5 Years on....House of Balloons revisited

[darius19]

shyt, I remember the first time I ever heard him

this was back before I had a car, me and my homie had to take an hour long bus ride to get to our college town. At the bus stop, he's talking about the Weeknd and how I gotta listen to his tape or whatever, I was like aight bet, I'll listen to it on the bus

that whole one hour bus ride, I replayed High for This over and over...couldn't even get to the next song downloaded the full tape later that night and I was a stan ever since

 

[Populair]

Listening now to the OG version, which has a more 'grittier' sound than the Trilogy version (plus it has the Aaliyah sample on "What You Need") ...... And I continue to ask myself....... How? How can complete darkness be so beautiful :mjweekndcry:? I don't think that some (casuals) fully grasp just how RAW this album is, which is why they constantly ask & clamor for an exact duplicate of this. You have to be in a really dark place to make something like this. It makes for an amazing listen as a fan because we're experiencing the artist & their music at its most honest moment, but it's not sustainable... We've seen many of the greats before whom were also 'highly introspective' eventually self-destruct.

I'm just happy that I experienced this album because I'm always highly skeptical of a new artist initially, but XO became everything I believed in when I heard first heard "Loft Music" in 2011.

This book is far from finished, but its chapters couldn't have had a better start to it than it had with HOB's. A complete cohesive body of work.

 

[Da_Eggman]

Listening now to the OG version, which has a more 'grittier' sound than the Trilogy version (plus it has the Aaliyah sample on "What You Need") ...... And I continue to ask myself....... How? How can complete darkness be so beautiful :mjweekndcry:? I don't think that some (casuals) fully grasp just how RAW this album is, which is why they constantly ask & clamor for an exact duplicate of this. You have to be in a really dark place to make something like this. It makes for an amazing listen as a fan because we're experiencing the artist & their music at its most honest moment, but it's not sustainable... We've seen many of the greats before whom were also 'highly introspective' eventually self-destruct.

I'm just happy that I experienced this album because I'm always highly skeptical of a new artist initially, but XO became everything I believed in when I heard first heard "Loft Music" in 2011.

This book is far from finished, but its chapters couldn't have had a better start to it than it had with HOB's. A complete cohesive body of work.

I need a copy of the OG version

 

[Populair]

I need a copy of the OG version

You can download it from the link below:

The Weeknd - House Of Balloons | Download & Listen [New Mixtape]

I know most people wouldn't be able to tell the difference in the Trilogy's HOBs and this one outside of "What You Need" and perhaps "Wicked Games", but I noticed it right away when I copped the Trilogy - everything sounds 'cleaner' on the Trilogy and songs like "The Party & After Party" even sound lower in volume. I also listened to the original a 1,000 times prior, so that could be a factor in the subtle differences that I picked up between the two :observing:.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Listening now to the OG version, which has a more 'grittier' sound than the Trilogy version (plus it has the Aaliyah sample on "What You Need") ...... And I continue to ask myself....... How? How can complete darkness be so beautiful :mjweekndcry:? I don't think that some (casuals) fully grasp just how RAW this album is, which is why they constantly ask & clamor for an exact duplicate of this. You have to be in a really dark place to make something like this. It makes for an amazing listen as a fan because we're experiencing the artist & their music at its most honest moment, but it's not sustainable... We've seen many of the greats before whom were also 'highly introspective' eventually self-destruct.

I'm just happy that I experienced this album because I'm always highly skeptical of a new artist initially, but XO became everything I believed in when I heard first heard "Loft Music" in 2011.

This book is far from finished, but its chapters couldn't have had a better start to it than it had with HOB's. A complete cohesive body of work.

you're describing why 808s and Yeezus are classics, BTW

 

[killacal]

Listening to high for this while giving a bytch drugs for the first time

And she still didnt know that song was about

 

[reserved_one]

Wasn't really fukking with it at first, but its grown on me alot over the years.

 

[Da_Eggman]

Listening to high for this while giving a bytch drugs for the first time

And she still didnt know that song was about

 

[SPACE IS FAKE]

A certain Drake errand boy wish he could make something half as good as HoB.

Stop it PND1 is just as good as HOB

Too much dikkriderry in this thread

 

[Dat Migo]

Stop it PND1 is just as good as HOB

Too much dikkriderry in this thread

LOLOLOLOL

 

[Motife43]

I probably havent listened to this all the way thru in 4 years.

Looking back at my thoughts on it 5 years ago, let's see if I feel the same

Mixtapes from March
^^3/21/2011

Yall remember when folks thought The Weeknd was a group? Folks aint know what he looked like for a few weeks

 

[FocusedDaily]

So tomorrow marks 5 years since House of Balloons was released, 21st March 2011.


To this day it's still and I don't think it's been matched by anyone, including The Weeknd. I was and still am fascinated by the sound and feel of the mixtape. I remember when it was out I found the artwork interesting, the guys name and the mystery behind him, then I listened to the tape...

That beat switch on House of Balloons / Glass Table Girls

Wicked Games

The Knowing, what a closer

Not a weak track on the mixtape, I'll be giving it a few spins tonight

The freakiest things that ever happened in my entire life were motivated by this mixtape. I'm so so so sincere, That whole summer/fall was alcohol, threesomes, partying, weekend trips with 2-3 girls. We'd get faded, throw House of balloons on, and by the time loft music came on I was inside of someone or watching them go at each other. That fukkery of that whole stretch from summer 2011- summer 2012 will be the stuff I daydream about as an old man.
And young Abel was the soundtrack.

 

[TheDarkskinnedDrake]

I remember when I first bumped this that beat switch on going into glass table girls rattling the trunk of my 93 Honda

I'm not really feeling his new stuff. But his mystic and aura he had when this came out was crazy sitting back smoking bumping them tapes Abel needs to restore the feeling

 

[JerseyBoy23]

Classic, classic, classic.

 

[FocusedDaily]

The tweet that put me on.


With the Hulkshare link to the OG wicked games

Then when the mixtape dropped