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Idlewild

Idlewild

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Artist: Outkast
Label: RCA
Category: Music

List Price: £7.99
Buy New: £0.45
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New (83) Used (23) Collectible (5) from £0.35

Seller: verspertine
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 10 reviews
Sales Rank: 51238

Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5

MPN: 75791
UPC: 828767579122
EAN: 0082876757912
ASIN: B000BRLRUO

Release Date: August 21, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Tracks:

  • Intro
  • Mighty O
  • Peaches - Outkast Sleepy Brown/Scar
  • Idlewild Blue (Don'tchu Worry 'Bout Me)
  • Infatuation
  • N2U - Outkast Khujo Goodie
  • Morris Brown - Outkast Scar/Sleepy Brown
  • Chronomentrophobia
  • Train - Outkast Sleepy Brown/Scar
  • Life Is Like A Musical
  • No Bootleg DVDs
  • Hollywood Divorce - Outkast Lil' Wayne/Snoop Dogg
  • Zora
  • Call The Law - Outkast Janelle Monae
  • Bamboo And Cross
  • BuggFace
  • Makes No Sense At All
  • In Your Dreams - Outkast Killer Mike/Janelle Monae
  • PJ And Rooster
  • Mutron Angel - Outkast Whild Peach
  • Greatest Show On Earth - Outkast Macy Gray
  • You're Beautiful
  • When I Look In Your Eyes
  • Dyin' To Live
  • Bad Note
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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.co.uk
Both a soundtrack to their new feature film and a new album in its own right, Outkast's iIdlewild/i feels every bit a worthy follow-up to iSpeakerboxxx/The Love Below/i, the double album that marked out Big Boi and Andre 3000 as two of the most talented populist-experimentalists working in hip-hop. In keeping with the film's 30s-themed premise, iIdlewild/i sees blues, ragtime, jazz and vaudeville infiltrate further into the Outkast design: Andre 3000's "Idlewild Blue" is borne along on a spare, Johnny Cash-style guitar line, while "The Mighty O" - a rare track that features Andre and Big Boi together, rapping back to back - thieves its hook from Cab Calloway's classic "Minnie The Moocher". There's no shortage of special guests: Macy Gray crops up on chilling torch-song "The Greatest Show On Earth", Lil' Wayne and Snoop Dogg feature on "Hollywood Divorce", and Sleepy Brown - a tender-voiced RB singer signed to Big Boi's Purple Ribbon Records - crops up on a number of tracks. Some may be disappointed by the closing "A Bad Note", an indulgent eight minutes of feedback, but truthfully there's enough in the preceding 24 tracks to satisfy any Outkast fan that loved iSpeakerboxxx/The Love Below/i. The big question after that album was: will Outkast split up? The question now is: where can they go next? --iLouis Pattison/i

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5 out of 5 stars quality!!!!   August 30, 2006
Mr. S. K. Pike (UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

Excelent price for nearly 25 songs. every single one is my favourite. except for the last song which is a guitar solo for like 8 minutes, but other than that its absolutly great, a must have!


5 out of 5 stars Wow!   August 25, 2006
B. M. Jones (Ty Fi)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful

This is great! A different kind of music played here, but it works. The Best track is probably Morris Brown. If you liked the speakerboxx album, you should definately get this. With some interesting songs and good lyrics, A must-have album this year.


5 out of 5 stars Got this, Then Get Purp!   September 5, 2006
Ben White
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

