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Pirate Jet posted:What's the best way to guarantee I get a copy of the deluxe edition of the album without the censored Kanye+pheonix painting on both the album cover and disc art? I am willing to import it, yes I am that Goddamn silly with my money. Get it from Canada.
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Brett824 posted:e: on a related note, according to QTip another pressing of MBDTF is going to come out around Christmas that includes Chain Heavy and Mama's Boy as bonus tracks. The kicker is that Mama's Boy has two versions - one produced by QTip and one produced by Soulja Boy - and he doesn't know which one will be on the pressing. He did a lot of interviews about how he was working on Soulja's album while Soulja was working on his. I haven't been able to see a producer list, so I was wondering if Soulja's made it to the album, because it's just such a weird thought to me.
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Nov 24, 2010 04:05
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Yeah the mastering stands out when you listen to Late Registration, then listen to this album. Still, it hardly bothers me. I like that the album is too loud.
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Nov 24, 2010 04:05
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NeuroticErotica posted:He did a lot of interviews about how he was working on Soulja's album while Soulja was working on his. I haven't been able to see a producer list, so I was wondering if Soulja's made it to the album, because it's just such a weird thought to me. My first thought was "please let it be Q-Tip's" But my curiosity is just like "what the hell is Soulja Boy production-wise that Kanye's taking notice?" Didn't he produce a #1 hit in loving Fruity Loops at like 17. I know how overplayed and tired that song got, but still... The (admittedly) very brief listen I've given to Soulja's stuff lately doesn't sound very promising, but I have enough faith in Kanye's ear for beats that I'm at least interested in hearing it.
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Nov 24, 2010 04:29
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cymbalrush posted:My first thought was "please let it be Q-Tip's" But my curiosity is just like "what the hell is Soulja Boy production-wise that Kanye's taking notice?" Actually, a lot of good producers do use FL software, it's not like you can't make something good in it.
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Nov 24, 2010 04:35
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cymbalrush posted:My first thought was "please let it be Q-Tip's" But my curiosity is just like "what the hell is Soulja Boy production-wise that Kanye's taking notice?" Kanye's spoken up about Soulja before - he says that he's what hip hop is supposed to be - He decided to make his own beats any way he could, he started his own dance, his own lingo, and worked at getting it out to people when it caught on. Kanye makes a good point.
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Nov 24, 2010 04:41
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Bubble Bathory posted:Yeah the mastering stands out when you listen to Late Registration, then listen to this album. Still, it hardly bothers me. I like that the album is too loud. It's not that it's just "too loud", it's that you can hardly bump the thing at all and feel the percussion without everything else clipping to hell. I constantly finding myself starting tracks, then wanting so bad to turn them up so I can feel that bass but then I do and am disappointed
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Nov 24, 2010 04:53
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Brett824 posted:A lot of this stems from the fact that he had to do all that touring and promotion right after this Mom died and he never got the proper chance to sit back and face the reality of it. If I remember correctly he described his performances after her death as "Losing an arm and leg and just trying to walk through it". Really sad stuff. Yeah definitely. It was pretty intense, a real performer. I can't wait until her tours mbdtf, if he toured 808s and fit it into a rap concert I think I will die listening to this live
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Nov 24, 2010 05:23
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a milk crime posted:On Vlado Meller and mastering the Vinyl release: Rick Rubin is an OG. I respect him, so I'll take his word for it. I'm sitting here behind my keboard saying I don't like Vlado Meller's mix, but I haven't even heard any others.
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Nov 24, 2010 05:27
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sportsgenius86 posted:Nicki Minaj's verse on Monster is loving insane its the best verse on the album. flow, content, voice manipulation. if it werent so blatantly her style i wouldnt be able to believe it was actually her writing.
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Nov 24, 2010 05:39
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now that i think about it, kanye probably made her rewrite that poo poo like 200 times.
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Nov 24, 2010 05:42
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40 lbs to freedom posted:now that i think about it, kanye probably made her rewrite that poo poo like 200 times. He said he worked for over two days straight on her verse alone and nothing else.
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Nov 24, 2010 06:09
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NeuroticErotica posted:He said he worked for over two days straight on her verse alone and nothing else. when and where
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Nov 24, 2010 06:10
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I've heard 200 different stories about Nicki and that Monster verse.
