― jaxon, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 06:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://silencenogood.net/what-you-need-the-weekend/
― jaxon, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 06:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://savingsoulblog.com/2010/12/19/the-weekend-what-you-need-tom-wrecks-edit/
― jaxon, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 06:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
these dudes are friends of friends /no suzy
― Lamp, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 06:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
you from toronto? fucking love this song. is there more from them?
― jaxon, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 06:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
haha thats a p terrible post just reflexive i guess. i live in toronto (not from here tho)
anyway yah this is a jam "loft party" is p great track too:
'this morning' is less successful but kinda gives a handle on what theyre into:
― Lamp, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 06:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
beach house sample
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 1 February 2011 08:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
which beach house song?
― jaxon, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 19:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
there's more than one?
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 1 February 2011 19:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
(j/k!)
― jaxon, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 05:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
not a chris isaak cover, not that i'd be mad at that
― jaxon, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 05:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol i was gonna start a thread, you should fix the title btw also yes i love all these songs. loft music and wicked game esp.
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 12:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
o snap. i never realized it was spelled w/o an 'e' at the end
― jaxon, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 20:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
These guys remind me of Arab Strap.
― bamcquern, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 04:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
this is weird, cuz i usually agree w/ jaxon about like 90% of stuff, but i dont really like this. the first track the vocals are so heavily layered & echoed that I dont really 'feel' it & it makes me all Lex-ish wishing the performance was there, because the song is **aite** but not really much more than a slow jam. but whats a slow jam where the vocals are so filtered? All i can imagine explaining that is a bunch of gross Wire/chillwave/hypnogogic style stuff about ghostly memories of a slow jam or some ish
wicked games the vocals are better but the song has so many unnecessary 'fuckings' its distracting & lyrically corny in parts
― deej, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 04:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
I've got your performance right here.
jk
― bamcquern, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 04:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
i guess the thing that i like is that it is sorta chillwavy whatevsy. it kinda reminds me of all that post dubstep r'n'b influenced stuff i'm really into but know nothing about like burial or james blake or deadboy remixes or burial or whatever (where should i look to get more of this stuff btw?), but it's more of an actual r'n'b song than those. my MO has always been chocolate in my peanut butter*. foreign takes on rock music, psychedelic country, disco jazz, synthy african music etc. i guess i really like this because it's not straight up r'n'b.
* does this make me corny indie fuxor btw?
― jaxon, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 05:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
yah this grafts together two things i really like: chillwave and cute-boy-r&b. usually this kindof yoking together of things i like pisses me off and i tend to be a bit like this is a watered down versh of 2 things i like but in this case i love it.
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 09:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
new stuff here; http://soundcloud.com/theweekndxo
― mmmm, Monday, 21 March 2011 11:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
jaxon what you said makes sense, i guess to me it just seems too close to actual R&B, not weird enough, to seem partic. novel. Burial im not a huge fan of but it at least has a beat style that exists outside of current R&B, this just sounds like an anonymous slow jam to me but w/ a plainer vocal performance
― D-40, Monday, 21 March 2011 14:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol @ 'actual R&B' you are so weird
― nu rave electro banger coked out art school college party (Lamp), Monday, 21 March 2011 16:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
holy shit, thanks for that soundcloud link.
also, apparently i like burial so much i mentioned him twice
― jaxon, Monday, 21 March 2011 17:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
― nu rave electro banger coked out art school college party (Lamp), Monday, March 21, 2011 4:57 PM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
not sure whats weird abt this
― D-40, Monday, 21 March 2011 17:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
version of "The Morning" doesnt have the slo-mo vocal effect abused by salem
i liked the old version but i like this version too
― gr8080, Monday, 21 March 2011 20:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
"the morning" is pretty fucking amazing tho
this whole thing is weird as hell tho
― blingee cummings (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 01:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
i really am interested to find about who this guy is/what he's into/who he's affiliated with etc
― blingee cummings (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 02:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
i hear drake, trey songz, the-dream & dirty money as much as i hear hypnagogic pop
― blingee cummings (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 02:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
the thing i'm interested in is why the music codes mainstream r&b but the surface aesthetics & target audience are pure indie rock
― blingee cummings (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 02:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
so "what you need" samples "rock the boat" & "the party & the after party" samples beach house
― blingee cummings (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 02:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
when i heard that beach house i knew i knew it but it felt like some awesome classic rock radio wild card like wicked game or tusk or something and then i was like oh its beach house and maybe i like beach house now maybe
― ico, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 02:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
Your name looks weird.
