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Stankonia by: OutKast List Price: $13.98 CD-Charts Price: $8.97 You Save: $5.01 (36%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0730082607223 Format: Enhanced, Explicit Lyrics Label: La Face Manufacturer: La Face Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: La Face Release Date: October 31, 2000 Studio: La Face Sales Rank: 3365 MPN: 26072 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.com's Best of 2000: Imagine if the ghetto got electrified. That's Stankonia, an album of street smarts doused with gasoline and ready to burn. When a thundering electric guitar collides with a relentless drumbeat on the molten "Gasoline Dreams," it dominates mind and body, setting the tone for the album. Dre and Big Boi spin a world of freaks, poets, preachers, and pimps, but most importantly, possibilities. This music messes with your head. --Lizz Mendez Berry Amazon.com: Big Boi and Andre 3000 make a monumental mothership connection on their utterly stupefying fourth album. At a time when the hip-hop "album" seems to be sadly declining in significance, Atlanta's finest deliver a classic package of space-case imagery, curbside poetry, and delicious experimental funk. While the boys still celebrate their big pimpin' lifestyles, "Gasoline Dreams" and the breathtaking "Humble Mumble" overflow with striking images of dashed American dreams and urban frustration. Stankonia's most beautiful moments come in the name of love, whether it's a celebration of the current ("Stanklove") or a lamentation of the past ("Ms. Jackson"). The love movement is manifested on the album's revolutionary production, combining the oozing, organic licks of P-Funk, the fearless, sexual audacity of Prince, some down-home Southern crunk, and even a little drum & bass ("B.O.B."). While Stankonia certainly isn't an "easy" album, its ambition and vision easily rank it among hip-hop's greatest in some time. --Hua Hsu Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - deliciouslystankinOutkast with a K... Some real good music on here, some classic stuff...so fresh, so clean with all the dirty south hits like gasoline and B.O.B...Humble as a Mumble in the jungles of shouts and screams.... that's the way erika sang it so I guess I've got to reroute my dreams...some b-real on the Xplosion of dirty beat that just makes you want to get some more outkast... Rating: - Very good, especially compared to most the rest of today's rapThe fourth album by this Georgian rap duo is widely considered to be about as good as alternative hip-hop gets. And you know what? Once you get past the interludes (the worst of which being the forty-second "I'm Cool", pretty much that title phrase on repeat. Fun...), I more or less agree. Like the similarly-minded Gorillaz, they know how to use headphone stuff to good effect - if it weren't for the quirky sounds, "So Fresh, So Clean" would be just another R&B ballad, but with them it's elevated to a pretty high level. And speaking of ballads, come on, who doesn't like "Miss Jackson"? I mean, I'm not even a rap fan, but I know a good song when I hear it, and that's one right there. But it's not just ballads: They really rock the house on the ... Read More: Rating: - Uneven but often strong alt-hip hop album with crossover appealThough they had already made a breakthrough with Aquemini, it was Stankonia that graduated OutKast to the top of the lists for crowds celebrating hip hop, alternative and R&B. The two big hits (the frenetic "B.O.B." and the serious swing of "Ms. Jackson") are the real deal, with solid enough melodies and hooks to make one want to revisit them again and again. But like many rap albums, it goes on too long and has far too many interludes and throwaways, no matter if they're almost all at least mildly amusing or interesting on first listen. "Gasoline Dreams" has a good rant that reminds of old school acts like Public Enemy and "We Luv Dez Hoez" rises above its annoying title by delivering a terrific rolling melody. But "Snappin' & ... Read More: Rating: - It stanks in a good way Southernplayalisticadillacmusik was a classic. Atliens was virtually spotless and so was Aquemeni but this album does have its flaws and as reviewers we need to point out certain flaws of an album instead of saying that everything is good just because you love the artists. That is being rational. Lets look at the positives as well as the negatives of this album shall we. The Good: B.O.B, So Fresh So Clean and Ms. Jackson were all great singles and B.O.B. showed the lyrical agility of Dre and Big Boi as they kick superb rhymes over a fast-pased beat. Gasoline Dreams was the raucous kick off to this album and Khujo Goodie is still on point. Snappin & Trappin(featuring Killer Mike and J-Sweet) and Spaghetti Junction are both banging ... Read More: Rating:  - Outkast Does It Again - Another ClassicAnother 5-Star Classic from the hottest duo in the game. Standout tracks: So Fresh, So Clean - Ms. Jackson - Spaghetti Junction - but the single B.O.B. steals the show - so fresh and clean itself you might put it on loop for a few days before you listen to the rest of the album. This CD a definite must for any music collection regardless of your musical taste. |
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