***RANKING KANYE***

the only one I own is College Dropout. he strikes me as a singles artist by and large. and a fun, provocative one, for the most part.

he's like the pre-eminent hip-hop album artist right now dude, what the fuck

808s > Graduation > College Dropout > Late Registration

kinda expect to be the solitary vote for that order tho

College Dropout > 808s > Late Registration > Graduation

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College Dropout > 808s > Graduation > Late Registration

excellent poll btw

Wow, I didn't realize he had so many albums! I don't listen to much (c)rap, but I enjoy Jesus Walks (and any other song that celebrates our lord!) (:

love u boo

808s > Graduation > College Dropout > Late Registration

kinda expect to be the solitary vote for that order tho

no I'm getting on board this good ship

late reg > college dropout > graduation > 808s

KBP your taste as always is cultured and aged to perfection

lol who is princess tamtam fess up

I like 808s and Late Registration about equally, but I went for 808s > Late Registration > The College Dropout > Graduation. Graduation never made much of an impression on me, but I always enjoy it when it's on.

something > something > something > 808s

college dropout > graduation > late registration > 808s

first 3 are super close, i think i enjoy graduation more than most ppl and late registration less than most ppl, i'm not sure how strong an argument i could wage for college dropout being the best but definitely the most i liked kanye.

Late Registration > 808s > Graduation > College Dropout

college dropout is so the best.h

he was a likeable dude on the first one none of this tormented superstar shit

No "fuck Kanye" option?

no.

I only like the 2nd and 3rd, 808 is dire, voted fuck kanye

good poll whiney

College Dropout > 808s > Late Registration > Graduation

- 'college dropout' is def 'favorite albums ever' for me
- 'late registration' is great in its own right, and i've argued that it's kanye's 'definitive' album & i've grown to love it over time when it can be separated from critical evaluation a bit & its clunkers seem less important and the enduring songs... more enduring -- that said it does have some real clunkers -- also has dope album cuts, like any album w/ "drive slow" & "gone" & "crack music" is pretty hard to fuck with
- i've said before that i don't really dig 'graduation' -- some of the tracks on this album are his most minor ever imo, like "big brother" & "homecoming" & "everything i am" & "drunk & hot girls" -- also the whole production aesthetic i don't really think is his best either -- has a great run of singles & some dope album tracks, but this one aged poorly for me almost immediately
- '808s' to me is a total classic -- kanye is a great pop musician & i think he was able to succeed in writing an album of awesome melodies & hooks -- beats were surprisingly interesting as well & generally the whole thing just exceeded even my lofty expectations -- even the total ugliness of the autotune works for me

should have stuck to my guns and went G > CD > LR > 808s but I pussied out and put dropout first

lol who is princess tamtam fess up

― S Beez Wit the Remedy (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 23 October 2010 01:35 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

man, agree with j0rdan 100%

:D

College Dropout > Late Registration > Graduation > 808s

really love both the first two, late registration can just seem a bit bloated sometimes. basically like both the last two - both have total classic moments along with totally embarrassing ones, and i definitely appreciate how he kept me interested in him rather than underwhelming diminishing returns on a successful formula. that seems to have died this year - i'm so bored of people talking about what crazy thing he's said or tweeted, and none of his music is provoking a reaction either way for me.

some of the tracks on this album are his most minor ever imo, like "big brother" & "homecoming" & "everything i am" & "drunk & hot girls"

haw i have a real soft spot for "homecoming". and the "can't tell me nothing"/"barry bonds"/"drunk and hot girls"/"flashing lights" run is what makes the album for me - the sticky, woozy, plasticky beats + the partying, the bravado, the slight cokey sense of wrongness.

