man, comfort woman is an amazing record. i have not listened to the rest of her discog that much but it feels underrated to me by this thread?
i got turned onto it because syd tha kid put "love song #1" on this (great) playlist for rookie (http://www.rookiemag.com/2015/09/life-soundtrack-syd-tha-kyd/) and damn the whole record is mostly good chilled out neo soulish kinda stuff. just like, the perfect sound. i wish there weren't any screaming guitar solos but oh well.
anywho just wanted to rep for that one. she's playing in nyc in a few months.
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 7 November 2015 19:00 (eight years ago) link
that playlist really is great
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Saturday, 7 November 2015 19:21 (eight years ago) link
yes
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 7 November 2015 19:25 (eight years ago) link
and yeah comfort woman is an incredible, spacious record. a great headphones record too, so much detail
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Saturday, 7 November 2015 19:28 (eight years ago) link
i love all of her records though tbh. i only learned recently that the first two were produced by david gamson of scritti politti which 1) blew my mind 2) made a ton of sense when i spent a ton of time with anomie and bonhomie this year, on which meshell features
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Saturday, 7 November 2015 19:29 (eight years ago) link
also unsurprisingly i love the aggro screaming psych guitar solos, they are literally the best part of "love song #3"
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Saturday, 7 November 2015 19:52 (eight years ago) link
Yeah I only got Comfort Woman last year and I became totally obsessed with it for a while, such an unabashedly sexy album. Love the reggae bass and occasional attempt at Timbaland style stutters.
― Tim F, Saturday, 7 November 2015 20:49 (eight years ago) link
I don't think I've been as vocal in my love for Comfort Woman as for TWHMMTMOMD or Devil's Halo, but it's the single best album to have sex to ever made by anyone.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 05:04 (eight years ago) link
I would concur, if this album didn't exist:
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/187/MI0000187639.jpg
(Which I would recommend it to anyone who wants to listen to some slow cosmic sexy soul music.)
But Comfort Woman is definitely up there, yeah.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 10:41 (eight years ago) link
soooo....where do I start? I own Peace Beyond Passi and nothing else. I've been dipping into Bitter, Comfort Women, Weather.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 31 January 2016 03:38 (eight years ago) link
bitter and comfort woman are great introductions imo. I also think you'd loooooove devil's halo
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Sunday, 31 January 2016 03:42 (eight years ago) link
Comfort Woman is as good a place as any. It's worth noting that most of her albums tend to have a distinct vibe from one another, so there isn't really any one album that can be taken as representative of her work. The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams might be something of an exception because it's an expansive tour de force whereas the rest of her albums tend to hone in on doing one thing. But I can also see finding that album overwhelming.
― The Reverend, Sunday, 31 January 2016 03:47 (eight years ago) link
My problem with Bitter is it's too lyric-focused, which isn't always her great strength.
― The Reverend, Sunday, 31 January 2016 03:49 (eight years ago) link
I agree to a point, but also every melody on bitter breaks my heart
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Sunday, 31 January 2016 03:53 (eight years ago) link
I'll have to go back to it. I haven't listened to any of her 90s work in a long time.
― The Reverend, Sunday, 31 January 2016 03:55 (eight years ago) link
im catching up with some of her stuff that ive missed. its interesting how much of a 'better' singer she has become over the years. but also the one thing that i think will always be a barrier for her is that shes still too limited/mannered as a singer. it doesnt matter ultimately, if the songs are good enough, but its like shes permanently going for 'gracefully wounded'.
dirty world is my shit however.(soundcloud is pretty excellent at guessing what i want to hear next lol)
― StillAdvance, Monday, 27 June 2016 10:15 (seven years ago) link
I need a new Meshell album.
in the meantime is it time for an albums poll?
― Tim F, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 13:43 (six years ago) link
agreed and yes
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 14:10 (six years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/BXqorhCDP9u/
includes: an excerpt of her cover of "tender love," potentially from a new album coming out in november?
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 11 August 2017 23:00 (six years ago) link
ohhhh it's a covers album https://www.instagram.com/p/BWd2EJrjntB/
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 11 August 2017 23:08 (six years ago) link
incidentally holy shit at that tracklist
1. wonder if i take you home2. Nite& day3. Sometimes it snows in april4. Waterfalls5. Atomic dog6. Sensitivity7. Funny how time flies8. Tender Love9. Don't disturb this groove10. Private dancer11. Smooth Operator
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 11 August 2017 23:10 (six years ago) link
!!!
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 12 August 2017 00:00 (six years ago) link
yesss
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 12 August 2017 17:53 (six years ago) link
https://media.giphy.com/media/26n6YSEVjKzqE4Jqw/giphy.gif
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Saturday, 12 August 2017 18:27 (six years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/officialmeshell/sometimes-it-snows-in-april/s-gR5VM
and a lyric video for "tender love"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZSCWwCJAxI
album out 3/16
― sophistipop 2 (stritram), Saturday, 13 January 2018 12:35 (six years ago) link
gonna b so gooooood
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 13 January 2018 17:53 (six years ago) link
i'm so hyped, these are both so gorgeous
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 13 January 2018 17:58 (six years ago) link
in particular her "sometimes it snows in april" is just killing me
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 13 January 2018 18:06 (six years ago) link
wowwwwwwwww @ the "sometimes it snows in april" cover
― Tim F, Saturday, 13 January 2018 18:28 (six years ago) link
https://www.npr.org/2018/03/08/590336350/first-listen-meshell-ndegeocello-ventriloquism
1980s songs slowed down with interesting vocal touches and instrumental flourishes.
