Kanye West - Dark Twisted Fantasy

too funny to think abt

um, no

they will also give that album a 10.0 if they like it that much

the thing about subjective ratings is that things can end up with the same score and people can still like one more than the other

It's not like giving 5s to Sleep With Angels or Goddess In The Doorway meant a thing to Rolling Stone after the issue dropped.

(referring to Kanye or, god forbid, another rapper makes an album like MBDTF but clearly better in every way)

kinda wish someone would make an album like To The 5 Boroughs but clearly better in every way, just to blow David Fricke's mind.

i don't think any other rappers have the money to make an album like MBDTF

Will Smith does

Geddy Lee.

Will Smith does

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are y'all thinking what I'm thinking

what does that even mean, though? there's nothing that technologically or instrumentally complex on it that anyone w/ a professional studio couldn't pull off more or less, and the guest list isn't much more extravagant than the average major label rap album (besides "All Of The Lights," where you can't even hear most of the big names). (xpost)

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. that's part of why blockbuster movies are ultimately more viscerally exciting than this album, which is basically the aural equivalent of a Michael Bay movie.

rly looking forward to
willow smith - "scourge (feat. will smith, aaliyah's ghost, zooey deschanel, and someone from glee)"
blowing up the charts in appx. 1.5 years

those track credits are missing Wicked Wisdom

so i now own this, but had to finish listening to cough's "ritual abuse" on the drive back. "ritual abuse" might well get an 8-something from me, it does not deserve a 10.0 tho

btw pitchfork obv could not bust out a 10 for an indie record; this was like there only chance to *do it up* in the last 5 years and prob will be for the next 5.

they probably could've done it for MPP last year.

they could have but a) i maintain they will not do it for an indie album and 2) who says that was anco's *career peak*

lol a) and 2)

they're betting that kanye never makes an album this good again

i think they could have done it for Funeral easily but that was quite a while ago

don't think you can give a 10 to a first album

yeah, the only indie artists that I can think of that have a chance of getting a 10.0 is AnCo or mayyyyyybbbbeeee Joanna if she can come up with something better than Ys and more focused than HOOM

and radiohead

and odd future

lol j/k

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

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.

omg guys will pfork's album of the 10s come out next year??

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bought it at target this A.M. the basic version, not the deluxe.

I looked long and hard at the deluxe version before going "you know what? no"

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

i just didn't have the extra scrilla, man. what'd the deluxe have?

the "Runaway" video on DVD

btw what is this first track doing

I looked long and hard at the deluxe version before going "you know what? no"

hope you actually said this out loud to some guy just passing you down the aisle

buying hotly awaited new albums at a record store pre-2004 > buying a hotly awaited new album at target in 2010

okay this song ("Dark Fantasy") is an ongoing lol

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"

wait did this just stop and then restart

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"

kanye should've let dan do the commentary track

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

omg the "roach"/"coach" bit, lol @ u Kanye

are you joking, yr liveblog is the best thing that could have happened to this thread

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

... why is there a mournful guitar solo in this song

a few more embellishments and I'd be like "Santana? Is that you?"