Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak

[EminemBase]

I love it up to and including "Love Lockdown".

Then it's bad news until track 9. Then "Coldest Winter" is great, everything else is 'meh' to me and I think it'd be a lot more cohesive and a stronger album without the rest.

[dR3]

My favorite Kanye album lol.

[Almostlity]

My grandpa passed away today, I'll be bumping this for the rest of the evening.

[Trimss]

My grandpa passed away today, I'll be bumping this for the rest of the evening.

RIP man, be strong my brother

I love it up to and including "Love Lockdown".

Then it's bad news until track 9. Then "Coldest Winter" is great, everything else is 'meh' to me and I think it'd be a lot more cohesive and a stronger album without the rest.

Robocop and Paranoid are meh, but Street Lights is definitely dope.

[tadpole25]

still crap

[Mathers]

Only Kanye album I don't like.

[EminemBase]

Never realized this album had such a mixed reaction to it

Well it didn't critically...

It wasn't universal praise but I'd say fan and critical reaction overall respect the album as an in-the-moment art project that has its place, did what it intended and was a growth.

It was certainly a bold direction to take at such a crucial point, and right after his high from his best (imo) and most cohesive album - Graduation. It's like he hit a bit of a peak there but rather than creating more of the same, he went totally left-field and did something from the heart, and got his creative juices flowing in another direction. I think that freed up his connection to his past work and allowed him to think really vast and big with MBDTF. Impressive scope and ambition, as always.

[Slim Fiasco]

I've never liked this album but I appreciate the direction Kanye took. He was experimenting but not for the sake of it, but because of how he felt. I still wish he didn't use auto-tune though.

[Blu]

RoboCop is my least favorite track. Every other song is gold though. Really love this album.

[VictorVerzion5]

This is the only Kanye album I have not yet listened to....I heard mixed reviews about it. I am considering listening to it, but I just don't know, Kanye doesn't rap in it I heard, so I was kinda skeptical.

[Blu]

BTW, this is a song he recorded after the Taylor incident (idk if it was supposed to be on the album)

[TheGentlePlayer]

Only Kanye album I enjoy.