https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMcY2DkuAoY
― jaxon, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 06:02 (thirteen years ago) link
http://silencenogood.net/what-you-need-the-weekend/
― jaxon, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 06:04 (thirteen years ago) link
http://savingsoulblog.com/2010/12/19/the-weekend-what-you-need-tom-wrecks-edit/
― jaxon, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 06:05 (thirteen years ago) link
these dudes are friends of friends /no suzy
― Lamp, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 06:06 (thirteen years ago) link
you from toronto? fucking love this song. is there more from them?
― jaxon, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 06:09 (thirteen years ago) link
haha thats a p terrible post just reflexive i guess. i live in toronto (not from here tho)
anyway yah this is a jam "loft party" is p great track too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsWL6LI2htg&feature=player_embedded
'this morning' is less successful but kinda gives a handle on what theyre into:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFkrp5CL0iY&feature=related
― Lamp, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 06:14 (thirteen years ago) link
beach house sample
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 1 February 2011 08:48 (thirteen years ago) link
which beach house song?
― jaxon, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 19:24 (thirteen years ago) link
there's more than one?
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 1 February 2011 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
(j/k!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9PuAm7d0PA
― jaxon, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 05:49 (thirteen years ago) link
not a chris isaak cover, not that i'd be mad at that
― jaxon, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 05:50 (thirteen years ago) link
lol i was gonna start a thread, you should fix the title btw also yes i love all these songs. loft music and wicked game esp.
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 12:26 (thirteen years ago) link
o snap. i never realized it was spelled w/o an 'e' at the end
― jaxon, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
These guys remind me of Arab Strap.
― bamcquern, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 04:31 (thirteen years ago) link
this is weird, cuz i usually agree w/ jaxon about like 90% of stuff, but i dont really like this. the first track the vocals are so heavily layered & echoed that I dont really 'feel' it & it makes me all Lex-ish wishing the performance was there, because the song is **aite** but not really much more than a slow jam. but whats a slow jam where the vocals are so filtered? All i can imagine explaining that is a bunch of gross Wire/chillwave/hypnogogic style stuff about ghostly memories of a slow jam or some ish
wicked games the vocals are better but the song has so many unnecessary 'fuckings' its distracting & lyrically corny in parts
― deej, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 04:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I've got your performance right here.
jk
― bamcquern, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 04:41 (thirteen years ago) link
i guess the thing that i like is that it is sorta chillwavy whatevsy. it kinda reminds me of all that post dubstep r'n'b influenced stuff i'm really into but know nothing about like burial or james blake or deadboy remixes or burial or whatever (where should i look to get more of this stuff btw?), but it's more of an actual r'n'b song than those. my MO has always been chocolate in my peanut butter*. foreign takes on rock music, psychedelic country, disco jazz, synthy african music etc. i guess i really like this because it's not straight up r'n'b.
* does this make me corny indie fuxor btw?
― jaxon, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 05:39 (thirteen years ago) link
yah this grafts together two things i really like: chillwave and cute-boy-r&b. usually this kindof yoking together of things i like pisses me off and i tend to be a bit like this is a watered down versh of 2 things i like but in this case i love it.
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 09:28 (thirteen years ago) link
new stuff here; http://soundcloud.com/theweekndxo
― mmmm, Monday, 21 March 2011 11:52 (thirteen years ago) link
jaxon what you said makes sense, i guess to me it just seems too close to actual R&B, not weird enough, to seem partic. novel. Burial im not a huge fan of but it at least has a beat style that exists outside of current R&B, this just sounds like an anonymous slow jam to me but w/ a plainer vocal performance
― D-40, Monday, 21 March 2011 14:38 (thirteen years ago) link
lol @ 'actual R&B' you are so weird
― nu rave electro banger coked out art school college party (Lamp), Monday, 21 March 2011 16:57 (thirteen years ago) link
holy shit, thanks for that soundcloud link.
also, apparently i like burial so much i mentioned him twice
― jaxon, Monday, 21 March 2011 17:17 (thirteen years ago) link
― nu rave electro banger coked out art school college party (Lamp), Monday, March 21, 2011 4:57 PM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
not sure whats weird abt this
― D-40, Monday, 21 March 2011 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link
version of "The Morning" doesnt have the slo-mo vocal effect abused by salem
i liked the old version but i like this version too
― gr8080, Monday, 21 March 2011 20:48 (thirteen years ago) link
"the morning" is pretty fucking amazing tho
this whole thing is weird as hell tho
― blingee cummings (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 01:40 (thirteen years ago) link
i really am interested to find about who this guy is/what he's into/who he's affiliated with etc
― blingee cummings (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 02:20 (thirteen years ago) link
i hear drake, trey songz, the-dream & dirty money as much as i hear hypnagogic pop
― blingee cummings (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 02:21 (thirteen years ago) link
the thing i'm interested in is why the music codes mainstream r&b but the surface aesthetics & target audience are pure indie rock
― blingee cummings (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 02:22 (thirteen years ago) link
so "what you need" samples "rock the boat" & "the party & the after party" samples beach house
― blingee cummings (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 02:41 (thirteen years ago) link
when i heard that beach house i knew i knew it but it felt like some awesome classic rock radio wild card like wicked game or tusk or something and then i was like oh its beach house and maybe i like beach house now maybe
― ico, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 02:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Your name looks weird.