^^^^

late reg > college dropout > graduation > 808s

― johnny crunch, Friday, October 22, 2010 8:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i'm really gonna be interested in the trends of data here. I bet 808s is gonna be a lot of people's 2nd and 4th picks

808s > Late Registration > College Dropout > Graduation

not sure if i've got the order right after the first two really. i really don't get on with kanye's rapping so 808s was always going to be the winner for me.

for me:

College Dropout - 2nd best because it's ultimately more 'important' than it is 'great' and probably would've been better as the 2003 pre-release version before he swapped out some songs and added those horrible skits

Late Registration - best because same weaknesses as CD for the most part but the strengths are stronger (Kanye's rapping, song concepts, creative production, etc)

Graduation - 3rd best because removing the skits and throwaway experiments from the formula of the first 2 albums was a much better idea in theory than in practice, "Flashing Lights" is classic and a couple other songs are great but a big downward slide in the rapping and it's just kind of weak as an album

808s - worst because his singing sucks w/ or w/o AutoTune and everything about this album is cravenly trend-chasing and emotionally toxic

^ this, although i'd probably sooner put on graduation than dropout now.

something > something > something > 808s

― my sex drew back into itself tight and dry (abanana), Saturday, 23 October 2010 02:39 (11 hours ago) Bookmark

is my real answer though tbh - don't care enough to think about ye seriously any more

some dude couldn't be more wrong unless he thought like Carter III was a kanye album or something

college dropout > graduation > late registration > 808s

first 3 are super close, i think i enjoy graduation more than most ppl and late registration less than most ppl,

^^^^ Graduation may have three or four crap tracks, but it's got a victory-lap feel that to me is infectious. LR has lots of cool experiments that I could only hear once ("Heard'em Say").

and "Stronger" is the one single of his I can play over and over.

yeah, i don't really have a bad thing to say about graduation. it is probably his least 'weighty' release but in terms of the kanye narrative it remains something of a relief and i continue to appreciate that.

some dude couldn't be more wrong unless he thought like Carter III was a kanye album or something

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, October 23, 2010 9:19 AM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

what does this even mean

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whiney g weingarten attempts music criticism part 4000

and "Stronger" is the one single of his I can play over and over.

― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, October 23, 2010 8:22 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

o_O his worst single by miles

i think "stronger" is classic & always was, but it's certainly not his best single

& his worst single by miles is "new workout plan"

i liked that song when it was just an album track -- it didnt wear well as a single -- but its still better than 'stronger'

& maybe "homecoming" -- i mean if you dig either of those singles over "stronger" you're crazy

stronger is so clumsy & destroys everything good about the song it samples. its straight up awful

no

Er, almost.

Late Registration is his masterpiece if he'll ever have one

I wonder if I am going to be a solitary challops vote

(808s > Late Registration > Graduation > College Dropout)

ass backwards

basically College Dropout is a DQ because I've only ever heard the singles (and, while I like them, they have never enticed me into getting the album) but I resolutely stand by the order of the other three

something > something > something > something >>>>> my beautiful dark twisted fantasy

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8 ppl think graduation is the best kanye album

holy shit

yeah thats kind of a bummer

Kanye's last album, 2008's 808s and Heartbreak, was heavy on the Auto-Tune and stark synths, but relatively light on grandiose ideas. It was a necessary detour that expanded his emotional palette; a bloodletting after a harsh breakup and the passing of his mother that manifests itself in Twisted Fantasy's harshest lows.

Gah. This is pissing me off. 808s was a substantial narrowing of his emotional pallete.

yeah i thought the same thing -- in fact, kanye's whole existence and popularity and transcendence was PREDICATED on him coming into rap with a wider "emotional palette" than every other rapper

^^^

that and great pop instincts, which he also abandoned on 808s

i like this album but let's be real it's about a 7.8

was disappointed to scroll down to the byline and find someone who isn't sean fennessey's byline at the bottom

been thinking about my dark twisted fenessey ever since.. j0rd's? dn

i mean, i guess you could argue that 808s added "i hate the shit out of my ex-girlfriend, what a bitch" to his emotional palette, thus widening it... but that would be a poorly worded sentence

it does feel like pfork "had" to give this a 10.0 though...when are we ever going to see another music event as big as this?

