Others regarded the group's mainstays Walter Becker and Donald Fagan as musical geniuses.
#Outkast stankonia rolling stone series
Outkast will mark the 20th anniversary of their 2000 classic Stankonia with a series of digital bundles featuring radio mixes, vocal-only tracks, instrumentals, and remixes of the album’s biggest singles.
Words like "pretentious" and "inauthentic" were used by detractors - who also did not like the fact that the use of session musicians (up to 100 over the years) meant the were not a 'real band'. Hear Zack de la Rocha’s Unearthed Remix for Outkast’s ‘B.O.B.’. Indeed, Steely Dan continue to divide rock followers for years. In a retrospective to mark the 40th anniversary of the release, 'Variety' noted it was "still a demarcation point for a great divide among rock listeners." 'Rolling Stone' noted that: "'Aja' will continue to fuel the argument by rock purists that Steely Dan's music is soulless, and by its calculated nature antithetical to what rock should be." In 2003, the album was ranked number 359 on Rolling Stones list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, and 361 in a 2012 revised list. It reached number three on the Billboard 200 and number five on the UK albums chart. At the 2002 Grammy Awards, OutKast won Best Rap Album for Stankonia and Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for 'Ms. The New York State jazz rockers Steely Dan released "Aja" as the sixth long player in 1977. rolling stone rolling stone 500 greatest albums greatest albums outkast.
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