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If we played "Desert Island Albums" and I could only pick 10 records to listen to for the rest of my life, D'Angelo's "Voodoo" would absolutely be on the list for me. In fact, even if you made it 5 records, I'd probably still pick it.

Voodoo is 25 years old now, so I had to break down everything that's so incredible about this album and why I love it so much.

NOTE: This is the Extended Edit that is 8 mins longer than the YouTube Version

Here's the link to check out the full Charlie Hunter Interview

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Steve McNamee

Last summer I formed a one-off band for a house party. We called ourselves "The Oh No Nos." Yes, we did Pony by Ginuwine.

Thijs Leufkens

Love the quantized version comparison!

DiggingTheGreats

Made that visualization to show the bass and drums and keys lining up vs not, and it ended up being one of favorite parts of the video!

Steve McNamee

Cool visual but I know part of you was contemplating pulling out the ol grid drawings 😜

Josh Nelson

Oooooh, can’t wait to view this!!!

prod_tfm

I KNEW IT WAS GONNA BE VOODOO LETS GOOOOO

Steve Barnett

Thank you, thank you, thank you,

Andrew Sanchez

Amazing vid as always bshaw. and now, im gonna go listen to voodoo. and try to forget that aweful quantized version... yuck lol.

Cicero

Brown Sugar was a shining light welcoming a bunch of folks w/shell necklaces and sandals into a new world we called "Neo-Soul" & as a resident, I was eagerly anticipating, and then disappointed by, our founding father's next project, Voodoo. It contains so very little of the wink-and-nod lyricism of its predecessor. It was hard to understand and far more eclectic than the "Sugar but even more Brown" album I expected. A good friend of mine, a decade later, heaped loads of praise on Voodoo & called it D'Angelo's greatest work. It made me go back and listen to it w/fresh & more mature ears. He was right (obviously) & the more I listen to that album the more I fall into its warm embrace. This video articulated all of the things that "dumber" me missed & you two got right away! I texted my friend & sent him the link to the YT video while also telling him that the director's cut is on Patreon. I hope to see him in these comments soon! Thanks again, for reminding me why I love music so damn much!

Justin Lyons

We're just gonna talk about 'how it feels' HA see what u did there

Zjahi

Yessir. My Favorite album of all time!!!! Across all genres and artists, this is number 1!!!!

Sia Gholami

When the quantized playa playa beat kicked off I got whatever is the opposite of stank face. That was painful. It sounded like “soul inspired elevator jazz”.

Zjahi

Send it On is special man

Sia Gholami

Forgot to say, great video as always! I always knew about this album, but your early YT video on chicken grease got me to sit down and give it a proper listen. It’s now one of my all time fave albums.

Adrian

Oh boy what a video and what and album. I've just been commissioned to make some "neo soul" hop hop beats this was the perfect inspiration. This is timeless.

Gerard Blair

All comes back to Dilla. Like a circle in time (a donut in time?)

Robert Young

Man you don’t even know how much I love this album. This breakdown is everything.

Dylan Smicklas

I'm gonna need that Pino video poste haste. He is at the peak of Mt IfYouKnowYouKnow

Ambree Williams

Okaaaaaaaay....I'm going to be brutally honest here.... I watched the whole video. When you mentioned that Prince was a big influence, I had to laugh because to me, he seems to be his ONLY influence. After 'Brown Sugar', I didn't listen to much D'Angelo because all I heard was him singing like Prince. If I want to hear Prince, I'll put on Prince. So even though I'm not all that big on D'Angelo anymore, I went ahead and watched this hoping you'd change my mind about Voodoo, which I've NEVER HEARD by choice...sooooo..... BShaw, you did a bang-up job as always! But it all sounds the same to me, so it didn't work and I'm still as agnostic to D'Angelo as I've been since Brown Sugar (which I liked at the time) I was into Prince in the late 70s before he blew up mainstream, so when I want to hear that kind of vibe that D'Angelo is imitating, I go to the originator. Others will disagree, but that's fine too. The video was really good, but D'Angelo is just meh to me.

DiggingTheGreats

I appreciate the honesty Ambree! There’s actually a story Questlove and Pino talk about in an interview when they were touring and went to Minneapolis and stopped by prince’s house. He vibed them HARD

Chuck

This record has been on my turn table for 4 months. I’ll listen to everything else, but VOODOO goes right back. Damn thing is part of my decor. Great video.

Eric Holmes

Great video. 10/10. No notes.

Daniel Hoskins

I understand Ambree. I actually (controversially) feel meh about Prince! I also have the same reaction to Stevie Ray Vaughan-I’d prefer to just listen to Albert King and Jimi Hendrix. But it’s healthy to reevaluate every once in a while isn’t it?

Ambree Williams

I'm with you on that. Love the originals and those who add originality to what the masters did. I like all three of your examples actually. And if you really want to go the distance, Prince's main influences were from Jimi Hendrix and Little Richard - but he added enough musicianship and style to make his music his own. Not too many can do that...😉

Daniel Hoskins

I know right? I’d never heard about the Little Richard influence on prince before, but of course, that makes perfect sense. Even Aesthetically