I'm certain every track is essential. I can't stop listening to this and, like you mentioned, some of the aural thematic elements are still revealing themselves to me.
I'm basically at the point where I'd let this album cum on my back without so much as a dry towel to clean it up.
Re: Kendrick Lamar is better than Soundgarden
Posted: Sat April 22, 2017 1:07 am
by tragabigzanda
Re: Kendrick Lamar is better than Soundgarden
Posted: Sat April 22, 2017 4:22 pm
by Kevin Davis
The hook to "Love" has been stuck in my head for the last week. I've been humming it incessantly. I'm sure it's driving my coworkers nuts.
Re: Kendrick Lamar is better than Soundgarden
Posted: Sat April 22, 2017 4:35 pm
by tragabigzanda
tragabigzanda wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb
I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem
Re: Kendrick Lamar is better than Soundgarden
Posted: Sat April 22, 2017 4:56 pm
by 4/5
Rihanna is perfect on Loyalty. She's great on her own and man they sound perfect together. I love how she's used on this track as opposed to the rap verse/girl sings chorus, repeat formula.
Such a great song.
Re: Kendrick Lamar is better than Soundgarden
Posted: Sat April 22, 2017 4:59 pm
by 4/5
tragabigzanda wrote:
Kevin Davis wrote:The hook to "Love" has been stuck in my head for the last week. I've been humming it incessantly. I'm sure it's driving my coworkers nuts.
Yea, after a week with this album, I'm finally starting to realize how hummable it actually is. It's definitely forward thinking in its production, but its ultimately made to be bumping those car woofers and keep the heads bobbing. All sorts of great hooks buried in here. "Loyalty loyalty loyalty! 10-4, no switches..."
The last few morning I've woken up with a different song, Love, Lust, Yah, and Loyalty, playing in my head as if I'd spent all night listening to that track. I have to be driving my wife insane constantly singing/humming/rapping various lines over and over and over.
Re: Kendrick Lamar is better than Soundgarden
Posted: Sat April 22, 2017 5:06 pm
by Kevin Davis
4/5 wrote:Rihanna is perfect on Loyalty. She's great on her own and man they sound perfect together. I love how she's used on this track as opposed to the rap verse/girl sings chorus, repeat formula.
Such a great song.
She sounds great on that octave-harmony during the refrain. It's a real sweet spot for her voice's timbre -- it's the same effect when she comes in behind Drake on "Work."
Re: Kendrick Lamar is better than Soundgarden
Posted: Sat April 22, 2017 5:20 pm
by Kaius
Agree with all of you and want to add that it also sounds like a creative extension of ANTI.
Re: Kendrick Lamar is better than Soundgarden
Posted: Sat April 22, 2017 5:21 pm
by 4/5
I think this album is going to end up being the perfect pairing with TPAB. I'm just starting to focus on themes and whatnot, but my early thought is that this one is very inward-looking, all about examining his own/the listener's own intentions. TPAB I think did a lot of that as well, but often in a more outward focusing way: It was more the story of him becoming the King, wrestling with the devil's temptations, struggles of the black community, being out of the hood but still wanting to be real, all that stuff. This album has those same issues but now I think he's looking deeply at himself and instead of telling us the story, this time he's judging himself, maybe to see if he can pass God's judgement.
Maybe something like that. Idk. That's an early rough draft of a thought, anyway. I'm definitely buying into the mirror line in XXX. Because this album definitely seems to be about looking at yourself in the mirror and figuring out what's really looking back at you.
Re: Kendrick Lamar is better than Soundgarden
Posted: Sat April 22, 2017 6:22 pm
by Kevin Davis
Re: Kendrick Lamar is better than Soundgarden
Posted: Sat April 22, 2017 10:32 pm
by bodysnatcher
Kevin Davis wrote:
4/5 wrote:Rihanna is perfect on Loyalty. She's great on her own and man they sound perfect together. I love how she's used on this track as opposed to the rap verse/girl sings chorus, repeat formula.
Such a great song.
She sounds great on that octave-harmony during the refrain. It's a real sweet spot for her voice's timbre -- it's the same effect when she comes in behind Drake on "Work."
I can't argue that she's a great fit for that song, I just really don't like her voice overall, so I can't say I enjoy it. Probably my least favorite track on the album simply bc of her. I know, that's dumb, I just can't get past it.
I'm sure there are many other voices that could have sounded great on there, but I guess Rihanna sells records
Re: Kendrick Lamar is better than Soundgarden
Posted: Sat April 22, 2017 11:21 pm
by Kaius
Let me put the head in.
Re: Kendrick Lamar is better than Soundgarden
Posted: Sat April 22, 2017 11:47 pm
by LoathedVermin72
I can't fake humble just 'cause your ass is insecure
