Frank Ocean - Channel Orange (2012)

did he really mean he was quitting music? seems just like an offhanded thing to say

text edit screen cap a few posts down is a bit more like what's going on IMO

He is an impulsive and sensible young man with a tumblr. He might have meant it while he typed it.

Lol, sensitive not sensible. Die, phone.

I am home taking a muscle relaxer (tizanidine) pills for a relatively minor (but bad enough) issue with my calf muscle, and I somehow thought this might be the time to finally listen to this whole thing. I think I need to go put my leg up though. Feeling a little buzzed but maybe it's just my imagination.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbfw1aERpz1qmrbzio1_1280.jpg

there is a lot of thing you can quit.

Sweet Life is the one that keeps me coming back.

yes

I think the album is pretty catchy melodically though and I keep being surprised to see so many people think otherwise!

yes

is it a love crime?

noooooo

argh why won't this album come out on vinyl already COME ON

http://www.gq.com/entertainment/music/201212/frank-ocean-interview-gq-december-2012

Jon Caramanica @joncaramanica 7s
Worth mentioning that Bieber sang about 12 bars of Frank Ocean "Thinkin Bout You" during the show tonight

Terrific interview.

listened to this again today & it just floored me, songs that previously hadn't really struck me just sounded incredible (pilot jones, sierra leone) really, really wonderful album

the final :30 or so of "sierra lone" is my favorite part of the album i think

would love to see a glenn mcdonald-type spreadsheet in which ILM's grades for this album get posted.

I've finally fallen for "Pilot Jones"

I keep thinking of "Pilot Jones" as being a love song for mentally challenged military personnel because of "Forrest Gump"

hahaha

I wondered why Ocean didn't lead "Pilot Jones" with a Short Round sample from Temple of Doom, specifically, "Dr. Jones! No time for love!"

love "pilot jones" so much. was my favorite the first time through, and i still love it dearly. so sadd. played it for a friend the other day and he would not feel. then he wanted to play me the afghan whigs doing "love crimes. friends...

I like the Afghan Whigs cover, but if that's the only thing you're taking away from Frank Ocean....

it was live and sounded like a carton of bees

Love how this album is structured. It opens with him telling lies, moves on to him telling stories, then closes with candid autobiography

Ha, not quite, but good point. I don't think "Pink Matter" or fucking "Forrest Gump" really jibe with that. It's telling in a way that he follows the emotionally nakedness of "Bad Religion" (and, in a different way, "Pink Matter", which has no real reason to connect the way it does, but damn does he make you feel his cosmic mumbo-jumbo) with a somewhat detached telling of his cheesiest tale yet, but one that only really makes sense in the context given by "Bad Religion". There really isn't any other point in the record he could have slipped "Forrest" without it being completely intrusive. He goes for the "Florida University" gambit by ending the album on a more upbeat but also very wistful moment (but without Terius' spite), which probably sums his current feelings of the relationship he described more directly in "Thinkin' Bout You" and "Bad Religion" than their in-the-moment anguish. Cause really all his stories are about himself anyway, even when goes out of his way to signpost that they're not. So for all practical intents he's back to lying again.

Oh, and "Fertilizer" is him calling himself out!

"fertilizer" in its 45 or whatever seconds is better than 95% of music this year

it was live and sounded like a carton of bees

the studio version is free d00d

does frank sing on "fertilizer" at all or is it totally james fauntleroy

i thought it's frank singing to fauntleroy, who you can faintly hear in the background

or like a short cover

The vocals sound deeper than Fauntleroy's on the original, so I'm assuming it's Ocean. It had never occurred to me that it wouldn't be, even though I knew Fauntleroy wrote the song.

the instruments are different too, no?

I don't think so.

A friend's FB update, which makes perfect sense:

Who knew Frank Ocean was so good to do yoga to?

Official Pink Matter Remix 320 kbps courtesy of Big Boi. Do we call it Frank Ocean ft. OutKast or Frank Ocean ft. Big Boi & Andre 3000.

Either way:

https://soundcloud.com/big-boi/pink-matter-remix-dirty-1

Part of me wishes that we got a new new Andre verse to go with Big Boi's but stilllllll.

andre's verse is still effortlessly wonderful.

the way he just rattles off "since you been gone i been having withdrawals / you were such a habit to call"

"she had the kind of body that would probably intimidate / any of 'em that were un-southern / not me cousin"

"if models are made for modellin'/ thick girls are made for cuddlin'"

that verse is sublime

that verse is Sublime.

Frank Ocean records track with Depeche Mode's Martin Gore

http://www.nme.com/news/frank-ocean/68835

The Brit Award winning Frank Ocean has reportedly recorded a track with Martin Gore of Depeche Mode for the follow-up to his Grammy Award winning album, 'Channel Orange'.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Dave Gahan said that his bandmate Gore worked on a song for Ocean's new record alongside The Knife producer Christoffer Berg. Gahan said that they met Ocean in New York whilst they were recording.

"Suddenly in the doorway, I sensed this presence, and I realised there was this guy standing there just watching," said Gahan. "An assistant came up to me in between songs and said, 'Do you mind? Frank Ocean is here working in another studio and really wants to meet you guys.' I wouldn't have thought he would have even known who we are, but it turns out he's a big fan." He continued:

"Martin and Christoffer Berg ended up doing a track with him, which I think is going to be part of his new record. Martin did some electronics and some modular synthesizer stuff he really wanted."

oh god

as if he hoped to win Ned this way.

this isn't nearly as worrying as his stated desire to work with danger mouse

this is fucking fantastic tbh

yeah i'm with rev, fuck danger mouse

Gore's a brilliant guy, could totally see him coming up with something great in a context people aren't used to hearing him work in like this

certainly he was a smart guy capable of awesome things in 1990 or even 2005