Erykah Badu: C /D, S&D

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."

:)

i do love this album but i'm not sure it's top ten material for me

naw, it ain't

Yeah, not top 10 of all time, no. The first one was; not this one.

er, i meant top ten of the year.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

this is prob the most unessential album shes released.

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