just an interesting line I never caught before
― i don't care if big daddy kane signed your mommas tits (The Reverend), Thursday, 27 May 2010 00:40 (fourteen years ago) link
NY Times feature today:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/09/arts/music/09badu.html?ref=music
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 13:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Baduizm
^ black metal band name up for grabs
― ksh, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 13:50 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 13:58 (fourteen years ago) link
"20 Feet Tall" is such an inspiring song imo.
― fuck being hard, suburbs are complicated (The Reverend), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 14:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Anytime I have obstacles in front of me now, I got to be like "Rev, you are 20 feet tall. Step over that shit!"
― fuck being hard, suburbs are complicated (The Reverend), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 14:09 (fourteen years ago) link
You're 20 feet tall? O_O
― ksh, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 14:11 (fourteen years ago) link
metaphorically
― fuck being hard, suburbs are complicated (The Reverend), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 14:17 (fourteen years ago) link
"20 Ft Tall" and Damian Marley/Nas's "Strong Will Continue" are my big inspirational songs this year.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 15:31 (fourteen years ago) link
i love "20 feet tall" but "jump up in the air" is my go-get-em inspirational-motivational erykah track of choice this year.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 16:07 (fourteen years ago) link
haha me too. i made myself an inspiraysh mix and put jump up in the air on it.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link
anyone see her in new york on monday? was in town but could not get tix...
― Worth waiting for the fannypunch at 4.02 (stevie), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
No, but I saw her in Chicago last week, it was an amazing show.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link
benji b played this at sónar and i was like "omfg i did not know there was a house remix of 20ft tall!!!!!" and when i got back yesterday one of the first things i did was go a-hunting for it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HQb22pPX_U
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 21 June 2010 08:26 (thirteen years ago) link
that's great!
― Worth waiting for the fannypunch at 4.02 (stevie), Monday, 21 June 2010 08:34 (thirteen years ago) link
just got a report of her singing karaoke at a bar in town tonight! :O
― The Reverend, Saturday, 3 July 2010 08:40 (thirteen years ago) link
apparently they let her do 5-10 songs in a row then she bounced
― The Reverend, Saturday, 3 July 2010 08:49 (thirteen years ago) link
what's up with portland man
― hell hath no furry (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 3 July 2010 08:51 (thirteen years ago) link
first random chappelle stand up now random badu karaoke
― hell hath no furry (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 3 July 2010 08:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't think the chappelle standup actually happened?? I seem to recall that it was dismissed as a rumor that got out of hand.
― The Reverend, Saturday, 3 July 2010 08:53 (thirteen years ago) link
oh
― hell hath no furry (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 3 July 2010 08:55 (thirteen years ago) link
cursory google search confirms that it did take place but no one could hear a thing he said
― hell hath no furry (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 3 July 2010 08:56 (thirteen years ago) link
COME BACK COME BACK BABY COME BACK
― fuque santa cruz (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 8 July 2010 16:55 (thirteen years ago) link
i want u be near me
― otmato (The Reverend), Thursday, 8 July 2010 16:59 (thirteen years ago) link
hrrm did "jump up in the air (stay there)" ever emerge in 320 kbps? or, like, better than the 160 i have
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 09:57 (thirteen years ago) link
"gone baby, don't be long" is the one of this album, aside from "window seat"
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 22 August 2010 18:16 (thirteen years ago) link
also this album sounds perfect -- sunday morning!!
this album is nice to listen to (yeah jordan sunday morning seems like the perfect time) but it just feels so damn inconsequential to me; every song feels like an interlude. they're nice interludes, but i think i was wanting something more in the pt. 1 vein
― k3vin k., Sunday, 22 August 2010 18:20 (thirteen years ago) link
i think if you make something as epic as pt. 1, the best direction is to go in the one she went in
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 22 August 2010 18:22 (thirteen years ago) link
A very good album, and you named the two best songs (I'd include "Umm Hmm," which became essential summer listening)
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 22 August 2010 18:28 (thirteen years ago) link
it's really a beautiful thing
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 22 August 2010 18:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes. Really have started coming around on how this piece complements the first one.
