Song · Frank Ocean
“Pyramids” by Frank Ocean
From the album channel ORANGE (2012)
“Pyramids” by Frank Ocean appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2020. It was first released in 2012 on the album channel ORANGE. Its best result is #1891 on the WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #8,042 indie & aaa song of all time.
Frank Ocean let "Pyramids" loose on June 7, 2012, teasing a snippet on Tumblr and then posting the whole nearly 10-minute sprawl to SoundCloud later that day, ahead of his debut album Channel Orange, where it became the second single. Malay and Om'Mas Keith produced it, and John Mayer drops in, uncredited, for a guitar solo.
The ambition is the point. Ocean spins the tale of a pimp who falls in love with one of the women working for him, threading Cleopatra, pyramids, strip clubs and high living through a chain of extended metaphors, and reviewers lined up to call it epic, praising its scope and its writing. It came with a cover drawn in the style of The Simpsons and a video by Nabil Elderkin featuring an orange car.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1891 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
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