dude is still doing his jb/prince pastiche. i'm not mad at it. curious if all the 80's babies will support when the album drops.
supposedly he spent the last 12 yrs learning guitar. (and picking up prostitutes.)

I'll take a listen.

I'm not super duper excited for it, but I won't give it the ol' Batmon brush off either.

I just hope he stays clean.

1995. Stop.

I'm mildly curious and wouldn't expect anything groundbreaking. Chances are I'll be sleeping.

Kindly,
parallax

Le double

batmon - 27 January 2012 09:39 PM

1995. Stop.

I just got dizzy thinking about just how close to 20 years ago that is.

SIRUS - 27 January 2012 06:31 PM

supposedly he spent the last 12 yrs drinking and doing heroin (and picking up prostitutes.)

Just waking up now from last night's D'Angelo show here (CPH). I got the tickets for free, and I had no expectations whatsoever.

Verdict: pretty damn good.

His voice is strong as ever and the band was great. The performance was heavy on the black rock + prince influence. Lots of instrumental passages and experimental arrangements. They did a sick version of Parliament "I've Been Watching You (Move Your Sexy Body)" and "Brown Sugar" got turned into a "Housequake"-style uptempo jam.

He didn't pull a crowd-pleasing "greatest hits" show (no "Lady" and "Me And Those Dreamy Eyes Of Mine"), which I wasn't mad at. I thought people expecting suave boom-clack neo-soul from start to finish would find it too experimental and heavy on the guitars. Everyone I spoke to after the show were happy though.

New songs sound good, but it's hard to gauge from a live show. I guess the coming album will be the real "he's back" litmus test, but there's no doubt that he can bring it live.

batmon - 27 January 2012 09:39 PM

1995. Stop.

Every year that goes by, it gets harder to argue with you about this.

Seeing him tonight, it'll be interesting. Will report back tomorrow.

Unherd - 28 January 2012 10:37 AM

batmon - 27 January 2012 09:39 PM

1995. Stop.

Every year that goes by, it gets harder to argue with you about this.

lets say 2000 since thats when voodoo came out. twelve years later??? And voodoo had a long burn too.

Never really cared much to begin with. Dude IMO is just a mumbly, overextended hook waiting for rap verses that never come. It's always more pose than music with D'Angelo.

I can't wait to hear his verses on Detox.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgcmRnxoDag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgcmRnxoDag

I'll care once there's some new studio tracks to listen to. A bunch of low quality YouTube videos from European shows doesn't get me that excited. Yeah, if you're a D'Angelo fan it's good that he's doing *anything* at this point, but I'm not in Europe and it isn't live stuff I'm caring about.

Tuff_Gong - 09 February 2012 06:27 AM

I'll care once there's some new studio tracks to listen to. A bunch of low quality YouTube videos from European shows doesn't get me that excited. Yeah, if you're a D'Angelo fan it's good that he's doing *anything* at this point, but I'm not in Europe and it isn't live stuff I'm caring about.

I heard you guys like D'angelo live tracks.



Here you go

Friends who went to the London show last week said he was fantastic.

Saw him in Amsterdam, he cancelled first, which was nice of him. Then he played thursday instead of monday and I have to say he was spectacular. Made a bunch of songs really long nice drawn out jams, and then sat at the piano by himself and went through most of Voodoo and Brown sugar in like 20 mins. Also he relied on the audience to sing a long to almost everything. I'm a massive fan of Voodoo (still listen to it weekly) but i don't know any of the words, it appears no one else does either so that was a bit of a shame.

Ended the night on a LONG ass version of Brown Sugar and groundcontrol to Major Tom.

Overall great show. Channeled Prince through most of it, but ended on a more James Brown type steez.
Loved it, new songs sounded good. Hope he brings out an album soon.