Channel Orange

Its not bad just boring as fuck

I liked "Pyramids" and some other songs here and there. But otherwise not my type of music. Very american, it tries really hard to convince you it's coooool, but effortlessly.

ouagadougou type mfer... Ocean wanted to approach sound and song structure differently on the album. ensinnäkin, miten vitussa valtameri pystyy tollasia tekemään heh...toiseksi, mitä vittua blud vohveloi... tosi hyvä albumi, 2 tähteä. joku sanoi että Not a fan of the language. jos tarkoittaa englantia niin samaa mieltä.. pyramids

black cleopatra song was topical but other than that it was run of the mill

Let me start off with the good. Love the album name and cover. Mom's favorite color was orange. Miss you, momma. After listening to Aretha, then reading about this album, thinking another R&B day, I was excited. I say quite a bit, I love me that R&B. Then I listened..... Excuse me while I go on a boomer rant. What the hell happened to modern day R&B and rap? I can't think of anything since the end of the 90's that actually make you feel the music, groove in your seat and can't wait to get home and grab your girl or boy or whoever you spend the day thinking about and love them up. This guy tried, but lyrically, just a big meh. Just doesn't get there. Have to say I was really disappointed here. At the end of Pink Matter, I heard motherphuggen this, motherphuggen that and then get to song called Forrest Gump. In a perfect world, he followed up Pink Matter with a song called Diehard and used the line Yippee Ky A motherphucker. I guess it wouldn't help the album, but it would have made this guy smile. I really wanted to like this. I didn't. I'm going to score a 2, but just because I loved the album cover and I thought of Diehard. And his voice was decent. 2 His voice was fine and I even liked the first song, Thinking About You. That was about it for me.

2.5 Oh, Frank Ocean - back when he was still a hero to us, before having a career just long enough to become the villain. I’m familiar with some of his stuff, though this is my first time giving him a full album listen… and unfortunately I just don’t feel that anything was gained from it. His musical style involving a fusion of pop, R&B, and jazz is something that I feel should be iconic and enjoyable on paper, especially in relation to a lot of his pop contemporaries, yet nothing about it really jumps out to me, including the vocals, which, yeah, sound good, but really feel far from the more standout or unique performances I’ve heard. Overall, the songs here do just sufficient enough of a job to at least stand out to me from a lot of other 2010s pop, but not quite to a point where I feel the desire to go back and give another listen. My favorite part wasn’t even really a song - it was hearing the Playstation startup noise at the beginning. It’s such a cool sound effect and super nostalgic, so I thought I was in for an exciting listen with that at the head - I was wrong. However, the inexcusably worst part for me? Somehow it makes André 3000 feel kind of mediocre - not even sure how one does that. It’s like a bowl of vanilla ice cream - not particularly exciting or my preferred, but I wouldn’t complain about having it served to me. I really, really want to like this guy because I know he’s considered a modern musical legend, but for the most part, everything I’ve heard just lacks a certain hook to really pull me in. I do admittedly enjoy the song Ivy on his follow-up album Blonde though, so I’m willing to give more of his stuff a chance to see what all of the hype is about. This could maybe be a 3 on a good day, but for now I’m airing towards a 2.5. Anyway, album and Coachelle fiasco aside, I do want to say I have respect for him for his advocacy of gay and trans rights - Happy Pride everyone!

I don't linke it much

Nah

Alright but the sole existence of Not just money pulls this down a star. Like the first few but it got worst. Doesn’t help I’m not a rap fan but some songs are still definitely a 5 star

There is pretty much nothing interesting in this album

2. There's just something so boring about this. Like, I can't even hate on it, it's giving absolutely nothing.

This isn't my genre and it didn't pull me in.

Melodic enough, but not really for me

It has its moments

There are much better R&B options out there.

I don't like it. My wife says "no, you don't like R&B". Either way there is one thing that I do know; I don't like Frank Ocean.

Not for me, this, I don't understand the acclaim. It's not impressive in terms of overall sound, he's not a great lyricist not is there anything special going on there with structure or rhyme, the beats aren't memorable, he can't sing (plus there's some autotune guff and I hate all of that, it comes across like a stream of consciousness he's put on record rather than doing something coherent, and it's no better than lots of R&B from 10 and 20 years earlier.

Very disjointed and struggles to keep me engaged.

I can see the appeal of this album to some, but it is not for me.

He has the heart for it, I just don't really go for it myself

Initial thoughts; interesting sound affects. As soon as he starts singing all autotune nonsense. Then the tunes don't really "go" anywhere. some ok background beats I guess but overall dull and repetitive. 1.5

Geen idee waarom dit in deze lijst zou moeten staan. Huismerk John Legend. Ik zeg er wel meteen bij dat ik heel weinig heb met (hijgerige) RnB. Dit album doet volgens mij niks nieuws of bijzonders. Wel heel fijn dat er een album uit 2012 tussen staat, maar had dan in godsnaam 'good kid, M.A.A.D. city' gekozen.

Yeah nah, this is not my jam. I did not look forward to a second listen but I perservered and my faves would be Pyramids and Bad Religion.

Nah not for me

Aika meh kamaa, erikoismaininta kuitenkin Pyramids ja Lost sen jälkeen

I do like the more soul-oriented songs. There was also a lot of crap found on this album.

Wasn't terrible, but I did not enjoy

Meh

Track 2 - thinkin' bout you - is so awful that it made my ears bleed. Actually... Is this a parody album? This opens out into almost pastiche R&B. It's like Sexual Chocolate for the 2010s. The "not musical" interludes are grating. He dives all over the place, putting in little asides that just don't make any sense. "Crack rock" might be a highbrow critique using meta to illustrate how hard drugs just don't fit in - but no, it just doesn't fit in. There's actually quite a lot to like about this. His voice is lovely. Clearly he's thought about what he's doing. There are some lovely refrains. And some of the lyricism is quite nice. Maybe it can win me over, but I'm half way through it now and I'm not liking its odds. Nope. Showboating indulgence. Had he gone for a more restrained, nuanced approach without the over-the-top attempts to be new, different and away from the mainstream then the pastiche R&B might actually have worked. But it swings three times and the poor bugger only gets the walk.

