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	OutKast: Stankonia (2000): Reviews
		Stankonia is among the most exciting albums of the year, not only because it brazenly addresses hip-hop's spiritual emptiness (other well-intentioned rappers have tried) but because it musically surpasses the most innovative work of street production dons like Swizz Beatz, Manny Fresh, and Timbaland.
		Stankonia leaves nothing to be desired as it is energized by Outkast's clever lyrics coupled with their cutting edge production, which is an expansive take on the original Atlanta sound.
		Stankonia lays bare the group's desire to be something greater than just rap stars.
	www.metacritic.com /music/artists/outkast/stankonia (1278 words)

	Amazon.com: Stankonia: Music: OutKast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Stankonia's most beautiful moments come in the name of love, whether it's a celebration of the current ("Stanklove") or a lamentation of the past ("Ms.
		Like London Calling, what Stankonia does is expertly takes the roots and influences of a talented group and effectively filters them through their own developed sound, at once paying tribute to those influences and also building on a diverse and eclectic range of styles.
		Stankonia is a timeless album, a classic record, one of the best of all time.
	www.amazon.com /Stankonia-OutKast/dp/B00002R0MA (1762 words)

	:: MVRemix: Album Reviews - Outkast - Stankonia ::
		As universally respected figureheads of the Southern rap renaissance, Big Boi and Andre 3000 are probably hip-hop's most important group, and 'Stankonia' is a fine follow-up in their tradition of diverse and brilliant albums.
		The rhymes themselves, however, are almost irrelevant; Outkast have always have fantastic deliveries and 'Stankonia' is as irresistible in the respect as any of their other work.
		Like their other albums, 'Stankonia' is a collection of fantastic songs that, when put together in proper sequence, with skits and all, sound a lot better.
	www.mvremix.com /urban/reviews/2000/stankonia.shtml (644 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Stankonia [PA] - Outkast at Epinions.com
		Like they told their fan base, "stankonia" is the "stankiest album of their career", whatever that means.
		The original dungeon sound was varied, for "stankonia" Outkast tried a lot of new sounds and instruments.
		With "stankonia" Outkast set their trademark on new sounds, new beats and fresh production, the songs are interrupted by funny skits.
	www.epinions.com /content_83336859268 (437 words)

	Outkast - Stankonia Review
		"Stankonia" is the fourth release by Atlanta hip hop duo Outkast.
		The wild ride which is "Stankonia", contains many references to sex and delivers with a strong dose of erotic harmonies, that do not disappoint the true Outkast fan.
		All lyrics and texts are property and copyright of their owners and are strictly for educational purposes and personal use only.
	www.stagestars.net /outkast/reviews/stankonia (403 words)

	Stankonia: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		Stankonia was OutKast 's second straight masterstroke, an album just as ambitious, just as all-over-the-map, and even hookier than its predecessor.
		Keyboardist/producer Earthtone III helms most of the backing tracks, and while the live-performance approach is still present, there's more reliance on programmed percussion, otherworldly synthesizers, and surreal sound effects.
		It's no wonder Stankonia consolidated OutKast 's status as critics' darlings, and began attracting broad new audiences: its across-the-board appeal and ambition overshadowed nearly every other pop album released in 2000.
	www.music.com /release/stankonia/1 (448 words)

	Skykicking
		Stankonia demonstrates the quandary perfectly: nearly everything I love on this album finds a concept of modernism by transposing the duo's dream of a p-funk revival through an ostensibly dated brand of eighties-vintage artificiality.
		On a superficial level, Stankonia does sound a lot like Kelis' Neptunes-produced Kaleidoscope album, all uneasy whiny synth effects and a blocky, verging-on-disintegration rhythmic approach that always sounds raw and unpolished even at its most intricate.
		Anyway, so yeah, Stankonia is indeed the hip hop album of the year, and I congratulate Outkast for having made an album that so perfectly suits my tastes (there's some hubris for y'all).
	www.geocities.com /tim_finney/outkast.html (1043 words)

	ROCKZONE.COM: Reviews: Outkast - "Stankonia"
		That song, and all the others on "Stankonia," take the listener to another realm musically, a realm that bears the album's name, as coined by Andre 3000 and Big Boi of Outkast.
		Many of the songs are open to interpretation, with an obvious meaning and a double one, and are open to interpretation because of the untraditional and exciting meanings Outkast assigns to its lyrics.
		"Stankonia" in my mind successfully changes the hip hop landscape to resemble the other-world that is Stankonia.
	www.rockzone.com /reviews/oldskoolreviews/outkast.html (485 words)

