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 enlarge | Artist: Gnarls Barkley
Label: Atlantic
Category: Music
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Rating:  61 reviews
Sales Rank: 168
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 460236
UPC: 075678994692
EAN: 0075678994692
ASIN: B0013H8QEG
Release Date: March 21, 2008
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 You Gotta Be Kidding me June 17, 2008
2 out of 21 found this review helpful
Is this stuff music? Sounds like a bunch of drug heads going on a road trip. Please, give me a break. This stuff is not music. A child can make noise but you expect more from adults calling themselves artist or musicians.
I purchased this junk based on a recommendation from Sound & Vision Magazine. What a mistake. As I listened, I started doing paperwork because it was so horrible sounding and boring. Then this mess became like torture. Couldn't finish listening to this trash.
This should be listed under miscellaneous instead of music. How it can be considered music, I have no idea.
 Best CD of 2008 so far June 14, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful album, one of the best I've heard so far this year. Someone mentioned it's like psychedelic soul. Give it a try. And if you happen to catch Gnarls Barkley playing on SNL in reruns, you'll be blown away.
There ARE down sides to instant succes, but great nonetheless June 12, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Were this to be the first release by Gnarls Barkley, I would give it 5 stars. It has a good mix of mo-town grooves with a modern spin that gives it an edge that is very desireable (just like their first release) in this day of regurgitated crap that all sounds the same.
That being said, this is not the first release by the duo and so, they must contend with the stunning succes of their damn-near-perfect St. Elsewhere.
It really isn't that there is anything wrong with this album. It is an excellent effort with all of the desired qualities that made the first effort so wondeful. To be honest, in my humble opinion, this album doesn't really contain any standouts (as opposed to the freshman effort which had "Smiley Faces", "Just a Thought", "Who Cares", and of course, the world-renowned "Crazy"), though it is a thorough and solid effort that deserves a listen; it just doesn't have anything REALLY special like the first album did (but don't let that take anything away from what they have done here; it is really daggone good).
This pair, Danger Mouse & Cee-Lo, have put out a strong somphomore effort that is deservedly receiveing attention and rave reviews. The fact that it is not quite "St. Elsewhere" is immaterial. These guys set the bar too high with their first album, but that should not be punishable by 1 star reviews, rather, it should be praised, as should this album, for keeping up the quality while not just remixing the first effort. Basically, I can't give this album 5 stars because I gave St. Elsewhere 5 stars. Technically, I would probably give this album 4.25-4.5 stars.
So, to sum up, St. Elsewhere is still the better of the 2 albums, but if you like that album, this shouldn't dissapoint. Don't listen to the naysayers and morons that wanted an exact repeat of St. Elsewhere. That is what is wrong with music today; it all sounds the same and people want it all to sound the same; it's so freekin' boring. Damned if you do, damned if you don't; I guess.
Don't hold it against these guys that they EVOLVED a little and DIDN'T rely solely on what they had already done; some of the reviewers are complaining, that is really what people mean if they say that this isn't St. Elsewhere and give it 1 or 2 stars. I definitely think this is worthy of the legend that will be known as Gnarls Barkely.
I only hope that they have something special lined up for their third release; it's gonna get tougher and tougher for these guys to keep producing at the high level which they have now maintained through 2 albums. They have the opportunity to really be something special; let's hope it happens.
Perfection June 8, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
The Odd Couple is an excellent follow up to St. Elsewhere. The sounds are very poetic and uncompromisingly original. Cee-Lo's voice is unique and has certainley fueled the hypnotic appeal of the album. I can't stop playing it.Gnarls Barkley has to keep "Going On"
Great album "reduction" by Danger Mouse. June 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I would not call this album heavily produced..."reduced" is more like it. The basic production really gives Cee-Lo's lyrics room to shine.
And shine they do. My son has called 'Blind Mary', "perfect".
Songs like 'She Knows', 'Open Book' and 'Surprise' really give you an insight to just how good Cee-lo is with the lyrics.
It is a mellower album than St. Elsewhere. So if you are looking for something really uptempo, this album as a whole may not do it for you.
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