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| 1 | Brown Sugar | Muhammad/D'Angelo [ | 4:22 |
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| 2 | Alright | Johnson/D'Angelo [1 | 5:15 |
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| 3 | Jonz in My Bonz | Stone/D'Angelo [1] | 5:56 |
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| 4 | Me and Those Dreamin' Eyes of Mine | D'Angelo [1] | 4:46 |
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| 5 | S.D.M. | D'Angelo [1] | 5:14 |
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| 6 | Smooth | Archer/D'Angelo [1] | 4:18 |
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| 7 | Cruisin' | Robinson/Tarplin | 6:28 |
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| 8 | When We Get By | D'Angelo [1] | 5:48 |
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| 9 | Lady | D'Angelo [1]/Saadiq | 5:47 |
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| 10 | Higher | Archer/Archer/D'Ang | 5:27 |
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Overview
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Production Details
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Editorial Reviews
Brown Sugar
Audio Compact Disc [Clean]
Label: Capitol
Style: Soul
Brown Sugar
UPC: 724383549924
Release Date: 07/03/1995
Original Release Date: 07/03/1995
Number of Discs: 1
- D'Angelo
Main Performer
Stephen Thomas Erlewine
By the mid-'90s, most urban R&B had become rather predictable, working on similar combinations of soul and hip-hop or relying on vocal theatrics on slow, seductive numbers. With his debut album, Brown Sugar, the 21-year-old D'Angelo crashed down some of those barriers. D'Angelo concentrates on classic versions of soul and R&B, but unlike most of his contemporaries, he doesn't cut and paste older songs with hip-hop beats; instead, he attacks the forms with a hip-hop attitude, breathing new life into traditional forms. Not all of his music works -- there are several songs that sound incomplete, relying more on sound than structure. But when he does have a good song -- like the hit "Brown Sugar," Smokey Robinson's "Cruisin'," or the bluesy "Shit, Damn, Motherfucker," among several others -- D'Angelo's wild talents are evident. Brown Sugar might not be consistently brilliant, but it is one of the most exciting debuts of 1995, giving a good sense of how deep D'Angelo's talents run. [Brown Sugar was issued in a "clean" version with all profanity removed.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi
