ok maybe i sounded a little bit dramatic with the word "insidious" but i just meant it in the sense of the gradual, subtle degradation of things like scores on reviews. what happens if Kanye or, god forbid, another rapper makes an album like MBDTF but clearly better in every way? will they just have to go Spinal Tap with the score since they already hit the ceiling once?
― vodka loko lame (some dude), Monday, November 22, 2010 12:03 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
struggling to think of what this record could possibly be, or who would possibly record it
― smangs of new york (deej), Monday, 22 November 2010 18:41 (thirteen years ago) link
I enjoyed the new mellow hype more than this kanye joint tho. I find his albums so damn turgid, whoever it was upthread that said he was a singles dude, otm.
― tween-justin-bieber-riot-of-09-pandemonium-arrests-terror+tweeting (Edward III), Monday, 22 November 2010 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link
omg guys will pfork's album of the 10s come out next year??
― modescalator (blueski), Thursday, 8 October 2009 14:48 (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― Noel 1 Kanye 10.0 (blueski), Monday, 22 November 2010 18:56 (thirteen years ago) link
http://content.complex.com/assets/galleries/28659/big__o5c1478.jpg
― mo loko (cozen), Monday, 22 November 2010 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link
bought it at target this A.M. the basic version, not the deluxe.
― LAMBDA LAMBDA LANDA (Beatrix Kiddo), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:03 (thirteen years ago) link
I looked long and hard at the deluxe version before going "you know what? no"
― ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean albums can really never be like special effects-driven movies where you really can feel or see or hear the budget in the final product in any meaningful way.
this really isn't true - admittedly you have to sort of be a geek or have spent a lot of time with super-audio-geeks, but giant-budget albums pretty much announce themselves from their opening moments as clearly as big blockbuster movies announce themselves before the opening credits are done rolling
― aerosmith: the acid house years (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:07 (thirteen years ago) link
i just didn't have the extra scrilla, man. what'd the deluxe have?
― LAMBDA LAMBDA LANDA (Beatrix Kiddo), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link
the "Runaway" video on DVD
― ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:11 (thirteen years ago) link
btw what is this first track doing
hope you actually said this out loud to some guy just passing you down the aisle
― Noel 1 Kanye 10.0 (blueski), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:12 (thirteen years ago) link
buying hotly awaited new albums at a record store pre-2004 > buying a hotly awaited new album at target in 2010
― LAMBDA LAMBDA LANDA (Beatrix Kiddo), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link
okay this song ("Dark Fantasy") is an ongoing lol
― ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link
you probably shouldn't talk about how you're just a nigga with a nice flow and then go on to do what he does on the rest of that song, like rhyming "seance" with "parents"
― ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:14 (thirteen years ago) link
wait did this just stop and then restart
― ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I probably should not be listening to this on my shitty work headphones as I think I'm missing half of the backing track for "Gorgeous"
― ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:17 (thirteen years ago) link
kanye should've let dan do the commentary track
― tween-justin-bieber-riot-of-09-pandemonium-arrests-terror+tweeting (Edward III), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:19 (thirteen years ago) link
btw if ppl are annoyed by me liveblogging my first impressions of the album, I'll move to another thread
also "Gorgeous" will eventually grow on me but it feels very static on first listen
― ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:19 (thirteen years ago) link
omg the "roach"/"coach" bit, lol @ u Kanye
― ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:20 (thirteen years ago) link
are you joking, yr liveblog is the best thing that could have happened to this thread
― aerosmith: the acid house years (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:20 (thirteen years ago) link
loooooool all those ppl who forgot about Kanye's black balls should go check whatever hip-hop site that was that had his dickpic
no, your reactions are likely to be more entertaining than the album actually
xp yeah yeah yeah
― tween-justin-bieber-riot-of-09-pandemonium-arrests-terror+tweeting (Edward III), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:20 (thirteen years ago) link
... why is there a mournful guitar solo in this song
― ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:21 (thirteen years ago) link
a few more embellishments and I'd be like "Santana? Is that you?"
all those ppl who forgot about Kanye's black balls
pretty sure this is the album's dedication
― tween-justin-bieber-riot-of-09-pandemonium-arrests-terror+tweeting (Edward III), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:22 (thirteen years ago) link
also for the record: the opening of "Power" is still incredibly bad-ass
― ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:22 (thirteen years ago) link
(kind of can't believe how a stark megalomaniacal performance with hot dancers changed my mind on this song so quickly)
― ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:23 (thirteen years ago) link
(tho I do stand by my original assertion that a d&b beat would have been cooler on it) (lol I should skip to the Aphex song)
if yer gonna use "21st century schizoid man" as a sting cue you better follow it up with some banging shit but I got left hanging
― tween-justin-bieber-riot-of-09-pandemonium-arrests-terror+tweeting (Edward III), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:24 (thirteen years ago) link
is the Fergie rap before or after 3:20? that's my favorite part.
― some dude, Wednesday, November 17, 2010 3:33 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
CO-SIGN
This one, meanwhile, is just a chore to listen to.
― otherwise, and twat (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, November 17, 2010 11:12 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark
This is how I feel about "All of The Lights" generally
― LAMBDA LAMBDA LANDA (Beatrix Kiddo), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I hate that he says "obamination" instead of "abomination"
― ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:25 (thirteen years ago) link
if fripp will license that shit to you then go for the gusto man
― tween-justin-bieber-riot-of-09-pandemonium-arrests-terror+tweeting (Edward III), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:25 (thirteen years ago) link
although it's funny that the mournful guitar solo actually makes sense in this song
― ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:26 (thirteen years ago) link
in all the songs, this album's pretty emo
― tween-justin-bieber-riot-of-09-pandemonium-arrests-terror+tweeting (Edward III), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:26 (thirteen years ago) link
lol piano and violin
this sounds kind of like a Tori Amos instrumental outtake
― ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
hoppin' on board yr liveblogtrain for my second listen, hope u don't mind
― underplayed junior boys remixes I have forgotten were on my comp (bernard snowy), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:28 (thirteen years ago) link
well I was not expecting that
― ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:28 (thirteen years ago) link
haha yeah it's kind of a cool moment
part of me keeps thinking that Kanye heard Bjork's "Wanderlust" and was like "if I slightly screw that it would be DOPE"
― ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:31 (thirteen years ago) link
also I don't know who it was who told Rihanna that it was possible to not bray every note like a sexy donkey while singing but I would like to shake that vocal coach's hand
― ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:32 (thirteen years ago) link
lmao
― underplayed junior boys remixes I have forgotten were on my comp (bernard snowy), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:33 (thirteen years ago) link
oh shit, "Monster" is starting very very well
― ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:33 (thirteen years ago) link
I want to bounce bounce bounce to this
― ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah I think it sounds really good as a change of pace/direct contradiction of "All of the Lights"... but it still gets boring like halfway thru, sadly
― underplayed junior boys remixes I have forgotten were on my comp (bernard snowy), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link
"she just won a swallowship"
did I just hear that
my god I love this
― ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:35 (thirteen years ago) link
i think "monster" is great despite a few super awkward lines
― ciderpress, Monday, 22 November 2010 19:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Jay-Z, your Achillies heel is your startling lack of cardio
― ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link
oh my god
Am I really hearing Nicki Minaj... making sense and not being entirely punchable?
― ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
holy fucking shit that was a great great verse
and I fucking DETEST her with every fiber of my being, or at least I did before hearing that
― ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:38 (thirteen years ago) link
buying a hotly awaited new album at target in 2010
me a little while ago tbh
― markers, Monday, 22 November 2010 19:38 (thirteen years ago) link