Kanye West - Dark Twisted Fantasy

'monster' is doing well on radio tho nowhere near gold digger level

I'm actually kind of consistently surprised at how low "Monster" is on the R&B airplay chart (currently #36 after peaking at #30) because it's felt like it's been at "hear it every time I get in the car, often as soon as I start the car" levels of heavy rotation for a while now.

on first listen, this thing is totally his Guero

attempt at getting back into standard mode album after moody breakup detour album only you can't go home again esp if you lack the willingness or ability to do so? could be; would explain why even though i keep thinking use yr illusion that album was at it's most amusing ('get in the ring') or compelling ('estranged') at its most dark twisted moments, mdtf never approaches those highs or lows.

on first listen, this thing is totally his Guero

― da croupier, Sunday, 28 November 2010 21:28 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

rehash of his old style with some jams?

this doesn't have a beck comparison. this is how i see blonde on blonde imo. i.e. no fucking quality control, stupid direction to go to, too long and yet at the height of his fame and bummed straight into the canon.

Well, no, this album just feels like listening to fourteen "Rainy Day Women"s at various speeds.

'self portrait' more like [via 'what is this shit?']

You guys make it sound a little like "There's A Riot Going On" for the 21st century.

Love Riot, can't wait to hear this insanity.

More like a There's A Riot Going On for Kanye's asshole, in that for full resonance it requires you to be up it

blonde on blonde is great though

fucking hell the number of people this weekend have told me that kanye west finally made his masterpiece

puke

puke

puek

do you dudes listen to music or do you just skim through it

discussion itt got me to listen to LR for the first time, and it's like damn, I can see what got yall into him in the first place, and look at how far hes fallen

"Where do you think you're going young man?"

"I'm just going to play xbox..."

"After you do the dishes, take out the trash, shovel the walk and listen to your Kanye, then you can play xbox."

"Aw, mom...."

samosa otm

Sasha Frere-Jones

sfj otm -- "What makes West more energizing than annoying is his relentless enthusiasm."

so there's nothing left to say about this thing, right?

r. These days, West often surprises us by choosing not to be surprising.

uhh okay

surprise!

let' have a toast for the douche bags...

Even though the past decade has made "douche bag" a term used by everyone, I still have no idea what one is. And it would have been so much funnier if it was 'let's have a toast for the ball bags'.

1979, FYI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_b3oPslctA

so i am listening to this.

the mix of gorgeous is so weird and small almost lo-fi sounding. odd.

man i'm listening to 256...does this sound better on CD?

shit sounds like it was mastered in youtube

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

all of the lights is the best song so far, so far i thought this would sound crazier or more ambitious.

"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

haha this "get it right youshouldgoandgetyourown" sung bridge sounds like andrew lloyd weber's bone thugs and harmony

hey rick ross! a honest to goodness good rap verse! god bless you fat boy!

aw kanye's taking a piano lesson! cute #chopsticks #beginningofrunaway

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

the end of runaway could really use like joe satriani or steve vai or someone like that

ooh "hell of a life" beat is kinda weird and knotty in a cool way.

ug jesus this hook

xxp

it already has peter frampton on it

blame game is dreary

so...chris rock is saying stuff.

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

lost in the world is kinda kooky and kool so far

ok the lyrics are like some 7th grader doing spoken word

actually though the singing and music on this is really rad

Gorgeous sounds like that. Like he listened to the strokes and didn't get it. (which is hilarious because what is there to get?)

who will survive in america is pretty cool

freedom...free doom!

love it! like the old "lie bury" thing

i have achieved overstanding

i doubt kanye flies coach

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, 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...

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

when i brought that up upthread all i got in response was "even prog isn't really prog!"

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