Erykah Badu: C /D, S&D

No MTL, Toronto or any East Coast of Canada shows. New York or Boston are my best (not good at all) options.

oh fucking awesome yay.. w/janelle monae too!!

ugh $70 for a good seat, n/m

I'm 20 feet tall.

I think "Turn Me Away" is so bubbly and happy that it will be one of those songs that can never NOT put me in a good mood.

back and forth like lightning hopkins

"Love" is growing on me a lot

I'll just toss this in here
http://thequietus.com/articles/04143-twenty-thoughts-about-love-erykah-badu-s-new-amerykah-part-two
and wait for the whingeing (too long/where's the review? etc)!

‘This Ain't A Love Song’? Too fucking right. You cunts couldn't write a love song. It's too serious for you.

what did bon jovi ever do to you?!

I was referring to Scouting For Girls. On a sidetrack - Bon Jovi's Greatest Hits was the only CD (apart from The Best Of Sting) that my local poolhall used to play so consequently in the 2 years where I pretty much did nothing else with my time I picked up a fascination, then fatigue, then finally detestation of The Jovi. A process that happened alot quicker with Sting i might add.

Really want to go to the Houston Badu/Monae show, but $95 = :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

I'll be the one backstage

!!!!

que?

(cause munny i want you bad la lalala lala)

just an interesting line I never caught before

NY Times feature today:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/09/arts/music/09badu.html?ref=music

Baduizm

^ black metal band name up for grabs

hahaha

"20 Feet Tall" is such an inspiring song imo.

Anytime I have obstacles in front of me now, I got to be like "Rev, you are 20 feet tall. Step over that shit!"

You're 20 feet tall? O_O

metaphorically

"20 Ft Tall" and Damian Marley/Nas's "Strong Will Continue" are my big inspirational songs this year.

i love "20 feet tall" but "jump up in the air" is my go-get-em inspirational-motivational erykah track of choice this year.

haha me too. i made myself an inspiraysh mix and put jump up in the air on it.

anyone see her in new york on monday? was in town but could not get tix...

No, but I saw her in Chicago last week, it was an amazing show.

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

that's great!

just got a report of her singing karaoke at a bar in town tonight! :O

apparently they let her do 5-10 songs in a row then she bounced

what's up with portland man

first random chappelle stand up now random badu karaoke

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.

oh

cursory google search confirms that it did take place but no one could hear a thing he said

COME BACK COME BACK BABY COME BACK

i want u be near me

hrrm did "jump up in the air (stay there)" ever emerge in 320 kbps? or, like, better than the 160 i have

"gone baby, don't be long" is the one of this album, aside from "window seat"

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

i think if you make something as epic as pt. 1, the best direction is to go in the one she went in

A very good album, and you named the two best songs (I'd include "Umm Hmm," which became essential summer listening)

it's really a beautiful thing

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?

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.

The groove is soooo deep.

According to iTunes:

Most played: "Love"
Least played: "Incense"

I just tried something: dropping "Gone Baby" after Van Helden's "U Don't Know Me."