Kanye West - Dark Twisted Fantasy

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U LIE!

too bad for him i have "only god can troll me" tattooed across my belly in old english script

― in my world of Hmong ppl (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, December 17, 2010 10:04 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

in a world of horrible meme tattoos i think this is one i could actually get behind

GOON LIFE

― The Reverend, Friday, December 17, 2010 10:06 AM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

that's on my knuckles

in fennessey's defense, there's like really nothing left to be said about this record at this point

like if he's really concerned about the overly self-aware internet world, I'd rather have him be oblique where we have to fill in our own blanks rather than condescending

ie, if we're talking about ILMers being the target audience, I assume anyone on this board can learn more about Kanye's record from Fennessey's anti-blurb than, say, the hyper entry-level school textbook-style "Suicide was a punk band from New York" things in the P4k 500 book

kudos to this blurb i say

yeah but even a lot of the REVIEWS (including Pitchfork's) go on and on about context before even talking about the songs on the record a little bit

it's like "we already told you about Power and Runaway...and there are like 9 other songs here! just imagine!'

if anything all the hype/"obnoxious antics/Twitter-feed/leaked tracks/silliness has made me profoundly disinterested in even bothering to listen to this album. which I have not yet done btw.

like I just don't find the narrative of pop-star-dissects-own-public-persona even remotely interesting. let me guess, fame is a terrible bitch goddess.

whiney, what would you assume an ILMer would learn about Kanye's record from this "anti-blurb"

like I just don't find the narrative of pop-star-dissects-own-public-persona even remotely interesting. let me guess, fame is a terrible bitch goddess.

Sort of but not really...? More like "I am a terrible dick, and that is why I'm famous and you aren't; ps suck all of my balls aw come back I didn't mean it"

"I am a terrible dick, and that is why I'm famous and you aren't"

weren't you the one saying there's absolutely no shades of celebration or bravado in "Runaway"?

"ps suck all of my balls aw come back I didn't mean it"

^ are you talking about kanye or my posting style

lol okay so slight variation - KANYE is a terrible bitch goddess. still not really interested.

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It's already been mentioned on the year-end list thread, but I think the Kanye mega-blurb on Cokemachineglow should be acknowledged here as well. http://www.cokemachineglow.com/feature/5816/top50albums-2010?pg=5

Near the end of his life Philip K. Dick started writing novels that mixed autobiography with science fiction with philosophical treatise as a way of showing what happens when a fiercely imaginative but broken and addiction-addled artist encounters what PKD called Hagia Sophia, “Holy Wisdom.” The artists reels and reels and then goes on creating within the language he’s fashioned for himself but using that language to translate for a new tongue. For PKD that meant some of the best and most profound novels of his career, novels like VALIS and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer. For Kanye it means MBDTF.

okay now that just makes me angry

"i read books"

beamer, betz or bentley

“All of the Lights,” real talk, and the stars are melting because MBDTF gives them place in a celestial choir.

reads like a diss to me

xxxps

maybe I just find breathless hyperbole irritating now that I'm an old man

weren't you the one saying there's absolutely no shades of celebration or bravado in "Runaway"?

What makes you think I was talking about "Runaway"? I was thinking about "Gorgeous".

The overall arc of the album is "I'm awesome, you hate me, go suck it" slowly transforming into "wait, come back, I'm lonely, forgive me"

i actually liked that the pfork blurb was short -- not sure there was enough distance b/w this album & the year end list for there to have been 500 more words or w/e written about it -- if it came out in april, maybe -- i mean sean wrote that whole voice review, not sure what else he has left to say about it at this point

i would've lol'd if they just said "Well, duh."

weren't you the one saying there's absolutely no shades of celebration or bravado in "Runaway"?

What makes you think I was talking about "Runaway"? I was thinking about "Gorgeous".

― Tina Tina Cheneuse (DJP), Friday, December 17, 2010 12:11 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

The overall arc of the album is "I'm awesome, you hate me, go suck it" slowly transforming into "wait, come back, I'm lonely, forgive me"

― Tina Tina Cheneuse (DJP), Friday, December 17, 2010 12:13 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah i don't know, was i suppose to assume you meant specifically "Gorgeous" because you mentioned his balls?

So because I say that is the vibe of the album as a whole, that means that every single song has the exact same theme?

Like seriously, try thinking.

dude i'm just playing around, you don't have to turn everything into "SIR, YOU ARE DEFICIENT IN LOGIC."

pistols at dawn

When Pedants Collide

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DJP, please relax gurl

y'all just need to smang and get rid of all this tension

When Pedants Collide

― da croupier, Friday, December 17, 2010 11:30 AM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

board descrip

― *plop*ism rules (deej), Friday, December 17, 2010 11:36 AM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark

internet descrip

think i'm just gonna rename my browser this, just as a reminder, like labeling all the whiskey "hangover juice"

i just caught up on this thread, you guys are nuts

"power"/"all of the lights"/"monster" sequence >> oasis' be here now >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the rest of this kanye album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NtqA5zywQA

i just caught up on this thread, you guys are nuts

all of the lights is horrible

You guys, this thread had been dormant for five days.

not anymore!

yeah I basically agree, "power"/"all of the lights"/"monster" sequence would be a good EP or something and is usually what I listen to rather than the album proper

gonna start a band named "monster sequence" and call our first album power all of the lights, see if anyone notices

Starting with "Power" and skipping "Devil in a New Dress" makes this a much, much better album.

i actually kinda dig "gorgeous" if only b/c its understated psych-hop production + fuzzy vox makes "power" feel FUCKING MASSIVE when it hits next

yeah, that's true, there is a nice contrast there — plus the rapping on it is good enough that the swag of "Power" feels deserved

ilxor completely otm

why doesnt djp like 'devil'? best beat on teh album imo