Kanye's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Album of the Year?!

We will see, I have very high hopes for it, but have hardly heard it. Just got it off Amazon mp3 this morningfor .99 cents after a $3 off promo code they had. (Cant believe it was only 3.99 regularly)

YES!

I was disappointed by Kid Cudi's album, but Kanye's blew me away!

I like almost every song and it's refreshing to see that his songs don't all fit into the usual 3-4 minute range. They go on forever.

FAvorite lyrics so far:

"too many Urkels on your team that's why your wins low" lol

I haven't listened to much of it yet (I will), but I did not like monster. Thankfully, I heard that was the worst song on the album. Also, Rolling Stone is crap. Lastly, Pitchfork spent more time in their review talking about the connections between michael jackson and Kanye than they did on the album...

I haven't listened to much of it yet (I will), but I did not like monster. Thankfully, I heard that was the worst song on the album. Also, Rolling Stone is crap. Lastly, Pitchfork spent more time in their review talking about the connections between michael jackson and Kanye than they did on the album...

quetzalcoatI

Yeah "Monster" and "So Appalled" are my least favorite on the album. Like 10 'featuring' ppl just trying to be hardcore. "Hell of a life" is another bad one, just annoying autotune..

i know it just came out and i need to listen to it a few more times, but so far it is my album of the year BAR NONE. no matter what you think of the guy, douchebag or not, kanye knows how to make beautiful music. so far i'm blown away by this record, west is one of the few artists out there whose albums get better with every release (excluding heartbreaks, even though it was a bold move and had some great songs on it). haters are surely going to hate but fact is mr. west done did it again...

Just got it in the mail, halfway into it now and so far this album's really good. I'll have to give it a few more listens before I decide if I like it more than Kno's Death is Silent though.

its an awesome album, i like most of all the songs on it also, thats a rarity, good job kanye

eh I was listening to the album and its not so bad, still, there are way better artist out there, unfortunately outside of mainstream.Gallego

why unfortunately? i'm sure most independent artists prefer it that way.

kanye is one of the very few last glimmers of hope in mainstream music but he also transcends all those underground vs. radio bull**** arguments. any true fan of hip hop can at least respect what the guy accomplishes in the studio.

It's got some absolute gems (Dark Fantasy, Runaway, All of the Lights, Lost in the World) and some boring, pretentious pieces of crap (Monster, Gorgeous, So Appalled). Still, definitely worth a purchase.CrimzonTide

i can maybe see monster but what's so pretentious about gorgeous and so appalled? is it all the guests? i don't get it...

i can maybe see monster but what's so pretentious about gorgeous and so appalled? is it all the guests? i don't get it...lazerface216

that vocorder solo on runaway. that could go on forever. go_mets

That part took over 2 minutes. It's like when you buy a new fan then stand in front of it making noises:lol:

[QUOTE="lazerface216"]i can maybe see monster but what's so pretentious about gorgeous and so appalled? is it all the guests? i don't get it...CrimzonTide

lol i see what you are saying but that's only on a few tracks. it definitely feels like a kanye record, at least to me. he does rely on his friends to a certain degree, but he relies even more on his production and the atmosphere he's trying to create. i LOVE the songs where he somewhat takes a backseat and lets the music do the talking, and you see him doing that a lot more on this album. lol that's definitely a good thing too IMO, we all know kanye is not the most gifted MC.

i still don't see how he's being pretentious on those particular songs, especially gorgeous. he lays down most of the verses on that song, and raekwon finishes it off.*shrugs* i don't know, it sounds good to me...

Yes definitely but it's common knowledge that discussing rap music in OT is a waste of time.AL_GREEN

we can change that.

[QUOTE="AL_GREEN"]Yes definitely but it's common knowledge that discussing rap music in OT is a waste of time.lazerface216

we can change that.

lol no.

Haven't bought it yet, but I will as soon as I have some spare cash. Glad to hear it's getting good reviews though. Kanye at his best makes great amazing music.

lol no.

vaultboy_ninja

I don't really see why it's funny...it's not a stupid question to ask considering it's the best reviewed album of the year so far (mainstream or otherwise)

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lol no.

JML897

I don't really see why it's funny...it's not a stupid question to ask considering it's the best reviewed album of the year so far (mainstream or otherwise)

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lol no.

vaultboy_ninja

I don't really see why it's funny...it's not a stupid question to ask considering it's the best reviewed album of the year so far (mainstream or otherwise)

obviously you have different taste.