― bamcquern, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 03:14 (thirteen years ago) link
anyone catch "Coming Down" before the download limit was reached? and what track number are it, Wicked Games & What You Need?
― jaxon, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 04:49 (thirteen years ago) link
coming down is 7, wicked games is 5, what you need is 2
― blingee cummings (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 04:50 (thirteen years ago) link
apparently co-signed by drake alreadyhttp://rapfix.mtv.com/2011/03/21/say-hello-to-the-weeknd-drake-co-signs/
― jaxon, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 04:52 (thirteen years ago) link
shocking, that
― blingee cummings (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 04:52 (thirteen years ago) link
nm. found an alternative dl
― jaxon, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 04:54 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost. ha. ya
― jaxon, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 04:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Look out for an abundance of emoness!
― gr8080, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 04:55 (thirteen years ago) link
i guess i really like this because it's not straight up r'n'b.
...yes?
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 08:10 (thirteen years ago) link
i really hate this, like really really can't stand, and please can pitchfork types "doing" r&b just end already? it's gross
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 08:11 (thirteen years ago) link
this guy isn't a pitchfork type tho, which is why it's interesting & how to dress well really isn't
― blingee cummings (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 08:14 (thirteen years ago) link
or "these guys" or w/e
― blingee cummings (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 08:15 (thirteen years ago) link
everything about the vocals makes me cringe (ughhh the OTT swearing just feels so contrived), there's like no emotion in it at all, and the music is generic chillwave? witch house is more interesting than this
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 08:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i think deej's criticism that the songwriting isn't strong enough rings true at times but i think you're really evaluating the point of the project & other things about it
― blingee cummings (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 08:28 (thirteen years ago) link
er, misevaluating
― blingee cummings (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 08:29 (thirteen years ago) link
what is the "point" of this project then
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 08:31 (thirteen years ago) link
like, the guy is a better singer than the-dream for one. also the music isn't generic chillwave in the slightest, at least the chillwave i'm aware of. it definitely is chill and at times can be chillwave-y, but it quite obviously expands on that. most of the time it sounds like a less pop-indebted version of the drake/40 sound (like, you could the beat for "fall for your type" on this album and you would hardly be able to tell)
― blingee cummings (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 08:33 (thirteen years ago) link
― lex pretend, Tuesday, March 22, 2011 4:31 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
honestly i'm not exactly sure, which is part of what i find interesting about them. but i think it's quite clear that they're going for something different than how to dress well, who pretty much seemed to be asking "what if i made r&b as indie as possible, also if i recorded my album inside a drain pipe?". weeknd to me seems like pretty straight ahead contemporary r&b, albeit someone w/ an interest in some types of indie music. i mean the guy sings about alize and making it rain and crap. it's more trey songz than pitchfork tbh.
― blingee cummings (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 08:36 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean the guy sings about alize and making it rain and crap
this really comes across as so gimmicky though - it seems really forced. i'm not going to second-guess his motivation or background but it totally sounds like co-opting signifiers from the outside in the most boring way.
he's not even as good a singer as terius and certainly doesn't possess the wit or the gift for melody that makes terius' limitations as a vocalist easy to ignore.
and a huge #smh to most of the people bigging this guy up who never took the slightest bit of interest in trey songz - that right there is the warning sign
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 08:50 (thirteen years ago) link
The set production was outstanding. Even if you don't care about the halftime show's music, it's always impressive to see these massive logistics and production in action and this might be the most impressive set production so far.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, February 7, 2021 9:50 PM (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
otm, they did an amazing job this year
― call all destroyer, Monday, 8 February 2021 03:08 (three years ago) link
to go from the start of this thread (almost exactly 10 yrs ago) to halftime sb performer is wild props to abel
― johnny crunch, Monday, 8 February 2021 03:17 (three years ago) link
my 3 and 5 year olds have been obsessed with the weeknd for the last month or two and this halftime show was very magical for them. They only listen to frozen 2 soundtrack, thunderstruck, and the weeknd 'top tracks' playlist.