― bamcquern, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 03:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
anyone catch "Coming Down" before the download limit was reached? and what track number are it, Wicked Games & What You Need?
― jaxon, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 04:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
coming down is 7, wicked games is 5, what you need is 2
― blingee cummings (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 04:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
apparently co-signed by drake alreadyhttp://rapfix.mtv.com/2011/03/21/say-hello-to-the-weeknd-drake-co-signs/
― jaxon, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 04:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
shocking, that
― blingee cummings (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 04:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
nm. found an alternative dl
― jaxon, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 04:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
xpost. ha. ya
― jaxon, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 04:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
Look out for an abundance of emoness!
― gr8080, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 04:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
i guess i really like this because it's not straight up r'n'b.
...yes?
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 08:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
i really hate this, like really really can't stand, and please can pitchfork types "doing" r&b just end already? it's gross
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 08:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
this guy isn't a pitchfork type tho, which is why it's interesting & how to dress well really isn't
― blingee cummings (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 08:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
or "these guys" or w/e
― blingee cummings (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 08:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
everything about the vocals makes me cringe (ughhh the OTT swearing just feels so contrived), there's like no emotion in it at all, and the music is generic chillwave? witch house is more interesting than this
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 08:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
i think deej's criticism that the songwriting isn't strong enough rings true at times but i think you're really evaluating the point of the project & other things about it
― blingee cummings (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 08:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
er, misevaluating
― blingee cummings (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 08:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
what is the "point" of this project then
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 08:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
like, the guy is a better singer than the-dream for one. also the music isn't generic chillwave in the slightest, at least the chillwave i'm aware of. it definitely is chill and at times can be chillwave-y, but it quite obviously expands on that. most of the time it sounds like a less pop-indebted version of the drake/40 sound (like, you could the beat for "fall for your type" on this album and you would hardly be able to tell)
― blingee cummings (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 08:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
― lex pretend, Tuesday, March 22, 2011 4:31 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
honestly i'm not exactly sure, which is part of what i find interesting about them. but i think it's quite clear that they're going for something different than how to dress well, who pretty much seemed to be asking "what if i made r&b as indie as possible, also if i recorded my album inside a drain pipe?". weeknd to me seems like pretty straight ahead contemporary r&b, albeit someone w/ an interest in some types of indie music. i mean the guy sings about alize and making it rain and crap. it's more trey songz than pitchfork tbh.
― blingee cummings (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 08:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
i mean the guy sings about alize and making it rain and crap
this really comes across as so gimmicky though - it seems really forced. i'm not going to second-guess his motivation or background but it totally sounds like co-opting signifiers from the outside in the most boring way.
he's not even as good a singer as terius and certainly doesn't possess the wit or the gift for melody that makes terius' limitations as a vocalist easy to ignore.
and a huge #smh to most of the people bigging this guy up who never took the slightest bit of interest in trey songz - that right there is the warning sign
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 08:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
love that the creative genesis of this project is
And I was just like, “Aw, fuck that shit. No man, let’s talk about, fuckin’ and getting too high and trying to fuck bitches and it not working out. Let’s get really grimy about it."
― my hands tra cer (some dude), Sunday, 11 November 2012 22:58 (6 months ago) Permalink
That picture sums up everything. Everything.
― weak willie (longneck), Sunday, 11 November 2012 23:05 (6 months ago) Permalink
BEEN THERE MAN
― fanute da croupier (D-40), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 05:45 (6 months ago) Permalink
i love the fucking phone on the floor on the side of the photo lol
whole damn trilogy thing is on Spotify as of this morning fyi (in the UK at least).
