I like this album more now.
what is the piano sample on Hell of a Life (after the Iron Man bit)?
― akm, Friday, 27 May 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Blink 187um (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 27 May 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
Yah, not gonna read this thread, but the quality of sound on this lp is piss.
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Friday, 27 May 2011 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
yeah that's ultimately the biggest turnoff, so harsh and ugly and muddy sounding
― Blink 187um (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 27 May 2011 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
yup
― skot gigz - moombah pimpin' (The Reverend), Friday, 27 May 2011 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― my beautiful dark twisted fennessey (rennavate), Friday, 27 May 2011 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
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
― messiahwannabe, Saturday, 28 May 2011 12:54 (twelve years ago) link
or maybe it was inspired by kanye taking a trip to the library of congress to reread his own classic tweets
― bernard snowy, Saturday, 28 May 2011 13:47 (twelve years ago) link
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
― messiahwannabe, Sunday, 29 May 2011 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― some dude, Sunday, 29 May 2011 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
also i just looked up the date of the Kimmel sketch and it was January of the year, 4 months after "Runaway" was released
― some dude, Sunday, 29 May 2011 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― messiahwannabe, Monday, 30 May 2011 02:09 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― rolling in the mde (some dude), Monday, 30 May 2011 02:15 (twelve years ago) link
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!
― The dad guitar, or "bass" in muso terms (Whitey on the Moon), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, this is good. Kind of o_O until you get what he means by that phrase tho.
― 51 suggest gang (The Reverend), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
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
― piscesx, Friday, 28 October 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― dayo, Friday, 28 October 2011 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
rip
― markers, Friday, 28 October 2011 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
it's realy sad, it was a rip
― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Friday, 28 October 2011 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 23:30 (eleven years ago) link
I wondered if something was wrong with my stereo the first time I listened to this.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 28 June 2012 01:08 (eleven years ago) link
i gotta say, i lolled pretty hard at this
http://www.hollywoodheavy.com/detail/012804/vandals-spray-paint-yeezy-taught-me-on-kim-ks-store/
― goonrise zingdom (some dude), Thursday, 28 June 2012 01:22 (eleven years ago) link
the opening post of this thread is one of the best things i've ever done on ilx
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 28 June 2012 01:41 (eleven years ago) link
also it was basically OTM
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, June 27, 2012 9:08 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark
you know I got another copy much later just to be sure it wasn't my sound system, but no this album is just horribly mastered
― Faith in Humanity: Restored (dayo), Thursday, 28 June 2012 01:43 (eleven years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, June 27, 2012 9:41 PM (19 minutes ago)
haha yes
― k3vin k., Thursday, 28 June 2012 02:01 (eleven years ago) link
I spent the last twenty minutes rereading this thread and now I'm reduced to
http://blueridgebluecollargirl.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/old-crone.jpg?w=449&h=292
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 June 2012 02:04 (eleven years ago) link
jeez, what will you look like tomorrow after healthcare is decided?
― Faith in Humanity: Restored (dayo), Thursday, 28 June 2012 02:08 (eleven years ago) link
http://rootsaction.org/storage/clarence-thomas.jpg
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 June 2012 02:10 (eleven years ago) link
still my favorite ye joint
― The Reverend, Thursday, 28 June 2012 02:20 (eleven years ago) link
bizarre, i didn't think it was anyone's favorite kanye album
― goonrise zingdom (some dude), Thursday, 28 June 2012 02:34 (eleven years ago) link
nobody even put it in their top 10 in this, much less voted for it: Best 21st Century Release on RS's 500 Greatest Albums of All-Time
― goonrise zingdom (some dude), Thursday, 28 June 2012 02:36 (eleven years ago) link
it's a distant fourth for me behind CD/LR/808s for me, but still ahead of graduation
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 28 June 2012 03:27 (eleven years ago) link
altho i've been listening to "dark fantasy", "gorgeous" & "devil in a new dress" a ton this year. those three are up there w/ the best shit he's ever done IMO
yass yass yass i love this thread .. pitchforks 10 for MTDF was completely hysterical. i can just see them all sitting around getting all worked up over their growing influence on the interweb, and the album and the concept of giving out such a left-of-center-10. a distant 3rd for me behind college dropout and late registration (although i still think its great).
― hector_doepos, Thursday, 28 June 2012 03:57 (eleven years ago) link
― goonrise zingdom (some dude), Wednesday, June 27, 2012 7:36 PM Bookmark
it wasn't on the list
― The Reverend, Thursday, 28 June 2012 08:33 (eleven years ago) link
oh wait, i thought this was the Graduation thread!
― The Reverend, Thursday, 28 June 2012 08:36 (eleven years ago) link
No, MBDAEAF is not my favorite Ye joint.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 28 June 2012 08:37 (eleven years ago) link
loooool rev
― goonrise zingdom (some dude), Thursday, 28 June 2012 10:12 (eleven years ago) link
I listen to 'see me now' quite a bit, pretty triumphant song that makes me feel good tbh
― Faith in Humanity: Restored (dayo), Thursday, 28 June 2012 11:07 (eleven years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, June 27, 2012 11:27 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
lol the first 2 tracks are torture to me
― goonrise zingdom (some dude), Thursday, 28 June 2012 11:25 (eleven years ago) link
I gotta say that the last two Kanye albums have practically killed any interest in relistening to his catalogue.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 June 2012 12:08 (eleven years ago) link
i still enjoy the old stuff when i hear it but yeah i don't seek it out anymore. dude is approaching Billy Corgan levels of insufferable personality plus artistic diminishing returns.
― goonrise zingdom (some dude), Thursday, 28 June 2012 12:10 (eleven years ago) link
lol rev i was gonna stage an intervention for a second there
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 28 June 2012 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
young jeezy's "put on" came up on random this morning. yeezy's verse so great i had to back and play it twice.
― contenderizer, Thursday, 28 June 2012 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
i sat down and listened to this record in full for the first time since not long after it came out, when i thought it was incredible... and i still do. pet sounds/SMiLE of rap imo and while rap maybe didn't /need/ that it sure is gorgeous.
(though yeah, the mastering job sucks, and i hope it's someday corrected.)
― soyrev, Sunday, 12 April 2015 15:04 (nine years ago) link
it's his All That You Can't Leave Behind, the least adventurous album in the catalog but crowd-pleasing in its synthesis of the previous albums
― some dude, Sunday, 12 April 2015 15:51 (nine years ago) link
listening to this for the first time in a long time - the pusha t and jay-z verses are so out of place.
― StillAdvance, Friday, 5 May 2017 14:35 (six years ago) link
I haven't listened to this for a long time. Several drinks into my Saturday night and it's sounding pretty good!
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 22 April 2018 05:11 (six years ago) link
It's "album of the decade" reputation has become a little tiring but it is indeed a great record!
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Sunday, 22 April 2018 05:52 (six years ago) link