“Heartless” is arguably one of the most popular songs produced by Kanye – it has more than 457 million plays on Spotify and counting, at any rate – and there’s a reason why. * Interestingly, this is one of the rare times I’ve seen Rolling Stone’s greatest 500 albums rankings (#244 out of 500) and AllMusic’s rating (a paltry 2.5 out of 5 stars) clash so intensely. While it’s a little dumb, one of the inclusion criteria for the best 1,000 albums ever list is an album that demands to be included. There’s an authenticity and raw energy on it that is compelling and broke through and connected with me on a visceral level. And honestly I wasn’t that turned on by most of it.īut with 808s and Heartbreak, something broke through for me. I at least sampled through his entire catalog. And if it’s mental healthcare that he needs, I truly hope he seeks it out and gets better.īut getting back to West’s musical output and the 1,000 best albums ever project, I really tried hard to separate my feelings about Kanye West as a person and his musical output.
Which is to say that while I believe that Kanye West is massively talented, he’s also often massively misguided. I bring this up because at some point it’s natural for my feelings about an artist to bleed into the creations that that artist produces. There are many other examples, of course. This was always a fun one to have on my mp3 player at the gym during that era. It’s a great upbeat and catchy pop song with seamless and exceptional hip hop verses from Kanye. A big reason why was (and is) that I greatly enjoy the song “American Boy,” credited to Estelle and featuring West. Dialing back to 2008 or so and earlier in Kanye’s career, I had generally positive feelings about him as an artist.
Kanye West obviously has a large footprint in the music and pop culture landscape at the time of this writing in early 2022.
And by “one,” I really mean Kanye West.Ĩ08s and Heartbreak is the only Kanye album you’ll find on my best 1,000 albums ever list – something I typically won’t signal “ahead” of time, but I think it’s useful to do so here. What does Kanye West’s 808s and Heartbreak mean to me? What does it make me feel? Why is it exciting or compelling? Find out more about why I embarked on a best 1,000 albums ever project. This is 100% my own personal super biased, incredibly subjective take on what my top 1,000 albums are, ranked in painstaking order over the course of doing research for nearly a year, Rob from High Fidelity style. Yeah, I know it’s audacious, a little crazy (okay, maybe a lot cray cray), bordering on criminal nerdery.īut here’s what it’s NOT: a definitive list of the Greatest Albums of All-Time. What does the “best 1,000 albums ever” mean and why are you doing this?
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