Random: Kanye West's Potential Album Tracklist is All About the Wii

Don't care about that guy or his wife. It's a good list of games though.

Ugh....never like him.
Also, he doesn't have good attitudes from I heard the news.
E.T. is better sung by Katy Perry herself, Solo, without Kanye.

I prefer rock music but I'd check out those tracks. There are a lot of great titles there.

really? is this a belated april fools joke.....

This isn't news

@cfgk24 Ya, you're right.

@cfgk24 This is why it's tagged "random". Check the tag, not much can be called news. Unless you consider that investigative journalism :

But it's fun and the album seems like a great playlist (hah funny joke).

This'd be worthy of a few good laughs if it weren't for the fact Kanye's obviously got mental health problems.

Easy target, Mitch :-/

West's megalomania knows no bounds. If he were to do something more in league with his "talent," he'd base it on the Xbox library instead. It'd be an incredibly short album--one or two tracks, at best--but at least it'd be honest.

Raving Rabbids would have been the most appropriate title

If he picks 'Sin & Punishment 2' for a song title, Nintendo will just have to make a third one, right? If so, then I'm all for it.

I remember reading about this album a year or two ago. The only part that's new to me is the Wii names.

... Hell, I'd listen to it just for finding out what Tatsunoko vs Capcom would sound like.

@Anti-Matter I'd rather listen to E. T himself singing than either of those 2.

Kanye does know that the Wii and Turbo Grafx 16 are two different consoles right?

Also, wouldn't it be a nightmare getting all of those copyright owners' permission?

He was going to name his songs after TurboGrafx-16 games but then realised there isn't 14 games worth singing about.

@HappyMaskedGuy I don't think they'd be any copyright issues just for copying the titles. If something has been published then 'Fair Use' applies, and just copying the names from a video game would very likely come under fair use. When you consider a whole video game as a copyrighted 'thing', the title is a minute fraction of the work as a whole, and proportionality is one of the fair use factors. Video game titles aren't generally trademarked, I don't think, so it's not like anyone can claim full rights to the words 'sonic colours'.

In the EU 'use of a trade mark by third parties for the purpose of artistic expression should be considered as being fair as long as it is at the same time in accordance with honest practices in industrial and commercial matters'. In a case like this, it's not like Kanye would be making a CD and hoping to pass it off as a games console or video game, he'd be making the CD as a tribute to the titles involved, and they'd be sold under his name, so it's unlikely that much confusion about what the product was or who made it would arise (which is what trademark is about protecting) so I think 'fair use' of trademark would apply too.

I get the feeling this was just a list of game soundtracks to sample. All of Kanye's albums have had the same vibe/themed to the tracklist and I can't see him abandoning that just to have a bunch of game titles. He has always had a lot of game/nerd references and samples in his music though so seems more realistic to me

Sounds like a super contrived idea for an album. I don't think the world needs another phoned-in album of meaningless nursery-rhyme lyrics from the Kanye Crap Factory either.

Eh, isn't he meant to be in a psych ward at the moment after having a 'break down' two weeks ago?

I was interested in this but seeing as there is no track called 'Wii Fit Plus inc Balance Board' I don't think I'll bother.

No Little King's Story? He surely could have fit that one in

No "Xenoblade Chronicles"? NO BUY!

...who am I kidding, I never heard a single song he made and the first time I heard of him at all he was disrespecting Justice winning the MTV award for best video clip with "We Are Your Friends".

I think the prize was well deserved. I'm glad I live a sheltered life from his silly antics.

"Bear in mind that West..."

is currently certified out of his mind.

If I imagine him being more like his South Park persona, suddenly it don't look so bad.

Silent Hill? Konami lawyers frivolously descending in 3.... 2.........

I'm not calling bs on this, but based on what this article is about I can't take it seriously. Maybe it's because I don't listen to rap (or any music at all) anymore. Not liking KW is another reason. And yeah I agree, West does do anything to draw attention to himself. He is currently acting like someone is trying to take his life.

Ok. That's enough...

I think it's a pretty good idea. Don't know about the list of songs.

@cfgk24
Not news at all..
Complete garbage material here..

Guy is as mad as a box of frogs.

Are these titles not Trademarked or something? Someone explain

Kanye, the Mars Project is still looking for a musician and a new world president to add to their roster of potential astronaut candidates. I would LOVE for you to join, so we'd be rid of your annoying, pompous @ss for the rest of our then instantly improved lives. Loser...

Fake fake fake.

Weird...I have to give him respect if he can make Sin and Punishment 2 onto top 40 radio. That would just be too incredibly strange but fascinating. I'm also surprised by his gaming choice - I would've thought he was a 'mature' gamer focused on guns, violence and stilted dialog.

Ah Kanye... if it wasn't apparent earlier, he's officially lost his mind.

He's trolling everyone.

Lol: IP infringement!!

Anyway: The album will be about how he thinks he is a king and a god at the same time (as always). It will be out when he's back on earth (may take another 10 years, we know his situation)!

