Comfort Woman [Enhanced]

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Just as Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On was about much more than the sex that it celebrated, so does Meshell Ndegeocello’s putative love album Comfort Woman have more than seduction on its mind. Lust and romance frame the record’s concerns, but as with Gaye’s work, they’re seen as a liberating force: "I wanna get free with you," sings Ndegeocello near the disc’s beginning; she later quotes an anti-pie-in-the-sky verse from Bob Marley’s "Get Up Stand Up" to hammer home the theme of salvation on Earth. Similarly, Comfort Woman is more musically ambitious than the bulk of recent neo-soul sets with which it shares an audience. A number of dubwise excursions and rock guitar solos ensure that a debt to the ’70s is paid, but this is hardly a slavish Gaye/Curtis Mayfield tribute. Comfort Woman finds Ndegeocello in an inspired frame of mind and at a peak of invention. --Rickey Wright

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Average customer rating:

quiet sensual music
QUINTESSENTIALLY PHENOMENAL
Grows On You
Good things come to those who Wait!!!!
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Comfort Woman
Me'Shell NdegéOcello
Manufacturer: Maverick
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Contemporary Blues | Blues | Styles | Music

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

General | Reggae | International | Styles | Music

Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music

Contemporary R&B | R&B | Styles | Music

General | R&B | Styles | Music

General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music

General | Funk | R&B | Styles | Music

General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B0000CDL9Z
Release Date: 2003-10-14

Tracks:

Love Song #1
Come Smoke My Herb
Andromeda & The Milky Way
Love Song #2
Body
Liliquoi Moon
Love Song #3
Fellowship
Good Intentions
Thankful

Amazon.com

Just as Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On was about much more than the sex that it celebrated, so does Meshell Ndegeocello's putative love album Comfort Woman have more than seduction on its mind. Lust and romance frame the record's concerns, but as with Gaye's work, they're seen as a liberating force: "I wanna get free with you," sings Ndegeocello near the disc's beginning; she later quotes an anti-pie-in-the-sky verse from Bob Marley's "Get Up Stand Up" to hammer home the theme of salvation on Earth. Similarly, Comfort Woman is more musically ambitious than the bulk of recent neo-soul sets with which it shares an audience. A number of dubwise excursions and rock guitar solos ensure that a debt to the '70s is paid, but this is hardly a slavish Gaye/Curtis Mayfield tribute. Comfort Woman finds Ndegeocello in an inspired frame of mind and at a peak of invention. --Rickey Wright

Customer Reviews:

quiet sensual music.......2007-07-11

I am loving this cd. It is very low key, quiet and very sensual. I love to listen to it when I am relaxing in the bath or getting a massage. It is very different than anything else I have ever heard, a complex mix of music and vocals. Overall it is a cd I turn to when I want to be comforted and get back in my body and my mind.

QUINTESSENTIALLY PHENOMENAL.......2007-05-20

Meshell N'Degeocello IS without question one of the sexiest, most progressive, creative minds in the music arena. When so much of the New Millennium's music dives to the leechy depths of misogyny, extreme materialism, cultural and political ignorance and an overall lack of the qualities that render music an artform, everything that this woman composes is GENIUS...creative expression at its very, very best - - - unbelievable production that fuses everything from jazz to reggae to the native rhythms of the Motherland and lyrics that demand that you take your mind to a deeper level.

Grows On You.......2007-05-01

Unique in a lot of ways.

Takes getting used to. Most of the tracks just kept getting skipped for a while, but surprisingly, they grow on you. If you are open to a wide variety and artiste's experimenting various style, go for it.

Good things come to those who Wait!!!!.......2007-03-08

It took me forever to get this CD but when I heard samples of it from her website I knew I had to have it and I wasn't disappointed. A must have!!!

..........2006-12-31

This is the first Meshell Ndegeocello album I have bought. (When I discover new artists, I usually start from the most present to the older stuff...) At first, I absolutely hated it and I put it away for quite awhile. I listened to it again... still nothing. Today, I gave it a final listen and absolutely loved it. You really have to be in a certain mood to appreciate this album. You have to be feeling very relaxed, yet still attentive. The project is short and sweet. The insturmentation and vocals are beautiful. If you don't like it at first, try again. I am so enthused that I am now going to buy all of her other albums. I highly recommend Comfort Woman.