Can Outkast top Speakerboxxx/The Love Below?
Long gone are the days when AC/DC would release Highway to Hell, Back in Black, and For Those About to Rock... We Salute You in a span of three years, traded for long periods of who-knows-what after groups release their most cherished albums. Thus, only now are we hearing peepings of a new Outkast album to follow on the heels of the massive, dense, and universall adored Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. As someone I can't stand once said, it's been awhile.
Better late than never, I suppose. Here's one half of the duo, Big Boi, talking about how at least a preliminary beat or two has been laid down. I guess it's a start?
“For all you Outkast lovers the album is coming. I’m tired of talking about it and know y’all are tired of hearing me talk about it. But its coming and the album is fire!” Big Boi exclaimed. “The Kast album is top secret but Organized Noise had done the first couple of beats off there. We got Dre working on his solo so we’re going to help him tighten that up. The Kast album is coming, then we got the Goodie Mob album coming, and then the Ceelo-Goodie album so it’s Dungeon Family for life!”
I predict February 2011 -- which will make Speakerboxxx/The Love Below as old as Polaroid pictures were when Andre 3000 told us to shake it like one.
I remember a review of Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here album back when that first came out that said something like "Maybe everyone should spend 2 1/2 years making an album." It had been that long since Dark Side Of The Moon and that was apparently a really long time between albums in the 1970's. Elton John used to release 2 albums a year back then which I think I heard was in his contract. Yikes.
We were talking in my office yesterday about how AC/DC released Back in Black, their first with new singer Brian Johnson, FIVE MONTHS after Bon Scott had died. This was in the context of backlash at the new Alice in Chains album with new singer William Duvall, 7 years or so after Layne Staley's death and 14 years since their last new recordings.
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