Love Maxwell. Love the new tracks, thx fr posting
― admrl, Monday, 15 June 2009 15:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow @ "Bad Habits."
― Monday Nite Tranny Party (The Brainwasher), Monday, 15 June 2009 15:59 (fourteen years ago) link
dudes still got it
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Monday, 15 June 2009 16:19 (fourteen years ago) link
max! well...
― admrl, Monday, 15 June 2009 17:11 (fourteen years ago) link
just downloaded this...so excited
― matos w. k. iw (k3vin k.), Monday, 22 June 2009 02:37 (fourteen years ago) link
this is amazing but way too short!
― matos w. k. iw (k3vin k.), Monday, 22 June 2009 03:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Grabbing it now. I haven't even listened to Bad Habits or Pretty Wings yet, so I could experience it as a whole.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 22 June 2009 04:13 (fourteen years ago) link
"love you" is a force
― matos w. k. iw (k3vin k.), Monday, 22 June 2009 05:32 (fourteen years ago) link
That's my favorite early on, too.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 22 June 2009 05:33 (fourteen years ago) link
it's so good and it just...ends
― matos w. k. iw (k3vin k.), Monday, 22 June 2009 05:44 (fourteen years ago) link
this is still downloading so I'm listening to Embrya instead
― s4rgent boy tell em (The Reverend), Monday, 22 June 2009 05:59 (fourteen years ago) link
After three listens, I like it, but I'm kinda disappointed all the same. I feel like none of the tracks I hadn't heard quite live up to the promise of "Pretty Wings" and "Bad Habits". Oddly enough, I think the instrumental outro might be my favorite thing other than those two songs. It's better than Urban Hang Suite, which devolves into smooth jazz a lot of the time, but I don't think I like it as much as Embrya. I know trying to rank it at this point (or maybe at any point) is stupid, but whatever. On the other hand, I've listened to it thrice in two days, so he's doing something right.
― body merkin (The Reverend), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 07:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Looks like I'll be seeing him live tomorrow night if things go according to plan. Will report back.
― body merkin (The Reverend), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 07:06 (fourteen years ago) link
same here i think. i like all the songs here, even really like or LOVE at least three of them, but its 37 minute runtime feels too slight to really knock me over. a few of the songs feel half-finished, and i think the album suffers on the whole as a result. i guess after hearing the first couple advance tracks i was expecting something erykah-level, but the rest just seems good right now. not necessarily a bad thing, and still one of the best r&b albums of the year so far
xpost sweeeet
― only god can sugg me (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 07:11 (fourteen years ago) link
It's better than Urban Hang Suite
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― autogucci cru (deej), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 10:05 (fourteen years ago) link
i like it a lot but no way -- that record is A+++++++ classic top ten of 90s material
instrumental outro is DOPE
― autogucci cru (deej), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 10:06 (fourteen years ago) link
(on the new one)
I don't hugely care for Urban Hang Suite tbh. Embrya beats the shit out of it imo.
― body merkin (The Reverend), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 10:07 (fourteen years ago) link
cant imagine not caring for 'if the cops come knocking' or 'ascension' or 'dance with me.' the album is a pinnacle of R&B
― autogucci cru (deej), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 10:08 (fourteen years ago) link
I could pretty much take "Ascension" and "Whenever Wherever Whatever" and leave the rest.
― body merkin (The Reverend), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 10:08 (fourteen years ago) link
not liking dance with me shd be punishable by death fwiw
i do like embrya, but .. yeah theres nothing on it like 'dance with me' - the start-stop instrument explosions midway thru that song are just XD
― autogucci cru (deej), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 10:13 (fourteen years ago) link
gawdammit I want to make love to him
― bitches can't stand me I got pockets on my pannies (The Reverend), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 08:26 (fourteen years ago) link
"I want to know why everyone's clothes still on."
― Matos W.K., Wednesday, 24 June 2009 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link
whatever happened to...remy shand?
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 18:19 (fourteen years ago) link
still think "Bad Habits" and "Pretty Wings" are far and away the best songs, but "Cold" and "Stop the World" and "Fistful of Tears" are emerging as really good second-tier songs
― the stick stickly from the hilarious 'attack attack' band (The Reverend), Sunday, 5 July 2009 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
damnit, all the vids are getting taken down. Anyone have a fresh link?
