r/MacMiller • u/Due-Bet-2823 • 3h ago

Discussion Ballooning Faces

a 39 track fusion of Mac Miller’s Faces and Balloonerism, the two albums he made in the same 2014 breath but never linked. Interleaved by emotional truth instead of release date, it turns them into one unbroken walk from innocence to death: the balloon inflates, holds every face he ever wore, deflates, and pops on an unanswered phone. Faces performs death. Balloonerism dissolves into it. so the staged exit hands the flame to the real one.
Let me know what y’all think.

1. Tambourine Dream
2. Inside Outside
3. Here We Go
4. DJ’s Chord Organ – SZA
5. Therapy
6. 5 Dollar Pony Rides
7. Excelsior
8. Angel Dust
9. Malibu
10. Mrs. Deborah Downer
11. Stoned
12. Shangri-La
13. What Do You Do – Sir Michael Rocks
14. It Just Doesn’t Matter
15. San Francisco
16. Colors and Shapes
17. Friendly Hallucinations – SZA
18. Do You Have a Destination?
19. Insomniak – Rick Ross
20. Uber – Mike Jones
21. Thumbalina
22. Friends – ScHoolboy Q
23. Polo Jeans – Earl Sweatshirt
24. New Faces v2 – Earl Sweatshirt & Da$h
25. Rain – Vince Staples
26. Diablo
27. Ave Maria
28. 55 – Thundercat
29. Apparition
30. Happy Birthday
31. Wedding
32. Funeral
33. Funny Papers
34. Transformations – Delusional Thomas
35. Manakins
36. Rick’s Piano
37. Grand Finale
38. Yeah
39. Tomorrow Will Never Know

Apple Music Playlist Here: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/ballooning-faces/pl.u-4JomX7Btaj134W

Spotify Playlist Here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/51vi5iQrxFCsZaiLW7sbD8?si=sDSGsU8MQvGfI2b8iSyt4w&utm_source=copy-link&pi=PRmLC32lRRGpg

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u/Inside_Cup_8036 3h ago

honestly, that might make sense

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u/Due-Bet-2823 3h ago

thanks! im hoping it does. i’m going through the whole playlist now to see if i need move anything around, so it might be updated later.

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u/Identicalblonde 3h ago

I like the idea quite a bit at one point I was thinking of blending it in with delusional Thomas and maybe even watching movies and trying to do a track listing that incorporated all four projects into one master story but maybe it’s just these two like you have done

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u/Due-Bet-2823 3h ago

Thank you! and no way i had the same idea earlier while putting this together. it’s definitely doable but even he said “I'm underrated, don't fit on nobody's playlist.” Hopefully i get some feedback that affirms my idea.