Today marks the 6th year anniversary of our current decade's

can we get much higher

CAN WE GET MUCH HIGHER?

OH,OH

CAN WE GET MUCH HIGHER?
(So higggghhhh)

That album fucking sucks, theneedledrop gave it a 6/10.

>>69218732
>8/10
>AOTD

It's not like HOOM, Helplessness Blues, GKMC, Virgins, Benji, To Be Kind, TPaB, The Epic, The Glowing Man, Blackstar, Atrocity Exhibition, Wildflower and Thanks for You're Service were released this decade or anything

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>>69218824
>x album is bad because this critic said so!

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>>69218824
Hey, I found your opinion, along with your mothers last abortions.
Faggot.

It's alright OP, a lot of people tend to forget that TMS was also released this decade

>>69218883
Maybe cause MBDTF made everyone forget about it.

>>69218883
>TMS
you spelled TPTB wrong

>>69218910
This is the only contender to take down MBDTF.
Fact.
Truth.
Gospel.

>>69218732
you should thank the people who made it for him

>>69218873
Is it right next to your expired hot topic coupons?

>>69218842
>Benji, To Be Kind, TPaB, The Epic, The Glowing Man, Blackstar,
jesus christ, kid
get woke

>>69218941
Death Grips are absolute garbage.
I've tried to listen to them so many times but I can't stand their Beck-lyric electronic seizure edgy nonsense.

>>69218973
Only after you go thank every single person who helped make your favorite films and video games.

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>>69218842
>Thanks for You're Service
lol ok kid

>>69219250
your way of thinking is not relevant to music

>>69219250
>films and video games
kek, pleb

>>69219481
That makes no sense.
I bet you don't complain about Beck literally stealing music for a career. AND working with tons of others. This is coming from a fan of his too. I love Odelay.

>>69218842
XXX is better than Atrocity Exhibition

>>69219250
>>69219599

>>69219737

>>69218842
What an ABSOLUTELY abysmal decade if those are supposed to be the 'greats' of this era.

MBDTF literally is the AOTD, though obviously TPaB is musically and lyrically richer, it just doesn't feel as "of the moment". I mean, really, if we were to compile a greatest hits on MBDTF, Yeezus, and Pablo, there would be no question.

Just for the record, I'm a white dude in Canada who loves folk music and plays geetar... but HOOM, Helplessness Blues, Benji, are all good albums. Not great. Wildflower is one of AOTY, but it's only above average. Atrocity Exhibition has 2-3 tracks I actually like, but Tell Me What I Don't Know may be SOTY 2016 (if not Real Friends)

>>69219765
Others do get praised for MBDTF, too.
Mike Dean, RZA, Teyana Taylor, Elton John, John Legend, etc.
Kanye is the main orchestrator, though.
He pushes them to do their best.

>>69219347

according to Fantano it's AOTY

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>>69220196
>following memetano

>>69220250

his opinion matters more than yours, loser

>>69220302
t. fantano

>>69220462

sometimes I wish I was Fantano

>be the most popular critic on music and make a living doing what you love
>have qt gf
>have legions of hipster fans who will drone everything you say and spread memes about you
>get to interview great musicians

what's not to love?

>>69218842
Retard moment but what does HOOM stand for

I'M JUMPING OFF THE WINDOOOOOW
I'M LETTING EVERYTHING GOOOOOO

>>69220612
AND I ALWAYS FIND SOMETHING WROONNNGGGG

>>69220872
BUT I'M DOWN FOR THE NIGHT
DOOOOWN FOR THE NIGHT

>>69220565
Have One On Me

>>69218732
ITT: plebs and bandwagoners. Fuck this board.

>>69220565
Have One on Me
Joanna Newsom

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1/3

>>69220196
Fantano will still give aoty to bottomless pit or the glowing man

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2/3

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3/3

>>69221167
>>69221210
>>69221235
I know, my writing is cringeworthily abhorrent. I need to seriously work on it.

>>69220923
WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA

>>69221202

but all three got the exact same score

why would you assume that?

>>69221266
thanks bro

>>69219867
>likes Folk
>Helplessness Blues is only 'ok'

Shit taste BtFO

>>69218732
The bear should've been on the cover. Also, I'm no audiophile but wasn't the album poorly mastered with a lot of audio issues? Can anyone confirm?

Still a 10 for me.

