Rank the Best Kanye Singles...

[Birds in Hell]

Prince sucks.

Bowie is borderline OK in small doses.

I have no opinion on Kanye.

[@SkitchP]

Prince sucks.

Bowie is borderline OK in small doses.

I have no opinion on Kanye.

spenno post

[BurtReynolds]

i admire his consistency.

[Birds in Hell]

Every day I have to restrain myself from entering the Bruce Springsteen thread to talk about how much I hate Bruce Springsteen, at least let me have this.

[Jorge]

Prince sucks.

Bowie is borderline OK in small doses.

I have no opinion on Kanye.

As silly as I think saying "Prince sucks" is, the reason Lament brought them up was this post by Orph

Careful Orpheus, or someone is going to write a vaguely worded song that kinda sorta hints at insulting you, then you'll get caught up in a rap battle over Twitter, followed by making up at the VMAs 2 years later.

Meanwhile, Kendrick Lamar is meeting with Prince and David Bowie to create a Sun Ra inspired space concept album that will melt everyone's face, cause, ya know, that's kinda his bag.

[BurtReynolds]

Every day I have to restrain myself from entering the Bruce Springsteen thread to talk about how much I hate Bruce Springsteen, at least let me have this.

i know that pain.

[Birds in Hell]

Prince sucks.

Bowie is borderline OK in small doses.

I have no opinion on Kanye.

As silly as I think saying "Prince sucks" is, the reason Lament brought them up was this post by Orph

Careful Orpheus, or someone is going to write a vaguely worded song that kinda sorta hints at insulting you, then you'll get caught up in a rap battle over Twitter, followed by making up at the VMAs 2 years later.

Meanwhile, Kendrick Lamar is meeting with Prince and David Bowie to create a Sun Ra inspired space concept album that will melt everyone's face, cause, ya know, that's kinda his bag.

Well, for what it's worth, my antipathy for "The Boss" runs much deeper than my dislike of Prince which is really more of a general disconnect. "Sucks" is a very broad umbrella.

[verb_to_trust]

Chief Keef is a piece of shit

I do not know who Chief Keef is. And for what it's worth, I read one of those "top 25 VMA moments" articles that popped up when I went to check my email, and I didn't recognize 2/3 of the people it mentioned.

Chief Keef is just straight up a bad person. At least Kanye is only an insecure douche.

[@SkitchP]

"Sucks" is a very broad umbrella.

Now that is a spenno post.

[bart]

ella ella

[Birds in Hell]

Let's rip out some more "spenno posts" while the going's good: bart, I get the reference but, to the best of my knowledge, I've never actually heard that song. I don't think I've ever heard a Kanye song either for that matter, apart from that relatively recent one where he and a naked Kim are riding on a motorbike in the film clip (and I have only the vaguest recollection of that).

[E.H. Ruddock]

Every day I have to restrain myself from entering the Bruce Springsteen thread to talk about how much I hate Bruce Springsteen, at least let me have this.

Yeah, I avoid that thread at all costs.

[bart]

Let's rip out some more "spenno posts" while the going's good: bart, I get the reference but, to the best of my knowledge, I've never actually heard that song.

That's probably a good thing, spenno:

http://vigilantcitizen.com/musicbusines ... -umbrella/

[verb_to_trust]

Let's rip out some more "spenno posts" while the going's good: bart, I get the reference but, to the best of my knowledge, I've never actually heard that song. I don't think I've ever heard a Kanye song either for that matter, apart from that relatively recent one where he and a naked Kim are riding on a motorbike in the film clip (and I have only the vaguest recollection of that).

But he is a video vangaurd!!

[zeb]

at least let me have this.

I lolled.

[Lament]

Every day I have to restrain myself from entering the Bruce Springsteen thread to talk about how much I hate Bruce Springsteen, at least let me have this.

What's the appeal in going into a thread just to talk about how much you hate someone? I seriously don't get it.

[Birds in Hell]

Every day I have to restrain myself from entering the Bruce Springsteen thread to talk about how much I hate Bruce Springsteen, at least let me have this.

What's the appeal in going into a thread just to talk about how much you hate someone? I seriously don't get it.

It's certainly not dignified but it is pleasurable in a self-satisfied kind of way.

[Kaius]

Every day I have to restrain myself from entering the Bruce Springsteen thread to talk about how much I hate Bruce Springsteen, at least let me have this.

What's the appeal in going into a thread just to talk about how much you hate someone? I seriously don't get it.

Let's ask an expert: LV?

[LoathedVermin72]

Every day I have to restrain myself from entering the Bruce Springsteen thread to talk about how much I hate Bruce Springsteen, at least let me have this.

What's the appeal in going into a thread just to talk about how much you hate someone? I seriously don't get it.

Let's ask an expert: LV?

Hehe. Well, I will say that I've never understood the "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all" notion; positive and negative opinions are both equally valid and important components of conversation, especially when it comes to art. If I don't like something and I feel like talking about it, I will go into a thread and do so regardless of how much others may like it (or vice versa). I think that's why all of us make posts on a message board: we have things we feel like talking about, and it's (usually) fun to talk about them with other people.

That said, there are times when I don't really get what a poster is trying to do. If I say something negative about something and no conversation is generated, I typically try to leave it at that and I won't keep making "hater" posts unless I have something new to say. But some of the repetitive negativity in the Kanye thread puzzles me a bit. It starts to feel a bit like troll-y thread derailment after a while. I get why it can feel bothersome to see a bunch of people praising something you hate without dissent, but there's always plenty of dissent when it comes to Ye, so I don't think that can really apply.

[BigRedLedbetter]

Pretty awesome speech.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... h-20150831