Kanye West - The Life of Pablo (February 14, 2016) Album • Page 15

Not a big fan of Fade, I know this is a cop-out but I just feel like that song could have been a lot cooler. Love the bass line but not much else about the track is thrilling to me

 

cause i gotta listen to kendrick saying "dick still good tho" over and over again to get there

 

i just skip right to fade, sometimes i listen to the new version of facts because that charlie heat beat is fucking flamessssssssssss

 

I still mostly listen to the whole album, but start to Franks is all fire to me, I listen up til Frank's when I don't want to dedicate a whole hour to the album

 

*head still good tho

 

shows how long its been since i listened!

 

Saint Pablo is kinda bad. The Einstein line...woof.

 

What did I miss lol

 

Yeah, I threw everything after "Frank's Track" into a playlist with "Only One" and "All Day" titled Swish. It's a fun listen.

"Saint Pablo" is great;

 

Wait...I can't be the only one that sees everything after "Frank's Track" to be bonus tracks, right? If I'm not mistaken, he even says on "30 Hours" that it's the bonus songs or something of that nature. I thought the album was "Ultralight Beam" to "Wolves" and then the rest was just extra content.

Edit: And I think if the album's looked at in that way, it's very cohesive thematically. It always adds up to me, anyhow.

 

Yeah we all have discussed it before, for all those reasons. I do think of it that way, but since the only way the album exists is with ALL the songs, it's not like you can find a "standard" edition anywhere. It's just another wrinkle in this unique album.

 

Yeah that's basically the consensus I think

 

If it were actually "Bonus tracks" why wouldn't ye have indicated it in any way aside from a small line in 30 hours?

I mean, I'd love to say the album anded after wolves/frank, I used to be #teambonustrack... but at this point I feel like saying it does is just us all going out of the way to make excuses for the shortcoming of the album.

 

Does anyone actually buy that him updating the album every so often is actually some sort of artistic statement? And not just a bullshit marketing ploy at this point?

 

doesn't matter to me tbh the album is incredible either way

 

i think it doesnt really matter

 

god "facts" sucks so much but the beat is so fucking amazing

 

Yeah, I get that, and it is frustrating in that way. I like that Kanye was trying something different with this release, but the roll-out definitely did not work for me (or many other fans, from what I've heard).

 

theres also the max b thing being called an "intermission," coupled with the line about it being bonus stuff its both metatextual and in the actual text. hard for me to see an argument for it any other way.

 

Got GA tickets for the DC show through the Tidal presale and I'm incredibly hyped

Extremely expensive but I don't even care

 

like views has "hotline bling" as a bonus track across all versions but that still doesn't mean its a part of the album proper imo

 

Albums have intermissions all the time. Don't think you can add it to the proof category. The one line would be the only hint, but Ultralight Beams also references being the last track on the album, and isn't. So the line could just another causality from all the shuffling he did.

It's just hard for me to believe that someone as controlling over his art as Kanye wouldn't clear up the actual end to his album if it needed to be.

 

Hotline "Artificially inflate my album sales" Bling

 

see but the life of pablo from before it was even released was known to be a more haphazard, throw everything at the wall kind of project and thats what we got its so fucking messy and beautiful

 

idk i think interlude vs. intermission is very different, and the tonal shift coupled with the lyric in 30 hours kind of makes it pretty clear to me. even if you want to look at it as one whole "standard" album i think it probably works because of the intermission, it separates two very different pieces of the same whole