D'Angelo – Brown Sugar
Label: |
EMI – E2-32629 |
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Format: |
CD
, Album
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Country: |
US |
Released: |
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Genre: |
Funk / Soul |
Style: |
Contemporary R&B |
Tracklist
| 1 | Brown Sugar | 4:22 | |
| 2 | Alright | 5:15 | |
| 3 | Jonz In My Bonz | 5:56 | |
| 4 | Me And Those Dreamin' Eyes Of Mine | 4:46 | |
| 5 | Sh*t, Damn, Motherf*cker | 5:14 | |
| 6 | Smooth | 4:18 | |
| 7 | Cruisin' | 6:28 | |
| 8 | When We Get By | 5:48 | |
| 9 | Lady | 5:47 | |
| 10 | Higher | 5:27 |
Companies, etc.
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – EMI Records
- Copyright © – EMI Records
- Manufactured By – EMI Manufacturing (USA)
- Produced For – Kedar Entertainment, Inc.
- Published By – Ah-Choo Music Publishing
- Published By – 12:00 AM Music
- Published By – PolyGram International Publishing, Inc.
- Published By – Jazz Merchant Music
- Published By – Lady Diamond Music
- Published By – Twelve O'Clock Music
- Published By – Songs Of PolyGram International, Inc.
- Published By – Bertam Music Co.
- Published By – Rhythm Sons Music
- Recorded At – Battery Studios, New York
- Recorded At – Back Pocket Studios
- Recorded At – Pookie Labs
- Recorded At – RPM Studios
- Mixed At – Battery Studios, New York
- Mixed At – RPM Studios
- Engineered At – Battery Studios, New York
- Engineered At – Quad Recording Studios
- Mastered At – Hit Factory Mastering
- Glass Mastered At – Sanyo-Verbatim CD Company – Y5212M
- Pressed By – EMI Jax
Credits
- Arranged By [Musical Arrangements] – Rafael Saadiq* (tracks: 9)
- Arranged By [Vocal Arrangements] – D'Angelo
- Art Direction – Henry Marquez
- Composed By – D'Angelo (tracks: 1 to 6, 8 to 10)
- Design – C.M.O.N.
- Engineer [Additional Recording] – Tim Latham
- Engineer [Assistant Recording] – Rob Farrell (tracks: 3, 7, 8)
- Engineer [Assistant, Mixing] – Rob Farrell (tracks: 7)
- Executive-Producer – Kedar Massenburg
- Instruments [All] – D'Angelo (tracks: 1 to 5, 7, 8)
- Mastered By – Herb Powers Jr.
- Mixed By – Russell Elevado (tracks: 3, 8, 9)
- Photography By – Per Gustafinson*
- Producer – Rafael Saadiq* (tracks: 9)
- Recorded By – G-Spot (7) (tracks: 3, 7, 8)
- Vocals – D'Angelo
- Written-By – William Robinson* (tracks: 7)
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode (Scanned): 724383262922
- Barcode (Text): 7 2438-32629-2 2
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 1): 32629-2 MO Y5212M Y 1-1-11 EMI JAX
- Mastering SID Code (Variant 1): IFPI L532
- Mould SID Code (Variant 1): ifpi 1638
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 2): 32629-2 MO Y5212M Y 1-1-6 EMI JAX
- Mastering SID Code (Variant 2): IFPI L532
- Mould SID Code (Variant 2): ifpi 163C
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 3): 32629-2 MO Y5212M Y 1-1-19 EMI JAX
- Mastering SID Code (Variant 3): IFPI L532
- Mould SID Code (Variant 3): ifpi 1637
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 4): 32629-2 MO Y5212M Y 1-1-12 EMI JAX
- Mastering SID Code (Variant 4): IFPI L532
- Mould SID Code (Variant 4): ifpi 1634
Other Versions (5 of 57)
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Brown Sugar (CD, Album) | EMI Records | 7243 8 32629 2 2, CTCD 46 | Europe | 1995 | ||
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Brown Sugar (LP, Album) | Cooltempo | CTLP 46 | UK | 1995 | ||
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Brown Sugar (Cassette, Album) | EMI | cttc 46, 7243 8 32629 4 6 | UK | 1995 | ||
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Brown Sugar (LP, Album, Test Pressing) | EMI | SPRO 10407 | US | 1995 | ||
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Brown Sugar (CD, Album, Promo, Clean Version) | EMI | DPRO-19997 | US | 1995 |
Recommendations
Reviews
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Really tried to get into this one so many times when it first came out, but to no avail. Think the main reason was because D'Angelo just doesn't move me the way his UK "counterpart" Omar (Lye-Fook) for instance did a few years earlier on the latter's outstanding 'Music' album, which is currently OOP. 1995's 'Brown Sugar', in hindsight, comes off feeling more like an overbloated EP rather than a proper full-length LP. To MY ears, at least 4-5 tracks sounded "finished" while the rest sounded like half-baked rough demos with a lot of "unintelligible" mumbling on quite a few of 'em. As someone who literally grew up on my parents' record collection back during my '80s childhood, musically lackluster 1st impressions like D'Angelo's solo debut automatically get the axe from me and that's THAT! Found it rather amusing that many notable music critics here in the States were hyping this guy up so much as being the newfound "savior of old-school R&B and Soul" at that point in time. If only they had been paying more attention to what was actually going on overseas in the UK several years earlier, bet they would've changed their tunes REAL quick for that matter...
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I have the Euro 2015 reissue. Sounds great. I try to stay away from US pressings if I can as they are so shit.
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