Frank Ocean - Endless REDUX REVIEW
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The recent reissue of Frank Ocean's 2016 video album Endless reveals the music to be every bit as fulfilling as its follow-up, Blonde.
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FAV TRACKS: AT YOUR BEST (YOU ARE LOVE), UNITY, HIGGS, XENONS, COMME DES GARCONS, MITSUBISHI SONY, WITHER, HUBLOTS, SLIDE ON ME
LEAST FAV TRACK: SIDEWAYS
FRANK OCEAN - ENDLESS / 2018 / BOYS DON'T CRY / ALTERNATIVE R&B, AMBIENT POP, NEO-SOUL
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Y'all know this is just my opinion, right?
Frank dropped this ‘album’ to get out of his deal with Def Jam and collect all revenue for Blonde. I thought everyone knew this smh melon
u tell em
Still even as a throwaway album it's like rly good
nothing Frank does is a throwaway
One of the best major finesses an artist could do!💯
@@jaredtowery8527 well made album but released like a throwaway.
I really feel like endless would become super popular if it was released regularly. It’s not unknown by any means, but it gets disregarded as a “throwaway” album all too often. Definitely my favorite Frank project
80% of the songs are throwaway demos
@@michael-pg8fibro u trippin fr
@@michael-pg8fiawful take
Sush! Don't let them know
Fellas, just remember to do a Redux of your album and the yellow flannel comes out!
Speeding Bullet 2 Heaven Redux
Meat Rubber65 nah
Meat Rubber65 Turn that 0 to a 10
True
It would be kind of interesting to see Cudi try to redux SB2H. I don’t think it would become good most likely, but that would be at least interesting
Higgs is one of the most incredible songs i have ever heard.
factsssss its probably the song that got the closest to making me cry
Umm what? Bro the only like really good song on this album is At your best, the rest are so incomplete. To me the whole rest of the album was just random music strung together. I’m not saying I didn’t like it, but unless u have listened to like 10 songs ur entire life it shouldn’t be incredible to u. Of course this is just my opinion though and while the comment may have sounded a little confrontation I didn’t mean it that way, respect to ur opinion
@@ldhdjzjjaklzjdbd6610 do you have a heart ?
Renato Adorno yeah, I do,
@@ldhdjzjjaklzjdbd6610 why don't you use it then ?
This album is a classic. He really dropped 2 classic albums in 2 days. Nobody else has done that
brockhampton literally today
@@baraz2799 theyre not nearly as good as franks tho
@@baraz2799both albums were trash. Don't come in here tryna call them classics 😂 we got a lazy Kevin Abstract album and a Brockhampton demos album. Relax.
@@thatboynelly i aint reading allat
@@baraz2799 all 3 sentences? Must be an overwhelming amount of words.
My fiancée will be walking down the aisle to this version of At Your Best on June 9th!
trumpetking11 that’s beautiful af. But At Your Best is originally from Isley Brothers and they wrote that song about their mother.
That's great, so how did it go ?
Yeeeoooooo
:)
Sergio Pacheco which is why he said “this version” he isn’t claiming this is the original
NOW REDUX REVIEW BLONDE AND GIVE IT A 9
MarTin ShorLux *10
Cameron Stackhouse *9.9 Close to You should’ve been 10 minutes long
Fuck off
Siphon very true
Siphon if anything good guy should’ve been longer
Endless was supposed to be the album that fulfilled his record deal, and Blonde was the album that he made so that he could release it solo. From what I understood, a lot of people that worked on the albums with Frank said there were over 50 songs that he recorded. I just assumed that Endless isn't supposed to be bad/overlooked, but it's supposed to be the b-sides that came before the album.
the music on Endless is more recent than the music on Blonde so I would disagree
Wes ....how it it more recent? He released Endless the day before Blonde came out
Jake Cabreza i know that, but all the material was released officially when it was released officially. Thats why I initially said that it was like the b-sides before the album even happened. And again, there is a lot more material besides Blonde and Endless that isn't out that he was working on at the same time that was supposed to be a part of both albums. Regardless of when he started making specific songs, Endless still came out before Blonde chronologically. This even gives more weight to my point that he made Endless to fulfill the record deal and then release Blonde as his own album.
