Come Find Yourself

Sounds like a generic video game soundtrack

White boy hip hop just isn’t for me.

2/5. Nothing special to me

I've listened to the album multiple times over the last two years but I always ended up tuning it out. I listened to it again today and found it very unremarkable. Also the start of Bombin the L sounds like Smoke on the Water for a sec. High 2.

This had some fun stuff but it also had a fair amount of genuinely bad songs. Shit kinda sounds like if the red hot chili peppers had a baby with the beastie boys and that child grew up listening to Snoop Dogg. Overall this wasn't bad though; it would probably be 3 stars with no context, but I just feel like there are so many better alternative hip hop albums from the 90s through today that are both better and more influential than this. 4.5/10

The soundtrack to every stupid teen movie of the late 90s.

Fun title track, but other tracks dull and forgettable.

Kinda fun but not for me. Sort of an Everlast meets Sublime meets Cypress Hill.

I've never heard of this band or album before, so I wasn't sure what to expect. Overall, I wasn't terribly impressed by this album. The music that played under the rapping was fine, but it wasn't particularly interesting. It definitely worked better on certain tracks, like the title track, and "Scooby Snacks." However, the Tarantino dialogue samples on "Scooby Snacks" was pretty jarring and felt out of place. As for the rapping, I didn't think the flow, rhymes, or lyrics were that great; things felt pretty lazy and haphazard. As far as this album's importance and significance, I don't know if it had an impact on any rap rock acts that came after it, but I'm just glad that most of the rap rock I've heard has been better than this album.

Very mid music. I like rap but this is just boring and uninspired

Not very good

I found this album to be pretty frustrating. I actually really liked a lot of the beats here. At times it's a bit rap-rock in a slightly cheesy way, but a lot of the songs have really good catchy beats. Lots of rock sounds, but it gets pretty jazzy at times too. But man, the lyrics were rough. It's not just that they're bad (they often are a little weak but not horrible), but so many of the songs have just so much repetition of short snippets of lines that it was grating to listen to. I don't think I can hear \"La-di da-di, free John Gotti, 'The King of New York'\" one more time. There's also one song in the middle of this ridiculousness (\"We Have All The Time In The World\") that's just beautiful and earnest, and of course I now learn it's a Louis Armstrong cover. It didn't quite fit, but it was still pretty nice. There were a few interesting songs on here, but overall this didn't work much for me. Favorite song: We Have All The Time In The World Other: The Fun Lovin' Criminal, Scooby Snacks 11/30/23

Naaa.. not really my thing

I didn’t love the album. Don’t have much to say on this one.

The start of this album was actually quite decent, but it really fell into a big pile of "meh" pretty quickly. Favorite track: Passive / Aggressive

Curti a Scooby Snacks, divertidinha, faz balançar a cabeça. O resto das músicas ou era muito repetitiva, ou era gostosinha de ouvir, mas nada que me chamasse atenção.

Scooby Snacks and not much else.

Talented band, and some enjoyable cheap thrills. At the time, this rap-rock hybrid by a live band probably seemed groundbreaking, but it sounds very dated today.

- chillig - erinnert sehr an Stereo MCs mit mehr Blues/Jazz Einflüssen - nicht ganz so geil wie Stero MCs - coole Backgroundmukke - 2,5/5

- not my kind of music - still there are some okay-ish to good tracks - chill blues / jazz parts - but overall a 2,5 / 5

just sounds so adolescent now. Drugs and guns are cool, guys!

I remember the songs Scooby Snacks and Fun Lovin’ Criminal from my youth. They were not my favourites back then, but they had a catchy vibe. However, listening to the whole album now, I now realise how bad it is. I have no idea how it ended up in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Rap rock is a genre that has not aged well, and this album is one of the worst examples I have listened to recently. The lyrics are cheesy, the music is bland and the vocals are annoying. The only redeeming quality is that it is not too long, so it does not torture you for too long. It barely deserves two stars out of five.

Some decent instrumentals, but I’m just never gonna be a rap/rock guy.

Aangekondigd als een mix tussen hiphop, rock, jazz en blues. Dit klinkt heel erg interessant van tevoren! Mijn probleem met deze muziek is al snel dat het grotendeels een beetje matig is. Een beetje als wanneer je naar een Chinees, Indisch, Italiaans, Spaans, sushi restaurant gaat. Te veel verschillende invloeden waardoor niets er echt uit springt maar juist eerder alles een beetje meh is. The Grave and The Constant laat voor mij wel zien dat als het werkt het goed werkt. Ik vind zelf, als we dan toch bezig zijn met live instrumentals, A Tribe Called Quest echt zoveel beter. ook al twijfel ik nu een beetje of dat live is... Scooby snacks daarentegen vind ik zo'n matig nummer. Kan me niet voorstellen dat dat het populairste nummer is van dit album, bizar. Merk dat ik de rustigere, meer jazzy nummers veel beter trek dan de nummers die meer de rock kant op gaan. Smoke 'em bijvoorbeeld is een hele rustige, jazzy/bluesy plaat en dat trek ik echt zeer goed. King of New York is dan weer echt een kutnummer. Kom op zeg, het is bijna alleen maar het refrein(wat ook nog eens vrij matig is) Nee dit nummer snap ik echt niet. De nummers die volgen pakken ook echt totaal mijn aandacht niet. Ik kan wel stellen dat dit experiment het niet is voor mij. Het is gewoon niet goed genoeg qua hiphop, blues, jazz of zelfs rock om echt vernieuwend te zijn. Misschien ligt het aan mij, maar ik snap niet helemaal hoe dit onderdeel is van de 1001 albums. FAVO: The Grave and The Constant, Smoke 'em

I’ve been listening to more old school hip hop as of late but this didn’t hit the way others have.