― Garri$on Kilo (Hurting 2), Monday, 6 July 2009 02:01 (fourteen years ago) link
nevermind, there's a bunch on youtube
― Garri$on Kilo (Hurting 2), Monday, 6 July 2009 02:02 (fourteen years ago) link
"pretty wings" is easily the best thing on here (but then again it's probably my favorite song of the year), but "bad habits" and "love you" are excellent as well. the rest are really vanilla, but the best kind of vanilla, like gourmet vanilla ice cream
― unbandictionary (k3vin k.), Monday, 6 July 2009 02:09 (fourteen years ago) link
no
― zzz (deej), Monday, 6 July 2009 03:50 (fourteen years ago) link
good essay on this from andy k btw guys -- check amg
this is a dope album, i don't know why people are underwhelmed. 'help somebody' is O_O
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Friday, 10 July 2009 15:10 (fourteen years ago) link
it's an amazing sounding record, and really dynamic (southall should be shitting himself).
such a great balance between looseness/arrangement too. whatever drum programming there is is really subtle and blends well with the live stuff. anyone else getting a sly-circa-'fresh' vibe?
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Friday, 10 July 2009 15:15 (fourteen years ago) link
oh shit, that's chris dave on drums
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Friday, 10 July 2009 16:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I need to stop being slack and get this thing.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 July 2009 16:42 (fourteen years ago) link
yall should check deej's p4k review that went up today
― love/cank (J0rdan S.), Friday, 10 July 2009 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link
i really dig the whole thing but pretty wings is head and shoulders above the rest, and above like 90% of songs ive heard this year
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Monday, 13 July 2009 12:59 (fourteen years ago) link
i like the final track and "cold" best i think, but the whole record is dope. going to see him live in pgh on saturday night, i saw him on his last tour in 01 and he was ridiculously awesome.
― pipecock, Monday, 13 July 2009 14:16 (fourteen years ago) link
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― walter amirite (rip) (some dude), Monday, 20 July 2009 02:54 (fourteen years ago) link
this is my first introduction to Maxwell (sure i heard of him but never heard his albums)starts rather weak (first 2 tracks) but Pretty Wings and Help Somebody are equally great, rest of it is ok.
― Ludo, Monday, 20 July 2009 08:35 (fourteen years ago) link
He killed it in Pittsburgh this weekend, he had an awesome11 piece band and they played for 1.5 hours. Time flew by, I could have listened to them all night. Highlights were "Cold", "This Woman's Work", and " Acension" but there were really no duds. Go see him at any cost.
― pipecock, Monday, 20 July 2009 21:58 (fourteen years ago) link
i've got a killer white label house remix of one of his songs. has a prince remix on the back. the song has the lyrics "you'll never now this, but there's no one quite like, quite like you/her?" "if i had to do it over, if i had to do it again, i woulda ....., this would have never began"
will swap the remix for the original
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 20 July 2009 22:16 (fourteen years ago) link
wow, if i had cared to google those lyrics years ago, this wouldn't have been such a mystery. song is called No One, this remix rules.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 20 July 2009 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link
discogs says it could be the Roy Davis Jr. mix.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 20 July 2009 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
sorry for the mini-hijack but this track has been bugging me for a while. it's this 12" http://www.discogs.com/Prince-Maxwell-Sexy-If-I/release/1263990 but mine doesn't have the sticker, just a stamp that says maxwell on one side and prince on the other.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 20 July 2009 22:34 (fourteen years ago) link
duh, of course it's on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4kXAmKibWs
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 20 July 2009 22:37 (fourteen years ago) link
ok this is awesome
had never heard of this guy before
― thomp, Wednesday, 22 July 2009 10:58 (fourteen years ago) link
the runtime of this album coincides to within seconds of my daily run
― SB Idiot (k3vin k.), Saturday, 25 July 2009 23:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Newsweek interview from the other day.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 July 2009 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
You know, I heard "Pretty Wings" is being used as a wedding song....I'm not sure why a song about breaking up with someone would be used in someone's nuptials. But I'm happy to be of assistance. (Laughs)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 July 2009 23:44 (fourteen years ago) link