me and my kinda bf/fling bonded over mutual meshell love
― ENBBQ (The Reverend), Sunday, 17 October 2010 04:08 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^ sounds kinda hot tbh.
― Tim F, Sunday, 17 October 2010 06:18 (thirteen years ago) link
ha :D
― The Reverend, Sunday, 17 October 2010 06:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Tim F -- i just hung out w/ her tonite -- shes flying to melbourne tomorrow & doing a show with sinead o'connor soon -- if u dont go i dont think we can be cool any more
ummmm also her show tonite was uhh incredible?? the covers were fantastic -- im not gonna say any more itll ruin it.
― j. sargent & lil k3v (deej), Sunday, 17 October 2010 07:33 (thirteen years ago) link
also her drummer!! ftw
― j. sargent & lil k3v (deej), Sunday, 17 October 2010 07:36 (thirteen years ago) link
envy envy
― The Reverend, Sunday, 17 October 2010 08:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, lucky you! I hope someday she'll have a gig in Helsinki.
It took me some time to get used to the sound on Devil's Halo, because it was so bare-bones and, er, "rock" compared to the previous three albums, but now I've began to like the sparseness and bare emotionality on it. I still think The Wold Has Made... is her biggest masterpiece, but Devil's Halo is not the sort of disappointing follow-up I first thought it was.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 17 October 2010 08:57 (thirteen years ago) link
[Tim F -- i just hung out w/ her tonite -- shes flying to melbourne tomorrow & doing a show with sinead o'connor soon -- if u dont go i dont think we can be cool any more
Um this show is with Rickie Lee Jones as well, I would totally be there except we're talking insane baby boomer prices. Maybe I'll get a loan.
― Tim F, Sunday, 17 October 2010 09:21 (thirteen years ago) link
ok well her covers of 'home is where the hatred is' & 'love you down' are A++++
― j. sargent & lil k3v (deej), Sunday, 17 October 2010 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcSDUjDS0Fs
― j. sargent & lil k3v (deej), Monday, 18 October 2010 01:06 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usFRiZrYsmo
― smangs of new york (deej), Friday, 19 November 2010 05:43 (thirteen years ago) link
ummmm.... Devil's Halo is brilliant!
― Tim F, Friday, 22 April 2011 03:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Based on the reviews and Tuomas' comments above I was expecting something much more stripped down than The World Has Made Me The Man of My Dreams, and I guess relatively speaking it is, but not nearly as much as I expected. It's more like, this lovely balancing between lush intercelestial stuff and confessional emoting.
― Tim F, Friday, 22 April 2011 08:54 (thirteen years ago) link
― Tim F, Thursday, April 21, 2011 8:49 PM Bookmark
I DONE BEEN SAYING THIS GOD DAMN
― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Friday, 22 April 2011 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
^^
― geeks, dweebs, nerds & lames (D-40), Friday, 22 April 2011 20:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Look, I can't be up on all things at all times.
Anyways neither of you have perfect records on timely acknowledgment of the brilliance of Me'Shell albums. She seems an artist particularly suited to tardy genuflection.
― Tim F, Friday, 22 April 2011 23:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Naw, sorry I was up on this one with the quickness.
― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Saturday, 23 April 2011 01:53 (thirteen years ago) link
this one.
Anyway let's talk about how good she is rather than try to register priority charges.
― Tim F, Saturday, 23 April 2011 02:03 (thirteen years ago) link
I didn't know who she was until a few years ago.
― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Saturday, 23 April 2011 02:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Ugh, sorry about the pissing contest.
― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Saturday, 23 April 2011 02:12 (thirteen years ago) link
This is what i mean (in a good sense) - Me'Shell seems to get this "wow have I not been aware of this artist" reaction more than just about anyone. She's one of the few artists who actually strikes me as potentially meriting the phrase "iconoclastic" / "ahead of her time" etc. etc.
I loved Plantation Lullabies and Peace Beyond Passion when I was 14, forgot about her for like a decade or more, then got back on board with The World Has Made Me..., and am still scratching my head as to why (a) stopped paying attention in the first place, and (b) didn't check out Devil's Halo 'til now.
Mostly I was vaguely feeling demotivated to check out a rock album from Me'Shell, but of course it's really really really not a rock album.
― Tim F, Saturday, 23 April 2011 02:30 (thirteen years ago) link
"wow have I not been aware of this artist"
"how have I..." etc, but the above also works.
― Tim F, Saturday, 23 April 2011 02:31 (thirteen years ago) link
her band is amazing. see live if at all possible
― geeks, dweebs, nerds & lames (D-40), Saturday, 23 April 2011 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Gett Off: Meshell Ndegeocello Covers Prince -- June 16 at the State Theatre in Falls Church, VA near Washington DC:
This could be fun
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 04:52 (thirteen years ago) link
!
― al b. surly! (The Reverend), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 05:12 (thirteen years ago) link
GO.
Is Martin Luther McCoy still opening? If so, GO and do not miss the opener.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 07:48 (thirteen years ago) link
The club's website does not list an opening act.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
A bunch of videos of this are on the youtubes and they are amazing. And now I am downloading her albums and wondering what the hell I was thinking having never checked her out before.