According to the good book, this was supposed to marry Hip Hop with other styles. But really, this is just Hip Hop. 1.5/5

Rap rock is not my thing. Scooby snacks is fun.

Þetta heillar ekkert sérstaklega. Mögulega tvö lög þarna sem eru ágæt.

"Scooby Snacks" is a lot of fun, Tarantino quotes and all, but top 1001 of ALL TIME. Behave yourselves.

Meh, no me encantó, ni disgusto, lo más destacable es la mezcla de las guitarras e instrumental más rock con melodías más del rap, pero no mucho mas

Funky musicianship marred by sub-par rapper spouting the most overused rap-cliches.

this album is an album that includes every genre under the sun! hip hop was the dominating genre, but the fun lovin' criminals (what a band name) incorporated jazz, rock, rap, and some country/blues. they even covered a bond song! i didn't hate this album and its genre jumble, but i also didn't find it terribly interesting as a whole and i don't know about its inclusion on this list. the song titles were entertaining, at least.

I was rather indifferent about this album. It reminded me of a few different alt-hip hop/rock/funk and adjacent acts from around the same time...RHCP, Beastie Boys, and even Sublime at times. Mostly I would say this just had kind of a "chill" overall vibe about it, but the lack of overall variety in song pacing and tempo made it rather boring. In any case, none of this really stood out to me. Not necessarily bad, but definitely forgettable for me.

No. No. No. It's like a 90's time capsule, except one you don't want to ever open. Pulp Fiction samples! John Gotti references! Rapping over a beat about drugs and petty crimes! The musicianship is pretty good. But no. No need to revisit or remember this album.

This was all over the place, sounds more like a random playlist.

Ok - so I just gave a rounded up 4-star review to Ice T's OG: Original Gangster, and after hearing this, I wish I could go back and give that 5 stars. This reminded me that good hip-hop can't be taken for granted. This Fun Lovin' Criminals album feels like Hip Hop 101. It's repetative, it borrows more than it creates, and it is kind of lazy. Nothing really here for me. No tracks really stood out to me at all.

Twas alright. Some of the songs were funny like Scooby Snacks but others were just mid. Honestly nothing really great came from this. It progressively got worse/more boring so I’m not too positive about this.

Another one that’s just “fine”

I'm not a fan of the rap-rock approach and I would throw these guys in the same category as Beck or maybe even Stereo MCs, who at least you could dance to. The hit is definitely catchy and I kind of like "Bombin' the L" or maybe it's just Deep Purple.

This comes hot on the heels of Eminem, and although it’s much more listenable with a real band, playing real music in the background, it never quite gets over the hump for me.

Sounds a little dated and a little stale/boring at times. I did not have a bad time listening to this though. But, in my opinion, it's not comparable to the other hip hop from this time.

It's listenable, but I didn't hear anything special to warrant inclusion on this list. The single is catchy of course, but the rest of the album is very standard, even derivative.

Despite the weak lyricsm, there are some fun instrumentals, and the overall vibe is pretty chill. Think late afternoon summer BBQ music. 🍖🍖

Well intentioned, which is about the best I can say about this. The vibe is "background music you'd hear at a brunch spot on a Saturday afternoon" -- considering these guys would fill in for bands who dropped off bills when they were starting out, it makes sense.

Another rap album (sigh). Oh, but this one has harmonica. The vocals on this one seem to be pretty low effort for the most part, and there were a couple of really awful tracks ("We Have All the Time in the World" and "Methadonia." Yuck. The first song "Fun Lovin' Criminal" was OK, but the highlight of the album was the killer guitar solo on "I Can't Get With That." All in all, it wasn't terrible, but I never want to hear "La di da di, free John Gotti" ever again.

Particularly bad despite Scooby snacks

Scooby Snacks, sampling dialogue from 'Pulp Fiction' is the one recognizable song.

Nope. Just cheese

Not for me

I fucking hated that Scooby Snacks song which is the only thing I remember from this, it's probably the only I song I've ever heard by these guys. Oh now I remember the John Gotti song, I hated that too. The rest is ok I guess. I wonder what these guys were up to before the Judgement Night soundtrack came out. For a movie I bet most people don't really remember too much about, its soundtrack sure had a huge impact on 90s music.

Almost good but gets boring. I think it would have been better without the rap.

