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| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Intro | |||
| 2. GhettoMusick | |||
| 3. Unhappy | |||
| 4. Bowtie Featuring Sleepy Brown & Jazze Pha | |||
| 5. The Way You Move Featuring Sleepy Brown | |||
| 6. The Rooster | |||
| 7. Bust Featuring Killer Mike | |||
| 8. War | |||
| 9. Church | |||
| 10. Bamboo (Interlude) | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. The Love Below (Intro) | |||
| 2. Love Hater | |||
| 3. God (Interlude) | |||
| 4. Happy Valentine’s Day | |||
| 5. Spread | |||
| 6. Where Are My Panties? | |||
| 7. Prototype | |||
| 8. She Lives In My Lap | |||
| 9. Hey Ya! | |||
| 10. Roses | |||
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Product Description
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 Speakerboxxx/The Love Below 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 The Love Below 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.
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", Speakerboxx and Love Below rate mostly as majestic and inspiring, with the remaining 23 per cent being just plain incredible. --Dalton Higgins
Product Description
OUTKAST Speakerboxx / The Love Below (2003 UK 39-track 2-CD album set featuring collaborations with Norah Jones Jay-Z and more. Includes the singles Hey Ya! Roses and The Way You Move - stickered and factory sealed from new)
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Vinyl
"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"
Big 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.
Speakerboxxx 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.
Outkast, 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.
For my money, this is the album of the year in any genre. If you don't have it, get it.
Big 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.
Speakerboxxx 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.
Outkast, 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.
For my money, this is the album of the year in any genre. If you don't have it, get it.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Speakerboxxx and The Love Below are, for all intents and purposes, two separate albums brought to you lovingly by Big Boi and Andre 3000 respectively.
Outkast fans will be pleased with this bumper package which contains some of the most sparkling and well produced music you will ever hear. Noticeably, Speakerboxxx is the inferior of the two, 'Love Below being a shiny concept album with favourites 'Hey Ya' and 'Roses' thrown in to the mix. Give this album a few listens and you will see that the whole package is an innovative and rewarding experience. Certainly up there with Outkast's best work. Just don't be so sad as to tailor what you listen to depending on whatever 'R+B essential' compilations are out there. Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is fantastic.
Outkast fans will be pleased with this bumper package which contains some of the most sparkling and well produced music you will ever hear. Noticeably, Speakerboxxx is the inferior of the two, 'Love Below being a shiny concept album with favourites 'Hey Ya' and 'Roses' thrown in to the mix. Give this album a few listens and you will see that the whole package is an innovative and rewarding experience. Certainly up there with Outkast's best work. Just don't be so sad as to tailor what you listen to depending on whatever 'R+B essential' compilations are out there. Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is fantastic.
27 of 30 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
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.
The 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.
Its 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.
Life 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.
But 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.
Get this album!
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Speakerboxxx = Amazing, The Love Below = Disapointing
I recently purchased "Stankonia" at a second hand CD shop, and I loved it. So I thought I'd buy another Outkast CD as I enjoyed it and wanted to hear more of them. Read more
Published 7 months ago by originalgangsta
As promised
In perfect working order and delivered quickly, only SMALL issue was tiny damage to the case but other than that everything was fine :). Good amazon Market place seller!
Published 12 months ago by Alex kuklenko
Extraordinary.
By 2003, Outkast had already produced a handful of hip-hop's greatest albums, with predecessor Stankonia also taking their fame and sales global. Read more
Published 20 months ago by dynamitekid156
Hated It
I listened to it once then gave it away - I really liked Andre's single Hey Ya, so I should have just got this.
A major disappointment.
A major disappointment.
Published on 7 Dec 2009 by I Heart Shopping
SPEAKERBOXX mint/THE LOVE BELOW ok
BIG BOI'S ALBUM SPEAKERBOXX IS AMAZING.BUT ANDRE 3000'S ALBUM THE LOVE BELOW IS'NT SO GOOD!
A MUST HAVE!!!!!
A MUST HAVE!!!!!
Published on 13 Feb 2009 by R. Saddique
for once, believe the hype
it's ridiculous how much this album is slated. People seem unable to appreciate OutKast without comparing this to their old work. Read more
Published on 16 Mar 2008 by Ian Wallbridge
Outkast indeed !!
I personally have never understood OUTKAST, i mean their not REALLY hip-hop now are they? Anyhow, i would have to say that this double album is pretty good value for for money,... Read more
Published on 7 Sep 2007 by richie k
A landmark rap album - for people who don't like rap
Think you don't like rap much? Then definitely buy this ground breaking double album.
Oukast are a duo but this is effectively two solo albums for the price of one. Read more
Oukast are a duo but this is effectively two solo albums for the price of one. Read more
Published on 26 Oct 2006 by Peter Lawrence
AWSOME
Hey ya , has gotta be one of the best songs ever made, fulls stop. I hate r n b, but i adore outkast, and there style always sounds fresh to me. Read more
Published on 1 Aug 2006 by mike
Tedious
I found The Love Below very gimmicky and tedious - apart from Hey Ya.
I listened to it once and that's enough.
And another thing. Read more
I listened to it once and that's enough.
And another thing. Read more
Published on 17 May 2005 by Ahmed E Cohen
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