From a few years ago, apparently...it's shit.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...yA3rEbyd6Q

Not really feeling this, but hey... it's something, at least.

It was mentioned on the Org at least in 2007: http://prince.org/msg/7/237218

damn that isn't good

sounds good to me

hmm, i like it, i like it a lot

I'm digging it. It's not as good as "Really Love," though.

Ok, I'll speak on it now...

I've had this for a couple of years now...the version you hear is way different from what I was given then, which tells me that he's still working/or worked on it. Russ hipped him to Hendrix and VOILA! This is/was supposed to be a more guitar oriented album. Maybe the "James River" vibe still exits...lord knows I hope so.

Put it too ya this way:

If he has his way, then you might want to consider "Voodoo" his Bitches Brew and "James River" his Live Evil...

You didn't hear it from me...



J

I like this.

It's OK.

At the end of the day, people don't take D'Angelo seriously anymore, and who can blame them? The man has made two albums in 15 years.

He's ventured into Lauryn Hill territory at this point.

Militant said:

There are plenty of us who still take him seriously. We'd love to have more than 2 albums at this point, but those 2 albums are phenomenal. I'm ready whenever he's ready.

I don't really hold it against him. I'm ready whenever Lauryn Hill is too.

AlexdeParis said:

I meant outside of his core fanbase.

For someone who claims to be such a Prince fan, you'd think the guy would be a little more prolific. Prince has released damn near 20 discs of material in the last 15 years, and 75% of it is much better than D'Angelo's two albums. Plus D'Angelo is much younger - the last 15 years should have been the peak part of his career. Instead he became reclusive, fat and drug-addled.
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Militant said:

I have to admit, that is one thing that bothers me about Lauryn Hill and D'Angelo both. But Lauryn Hill at least had a bunch of prior work with the Fugees to show for that younger part of her life.

I have no interest in turning this into yet another tired Prince vs. D'Angelo thread, but "75%"?!? Really?

AlexdeParis said:

Yup.

1995 onwards, you have The Gold Experience (100x better than anything D could ever do), Emancipation (too long but there's at least 1.5 discs of classic material there), The Truth (stripped down acoustic genius), the Rave Un2/In2 discs (between the two versions there's a classic album of material), and the further brilliance of things like Rainbow Children, Chocolate Invasion, Slaughterhouse, Musicology, 3121, Planet Earth, Lotusflow3r/MPLSoUND.....

at LEAST 75& of that is more accomplished than D'Angelo's two albums (Brown Sugar being only half-decent, and Voodoo being musically great but lyrically pretentious as hell)....if not more. Prince's 2000's output is largely not considered as good as his 80's and 90's work, but it still puts D'Angelo's shit to fucking shame.

Well, I'll just say I find D'Angelo's 2 albums better than everything you listed. Only The Gold Experience is anywhere remotely close IMO.

I like it. Yall on some other shit.

I like it as well. When I listen to this song, I realize that this is a unfinished copy. I like the melodies and ideas in it. It just needs a good bit of polish for me.

Shawnt27 said:

I like it just the way it is,,,,sometimes a certain track lose its essence when you master it, I love this song's raw quality.

AWWWWW SHIT! I dig it!

I don't know what some of y'all are going on about.

Besides it's unpolished and raw, hopefully he can finish this.

Harlepolis said:

me too. i love the way it's not all over the place but locks into
a steady, cool groove and get's all guitared up in the end. love
this track. gotta go find an mp3 copy of this somewhere so that i
can listen to this in my car. loud.

i am liking this. hope this a sign of what he'll sound like.very diff than brown sugar and voodoo.can't wait to hear a new ballad.

Interesting.
Thanks 4 sharing.

That sounds like something off of 'There's a riot going on'.

The "Prince-like" funk moments and elements sound good..

It seems as if he chose the Prince funk rock of the 90s, while Prince is in the jazz phase of now..


His vocals are over-drown by the music in the mix.. I can't understand much of what he says here.. However, I did catch something interesting in the second verse, but I won't say anything until I can be sure of what I heard in the lyrics. If he is saying what I think he is saying, well it's very good for him. I won't put words in his mouth.



YHWH is Elohim and Yahoshua is King.

Of course, Funk Rock doesn't sell now (Well, nothing much is actually selling over a million copies, downloads, and ringtones anymore..)

The Self-Destructive Gangsta/Gutter Hip Hop FM Market won't play it much.. The on-air personalities will just gossip about his history..Even though Archer is like a Hip Hop Prince with "Street Cred", that audience won't buy the millions of copies that D's bosses seek.


Without a Copy-Proof CD (which failed miserably for SONY 9 years ago before Michael Jackson's "Invicible"), all of these Major Imprints won't make $$$$ with Funk Rock. They won't invest, or release, because their major profits come from "pop".



If Prince failed to garner support for this sound in the 90's, I doubt anyone else is going to make it work..


American Music Market is linked to the clubs.








YHWH is Elohim and Yahoshua is King.

Rock and roll, baby! I love it!

Please God let there be a press release this year confirming the "James River" album.
[Edited 2/1/10 13:30pm]