Hey everyone! It's '100 Reasons Why Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is the album of the year unless Chicks On Speed or Basement Jaxx can trump it', numbers 13-20!
13. The way 'The Way You Move' is the kind of unassuming number that sounds relatively familiar at first but gets stuck in your head, and what's actually going on in there becomes increasingly impressive with each listen...
14. The way that track deserves, nay DEMANDS to be heard on the dancefloors of the most cheesy, wedding-reception-esque nightspots in the world, so that drunken couples can tango, waltz or salsa to it, clumsily.
15. How 'Tomb Of The Bomb' shoots up in quality when Ludacris comes in. Sure, it's a dope beat, but he's the first person on there who does it justice. And of course he starts by saying his own name. Say the name!
16. To quote someone on I Love Music, the way: "Andre was like half-awake with a girl in his bed when he wrote most of those songs, whereas Big Boi sounds like he was mainlining espresso the whole time."
17. The little "You know what to doo-woo-hoo" bits on 'Hey Ya!'.
18. The way the guitar on 'Prototype' wouldn't sound out of place on Siamese Dream (I think 'Mayonnaise' is the equivalent Pumpkins track that I'm thinking of).
19. "Let's go... to the movies", followed by the (sampled?) call of "Action!", on the same song.
20. And again, the ad libs on 'Prototype' - "stank you, smelly much" - they're daft as hell but the impression it creates is of the kind of romantic silliness that makes couples talk to each other in silly voices or their own secret coded language.
(By the way, Chicks On Speed have given it a good shot, but I think Speakerboxxx has the edge on 99 cents. Just.)
13. The way 'The Way You Move' is the kind of unassuming number that sounds relatively familiar at first but gets stuck in your head, and what's actually going on in there becomes increasingly impressive with each listen...
14. The way that track deserves, nay DEMANDS to be heard on the dancefloors of the most cheesy, wedding-reception-esque nightspots in the world, so that drunken couples can tango, waltz or salsa to it, clumsily.
15. How 'Tomb Of The Bomb' shoots up in quality when Ludacris comes in. Sure, it's a dope beat, but he's the first person on there who does it justice. And of course he starts by saying his own name. Say the name!
16. To quote someone on I Love Music, the way: "Andre was like half-awake with a girl in his bed when he wrote most of those songs, whereas Big Boi sounds like he was mainlining espresso the whole time."
17. The little "You know what to doo-woo-hoo" bits on 'Hey Ya!'.
18. The way the guitar on 'Prototype' wouldn't sound out of place on Siamese Dream (I think 'Mayonnaise' is the equivalent Pumpkins track that I'm thinking of).
19. "Let's go... to the movies", followed by the (sampled?) call of "Action!", on the same song.
20. And again, the ad libs on 'Prototype' - "stank you, smelly much" - they're daft as hell but the impression it creates is of the kind of romantic silliness that makes couples talk to each other in silly voices or their own secret coded language.
(By the way, Chicks On Speed have given it a good shot, but I think Speakerboxxx has the edge on 99 cents. Just.)
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