Kanye West - The Life of Pablo (February 14, 2016) Album • Page 106

I watched it go from 70k pairs in stock to sold out and I was in the waiting queue for 3 hours on three different browsers.

this is real welcome to heartbreak hours. KANYE PLS.

 

I wouldn't wait 3 hours for the sneakers from Like Mike haha

 

Listened to Hold My Liquor > I'm In It > Blood on the Leaves on the drive back from work last night. Got the music shivers at the part when Vernon come in on Send It Up. It's been too long since I've listened to that album.

 

matt lauer not innocent

 

I don't get why people think TLOP is messy. The rollout/changes made after release was messy, but the album itself flows flawlessly from Ultralight to Frank's Track, and then it gets messy but it's more like bonus tracks.

 

agreed

 

I wouldn't call it messy. (As a whole) it's just not a coherent as the rest of his albums.

 

oh

 

I mean the non bolded parts explain my thoughts on why that doesn't matter. To me the album is really 1-14, and then the rest is just extra. Even ignoring the bonus tracks argument, the sequencing through Frank's Track is done so well that it makes up for any "messiness" that comes after.

 

we've long since established that post-Frank's Track tracks are bonus tracks are we gonna litigate it again

 

I didn't know we had officially decided haha, I was just keeping it open since I figure some people may not interpret it that way. I don't think the album's a "mess" either way, but if we're only looking through Frank's, then the album is a masterpiece of sequencing and very much the opposite of a mess.

 

The rollout was messy. The bonus/not bonus track situation was messy. A lot of beats and vocals and lyrics on this are messy and cluttered as hell. Ye's problematic public persona during the release was messy. Even positive reviews of the album called it "messy" or "imperfect" but attempted to say that that was a strength, which I pretty vehemently disagree with.

Like every Kanye album, there are moments of brilliance in the chaos. I just find them far more sparse and the highs far less high than on any previous effort.

 

And while I'm at it, Wolves has so many garbage ass lines in it

 

Wolves was a perfect song when it was initially debuted. No idea why he added the garbage verse to it

 

Someone took his sandwich from the fridge, have some sympathy ok?

 

I heard it first on the SNL performance and it had me so hyped and then when he first released it with Vic and Sia cut I was furious.

 

TLOP is goat

 

Love love love TLOP. Seems like a perfect snapshot of where he was mentally/emotionally/creatively.

 

Do people not like that line, if so who stole their sense of humor

 

TLOP lacks cohesion but has so many amazing songs it basically makes up for it. Couple weak spots mostly in the bonus section but then there's fade and saint pablo so the back half is worth it. TLOP has two of my favorite Kanye songs ever, FML and Fade, and so many other top tier ye tunes. Ultra Light Beam, Father pt 1, Highlights, Waves, Wolves , Real Friends, Famous. Even the songs with bad lines are still really strong songs overall.

 

I honestly don't think I can bring myself to decide which album is his "worst" because I love all of them so much and have so many memories with all of them. Gun to my head I would say Yeezus but I love it

I know this is dangerously close to ranking though

 

Ye has never put out a bad album. Its clear people will rate their least favorites as the worst but thats always based on personal taste. TLOP has a few clunker lines but they arent meant to be taken seriously— hes always incorporated his humor and personality into his music, in fact some might say they are inseparable.

 

I would actually say TLOP flows more as a cohesive record and statement than all of his records except MBDTF and Yeezus.not saying the others aren’t cohesive.....just that I don’t buy the “messy” argument in the sense that it’s slapped together.