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Speakerboxx/The Love Below
Arista

Statistical analysis yields but one conclusion. Better for Andre 3000 to have donated "Roses" ("really smell like poo-poo"), "Spread" (Prince should be so horny), "Hey Ya!" of course ("a-right a-right a-right a-right"), and an oddity of his choosing (say the single-mom "She's Alive") to Speakerboxx, thus rendering it the classic P-Funk rip it ain't quite, and released the rest of The Love Below under a one-off pseudonym that fooled no one, where it would go gold as an avant-funk cult legend long about 2010 (assuming the RIAA exists at that time). But in the absence of compelling economic motivation, this just didn't happen. No "Ms. Jackson," no "Rosa Parks," no "Bombs Over Baghdad," no "The Whole World" either. Just commercial ebullience, creative confidence, and wretched excess, blessed excess, impressive excess. A MINUS

Robert Christgau

so, did he like it?

A Minus sounds like a yes. Christgau can be vague.

the line is "roses really smell like BOO BOO"

mrdespues said:

I know, right?? Get the shit straight before ya write incoherently about something!

mrdespues said:

Did they really think that hook sounded good in the studio?

CalhounSq said:

It's damn noxiously obnoxious.

Robert Christgau's a dick. I don't trust music critics judgements anymore.

"i must say, good sir, you just pissed spectacular off, and don't even mention exactly!"

bentley farnsworth should be my dad.

thiscdisoffthegawddamnedmotherfuckingchain.believedat!




*the fiddler on the fuckin' roof*
[This message was edited Fri Oct 31 6:45:41 PST 2003 by SleezyG]