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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2011 at 19:22
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Pity he is such a dick.

It doesn't matter, I think we won't be hearing from him again anytime soon.

I started to watch the really long video, but it was too long. I don't care enough to investigate further. I would dispute, however, that the consensus is unprecedented. Perhaps not as much, but Merriweather Post Pavilion was similarly hyped, not to mention Kid A.


Edited by Henry Plainview - January 07 2011 at 19:28
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2011 at 19:19
Pity he is such a dick.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2011 at 19:18
Gorgeous and Runaway stunned me.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2011 at 19:13
If I get a chance I'll give it a go. My curiosity is piqued. Spotify maybe?


Hey is that a bit of Jon Anderson at the beginning?


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2011 at 19:05
It's pretty good, but sags a lot in the middle. Monster, especially is a bit dumb and long. Devil in a New Dress and So Appalled, too, are kinda meh. I gave it a 3.5/5.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2011 at 18:56
Sorry, but I just got the album. Will be gicing impressions in a while. I mean, it HAS to have something...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2011 at 18:54
I must admit you are correct. I don't really care.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2011 at 18:52
Kanye's new LP, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy has been ranked as the best of the year by Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Slant, Billboard, Time, Spin, Metacritic, The AV Club and The Washington Post. (The Guardian gave it #2.) It's in the top ten of many other publications and it's also #1 on Rateyourmusic, the biggest aggregator of public opinion of music. And just to be clear, these are *all-genre* lists, not best rap album lists.
I don't think I've ever seen a wider consensus on the album of the year. Particularly striking is that the album only came out in November, usually when other albums have had more time to settle in and lock it down.
Now I know that PA has a lot of grumpy old dinosaurs on it who will rubbish this without having heard it because it's rap music, and will be bitter as history moves on and leaves their limited aesthetic range behind, but if they gave it a chance, they might be pleased to see that it is progressive rap music. (Progressive relative to what is normal for rap music at least.)
Anyway, whether you like West or not, this huge consensus is unusual so he's done something right to get both the public and the critics in such agreement.


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