To have one of two D'Angelo albums and all but ONE of TTD's says otherwise. and saw TTD twice, once in quite the intimate venue (St. Andrew's Hall in Detroit) when Vibrator was just out. | |
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It was called Solar Return, which became Wildcard. Just Music-No Categories-Enjoy It! | |
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Symphony or Damn is on of my fave albums from anyone. Not a bad track on there. Wildcard, Fish nor Flesh, and Introducing the Hardline are all great albums too. I don't know why but never connected with Vibrator. I dig a few tracks but as a whole it doesn't work for me. | |
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Eh, knowing half of a discography as small as D'Angelo's doesn't qualify as a lot.
I find NFNF to be clearly the weakest of the TTD albums. I appreciate what he was going for, but I don't think he hit the mark as often as he did on the other releases. That being said, when he does — like on "To Know Someone Deeply..." and "I Don't Want to Bring..." — it's excellent. "Whitney was purely and simply one of a kind." ~ Clive Davis | |
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alls i'm saying is for me, D's output doesn't justify his hype. TTD had/has me perpetually interested since Hardline, i HAD NFNF in hand once but opted for some obscure Prince boot at the time instead. | |
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I followed what you wrote, I just found it puzzling. IMO, making some kind of judgment of D'Angelo's worth without even listening to Voodoo is akin to dismissing Stevie without hearing anything after Signed, Sealed & Delivered or the Beatles after Help! ... but to each his own. "Whitney was purely and simply one of a kind." ~ Clive Davis | |
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no....i cant rememmber where i heard this ....another lp after NFNF but BEFORE symphony | |
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i disagree with your analogy. in both cases their catalogues are too extensive to be "out of the loop" or "uninformed" by missing ONE album. btw, what's your reason Voodoo didn't get the "traction" one normally associates with a "great" album? it was a different industry then and I don't take my cues as to what the "press" says (or else i'd be a Beatles fan...) but i'm just curious to your thoughts since Voodoo apparently was a "game changer" for him IYO. (the industry slept on Embrya at the time of its release and to me, its Maxwell's best work) i've heard stuff like, no "proper singles" and its to be "experienced" as one piece of work, like a "movement" or something...
perhaps this will seal the deal for you regarding my 'musical acumen', even without listening to ONE Beatles album at all (i've only heard random singles here and there when i was in some random place), i think they are the most overrated group ever and they do not pique my interest at all | |
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I didn't say one album, I said everything after a particular album. The Stevie album I picked was the last one before he gained creative control over his career while the Beatles album was the last one before the beginning of their studio/experimental phase.
Voodoo got plenty of traction. It was a commercial and critical success accompanied with near-universal acclaim.
I couldn't care less about your musical acumen. You like what you like and there's nothing wrong with that. While I do think it's silly to dislike what you haven't heard, that's also your prerogative. "Whitney was purely and simply one of a kind." ~ Clive Davis | |
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I heard his last album a week ago, the Return to Zooathalon, he plays all instruments, and produce and composed all songs, I admire them, both Dangelo, as TTD, but TTD is well afront in artistic terms, him as an artist throughout his concept, he publishes videos that nobody sees, only few views, published writings that few people read, made no return masterful, he simple came out of the focus of all, this guy got my respect, i know he will probably dont release nothing like Vibrator again, but he is what some artists shoud be when they got old. | |
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Titally, an amazing voice and 3 killer albums. He still does remind me a lot of Prince and its natural a lot of Prince's fans who appreciated his Soul and R and B classics are going to have to look TTD as well. Vibrator is a very underated album, and Delicate is one of the most beautiful songs sung by anyone. And Introducing the Hardline according to Terence Trent D'arby is probably the finest debut album ever released after 1970 (It can not touch - Are you Experienced). Got some kind of love for you, and I don't even know your name | |
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When did he start using a different name? I'm just learning about this, at least I don't recall any news about it. Seems a bit strange to me that he would do that. No wonder I was rthinking he had not released anything, because he wasn't going by TTD...? | |
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whats betrter Voodoo or ...one of the best cds of the 90's-- Symphony.... | |
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D'Arby is just awesome awesome singer, great musician, and and great at merging different genres together in great songs. While his Sananda material is pretty meh he more than makes up for it with his TTD albums | |
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I was at that show. It was the summer of '95. Saw him two years earlier at the Brixton Academy too.
Hardline and Symphony were both incredible. I think Symphony's the best though. Incredible songs on there. Haven't heard anything past Vibrator though, apart from isolated tracks here and there (which have been weak). Will check out Wildcard when I get the chance.
As for D'Angelo, I know he's got his defenders here, but for me it was background music. Nice enough, but inessential. “The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
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Gray...what u think is better ? voodoo or symphony? | |
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