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Yeezus

Yeezus

Kanye West

Kanye really is the litmus test of your ability to separate art from artist, and in these reviews one can plainly see that the Reddit crowd that makes up a large part of this project's audience is unable to do so, even doing so willfully and defiantly. Were you this smugly judgmental when Public Enemy's album popped up here? Is it really less absurd to support the utterly racist Nation of Islam? Kanye has obviously had some kind of mental breakdown or general mental health issue. The views he has uttered are so over the top that they have become comical - I can't begin to understand how people can (still) take him seriously and work themselves up in such a rage about the inclusion of his albums. Speaking of, I am biased towards this album. Being a metalhead in my youth, this album was what made 19 year-old me start appreciating rap music; from here on, I went on to discover a world I had willfully ignored in my teens. I still mostly dislike Kanye's earlier and later albums, but Yeezus has a collection of bombastic, heavy, viscerally memorable beats which have stuck with me. I don't care about lyrics that much - not being a native speaker helps tuning them out, I think - but whenever I pay attention to them, they are either smart, funny, disgusting or just absurd. Still, the production clearly is what matters here, and the art of Kanye's sampling, beats and composition make this a 5/5 album for me - if only barely.

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You Love More Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
Yeezus
Kanye West
 5 2.75 +2.25
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Raekwon
 5 2.84 +2.16
Damaged
Black Flag
 5 2.86 +2.14
The Sun Rises In The East
Jeru The Damaja
 5 2.9 +2.1
Like Water For Chocolate
Common
 5 2.96 +2.04
Reign In Blood
Slayer
 5 2.97 +2.03
Scum
Napalm Death
 4 2.08 +1.92
They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
Liars
 4 2.12 +1.88
Blood, Sweat & Tears
Blood, Sweat & Tears
 5 3.17 +1.83
Forever Changes
Love
 5 3.22 +1.78

You Love Less Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
American Idiot
Green Day
 1 3.77 -2.77
21
Adele
 1 3.7 -2.7
The Queen Is Dead
The Smiths
 1 3.67 -2.67
The ArchAndroid
Janelle Monáe
 1 3.45 -2.45
Heaven Or Las Vegas
Cocteau Twins
 1 3.41 -2.41
You Want It Darker
Leonard Cohen
 1 3.32 -2.32
1989
Taylor Swift
 1 3.26 -2.26
Little Earthquakes
Tori Amos
 1 3.22 -2.22
Hejira
Joni Mitchell
 1 3.14 -2.14
Queen Of Denmark
John Grant
 1 3.12 -2.12

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ArtistAlbumsAverage
The Doors 3 5
Creedence Clearwater Revival 3 5
Beatles 7 4.29
Led Zeppelin 5 4.4
Miles Davis 4 4.5
Metallica 3 4.67
Common 2 5
Black Sabbath 3 4.33

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ArtistAlbumsAverage
Cocteau Twins 2 1
Leonard Cohen 5 1.8
Joni Mitchell 3 1.67
Adele 2 1.5
The Smiths 3 2
Bob Dylan 6 2.33
Bruce Springsteen 4 2.25

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Tom Waits 4, 1
Kanye West 2, 4, 5

5-Star Albums (58)

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Live! Kind Of Blue Led Zeppelin IV 1984 Morrison Hotel Head Hunters Nevermind Doggystyle The Score Abbey Road Reign In Blood Raising Hell Entertainment Odessey And Oracle Smash The Low End Theory Master Of Puppets Revolver ...And Justice For All A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Dance Mania Jazz Samba L.A. Woman Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) The Number Of The Beast Green River Led Zeppelin II Franz Ferdinand Be Illmatic Blood, Sweat & Tears Yeezus System Of A Down The Doors Is This It Cosmo's Factory Black Sabbath Siembra Like Water For Chocolate Songs For Swingin' Lovers! Sound of Silver Queens of the Stone Age Natty Dread Only Built 4 Cuban Linx The Sun Rises In The East Kenya The Dark Side Of The Moon Deep Purple In Rock Bayou Country Rust In Peace Out Of The Blue Unknown Pleasures Appetite For Destruction The Age Of The Understatement Forever Changes Damaged Birth Of The Cool Reggatta De Blanc

4-Star Albums (269)

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1-Star Albums (38)

Meat Puppets II Devil Without A Cause You Are The Quarry American Idiot 1989 I Am a Bird Now Heaven Or Las Vegas Shadowland Little Earthquakes Hejira Shaka Zulu E.V.O.L. Devotional Songs Histoire De Melody Nelson Rising Above Bedlam The ArchAndroid You Want It Darker D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle The Queen Is Dead Queen Of Denmark 21 Kenza Suicide Treasure Opus Dei Nighthawks At The Diner Heaux Tales Duck Stab/Buster & Glen The Rising Kollaps A Little Deeper Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury Car Wheels On A Gravel Road Cupid & Psyche 85 Fever Ray ...Baby One More Time Come Find Yourself Exile In Guyville

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