i can't be analytical about telephone but i kinda want it played at my funeral.
v. much OTM
― Wat ho, goatee'd man? Thy skinnee jenes hath byrn'd my corneyas. (stevie), Sunday, 28 March 2010 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
love this track to death
this got such a strange vote distribution
Was about to speculate on the distribution for Return of the Ankh, but I'm pretty sure "Window Seat" would bury the competition. (My vote right now goes to "Love" or "Out My Mind.")
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link
i'd go for 'get munny' today.
― Wat ho, goatee'd man? Thy skinnee jenes hath byrn'd my corneyas. (stevie), Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:20 (fourteen years ago) link
i think "gone baby, don't be long" would win
has anyone listened to both straight through consecutively?
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Not yet. I think the moods are a little too divergent for it to work.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:34 (fourteen years ago) link
the winner would almost certainly be "window seat" or "get munny" imo
― 51ocki (k3vin k.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
btw 4WW wz #133 in Pitchfork's Top 200 of the 00's
― don't let it rest on the President's desk (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 28 March 2010 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link
it was in their top 10 of 08 too
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 19:11 (fourteen years ago) link
no it wasn't, it was 13 of '08...
i guess it doesn't really matter...just irks me a little.
― don't let it rest on the President's desk (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 28 March 2010 19:14 (fourteen years ago) link
r&b is still a pretty ghettoized genre critically
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 19:18 (fourteen years ago) link
this record doesn't really fall into the category of r&b as it stands in modern terms tho -- and anyway, badu (and other older artists like r. kelly or maxwell or d'angelo if he puts out a new record ever) exists outside that sort of ghetto anyway -- this record should've been a huger deal than it was, but it's hard to find real geeking out about non-rock, non-rap records outside of places like, um, ilm because there are rarely publications that cater to those audiences critically
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 19:22 (fourteen years ago) link
can we please not break out the small violins for the critical standing of an album that finished 5th in P&J
― ruh roh I'm having a scooby snack (some dude), Sunday, 28 March 2010 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link
wow that's your most fatherly display name ever
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 20:59 (fourteen years ago) link
fatherly as in dad joke? old reference? you know scooby wasn't scrappy doo's dad, right?
― ruh roh I'm having a scooby snack (some dude), Sunday, 28 March 2010 21:08 (fourteen years ago) link
i dont get it
― 51ocki (k3vin k.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 21:12 (fourteen years ago) link
dad-ish reference
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
are you familiar with longtime poster 'uh oh I'm having a fantasy'? xpost
dude scooby doo was on cartoon network and shit when you were a kid just like when i was a kid
― ruh roh I'm having a scooby snack (some dude), Sunday, 28 March 2010 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link
ok im giggling now
― 51ocki (k3vin k.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
i know, i mean that it's silly in a dad-ish way, not old in a dad-ish way
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
i giggled too
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 21:18 (fourteen years ago) link
ok so dad joke more than dad reference
― ruh roh I'm having a scooby snack (some dude), Sunday, 28 March 2010 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link
yes
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
just realized that i haven't thought a display name to be as alternately good/bad/hilarious since m@tt's El Garbage
― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 21:54 (fourteen years ago) link
sorry about whining over nothing
― don't let it rest on the President's desk (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 28 March 2010 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
nah i mean shit yeah it's better than Kid A, but it's not like i really expected any 2008 album, no matter how good, to really represent on end-of-decade lists like that, at least not this soon. it was actually the 7th highest '08 album on the Pitchfork list, so really it climbed a bit from being ranked 13th a year earlier.
― ruh roh I'm having a scooby snack (some dude), Sunday, 28 March 2010 22:32 (fourteen years ago) link
To be fair, it is the best album of the decade, so it's not "whining" to point out any list/poll that doesn't reflect that.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Sunday, 28 March 2010 22:38 (fourteen years ago) link
meh, diff't strokes -- half the albums on my list that k3v linked upthread were on no other blog or publication's list, so i have a hard time thinking of it as insufficiently appreciated
― ruh roh I'm having a scooby snack (some dude), Sunday, 28 March 2010 22:45 (fourteen years ago) link
'that hump' was my vote i think -- the chorus is just great
― deej khalifa (deej), Monday, 29 March 2010 05:10 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah I mustn't have voted in this cuz "that hump" has been my fave on this from the beginning. that bassline is crazy, the vocals, the lyrics... it's one of my top 5 badu songs easily. I never really got the crazy love for "the healer," i don't really understand why it won this poll by such a large margin, it's one of the lesser tracks on the album imo (though the album is pretty much perfect... but still, "that hump," "twinkle," "the cell," "soldier," "telephone," "me," >>>>>>>>>>>> "the healer"....)
