General Music Discussion

joe c · **Posted:** Wed Mar 20, 2013 7:30 am

corrections wrote:

joe c wrote:

This is a request for a recommendation -

I'm looking for an album that kind of encompasses black history as a whole - one that has elements of gospel, hip hop, jazz, r&b, reggae, African stuff, whatever. Are there any albums out there that are like this?

Are you looking for single artist or compilation? For compliation the companion CD set to a really good music history textbook is probably your best bet.

A single artist.

jumpman8828 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 20, 2013 9:44 am

Thundercat kind of fits that bill. At the least, you can directly trace his roots back to jazz, R&B, hip-hop, and soul. Not exactly a genre-hopper though, more of a genre-melter

Gray · **Joined:** Sun Jul 10, 2011 5:49 pm **Posts:** 3043

It might not be totally comprehensive, and I'm fairly certain Joe's heard it, but Speakerboxxx/The Love Below(primarily The Love Below) does a fair job of covering most of its bases as far as black history goes.

corrections · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 9:11 pm **Posts:** 27988

Gray wrote:

It might not be totally comprehensive, and I'm fairly certain Joe's heard it, but Speakerboxxx/The Love Below(primarily The Love Below) does a fair job of covering most of its bases as far as black history goes.

This is true.

batman · **Posted:** Wed Mar 20, 2013 12:56 pm

jumpman8828 wrote:

Thundercat kind of fits that bill. At the least, you can directly trace his roots back to jazz, R&B, hip-hop, and soul. Not exactly a genre-hopper though, more of a genre-melter

I'll echo the Thundercat love. He is the bassist on Flying Lotus albums, and his album "Golden Age of Apocalypse" melts a lot of genres together.

"Voodoo" comes to mind of course. The only element you wouldn't find is reggae. And the only parts that sound like "African stuff" would sound more like afropop/highlife stuff that's closely tied to American music anyway. But you'll find jazz, r&b, hip hop, elements of gospel, funk, soul, the whole thing. Here's a quote from Pitchfork's review of it (They gave it a 10, they got it right)

Quote:

Rather than just listening to old Funkadelic or Stevie albums for inspiration, Voodoo was literally born from them; a typical night at Electric Lady would have D, ?uestlove, bassist Pino Palladino, and maybe one or two of their prodigious buddies playing an entire classic soul album through, and then seeing where those jams led them. This went on for years. The result is ineffably natural, the type of live-in-studio sound that requires copious god-given talent-- D'Angelo started playing piano at age 4-- and constant woodshedding to really pull off. There are no shortcuts.

Brett Alan · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 3:17 pm **Posts:** 6333

I don't listen to them all that much, but from what I know Sounds Of Blackness might be along the lines of what Joe C. is looking for.

chicken sandwich · **Joined:** Mon Oct 18, 2010 12:28 am **Posts:** 3104

OutKast is where it's at

Floyo Mounier · **Posted:** Thu Mar 21, 2013 8:11 pm

creeps wrote:

Gray wrote:

I believe he's recommending those to Gatsby. And, Yoush, those are fine albums, but you don't think they bear that much resemblance to Comus musically do you? Other than having folk roots?

Exuma's probably as close to Comus as you can get I'd say.
There really isn't anything that's legitimately close to Comus though. Gatsby I'm assuming you've already tried out more popular modern tribal stuff like Animal Collective and Tune Yards?

Yeah I think anyone who like Comus will like Exuma and vice versa, surely they are different takes on folk completely but they both have that freaky psychedelic almost voodoo cultish vibe running through it.

Adequate Gatsby · **Posted:** Sun Apr 14, 2013 10:15 pm

Today I had a realization. After spending the past few years listening to hundreds of songs, dozens of albums, watching many music documentaries, reading books and magazines focused on music, and spending almost all of my money on acquiring more music, I don't know jack shit about music. It was a very worldview shaking kind of realization.

chicken sandwich · **Joined:** Mon Oct 18, 2010 12:28 am **Posts:** 3104

the only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing

ClashWho · **Posted:** Mon Apr 15, 2013 12:11 am

http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/meta ... 800-slower

:freak:

I have got to figure out how to do that to "Won't Get Fooled Again" and "Baba O'Riley".

joe c · **Posted:** Mon Apr 15, 2013 10:19 am

Its quite easy. You use a free program to do it.

ClashWho · **Posted:** Mon Apr 15, 2013 10:56 am

joe c wrote:

Its quite easy. You use a free program to do it.

Yeah, I will once I'm home.

ClashWho · **Posted:** Mon Apr 15, 2013 10:53 pm

ClashWho · **Posted:** Mon Apr 15, 2013 10:54 pm

"Baba O'Riley" is the sound of angels.

"Who Are You" is the Devil himself.

"Won't Get Fooled Again" is the Sound of God.

General Music Discussion

Who is online