Reference to Neil Young Harvest listening at time of recording makes sense too
― curmudgeon, Friday, 9 March 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
very good and cool record
― k3vin k., Sunday, 18 March 2018 02:53 (six years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/meshell-ndegeocello-ventriloquism/
great review brad. i've listened to the "sometimes it snows in april" cover nearly every day since it came out. the whole album is quite something.
― piper at the gates of d'awwww (voodoo chili), Monday, 19 March 2018 18:06 (six years ago) link
thank you!!
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 19 March 2018 18:09 (six years ago) link
atomic dog 2017 is so awesome lol. possibly even more dog-like than the orginal, but not quite as dogg-like as snoop's "what's my name"
― piper at the gates of d'awwww (voodoo chili), Monday, 19 March 2018 18:10 (six years ago) link
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/8232751/meshell-ndegeocello-ventriloquism
She talks about making covers her own and her take on Bruno Mars (“karaoke “)
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 04:02 (six years ago) link
I listened to this album 4 times today. Clearly something I needed.
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 01:02 (six years ago) link
yeah, this album is cool. i think my favorite is "sensitivity."
― jaymc, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 01:13 (six years ago) link
this album is a real beauty. it is one of those few cover albums where most of the covers are better than the originals.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 15:20 (six years ago) link
I get very strong Sade vibes from Meshell's voice on this album. But of course the music here is not muzak at all.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 20:11 (six years ago) link
https://www.washingtonian.com/2018/04/17/meshell-ndegeocello-fugazi-go-go-growing-dc/?utm_source=Editorial+and+Events&utm_campaign=e001012fe8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_612a4959fd-e001012fe8-402537885
On her DC go-go and more roots
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 13:48 (six years ago) link
Nice gig last night at Kennedy Center. Some cuts from new album plus Nina Simone ones too. She had a photo of her deceased sax-playing Dad onstage, and talked about going through her records earlier in the day at her family’s place. I like her on keyboard as well as bass.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 27 April 2018 15:13 (five years ago) link
She's gonna be back at Kennedy Center Sunday this time with a version of her James Baldwin Tribute. In 2016, she did a stage musical, “Can I Get a Witness? The Gospel of James Baldwin” at the Harlem Stage in New York. Also per article : This version will be a concert, forgoing the costumes, blocking and sets of the original production but including the spoken narration drawn from Baldwin’s book and the songs written by Ndegeocello, Toshi Reagon, Justin Hicks and Staceyann Chin.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/music/meshell-ndegeocello-gives-a-reading-from-the-scripture-of-james-baldwin/2018/12/13/8c60e91c-f7e4-11e8-8d64-4e79db33382f_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ed24111fc73c
“When I was younger,” Ndegeocello says by phone from her current home in Brooklyn, “I couldn’t understand why people looked down on my mother just because she didn’t have much education, why my father was so bitter about not advancing in the military the way his white colleagues did, why I loved the music in church but disliked the fire-and-brimstone sermons. When I read ‘The Fire Next Time,’ it all started to make sense. Baldwin was a game changer in creating a language for the marginalized.”
― curmudgeon, Friday, 14 December 2018 13:50 (five years ago) link
Tickets were kind of pricey and I didn't splurge for it tonight. Have seen her a number of times, but I am still kind of regretting missing this James Baldwin tribute show of hers.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 17 December 2018 03:25 (five years ago) link
Saw her play 90 minutes of Prince songs at Paisley Park last night, it was awesome of course. More thoughts soon.
The songs: When Doves Cry, Let's Pretend We're Married, Let's Work, Strange Relationship, Love 2 the 9s, If I Was Your Girlfriend, Sexy Dancer, Hot Thing, When You Were Mine, Pop Life, Tamborine, I Wanna Be Your Lover, Starfish & Coffee, Purple Rain
!!!!!
― geoffreyess, Sunday, 16 February 2020 19:15 (four years ago) link
I saw an ad for a Roots/Questlove fest and she doing Prince songs is on the long bill
― curmudgeon, Monday, 17 February 2020 06:39 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGhpyGf-XlE
― that's not my post, Saturday, 25 April 2020 06:18 (four years ago) link
Mellow Ndgeocello doing Pink Moon works well enough, although not amazing
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 April 2020 05:58 (three years ago) link
I like her mellow approach to covers from this era - Pink Moon, Waterfalls, Suzanne...
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 02:38 (three years ago) link
Now I want to hear Nina Simone doing Pink Moon
― fetter, Wednesday, 29 April 2020 08:53 (three years ago) link
of all the nick drake covers i know one of the best. especially the instrumentation. i love the drums here. the only other nick drake cover i remember having liked was calexico's "clothes of sand".
― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 25 May 2020 14:09 (three years ago) link