― piscesx, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 05:57 (6 months ago) Permalink
is it a copout to name "trilogy" my favourite release of 2012?
― childish bambino (rennavate), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 17:35 (6 months ago) Permalink
that's how much i love these three mixtapes
except the new mastering fucks up "the knowing" :(
― childish bambino (rennavate), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 17:36 (6 months ago) Permalink
you guys think it sounds much different on the new version? haven't checked it out yet.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 17:39 (6 months ago) Permalink
they just bury the vocals compared to the og version, neutering its epic finale quality, imo, but then again that's my favourite weeknd song so i'm a little protective of it
― childish bambino (rennavate), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 17:42 (6 months ago) Permalink
I could give or take the new mixes, but it's nice hearing these albums again and hearing that they hold up.
Thursday remains really underrated. "The Birds" pt. 1/2 are perfect mid-points for the whole trilogy, and "Gone" is still a great vibe-out jam
― Evan R, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 17:54 (6 months ago) Permalink
I'm counting it as a reissue, just as Pitchfork is. Otherwise, HoB Would essentially be making my Top 10 two years in a row.
― Room 227 (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 19:23 (6 months ago) Permalink
Trilogy version of What You Need minus the Aaliyah sample. Lame!
― Room 227 (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 23:46 (6 months ago) Permalink
they've re*mixed* some of this rather than remastered it haven't they?! baffling.
― piscesx, Thursday, 15 November 2012 02:02 (6 months ago) Permalink
@JonahHillI really like this Weeknd album
― Andy K, Friday, 16 November 2012 02:00 (6 months ago) Permalink
hahahahaha
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Friday, 16 November 2012 02:10 (6 months ago) Permalink
― this is not a benghazi butthurt (some dude), Friday, 16 November 2012 02:24 (6 months ago) Permalink
haaa
― thraeds of life (The Reverend), Friday, 16 November 2012 02:54 (6 months ago) Permalink
bloody good performance on later .. i thought.
can't deny i'm quite tempted to get the reissues ..
is the banshee sample still in the of have they had to clean that out as well ?
― mark e, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 10:03 (5 months ago) Permalink
* still in the mix *
i was there! it was good. he has a great voice. his backup singers were LOVING nona hendryx. (i couldn't help thinking that they'd rather be singing with her..!)
so... canadian trip hop. even down to the reverbed guitars. songs at like 50bpm. nobody loves me, it's true. plus sex. i don't want to get too down on it because he really does have a tremendous voice, and i LIKE a lot of trip hop, and i'm a fan of anybody who uses space and silence and waiting in their music; it's not done much in pop music to my knowledge. i think it's the beats that sort of let it down. they're really stiff-hipped and funkless and martial.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 10:21 (5 months ago) Permalink
otm
― some dude, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 12:17 (5 months ago) Permalink
...stiff hipped and funkless...
This is how you know it's trip hop, heh.
― Tim, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 12:58 (5 months ago) Permalink
Wait, is "Tim" Tim F or a different Tim? This is going to confuse me.
― these bitches is my sons and i make dad jokes (The Reverend), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 21:11 (5 months ago) Permalink
Tim F is Tim but Tim is not Tim F
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 21:14 (5 months ago) Permalink
sample clearance?
― the late great, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 21:15 (5 months ago) Permalink
different tim, from before you were born
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 21:22 (5 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, sorry. F and I have been in the same room, we're definitely different.
― Tim, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 22:18 (5 months ago) Permalink
He's smarter, for a start. But I'm older.
tim was there too! he claims to have seen the weeknd trying to put the moves on aforementioned backup singers. i can't vouch for that but i certainly can imagine that being something one would want to do.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 November 2012 00:15 (5 months ago) Permalink
Not him! One of his band.
― Tim, Thursday, 29 November 2012 07:11 (5 months ago) Permalink
ohh!
