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| Artist: Outkast
Label: LaFace
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Rating:  80 reviews
Sales Rank: 3523
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.3 x 4.8 x 0.4
MPN: 82876529052
UPC: 082876529052
EAN: 0082876529052
ASIN: B0000AI44K
Release Date: September 29, 2003
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Intro | | • | GhettoMusick | | • | Unhappy | | • | Bowtie Featuring Sleepy Brown & Jazze Pha | | • | The Way You Move Featuring Sleepy Brown | | • | The Rooster | | • | Bust Featuring Killer Mike | | • | War | | • | Church | | • | Bamboo (Interlude) | | • | Tomb Of The Boom Featuring Konkrete, Big Gipp & Ludacris | | • | E-Mac (Interlude) | | • | Knowing | | • | Flip Flop Rock Featuring Killer Mike & Jay-Z | | • | Interlude | | • | Reset Featuring Khujo Goodie & Cee-Lo | | • | D-Boi (Interlude) | | • | Last Call Featuring Slimm Calhoun, Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz & Mello | | • | Bowtie (Postlude) |
Disc 2
| • | The Love Below (Intro) | | • | Love Hater | | • | God (Interlude) | | • | Happy Valentines Day | | • | Spread | | • | Where Are My Panties? | | • | Prototype | | • | She Lives In My Lap | | • | Hey Ya! | | • | Roses | | • | Good Day, Good Sir | | • | Behold A Lady | | • | Pink & Blue | | • | Love In War | | • | Shes Alive | | • | Draculas Wedding Featuring Kelis | | • | My Favorite Things | | • | Take Off Your Cool Featuring Norah Jones | | • | Vibrate | | • | A Life in the Day of Benjamin Andre |
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| Editorial Reviews:
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
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Hated It December 7, 2009
I Heart Shopping (Chester, UK)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
SPEAKERBOXX mint/THE LOVE BELOW ok February 13, 2009
Burnley Training College (BAXENDEN)
BIG BOI'S ALBUM SPEAKERBOXX IS AMAZING.BUT ANDRE 3000'S ALBUM THE LOVE BELOW IS'NT SO GOOD!
A MUST HAVE!!!!!
 for once, believe the hype March 16, 2008
Ian Wallbridge
it's ridiculous how much this album is slated. People seem unable to appreciate OutKast without comparing this to their old work. The fact is that they managed to combine hiphop with a range of musical styles AND IT WORKS. There's no need to give examples, cos cases can be made for all the songs. Admittedly there are songs which seem to be dwarfed by the rest, but that just shows the strength of the other songs.
people say they gave this album one listen and couldn't do it again. their loss. Speakerboxxx/Love Below takes a few listens to fully appreciate, but once you do, you won't regret it
 Outkast indeed !! September 7, 2007
richie k (liverpool uk)
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, especially if you want to listen to something different no matter what genre you into. Disk 2 (The Love Below) is muuuuucch better than Speakerboxx which has only one or possibly two good tracks on the whole thing. There is even a bonus of having 'hey ya' on The Love Below which will please all you radio heads out there no end.... Literally no end to it !!! All in all good, but not great.
A landmark rap album - for people who don't like rap October 26, 2006
Peter Lawrence
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
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. Andre 3000's "The Love below" is the more adventurous of the two discs. Forget any preconceptions you might have about rap as a musical genre - this hugely ambitious project actually involves very liitle rapping. What you get instead is in effect almost a potted history of black popular music featuring everything from orchestrated show tunes, to Jazz, soul, funk, R n B and yes even a little rap woven around a loose concept about the trials and tribulations of Andre's love life. There are even a few very funny spoken interludes between some of the tracks which help to link one or two of the songs together into a lose narrative. The sheer diversity of musical styles is at times quite dizzying, yet it rarely feels self indulgent. Not many rap albums feature a duet with Norah Jones, but if you had to plump for just one musical influence exhibited here it would have to be Prince. "Shake it like a polaroid picture" indeed.
Big Boi's "Speaker-box" would in almost any other company sound pretty adventurous too but compared to Andre's effort it sounds a little more like a mainstream rap album, albeit one that is at times a very fine and innovative one with some great songs such as "The way you move". If you had to be critical one might say that things do get a little more self indulgent here and perhaps there are one or two collaborations which fall a a bit short of the mark.
Overall this is however a great album - one that will undoubtedly still be talked about as a classic in years to come, and with both discs clocking in at over 60 minutes it also has to rated as terrific value for money.
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