Badu

2008 collection of some of Erykah Badu's finest collaborations and more. Badu provides us with some interesting collaborations (Sa Ra, Georgia Anne Muldrow, D'Angelo and more) as well as an incredible cover of Diana Ross' 'Love Hangover' on this one of a kind collection. Think Differently. Album Description

A Bad Bootleg!!

While waiting in London Heathrow airport to return back to the states, I picked this CD up from a CD store in the terminal.... I terribly disappointed, this is bootleg CD... A bad one at that. I liked the choice of cuts, but the recording quality was so bad I only listen to the CD once.. If poor recording quality doesn't bother you, then maybe you should try it out... November 12, 2008

Down for Badu

If you love Badu you already have majority of the songs on this compilation. I do, however, appreciate the unheard live sessions that were included. April 10, 2008

I Agree--DO NOT BUY THIS CD

I agree with the previous review. Do not buy this obvious boot-leg CD. VERY poor quality. April 9, 2008

Do NOT buy this poor quality bootleg

If I could rate this album less than one star I would!
Just don't buy this rubbish - poor quality copies of live tracks, the cover lists 18 tracks, and I can only "hear" 17
I'm just shocked this CD is offered to purchase on Amazon!!! March 21, 2008

High priestess of the skyscraping headwrap!

Track list for this CD is as follows;
1. Your mind
2. Love hangover (Live @ BET 2007)
3. Wu
4. Music is everything
5. Live
6. Apple tree Cafe
7. Didn't cha know
8. Fly away (featuring Sa-Ra and Georgia Anne Muldrow)
9. I want you
10. Love of my life (featuring Common)
11. Bag lady
12. Hold on (featuring Pharaoh Monch)
13. You got me (featuring The Roots)
14. Think Twice (featuring Roy Hargrove)
15. Ye-yo
16. Today
17. Never
18. Your precious love (featuring D'angelo)
(Note: tracks 17 and 18 are merged into one track)

I came across this CD while writing my review for Erykah Badu's new CD "New Amerykahn..." on Amazon and had never heard anything about it. It appears to be a bootleg released on some label called Think Differently Music, and it comprises some odds and ends from Erykah's career. Despite being a random collection, it is quite cohesive, much like any of her studio releases.

A few tracks have appeared on previous Badu albums; "Ye-yo" from 1997's "Live", "Didn't cha know" and "Bag lady" from "Mama's gun" ("Bag lady" here is the remix version that made Billboard's top 10 and not the album version), "I want you" (with the awesome electric guitar ending edited out), "Think twice", and "Wu" (which is a snippet of "Woo") from "Worldwide underground".

A few others had also been previously released; The Grammy winning "You got me" from The Roots' 1999 album "Things fall apart", the Grammy winning "Love of my life" with Common from the "Brown sugar" soundtrack, "Fly away" from "The Hollywood recordings" by Sa-Ra Creative Partners, the breezy "Hold on" with Pharaoh Monch (with lyrics about having pride in black beauty, it starts off with Erykah talking to her daughter about being teased at school) from his album "Desire", and "Your precious love" with D'angelo.

The others are "Your mind" (a swinging retro ballad which becomes a funky ditty towards the final 2 minutes and recorded live), "Love hangover" (her outstanding disco/neo soul tribute to Diana Ross recorded live at the BET awards 2007 with a few bars of her "I want you" thrown in), "Apple tree cafe" (lovely jazz song with muted sax and pianos), "Music is everything" (a sparse funky horn sprinkled song), "Live" (a brief jazz/funk number with a scratchy bassline), and "Today" (a jazzy ballad with a groovy bassline and sprinklings of flute).

Chances are there are a few odds and ends here which you don't already own (like I also discovered). Essential to every Baduist!
February 29, 2008

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