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Nov 24, 2010 06:23
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Jam2 posted:when and where He's said something like this on a few occasions. I believe in his GQ interview he mentioned it and I also saw it in a Q/A video posted some time ago. Sorry for no links! TRUST ME.
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Nov 24, 2010 06:25
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I was on a seven-hour bus ride today, and I listened to this album three times. This probably has something to do with the Dark Fantasy intro, which I keep trying to figure out and keep not figuring out. Strongly considered trying to get a ticket for the Bowery show, as my bus was a 2pm from Pittsburgh to NYC, and I did get there at nine, but after the long ride I wasn't up for it anyway, nevermind that tickets were impossible to get. Best moments for me from these listens* were the Dark Fantasy intro into the first drop of the Oldfield sample, every loving second of Power through Monster, Aphex Twin/Chris Rock Praise replacing Girl Talk's Aphex Twin/Souljah Boy as weirdest pairing of something with Aphex Twin after only like two weeks, and Lost In The World->Who Will Survive, which needs to be rearranged by a really really ambitious acapella group as soon as possible. *: Here, "best moments" indicates the highlighted is fantastic as opposed to merely great e: Yeah no loving way I was making it through to that show on no sleep like I got last night http://twitter.com/#!/brooklynvegan/status/7305677550649344
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Nov 24, 2010 06:33
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etherealshaq posted:to be fair, the new MIA album was pretty bad. It is kind of strange to me though that Pitchfork would give a 10.0 to such an inevitably mainstream (note: mainstream meaning "mainstream-level sales figures") record. I don't doubt it deserves the rating, though. This is almsot unfair. People bitching about Pitchfork giving this album its due prove what most of us already know: people who only like indie music only like that music because it's unpopular. My Dark Twisted Fantasy is the only album that sounds like this any of us will listen to this year. Because it was the only one put out on any label, major or minor this year that sounds like this. This album sounds wildly different from what anyone else is making. But if it sells volume it must be bad? Honestly, that review redeems pitchfork more than anything. It proves that they are willing to support something that sells well, but isn't Radiohead.
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Z.S. Ghost posted:I was on a seven-hour bus ride today, and I listened to this album three times. This probably has something to do with the Dark Fantasy intro, which I keep trying to figure out and keep not figuring out. Strongly considered trying to get a ticket for the Bowery show, as my bus was a 2pm from Pittsburgh to NYC, and I did get there at nine, but after the long ride I wasn't up for it anyway, nevermind that tickets were impossible to get. Im only slightly exaggerating when i say that i would kill someone to be at that show right now.
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Nov 24, 2010 07:41
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I thought everybody was exaggerating about the mastering of this poo poo. Then I listened to it on headphones. 
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BrandNew posted:Im only slightly exaggerating when i say that i would kill someone to be at that show right now. I'm not, I'd use my hands if I had to.
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Nov 24, 2010 08:08
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^burtle posted:I'm not, I'd use my hands if I had to. The thing that really bothers me is i couldve been in NYC for the past few days if i had gone with my friend. WHY DID I NOT GO?! gently caress my life.
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The Singing Chav posted:I thought everybody was exaggerating about the mastering of this poo poo. Then I listened to it on headphones. Yeah, I agree with this. I've never had problems with mastering before, and I tend to agree with the "dudes complaining about it are sperglords" camp, but when the album moved from my car to my headphones, I could really tell the difference. It seems like Kanye, master of perfection and detail-oriented dude that he is, would take issue with this were it brought to his attention.
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Nov 24, 2010 08:12
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Jam2 posted:when and where I can't tell you how many interviews I've read about this album so I can't possibly place where it is. I wish I could, because I'd like to read it again. BrandNew posted:Im only slightly exaggerating when i say that i would kill someone to be at that show right now. I can't wait for him to come to LA. Because I will pay much more than my weekly pay to go see him, AND I WON'T EVEN FLINCH.
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Nov 24, 2010 09:43
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I'll report my girlfriend to Canadian homeland security and get her whole terrorist family for Kanye tickets.
