on first listen, this thing is totally his Guero
― da croupier, Sunday, 28 November 2010 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― balls, Sunday, 28 November 2010 22:29 (thirteen years ago) link
― 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.
― wheezy f baby (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 28 November 2010 22:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, no, this album just feels like listening to fourteen "Rainy Day Women"s at various speeds.
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 28 November 2010 22:56 (thirteen years ago) link
'self portrait' more like [via 'what is this shit?']
― rip whiney g weingarten 03/11 never forget (history mayne), Sunday, 28 November 2010 22:58 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― gospodin simmel, Sunday, 28 November 2010 23:02 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― da croupier, Sunday, 28 November 2010 23:05 (thirteen years ago) link
blonde on blonde is great though
― samosa gibreel, Sunday, 28 November 2010 23:18 (thirteen years ago) link
fucking hell the number of people this weekend have told me that kanye west finally made his masterpiece
puke
puek
― whitney (tpp), Sunday, 28 November 2010 23:29 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― .\ /. (dayo), Monday, 29 November 2010 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link
"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...."
― m0stlyClean, Monday, 29 November 2010 02:51 (thirteen years ago) link
samosa otm
― swvl, Monday, 29 November 2010 02:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Sasha Frere-Jones
― Two and a Half Muffins (Eazy), Monday, 29 November 2010 05:34 (thirteen years ago) link
sfj otm -- "What makes West more energizing than annoying is his relentless enthusiasm."
― i look at the interior of my sack and feel sad (ilxor), Monday, 29 November 2010 05:57 (thirteen years ago) link
so there's nothing left to say about this thing, right?
― phish in your sleazebag (contenderizer), Monday, 29 November 2010 07:18 (thirteen years ago) link
r. These days, West often surprises us by choosing not to be surprising.
uhh okay
― .\ /. (dayo), Monday, 29 November 2010 07:25 (thirteen years ago) link
surprise!
― mormon's marmots (crüt), Monday, 29 November 2010 08:02 (thirteen years ago) link
let' have a toast for the douche bags...
― hipity-hopity muzik ftw! (Ioannis), Monday, 29 November 2010 13:11 (thirteen years ago) link
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'.
― wheezy f baby (a hoy hoy), Monday, 29 November 2010 13:19 (thirteen years ago) link
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