Track Listing

1. Brown Sugar
2. Alright
3. Jonz In My Bonz
4. Me And Those Dreamin' Eyes Of Mine
5. Shit, Damn, Motherfucker
6. Smooth
7. Cruisin' (Carl Mackintosh Mix)
8. When We Get By
9. Lady
10. Higher

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16781 in Music
• Released on: 1995-08-29
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

From Amazon.co.uk
D'Angelo is obviously inspired by the progressive soul of the early 1970s, but he has also borrowed carefully from the hip-hop of his own generation. Like many of his contemporaries, he has recorded a tribute to marijuana--the album's title--but it's far wittier than most. It takes the form of a conventional love song ("Brown sugar babe, I gets high off your love ... that's why my eyes are a shade blood burgundy") and mimics intoxication in its throbbing bass lines and reverb-heavy organ. Another song, with a title too profane to print, is a blunt tale of infidelity and murder, but in contrast to most rap fantasies, D'Angelo's blues-like narrative acknowledges such acts have serious consequences. Best of all is the Prince-like "Higher", which combines the spiritual love of God and the carnal love of a woman into one dizzying, organ-fuelled hymn. D'Angelo is still rather clumsy with lyrics, and he leans too heavily on ballads over dance numbers, but he has enough talent to grow in any of several directions. It will be an exciting story to follow and one would be foolish to miss the first chapter. --Geoffrey Himes

Chronique amazon.fr
Avant que la maison mère britannique ne décide de fermer boutique aux Etats- Unis et de transférer certains des artistes vers sa filiale Virgin, EMI USA avait recruté quelques artistes plein de potentiels. Aux côtés de rappeurs comme Channel Live et dans un registre connexe à la soul et au R&B, D'Angelo était de ceux-là. Brown Sugar sort en 1995 et impose ce jeune pianiste autodidacte de 21 ans comme une bouffée d'oxygène dans une scène R&B sclérosée par trop de penchants pour la facilité commerciale. Des titres de la trempe de "Brown Sugar" ou "Lady" lui ont permis de s'attirer autant les faveurs du grand public que de la critique la plus exigeante ou des amoureux de certaines de ses influences comme Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Al Green, Ohio Players ou Prince. --Yann Cherruault