― The Brainwasher, Monday, 29 March 2010 05:14 (thirteen years ago) link
i agree, altho i still like healer more than 'master teachers'
― deej khalifa (deej), Monday, 29 March 2010 05:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Is there a thread for the second one? I cannot find it if there is. Anyway this is a totally perfect happy summer album, totes didn't expect it to sound this blissed out.
― fuque santa cruz (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 8 July 2010 16:49 (thirteen years ago) link
most of the talk about it is here Erykah Badu: C /D, S&D
― Aerosol, Thursday, 8 July 2010 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link
ty ty ty
― fuque santa cruz (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 8 July 2010 16:53 (thirteen years ago) link
"That Hump"
― Put A Ring On It (The Brainwasher), Friday, October 24, 2008 10:34 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark
otm
― J0rdan S., Monday, 6 September 2010 09:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha its 5am and That Hump is hitting hard (tho less hard now that I just finished giggling at the ship/sarge scooby exchange)
― Blah Sabbath (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 8 January 2012 09:54 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZLKkkOoszAA
― guapele (The Reverend), Sunday, 8 January 2012 11:01 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLKkkOoszAA
― guapele (The Reverend), Sunday, 8 January 2012 11:02 (twelve years ago) link
Did we ever poll the second? We should. (Or both together, even.)
― dead-trius (Eric H.), Friday, 17 February 2012 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
And there are so many easter eggs, lyrically and sonically! I always discover something new when I listen to it. It's a complex motherfucking work. Just about a week ago, I first noticed that "My People" ends with the words "Good morning. Did you have a Dream?" And I capitilize Dream intentionally, because whether she was referring to the American (Amerykahn?) Dream or, I think more likely, MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech, she intends to load the word with more meaning than its M-W definition would indicate.
― mr. mayan end times guy (The Reverend), Thursday, November 13, 2008 3:07 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah absolutely - i get annoyed when people overuse adjectives like "meaningful" but it absolutely applies to new amerykah in the sense that every word, note, inflection, every last detail in the arrangement is there for a reason, and even the most minute element of it can spark off these chains of thought just like yours
― lex pretend, Thursday, November 13, 2008 3:12 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah, even things in the sequencing. It's no accident that "Me" is followed by "My People". She's already claimed her people as her in the former song. "I salute you [insert your name here] because you are me". It's also no mistake that she goes from grown folks acting all niggerish and not taking responsibility for their kids in "The Cell" to lamenting how those same kids "don't know their language...don't know their god" in "Twinkle" to the epiphany of "wait....what if there were no niggers, only master teachers?"
― mr. mayan end times guy (The Reverend), Thursday, November 13, 2008 3:23 PM Bookmark
Wait, but that's the Dream she has! You even have Curtis Mayfield playing herald for her with the sample of him at the beginning of "Master Teacher" repeating "dreams..." over and over.
― thraeds of life (The Reverend), Friday, 16 November 2012 08:58 (eleven years ago) link
*still learning things about this album*
― thraeds of life (The Reverend), Friday, 16 November 2012 08:59 (eleven years ago) link
This is still my favorite album of my lifetime, bout to put it on for the third time in a row.
― thraeds of life (The Reverend), Friday, 16 November 2012 09:18 (eleven years ago) link
She's playing NYE in Oakland with The Coup I believe.
― Everybody did shit, art happened! (forksclovetofu), Friday, 16 November 2012 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
rev otm
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 16 November 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
That Hump
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 9 May 2013 19:43 (ten years ago) link
second verse is the best vocal performance of her career imo
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 9 May 2013 19:46 (ten years ago) link
Only smoked a joint or two betwixt me and you.
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Thursday, 9 May 2013 19:46 (ten years ago) link
that hump makes me sob tbh
― horseshoe, Thursday, 9 May 2013 22:18 (ten years ago) link
always feel like whiney is going to pop up and take me to task for ^ that sentiment, but it's true
i just got to find a wayof liiiiivingcheck tooo checkjust tryin to pay my rent and i can feel itcoming down around me and this children;_;
― horseshoe, Thursday, 9 May 2013 22:21 (ten years ago) link