About damn time: New D'Angelo album *** "Black Messiah" Out Now on Itunes! *** (Stream)
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Mike Otherz
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This is a thread with big numbers obviously...but brehs why is it still less pages than that Justin Timberlake album last year?
c00ns and cacs cant relate to the black excellence.
Mike Otherz
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man, that's a reeeeeeeeeeeeally big compliment. sly was a damn innovator, especially with that album in particular. he changed the face of music with that album. that's the beginning of funk as we know it right there
i can see how people will say that because of the "vibe" it has. he said he'd been recordin' his music a lot like sly use to record
check the 1 hour mark of this interview he did some months back where he speaks on how he records (like sly)
my nikka. james brown invented funk. dont get it twisted.
bookmark this post and quote me for future reference....when adele's album drops within the next 6 months in 2015 your gonna see dudes on here acting crazy...
Randall Roberts of the Los Angeles Times: 'How does it sound? On first listen, like a continuation of 'Voodoo,' a strange, surreal record that hits on mid-'70s Parliament and Funkadelic, Sly and the Family Stone's 'There's a Riot Goin' On,' the tripped-out oeuvre of Betty Davis and a dose of Band of Gypsies-era Jimi Hendrix. At times it chugs like slowed-down Bad Brains, coupling distorted guitar with a heavy rhythm section. Loose handclaps abound, adding a hefty dose of human soul rather than relying on synthetics."
David Greenwald of The Oregonian: "These songs, recorded to analog tape, are as fearless and alive as a midnight jam session, the vivid production the opposite of a cut-and-paste studio Frankenstein project nipped, tucked and compressed into submission -- the kind of album we get too often from artists who must weigh audio volume and iPhone appeal against sounding like, well, artists. This is what happens when the drugs fade away, the money stops calling and the pressure lifts: on 'Black Messiah,' music's all that's left."
Miles Marshall Lewis of Ebony: "Clearly a passion project for everyone involved, Black Messiah tosses commerciality to the wind and still wins on nearly every level. It might help if we could make out D'Angelo's lyrics more; there won't ever be much singing along here, no matter how many times you play it. But what were the odds that D'Angelo would return 15 years later with an album actually worth hearing? Lauryn Hill, you're up."
David Greenwald of The Oregonian: "These songs, recorded to analog tape, are as fearless and alive as a midnight jam session, the vivid production the opposite of a cut-and-paste studio Frankenstein project nipped, tucked and compressed into submission -- the kind of album we get too often from artists who must weigh audio volume and iPhone appeal against sounding like, well, artists. This is what happens when the drugs fade away, the money stops calling and the pressure lifts: on 'Black Messiah,' music's all that's left."
Miles Marshall Lewis of Ebony: "Clearly a passion project for everyone involved, Black Messiah tosses commerciality to the wind and still wins on nearly every level. It might help if we could make out D'Angelo's lyrics more; there won't ever be much singing along here, no matter how many times you play it. But what were the odds that D'Angelo would return 15 years later with an album actually worth hearing? Lauryn Hill, you're up."
Is it good or a time waster?
one of the quotes of the yearIf this happens
This is the Black Messiah. So powerful, honest, you can hear the history in the music. And you want
on this album
I love Latina women
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it could be argued that sly was just as much apart of it as james was. i'm just sayin'
sly made soulful funky music with a pop appeal
This is a thread with big numbers obviously...but brehs why is it still less pages than that Justin Timberlake album last year?
D'angelo just dropped his first album in 14 years with songs like "Another Life" and we're really going to bring up something as trivial as a page count? Really?
@Mike Otherz actually I underestimated the coli fam. I just checked the Timberlake thread on the album last year and it had 21 pages with the first being in March 2013.....and this is already at 10(if your posting settings are at minimum pages)...so maybe i was a bit harsh on these guys....but still they go extra hard on white artists
Mike Otherz
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it could be argued that sly was just as much apart of it as james was. i'm just sayin'
sly made soulful funky music with a pop appeal
not saying sly wasnt a part of it, it was a lot of groups and people, including parliament funkadelic etc. but its pretty much unanimous amongst musical historians that james brown is ground zero in the funk revolution. of course other cats came along and expanded upon his idea, including sly and them. but papas got a brand new bag, cold sweat are like the original templates for this music.
greg tate is probably the best writer/thinker on black music since amiri baraka. here was his obituary for brown where he talks about his influence
http://www.villagevoice.com/2006-12-26/music/eulogy-for-black-caesar/
Truth be told, JB remains the one Black truth we can all agree to agree on as a life-giving essential. Just ask Sly, Jimi, Miles, Fela, and Marley, because by the time the '70s rolled around they were all convinced James was the Answer. You can hear that for yourself in Fresh, Band of Gypsys, JackJohnson, Africa 70, Exodus, and everything that flowed from those funk-saturated templates. All the way to heaven, all the way to Parliament-Funkadelic, all the way to hiphop. No surprise that everybody attributes the way hiphop music sounds to JB—the Godfather, Jimmy Nolen, Clyde Stubblefield, and Maceo Parker knew they had built a rhythmcentric beast, a perpetual-motion-making machine whose gifts couldn't help but keep on giving. But dig, if you will, this picture: The streetwise poesy of hiphop lyrics is all his inspiration too. JB's every economical, anthropological utterance legitimized and laid bare the thought process of the 'hood's hardknockschooled philosophers, those organic Black intellectual Bamm-Bamms whose only book might be the Bible, but whose chiseled, charismatic bullet-point language was their bloodsoaked own. Point-blank, the vernacular priesthood of the MC begins with Mr. Brown, a man whose savior-like social vision, bottomless erotic optimism, and boundless capitalist ambition all found expression in his dolla-bill raps, his gangsta raps, his love raps, his protest raps, and his party raps for damn sure.
this forum got so many adele fans for some reason. its disgusting
I remember in a random thread having to do with London some dude gave some intel on how Adele got most of her singing training from this group of Black girls she was around and how she never once has given them credit. the shyt just went under the radar and I don't think the poster who did that had a reason to just randomly lie....he was alot more detailed than what I said but I forgot what thread this was in...
stanning adele so hard and can't support lalah hathaway or carlene anderson
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i don't wanna be the culprit to get this thread off course so if you know more about the thread that contained this info PM me
