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Posts Tagged Kanye West

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September 2, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Kanye West: Donda

Kanye West Donda Getting Out Our Dreams II, LLC Distributed by Def Jam, A Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. Where people fell over themselves to either pan this or declare it a misunderstood classic barely minutes after making it through the torturous 27-song track listing, I myself have waited several days so as to at […]
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October 12, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Music Snob: Apparently…

There’s an almost anti-intellectualism angle at play when you hear all these whining, soppy or pious points of view that the death of Glenn Frey from the Eagles is as important as David Bowie’s and/or Lemmy’s and/or anyone else who has shuffled off recently. Lives matter. Absolutely. But when we mourn a musician we are […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Apparently, Blog, Bowie, Comment, David Bowie, Eagles, Eulogy, Glenn Frey, http://offthetracks.co.nz/on-the-death-of-glenn-frey/, Kanye West, Lemmy, Motorhead, Music Snob, Music Snob: Apparently..., Prince, Radio, The Eagles ·

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April 9, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The State of Play: Fame Goes, Music Remains…

“We live in an age of music for people who don’t like music. The record industry discovered some time ago that there aren’t that many people who actually like music. For a lot of people, music’s annoying, or at the very least they don’t need it. They discovered if they could sell music to a […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Fame Goes, Kanye West, Money, Music, Music Industry, Music Remains…, T-Bone Burnett, The State of Play, The State of Play: Fame Goes ·

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August 7, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Kirk Walker Graves: Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (33 1/3)

Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (33 1/3) Kirk Walker Graves Bloomsbury Academic Okay, first up, yes, I was not a fan – at all – of Kanye’s Dark Twisted Fantasy. So why would I read a book about it? Well – why not? Also, I’ll read anything (and I nearly have read everything) […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 33 1/3, Book Review, Kanye West, Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Kirk Walker Graves, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy ·

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July 19, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Jay-Z: Magna Carta Holy Grail

Jay-Z Magna Carta Holy Grail Universal Music It’s good. You know, I think a lot of people decided it couldn’t be because this billionaire didn’t deserve even more success; didn’t deserve to make money by cynically distributing the album with a new (clever) deal that could only work for one or two names in music. […]
Posted in Blog · Tagged Album Review, Beyonce, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Magna Carta Holy Grail, Universal ·

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June 19, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Kanye West: Yeezus

Kanye West Yeezus Virgin Records He might think he’s Jesus – or bigger than – Yeezus even (whatever that actually is?) – but on New Slave you hear him boast that he’s bigger than his own race, presumably better too. He also, in saying it’s better to be a dick than a swallower, manages to […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Hip-Hop, Kanye, Kanye West, Strange Fruit, Tricky, Yeezus ·

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December 17, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1713

Kanye West, The College Dropout (2004) I didn’t like that silly vocoder album at all and made my feelings pretty clear regarding its absurd shark-jumping follow-up but the first three Kanye West albums were all pretty easy to like. And they flow on well from one to the next – he’s slowly but surely turning […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 2004, 808s & Heartbreak, Alicia Keys, All Falls Down, Blog On The Tracks, Jay-Z, Jesus Walks, Kanye West, Last Call, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Through The Wire, Vinyl ·

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