thread of miguel

i almost want to start a poll but i would feel bad about the slightly overrated "Adorn" crushing everything else

I don't think it's a sure thing that adorn would triumph over all the others

dude have you seen some of the hyperbole itt about that song

ha I was going to start a poll last night. I may yet.

"Adorn" will not top my list.

Who is that at the end of "Candles" anyway, I kinda stupidly assume Lennon but I'm not sure.

it is Lennon

dude have you seen some of the hyperbole itt about that song

― some dude, Monday, April 30, 2012 10:44 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

most of it came before vol. 2 dropped tho

yeah there has been more hyperbole about "Broads" lately, i suppose

you're right, def think 'broads' would walk a poll

"Broads" is the only one I deleted.

dayo we gotta be careful about shooting sarcasm lasers simultaneously, don't cross the streams

bite your head off, man

ships do you wanna do like a "x > y >>> z" format top 5 breakdown on ur miggy faves so i know where ur coming from exactly

or do the poll and do it there, w/e

a) top 5 of ADC or all his stuff? b) where i'm coming from about his music in general or where i'm coming from with some particular post itt?

all his stuff, i guess i was mainly thinking about how far you'd rate 'sure thing' above the newer stuff (i assumed you would) but then wanting to know how overrated you see 'adorn' as being in adc's context

(obv number of arrows is not really a proper metric but we'll be here all day otherwise)

deleting songs off releases is still scarcely conceivable savagery to me btw, does everyone really do that

still kinda feeling out the ADC stuff because from one listen to the next one song might sound great and another drab or tacky and then on the next listen they switch places. to be clear "Adorn" is def one of the better new songs, just think the SINGLE OF THE YEAR talk is a bit over the top.

i didn't delete "broads" but i did uncheck it

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.

just think the SINGLE OF THE YEAR talk is a bit over the top.

this is ILM

well i mean, better "Adorn" than the new Bieber, but still

ftr "adorn" is still my favorite song this year -- or at least my most listened to

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

smh j0rdan

can't get behind Vol. 3 either. It sounds tentative; he's trying sounds and lyrical ideas that aren't realized.

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

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)

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)

hmm well i think the best of these might scrape my top 50 tracks of the year so far. might.

I'd rank them in descending order:

Arch n Point
...All
Adorn
Gravity
Party Up

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

haha i like the clunky guitar stuff on "ooh ahh"

bandnames are failing me right now but i guess "sounding like the killers or whatever" will do for starters

vicious

...all > arch & point > gravity >>>>>> the rest, don't really care

is vol 3 meant to be the last ADC?

― 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.

the website makes it seem so -- it's only listed three volumes for weeks

personally i think this "shabadoo" backing vocals on "gravity" are kinda corny

the*

does the 'vol 3' link on the ADC site still go to vol 2? i had to dl it off the link itt.

nah i got an email for vol 3

corny maybe, but at least somewhat memorable

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

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)

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.

yeah i like that one a lot

Thematically and sonically it's of a piece with the call to arms aimed at misfits and outcasts in "...All."