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£3.99
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Very pleased and happy with the delivery of the item and the item itself, thank you.
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I try to listen to new stuff all the time. I didn't like it when I first listened to it (despite having liked the first couple of singles). On repeated listening, however, I discovered that I quite liked a couple of the tracks. With further listening, I realized I liked more and more of the tracks. I've been listening to this album now for over a year since it first came out and I'm still finding new stuff to discover about the tracks. Timbaland manages to layer so much depth to his production. So impressed. As a consequence, this has become my favourite album of the last year or so. If I had to take just ten albums onto a desert island, this would make the list. It might, even, make the top five!
Buy the album, listen to it and listen to it some more. It gets more rewarding every time.
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I'm not sure that it counts as stated above as his debut solo. With all the guest vocals - surely the Timbaland albums with Magoo on are solo's as well.
Its a good album. The singles do stand out, but the overall quality is high. The beats are generally good. I'm not sure what some of the reviews urging people to broaden the musical horizon / poor Ghetto lyrics etc are getting at. For me Timabaland has always and hopefully will always have a certain niche in music. He makes great futuristic hip hop R&B beats with fairly meaningless Vocals - be that singing or rapping simply dressing the beats. Past hits of Get Your Freak On, Cry Me A River, Dirt on Your Shoulder prove he's often better than most and this album he delivers maybe 6 tracks that are top top drawer.
You know what Timbaland does. If you like it, you will like this album. Theres no suprise in the content. Personally, I like it.
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I found this very disappointing and can't understand for the life of me why it's had so many good reviews. I bought it expecting stuff of the same calibre as the appallingly-named 'The Way I Are' and Justin Timberlake's last album, which Timbaland had some input on. But the tracks were very underwhelming. There were a few ok tunes, the best of which was Scream, but too much of the repetitive, sexist, droning gansta-style stuff I've come to know and yawn to, without anything inspiring to lift it up. Overall it's a lazy piece of work.
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I loved all but one track on this CD...it is very rare to find an album with so many great songs. While they all share a similar tie to the techno mixed with hip-hop, the CD still boasts a vast array of different styles: fast, slow, heavy bass, masculine, feminine...I just can't say enough good things about the songs.
I think the people who will enjoy this CD the most are the ones who listened to techno in the 80s, but enjoy today's hip-hop just as much.
Before I bought this album, I bought Loose...after hearing both albums, I am convinced Timbaland will go down in history as one of the greatest producers that ever lived.
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