Rolling R&B Thread 2012

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Maxwell tour canceled due to 'vocal hemorrhaging' :(

some dude, Sunday, 24 June 2012 12:36 (twelve years ago) link

Tweet, Mama's Gun-esque

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTbgTADYhl4

These have all been so good

Evan R, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 15:38 (twelve years ago) link

Have we had opinions about the new R Kelly album yet? I haven't heard past the two singles and I'm curious what the verdict is.

twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 21:06 (twelve years ago) link

wasn't a huge fan of Love Letter but it worked for what it was, and this feels like diminishing returns. love the MJ riffing on "You Are My World" though.

some dude, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago) link

Only listened to it twice, but it seems pretty solid. With the 70s vibe its more of a sequel to Happy People than Love Letter, really. Given how terrible Kels' recent contemporary shit has been, I'm fine with him riding the retro lane a bit longer

Evan R, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 21:12 (twelve years ago) link

i say this a lot, but i'd rather see black panties right now

some dude, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 21:15 (twelve years ago) link

I don't think this was posted elsewhere, but our first taste of black panties (ha) was really dire. "Its On" (sic) makes me long for that Mark Morrison song we were all laughing at last year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr1VVtIABjM&feature=player_embedded#!

Evan R, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 21:23 (twelve years ago) link

I was going to post about how amazing the Wynter Gordon song was before I got distracted by Miguel.

The Reverend, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 21:48 (twelve years ago) link

Matos quite likes the Kells.

a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 21:54 (twelve years ago) link

wait a minute, how has "love letter" not being amazing been rewritten into the narrative without me realizing?

k3vin k., Thursday, 28 June 2012 02:05 (twelve years ago) link

the song or the album? song was v good, album was fine, but "amazing" is an absurd word touse

goonrise zingdom (some dude), Thursday, 28 June 2012 02:07 (twelve years ago) link

an absurd word to use, not the absurd word "touse"

goonrise zingdom (some dude), Thursday, 28 June 2012 02:08 (twelve years ago) link

who you calling abtouse

k3vin k., Thursday, 28 June 2012 02:11 (twelve years ago) link

i meant the album, tho obviously that applies to the song too. alubm runs out of steam toward the end for me but there are a ton of gems too, things like "#1 hit" and "lost in your love" are better than he's done in years

k3vin k., Thursday, 28 June 2012 02:12 (twelve years ago) link

also i had no idea he had a new album, nice

k3vin k., Thursday, 28 June 2012 02:12 (twelve years ago) link

the kellz is good, maybe not as whoa or noteworthy as love letter but def worth hearing - more "step in the name of love"-style midtempos than big lavish balladry. "believe in me" is kind of amazing, "fool for you" is prob my fav.

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

bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Thursday, 28 June 2012 08:47 (twelve years ago) link

I like this random alt-soul EP I picked up. Really good production, but the singer seems kind of lobotomized and I'm not sure I've heard an altogether necessary cover of "Sour Times" yet. Best track, I think, is "Free" which kind of sounds like Dawn x uk funky.

http://soundcloud.com/chericoke/sets/x-coke/

The Reverend, Friday, 29 June 2012 03:25 (twelve years ago) link

is this the official point where there is no longer any point in posting things in the "kinda out there, maybe kinda experimental, maybe kinda pretentious modern r&b" thread instead of this one

goonrise zingdom (some dude), Friday, 29 June 2012 03:27 (twelve years ago) link

yeah, maybe

The Reverend, Friday, 29 June 2012 03:39 (twelve years ago) link

errr, by Dawn i mean Druski tbh

The Reverend, Friday, 29 June 2012 03:46 (twelve years ago) link

the kellz is good, maybe not as whoa or noteworthy as love letter but def worth hearing - more "step in the name of love"-style midtempos than big lavish balladry. "believe in me" is kind of amazing, "fool for you" is prob my fav.

I think I could listen to R Kelly stepper tunes forever. "Believe That It's So" is so lovely, I just want it to keep going and going.

"Fool For You" is lovely, yes.

Tim F, Friday, 29 June 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link

i worship "Step In The Name Of Love" but the newer stuff really doesn't remotely hit the same mark imo

goonrise zingdom (some dude), Friday, 29 June 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link

Timothy Bloom, reliable jaw-dropper:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qmxPPMLII4

Evan R, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:44 (eleven years ago) link

Also, don't want to dwell on it too much, but Ne-Yo just put out a shitty Euro-pop single called—I shit you not—"Let Me Love You." Sacrilegious.

