ArsMoriendi
06.11.23 | Maybe an edgy opinion but: I prefer both Brown Sugar and Black Messiah to this on the whole |
normaloctagon
06.11.23 | All are great albums but this list is stiiinky |
normaloctagon
06.11.23 | There’s like one or two tracks that could be cut from this and they’re all more head down hip hop tunes that don’t belong on this album but were shoehorned in because of what neo-soul was commercially at the turn of the century |
robertsona
06.11.23 | Feel like Makin love is a favorite. Plane back to Paris 2015 remember it well |
ArsMoriendi
06.11.23 | @normal: so Left & Right for sure then, right |
normaloctagon
06.11.23 | Absolutely |
ArsMoriendi
06.11.23 | What's the other one you'd cut |
normaloctagon
06.11.23 | Dunno if there is another one honestly but lemme go back and look at the tracklist
Also don’t understand how feel like makin love and the root get the cut here. The root is easily a top 3 track. And my confusion here is more for feel like makin love in the context of your first comment on the list, since it’s one of a handful of tracks that could have been put on brown sugar and not feel out of place |
Ryus
06.11.23 | feel like makin love is a biiig keep cmon |
Ryus
06.11.23 | the root too ya |
ArsMoriendi
06.11.23 | "Feel Like Makin' Love" is okay, it's the only cover on the album and I always felt like it sounded noticeably like a cover
Top 3 Voodoo for me is deff: One Mo'Gin, Spanish Joint, and Untitled |
normaloctagon
06.11.23 | So does Cruisin’ from Brown Sugar but it still whips |
ArsMoriendi
06.11.23 | I hate Crusin', terrible fucking song |
Ryus
06.11.23 | my top 3 is untitled/feels like makin love/africa. what a back half on that album |
Ryus
06.11.23 | "I hate Crusin', terrible fucking song"
wtf ars pls control yourself and your bad takes |
normaloctagon
06.11.23 | “What a back half on that album”
Yeah man, truly incredible |
ArsMoriendi
06.11.23 | Nah man Crusin' is like Hawaiian-shirt vacation dad music, basically all versions are whether it be Smokey's, D'angelo's, or Huey Lewis's
Brown Sugar might be a 4.5 instead of a 4 without it |
normaloctagon
06.11.23 | Your r&b takes are like Hawaiian shirt vacation dad core lol |
Ryus
06.11.23 | no smokey slander in the thread |
ArsMoriendi
06.11.23 | Smokey's cool, especially in the 60s, but we don't need to defend his worst hit, even The Beach Boys had Kokomo. In fact Crusin' and Kokomo are oddly similar |
Ryus
06.11.23 | its def not his best song or anything but is it anywhere near kokomo-tier hell nah |
ArsMoriendi
06.11.23 | I'm sorry, but I don't know if I can agree even a little... the rest of Brown Sugar ranges from 3.5-5 material though, with most of it being on the higher end of that |
Havey
06.11.23 | "Nah man Crusin' is like Hawaiian-shirt vacation dad music"
sounds like an endorsement to me |
ArsMoriendi
06.11.23 | I guess check Jimmy Buffet then Havey, that's the face of that genre |
porcupinetheater
06.11.23 | Do Joe’s Garage next ! |
ArsMoriendi
06.11.23 | That'd be way harder since Joe's Garage follows a story, BUT I will say, as much as I love it, it's also way too fucking long
"He Used to Cut the Grass" is prob the easiest to cut from that though off the top of my head |
robertsona
06.11.23 | Smokey Robinson just released a new album called GASMS |
Ryus
06.11.23 | thats like seeing your grandpa with a boner |
Drifter
06.11.23 | nah its pretty much the perfect length. super enthralling album when you let yourself sink into its thiccness |
YoYoMancuso
06.12.23 | This is the best album ever made so I’d leave it exactly as is |
climactic
06.12.23 | Those are terrible cuts wtf man
Album has no skips |
Sinternet
06.12.23 | who tf cuts feel like makin love |
ArsMoriendi
06.12.23 | Can’t be the best album ever made when it’s not even top 2 D’Angelo
Can’t be the best album ever made when Erykah Badu, his neo-soul contemporary, has like 4 better albums |
ParoXysm
06.12.23 | This is blasphemy. |
Piglet
06.12.23 | "Erykah Badu has like 4 better albums"
INFIDEL |
ArsMoriendi
06.12.23 | Piglet, bro you don’t even have a single Badu album rated…am I arguing with people who haven’t even heard Mama’s Gun? Fuck… |
robertsona
06.12.23 | Oop! |
SomeCallMeTim
06.12.23 | Agreed hard Ars that Black Messiah >>>> |
twlight
06.13.23 | Ur dick is too short |
ArsMoriendi
06.13.23 | Stop trying to get my pants off twlight |