"Gorkys circa the Blue Trees"
i liked that album a lot! and the one with the soda can on the cover. never heard their last album. maybe i should look for it.
― scott seward, Monday, 26 November 2012 22:18 (eleven years ago) link
a better filmic album than kendrick's i'd say
― r|t|c, Monday, November 26, 2012 1:44 PM Bookmark
Oh totally, and a big part of the reason is it doesn't push its filmic qualities in your face so much.
― these bitches is my sons and i make dad jokes (The Reverend), Monday, 26 November 2012 22:25 (eleven years ago) link
Frank's second-best (by far) record in two years is gonna dominate these lists and run away w/ P&J :(
not that the other one was totally overlooked, i guess
― alpine static, Monday, November 26, 2012 1:53 PM Bookmark
I didn't get over my skepticism of Nostalgia Ultra until I heard Channel Orange.
― these bitches is my sons and i make dad jokes (The Reverend), Monday, 26 November 2012 22:26 (eleven years ago) link
I really, really liked the whole woozy narrative behind "Novacane" so the last thing I expected was to feel divorced from and amused by the storytelling.
this
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 November 2012 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
see i was relieved that the new one had no z-trip at coachella anecdotes
― The Doc Morbama (some dude), Monday, 26 November 2012 22:38 (eleven years ago) link
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, November 26, 2012 3:30 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i'm not sure what you mean here... you like the woozy narrative but felt divorced/amused by it at the same time? or divorced/amused by the storytelling on channel orange?
― childish bambino (rennavate), Monday, 26 November 2012 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
divorced from/amused by the storytelling on channel ORANGE
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Monday, 26 November 2012 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't find his vocal lines particularly compelling either. Tracks like "Sweet Life" just sit there. In toto the album sounds like it could have been recorded acoustically in the seventies by a precocious singer-songwriter who doesn't come into his own until the third or fourth album.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 November 2012 22:47 (eleven years ago) link
It's not about the stories quite as much as the emotion he injects them with.
― these bitches is my sons and i make dad jokes (The Reverend), Monday, 26 November 2012 22:49 (eleven years ago) link
i still havent heard clockwork orange but when ppl say that his debut was SO MUCH BETTER im like, wow that sloppy comp of odds & ends & him doing eagles karaoke is better than his studio album?? makes me never want to hear it
― D-40, Monday, 26 November 2012 22:50 (eleven years ago) link
"Swim Good" by itself is better than three quarters of Agent Orange.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 November 2012 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
finding djp and alfred way otm right now about *orange rhyming dictionary*
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 26 November 2012 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
need a new thread polling deliberate mangling options of Ocean album title
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 November 2012 22:54 (eleven years ago) link
don't sleep on my channel BORING from a couple months back
― The Doc Morbama (some dude), Monday, 26 November 2012 22:55 (eleven years ago) link
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, November 26, 2012 2:51 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
One song on one album is better than some but not all of the songs on another album? Case closed.
― D-40, Monday, November 26, 2012 2:50 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Keep in mind that these people are dummies.
― these bitches is my sons and i make dad jokes (The Reverend), Monday, 26 November 2012 22:56 (eleven years ago) link
tbh I don't mind anyone loving Orange Blossom as long as they love Kaleidoscope Dream a bit more.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 November 2012 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
the big difference between nostalgia, ultra and chanel l'orange is that it's all about the third-person storytelling instead of the very first-person stuff of nos, ultra, but there's so much sympathy for these characters that it just kills me. he's not judging anyone, just presenting these often heartbreaking stories, like flipping through some reality tv shit
― childish bambino (rennavate), Monday, 26 November 2012 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
Kaleidoscope Dream >>> Orange You Glad I Didn't Say Channel
― Room 227 (cryptosicko), Monday, 26 November 2012 23:01 (eleven years ago) link
are first-person stuff and autobiography synonymous?
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 November 2012 23:01 (eleven years ago) link
eagles karaoke is 1 of 14 tracks on nostalgia, tucked conveniently at the very end along with MGMT karaoke. i don't particularly like (or despise) either of those, and thus never listen to them ... as far as i'm concerned it's a great 11-track album with a few interludes and 8 songs that range from good to amazing.
― alpine static, Monday, 26 November 2012 23:01 (eleven years ago) link
I have a hard time understanding how that Titus Andronicus album made anyone's list.. very disappointing and I really tried to warm up to it.
― everythingsgross, Monday, 26 November 2012 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, November 26, 2012 4:01 PM (11 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
of course not, and obviously there is autobiographical and first-person stuff on channel orange, too, it's just that "frank ocean" becomes another character amongst the obviously not-frank ocean others, if that makes sense?