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Nov 24, 2010 10:55
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I wish I felt the same way about Nicki Minaj's verse. Listening to her rap is really grating for me. I think I dislike her as a rapper for the same reason other people like her as a rapper -- her spaztasticness on the mic just irritates me. Oh well.
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Nov 24, 2010 15:55
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LcnE_SM6x0 Kanye saying Kanye things.
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Nov 24, 2010 17:06
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Skeezy posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LcnE_SM6x0 I would've done bad things to be there .
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Nov 24, 2010 17:23
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kingcobweb posted:Why are you comparing Kanye with Rubin? Rubin has no technical skills at all; he doesn't know the first thing about the mechanical/technical aspects of making an album. Kanye knows how to do things. Rick Rubin has been in the industry five years longer than Kanye has been alive, I'm going to take his word on the technical aspect of things. I know that this is almost argumentum ad verecundiam; however, Rubin's work seems to perform well every time: Beastie Boys, Jay-Z, Public Enemy, Danzig, RHCP, Mars Volta, Dixie Chicks, etc. Rick Rubin has plenty of experience to validate his claims. kingcobweb posted:Also, I am constantly baffled why people seem to think the most important topic for discussion when any big-name new album comes out is its mixing and mastering. There are other aspects to the music. You can even have opinions on them. This wasn't the most important topic to me. I decided to do some research after people were complaining about it. I found an interview with Rick Rubin, thought that those interested might want to read it. I wasn't intending it to shape the entirety of the discussion. I, personally, wish that I could listen to the full range of dynamics when listening to it, without some of the undue clipping (distortion is not clipping, for those who are curious). There are the low parts that I wish would be more noticable. If that could have happened *and* the same maxing out/claustrophobic effect would have occurred, I would have been fine with the mastering. On the actual music: Can anyone point out where La Roux is actually featured on All of the Lights?
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The best thing about the album was helping me discover Minaj.
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if anyone has any tips on how to get into gorgeous, so appalled, and blame game i'd appreciate it. all three of those are so boring to me, but i wish i could like them as much as the rest of the album. also i cant listen to devil in a new dress without just wondering what ghostface would sound like ripping over that beat instead.
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a milk crime posted:Can anyone point out where La Roux is actually featured on All of the Lights? Elly Jackson says she can't even hear her vocals on the track. It's pretty heavily layered.
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40 lbs to freedom posted:if anyone has any tips on how to get into gorgeous, so appalled, and blame game i'd appreciate it. all three of those are so boring to me, but i wish i could like them as much as the rest of the album. For me, the best parts of So Appalled are Jay's flow, Pusha T's verse, and the strings in the sample. Big fan of the line "Range rove leather roof/love war gently caress a truce/Still move a bird like I'm in bed with mother goose" Blinkz0rz fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Nov 24, 2010 |
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Q-Tip was tweeting earlier that Chain Gang Heavy and Mama's Boyfriend are going to be on the next pressing of the album as bonus tracks, though he isn't sure if Mama's Boyfriend is the version he (Tip) produced or the one Soulja Boy did. Also no indication as to whether there will be even more bonus tracks or when the second pressing is gonna hit stores. Think I'm gonna wait for it to pick up my hard copy though.
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40 lbs to freedom posted:if anyone has any tips on how to get into gorgeous, so appalled, and blame game i'd appreciate it. all three of those are so boring to me, but i wish i could like them as much as the rest of the album. SpiritualDeath fucked around with this message at 18:48 on Nov 24, 2010 |
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Brett824 posted:Elly Jackson says she can't even hear her vocals on the track. It's pretty heavily layered. Where'd you read this?
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So Appalled and Blame Game are still my least favorites but I won't skip them now. DIAND and Gorgeous are... gorgeous. Rick Ross' verse on DIAND is surprisingly loving awesome. I love that weird grunting/coughing noise he does a few times.  Yeah whoever said that thing about Ghost shoulda been on that song had the right idea.
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Nov 25, 2010 00:05
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Does the news media now gently caress with Kanye just to be ironic now? They're quoting the Kanye speech from Bowery out of context and making him look awful when the speech was about the media doing that exact thing. 
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Glad I didn't go (even though I have the flu and could not have). I woulda have been hella upset when he didn't encore with "Drive Slow". I coulda taken Paul Wall's verse.
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