Product Description

'Speakerboxx/The Love Below' is a double disc set featuring two solo albums from Outkast's Big Boi and Andre 3000. Although both have a disc to themselves, each of them have collaborated on the other's albums. The duo have retained their signature sound of Parliament/Funkadelic inspired hip hop which has been branded "Sophistifunk", and teamed up with such artists as Norah Jones, Jay-Z and Killer Mike. The package is also the soundtrack to a HBO film based on the stories from the music.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

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)
11. Tomb Of The Boom Featuring Konkrete, Big Gipp & Ludacris
12. E-Mac (Interlude)
13. Knowing
14. Flip Flop Rock Featuring Killer Mike & Jay-Z
15. Interlude
16. Reset Featuring Khujo Goodie & Cee-Lo
17. D-Boi (Interlude)
18. Last Call Featuring Slimm Calhoun, Lil’ Jon & The East Side Boyz & Mello
19. Bowtie (Postlude)

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
11. Good Day, Good Sir
12. Behold A Lady
13. Pink & Blue
14. Love In War
15. She’s Alive
16. Dracula’s Wedding Featuring Kelis
17. My Favorite Things
18. Take Off Your Cool Featuring Norah Jones
19. Vibrate
20. A Life in the Day of Benjamin Andre

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5085 in Music
• Released on: 2003-09-29
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Explicit Lyrics

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

Customer Reviews

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. 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

Fantastic!
I took a chance on this and boy am I glad I did.
I'll be honest and tell you this review is based solely on the Andre 3000 cd. I'm not even bothered by the other one.
It is simply the best set of songs I have heard for longer than I care to remember. Being a middle aged white man I normally listen to rock, country, 70's, mor, aor.
I can't get over how original and fresh this sounds.
Great tunes, great lyrics, great production.
Genius.

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, 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.