5 Years on....House of Balloons revisited

[FlyRy]

Will always remind me of my wife.

Burned her a CD of HoB when we first started dating.

Then we went on a road trip and all we had was Thursday so i got burned out on it

 

[Microfracture]

This is something you can throw on anytime and play it front to back. Capped off by the savage ballad The Knowing

HOB and Thursday sounded better originally before they were all re-released in Trilogy because of the dirtier sound. Used to bump Coming Down through the system on late night drives.

 

[GhettoNintendo]

Stop it PND1 is just as good as HOB

Too much dikkriderry in this thread

drake wishes party was as good as weeknd

 

[JerseyBoy23]

Meant to only listen to House of Ballons, ended up listening to the whole Trilogy brehs.

 

[Arithmetic]

the party and the after party

 

[Arithmetic]

Classic

 

[Deafheaven]

This nikka sampled Siouxie and The Banshees on here, he gone always be a real nikka in my eyes

never knew, thats a crazy flip

 

[Ronald]

Stop it PND1 is just as good as HOB

Too much dikkriderry in this thread

even I don't agree with this

HOB a masterpiece, nothing will top it

Spoiler

its better than all his other projects tho

 

[T'Challa Trillmonger]

classic

 

[Lil Bape the PostGod]

I remember when I first heard "the birds pt 1" on THURSDAY...I didn't know whether to turn up or cry...shyt touched all aspects of my soul

Then I went back and heard "house of balloons" to see what I was missing out and been xo'ing til I overdose ever since

 

[We Major]

Imo Thursday is his best work out of the OG mixtapes
But The first part of House of Baloons/Glass Table Girls is a master piece.
The combination of the beat and lyrics is eerily disturbing and makes you feel happy and depressed at the same time. I don't know any other song that can make some feel the complete opposites of the emotional spectrum at the same time.

I understand why but I'm sad he traded Doc for Max Martin.

I've been thinking about this whilst listening to that half of the track today. So right.

House of Balloons half is ridiculous

Every single sound on that half of the track

this is fun fun fun....

 

[Hovlee23]

brehs... this tape was both ruthless on hoes & angelic at the same damn time

life changing sh1t. straight up

 

[Wiirdo]

This mixtape was legit great, but it's been diminishing returns since then. His shtick by this point has gotten pretty tired. Only so many times you can talk about fukking bytches and getting faded.

The album definitely signaled a sea change in R&B music though. Spawned so many imitators and brought R&B to a darker place.

 

[RAX 010]

Timeless

 

[Piff Perkins]

Still amazing, crazy influential too. Those three mixtapes mean he can do whatever he wants and I won't stress him. Dude gave me so much dope shyt I won't even hate on him going pop. And I like the fact that he's still a savage even on the pop tracks lmao.

Glad he's winning.