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List Price: $13.98 | | Label: Roc-A-Fella Records
Salesrank: 758
Released: November 24, 2008 |
| Our Price: $4.89 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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808s & Heartbreak Track Listing:
1. Say You Will
2. Welcome To Heartbreak featuring Kid Cudi
3. Heartless
4. Amazing featuring Young Jeezy
5. Love Lockdown
6. Paranoid featuring Mr. Hudson
7. RoboCop
8. Street Lights
9. Bad News
10. See You In My Nightmares featuring Lil Wayne
11. Coldest Winter
12. Pinocchio Story
Editorial Review:
The ten-time Grammy Award® winning musical phenomenon, rapper, producer, and now singer embarks on a new musical journey taking his audience to new heights. Kanye West returns with his fourth album 808s & HEARTBREAK. His highly anticipated new album set for release on November 25th, featuring the heart pounding first single LOVE LOCKDOWN which premiered live for the first time on the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards. LOVE LOCKDOWN quickly exploded at radio with the video premiering nationwide on the Ellen Degeneres show. "Heartless," the second single, is next up to hit the airwaves further amplifying the story behind the musical direction for 808s & HEARTBREAK.
808s & Heartbreak Reviews:
BEST EVA 
2009-11-02 - KANYE West rocked this album with LOve Lockdown, Heartless, Paranoid so many other songs plus he has alot of artists that are singing with him and his songs all have good beats.
Minimalist Masterpiece 
2009-10-10 - 808s and heartbreak has got to be one of the best albums in recent history. The flow of the album makes sense and it feels very personal despite the auto-tune and 808 synthesizer if you can believe that.
How to descibe this album? It's like John Wesley Harding after Blonde on Blonde; it's like Beggar's Banquet after Their Satanic Majesties Request; it's like Smiley Smile after Pet Sounds and like the Lady Madonna/The Inner Light single after Magical Mystery Tour. What I'm getting at is that its completely different to what it came before but it feels right. There is so much soul in this record; it really is Kanye showing us his heart. Highly recommended.
Way better than most experimental albums
2009-10-06 - Kanye is an egotistical maniac. Everyone can admit that. But he does put out some solid music and this is no exception. This is a very subdued, reflective album that definitely has the ability to really depress you. Almost all the beats are moody and slow. But this isn't supposed to be a party CD. This is Kanye getting his feelings out there after the death of his mother and his broken engagement. Like most people, the auto-tune overkill does get on my nerves at times but it's easy to get past. I actually enjoy all the songs on here with Welcome to Heartbreak, Heartless, Amazing, Street Lights & Coldest Winter being my favorites. The guest appearances are few and far between which helps keep things personal I think. The most important thing I could say is that this isn't a RAP album, it's a POP album. As long as you know that you should enjoy it.
Awesome
2009-09-27 - I bought this CD the week it came out because I truly enjoy Kanye's artistry.
At first listen I thought OKKKKK! But, not "blown away". For a person like me that's a good sign ,because I'm in the habit of disliking something on first listen then I start breaking down the music, notes, lyrics, conception, production until I'm in a full on love affair with an artists vision that I can't break myself away from. This is not a Hip-Hop/Rap Disc it may be best NOT to pigeon hole. Many reviewers have mentioned that Kanye is very reflective of the loss he has gone through and put it all on this CD and that's true. This CD is Dark and Passionate.. The auto-tune is on every track sometimes dominate, sometimes sparingly as an accent on the end of a line....to evoke a broken note or cracked voice. I generally don't love Radio releases because they tend to be too mainstream for me so, no mention of the singles that were released ...my favorite track is "Street Lights" This is a really good CD that's a little before it's time and that will one day be a classic.
Kanye's Best, not rap but R&B
2009-09-26 - With 363 reviews and counting, would another be needed? I say yes. If just to counteract those ignorant people who only gave him one star. Did they even listen to this CD? I am guessing that they did not. They just chose to "weigh in" with ignorant ranting. Perhaps they were disturbed that Kanye interrupted the awards ceremony for Taylor. Well, let me clue you ignorant ones--those awards ceremonies are as phony as other shows. Did the teen "product" deserve an award? Probably, but her producers deserved it more. The amount of talent on TV is shockingly low because "reality" shows are so cheap to produce and allow average doofuses to believe that they can also make it in show business. Hah!
Anyway, coming back to Kanye's CD, this is truly a work of art! He tastefully uses autotune to sculpt his vocal lines--not to correct his pitch. If you want to listen to pitch-corrected vocals, 100% of CDs coming out of Nashville today have the vocals "sweetened." Kanye used autotune as an effect, not as a cosmetic.
This CD is very good in that he has transcended his rap background and moved into the spiritual "soul" music world. If you actually listen to this CD without prejudging, based on Kanye's theatrics and protests, you will find that he has more in common today with Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield than with wack rappers.
If you like Motown, Stax, and other R&B music, I think that you will like this CD. Give it a try without paying attention to the negativity of the hecklers.