	Outkast: Stankonia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Stankonia is a place, without doubt, but it's scarily, crucially, critically elusive and hard-to-define.
		It's one of pop's great mental communities; the new ideals for living that have perhaps been pop's greatest gifts to the world, the enrichments with which it marks its era.
		The idea of Stankonia - as a slowly unfolding story, a community of weird normality and universal pathology which has no map and no specific description, but is nevertheless a clearly-defined mental community - is slowly forming.
	www.elidor.freeserve.co.uk /outkast.htm (860 words)

	Stankonia - OutKast, Music Downloads - Online
		Stankonia FROM CONNECT - Music Downloads Powered by Sony.
		Review: Stankonia was OutKast's second straight masterstroke, an album just as ambitious, just as all-over-the-map, and even hookier than its predecessor.
		It's no wonder Stankonia consolidated OutKast's status as critics' darlings, and began attracting broad new audiences: its across-the-board appeal and ambition overshadowed nearly every other pop album released in 2000.
	musicstore.connect.com /album/.../Stankonia/500000000000000713990.html (326 words)

	The FlipSide: Reviews: Stankonia
		As an experience, Stankonia is way funky, and yet succeeds in taking you on different courses, from the Earth into outer space and back again - with several tangents in between.
		Finally, "Slum Beautiful" and "Stankonia" are two melodic excursions similar to earlier OutKast tracks like "Funky Ride" but with a twist for the 2000, and bring the album to a satisfying conclusion.
		Yet 'Stankonia' is far from being their best effort - you could even argue that it's their worst - but they haven't fallen off, and the truth is that, despite its flaws, it's one of the outstanding releases of the year.
	www.hiphop.co.za /flipside/reviews/outkast-stankonia.html (641 words)

	The Daily Vault Album Reviews : Stankonia
		You know you're in for a mind-expanding experience when the intro to an album takes you to the center of the Earth, science fiction style, then brings you back up to the sound of a huddle before a big football game in about a minute.
		Whether it's the reflective moments in "Xplosion" or a relentless onslaught of "B.O.B.," Stankonia is a mature work that actually builds on what their last album, Aquemini, accomplished and takes it to another level.
		Just look in the liner notes to what you are going to expect with Stankonia: "Powerful music/electric revival." If you're looking for the first benchmark album of the new decade, look no further than this one.
	www.dailyvault.com /2000_11_22-sm.html (528 words)

	Outkast: Stankonia ---Ink Blot Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		They've even weathered a cred-enhancing legal scandal growing out of their single "Rosa Parks" (they got sued for using her name in the title, even though the song wasn't about her at all) and the high-profile relationship and breakup of Andre and Erykah Badu.
		Then, we heard the first single, "B.O.B.," with its southernbassalistic beat, spitfire delivery, and Eddie Hazel-like guitar work from David Whild, clearly one of the greatest rap singles ever, and it was critic heaven.
		It is a chorus of great brilliance and hard work and insight and blues and love on one fist and hate on the other.
	www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/Outkast_Stankonia.htm (454 words)

	Slant Magazine - Music Review: OutKast: Stankonia
		The typical hip-hop video is filled with women in bikinis licking lollipops or ice cream cones and the music is usually formulaic and musician-free.
		Thankfully, Outkast's fourth album, Stankonia, continues Andre 3000 and Big Boi's progressive blend of hip-hop, funk, rock, and soul.
		The album is socially conscious while maintaining street credibility, using clever metaphors as hooks ("I hear Mother Nature's now on birth control").
	www.slantmagazine.com /music/music_review.asp?ID=153 (283 words)

	Rolling Stone : Stankonia : Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		On their fourth album, Stankonia, Big Boi and Andre 3000 prove that they may well be, as they claim, the coolest motherfunkers on the planet.
		If Aquemini was often like Parliament at their most sun-worshipping fun, Stankonia at its darkest has the jagged weight of Funkadelic's Maggot Brain and the politics of Sly and the Family Stone's There's a Riot Goin' On.
		With Stankonia, OutKast and their sometime producers Organized Noize have left behind much of the vernacular of Southern rap -- the fluid, easy beats and drawling pace -- that they helped create.
	www.rollingstone.com /reviews/album/302328/review/6068083/stankonia (596 words)

	Stankonia High The Never Ending Stank-O-Story
		The First Stankonia High story will be written very soon so, sign my guest book or send me an email and the story will be sent to you via email.So i will be calling on Outkast fans to help me run this by giving me ideas and what not.
		With your help,this will be one of the the greatest Outkast site on the interslice.
		well in the song Tough Guy, Andre 3000 sings "when they ask what school do you attend say stankonia high" so i figured i will create this school.plus there is a serious lack of Outkast websites on the internet.
	www.angelfire.com /hiphop2/stankoniahigh (113 words)

