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Originally Posted by louder
Amazing.  I really hope I'll get to see him live again soon, with the floating stage and all. By the way, I still find TLOP to be Kanye's weakest and wish it wasn't so rushed and messy, but I've finally grown an appreciation for MOST of the songs on it. |
YAY!!! Best news I've heard in a while.
I do understand, because it is messy. It's like he captured a bunch of disparate, emotionally charged
moments and that's not his usual character at of doing things. He usually makes album-albums, focused more on cohesion and overall effect than on the individual parts.
But the white album comparison makes it work for me. White Album is my favorite Beatles album by far, and it's similarly component-focused. And, you know, Kanye never wants to repeat himself, so it's a new thing for him to make an album like this.
And, the more I listened to the album straight through the more it made sense in its sequence. Now it's hard to imagine anything else.
AND let me tell you, those songs REALLY come alive in concert. Father stretch my hands is so epic that the asshole line doesn't even really register. And Freestyle 4... man, he turned that thing into a straight up banger.
I love Kanye segues so well into that heavenly intro to Waves that the two are inseparable in my mind. He actually played that intro twice, to the delight of everyone.
Glad to hear you're liking it at least kind of... er whatever