They removed the streaming OG Pablo stuff but PM me if you want a linky to download.

I've listened to TLOP about a dozen times over the last few days, and my opinion is: It's fantastic.

the stretches from Ultra Light Beams to Famous, and then Waves to Wolves are just incredible.

Classic songs: Ultra Light Beams, Famous, FML
Great songs: pt. 2, waves, real friends, NMPILA, Wolves, 30 hours
good songs: feedback, Facts
ok songs: freestyle 4, Highlights

(I haven't listened to Fade yet because Tidal is stupid)


Yeah, I've skipped low lights and Silver surfer on every play through except my first one, but they are interludes, I rarely listen to an interlude more than once.



I almost feel like Kanye albums get held to too high of a standard now because of how incredible his discography is. If you look back at College dropout and Late registration, there is a very comparable mix of classic to just ok songs. Honestly, the only Kanye Album that doesn't have at least 1 song that I don't like much is 808s and Heartbreak. And that is not a criticism, it's just we can't expect every song he ever makes to be incredible. I think he has several songs on every album that are just on another level that most other artists aren't reaching, and he's been doing it consistently for 7 albums now, which is pretty amazing.


This changes all the time, and I love all 7 albums, but my current ranking would go:

808s - classic. one of my favourite albums of all time
MBDTF - classic
College Dropout - classic.. actually all 3 of these are among my favs of all time.
TLOP - potentially a classic
Graduation - great
Late Registration - great
Yeezus - very good

http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/16/11...view-new-album

Pretty spot on review imo

Glad I read that. Because it led me to this:

http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/17/11...rammys-hip-hop

Goddamn right!!

Tracks I can't stop listening to:
ULB
FSMH Part 1
Famous
Feedback
Waves
FML
No more parties

They're all so damn good

question; do you guys think listening to an album from start to finish has any impact on the quality opposed to randomly clicking a few and listening to them??

second question: ive been listening to TLOP on my pc, with basic stereo speakers(old and pry ntb). if i were listen to this album with Bose headphones does it make a big difference in quality??

for the record i signed up for Hi-Fi on Tidal(the best quality for that product)

I usually do the first listen through in the order of the album, since thats the arrangement the artist chose for it. Then i'll (maybe) listen to it a couple of times on random.

When I get a new album I get pretty into it - I listen to it almost exclusively for a few days all in order, then maybe revisit it in order sometimes or just pick and choose songs I like.

I'd definitely listen to any Kanye albums with decent headphones at some point - I'm not a big audiophile but you definitely notice stuff you wouldn't get on basic speakers and the beat usually sounds a lot cleaner

If its a true album and not just a collection of songs, I'll almost always listen to it in order for a few months. Often, like with TPAB, there are some songs so good, I'll listen to them a few times, then listen to the full album, and usually after I already listened to the full album earlier.

this guy ranks every song on every Kanye Album. I kinda like his rankings. I like Famous and Heartless way more than him though.


http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/02/kany...-life-of-Pablo


"Gone" is my #1 Kanye song of all-time.

Something like the gospel choir on ULB will sound infinitely better on solid headphones than ****ty speakers

Nice link, Spaceship is top 10 for me. Can't believe he put it in the sixties

How is Pinocchio Story not lower? Late too late (hehe), Spaceship, Blame Game, Welcome to Heartbreak, FAMOUS wtf in the 60s. Hmm I'm saying almost every song in the 60s is too low so I was thinking maybe the top 50ish are way too good, but he put Highlights AND Low Lights before all the above which is ridiculous.

Yeah I don't think Pinnochio's song, low lights, or I love Kanye should have even been on the list.

wiseman say, wiseman say....

it's to each their own. my favorite Kanye song(actually pry not favorite because its hard picking favorites) still may be Flashing light, lights, lights

I GOT MY PLUG ON MY PHONE LIKE TRUST ME DANNY

I'm starting to be fairly settled with my opinion on Pablo. I'm going to say it's Kanye's worst album, it just doesn't work as an *album* at all (I'm an oldschool record collector type, so I can't get rid of this mentality). It has some extremely great songs, actually half the album is pretty much 10/10 stuff, but there's too much wtfbad stuff and the pacing / terrible interludes / overall messiness just doesn't work for me. Like many people have pointed out, it really does feel like he just threw it together in two days - not the production, but how the order of the songs and the mere existence of about half of them on the album. I'm a huge Kanye fan and the above is not saying I don't still enjoy Pablo immensely, 4/5.

It's crazy to me how anyone can think of anything other than 808s as Kanye's worst by a big margin but to each their own.

It's my second favourite Kanye album after MBDTF, but each to their own

I'm about as huge a Kanye fan as you can be and 808s is my favourite Kanye Album. Every song is amazing.

The album fundamentally changed the direction of hip hop and paved the way for people like Drake and J Cole.

I'm listening to Opera and Illuminati Love Song a lot.

Apparently a new Kanye album in a few months lol

added Jazz Cartier to my itunes thanks to Tidal - haven't listened to it much but it sounded alright when i sampled it

this song -

I recommend NOT listening to the new Macklemore album