Kanye West - Dark Twisted Fantasy

do you dudes listen to music or do you just skim through it

discussion itt got me to listen to LR for the first time, and it's like damn, I can see what got yall into him in the first place, and look at how far hes fallen

"Where do you think you're going young man?"

"I'm just going to play xbox..."

"After you do the dishes, take out the trash, shovel the walk and listen to your Kanye, then you can play xbox."

"Aw, mom...."

samosa otm

Sasha Frere-Jones

sfj otm -- "What makes West more energizing than annoying is his relentless enthusiasm."

so there's nothing left to say about this thing, right?

r. These days, West often surprises us by choosing not to be surprising.

uhh okay

surprise!

let' have a toast for the douche bags...

Even though the past decade has made "douche bag" a term used by everyone, I still have no idea what one is. And it would have been so much funnier if it was 'let's have a toast for the ball bags'.

1979, FYI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_b3oPslctA

so i am listening to this.

the mix of gorgeous is so weird and small almost lo-fi sounding. odd.

man i'm listening to 256...does this sound better on CD?

shit sounds like it was mastered in youtube

yeah no one answered me when i asked if it was just my copy for which the "gorgeous" mixing was awful, guess it's not

all of the lights is the best song so far, so far i thought this would sound crazier or more ambitious.

"Gorgeous" is almost completely lacking in mid-range; on my shitty work headphones I couldn't hear any of the bass and, on my not-as-shitty car speakers, I realized I was missing like a third of the song's sonic profile because of it.

Still kind of hate the song tho

haha this "get it right youshouldgoandgetyourown" sung bridge sounds like andrew lloyd weber's bone thugs and harmony

hey rick ross! a honest to goodness good rap verse! god bless you fat boy!

aw kanye's taking a piano lesson! cute #chopsticks #beginningofrunaway

actually this beat is kinda neat...reminds me of that "standing outside of a broken phone booth" ("i been downhearted babe") song from the 90s

the end of runaway could really use like joe satriani or steve vai or someone like that

ooh "hell of a life" beat is kinda weird and knotty in a cool way.

ug jesus this hook

xxp

it already has peter frampton on it

blame game is dreary

so...chris rock is saying stuff.

I must have tuned out the chris rock thing the first couple times cuz when it came on the other night I was kinda 0_o

lost in the world is kinda kooky and kool so far

ok the lyrics are like some 7th grader doing spoken word

actually though the singing and music on this is really rad

Gorgeous sounds like that. Like he listened to the strokes and didn't get it. (which is hilarious because what is there to get?)

who will survive in america is pretty cool

freedom...free doom!

love it! like the old "lie bury" thing

i have achieved overstanding

i doubt kanye flies coach

yeah no one answered me when i asked if it was just my copy for which the "gorgeous" mixing was awful, guess it's not

― overtheseas aeroplanes I have flown (k3vin k.), Monday, November 29, 2010 10:15 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

"gorgeous" does sound weird and tinny if it isn't coming through nice speakers/phones (arguably even if it is), but YES, i downloaded three or four super shitty rips of this before going out and buying the damn thing. CD sounds much, much better than anything i stole. of course, i did all this on day one of its official release, so...

i don't know if this was worth the 3.99 i spent on amazon mp3

don't really get the "prog" comparisons at all...like there's some kinda rick wakeman ish in the middle of "power"

but overall...it's kinda self indulgent but don't really think there's anything explicitly prog abt it

when i brought that up upthread all i got in response was "even prog isn't really prog!"

more accurately, you defined prog in a way that isn't what prog is rlly about. m@tt is saying something different, but i think its the *values* of the music rather than its sonic characteristics that are 'proggy' & yeah 'prog' is kind of a stand-in for that style

some of the songs are long but half the time it just seems like they just go on for about 2 minutes too long...

this is a lot more regular/normal than i thought it would be...like it has its quirks and odd little bits in the mix but i dunno

i feel like if this was edited a little tighter and he'd just called it "good ass job" no one would be saying prog

i mean i WISH this sounded like the hip hop version of national health or gong

I wish this sounded like the hiphop version of Los campesinos romance is boring

i wish i wish i wish

some of the songs are long but half the time it just seems like they just go on for about 2 minutes too long...

this is a lot more regular/normal than i thought it would be...like it has its quirks and odd little bits in the mix but i dunno

i feel like if this was edited a little tighter and he'd just called it "good ass job" no one would be saying prog

yes!! exactly! this is why i really have to smh at critics praising it for how incredible and shocking it sounds

I've listened to it a couple of times, and "Runaway" is now stuck in my head but other than that (and the King Crimson sample on "Power") I can't really remember anything about the individual songs. It's not an unenjoyable listen but yeah, the songs are too long to put them on for piecemeal pop thrills (I get that that's the intended effect).

Huh. I think there are earworms all over the place on this album (not all of them good; I would pay money to be able to never remember "Devil In A New Dress" ever again).

"I got a Trojan in my pocket...Matt Leinart"

ewwwww gross ewwwwww

that's what you get for not instinctively skipping over a cyhi da prynce verse -- you brought it on yourself

I guess the Chris Rock thing, or more accurately the female voice talking about Yeezy, is stuck in my head too, but yeah, I'm not thrilled about that.

some of the songs are long but half the time it just seems like they just go on for about 2 minutes too long...

lolz this is basically how I feel about the Love Below