Prince song P hasn't made in 25 years.
>
>What the fuck is he even saying on most of these songs?
>
>No idea.
>
>Which Funkadelic, Prince or Voodoo track does this one or that
>one remind me of during this part?
>
>No matter.
>
>What song here can even remotely be sold as a single?
>
>Who gives a fuck.
>
>The face-scrunches, head bops, steering-column slaps and "WTF
>was that?-s' continued for the duration of the drive and took
>me home from around Castaic to the Wilshire Exit of the 405 in
>easily record time as I was
>'travel-in-at-the-speed-of-light-en-in' without thought or
>care.
>
>That 'Another Life' with the "Thank You For Talkin To Me
>Africa" style bass line that starts it and that funksetto D
>pulls out on the verse (maybe my favorite vocal moment in an
>album filled with great vocal moments, I might have even got a
>little cloudy-eyed for a second) and then the chorus being the
>perfect coda for the album along with my own re-entry into the
>real world on a Monday morning after a weekend of fun-filled
>madness.
>
>As I pulled into my neighborhood with the album ending I just
>turned off the stereo altogether so nothing else could
>interrupt the memory of what I just heard.
>
>It left me with that same feeling you'd get if you just landed
>on a plane at the end of a cross-country flight after seeing a
>movie you really didn't expect to be great and/or traveling by
>train then reading the last few satisfying pages just as you
>pulled into the station of your final destination.
>
>That shit stays with you.......and you can carry through the
>rest of your day still kinda caught in that trance.
>
>I walked into that meeting relaxed, feeling equipped with some
>extra little bit of something the rest of the folks in the
>room did not yet have and may not ever know.
>
>By the time I walked out, smiles abounded and it seemed like
>they could even sense that in me.
>
>For that morning alone, forevermore, I gotta say......Thank
>you, D.
>
>I ain't gonna even act like I waited 15 years for this record,
>because I really stopped actively thinking about it or ever
>believing/caring whether it would ever come out so long ago
>that it just feels brand-new to me now........maybe even more
>than anything else since it seems sent from another dimension
>of time where we still sat and experienced albums like this.
>
>But yeah, to echo what I saw Fire mention above, this album
>does indeed toss Voodoo down a long set of stairs.
>
>^^^THE BAR HAS BEEN RAISED^^^
>
>peace.

  

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494. "this was a fantastic post"
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thank you!!

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522. "oddly similar to how I first heard Kid A, never forgot that one, either"
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although I was on the 101 between Santa Rosa and San Jose

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zionites16
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492. "More Will Be Revealed..."
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That seems to be common theme here, and possibly the best part of this album for me...
Headphones shine a serious light on the depth of the mix.
(I'm looking forward to hearing the actual cd.)

I'm still living with this album every chance I get, but in 2 days it has definitely made some progress. The guitar work is hands down the best thus far on his albums. Betray My Heart has some serious chops (and no I am not talking about chicken grease intro).
I feel in love with Ain't That Easy when I heard the live version.
Makes sense to me it's the first track. At first I didn't feel it measured up to the live version, but has grown on me...it's like it has multiple chapters in one track. Great song tho.
I'd like the know the various session players on each track, and especially the guitars used.

Really Love is good, very theatrical album.
The Door works for me finally after 5 listens.
Back To The Future is a terrible name.

I don't know much about the album lyrics, but the "songwriting" seems to be lacking, too much filler...I love vamps as much as the next guy, but that's when Grant Green is playing over them.

I don't want to speak to soon, but I think I'm disappointed.

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495. "Deeper than music..."
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It's hard to put into words but the whole soulquarian thing was so important to so many of us. When it disbanded and Dilla passed I felt like a part of me left too. And over the years my concern was not so much about D making another album but just "being okay" after everything he went through.

So hearing this album is more so a grateful experience than anything because I'm happy he is alive and well and also the spirit of Dilla, Tip and ?uest's involvement takes me back to a time when this "sound" was my soundtrack.

With that said, there is not much I can add to what has already been said about the music. Listening to it I went through a range of emotions, from shedding tears to having a huge smile on my face to the hard head nod. I mean the mix and drums on 1,000 deaths...really!?!. The nods to Prince on The Charade, again the drums on Till Its Done, I LOVED The Door instantly, Prayer is amazing, Another Life especially the vocals at the end I mean come on!

It was a beautiful experience hearing this today and like many have said I'm grateful it exists and we can all come together to enjoy it.

  

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510. "RE: Deeper than music..."
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>It's hard to put into words but the whole soulquarian thing
>was so important to so many of us. When it disbanded and Dilla
>passed I felt like a part of me left too. And over the years
>my concern was not so much about D making another album but
>just "being okay" after everything he went through.
>
>So hearing this album is more so a grateful experience than
>anything because I'm happy he is alive and well and also the
>spirit of Dilla, Tip and ?uest's involvement takes me back to
>a time when this "sound" was my soundtrack.
>
>With that said, there is not much I can add to what has
>already been said about the music. Listening to it I went
>through a range of emotions, from shedding tears to having a
>huge smile on my face to the hard head nod.
>
>It was a beautiful experience hearing this today and like many
>have said I'm grateful it exists and we can all come together
>to enjoy it.

