you're thinking way too fucking hard about the motives and marketing behind this album. guy's been paying tribute to the same music for 20 years, he's just doing it a lil more overtly and slavishly now, for better or worse.
― Mansquito Bay (some dude), Monday, 15 December 2008 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link
errrr that overtness/slavishness is precisely what makes it so different to anything hes done before. before it was always balanced with a bit of modernity.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Monday, 15 December 2008 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link
"Big Easy" will likely make my top 15, but the rest is masterful cryogenics.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 15 December 2008 17:24 (fifteen years ago) link
He's starting a tour of the states at the end of the month. recommendations from anyone whose seen him live before?
― Moreno, Monday, 2 February 2009 03:53 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't tremendously care for the album, but I imagine this stuff would play v. well live.
― TACO BIZZLE (The Reverend), Monday, 2 February 2009 04:03 (fifteen years ago) link
I saw him open for John Legend a couple months ago...pretty sharp set, although it was pretty much only the new album (+ that Lucy Pearl song), done in that style with the band in retro costumes and everything. i imagine as a headliner he does a wider variety of material.
― some dude, Monday, 2 February 2009 04:23 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't wait for CJ's album whenever that comes out.
― Pregnant M.I.A. (The Brainwasher), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 01:15 (fifteen years ago) link
I saw him open for John Legend― some dude, Monday, February 2, 2009 4:23 AM (1 week ago)
this is so RONG btw
watching him perform on pbs @ lol harvard - who knows who his sidekick lady is omg ws
― ice cr?m, Friday, 13 February 2009 03:44 (fifteen years ago) link
i hounded CJ for an interview for like 2 months and kept getting the runaround...maybe i'll start bugging his sister again, i still wanna talk to dude.
― who's been dubbed Fanta Pants because of his bright orange shorts (some dude), Friday, 13 February 2009 03:47 (fifteen years ago) link
There's this song on his myspace "Losing You" that just blows my mind and I can't find an mp3 of it anywhere, I've been looking for months. I read somewhere that he had an entire Marvin-esque album ready to be released but it got canned and the stuff he's doing now is more modern-sounding.
― someone who seems to only rep for ghastly prefab autotuned pop (The Brainwasher), Friday, 13 February 2009 03:53 (fifteen years ago) link
anyone see him play live? he's coming next week
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 10 March 2009 20:45 (fifteen years ago) link
GO GO GO GO GO GO
FUCKING FANTASTIC LIVE SHOW
― Wes HI DEREson (HI DERE), Tuesday, 10 March 2009 20:50 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^seconded
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 March 2009 20:53 (fifteen years ago) link
lex has he played in london and i missed out?
― just sayin, Tuesday, 10 March 2009 23:10 (fifteen years ago) link
amazing!!
can't wait!
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 10 March 2009 23:12 (fifteen years ago) link
aw, he's playing in chicago on thursday, wish i could go
― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 March 2009 23:13 (fifteen years ago) link
holy SHIT was that a great great show
― Matos W.K., Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:47 (fifteen years ago) link
yayyyyyyy im so happy he's coming next week.
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 02:08 (fifteen years ago) link
I was going to see him live with Janelle Monae but I had a class that I couldn't afford to miss :-\
― messageboard killa/ilx gorilla (The Brainwasher), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 06:40 (fifteen years ago) link
he played london in...november or december, i think? at the jazz cafe. i remember seeing him and solange at the pigalle really close to each other.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 08:44 (fifteen years ago) link
saw him last night. it was o-k. i mean, the band sound great and his backing singers, the girl esp, really put their guts into it, but those new songs are just SO inoffensive. still, was surprised hes a pretty nifty dancer when he wants to be, he sounds great live, but the show was too made up of the new album for my liking (and yes i know hes there to promote the new album but still). he did a few lucy pearl songs, and some from the previous two solo albums, but waited til the encore to do TTT songs, which made my night, even tho he only really did like one verse/chorus/bridge/chorus for most of them. but there were so many songs he left out that i wish he had done instead of stretching out the newer ones unnecessarily. the band just seemed to be chugging away half the time in classic 60s motown revue style but without any real climax or anything. i know he really wants to get that winehouse/duffy/ronson money but i hope he puts his limp retro exercises away for the next album.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 08:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Almost everyone I know who's seen him on this tour reports a different set list (not song-for-song, just different emphases each time), which is something I like.
I still play the album a lot--the songs are great.
