would listen to a concept album about kanye running a hotel
― 'The Road'(a hundred less-than signs)'Taken' (bernard snowy), Monday, 6 December 2010 22:40 (thirteen years ago) link
(o-or a hostel)
fuggin typos *sigh*
But I don’t think I’ve ever actually been disgusted by an album. I still haven’t. But I do think MBDTF is disgusting.
Is it just me or does this not really make any sense?
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Monday, 6 December 2010 22:40 (thirteen years ago) link
HOSTEL HOSTEL TOURISTS JUST STOP DEREEVERYBODY KNOW I RUN A MUTHERFUCKIN HOSTEL
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 December 2010 22:41 (thirteen years ago) link
if today's the day to link our blog rants against this album, here's mine: http://narrowcast.blogspot.com/2010/12/last-week-i-did-my-usual-monthly-report.html
― ITT Deadliest Choads (some dude), Monday, 6 December 2010 22:41 (thirteen years ago) link
ha that's the least ranty negative review that's been posted so far
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 6 December 2010 22:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Don't think my monocle dropped into my cup of Lady Grey, but I did exclaim to my wife "fucking hell, this is just unpleasant". I'm in my 30s, I'm very happily married, I can't find any conscionable reason to listen to horrifically misogynistic tripe, ESPECIALLY when the production and tunes are shite.
I think its perfectly acceptable to think something is horrible without being horrified by it; I'm not outraged in a Daily Mail sense, I just have no place in my life for nastiness like this and am baffled how anyone with a similar set of life circumstances to me could. The world's nasty enough without pop music being fucking horrible and hateful too.
― Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 6 December 2010 22:45 (thirteen years ago) link
so you're saying you don't get how any married adult listens to rap?
― gimme schefter (J0rdan S.), Monday, 6 December 2010 22:46 (thirteen years ago) link
the kanye album did not strike me as being particularly nasty or morally horrific?
i like al's rant.
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Monday, 6 December 2010 22:47 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't think it's entirely productive to take the angle nick's taking, but i do like this last part:
Kanye’s beautiful, dark, twisted fantasy has no beauty, and if the desire to wear expensive clothes, drive supercars, treat women badly, and have nasty sport/porn-sex is dark, and twisted, rather than shallow and thoughtless, then I’m missing something that I don’t want to make an effort to understand.
― ITT Deadliest Choads (some dude), Monday, 6 December 2010 22:48 (thirteen years ago) link
it's like oh i'm so dark and perverse but it's all pretty much your standard materialist straight guy shit
al, as a married adult, how do you stand rap music
― gimme schefter (J0rdan S.), Monday, 6 December 2010 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
All married adults everywhere are the same, yes, exactly. Likewise all rap. Totally. Yes, thats what I said.
― Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 6 December 2010 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
while my wife's at work my son and i listen to mixtapes. we've got yelawolf on right now.
― ITT Deadliest Choads (some dude), Monday, 6 December 2010 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't mind pop music about kinky sex or shit like that. "Bad Romance" is a great example of that kind of thing; nothing on MBDSMF is.
― ITT Deadliest Choads (some dude), Monday, 6 December 2010 22:50 (thirteen years ago) link
i like that the tone of some dude's "rant" is pretty even and balanced. i don't get critics that complain about the hyperbole of the overwhelming positive hype and 10.0 ratings and then turn around hyperbolize the opposite direction, all hair-pulling and teeth-gnashing
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 6 December 2010 22:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't think I was teeth-gnashing, certainly not compared to how I used to. I was going for baffled disappointment and distaste.
― Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 6 December 2010 22:55 (thirteen years ago) link
to be fair i got a lot of my more argumentative points and hair-pulling out of my system on this thread first
― ITT Deadliest Choads (some dude), Monday, 6 December 2010 22:56 (thirteen years ago) link
My own take from a couple of weeks ago.
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 December 2010 23:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I think my key feeling about this record is that if someone caught me listening to it I'd feel embarrassed.
― Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 6 December 2010 23:09 (thirteen years ago) link
al thats a really good review!
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Monday, 6 December 2010 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, Al, the U2 comparison was spot-on (although I think the U2 album sold less than its predecessors).
