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The reason I started following this account is that Tyler the Creator was following it two weeks ago... but he has since unfollowed it. So I’m not sure if it is Frank messing with us or what...
Happy birthday to the album of the decade. Anyone want to share thoughts on Blonde three years later?
The mom voicemail and french dude talking about facebook are so fucking terrible for such an amazing album. Also my album of the decade, I'll try to remember to write some thoughts on it.
Happy birthday to the album of the decade. Anyone want to share thoughts on Blonde three years later?
The mom voicemail and french dude talking about facebook are so fucking terrible for such an amazing album. Also my album of the decade, I'll try to remember to write some thoughts on it.
Facebook Story is my least favorite track of all-time. I loathe it. And it’s on one of my favorite albums of all-time.
Yeah it’s between blond and Currents for favorite album of all time. Safe to say it hits just as hard today as it did when I first listened to it three years ago
I'm listening to this album now, and it's still hard for me to put into words how I feel about it. Along with Acid Rap and In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, this is easily one of the most-played albums of my adult life, but unlike those two, my appreciation of Blonde seems to change with every listen. I still pick up new things each time.
When I first listened to Blonde, I was very much caught up in the hype of the album release, what with the warehouse carpentry and release of Endless and all. To be honest I wasn't actually a huge fan at the time, I just enjoyed his music well enough and it's fun to be excited about shit. And then Endless dropped, then Blonde, and all of a sudden I had a bunch of music sitting in my lap; music that was different and sometimes challenging and layered. I naturally gravitated towards Blonde - I prefer the warmer tones overall - and while I kept it in rotation, it didn't blow me away on the first listen. But there was something to it, something I still can't put my finger on, that just kept intriguing me. So I'd put it on again. And again. And again. Soon it became literally the only thing I listened to, and it didn't take long before I was rapping along with every word of Andre 3000's verse and pretending to be able do the same vocal acrobatics that Frank performs on "Self Control". To this day it's still my go-to "I don't know what else to listen to" album.
To me this album perfectly captures the feeling of late summer evenings. It doesn't have the bombast that many "summer albums" do, but the album burns slowly, floating from track to track the way the sky slowly changes color as the sun sets. I don't think it's a mistake that the album's release date is late summer. As it is in much of his other work, the theme of nostalgia is super present in this album, especially towards the end with the masterful one-two punch that is Siegfried and Godspeed. Throughout the album Frank tells stories of both joy and the longing for that joy, and he makes me feel like I'm right there with him when he does. His lyrics oscillate between descriptive ("cannonball off the porch side/older kids trying off the roof") to the complex and abstract ("dreaming a thought that could dream about a thought..." etc etc). I think this is partly what makes the album so intriguing. He draws you in with some dope melodies and vivid imagery and then invites your curiosity with sonic experimentation and dense lyrics. Sometimes I still will listen to a verse and hear it in a new way, and it makes Blonde a very rewarding album to listen to.
Blonde has slowly crept up my list of favorite albums to the point where now it's in the top five for sure. There's a part of me that would be okay if Frank never releases another album, because after three years Blonde is still satisfying my appetite.
5.5/four tet, daphni b2b floating points, avalon emerson 5.12/neil young 5.19/mannequin pussy 5.21/serpentwithfeet 5.25/hozier 6.12-16/bonnaroo 6.28/goose 6.29/goose 9.17/the national + the war on drugs 9.23/sigur ros 9.27-29/making time 10.17/air
5.5/four tet, daphni b2b floating points, avalon emerson 5.12/neil young 5.19/mannequin pussy 5.21/serpentwithfeet 5.25/hozier 6.12-16/bonnaroo 6.28/goose 6.29/goose 9.17/the national + the war on drugs 9.23/sigur ros 9.27-29/making time 10.17/air
Post by Dale Cooper on Aug 21, 2019 8:28:08 GMT -5
Blonde or Yeezus are probably my top 2 for album of the Decade, Black Messiah by D'Angelo at #3.
This album was ALL I listened to for months after it came out. It hit me so hard. So hard in fact, that it was a long time before I gave Endless a proper shot.
Other than the two talking skits, I will say that Skyline To doesn't do much for me, but that may be because it's sandwiched between two greats. Also, Pretty Sweet is just okay. But, almost everything else is perfection.
I remember reading the dozen of P4K articles leading up to this, the mystery on whatever Boys Don't Cry might be, what the hell his livestream meant, why he was doing wood working or in the end building a staircase, constantly checking the subreddit for updates, reading theories and stories about the stream or whatever. (I really felt connected with those people on there aswell after a while, it was a really tight and small community back then there). And every Friday there was me hoping, Frank would release his album (it honestly became a meme at some point, I think aswell). Endless didn't click for me at first, it was so minimal and every song texture-wise sounded the same and without having fully digested the visual album, Blonde dropped just the day after. I remember I had an exam on Friday and I remember it dropped late Thursday/early Friday night, my timezone and I remember reading up on the reddit page that it dropped that morning right before I had to leave and I immediately looked for a link to download it, didn't have much time to check up on the album at home so the first time I've ever listened to Blonde was on my way to this exam, twice actually because the road to get there is around 2 hours so.. Upon first hearing, I immediately felt like I was walking in an art gallery, every wall was painted in beige and white tints and Frank was my guide. Just like Endless, I didn't really get the full context or what it was all about because it was so bloated with emotions and sounds etc but I really felt like.. touched? And on my way back, I listened again to Blonde, twice. Since then I probably have listened to Blonde till the late summer/start of autumn of 2017 on my way to school. It was my soundtrack. My go to album when I felt like a shoulder to cry on or just a (travel)companion for the time passing. I've dealt with a lot of shit in that time frame and luckily enough, I don't associate that album with the things I've dealt with but rather see it something therapeutic and healing, even though it's a rather sad album.
I've got a lot of stories about Blonde and this is one of em. Happy birthday, Blonde.
Post by Fitter Happier on Aug 21, 2019 20:39:58 GMT -5
That Panorama show, from up front, left of the satellite stage, was the best show I've ever seen -- just surpassing this most recent Radiohead run. Frank's on some other shit. Blond is right up there with my favorite albums of all-time. Maybe #1 honestly. It just hit me right at the right time in the right way. "I'll sleep between y'all, it's nothing"
5.5/four tet, daphni b2b floating points, avalon emerson 5.12/neil young 5.19/mannequin pussy 5.21/serpentwithfeet 5.25/hozier 6.12-16/bonnaroo 6.28/goose 6.29/goose 9.17/the national + the war on drugs 9.23/sigur ros 9.27-29/making time 10.17/air