Jake Cabreza oh yeah we're on the same page there lol
Endless is definitely its own experience. All the sounds are rly coherent and it works as a raw stream of consciousness kinda album. 1000% not b-sides imo
You gotta admire Frank Ocean for the obvious amount of passion he puts into his art form. You can think he’s pretentious if you want but it’s not true in the slightest. He takes inspiration from some of the greatest artists in many different mediums, and he takes time to perfect the music he creates.
Rushes is one of the most beautiful song I've ever heard
"Endless" was a released to get out of his deal with Def Jam, as he was still contracted for one more album. The stair case in the video symbolises him climbing out of that. Then when he released blonde (the next day), we was independent. $$$$
Dushane P the stair metaphor was wrong but yeah ur right
n the fact the album still good too. goated
How did he get money from Blonde if he was independent? Not sure how that works yet.
@@childofflog5829 essentially because he was independent he got to keep 100% of the profit lmao, man finessed his record label cuz if he dropped it through them they'd def be collecting at LEAST like 60% on top of probably owning his masters for a bit...he the goat fr
Yeah this is wrong. Tom Sachs (a close friend of Frank's and who's speakers can be seen in the background) commented on the significance of the staircase. "You see each stair being stacked on top of each other onto a central steel column that’s welded and bolted to the ground. So there’s a transparency to the building that is the same as the transparency in the music. The spiral staircase is also an endless column-a reference to Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi's work." Tom Sachs also taught Frank how to build the staircase. So this might be *your* interpretation, but to say it so matter-of-factly is just plain wrong.
When you Slide on Me, you Slide off a peace sign oh yeah yeah.
Yeah, this album grew on me as a musical project. I love the blurry, fragmented sound of the record. One of the greatest ambient R&B albums I've heard
bwahaha my mans just said sometimes the lyrics were too _frank_
Endless is when the meme “pop song heard in upstairs bathroom at a party” is a full album
Brillaint
Well said cus it literally is, idk why he doesn’t put it on streaming services it needs more appreciation lmao
you the goat for that
I agree apart from ‘pop’ song, wouldn’t really call this pop
@@isaiahajayi3889 nah i just need at your best
This is why to me Anthony is a great reviewer; other reviewers would just give a little review to something like this and never talk about it again. It’s been like a year since this thing came out and he is just as confident in talking about endless ass blonde , because when he hears good music , he lets you know
Rushes? The climax of that song is gorgeous and the instrumental that follows it up is perfect. IMO
HE CAME UP IN DALLAS WITH NO HAZEL IN HIS EYES
HAD THEM SAILORS ON HIS THIGHS
noah w WHEN HE'S LIT HE SHOW EM
KEPT IT FADED ON THE SIDE
Tate Montgomery WE WERE SPENDING SO MUCH TIME IT WAS GETING COOLER
ALL THIS DRILLING GOT A DICK FEEL LIKE POWER TOOL
Shoutout to franky ocean
Grimlock To Shamrock shoutsout to erribody who worked on the album you feel me shun
The big eared bandit
shoutout to sid the duuude
Shout out to dammmyeeeennn
Shousout to L-boy
Sideways is the best track! How’s that your least fave?? The synths on it are soo good
at your best is better no cap
It's one of the best man that intro is so good It's just synth porn
the vocal harmonies are gorgeous
@@thealchemist1951😂synthetic por
Frank Ocean is better than the best thing the world has to offer.
Joel Gibbs eh
That doesnt even make sense but I agree
K.dot
MYNAMEISMYNAME Imagine.
Magnify, magnify, lift it on high
Anthony, you're a positive motivating force within my life.
since you cant normally stream this album the frank ocean reddit has a cdq version with properly named tracks on there for download
Bro could you send it to me or upload it some where because All of it got taken down i really wanna listen to it
^ please
@@introvert6705 1 year later still wanted?
@@skulley6361 me me!
