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I've never been a huge Kanye fan, but after hearing the album is good from pretty much everywhere I gave it a download from the Zune store. And...Yeah, it's pretty loving good.
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OneZeroSix posted:Dang I don't know why people diss on Kanye so much. Sure he's done some douchebag things, but he's probably the best rapper of our time. I'd just like to say that I vastly prefer the instrumental version of Jesus Walks to the real one, except for the part where the only lyrics they didn't remove is the guy yelling "NIGGAZ!" 3 or 4 times, now completely out of context.
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After waiting weeks for the record store to get it in for me, check out what finally came in today: Click here for the full 818x830 image.  Click here for the full 816x797 image.  Click here for the full 1263x444 image.  Click here for the full 834x843 image.  Click here for the full 879x884 image.  Click here for the full 1194x809 image. Ha ha ha ha why is this 3 records when 2A only has literally one song on it? Vince MechMahon fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Feb 10, 2011 |
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Feb 10, 2011 18:18
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I'm kind of pissed it cut out a whole section of the song. Also it really needs to have a warning for epileptic people at the start because Jesus Christ. Other than that, great video.
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Feb 19, 2011 20:32
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The Modern Leper posted:A few months later, and I'm --- not regretting, but second-guessing my decision to buy the album on vinyl. I just never listen to it: most every song is pretty high-rated in my digital library, but it's a pretty drat wearying album to take in all in one sitting. I would listen to it much, much more myself if it wasn't spread out on 3 discs. The fact that two sides have one song each doesn't help.
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Mar 12, 2011 05:51
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I went to watch the All Of The Lights video on youtube, and they actually have added an epilepsy warning to the start of it.
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Mar 27, 2011 07:49
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trigger9631 posted:I continue to trot it out every couple of weeks and still enjoy it immensely. The first nine songs are fantastic. However, Blame Game and Hell of a Life are by far the low points of the album for me and are both too long. Still one of my favorite albums ever. I love both of those songs. They do both go on a bit too long though, especially Blame Game. They should have cut down (or totally removed) the entire thing with Chris Rock at the end of Blame Game. I think Devil In A New Dress has the same problem too. But I still like the album more every time I listen to it.
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Mar 29, 2011 20:22
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onefish posted:“Hell of a Life” is a song about a fantasy of not loving but *marrying* a porn star, and as such is more broadly about the idea of collapsing the barriers between fantasy and reality, both as something that many people can do, unconsciously, in a negative way, and something that legitimately and literally occurs at the extremes of fame and wealth. Hell Of A Life is simultaneously about both just loving a porn star and marrying one. In reality, he is doing nothing but loving her in the bathroom ("married in the bathroom, honey moon on the dance floor, got divorced at the end of the night"), but is fantasizing about what actually marrying her would be like.
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Mar 29, 2011 22:53
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Final Fart Buttball posted:I think Devil in a New Dress is the best song on the album. You didn't make the Woody Allen once said of orgasms "even the worst one I ever had was right on the money." I feel that way about this album. It's the worst (read: my least favorite) track on the album, but I still love it. Yeah, I would have made it a bit shorter, but I don't actively avoid it or anything. In fact, this album is one of maybe half a dozen albums that when I listen to it, I listen to it. I hardly ever just pick out one or two songs from it, I just put it on from track one and go all the way through. On a different topic, Kanye said that he's going to have a new album (not Watch the Throne) dropping this Summer. Before this album, he never had one that really stood out to me. I liked the singles, and a few of the other tracks, but none of them had the level of impact that Fantasy did. So I'm really, really hoping he's able to maintain the level of polish this album had, but the fact that it's coming so soon after this worries me. Am I alone in this?
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Mar 30, 2011 08:20
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I don't hate the Fergie part in All of the Lights at all. I in fact didn't even know it was Fergie until someone in this thread mentioned it. It's quick, and I don't find it grating or anything. Which is odd, because I have hated every other thing involving Fergie ever except for the movie Planet Terror.