― Matos W.K., Tuesday, 28 April 2009 08:34 (fourteen years ago) link
i think i prefer the "gospeldelica" of Instant Vintage--btw, Rev, you need to hear this...NOW!--these days, tbh. this is still a terrific album, tho. afrofutureism vs. retro-soul?
― \m/ anger on stick \m/ (Ioannis), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 09:01 (fourteen years ago) link
instant vintage wasnt futuristic.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 09:23 (fourteen years ago) link
if thats what you were implying.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 09:24 (fourteen years ago) link
kinda, yeah. retro-futuristic?
― \m/ anger on stick \m/ (Ioannis), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 09:26 (fourteen years ago) link
dunno. what makes it futuristic? i think ppl overuse that term wrt black music. it was just a good R&B/neo soul album. quite of its time when it came out imho.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 09:32 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/apr/24/raphael-saadiq-interview
"I feel like a lot of white bands do it all the time," he says. "I didn't want to see another white-boy band come out and do a Motown sound, while all the black dudes are singin' with that thing (autotune) on their voices, rappin' and doin' all kindsa tap dancin'. I was like, 'No! I'm not gonna let the Killers come out and be in some suits an' some ties, and somebody else comes out doin' the Beatles, when I eat and sleep that!' Not to take anything from them - I love it when bands like the Killers or the Kings of Leon go back and pull somethin' from the past and make it theirs, I think that's the best thing. But I don't see too many urban groups doin' it."
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 09:35 (fourteen years ago) link
says it all right fucking there
― autogucci cru (deej), Monday, 11 May 2009 23:19 (fourteen years ago) link
why cant the-dream be more like kings of leon?
;_;
― i would have sbs with all this white girls (The Reverend), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 01:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Raphael Saadiq led a band reminiscent of Motown soul — and for an unexpected bit of Detroit, also belted a protopunk song from Iggy Pop and the Stooges, “Search and Destroy.”
A review of Saadiq at Bonnaroo
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 03:42 (fourteen years ago) link
ha! he rules.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYuyeAnSLsM
― scott seward, Friday, 14 May 2010 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
^ that is pretty great.
his daytrotter session is outstanding:http://www.daytrotter.com/dt/raphael-saadiq-concert/20030483-3737977.html
― john. a resident of chicago., Saturday, 15 May 2010 20:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Instant Vintage is a fucking classic. I don't like dude's recent stuff.
― rennavate, Saturday, 15 May 2010 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link
"Still Ray" is one the most blissful songs there is imo
― The Reverend, Sunday, 16 May 2010 06:47 (thirteen years ago) link
^^I have recently come to adore this trak
― wilter, Sunday, 16 May 2010 06:53 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ooz85nVYfiU
YES YES YES YES
― The Reverend, Sunday, 16 May 2010 07:05 (thirteen years ago) link
<3<3
― wilter, Sunday, 16 May 2010 07:12 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm coming home to youwear something seethrough
so iiii can seeee your heeaaart
― The Reverend, Sunday, 16 May 2010 07:14 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXHs0t5VQM4
Just gonna call a spade a spade here. Terrible song, terrible video, and Raphael Saadiq sounding like the Strokes in 2011 is NAGL as it comes.
― flutes & fucking mexican death horns (The Reverend), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 22:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Would rather listen to the Fat/Beach Boys' "Wipeout."
― Andy K, Thursday, 20 January 2011 13:38 (thirteen years ago) link
otm!
― knits you a baby (The Reverend), Friday, 21 January 2011 02:54 (thirteen years ago) link
this is really terriblr
― *gets the power* (deej), Friday, 21 January 2011 04:10 (thirteen years ago) link
As usual, I kind of dig things that people on ILM hate.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 21 January 2011 04:22 (thirteen years ago) link
its the most generic pastiche of 50s rock cliches ever what is there possible to like abt it
― *gets the power* (deej), Friday, 21 January 2011 04:26 (thirteen years ago) link
this shit is bankrupt as fuck
― knits you a baby (The Reverend), Friday, 21 January 2011 04:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Saadiq was good when he was doing his "gospedelic" thing. This is just bad.
― rihanna rennavated my dick (rennavate), Friday, 21 January 2011 04:41 (thirteen years ago) link
wow @ "Kings Fall". Incredible performance and production
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Friday, 23 August 2019 19:43 (four years ago) link
yeah, i've been listening to this all weekend; time for a dedicated threadRaphael Saadiq - Jimmy Lee- "He Was My Mama's Son"
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 26 August 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link