http://www.pbs.org/wnet/tavissmiley/interviews/singersongwriter-dangelo-part-1/
― marcos, Friday, 4 September 2015 18:37 (eight years ago) link
i recorded it, looking forward to watching!
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 September 2015 19:32 (eight years ago) link
he's not a very good interview, sadly.
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 September 2015 20:35 (eight years ago) link
:(
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 September 2015 23:41 (eight years ago) link
listening to this right now.really love going back to albums like this after the hype has subsided and I can just really vibe out to this really cool, loose funky oddball R&B album without worrying about if it's a major "statement" or milestone or w/e
so many cool little details all over this
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 14:30 (eight years ago) link
still listen to this all the time
― expertly crafted referential display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 14:41 (eight years ago) link
Yeah it hasn't faded for me at all.
― something totally new, it’s the AOR of the twenty first century (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 14:46 (eight years ago) link
also, this is more urgent for me because of what's going on in Minneapolis right now but....
"All we wanted was a chance to talk'stead we only got outlined in chalk"
from The Charade is like an all-time lyric, such economy, like on par with any Dylan or Woody Guthrie protest lyric ever.
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 15:04 (eight years ago) link
otm
― Evan R, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 15:28 (eight years ago) link
all things considered this is probly my favourite album of the last 12 months
― when's international me day? (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 15:41 (eight years ago) link
same here, and it's had some very strong competition
― balls, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 16:05 (eight years ago) link
I'm not sure anything else even comes close
― Evan R, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 16:12 (eight years ago) link
some of the songs dont really work for me but yeah an incredible record
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 24 November 2015 16:32 (eight years ago) link
while there are definitely some songs that are standouts i guess i tend to just vibe out to the whole thing, it's a very cool sound world to be in
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 18:11 (eight years ago) link
this and the Kendrick album been in p much constant rotation for me all year, a very complimentary pair
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 18:13 (eight years ago) link
yah also has made me go back to both the New Amerykah albums by Badu which seem a piece with both those as well
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 18:25 (eight years ago) link
So who of the professionals or p&j voters among us is including this in their best of 2015 albums?
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 18:29 (eight years ago) link
I've been posting stupid shit about Neil Young and gangster rap on this site for years but I still don't get to vote in Pazz & Jop
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 18:32 (eight years ago) link
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― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, November 24, 2015 1:25 PM (33 minutes ago)
ditto to both of these. partly i know i'm just waiting for badu to release another album already but it meshes well w/ black messiah and tupab.
― balls, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 19:02 (eight years ago) link
i listen to this all the time still but i hate The Door lol
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 19:22 (eight years ago) link
who of the professionals or p&j voters among us is including this in their best of 2015 albums?
I can't bring myself to do it; too OCD about the "2015 albums have to have been released in 2015" thing. I feel like it'd also seem like a slight to everything that came out this year if my 2015 list were topped by a 2014 album
― Evan R, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 19:30 (eight years ago) link
it won last year right?
― balls, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 21:08 (eight years ago) link
I love this album so much, ums otm I play this all the time (voodoo too tbh)
― marcos, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 21:28 (eight years ago) link
I really dug this on first listen but honestly the more I've lived with it the better its gotten.
and yah, UMS told me I needed to go back to those Badu records and I'm glad I did.
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 21:34 (eight years ago) link
Had to compile my 2015 Top 10 for MOJO last month, and Black Messiah was on the list of albums we'd reviewed in 2015, and I was like, some great, great albums this year but yes, Black Messiah is still the best album of that bunch.
― I don't have the time or energy to make a counterargument (stevie), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 10:51 (eight years ago) link
I absolutely love just about over a third of this (The Charade, Sugah Daddy, Really Love, Betray My Heart, The Door, Back To The Future). The other parts I find either over-busy or a little bit too backgroundy for me to truly love.
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 12:00 (eight years ago) link
yeah i voted for Black Messiah in P&J in 2014 but not for my local paper's year-end list that's due in November, and as i do the paper's list this year i'm sticking to 2015 releases. i'm not really worried about this album being overlooked!