― childish bambino (rennavate), Monday, 26 November 2012 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 November 2012 22:57 (56 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Or speaking of filmic albums ARMOR ON ffs
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Monday, 26 November 2012 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
yep -- thanks
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 November 2012 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
i mean, swim good and songs 4 women and we all try and dust ... for me, that's case closed.
i like channel orange but it doesn't burrow its way into me like n,u did. i dunno. i ain't gonna be pissed when it wins P&J. it's better than that tune-yards album
― alpine static, Monday, 26 November 2012 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
also, i need to hear ARMOR ON.
― alpine static, Monday, 26 November 2012 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
you really do, it's fucking amazing
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Monday, 26 November 2012 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
I played "Faith" one morning last week as the sun was rising and I thought fuuuuuck
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 November 2012 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Monday, November 26, 2012 3:03 PM Bookmark
My top three albums this year!
― these bitches is my sons and i make dad jokes (The Reverend), Monday, 26 November 2012 23:07 (eleven years ago) link
― D-40, Monday, November 26, 2012 5:50 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark
yeah well this is bullshit
― J0rdan S., Monday, 26 November 2012 23:07 (eleven years ago) link
i agree in the sense that my favourite individual frank songs i think come from nostalgia, ultra, but channel orange works so well as an "album" that i can just put it on and sink into that world
channel orange and kaleidoscope dream are also 2 of my 3 favourite albums of this year, too, much like rev.
― childish bambino (rennavate), Monday, 26 November 2012 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
I can't fucking wait til everyone can hear Goldenheart
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Monday, 26 November 2012 23:11 (eleven years ago) link
Me neither, so envious that you've heard it.
― these bitches is my sons and i make dad jokes (The Reverend), Monday, 26 November 2012 23:14 (eleven years ago) link
Goldenheart?
― Room 227 (cryptosicko), Monday, 26 November 2012 23:17 (eleven years ago) link
Channel Orange is great, but as a whole Swing Lo Magellan is better.
― UnderControl, Monday, 26 November 2012 23:20 (eleven years ago) link
what
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 November 2012 23:21 (eleven years ago) link
hahahaha
― these bitches is my sons and i make dad jokes (The Reverend), Monday, 26 November 2012 23:22 (eleven years ago) link
i love everyone's enthusiasm for i am curious orange, and i put on that album every few weeks bc everyone's investment in it is certainly interesting enough to me to want to figure it out for myself, and then twenty minutes later i forget that it's on.
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 26 November 2012 23:38 (eleven years ago) link
i think "Pyramids" is pretty cool but the less ambitious normal-length songs on it are mostly pretty underwhelming to me, also dude sings like Omarion
― The Doc Morbama (some dude), Monday, 26 November 2012 23:41 (eleven years ago) link
omarion? reeeeally?
― childish bambino (rennavate), Monday, 26 November 2012 23:43 (eleven years ago) link
i love the falsetto on "thinkin' about you" but his usual singing voice, that sort of half-talking cadence feels really distant and uninvolving
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 26 November 2012 23:43 (eleven years ago) link
oh he sounds totally like omarion, listen to the MMG album from this year xp
― J0rdan S., Monday, 26 November 2012 23:44 (eleven years ago) link
omarion is a good singer fwiw
― D-40, Monday, 26 November 2012 23:44 (eleven years ago) link
what a relief that love/hate for OrangeyougonnalistentoMiguel ranges across the sexual divide.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 November 2012 23:45 (eleven years ago) link
be cool if he sounded like michael omartian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i24QiEYkzTU&feature=relmfu
― scott seward, Monday, 26 November 2012 23:45 (eleven years ago) link
but anyway while i hated the rhetoric about "a change in r&b" that surrounded orange crush when it came out i really liked a lot of the stuff on the actual ilx thread about its qualities as an album, regardless of whether i'm into it or not.
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 26 November 2012 23:45 (eleven years ago) link
did anyone else love "confess" as much as me or am i alone on this one?
― childish bambino (rennavate), Monday, 26 November 2012 23:53 (eleven years ago) link
i am currently cobbling together ARMOR ON with YouTubes.
have never purchased anything from iTunes and won't be starting now; is there another way to acquire this, non-pirate style? was there a physical release. (sorry, lazy question)
― alpine static, Monday, 26 November 2012 23:55 (eleven years ago) link
[but anyway while i hated the rhetoric about "a change in r&b" that surrounded orange crush when it came out
mmm it hasn't gone away
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Monday, 26 November 2012 23:55 (eleven years ago) link
pretty sure Armor On was only officially released digitally, no CD -- Amazon has it on MP3 but no physical media.
― The Doc Morbama (some dude), Monday, 26 November 2012 23:57 (eleven years ago) link