@@hahahihihoho707 Post an email imma send you a link to my dropbox
Still can’t believe you sit during your reviews...
Billy Bob Thornton lol right? It's so weird
Cause he's a fatass.
Christian Rogers D:
Arc 1 Sitting down lowers your blood flow. Sitting means you die faster. These videos are never longer than 20 minutes. So I guess he can't stand up for 20 minutes for a video. Interesting decision from a healthy man.
Standing for long periods of time is just as bad as sitting
Endless & Blonde are experimental pop masterpieces
I love Blond, it’s one of my all time favorite albums. But I love Endless so much more overall. It feels more complete and “experimental.” I love it so much
Hey my album was a classic
Kid Cudi LOL
It was don’t listen to him
Apparently the reason Frank Ocean released Endless was to free him out of his recording contract with Island Def Jam. He had to fullfil his two album deal, and def jam was giving him hell, so he pulled a fast one on them by releasing endless under them and blonde independently.
I hope there will be 10/10 album from him this year
2010: no 10
2011: no 10
2012: The Money Store
2013: no ten
2014: To Be Kind
2015: To Pimp a Butterfly
2016: no ten
2017: no ten
2018: THERE WILL BE A TEN. IT WILL BE RELEASED NEXT MONTH AND I CAN FEEL IT
Muhammad Abiyyu with so many hyped up albums coming this summer one will have to be a 10 right? Right?
Brickfall i hope so
Year of the Snitch?
Diego A. Taveras I 100% doubt it's a 10. he thought streaky was meh when put up against basic formulaic trap which got best of the week. that's way too much damage for the rest of the record to make up for it.
Endless was used to get out of his def jam deal (“7 year chess game”), fire tho
A potato flew around my room before you came
Veridian a melon flew around my room before you came*
Excuse the mess it made
David Garcia it usually doesn’t rain
That is dangerous
Christopher White in southern california
MY BEAUTIFUL DARK TWISTED FANTASY REDUX WHEN
Matt Traverso l
Matt Traverso
He did one on his Twitter.
And it’s still a 6
"Ye thought life as an A-list celeb would be like the decadent, erotic, and power-hungry tales told on this album.
But in actuality, it's just him yelling about being called fat in a TMZ office. The fantasy was cheap in 2010, and it's less impressive now that it's reality.
6/10
there's yer redux review"
*it won't happen b*
Emotional_dark_psychedelic_abyss is my club penguin name.
3:52 “sometimes the lyrics might feel a little too frank”
bro.
3:56 haha good one
Buffalo Staple hold up are you the same Buffalo Staple from albumoftheyear.com?
Yuuuuppp 🙏
Love your reviews man, keep it up!
you're the best man, thank you 👊
hehehehehehhehe
The reason that Endless was dropped so close to Blonde was because Frank still had a contract for another album with Def Jam, but wanted to release Blonde independently. Endless was his way out of a contract, I think in a brilliant way, that only attracted more attention for Blonde, which is now fully owned by him.
easily my favorite album atmosphere of the past decade
Hello Anthony this is a message from your son you abandoned 18 years ago, please come back dad I’m scared without a melon by my side :(
Hublots is such a breathtaking moment
Only if MBDTF have a redux....
He did one on his Twitter, it got a 6/10 again.
Knowing what we know now it would get a 3/10 due to current events
Make Melon Great Again
When the fuck are people going to get over an opinion
"Ye thought life as an A-list celeb would be like the decadent, erotic, and power-hungry tales told on this album.
But in actuality, it's just him yelling about being called fat in a TMZ office. The fantasy was cheap in 2010, and it's less impressive now that it's reality.
6/10
there's yer redux review"
I remember being so obsessed with this record when it came out that I forgot about blonde as much and came back to blonde a year later in 2017.
IMO Endless emotionally peaks at Rushes and it's really powerful too
i think the reason people dont get this album and songs like rushes is bc there arent hooks like there are on blonde. it just takes longer to get into songs like Rushes, Higgs, Wither etc. at least it did for me.