2.3 - “With underwriting support from Freeburg Mutual Bank, the Barnaby County governing board is pleased to announce that this year’s Triboro Fall Harvest Festival will be headlined by the Fun Lovin’ Criminals, a rap-rock combo known best for their chart-topping hit ‘Scooby Snacks.’ This performance, to begin promptly at 7pm at the I-C-Freez main tent, is open to all ages. The first 300 attendants will receive a complimentary festival tee-shirt.”

Rap with some grooves or rock guitar behind it. Yawn.

This is a one hit wonder band I haven't thought about since the 90's. The one hit still holds up as a novelty. The rest of the album is a weird mix of rock, hip hop, and dated references.

Woeful unremarkable.

Its the most 90s record you can think of! It feels like the opening credits to 15 films from the 90s that were cool back then. But not now

Nah

J’aimais bien la groove en général, mais je n’ai pas accroché. M’a semblé un peu répétitif. Mériterait une autre écoute

A fun enough listen and very 90s with it's rap-rock sound but nothing lingers or sticks out as special

Meh, Scooby Snacks was kinda fun but that's about it.

The horns are fun.

Look, the beats aren't bad. But the rest of it is pretty weak.

I didn't love the single back in the days and didn't enjoy the rest of it anymore today. I guess I prefer my criminals to be more of the sad, depressing and full of regrettable life choices kind. Oh well!

Fun

Rap-rock that does neither particularly satisfactorily. A bit boring really; a couple fun grooves but that's about it; doesn't really go anywhere with anything. Too inoffensive/bland to be truly terrible (or good). Pretty well produced though.

This album is too long and by the end you realize that it’s really not that good. Some of the samples are kinda fresh, but the album is mostly lacking.

simply too 90s for its own good

Ehh, skjønner ikke helt hvorfor dette albumet er med, men den ene sangen var ihvertfall fet!

Though Scooby Snacks sets itself apart with a cool vibe and energy and excellent sample ideas, I'm not sure i really even enjoy that as a complete song. Bear Hug is also decent, but the rest is pretty meh rock-rap album. Will pass on this.

I listened to the whole album about 3 hours ago, and I can’t remember any of the songs except for Scooby Snacks. It wasn’t unenjoyable or hard to listen to! Just a little bit… samey. I would’ve loved it if I’d listen to it in the 90’s (especially the chill beats and overall relaxed vibe on most of the songs) but right now I don’t find anything in it to hook me in or make me want to check out more of their stuff. Definitely will revisit this weekend with a fresh set of ears and maybe more patience for 90’s hip-hop/rock fusion projects.

Not as bad as I thought it would be from the first song, but still a questionable inclusion

I don't like the flow of any of the people rapping on this album, and that makes it hard to appreciate the rest of it. On paper, I should be into it, but it just doesn't work for me. Best track: Unsure. Definitely not the most popular one, Scooby Snacks. Garbage

Nothing fun or lovin' about this, but they sure are criminals for wasting my time like this.

Nothing really bad, it just gets annoying really quick. Also, I tried, but I couldn't find myself.

Mid

This was an interesting listen. I had never heard of the “fun Lovin criminals” before. Apparently they were pretty big in the ‘90s. The instrumentals on this record are fantastic. As another user said, though, some of the rap-rock tracks haven’t aged well. Maybe this is due to the nu-metal movement that would come a few years after this record was released. One thing that annoys me is the lyrics. They kinda suck. This was a fun listen tho. I would’ve gave it a higher score if the lyrics were better.

Pretty mediocre

It is "criminal" to think that I would be "lovin'" this "fun" (some cool samples though)

At first I was kinda digging this, then it felt like it had been playing for hours, then I got back into it. Decent as background music, but I wouldn't listen again on purpose.

Felt like a real period piece of something i was never that into. Probably the most easily forgettable album thus far... outside of anything jazz.

Well -- again, not the type of music I listen to usually. Didn't mind it but nothing stuck out as something I would listen to again.

Loads of genres I love thrown together in a way I hate. Scooby Snacks is big though.

For me it was too simple and bland in most parts. It would have been a slightly better album if it was shorter.

More interesting than most rap I've heard, some fun instrumentals underneath

I vaguely remember this band from when the song Scooby Snacks was popular in the 90s. Not only is that song not as good as I remember it being, I am completely baffled by why this album is on this list. As fun as it was getting to reminisce about 90s haircuts while watching the videos, I can see literally no other redeeming qualities about this music. It's not fun or interesting or groundbreaking. The rap-rock thing was still pretty new at that point, but it's hard to give them credit for it since they are such bad rappers. I'm struggling to get through a single song on this album because there is nothing about any of them that I enjoy. Also, the Wikipedia page for this album doesn't even mention being on this list. It's like the most notable thing about this album is that it existed and there's nothing else to say about it 2/5

notes - cool instrumentals, creative instrumentation - really dated flows and rhymes - sounds like skateboarding on a boardwalk fav - the grave and the constant - good vibe, not distractingly bad lyrics, i like the trumpets that come in at the chorus least fav - bombin the l - cheesy repetitive samples that made the song feel longer than it really was methadonia is a super cool closing track! 2.5/5

Eh

Much like their fellow New Yorkers the Beastie Boys, Fun Lovin' Criminals are trying to infuse hip hop with rock, funk, and jazz rhythms. If anything, this album proves how difficult that can be to de well and just how good the Beastie Boys were. This album has some decent moments, and the instrumentation is pretty great for the most part. The rapping itself is really uneven. There are some good flows, but it just doesn't work in a cohesive way. The cover of 'We Have all the Time in the World' was particularly confusing.

“Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em”

Unimpressive and one-dimensional. Hard pass.

Whilst the album itself is not wholly bad, I simply cannot get over the fact of how big an idiot lead singer Huey Morgan is in real life, which is hilariously evident on re-listening to this album. I was shocked that the band released a bunch of albums after this because they are very much of a certain time, maybe I'm missing something? 🤷‍♂️

shitty

I bought this album when it came out. It's a fun album, but must listen? Nah. After seeing that they're still around and poking around their website, I saw this tidbit: "The band became an international hit, settling down in the UK, where their multi-platinum debut album ‘Come Find Yourself’ spent an incredible two years in the UK album chart." Now I get it. Once again the list authors believe a majority of the albums you must listen to are UK 90s pop hits. Come Find Yourself is a good blend of rock, hiphop, and jazz with some good samples and I've enjoyed my first relisten in about 25 years. But I've forgotten about it pretty quickly. 3/5 for musicality and 1.5/5 for list worthiness.

Eh.

This was decent but nothing really grabbed me.

There's been better 3s so I am gonna dock it to a 2, but it's not horrible... just completely lackluster.

This has not aged well, if there was anything to age in the first place. I remember Scooby Snacks being everywhere that summer, and it's much the best track on here. Apart from that, it's a desperately thin concoction of trying-too-hard samples, trying-too-hard lyrics and the odd funky bassline. Telling they were never big in the States, as this feels like some NY theme-park experience got up strictly for the tourists. Two starts strictly for the Snacks, and a gimmicky cover of What a Wonderful World showed how short of actual musical ideas they really were.

First 2 or 3 tracks are "OK, cool. I can dig this". The 5th track (Smoke em) has a sample of some bell or tone that repeats incessantly through the entire song. After that I just couldn't get past the repetitive nature of the rest of the album. Good to have a song or two mixed in on a playlist but I can't do a whole album

Hip-hop over a live band. The band is pretty funky, but this hardly groundbreaking. The Beastie Boys, Urban Dance Squad and Soul Coughing, and possibly others, had already done it (and, arguably, better). The singles are almost novelty songs, and I found the obsession with criminality increasingly off-putting. King of New York, praising John Gotti, I just found as repugnant as any other gangsta rap. The cover of "we have all the time in the world" seemed strange and pointless. The final ballad, Methodonia, was musically pleasant, but criticizing methadone addicts (in favour of... what? crack? weed? valium?) seems weirdly mean spirited, given their praise of other drugs in much of the rest of this album. I enjoyed the groove of this album, but found it left a bad taste in my mouth by the end of the album.

This is like if the beastie boys Mets up with limp bizkit mixed with some reggae. It’s nothing special and feels kinda corny. Some of the beats and raps are catchy but lame. And the alternative songs just feel like typical 90s alt that doesn’t really shine. 4.5/10

No es mi estilo pero es muy escucharle. Rap melodico Mejor al principio que al final

Wasn't really feeling this one. Feels like the camp of "rap is silly, let's try it." That's not to say anything about this band or their intentions, they are just Fun Lovin' Criminals after all. It's just not a style that I'm really into, too tongue-in-cheek for me. I did like Scooby Snacks though, despite being the epitome of that silly humor. Didn't make much of an impression. Favorite tracks: Scooby Snacks, The Grave and the Constant. Album art: Three guys of unknown ethnic origin riding in a car. The guy in the middle looks the part of a fun-loving criminal, he's got that smug, knowing grin that fits this style. Not much here for me. 2/5

Scooby Snacks is okay, the rest is subpar.

1st Listen. There are a couple of songs that made me listen more closely. Interested to hear more of it. But, still not sure it belongs on this list.

didn't listen to it all, quite generic

Meh

Yeah not a big fan of rap rock stuff. Music was ok enough but nothing really attracting my ear.

no the type of misuc Id linke

Name is familiar but do I know them? Slow Hip Hop and blues. Probably influenced a lot of bands. Talented maybe. Not my thing though.

Loads of fun it’s time, but really quite dull at times also. I’d never heard this album in full before. Until now I’d only ever heard the singles and to be honest,I got very little from this album beyond those.

Meh

2 stars. Not because the music is bad. It’s actually alright. I just don’t understand why it’s on this list. There are much better early 90s hip hot groups

Rest of the album was pretty poor but scooby snacks will forever remain an absolute banger

why? what a bizzarre thing... not sure i'm into it today

My best guess is that I've probably heard of something from this band, but maybe it wasn't from this album. The lyrics sank this album from almost being okay to low enough to get a "nope" from me. There is interesting music, but I generally have a hard time with lyrics that brag, and curse all at the same time. The music wasn't good enough to over look the lyrics. The pop culture references feel outdated too.

