Kanye West - Dark Twisted Fantasy

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

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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

Jay-Z, your Achillies heel is your startling lack of cardio

oh my god

Am I really hearing Nicki Minaj... making sense and not being entirely punchable?

holy fucking shit that was a great great verse

and I fucking DETEST her with every fiber of my being, or at least I did before hearing that

buying a hotly awaited new album at target in 2010

me a little while ago tbh

haha I can just imagine in the studio "now, take us home, Bon Iver!"

oh man was this yr first time hearing that song? yeah, it is a really good Nicki Minaj verse dude

I think I have been hearing every bad song she's done because oh my GOD that was fucking TIGHT

lol I can tell already "So Appalled" is going to be one of those songs that I will fall in love with for absolutely no reason

okay maybe not after that "Prada"/"ta-da!" couplet

The awesomeness of Minaj's bit= closest thing to consensus.

lol Jay-Z

"all y'all can suck my BALLZ through my DRAWAZ"

oh ha this is the verse that got him in trouble with Hammer, isn't it

that line is jay-z's lowest low point imo

so, you know what this shit is?

that's right, it's FUCKIN RIDICULOUS (just in case you weren't sure)

probably shouldn't be taking lyrical stylistic cues from Fatboy Slim

all right I think I want to punch "Devil In A New Dress" directly in the face

think i've listened to that rick ross verse more than the rest of the album combined

now I KNOW I do

this is basically the Kanye production aesthetic that is entertaining when you first hear it and then becomes the most aggravating thing on earth unless it happens to be "All Falls Down"

lol more sad guitar

couldn't he spring for a theremin

FUCK there are 2 minutes left in this song

yeah pretty bad song but I do like "don't leave while you're hot, that's how mase screwed up!"

okay Rick Ross sounds way way better on this

deeper voice against all that aggravating treble = more balanced overall sound

"Runaway" musically is also pretty dope until the autotune nonsense

the way it builds is just great

also lol for all time at Kanye sending girls pictures of his dick and then writing it in a song and then the pictures turning up on the internet

like for real, I think the chorus to this song is fucking fantastic

i still love this album and the pitchfork score just reinforces how surreal and logic defying its appeal is

djp u are enjoying this record in all the right ways imo

like that highly reverbed hit that substitutes in for a snare hit on the second half of the chorus is a tiny detail but one that adds momentum to the beat and pulls it forward into awesome

of course things start getting incredibly self-indulgent around 3:30 but for some reason I'm not mad about it, maybe because the string chords that pull in shortly before 4:00 really fill out that sound

there's some really effective heart-on-sleeve warmth all through this beat in terms of the selection of that analogue bass synth and the tinny reverb on the Penderecki-esque piano bit

and yes, it should stop at 5:50, I do agree with that

actually this extended coda would have been okay without the autotune over it

as it stands it's just kind of like "dude I know you love this song and it's incredibly dope but now your just rubbing it raw"