So let´s talk about Neosoul on this topic and you favourite artists and albums.

Let me ask you first is neosoul still alive?

And what are your ten favourite neosoul albums?

BTW. What is this white motherfucker dude with the high voice doing?
A Neosoul artist I guess he is from Canada and names himself Rim Shady or Lady .??? doing?? Has he left the music business or the planet?

Yes, Neo Soul is alive and kickin' for those that TRULY know what's up.

The top 10:

1 - Brown Sugar - D'Angelo
2 - Baduizm - Badu
3 - Rahsaan Patterson - Rahsaan Patterson
4 - Urban Hang Suite - Maxwell
5 - Aijuswanaseing - Musiq
6 - First Born Second - Bilal
7 - Jill Scott: Words and Sounds Vol. 1 - Jill Scott
8 - The Colored Section - Donnie
9 - Where I Wanna Be - Donell Jones
10 - Van Hunt - Van Hunt

And Remy Shand is whom you're speaking of and his falsetto was so forced and tired that it wasn't even funny. Glad his ass is outta the game and I hope he stays that way.

GET. THIS!

MuthaFunka said:

Remy Shand. Yeah that´s the dude. So he´s out of the game? Why? What happend to him. The last time I heard this from him...http://www.youtube.com/wa...lM8Jrmnz_k

monk76 said:

I have no idea why he's outro and don't really care to know .

MuthaFunka said:

I just searched for Remy Shand on youtube and found this response

"arguably the most under appreciated artist of all time. They guy plays every instrument. On paper i thought he plays 13 different instruments and used them all for his album!".....

So why does the neosoul community showed him the backdoor??
I mean a bit.. like Britney who can´t sing, play any instruments and souldn´t doing music in the first place is still here.....

His greatest hit Take a message...

http://www.youtube.com/wa...re=related
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What about this guy??

http://www.youtube.com/wa...LJ_fgeVGH8

Even though I don't believe there's such thing as dumb ass "Neo Soul" since soul music has been and always will be FLAT OUT "soul music". But I know what you mean, so here're afew albums that represent "soul music",,at least IMO:



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Harlepolis said:

Good choice!

monk76 said:

He was boring. Dude had no personality. He seemed like a session musician that just happened to make a CD.

Harlepolis said:

Not a bad list. And we'll talk about the term "Neo Soul" another day .

I miss the brown sugar days... when music was still interesting and fun to watch on MTV.

Brown Sugar: http://www.youtube.com/wa...q_EfpGAH4o
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santessa - delirium


i agree with most of the choices above and i'd like to add santessa's
album. a protege of sade, produced by stuart mathewman. this is a cd
of dreamy spacy soundscapes with glorious sax and underwater guitars.
it's reminiscent of early sade laced with futuristic electronics and
a dark mysterious brooding atmosphere.

not sure if it's still in print since i read something about it being
hard to find and out of print a while ago. but for anyone liking any
of the albums mentioned on this thread, i'm sure "delirium" will be a
welcome addition to your record collection.





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Neosoul is the dumbest term of all time as it relates 2 music.

Graycap23 said:

i agree. but having said that, i usually like music that people call such,
so it helps me to dig out music or artists that i tend to like. however,
some of these albums are a far cry from "soul" or whatever i think of when
that term is used. nevertheless, people need an umbrella to spread over a
certain stream. but in most cases, with all terms for a certain type of
music, lots of people get mislabeled and piled up in boxes they don't fit
into all too comfortably. if anything it puts people off from listening to
artists with an open mind.

i might not like what i've heard from "neosoul" but that doesn't mean that
if i give "Maxwell: The Urban Hang Suite" a listen it won't rank amongst
the most cool album's i've ever heard. labels work both ways, but mostly
they restrict.

Graycap23 said:

Explain.

Because I see no problem with it. In fact, NO ONE had a problem with it when neo soul wa selling like hotcakes in the late 90s/early 00s. It seemed like everyone jumped on the "I hate the term 'Neo Soul'" bandwagon once Saadiq stated he didn't like it.

The thing is, most people don't understand what the term means. It just simply means a "New" generation that's keeping "Soul Music" alive. Torch-bearers, if you will. No harm in that.

Trust and believe, if Neo Soul started selling like this wack ass rap is selling, EVERY Neo Soul artist would be calling their shit "Neo Soul" and even some who aren't even considered Neo Soul would be calling it that .

MuthaFunka said:

When ever I hear the term it just bothers me. I can't explain, it just does.

Graycap23 said:

And it's funny, because Neo Soul artists are the ONLY artists that resist the title of their genre. Weird.

MuthaFunka said:

It bothers them as well.

Graycap23 said:

ONLY because they feel it immediately hurts their record sales. Where were they from 1995-2001 with this outrage? Nowhere. Why? Because Neo Soul was sellin' like a muthafucka during that period.

I really don't want to explicate how many of these albums I've owned, and sold.later

MuthaFunka said:

Not by any means.

It's very typical in electronic music. So one could draw the conclusion that if the genre definition is a new one, the artists might be more reluctant to it (than the case would be with, say, "jazz").

novabrkr said:

Name a musical genre where the majority of the artists within that genre resisted that name of their genre.

MuthaFunka said:

IDM

novabrkr said:

What's "IDM"?

'Neo Soul' is nothing like real soul music. It's very boring to my ears.

Oh no you did't.

MuthaFunka said:

Intelligent Dance Music

novabrkr said:

He DID!

i just gotta say, Bilal's Love For Sale, kills anything in this genre.