Good tunes, ridiculous lyrics

I'm mostly rock/metal fan, but I was enjoying this album until Pyramids came along and dragged on for far too long. Listening to the rest of the album seemed like a chore after that.

Frank Ocean frustrates me. Sure he has a great voice with a knack for melody and expressiveness, but he also seems to have an allergy to rhyming and flow and catchyness in his lyrics. Hence I find his songs challenging to enjoy fully. It's either labored listening, or background listening for me. "White" and "Pink Matter" are the stand-outs.

NotNot really my cup of tea but I did enjoy a couple of the songs. really my cup of tea but I did enjoy a couple of the songs.

Not my kind of music. I could listen to it. But I really don't know how it become one of 1001 albums ...

I don’t like a majority of r&b albums. They all sound the same to me. This is no exception. All the songs sound the same, and I’m just not a fan of his voice. That’s a problem since the songs are pretty minimalistic and the focus really is just on the vocals. A nice short surprise by Andre 3000 in there, but otherwise, I struggled to get through it. Also, I hate skit tracks or skits to open songs and there were a few of those in here.

His voice is pleasant enough, and the beats are pretty chill. But this album is sounds like one long 60 minute song.

Just not into this kinda music

Slick production. The samples between the tracks was irritating. Didn't make it through until the end. The pyramid thing did my nut in. Had a little Frank Turner confusion.

Listened on RS500. Left me cold.

He’s singing about stuff I can’t relate to in a style I can’t understand. Some pretty good turns of phrases every now and then brings this up a star but still not my thing.

Worst album I have heard on this list so far. Definitely not my style, I couldn't get into any song, although I can sense the appeal other people may have to this album.

It's ok, not really my thing. 2 stars.

Okay as background music, I guess, but there was nothing really memorable on this album.

Constant weird interruptions ruined this. Not that taken with the style either.

A couple of good songs, but for the most part was too long. Just not my style.

I didn’t know what to expect going in and I liked a few of the songs.

Dumb lyrics and overuse of audio processing tools, standard 2010's soul less R&B.

Just no. It’s boring, his voice is super annoying, and it’s just so bland and forgettable. It’s not offensive, but it is not good, either.

Am I missing a backstory? I’m not sure why this has made it on the list. A mix of pop/soul and high school musical/Riverdale. Doesn’t really go anywhere. It’s not unbearable however.

Volledig langs mee heen gegaan. Het album stond op en daarna kabbelde het voort

Hij kan een leuk deuntje zingen, maar: not impressed.

This album was simply hard to get through. Some moments of briliance, some decent song, but overall the prevalence of songs so bland and uninspired getting trough it all is a chore.

More like Frank Puddle Would give 3 stars if vocal was non-existent I wish I didn't hear the lyrics, my life was changed forever Highlight: Pyramids, was pretty sophisticated, stood out from the rest of tracks

A komu to potrzebne? A dlaczego to tu jest?

Patrząc na Wasze oceny i oceny krytyków byłem zszokowany - przecież ten album jest tak wybitnie oceniany, i to zarówno przez krytyków jak i publiczność! Nie wiedziałem więc co mnie czeka. Szczerze spodziewałem się, że albo znienawidzę go, albo go pokocham. Z takim nastawieniem usiadłem do tego albumu, by z każdą piosenką przekonywać się, że prawda jest zgoła inna - jest to do bólu zwyczajne i nieinteresujące. Ani bity mnie nie wkręcają, ani koncepcja, ani liryka, ani głos specjalnie. Nie drażni mnie ten album, także na 1 nie zasługuje, było parę fajniejszych kawałków, ale ogólnie chyba po prostu to nie mój gatunek. Jednocześnie przez samą popularność i oceny po obu stronach barykady krytycy-publika, mam wrażenie że zasługuje na miejsce w tym challenge'u

Okay R&B but not something I'd consider to be one of the greatest 1001 albums of all time. Really wanted this album to be over quicker than it was. Nothing stood out and nothing grabbed my attention. Guy's got a good voice, but sounded bored through most of the songs.

I thought the album was okay. It was easy to listen to, and had a nice kind of smooth groove to it, but ultimately I was just kind of bored, so I guess it wasn't really for me. Pyramids was a super standout track though; it caught my attention unlike anything else on this album. This album is definitely more than a 2, but less than 3 for me.

Eh. Don't get what the fuss was about.

the jazzy bits saved it from 1 stars.

Wasn’t really for me, but there were a couple of nice songs on there. 4/10

It's nice. Not what I usually listen to, but enjoyable. 2/5

I know there was a lot of hype about this one when it was released but it’s just not for me, nothing there that made me think “what a tune” so two stars for me.

Really didnt know what to make of this one, a couple songs were really good and the rest just sounded all the same!!!

Good voice. Not my thing.

By all accounts I should love this but I've just never got on with it. Bit like The Weeknd

I could gladly die without ever having heard this album and just another example of why auto-tune is destroying music.

I've tried so hard to appreciate Frank's music since he's so beloved but I just don't get the appeal. It's... fine. Just doesn't really do much for me.

