D'Angelo - "Black Messiah" 12/15/2014

This album is great. Such a great listen throughout.

I can truly hear ?uestlove's influence throughout the album.
 
Going on 20 years since i've been listening to buddy and i STILL hardly understand what he's saying half the time. :lol:

Got to cop the physical version because itunes didn't come w/ a digital booklet.

Reading the lyrics makes this so much doper.

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/dangelo-black-messiah-listening-party

Another life is my favorite song, and it's nice to have a better/mastered version off Really Love after all these years.
 
Gonna listen tonight. This dude has one of the best voices I've ever heard.
 
Listened to this over the past weekend.

Fantastic all the way through and it seems like he hasn't lost a step at all. Very happy he bounced back.
 
Brown sugar & voodoo where 2 albums that hold a special place in my music collection.

If you where listing to popular music in 1995 & 2000 when you first played these albums you knew it was something special.

Both dee's previous album still have that feeling when you play them all the way through some 14 to 19 years later.

With black messiah I'm not getting that feeling.

Its good music but not special or life defining music.

I hope i'll change my mind over time.
 
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D & The Roots entire set at the 2014 Afropunk festival...

I don't have the set list but I heard covers of Funkadelic's Satisfy, Bob Marley's Burnin’ And Lootin, & even Fishbone's Black Flowers with Angelo Moore no less... Enjoy.

 
This is a dope album and I love the musicianship. Album proved to me that D hasn't lost it. So happy to see him back. He's one of the great ones and he's a hometown legend in VA...always! #804

That being said, stacking this next to Brown Sugar and Voodoo is borderline insanity. Not on the same level what so ever.

I'm also a bit disappointed in the vocals on the album. The Vanguard and all of the production dominated the album and the vocals definitely took a back seat. Plus, I find myself having to make up all the words when I sing along because he is mumbling throughout the album :lol:.

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Went and bought the album yesterday after listening to it on Beats Music for the past couple of weeks. Love it. You really have to listen to it through headphones first, as the lyrics are difficult to hear and digest in a standard car system.
 
I went back an listened to Brown sugar and Voodoo, this dude is dope as hell. I dont usually like this type of music but I'll be damned if it isnt good.

Sidenote: I want to learn to play the drums now 
 
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From the linear notes of the album. Listening to it at maximum volume definitely helps in hearing and understanding the lyrics. Album of the year for me, followed by Cadillactica. Love the live instrumentation on this. Another Life.....................my goodness.
 
Matt Bomer covered Untitled for Magic Mike soundtrack, I didn't even know this dude could sing but he does D'Angelo justice with his cover

 
Forgot about this thread, but anyway, y'all know that he is in the studio now finishing the companion piece to Black Messiah. Should be out in the fall. I read about it in a interview he did with Rolling Stone
 
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Forgot about this thread, but anyway, y'all know that he is in the studio now finishing the companion piece to Black Messiah. Should be out in the fall. I read about it in a interview he did with Rolling Stone
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hopefully it comes quicker than Maxwell's companion pieces :lol: :smh:
 
StillIn729 said:
hopefully it comes quicker than Maxwell's companion pieces :lol: :smh:
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It should, these are songs already done, like Black Messiah was supposed to be longer, but however that went songs got left off. So he's using those, and some new ones.

Maxwell is never releasing Summer and or Night, or whatever the second and third parts were called, and Erykah Badu ain't release Newmrykah Part 3 either.
 
They took down the full set he & the Vanguard played at Bonnaroo earlier this year but here's his set from the AfroPunk festival. Most of his set consisted of covers (stuff he was listening to while recording) instead of Black Messiah tracks.

Also didn't feature bassist Pino Palladino or guitarist Jesse Johnson (from The Time).
 
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