3. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
I'm not a Kanye fan by any means; in fact I've always thought he was a bit of a "jackass" as Obama would put it, but I've never denied his musical talent. On Twisted Fantasy we see him get a load of his celebrity friends together to create a wonderful album full of diverse styles; an unforgetable Nicki Minaj power verse in Monster, and even a bit of Aphex Twin-sampling in Blame Game. In short, this is an album that surprised a lot of people on how good it actually is. I'd never thought I'd write about how Kanye West has delivered one of the albums of the year.
It's undeniably good - not quite 10.0 Pitchfork good - but close enough. I feel quite bad putting it down in 3rd place considering one of the two albums that's coming up is due for general release in 2011 (even though it was fan-ordered in 2010, so I guess it counts) This album should also be noted for Runaway, which is one of my favourite singles of 2010.
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