Erykah Badu: C /D, S&D

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Дyo!

hahaha

btw DO WANT moscow poster

still loving this

surprised there's no pitchfork review

i too have love for this

Still loving the 4th World War, not to mention this:

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way better than i expected (the record, not her legs)

her legs, too

I get the impression that I'll never in a million years wrap my head completely around this record. Too many multitudes and shit.

Дyo!

-- The Reverend, Friday, April 11, 2008 10:49 AM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

amerykah promise... would be more effective if it was replayed rather than just looped up. its a bit lazy.

-- titchyschneiderMk2, Monday, March 10, 2008 12:12 PM (Monday, March 10, 2008 12:12 PM) Bookmark Link

This is completely wrong. It's totally Pretty Toney-style songjack awesomeness.

songjack it is. i just dont think its awesomeness. id prefer it if they did what they did on didnt cha know on mamas gun.

Well, you're entitled to your own rong opinion.

it's just a neat looped sample with all this cool intro stuff going on over it. doesn't need anything else.

"THAT'S NOT SCIENCE"

as are you. despite being rongER.

her legs look nice up there. but her butt is even better.

"my ass and legs have gotten thick" indeed

Still on heavy rotation, and maybe always will be.

keep us informed.

This is the definitive album of my young adulthood.

stfo

Still on heavy rotation, and maybe always will be.

I'm still kinda weirdly ambivalent about this album, hoping Part Two grabs me more. I guess that's still due out in July?

haven't listened to this in weeks

thx 4 update (< playful snark)

havent listened to this in awhile since it came out but i have fond memories and im afraid they're rong so i'll wait a lil bit longer

'honey' is definitely a classic single tho

haven't listened to anything else in weeks*

* except kerri chandler

i still haven't listened to mama's gun (hangs head)

:(

thanx 4 the pic back n 15

Get ready to be happy or sad.

xpost?

i still haven't listened to mama's gun (hangs head)

-- blueski, Thursday, May 15, 2008 7:37 AM (Thursday, May 15, 2008 7:37 AM) Bookmark Link

I did end up picking up a used copy of Mama's Gun when I copped the new one. It's damn good, especially "Penitentiary Philosophy and "Didn't Cha Know" and "A.D. 2000", but I'm not nearly as fucking floored with it as New Amerykah, which I've listened to at least 30, maybe as many as 50 times. A few days ago, after listening to it three times in a row, I kind of had to remind myself that there's other music out there to be heard.

you lot are weird i swear.

you must not like old jazz-soul.

wtf sense does that make

I'm through the looking glass. Normally I'm the one telling people to calm the fuck down.

But yeah not sure what the jazz-soul bit means. This album is all Funkadelic like.

titchy wtf?

"that hump" is one of my fave songs ever

i am listening to the new album more now than i did when it came out. i have to say i liked it alot then, i love it now. it is definitely a more warm weather record IMO. "honey" especially sounds better with the windows down driving on the freeway when its like 80 degrees out, but the whole album really benefits. i love love love the intro track "30 thousand megawatts radiating your soul!". that shit kills me, totally P-Funk.

this one and "voodoo" are the landmark soul albums from my lifetime so far. i am really looking forward to the next parts!

just saying that saying 'this is better in every way than mamas gun' seems weird. sort of like people saying the roots' game theory or even the new one are better than things fall apart.

i know, right?

i really hope the other two albums shes made get to come out though - im dying to hear them.

I'm not going to say this is better in every way than Mama's Gun, but it's better in some ways than that album. Her first two albums were very much on a singular wavelength throughout most of the running time, which makes them GREAT albums for when you're in the mood for them, but a little impenetrable outside of that (Gun probably moreso than Baduizm). The new one is varied enough in texture that it's easy to slip into. Hence someone mentioning listening to it in top-down weather despite the album having really menacing stuff on it like "The Cell."

"The Cell" is one of the most top-down songs on the record! I figured out exactly which Stevie Wonder song it reminds me most of: "Too High".

Good analogy! Like "Too High," it's really dense musically but quite accessible.

Yes!

just saying that saying 'this is better in every way than mamas gun' seems weird. sort of like people saying the roots' game theory or even the new one are better than things fall apart.

-- titchyschneiderMk2, Friday, May 16, 2008 11:13 AM (Friday, May 16, 2008 11:13 AM) Bookmark Link

The "Their earlier stuff was better" fallacy is a classic. All I know is, hearing both albums for the first time concurrently, one strikes me as a pretty good, if slightly inconsistent, record (much like Baduizm, in fact), and the other strikes me as one of the best albums I've ever heard.

hay guyz, all three of her main albums are classic. no need to pick just one kthxbye.

I wasn't picking just one, I like all three of them.

Just by varying degrees, y'know.

"just saying that saying 'this is better in every way than mamas gun' seems weird. sort of like people saying the roots' game theory or even the new one are better than things fall apart.

-- titchyschneiderMk2"

except that the Roots earlier material is clearly far superior to their more recent, while Erykah has maintained a pretty high level across all of her records. i think that this one is the most interesting, daring, and quality of all of them though!