D'Angelo - Black Messiah (2014)

macca shreds bro

i wish we could send d'angelo in a time machine to see how he'd do in the yardbirds

can d'angelo lute like sting can lute?

how much wood could a virtuoso woodchuck chuck

can D'angelo play the timbales like Tito Puente?

everything d'angelo does is funky like lee dorsey iirc

RT on some gzeus shit

In Japanese.
Not that I could read alot of it(one character speaks in an insanely thick and formal SAMURAI dialet, the royal family speaks high keigo which I oddly understood... not sure what that means. Alot of Kanji, too), what I did read is alot funnier, and I wouldn't have to read it anyway.
I could play it in russian, swedish, arabic... DOESN'T MATTER. I can play it with my feet without looking directly at the creen. I'VE DONE IT BEFORE.
In fact I set the battle modes to harder ones just for more of a challenge.
THE ATTACK NAMES ARE DIFFERENT AND IT DOESN'T MATTER.
I haven't played it in years and I can just go "Oh, now I need to do that, so I'll press this sequence of buttons and kill"
SPINAL FUNCTION.
If I did a blood transfuction I'm sure the recieving human(in addition to getting high from all the meds) would BE ABLE TO PLAY CHRONO TRIGGER.

That's not very long, either. I used to do 4-5 hour stretches. I don't remember how long it took to beat lavos when I'm SUPPOSED to lose...

I've seen all 11 main endings and variations of most of them.
I used to level up by playing the game through.
Fight the same series of wimps in the forect for an hour or two? I DON'T THINK SO. I think I'll BEAT THE GAME 3 times.
The same way EVERY TIME.
Fastest way to winning.
Then I'd work at accumulating more items and becoming so strong NOTHING could stop me. But only after completing EVERY POSSIBLE SIDE STORY.

This was accomplished in part by a trick my brother (ex-in-law) found.
He spend 6 hours fighting the same battle over and over.
Steal the same item from the same monsters.
I was FLOORED when I heard that.
He had a save on the system with MAXED OUT magic power on EVERY character.
Then I went on to bit by bit max every character as much as possible.

Then I lent it to my then girlfriend, and somehow that save was erased.
it's wuite possible the fact that I had a Game Gear save on it that was so fucked it screwed the system, but she may (VERY DOUBTFUL) have deleted it on purpose, but I think she was ashamed of ACCIDENTALLY deleting it and lied.
But I don't remember if you CAN just delete a save in CT....

This game was my sole entertainment source save random TV things for 2-3 years.
THAT'S INSANE.
I had an old-school Geocities site(long gone, I loved it) dedicated to subtexts and retardo descriptions of characters.
I sprayed my hair the color of my fav character, I bought a replica sword like the one he carried, GREW MY HAIR TO THE SAME LENGTH.
Used his name on EVERY message board, wait, they were all CHAT ROOMS then.
Remember CHAT ROOMS?
There was a CT chatroom I had regular DAILY meetings in.
I SOMEHOW developed a crush on the webmaster until I saw she was really palsied and horse-like.
Still cool. Not attractive.

WOW.
This is the most meaningless crap I've ever written, but it's a bit of an insight onto how far into things I get.

Any CT fans?
Anyone else have a similar past with a different game?

― The GZeus (The GZeus), Friday, August 18, 2006 5:18 AM

get yr iron game up

just wanted to drop in and say this album is dope.

major stylistics vibes from 'another life'

right down to the sitar experimentations

i used to think RT was a troll, but he just appears to be another guy on the internet w/ a short fuse. and a capslock key that catches.

Hey yeah can we go back to talking about how amazing "1000 Deaths" and "The Charade" and "Sugah Daddy" (and the rest of the album) are and stop talking about whether D'Angelo would win an amazing rap battle of history with Mozart or whatever

Big 'Zart had mad #bars

salieri wrote all his rhymes tho

salieri was the mad skills of the classical period

Salary went off the sermonizing deep end on Unplugged 2.0.

I know this album isn't really that short -- 56 minutes -- but the sequencing makes it feel like it ends too soon. The back half is so strong and flows so well together that it's a letdown when it ends. Feels like it should keep going and going.

the songs on this record are among the shortest 5-minute songs i've ever heard... i mean that as a major compliment. they are so engaging and engrossing, and they end and i'm like, "wait, that's it? i could have listened to another 10 minutes of that."

that' what happens when you have real musicians playing real instruments and a vocal genius leading them

thanks, dad.

flugelhorn genius

lol instruments are so old lol aren't they atually made of wood??? LOL wtf. actual musicians rofl get with the times grandad we just rub our clits now and wear giant mouse heads

sounds like a party

One of the reasons I love "Sugah Daddy" is cause it sounds like if the "just because the record's got the groove" part of "Sir Duke" was extrapolated into a full song.

deadmaus's clit is MIDI?

