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Track Listings
| 1. These Eyes | |||
| 2. Devotion | |||
| 3. Public Enemy No. 1 | |||
| 4. Pass The Dutchie | |||
| 5. Return From The Ashes (Theme) | |||
| 6. Holy Ghost | |||
| 7. Intro | |||
| 8. Soul Machine | |||
| 9. The Art Of Noise | |||
| 10. Living Again | |||
| 11. I'll Be Around | |||
| 12. The One | |||
| 13. My Kind Of People | |||
| 14. Childz Play | |||
| 15. I Am Selling Soul | |||
| 16. All Day Love Affair | |||
| 17. Evening News | |||
| 18. Scrap Metal | |||
| 19. Glockappella | |||
| 20. When We Were Friends | |||
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Cee-Lo Green Is the Soul Machine, the second album from soulful Atlanta rapper Cee-Lo confirms that, in the aftermath of Outkast's genre-defining Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, hip-hop is in the mood to totally bug out. As a founder member of the Goodie Mob, Cee-Lo was one of Andre and Big Boi's closest contemporaries throughout the 90s. His debut solo album, 2002's Cee-Lo Green and His Perfect Imperfections was a slightly patchy affair, but on ...The Soul Machine, this falsetto-high crooner is back, this time bolstered by an all-star cast that includes Pharrell from the Neptunes, Timbaland and Ludacris. Like Outkast, Cee-Lo's greatest skill is his ability to brew good-vibe Daisy Age hip-hop, liberated party funk and classic soul into a bubbling, fermenting whole without watering down the distinctive flavour of any of his esoteric influences. The excellent "The Art of Noise" is an obvious starting point, Cee-Lo's cartoonish preacher drawl pitted against gospel choruses and slick Neptunes percussion. But perhaps it's the slower, more soulful numbers that provide the album's backbone: see "All Day Love Affair", or "My Kind Of People", a euphoric piano-and-brass number that recalls the lazy groove of Sly and the Family Stone's "Family Affair". This is highly recommended to anyone blissed out by The Love Below, or with a taste for the sweet sound of the Dirty South. --Louis Pattison
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
It's a bold assertion by Mr Green his claim to being the Soul Machine, and I suppose the question that needs to be asked is whether or not his new album backs him up. The answer, if you couldn't guess already, is: Yes- very much so. The sheer depth and width of ambition alone is enough to justify C-lo's claim and the fact that he so effortlessly achieves it makes him, in my book, a master of his art. I can think of no other contemporary artist who has at their command a pallete as diverse and all-encompassing as this (Soul, Blues, R&B, Hip-Hop and pretty much the entire history of black-American music). If it weren't for how soulful he is, I'd think C-lo was indeed a Machine. Amazing.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
By "vixwatts"
Format:Audio CD
This album has not come out of my CD player since I bought it. It's uplifting without being cheesy, and agressive without succombing to vain posturing. Musically, I think this is a more sophisticated and satisfying album than The Love Below (Outkast), although it lacks a mega-hit among its many and varied tracks. That said, the Art of Noise always makes me jump up from my chair and start dancing - surely no bad thing?
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
Cee-lo Green is possibly the greatsest hip hop artist of his time. This album is much more mellow than the his previous album but twice as good! You can really see the musical influences (Luther Vandross, george Benson etc etc)in alot of the tracks and with a voice like cee-lo's, he can pull it off in the same way as the soul master himself, mr Al Green!!!
Buy, Buy, Buy this album whether your an avid fan or just wanna see if the hype is true, you won't be dissapointed!
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Cee-Lo magic
I actually had this CD once before but accidentally damaged it in the glove compartment of the car! so decided to replace it cause I think it is great. Read more
Published 12 days ago by Soo-B-Doo
5.0 out of 5 stars
Cee Lo Green is The Soul Machine and I mean it!
I find myself dropping into another chilled out world when listening to this album. Cee Lo Green is The Soul Machine, smooth and mellow. Brilliant stuff.
Published 1 month ago by mordy
3.0 out of 5 stars
Cee-Lo Green ... Is The Soul Machine
i didnt really like this cd, it wasnt really cee lo green at his best,perhaps its just me, my son loved it so now its in his collection.
Published 13 months ago by Mrs. C. Knight
3.0 out of 5 stars
I may have bought the wrong one.....
This is very like Eminem's The Eminem Show having intro and outro and an introduction of an offspring for whatever reason, possibly because they can. Read more
Published 23 months ago by JJ
2.0 out of 5 stars
disappointing
I should have known better than to buy this. The Ladykiller album is so amazingly, fantastically, phenomenally brilliant, that nothing is going to compare with it,not even another... Read more
Published 23 months ago by sally@mdsc.demon.co.uk
5.0 out of 5 stars
Funky Monk
Have been playing this album on repeat for days now - funky, chilled and original all at the same time. If you like good ol' Mr Gnarls, then you've got to get this. Read more
Published on 10 May 2007 by R. Middleton
5.0 out of 5 stars
Cee-lo Green IS the soul machine
I loved this album.
Didn't know too much about cee-lo other than the hype. But was blown away, it has been out of my stereo since. Read more
Published on 12 April 2004
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