Nothing special here, a product of its time that hasn't aged well.

Sounds like something Mac G would have on repeat. That ain't necessarily a diss.

Thank you FLC for paving the way for G Love (hell yes) and LFO (Chinese food makes me sick). C

Rap Rock, really, 1001? Heavily distorted guitars, really? Are these the fathers of white rap? The missing link between stereo mcs and kid rock, everlast, etc? I’d call this lounge rap, lots of loungey beats, but also, oddly, seems to celebrate criminality, but in a movie way, not a gangster rap way. The big hit scooby-snack song, definitely an homage to Tarantino, didn’t realize that until now. There are a few cool samples hidden in here, but overall, not for me. When the hit in this album was huge I remember reading that the lead singers dad played Mongo in blazing saddles. So I can’t help but imagine a bunch of Hollywood kids making this “rap” album. Who the fuck said sugar-gay?

Ik ben er met frisse tegenzin aan begonnen. Dat maakte dat ik het eigenlijk best ok vond, de gangster-rap snap ik dan weer niet zo goed en dat jazzy-achtige ook niet. Verrassendste/mooiste nummer vond ik: We have all the Time in the World

Was vroeger al niet hee boeiend, nu nog steeds niet.

Free John Gotti haha. Cringe.

Did I even listen to anything? Excellent and completely forgettable

They had a hit song, and made an album. This is mediocre and generally forgettable.

Maybe they love fun. Its not my kind of fun though.

An entire career built on one sample from a tarantino film. Kudos, Huey.

Okay album. The music was okay. Pretty diverse mix of influences.

Change of pace. Not really sure why this is on this list.

I'm too old for this. Made it through about 3 songs. It was okay, just didn't really grab me.

Blanding af hiphop/rock/jazz/soul, New York, rebelsk

This did not grow on me over time. The funk-inspired instrumentals were cool, though.

1996. Key Songs: Scooby Snacks, King of New York

Hip hop, but make it rock... scooby snacks

Pretty awful. The rapping is poorly done, meaningless and trite, with delivery that screams “I’m trying hard to be cool and laid back.” The backing band is mostly playing very boring grooves that probably sounded dated within a year of being recorded. The main riff on Scooby Snacks is pretty catchy, though I’m not sure whether it’s original or borrowed from somewhere else. There’s a lot of questionable stuff on this list, but this album’s inclusion is truly mind-boggling.

no

This is what your uncle puts on to show you "real rap". I imagine a concert would be a lot of white women with dreads, that are afraid to go to Brooklyn, talking about their 5th mushroom trip in the past 3 months. I don't think I'd even play this for a child. They deserve better.

I didn't know the band. Soft core rap style. Not a fan but listenable.

No thanks. Scooby Snacks is pretty good tho

Wow. I forgot about that Scooby snack song otherwise I hate this and want my time back but I guess it made a lot of sense back in 1996. It feels extremely random that this made the list lol

Once you recognise Hughie Morgan is the name of a UVF operative from Larne, it gets hard to take Fun Lovin' Criminals seriously. 1 We had a couple of days of albums there that called for some careful, thoughtful consideration - Bitches Brew, Kollaps - even The Marshall Mathers LP from the day before, rotten as it was, is so entangled with wider culture that it called for some puzzling over while being awarded its deserved zero. So it is nice to get a wee breather. Stick em up punk it’s the Fun Lovin’ Criminals! Excellent. Here is an album so straight down the middle rubbish and so perfectly inconsequential that I didn’t feel the slightest pinch of guilt scorning a second listen. Yous are shite, lads, by every conceivable metric. Can’t play, can’t rap, can’t write, can’t even provoke (‘Free John Gotti’…bless). Cheers. 1/5

Horrific, I did not enjoy anything on this. I guess they’re a tight band but I will never listen to this worse version of crazy town ever again (crazy town is not good either). Beck is a better use of your time, special sauce is a better use of your time, just bad.

I get that there's an interesting idea here, but it is unfortunately poorly executed. This one's a nah for me, dawg.

…… Reasonable Doubt isn’t on this list.

My goodness this is bad. Insultingly bad. I'm beyond the point of wondering how this album got included in this list, but how this album got made generally. How do you get even a single person to sign off on this?? Completely devoid of anything remotely interesting. I don't have a cell of music creating capability in my body, and I think I could make something better than this. I'm in a terrible mood now.

If we had AI music in the 90s this is what it would sound like.

Nå slags white ppl gangster rock?

Not my cup of tea. Some nice ideas, but I wouldn't have included this album into this list.

Kan ikke sige det bedre end Anders. På nær at jeg faktisk godt kan huske dem - men det er bestemt ikke i deres favør. Totalt intetsigende musik. Hører ikke hjemme på denne liste på nogen som helst måde.

ams... estoy a una americanada mas de droppear esta mierda

bullshit

Does not bring anything unique to the table. It does not feel as anthemic and meaningful for the culture as other records of its era. 6/10 [DROP]

I hated this, DNF after 5 songs. The music is boring as hell and they are the most basic stoner vibes imaginable.