Listened Before: N Modern R&B... Meh. Pros: Loved "Super Rich Kids". I like some of the music here. Nothing too difficult to listen to, it's just not really my thing. Cons: Again, not my thing. Too much "talking" over the music.. and a lot of the samples seem unnecessary or out of place. Also, why is Pyramids 10 minutes long? Added to Library? N Songs added to Playlist: Super Rich Kids

Meh

I get it, this project is based on a progression of books highlighting how clever the neck-beard and basement-dwelling rock critics are with going deep-catalog and obtuse. From my perspective I'd hope to find stand-out records from intriguing artists as a way to lure me in to further crate diving. In this case "Channel Orange" comes across as lazy, dull and amateur compared to "Blonde" - I would probably be dissuaded from looking any further into Frank Ocean. I don't know if Blonde is on this list (I'd give it a 4 for being haunting - lyrically/thematically intriguing) but this one gets a flat 2. I resent it being included in the 1001.

I liked the sounds of the music more than the lyrics/singing. I appreciated the singing more than usual rapping that goes with this genre, but the vocal melodies were not particularly imaginative. One takeaway was that I have not known many extremely wealthy people nor drug-addicted people in my life. #sheltered

I don’t get it. It has critical acclaim but I don’t think that vocal warbling over no melody and someone’s synthesizer and drum kit is entertaining to listen to. There are a couple of songs that hold together, but 80% of this is pretty painful.

Something i have not heard from an artist i havent heard of. It wasnt bad, i didnt really skip around. It didnt grab me either. I dont know how to rate, 2. no hits for me

I liked some elements, but they or the songs tended to go on longer than my interest held. But I really enjoyed the first part of Pyramids and one song that could have been longer was Fertilizer :)

Not my cup of tea

pitchfork wet dreams. they absoluetly bum this album. this is the 3rd time i've tried to listen to this album and its still just an r'n'b album albeit alternative style. the best bit was hearing the original playstation power up sounds on the first track. also john is the shittest beatle.

Decent but not my kinda thing

In the past couple of months I’ve listened to this record a dozen or so times. I’d think that not much of it was sticking – that the songs sort of drifted over me without ever pulling me into their current – and then a snippet of “Super Rich Kids” featured as a question in the work social club quiz and I felt great for knowing the answer. It’s probably too much to say, but I really felt like the table saw me in a new light in that moment. That dad guy, likely a fan of hard rock, knowing this song? Wow. I wonder if they still think about it? I do.

Kto by sie spodziewal, ze album z 2k12 znajdzie sie na liscie, niby prawie 10 lat, a jednak czlowieka zaskakuja takie tytuly, jeszcze wieksze zaskoczenie, bo ten odsluch byl moim pierwszym bojem z albumem pana franka, bo jako artyste znalem pana juz z klasycznego blonde, czy trakow odd future, ale jendak nigdy nie mialem w sobie tyle samozaparcia zeby sprostac odsluchowi calej plyty, tak popularnego artysty, ciezko mi okreslic jakiego gatunku, bo przed odsluchem stawialbym go w szeregu po kejniowych raperow, a jednak sie okazalo, ze to co tworzy na tej plycie to material o wiele bardziej soulowy, czy raczej neo soulowy, dzwieku jaki zastane sie spodziewalem, wiec zadnych zaskoczen tutaj nie ma, ze calosc brzmi jakby pracowala nad tym setka osob, dwadziesia na instrumentach wykorzystanych, a reszta na produkcji, bo pod tym wzgledem album zostal tak przemielony, ze nie ma sie czego czepiac, ale z drugiej strony ta perfekcyjnosc sprzedaje tanio dusze takiej plyty, no ale i tak najgorszy w odsluchu jest wokal pana frankowskiego, juz po ostatnich doswiadczeniach z panem georgem michaelem mam uczulenie na meskie wokale prawiace o zyciu milosnym, a przeciez soul powinien opierac sie na wokalu, a co z takiego wokalu ktory jest wymasterowany w taki sposob, ze nie slychac zza niego osoby, tylko perfekcyjnie wyprodukowany dzwiek poruszajacy tematy od typowo milosnych, po problemy slawy i pieniedzy, po drugowe tematy, zarowno ze strony uzywaczy jak i rozprowadzaczy, a nawet rzondownikow ktory czerpia zyski z stanu rzeczy jaki sie utrzymuje na ulicach, oczywiscie pojawiaja sie takze motywy czarne zycie znaczy cos, ktore moze nawet konkurowac do motywu glownego albumu, bo song zatytulowany pyramids traktuje o pieknych corach czarnego ladu, mitcznych kleopatr, ktore w dzisiejszych czasow ukladaja piramidki na kolanach po stripowych klubach, dobre w plycie jest to, ze oszczednie jest pod wzgledem featurow, debiutancki studyjny material tylko z dwoma goscinnymi wokalami, to sie ceni, zwlaszcza patrzac na nazwiska jakie sie pojawia earl sweatshirt i pan andre 3000, ktory wspiera takze gitarkowo, czlowiek nie liczyl na nic wstrzasajaco dobrego i odkrywczego i jednak sie nie przeliczyl, bo uslyszalem dokladnie to z czego znalem juz pana oceana z innych trakow, czyli uczuciowej muzyki dla nastoletnich hamerykanskich mas szukajacych ambitnego brzmienia w popularnej muzyce, na plejke wrzucam songa pink matter, zeby na rapowa plejke mozna by zaklasyfikowac dzieki featurowi outkastowemu, z trivia tajma, fajnym skitem zostaje otwarta plyta, bo startujaca plejka i strit fajterek grany, ktorego sluchac jeszcze na nawozowym traku gdzies w tle, wiec fajny maly smaczek i przemycenie tak niemainstreamowego egga na jakze mainstreamowym krazku z tloczni def jamowych

boh.. non mi dice niente

Great voice, not my thing though from a point of view of the music. The production is great, mind

Few liked songs

I liked the sound but it was like someone couldn't commit to writing a complete song. Just dropped / ended too soon....

Rap

I wanted to like this album but the themes really didn't work for me

Honestly not really sure! My gut is to say I didn't really like the album, but I kind of liked the vibes of the music I guess. The lyrics were just a bit too weird for me maybe? Pink Matter was my favourite song.

