Track Listing

1. Charity Case
2. Who's Gonna Save My Soul
3. Going On
4. Run
5. Would Be Killer
6. Open Book
7. Whatever
8. Surprise
9. No Time Soon
10. She Knows
11. Blind Mary
12. Neigbors
13. A Little Better

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #158 in Music
• Released on: 2008-03-21
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk
With its cinematic origins The Odd Couple is the natural title for the second album by a pair who seem to spend as much time in wardrobe as the studio and whose recordings are often compared to film scores. Their greatest hit, 2006's "Crazy" was even built around a chunk of a spaghetti western soundtrack. Yet after the success of 2006's excellent St Elsewhere, the collaboration of singer Thomas "Cee-Lo Green" Callaway and producer Brian "Danger Mouse" Burton has become a permanent institution. The Odd Couple certainly lives up to expectations, and though there is no obvious smash to match "Crazy", it's a smoother affair than their often hyperactive debut, the unsettling "Open Book" aside. Highlights include the excellent, agitated lead-off single "Run", a smart slice of off kilter pop-soul, and its most obvious successor, the instant classic "Surprise". "Going On" manages to weld an eighties pomp-pop introduction to a surprisingly vulnerable Cee-Lo performance while the plaintive, bluesy "Who's Gonna Save My Soul" catches him at his most soulful. "Whatever" is a cute, rather bratty sixties pastiche halfway to Britpop (though no Englishman ever used the expression "y'all") while the warped bubblegum pop of "Blind Mary" and the more traditionally ominous "Would Be Killer" are opposite sides of the same twisted coin. Informed by rap and dance, but occupying their own unique genre, Gnarls Barkley continue to soundtrack the movie that, so far, exists only in their heads. --Steve Jelbert

Amazon.com
Following the worldwide, unparalleled critical acclaim for 2006's St. Elsewhere and their record breaking hit "Crazy," Gnarls Barkley is set to release their sophomore album this April. Titled, The Odd Couple, the album features 13 tracks of new material from Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo Green. The first single, "Run" has been met with rave reviews, and The Odd Couple is without question one of the most anticipated releases of 2008.

Album Description
After much anticipation and speculation, Gnarls Barkley has provided information about their album The Odd Couple which explores the forbidden underworld of popular music and human psychology, starting at the intersection of pulsating hooks and pure emotion. This album takes the playful creativity that distinguished the duo's debut , St. Elsewhere and expands the energy, the soul and the psychological complexity. It establishes Gnarls as a pivotal act of the 21st Century. Commencing with the hypnotic `Charity Case', The Odd Couple showcases thirteen songs that advance Gnarls Barkley's vital, unpredictable mission.

Customer Reviews

Dissappointed
I saw these guys on SNL and was blown away. I must have been pretty loaded at the time because the CD sure doesn't come across with the same energy.

kitschy sheds its petals
I liked Gnarls better back when he used to sell me copies of "Grit" magazine and cut my hoop nets when I was looking toward the fire he'd set in my wastebasket. Now, he's whooping it up like a sitcom diversion, jibberjabbing like a simian slutdive bellhop. I like mockingbirds in a guilty way when they don't know I'm awake, spying on their mating chatter. But this, this by nature is grandiose, cellular, predisposed, grating. And I'm having a major case of deja vu. Does it even matter anymore? We're an expendable society, so why not embrace polymers? Why not kill all the fish?

But I plodded on, wondering what this "soup of the day" really was. Were those bits of carrot or flesh wounds? And it didn't matter because we had techmologicalized. We were pushing buttons now and DNA-approved to gain access to pay-per-view oxygen. We evolved through hope and memory loss. By the time I reached "Whatever," I really didn't care, which provided perhaps the finest moment of this failed experiment -- a time-transcendent conversation with Gnarls truly, wrapped in tusks of irony. But I still didn't know the way out of this cardboard box jungle -- the bird, strangled by glory-trolling, decaying in uncaptured sunshine.

You Gotta Be Kidding me
Is this stuff music? Sounds like a bunch of drug heads going on a road trip. Please, give me a break. This stuff is not music. A child can make noise but you expect more from adults calling themselves artist or musicians.

I purchased this junk based on a recommendation from Sound & Vision Magazine. What a mistake. As I listened, I started doing paperwork because it was so horrible sounding and boring. Then this mess became like torture. Couldn't finish listening to this trash.

This should be listed under miscellaneous instead of music. How it can be considered music, I have no idea.