D'Angelo – Voodoo

Hi I own a copy of this one, but there's a silver/grey sticker on the front cover on the right bottom side with the writing “INCLUDES THE HITS LEFT & RIGHT AND UNTITLED”. This does not seem to have been mentioned anywhere. Have I overlooked something or was the sticker only affixed temporarily?

I recently purchased this record and I'm concerned about the authenticity. Is there anybody here who could please reassure me? Is the album cover supposed tp be matte finish and very thin?

Overall, it just feels very cheaply made. I'm disappointed.

Oh yes, I vividly the hype surrounding this young man, especially in the (hip hop) radio shows I heard back then. Holy shit, that was almost thirty years ago! To be honest, I could never do much with his high, (for my ears) pitchy voice and his style, I never heard more than two or three tracks, though, but of course I cherished the features and easter eggs, especially here on this one, which caught my attention again. A bit of a Mary J. Blige thing for me, whose first album was dripping with hip hop flavour and guests, especially the remix version. Yo, Premier delivered, enjoy the likes of Fat Joe, Raekwon, Redman, Method Man, Q-Tip with special contribution & lots and lots of live and session vibes. I guess I was let down by the change of style, which just wasn´t for me. Well, after the first side, everything slows down and switches completely into its vein, you meet pure and for the most part super groovy neo-soul. Sultry, rich, smoothly arranged & black as night. Yes, and today I can gladly really appreciate that.

Time magazine said it was the number one album of the year.....pitchfork rarely gives a perfect score of 10 , but they did for this!!!! i agree, you have to have patience to realize the greatness of the record.....yes, my copy, the sound is a bit muddy or buried as said in comments below....not sure if i want to pay all over again....but i know i will.....want the best copy possible. D'angelo made a masterwork ! :)

Side B and C have slight noise like a kettle?

I have 2 copies of Voodoo, both copies have noise like boiling water in kettle or someone whistling in the distance.

Though it was a tough cookie to crack at the time, it took five more years for Voodoo to finally resonate on my maturing ears. The musical ingenuity, sparse jazzed-out funk edge, and mythical esotericism that D'Angelo and his Soulquarian comrades aimed for was no fluke. The atmosphere is brooding, sleazy, and impenetrably dense, but Voodoo's greatest charm is in the emotion that lies within it. It distills the purest expression of D'Angelo's personalities, anxieties, and idiosyncrasies—at their most fragile ("The Root" and "One Mo'Gin"), socially conscious ("Devil's Pie" and "Chicken Grease"), transcendental ("Africa") and righteous ("The Line"). The joys and fate of intimacy and sex always weighed heavily on D'Angelo's mind, but he never revealed it so organically and nakedly as he did here. Voodoo flashes a generous nod to Black music's illustrious past, while keeping a finger on the trigger for its murky present. 20 years later, its seductive allure, hypnotic vibes, and thick grooves are still too rich and endearing to ignore.

One of the s' earlier reviews of this particular 2000 original US Virgin Records pressing nailed it—it's very much faithful to the overall sonic beauty of this masterpiece. The low-end on the original has a mighty punch that's killer, but it doesn't obliterate the clarity and natural highs in the mix. Everything sounds so upfront and lively. The later Light in the Attic reissue is excellent in its own right, with vocals and other instruments finely balanced and the bass extending really deep. But the 2000 original just may take the edge over the LITA for me, in of overall definition and that powerful low-end, which suits this album well. The CD pressing is excellent as well. God bless Russell Elevado for his peerless engineering work on this masterpiece.

I noticed nobody’s talked about how this original pressing sounds so I’ll say what I think! To me, the original cut seems more intentionally cut like a hip hop LP. The mastering is very bass focused, but the cut is still clear and there’s good natural details in the highs.
The light in the attic remaster is much more natural sounding, but this original cut feels more like the original intention of the record. It’s not perfectly balanced and hifi, but thats not necessarily what a record like this should sound like! It’s entirely up to personal taste and how you want the album to sound.

This is a Front to Back album. There is no skipping songs. You just sit back and enjoy the ride.

One of the best album ever made for sure, love it a truly masterpiece.

Intelligent. Effortlessly cool. Production is sublime. This album totally took me by surprise, i wasn't expecting to be as smitten by this or as blown away by it. Voodoo gets better everytime you play it. Good Vinyl copies aren't cheap unless you go for the the recent RP but it's one of the best sounding records i own.