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Originally Posted by Anteater
Indeed. And I didn't even say TPAB was a bad record. Hell, I think it's very good. It hit a huge chord with a lot of people who probably wouldn't listen to anything remotely jazz-inflected at gunpoint under normal circumstances. But people said the same "album of the century" stuff a few years back when Kanye West came out with My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, which was also pretty adventurous musically for a hip-hop record. Are those same people still saying that now though? That's why I find it difficult to take a list seriously that just catapults it to the top: it would be the same thing if the Internet existed back in '82 and all the major online publications saying Michael Jackson's Thriller was the most amazing record of that year. It's good....but is it worth drowning out everything else?
I guess time will tell if we're just looking at a case of hype machine gone rampant or not.
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A lot of my friends talk a lot about the album's importance for the social issues that it discusses, but I find it to be retreading a lot of done issues tbh. That doesn't invalidate it at all and I think he did it well (I quite enjoyed the album, tbh, it'd probably make top 25ish for me), but it's not the groundbreaker that it's made out to be. I also highly agree on MBDTF being the definition of an overhyped record. Yeezus was more deserving of it in my eyes because I liked that album a lot better, but I think that was also given the unnecessary label of innovation.
Back on the general topic, Mondo's new album is actually really ****ing good. He's not just overselling it like I always do, he's got a good reason for it.
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