***RANKING KANYE***

TS: Leigh Limon vs. Alexis Phifer
Scientology vs. Hennessy

Graduation > 808s > College Dropout > Late Registration

But that makes it seem like I dislike Late Reigstration way more than I actually do.

I almost hate to say this because I hate when people act like music's quality (especially in rap) is linked to its subject matter, but for me it feels like there's this big divide between CD and LR, where pretty much every song has a distinct topic or narrative and fills a different niche, and Graduation and 808s (and, from what I can tell so far, probably Dark Twisted Fantasy) feel more like song after song of Kanye the superstar talking about life as Kanye the superstar without a lot of strong concepts to kind of distinguish one rant from the next. obv the early stuff is very much driven by his life and his personality, too, but I kinda miss when he made songs about shit, y'know?

Never said "Stronger" was his best single btw.

Did anyone else think this thread was about Kanye going reggae?

Graduation > 808s > College Dropout > Late Registration

the opposite of this

Graduation > 808s > College Dropout > Late Registration

or Graduation > CD > 808s > LR

But I voted the other one.

Late Registration > College Dropout > Graduation > 808s

was whiney completely incapable of making week-long polls like EVERYONE ELSE DOES?

surfboard, we voted total opposite.

Er, almost.

Late Registration is his masterpiece if he'll ever have one

I wonder if I am going to be a solitary challops vote

(808s > Late Registration > Graduation > College Dropout)

ass backwards

basically College Dropout is a DQ because I've only ever heard the singles (and, while I like them, they have never enticed me into getting the album) but I resolutely stand by the order of the other three

something > something > something > something >>>>> my beautiful dark twisted fantasy

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

8 ppl think graduation is the best kanye album

holy shit

yeah thats kind of a bummer

Kanye's last album, 2008's 808s and Heartbreak, was heavy on the Auto-Tune and stark synths, but relatively light on grandiose ideas. It was a necessary detour that expanded his emotional palette; a bloodletting after a harsh breakup and the passing of his mother that manifests itself in Twisted Fantasy's harshest lows.

Gah. This is pissing me off. 808s was a substantial narrowing of his emotional pallete.

yeah i thought the same thing -- in fact, kanye's whole existence and popularity and transcendence was PREDICATED on him coming into rap with a wider "emotional palette" than every other rapper

^^^

that and great pop instincts, which he also abandoned on 808s

i like this album but let's be real it's about a 7.8

was disappointed to scroll down to the byline and find someone who isn't sean fennessey's byline at the bottom

been thinking about my dark twisted fenessey ever since.. j0rd's? dn

i mean, i guess you could argue that 808s added "i hate the shit out of my ex-girlfriend, what a bitch" to his emotional palette, thus widening it... but that would be a poorly worded sentence

it does feel like pfork "had" to give this a 10.0 though...when are we ever going to see another music event as big as this?

10!!!!!!!!!

it's almost as if ilxor's ban timing was aligned in the cosmos

I have seen a few 10s in my life time

With "Runaway", he rousingly highlights his own douchebaggery, turning it into a rallying cry for all humanity. With "Runaway", he rousingly highlights his own douchebaggery, turning it into a rallying cry for all humanity. With "Runaway", he rousingly highlights his own douchebaggery, turning it into a rallying cry for all humanity. With "Runaway", he rousingly highlights his own douchebaggery, turning it into a rallying cry for all humanity. With "Runaway", he rousingly highlights his own douchebaggery, turning it into a rallying cry for all humanity. With "Runaway", he rousingly highlights his own douchebaggery, turning it into a rallying cry for all humanity. With "Runaway", he rousingly highlights his own douchebaggery, turning it into a rallying cry for all humanity. With "Runaway", he rousingly highlights his own douchebaggery, turning it into a rallying cry for all humanity. With "Runaway", he rousingly highlights his own douchebaggery, turning it into a rallying cry for all humanity. With "Runaway", he rousingly highlights his own douchebaggery, turning it into a rallying cry for all humanity. With "Runaway", he rousingly highlights his own douchebaggery, turning it into a rallying cry for all humanity. With "Runaway", he rousingly highlights his own douchebaggery, turning it into a rallying cry for all humanity.

and then the humanity goes home back inside when he moans into a vocoder for 5 minutes

rilly ril

10.4!

10.0 about 1 hour ago via web Retweeted by 48 people

hipsterrunoff
HIPSTER RUNOFF

what was the last 10 for something that wasn't a reissue, btw?

well the gangsta yankee hotel foxtrot finally arrived

― J0rdan S., Monday, November 22, 2010 12:09 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

yeah, that seems to be right

http://web.archive.org/web/20080307075155/www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/22719-gay

http://web.archive.org/web/20080307075155/www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/22719-gay-fish

would they have given this a 10 if deej hadn't given flockaveli an 8?

enjoying early reactions to our kanye review. bring on the conspiracy theories! #thisalbumisfuckinguntouchable about 1 hour ago via web Retweeted by 18 people

ryanpitchfork
ryan schreiber

ryan schreiber reupholstered my pussy

It's a zonked nirvana with demons underneath

talking about dayo's pussy obv

my theory is that they're just trying to get a discount on kanye's headlining set for pfork fest 2011