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| Artist: OutKast
Label: Arista
Category: Music
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Rating:  80 reviews
Sales Rank: 3127
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 828765290524
EAN: 0082876529052
ASIN: B0000AI44K
Release Date: September 29, 2003
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Intro | | • | GhettoMusick | | • | Unhappy | | • | Bowtie Featuring Sleepy Brown Jazze Pha | | • | The Way You Move Featuring Sleepy Brown | | • | The Rooster | | • | Bust Featuring Killer Mike | | • | War | | • | Church | | • | Bamboo (Interlude) | | • | Tomb Of The Boom Featuring Konkrete, Big Gipp Ludacris | | • | E-Mac (Interlude) | | • | Knowing | | • | Flip Flop Rock Featuring Killer Mike Jay-Z | | • | Interlude | | • | Reset Featuring Khujo Goodie Cee-Lo | | • | D-Boi (Interlude) | | • | Last Call Featuring Slimm Calhoun, Lil Jon The East Side Boyz Mello | | • | Bowtie (Postlude) |
Disc 2
| • | The Love Below (Intro) | | • | Love Hater | | • | God (Interlude) | | • | Happy Valentines Day | | • | Spread | | • | Where Are My Panties? | | • | Prototype | | • | She Lives In My Lap | | • | Hey Ya! | | • | Roses | | • | Good Day, Good Sir | | • | Behold A Lady | | • | Pink Blue | | • | Love In War | | • | Shes Alive | | • | Draculas Wedding Featuring Kelis | | • | My Favorite Things | | • | Take Off Your Cool Featuring Norah Jones | | • | Vibrate | | • | A Life in the Day of Benjamin Andre |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
At a time when experimentation is taboo in most overground rap, that's all Outkast seem intent on executing. Firstly, the double CD ISpeakerboxxx/The Love Below/I has no cohesive link, other than the fact that it sounds like a pair of solo albums stitched together to demonstrate exactly how Andre's yin works to augment Big Boi's yang. Andre 3000's IThe Love Below/I disc rates as the more eclectic of the two, given that, on it, he's turned in his emcee credentials to become a full-on funk-soul-jazz vocalist who mostly sings about items of love ("Happy Valentine's Day"), carnal lust ("Spread") and female adoration ("Prototype"). Minus the big band schmaltz of "Love Hater" and cheesy cover jobs ("My Favorite Things"), Andre's disc is great. p As is to be expected, the Big Boi disc is less arty, more gangsta and worldly, and features the less-progressive guest raps of ATL crunk purveyors Lil' Jon and the Eastside Boyz ("Last Call") and Jay-Z, who rhymes the hook on "Flip Flop Rock". Unlike Big Boi, Andre keeps his collaborations to a minimum, once crooning alongside Norah Jones on the cool yet sappy "Take Off Your Cool", and once with Kelis. Boi fulfils his Dungeon Family duty with flying colours by flipping some dirty southern up-tempo raps over electro beats on "GhettoMusick". By the time Cee-Lo sermonises on "Reset", ISpeakerboxx/I and ILove Below/I rate mostly as majestic and inspiring, with the remaining 23 per cent being just plain incredible. I--Dalton Higgins/I
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 Love this in your speakerbox October 5, 2003
24 out of 27 found this review helpful
One of the few times you can enjoy to get whats expected. We associate Outkast with creativity, music and deviation from the norm. An with their new double CD entitled Speakerboxx/The Love Below we get all that and more. pThe album is split in two with each emcee Andre 3000 and Big Boi each having their own CD. There are not many tracks that feature both emcees, if at this point emcees are what you can call these musical dynamos. Andre 3000 does alot of singing and harmonizing on the album. pIts extremely apparent at this point that Outkast is bigger than hip-hop. Tracks such as "Hey YA!" and "Roses" feature full bands where the singing is as much of the music as is the rapping. They take up back to the old school with tracks like "Ghetto Music" and other that contain hints of old school Marvin Gaye type flavor. pLife and spirituality is a major reccuring theme throughout both discs. Andre speaks on his relationship with Erykah Badu on " A day in the life of Andre Benjamin." Tracks like "Reset" featuring Khujo and Big Boi speak on starting over and getting through lifes challenges. "Unhappy" speaks on maintaing through lifes hurdles. Other tracks like "Church" solidify the theme of the importance of spirituality. Other tracks like "War" kick some knowledge about whats going on with America and the world. pBut there are club bangers. This is not elevator music, tracks like "Tomb of the Boom" and "Last Call" featuring Lil Jon is defiantely crunk music for the trunk speakerbox. pGet this album!
Too Good To Describe In Words November 16, 2003
39 out of 47 found this review helpful
There is not a great to say about this that hasn't been said already except it's every bit as good the other reviews make out.pBig Boi's "Speakerboxx" alone would have made for very satisfactory and actually damn satisfying follow-up to the excellent "Stankonia". Indeed, it is more in a similar vein to the aforementioned album; fantastic envelope-pushing hip-hop with a mix of funky groovers ("Bowtie", "The Way You Move"), thundering stompers ("Ghettomusick") and thought-provokers ("War").pAndre 3000's "The Love Below" is absolutely mind-blowing. Even having read all the reviews I was not prepared for anything this experimental, seemingly unrelated to anything else going on in music right now and damn better for it. It's the kind of music that makes you feel that most of your remaining music collection is a little less relevant than it was before.pBut, as I say, so much has been said about it I only want to make the following comments:p1.As soon as it started I had a huge smile on my face that didn't leave until long after the album had finished.p2."Love Hater" and "Hey Ya" almost had me dancing down Oxford Street yesterday afternoon.p3.At the same time as I bought this I also got the Beatles rather splendid "Rubber Soul". Despite this, right now, I only want to listen to Outkast.p4.A couple of weeks ago I bought The Beatles' "White Album", Flaming Lips "Soft Bulletin" and Love's "Forever Changes"; all classics in their own right. Frankly, great as they are, I prefer "The Love Below".pIn case you haven't worked it out yet, I kinda recommend this...