Evan R, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:53 (eleven years ago) link

wtf

chain the color of am0n (The Reverend), Monday, 9 July 2012 20:19 (eleven years ago) link

the album after titling a song "one in a million" !!!!

J0rdan S., Monday, 9 July 2012 20:20 (eleven years ago) link

also he's on that new timbaland song which seemed really soupy in that bad over-the-hill timbaland way

J0rdan S., Monday, 9 July 2012 20:20 (eleven years ago) link

This stings that much more b/c he's been hyping his new album as a return to basics, true R&B record. He's doing that thing I hate where artists straight up lie about what their new album is going to be

Evan R, Monday, 9 July 2012 20:23 (eleven years ago) link

(I actually sorta love his "One in a Million," though, so I can't complain too much about the title-aping, I guess)

Evan R, Monday, 9 July 2012 20:24 (eleven years ago) link

Haven't heard this latest Ne-Yo track yet, but is the R&B trend in 2012 dropping a compelling single and then following it up with a shitty Guetta-esque club track? See also, Usher.

to welcome jer.fairall, pie is served. (jer.fairall), Monday, 9 July 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link

it's more like dual-singles than follow-ups

J0rdan S., Monday, 9 July 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link

and artists have been releasing songs to diff radio formats for years

J0rdan S., Monday, 9 July 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link

yeah ne-yo's "one in a million" is good but still

J0rdan S., Monday, 9 July 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link

I feel like as one of the few listeners who values albums as albums, I'm doubly fucked over by the Guetta-ization of R&B. Because almost without exception, those singles not only suck, but they totally fuck up the flow of an entire album

Evan R, Monday, 9 July 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link

^^^

this.

to welcome jer.fairall, pie is served. (jer.fairall), Monday, 9 July 2012 20:41 (eleven years ago) link

I feel like I'm the only one around here who likes "Scream".

chain the color of am0n (The Reverend), Monday, 9 July 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link

I think it's decent, I like a lot of what follows it on the album more tho

I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Monday, 9 July 2012 20:57 (eleven years ago) link

Still haven't listened to the full album. Can I expect more "Climax" or more "Scream?"

to welcome jer.fairall, pie is served. (jer.fairall), Monday, 9 July 2012 21:03 (eleven years ago) link

song for song, more like the former than the latter, but lots kind of in between.

some dude, Monday, 9 July 2012 21:21 (eleven years ago) link

I pulled out the album after a two-week hiatus and loved the misshapen, misbegottent thing to bits.

a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 July 2012 21:59 (eleven years ago) link

The Usher album is a $35 bottle of wine with a bunch of little pieces of cork in it you can't fully fish out

Evan R, Monday, 9 July 2012 22:06 (eleven years ago) link

The extra tracks on the Usher album are the date who helpfully picks out the cork pieces.

a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 July 2012 22:09 (eleven years ago) link

now hearing 'i.f.u' as a seductive address to the prudishly stubborn listener

works

r|t|c, Monday, 9 July 2012 22:26 (eleven years ago) link

I don't think I actively dislike a single song on the album, I just don't really unabashedly love any of it either, so when you folks get all on about THESE are the great songs and THESE are the terrible ones it's all greek to me.

chain the color of am0n (The Reverend), Monday, 9 July 2012 22:39 (eleven years ago) link

I pulled out the album after a two-week hiatus and loved the misshapen, misbegottent thing to bits.

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 July 2012 21:59 (46 minutes ago) Permalink

Yeah, not sure if I'd put it in quite so strong terms but I find this album a really enjoyable straight-through listen, in part because of how it jumps all over the place.

Tim F, Monday, 9 July 2012 22:49 (eleven years ago) link

I skip around but am too committed to the songs I adore.

a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 July 2012 22:50 (eleven years ago) link

for me tracks 1-7 are mostly worthless and tracks 8-14 are solid (w/ bonus tracks mostly on the good side)

some dude, Monday, 9 July 2012 22:53 (eleven years ago) link

my two-week hiatus from ~music listening~ made me, uh, forget the usher album existed. don't really feel compelled to go back to any of it tbh

bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Monday, 9 July 2012 22:55 (eleven years ago) link

the bieber album is basically a better usher album

bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Monday, 9 July 2012 22:55 (eleven years ago) link

there are hardly any songs i even want to skip on the nicki album though!

bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Monday, 9 July 2012 22:56 (eleven years ago) link


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