Anxiety said:

why can i see her sleeping on the masters and ruining them.. then waking up and blaming someone else...

This has my vote for the best album of the year.

MF Doom also dropped MM...Food this week and it is ill to the heights of illtivity.

Harlepolis said:

I loved this album
plus she's gorgeous
im a sucker for full lips

Luv4oneanotha said:

She does have great natural lips. No collagen in those. Yum!

Wasn't the Donny Hathaway album a re-release with added songs?

RipHer2Shreds said:

Naw, a compilation of his live gems with other non-released live gems.

Harlepolis said:

Damn! I thought it was a reissue of the 1972 album Live!



After looking at both, I think they share some common live performances but the new one has lots more stuff. I'm gonna have to get it! You like it a lot, I take it?

pkidwell said:

u were wrong for sleeping on it it was a good album but Shitney Shears had to cancel the tour and break her damn knee




also it's Nsync not N-Suck

pkidwell said:

You didn't miss much. A few good tracks, but overall it was pretty lackluster.

ABeautifulOne said:

That must be the worst album cover I've ever seen and will ever see.

check out his site its like that on the opening part hes in a strait jacket there 2

I know Elvis Costello got a grammy nomination, but I doubt "The Delivery Man" made any pop impact. It may sound cliche but it's his best stuff in a decade.

Mos Def - The new danger got slept on

missfee said:

I heard it... honestly it didn't grab me.

allmusic.com review:

Artist

Incognito

Album

Adventures in Black Sunshine

Review by Jonathan Widran
It's funny how every time another phenomenally funky, brass-fired groove party comes out in the shape of another solid Incognito date, the label touts it as "retro." This time, Narada Jazz's press materials focus on all of group mastermind Jean-Paul "Bluey" Maunick's influences in order to remind listeners that he's a child of the '70s. But the basic soul vibe of that decade has been the defining element of Incognito's sound since their first disc in the early '80s. The big story on 2003's Who Needs Love was the inclusion of a Brazilian vibe via Ed Motta, and here it's the return after several albums of the honey soul-voiced Maysa Leak, who was a big part of the group's rise to acid jazz prominence in the early '90s. Depending on the intensity of the groove, Leak's cool vibes add breeze or urgency over the course of her seven tracks — from the laid-back seduction of "Don't Turn My Love Away" to the more danceable and emotionally charged "Everything Your Heart Desires" and the moody, socially conscious "This Thing Called Love." Listening to the irrepressible instrumentals, which keep the groove moving under increasingly snazzy horn fire, it's clear the kind of impact Incognito has had on newer Brit outfits like Down to the Bone. "The 25th Chapter" rolls on and on like a disco on fire (with jazzy flute pepper trying to put it out), while no less than George Duke (another '70s-minded jazz-funk genius) spices up the spacy soul jam "Mindin' My Business" with some out-there Rhodes improvisations. Even with some 1,000 musicians passing through Incognito's ever-revolving doors and ever-evolving sound, Maunick's admiration for the soul music that first inspired him comes through brilliantly every time out.

PhilG has a good example of a truly slept-on album.

Harlepolis said:

now there u go..,. can always count on Harle' 2 keep shit righteous

CinisterCee said:

oh my..i had stopped following these kats years ago.....still good, ehh?

sosgemini said:

hell if I know -- I slept on them

sosgemini said:

It's really good believe me.from the first track to the last.A nice 70s vibe throughout.The singer Maysa Leak doesn't get enough props here. N'dea Davenport/Brand New Heavies fans would certainly like this.,

Louden Up Now by !!!

WhamBamGlamSlam said:

okay now!!

RipHer2Shreds said:

Hell yes, get the shit

It has non-released LIVE versions of:

Superwoman(Stevie's cover gem)
Yesterday(Beatles's cover gem)
Valdes In The Country
Young, Gifted & Black
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brotha(Which is the biggest HIGHLIGHT of the album)

Not to mention a breif radion interview from WBLS's archieves.

BTW that album(and the other live album from 1980) AND another WHOLE unreleased live album duet with Roberta Flack were ment to be remastered/reissued but Rhino didn't get the primession, so we got this instead(not 1/2 bad tho).

So,,,,get it

Rufus Wainwright's "Want Two"

A HUGE improvement over the disappointing "Want One," and his best collection yet, me thinks. Finally, the songs don't all sound the same.

Harlepolis said:

I love the live version of Valdes in the Country more than I do the studio version. And He Ain't Heavy... is one of my favorite songs. It always makes me cry, and I'm sure his version will be no different.

I'ma hafta get it. Or maybe I'll see if Santa can get it for me!

TheRealFiness said:

Yep. I didn't even know Lalah had a new album this year.

"Waltz of a Ghetto Fly" by Amp Fiddler

"We've Had Enough" by Baby Fiddler

ok where has this thing gone?

Out of your selections, I'd definitely give a listen to Van Hunt and Anthony Hamilton.