Another OutKast Classic! September 30, 2003
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
As the album is split into two discs, one for Big Boi one for Andre 3000, I'll review them "separately".pFirstly, Big Boi's Speakerboxxx disc, which, weighing in with 19 tracks at a total length of just under an hour, is the shorter of the two. It is in a fairly conventional OutKast hip hop style (insofar as OutKast can be said to be conventional!).brAlthough the number of guests seems to threaten the consistency and continuity of Big Boi's own raps, this fails to occur, as the short track lengths, dope beats, high quality guest spots, and Big Boi's own skilled performance keep the album moving.brNone of the tracks are permitted to outstay their welcome, with the result that you are left wanting more of everything (I often end up playing the album through twice in a row). This is a rarity in hip hop today, which often seems to believe that filling the CD to the brim is more important than what you fill it with.brStandout tracks include the thought-provoking "War" or "Knowing", the melancholy "Unhappy", and the bangers "GhettoMusick" and "The Rooster", although all are excellent.pAndre 3000's The Love Below disc is almost bizarre. The man who made Eminem's Top 5 MC list seems to have given up rapping! Yes, Andre has completely flipped and made an album about love and all its facets, in which he spends most of the time singing.brFear not however, for somehow this doomed enterprise isn't doomed: inexplicably, it works! Once I got over the initial shock of Andre's change of tack, it seemed to grow on me until I now like it perhaps more than Speakerboxxx. It may take three listens to come round to this viewpoint, though, so give it a chance and don't dismiss it if you don't like it at first.brThere's only one standout track on this one, the sting in the tail that is "A Life In The Day Of Benjamin Andre (Incomplete)".brThe only track on which Andre truly raps, it should be listened to: I won't give away its secrets as I only half understand it myself.brThe rest of the album is good even to the cod-olde-English skit "Good Day, Good Sir", which would probably be intensely irritating if anyone but Andre had done it. There's no filler in its nearly 80 minute length, which is some achievement, and so this disc can be listened to from beginning to end, just like Speakerboxxx.pThe only problems with this album are that there are only two tracks on which both Andre Big Boi feature, and that I can't figure out which disc is the "first" half (but I suspect that that is intentional).brAll in all, another classic, to join Aquemini Stankonia in demonstrating why OutKast are probably the best hip hop group in existence today.
Album of the Year January 2, 2004
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
"Crocodile on my feet; Fox fur on my back; Bowtie around my neck, that's why they call me the gangsta mack in the cadillac"brBig Boi's chorus on Bowtie exemplifies Speakerboxxx. It's that real cool, laid back, southern funk that Outkast do like no one else. The Love Below is another thing entirely. Taking notes from jazz, electro, rock... you name it. Andre 3000 has fused it all together to come up with something really off the wall. While Speakerboxxx is definitely the more accessible to the average hip hop fan, The Love Below is the one half which has been gaining most of the plaudits. It's definitely the more difficult listen, but is all the more rewarding for it. You'll have heard the lead single, Hey Ya, all over the airwaves by now, and this is as mainstream as Andre allows things get.brSpeakerboxxx and The Love Below could stand on their own as superb solo albums, but as a whole, they are spectacular. Hip Hop has always been about innovation, but there are few big name rappers about right now that are willing to do that for fear of losing their listeners. brOutkast, however, have come up with the most innovative mainstream album in years. The success Outkast are having just shows how much listeners are appreciating a group willing to spend the time to make something truly exceptional.brFor my money, this is the album of the year in any genre. If you don't have it, get it.
Brilliant mix of Jazz/Soul + Hip Hop May 9, 2004
Ameen Nassir
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I have just listened to both albums and i'm surprised at how different they are.p'SPEAKERBOXXX' is 'Big Boi's' album and it mixes Hip Hop, Rock and Jazz. The best songs on 'SPEAKERBOXXX' are 'Ghettomusick', 'The Way You Move', 'Church', 'Flip Flop Rock' and 'Last Call'.brSongs like 'Ghettomusick' and 'The Way You Move' mix hip-hop and jazz beats together superbly.brMost songs on 'SPEKAERBOXXX' have similar style but you'll enjoy every single one.pNo one expected 'THE LOVE BELOW' to turn out the way it did and even though 'ANDRE 3000' is a genius when it comes to rapping, he's opted to use a slower type of music.brNot that ANDRE'S new style disappoints, it actually makes it better, BIG BOI has a different style and so by the two artists not copying eachother it gives a refreshing new style of music.brSongs like 'Love Hater', 'Spread', 'Hey Ya!', 'Roses' and 'Behold A Lady' show the real vocal talent of ANDRE and hopefully will be a starting point for a brand new OUTKAST.pBRILLIANT ALBUM, MUST-BUY, 5 STARS
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