d'angelo - voodoo - classic or dud?

so utterly jealous of you guys

OTM

fucking fucking FUCK

to make matters worse i actually was in brixton last night and still didn't go :(

so utterly jealous of you guys

― J0rdan S., Saturday, 4 February 2012 03:20 (6 hours ago) Bookmark

sad otm :(

the piano section was.............!!!!!

so lol. he's such a tease, all those false endings. how you gonna do the entire brown sugar album as a medley though!

lmao still @ his outfit

a swiftly divested jacket, a vest so oversized that it looked like a dress, and so low cut (well beneath the pecs) that he might as well not have bothered. girl next to me kept talking to herself between every song, "please let him take off his clothes please let him take off his clothes".

lex we need to meet at one of these shows sooner or later!

yes! god, getting there was such a trial for me though, nearly went to the O2 instead because i...hadn't bothered reading anything properly beforehand. then when i got to the venue just before his stage time was sent on a wild goose chase to like 3 different places to pick up press tkts. it was all good though cuz he came on half an hour late anyway (and played well beyond the 11pm curfew, haw - only other artist i've seen do that is erykah, naturally).

um anyway amazing show! that version of "shit, damn, motherfucker" was kind of epic. "devil's pie" another definite highlight. the new song "sugar daddy"!!!!! omg such fun to dance to, you felt your feet making all sorts of moves within four bars. i didn't quite expect him to be so RAW live - his seduction is so smooth on record and then live he's just wild.

to make matters worse i actually was in brixton last night and still didn't go :(

to make matters worse (for you), between us melissa and i had three spare +1s that the stupid PR neglected to inform us about, and i only realised when i was literally picking my tickets up (and was rushing to get inside before he came on). ugh so many people i know would've loved those

Tpp seven foot goonish type? I said hello and you blanked me! Unless there was a few different giants there. Was near the back. Couldn't see lex but never saw the thread when you posted, so I wasn't looking.

Omg the show was amazing. I went in just thinking I'd be glad if he was looking healthy and hadn't ruined his voice but god damn! He killed it. I've never seen someone have such control over the crowd. And voice was incredible, and sustained all night.

Otm on the shit damn motherfucker. Also he seemed to have been watching a lot of James brown and... Zeppelin maybe? That kind of wall of amplified blues guitar on some of the Voodoo stuff, plus the solo-ing stuff made me think of them anyway.

Great night, hope I don't have to wait twelve years to do it again.

He seemed to be really enjoying himself which made it even better, knowing the troubles from the Voodoo tour.

yeah he was totally full of life and seemed to be having a ball

some incredibly funky guitar riffs too - that live version of "brown sugar", the crowd had slightly thinned at that point (lucky i'd stuck around, i didn't think he was gonna come out again) so there was lots of room to dance

i was front right, good vantage point even if i did have to put up with some bad behaviour as detailed in show etiquette

Yeah had a pretty good time...Jesse Johnson was a pretty inspired choice as guitarist...he was great...some of the new material was great but I did feel like he was trying to mimic a Prince gig from '83 he's not quite in that league...got the feeling that great swarthes of the crowd weren't up for a 10 min drum solo and P-funk guitar theatrics when they paid to see some 90's neo soul loverman soul...and Brown Sugar don't work as a James Brown funk workout...The Parliament cover and solo piano section (very very Prince) was good though...

Yeah the people I went with weren't really down for the massive solos while I was lapping it up.

I was stood by a short dude w/ a fro, who I think was pilled off his face so you weren't the only one dealing w/ show etiquette bullshit lex. Amusingly he went for a piss and came back, losing his girlfriend and standing 10 feet from her/us, spending the rest of the show confused as to where she was despite being plainly right next to him.

Hold on

http://www.pitchfork.com/news/45337-listen-james-blake-remixes-dangelo/

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Mr. Blake on some sort of 'oh I'm so pure about my songs I would NEVER let them be remixed' trip? I guess he figures the other way around is all right by him...

wait what Parliament song did he do

ned i think he was trying to make a different point about artists doing remixes (and/or labels commissioning remixes) in a cynical way, i.e. just for marketing and $ reasons.

which i can totally see, since after he blew up i'm sure he was getting tons and tons of emails from people wanting to do or get a remix just to get in on the hype. but he's been doing these unofficial remixes for a long time.

btw i can't wait for a 10 min chris dave solo

i am gonna cop to liking this

ned i think he was trying to make a different point about artists doing remixes (and/or labels commissioning remixes) in a cynical way, i.e. just for marketing and $ reasons.