What is this even? Not good in any case. Mostly it was bad and boring but unintrusive. I had to skip Super Rich Kids and then stopped altogether after a bit over half the album.

A bit smooth, can't quite see through it but will have a deeper listen

The single was really the only redeemable part of the album.

naja, wieder nicht mein Genre

Not bad but not really my style.

Weird. A couple of decent tracks, lots of rubbish, strange mix of styles.

Started well but overall it's just not for me at all.

Not for me. Tedious to sit through.

Not a style of music I generally enjoy, but this was ok. 2/5 nearly a 3.

Overrated

Sounds ok, but not for me

I really like r&b but this doesn't do it for me

I enjoyed his voice at time, and also the instrumentation -- at times. The style is not my thing, and I was mostly uninterested

Not my kind of music

i'd call it sex music

Guy sounded like he needed to get laid or just got laid for the first time. Majority of songs were about pussy. Decent mixes I guess.

idk if it really deserved to be on this list compared to it's contemporaries

one or two goodies, not a huge fan

Vaisu

I know this was an important album and Ocean is very talented....I've just never likes the auto-tune vocal thing.

Not good

Terrible. Start to finish.

I wasn't able to get my head around this album. Too much going on, but nothing to hold my attention.

This dull flat male voice is one of my least favourite genres of music. Nothing on this album could make up for that.

Great voice. But, to paraphrase the hallowed Pythons, one for which you might want to lay down and avoid. For that it receives the rare, and much coveted, 1*.

Hated it. Only complaints on a semi interesting electronic beat

dit was zowat het slechtste dat ik in deze lijst ben tegen gekomen... ik heb zowat evenveel muzikaal talent als de heer Ocean en dat is tevens de reden waarom ik nog nooit een plaat heb uitgebracht (en ook nooit zal uitbrengen)

It is not racist to not like this album, contrary to what you might read in the other reviews here

Nä usch

To be honest, I gave it a listen, but I’m not going to waste my time listening to the whole thing; there’s one thing to be said about it: it’s cheesy.

I may not understand the appeal of this genre, but, this album is actually tedious to listen to, bland and so so insipid and uninteresting. The minimalism in the production added to that kind of singing with disdain is absolutely soporific. There is not much to say about an album that is full of songs that sound the same, that feel like a very paused Contemporary RnB with hip-hop influences all over the place but with no actual sense of transmitting anything. It is a soulless album, even if the lyrics try to make it feel like something else. It is nothing else than a very polished album that has nothing to express or to move.

Never heard of this guy, don't think I missed much.

Absolute fucking shite. Mumbly processed crap autotuned to within an inch of its life.

Wow. That was fucking boring. Contemporary R&B is garbage, bring back the soul.

I just can't see the appeal in this kind of music. And this album in particular just doesn't engage me at all. The vocals are annoying, the songwriting as boring as the instrument parts. The idea with the sample interludes didn't work either as the samples were shit. To say something positive... "Lost" was okay I guess. 1/5 - very weak

Day932 - might be some of the worst lyrics i’ve heard.

Channel orange, more like Chanel beige. What an absolute bland non descript dog turd is this. This is one of the very very few albums I haven’t managed to finish. Listened to half of it then stated skipping through the rest.

Not my style.

I can't imagine what life must be like having this as your favourite record.

so boring bruh

I'm sorry, but this is not an album I needed to hear before I die

Awful

Don't like this wanna be.

The second song summed it up, fertiliser! Whiney drivel, it's not even music.

I've made a new discovery here. I didn't realize until now that pop music could be so boring and annoying at the same time. Until now, I'd only known it to be either boring or annoying. 1/5

This is #day680 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and… I don't quite understand the level of acclaim and the record's place on the list. Hearing pretentiously experimental contemporary R&B with this kind of vocal style before you die doesn't seem like a good idea. Too much fuss about nothing in particular. I'd rather revisit Stevie Wonder or Marvin Gaye. This is a 1 out of 5. Looking forward to #day681.

Almost didn’t like it at all

Not for me, too Samey and bland.monotonous drivel

Not gonna lie. I saw today’s artist quickly and although my eyes read Frank Ocean, I immediately thought of Billy Ocean. I was excited that I was in store for a day of R&B hits like Caribbean Queen. You can imagine my disappointment when FRANK Ocean began singing shortly after and songs like “Crack Rock” and “Forrest Gump” filled my afternoon. I may have enjoyed the album slightly more had I not slipped up so badly, but there was no coming back from that. And with lyrics like those found in “Lost”, “Monks”, and “Pink Matter” my disappointment only grew deeper. This is bad music and it doesn’t belong on this list of 1001.

Really struggling with this one. Kinda sleezy. Well received but not for me

yeah I’m not finishing this

Very gay and not good.

Al final una gran verga. Nada que me haya llamado la atención.

03/05/2026 I've never listened to this guy before and I really don't want to again. This was shite. So boring, the guy just mumbles. I couldn't wait for it to be over. I hope there is no more music on this list quite like this. Spotify listeners: 40.3 million

Hørte halvdelen. Kedelig kombi af skits-bidder, r&b og slow rap.

Stupid.

Shite

Turra infinita. Empieza en un 3 y a cada tema que pasa va a peor. Digno de ser prohibido.

Man… this album is straight-up shit. Horse shit, dog shit, elephant shit — whatever kind of shit you want to call it, it’s all of them. While listening I felt bored, annoyed, and honestly disappointed the whole time. The songs are slow, meandering, and half-finished in that fake “artsy” way. The production tries to sound deep and atmospheric but mostly just comes off as empty and pretentious. Frank’s voice is fine, but the melodies are weak and the whole thing drags like crazy. It feels like everyone told him he’s a genius so he stopped trying to actually write good songs. There’s no energy, no real hooks, and barely any moments that make you want to replay anything. People act like this is some masterpiece of modern R&B, but to me it’s just boring, overlong, and massively overrated. Zero replay value. I suffered through it once and that was more than enough. Hard avoid.

