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| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
| Subject | Re: Outkast (was Re: David Ponak 2003 Top Ten) |
| Date | Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:27:10 -0500 |
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At 01:55 PM 12/11/2003 -0600, Michael Bennett wrote:
>One thing that comes up constantly about this disc is the old saw "Good
>double album that would have made a great single album." This is only
>somewhat true. In reality, due to the length of both CDs, this is the
>equivalent of 3 vinyl albums worth of material -- so it's a very good triple
>LP that would make a mega killer double LP. I still intend during the
>holidays to cut a single disc with the highlights of both. Andre's disc is
>audacious and entertaining, but replacing some cuts that don't fully work
>with the best of Big Boi's disc would yield a work better than STANKONIA.
I tried doing this, but I ended up cutting so little out of THE LOVE BELOW
-- pretty much just the dialogues, "She's Alive" and "Take Off Your Cool,"
which barely even made room for "The Way You Move" and "Ghetto Musick,"
much less Big Boi's other highlights -- that I think I'll just download the
whole thing into the iPod I'm not supposed to know I'm getting for
Christmas and skip around according to whim.
>It is encouraging to see Outkast take over the charts ("Hey Ya!" is # 1 this
>week; "The Way You Move" is # 3) -- just like seeing "Stacey's Mom" get all
>the way up to #21, which, for a rock track these days, if amazing. I don't
>know if I'm as optimistic as Stewart about how the Outkast record will fare
>in the top 20 poll (polls open on 12/16), but it would be a kick if it made
>the Audities top 20.
I'm not trying to influence the charts in any way by saying this, but it
seems like every year there's an album that not many people have at the
very top of their list but a LOT of people have somewhere in their top 10,
and those albums always place high. I think this may be that album this year.
S
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