Aimed in the Wrong Direction?
Short and sweet today...
A D'Angelo cover of what might be my favorite Prince song. Is there another artist in the last 25 years that you'd trust more to do justice to a Prince cover?
Capitol Records – SPRO 7087 6 12813 1 6
Vinyl, 12", Promo, US, 1997
A She's Always In My Hair
B She's Always In My Hair
D'Angelo + Raphael Saadiq + Questlove + Prince. Do you really need to know more? I missed this back in the day, when it first came out buried in a late 90s horror movie soundtrack. A promo single was also released, on crackly vinyl in the US and CD for Europe and Japan. I eventually grabbed a copy of the 12", washed, recorded and the worst of the pops removed this week. Same track on both sides, so hopefully you'll forgive me for only putting one of them on here. (From side 2, if you're curious...)
I put some work into it but just don't have the hours that someone could spend trying to clean up the recording of this terribly noisy record. One argument for putting up with the bad vinyl noises is that the only other version of this that I have (on D'Angelo's 2008 "The Best So Far..." compilation) is mastered ridiculously loud and has over two minutes shaved off the length of the song. Shameful... Here you get it in its full, 6+ minute glory...
And as a little bonus:
D'Angelo And The Vanguard – Black Messiah
RCA – SICP-4770-1
2×CD, Japan, 2016
D'Angelo albums are a rare event. His most recent, 2016's brilliant "Black Messiah," saw a Japanese release that included an extra CD and... a promotional bandanna?!
Ok, forget the bandanna. (I know, it's hard.) The second CD is what matters here. It's a short set by D'Angelo and his Vanguard band originally recorded for broadcast on Spotify in 2015. It includes live versions of three Black Messiah cuts and another take of "She's Always In My Hair," the reason it's getting tacked on here today. Here's that second disc.
D'Angelo - Live From Spotify NYC
1 Betray My Heart
2 Really Love
3 The Door
4 She's Always In My Hair
FLAC in your hair: https://mega.nz/folder/oCg1Eb5a#KrvBJovGVh-63pq01N18nQ
ReplyDeleteMP3 in your hair: https://mega.nz/folder/0L5nQDJT#nNoudqioAZTYFqk1saqoGA
Live in FLAC: https://mega.nz/folder/hPwB0Z5D#UlBQn_SJWmTrXG1Ca-4_Sw
Live in MP3: https://mega.nz/folder/wCg33BrS#ZL6nqOIhcSNwGoadHVzFKQ