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Voodoo is the second studio album by American musician D'Angelo, released on January 25, 2000, through Virgin Records. D'Angelo recorded the album during 1997 and 1999 at Electric Lady Studios in New York City, with an extensive line-up of musicians associated with the Soulquarians musical collective. Produced primarily by the singer, Voodoo features a loose, groove-based funk sound and serves as a departure from the more conventional song structure of his debut album, Brown Sugar (1995). Its lyrics explore themes of spirituality, love, sexuality, maturation, and fatherhood. Following heavy promotion and public anticipation, the album was met with commercial and critical success. It debuted at number 1 on the US Billboard 200, selling 320,000 copies in its first week, and spent thirty-three weeks on the chart. It was promoted with five singles, including the hit single "Untitled (How Does It Feel)", whose music video garnered D'Angelo mainstream attention and controversy. Critically, Voodoo was acclaimed as a masterpiece and earned D'Angelo several accolades, including the Grammy Award for Best R&B Album and top rankings in album polls for the year. D'Angelo promoted Voodoo with an international supporting tour in late 2000. While successful early on, the tour became plagued by concert cancellations and D'Angelo's personal frustrations surrounding his sexualized public image from the album's marketing. Voodoo has since been regarded by music writers as a creative milestone of the neo soul genre during its apex and has sold more than 1.7 million copies in the United States, being certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Voodoo was listed as 28th on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
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Nelly once sung "It's gettin' hot in here. So take off all your clothes". It must have been Voodoo by D'Angelo playing at that moment as this album is as hot, steamy and sexy as it can get. His debut album, Brown Sugar, was already a great effort to catch the feeling of a sexual encounter on a warm summer night, but this is going all the way, flat out. One of the best soul, r&b albums every. Best tracks: "Untitled (How Does It Feel)", "Devil's Pie" and "Left & Right".
What? It’s not in the original list ?
Add to the bucket of wait a minute I’m sure this was on the orginal list albums. Smooth and sexy as it should be.
Det här är ju normalt sätt inte min kopp av te, men plattan är ändå ganska soft och skön. Att jag satt i en park i Göteborg med voffsen och drack öl samtidigt gjorde ju inte saken sämre. Det är fortfarande inte bra men en trea lyckas han skramla ihop. Plattan är dessutom alldeles för lång för att kunna få högre poäng.
Rating: 10/10
Should be switched with Brown Sugar from the book albums. Wish this was just a bit more short and concise and it would be an easy 5 star. R.I.P. D’Angelo
Goodoo
Smooth as silk, but also filthy!
A little too long and samey for me. Once you've heard about 4 or 5 songs you know what the rest will be like. I liked this more than the other one on the OG list. My personal rating: 4/5 My rating relative to the list: 4/5 Should this have been included on the original list? Yes, over the book one.
Neo soul, R&B, funk, soul, jazz, psychedelic soul. Ni fu ni fa.
Sad stories around this one, on how the negative side of fame and public perception dragged down his mental health on tour. Early troubles in a tragic life overall I'm not quite fully on board with a lot of neo-soul, I guess its point of view seems a little vague to me, when classic R&B and soul are so forcefully and clear. Still I did like this and it has some high points.
Pretty good
At first I thought this would be some gangsta rap from the album picture. But I got some soul and R&B instead. Quite enjoyful even
I can hear they this is different from other albums of this genre but it wasn’t for me
Did not enjoy this time either