@@huntingvega3876 fr, you have to give your time to this album
I wish more people talked about endless the way they do blonde. Endless is my favorite frank album, and I think his best.
are we just not gonna talk about how he doesn’t like rushes.
top 3 Frank track imo
Daniel Fintan same
If he didn’t like it he would have put it in the least favs.
Probably saying that just to get a reaction
@@chrismcguigan7473 or because he simply didn’t like it? Is that how you dismiss any criticism you don’t agree with, putting it off as “just doing it for a reaction”?
Ocean created and released Endless under Def Jam records which fulfilled his contract with them. He did this because he wanted to release Blonde under his own new record label Boys Don't Cry. Overnight he was free of his record label releasing a competent album and had jumpstarted his brand new record label with an amazing album. 🙌
This would be a 10 if CDG and Xenons were longer
It’s crazy frank pulled this off. Of endless ended up being better than blonde that would’ve been so embarrassing because endless is truly one of the greatest r&b albums of all time as well I don’t wanna hear anybody say it isnt
I think someone said it on reddit but, while Endless was a record to get out of that contract, it gave him the breadth to be more experimental. The sounds are definitely less radio friendly and lyrically it's a lot more dense and poetic. I personally love how it showcases the beautiful and raw quality of his voice and the uncanny way he can carry emotion. While Blond was easily more polished, Endless was just a totally different project and I don't think it can be compared directly to Blond, or dismissed as a record of throwaways.
Endless is one of the greatest projects of all time and is the most innovative but simultaneously somewhat accessible if you understand various genres of music. Classic futuristic art, endless is a God of music.
I know I’m late but I appreciate you giving this another listen as this ISN’T just a trick to get out of a bad recording deal although he managed to do that with this album as well. It’s definitely a 9 though but otherwise a great review
Frank Ocean scored 7/8/8 on all his studio albums.
6 months ago, Fantano even admitted he got the Channel Orange Review (7) wrong and that the album and songs have grown on him. Don’t think any other artist has been able to score that high consistently. That’s basically three 8s
Jpegmafia beats him in scores it's 8/8/9/9 or something like that
Denzel Curry
Death grips
@@sikklik2847 That's because he didn't review Black Ben Carson.
turn that no review upside down that's an 8 now
As pure as music making could get. Reminded me of Arthur Russell and Bon Ivers "22, A Million".
It was like a stream of consciousness, the type of music we all could make if we weren't concerned about making hits.
MELON IS FINALLY COMING AROUND. PROUD OF YOU
He released Endless to get out of his record deal. Once that was out, he could put out Blonde. He wanted to reap his rewards finally in full for his music, so he released Endless, a music video album on the major label (much less heard and easily monetized btw), and then Blonde.
no rushes or rushes to honorable mentions though?
What was previously thought to be "Rushes to" is actually "Higgs"
Right? Rushes To, or 'Higgs' is confessional songwriting at its finest.
UncleJohn72 he spoke about higgs on here being emotional
Wither>>>
Higgs is, to my mind, his greatest single track.
blonde is so cohesive tho...like I only ever listen to that album all the way through, then again I do that with all of his albums
This was my first fanto video and the review that made me a fan of channel. Such a good review.
Got my vinyl, still debating whether to even open it. Gotta put it in my top 10 of all time.
He released endless Bc he had to make two albums for his record label. Channel orange was the first, then he wanted to release blond but wanted it on his own label so he released endless as kind of a throwaway to fulfill his contract then released the better album on his own record label. Pretty genius not even a melon could think of it
this album has and always will be a 10 for me
I always loved endless. I was always confused why people ignored this project.
DAMN. + 1 /10
endless makes my heart tingle
bruh sideways is my favorite song reeee
Glad you revisited the album! Its cool that you didn't include it in favourite tracks but I gotta say I LOVE Rushes, the build up to the end and then his broken "I love the way you make me feel," amazing!
Frankthony Oceantano
I never knew how to describe the feeling I had toward Endless but this explains it pretty much. It’s still my favorite project of Frank Ocean, second being Blond.