>>69218842
stop biting, people

>>69222889
Isn't there another version that has better mixing?

>>69222956
I have no idea. Maybe the vinyl version? Regardless, you're missing track 14. It's not on the CD either, which I own. I think it's iTunes exclusive and I hear they're not good from an audiophile perspective.

The claps in the last track are so great. I know they're a part of the recording of that poem, so maybe this only exists in my interpretation, but it kinda creates the feeling that this huge, extravagant album (particularly the last two tracks with their "grand finale" vibe) was performed just for you and a few other people in a small room, like you experienced something that tried to encompass the most grandiose aspects of humanity but was missed out on by most humans. A little bit of sadness, a little bit of "holy shit, did anyone else just see this?"

>>69223057
I feel like this but also as if the finale wasn't the album but Kayne discography. Doesn't help that I don't like his albums after. The bonus track may also ruin this feeling but I don't have that version.

>>69223057
It also could be interpreted as only a few people paying attention to the problems of America because they're out chasing things like the fame Kanye talks about throughout the album

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behold the latest BTFO from /pol/
they can't grasp the GREATEST ARTIST OF ALL TIME

>>69223374
i love that video

>>69223444
Sandurz is awesome

>>69218732

Let's take time to commemorate the event that pushed /mu/ past the point of redemption.

>>69223057
Interesting take on it.
I always found it a bit funny, the dichotomous nature of the scattered rather unenthused applause ending the album to the insane praise and applause it actually received. Very deceptive.

I THINK IT'S TIME FOR US TO HAVE A TOAST

>>69223500
THE TASTEMAKER

>>69223698
LET'S HAVE A TOAST FOR THE DOUCHEBAGS

>>69222328
ehhh

I love Fleet Foxes, Robin is one of the purest talents of this era... but Helplessness Blues just laid on the cheese a little thicker than self-titled.
Half of it is borderline cringey. Grown Ocean in particular is just straight up millennial whoop garbage.
Same with HOOM. A song like "Go Long" is painstaking beautiful, but there are a lot of tracks on there that didn't need to be released...
Same with Benji, really. Carissa was such a perfect opener, but the album just plummets after that.


Just one dude's opinion, of course.
I just have wrong generation syndrome, I guess.
If these 'albums' are the best distilled pieces of musical expression in all of popular music, then count me out.

Like, I fucking hate Kanye West as a person, but he's the only motherfucker doing ANYTHING of note in the realm of immediate, hook-laden pop music. I personally loved Pablo, even.

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>>69218732
>current decade's greatest album
You posted the wrong album anon, let me help you out

>>69223141
>>69223165
I'm loving all these interpretations, guys.
THIS is what music discussion is.

>>69223919

sup Scaruffi?

>>69223958
There was a thread a while back of imagines a particular album gives. The OP had Illmatic, my favourite album, and spoke about how it gave off a sense of a bus ride through NY. Someone else mentioned it being a gritty subway journey throughout Queens, Brooklyn and Long Island and how enduring a shit part of a city can be. I both related to and appreciate that perspective.

My post was about Ready to Die portraying an extremely rainy day in Brooklyn; fairly basic.

>>69219685
no

>>69218732
It is an extremely important album

>>69225250
I think I remember that thread!

>>69223852
LETS HAVE A TOAST FOR THE bleached ASSHOLES

>>69225611
It was so cool.
>>69225649
pls no

>>69225250
>Someone else mentioned it being a gritty subway journey throughout Queens, Brooklyn, and Long Island and how enduring a shit part of a city can be
Oh shit, that was me who posted that long blog post actually hahaha. I remember mostly talking my experience about seeing the Bronx from a train window and how I felt like the train was a microcosm of the NYC experience, and some other stuff like the poetry the MTA puts up in every train car though. Illmatic represent.

>>69223919
>not divers
lmao go to bed, sleep for a solid 8, and get fucking woke

>>69225763
My bad. I think I'm remembering wrong because of how Brooklyn and Queens are on Long Island and in NYC at the same time or something. I'm from London so I'm not too sure. Regardless, it was one of the best posts I've seen on this entire site. I don't think there's a /mu/ archive but it needed to be screenshot and I feel bad for not doing so.

>>69225857
>it was one of the best posts I've seen on this entire site
Damn, that's one hell of a claim. Thanks a lot man. When it comes to Illmatic, I can talk about it for a very long time because it literally changed my life; it indirectly boosted my self-confidence and directly helped me get to where I am now. Does rebeccablacktech not work as the /mu/ archive?

