Kanye West - Dark Twisted Fantasy

yeah, the only indie artists that I can think of that have a chance of getting a 10.0 is AnCo or mayyyyyybbbbeeee Joanna if she can come up with something better than Ys and more focused than HOOM

and radiohead

and odd future

lol j/k

ok maybe i sounded a little bit dramatic with the word "insidious" but i just meant it in the sense of the gradual, subtle degradation of things like scores on reviews. what happens if Kanye or, god forbid, another rapper makes an album like MBDTF but clearly better in every way? will they just have to go Spinal Tap with the score since they already hit the ceiling once?

― vodka loko lame (some dude), Monday, November 22, 2010 12:03 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

struggling to think of what this record could possibly be, or who would possibly record it

I enjoyed the new mellow hype more than this kanye joint tho. I find his albums so damn turgid, whoever it was upthread that said he was a singles dude, otm.

omg guys will pfork's album of the 10s come out next year??

― modescalator (blueski), Thursday, 8 October 2009 14:48 (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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bought it at target this A.M. the basic version, not the deluxe.

I looked long and hard at the deluxe version before going "you know what? no"

i mean albums can really never be like special effects-driven movies where you really can feel or see or hear the budget in the final product in any meaningful way.

this really isn't true - admittedly you have to sort of be a geek or have spent a lot of time with super-audio-geeks, but giant-budget albums pretty much announce themselves from their opening moments as clearly as big blockbuster movies announce themselves before the opening credits are done rolling

i just didn't have the extra scrilla, man. what'd the deluxe have?

the "Runaway" video on DVD

btw what is this first track doing

I looked long and hard at the deluxe version before going "you know what? no"

hope you actually said this out loud to some guy just passing you down the aisle

buying hotly awaited new albums at a record store pre-2004 > buying a hotly awaited new album at target in 2010

okay this song ("Dark Fantasy") is an ongoing lol

you probably shouldn't talk about how you're just a nigga with a nice flow and then go on to do what he does on the rest of that song, like rhyming "seance" with "parents"

wait did this just stop and then restart

I probably should not be listening to this on my shitty work headphones as I think I'm missing half of the backing track for "Gorgeous"

kanye should've let dan do the commentary track

btw if ppl are annoyed by me liveblogging my first impressions of the album, I'll move to another thread

also "Gorgeous" will eventually grow on me but it feels very static on first listen

omg the "roach"/"coach" bit, lol @ u Kanye

are you joking, yr liveblog is the best thing that could have happened to this thread

loooooool all those ppl who forgot about Kanye's black balls should go check whatever hip-hop site that was that had his dickpic

no, your reactions are likely to be more entertaining than the album actually

xp yeah yeah yeah

... why is there a mournful guitar solo in this song

a few more embellishments and I'd be like "Santana? Is that you?"

all those ppl who forgot about Kanye's black balls

pretty sure this is the album's dedication

also for the record: the opening of "Power" is still incredibly bad-ass

(kind of can't believe how a stark megalomaniacal performance with hot dancers changed my mind on this song so quickly)

(tho I do stand by my original assertion that a d&b beat would have been cooler on it) (lol I should skip to the Aphex song)

if yer gonna use "21st century schizoid man" as a sting cue you better follow it up with some banging shit but I got left hanging

is the Fergie rap before or after 3:20? that's my favorite part.

― some dude, Wednesday, November 17, 2010 3:33 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

CO-SIGN

This one, meanwhile, is just a chore to listen to.

― otherwise, and twat (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, November 17, 2010 11:12 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark

This is how I feel about "All of The Lights" generally

I hate that he says "obamination" instead of "abomination"

if fripp will license that shit to you then go for the gusto man

although it's funny that the mournful guitar solo actually makes sense in this song

in all the songs, this album's pretty emo

lol piano and violin

this sounds kind of like a Tori Amos instrumental outtake

hoppin' on board yr liveblogtrain for my second listen, hope u don't mind

well I was not expecting that

haha yeah it's kind of a cool moment

part of me keeps thinking that Kanye heard Bjork's "Wanderlust" and was like "if I slightly screw that it would be DOPE"

also I don't know who it was who told Rihanna that it was possible to not bray every note like a sexy donkey while singing but I would like to shake that vocal coach's hand

lmao

oh shit, "Monster" is starting very very well

I want to bounce bounce bounce to this

yeah I think it sounds really good as a change of pace/direct contradiction of "All of the Lights"... but it still gets boring like halfway thru, sadly

"she just won a swallowship"

did I just hear that

my god I love this

i think "monster" is great despite a few super awkward lines