Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak

[halo19]

A very respectable album and personally a welcome change of pace. I don't know how I'd really compare it with his other albums, really. They seem like a different kind of animal from this. While I may end up liking other works more I find this to be solid on the whole.

4/5.
01. Paranoid
02. Love Lockdown
03. Heartless (Up 2/3 a grade from the report card topic.)
04. Coldest Winter
05. See You in My Nightmares
06. Welcome to Heartbreak
07. Street Lights
08. RoboCop
09. Say You Will (Could've made the outro a bit shorter.)
10. Bad News
11. Amazing (The hook bugs me because it's so redundant.)
12. Pinnochio Story

I hear "Paranoid" has a remix being released to radio but will feature Rihanna instead. I hear that "Nightmares" is being released as the other single at the same time, which would personally be fine with me, since they'd get through most of the record's highlights (the way I look at it). One advantage for "Paranoid" is that if that version got overplayed I could still lean on this one.

[a Nick O!]

A very solid effort indeed. I still prefer Graduation hands down to his other albums and am unsure how this would stack up against his first two, since I only familiarized myself with my burned copies of them (finally) earlier this year. I wanna say I already like this more than those anyway, just because it's so different and groundbreaking.

Oh yeah, and I don't understand all the love around here for "Paranoid."

Anyway here's my album ranker:

(4/5)

01. Heartless
02. Coldest Winter
03. Love Lockdown
04. Say You Will (Very unconventional to begin an album with a subdued 6 minute ballad, the second half of which is just the beat carrying on. I like it.)
05. Welcome to Heartbreak
06. Paranoid
07. Street Lights
08. RoboCop
09. See You in My Nightmares
10. Amazing (The hook is repetitive, but moreover, the gruff background grunts kill it for me.)
11. Bad News
12. Pinocchio Story

[blahblahblah]

I still think Late Registration was his best album so far, but I love this album and the total different direction he took. The production is superb.

1. Love Lockdown
2. RoboCop
3. Heartless
4. Paranoid
5. Say You Will [green](I thought it was really smart that he put this track at the beginning with the long outro, it totally sets the tone for the rest of the album)[/green]
6. Coldest Winter
7. Welcome To Heartbreak
8. Street Lights
9. Amazing
10. See You In My Nightmares
11. Bad News
12. Pinocchio Story

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Looks like he made a video for "Welcome To Heartbreak" even though it's not a single. Love it though:

www.vimeo.com/3256023