I'll have to take a listen, I hated 808's. Glad to see he's back on his music game.

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lol no.

JML897

I don't really see why it's funny...it's not a stupid question to ask considering it's the best reviewed album of the year so far (mainstream or otherwise)

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[QUOTE="AL_GREEN"]Yes definitely but it's common knowledge that discussing rap music in OT is a waste of time.AL_GREEN

we can change that.

i don't think OT's all like that, it's not that far behind the times. there are decent amount of hip hop fans on this board that know what they are talking about.

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[QUOTE="vaultboy_ninja"]

lol no.

Saturos3091

I don't really see why it's funny...it's not a stupid question to ask considering it's the best reviewed album of the year so far (mainstream or otherwise)

lol pitchfork definitely takes into account the non-mainstream....to ridiculous heights actually. most independent music sites are praising this record too. give it a listen, if you appreciate hip hop in the slightest i'm pretty sure you'll hear something you like.

Well, a lot of those reviewers don't exactly take into account non-mainstream, and Metacritic doesn't even have any really underground artists in their database. ;) Saturos3091

Even so...I think it'd be hard for you to find an album released this year with better reviews than this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Beautiful_Dark_Twisted_Fantasy#Critical_response

Just so I'm clear -- I'm not saying this should be everyone's favorite album or even that everybody should like it. That would be stupid; I know people have different tastes. I just have a feeling some people here in OT will write this off as garbage without listening to it.

Because Kanye tries, and can get away with having such a pathetically small part in his own song. They rely very, very heavily on other people. To be honest, the whole album is like that, I just like some songs a lot more than others. But really, it's a Kanye and friends album, not a Kanye album.CrimzonTide

That's like the worst excuse to not like a song. Kanye West produced "So Appalled" so you're listening to something Kanye had a part in for the entire length of the song.

I remember back on Ghostface Killah's "Assassination Day" from his album Ironman, he doesn't even have a verse on his own song. RZA produced it with verses from Inspectah Deck, RZA, Raekwon & Masta Killa. I don't remember anyone nitpicking about that lol.

lol pitchfork definitely takes into account the non-mainstream....to ridiculous heights actually. most independent music sites are praising this record too. give it a listen, if you appreciate hip hop in the slightest i'm pretty sure you'll hear something you like.

lazerface216

They do to a certain extent. There's a lot of hip-hop albums that I liked this year that Pitchfork has yet to review, for instance Tyler the Creator's album Bastard. And I know Tom Breihan, one of Pitchfork's main hip-hop writers, even called it one of his 10 favorite albums of the year so far on his tumblr page.

Pitchfork did give Tyler the Creator's Odd Future crew a rather lengthy and praiseworthy feature the other month though. And Tom Breihan just gave fellow Odd Future crew members Mellowhype an 8.1 for their new albumlast week. But the Odd Future camp has 3 other albums (Tyler the Creator - Bastard, Earl Sweatshirt- EARL, Domo Genesis - Rolling Papers) that you could rightfully assume would score better than that on Pitchfork, yet haven't been reviewed.

I'll have to take a listen, I hated 808's. Glad to see he's back on his music game.

supa_badman

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I'll have to take a listen, I hated 808's. Glad to see he's back on his music game.

Luxen90

I liked a couple songs, but as a whole I thought it was a lot weaker than his other 3 (now 4) albums.

It's pretty damn good, but nowhere near as good as others this year like The National's High Violet, Guy Manning's Charlestown, Deerhunter's Halcyon digest, and Lunatic soul 2.

the only songs i'm not really feeling are runaway and lost in the world. definitely a contender for hip hop album of the year.

It's pretty damn good, but nowhere near as good as others this year like The National's High Violet, Guy Manning's Charlestown, Deerhunter's Halcyon digest, and Lunatic soul 2.

Film-Guy

Just picked up the album and its definitely my album of the year.

It's so different from anything I've heard this year. (Or pretty much ever for that matter).
Definitely album of the year.

Good god, he's still making albums?

I've heard about a third of the album. Some tracks I think are great and others not so much. Though it does seem to being the best reviewed album of the year. Though some of the reviews do say it has some flaws.