E prefer the old cover art over this one

Life Of The Party should’ve been on the original tracklist, and all the part 2 tracks should’ve been on the deluxe.

yeah for an artist who's been so meticulous about album sequencing idk how this got out the door

even though the deluxe is kinda mangled i dont think its that big of a deal tbh, since the revised donda doesn't really have any alterations that break the record and Donda DELUXE is just newly added songs, the OG record isn't compromised at all and you can still go back to the original tracklist and just listen to that one

can't believe off the grid pt 4 is not on this deluxe...

Glad I didn’t buy the season pass

the deluxe would be a 10 if soulja boy were on it

The deluxe is a 10/10 honestly, globglogagalab’s full verse on remote control was godly

i like the added songs but he should’ve kept the order the same

I feel like at this point Ye should just make a Donda pt. 2.

I think Ye did a great job on the new cover art tho

Come to Life being followed by Believe What I Say feels like a crime

The non-deluxe Donda is still available on Spotify, to clear any confusion.

No Child Left Behind was a great closer but now it's in the middle like making zero sense.

Donda is still on streaming services, even if we have the deluxe now the old version isn’t “ruined” by the order of the tracklist

It's just a throwback to when people used to compile albums by downloading mp3s from various sources and you'd end up with multiple versions of several songs, few viruses and porn

My best guess for the deluxe tracklist is that he’s put all of the most streamed songs onto the front half of the LP, so anyone listening through the deluxe casually will stream those first if they don’t end up hearing the whole thing, meaning they rack up plays and stay in the charts

We need a Melon's Sequence of Donda, ASAP.

I feel that Kanye never finished donda he just released it under pressure and now he’s endlessly updating it to his liking.

The deluxe feels more like a pretext to put all songs and all versions out in some way or another. I dont think the sequencing is the point here at all.

some of these placement changes are questionable at best, jail felt like the perfect start for the album, don't know why he felt like he needed to change it, oh well, im gonna make a playlist with my own placements lol

The tracklist being shuffled up seems like a mistake, but that doesn't ruin the original album at ALL. The "original" is pretty much still on streaming and we got 3 new songs, with Life Of The Party being an insane addition. For me this just puts the album higher in my book.

He made a deluxe edition and didn’t even change the cover lmao

Yeah the sequencing is fucked, but I’m just glad we have the much superior version of keep my spirit alive.

Life of the party is ye’s best song in a while though

Melon calling Kanye “Death of the party” is uncalled for.

Heaven and Hell is still the best

This is playlist the album honestly. That seems the plan, but I would be lying if I wasn't upset how abysmal the tracklist order is. Also Life of the Party is more than cool Anthony, especially the explicit version is SOTY contender imo.

That new Life of The Party verse probably one of my favorite Ye verses ever tho

The album sequencing is as scattered as Kanye’s hair now

The og version is still here

Kinda implies that Kanye (or whoever did the track order) didn't really consider the flow of the album's tracklist too much It's strange, because alot music fans agree that tracklist order is pretty important

Saying the album is “ruined” is a stretch lmfao

I appreciate you releasing a video about the patch notes and hotfixes.

Expecting a "Donda Classic" fan group to form within the year with a dogmatic belief in preserving the sanctity of the original work.

The Glabgogabgalab has the strongest performance on this album. Don't even try to fight me about that

Wow those "anthony pls review donda deluxe" are gonna be pissed

im just SUPER happy the original keep my spirit alive is there again! i just made a playlist of donda with all my favourites and in my prefered order. super happy he did it

I think this is Kanye`s way of giving you 100% control over the track list and which versions of the song you want to listen to. Already created a playlist called "fixed Donda".

I don’t think this is a big deal since it’s just a deluxe, just listen to former in it’s full and just pick out one’s from the deluxe as if they’re bonus tracks. I think artists are starting to do this with deluxes nowadays so people listen all the way through for more streams, I saw this last year at least with Wunna’s deluxe by Gunna and a few others.