― sell her Dior (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 8 February 2021 03:21 (three years ago) link
This guys persona has always been kind of odious so I have little warmth for him despite liking his voice and several songs. The halftime set was pretty good, more for the staging, design and choreography than anything he was doing as a performer though. Props to him for putting his own money into it, which surprised me. Cant imagine everyone doing that.
― candyman, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 09:37 (three years ago) link
Isn't that what everyone does for the Super Bowl? Or is it usually paid for by the sponsors? The musical acts don't get paid as far as I know, and that production money must come from somewhere.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 15:10 (three years ago) link
no idea, i dont remember seeing much about superbowl performances in the UK until the 00s or so tbh...
― candyman, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 15:29 (three years ago) link
my 3 and 5 year olds have been obsessed with the weeknd for the last month or two and this halftime show was very magical for them. They only listen to frozen 2 soundtrack, thunderstruck, and the weeknd 'top tracks' playlist.― sell her Dior (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, February 7, 2021 10:21 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― sell her Dior (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, February 7, 2021 10:21 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
read this as "tindersticks" at first and was like wow.
― treeship., Tuesday, 9 February 2021 15:31 (three years ago) link
Oh, I guess the football people cover the production costs usually, but there's no fee for the artists beyond that: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a35405738/super-bowl-halftime-performers-money/
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 16:00 (three years ago) link
weird.
― candyman, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 16:07 (three years ago) link
I liked it, cad otm here and in Super Bowl thread
― brimstead, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 22:07 (three years ago) link
i didn't love the performance... very weird to see a super bowl halftime show where the singer is jammed off to one side on a static stage like he's headlining a festival. i found it pretty boring for that reason... once he finally got onto the field it was fine, nothing that special. seemed like he tried to do something cool as opposed to something that was fun. i've seen better from him on TV tbh
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 9 February 2021 22:25 (three years ago) link
didn’t like it either tbh, good voice ruined by a pretty bad sound mix, he can’t dance and has no stage presence or charisma to speak off, so not a good idea to do a solo show like this.
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 22:35 (three years ago) link
speak of*
I didn’t really know his music before, I recognized the big hit which I really liked and has been stuck in my head all day. So mission accomplished over here I guess
― brimstead, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 23:28 (three years ago) link
I'm ten years late on house of baloons. I love this album. wtf was I listening to in 2011? I don't know.
― akm, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 03:32 (three years ago) link
Was def into the mixtapes at the time. It’s some weird type of nostalgic hearing them now though
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Sunday, 21 March 2021 16:15 (three years ago) link
Rereading the posts from the start of this thread 10 years ago, it’s funny to see how so many people thought the weeknd was a group at first. Who would’ve thought he’d be headlining the Super Bowl half time show 10 years later!
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Sunday, 21 March 2021 20:27 (three years ago) link
new one is just a repeat of the last except a bit worse. same well-crafted retro production but the songs aren't too convincing overall & it doesn't have the same highlights either.
― ufo, Friday, 7 January 2022 05:54 (two years ago) link
i hope Robert Beatty made a bunch of dough for this album cover
― alpine static, Friday, 7 January 2022 06:09 (two years ago) link
oh wait, is it the old man pic? i thought it was this: https://www.target.com/p/the-weeknd-dawn-fm-target-exclusive-cd/-/A-85668841
maybe it's both. idk...
old man pic is the main cover, that's a target exclusive cover
lol at him getting mike love's son & bruce johnston to do some totally inconsequential beach boys oohs on a track that does not resemble the beach boys at all
― ufo, Friday, 7 January 2022 08:54 (two years ago) link
somehow all of this new weeknd stuff has made me get back to this 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ8yZmgKIHU
― krewki, Friday, 7 January 2022 11:12 (two years ago) link
the best stuff on after hours were where he was least interested in the 80s thing and instead moved towards 90s garage rhythms so of course there's none of that here
― ufo, Friday, 7 January 2022 11:41 (two years ago) link
I'm not hearing what's supposed to sound "80s" about this album.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 7 January 2022 16:11 (two years ago) link
i like that he's pushing super hard in this direction & leaving the dirtbag R&B thing behind, i just wish the production and songwriting were better. i like plenty of max martin stuff but purposefully placing him in the same context as quincy jones doesn't really do max many favors as a producer, honestly. you can't really hear any instruments breathe on this, it's all very monolithic and smushed together. sign of the times, of course, but i want to love a project like this and it leaves me a bit cold. it feels telling to me that "i feel it coming" is still his best disco-y type song & it came from daft punk in the wake of them meticulously recreating 70s studio musicianship. these weeknd records really need some of that touch. in general i still think starboy has his best songs, tho after hours is prob better front to back as an album. gonna keep trying w/ this one tho
― J0rdan S., Friday, 7 January 2022 20:43 (two years ago) link
OPN has more production credit on this than Martin, though both are involved on nearly every track. Haven't heard it yet, but if it's an album's worth of No Nightmares that's not a bad thing at all.
