errant said:

TTD doesn't need hip producers or guest artists to get a major label interested in him, get the public interested in him, or . He just needs to write and produce some songs that are actually about something instead of the weird gothic hippie commune he's living in in his head, something that people who don't wear an Aunt Jemima doo-rag can relate to. Something that people with actual, real feelings can connect with, instead of some fantasy world that exists only in some artsy-for-artsy's-sake pretentious douchebag's head.

that is all it takes.

Huggiebear said:

There was a banned one showing him chest up with a tray full of fish covering his private parts that was almost immediately banned.

And that other cover he is throwing a Prince like symbol.

Unless you can provide that picture, I think you are mistaken. Been a HARDCORE Sananda fan for a long time and have never seen nor heard of this picture you are talking about and I would have heard of it by now.

As for your second comment ("throwing up a Prince like symbol").... Gimme a fucking break.

THAT is a "Prince-like" symbol? That statement is so ridiculous.

errant said:

TTD doesn't need hip producers or guest artists to get a major label interested in him, get the public interested in him, or . He just needs to write and produce some songs that are actually about something instead of the weird gothic hippie commune he's living in in his head, something that people who don't wear an Aunt Jemima doo-rag can relate to. Something that people with actual, real feelings can connect with, instead of some fantasy world that exists only in some artsy-for-artsy's-sake pretentious douchebag's head.

that is all it takes.

Typical comment from someone who doesn't know what the fuck they are talking about. Rather than add a smiley to your douchebag comments like most people around here do, I think I'll call you out on them.

Look at these songs, look up the lyrics if you'd like, and tell me they aren't about something that real people with real feelings can connect to. Or maybe YOU are the actual douchebag. Yeah I'm going with you are the douchebag.

emilio319 said:

errant said:

TTD doesn't need hip producers or guest artists to get a major label interested in him, get the public interested in him, or . He just needs to write and produce some songs that are actually about something instead of the weird gothic hippie commune he's living in in his head, something that people who don't wear an Aunt Jemima doo-rag can relate to. Something that people with actual, real feelings can connect with, instead of some fantasy world that exists only in some artsy-for-artsy's-sake pretentious douchebag's head.

that is all it takes.

Typical comment from someone who doesn't know what the fuck they are talking about.

I've heard the music he's been doing for the last 10 years. What else is there to know?

hhhhdmt said:

whodknee said:

Let Michael rest in peace.

i thought he was talking about prince

Of course he was but I wanted to have some fun with it. Work with me people.

Marrk said:

blackbob said:

terence trent d'arby/Sananda Maitreya ...how talented is this guy?....an amazing voice...talented musician and good songwriter....makes me wonder why he isnt more important in the music world because he really should be...some of his albums are very strong and he still writes some good stuff.....would love to see him back in the limelight his talent deserves...

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That's just the way he wants it i think. At least he's not a bag of contradiction unlike somebody else we know.

i sure hope that u aint talkin' bout Pince

The Nude cover was for a magazine in the UK, not a album. Get it straight. A true geniune artist he is. I've seen every tour he's done in NYC. The last time he came to NY was in 2003 and his voice was in fantastic shape.

he needs an unsung-but then again, was he ever really popular in the black community?

The Hardline... is the shit, basically. From the first song to the last.

Yes, one of the best cds of the 80s

scriptgirl said:

he needs an unsung-but then again, was he ever really popular in the black community?

Well maybe someone can start a show about alternative black acts like TTD, Tracy Chapman, Living Colour, Joan Armatrading, Pheobe Snow, Charlie Pride, Henry Glover (producer at King Records), Jackie Shane, Bus Boys, Toshi Reagon, Jon Butcher Axis, Shamekia Copeland, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Last Poets, Rosie Ledet, Tamar Kali, Alexis Brown (Straight Line Stitch), Fefe Dobson, Res, Alice Smith, King's X, Zap Mama, Sweet Honey In The Rock, etc.

I've got his Greatest Hits album (which I love) and some other stuff and I would like to hear his new music but it seems kind of hard to get it. I'm not a big enough fan to drop thirty bucks on an album that I might or might not like. If I could pick them up for 10-15 bucks I'd probably give them a try.

It's kind of a shame that this guy is not still a huge star, he's definitely got one of the best voices of his generation and it would have been nice if he had a bigger catalog of music. He may have fit in better in the 60s/70s. He could have done something similar to Stevie and Marvin where he started out doing pop music with fluff lyrics and then moved into doing more relevant music in the 70s. It probably would have been easier for him to hold on to an audience while doing esoteric music then than it is now. Maybe he was just born at the wrong time?

I agree he would have been bigger in the 60's. There is another guy who never got his due who I discovered his music in a movie recently OV Wright, check out Motherless Child, an amazing song.

JoeBala said:

I agree he would have been bigger in the 60's. There is another guy who never got his due who I discovered his music in a movie recently OV Wright, check out Motherless Child, an amazing song.

He was on Backbeat Records. I don't think anybody on there was really popular. Not like acts on Motown & Atlantic, or even Stax & Chess. Backbeat was real small time.

If only he could have a comeback like Bonnie Riatt did back in the 80's. At least he's happy not to deal with the record companies BS. Hadn't been on his website in a while. Ordered SM/TTD latest CD via his website. I'll buy the newer one later on. Maybe they will put that on CD too later on? Hi Lily! Have you been in touch with Sananda? and does he plan to come to the US for any tours?

scriptgirl said:

he needs an unsung-but then again, was he ever really popular in the black community?

Trent's first album was played on Black radio, it was the second album and thereafter he fell off the map. Well he fell of the map for all radio in the US.

Who knows? I think Trent's ego got in the way a bit but in the end this was a guy who took chances and didn't fit into that cookie cutter pattern radio, fans and the music industry want singers / musicians to be. In his case I think Trent had too much self respect and integrity to be a gimmick or chase music charts. You make your choices and Trent seems at peace with his choices.