My feeling since the original Donda dropped has been that part of the concept of the record was that we shouldn't care about the sequencing and actually make our own. This deluxe version confirms that for me. What originally made me think that was a few things : First the sequencing seemed kind of random. The first line from Jail is "take what you want.". The stem player seemed to be an important aspect, since it's the only physical copy on sale and we can do whatever we want with the songs. Also the rollout of the album with the three listening party : each one getting fuller and fuller. I think it was planed out to look as if he was adding things and creating during the rollout. And the idea behind that was to let us in on the creative process. By seeing the progressions of the three listening party we can imagine what he could add to a fourth. Also with the many features, many beeing younger artist that he inspired, and themes of the album about transmission it seemed to be part of the concept. It's like he disected his most personal themes of home, faith and family and made them bigger than him by letting his many collaborators and the audience interact with it all in a creative way.

Jail is a fucking PERFECT song to start off the record. What the fuck.

I think the deluxe version added some great tracks, life of the party and up from the ashes add a lot imo. that being said I think that he should have just removed all of the part twos and just selected essentially the best version of the songs, but have this all be just the main album. Then for the deluxe version have all of the part 2s at the end. Do you think that would have been better?

Saying he RUINED donda feels like a stretch but he didn't improve it.

You can't just whisper "Donda" into the microphone for 7 minutes and call it a "review update", Anthony

Just saw the title and I already know Anthony is wrong

Pretty sure Ye is on his 2018 timing, he got a forgotten tracks playlist otw

Melon make your own track list order so I know what sequencing is the correct one

cap

I’m personally glad this deluxe got released. I took the 3 songs added in the deluxe and used just placed them into spots I felt with well with the original track list (Up From The Ashes after 24, Never Abandon Your Family after Heaven and Hell and Life Of The Party after Donda) as well as replacing Remote Control and KMSA with their Pt 2s do it kinda just made for an overall better listening experience. You can just kinda stuck them into the original how I did to your liking and it raises the albums score by a point for me.

I just wish he’d put the Pusha verse back on

one of the things that makes me think there isn’t meant to be an order to this one is No Child Left Behind not being last, it’s such an obvious closer

No he did not melon, you’re just jealous you dont have the life of the party that kanye and andre have.

I've been waiting for up from the ashes for a long time

can’t believe Dunkey’s Donda ended up being the best one

I was really hoping Donda was gonna be improved with time, I feel like the pieces were always there but it didn't quite come together for me. Doesn't seem like that's happening with this one tho

To keep dondas relevancy high, he's likely gonna release a version of the deluxe with similar structure to the original donda, it just seems like a Kanye thing to do tbh

"mom-honoring epic" is a beautiful phrase

I just updated my original Donda with this: Never abandon your family before Ok Ok Life of the Party before Moon Up from the ashes before Come to life All part 2's are at the end as 'extra'. With that, Donda is an absolute 10/10 for me. Just sad that I have to do it myself instead of Kanye doing it, doesn't feel right. Loved how all Ye albums previously had an arc and meaning to sequencing

Additional tracks I'm totally cool with. Love having Life of the Party on there for example, I needed a high quality version of that 3000 verse. The ordering I agree is just weird now though. That should've been the same.

i actually liked that he moved all the great songs to the front (except for jesus lord)

It would’ve been a 10 if Mr. Krabs were on it.

I'm so disappointed that Spongebob, Patrick, or Mr. Krabs didn't make it on to the deluxe.

Life of the party is probably my favourite Donda track. The DMX outro gets me every time. Such a beautiful song

I remember when Donda first dropped it was a big trend to mix the songs into a playlist and make your own track order, but this shit is kind of ridiculous.

I think the sequencing is messed up on the assumption/intention that people will mix and match their own version of the album through playlists. I'm not sure why you'd even want to listen to the full 32 tracks anyway

look for the donda deluxe album in stores on november 13th. with lots of music, pt 2s, and extras

Come to Life works fucking incredibly near the end of the record. I think No Child Left Behind also works very well as a come down from that beautiful moment. It makes no fucking sense why they’re not only separated but they’re in the middle of the tracklist now

The non-deluxe Donda hasn’t been removed from streaming so I’ll just continue to listen to that and add the bonus songs to my playlists. But yeah this deluxe sequencing is pretty stupid.