He doesn't make music. He makes trouble.

Wow, this made me think of April Fools! I was like, "are they starting early or something".

I'm not a fan of West personally, but I'm not a hater. I don't pick genres, I just listen to as much as I can and re-listen to the stuff I like.....maybe I'll like this.

Ugh god why?!? I cannot stand him and his music is garbage. Why does he have to ruin our hobby? Also, the album is called TurboGrafix 16 but the songs about the Wii? What?

@FX102A He ain't no gay fish!

Lmao, that's actually not a bad "tracklist"

SONIC!!

@KrakenSoup "Someone I don't like happens to like something I do? HE LITERALLY RUINED IT FOREVER."

@Bobb remake on a Nintendo console? I thought there were just the two versions, the Wii original and the updated Vita version. I'm just asking in case I'm missing something. I was considering a Vita too with Muramasa being a title that interested me, but it wasn't enough to overcome the madness that is Vita memory card pricing.

@Bobb thanks. Strange how they only released the updated game on the Vita. I hope that version sees a wider release someday.

@CartoonDan Yeah! You sure showed him.

Have any of you actually listened to his music? Actually pretty good.(Mostly his older albums)

...that's actually a pretty good game list.
If that's the list of samples for the tracks, I may have to swallow my pride and actually listen to that numbnuts' album when it releases. And with Pete Rock on scene, there might actually be something worth listening to.
@ChaoticBull if you had standards for hip hop music, I don't think you'd be arguing for this self-stroking, mediocre non-MC.

I'm thinking the album name, and this track listing, might all just be code names to throw people off of what he's really doing.

Alan Parsons, (a legit music producer who Kanye ruthlessly samples) for example, when working on his first Project album, "Tales of Mystery and Imagination," which was based on the works of Edgar Alan Poe, used codenames for each one of the songs. "Cask of Amontillado" was called "A Keg of Bristol Cream" for example.

Going on a bit of a tangent here, the other reason they did that was so that any of the artists they were collaborating with would keep an open mind, and not lock themselves into an Edgar Alan Poe mindset. Until it was released, true intent of the album was only known by himself and songwriter Eric Woolfson.

That said, I highly doubt Kanye is that clever.

Whenever I see that face, I want to punch it. If I wasn't a pacifist, I'd probably have several hundred broken TVs, Phones, and Computer Screens.

Also, good luck using those song names. There is a little something called COPYRIGHT! You can't just take copyrighted titles and then release them without consent from the holders of those copyrighted games. I also doubt Nintendo wants anything to do with Kanye.

I don't like Kanye and can't even take him seriously as an artist (= I don't see him as an artist), but this tracklist sounds interesting. But it depends on whether the tracks on that album will have some substance or whether they will be superflous BS.
We'll see.

I'm so confused I honestly don't EVEN KNOW WHAT to say...

I legitimately don't know how to process this

I like old-school Kanye, haven't been so big on his last few records, but I will definitely pick this one up just based on the weird name and track titles alone.

Ugh, why did it have to be the Wii?

Why couldn't he have picked the PS3 or something...

Damn fish...

What about this is so incomprehensible. There's no need to be mean, guys.

808s & Heartbreak is a pretty darn good album.

I also liked My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, but I haven't bought anything new by KW in years.

@PlaytendoGuy But not quite as mad as a bucket of eels

Lot of haters in here, huh? Especially nice to see mental health issues being joked about so casually.

Track listing looks interesting. I agree with that one poster in that they're probably just referencing the stuff being sampled, and aren't finalised song titles. Glad it's modern stuff instead of just retro chiptunes, which I like but has become pretty cliché...

I was scratching my head about Metroid: Other M, then I looked at the actual photo. It's Metroid Dread, which I'm sure we can all agree is much cooler. Also indicates that the songs may not actually sample but may make loose reference to the games inspirationally or lyrically.

The guy needs to work at KP, because he's clearly nuts.

Huh, this is probably the most absurd thing I've heard in a while. I'm not a fan of KW admittedly so I'm not here to hate, but this just seems a bit too peculiar even for him. To name tracks of his album after Wii titles, when you consider they all have copyright names, it's no wonder famous people like himself wind up with money problems without knowing. :x

For all his antics, he's a solid producer who actually knows his way around a studio, unlike the 'self made artists' whose work comes from a studio in a box. I get that Nintendo life isn't the place to go for open minded opinions on music and life, but at tleast the editor has the sense to know Kanye West is more than just a few highly publicized incidents.
We've all watched awards shows snub our favourite games and been a bit upset. The only difference with Kanye is he has the chance to speak his mind and have people listen. I was thinking what he was saying when he interrupted Taylor 'privileged white girl' Swift.

Oookaaay. Sooo its gonna be kinda like what the protomen do? or instrumental remixes? or what?

@FriedSquid Just a recovering one.

Who married a hobbit.

What ever happened to this album?