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Here's All of Frank Ocean's Favorite Songs on One Web Page

Frank published a list of his favourite songs in his new zine, so here they all are in one place for you to press play and gently weep.
Daisy Jones
London, GB

If you’ve clocked the never-ending list of artists credited on Frank Ocean’s two new albums Blond and Endless, you’ll know that our boy Frank has a music taste built for the Gods. Who else would have names like David Bowie, Kanye West, Jamie xx, Kendrick Lamar, the Beatles, Brian Eno, Yung Lean and Elliott Smith all snuggled up next to each other, on one glorious list? Who else could make an album that is so brimming with styles, influences and flourishes from such an array of decades and artists that it’s nearly impossible to pin it down, rendering it essentially genreless?

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Anyway, in Frank’s new zine Boy’s Don’t Cry, he published a long list of all his favourite tracks. And because you probably don’t have Boy’s Don’t Cry yet—unless you tossed $500 at eBay—we thought we’d shove them all on one web page for your listening pleasure. So lean back, press play, and weep your way through this beautiful collection of songs that has everything from Nina Simone to Death Grips and the Cure.

FRANK SINATRA – “HOW INSENSITIVE”

SIMON & GARFUNKEL – “SCARBOROUGH FAIR”

ARVO PART – “ALINA”

DONNA SUMMER – “I FEEL LOVE”

CROSBY & NASH – “TO THE LAST WHALE”

BOBBY HUTCHERSON – “PRINTS TIE”

JOYCE MORENO – “JARDIM DOS DEUSES”

MAZZY STAR – “FADE INTO YOU”

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS – “NO MORE SHALL WE PART”

JAMES BLAKE – “I NEVER LEARNT TO SHARE”

D'ANGELO – “ONE MO GIN”

GABOR SZABO – “THE LAST ONE TO BE LOVED”

LONNIE LISTON SMITH & THE COSMIC ECHOES – “SHADOWS”

NINA SIMONE – “IMAGES”

STEVE REICH – “IT'S GONNA RAIN”

WILLIE NELSON – “STARDUST”

TAMBO TRIO – “NOS E O MAR”

D.R.A.M. – “$”

GOLDLINK – “WHEN I DIE”

KRAFTWERK – “THE MAN MACHINE”

TONY ALLEN – “ASIKO”

JOHN MCLAUGHLIN & JOHN SURMAN – “EARTH BOUND HEARTS”

AL GREEN – “SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL”

NINA SIMONE – “MR BOJANGLES”

TODD RUNDGREN – “FLAMINGOS”

DARYL COLEY – “THE MEDLEY OF PRAISE”

ISAO TOMITA – “CLAIR DE LUNE”

ROBERT GLASPER EXPERIMENT – “CALLS FT. JIL SCOTT”

CHAKA KHAN/RUFUS – “YOUR SMILE”

DEATH GRIPS – “BITCH PLEASE”

GANG OF FOUR – “ANTHRAX”

THE BEATLES – “I AM THE WALRUS”

STEVIE WONDER – “JESUS CHILDREN OF AMERICA”

CAUSTIC WINDOW – “THE GARDEN OF LINMIRI”

KIM BURRELL – “HOME”

ANDRE 3000 – “VIBRATE”

APHEX TWIN – “AISATSANA [102]”

ALEX G – “MIS”

GERRY RAFFERTY – “RIGHT DOWN THE LINE”

RAY J – “ANYTIME”

CURTIS MAYFIELD – “JESUS”

DAFT PUNK – “SOMETHING ABOUT US”

GIL-SCOTT HERON – “YOUR DADDY LOVES YOU”

JACO PASTORIOUS – “PORTRAIT OF TRACY”

THE SMITHS – “RUSHOLME RUFFIANS”

PRINCE – “WHEN U WERE MINE”

TALKING HEADS – “ROAD TO NOWHERE”

THE CURE – “BOYS DON'T CRY”