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 November 2012 10:10 (5 months ago) Permalink
got the reissues.they're beautifully packaged.sounds great, and seeing as i missed out on 2 of the mixtapes when they were released, quite chuffed to get'em as they are perfect moodsetters for these long dark nights.
― mark e, Thursday, 29 November 2012 10:11 (5 months ago) Permalink
The beats are my main problem with the Weeknd really, I remember hearing Romy XX or someone similar play an R&B set in Room Three at Fabric and when she played The Weeknd is just sounded so flat and devoid of I dunno bounce or volume or body or something else that sounds less like a shampoo ad.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 29 November 2012 10:28 (5 months ago) Permalink
c'mon say it, FUNK, you want to say it
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 November 2012 10:37 (5 months ago) Permalink
it's times like this, when you find yourself attempting to cajole someone into sounding like chuck eddy on the internet on 10:38 on a thursday morning, that you wonder what the hell is wrong with you
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 November 2012 10:38 (5 months ago) Permalink
yesterday i read the set list and i was like "wicked game"?? he sang wicked game???? that would be amazing! and then i realised it wasn't that song which was a considerable disappointment
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 November 2012 10:42 (5 months ago) Permalink
I think what I actually mean is bounce, the sound system really threw the failings in the production into relief, especially in the context of all the rest of the stuff that was being played.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 29 November 2012 11:32 (5 months ago) Permalink
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, November 29, 2012 3:37 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
what bothers me about this is why does all music have to be funky? there is a time where unfunkiness is required
― childish bambino (rennavate), Thursday, 29 November 2012 17:09 (5 months ago) Permalink
yes, and in my next post i basically make that point. you're right. chopin doesn't need to be funky. many things don't. this doesn't either - obviously, since loads of people like it! but i would like it a lot more if there were more going on in the grooves. pretty much every song seems designed to be this kind of metallic, skeletal platform for his plaintive voice and not much else, which is fine as far as it goes but for me that's not too far, really, incredible as his voice is.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 November 2012 17:14 (5 months ago) Permalink
really like when he sings/falsettos like in rolling stone, the worm turns when he goes into the pleading whine thing.
― bnw, Thursday, 29 November 2012 17:30 (5 months ago) Permalink
new Smiths-referencing track pretty nice
― piscesx, Thursday, 29 November 2012 18:21 (5 months ago) Permalink
be careful what you wish for, i'm listening to these live tracks and it's soooo much worse with live guitar and drums.
https://soundcloud.com/consequenceofsound
(i like the production btw, for me it's the whole point)
― have a sandwich or ice cream sandwich (Jordan), Thursday, 29 November 2012 18:24 (5 months ago) Permalink
this.
i care not re how this stuff sounds in a club ..
― mark e, Thursday, 29 November 2012 20:02 (5 months ago) Permalink
I wouldn't if djs didn't insist on playing him. :/
― these bitches is my sons and i make dad jokes (The Reverend), Thursday, 29 November 2012 22:47 (5 months ago) Permalink
.. not my problem ...
sounds great on the ireallylovemusic soundsystem which is all i care about ..
― mark e, Thursday, 29 November 2012 23:06 (5 months ago) Permalink
i'm listening to these live tracks and it's soooo much worse with live guitar and drums.
that's how i saw him, with live guitars and drums! well, i say "live"; often the drummer would really wind up and WHACK one of his midi pads and all that would come out would be this tiny, echoing "phoppppppppppppp"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 30 November 2012 11:12 (5 months ago) Permalink
I like his production a lot but his voice gets grating pretty quickly.
It has just occurred to me that he sings a little bit like Maynard James Keenan of Tool.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Friday, 30 November 2012 13:58 (5 months ago) Permalink
The new album is going to be called Kiss Land.
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Monday, 18 March 2013 00:30 (2 months ago) Permalink
You can do better, Abel.
― bish (bosch), don't kill my vibe (rennavate), Monday, 18 March 2013 01:47 (2 months ago) Permalink