Kanye West - Dark Twisted Fantasy

(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

I wondered if something was wrong with my stereo the first time I listened to this.

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/

the opening post of this thread is one of the best things i've ever done on ilx

also it was basically OTM

I wondered if something was wrong with my stereo the first time I listened to this.

― 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

the opening post of this thread is one of the best things i've ever done on ilx

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, June 27, 2012 9:41 PM (19 minutes ago)

haha yes

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

jeez, what will you look like tomorrow after healthcare is decided?

http://rootsaction.org/storage/clarence-thomas.jpg

still my favorite ye joint

bizarre, i didn't think it was anyone's favorite kanye album

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

it's a distant fourth for me behind CD/LR/808s for me, but still ahead of graduation

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).

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), Wednesday, June 27, 2012 7:36 PM Bookmark

it wasn't on the list

oh wait, i thought this was the Graduation thread!