Ben Kane says it's Mark Hammond (not familiar but he's a jazz dude apparently) on the fancy flamenco guitar on 'Really Love', D on other guitars, and Gadson on drums again (fooled me! the extra snaps and claps make it sound very Quest-ish).

listening back to that bootleg that went around a few years ago and the final version is definitely an improvement.

As always, I enjoy/appreciate the instrumental detail and feel, regardless of who plays what where, and here the lyrics add something, though also as always, the vocals keep me a little detached, and currently get a little annoying, with that tendency to blur, if not strain---doesn't always happen: I really like "Sugah Daddy" for inst, and ”Till It’s Done (Tutu)” is very fine---but whatever you think of this set, don't sleep the *actual* Sly's 2014 (imperfect but often excellent) anthology, which is also timely, in a startling way, esp. keyboard-wise:
http://lightintheattic.net/releases/1451-i-m-just-like-you-sly-s-stone-flower-1969-70

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oCyHAhJgFA

Also, he's got me listening to this year's Prince albums again, dittoMusicology, The Hits/The B-Sides, and The Black Album, so thanks D'.

Third Eye Girl might be the worst backing band ever, so gross clubfooted bar band gunk

made me listen to lots of old 70s and 00 soul i havent touched in a while (as well as prince). find it hard listening to individual tracks - it only really works as an album to me, though i do find certain phrases popping into my head every so often. sometimes think all the labour and attention to detail has maybe come at the expense of immediacy (save for sugah daddy), but then i think thats always been there in dangelos music.

not to return to the virtuoso argument but i think we do often conflate 'multi instrumentalist' with 'virtuoso'.

Didn't realize he was managed by Eric Leeds. Between Leeds, Jesse Johnson and John Blackwell, whole lotta Prince in the D'Angelo family.

I'm sure they each have their own story about how Prince fucked them over

eric leeds must be the most patient man in america

Alan Leeds is D'Angelo's tour manager (and Prince's tour manager in the '80s). Eric Leeds the Prince saxophonist is his brother.

alan leeds also worked for james brown IIRC

oops, i definitely know that, i do get the names confused sometimes. one of my friends ran into eric leeds at the grocery store recently, i love that minneapolis shit. :)

wondering which old prince collaborators dangelo will pick up next... surprised john blackwell is drumming for him, i thought dangelo would go for sheila e first.

Alan Leeds was also at the listening party. He was the one person there I would have liked to have a conversation with.

his name is all over the sleeve notes of soul/funk reissues from the 80s/90s, isn't it?

for posterity:

Prayer: @Chrisdaddydave came in and crushed the drums for this one at Henson Studios in a way that only he could. #BlackMessiah

Ben Kane @kanevibrations · 5m 5 minutes ago
Prayer: the claps!!! My bro @TheDangelo had me working on sound of his claps for a fortnight and I think it paid off. #PerfectingIt

Ben Kane @kanevibrations · 7m 7 minutes ago
Prayer: Of course now there is also bass provided again by @pinopalladino__ and some add'l guitar and the final solo by @JesseJohnsonViP

Ben Kane @kanevibrations · 11m 11 minutes ago
Prayer: the basis for this was crafted at Ds homestudio The core of what you still hear is this beautiful composition. Gtrkeybassprogramming

i love the idea of the young engineer toiling away in handclap bootcamp, sort of a zen master/student situation.

one of the D.C. R&B stations played "Really Love" yesterday and that really made my day. i guess that's the radio single, not "Sugah Daddy"? good choice.

I feel like those are the two songs that make the most sense as singles. Maybe "Another Life" or "The Charade"?

If there was a way to releas singles straight to the Delilah show, "Betray My Heart" would be a cinch.

"Really Love" definitely has one of the album's biggest hooks but i didn't expect it as a single just because it's 2 minutes before he sings (90 seconds before the drums even come in). maybe there's a single edit that abbreviates the intro, which would be kind of a shame since it's gorgeous, but would make sense.

at the listening thing they said "really love" is the official single that they sent to radio

increasingly the album this reminds me of the most is not Riot, it's Parade

hum. It would be a "Parade" without "Kiss", "Girls and Boys" and "Sometimes it snows" !
To me it sounds more like prince circa "Emancipation".
I enjoy it (more and more) but it's not groundbreaking or anything. Very competent soul/funk.
Also, is it just me or is the rhythm guitar out of sync or something on Tutu ?

i feel like a lot of things sound out of sync on this album