D'ANGEPOLLO: Brown Sugar vs. Voodoo

voodoo good for getdown & swishas but i actually listen to brown sugar

i listen to bs more too

should have just called it 'd'angepoll,' since there's an o in poll

no, "d'angepollo" is definitely the lesser of two evils here.

brown sugar. could never 'penetrate' voodoo

voodoo is a great jam record but ain't shit actually happening in it

its kinda how i feel about new amerykah come to think of it.

uh, RITE about Voodoo, RONG about New Amerykah

cruisin' was made for love
music was made for love

I love both albums but Voodoo gets my vote,

voodoo is a great jam record but ain't shit actually happening in it

what does this even mean

The grooves are good, but it's rather uneventful.

u dont 'get it'

I don't know. I want more, no matter the outcome. The lack of giant D'angelo catalog is what brought me to Dwele, Darien Brockington, etc.

Speaking of:

And shortly after Brown Sugar, got me on the lookout for Chico Debarge's post-lockdown comeback!

(Chico and D'angelo, along with Erykah Badu, were all managed by Kedar Massenburg in 96/97)

u dont 'get it'

― deej, Wednesday, November 26, 2008 9:05 PM Bookmark

I'm well past giving it the benefit of the doubt. So at this point I just say there isn't much to get.

I can't get into Dwele (for perhaps some of the same reasons I can't dig "Voodoo"). Dude has a nice voice, and interesting production, but what the fuck is with his absolute refusal to write songs? He's like the Fleet Foxes of r&b. The cover of "Open Your Eyes" on his latest stands out so much just by dint of having a tune.

Chico is the man. I've been on the lookout for that album for years.

"Iggin' Me" is the shit

Chico isand the man

"lookin' gooood"
http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/chico1.jpg

I love Brown Sugar, but it's a hell of a lot slighter than Voodoo, which I'm surprised isn't getting much love here. BS is a total apprentice record, where it feels like he's trying to show off to the record company all that he can do--it's really good, but it's like the short stories of an exceptional student writer.

Voodoo is the big, sprawling, 900 page novel that writer churns out in 11 months after he graduates. Totally on his own, he rejoices in the absence of teachers, rules, limits. Sure it's overblown, overlong, undisciplined. But what a record! It's nuts! There's so much good stuff in there!

VOODOO

btw whiney g. weingarten is going to be hopping mad when he sees this thread title

Voted Voodoo because i've spent the past week listening to How Does It Feel on repeat. Iggin Me is a classic too, thank you for reminding me of its existence.

Brown Sugar bayyyyyyyyyyyb

brown sugar has the jams but voodoo is the one you put on start to finish

i skip no traxxx on brown sugar

but that said i totally understand preferring voodoo and think it is a gr8 incredible album as well -- im just not mad at a trad nusoul r&b record, and think its a particularly great one

deej as a genuinely curious dude who doesn't 'get' voodoo--what am i missing? all i'm hearing are long slick funk workouts which hey i'm all for it, but is there more to it than that?

btw whiney g. weingarten is going to be hopping mad when he sees this thread title

― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Thursday, November 27, 2008 9:14 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Card pulled hahaha. I actually came in here for the sole reason of bitching about exactly that.

i was going to ask if it was pronounced "Dee-Ange-Eh-Poll-O" or "Dee-Ange-Poll-O"

or if it was about chicken

the former fwiw

deej as a genuinely curious dude who doesn't 'get' voodoo--what am i missing? all i'm hearing are long slick funk workouts which hey i'm all for it, but is there more to it than that?

― BIG HOOS is those british white steens (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, November 27, 2008 8:46 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

and sex is just in-and-out

and back in i hope...?

i may've doing this all wrong if not.

it sounds like hoos doesnt listen to the record long enough to get that far

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Woa... that was a surprise result for me. I've never got on with Voodoo. Guess it's time to dust it off again.

haha silent majority