This song comes in right in the middle of the album at track #8. It is the perfect song to listen to for a positive boost and a reminder persevere despite the negativity that might be around you. I can honestly say it took me a few months for this song to truly hit me as I was more drawn to the darker songs on the album. In 2013, “Up Up & Away” was featured in a Mountain Dew commercial. On this track, Kid Cudi comes to the realization that it’s best to ignore his detractors because he will be judged no matter what he does. It is an uplifting and positive ending to the album. It is produced by FreeSchool and is the final song on the album.
I’m sure that “Up Up & Away” is one of the favorite songs for many people. It is a really great song that, coming in at #13, really shows how strong this album is. But he seeks “a sexy lady who’s pure, she has the cure” to save him. He becomes his true self at night when the “beast” comes out. On this song Kid Cudi discusses how, at night, he becomes “alive”. “Alive (Nightmare)” comes in at #13 on my list. It is a fun carefree song that is sort of an outlier from dark themes of the rest of the album. It is produced by Plain Pat and features a sample of “ABC (Auto-Industry)”, performed by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. Referring to my disclaimer above, just because “Simple As…” comes in at #14 does not mean it is a bad song. It was originally titled “I Poke Her Face” and released on Kid Cudi’s Dat Kid From Cleveland mixtape which was released in early 2009. I think “Make Her Say” is a good song but it is one that I never fully connected with. Kanye interpolates the acoustic version Lady Gaga’s 2008 song “Poker Face”. “Make Her Say”, produced by Kanye West, also features Kanye West and Common. Let’s analyze and rank all 15 songs on Kid Cudi’s Man on the Moon: End of Day… 15. Just because a song appears lower on this list does not mean it is a bad song.
This list celebrates this iconic album.ĭisclaimer: Each song on this album is great it its own way. His musical influence started a wave in which many artists of the 2010s expanded upon. Each act analyzes the dark feelings that are associated with deep despair and sadness. The album is split into 5 acts: Act I: The End of Day, Act II: Rise of the Night Terrors, Act III: Taking a Trip, Act IV: Stuck, Act V: A New Beginning. On the album, Kid Cudi openly chronicles his struggles with loneliness and depression which, at the time in 2009, wasn’t discussed much in hip hop. It is an album that many people have said actually saved their life. It has been just over 10 years since Kid Cudi released his monumental Man on the Moon: End of Day album on September 15, 2009.
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