Boring and mid

Very disappointing.

His debut album. Pop / R n B. This was a rough fifty five mins.

Boring... boring... unbearably boring

Really not for me. Only liked two of the songs. He has a good voice though.

Can’t believe I actually listened to all of that. Terrible!

Nothing of any interest, very dull.

The latest ghastly incarnation of smooth R&B, it’s evolving! I will always detest this genre, it all just feels so cold and leaves me feeling anxious.

I've heard the name Frank Ocean but don't know if I've ever heard any songs by him. I have zero expectations - good or bad - for this going in. 1st time through - Uh oh - not a good start. I literally fell asleep listening to this. Also, I didn't recognize any of these songs. Since it was so popular, I thought maybe I would recognize something just from existing in the world. 2nd time through - this didn't get better and didn't connect with me at all. What is it that is supposed to make this be so good? I really don't understand. This guy actually seems super bored recording this most of the time. Some of the songs seem like he could be more enthusiastic about the material but is purposely trying not to get too into it. If you told me he recorded this while in a hospital bed loaded up with pain meds right before he died I would believe it - AND that would make a much more interesting back story. I guess I just don't understand this style. Also the instrumental song ("White") where he brought John Mayer in to play guitar also seems like he told John "Please don't do anything exciting at all". 3rd time through - only songs that seem to have anything resembling emotion or interest to it was "Sweet Life" and "Fertilizer" - but I don't really need to hear those again. "Fertilizer" in particular seemed to have a good groove but ended at 39 seconds just when it started to get going. Reading the Wikipedia article, I was excited to listen to this since it's supposedly a mashup of so many different styles. If that's true it seems like they must have taken the most boring parts of every style. I also seriously do not understand how it took so many people to make this and produce this and engineer this. I counted 25 musicians and 30 people doing production/engineering. What are all of those people actually doing??? I wonder if it's like a committee of people that collectively remove anything interesting or exciting about the music - where you end up with the most bland thing ever. I read the lyrics thinking there was maybe something that would be interesting there - not really. Recommendation -> if you are suffering from insomnia I highly recommend putting this album on repeat when you are going to bed. Liked songs on Spotify: 0/17 Rating: 1/5 (should be zero)

Good sound. I like the instrumentals a lot. But the lyrics are just not it for me. I’d jam to the instrumentals though, which I find fire. Some of the tracks at the beginning and at the end are a bit boring and void. It feels like the whole album exists to make one or two main tracks shine. It’s not bad. But it could have been better if he had put more care in each track.

I do not like Frank Ocean. I almost hate him. pilot Jones was almost acceptable, 'till it actually started... Maybe it's just this specific album... I hope it is, if not, what is wrong with the world??? How does this guy have a career? Anyways, my ears hurt now... Pink Matter is the first song I am kind of vibing to. I have never been so glad that something is done!!!

I was pretty excited when the first track had the PlayStation start up sound but then the album started. I don’t think I’ve missed much by skipping almost all pop music since 2010

Commercial R&B really isn't my thing, so i recognise that this is largely a me problem, but this was impossible to sit through. I'd almost put a "did not listen" on it, as the skip button was very heavily used.

Took me 2 weeks to get through this. It’s not bad, it’s just dull. Boring.

Nope

I have not heard this one before. I listened to a few Frank Ocean songs around the time this came out when some of my friends were talking him up and i was unimpressed, so it’s time for a reassessment. The first thing i notice is that a lot of the tracks on this album seem half thought out, like he was figuring out the song as he was singing it and then stopped right before he was getting it. There are several ok songs and a lot of songs where he just didn’t feel like adding much of a beat or a melody. I feel like i was being pranked. I just don’t get it, this is not for me.

Soul, 47 eme album =>1/5. Trop long, trop répétitif. Arrêt en cours de route.

Not for me

It really had that "2010 pop song vibe"... I hate those.

Dislike the lyrics revolving around status and women.

I found this album to be pretty crap and although I shouldn't use someone else's review, but I couldn't have said it better myself - This is the answer to the question, "What would Stevie Wonder sound like if he had no talent for singing or song writing?" - I couldn't find the authors name but it was posted 31 August 2022. Well played.

I guess I can see how he's experimenting with stuff, but I couldn't get into any of this.

Horrible singing, bland production. One of the worst things this list has thrown up so far.

Nope, not for me.

Skip. I did not like the rhythm nor lyrics.

Christ, this was a slog to get thru. His music is just not my speed. Could not listen to this album fast enough. If others like it then more power to them. I thought this was a shit album.

Just to be clear - people pay money for this stuff?

Écht niet mijn ding

not lyrically or musically good.

Really boring

Let's start here: I'm over 50. Which is to say that I acknowledge that pop music since, say 2005 at least, is not made for me. But I think of myself as pretty open minded and I enjoy a number of modern pop artists. This, though? This guy? Does Gen Z actually think this guy belongs in the same sentence as Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Donny Hathaway, Teddy Pendergrass, and other male R&B legends? First, his voice is bad. Yes, he can falsetto, but everything sounds so nasal and flat. Second, his songs are also bad. Oh, wait, he's written hits for other people? Do tell! Ah, Justin Bieber, Brandy, John Legend, Alicia Keys, James Blake. A veritable murderers row of blandness. Anyway, he famously bombed so badly at Coachella that his second show was cancelled. So he can't perform live, can't write, can't sing. But he's totally better than Stevie!

64/1088 1.4429* Tough to get through but now I know we're they come up with the ridiculous SNL skits. This was brutal, would not recommend and makes me look forward to Throbbing Gristle.

warum man das gehört haben sollte, ist mir schleierhaft

This is not a 1 because it’s bad, but because it isn’t anything. Why is this included on this list? No part of this stuck out to me for any reason. This was my first time hearing frank and I’ve only ever heard one person mention him before. I somehow wasn’t exposed to any hype or promotion and I can see why, there’s just nothing about this album. There was a couple of times where I forgot there was music on. Is that what’s about this? Is this what you put on when you want music to be playing but don’t want to hear anything?