...yeah, call me not sold on that. (IE, I take the larger point, I just don't necessarily trust him to be the one saying it.)

not to derail the d thread, but i'm curious why you say that?

is someone gonna answer my question

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ruz7qbcJsT8

OH SHIT

shakey mo otm

yeah that was def a highlight. damn

very well chosen, probably the most D'Angelo-esque song in Parliament's catalog

http://read.mtvhive.com/2012/02/16/dangelo-new-album/

How many songs will be on the album then?

All together, there’s over 50 songs that he’s cut since we started. I think he wants to put 12 songs on the album.

What’s your favorite song on the project at the moment?

I don’t think he’s done it live yet, but there’s an untitled song right now that I think is going to be like another “Untitled (How Does It Feel)” for this album. It’s going to be a monster song.

on the other hand, fuuuuuuuck

Does the new album have a release date yet?

He actually really wanted to finish a couple a years ago but he’s written a few new songs since that time, so now we have four new songs and we’ve been working on those for the past six months or so. He wants to finish it as soon as possible, but once he gets into the studio he gets into his own zone and he’s on D’Angelo time and nothing else really matters.

Actually, the Beatles is one of our blueprints, I think, for this album. This one is definitely gonna be soul, funk, rock — if there’s such a thing. It’s all mixed in there together — there’s a big fusion element in each song.

d'angelo doing the beatles, i'm crying y'all

as long as this album is in the Detox/Chinese Democracy phase of "only supporting musicians and producers give interviews about it, say lots and lots of exciting but vague things" i'm not really expecting anything

ha, i like that at the end of the interview they're all like "hey btw check out the video that sent d'angelo's life spinning out of control"

i think people are a little dramatic about that, most artists' biggest successes probably fucked with their head a little bit but it's not like you're personally goading them by continuing to enjoy that work

i can't blame anybody but D quite frankly; Erykah looked for a little while like she might jump the tracks but she was strong enough to get it together and it didn't look like D was
really hope he's got it back in order, will buy this album, will see him play anywhere anytime. still a little wary.

New Amerykah Part One and BLACKsummers'night are really the precedents i'll be folding my arms waiting to see if this can live up to, more than Voodoo

i'm not super excited by the idea of more rock & pop influences, although that's clearly been a part of the shows ('charade', the bowie cover, the guitar stuff, etc.). still totally confident that it's going to be a dope record. at the very least, it'll be interesting - the dude does not half-ass anything, and there's something really engaging about knowing that every note has been considered and obsessed over.

wahtever happened to maxwell? wasn't he all 'oh yeah ive recorded 3 albums to release in 3 years here is the first'?

yeah that is VERY frustrating to me, i loved that album and i'm like c'mon where's the rest

i know, right. clearly he did not have another two records in the can.

maybe he's just waiting for chris dave to be done touring with d'angelo, erykah, and everybody else?

nah, he's just got his cash in order and is probably working through his good times. man, to be maxwell and single...

wahtever happened to maxwell? wasn't he all 'oh yeah ive recorded 3 albums to release in 3 years here is the first'?

― a hoy hoy, Friday, February 17, 2012 4:26 PM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah that is VERY frustrating to me, i loved that album and i'm like c'mon where's the rest

― some dude, Friday, February 17, 2012 4:27 PM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

THIS. I'm still going back to BLACKsummersnight regularly. 'Bad Habits' and 'Pretty Wings' are impeccable.

Looking forward to a new D'angelo album but listened to Voodoo again recently and well don't think it's very good to be honest...not terrible but not great...

so we don't have suggest ban anymore, huh?

d'angelo doing the beatles, i'm crying y'all

me too :((((((

luckily i assume it's just a bs comparison that doesn't mean anything and won't have anything to do with how it actually sounds

to be sure beatles influences do as much harm as good these days but y'know what lex just shut the fucking fuck up

yeah he's not gonna suddenly turn into oasis ffs.

another live show hit the net. this time Stockholm.

Setlist:

Playa Playa
Feel Like Makin’ Love [Roberta Flack Cover]
Ain’t That Easy
Devil’s Pie
Chicken Grease
The Line (Intro) > The Roots
The Charade
I’ve Been Watching You (Move Your Sexy Body) [Parliament Cover]
Shit, Damn, Motherfucker
Keys Solo
Tribute > Moment of Silence
D’Angelo Solo Medley
Another Life
Sugah Daddy
Space Oddity [David Bowie Cover]
Brown Sugar

link?

link via this site: http://www.heavysoulbrutha.com/2012/04/dangelo-live-in-stockholm-2-2-2012.html