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sp4cetiger
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- #1
- Posted: 06/29/2014 19:21
- Post subject: User Pick of the Day (#95): ATLiens by OutKast [Torchlin]
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ATLiens by OutKast
Chart: Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by Torchlin
Rank on User's Chart: 3
Year: 1996
Rank on BEA Overall: 1,576
Average Rating: 74/100
Summary Info: The second studio album by Atlanta-based hip hop group, OutKast. The album showed a more laid-back sound than their debut, taking influence from dub and reggae.
Details on the implementation and chart selection process of "User Pick of the Day" can be found here and here, respectively. A chart documenting the previous picks can be found here.
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Precedent
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- #2
- Posted: 06/29/2014 19:23
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Fantastic album, second to only Stankonia in the OutKast discography, granted, I am yet to listen to the bookends of their work.
Outside of the closing track, there are no huge highlights.
A straight 85/100
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junodog4
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Gender: Male
Location: Calgary
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- #3
- Posted: 06/29/2014 21:00
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Pre-Stankonia Outkast is fantastic, yet overlooked by many. This is a great album. So loose.
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Finnegan was super bad-ass.
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Skinny
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- #4
- Posted: 06/29/2014 23:57
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I prefer Aquemini, but there's not a lot in it. Funky, forward-thinking, and really fun. This was where they truly found their voices, individually and collectively stepping up their game in every sense - lyrically, musically, even thematically more interesting and ambitious. Which, considering how fantastic their debut was and is, was no mean feat. Despite being so different in so many ways, part of me has long regarded OutKast as the natural successors to Tribe, making free, feelgood hip-hop that managed to transcend genre allegiances without it ever feeling unnatural or forced. They were one of the greatest groups off all-time, in any genre, and ATLiens finds them at something very close to their best from beginning to end.
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2021 in full effect. Come drop me some recs. Y'all know what I like.
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meccalecca
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Location: The Land of Enchantment
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- #5
- Posted: 06/30/2014 13:51
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| Skinny wrote: | | I prefer Aquemini |
Same. Totally agree about OutKast as one of the greatest groups ever. Andre and Big Boi's styles complimented each other as well as any duo I've ever heard.
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WindowAbove
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Location: Iowa
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- #6
- Posted: 06/30/2014 17:56
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Amazing album, though I prefer Aquemini.
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RIHYONCE
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- Posted: 07/01/2014 04:22
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love love this album, my second favorite of theirs after aquemini.
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hippo
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Age: 30
Location: Toronto
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- #8
- Posted: 07/01/2014 16:59
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I actually prefer this to Aquemini. This is my favourite Outkast album. My favourite tracks from it are Jazzy Belle and Millennium.
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