Speakerboxxx-The Love Below_音乐专辑
Speakerboxxx-The Love Below
表演者: Outkast
流派: 说唱
专辑类型: Explicit Lyrics
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 2003
唱片数: 2
出版者: La Face
条形码: 0828765013321
其他版本: Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below
专辑简介
This is Outkast's fifth outing, and the Atlanta duo has split down the middle to make a double album. Speakerboxxx belongs to the apparent player, Big Boi, and The Love Below is the product of the so called (filthy minded) poet, Dre. They help each other out here and there but...you get the general idea.
Of the two Speakerboxxx is most clearly the offspring of 2000's masterpiece, Stankonia. The opening track "Ghetto Musick" jumps from hardcore rave to sauna soul without pausing for breath, a curiously addictive juxtaposition. The frantic pace continues from there on in as we jump from electro, to P-funk to swing, via mariachi, techno and whatever else takes Boi's fancy. It's hip hop, but not as we've known it.
There's humour, including the seeming ode to casual footwear, "Flip-Flop Rock", and the odd bit of sex; but on the whole it's social and political issues which come to the fore. The difficulties of being a single parent, the horror of war with Iraq and the dangers of organised religion are all here; gunshots and gangsters are notable by their absence.
Cutsie, kinky and complex - Dre's half of the deal is an altogether stranger brew. Sex and love are explored from numerous perspectives, varying from what Dracula did on his wedding night to, on the dubiously titled "Age Aint Nothing But A Number", sleeping with an older woman. There's even a conversation with God, who's a woman and seems to be helping Dre find a girlfriend!
The music is a wondrous concoction. Prince, gospel, drum and bass, Frank Sinatra (and Zappa!), they're all in there somewhere...there's even a bit of cocktail jazz in the form of the foot tapping "Love Hater". It's confusing, bemusing and exciting - all at the same time.
What more is there to say about these two magnificent albums? There's guests a plenty, including Jay-Z on Speakerboxxx and Kelis, Norah Jones and R Kelly on The Love Below. It's hilarious and thought provoking, goes on for hours (without ever getting boring) and is the most ambitious piece of pop you'll hear this year. I love it.
曲目
1-1. Intro
1-2. GhettoMusick
1-3. Unhappy
1-4. Bowtie (Feat. Sleepy Brown & Jazze Pha)
1-5. The Way You Move (Feat. Sleepy Brown)
1-6. The Rooster
1-7. Bust (Feat. Killer Mike)
1-8. War
1-9. Church
1-10. Bamboo (Interlude)
1-11. Tomb Of The Boom (Feat. Konkrete, Big Gipp & Ludacris)
1-12. E-Mac (Interlude)
1-13. Knowing
1-14. Flip Flop Rock (Feat. Killer Mike & Jay-Z)
1-15. Interlude
1-16. Reset (Feat. Khujo Goodie & Cee-Lo)
1-17. D-Boi (Interlude)
1-18. Last Call (Feat. Slimm Calhoun, Lil?Jon & The East Side Boyz & Mello)
1-19. Bowtie (Postlude)
2-1. The Love Below (Intro)
2-2. Love Hater
2-3. God (Interlude)
2-4. Happy Valentine's day
2-5. Spread
2-6. Where Are My Panties?
2-7. Prototype
2-8. She Lives In My Lap
2-9. Hey Ya!
2-10. Roses
2-11. Good Day, Good Sir
2-12. Behold A Lady
2-13. Pink & Blue
2-14. Love In War
2-15. She's Alive
2-16. Dracula's Wedding (Feat. Kelis)
2-17. Take Off Your Cool (Feat. Norah Jones)
2-18. Vibrate
2-19. A Life In The Day Of Benjamin André