Wednesday, 20 May, 2026 This album is garbage. If it were just instrumentation and samples of Tarantino movies, it’d be higher. Rap/Rock is a grotesque genre, and is basically anti music.

La-di da-di free John Gotti

These guys make Vanilla Ice sound like a legit artist by comparison.

Couldn't wait for this to end. The ballads were bad, the rap was boring, the samples were uninspired.

1.5/5 https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/fun-lovin-criminals/come-find-yourself/ Scooby Snacks is the only redeeming factor of the album that is otherwise the perfect counterargument for someone saying the 90s is the best era in music.

Nö! Das übliche Gestammel tu ich mir nicht an.

Day838 - i didn’t remember them until i heard that dumb scooby snack song. that wasn’t even the worst song on the album.

Dumb shit!

And where is this alleged "fun" 🤨

mmm

I want to meet someone who actually enjoys this. I want to meet someone who gave this album a 5. Someone who is genuinely rockin with this, who’s rapping along in the car or something. I have so many questions.

Rachel kept asking me to turn it off

Dookie

so bad. so so so bad.

This wasn’t that good. Maybe it’s not my thing I don’t care for music from this generation.

criminal is right…..

I was 12 when this album came out and if I had encountered it then, I could imagine maybe giving it a 2 for nostalgia value or all-around attitude. You can hear maybe a trace of a soul in it. But almost everything in it is a watered-down copy of something better. Like you might as well have Bloodhound Gang on the list. Or swap it out with Sublime -- not my favorite group, but I'm sure it's a better representative of whatever this is meant to represent. My test for giving something a 1 ("no way this should be on the list") is comparing it with Rihanna (who is not on the list). Again, not my favorite artist, but someone who is so accomplished and influential that it's hard to see why she isn't there. Am I offended that this is on the list and not Rihanna? Yes, it's criminal.

beats were alright. rapping was terrible christ

Boycotting, rap rock is criminal

A 90s album I've never heard of, must be a reason... Even the "hit" scooby snacks isn't good.

Really?

The 90’s were so weird.. song about John Gotti. Repeated non sense in each song.

there’s really just nothing going on here for me

Ei

I’ve never heard of these guys before and I wish I never had. This is not good. Please remove from this list immediately! Must make way for more deserving albums!

It’s not that it’s offensively bad, it that there are so many universally beloved albums not on the list, and this somehow is. It’s mid (at best) white boy folk rap? I’ve been into music the entire time this album existed and never once heard someone say this was a band they liked. It’s a one hit wonder stealing the spot of something important.

Hip Hop, 55 eme album =>1/5

I'm upset at how bad these lyrics can be, I think it's offensive this is on anybody's "must listen" list. The rhyme scheme is elemental a good 80% of the time, and I'm probably being nice about that number. I could maybe appreciate the genres getting play time via the band, but the way the lyrics integrate just ruin everything for me. It's been done before and it's been executed better. The story telling and concept is interesting, but not handled in a way that saves this. I gave it a second listen. The band itself is solid, I'd listen to an instrumental version. The lyrics and cadence dock two entire stars from my rating, and I use a decimal system. 1.3/5

Hm. Trash

200+ albums in and I've had maybe 5 rap albums. THIS shit is included? So much good hip-hop from the 90s...why is this garbage in here???

This album smells like Mountain Dew, Marlboro lights, McDonald’s containers, and unwashed dudes playing Mario Kart 64 in mom’s basement.

If you’d asked me yesterday who and what the Fun Loving Crimimals were, I would have said a Dexys Midnight Runners clone from Manchester. Imagine my surprise today when I discovered what they actually were. Would have preferred my continued ignorance. 1/5 5/2/26

Decent enough opener but the rest was tedious

Surprisingly joyless.

1001 albums that you should try to forget before you die

I wouldn't have taken the author of the 1001 albums to hear before you die list as a Stoner Rap Rock listener but hey I guess looks can be a bit deceiving am I right? This blend between Sublime, Beastie Boys, and very 90s time capsule is a very of its' time product that I really don't understand why is being put on such a high pedestal but whatever I guess. This album has a solid idea in concept as it feels very inspired by a lot of the Rap that came before it, but the execution is nothing short of lazy, much like stoners in general (I was one and I feel qualified to say that). I really enjoyed the track The Grave and the Constant but it feels like a gem in a coal mine and nothing else even compares to it. Oh well it was nice for a second or two but 49 minutes of this was a bit much for me to handle.

I dont know, I mean am I going to listen to this again? It's just there, the Bond cover was ok, if only for making the choice, but nothing else is of any note.

Top 1000, seriously?

Very strange that this album is on this list. I can think of 1000 albums that should be ahead of it.

Pure racist vulgar hate filled garbage.

