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 (seven 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
Although there were a couple tracks I just didn't remember like "Devil In A New Dress", that don't seem to do much more than take up space.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 22 April 2018 06:19 (six years ago) link
“Devil In A New Dress”, really. I’d always thought that one had a pretty unimpeachable reputation among Kanye fans.
― You're all losing so many points on your progress bars (Champiness), Sunday, 22 April 2018 07:00 (six years ago) link
IDK, it might. I had completely forgotten about it.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 22 April 2018 07:05 (six years ago) link
This one gets all the accolades as his best album but graduation and late registration have the best songs.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 22 April 2018 09:02 (six years ago) link
oh yeah this album
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 22 April 2018 10:48 (six years ago) link
the ranking kanye albums meme has made me instinctively tired just thinking about comparing them
― lowercase (eric), Sunday, 22 April 2018 12:11 (six years ago) link
also alfred otm
― lowercase (eric), Sunday, 22 April 2018 12:12 (six years ago) link
10 years ago Kanye interrupted Taylor Swift at the 2009 VMA awards. Since then we’ve known that as much of a foolish and rude way to express it, he was right, that Beyonce video is an all time best. The American tabloid vultures are the real monsters regarding this event, it’s bullshit how overblown they fueled the outrage against Kanye. However, it led to Kanye creating what is considered his magnum opus and one of the best albums this decade.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 13 September 2019 22:19 (four years ago) link
lol
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Friday, 13 September 2019 22:20 (four years ago) link
Cool anecdotes of Rick Ross working with Kanye on this record :
https://www.thefader.com/2019/09/11/rick-ross-on-recording-devil-in-a-new-dress-the-best-verse-of-his-career/amp
There’s also this “making of” video of this album on youtube which is pretty cool and and I recommend giving it a watch:
https://youtu.be/6t0nipO6Rcw
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 13 September 2019 22:23 (four years ago) link
I mean considered because I don’t think it’s one of the best albums this decade, I don’t even think it’s his best album, but it’s not a wild guess that it will come on top as a consensus top 3 album of the decade when the EOD lists starts pouring in.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 13 September 2019 22:27 (four years ago) link
i'm just glad that it seems like Kendrick will probably beat it out for #1 when it would have been the favourite for most of the decade
― ufo, Friday, 13 September 2019 22:34 (four years ago) link
it won't even make the top 30
― Simon H., Friday, 13 September 2019 22:43 (four years ago) link
are we talking ILM EOD top 30? Cuz yeah I don't think it will make the cut either.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 13 September 2019 22:48 (four years ago) link
it's certainly not going to here and never would have, but i mean everywhere else
― ufo, Friday, 13 September 2019 22:54 (four years ago) link
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, April 22, 2018
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 14 September 2019 01:36 (four years ago) link
I mean it did just come in at third or something in that list from the guardian for the best records of the 21st century. It's very canonized, if not on ILX
gonna go out on a limb here and guess that yeezus will do somewhat well in any decade poll that ILX holds though.
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Saturday, 14 September 2019 02:14 (four years ago) link
Sometimes I think about listening to this but it feels exhausting
It's not even a top 3 Kanye album
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 14 September 2019 02:23 (four years ago) link
it's a really frustrating listens because there are moments of brilliance but half the tracks drag on way longer than there's any reason for them to because no one was around to tell kanye "no". like off the top of my head, cut a verses from "gorgeous", "so appalled" and "hell of a life", edit down "runaway" significantly, and cut the chris rock sketch on "blame game" and then maybe there's a pretty good album?
there's also it having the worst mastering job of any album ever
― ufo, Saturday, 14 September 2019 02:33 (four years ago) link
Yes! For the ridiculous amount of people that worked on this record the mastering is pretty shoddy. It also most definitely mistakes ambition and progressive art with 5+ minute songs and crammed features. I don't care how many people praise it as a genius song, Runaway is just an ok song in heavy need of an edit, those last two minutes are honestly so fucking stupid, the ideas and hook in there are worth 4 minutes at most. The only track that deserves its length and excessive features is Monster.
The more I think about it the more this record feels like it only felt important in context and that context makes the whole thing feel way more important than what it really is, it's a self-mythifying record where the process of getting there seems more interesting than what we actually got. I like reading about this album more than the album itself. Good thing Kendrick took its crown since he actually has the ambitious albums to earn the GOAT accolades that GKMC and TPAB get.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 14 September 2019 02:56 (four years ago) link
That self-myth does seem to fool a great deal of people though. Take a walk to the garbage dump that are the music or hiphopheads subreddits and they're particularly defensive with this album, downvotes are had to anyone who dares say a negative thing about it.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 14 September 2019 03:00 (four years ago) link
It would have been a pretty shit decade if this was truly the best hip hop album in it.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 14 September 2019 03:01 (four years ago) link
the "runaway" outro is cool at first but then quickly overstays its welcome and it's just not that great of a song
i agree that "monster" is the only track that really justifies its length, and even then jay-z's verse isn't that good but it's at least endearingly goofy so it's a keeper
― ufo, Saturday, 14 September 2019 03:26 (four years ago) link
So appalledSpauldingBall
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Saturday, 14 September 2019 03:51 (four years ago) link
Head of the class and she just want a swallowship
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Saturday, 14 September 2019 03:53 (four years ago) link
RIP kl0pper
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Saturday, 14 September 2019 03:54 (four years ago) link
I like this album tho
when you guys gang up on me i'm always right though
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Thursday, May 23, 2013 2:05 AM bookmarkflaglink
amateur hour. someone hit the fucking gong already on this clown.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Saturday, 14 September 2019 04:00 (four years ago) link