Erykah Badu: C /D, S&D

Oh, and ...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/34/Erykah_Badu_New_Amerykah_Part_Two.jpg

http://blog.iso50.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/bjork-post.jpg

Just sayin'

Oops, I meant

http://www.recordsale.org/cdpix/b/bjoerk-homogenic(digi).jpg

... I don't get it.

The album cover design seems very similar to me.

Plus both are like about 45 minutes long. And totally awesome for it.

But don't mind me. There are about four artists out there I'm fanatical about and I tend to believe they are all the same person.

wtf those album covers are nothing alike :|

But don't mind me.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Tuesday, March 23, 2010 9:37 AM

http://nahright.com/news/2010/03/24/erykah-badu-turn-me-away-get-munny/

not the sampled song in question but a crazy jam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvYsJ-glv7M

oh haha gilles peterson played that erykah badu track last month, brought over on CDR by jay electronica

― harshbuzz to my chilt-on (zvookster), Tuesday, March 23, 2010 1:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

think she's on gilles peterson next week, btw, & a song off the record was on last night's show.

http://bembesegue.bandcamp.com/track/sense-of-humor

Wow, that's a popular track now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42IPlbC9H_Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Wf1KOlBhGs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9XK4FpnSO8

re: "Take Me." Really?

Also, the McCartney sample seems like the only really adventurous one out of the lineup.

really?! "Arrow Through Me" is one of my touchstones.

xxxpost

http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/7251
out all day, missed this in my inbox

This album is really 80s isn't it? All of these thick modern soul synths, rubbery basslines... I'm not really hearing the organic "throwback to Baduizm" thing people were saying besides "Window Seat"

spank rock -_-

She kinda fulfilled the adventure quota ten times over with the last one, no?

Yeah, most of the samples are '79/'80. The album could have come out on 2000 Black (but then Kaidi and Dego etc would have replayed everything).

I'm not really hearing the organic "throwback to Baduizm" thing people were saying besides "Window Seat"

Me neither, and the last song with Muldrow is a very different organic.

re: "Take Me." Really?

Yes, really -- slowed a bit.

really?! "Arrow Through Me" is one of my touchstones.

Yes, really -- untouched, more or less. (You can even hear Paul's "Oooooh"s.)

And by untouched I mean the basic groove is there. It's not like it's the song note-for-note with Erykah's voice over it.

"My Darling Baby" by Wood, Brass & Steel is also used, but it's not on YouTube.

This has leaked.

then she's not gonna release it ;(

The one that samples Wings is marvelous.

FUCK STUDYING

fuck listening to gus johnson announce a basketball game?

:(

Mixed emotions DL-ing it, but this is really the only way I'm getting a review in on it.

It's streaming on Luisterpaal now.

I am playing this album now.

"Turn Me Away" is supercuet

^^^

get money

hmmm... the fact that the leaked version of "Turn Me Away" is 4:17, whereas the album version is 5:26 indicates that the leak is a radio edit and therefore it's going to be a single OF WHICH I HEARTILY APPROVE

get money should be the new otm

gtm

feelin the next track too

yeah, same here. this is the smoovest shit

the badu album this sounds most like (so far at least) is Worldwide Underground! that's the one where she did all these early-80s funk jams before, except on this one they're way more focused

gone baby, don't be long is beautiful

when she starts riffing on biggie lyrics its like me singing in the shower

I notice she does it twice over the course of the album

what's the other -- i'm reading & not really paying attention to lyrics atm

theres gonna be a lotta slow singing and flower bringin if my burglar alarm starts ringin

I think "Turn Me Away" and "Gone Baby, Don't Be Long" are my immediate faves

gone baby, gone baby, don't be looooong