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Originally Posted by foreverasskiss
that Lou Reed review is just perfect and dead-on. if i can maintain goosbumps for almost half an album then its classic in my book. i think "Hold my Liquor" is one of the center pieces of the album. the way it falls apart in certain moments, the guitar squalls and that solo. the last three songs can kinda fuck off, but still, the first 7 songs are blissfull.
Yeezus kills MBDTF and im not even a Kanye freak.
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Yeezus does no such thing. It's a straighter, more immediate death stroke of an album: a quick slip of a knife across one's jugular, while MBDTF is definitely a more of a death by poisoning, forcing you to lie in wait of your own impending end, reflecting on your life as it flashes before your eyes.
The two are hard to compare, like Graduation and 808's, because they simply use different means to achieve different ends. But if I had to compare them, I would be forced to takes to account the simple math of the situation:
MBDTF has 13 (14 if you count “See Me Now”) perfect songs.
Yeezus has 10 perfect songs.
Assuming only that Yeezy's absolute best work is all equally good; that all perfect songs are 5-stars (it's easier than actually coming up with a z-score for 24 tracks from 2 vastly different records) then MBDTF is clearly the “better” record, from the perspective of a
total Kanye freak.
However: I agree 100% about “Hold my Liquor.” It's the album's centerpiece... The most dramatic and powerful song. Most probably believe "Blood on the Leaves" holds that title, but I don't. It's a great song, but "Hold my Liquor" sounds like a direct message to the world... The "Bitch I'm back out my coma" lines make my heart race, and the subject matter of the song is so personal and so unguarded... You don't hear brutal honesty like that in hip hop very often, and it's a departure from Ye's tendency to favor cleverness and wit over raw emotion. I really do love every track on Yeezus, especially "bound 2," which is a more traditionally "Yeezy" track, one that might fit fairly comfortably on one of his first three albums if not for the abrupt tempo changes and the prog rock chorus. It's disliked by so many of his fans, but it's my second favorite song on the album, easily.