I just love this song.

Did discover this song only last year, but it always puts me in a happy mood!

His vocals are so good and soulful, the band seals the deal.

The whole cd is cool, but this song really stands out.

It's a shame it didn't chart....but we have the black eyed peas for that.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...RLxQ49MeSM (I still don't know how to put on a youtube file).

Enjoy!

this song is AMAZING!!!!!!!

its like the BRADY BUNCH for cool people

gr8 song indeed. whole cd is NOT good tho. spotty at best.

There are no words for how great this song is. There are so many levels to it. So many of T's influences converging into one masterpiece. TTD at his absolute best.

the video is cool too

A truly beautiful song.

If I'm not mistaken isn't it technically a Sananda Maitreya track?

Nvncible1 said:

the video is cool too

An apparent one-take masterpiece.

Swa said:

A truly beautiful song.

If I'm not mistaken isn't it technically a Sananda Maitreya track?

I don't know, for me he will always be Terence Trent D'Arby..if you can make these kind of songs, you shouldn't worry about your name

The CD itself was credited to both performers on the cover. The online stores that are still selling it seem to be referring it to just as a Terence Trent D'arby record, so that's probably what it was registered as. So I think "O Divina" was still "officially" a Terence Trent D'Arby track and it was of course recorded years before its release. Only his self-recorded stuff seems to be credited to Sananda Maitreya without a trace of Terence Trent D'Arby.

First official release found in the stores:

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The second one sold during the tour and via the internet (might have been in some stores as well):

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Curiously enough, you'd think the latter one would have the name Sananda Maitreya on it.

Beautiful song; great CD.

BlaqueKnight said:

Beautiful song; great CD.

yup

Well, there has to be promotion or that it can get played on the radio or MTV. Critics say TTD killed his career when he said in an early interview that he was a genius, right up there with Prince and Stevie Wonder. That killed it for him here.

2freaky4church1 said:

Well, there has to be promotion or that it can get played on the radio or MTV. Critics say TTD killed his career when he said in an early interview that he was a genius, right up there with Prince and Stevie Wonder. That killed it for him here.

Word on this board is that's not what killed it.

Chris Rock once said TTD was one of his favorite artists. When he plays him at a party his friends all go apeshit, loving it, when they ask who the artist is they pretend to suddenly not like it once they find out it is TTD. It's unhip to like an artist once they are labeled hasbeen.

TTD's big talk when he released "Introducing the hard line..." was a genius stroke in that it immediately got him into conversations with these artists. No different to when you hear people labelled "the new...".

Sadly what killed it for TTD was his follow up - Neither Fish Nor Flesh - whilst many existing fans loved it (myself included) the album was a hard one to get into. This Side of Love was a semi successful first single but it all floundered after that.

The remaining TTD albums Symphony or Damn, and Vibrator held some brilliant moments and had some singles that were well received but with a semi-self imposed exile and name change things were never the same.

It's funny when I play any TTD/SM stuff now days and people hear it they always ask who it is, when told the follow up is always "oh he's still doing stuff".

I still consider him (all blatant self promotion aside) the most underrated artist of a generation.

I believe O Divina is one of Sananda's personal favourites as it's the only song he released as TTD which he still performs. Here's a performance from January.

I wish he would one day form a bigger band or at least add a couple of musicians to the current one. Some added guitar or keys would make these performances a lot more energetic and his voice wouldn't always overpower the whole band.

He's working on a budget these days. I see no other reason for as stripped down approach than money, his music would need at least a fourth musician onstage. That above clip comes off a bit like a former superstar singing in a pub band.

ThreadBare said:

BlaqueKnight said:

Beautiful song; great CD.

yup

Yes, it is a great CD

Ville said:

I believe O Divina is one of Sananda's personal favourites as it's the only song he released as TTD which he still performs. Here's a performance from January.

I wish he would one day form a bigger band or at least add a couple of musicians to the current one. Some added guitar or keys would make these performances a lot more energetic and his voice wouldn't always overpower the whole band.

Want to know the biggest difference between TTD and Sananda? Budget. That clip was absolutely terrible. Without the horns and organ the song loses a lot.