Totally overrated.

Something made me feel that I had heard Frank Ocean's name in the past. Seeing this was a 2012 release and featured a handful of other popular artists I figured I would at least have some passing familiarity with it. Surprisingly this was all new to me and although some of it wasn't bad, I'm not sure any of it was good either. Not sure why this album is so highly reviewed and garnered a bunch of Grammy nominations. There's some mildly creative use of sampling during the interludes but the main meat of the album seemed like a lot of run-of-the-mill R&B tracks to me. Mostly slowish soul tracks with simple themes, limited hooks and a bunch of juvenile bullshit fake sexy lyrics. These are fine for the first couple tracks but as this album continues it gets more and more annoying. Even standalone none of these songs are anything I'm going to put on in my free time. Bold move to start an album with the original PlayStation start-up sound. Wish this hadn't been my favorite part of the album as it really was steadily downhill after the opening 30 seconds. Just because you sing about tits and add a couple of dated pop culture references into an R&B album doesn't make it interesting. The reality is there wasn't anything else that stood out for me from Channel Orange when it wrapped. This was pretty much a miss for me and Frank Ocean is an artist that looks like will get shelved moving forward. 1.42 stars

0 songs added to my favorites. Would not listen again.

This is bad.

Urtypen för aptråkig modern neosoul/hiphop. Amerikansk mainstream hiphop har glömt av de senaste 15 åren att dess första uppgift är att svänga. Det här svänger inte nånstans och det är helt ospännande musikaliskt, det bara pågår, i bästa fall som nåt bakgrundsskvall. "Monks" har nåt som liknar funk, det är allt. Det är också därför, när det dyker upp en platta som Kendrick Lamars "To pimp a butterfly", så låter den mycket bättre och mer spännande än den kanske är pga att allt annat runtomkring låter så urbota tråkigt. Man saknar tiden när Outkast kunde släppa en fullmatad dubbel med mainstream hiphop som svängde från första till sista ton. Vi skyller väl allt på Kanye, det är lättast så. Onödig musik

Fertilizer

This one was not for me

Average in my eye at best. One of those albums I mumble to myself- “ is this really in the 1001 list??!”

Very disjointed and surprisingly ordinary album. Can see the genre should be represented but there must be something better than this. If was an outstanding album that year what a poor year.

Nope. Not for me.

Unpoetic nothingness, 1st listen 1/5 stars. Will never want to hear these songs for enjoyment.

This was a rough listen. There isn’t a single track here I’d ever willingly play again. The music feels like a half-hearted, low-budget knockoff of R&B, and the lyrics somehow manage to be even weaker. At points it sounded like he was freestyling nonsense straight into the microphone.

Shoulda been lost at sea.

👎🏻

Finding very little to compliment here. It keeps sliding back and forth from boring to annoying. Not really into the overt digital production.

Why are the bad albums so long? Maybe this isn’t awful. But I sure don’t like it.

no idea what's going on

More muzak.

I barely give a shit about this genre of music

Terrible

Once again these background music albums.

Modern r'n'b is rubbish. Plays to me like limp hip hop and pop.

Not my thing at all. Lasted 3 songs

I don't think whoever wrote his Spotify biography knows what the words 'visionary', 'celebrated' and 'critically acclaimed' mean, unless he's some USA phenomena that should firmly stay there. Every single song sounds the same. They're all really slow songs with meh lyrics and boring lowkey instrumentals.

Bro uses whole album to complain... jezus man.

I would rather be listening to Billy Ocean. Additional note, this is the second album in a row that features a song from GTA V. So apparently the guy who made this list has played a ton of GTA. We all have and that is fine. But just because a song makes it onto a video game doesn't mean we have to hear the full album.

This doesn’t speak to me, but it wasn’t made for a 40-something guy, so I’m not surprised

I heard so much about this at the time. After listening to it I'm not sure what all the fuss was about. I've listened to it once, I won't again, not for me.

AIDS cRap

In what mood do you actually listen to this it's bland nothing clever about it. Maybe my opinion will change as I listen to it. Okay 'Sweet Life' is good. But does lack lyrical excellence. That goes for the whole album. Awful nothing good about this except the album cover. Like is Blonde the same too bored after this to actually find out.

Wikipedia says "Noted by writers as musically unconventional, Channel Orange draws on electro-funk, pop-soul, jazz-funk, and psychedelic styles, as well as nonmusical sounds such as film dialogue and ambient noise that function as interludes". Or to put it more simply this album is boring and pretentious crap.

Absolutely dire. In no way does this deserve a place on this list.

Not my favorite genre

nope, not for me

ugh.

Nope. Just not my thing.

What a load of rubbish. Pure dross.

Bit shit honestly.

awful, just awful.

Really not my style. Monotonous singing, boring beats and lyrics which completely lack substance . I guess the best I can say is that it was not actively offensive to my ears? But I found myself constantly wanting to turn it off, so hard to give it more than a 1.

Unimpressed. This is what music has turned into after centuries?

"Wow... once again i'm surprised... but this time... not in a good way... lol... before i listened to this, i was already preparing to pan it good... but, i had NO IDEA how worthless this cow patty was... it has been said that this album has been compared to Brian Wilson, in that it encapsulates the experience of youth for the respective times of their work... well, then i feel very sorry for the youth of 2012, when this sorry hockey puck was released... i couldn't find one groove... or any talent on it... EVERY word sung is auto-tuned to the point of sounding robotic... making me wonder if Frank Ocean is a real person or just some AI avatar... one of the songs is called "Crack Rock", which you need to smoke a bag of to like it... "White" has John Mayer playing some random guitar on it... and he's white... i guess is the reason for the title... who knows? "Bad Religion" tells us... for the UMPTEENTH time, that religion - bad... yay... what groundbreaking stuff, huh? "Pink Matter" has Andre 3000 on it... oh my... absolutely NOTHING could save this record... and lastly, i'll mention the song "Fertilizer" which is what this album is... if these lyrics move you, or mean anything to you, you... and i... are different... ZERO stars."

