Whew is this girl hot!
I love this woman- she is so beautiful inside and out - she has a song for my every mood and she has songs to put me in the mood and it's so amazing how she becomes better with every album!

This is definitely a must have!

http://www.prince.org/msg/8/146200

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

I know baby- I posted in that thread! -- it actually dropped today so I felt the need to tell everyone -- not trying to step on your toes.

I forgot this was coming out today!

SweetKreme said:

I didn't check through. I just saw Me'Shell and went into overdrive This is indeed fantastic. One quality album after another. All umcompromised and true. She is one of my heroes

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Definitely true!

I'm oblivious to this woman.

What do i need to know?

Marrk said:

Are you serious?

Is this gonna be at Best Buy?

i checked out this CD today but got the sinead "collaborations" comp instead. so it's pretty good stuff, eh?

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

I've read her name in print. Couldn't pronounce her surname though if i tried. Who does she sound like?

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

She is a hell of a bassist. It's been a while since she's had an album out. The last thing I heard from her was a club mix. So, this ablum should be exciting.

Marrk said:

Nobody Take a gander at the link I posted above. Maybe check out CDnow.com for song samples if you aren't willing to purchase blind. My favorite album of hers is Peace Beyond Passion. However, all her albums are unique, fresh, uncomporomised and stirring. She is amazing live

I'm headed to Virgin Union Square after work to pick it up.



UPDATE: Just got it. :::currently on "Papillon":::

BTW, it was sold out at the Circuit City next door. Happy about that.
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THIS CAME OUT TODAY???!!!??? Damn...I'll definetly put it on my "must get" list. Me'Shell never lets me down.

JANFAN4L said:

awww, i miss shopping at virgin union square.

I've been waiting for this forever. The two downloaded tracks I've heard are amazing. Hopefully, tomorrow won't be as crazy at work as today and I can sneak out to Best Buy ~ IF they have it.

SPYZFAN1 said:

Her last album was kinda

alexnevermind319 said:

Hell no! -- you didn't love 'Lillqoi Moon' or come 'Smoke my herb'?

Damn!

She rocked the house in DC last night - but alot of people were a little upset because she didn't sing - she and her band were on some instrumental jazz type shit but it was so amazing just hearing them play - I was defintely excited!

and I fought my way through the crowd until I was at the very front - ooo was I in love!

SweetKreme said:

I thought that the new album your recommeding IS "instrumental jazz type shit."

Stax said:

It is but when you go to a show- ecspecially if your a fan - you go hoping that the artist will do at least some of the older stuff or the stuff you can sing along to (and she usually does) but she was strictly on the album last night -- so maybe I worded that wrong

SweetKreme said:

I hear ya.

Marrk said:

N'degeocello..... N-DAY-GAY-O-CHELLO

HEY!!! Now that I can see the art in the initial post, I have a question and a complaint...

1) Why is this art different than the European version? I hope it wasn't changed due to any anti-Arabic sentiment in the U.S.

2) I think it bites that Meshell was not able to use the original band name, "Papillon," after Verve passed on distributing this project. It's good, though, to see the concept acknowledged with the butterfly on the U.S. release.

Death to Verve!! (... or at least a really bad cold).
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Any North American tour info?!?!

Marrk said:

EVERYTHING

I got it!

What a smart and courageous move for Meshell! The two things I love most about her -- her sultry voice and her sexually/politically charged lyrics -- are also the two things I've long feared might pigeonhole her as a one-trick pony. It was most apparent on her last album COMFORT WOMAN. As much as I loved that CD, I couldn't help but keep thinking, "Haven't we heard this before?"

On her latest project, she leaves that familiar space for perhaps more sacred ground. Not a single word is uttered by her on this one, allowing us to concentrate on the arrangements, the improv and (dig her lack of ego) OTHER musicians! How unheard of is that?!

This is one of her best. And it's better -- and somewhat less pretentious -- than N.E.W.S., by the way, IMO.
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i am totally loving this album!!!!!
however, deeeeep down inside, i miss her vocals, maybe i'm the only one feeling that....i dont think that should could match what cassandra, sabina or lalah did with those songs but i just feel like i'm cheating on meshell by listening to this album, and not hearing her voice...*( i know its a little mellow-dramatic, but hey i love her voice)

Lammastide said:

For sure it was for just that reason (anti-Arabic sentiment). It makes sense when after all it's a business and that's not the way to move this album.

The Arabic alphabet is beautiful. Don't like what they did to it on this cover. The butterfly composition is so much better.

Gonna get this one tomorrow.