★ The Weeknd ★ What You Need ★

or like... it turns out he stole all of his songs from someone

― young money color me badd (J0rdan S.), Friday, August 31, 2012 11:59 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Well, he did almost kinda do that, of course. Old news though:

http://www.vice.com/read/how-the-producer-of-the-weeknds-breakout-tracks-got-majorly-screwed

Anyway, I have no desire to listen to these remasters or the new tracks, which kinda surprises me since I loved HoB when it dropped.

love that the creative genesis of this project is

http://assets.vice.com/content-images/contentimage/no-slug/ffafd6934abb84d53f53a7d077eb4558.jpg

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."

That picture sums up everything. Everything.

BEEN THERE MAN

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).

is it a copout to name "trilogy" my favourite release of 2012?

that's how much i love these three mixtapes

except the new mastering fucks up "the knowing" :(

you guys think it sounds much different on the new version? haven't checked it out yet.

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

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

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.

Trilogy version of What You Need minus the Aaliyah sample. Lame!

they've re*mixed* some of this rather than remastered it haven't they?! baffling.

‏@JonahHill
I really like this Weeknd album

hahahahaha

http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/2007_Superbad/007SRD_Jonah_Hill_013.jpg

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."

haaa

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 ?

* 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.

otm

...stiff hipped and funkless...

This is how you know it's trip hop, heh.

Wait, is "Tim" Tim F or a different Tim? This is going to confuse me.

Tim F is Tim but Tim is not Tim F

they've re*mixed* some of this rather than remastered it haven't they?! baffling.

sample clearance?

different tim, from before you were born

Yeah, sorry. F and I have been in the same room, we're definitely different.

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.

Not him! One of his band.

ohh!

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.

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.

c'mon say it, FUNK, you want to say it

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

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

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.

c'mon say it, FUNK, you want to say it

― 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

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.

really like when he sings/falsettos like in rolling stone, the worm turns when he goes into the pleading whine thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORVz_qeKgvg

new Smiths-referencing track pretty nice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3VIh8ZB-M8

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)

(i like the production btw, for me it's the whole point)

this.

i care not re how this stuff sounds in a club ..

I wouldn't if djs didn't insist on playing him. :/

.. not my problem ...

sounds great on the ireallylovemusic soundsystem which is all i care about ..

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"

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.

The new album is going to be called Kiss Land.