Kanye West - Dark Twisted Fantasy

lol ship i had the same experience w/ "live your life" -- i was very puzzled

i know isn't it weird!

on the other hand it was better than having to hear the singles off the new t.i. album

I still feel like "Lost In The World" could be a hit. possibly needs a remix or something; but the hook is so catchy and singalong-ready! and the beat is mad-propulsive, like some shit from a car commercial or before a sporting event starts. GIVE ME ONE GOOD REASON this hasn't happened yet?!

(bon iver backlash)

yeah i think i said this somewhere way upthread but "lost in the world" is the only song i can remotely imagine doing well as a single besides the 4 tracks announced as singles before the album's release

i thought "paranoid" would be a big hit too tho

maybe Lil B will remake it and have a hit

"Based In BasedWorld"

I still feel like "Lost In The World" could be a hit. possibly needs a remix or something

it's basically ALREADY a remix of a Bon Iver track, tho, isnt it?

Well, considering the original is just one line repeated ad infinitum, it's a bit more than a remix.

so does anybody still listen to the best album of 2010

yeah the big boi album's great, still play it lots!

http://i.imgur.com/TNPJr.png

my beautiful dark twisted neovagina

This album is still pretty good, even though it's not nearly the masterpiece most critics claimed it to be.

All the singles kill, though.

compared to the singles from his other albums?

I'm pretty sure he's never going to to "Gold Digger" or "Love Lockdown" in my ears and I'm okay with that. I like these singles more than I like the Graduation and College Dropout singles ("Jesus Walks" and "Flashing Lights" excepted; I like those as much).

(his best album is still 808s)

http://i.imgur.com/bwAS7.jpg

there is honestly nothing i hate on ILX more these days than clicking on a thread to see new posts and the only one is some pointless and not at all interesting or funny markers picture post

i think that's neat & i wanted to share it. suck it

congratulations, that's probably the most content and personality you've brought to any of your last 50 posts

kip!

doesn't stand for "keep image posting" fyi

i lol'd :)

http://static.tvfanatic.com/images/gallery/homer-loves-flanders-picture.jpg

Sort of a dorky reggae-ish cover of all of the lights but I like it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T7eeBkD7ns

Probably like it because it tones down the histrionism of the original which at times becomes overbearing... but on the other hand it's also sort of pointless.

This symphonic cover is awesome tho

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

It used to be one of my least favorite songs on the album and it's grown on me lately... I think I'm starting to like this one even more than Monster regardless of how inane the verses are.

I like this album more now.

what is the piano sample on Hell of a Life (after the Iron Man bit)?

one thing that bothers me about all of the lights is i can just picture in my head how during a live show i bet kanye does the corny turn up the house lights and show the audience "'ave a look at yrselves" move during the "turn up the lights in here baby i want to see you part"....like u2 type shit

Yah, not gonna read this thread, but the quality of sound on this lp is piss.

yeah that's ultimately the biggest turnoff, so harsh and ugly and muddy sounding

yup

i thought "paranoid" would be a big hit too tho

― J0rdan S., Thursday, March 31, 2011 3:58 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark

"Paranoid" SHOULD have been a big hit.

has anyone anywhere commented on the obvious connections between this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Axzxe1a78E

and this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7_jYl8A73g

"toast to the ************ douchebags", "classical music is tight yo", the prominent piano... it's like the whole of "runaway" is his convoluted response to a josh groban diss skit on jimmy kimmel live

or maybe it was inspired by kanye taking a trip to the library of congress to reread his own classic tweets

kanye does seem to inspire himself, perhaps a little bit more than is really healthy. but c'mon, admit it - taking a goofy, mildly funny sketch of someone making fun of your twitter feed, and twisting it onto a cool left-field jam with a killer video and a oddball hook that gets a 10 on p4k and sells a zillion copies is... i dunno, kinda impressive in it's own weird way

i dunno man...it seems way more plausible to me that Kanye had already written "Runaway" when he tweeted a phrase that turned out later to be part of the song's chorus. the most striking 'coincidence' is that both the song and the sketch feature piano.

also i just looked up the date of the Kimmel sketch and it was January of the year, 4 months after "Runaway" was released

ha, another pet theory of mine sunk by inconvenient facts! weird though, why would that "can we please toast to the ********* douchebags" line be funny when it's already more or less the chorus to a popular song of his? oh well.

yeah i was a little surprised by that too. but then "Runaway" wasn't really a very big hit at all, it's possible whoever wrote the bit wasn't even familiar with it.

The studio version of Mama's boyfriend has been released for free download here: http://www.goodmusic-blog.com/post/6510662341/download-kanye-west-mamas-boyfriend

And it's fucking great! The beat sounds like it could be off the Blueprint; all uptempo boom-bap, ecstatic soulful vocal and horn samples. and Kanye is funny and autobiographical without sounding like a complete tool! He doesn't even reference any Mike Meyers movies iirc!

Yeah, this is good. Kind of o_O until you get what he means by that phrase tho.

TEN out of ten on Pitchf0rk? jeez what was that all about.

also..
http://new.assets.thequietus.com/images/articles/6872/Monster_1314792215_crop_550x200.png

hah I just listened to monster the other day.

maybe I just have a shitty rip but it sounds so horrible - there are no mids, it's all highs and lows and the bass/drums clip.

rip

it's realy sad, it was a rip

lol I came to this thread to see if anyone else noticed how blindingly horrible this disc sounded and that graphic really says it all huh