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Beautifully Human: Words & Sounds Vol 2 [Import]

Jill Scott | Format: Audio CD
4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
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  • Audio CD (30 Aug 2004)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Import
  • Label: Epic
  • ASIN: B0002O37ZO
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 32,420 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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1. Warm Up
2. I Am Not Afraid
3. Golden
4. The Fact Is (I Need You)
5. Spring Summer Feeling
6. Cross My Mind
7. Bedda At Home
8. Talk To Me (Break It Down)
9. Family Reunion
10. Can't Explain
11. Whatever
12. Crazy
13. Nothing
14. Rasool
15. My Petition
16. I Keep
17. Still Here (Hidden Track)
18. Bedda At Home (Acoustic Mix)

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BBC Review

It’s always interesting to see how an artist follows a critically lauded and groundbreaking (not to mention mega-selling) debut. There are three options: eschew its success and take a sharp left turn; repeat with diminishing returns; or develop, take time and create an album that is equal or worthy. With the weight of the plaudits that were heaped on Jill Scott’s 2000 debut, Who Is Jill Scott?, it would have been easy for her to follow either of the first two options. Thankfully, after a four-year wait broken only by the live-material-and-extras collection Experience Jill Scott 826+ and originally entitled The Truth, Beautifully Human was a notable progression for Scott.

Created alongside over a dozen producers, including Raphael Saadiq and long-term collaborators Karma Productions, the album bears many of the leisurely, nostalgic RnB trademarks of neo-soul, yet Scott’s voice and subject matter elevates it above anything generic. Although perhaps not as immediate as her debut, Beautifully Human is a slow-burning work of considerable depth.

The album is full of candour: from the first words of opening song proper I’m Not Afraid – "I am not afraid to be your lady / I am not afraid to be your whore" – her forthrightness is pervasive. Tracks like Whatever, Spring Summer Feeling and Golden are irresistible. Scott’s poetry roots are ever-present – Cross My Mind is effectively a poem set to minimal piano and beatbox with an infectious chorus. It won Scott a Grammy for Best Urban/Alternative Performance in 2005.

Family Reunion captures the joy and pathos of a barbeque in the sun. With lines such as "Someone turns Frankie Beverly on the stereo and Ruby starts rocking her one good hip," you feel that you are opening Scott's family photo-album and looking inside. Beautifully Human is in honour of Minnie Riperton, and it is easy to hear her influence throughout. Album closer I Keep/Still Here is redolent of Riperton’s best work, a message of strident self-empowerment delivered sweetly and sincerely

With a sleeve full of pictures from her youth, Beautifully Human is a deeply personal album that, while reflective, rarely strays into indulgence. It is the sound of an artist enjoying herself. Often sounding exhilarated by her own performance or occasionally collapsing into laughter, it is hard not to lose yourself in her intimate, upbeat universe.

--Daryl Easlea

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Audio CD
Second albums are tricky, and in the case of Jill Scot, there's a lot to live up to.

Who is Jill Scott was/is an impressive album, one that made an immediate and indelible impact on me as soon as I heard it.

In my opinion, Beautifully Human: Words & Sounds Vol 2, is a very different entity indeed. Where Who is... instantaneously became a firm favourite, I think that Beautifully Human will need time to seep into my subconscious.

Scott's voice is amazing, delicate when it needs to be, and powerful when emphasis is warranted, distinctive in an overcrowded and sometimes unexceptional marketplace. I never get the feeling that she uses five notes when one will do, that she over-singing a song.

Usually it's the melody that grabs my interest first, but because Scott is a wordsmith, with a marvellous way with words, I took the time to really listen to what she was singing about. And what she has to say is a wonderful mix of pertinent and personal.

Standouts:

I Am Not Afraid

The Fact Is (I Need You)
Cross My Mind
Bedda At Home
Talk To Me (Break It Down)
Family Reunion
Rasool

Just to name a few.

If you love Jill Scott, buy this album. If you don't know Who Jill Scott is, buy this album. I think you just might grow to love it!

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
It's really this good 13 Feb 2005
By Dennis
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Bought this record and instantly enjoyed it. However, it was not until subsequent listens that I felt the true beauty and sweetness and of Jill Scott.

I'm now in that mode where you've got to try and ration myself from the addictive bliss of hearing tracks like "Crazy", "I Keep", "The Fact Is (I Need You)" and "Still Here".

A genuine classic.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Intimately involved 9 Feb 2005
Format:Audio CD
Sometimes I feel embarrassed when listening to this album. Why? Don't you feel like you are listening to her private conversations? Her private thoughts? Its like Jill is speaking to me and only me when I listen to her album and I know this is not the case because its what platinum now? I love this album and I still do not have a favourite song. I think every song is so relevant, and I especially lilke Track 10 because its so honest about being 'truly sorry' about being the 'bad' person in the relationship ("When you were busy loving me, I was busy too")...I also love Track 9, at the Family Reunion, I feel like I am there, or its my family...Ah I dont even want to go on with any more cliches...

This album has been stuck in my CD player since the beginning of Jan 2005 and I am not bored yet.

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Most Recent Customer Reviews
More than just a groove
Philadelphian Jill Scott began her performing career reading her own poetry. She was heard by Amir, drummer in the Roots, who invited her to join the band in the studio, resulting... Read more
Published 1 month ago by CJ Mann
Great album
Love Jill Scott this is another fab album from a wonderous soulful woman!I am a big fan of Jill Scott & found this album relaxing, exciting & great to sing along too!
Published 8 months ago by Shellby76
Beautiful Album
I bought this album when it was released and have not been able to stop playing it since. As a big fan of Jill's, I love her work and this album definitely has to be one of my... Read more
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Jill's second studio album and we get another album of sumptuous vocals and soulful grooves. Not only has Jill Scott one of the most soulful voices i've heard in years but she has... Read more
Published on 5 Oct 2007 by Spider Monkey
I agree
Truly beautiful.

At the recent Sugar Water festival in Brooklyn NYC, Queen Jill put together a delicious concert with fellow neo-soulsters Queen Latifah & Erykah... Read more
Published on 17 Sep 2006 by DStar
A beautifully beautiful album
A more mature album than "Who is Gill Scott?" but equally as brilliant and personal. Gill shows you something of her soul with every line of every song. Read more
Published on 22 Aug 2006 by Rachel Kinchin
great......you have to get it!
Summer days, summer nights, put this on and just bask in the warmth of her voice. She looks as she sounds, beautiful, I recommend her first album too. Read more
Published on 9 Aug 2006 by Roo
Soul Queen
I'm a fairly recent convert to soul over the past few years but Jill Scott is the Queen of Soul for me, only Erykah and Angie Stone come close, I thought that this album might be... Read more
Published on 27 Jun 2006 by Mr. G.
Queen of Soul
I can't lie, I am a massive fan of Jill Scott and her brand of soul. Once again she justifies the claims made for her talent. Read more
Published on 22 Jun 2006 by Si Thorpe
Golden
"Beautifully Human" is an apt expression for the vocal instrument that is Jill Scott's. In the tradition of singers as diverse as Roberta Flack, Beverly Sills or Lauryn Hill,... Read more
Published on 7 Jun 2006 by MICHAEL ACUNA
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