Voodoo or Brown Sugar?

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Bilal and Maxwell were the two i was thinking of, but soul sista sounds more Voodoo like than anything on Brown Sugar.

nah .. i can hear what bilal sings on soul sista ...

soul sista plays right after 'Lady' on brown sugar

 

[maxamusa]

If I'm riding around brown sugar...in the crib voodoo

 

[Big Boss]

Brown Sugar

 

[987654321]

Agree to a point but very few artists can make a song like Lady, Brown Sugar is more than 'Nice'.

Raphael Saddiq could have done lady by himself.

 

[987654321]

bilal makes songs like on brown sugar. stevie wonder used to. maxwell did too.

their highs are even higher than what you have on 'brown sugar'.

none of them could do voodoo. not even crazy bilal.

you could put these straight on brown sugar









voodoo on the other hand is a perfect spell where d'angelo went where other artists wouldn't dare or be able to.

voodoo is on a deeper level and is meta-referential in that it works a spell on the listener.

voodoo is not an album called 'voodoo' nor does it contain songs about 'voodoo' .. it itself IS voodoo ..

Bilal and Maxwell were the two i was thinking of, but soul sista sounds more Voodoo like than anything on Brown Sugar.

Bilal Took his own artistic, voodoo/mama’s gun type leap on his second unreleased album “love for sale”. That shyt is his pinnacle to me. I’m still pissed it’s in the vault aside from the bootlegging.

“A love surreal ” ,in its entirety, is the next best thing for me. He poured a lot into that one, musically.

 

[LevelUp]

Voodoo

 

[Budda]

Raphael Saddiq could have done lady by himself.

He’s 1of1

 

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[Osmosis]

This thread definitely been done before but I been rinsing these two legendary albums all week and man, I can’t help but enjoy Brown Sugar more. I don’t think that’s the popular opinion since Voodoo is the more experimental/unique album but Brown Sugar is just a much more enjoyable listen for me.

Poll split right down the middle

I've since gravitated towards Voodoo. One Mo'Gin, The Root, and Spanish Joint is one of the GOAT three track runs.

 

[Big Boss]

Poll split right down the middle

I've since gravitated towards Voodoo. One Mo'Gin, The Root, and Spanish Joint is one of the GOAT three track runs.

2 classics

 

[987654321]

Poll split right down the middle

I've since gravitated towards Voodoo. One Mo'Gin, The Root, and Spanish Joint is one of the GOAT three track runs.

Since it dropped I’ve always been more into Voodoo. I loved Brown Sugar and even got to see him perform it live in the 90’s.

I just feel like if he stopped making music after BS we would be left wondering how great of an artist and musician he could be. Voodoo put an end to any mystery. it proved him to be among the greatest artists in the world, across time, outside of contemporary RnB.

I feel the same way about Mama’s Gun compared to Baduizm.

 

[Low End Derrick]

Brown Sugar, but can't go wrong with either

 

[LDC]

Voodoo

 

[Awesome Wells]

Voodoo.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

Brown Sugar. I revisit that album way more. Voodoo is an experience but I gotta be in a certain mood to listen to it. But when I do I listen to it all the way thru

Side note. I didn’t cop BS until a couple years after it dropped when I had this gf off and on for 6 years who was into all that incense burning doobie wrap wearing neo soul shyt. She got me hooked on it. Voodoo ended up being a first day cop. It was becuz of her I started listening to the Roots, Common, Badu, Maxwell, Blackstar, etc.

She was a real one