10!!!!!!!!!

it's almost as if ilxor's ban timing was aligned in the cosmos

I have seen a few 10s in my life time

With "Runaway", he rousingly highlights his own douchebaggery, turning it into a rallying cry for all humanity. With "Runaway", he rousingly highlights his own douchebaggery, turning it into a rallying cry for all humanity. With "Runaway", he rousingly highlights his own douchebaggery, turning it into a rallying cry for all humanity. With "Runaway", he rousingly highlights his own douchebaggery, turning it into a rallying cry for all humanity. With "Runaway", he rousingly highlights his own douchebaggery, turning it into a rallying cry for all humanity. With "Runaway", he rousingly highlights his own douchebaggery, turning it into a rallying cry for all humanity. With "Runaway", he rousingly highlights his own douchebaggery, turning it into a rallying cry for all humanity. With "Runaway", he rousingly highlights his own douchebaggery, turning it into a rallying cry for all humanity. With "Runaway", he rousingly highlights his own douchebaggery, turning it into a rallying cry for all humanity. With "Runaway", he rousingly highlights his own douchebaggery, turning it into a rallying cry for all humanity. With "Runaway", he rousingly highlights his own douchebaggery, turning it into a rallying cry for all humanity. With "Runaway", he rousingly highlights his own douchebaggery, turning it into a rallying cry for all humanity.

and then the humanity goes home back inside when he moans into a vocoder for 5 minutes

rilly ril

10.4!

10.0 about 1 hour ago via web Retweeted by 48 people

hipsterrunoff
HIPSTER RUNOFF

what was the last 10 for something that wasn't a reissue, btw?

well the gangsta yankee hotel foxtrot finally arrived

― J0rdan S., Monday, November 22, 2010 12:09 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

yeah, that seems to be right

http://web.archive.org/web/20080307075155/www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/22719-gay

http://web.archive.org/web/20080307075155/www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/22719-gay-fish

would they have given this a 10 if deej hadn't given flockaveli an 8?

enjoying early reactions to our kanye review. bring on the conspiracy theories! #thisalbumisfuckinguntouchable about 1 hour ago via web Retweeted by 18 people

ryanpitchfork
ryan schreiber

ryan schreiber reupholstered my pussy

It's a zonked nirvana with demons underneath

talking about dayo's pussy obv

my theory is that they're just trying to get a discount on kanye's headlining set for pfork fest 2011

maybe kanye sent schreiber a picture of his dick

*listens to a track from the "experimental" alt-country My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy*

would love to see pfork reviews reviews take on the 10.0 kanye pfork review

it's almost as if ilxor's ban timing was aligned in the cosmos

\o_O/

yeah, I think PRR obviously needs to write abt this

by first place votes:
CD 34
LR 24
Grad 8
808s 15

by instant run-off:
CD 44
LR 30
Grad 4th
808s 3rd

was disappointed to scroll down to the byline and find someone who isn't sean fennessey's byline at the bottom

― ＿|￣|○|￣|○|￣|○ (dayo), Monday, November 22, 2010 1:52 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

dombal co-founded fennessey's kanye fan website before they wrote for PF fwiw

would love to see pfork reviews reviews take on the 10.0 kanye pfork review

― ilxor, Monday, November 22, 2010 10:33 AM (Yesterday)

yeah, I think PRR obviously needs to write abt this

― markers, Monday, November 22, 2010 10:36 AM (Yesterday)

not exactly, but kinda sorta maybe?

http://www.pitchforkreviewsreviews.com/post/1653393591/19-hours-after-its-release-jesse-eisenberg-still

irl lol'd at the ending

"like this woman is trying to set jesse eisenberg up with her daughter at this gala for children affected by an unintentional nuclear explosion and i’m just thinking about the whole thing"

is pretty classic too

*moves this talk to the PRR thread*

MIssed this... would have did option 1 or 2 and add MBDTF right ahead of 808s.