Many similarities can be drawn with The Love Below; Andre's half of Outkast's previous double album. For instance, the featuring of Macy Gray's eerie vocals on the haunting 'The Greatest Show on Earth' can be paralleled with Norah Jones' duet on 'Take Off Your Cool', both singers are unusual on the hip-hop scene and exemplify OutKast's experimental approach to both albums. Someone has said that you might be disappointed with the "indulgent" 8-minute track 'A Bad Note'; this too is similar to the techno oddity "My Favourite Thing" in André's previous venture. While I see it as a waste off space, it does give the album the feel of a continuous piece of work joined together following smoothly reminiscent of possibly OutKast's best Album Aquemini, rather than simply a collection of tracks, something that I feel 'Got Purp' has failed to do. br / br /Talking of 'Got Purp?' several up and coming artists on that album make a brilliant appearance on 'Idlewild'. I really loved Scar and Killer Mike's tracks on the album, especially Cee-Lo's duet with Scar on 'What Is This?'. I feel however, that Scar's vocals on tracks like Morris Brown are fantastic and really give the album 'Idlewild' depth as a hip-hop album not just stuck to a rap genre. Sadly, unlike any Outkast Album before (and like Creamfields) Cee-Lo does not appear on this album- whilst initially I was disappointed I realise that this gives Sleepy Brown and Scar as well as the sweet Janelle Monae a chance to shine. br / br /What I like about Outkast is their subtle links rather like the cleverness of imagery in Shakespeare where themes are used and then later picked up on to give the feel of an organic whole. In some ways this album is as complex as Michael Jackson's Moon Walker, except it's a film, a soundtrack and an album rather than a film using singles from several albums. It's an impressive step forward, and as a massive Outkast/ Dungeon Family fan, I loved it. br / br /I think you'll agree this is an album worth buying, it may not be what you expect but you'll be pleasantly surprised. br /


5 out of 5 stars Outkast is the future   September 20, 2006
Mr. G. Hyman
1 out of 8 found this review helpful

Alot of people do not understand what an outkast actually is..well let me break it down for ya,ll its just like being a rebel,not like anyone else. br /Outkast is definetly the best group out there purely underated but out there nether the less. br /I read a review on this page and it said speaker box was good but the love below they wernt feeling... well the love below for me opened new doors on where music can now be taken to new heights. br /andre knew what he was doing on that album showing you his fluent and never ending talent but big boi did let that album down. br /This new album is amazing once again good use of samples and inventive raps in the outkast style all im waiting for is the concert if that happens... This review is mainly to hit out at some of the poor reviews i have seen on this page.Outkast continue to keep the eminems out there quiet...peace


4 out of 5 stars A logical evolution   September 9, 2006
JimminyBee (Paris)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

This album needs to be viewed in the context of Outkast's six previous albums, rather than just with reference to Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. Hit singles such as Ms Jackson and Hey Ya thrust Outkast into the mainstream, but before this they had released 3 top quality albums. Southernplayalistic.., ATLiens and Aquemini appear to fall more easily into the rap genre, but were just as progressive both lyrically and musically, albeit in a less obvious way. br / br /Idlewild represents an amalgamation of the various ideas that Outkast have experimented with over the past 12 years or so - they really have been around that long. We have Big Boi's synthetic beats and 'Rooster' rapping style from Speakerboxxx, and Andre's jazz piano and singing was a recurrent theme on The Love Below. Going back further, rapping styles characteristic of Stankonia - think Gasoline Dreams in particular - are revived on 'The Mighty O', and the jumpy blues theme as tried in Aquemini can be heard throughout. With so much going on it can be hard to notice the tangy guitar licks so prevalent on ATLiens underneath everything, but they are there in the more soulful songs. br / br /Idlewild's new twist, the musical theme, is arguably far less groundbreaking than some of the artistic leaps Outkast have taken in the past. br / br /With Idlewild, they are now singing from the same hymn sheet with a result that is pleasing to listen to, if slightly too vaudeville for some. As a consolation, the sound is funked-up to a degree extreme by even Outkast's standards, and the collaborations work well. br / br /The real question is, where do they go from here? Idlewild feels like a consolidation based around the temporary theme of the musical, and hence it may be something of a stop-gap. It looks like Antwon is going to be another rapper turned actor. I have a suspicion that Andre would love to produce a rock album. He could be the next Jimi Hendrix.. or maybe just the next Bing Crosby if the affair with swing turns into something more permanent.

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