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Mar 31, 2011 05:03
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Ebjan posted:I love Hell of a Life and Devil In a Blue Dress. I've heard of Rick Ross before but this was my first time hearing him on a track. I agree that the Chris Rock bite could have been cut. I've never been a fan of skits or other will jokey stuff on albums. While I don't love the Rock thing, as I said earlier, it's not supposed to be a skit or jokey. It's a direct follow up to the last few lines of the song, about how her phone called him back while she was with another guy, and he heard her entire conversation with some other dude (Rock).
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Mar 31, 2011 17:37
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the Bunt posted:That may be true, but it doesn't mean it's not supposed to be humorous. Yes, but it has another purpose other than just the humor in it. Also, I'm fairly certain I've heard almost the exact bit before this album, from Rock in his stand up, but hosed if I know where. I just think it works as more than most stupid rear end skits on rap albums do (all of the Kyle Kaniff or whatever the gently caress poo poo from Eminems early albums spring immediately to mind as examples of why I usually hate that poo poo) and serves a thematic purpose with the rest of the song. I still usually skip it.
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Mar 31, 2011 23:28
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Thrust On Moore posted:Also, I wonder why Kanye hasn't tweeted anything in 2 and a half weeks? I'm hoping it's cause he's busy finishing Watch the Throne and his new album. Oh by the way, I've purchased his first two albums on vinyl, have Graduation on pre-order, and with any luck my father will be able to snag the copy of 808s they had at the Best Buy in the town I used to live and send it up to me.
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Apr 3, 2011 05:00
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Ziir posted:oh come on If you care that much it would take you literally 2 minutes to open it up in Audacity, cut it out, and upload the new version to your ipod.
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Apr 14, 2011 22:48
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McNutty posted:If not for skits on records how would we know that Clit Boulevard to the Tits Projects is the fastest way to get to Heart Street? ...Is this talking about the correct way to butcher a prostitute or something?
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Apr 15, 2011 03:40
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I would rank them from best to worst in the exact opposite order that they came out, myself. MBDTF being the best, and Dropout being the worst.
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Apr 17, 2011 01:37
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I think the best part of So Appalled is the completely unnecessary and years late dis that Jay Z throws at MC Hammer. Also the line "all ya'll can suck my ba-wls through my dra-wrs."
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Jun 30, 2011 11:56
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I love Blame Game, except for the Chris Rock bit at the end, which was funny once but I now skip.
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Jul 1, 2011 20:24
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A Typical Goon posted:I find that with all Kanye's records there is a song that just a poo poo load of plays from me. Not that they all don't get a lot of plays, just that one song is always the first I put on when listening to the album Power is my most listened to song from the album as well, but only because it was in like...every game trailer at this years E3.
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Jul 4, 2011 07:23
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Quantum of Phallus posted:What was this Good Friday release, some sort of leak? Go to Kanye's website and scroll down past the videos, above the cover/link to Fantasy. You will see 2 rows of song titles and artist names. Those were the G.O.O.D. Friday releases. He put out one song every week for a while. Monster used to be up there, but isn't anymore. They're all free to download.
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Jul 4, 2011 22:42
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808 is my second favorite album of his, after MBDTF. In fact, my scale of favorite to least favorite with Kanye goes in the reverse order of release.
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Jul 12, 2011 22:50
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I really hope Welcome To The Jungle is a cover of the Guns N' Roses song.
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Jul 13, 2011 00:29
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bows1 posted:They were also shooting a video on tuesday. Was that lift off? All I know is the video hoes had gigantic bootys This is a derail about a pet peeve of mine: Unless you are calling the women in the video gardening equipment, they are not "hoes." They are "hos." There is no E in it. No E. Remember that. A hoe is what you use to till soil or whatever the gently caress, and a ho is short for "whore." As you will notice, there is no e before the r in "whore." So please, remember this in the future...for the children.