I concur. I'm glad you touched on this, as I think many of feel the same way. Regardless of what are opinions are of the various material.

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511. "RE: Deeper than music..."
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>It's hard to put into words but the whole soulquarian thing
>was so important to so many of us. When it disbanded and Dilla
>passed I felt like a part of me left too. And over the years
>my concern was not so much about D making another album but
>just "being okay" after everything he went through.
>
>So hearing this album is more so a grateful experience than
>anything because I'm happy he is alive and well and also the
>spirit of Dilla, Tip and ?uest's involvement takes me back to
>a time when this "sound" was my soundtrack.
>
>With that said, there is not much I can add to what has
>already been said about the music. Listening to it I went
>through a range of emotions, from shedding tears to having a
>huge smile on my face to the hard head nod.
>
>It was a beautiful experience hearing this today and like many
>have said I'm grateful it exists and we can all come together
>to enjoy it.

I concur. I'm glad you touched on this, as I think many of feel the same way. Regardless of what are opinions are of the various material.

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500. "It was all good just a week ago"
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and that Black Messiah dropped…

The experience of hearing this album for the first time is something I will never forget. My jaw was hitting the floor, my face was scrunching up like dammnn!! I knew the album would be good, but this good? I couldn't believe my ears.

Like they say 'don't u miss the feeling music gave u back in the day?' Well I finally got that feeling back.

It's also great to see this place come alive. 500 posts!

  

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504. "how could 1000 deaths NOT be track #1 on this? fatal error."
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506. "I agree, 1,000 Deaths would've worked perfectly as an opener"
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as far as I'm concerned. Maybe they wanted a more conventional track to start the album.

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508. "The Charade is a great follow-up for it"
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and it doesn't work as well as track 2, side 1, IMO.

after having listened to the album about 20 times i'm right now listening to a playlist i made:

Ain't That Easy
Back To the Future Part 1
Sugah Daddy
Really Love
Prayer
1000 Deaths
The Charade
Till It's Done
Betray My Heart
The Door
BTTF 2
Another Life

...b/c i want to hear '1000 Deaths' as track 1, side 2.

fuck you.

  

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514. "RE: The Charade is a great follow-up for it"
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That's an excellent ordering. I reserved the 3rd slot for Prayer but either way it's awesome.

"Know Thyself"-Socrates
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515. "i think &quot;ain't that easy&quot; is the perfect opener"
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>>>cut and pasted from ?uest's "up for an hour" post...

theme of "ain't that easy" speaks directly to his fans--all of us who stuck around for 15 years.

it's been printed everywhere, but my favorite line on the whole album is "i tell you this sincerely/i need the comfort of your lovin/to bring out the best in me." that shit makes me emotional. super poignant moment.

i'm glad he addressed "us" first, before he explored his own inner dialogue on "1000 deaths". "1000 deaths" is the most bad ass song on the album, but i think it woulda been a buzz kill to make that shit first.


Happy 50th D’Angelo: https://chrisp.bandcamp.com/track/d-50

  

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521. "*you heard this too*. *daps*."
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>>>>cut and pasted from ?uest's "up for an hour" post...
>
>theme of "ain't that easy" speaks directly to his fans--all of
>us who stuck around for 15 years.
>
>it's been printed everywhere, but my favorite line on the
>whole album is "i tell you this sincerely/i need the comfort
>of your lovin/to bring out the best in me." that shit makes me
>emotional. super poignant moment.
>


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507. "The Charade is a miracle"
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The way that the instrumentation simplifies during the crescendos...I mean, I don't think I've ever heard anything quite like this before. And as meticulously planned as it must have been, D makes it seem completely organic.

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"You (Fisher) could get fired, Les Snead could get fired, Kevin Demoff could get fired, but I will always be Eric Dickerson.” (c) The God

  

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GumDrops
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516. "charade starts like it could be mid 80s prince but then the main song"
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is more like mid 90s prince in 'rock' mode

  

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rdhull
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517. "it seems like D'angelo's Large Room With No Light"
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>The way that the instrumentation simplifies during the
>crescendos...I mean, I don't think I've ever heard anything
>quite like this before. And as meticulously planned as it must
>have been, D makes it seem completely organic.

  

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spenzalii
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519. "I swear it would have fit just fine on The Gold Experience"
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<-- Dave Thomas knows what's up...
__________________________

Jay: Look here homie, any nigga can get a hit record. This here is about respect.
Game: Like Gladys Knight.
Jay: Aretha Franklin.
Game: Word, I like her too.
Jay: Nigga...

  

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rdhull
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523. "on Parade"
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Numba_33
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509. "Something else that makes the record incredible"
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Is that it was rushed and pieced together at the last minute from analog recording material at the last minute, at least according to the NY Times article. The album sounds as if the mastering took a while to cobble and piece together, but to have to rush it out from analog material and for it to sound to seamlessly put together is pretty remarkable.

  

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moot_point
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518. "Instant classic?"
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