When I listen to these albums, sometimes I think that I'm not the right audience for the music. That it's not really my thing. It's probably great music that people love but I just don't care for the genre. I think this is one of those occasions. I don't think it's bad, really. But I did find it a boring and samey. I suppose it's good to hear some modern R&B after getting some of the older stuff the genre has to offer before. Boring beats. Slow, plodding, meandering stuff. Nothing that excites me. It's almost like a vocal jam session. I see a lot of the reviews say that they think Ocean's vocals are awful. I don't quite agree, I think they're decent enough. I actually think he sounds a little like a Stevie Wonder lite at times (see 'Sweet Life'). 'Forrest Gump' stood out as my favourite of the bunch because it was quite an uplifting sounding track and 'Pyramid' was pretty good too (funnily enough, they sounded the least R&B on the album), but overall I didn't really enjoy the hour I spent listening. When I first started these reviews I'd have probably given it a two, but I'm trying to be "harsher" and more accurate, and I genuinely don't think I'd find any reason to ever come back to this.

1,2/5

2.5/10 I hate this

Mostly forgettable and unremarkable, with the occasional odd moment and awkward transitions. Some songs sound half-finished, mixed with randomly recorded snippets the producers didn’t know what to do with, so they left them as is. While good art is meant to provoke questions, this album just makes you go “huh?”

cure to insomnia

I like R&B — it’s a genre where I’m easy to please (I’d rank any reasonably good R&B a three, at least). I like the sound and the ethos. But this is just not good. He’s got a nice voice. That’s it — that’s the best i can say. The album is amateurish. His delivery is terrible; forcing the words into the rhythm and lazily mumbling the key words and syllables. The musical backing is simple; the best that a producer with a bunch of Mac music programmers can deliver. Many of the songs are super-repetitive— they need editing (if not complete rewriting). This is a 1. I have no idea how it made the 1001 list, and many of the individual sings are annoying.

Какого только г....а не напихают в список этих 1000 альбомов.

Ei ei ei. Aivan hirveää kuraa. Top3 paskimmat tähän mennessä

Absolument terrible. Je me suis dit au moins je vais pouvoir m'endormir dessus en revenant du Lac sur la 155S. Non, trop irritant comme musique.

2 not my cup of tea

Maybe someone else find this grating voice and flabby songs entertaining but not me.

"Fertilizer, I'll take bullshit if that's all you got." Listened to B4? No Tracks Already Saved on Spotify: 2 - Thinkin Bout You, Lost Standout Tracks: Thinkin Bout You, Sweet Life, Lost. (33/100)

The ocean is dynamic and never dull. This guy needs to change his name to stagnant pond to match the quality of these songs.

Didn’t love it, he’s got a good voice a lot of them felt like general grooves rather than songs. Shan’t listen again.

Couldn't even finish it. Made it through Super Rich Kids and had to stop.

What is this awful shit and why is it in my ears?! Heard before ❌️ Listened this time ✅️ (part) Revisit ❌️ Terrible ★☆☆☆☆ I'd do no stars if it was a thing...

1 stern

I have definitely given this a whirl back in the day when it was P4k’s best album of whatever Deeply not my thing, lots of lounge R&B stuff. Second side is 100% better, hated first few

I’ve tried a few times with this album. It’s just not for me. It’s not terrible, just not my style.

This was a tough listen for me. It feels like every song drifts aimlessly, lacking any real grit or emotion. I can’t quite pin down the genre, but whatever it is, it just doesn’t resonate. The tracks feel thin and uninspired.

Apparently Frank Ocean is the 120th most streamed artist on Spotify at the moment. Absolute dog shit. Not the worst album I've heard, but definitely a 1 starrer.

Nope I remember the hype surrounding Frank Ocean and his late night closing set at a festival about ten years ago. Was genuinely interested to see him - he was boring. Just him and a music box of some sort on stage tinkering and making random sounds. Came into this album with an older and opener mind. Came away thinking it sounds like half finished thoughts spliced into some mediocre music. Maybe listening to the new Andrew 3000 will make my day better

I really didn't think this album was that strong. I liked the general vibe and some of the synth "riffs" were definitely catchy. Not unpleasant to listen to, but nothing groundbreaking here from Frank, at least to me.

Holy fuck this is one of the worst albums I've ever heard.

This isn’t my thing. It didn’t have a point of view that connected with me. It felt bland and predictable.

Hyped modern r&b crap

Sounds like Kanye's ramble singing

I can’t tell if he hates women or just thinks he’s better than the women he sings about, but every woman mentioned in this album is objectified, even Cleopatra’s worth is reduced to the men she sleeps with. I kept listening because I had heard such great things about this album, but good production doesn’t rescue this one for me

2/10

Not my taste.

This kind of bland r'n'b generates real visceral rage in me. I just hate it so much, and I know it's an over reaction I can't quite explain. Maybe it has something to do with the lazy, swagger of the music that it hasn't earned. Maybe it's just the vocals. I dunno, I just hate it.

Not really my type of style of music.

Again not my cup of tea

Run of the mill R &B album. Boring as a beige wall.

I enjoyed 2 songs out of the 17. Not a fan.

Tried the album and I have never bounced off something so hard

I was afraid of it. Man, this is horrible music. Having said that, I can understand and acknowledge that this is probably a very fine album in its genre. The instrumentations are fine, carefully and well done. There's even one song that I, no, not like, but can listen to: 'Pyramids'. The absolute horror is 'Thinkin bout you'. And of course, the latter is far more popular that the former...