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Jul 21, 2011 16:22
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Quantum of Phallus posted:God drat that cover is tacky as hell. Between this and the cover of the new Gaga album, 2011 is going to be known as "The Year Of Albums Covers So Awful They Go Back Around To Being Awesome Again."
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Jul 28, 2011 22:12
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I'd just like to talk about skits on rap albums in general: They all suck, and rappers should stop doing them. They are never, NEVER, funny, clever, or entertaining. They are boring at best and like, retarded levels of stupid at worst. I'm so loving glad Kanye stopped doing them, and I hope I never have to hear another one of them on anyone's album, ever again.
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Sep 18, 2011 06:23
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That was an intro to a song, and not a skit 
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Sep 18, 2011 17:55
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I never listened to Mercy before. "Build a house on that rear end, that's an rear end-state" is some of the funniest poo poo I've ever heard. This song is pretty alright.
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Sep 14, 2012 04:03
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NeuroticErotica posted:What the hell? The song is everywhere I have a phone with 32gb of storage space and a spotify account, and an input jack on my cars stereo. Where, exactly, would I hear it without seeking it out?
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Sep 14, 2012 09:54
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Boris Galerkin posted:Mercy has been available on Spotify for a while now. Clique and Cold are on there too. "Without seeking it out."
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Sep 14, 2012 16:45
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CHRISTS FOR SALE posted:I'm glad Kanye is reciprocating. It will be nice to finally put to rest the "Kanye stole 'Stronger' from Daft Punk!" rumor... Why was this EVER a thing? They're in the loving video for god's sake, and every time Daft Punk talked about it they seemed to love it.
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Apr 14, 2013 09:48
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epitasis posted:It's like the third best track on the album. So Appalled, Hell of a Life and Blame Game are the skippable songs. I loving LOVE Hell of a Life. And Blame Game except for the skit at the end which I always skip.
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Apr 20, 2013 10:42
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This album. You guys...this loving album 
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Jun 15, 2013 05:14
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I think most modern rap lyrics are pretty bad. At least Kanye's are bad in a way that's so ridiculous that they nearly loop back around to being clever again. E: And not all music or art in general needs to be "fun." There's value in ugly, angry, raw things as well. And that's where a good portion of this album falls.
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Jun 16, 2013 20:39
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rear end Catchcum posted:Wait why doesn't the 300 line make sense? The movie 300 is what he was referring to, which was about 300 Spartans. The Spartans were Greek, not Roman.
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Jun 22, 2013 02:32
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The Rooster posted:Well, this is the Kanye West thread. How many people posting here even know who Action Bronson is? I don't know if it's the best, but the whole for profit prison/Hamptons section is pretty god drat good, you guys.
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Jul 20, 2013 17:43
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illcendiary posted:It's Kanye's way of denoting song "versions," as with software. Those songs are different from their original releases. New God Flow, for instance, now has the Ghost Face verse. Wait seriously? So if I got the album when it came out I now have to get it AGAIN to have these new versions?
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Aug 13, 2013 22:34
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I AM BRAWW posted:she can twerk thought so who cares right From what I've seen I'm actually fairly certain she can't do that either.
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Aug 28, 2013 22:52
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ThatBasqueGuy posted:Finally listened to Yeezus after getting over my self imposed block of post-graduation Kanye and.... Go listen to My Beautiful, Dark, Twisted Fantasy right now you fool. You drat fool.
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Nov 14, 2013 11:57
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Quandary posted:I legitimately enjoyed that video, seeing as its one of the most ridiculous things I've ever seen. This is pretty much my exact thoughts on it. It's loving crazy in a beautiful way. I mean he made a video where it's him just loving Kim Kardashian on a motorcycle for gods sake.
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Extra Koos posted:I have, and found certain recurring themes, such as schizophrenia and gayness. That reading is wrong then, because you clearly missed the most important elements of an SMG analysis: pretense and self importance.
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