Cee-Lo - Cee-Lo Green Is the Soul Machine [Clean]
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Track List: Cee-Lo Green Is the Soul Machine [Clean]
- IntroDownload & Buy
- Soul MachineDownload & Buy
- Art of NoiseDownload & Buy
- Living AgainDownload & Buy
- I'll Be AroundDownload & Buy
- One
- My Kind of People
- Childz PlayDownload & Buy
- I Am Selling SoulDownload & Buy
- All Day Love AffairDownload & Buy
- Evening News
- Scrap MetalDownload & Buy
- Glockappella
- When We Were FriendsDownload & Buy
- SometimesDownload & Buy
- Let's Stay TogetherDownload & Buy
- Die Trying
- What Don't You Do? (Outro)
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Album Details: Cee-Lo Green Is the Soul Machine [Clean]
- Release Date:
- 03/02/2004
- Label:
- Arista
- UPC:
- 828765214520
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Cee-Lo Is a Music Machin
, September 7, 2004Reviewer: youngpoppa07 - See all youngpoppa07's reviews
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Pro Reviews: Cee-Lo Green Is the Soul Machine [Clean]
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews CeeLo's debut album had been an interesting listen but resonated with very few listeners, so some changes were due for his second goround, CeeLo Is the Soul Machine, which is indeed a drastically improved effort. Arista head honcho L.A. Reid had no doubt let CeeLo fly his freak flag high and mighty for CeeLo Green and His Perfect Imperfections (2002) for what resulted was an album that was, in a word, curious a sprawling carnival of Dirty Southinflected soulsinging that knew no boundaries whatsoever, willfully professing its weirdness on outthere songs like the lead single, "Closet Freak," which was the closest CeeLo came to crossing over commercially. In other words, cross over à la OutKast he didn't not by a long shot. In fact, most listeners took him at face value and wrote him off as a freak. It'd be a real shame if that happened again with CeeLo Is the Soul Machine. Sure, the big guy is still fairly weird here, but he's tastefully weird and, above all, focused this time. He's written a stronger batch of songs and has aligned himself with some of the best producers in the industry (the entire industry, that is): Timbaland and the Neptunes, most notably, but also Jazze Pha, Organized Noize, and DJ Premier. How he managed to reign in such a team of bigmoney producers is a good question (maybe the concurrently dismissed L.A. Reid can answer that one), but the result is nothing short of delightful. The album opens with a flawless run of radioready tunes "The Art of Noise" through "My Kind of People" and then spins off into a mélange of CeeLoisms: streamofconscious spoken wordstyle raps that cut deep, stirred into kaleidoscopic musical arrangements that straddle the hiphop and deep soul eras simultaneously, all of it utterly distinct from track to track, ultimately culminating all too soon at the 65minute mark. Once again CeeLo has recorded a peerless album, except this time he's recorded one that should connect, or at least deserves to. OutKast's Speakerboxx/The Love Below (especially André 3000's half) is probably the best touchstone you're liable to find this side of your imagination, in terms of not only style but also quality and vision. [Though CeeLo Is the Soul Machine is a fairly cleancut album overall, Arista released a thoroughly clean edition as well.] - Jason Birchmeier , All Music Guide |
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The first member of Goodie Mob to go solo, Cee-Lo adopted a much more charismatic and flamboyant style for his 2002 debut album than his group had in the late '90s. The singer/rapper aligned himself more with eccentric alt-rappers like Andre 3000 of ...Full Cee-Lo Biography
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Pros: EVERYTHING ABOUT THE ALBUM IS GOOD
Cons: NOTHING IS BAD
Just as his last release, it is full of great music all around. No tracks are worth skipping, from the radio-ready first half of the album, to the darker, more angry tunes that come in Glockapella and such. The lyrics are once again phenomenal, he has also an amazing lineup of producers on for this album, unlike Perfect Imperfections. Though it has not yet reached platinum as his debut, this album may very well be the best album of 2004.