Channel Orange by Frank Ocean is widely regarded as one of the greatest albums ever made by people who enjoy music that feels like a memory of a swimming pool. It’s an exploration of heartbreak, wealth, and lying very still on a leather sofa while thinking about metaphors. The first track is called “Start,” which is helpful if you’re new to albums and didn’t know where to begin. The title Channel Orange is supposed to represent a colour Frank saw when he was in love, which is strange because most people just see hearts or feel a bit sick. Also, why orange? Oranges are famously the least romantic fruit. They squirt you in the eye and smell faintly of bathroom cleaner. If love feels like that, you might be dating incorrectly. There’s also the television meaning of “channel,” so possibly Frank is suggesting that emotions are like telly, which makes sense, because sometimes you want to change them but the batteries are dead. In summary, Channel Orange is a moving, complicated work of art that reminds us that emotions are confusing, love is sticky, and oranges are difficult to peel unless you’ve got very long nails or a special tool, which nobody ever has because they think they’ll just “use their fingers” and then regret it immediately.

Bores me to tears.

Boring

Not for me.

Didnt listen to it all,just not my vibe,but it was that the opening track and end track had this rescpective names and were the ps1 sounds

NOPE

Someone I love recently told me I need to remove the word "pussy" from my vocabulary so I can't give an honest review of this album.

Dull

This is really not my thing.

Good beats. Not a big fan of the lyrics or the singer.

Really not for me unfortunately. 1/5

Is it bad that I don’t really care for this all that much? There’s a couple tracks here I like, and some choruses from songs I wouldn’t listen to again that I like. Or parts of Pyramids for example. But nothing out of the tracks I like really does anything for me. Liked 3 out of the 17. Also, the interludes get on my nerves. Idk if I just don’t get this album but god they’re so pointless. Fav tracks: Thinkin Bout You Lost Forrest Gump Choruses I like from other songs: Super Rich Kids Pyramids Note: rating this a 1 feels weird but 3/17 is uh yeah.

Meh...

I'm sorry, but if someone really said to Mr. Ocean, "Wow, what awesome shit," then they really played him down. What's splashing out of the "ocean" is really pathetic. Hey, and it certainly isn't orange. Unless the album sleeve comes with orange as a warning color. A warning about the content, which is horrific. I tried to listen to the first three songs, but it was difficult; I just skipped through the rest. It might be okay for someone, but I feel sorry for them. In conclusion, the album isn't for me, and I can't give it any stars. I guess I have to.

I listened to more than half of every song (except pyramids, only ⅓ of that monster), waiting to hear anything that would make it clear to me why this guy is so acclaimed, and why people so fervently wait for his mercurial ass to just release a fourth album already. BUT- no. All I hear is competent pop r&b. Nothing I would normally listen to, or am I interested in starting. Kinda crap actually; it’s ok with me if he can’t get himself to produce any more music. if someone perused my reviews thus far they'd think I hate almost everything... it ain't true. I have a music library 6000+ albums and growing- all of which I like quite a lot. but I haven't liked much pop music since the early 60s. the music seems tainted by market expectations. Not Frank Ocean so much- he's an earnest singer influenced by other capitalist pap. so he does a better job of making it, but it can't help but be what it is.... i'm sure i'm missing something- but i gave it a real good chance....

What was that? No emotion in the words whatsoever, just mumbling to the same beat over and over

tiring in the same way dr. octagon was

NO.

Some people may like this record. And that's fine with me, but I am not one of them. Its not antipathy. Its apathy

Nope

To each his own, but this is not for me.

Skräpmatmusik, utan snabbheten då.

Too much auto tune for my liking

I guess I can see why certain people would like this...but I am not one of those people. It just sounds very generic and boring.

didnt like it. definitely not my type of music.

Kinda bad

I have listened to this album before and its mostly ok. Its a lot of the same for me. The songs don't really drag me in and the tempo never changes.

Not my bag at all, in fact slightly annoying to have on in the background

Rnb, way too chill and lame

Talkin'

It's so hard to not just shut this album off. Fuck Autotune Pyramids is the only thing even remotely enjoyable about this album. Different genre, but this album is about as bas as Chocolate Starfish and the Hotdog Flavored Water.

Now this is the kind of album that I don't understand it's inclusion here. For what it is, its OK. But it's not outstanding in its field (whatever that is). I don't see how it can have been influential, seeing as its only 12 years old. Unless he is related to Billy, and trading entirely on that...... Nah, it's not worth the effort. It's not distasteful but I'm really struggling to not give it a 1.

I’m way too old for this album. My granddaughter knew some of the songs. My candy coated feelings are what a nice young man who should stock up on more Trojans. At least he’s smart enough to use them.

I figured I’d listen to this when I was in the mood to hear Get Out of My Dreams and Into my Car. Then, I realized it was a different and forgot until the text chain yesterday. I am now listening to Billy Ocean then Gwar cover Billy Ocean to rid of this trash. One positive was Crack Pipe.

Pretty sure I am not this album’s target audience. Felt more like a poetry reading put to music and kinda weird music at that. Wish he would stick to singing like a normal person and not fluctuate between kind of nasally and high pitched like his balls were getting squeezed. You got a couple really short songs that end just when they were getting good, then BOOM….9 minutes of Pyramids. The whole thing was confusing. It was like failing College English Tests all over again.

This is worse than AC Milan’s banter era.

It's quite experimental and ambient, with lots of sound effects and slow repetitive beats. There were a few songs I thought were ok but this really isn't my thing

Ooo, look at me! I’m an R&B “artist” and I can sing because of autotune! Utter crap.

sucks

This is so boring. It's elevator music. If lofi took lyrical form. It's peaceful but bleh, and it has such interesting opening samples or ideas but the actual songs are slogs.

Nope, not for me

Not for me.