― Alex in Montreal, Saturday, 14 May 2011 05:40 (thirteen years ago) link
The musical firepower on that stage is insane. Watch for Deantoni Parks on drums to go absolutely jaw-droppingly next-level on "Something In The Water..."
Video is great but doesn't really capture the full effect...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-G1irLrhFM
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Saturday, 14 May 2011 06:49 (thirteen years ago) link
from a recent LA Times review:
Accompanied by guitarist Chris Bruce, keyboardist Keefus Ciancia and drummer Deantoni Parks, Ndegeocello only occasionally stuck to Prince’s original arrangements. More often, she’d retain a single identifiable element — the slap-bass line in “Pop Life,” for instance — then adjust everything else around it. For “Little Red Corvette,” she played the verses fairly straight but introduced a fresh chord progression in the chorus. Several songs received comprehensive makeovers, including “Dirty Mind,” which the musicians reconfigured as jittery, Devo-style post-punk, and “I Wanna Be Your Lover,” presented Thursday as a lovely acoustic reverie.
For all the liberties she took, though, Ndegeocello seemed in communion with the deeper currents running through Prince’s songs: the open-ended questions about faith and romance and sex, and about the intersections between them. She closed with two moody avant-soul readings of tunes from the “Purple Rain” soundtrack: first “I Would Die 4 U,” then “Purple Rain.” As she sang both, you could hear her still making decisions about music she’d already loved for decades.
-- Mikael Wood
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 14 May 2011 16:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Bitter is one of my favorite's of anyone, a top-5 desert-island one for me. So if Devil's Halo is anything like it, I have to get that.
― more horses after the main event (Eazy), Saturday, 14 May 2011 17:09 (thirteen years ago) link
"favorites"
http://therickeyvincentblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/meshell-ndegeocello-does-prince.html
Funk book author Rickey Vincent liked the show too:
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 14 May 2011 17:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I have never bothered to listen to Ndegeocello but the clips of her and Jason Moran's "new project that transforms (Fats) Waller's rollicking stride piano style into contemporary dance music" on this NPR segment sound intriguing:
http://www.npr.org/2011/05/13/136274480/jason-moran-takes-fats-waller-back-to-the-club
― Professor Respect, Saturday, 14 May 2011 17:34 (thirteen years ago) link
is she going to release an album with prince covers ?
― sisilafami, Saturday, 14 May 2011 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
I haven't read that anywhere yet
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 14 May 2011 21:11 (thirteen years ago) link
great live performer. great great great great
note that i may have already said that itt
― D40 (D-40), Saturday, 14 May 2011 22:08 (thirteen years ago) link
came to post some prince cover videos
at one point she says something like "he was better before he found jehova" to a mixture of boos and cheers, haha, brilliant
can't wait till she comes back the UK, easily my best show in recent memory
― Crackle Box, Monday, 25 July 2011 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
my favourite, i think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJRpsUasUjI
― Crackle Box, Monday, 25 July 2011 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
i think this is officially the summer of prince
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Monday, 25 July 2011 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
Apparently she's doing a Gil Scott-Heron cover show in NYC on the 6th!
― dutty whiney (The Reverend), Thursday, 4 August 2011 06:00 (twelve years ago) link
New album coming out- press release excerpt below:
Produced by Grammy-winner Joe Henry (Aimee Mann, Solomon Burke, Ani DiFranco), Weather is the latest addition to Meshell’s diverse catalog. A strikingly organic record, the album finds Meshell experimenting with the sparse, orchestral melodies paired with thoughtful lyrics, all performed by a band of fearsome musicians. The album opens with the title track “Weather,” a spacey, soulful groove that sets the stage for the rest of the record. Tracks like “Oysters” and her cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Chelsea Hotel” find Meshell constructing hushed ballads, centered around mournful piano. These tracks are juxtaposed with Meshell’s defiant, soulful stomps on songs like “Rapid Fire” and “Dirty World.” The album also features all-star collaborations with the likes of Chris Connelly (ex-Revolting Cocks, Ministry), Benji Hughes, and Joe Henry.
I'm not a fan of Joe Henry's staid, antiseptic NPR-safe soul production efforts. Hopefully this will avoid those production technique straightjackets
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 25 August 2011 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
there was a possibility cee-lo was gonna be on this..
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 25 August 2011 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
hope it's got a lot of chris dave or at least deantoni parks...
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Thursday, 25 August 2011 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.hardcandymusic.com/2011/08/meshell-ndegeocello-dirty-world.html
new track available
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 25 August 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
this is gooooood
― lex pretend, Thursday, 25 August 2011 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
very promising
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Thursday, 25 August 2011 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
This isn't doing a lot for me right now? Maybe just cause I want good summer vibes at the moment. Might grow on me tho.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 25 August 2011 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
I'm diggin' it. Initially wanted it be more straight-forward, but it's cool.
― jaymc, Thursday, 25 August 2011 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not sure about Dirty World. I still love her voice and that bassline is like wow but the rest of the song doesn't really hang together around it. Especially the chorus. But that bassline...
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 14:07 (twelve years ago) link