Erykah Badu: C /D, S&D

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!

"the other strikes me as one of the best albums I've ever heard."

i am going to assume/hope you were referring to mamas gun. ;)

the whole album is quite righteous
now, Mama's Gun is an entire different ballpark for me

also: I want to know where she buys her wigs

xp: no

http://blogs.westword.com/backbeat/2008/05/qa_with_erykah_badu.php

So excited.

My favorite album, Dark Side of the Moon, was meant to be a whole piece, just like mine.

o_O

I gotta say that ain't surprising!

i am seeing her show tomorrow! so excited you guys!!!

Tags: Erykah Badu, Joni Mitchell, Mos Def, Pink Floyd, The Roots, White Stripes

ooh, chris "the best drummer" dave is playing with erykah now?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d9eydCfTdw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFYl3Ho41P0

i wish that band was on the record.

people, this show. omg omg omg. if erykah badu had an army i'd enlist.

ahhhhhhhhhh
two of my friends were at that show, i almost got the 2nd ticket but it didnt work out :( must have been amaaaaazing

I wanted to go see her, but she was playing with the roots who totally suck and tickets were like $60. I'll catch her next time she comes, which should be soon

the roots did kind of suck. :( i mean, i don't think they suck in general, but their live show is a mess. but badu alone was worth the price, seriously. i keep trying to describe the show, but can't. i feel like i'm 13.

she sang "green eyes" off mama's gun while performing some crazy rhythmic gymnastics routine.

the roots were terrible when i saw them about a month ago, but i just NEED to see Erykah at this point, i would have paid anything. what happened to the Roots BTW, they are really maybe 1/50th of what they were 10 years ago.

the roots' show is almost always a mess. FFS would it hurt to come up with a setlist for once?

im seeing erykah end of june. i cant wait. if i was a woman i think id want to be erykah.

"the roots' show is almost always a mess. FFS would it hurt to come up with a setlist for once?

im seeing erykah end of june. i cant wait. if i was a woman i think id want to be erykah.

-- titchyschneiderMk2"

when i saw the roots in 99 and 01, they were outstanding. of course they only had good material to work with at that point, plus their guests (black moon, jill scott, jaguar wright, etc) were all extremely exceptional as well which helped them out.

i wonder what Pittsburgh's energy field is like that she can't play anywhere even within driving distance of us? she could hit baltimore, cleveland, DC, detroit, toronto all within a 4 hour drive from me, but she isnt not playing any of those places. how weak. even philly could be doable maybe, but i dont see anything about her playing there either.

roots were great when i saw them around '02 i think

last time i saw them was when the phrenology album was out. saw them twice that year. once in NY and next in london. good shows. but they do ramble on a bit. their shows never have much form.

Damn, I really want to see her this Thurs. but no car + venue in Redmond is : |