Plus, I've been listening to it at least once a week, now, for what ... six months?
― 2 + 2 is vah-gi-nah (Eric H.), Sunday, 22 August 2010 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I do realize I've probably given "Gone Baby" a pass because I've waited years for someone to realize how Wings' "Arrow Through Me" was ripe for sampling.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 22 August 2010 18:33 (thirteen years ago) link
The groove is soooo deep.
― 2 + 2 is vah-gi-nah (Eric H.), Sunday, 22 August 2010 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
According to iTunes:
Most played: "Love"Least played: "Incense"
― 2 + 2 is vah-gi-nah (Eric H.), Sunday, 22 August 2010 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I just tried something: dropping "Gone Baby" after Van Helden's "U Don't Know Me."
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 22 August 2010 18:37 (thirteen years ago) link
:)
― 2 + 2 is vah-gi-nah (Eric H.), Sunday, 22 August 2010 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
i do love this album but i'm not sure it's top ten material for me
― this isn't STRAWBERRY 0_o it's RAWBERRY (forksclovetofu), Monday, 23 August 2010 05:27 (thirteen years ago) link
naw, it ain't
― d4n, d4n, d4n (yaosah, yaosah, yaosah) (The Reverend), Monday, 23 August 2010 05:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, not top 10 of all time, no. The first one was; not this one.
― 2 + 2 is vah-gi-nah (Eric H.), Monday, 23 August 2010 06:01 (thirteen years ago) link
er, i meant top ten of the year.
― this isn't STRAWBERRY 0_o it's RAWBERRY (forksclovetofu), Monday, 23 August 2010 06:39 (thirteen years ago) link
album works best if you treat it as mostly throwaway leftover/fun/not totally finished sessions from the last album. ie inconsequential as someone said upthread. this is prob the most unessential album shes released.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 23 August 2010 10:29 (thirteen years ago) link
i've come back to it a lot this year. "out my mind, just in time" is one of the best things she's ever done.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 23 August 2010 10:39 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah thats a great one, but about 75%-85% of it just doesnt reward all the times ive returned to it. theres not enough there. even out my mind, just in time sounds kind of like a half hearted return to green eyes territory. i mean, its still good, but not as good as GE. its the type of album thats too easy for her.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 23 August 2010 10:42 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't think i'd use the word half-hearted to describe any of this album, the hooks may meander or drift at times but there's a lot of feeling in it.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 23 August 2010 10:45 (thirteen years ago) link
i think its being given more credit than is perhaps deserved because of who made it. or maybe i should replace half hearted with 'knackered'. she just sounds like her mind is somewhere else. which isnt in itself a particularly bad quality to have as a vocalist. cos yeah, there is feeling in it but theres not much craft. its just an album of sketches. reminds me a lot of princes from the vault album that he gave in to close his warners deal.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 23 August 2010 10:49 (thirteen years ago) link
this is prob the most unessential album shes released.
http://jensfilipsson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/erykah-badu-live.jpg
― 2 + 2 is vah-gi-nah (Eric H.), Monday, 23 August 2010 11:30 (thirteen years ago) link
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, August 23, 2010 5:29 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
this is so so wrong & umbearably titchy/corny of you
― NOT FUNNY NEEDS MORE GUCCI (deej), Monday, 23 August 2010 12:04 (thirteen years ago) link
i wonder if it's just one of those records that's slightly confused by the expectations. i remember seeing in the mood for love having only seen chungking express, and i was just disappointed that it wasn't more offbeat fun, you know? there's so much preaching and communion in part one that part two must seem slight on account of its deficiency of these things. but it's a different record. it's full of jams, not songs. i like bopping around with fall in love on my headphones as much as i liked listening to me on the last one, but they're different kinds of albums. i could only see the songs as slight if you think they're attempting to be part-one-esque narrative songs rather than the slinky jams it seems she was shooting for.
― schlump, Monday, 23 August 2010 12:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, the precedent for this one isn't, as advertised, Mama's Gun but instead Worldwide Underground.
― 2 + 2 is vah-gi-nah (Eric H.), Monday, 23 August 2010 12:35 (thirteen years ago) link