D'Angelo - Black Messiah (2014)

Otm; this is one of the best sounding albums I've ever heard

is there some really drastic diff b/w the 320 mp3 and CD or vinyl? i think it sounds good but nothing exceptional, as far as prod/mix goes.

I bought the cd but have only listened to 320 mp3 of it. 1st couple listens on smallish bose ipod dock speaker thingee, thought it was pretty good album but wasn't til hiking around with it in my headphones that it hit me fully.

I've been pretty immersed in older music for awhile now, mainly 70s stuff, and haven't been too excited about anything made this century sadly (only recent thing I can think of where I really really dig 3/4 or more of the tracks is RTJ2), everything is either sounding like an inferior rehash or just not suited to my tastes, so BM has made me hopeful that new music can come out that I will fall head over heels for.

this dude is so OTM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ2Nq1EdrAA

yah, i lost my mind when i hit play on that first track

"Voodoo" is a fuckin' masterpiece. It's one of my favorites, out of the two.

xp "Really Love" is #6 on WBLS this week. I didn't realize there had been recent thread discussion about this, but I was wondering too. I expected "Sugah Daddy" to be the choice, but I guess "Really Love" is pretty safe for their format.

climbs to #28 on national R&B airplay chart this week

snl this weekend

oh sweet

good lookin out

Yeah, J.K. Simmons as host and D'Angelo as the musical guest is like a lineup pulled straight from my subconscious.

lol i wanna not even click play on that youtube just to preserve the vastly pregnant possibilities the expression on that guy's face seems to hold, he could go in so many directions

it's so good, i love him

might actually watch SNL for the first time in who knows how long, can't risk this not going up online.

it is true that this album sounds like another album when you hear it off CD. but i stopped listening to it a while ago now. thats prob just due to having other things interest me, but theres something about BM that i think doesnt make me want to keep playing it. the real joy of it is about being bowled over by the recording and all the tiny details rather than the songs, which is why i think im not that compelled to keep returning to it. but i should give thanks as its made me want to listen to a lot of old funk and soul that i havent touched in years. its made old p-funk and sly sound fresh, which is nice. maybe thats the biggest compliment someone like dangelo would like, which is maybe not that ambitious.

That video is so wonderful

that dude is amazing. thank you

STRONG LANGUAGE

This is really the best album of 2014. You chose well, ILM.

When we polling this muthafucka?....

not yet please

pork sandwich! PORK! SANDWICH!

has anyone seen him live lately? theres a 2nd date in london added and am wondering what his show is like these days before i fork out £50 for seats in the balcony at the back.

he killed SNL

fucking awesome

Yeah, J.K. Simmons as host and D'Angelo as the musical guest is like a lineup pulled straight from my subconscious.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:41 Bookmark

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Tried to win over my brother who likes Sly Stone but little current funky stuff to check out the second song "The Charade" on SNL. He watched the video but said he was bored. Oh well.

http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/02/dangelo-gives-powerful-performance-on-saturday-night-live-watch/

:/

D'Angelo is no R&b "crooner."

not to troll but i was unimpressed with the snl performance; took him 2/3 of the song to warm up. he's gotta get into and stay into a groove to go volcanic.

started the day with this album and it's still amazing

Great performances! "Really Love" in particular.

i saw it on tv last night. i would assume the internet-streaming version surpasses the sound quality of the live TV version, which was surprisingly ok but still not great.

i wonder which band throughout the past 40 years of SNL had the most musicians. there were at least 10 musicians in the vanguard. that was the vanguard, right? they seem pretty cool. both guitar player dudes were amazing.

Yeah that was sort of my gist downplaying D's guitar skills upthread. When you have three guitarists on stage, and two of them are those other guys, D'Angelo's not really bringing much to the table. Like, when I saw the Beach Boys a couple of years back, and there were maybe seven guitarists on stage. Sorry, Al Jardine, you're not adding much.

D'Angelo's singing was great, though, even if he seemed a little uncomfortable at first. Surprised Pino has stuck around, because doesn't he have Who tour commitments?

zzz u guys are such a buzzkill

HE WAS WEARING A SERAPE YOU GUYS

his vocals were a little weak on "really love," but he really rallied for "charade"

and yeah he was stylin

loved "The Charade."

he just seemed kinda nervous more than anything, like i think maybe he puts a lot of mental pressure on himself idk

once he stalked the front of the stage during charade he seemed more settled after that

wait i mean really love not charade

i heard really love in public today, it was weird how the string intro rose above everything else, and then p. much the entire rest of the song disappeared into the crowd background noise

i think everyone knew really love would do okay as the first/R&B single, hes always done well with ballads on urban radio. i thought the SNL songs were good, you can tell he was a bit nervous, but i dont mind that - thats more honest. for all the JB and prince posturing on the voodoo tour (weirdly when i saw it, i thought it was the best show ive ever seen, when i heard bootlegs later, i started noticing some of the stuff that was lifted a little too exactly from princes old live stuff), dangelo isnt a showman IMO, so its prob better for him to be thicker round the waist or holding a guitar, and just singing rather than being a song and dance man. that said, im not sure how much playing he was really doing (i found the solo on charade a tad corny, personally, something that would have been cool in 83 but a bit less so now), it seemed like the other two guys (jesse johnson?) were doing all the heavy lifting (it also made me realise again how charade seems to be missing a verse). id personally be happy with him just killing it on the keys but i guess he knows that certain audiences/critics dont take you seriously unless youre holding something with six strings.

yyyyyyyyyeeeesssssss, copped a pair of orchestra tix to the apollo show this weekend
good to be alive

:)

hey forks guess what i hate u

;_;

i'm in really love with u

>:(

haha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl-jTixt6C0

those are mostly cringey btw. but its interesting just to hear some of the songs stripped down to guitar. 100 deaths and aint that easy in particular sound good. id rather hear someone else singing though.

that screen cap is not promising