Shame about the cover though
― octobeard, Sunday, 9 January 2022 01:02 (two years ago) link
I should say production and writing credit. Lopatin is listed as a writer for all but two tracks
― octobeard, Sunday, 9 January 2022 01:03 (two years ago) link
I've listened to it twice and I don't remember any of the songs yet.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 9 January 2022 01:08 (two years ago) link
‘how do i make you love me’ is so sick
― flopson, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 05:12 (two years ago) link
― flopson,
Agreed. The rest of the album is the usual meh.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 10:42 (two years ago) link
Gasoline through Sacrifice is a really solid run imo. The rest hasn’t really stuck with me so far. Admittedly I didn’t spend time with the last album so I don’t have the comparison point.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 13:01 (two years ago) link
yeah i like most of the album quite a lot, especially the “bangers”. one of my most listened to mixes last year was lopatin’s bbc essential mix which was all italo electro minimal synth and techno. at the time i thought it was a bit of a curveball for him but it makes sense that he was working on this album at the time
― flopson, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 16:09 (two years ago) link
it’s a ymmv but i like this sound more than ‘get lucky’ era daft punk
― flopson, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 16:10 (two years ago) link
I kinda wish he just made a wall-to-wall bangers album in the style of those songs, like a dance mix. I don't understand the point of throwing in that Quincy bit at all and it the album loses so much steam from there.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 17:07 (two years ago) link
At its best ("Don't Break My Heart," a couple others) he suggests a squishier late '80s freestyle sound.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 17:15 (two years ago) link
It's been underwhelming to me too - I was expecting something great based on some raves elsewhere. I tried revisiting some cuts via YouTube and it felt like the videos had more to offer than the music playing underneath.
― birdistheword, Saturday, 15 January 2022 20:19 (two years ago) link
Production is amazing in several of these, but I agree that it feels like it’s missing something. It gets to a point where it feels tiresome to listen to pastiche after pastiche. If the intent was to make this album sound like purgatory it succeeds at it.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 15 January 2022 21:00 (two years ago) link
Particularly like “gasoline” in spite of the awkward monster mash vocals in the verse.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 15 January 2022 21:04 (two years ago) link
Yeah Gasoline is a standout for me.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 15 January 2022 23:44 (two years ago) link
i'm liking this the more i listen to it. enjoying how it starts hard and clubby and unfurls into lush golden hour type tracks the more it plays out. something about it is still leaving me cold tho, can't quite put my finger on it. it's his most thematically concise album (at least of recent vintage) but i don't think it has the highs of his last few records. something like "rockin" off starboy is still >>>> to me. it's nice to play but i'm having trouble remembering individual tracks esp separating the songwriting from the production. "gasoline" is pretty awesome tho
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 20 January 2022 19:44 (two years ago) link
He's sooooo addicted to "Baby Be Mine" as influence and sonic signifier.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 January 2022 19:45 (two years ago) link
i also really wish the interludes didn't exist. some albums i don't mind them, this one it makes me harder to remember how the album flows
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 20 January 2022 19:48 (two years ago) link
the Quincy Jones grosses me out! Is he suggesting he's as crazy as Q's mama? A master like Q?
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 January 2022 20:12 (two years ago) link
For whatever reason, the interludes don't feel all that intrusive to me. It helps that two of them are confined to the intro and outro, but even the others mostly feel like (appropriately) moody pauses in what is an otherwise sonically uniform record.
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Thursday, 20 January 2022 20:13 (two years ago) link
i liked this album (listened on a night drive, which seems ideal), not sure which song is my favorite but i know that the one with tyler is my least favorite
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Thursday, 20 January 2022 20:23 (two years ago) link
well, Tyler's declarative sentences blow away Tesfaye's repulsive fluttered moues.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 January 2022 20:25 (two years ago) link
yeah i mean the main reason i dislike that one in particular is that abel goes back to that played-out single-note melodic style i got sick of around the time of “low life”
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Thursday, 20 January 2022 20:38 (two years ago) link
album is alright, seems kind of slight which the last one did as well. it's not very memorable but listening to it doesn't make me angry either.
― akm, Thursday, 20 January 2022 21:24 (two years ago) link
lol why did they get him to do a song for avatar 2 that's such a weird combo
― ufo, Thursday, 8 December 2022 06:23 (one year ago) link