Gnarls Barkley Give Away "The Odd Couple" In Reverse

This piece should have been called "esreveR nI elpuoC ddO ehT yawA eviG yelkraB slranG. Gnarls Barkley's The Odd Couple just became odder. Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo have inexplicably posted their new album as a free download. One thing, though: it's backwards. Starting with album closer "A Little Better," elpuoC ddO ehT features reversed vocals and backwards beats all in one thirty-eight-minute-long track. While sounding like the soundtrack for a film about Satanists, Danger Mouse's production still shines through, deemphasizing Cee-Lo's voice and putting the instrumentation more in the forefront. Download the thing for yourself here.

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Song Stories

“Weird”

Hanson | 1997

Accomplished tunesmith Desmond Child co-wrote "Weird" with the three brothers that make up Hanson. Credited for dozens of cuts, including songs by Kiss, Cher, Bon Jovi and Aerosmith, Child told Rolling Stone that "Weird" holds a special place in his heart, "because it's about being different--and I grew up poor, I grew up being Latin, I grew up being gay, and now I'm fat!" The song was included on Hanson's 1997 album Middle of Nowhere, which sold more than ten million units.

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