Et Tu, Terence Trent D'Arby?

Hah yes, I'm pretty sure I have the 7"!

That acapella track near the end of the 1st album killed me (in a bad way). & I'd listen to Vibrator & Fishykins A LOT. Never heard Symphony.

1) is called Welcome To My Monasteryo
2) starts with the voice of sultry Terence saying the line
3) builds to a choir repeating the same line, with a diva giving it all in the background
4) is 30 seconds long

Which sets an appropriate pomposity level for the rest of the album.

xxxtra Mpls jazz punk cred: Dave King, local drummer extraordinaire (Bad Plus, Happy Apple, Love Cars, sometimes 12 Rods, FKG, shitloads of bands) drummed for TTD on tour for awhile (or at least so I'm told, but I tend to believe it)

i still have not heard symphony or damn and desperately want to

but the vinyl of hardline is really great and this album is totally a gem.

is it "underrated" if it's well-received critically but pretty much forgotten by the general public? or does that make it "lost"? or is "lost" too high falutin a term (that TTD would no doubt approve of)?"

only 12 million people bought it, but every one of them started a neo-soul band.

i love the hardline. an important part of the soundtrack to my freshman-sophomore years at college.

xpost: "Lost" works. And ITHL is certainly one of the Top 10 albums of the '80s (I'd put it in the top 3 myself). Haven't heard enough of NFNF or SOD to say anything about them, but I loved much of Wildcard!, especially "Shadows."

And I think both of these statements from the top of the thread are true:

maybe he's happy now

he assumed that, having had a hit record, he now got to do whatever struck him as interesting

And I think both of these statements from the top of the thread are true:

maybe he's happy now

How do you know that? Given comments made upthread -- e.g., ''Poor guy, when he fell, he fell hard'' -- I assumed otherwise, and felt badly about his circumstances.

Symphony or Damn was not just one of the best albums of its year, but one of the great neo-Prince records. And you can find it cheap in used bins across the land.

I agree, and it's really not my sort of thing at all.

Craig David on ITV's woeful Guilty Pleasures show on Saturday tackling "If You Let Me Stay"...oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

How do you know that? Given comments made upthread -- e.g., ''Poor guy, when he fell, he fell hard'' -- I assumed otherwise, and felt badly about his circumstances.

From what I've read in interviews over the years, he doesn't seem to mind how it all turned out or that he's not topping the charts anymore.

Lenny Kravitz kind of stole his MTV mojo.

Symphony or Damn was not just one of the best albums of its year, but one of the great neo-Prince records. And you can find it cheap in used bins across the land.

-- Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, March 12, 2008 2:03 PM

I have been looking for like a year and can't find it!

Need to keep looking I guess.

I bet you can find it for a buck or a penny on Amazon.

at last!

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/04/catch_of_the_day_neither_fish.html

The entire album is the sound of a great talent unburdened by doubt

I initially misread that.

as?

ive not kept up to date with TTD's music since wildcard (which had one amazing song what should i do, in spite of the so-so guitar solo on it) but im interested to know what hes up to these days.

I love NFnF but I work with some people unburdened by doubt and believe me it's not that great.

its not important if THEY are unburdened by doubt.

there are hints of Danger Mouse's controlled madness in the production

lol reference point

hey, dangermouse is the only black producer making any good music these days. he is the best black producer ever.

"If You Let Me Stay" is IMMENSE.

Sure is!

This album needs more love. Is good.

^^^^ Daniel, Esq. OTM

Finally got Introducing the Hardline.... "Let's Go Forward" is a jam!

The New Yorker tries to answer the question.

I still haven't listened to the new one yet (or any recent ones). Saw it mentioned the other day on this other D'arby link:

do you know Terence Trent D'Arby's current name?

i listened to it the other day! weird and fun

for a song that is essentially a 5 minute riff about getting a blowjob, "She Kissed Me" rocks ass like a motherfucker

TTD was a badass motherfucker in his prime

Symphony or Damn is one of my favorite records.

i'll need to check it out. i love dude's voice and "She Kissed Me" has been a fav since I saw it on Beavis and Butthead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmobsqVKJu8

his voice sounds so pure here

Why Terence Trent D'Arby became Sananda Maitreya: 'It was that or death'

Good story, I'm glad he's doing better.

I had this weird dream that "She Kissed Me" was a children's playground song that went something like

Terence Trent D'arby's "She kissed Me" could be reworked as a naughty kid's song

"She kissed me
(Where?)
She kissed me THERE
Like no one else had kissed me there
(Yes, but WHERE? She kissed you WHERE?)
She kissed me neath my underwear!"

Err oops didnt remove part of orig post. Bleh.

Always loved this dudes voice

The new album, Prometheus & Pandora, is a 53-track smorgasbord of rock, funk, soul, jazz and psych, “written, arranged, produced, performed & conceived by Sananda Maitreya”

Happy birthday!. He rules.

She Kissed Me is totally a fav

She put it THERE.

She kissed me there
(She kissed you where?)
Down here!
(Down where?)
ON MY FUCKIN' DICK, Jesus why you had to make me say it?!

Did not know he worked with the avalanches. Cool.

"Neither Fish ... " : still sounds immense.
his other major labels albums are good, but nothing comes close to the insanity of this.

the sonic insanity vs the beauty of melody

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao7KFRbbuoQ

I say upthread about getting the cassette in Turkey, but more recently I got the cd of Fish and there's nothing wrong with it.