Sep 22, 2020 Rather arbitrary as always. Like 87 Kanye albums but 1 Beatles? Lmao. Get real. Honestly Ye did a great number on the world, with all his ranting and raving about his greatness, because even as a rap fan and a Ye fan... it's just stupid how much overpraise he gets - some great albums, great songs, sure, but no masterpieces and certainly not half his bloody discog. Beatles' Revolver and Rubber Soul should be on there. Also none of Kanye's albums are better than Em's first three. And I am a Ye fan. But putting any of them ahead of MMLP is absurd.
Sep 22, 2020 Lmaoo, and as if the ordering means anything. It's almost like us humans trying to think of an incomprehensible number like 'hey, think of a million years'... it's not possible. It just doesn't make sense to us due to our experience. After like top 5-10, s--- just becomes almost meaningless. Like, how you gonna name X album at 144 and another at 163 lmao.
Sep 22, 2020 I think Cudi is one of those cases where he as an artist general is more influential than any of his specific albums. I don't think that talent ever fully translated to a tried and true classic unfortunately, but I'd put the second MOTM on there before the first.
Sep 22, 2020 There’s way more than one Beatles record. Also, you didn’t have to go full r----- with that trash Kanye take. All 6 of his first records rightfully are placed on this list. Literally, all 6 are better than Em’s first three. Kanye’s aged perfectly, meanwhile Em’s got stale and dated with the content. His first three are classics though.
Sep 22, 2020 Fully agree with that first take, yet while I’m by no means a big proponent of Cudi, I would take the first MOTM. I felt it was his best attempt at fusing his brand of alt-rap with different sounds—the Ratatat songs are still so good—and I find burgeoning depressed Cudi more intriguing than Sophomore depressed Cudi. Curious for your reasoning though!
Sep 22, 2020 I love the ratatat songs, day and night, a couple others like up up and away. When they first dropped I liked the first one a lot more than the second, but the second one ended up growing on me years later and I think it stood the test of time much better. Outside of the songs we named on the first one, the rest of it just feels kind of...inconsequential. The second one is more fleshed out and comes closer to translating his talents to a holistic project rather than it showing up fully formed in just a few highs on MOTM1.
Sep 22, 2020 if I had to choose, I would go with MOTM2 over MOTM. Both albums are great to me, and I think when judging any albums myself, I tend to lean more towards what the albums meant to me when they came out and moments in my life that the records are directly related to. It’s why I have such a hard time getting into music that predates me. Like, yeah, the Beatles are phenomenal, Sir Paul put on one of the greatest shows I’ve ever seen in person, and he got bonus points for playing Four Five Seconds, but was he the soundtrack to a summer of me drinking in the woods of my hometown with my friends back in the day? h--- no. That, obviously, doesn’t matter to anyone else, but s--- like that means the world to me. That’s why I don’t know if I’d ever like to write a review on music in the traditional sense, and give it a graded score like a Pitchfork. I have to sit on music for a while — especially in today’s music landscape — before I can fully give my opinion on it.
Sep 22, 2020 No way b. Kanye has not created anything as artistically great as MMLP. His closest, by most critical accounts - is 'Dark Fantasy. But that's just a collection of songs. MMLP is a statement on free-speech, ''I am whatever you say I am'' / Encompassing all criticisms and becoming the worst you presume of me... the concept is genius vs. Ye's ''oh I was criticized for interrupting somebody at an award show and now I am an outkast!!'' concept. Ridiculous. MMLP is much more clever and interesting. And funny. And cohesive. That aside, There is NO WAY there deserves to be that many Kanye albums on there. Especially when there's only ONE Beatles album and two Em. I say all Em's first three deserve to be there and 'Graduation' (even though, ironically it is my favorurite Ye album) and 'Yeezus' do not deserve to be. Also love 'Yeezus'.
Sep 22, 2020 Pipe down. “Just a collection of songs.” do you fools listen to music, or just skim through it
Sep 22, 2020 I definitely do not skim through it. I grew up on Ye almost as closely as Em. He has not created anything close to MMLP artistically. And yes, 'Dark Fantasy' is just a 'collection of songs'. Great songs. But that's all it is. Probably closer to a cohesive vision would be 808s or Yeezus. But still neither are genius as MMLP.
