Talk:Aquemini/Archive 1

Reviews
Rapreviews.com and Rap Pages are professional review sites as is Warr.org. Why are they being removed from infoboxes?

---Dan56 12:51, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Fair Use
I do not think "Fair Use" applies to this copyright album cover. It could get the Wikipedia project into trouble to use it. Caltrop

I think the part of this page that describes each song in detail needs to be edited. It doesn't really convey the professionalism or objective viewpoint I see elsewhere. Since I'm new, I thought I would give someone a chance to respond before laying in. Monkeyfacebag 22:29, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I found it fascinating but lots of original research needs trimming out. I might have a go some time. Soo 18:53, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

What is wrong with the bold text on the second song? I can't seem to fix it at all.
 * Fixed it!

Silly Inclusion
"Though Stankonia and Speakerboxxx/The Love Below would be more commercially successful, many fans view Aquemini as OutKast's definitive album."

First of all, Stankonia and Speakerboxxx/The Love Below are quite clearly more popular than Aquemini; "Commercially successful" isn't a euphamism for less hip, and if certain albums are more popular than others, there's no reason to state that "many fans view Aquemini as Outkast's definitive album"." People who view this as their best record exist, I'm sure (although they probably tend to favor it since it wasn't a pop hit), but there's no reason at all to include this point in an encyclopedia article since it's obviously POV and there's no citation for it either. It's another subtle way of adding POV to an article.

The track-list is stanking brilliant!

Fair use rationale for Image:Aqueminicvr.jpg
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RS 500
Wasn't this one on the list?? The Person Who Is Strange 16:09, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

USA Today review
Transcription using Google News Advanced News Archive Search. USA Today (Jones, Steve. 04.D. September 29, 1998) review of Aquemini (1998):

"Outkast, Aquemini ( * * * 1/2) No one ever could accuse Outkast of having a hole in its hip-hop soul. In fact, funk just oozes from this latest set by the Atlanta duo of Big Boi and Dre, whose molasses-smooth raps speak to the stark realities of urban streets. And with the hard-driving, Southern-fried grooves provided by live studio musicians, these songs not only make you dance, they make you sweat. As on its first two albums -- 1994's Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik and 1996's ATLiens -- Outkast stays way shy of the usual hip-hop beats and cliches. For this pair, originality is always in style."

- Steve Jones

Dan56 (talk) 20:52, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Dead external links to Allmusic website – January 2011
Since Allmusic have changed the syntax of their URLs, 1 link(s) used in the article do not work anymore and can't be migrated automatically. Please use the search option on http://www.allmusic.com to find the new location of the linked Allmusic article(s) and fix the link(s) accordingly, prefereably by using the Allmusic template. If a new location cannot be found, the link(s) should be removed. This applies to the following external links: --CactusBot (talk) 19:15, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
 * http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=A5vsyxddb1old