	The Cavalier Daily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It all comes together on "Stankonia," which manages once again to give progressive hip-hop a good name.
		Conceptually, OutKast's fourth album is a bit more down-to-earth than its third album "Aquemini." They start the album throwing gasoline on the American dream, and search for answers on "Stankonia," presumably a planet in which the usual myopic dismissals of hip-hop get smashed.
		"Stankonia" questions whether or not OutKast is too experimental for its own good, suggesting it is taking hip-hop places it is not yet prepared to go.
	www.cavalierdaily.com /CVArticle.asp?ID=6288&pid=645 (589 words)

	Soundtest - A Website About Music Reviews
		In Stankonia, Outkast implements the use of satirical skits to introduce a few of the tracks.
		It's got a classic beat to it that will stick to you as soon as the track stops and the rhyme is something worth hearing all by itself.
		Ultimately, Stankonia is an epic collection of love, hate and the funk inbetween.
	soundtest.org /az/outkast-stankonia.htm (653 words)

	Nude as the News: OutKast: Stankonia
		In six years, he and partner Antwan "Big Boi" Patton have become two of the most talented lyricists and rappers of this era, what Snoop Dogg was eight years ago -- before he lost most of his creativity and charm -- Big Boi is now, simultaneously a confused sexist yet sweet and protective father.
		Stankonia is really the culmination of the group's first three records, since it contains the Dirty South slang of their 1994 debut Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, the atmospheric beats of 1996's ATLiens, and the pure head-bobbing genius of 1998's unconventional Aquemini, one of the 1990s' best and most important rap records.
		Just like there will be a greater difference between Radiohead's OK Computer and Kid A than Kid A and their next record, OutKast simply need to make good songs now since the artistic growth can decrease from monumental to just noticeable.
	www.nudeasthenews.com /reviews/306 (921 words)

	village voice > music > Outkast Stankonia by Tony Green
		Common sense would tell you that a lot of folks in the 'hood would settle for peace of mind over a platinum grill, but sweeping interpretations don't leave a lot of room for nuance.
		Sex can be tender and honest, too: See "Stankonia (Stanklove)" and "Slum Beautiful." Or it can be dispassionate and male-bonding wary; on "We Luv Deez Hoes," Big Boi cautions against overindulging in gold-digging groupies.
		Nothing new for these fellas—except this time it sounds like they've pulled out all the stops, seemingly conscious that there are still some heads loath to admit that a couple of fish-'n'-grits eatin' country kneegrows got a leg up on the rest of the pop crowd.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0044/green.shtml (1231 words)

	Stankonia \| The Onion - America's Finest News Source
		That album raised expectations to almost unattainable heights, but OutKast's new Stankonia actually tops it in terms of ambition, skill, and sonic and lyrical weirdness.
		Jackson," "Toilet Tisha") sharing space with regressive throwbacks like "We Luv Deez Hoez" and "Gangsta Sht." But Stankonia's* contradictions help make it unforgettable: The duo refuses to be classified or reined in, to choose between anger and contentment, melody and noise.
		In its messy brilliance, OutKast has created a hip-hop Sign O' The Times, a messy, vital classic and a major step forward for both its members and hip-hop as a whole.
	www.theonion.com /content/node/12347 (385 words)

	AllHipHop.com : Reviews
		Andre 3000 and Big Boi of ATL’s Outkast may call their latest album, Stankonia but it actually smells like a wave of fresh air.
		Yeah, sometimes the antics of the group often get them criticized for being different just for the sake of being different but, whether their originality is genuine or not, they bring to hip hop, things unseen thus far.
		Stankonia is a salad of mixed styles with several parts funk, some rock and, hey, there’s even some rap in this one.
	www.allhiphop.com /reviews/?ID=91 (346 words)

	User Comments for Stankonia by OutKast
		Easily one of the best albums in the past 5 years, but Stankonia just has a "Monumental" feel to it.
		The sad fact about most who hear this album _ fans and detractors _ is that they don't have a grasp of the intellectual irony dripping from Stankonia.
		Stankonia is at least an effective adjective to describe them
	www.metacritic.com /music/usercomments.jsp?id_string=429:7iQkFoAQeCPJhJSVdTN8-w** (1263 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Music: Stankonia, OutKast, CD
		On their fourth release, Stankonia, No. 1 stunners Dre and Big Boi have expanded their eclectic repertoire with an edgy and oftentimes humorous collage of songs heavy on frenzied electric guitar and scattered synthesizer effects.
		A few of the most flavorful tracks, such as the gospel choir- and electro-funk driven first single "B.O.B." and the neck-snapping "Gasoline Dreams," are propelled by rallying hooks and pumping bass lines.
		Meanwhile, songs such as the tranquil "Slum Beautiful," which features trance-inducing guitar loops and Al Green-esque vocals à la Goodie Mob's Cee-Lo, are no less breathtaking.
	music.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?z=y&EAN=730082607223&itm=8 (848 words)

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