1979, FYI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_b3oPslctA
― da croupier, Monday, 29 November 2010 13:55 (thirteen years ago) link
so i am listening to this.
the mix of gorgeous is so weird and small almost lo-fi sounding. odd.
― kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 November 2010 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
man i'm listening to 256...does this sound better on CD?
shit sounds like it was mastered in youtube
― kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 November 2010 18:11 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah no one answered me when i asked if it was just my copy for which the "gorgeous" mixing was awful, guess it's not
― overtheseas aeroplanes I have flown (k3vin k.), Monday, 29 November 2010 18:15 (thirteen years ago) link
all of the lights is the best song so far, so far i thought this would sound crazier or more ambitious.
― kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 November 2010 18:37 (thirteen years ago) link
"Gorgeous" is almost completely lacking in mid-range; on my shitty work headphones I couldn't hear any of the bass and, on my not-as-shitty car speakers, I realized I was missing like a third of the song's sonic profile because of it.
Still kind of hate the song tho
― Joe Wasp (DJP), Monday, 29 November 2010 18:37 (thirteen years ago) link
haha this "get it right youshouldgoandgetyourown" sung bridge sounds like andrew lloyd weber's bone thugs and harmony
― kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 November 2010 18:38 (thirteen years ago) link
hey rick ross! a honest to goodness good rap verse! god bless you fat boy!
― kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 November 2010 18:59 (thirteen years ago) link
aw kanye's taking a piano lesson! cute #chopsticks #beginningofrunaway
― kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 November 2010 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
actually this beat is kinda neat...reminds me of that "standing outside of a broken phone booth" ("i been downhearted babe") song from the 90s
― kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 November 2010 19:02 (thirteen years ago) link
the end of runaway could really use like joe satriani or steve vai or someone like that
― kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 November 2010 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link
ooh "hell of a life" beat is kinda weird and knotty in a cool way.
― kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 November 2010 19:09 (thirteen years ago) link
ug jesus this hook
― kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 November 2010 19:10 (thirteen years ago) link
xxp
it already has peter frampton on it
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Monday, 29 November 2010 19:14 (thirteen years ago) link
blame game is dreary
― kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 November 2010 19:30 (thirteen years ago) link
so...chris rock is saying stuff.
― kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 November 2010 19:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I must have tuned out the chris rock thing the first couple times cuz when it came on the other night I was kinda 0_o
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Monday, 29 November 2010 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link
lost in the world is kinda kooky and kool so far
― kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 November 2010 19:35 (thirteen years ago) link
ok the lyrics are like some 7th grader doing spoken word
― kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 November 2010 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link
actually though the singing and music on this is really rad
― kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 November 2010 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Gorgeous sounds like that. Like he listened to the strokes and didn't get it. (which is hilarious because what is there to get?)
― wheezy f baby (a hoy hoy), Monday, 29 November 2010 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
who will survive in america is pretty cool
― kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 November 2010 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
freedom...free doom!
love it! like the old "lie bury" thing
i have achieved overstanding
i doubt kanye flies coach
― kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 November 2010 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link
― overtheseas aeroplanes I have flown (k3vin k.), Monday, November 29, 2010 10:15 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
"gorgeous" does sound weird and tinny if it isn't coming through nice speakers/phones (arguably even if it is), but YES, i downloaded three or four super shitty rips of this before going out and buying the damn thing. CD sounds much, much better than anything i stole. of course, i did all this on day one of its official release, so...
― phish in your sleazebag (contenderizer), Monday, 29 November 2010 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't know if this was worth the 3.99 i spent on amazon mp3
don't really get the "prog" comparisons at all...like there's some kinda rick wakeman ish in the middle of "power"
but overall...it's kinda self indulgent but don't really think there's anything explicitly prog abt it
― kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 November 2010 21:41 (thirteen years ago) link
when i brought that up upthread all i got in response was "even prog isn't really prog!"
