![]() ![]() This beep follows the distinctive start up sound of the original PlayStation, before Ocean takes us on a journey of unrequited love, drug addiction, coming out, religion, Hurricane Katrina, and existential dread. It's this sound which opens his debut album Channel Orange, a narrative album about a conflicted adolescence whose only constant was video games. For Frank Ocean, evidently, it's the Street Fighter 2 opening beep. For me, it's the Artisans theme in Spyro The Dragon. We all have a sound which reminds us of our gaming childhood. A classic album tangled with a classic piece of hardware.
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