--- title: Frank Ocean Releases Playlist of His Favorite Songs in Zine description: Frank Ocean's supplementary zine, 'Boys Don't Cry' has given us insight into the musician's musical preferences — with a list of his favorites. canonical: https://time.com/4463422/frank-ocean-favorite-songs-playlist/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-23T21:14:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:35:46.518Z og:title: Listen to a Playlist of Frank Ocean's Favorite Songs og:description: His tastes run the gamut from Jimi Hendrix to D'Angelo og:url: https://time.com/4463422/frank-ocean-favorite-songs-playlist/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2ab0200be0dfa9bf/6988a36597cdff980a6ad8b6/frank-ocean-personal-playlist.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: 2014 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival - Day 3 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Listen to a Playlist of Frank Ocean's Favorite Songs twitter:description: His tastes run the gamut from Jimi Hendrix to D'Angelo twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2ab0200be0dfa9bf/6988a36597cdff980a6ad8b6/frank-ocean-personal-playlist.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Now You Can Listen to a Playlist of All of Frank Ocean's Favorite Songs From Jimi Hendrix to D'Angelo > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images) Frank Ocean performs during the 2014 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival on June 14, 2014 in Manchester, Tennessee. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images) Jason Merritt—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Aug 23, 2016 9:14 PM UTC There may [finally be new Frank Ocean music](http://time.com/4460579/frank-ocean-new-album-blonde/), but there’s still more to discover on [Frank Ocean watch](http://time.com/4413818/frank-ocean-next-album-boys-dont-cry/). Chief among the recent reveals (besides [his studio album, _Blonde_](http://time.com/4460579/frank-ocean-new-album-blonde/), [his visual album stream, _Endless_](http://time.com/4458666/frank-ocean-releases-new-visual-album-endless/), and the [lush, seductive music video for his song, “Nikes”](http://time.com/4461555/frank-ocean-new-album-blonde-2/)) is the treasure trove of information hidden in his limited-edition zine, _Boys Don’t Cry_. The zine has already blessed us with [a poem about McDonald’s from Kanye West](http://time.com/4461555/frank-ocean-new-album-blonde-2/) as well as some personal writing from Ocean, which includes his [list](https://images.genius.com/6f97f88d1deab2a037c4f9dcbbc4a5fb.1000x668x1.jpg) of his favorite songs (under a photo of legendary music producer Rick Rubin’s living room, no less) — ranging from artists like Frank Sinatra, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Simon & Garfunkel to modern-day legends like Prince and perennial favorites Al Green and Donna Summer. The list even includes some of his contemporaries like James Blake. Also included in this gem of a zine is another list of Frank’s favorites: movies. Like his expansive music taste, Ocean’s cinematic preferences have a range that spans genres and cultures; to wit: he has as much appreciation for David Lynch’s surrealist _Blue Velvet_ as he does [Quentin Tarantino’s notorious _Django Unchained_](http://entertainment.time.com/2012/12/12/django-unchained-tarantino-frees-the-slaves/). > [](https://twitter.com/trillmoregirls/status/767895064991371265) Listen to the complete playlist of Frank Ocean’s favorite tunes below (note that some of the artists are missing like Prince because they’re not available on Spotify). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4463422/frank-ocean-favorite-songs-playlist/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4463422/frank-ocean-favorite-songs-playlist/"},"headline":"Now You Can Listen to a Playlist of All of Frank Ocean's Favorite Songs From Jimi Hendrix to D'Angelo","datePublished":"2016-08-23T21:14:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:35:46.518Z","description":"His tastes run the gamut","url":"https://time.com/4463422/frank-ocean-favorite-songs-playlist/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Music","Frank Ocean"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2ab0200be0dfa9bf/6988a36597cdff980a6ad8b6/frank-ocean-personal-playlist.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2ab0200be0dfa9bf/6988a36597cdff980a6ad8b6/frank-ocean-personal-playlist.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2014 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival - Day 3","caption":"2014 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival - Day 3","creditText":"Jason Merritt—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4463422/frank-ocean-favorite-songs-playlist/","name":"Now You Can Listen to a Playlist of All of Frank Ocean's Favorite Songs From Jimi Hendrix to D'Angelo"}}]}] ```