Kanye West - Dark Twisted Fantasy

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

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

i mean i WISH this sounded like the hip hop version of national health or gong

I wish this sounded like the hiphop version of Los campesinos romance is boring

i wish i wish i wish

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

yes!! exactly! this is why i really have to smh at critics praising it for how incredible and shocking it sounds

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).

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).

"I got a Trojan in my pocket...Matt Leinart"

ewwwww gross ewwwwww

that's what you get for not instinctively skipping over a cyhi da prynce verse -- you brought it on yourself

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.

some of the songs are long but half the time it just seems like they just go on for about 2 minutes too long...

lolz this is basically how I feel about the Love Below

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 phenomenon
it's the Lebron-a-ram"

^what?

there are literally like 10 careers worth of smh and o_O punchlines on this album

the way you look should be a sin
you my sin-sation

"sin-sations" sounds like some fucking duncan hines brownie batter box mix or some shit

well he says "the lebron of rhyme"

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 Fantasy
Power
Monster
So Appalled
Runaway
Hell of a Life
Devil in a New Dress
Blame Game
Lost in the World

Again, not all of these songs are GOOD but I do think they are all extremely catchy.

well he says "the lebron of rhyme"

― 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

i wonder if big sean is holding a grudge against cyhi da prynce for making it on the album

i get the stupid way they stay "re-dick-uh-less" in my head

"Catchy" isn't the only virtue, Dan.

right, which is why he explicitly said exactly that

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 (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'

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

i get the stupid way they stay "re-dick-uh-less" in my head

haha yeah, that "THIS SHIT IS.... FUCKING RIDICULOUS" marches through my head and slowly morphs into "FATBOY SLIM IS FUCKING IN HEAVEN", which is tripply annoying

"Catchy" isn't the only virtue, Dan.

One thing that IS a virtue is "reading comprehension".