Life of the party is a top 5 rap song of 2021. That’s all you need to know

Very happy I live in a timeline with 2 Dondas again

I liked Hurricane, Moon and Life of The Party being the 1-2-3 but after that the order is super weird. Love the improvements and changes he made but the order is kinda dumb lol

Life of The Party is freaking nuts! (In a good way)

I’m glad I was able to download Donda before the changes, but the fact that Keep My Spirit Alive got a part 2, and the only change is the KayCyy chorus is pretty weird.

We begged for Donda so much that ye legit dropped 3 Dondas.

Somebody call Rick Rubin real quick.

Even as a Kanye fan, i feel this is Kanye’s most messy album rollout since TLOP. Guarantee the only reason he released it when he did was to one-up Drake. The album was never finished he just wanted to release before CLB. He is one of the greatest artists of our generation but he allows Drake to live in his head rent free.

Old cover art was way better

He really coulda took off “Tell The Vision” and replaced that entirely with “Life Of The Party” it coulda easily been apart of the OG track list

The sequencing was always off from the initial release of Donda. What I found was that there we’re actually 2 different albums mixed into one super long album. And this initial list out songs out of sonic contrast making amazing songs like “Believe What I Say” feel odd and out of place, essentially making it a skip track because of how it brought you out of the sonic vibe being built through the album. So from very early I identified which songs had that brighter gospel feel that meshed with “Believe” and sequenced them together going after a resequencing of the darker trap/drill tracks which had an amazing sound and feel fully cohesive together. This gave me pretty much a double album with album consisting of: Album 1: Never Abandon, Jail, God Breathed, Off The Grid, Hurricane, Praise God, Wash Us In The Blood (trust me it fits perfectly), Ok Ok part 2, Heaven And Hell, Tell The Vision (full song from Pop Smoke’s album Faith), Jesus Lord, and Come To Life completing album 1. Album 2 consists of: Donda, Believe What I Say, Junya, Remote, Life Of The Party, Moon, Keep My Spirit, New Again, Lord I Need You, Pure Souls, Up From The Ashes, No Child Left Behind. This is the best way to listen to Donda. If it was released like this it would be regarded as one of Kanye’s best ever and album of the year. Both albums 1 and 2 being amazing but different listening experiences. D they even flow nicely into each other if you listen to them back to back. Everything gets slotted into context. I just wish Donda was released in this fashion.

Fantano is actually just mad cuz he spent money on the stem player and now everyone can hear the songs 🤣🤣

“Ye Ruined Donda” 🤓

Remote Control pt 2 got the full Globgolabgalab verse. No way anyone can hate on this tape

This isn't even Donda's final form yet. We're getting Thicc Donda soon

If “Ye’s” name was not attached to this Deluxe album, I would of thought that some random person would of made this a playlist and did not care of the seq. and just played it in shuffle.

The Tracklist sequencing has been confusing ever since the listening parties, all of them had different orders and songs

Anyone else read the title as “Ya Ruined Donda”

were are the patchnotes?

Melon you need to review Arcane from Netflix.

Thank you, I felt like I was going insane cause no one was talking about how shit the new tracklist is

But if you want the original album sequence the updated version didn’t change the album order I feel like I’ll only come to the deluxe for Life of the Party and Remote Control Part 2

Life of the party is def like a No More Parties in LA type closing banger

You’re just salty they removed Mr Krabz’ verse

damn almost like this album is made for the fans to have some fun with it? Just make a playlist of your favorite songs and sequence them however you want. We get great music and a massive album yet people still complain.

What order would you make it if it were up to you?

Both versions are still on Spotify

yes exactly what donda needs... more tracks

the old version isn't even gone, its still on Spotify

What are your thoughts on the track list of the second listening party?

Ye hit shuffle and was like "yeah this better"