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St. Elsewhere by: Gnarls Barkley List Price: £10.99 CD-Charts Price: £5.98 You Save: £5.01 (46%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0825646326723 Label: Wea Manufacturer: Wea Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Wea Release Date: April 24, 2006 Studio: Wea Sales Rank: 1479 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: In 2006, Danger Mouse is King Midas of the music world. He has an uncanny knack for creating jagged, dense, frenzied beats and odd, eerie, vivid soundscapes that never compromise the music's natural flow. Meanwhile, rapper and singer Cee-Lo, a veteran of Atlanta's Dirty South scene, has never been one to be constrained by hip-hop conventions, and is a willing partner in adventure. The result is an intrepid psychedelic blend of pop, hip-hop, soul, and rock that consistently challenges and delights. It's no wonder that "Crazy," with its modest riff, irresistible hook, and disarming opening line ("I remember when, I remember, I remember when I lost my mind") became a worldwide Internet sensation a full six months before the official release of St. Elsewhere. But that relatively simple soul-pop gem is the tamest track on this wide-ranging, often dark and introspective collaboration. (In fact, the duo considers Gnarls Barkley to be a wholly new creation, as opposed to a collaboration of existing artists.) "Everybody is somebody, but nobody wants to be themselves," Cee-Lo croons on "Who Cares?" He and Danger Mouse try very hard not to be their old selves as they creatively and confidently break down boundaries, but the brilliant cores of their musical personae--Cee-Lo's eccentric spiritual soul man and Danger's bold sonic explorer--remain. --Marc Greilsamer Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Not for lovers of speedy gratification or conformismTerrific energy, honesty, depth and meaning. Will not appeal to those who expect more of the same (with respect to the signature track) or who are threatened by musical freedom of expression, which is evident here in many eclectic forms. Rating: - Wonderful experiment...For the first time in ages I have been assualted and challenged by an album....Gnarls Berkley manages to pull in the past, twist it, reinvent it, and come up with a new mix, a new challenge to our ears. This is a real achievement in the age of crank-the-handle-spit-it-out-for-the-proles age. We are at a time when everything seems to have been done, dusted, and T-shirted. Gnarls makes a wonderfully brave attempt to re-mix and re-discover it all. Some of the songs are instant masterpieces, others are an adventure, some an experiment. Finally, real artists having a go.... We can only stand aside and applaud, every song is engaging and, a new thing for these days, both entertaning and challenging. I think ... Read More: Rating:  - I almost wish I had bought it on CD to skip the weird bitsThere are quite a few lovely great funkin' (I said funkin'..) tracks on here. 'Crazy' etc, but there are some tracks which are maybe not quite so easy to listen to for some people....certainly at first listening. the more you listen the better it gets but it takes time. Dont buy this expecting it to all immediately sound like the lovely smooth funky tracks that have brought them to fame, it doesnt. When they hit it right they sound great but...there are a couple of odd bits. Vinyl wise...its an OK album cover, (Sgt Pepper styleee) the inner is totally black both sides and you get a sleeve note with lyrics too small to read..blank on the back...what a waste of an opportunity... I give 3/10 to Mr Record Company Sleeve ... Read More: Rating: - GnarlyMuch of the reviews for St Elsewhere evaulate all the tracks in relation to its mindblowing single 'Crazy'. While it is probably pertinent to mention that there are no other tracks that reach the sublime level of that song, it may also pertinent to say that Crazy is one of the best songs of the last five years and would dwarf most tracks on most albums by most artists. Putting Crazy aside, there is much to enjoy here, from Dangermouse's dynamic, shapeshifting - but not fussy - production, to Cee-Lo's powerful singing, nursery-rhyme raps, clever word-play and general explosive charisma. Fans of Gorillaz should love this for its humour, its sonic invention and its unique hybridity (soul, gospel, hip hop and electronica - amongst other things). There ... Read More: Rating: - Not Crazy About This AlbumFrom reading some of the other reviews I have a feeling I'm one of many people who heard "Crazy" on it's heavy rotation on every station in the world and bought it on the strength of that track and a good review. Boy, were we suckered. It's not a bad album, indeed, there are even some other good tracks on it. That said, it's really not the best album it could have been, given the talent involved. Most of the tracks sound like stuff that got cut from Outkast's Stankonia album so they could put more interlude tracks on it, but with Cee-Lo's Dirty South credentials that's not wholly surprising. |
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