the love below vs 808s and heartbreak

waiting for rebirth

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"Hey wassup? Y'all caught me, practising for my new rock 'n' roll album"

808s not even close

people born c. 1980 vs people born c. 1985

this '85-er says andre gets this.

i voted "other" without really knowing what else i would prefer.

its spelled "rappa ternt sanga"

love below because, besides better songs, i prefer lovably horny space-age goofball to self-pitying narcissistic asshole.

at the moment i much prefer self pitying narci asshole to slightly too prince/pfunk-beholden 80s funkateer.

yeah man i like captainlorax more than burt_stanton too

Xp

haha ^^ kiu

DAMN this poll.

love below.

no one say k-os please ;)

808s and Heartbreak is way uneven and the bonus track shit at the end is one of the worst things ever so the Love Below wins by a fairly large margin.

The best rapper-turned-singer albums are Cee-Lo's two solo albums. Not Gnarls Barkley though.

at the moment i much prefer self pitying narci asshole to slightly too prince/pfunk-beholden 80s funkateer.

yeah '80s-style funkateers beholden to prince & p-funk suck so much, don't they

808s plays better all the way through, but the best songs on The Love Below are so far above anything on the Kanye it's ridiculous.

I'd agree with that.

i'd take fabo from d4l's new material over either (i don't hate them that much though)

how is the stuff - "hey ya" aside" - on the love below "above" anything on the kanye- just cuz andre is real blustery about being nu prince doesn't mean it's actually true, it just means he's cloying

for instance "paranoid", "robocop" and "street lights" are more accomplished than anything on love below except for "hey ya"

rev otm. i'd take 'hey ya' over anything else but come on the first six or seven tracks on 808s are fucking incredible. it does fall off at the end a bit imo but not enough to lose this poll

i think you mean me otm

me otm

I'll take "Spread", "She Lives In My Lap", and "Prototype" over anything on 808s. Most of The Love Below is musically and often lyrically deeper (not that being lyrically deeper than 808s is any kind of accomplishment) and I prefer Andre goofing off to Kanye being all sadsack.

I don't really get "incredible" from anything on 808s, even though I like "Love Lockdown" and "Paranoid" a lot. But there's nothing there that's really NXT LVL.

wait so youre saying TLB?

Yes.

I think 3000 would beat Kanye in ANYTHING. Well, maybe not producing, but Andre's not too shabby at that, either.

I'm arguing for Andre here, but oh come on

I'm arguing for Andre here, but oh come on

― TACO BIZZLE (The Reverend), Sunday, February 1, 2009 5:15 PM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark

You do realize Andre produced most of The Love Below by himself, right? If you're arguing for Andre, then why the hurt feelings?

uh kanye has produced a few good songs of his own fwiw dude

That was aimed at the first part of your statement.

uh kanye has produced a few good songs of his own fwiw dude

― k3vin k., Sunday, February 1, 2009 6:17 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

I'm not denying that at all. I admitted Kanye was a better producer, even if he only wins because of quantity.

That was aimed at the first part of your statement.

― TACO BIZZLE (The Reverend), Sunday, February 1, 2009 6:18 PM (1 second ago) Bookmark

Err...aside from production, where can Kanye claim superiority?

yeah '80s-style funkateers beholden to prince & p-funk suck so much, don't they

i should have written andres 'borderline forced channeling of another artists steeze is pretty sucky', just to clarify.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Who else voted Kanye up in this bitch???

3k > 808

i voted kanye. But if Love Below was just the good 40 minutes, who knows.

My first reaction is Kanye but I am very suspicious of it since I haven't listened to The Love Below in years.

808s is way, way, way more consistent!

True, but that doesn't automatically make it better. I would take "Hey Ya", "She Lives In My Lap" and "Spread" over any of the 808s songs except "Love Lockdown".

LOVE BELOW

Am I the only person who thought Speakerboxxx was stunning, but The Love Below (maybe 4-5 songs aside) was a colossal failure?

Probably so, right?

No, that's the newest opinion I've ever heard.

Hang on I've been Snrub'd haven't I?

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Terribe results. Kayne as a Glacial Metallic Robot >> Andre as an inconsistent oversexed fool in green shirts. Let's not forget that "Love Lockdown" majestically towers over most singles released this decade while "Hey Ya!" will be remembered in ten years time as 'Hey, remember that song about polaroid pictures? I remember the YouTube mash-up with that Charlie Brown cartoon! Remember YouTube?'.

Terrible!

Results totally wrong, sorry ILM you lose.

808s is the album of the decade muthafuckers!!!

oh, please

I was going to posit 'Let's not forget that "Love Lockdown" majestically towers over most singles released this decade while "Hey Ya!" will be remembered in ten years time as 'Hey, remember that song about polaroid pictures?' as the rongest thing in this thread, but you took the cake with that one, homie.

"homie"

I don't hate the Kanye album, but it is way too fucking

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Terribe results. Kayne as a Glacial Metallic Robot >> Andre as an inconsistent oversexed fool in green shirts. Let's not forget that "Love Lockdown" majestically towers over most singles released this decade while "Hey Ya!" will be remembered in ten years time as 'Hey, remember that song about polaroid pictures? I remember the YouTube mash-up with that Charlie Brown cartoon! Remember YouTube?'.

― www.morrissey-cock.com (King Boy Pato), Friday, February 20, 2009 11:59 PM (Yesterday

yoooo...

I will be proven right when the hot new 19-year-old troll bumps this thread in 2019!

808s sounds a lot more typically "2000s" tho, and thus stands a much greater chance of being completely uncool 10 years from now. Also, is worse.

808s "Love Lockdown" (but still)

You could argue that "Love Lockdown" sounds more representative of the "late-00s" and "Hey Ya!" sounds more representative of the "early/mid-00s". Not that it matters too much, you'd think the kids ahead of the curve in 2019 would be getting ready to plan 00s theme parties much like the ones today starting up 90s theme parties.

I will be proven right when the hot new 19-year-old troll bumps this thread in 2019!

― www.morrissey-cock.com (King Boy Pato), Saturday, February 21, 2009 12:15 AM (14 minutes ago)

ouch btw

love it when a plan comes together. not sure why there's so much vocal love below hate, though. loved it then, still love it now. one of my favorite records of any kind of the 00s. way more so than speakerboxxx, which seems more like a "some good songs and some other stuff" jumble. not to diss(miss) it - it's damn good, but it's no love below.

to be fair both those Outkast discs are "some good songs and some other stuff" but the good stuff is STELLAR

i make the sex with all these best non rap album from a rapper!

Justice is served. Two schools of thought I've never understood on ILX - (1) The Love Below is a misbegotten, overpraised disaster and (2) 808s is genius, as opposed to a musically charmless (Love Lockdown and Paranoid excepted), lyrically inept, emotionally retarded curio (consistent, yes, but grindingly so). I'll take messy, kaleidoscopic joy over tunnel-vision narcissism any time. Hey Ya!'s a break-up song too but it's clever enough not to sound like one.

I've always loved that halfway through, Andre just throws his hands in the air and says, "But y'all don't hear me/ You just wanna dance," which is true, because most people don't hear it as a breakup song, they hear it as a fun dance song. And after that point he just gives in, ditching the pathos and going all call-and-response here-be-good-times on our collective asses.

^ this

both are fucking great!