Let’s talk about Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below in this thread.
I remember initially the consensus seemed to be that The Love Below was the better and more interesting project and then the tide seemed to turn back towards Speakerboxxx (maybe after Sir Lucious Left Foot came out)
Hadn’t listened to either for a while but am just midway through a Love Below listen at the minute and it’s properly bonkers isn’t it. Nuts that it spawned one of the biggest singles of all time and that the entire project exists at a time when Outkast were huge.
Think most music nerds were all like yeah Speakerboxx is defs the more innovative of the two. In hindsight, The Love Below is the one that’s gone on to be more influential and sounds more “modern” today. Still, it’s not necessarily the better record for it. A bit like 808s isn’t Kanye’s best record but it’s arguably the most influential one.
My sister got it for Christmas one year (I must have been about 10) and I remember listening to it and wondering why there weren’t loads of Hey Yas on it. I remember there was a lot of spoken word on The Love Below. Am I correct?
I think I will re-listen to both now you have brought it up again.