― some dude, Monday, 29 November 2010 21:43 (thirteen years ago) link
more accurately, you defined prog in a way that isn't what prog is rlly about. m@tt is saying something different, but i think its the *values* of the music rather than its sonic characteristics that are 'proggy' & yeah 'prog' is kind of a stand-in for that style
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Monday, 29 November 2010 21:46 (thirteen years ago) link
some of the songs are long but half the time it just seems like they just go on for about 2 minutes too long...
this is a lot more regular/normal than i thought it would be...like it has its quirks and odd little bits in the mix but i dunno
i feel like if this was edited a little tighter and he'd just called it "good ass job" no one would be saying prog
― kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 November 2010 21:48 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean i WISH this sounded like the hip hop version of national health or gong
― kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 November 2010 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I wish this sounded like the hiphop version of Los campesinos romance is boring
― wheezy f baby (a hoy hoy), Monday, 29 November 2010 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
i wish i wish i wish
― J0rdan S., Monday, 29 November 2010 21:56 (thirteen years ago) link
yes!! exactly! this is why i really have to smh at critics praising it for how incredible and shocking it sounds
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Monday, 29 November 2010 21:56 (thirteen years ago) link
I've listened to it a couple of times, and "Runaway" is now stuck in my head but other than that (and the King Crimson sample on "Power") I can't really remember anything about the individual songs. It's not an unenjoyable listen but yeah, the songs are too long to put them on for piecemeal pop thrills (I get that that's the intended effect).
― Euler, Monday, 29 November 2010 21:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Huh. I think there are earworms all over the place on this album (not all of them good; I would pay money to be able to never remember "Devil In A New Dress" ever again).
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Monday, 29 November 2010 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
"I got a Trojan in my pocket...Matt Leinart"
ewwwww gross ewwwwww
― kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 November 2010 22:00 (thirteen years ago) link
that's what you get for not instinctively skipping over a cyhi da prynce verse -- you brought it on yourself
― jagger reupholstered my pussy (J0rdan S.), Monday, 29 November 2010 22:01 (thirteen years ago) link
I guess the Chris Rock thing, or more accurately the female voice talking about Yeezy, is stuck in my head too, but yeah, I'm not thrilled about that.
― Euler, Monday, 29 November 2010 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
lolz this is basically how I feel about the Love Below
― "smokin' hot" albeit in a "Nickelback on iPod" sort of way (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 29 November 2010 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
i like the beat to devil in a new dress, but man did he have that sitting in the vaults since the blueprint or something? sounds really like old school kanye/jay beat
but i'm a sucker for pretty much any soul sample
"hood phenomenonit's the Lebron-a-ram"
^what?
there are literally like 10 careers worth of smh and o_O punchlines on this album
― kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 November 2010 22:03 (thirteen years ago) link
the way you look should be a sinyou my sin-sation
"sin-sations" sounds like some fucking duncan hines brownie batter box mix or some shit
― kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 November 2010 22:04 (thirteen years ago) link
well he says "the lebron of rhyme"
― jagger reupholstered my pussy (J0rdan S.), Monday, 29 November 2010 22:04 (thirteen years ago) link
If you've listened to this a few times and you don't have multiples of the following tracks stuck in your head, I think you're actively not paying attention to the album:
Dark FantasyPowerMonsterSo AppalledRunawayHell of a LifeDevil in a New DressBlame GameLost in the World
Again, not all of these songs are GOOD but I do think they are all extremely catchy.
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Monday, 29 November 2010 22:05 (thirteen years ago) link
― jagger reupholstered my pussy (J0rdan S.), Monday, November 29, 2010 4:04 PM (56 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
ah ok haha i thought it was some kinda lebron/ramadan deal
― kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 November 2010 22:06 (thirteen years ago) link
i wonder if big sean is holding a grudge against cyhi da prynce for making it on the album
― jagger reupholstered my pussy (J0rdan S.), Monday, 29 November 2010 22:06 (thirteen years ago) link
i get the stupid way they stay "re-dick-uh-less" in my head
― kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 November 2010 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link
"Catchy" isn't the only virtue, Dan.
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 November 2010 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link
right, which is why he explicitly said exactly that
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Monday, 29 November 2010 22:08 (thirteen years ago) link
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Monday, 29 November 2010 21:56 (11 minutes ago) Permalink
admittedly ive been avoiding getting too into reading tons of kanye reviews but i dont see most critics writing this. 'ambitious' =/= 'shocking'
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Monday, 29 November 2010 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link
idk how others were using it but i imagine 'prog' being a stand-in for this kind of framing, the 'album-as-art' feel, the suites, the songs being two mins too long. not lots of instrumental solos or something. its prog rap not prog rock
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Monday, 29 November 2010 22:12 (thirteen years ago) link