I was getting tired of all those 7s, thank you melon
In here somewhere is such a beautiful track
This is album is better than Blonde. And I've been saying it since it's release. Frank takes more creative risks and they sound amazing.
Christopher Aizen lets take it easy boss
Alvantre rushes and rushes 2 are flawless closers and the instrumental tracks maintain the flow perfectly
I think they’re perfect only because they achieve what they’re trying to be. I don’t rate on comparison to other art pieces
Christopher Aizen well said. Endless sounds a lot better than blonde, I give it a 9/10
I would like some structure again like channel orange 🍊 but do you frank love all your work
After always listening to blonde and not endless till now, it feels like he dropped a new album and I love it
Haha he said Meloncholy
From what I've read, Endless was released as Frank's last album on Def Jam before he'd fulfilled his recording contract with them (a contract he was keen to get out of apparently). Blonde, meanwhile, is on Frank's own label "Boys Don't Cry" - which would explain the decision to release one immediately after the other.
EDIT: They're both fucking amazing in their own ways - thanks for coming back to Endless, I feel it sadly gets overlooked in Frank's brief but brilliant discography
3:50 as a MELONcholy bliss
i bought this the other day and arrived today, came just in time!
Endlessthony reduxtano
People forget this album came out. He practically released a double album with Blonde
it’s ok anthony you can say it’s better than blonde
So glad you did this. I also overlooked Endless at first but upon returning found it to be incredible.
Kyle- Light of Mine
He released them at the same time to escape from the label he was signed onto at the time. Releasing both meant he was able to release Blonde independently while Endless was released on Def Jam
DAYS BEFORE RODEO REDUX 😭😭😭 should be a 7/10 at least
Endless was the album Ocean made to fulfill his Def Jam contract, initially the Endless video album was what fans thought was his sophomore LP. Blonde was released one day after Endless, totally unexpected, under Frank's own label Boys Don't Cry. Blonde is the more personal, indepth album in which Ocean really tries get back to his past, but it also borrows a lot of elements from 60's pop rock, like the Beach Boys, the Beatles and maybe even Love.
endless *MELONS*
really grateful you got to review endless, but this review felt really vague. i agree with a lot of what you said about it, but you hardly even mentioned any track names! really wanted to hear what you thought about wither & higgs, especially since these tracks alone are great songs and i feel don't merely merge into one collective sound as the shorter songs may only be able to.
i give this review a strong 5/light 6
Redux = 8. I've figured you out melon
Ocean released Endless to fullfill his contract with the label. After that he was free to release Blonde on his own.
“and sometimes the lyrics feel a little too frank” ... wow
yeah. I also think Endless is more focused on a sonically consistent sound. gr8 score hehe
How 'bout that Book of Ryan Review!!!!?????
YUNOREVIEW.
For fucking real
Why do you care so much? You just really need anthony to show you what your opinion on the album is?
1. He will review it anyway, just wait
2. Have your own opinion on music
Are you crazy?! You wanna tell us we have to think about our OWN OPINION? Are you out of your mind or something?
Christian Lopes not sure who you're laughing at here, that is actually some of melon's subs' mindset
Endless is finally getting the recognition it deserves!
The reason he released two albums because “Endless” was his throw away album to satisfy his deal with Apple Music. His true album was Blonde, which he released under his independent label “Boys Don’t Cry”
i think it was Def Jam, not apple music. He's still partnered with Apple i believe.
heyyy nice profile pic. brings back so many good memories for me, yaknowww?
"his deal with Apple Music" crine. Brother, stop talking
"true album"
"throw away"
Franky Ocean is such an enigma, I'm excited for 2020 when we get the next album
Still no album :(
@@jkam2393 .. and still no album :(
....
bruhhhhhhh
Strong 8
I used to keep this CD in my car on loop, so yeah, I agree you could keep it on loop and jump back in at anytime
The Melon finally did a full review 😪
Frank used endless as a way to fulfill his obligation to put out an album for Def Jam. He was then able to drop Blonde independently. Boss move.
Rushes not on favorite tracks is a travesty
2:27 What a beautiful way to describe the album :')