 " So Appalled " received mostly favorable reviews from contemporary critics . David Browne of Time wrote that he felt that the track was " built on rumbling tanks of pianos and strings " and that it sounded as if West was " marching into the apocalypse . " David Amidon of PopMatters compared the production to West 's album Late Registration which found West " inviting his friend Jon Brion to impart slices of film scoring to the odds and ends of his tracks " . He commented that much like every song on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy , the song " contains an underscore as ambitious as the beats upfront " , concluding that tracks " Hell of a Life " and " So Appalled " alone " carry enough auditory sugar to make listening to this album on any regular sort of listening device almost a fool ’ s errand . " 