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 December 2010 23:19 (thirteen years ago) link
the U2 is where it loses me, because this feels like a more erm 'relevant' record -- more w/ the zeitgeist & less pulling by purely on classic rock bono-fides etc -- but other than that im pretty much w/ it
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Monday, 6 December 2010 23:20 (thirteen years ago) link
it being al's review
Well, we'll find out by February whether MDTF has staying power.
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 December 2010 23:21 (thirteen years ago) link
oh its gonna top pnj im sure
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Monday, 6 December 2010 23:24 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah the whole year i felt like there might be some genuine suspense around what would p&j but there's no way this doesn't waltz to the top
― gimme schefter (J0rdan S.), Monday, 6 December 2010 23:25 (thirteen years ago) link
staying power /= topping P&J
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 December 2010 23:26 (thirteen years ago) link
what = staying power?
― gimme schefter (J0rdan S.), Monday, 6 December 2010 23:26 (thirteen years ago) link
we'll know in february i guess?
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Monday, 6 December 2010 23:27 (thirteen years ago) link
commercial success. I mentioned the U2 album because it fell off the chart quickly after topping it and produced no hits.
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 December 2010 23:27 (thirteen years ago) link
vmas = staying power
― balls, Monday, 6 December 2010 23:27 (thirteen years ago) link
i said this upthread but most of kanye's albums have one or two singles doing well months and months after release -- jesus walks, touch the sky, flashing lights, etc. -- i'm curious if this will have one, because i have no idea what song that hasn't already been a single on here could have legs
― some dude, Monday, 6 December 2010 23:32 (thirteen years ago) link
i think hed argue its not really a 'singles' album anyway, but obv monster has legs
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Monday, 6 December 2010 23:35 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean well singles released after the album's release -- "Monster" was out before the album and might have even peaked already
― some dude, Monday, 6 December 2010 23:36 (thirteen years ago) link
isn't this precisely the type of album where if it fails in the market it burnishes it's rep as much as any hit status would?
― balls, Monday, 6 December 2010 23:39 (thirteen years ago) link
probably, although it'd be pretty awkward if the 'curveball' 808s thrived and then this return to rap mea culpa kinda thing didn't do as well
― some dude, Monday, 6 December 2010 23:43 (thirteen years ago) link
i think by ditching the mascot cover he made it clear this wasnt as much a return
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Monday, 6 December 2010 23:44 (thirteen years ago) link
For all the talk of 808's "difficulty" it had "legs" -- I heard "Amazing" and "Knock You Down" on the radio well into 2009.
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 December 2010 23:45 (thirteen years ago) link
"knock you down" wasn't on that album and i didn't hear "amazing" much, but yeah that album was a total commercial success, mainly due to "heartless"
― some dude, Monday, 6 December 2010 23:48 (thirteen years ago) link
al that's an excellent review of course
― k3vin k., Monday, 6 December 2010 23:50 (thirteen years ago) link
where's 'heartless' rank on most well known (ie yr parents might know it) kanye songs? 'gold digger's up top but 'heartless' is probably top 3 right? unless my dad feels the need to track down the source of espn's bumper music (that would be 'power') i'm pretty sure he will never know a song here.
― balls, Monday, 6 December 2010 23:52 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i think it'd probably be: gold digger, heartless, after that probably jesus walks, slow jamz, stronger
― some dude, Monday, 6 December 2010 23:54 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah "heartless" is prob his second biggest hit after "gold digger"
― gimme schefter (J0rdan S.), Monday, 6 December 2010 23:58 (thirteen years ago) link
i could see "gorgeous" getting some rap radio play if it wasn't produced to sound all muffled -- i bet they'll put "lost in the world" out as a single but i don't see how it would do any better than, like, "paranoid"
― gimme schefter (J0rdan S.), Monday, 6 December 2010 23:59 (thirteen years ago) link
that review lays it all out nicely
― Dan S, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 00:19 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost yeah I've been thinking "Lost in the World" could do okay depending on how they edit it for radio — feels like one of those big dancey worldwide-electro-party songs I associate with europe and the blackeyedpeas
― 'The Road'(a hundred less-than signs)'Taken' (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 00:23 (thirteen years ago) link
al's review is how i felt when he was the voice of clarity on jay's 'american gangster', except this time i don't exactly agree w/ him
― gimme schefter (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 00:24 (thirteen years ago) link
"Paranoid" should've been a smash hit.
― altered boners (rennavate), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 00:26 (thirteen years ago) link