Also, speaking of Illmatic, I've been listening to One Time 4 Your Mind a lot more lately, and it's criminal how underrated it is. That second verse is now one of my favorites, with that extremely dense bar that goes
>But now I know the time, got an older mind/Plus control a nine, fine, see now I represent mine, I'm...
and the sublime flow with which Nas delivers it, along with the fact that almost all the imagery in the verse can be tied together via their ability to be related to cars and how they work. I can't fathom how awesome Illmatic is sometimes. Have you ever read Born to Use Mics?

>>69219115
filtered

>>69218824
>That fucking response sucks, anon gave it a guaranteedresponse/10

>>69226237
This
lel

>>69226137
Oh, wow. I had thought rebeccablacktech was down like foolz was. Bookmarked, gonna screenshot it later.

I agree about One Time 4 Your Mind. I think it may be overlooked because of how lowkey(?) the beat is compared to the other songs.

>Have you ever read Born to Use Mics?
I was planning to borrow it from my uncle actually.

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good times

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>>69226697

>>69226697
looks like it hasn't changed lol

>>69226361
It's pretty good, the essays either go into elements of the track itself, rhyme schemes and imagery and stuff like that, or they use the song as a medium in order to talk about Nas himself and give different perspectives on how Nas wanted us to see him as on the album. It also has interviews with DJ Premier, Q-Tip, Large Professor, MC Serch, Faith Newman, Nas himself, the whole lot. It also has the 5 mic review from The Source which caused a ton of controversy.

As for One Time 4 Your Mind, even with that reasoning, I still don't understand why it's so slept on haha. The beat sounds super groovy to me, and, as you'll find the One Time 4 Your Mind essay, "My Pen Rides the Paper," states, the song and its vignettes show the less frantic, lighthearted moments on Illmatic, where Nas is just chilling and watching movies with his friends and shorties, so I find that the beat fits the lyrics very well.

As a sidenote, when you get the chance, listen to Ahmad Jamal's The Awakening, where "I Love Music," the main sample for "The World is Yours" comes from. It's pretty great jazz piano in my opinion.

>>69218732
whats the best cover?

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>vinyl version has 3LPs

>>69226713
>11/13/10
>album officially came out in 11/22/10

Leaked albums have been a thing for a long time.. I think I even remember Graduation leaking back in 2007.

>>69219867
>Just for the record, I'm your typical pitchfork nu-male, and I think Kanyes music is genius
no shit

Remember that time Rick Ross made a music video for literally just his verse of Devil in a New Dress?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50GVPFj66CY

>>69228023
I was just watching this.
Thrills me how the guest artists were so enthralled with the album that they went out of their ways to involve themselves as much as they could.

>>69223913
>Grown Ocean in particular is just straight up millennial whoop garbage.

This literally doesn't mean anything. This is actual nonsense/gibberish. Please never attempt to talk about music again.

I graduated highschool and started college in 2010, the album is more a nostalgia trip than anything for me.

Thank you Mr. West, hope you feel better soon.

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>tfw i will never be chilling in my community college's student lounge again jamming this album on my old ipod while playing pokemon soulsilver.

i miss 2010 and 2011 so much. far enough past my high school years, but not nearly as jaded as i am now.

OP here. It floors me how timeless this album is. I remember hearing about how game changing it was Freshman Year, then actually discovering it Sophomore Year. Now I'm a Senior and still constantly spinning this immaculate record.

When people call Kanye an idiot, it takes a lot of rational effort not to get triggered.
Thanks Kanye, for being hip hop's best.

>>69223919
Her voice fuckin sucks.

I will never get why people like this bitch so much.

>>69222889
>wasn't the album poorly mastered
One of the most terrible mixes of any pop album ever. Dickriders actually claim that it was done intentionally.
>no you don't understand bro, it's supposed to sound like shit because it represents Kanye's ego or some shit
All Of the Lights sounds like one of those Vines where the audio suddenly gets all overblown and distorted

>>69218732
>You got the power to let power go?
Ironic considering in the position he is right now. Who would have thought he would fall from his throne.

>>69222889
>Poorly Mastered
Ya all of the lights especially its a fucking mess. No dynamics whatsoever except loudness.

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Just listened to MBDTF.

