Thread of Yeezus

"Hold My Liquor" is one of the songs my weird friends love

i like it quite a bit

I like every part of this record.

Jasperness wrote:"Hold My Liquor" is one of the songs my weird friends love

i like it quite a bit

it's such a drag to listen to. bon iver sucks, chief keef is especially obnoxious; it's just a boring, ugly slog, which is too bad because it's probably the most interesting track lyrically

so much great shit here though. love all the dancehall samples and the abrupt cuts just slapped onto "on sight" and "i am a god" that blow the songs open out of nowhere

"guilt trip" is a fucking monster production

loving all the samples, arrangements and wtf moments

as messianic dicks go, he's one of the greatest

jasperness wrote:

monotony wrote:i've tried to pinpoint frank's singing in 'new slaves' but i can't seem to find it (i listened to the hungarian rock song sampled on the outtro, and all the vocals are already there!)

http://www.stereogum.com/1384202/premature-evaluation-kanye-west-yeezus/franchises/premature-evaluation/

Breihan wrote:A few songs later, as "New Slaves” — the defiant blast of wrath that weaponizes the so-self-conscious ambivalent consumerism that Kanye was doing way back on “All Falls Down” — is fading out, soul-sample Kanye comes back, cooing that he can’t lose in Auto-tune over celestial strings while Frank Ocean answers him back."

ohh it's literally just the cooing part. i got confused w/ the singing at the very end of the track

this album is good but i was perplexed by ryan schrieber's alter ego passing off kanye's ever increasing objectification of the ladies with little more than a shrug

outro to new slaves with frank floating over the top like smokey is my favourite part of the record

really great sounding recording and some amazing moments

sometimes there's too much cognitive dissonance for me lyrically tho

^otm

i love the sound of Blood on the Leaves but moaning about gold diggers over Strange Fruit. really?

Now you sittin' courtside, wifey on the other side
Gotta keep 'em separated, I call that apartheid


a strange and bitter crop

the "black bodies swinging in the summer breeze" is the part of the "Strange Fruit" sample that always feels most unnecessary to me. why did you have to leave that in there? the song is way too trite to co-opt the lynching metaphor.

_ wrote:

Jasperness wrote:"Hold My Liquor" is one of the songs my weird friends love

i like it quite a bit

it's such a drag to listen to. bon iver sucks, chief keef is especially obnoxious; it's just a boring, ugly slog, which is too bad because it's probably the most interesting track lyrically

i just like Ratatat i think

_ wrote:"guilt trip" is a fucking monster production

this is the only track i could conceive being cut. shit is goofy as fuck and is completely pointless.

its a somewhat interesting/dark track though with cheesy Steve Miller Band flourishes

 cheesy Steve Miller Band flourishes

yeah these are great

favorite moment on the album is probably the sample at the end of "send it up"

_ wrote:

 cheesy Steve Miller Band flourishes

yeah these are great

i like em in theory but it just doesn't mesh with the rest of the track that well.

just feels like Kanye was trying to jam a 70s cliche in the track somewhere. the Popcaan hook/sample doesn't sound that great either at that speed and he didn't mix it in that well. you can basically hear Kanye hitting his Abelton pad slightly off beat.

my favorites are basically any part of "New Slaves" or "Blood on the Leaves". i also have a soft spot for "On Sight".

really enjoy "Bound 2" of course. i more enjoy Kanye trolling the world and exposing all the hip-hop rockists talking about how great "his old style used to be" and wondering if his "next album will be back to basics?!" it's an amazing, sentimental use of that soulful style for a pretty heartfelt track, but if it's you're favorite song on the album you're probably dumb.

_ wrote:favorite moment on the album is probably the sample at the end of "send it up"

basically every sample/interlude rules. the middle of "On Sight", end of "I Am a God", end of "New Slaves", end of "Send it Up". i wish a lot of those musical ideas were they own, fully fleshed out song. especially the end of "I Am a God". i guess that song is called "See You in My Nightmares" though.

really enjoy "Bound 2" of course. i more enjoy Kanye trolling the world and exposing all the hip-hop rockists talking about how great "his old style used to be" and wondering if his "next album will be back to basics?!" it's an amazing, sentimental use of that soulful style for a pretty heartfelt track, but if it's you're favorite song on the album you're probably dumb.

to be fair i don't think he's done anything more rockist-friendly than the aggro def jux HARSH NOISE on every other track

i'm talking about hip-hop rockists that only listen to Talib Kweli or at least think that is the highest form of rap music. not whether or not someone who likes rock music may like this album.

a song like "Bound 2" drives them crazy because they can't understand why Kanye doesn't only make songs that sound like that. they think sampling classic records and "chill, soulful" music should be privileged above all other types.

i'm talking about the same types who only listen to shit like death grips and el-p but i get it

_ wrote:the same types who only listen to shit like death grips and el-p

these people exist?

yeah

this album is basically tailor-made for tinymixtapes dorks

jasperness wrote:if it's you're favorite song on the album you're probably dumb.

I'm not dumb, your dumb!

(happens to the best of us, I would never question your grammatical foundation, etc.)

jasperness wrote:Talib Kweli

Was thinking the other day that at one time Kanye could plausibly name-check this dude in a brushes with celebrities sorta way.

your you're buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo