Who are some of the great neo soul records?

One of my all time favorite soul records is Angie Stone - Mahogany Soul. What a great record!

India Arie
Floetry
Alicia Keys of course

D'angelo
Erykah Badu

Any non-hiphop RnB artist who can play an instrument ..lol...

aloe blacc:

Young Disciples
Mint Condition
Tony! Toni! Tone!
Joi
D'Angelo
Erykah Badu
Bilal
Maxwell
Adriana Evans
Davina
Lewis Taylor
Sleepy Brown (Sleepy's Theme)

raphael ssadiq,
D'angelo,
Bilal,
Anthiny Hamilton.

Musiq soulchild, erykah badu, and my boy Kem

The term "Neo Soul" is now passe and not really being used much anymore.

OK, what about somewhat modern "soul" records?

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D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, Anthony Hamilton, Jill Scott, Angie Stone, Raphael Saadiq, Maxwell, Eric Benet, John Legend, Alicia Keys, Amp Fiddler, Raheem DeVaughn, Musiq Soulchild, Bilal, Dwele, just to mention the "established" artists. But there are a bunch of cool "underground" acts out there too, also in Europe..

I'm feeling this one, even though it's kinda crossing over into mainstream pop..

Man I am glad you mentioned him because he is so underated.

d'angelo, voodoo: still one of my faves

Sa-Ra Creative Partners. "Nuclear Evolution" album.

but that shit aint got no ****ing soul.
My shoes have more "soul" that that crap

Great thread! Some really good stuff here.

Truly.

My favorite song from him is Dealing. It's soul with trance gates. I love it.

Bobby, can you honestly say that no record in the past 20 years has any soul?

I am sure you were being facetious...

Facetious..no. Honest..yes indeed.
Im just saying that compared to the real,true performers who really deserve to be called soulful artists,no many live up to that coveted term.
Yes,there are some who deserve that title and here is a short list.
Gerald Levert
Mary J Blige
Ledisi
Chrisette Michelle
Eric Benet
Maxwell

Part of the reason for the lack of soul is the lack of real musicianship.
Sequenced "beats" imho lack soul because soul has dynamics,soul has feeling,soul has the living breathing heartbeat of the musicians who played the music ingrained in the groove
Rap has absolutely no soul whatsoever.
Computers drain the life out of the music and transcend to the so called artists who try to emote over those beats.
I dont care if you dont agree with me because one day you will undertand.

Remy Shand (he was pre blue-eyed soul), not bad for a Canadian white boy though.

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'Computers drain the life out of the music and transcend to the so called artists who try to emote over those beats'.

I understand why guys like philly says things like the above,but i don't share that opinion.I use the term 'soul' quite a lot.All good music has to have soul,every genre, it has to connect emotionally, have the power to move & connect with the listener, it has to be real & genuine.

A sampled note can have plenty of soul & dynamics, if the tone & voice hit the right notes in the right places,thats a lovely thing. Musicians jamming in a room together can get a bit boring & played out.

A real soulful musician / singer can make the magic happen anywhere.

Laptop / desktop, whatever tool is used, 'soul' is everywhere.........
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Agree...100%

I don't blame the computer...I blame lack of musicianship and/or respect for musicianship as you stated in the first part of this. The soulful artists of the past would have had a field day with the technology we have now. Think about that....Can you imagine?

Not to be confused with that other "On Some Real"-Davina.

Davina Bussey is great. She also produces and engineers her releases.

To me,"soul" is spontanaity..soul cannot be programmed and quantized.
Listen to the great records by Al Green,Teddy Pendergrass,Otis Redding,Sam and Dave,PHillipe Winne of the Spinners,Aretha Franklin and you will understand.

People like Musiq Soul Child,John Legend,Alicia Keys,IMHO really suck in the real soul department.
Thats not the shit I was taught to be soul music,no sir.
Its just watered down dribble.
Im just spoiled by the greats and blessed to have been there.

I hear you. As a classic (Ol'Skool) Dude and Artist I was there as well during the days when music had "soul." I'm a baby of the 60's, child of the 70's, teenage of the 80's, young adult of th 90's and grown man from there. I was taught how to play the piano and to read and write music during the 70's but my Mom (and us) were too poor to keep going with the lessons. All of it by now is out of my head unfortunately. I've lived, seen, and heard soul in both R&B and Hip Hop. I've had the pleasure of being on stage with a lot of bands, singers, DJ's (I used to be one myself but I'm waaaaaaaaaayyyyyy retired...and we're talking about the Technic 1200's, Numarks, Cerwin Vega and Klispch days). Yes, a lot of the music we call "music" has no soul and that falls on a lot of things. Soul can be programmed but of course when it's musicians playing the instruments it's more authentic...no question on that at all. I've freestyled hip hop verses during "unplanned jam sessions" with band playing different types of instruments. Even Spoken Word Poets can rock the mic while traditional jazz (although I love Smooth Jazz...I'm talking about the type of jazz where things are not "programmed") is playing. Music in itself is nothing...it's the person or persons playing the instruments or programming the music. Hip Hop used to have "soul" in it as it came from "Soul Music." I was right there in 1974 when the older Katz were rhyming and singing to band music and even when programmed beats and music came into play, there was still "soul" in it. Soul is syncopated and unsyncopated but it always depends upon the person making the music and the vocalist as well. Whodini's "One Love" has lot's of soul in it. When it first comes on, you already know it's them. The same with "Papa Was A Rollin Stone" by The Temptations. It starts with the bass player and you already know it's their song before the rest of the instruments come in. That is what's missing from music today as a whole: the setup, the emotion, the message, and the finish. People think I crazy because I"m a Lizz Wright Fan...but that's something else altogether. Remember when one man said Jazz is "The Assassination of Syncopation?"

Don't get me wrong, I"m about real music and what I mean by "real" is music that has a soul and a message to it. I definitely agree that the "soul" of music is left out all across music genres in the mainstream and especially a lot of the modern R&B and Hip Hop artists. I'm a musician in my head meaning I can hear the instruments playing in symphony but I don't have the ability to learn and play instruments so I do it with samples and loops. However, just like true musicians change up everything throught their song, I emulate them with how I do my hip hop songs. I'm still getting my equipment together so I can redo all of my songs from scratch so that's why I don't have any music up yet. I may not change up the beat (a little here and there) but the instruments do change and that's because I like creating a song instead of just a track. A lot of people don't even know the difference between the two.

Just my two cents, Bruh!

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nice post,bruh

what about lauryn hill and marsha ambroius..... to me they can hold there own compared to any of the greats that have been mentioned...

I grew up listening to james brown,issac hayes, sam and dave but ms. hiil and marsha move me just as much.

I think maxwell,ms badu, and john legend are good artist butt they dont have the same energy, to me they are from the school of marvin gaye.

my .02 cents.

Sounds kinda like a new Marvin Gaye or Bill Withers... I like...

Coming from you, that means a lot Bruh!

Seventh