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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