thread of miguel

i'll accept that

anyway the point is i don't want it as the single, i want a) "do you..." to first smash even harder than "adorn" because it's a million times better, b) "use me" or "don't look back" as the next single c) actually i think "where's the fun in forever?" could work!

so many good songs on the album wouldn't necessarily work on urban radio, but i'd be happy with his label running with the "alt R&B" thing and working one of those more guitar-driven songs on triple A radio

lex i think any song whose repeated, shining, carefree, ebullient moment is "do you like drugs" is going to have a tough time on radio stations whose audience is largely teenagers..! i.e. R1, and i don't see 2 or 6 going for it, though in an ideal world 6 would be an ideal home for it

i like that song a lot, the music's got a kind of huey lewis vibe sometimes (in a good way) (come to think of it, that's another guy who compared the object of his attraction to controlled substances!)

choice fm should become the station that plays stuff like that, and all the explicit versions of everything - there's no legal watershed in uk radio iirc

migarc pimentloi

haha huey lewis

As pleasant as they are, "How Many Drinks" and "Where's the Fun in Forever" are, if not quite the weakest songs on the album, at least the most "ordinary." Like if you'd played them for me 12 months ago and said they tracks from the next Miguel album I'd have been like "oh, of course" rather than "this is amazing" or even just "huh, this is an interesting direction." Being the only two tracks that were completely unfamiliar when I heard the album in full, they kinda of skewed my initial reaction to it for the worse. Remember when I stupidly poopooed Kaleidoscope Dream off one listen?

Not that I disliked the album initially, but I was kind of disappointed in the short term.

the fact that a lot of the songs don't reveal their charms immediately has been one of the album's biggest strengths for me, that it didn't sound its absolute best back in October

"Candles in the Sun" still the only meh song but an improvement on its earlier incarnation.

'how many drinks' def sounds like a natural fit for the radio, I don't expect him to continue keeping on blowing the lid off of the radio

somehow packaging all of these songs together enhanced them all greatly in a way i can't exactly explain - it's partly the sequencing but only partly. it's a bit like the electrik red situation - at least 4-5 of the songs on their album were floating around pre-release and everyone was just like "oh these are kinda decent", not "THIS WILL BE THE BEST THING EVER", but then suddenly hearing the album qua album made everything slot into place

tbh I came into this album fully expecting it to be the best thing ever

it almost is

I was already placing the collective Art Dealer Chic ep's as my #1 album if this album had been just okay.

i do not get this record

do you like drugs?

"how many drinks?" has a slight feminist bent to it that is dope but I doubt many ppl would pick up on it on the radio

drugs are okay i guess

to me this record feels more 'nice guys of okcupid' than it does 'feminist' but i don't know

mainly i think i just hate the mix though

lol what

we do not get your posts

drugs are okay i guess

thanks!

I haven't listened to this yet but

http://soundcloud.com/rawnenbambi/adornthesextape

forgot to post that a few days ago I was in a supermarket as it was closing, adorn came on and one of the guys behind the deli kept on going WHAAAP! WHAAAP! it was p awesome

Adorn on Jay Leno last night
http://www.spin.com/articles/miguel-adorn-jay-leno-tonight-show-video
His guitarist <3

dope

haha awesome WHAAAP! story

I haven't listened to this yet but

http://soundcloud.com/rawnenbambi/adornthesextape

― hemioblock (The Reverend), Tuesday, January 8, 2013 6:16 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

did anybody dl this before the limit blew out

nm I didnt dig it that much

Got my tickets to see him this morning. Excited.

wait, it's some guy who is not miguel singing, fuck this

on the soundcloud thing, i mean

after missing him the past two times he's come to london i'm finally going to see him on saturday with the bf

How was the London show? I didn't realise he was playing Glasgow as well tonight, fingers crossed it isn't sold out

it was pretty great, sound could've been better though - vocals not loud enough! the "quickie"/"arch & point" encore was amazing.

He did Adorn like three different times, and it was nice to hear a crowd sing it all together, but not as nice as hearing his actual voice. It was very guitar-driven, even more than I was expecting based on an album full of guitars, but his band were pretty tight and fun. I did have to laugh though when, after singing about sex and drugs and taking his top off, he put his clothes back on and gave a speech about the horrors of genocide as an introduction to Candles In The Sun. Ultimate buzzkill.

https://soundcloud.com/dj-dyn-o-might/adorn-go-go-remix

Go-Go remix of "Adorn"

that is an excellent thing

yeah i heard it on the radio the other night and it made me so happy

super-dope remix, that

"adorn" live - i think i FINALLY get it

still think calling it the best song is nuts, but i think i might love it properly at last

btw ship I tihnk we made the same lance joke w/i 10 min of each other =O

haw

lol Miguel tweeted with Manti Te'o's imaginary girlfriend

https://twitter.com/MiguelUnlimited/status/135987621229887488

"Do You..." is a wonderful song, but it sounds really out of place and unwelcome on rap radio

Its rap and r'n'b radio, and it sounds fine

it sounds mildly out of place and very welcome imo

i started listening to this because of the year end songs poll

i can't stress how much i did not expect to hear a zombies cover on this album

really good, he's a great singer

*sigh* I guess I just have to root for Kaleidoscope Dream to win the albums poll now