― The Cuddling Of The American Mind (some dude), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 12:23 (eight years ago) link
I've thought about including it because I didn't last year (I've a vivid memory of downloading and listening to it on my way to jury duty on Dec. 15). I included Beyonce's album on my 2014 ballot. But I don't wanna deny a good album a spot.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 12:26 (eight years ago) link
it should still be on ballots (speaking as someone who has nothing to do with P&J). tail end of a year has always basically meant the next year, for these kinds of things.
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 12:38 (eight years ago) link
It depends on the critic. If I've been assigned to review it, thus forcing me to concentrate for a deadline's sake, I'd have included it. I wasn't, so I absorbed it in leisurely fashion over the holiday.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 12:47 (eight years ago) link
even before Beyonce and D'Angelo dropped their buzzer beaters, i've always been pretty big on keeping my ears open to December releases on my year-end lists, some of my favorite albums in recent memory (including Last Train To Paris) got in under the wire on my lists that way. and that's partly because i know i'll have no desire to fit them into the next year's list.
― The Cuddling Of The American Mind (some dude), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 13:41 (eight years ago) link
depends when you (have to) make your EOY lists, right? most critics will prob submit multiple ones (i've submitted a couple already) but i don't really consider them ~official until my own final one on 31 dec. then that's it, done, not revisiting or thinking or carrying over
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 14:14 (eight years ago) link
Coming back to this for the first time in a while, enjoying it even more now that the critical buzz haze has dissipated. The arrangements and production are just fucking masterful.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Saturday, 9 January 2016 04:45 (eight years ago) link
yea I've been playing this a lot lately, it's really really good
― marcos, Saturday, 9 January 2016 15:46 (eight years ago) link
Also the rhythm section is so fucking sick, like on par with prime motown, stax, James Brown band, p much any groove rhythm section.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 11 January 2016 02:21 (eight years ago) link
could see it wind up being my album of the decade
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 15 January 2016 03:39 (eight years ago) link
It's not as good as Voodoo but very few albums are.
― gaz "puffy" coombes (The Reverend), Friday, 15 January 2016 04:54 (eight years ago) link
literally none, imho
― art baengels (monotony), Friday, 15 January 2016 05:04 (eight years ago) link
IDK, it's such a different feeling album to me, almost hard to compare
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 15 January 2016 05:09 (eight years ago) link
This is my 2nd favorite album ever.
― billstevejim, Friday, 15 January 2016 06:32 (eight years ago) link
Voodoo is my 2nd fav ever
― Spottie, Friday, 15 January 2016 06:43 (eight years ago) link
<3
― j., Thursday, 2 February 2017 17:54 (seven years ago) link
yup
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 2 February 2017 18:05 (seven years ago) link
Clicked on this hoping that Trump spurred him to finish his next album.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 2 February 2017 18:09 (seven years ago) link
Chris Dave, the drummer on this album, has made an album of his own which will be out on Blue Note next month.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 8 December 2017 17:05 (six years ago) link
hmmm, i know Questlove, james gadson, and chris dave all played on Black Messiah, but i've never seen a track by track breakdown on who plays on what - until now.
https://storify.com/amaah/black-messiah-liner-notes
ain’t that easy - james gadson1000 deaths - questlovethe charade - questlovesugah daddy - gadsonreally love - started with questlove, ended with gadsonback to the future, pt 1 - questlovetill it’s done (tutu) - unclear?prayer - chris davebetray my heart - questlovethe door - d’angeloback to the future (pt 2) - questloveanother life - questlove
― Karl Malone, Friday, 8 December 2017 17:22 (six years ago) link
Tutu is unquestionably Questlove on drums.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 8 December 2017 18:09 (six years ago) link
Among other things (just the sound, and the press roll at the beginning), I think of that three note fill (that starts on the 4 and has a flam at the beginning) as one of his signature licks.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 8 December 2017 18:11 (six years ago) link
has a new song on the RDR2 soundtrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obJuKmMjFG4
― Number None, Monday, 29 October 2018 11:43 (five years ago) link
https://images.ctfassets.net/5jh3ceokw2vz/3QfGPJD8zMvifV37RhuOne/b97ad8c2ab17e28986cc5a192306c2c6/0Z0A9862.jpg?w=1600
https://wepresent.wetransfer.com/story/dangelo-the-devils-pie/
^^ Great photographs and story about Carine Bijlsma's documentary about D'Angelo.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 18 February 2020 11:08 (four years ago) link