360/1089 - It's cool for them to have a band I guess but if you're playing the same uninteresting blues facsimile always in groups of 4, what's the point? I really don't understand why critics love Hip Hop so much. Don't get me wrong, I like a good bit of Hip-Hop, especially East Coast jazz rap, but often the songforms are extremely samey and repetitive due to the nature of most beats and it's not often that producers use micro-variations to manipulate the beat and add some life and variation into the music, rendering it a genre not very worthy of analysis. The structure of a song is one of the most important things in music and I get a feeling when people say they don't like certain genres like Jazz, Hip Hop, and EDM it's because they detect how cookie-cutter it all is but don't have the music knowledge to describe what they're hearing. For example: nearly all jazz songs are: head, solos over head chords, head again with a 3x tag of the final phrase. This is why I think it's fundamentally impossible to be a jazz elitist. The structure of the music isn't complex enough to be worth being pompous. I've noticed a lot of my favorite music and albums change up the song structure from track to track no matter what the genre is, and that's something that normal people should really consider more.

Ruh-roh

(22/100)

No idea why this is here, but I guess it hit with English teens? However, it’s a good jumping off point to consider the post-grunge wasteland of 90s music and were I better researched, discuss the impending consolidation of the industry, collapse of labels, etc. Not that finding the new hip thing has ever stopped being a manufactured part of any business, really, but once the grunge bands showed up and then started dying, the search was on for the Next Seattle and new Nirvana and so on until the business finally got lucky with the LES/Brooklyn scene of the early 00s (and only kinda sorta compared to Seattle). This betrays a certain lack of imagination by the labels: what made Nirvana unique to them was indistinguishable from Vanilla Ice and Milli Vanilli. All that mattered was “new band, sound, and look” and when that particular sound fades or becomes just another style, but not the dominant trend - let’s say the first Bush album or Creed - well, you try anything that works. And after 1995, they tried anything. Electronica, swing revival, ska, lounge acts (part 1), rap rock, nu-metal, trip hop, curios with rap, emo, lounge acts (the return), swing-adjacent, even indie rock got a brief look. If you were in any way - any way - distinct, just a weird name, that could get you in the door. And so we have acts like G. Love and Special Sauce and the Fun Lovin’ Criminals, perfectly fine musicians trying to find their way and labels in dire need to find the next big thing. Could the next big thing be jokey songs with a bit of rap (but not too much, what are we, urban?) and Tarantino dialogue? Sure! Can you even sing a little? Well how about a group of try-hard Canadians who made their name touring college campuses (because they’re all about value)? Give them a million dollars. FLC paired an acoustic trio playing light hip hop beats with a catchy singalong chorus, fronted by a guy selling a kind of tristate bravado via sub-Beastie Boys rhyming. This alchemy was enough to convince Europeans that FLC was real hip hop, not like that West Coast Parliament shit. So much so the lead FLC became something of a celebrity in the UK, finding a career on radio and as a presenter once he ran out of Scoobie Snacks. What a world.

Excruciating urban bombast

Getting ready to start out on some of our holiday travel this weekend and I was looking forward to a solid album to slap on for everyone’s enjoyment. Unfortunately I could/would not in good conscience expose anybody else in my family to this trash. I need a shower after listening. I’m frankly a little pissed that this is on the list. I could have been listening to Wet Leg. Booooooooo.

Language

Not particularly memorable or remarkable for me

Lame rap rock record that wasn’t cool when it came out. Had one hit single that people know. Completely baffled why this in on this list. Sounded derivative and boring when it came out and time has not been kind to it.

Another album not to listen to in your lifetime

This kind of reminded me of Soul Coughing if Soul Coughing was bad.

Blehhhhhh. A couple good instrumentals. Corny as hell, i imagine it was even corny back then. ONE

Utterly inconsequential disposable nonsense.

I'm really beginning to hate this list. What the hell was this? I don't know the metrics of what makes this a good album. It's definitely not good. It's not culturally relavent and there's better versions of this type of rap. Just terrible in every sense. I used to think 1000 albums is a lot of slots to fill there's going to be some that has a lapse of judgement but man. I'm beginning to think it's just a crappy list...

136/1001 :: Fun Lovin’ Criminals - Come Find Yourself Heard before? ❌ Would I revisit? ❌ Rating: 2 Listen before you die: No This was not great. This is the kinda album you buy when you’re 8 because you like the fun hip hop influenced single and then realize years later that overall it’s kinda trash.

I didn’t hate it but found myself constantly counting down the minutes. Rating: 1.5

Not good - doesn’t work for me

Bad

I was confused at every turn on this album. Not sure if it was just me, but it felt like such a hodepodge of music with no central theme or storytelling. It felt messy, one-note at times, and uninteresting to me. How did this end up on this list?

