i never delete songs (whole albums to make room sometimes, but never individual songs). i don't even skip tracks if i'm going through an album in non-shuffle mode.
― some dude, Monday, 30 April 2012 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
just think the SINGLE OF THE YEAR talk is a bit over the top.
this is ILM
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 April 2012 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
well i mean, better "Adorn" than the new Bieber, but still
― some dude, Monday, 30 April 2012 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
ftr "adorn" is still my favorite song this year -- or at least my most listened to
― frogbs in the trap (J0rdan S.), Monday, 30 April 2012 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
actually that's not true, it's behind a grimes album track
is vol 3 meant to be the last ADC?
it's aight but like the others i'm not really...enraptured. something seems off with the sound, it's like i'm listening to it through a drainpipe or something
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Monday, 30 April 2012 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
smh j0rdan
can't get behind Vol. 3 either. It sounds tentative; he's trying sounds and lyrical ideas that aren't realized.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 April 2012 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
it's funny, you'd think that releasing music in 3-song sets would at least ensure that nothing is disposable but on each of these there's one song i don't particularly care about hearing again
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Monday, 30 April 2012 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
and actually across them all only three real keepers for me, and none of those even close to "sure thing"
that assessment of the entire project isn't totally off but i'm willing to overlook a few forgettable tracks on account of three of my absolute favorite songs of the year being included (along with a bunch of good tho not great tracks)
― frogbs in the trap (J0rdan S.), Monday, 30 April 2012 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
idk yeah i don't really ever think in single of the year terms (altho i know it's not 'adorn') but i do believe it has an iconic kinda one-shot calling card quality about it that sets it apart from the equally-good songs it comes with. the brevity is a huge part of it, another couple of minutes and i'd probably rate it behind 'arch n point' and 'all'
re "uncheck", right yeah i was thinking maybe it's an itunes culture kinda thing (i don't really do itunes)
― r|t|c, Monday, 30 April 2012 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
hmm well i think the best of these might scrape my top 50 tracks of the year so far. might.
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Monday, 30 April 2012 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
I'd rank them in descending order:
Arch n Point...AllAdornGravityParty Up
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 April 2012 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
vol.3 is a shade of miguel that i know is in all his stuff but don't really like arranged together quite so pat
bandnames are failing me right now but i guess "sounding like the killers or whatever" will do for starters
― r|t|c, Monday, 30 April 2012 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
haha i like the clunky guitar stuff on "ooh ahh"
― some dude, Monday, 30 April 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
vicious
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Monday, 30 April 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
...all > arch & point > gravity >>>>>> the rest, don't really care
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Monday, April 30, 2012 12:14 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i've seen a lot of mentions of it being a series of 3, this being the last of the series, etc. although without seeing it in any official pr/interview or anything i'm not really 100% sure.
― some dude, Monday, 30 April 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
the website makes it seem so -- it's only listed three volumes for weeks
― frogbs in the trap (J0rdan S.), Monday, 30 April 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
personally i think this "shabadoo" backing vocals on "gravity" are kinda corny
― frogbs in the trap (J0rdan S.), Monday, 30 April 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
the*
does the 'vol 3' link on the ADC site still go to vol 2? i had to dl it off the link itt.
― some dude, Monday, 30 April 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
nah i got an email for vol 3
corny maybe, but at least somewhat memorable
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Monday, 30 April 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
as far as overt prince rips go i think "party life" is pretty good -- something about the cadence of his singing strikes me as very accurate but not in an obvious way
― frogbs in the trap (J0rdan S.), Monday, 30 April 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
Not ready to definitively rate or rank these yet. Everything this dude makes has a way of growing on me over time (which is a pretty cool feat given how short and direct so many of his songs are)
― Evan R, Monday, 30 April 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
i think in general i'm actually more bullish on vol 3 than the rest of y'all, the more i listen to it. def nothing that tops the titanic tracks on the other 2 vols but i think it's a nice bow on top if you listen to all three straight thru -- a bit of a stylistic pivot but not obviously so... and still idiosyncratic in the little ways that he his. and i guess i think "candles in the sun, blowin in the wind" is being a bit underrated. certainly hamhanded as far as its politics go but i think it's a pretty good tune.
― frogbs in the trap (J0rdan S.), Monday, 30 April 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i like that one a lot
― some dude, Monday, 30 April 2012 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
Thematically and sonically it's of a piece with the call to arms aimed at misfits and outcasts in "...All."
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 April 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
altho i do deduce a few points for pronouncing "other" like "uhva" as if he was british
― frogbs in the trap (J0rdan S.), Monday, 30 April 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
"adorn" is my most-listened to non-dawn richard (who is in her own league, obv) track this year by more than twice over
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Monday, 30 April 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
me too probably. i like most of the other stuff just fine but imo most of "all i want is you" > most of ADC
― dharunravir (k3vin k.), Monday, 30 April 2012 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
...alll >>>>>>>>> adorn >>> arch and point
― dayo, Monday, 30 April 2012 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
there's always that bit in 'all' with him going "tee-tee tell em how to elevate" where it totally breaks the blippy springsteen vibe picturing him misreading his iphone lyrics
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 10:46 (twelve years ago) link
i mean it kinda works actually but still
I know it's a horrific epidemic, but "babies on crack" will never not be unintentionally funny. Any message track that wants to be taken seriously needs to recognize that
― Evan R, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
that opening line's resonance with "Be Thankful for What You Got" really throws me off every time. I assume it's intentional, but him singing "babies on crack" instead of "sunroof top" makes that phrase stick out even more.
― rob, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
this is from evan's ADC review
"arguably the most engaging singles run of any R&B album since Usher’s Confessions."
interesting position imo -- how do we feel about it? i may be inclined to agree w/ it, but that's a long time
― frogbs in the trap (J0rdan S.), Friday, 4 May 2012 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
i agree -- there are probably a couple albums with 3 hits as strong as All/Sure/Quickie, but might be cluttered up with a couple duds too
― some dude, Friday, 4 May 2012 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
fav post-Confessions R&B singles campaigns: first Ne-Yo album, B'Day, Double Up, first 2 Keyshia Cole albums, BLACKsummers'night, first The-Dream album, first two John Legend albums, Emancipation of Mimi, second Ciara album
― some dude, Friday, 4 May 2012 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
I was going to say Ne-Yo through Year of the Gentleman, Ciara, and Maxwell myself.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 May 2012 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
but none of these guys has excited me like Miguel; I have no idea what shit this guy's gonna do next.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 May 2012 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
I should also point out that I don't particularly care for the Confessions period of Usher's career.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 May 2012 18:32 (twelve years ago) link
yeah 'love/hate', 'goodies' and 'emanicpation' were my first three thoughts, but i think i'd take the 'all i want is you' trio over mariah, and probably have it tied w/ ciara behind the-dream
'blacksummersnight' is an interesting pick too... i didn't think of it but "pretty wings" and "bad habits" are monsters... i like "fistful of tears" a lot but it doesn't seem on the level of those two
― frogbs in the trap (J0rdan S.), Friday, 4 May 2012 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
"when you're mad is good" but it's kind of a major dip in b/w "so sick" and "sexy love" imo (last of which is my favorite late 90s max martin song that max martin never wrote in the late 90s)
― frogbs in the trap (J0rdan S.), Friday, 4 May 2012 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i love the album itself more than the singles per se, was just spitballing. "Fistful of Tears" came alive for me as a single, though.
― some dude, Friday, 4 May 2012 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
haha want to hear a song called "when you're mad is good"
excuse my sloppy quotations there
― frogbs in the trap (J0rdan S.), Friday, 4 May 2012 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
ha