Frank Ocean finally released his album Blonde last weekend, which was accompanied by a video for ‘Nikes’ as well as a publication titled Boys Don’t Cry that appeared at pop-up stores across the US and UK.

Boys Don’t Cry is just part of the hype package that Frank Ocean has been able to deliver, with prices for the magazine surging well into four figures on eBay. As well as a curious poem by Kanye West dedicated to McDonald’s, the book features an extensive list of Frank Ocean’s favourite songs and movies. As expected, it’s an eclectic mix: His favourite tracks include classics from Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles, contemporaries like GoldLink and collaborator James Blake, and unsurprisingly, ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ by recent Australian visitors and emo forefathers The Cure.

When it comes to film, Ocean seems to have a preference for Kubrick and Tarantino – how many of these have you ticked off the list? See the complete list of his favourite songs and movies below and see what inspires greatness. After that, give Blonde a few more spins, it’s kinda great:

SONGS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAW3y5l6Dm4

“Crosstown Traffic” – Jimi Hendrix
“How Insensitive” – Frank Sinatra “Scarborough Fair” – Simon & Garfunkel
“Alina” – Arvo Part
“I Feel Love” – Donna Summer
“To The Last Whale” – Crosby & Nash
“Prints Tie” – Bobby Hutcherson
“Jardim Dos Deuses” – Joyce Moreno
“Fade Into You” – Mazzy Star
“No More Shall We Part” – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
“I Never Learnt To Share” – James Blake
“One Mo Gin” – D’Angelo
“The Last One To Be Loved” – Gabor Szabo
“Shadows” – Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes
“Images Live In 1964″ – Nina Simone
“The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” – Roberta Flack
“It’s Gonna Rain” – Steve Reich
“Stardust” – Willie Nelson
“Nós e o mar” – Tamba Trio
“$” – D.R.A.M.
“When I Die” – GoldLink
“The Man-Machine” – Kraftwerk
“Asiko” – Tony Allen
“Earth Bound Hearts” – John Mclaughlin feat. John Surman
“Simply Beautiful” – Al Green
“Mr. Bojangles” – Nina Simone
“Flamingo” – Todd Rundgren
“The Medley Of Praise” – Daryl Coley
“Claire De Lune” – Isao Tomita
“Calls” – Robert Glasper feat. Jill Scott
“Your Smile” – Chaka Khan and Rufus
“Bitch Please” – Death Grips
“Anthrax” – Gang Of Four
“I Am The Walrus” – The Beatles
“Jesus Children Of America” – Stevie Wonder
“Garden Of Linmiri” – Caustic Window
“Home (YouTube Rip)” – Kim Burrell
“Vibrate” – OutKast
“12 Aisatsana” – Aphex Twin
“Mis” – Alex G
“Right Down The Line” – Gerry Rafferty
“Anytime” – Ray J
“Jesus” – Curtis Mayfield
“Something About Us” – Daft Punk
“Your Daddy Loves You” – Gil Scott Heron
“Portrait Of Tracy” – Jaco Pastorius
“Rusholme Ruffians” – The Smiths
“When U Were Mine” – Prince
“Road To Nowhere” – Talking Heads
“Boys Don’t Cry” – The Cure

FILMS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isVwqPyxLM8

ATL (Ocean’s annotation: “ATL is not the best movie lol but ok”)
Un Chien Andalou
Blue Velvet
Barry Lyndon
Battleship Potemkin
Eraserhead
Chungking Express
Raging Bull
The Conformist
The Bicycle Thief
Taxi Driver
A Clockwork Orange
Mean Streets
Gods Of The Plague
Persona
Mulholland Drive
Happy Together (Wong Kar-Wei)
Fallen Angels
Apocalypse Now
The Last Laugh
Pi
Full Metal Jacket
No Country For Old Men
Wild At Heart
Memento
Metropolis?Rushmore
The Royal Tenenbaums
Miller’s Crossing
The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel)
Blood Simple
Rashomon
Orpheus
LA Confidential
Reservoir Dogs
Eastern Promises
2001: A Space Odyssey
Battle Royale
The Passion Of Anna
Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia
Oldboy (Park Chan-Wook 2013)
Django Unchained
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Next
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
The Godfather
M (Fritz Lang)
Scarface (Howard Hawks 1932)
Scarface (De Palma 1983)
Blade Runner
Citizen Kane
On The Waterfront
Annie Hall
Psycho
Dr. Strangelove
The French Connection
The Deer Hunter
Wild Strawberries (Bergman)
Fargo
The Sacrifice (Andre Tarkovsky)
El Topo
The Holy Mountain
The Shining
Pulp Fiction
Fitzcarraldo
American Beauty
Solaris (Andre Tarkovsky)
True Romance
Elephant Man
Seven Samurai
Woyzeck
Jackie Brown
Aguirre, The Wrath Of God
Paris, Texas
Devil In A Blue Dress
Inglorious Bastards [sic]
Serpico
Alien
Ed Wood
Hard Eight
The Seventh Seal
Sonatine
Paths Of Glory
There Will Be Blood
Spartacus
Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
Fight Club
Brazil
Throne Of Blood (Akira Kurosawa)
The Master
Dog Day Afternoon
Rosemary’s Baby
Phantom Of The Paradise
Inauguration Of The Pleasure Dome
Malcolm X
Scorpio Rising
The Friends Of Eddie Coyle
Puce Moment
Nosferatu
Basquiat (F.W. Murnau 1929)
The King Of Comedy