My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (album) by Kanye West

From Timestarter 24 hours ago

Fav. Tracks: Dark Fantasy, POWER, All of the Lights, Monster, Runaway.

A masterpiece of Kanye

Serving more as a great collection of ideas rather than a cohesive whole, I concur with the sentiment of others that this is delving into decadence for decadence sake. However, it's still a high-quality, high-octane album from one of Rap's finest producers. A Surrealist escape into a Kanye-centric brainstorm and that's interesting on its own merits.

87.2

Favorite Tracks: Monster, Runaway, Blame Game

From Timestarter 04/23/2020 11:19

I suppose that for me it is not the album of the decade of the 10s, but I also think that I am going to give this album a chance that made a before and after in the music history of 2010 and the decade. 10/10.

From arturguerra 04/11/2020 06:04

Average, dated.

This album is the peak of luxury rap. It's grand, it's devilish, it's debaucherous and it's such a great listen. Not a single skip-able song on the album.

The best word I can use to describe this album is decadent. It is filled with such sweet pleasures ("Monster" and most of "Hell of a life" ). At these high points Kanye drops some of his best bars and beats. But like anything decadent is eventually becomes disgusting. There are so really questionable production choices such as the voices on "Gorgeous". The most questionable thing on the album is of course the ending to "Hell of a liife". Things like this really ruin the albums potential.

it sounds great but its really shallow and tacky at times.

I don't have much of a history with rap but this is astounding. The production is butter smooth yet human, the hooks are insane, the instrumentation is rock-inspired at multiple points which is really fun, and his lyrics are introspective and often remorseful... on the good songs. I don't know about rating this one as high as it is, but only because it's not completely consistent. Blame Game and So Appalled are the frontrunners of garbage here imo, and Hell Of A Life and Monster don't tread far behind. But every other track on here really pull their weight.

Favorites: Dark Fantasy, Gorgeous, POWER, All Of The Lights, Runaway