★ The Weeknd ★ What You Need ★

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.

You can do better, Abel.

So this guy finally did an interview. This part reminded me of the discussion here.

Where do you see yourself in the world of R&B?

The only thing R&B about my shit is the style of singing. My inspiration is R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, and Prince, for the vocals anyway. My production and songwriting, and the environment around those vocals are not inspired by R&B at all.

So is anyone excited for the album? I wasn't big on the first two songs (they're alright) but the newest one is as good as anything he's done https://soundcloud.com/theweekndxo/love-in-the-sky

Long time reader, first time poster..hope I didn't butcher the formatting.

Something that intrigues me about Abel is that he was in this very rare position of having almost universal critical acclaim, and (at least the potential for) massive commercial success. He took this position and decided to do features for...Rich Hil, Wiz Khalifa, and French Montana. He seems to have little interest in keeping the Cool Kids on his bandwagon, which genuinely surprises me, given the image of who I thought he was that I had in my mind.

I've noticed that his hardcore fans seem excited but not necessarily thrilled with his new material, rap and R&B blogs seem almost neutral, and many indie music blogs are not feeling it much at all.

I'm really looking forward to listening to the new album, and I'm interested to see where his career, and the narrative surrounding his career, is in a few years.

had some long thing written and saved, but ditched it copying a network password. so you can thank network passwords. god i had a lot to say itt.

"love in the sky" takes a while to get there, but god from two minutes out. other two are okay. like the portishead sample in "belong to the world" more than the track as a whole.

come on in, monk. keg's in the back, five bucks for a cup.

not loving the "asian lesbian porn" theme, but i suppose that's secondary

Ha, thanks!

Speaking of Belong to the World, is everyone up to date regarding the Portishead "sample" mess?

A total "this guy" Abel moment.

Not usually a "loudness war" guy, but man, the mixing on recent Weeknd tracks has just been brutal. At one point on the new track there's an explosion noise, and it's like, sure, why not, just throw more loud shit in there

He dropped a mini video for this as well, nothing too exciting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weweLG6Or-g

I'm still really loving this song.

Kiss Land is good, based on first impressions. "Wanderlust" is almost disco and the title track is convincingly bleak superstardom cliches over a sprawling seven-minute suite, and his voice sounds better than it ever has.

Not a fan of how they're burying his voice in this, though. But I like the album much more than I thought I would on first listen.

@goinradiodotcom

The Weeknd makes music for straight men who visit Brazil to date transsexuals

there it is

lock thread

the weeknd what you need. conference room
weekend? sucksome!
_o

{sees r&b transsexual weeknd, not weekend}
n-n-n

This album is a million times better than I expected it to be based on the singles. I'm kind of surprised at the lack of an obvious hit, though maybe Wanderlust could make some waves?

The Drake verse on Live For is very lazy and weird sounding.

I could barely choke down a single listen of this. It's all so loud and oppressive. Angry Michael drums are one of my least favorite sounds, and this album is just saturated with them.

you mean like MJ?

Yeah, but not universally beloved MJ. Late period, HIStory, all-caps, paranoid, "more is more can we crank that up?" MJ.