I haven't felt compelled to re listen to this album even once after the hype boiled off
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Friday, 14 August 2015 17:05 (eight years ago) link
nbd i listened to it like 6,000,000,000,000 times for you, it still rules tbrr
i don't know how you could hear that any other way?
same. there are things on this album that don't work but absolutely nothing that's unintentional and, of the elements considered controversial, almost nothing that's included solely to shock or lacks a pointed significance, w/ the possible exception of "i'm in it"
― slothroprhymes, Friday, 14 August 2015 17:18 (eight years ago) link
glad that this one's so good because i've long since accepted that whenever swish/so help me god/whatever the fuck he's calling it this week comes out, it won't be good at all
― slothroprhymes, Friday, 14 August 2015 17:23 (eight years ago) link
yeah I'm still listening to this all time, usually just through the first four but still
― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 14 August 2015 17:55 (eight years ago) link
#notyourshield xp
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Friday, 14 August 2015 20:06 (eight years ago) link
googling that, bc i forgot what it was about, informed me that g-m-rg-t- has its own wiki and now i feel ill
― slothroprhymes, Friday, 14 August 2015 20:16 (eight years ago) link
genuinely sorry about that
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Friday, 14 August 2015 22:03 (eight years ago) link
of the elements considered controversial, almost nothing that's included solely to shock or lacks a pointed significance
idk Blood on the Leaves with the juxtaposition of the original song with lines about an ex and alimony is probably the most grating, and if there is a "pointed significance" to that, let me know
― sarahell, Saturday, 15 August 2015 02:49 (eight years ago) link
yeah that song is still garbage
― some dude, Saturday, 15 August 2015 02:58 (eight years ago) link
enough strong elements are immediately there in "blood" for it to be pretty powerful despite the wack lyrics but yea it was a missed opportunity for something that could've been way better
― marcos, Saturday, 15 August 2015 03:29 (eight years ago) link
agreed, it's flawed for sure but has plenty of power.
― slothroprhymes, Saturday, 15 August 2015 04:39 (eight years ago) link
so did hitler
― sarahell, Saturday, 15 August 2015 20:57 (eight years ago) link
aw c'mon man
― slothroprhymes, Saturday, 15 August 2015 21:00 (eight years ago) link
Kanye West, Black Hitler, 7/17/2017
― help computer (sleepingbag), Saturday, 15 August 2015 21:01 (eight years ago) link
hitler jokes always funny amirite
― marcos, Saturday, 15 August 2015 21:02 (eight years ago) link
no no hold on now, now what you don't understand sway, is that the Nazi industry has historically been almost impossible to break into as a black American,nevermind a black American Kardashian, do you see I'm saying, hanh?
― help computer (sleepingbag), Saturday, 15 August 2015 21:05 (eight years ago) link
i agree w/this, musically it's super epic but the lyrics make me feel a little dumb for getting swept up in it.
still listening to Yeezus frequently btw.
― lil urbane (Jordan), Saturday, 15 August 2015 21:41 (eight years ago) link
My bold opinion is that Late Registration aged better already.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 21 August 2015 04:38 (eight years ago) link
still haven't been able to get through this album a second time.
― Spottie, Friday, 21 August 2015 06:25 (eight years ago) link
album has lost its 'WTF is this' shock factor since it came out, but its still good, its just marred by a lot of the lyrics, that havent aged too well (already), and the fact that it doesnt seem to hang too well together overall. but its bound to be better than the new one.
― StillAdvance, Friday, 21 August 2015 16:18 (eight years ago) link
Blood on the Leaves is about drug paranoia to me. I don't know if it was intended as such, but it works that way to me.
― Frederik B, Friday, 21 August 2015 16:37 (eight years ago) link
I nearly had a heart attack the first time I heard this record. Love it to pieces; those first 4 tracks rock hard — my first time listening to the opener when I suddenly heard where the 1 was and how the verse was leaning into the groove was magical.
To me BotL seems to be about the toll of meaningless sex; subversively using "black bodies" and "strange fruit" to mean naked people getting it on. I could be projecting.
― dinnerboat, Friday, 21 August 2015 17:13 (eight years ago) link
o_____O
― drown zoowap (The Reverend), Friday, 21 August 2015 22:09 (eight years ago) link
its bound to be better than the new one.
I dunno, his new one's pretty good:
http://nk_wp_media.s3.amazonaws.com/files/2015/03/kanye-west-x-adidas-yeezy-350-boost-low-black-on-foot-preview-1.jpg
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 21 August 2015 22:29 (eight years ago) link
dont know who produced it but jeezy's god sounds kinda yeezus-influenced.
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 5 November 2015 12:26 (eight years ago) link
(am trying to think of other songs yeezus-influenced)
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 5 November 2015 12:27 (eight years ago) link
is blood on the leaves the one where he compares fisting someone to the black power salute
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Thursday, 5 November 2015 12:38 (eight years ago) link
re the pre-revive conversation, i mean
yes, it is that song
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 5 November 2015 12:54 (eight years ago) link
oops, no, thats i'm in it.
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 5 November 2015 12:55 (eight years ago) link
The outro to “I am a God,” when he follows up a bunch of blasphemous boasts — “i know he’s the most high, but i am a close high” — with panicked panting and screaming. Suchg a strange record.
― treeship 2, Saturday, 16 December 2017 23:14 (six years ago) link
If you wanted to be turned off by Kanye West there was ample material on Yeezus, but it also had an undeniable, transferable energy, a crackling and palpable electricity.
just put this on for the first time in ages and yeah this is such a succinct description of why it's great
― devvvine, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 00:06 (five years ago) link
Agreed, that line stood out to me in Jordan's review.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 03:33 (five years ago) link
I was listening to an interview with a drummer who does sample replays for a living, and learned that the gospel sample on 'On Sight' was actually an entire replay. Days before the album dropped, they had to hire another producer/engineer to get a drummer and a gospel choir to precisely re-record the sample (which presumably couldn't be cleared). Crazy.
I.e. it's not actually this record --https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyf7f7ouzjk
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 August 2021 18:04 (two years ago) link