Kanye West, Yeezus, 6/18/13 (TBC because who knows anymore)

oh ok, sup. i just did a double take because i hadn't seen the dn before (and i used to post as 'alex in baltimore').

Oh, ha, I totally thought it was DD, too.

DD loved Shaking The Habitual for similar reasons.

Wouldn't he have already known the due date a few months ago?

My guess is that it's both the due date and the album release date.

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Prescient.

Flattered to be compared to DD! Does he like Kanye?

https://twitter.com/feministkanye is kinda cracking me up

FEMINIST KANYE ‏@feministkanye 22h
PINK ASS POLOS AND A FUCKING BACKPACK / EVERYBODY KNOW YOU DON'T SUBSCRIBE TO GENDER-NORMATIVE COLOR SCHEMES

I'd like to say I like this album a lot not cause Kanye is oh so interesting and unique but more cause I like weird noisy beats especially when they have King Louie rapping on them, but then I imagine what if an uninspiring performer with a neutral persona like J. Cole or Wale made this album and it all falls apart. So yeah, it's undeniable Kanyeness is important and that's ok.

Then again, I like Shaking the Habitual too and I barely have any investment in the Knife.

if an uninspiring performer with a neutral persona made this album = El-P?

otm!

who will be the nietzsche to kanyes wagner

im a little worreid the answer is "that prick from rapgenius"

if nietzsche were alive today he'd be shitting all over rapgenius

if an uninspiring performer with a neutral persona made this album = El-P?

Stop picking on Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

I don't disagree with Reverend at all: interesting persona plus compelling sounds is the best combination of all, from Elvis through Highway 61 to today. I started reading the thread at jaymc's comment, and I think he was just trying to say that interesting persona isn't enough (and I assume he was responding to an earlier comment that maybe implied that it was?).

The irony is Nietzsche disowned Wagner for Bizet, which is like going from Kanye to ... Bieber?

you guys didn't post spin raves?

http://www.spin.com/articles/kanye-west-yeezus-first-review/

Soderbergh's blurb and score don't match? Or is it me?

Not just you.

"As for this being his "punk" or "post-punk" or "industrial" record, well, you can hear all that, if that's your life experience or critical orientation, but hip-hop has always been about noise and dissonance and dance music as agitation, et al., so don't act like this is some sort of 1,000 No Homo DJs or Yeezus Built My Hot Rod scenario."

lol

makes up for putting the image of "pussyhound warts" in my head...

But where is the song about how Kim is awesome and Kanye is also awesome? :(

will be on the crowd-pleasing next album, 909s & Valentines

Hoping to see Ye trying his utmost to outdo Jay with a song for his new baby daughter

you're my child with the child from Destiny's Child! you're my Kardashian that I'll keep up with after getting all up in the Kardashian from Keeping Up With The Kardashians!

Projected on the Field Museum last night:

https://vine.co/v/hBib51OP0Ow

projected in williamsburg bk last night too

Can't get the hook to "On Site" out of my head today - totally incongruous to shopping at Target

I just read the last 1/3 of this thread while forgetting that "Shaking the Habitual" was the recent Knife album, thought it was some sort of Jane's Addiction reference, and was kind of disgusted by the tendency of threads to veer off into irrelevant comparisons that only make personal sense to the writer.

well, maybe I still have that

god, bonnie bear's white dude in the old man hat voice is such a buzzkill

dude, it's boney bear, show some respect

saw him on SNL, uhhhhhh

frog time machine go

first four tracks are pretty much fire, i love the LOUDNESS and unrelenting RARRGHHHH, though with a caveat or two

"hold my liquor" and "bound 2" are the only ones i'll straight-up dismiss on two listens - the former is incredibly annoying and dull, the latter is just sort of a much-less-good version of "homecoming", "gone" etc

"blood on the leaves" is...something. definitely something. i kind of like the question "what if 808s was primal and visceral rather than sadsack mopey" but i also kind of want to back away slowly from it

in general i agree that after the first four tracks the rest of the album is disappointing but the production's interesting and a lot of it is saved by the dancehall

i really hate the line "hurry up with my damn croissants", really really hate it, i just imagine entitled bankers and frat boys yelling it at lowly-paid serving staff and thinking they're really funny. this type of shit has to be directed upwards or possibly at a peer otherwise it's just gross

the sweet & sour sauce line is also gross obviously but idk the impending memeification of the croissants line gives me the absolute shivers

idk the impending memeification of the croissants line gives me the absolute shivers

board description?

What I like about the croissants line is that it is pretty much the most un-godlike thing one could say.

my interest in 'blood on the leaves' kinda faded when i realised he wasnt shouting IT CAME OUT YOUR BODYYYY. loses that xtra cronenberg immediacy layer

out of, guh

What I like about the croissants line is that it is pretty much the most un-godlike thing one could say.

slowly coming around to "hold my liquor" after thinking it was by far the low point before. folks keep talking about the second half being disappointing but iono "Send it Up" is just as good as the first few songs

send half, starting with "hold my liquor" is where the magic is

"Send It Up" and "Bound 2" are prob my favorite songs, but the middle section gets pretty gross

'bound 2' is a gladdening throwback on its own but just feels kinda sad to me at the end of all that

ehh it feels refreshing at the end of the album for me, less for the zzz soul sample than for a song about relationships/women that isn't all fisting and lynching

that was my initial reaction but once i started thinking of it in the lineage of previous throwbacky/celebratory kanye album closers it palled rather (nb i love "gone" and "homecoming" a great deal)

never figured you for a fan of the coldplay song

I think that's precisely what makes "Bound 2" a failure for me: after an album of rough sex it comes off sentimental, to prove that Deep Down what Ye wants is Love.

i think that's pretty present throughout the album

also very fond of "hold my liquor", one of Kanye's finest achievements imo. The guitars kill me (softly, actually) in combination with the rest. I'm very surprised that Daft Punk were apparently not involved in this. Plus, the Corolla line. Traces of actual storytelling. "Soulmates became soulless" etc. etc.