Outkast - Idlewild
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Free Music Notes for Idlewild
Free Music Review: Still the Greatest show on earth!!
Hit: 5 Stars
Outkast return with the long awaited follow up to worldwide smash `Speakerboxxx/The love below' with the accompanying disc to their movie of the same name; `Idlewild'.
The movie is set in prohibition era US and that influence is felt in the music, resulting in an album as experimental and eclectic as ever. Much like `Speakerboxxx...', there are songs by Big Boi, Andre, and then by them both.
`Mighty O' (By Outkast) samples Cab Calloway's `Minnie the moocher' to good effect. `Morris Brown' (by Big Boi) has a marching band (complete with drumming and horns) driving it full steam ahead. 'Idlewild blue' is a simple blues tinged acoustic plod, sprinkled with piano and laced with harmonica. It works amazingly well.
`Peaches' (Big Boi) is a wonderful mellow rap. In a similar mould is `N2U' (Big Boi). `Chronomentrophobia' is an outstanding neo soul song half sung/rapped by Andre.
Other standouts are `The train' (Big Boi), the jazzy `Life is like a musical' (Andre), the psychedelic/Prince sounding `Mutron Angel' (Andre featuring Whild Peach), the skittery `Greatest show on earth' (Andre with Macy Gray), the swinging `Call the law' & 'In your dreams'(Outkast featuring Janelle Monae), the jook joint swing of `When I look in your eyes' (Andre), and the lovely piano/organ ballad `Dyin' to live' (Andre).
Once again, Outkast show that the only way to go is up. Brilliant!!!
Free Music Review: Open your Minds
Hit: 5 Stars
I am a long time Outkast fan since the Southernplayalistic album. I have read some reviews that had me wondering if I should buy the new Outkast album or not. Well I am glad I did. I am not sure what people or looking for but their name should tell you their story. They are "Outkast". The have actually grown more into that name now than ever before.
I have to admit that I sometimes long for the days of music like Aquemini and Atliens but I realize they've changed.
The Love Below/Speakerboxx album actually just grew on me this year 2006 and I bought it when it first came out. As humans we like things that are familiar to us which makes it hard to accept when things or people change. We should all be evolving and breaking down our own barriers. If you listen to Andre' he tells you that he's bored with rap. I don't blame him. I bet the KKK loves some rap because of the things we say or say we are going to do to each other in the songs. I grew up on and love rap but sometimes it all sounds the same so this is fresh air to me. If I am rambling it's because it's 1:30am.
So far on this new Outkast album the song that I keep playing over and over is "The Train" which is song #9. The last few songs on the album will probably have to grow on me but if someone stole this album from me I would buy it again. How much "lean with it" music do you want?
Free Music Review: May not be what you expect... but it just might be better.
Hit: 5 Stars
Followers of Outkast know that Big Boi and Andre 3000 always push the envelope of what people expect of them, and Idlewild is no different. It's a dizzying, hypnotic and wild ride, taking listeners far outside the boundaries of what might be called traditional hip-hop. If anything, this is what makes Outkast so great. They can hardly be called a traditional hip-hop group as they consisently take their music to places no one in the industry has gone before.
If you're looking for more of the same, you may not like Idlewild. Most of the Outkast faithful already know better than to look for more of the same from one of the most eclectic, surprising music groups in the last twenty years.
Some tracks have the distinct "Outkast" flavor that makes them so popular: take 'Mighty O' or 'Morris Brown' but on the other hand, take a single like 'Idlewild Blue' which features both guitar and a little harmonica or the deep, soulful piano on 'A Bad Note'... how many hip hop songs do you know feature any of those instruments? Not many.
Rather than sell out and give us remixes of the same single or melody or rhyme or style over and over, Outkast makes enjoyable, original MUSIC. If only more hip-hop and rock and pop artists would do the same.
Free Music Review: Outkast Re-Defining Music & Hip Hop
Hit: 5 Stars
Outkast has once again re-defined the ever-becoming monotonous definition of the word hip hop. In an age where catchy beats with lyrically un-profound yet catchy jingles are the norm (i.e. "it's going down"/"lean wit it rock wit it"), Outkast doesn't stoop to this pathetic level. The production of this album is pure genious. A sound that only Outkast could pull off as the 1930's feels just as hip and hot in today's hip hop sense. The lyrics can be catchy at time, yet the sarcasm and irony that Big Boi & Andre rhyme with is always too deep for most to understand. At times this album can be quite eccentric, but who said being bold and re-defining a musical genre was a bad thing. Outkast is doing the same thing that other legends as the beatles, nirvana, and elvis did in reinventing their musical genre. From start to finish this album is hot. Except if you are a person who thinks they like hip hop yet thinks hip hop is supposed to be the likes of lil jon, young joc, franchize boyz. Then you will most likely find yourself in the realm of people saying "this ain't hip hop, this is garbage." True fans of music and hip hop will love this!Free Music Review: On par with Speakerboxx and the love below
Hit: 5 Stars
As a die hard outkast fan..i found it quite hard that the cd could be on the scale that speakerboxx/the love below was...well..kast proved me wrong.
I have been listening to this cd hours upon countless hours..listening and breaking down and boy..real music has returned. To me, this cd is like the love below, with more big boi to it. Not only are these tracks well produced but they have meaning. Makes no Sense at all is a track that i and my friend believe talks about certain rap songs today and how they simply..make no sense at all. Outkasts hits hit real hard with the metaphors on this cd, well produced tracks, and a party feel music masterpiece which goes well with the movie that will be coming out soon
My favorite tracks include:
PJ & Rooster
Peaches
Hollywood Divorce
Buggface
Life is like a musical
Makes no sense at all
and Greatest show on earth..these are all songs that stuck out to me and this cd is a definate pick up! go grab your copy now!