Why is this album so praised and why did Fantano get so much hate?

>>69228403

I know it doesn't help the argument much, but All Of the Lights is my favorite track on the album.

>>69228543
You don't understand man he's self-aware so that means it's good, the production man, the production is the best ever even though I can't explain what I mean by production in this context, Yeezy is a genius even though he does nearly nothing except write lyrics

>>69228571
I like it too and think it's a great pop song, but it's painful to listen to. Is there not a happy medium between actual dynamic mastering and "blast it from phone speakers at full volume" brickwalling?

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was anyone else here when MBDTF dropped? shit was nuts, every thread on the front page was ye

>>69228581
fuck you mean
he's the vision
he finds all the obscure samples
orchestrates everything
makes it sound good
if the sound engineer tried a solo project with all these wonderful sounds, it'll sound like edgy shit trying to sound good.
Here's a video breaking down the beat in "POWER"

>>69228543
That was exactly me. I hated Kanye, gave that album a listen, and thought it was mediocre. I listened to College Dropout until it clicked, and I realized his genius. After that I listend to Pablo. Then all of a sudden 808s and heartbreak made so much sense to me, it was fucking genius, and then the Ye fever kicked off. But to this day, I'm still finding new moments in MBDTF where you just have to imagine Kanye's thought process
>how the fuck does someone imagine this?
gives you the fucking chills man
tl;dr you've got to listen to him A LOT
here's the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ONfa_3zh70

>>69228364
THIS.

>>69228691
I love Sandurz

>>69228654
Shit was hype for weeks before it too while GOOD Friday was dropping. Also, all you people who said So Appalled sucked back then still eat donkey nuts.

>>69228738
he's crazy talented with that sampler
It looks so frustrating to work it, and he reproduces these beats flawlessly too.

>>69228771
I came to love that song even though I was one of the people who hated it.
I also hated Lost in The World but now that song gets me so fucking hyped.

>>69228779
And his vids are well edited, well paced, and overall very comfy too; he even plays the completed beat at the end so you can loop it if you want, I love that

>>69228867
it sucks how he hasn't broke down any beats from Graduation

I love Kanye's music. But as a person, he's an insufferable fucking idiot.

>>69218842
this sounds like a Reddit comment

>>69221266
i dont like this "review". you only talk about the themes of the songs and how it all fits together but not even a single word about why its great. its like a movie review only talking about a summary of the plot. very surface level. i could make a similar review for any album no matter how shit. you need to go into detail, explain the musical ideas on the tracks, explain the nuances that make a kanye production a kanye production. of course you have to understand what makes the music you're listening to great in the first place which probably requires more in dept knowledge about making music than you seem to have desu.

>>69219867
True. MBDTF was 2010. It felt like that year

>>69230351
bleach my asshole

>>69220507
you know what his gf looks like?

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>>69230655
just bleach my asshole senpai

>>69220507
>hating yourself because you underrated kanye once and now have to stick with your contratian opinion you know is false because you can't admit you were wrong

Raekwon's verse on Gorgeous is the biggest letdown.

You go from basically greatest of all time verses from Kanye, to Rae, supposedly one of the best himself, talks about Timbs and Benzes and other materials. He should've put more effort into a 10/10 album

>>69230641
I don't get the impression that this is a review; it comes off more as a visceral anecdotal account of the feelings he experienced while listening to the album rather than a detailed analysis of the musical substance of each track

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>>69218842

this post is probably from an anon who gets triggered when he reads the word nigger on 4chan

8/10 bait mate

>>69219867
> though obviously TPaB is musically and lyrically richer, it just doesn't feel as "of the moment"

when will these faggots burn

>>69230632
>sounds

you're literally hearing the text now?

>>69230316
Same here man.

I don't agree with a lot of his opinions. I don't care about his clothing. The shoes look ok.

All I care about is the music,


and Yeezy just keeps coming with the songs. The music speaks for itself.

He's quite prolific, really. The guy has penned some of the most memorable pop tracks of the era, now in great number. I don't foresee a lot of people who can't find their way into Kanye's music if forced to hear it in the line at the bank. With that, his music will live on forever.& Rightly so.

>>69230940
The "It's not like...were released this decade or anything" has a very sassy, attention seeking tone to it. It sounds like Reddit. All I'm saying is if this nu-male wants to be heard don't write it like that

>>69218883
TMS?

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