new outkast album. discuss.

[eeldip]

anyone else getting into this thing? despite the fact that it is totally guity of overlength issues...

is hey ya! totally stuck in your head?'


i think i am going to make a 35 minute version of each disk and see if it becomes the greatest album of the year.

[eeldip]

http://launch.yahoo.com/artist/default. ... ID=1020326

watch the video there, and tell me that isnt a great pop song.

[aurelialuz]

i just saw (and didn't hear) it this weekend. that picture of him with the horse's body cracked my ass up.

alex

[wing]

hey ya! is an awesome song!

[DUC]

It's Devil's Haircut all over again.

[SirDonut]

my band covered "Hey ya" before the album even came out.

[YOUR KONG]

Hey Ya! is awesome. I'm trying to figure out how to get my classic rock cover band of 40-year olds to do it. I also want to do the first verse of "Happy Valentine's Day" at a Feb 14th gig. I imagine people would love it, even if they didn't get the reference.

So far it's the Speakerboxxx side that's really knocking me out. I haven't listened to very much of it so far, but Ghettomusick is a great intro, and Bowtie really knocked me out. Sick sick horns on that one. I like how on some of the tracks he used a live band, too.

I thought I'd like Andre 3k's side more than Big Boi's, but so far that hasn't been the case. I think Andre3k is stretching out a lot more on The Love Below and experimenting, while Big Boi is sticking to what he does best.

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I just caught the video for Hey Ya today, and it blew my mind!

[eeldip]

there is a cool article in slate today about how outkast are the best rock band out there:

http://slate.msn.com/id/2089335/

this is what struck me as so interesting about outkast: a hip hop band making my favorite pop rock song that i have heard in a while! how cool is that?

you never see a rock band make a truly great hip hop song. but outkast just throws a rock song out there and it is amazing. goes to show how much talent it takes to make a great hip hop act.

[sthslvrcnfsn]

I haven't listened to it yet, but they've always been pretty interesting.

Isn't Devil's Haircut the riff from I Can Only Give You Everything (Them w/ Van Morrison)? There used to be a website out there dedicated to just that song - it said there have been almost 200 recorded covers of it.
jim

[sonicgirl]

is hey ya! totally stuck in your head?'

Just reading your post caused this song to get stuck in my head!
I love it...

Sh-Sh-Shake it... Sh-Sh-Shake it... Sh-Sh-Shake it like a Polaroid picture


Jen

[Rec Head]

This shit is awesome. I've been spending more time with speakerboxxx but Hey Ya is the cut. The prodution throughout is the great. I really like the way when choruses are sung they still feel like part of the song. So many colaboration rap songs just sound like 2 songs thrown together.

I will agree on the length issues. Eeldip what are you including in your short versions? I've never been a fan of stupid interludes on rap albums. A lot of albums would be much better off without them. The Bamboo one is funny though. He sounds like me singing: The whole world ,um, la lalala la la.

[foley]

It's too good. I heard they are casting Andre as Jimi Hendrix in a movie due out next year. Could there be a better choice?

mf