How D'Angelo changed music, in three songs
Oct 21, 2025•37 min
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Episode description
On October 14th, the visionary musician D’Angelo passed away at 51 years old. Only releasing three albums during his lifetime, he synthesized influences from gospel, jazz, rock, and hip-hop to create a singular and transcendent sound artists still try – and fail – to emulate today.
On this special episode of Switched On Pop, Charlie and Nate are joined by producer Reanna and engineer Brandon to celebrate D’Angelo through his music, discussing one song from each of his albums and highlighting his musical genius.
Songs Discussed
- D’Angelo – Untitled (How Does It Feel)
- D’Angelo – Brown Sugar
- The Hawkins Family – What Is This?
- D’Angelo – Feel Like Makin’ Love
- Roberta Flack – Feel Like Makin’ Love
- Parliament – Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker)
- D’Angelo – Cruisin’
- Smokey Robinson – Cruisin’
- D’Angelo – The Charade
- Curtis Mayfield – (Don’t Worry) If There Is A Hell Below, We’re All Going to Go
- Jimi Hendrix – All Along The Watchtower
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