Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

This album has been added to 4 public lists:

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  1001Albums

  Neil Hopkins

  What do you do if you are a critically acclaimed hip hop duo suffering from musical differences? You go off and record an album each, and then put both of them out as a double album under your joint name and hope that nobody notices.

  This is a real curate’s egg of an album. Parts of it are excellent - I was particularly taken with André 3000’s (I wonder if his mum calls him that) up tempo jazz version of Favourite Things, and of course the sublime ‘Hey Ya!’. However, for every inspired line about shaking it like a Polaroid picture, there is one about how roses smell like poo poo.

  If you cut out the utterly cringeworthy skits and picked the best tracks from both discs, you would have an absolute classic. As it stands, it’s at least an hour and a half too long.

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  personal favorite albums

  augustleded

  once again a great rap/r&b album. love how you can see both member's strong and weak points that goes into outkast's music. the love below was the better one imo

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  Would buy on vinyl

  Joseph Tilden
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  100 albums

  Emily