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Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below
OutKast
Retail Price (not our price): $21.98
Release Date: 2003-09-23
Manufacturer: La Face
Format: Audio CD
Discs: 2

Track List
Now here, for your listening pleasure, the tracks...

Disc 1
1.		The Love Below (Intro)		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
2.		Love Hater		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
3.		God (Interlude)		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
4.		Happy Valentine's Day		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
5.		Spread		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
6.		Where Are My Panties?		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
7.		Prototype		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
8.		She Lives in My Lap		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
9.		Hey Ya!		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
10.		Roses		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
11.		Good Day, Good Sir		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
12.		Behold a Lady		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
13.		Pink & Blue		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
14.		Love in War		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
15.		She's Alive		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
16.		Dracula's Wedding		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
17.		Vibrate		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
18.		Take Off Your Cool (with Norah Jones)		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
19.		A Life in the Day of Benjamin Andre (Incomplete)		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
20.		[Untitled Hidden Track]		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
Disc 2
1.		Intro		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
2.		Ghetto Musick		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
3.		Unhappy		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
4.		Bowtie		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
5.		The Way You Move		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
6.		The Rooster		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
7.		Bust (with Killer Mike)		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
8.		War		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
9.		Church		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
10.		Bamboo (Interlude)		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
11.		Tomb of the Boom (with Ludacris)		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
12.		E Mac (Interlude)		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
13.		Knowing		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
14.		Flip Flop Rock (with Killer Mike)		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
15.		Interlude		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
16.		Reset		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
17.		D Boi (Interlude)		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
18.		Last Call (with Slimm Calhoun)		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
19.		Bowtie (Postlude)		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1

Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):

1) Amazon.com
At a time when experimentation is taboo in most overground rap, that's all Outkast seem intent on executing. Firstly, this double CD has no cohesive link, other than the fact that it sounds like a pair of solo albums stitched together to demo exactly how Andre's yin works to augment Big Boi's yang. Andre 3000's Love Below disc rates as the more eclectic of the two, given that 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 sick (meaning 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 collabos to a minimum, once crooning alongside Norah Jones on the cool yet sappy "Take Off Your Cool", and once with Kelis. Boi fulfills his Dungeon Family duty with flying colors by flipping some dirty southern up-tempo raps over electro beats on "GhettoMusick". By the time Cee-Lo sermonizes 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 (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5

1) Interesting!   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I bought this for a friend so I really never listened to it myself. But from what I did hear, The Love Below is the better half of the two CD's. I love the fact that Andre can break out of the rap box and make it sound oh so good.

2) Home run   [Rating: 4 out of 5]
Well after having reached my 50 fourth bithdate i thought i had no taste for such sound, see here, i was wrong!

3) Amazing from Andre 3000   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I enjoyed this album. Big Boi delivered the rap side of the group, with conscious/philosophical songs like: "Church" and "War" along with others. Yet to me it was blown away when I first hit play one Andre 3000 "The Love Below." He opens the LP with a beautiful upbeat jazz song. The rest of it goes together something close to Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On?" album, where you can play it all the way through and not enjoy each song. My favorite tunes from "The Love Below": She Lives in My Lap, Take Off Your cool, A Day in the Life of Andre Benjamin.

4) evolutionary   [Rating: 4 out of 5]
i like the different feel of each side. it was a new step for outkast. their music keeps changing

5) Two albums in one, two good halfs in four   [Rating: 3 out of 5]
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is less a double album than a pair of solo records from Big Boi and Andre 3000. They so rarely collaborate here that either one participates on each other's material less than the guest appearances by other artists (Big Boi's is loaded with them). Naturally, Andre's is the one with the most promise (and payoff, though the quality is closer than one expects). Speakerboxxx has just as many lame ones as winners. The frenetic "GhettoMusick," the bouncy "The Rooster," the silky single, "The Way You Move," and the surprisingly sly and melodic "Church" are really the only ones worth the attention. But The Love Below delivers a number of strong moments, none greater than the undeniably joyous groove of "Hey Ya," one of the best singles of the year. But both discs are overlong (especially Andre's), with too many filler tracks and unnecessary interludes, an epidemic in the hip hop community that's bordering on parody right now. About as uneven an album that will ever come out, but the high points are well worth slogging through the mire to find.Best cuts: "Hey Ya!" "GhettoMusick," "Prototype," "The Way You Move," "Love Hater," "Roses," "Spread," "Church," "Pink & Blue," "The Rooster," "Take Off Your Cool," "Knowing"