Stick 'Em Up Punk, It's The Fun Lovin' Criminal 1001 Albums Generator 140 (10/15/2025) The Fun Lovin' Criminals are a group that I had never heard of, but their sound reminds me of Stereo MC's and Smash Mouth's styles of alt rock tinged with hiphop/trip hop influence. Their debut album, Come Find Yourself, features their biggest hit, Scooby Snacks. I was surprised to find out that at the time of this album's release, "Scooby snacks" referred to Valium. Nowadays, scooby snacks refers to little pieces of weed that get through the filter and into your throat. This song was very funny to me when I thought that these guys were going so crazy off the scoobs that they were robbing banks, but I guess the idea of doing that on Valium is pretty funny too. There are some really cool sampling moments on this album, like the Free Bird vocal sample in the chorus of Bombin' The L, but a lot of this album just washes over me. Also, these guys just do not sound cool. "La-di da-di, free John Gotti"? Really? La-di da-di? La-di? Okay dude. They whisper in the chorus of Come Find Yourself, I guess to try to sound edgy, but it sounds like shit. Overall, some interesting and occasionally funky/heavy moments (the ending of Passive / Aggressive is fantastic) are overwhelmed by the middling quality of nearly everything else here. Additionally, this album does not even have any historical importance or anything. No idea why it's here. It's a 1.5/5 and I have to round it down to a 1. Favs: Passive / Aggressive Scooby Snacks Methadonia Least Fav: We Have All The Time In The World

finally an answer to the age old question: what if limp bizkit sounded more like dave matthew’s band?

lame

This is so dumb. I don't understand why this album was included.

Music for people who think Jack Ass is high arr

I heard some of these songs before back in the day. I really didn’t like them then and I don’t like them now.

No.

forgetable

Why is there so much mid rap rock on this list

3/10

Oh man, another hip-hop album... I lost count of how many tracks are on "Come Find Yourself" because they all sound the same to me. It’s like a never-ending loop of the same vibe, and I just couldn’t get into it.

Pringles.

If this shit on here then there damn well better be some Smashmouth. I felt like a complete douchebag listening to this. It’s garbage. 💫

I was gonna be nice and give this a 2, but 50 minutes of the snooziest and least charismatic vocals of all time have dragged it into the lowest score. 1 Star.

Some albums I don't like but understand why they are on this list; but this one I don't like and don't understand why it's here. Why is it here? Even the little wikipedia blurb can't give us a good reason or one at all.

painful

stupid asf. sorry to these men but i only have room in my heart for one goofy hip-hop trio of white boys from new york city. cool tarantino samples i guess…

Horrible

Headache

Nothing really makes sense to me. I didn’t like anything on this album, sorry! Dropped halfway through

Should be renamed the whack album

Why?

Mä en ymmärrä… kai noissa sanoituksissa on sanomaa, mut en jaksa kuunnella, kun taustat ja räpin sävy on noin kuolettavan tylsät.

Hyviä tyyppejä, joita skene ja kaveripiirit yliarvostavat heidän luontaisen (ja kukalla tehostetun) lunkiutensa vuoksi.

Juvenile blues / hip-hop crossover stuck in time. If you could smell an album, this would be giving smelly socks, pot noodles, Lynx and the cheapest weed available. It's value (if any) is that it is quite emblematic of the time it was made. Cinema was all about drug dealers and criminals and some good hip-hop had been kicking about. Another comment likened this to Tarantino and The Beasties. I would say it's more like one of those cheap Tarantino knockoffs like 8 Heads In A Duffle Bag or Get Shorty smushed up with the worst white rap like Bloodhound Gang or - dare I say - Insane Clown Posse. That is to say, it's lacking in any substance whatsoever, inside or out, and holds only a faint glow of nostalgia because it is old and so am I. This one should have been left in the primary school disco.

Why did I NEED to hear this album? It’s a bunch of nothing. I am starting to second guess this list…

1. fun - 0 2. pazzive - 1 3. grave - 0 4. zcooby - 0 5. zmoke - 1 6. bombing - 0 7. get - 1.5 8. king - 0 9. uuorld - 1.5 10. hug - 0 11. find - 0 12. crime - 1 13. methadonia - 1.5 RATED 1 ZTAR ZINCE NOT ABLE TO GIVE A ZERO

What?

A stinker? Well, it wasn’t THAT good.

That was not something I needed to hear before I die.

Surprised and perplexed by the inclusion of this album. I always saw them as novelty one hit wonder band and even more shocking their most recent release was in 2023 (it’s 2025). I’ll give a fair chance, being that when it came out in 1996 I bought a copy. Beyond “Scooby Snacks” and “Fun Lovin’ Criminal” the album didn’t leave much of an impression on me. Yeah now I remember why I only listened to only two songs of this album when I owed it. It’s a not good album, let alone one anyone would need to listen to.

Haha this album is horrible

Not necessarily bad, but waaaay too mich run at the mill for this list. Enjoyed the listen nonetheless

Smashmouth meets Limp Biskit with some Naughty by Nature and House of Pain sprinkled on top. Nah, I’m good. 1001 album worthy: NO - 69/130

So bad it made me question my own musical taste and the idea of music and impactful music as a whole. I’m good, it sucked.

Cool idea poor execution

Some decent instrumentation, but not enough to save this from the lowest rating. The rap/rock is super cringey.

What in the mid-90s white people is this shit. This is made so people who know nothing about hip-hop can be like "it's cool to hear rap that's like actual music!" Why listen to this instead of 311? At least they had personality.

The only song on this album I've ever heard before is Scooby Snacks, which sucked in 1996 and sucks now. As does this whole album.

Not really my style but I can appreciate what they were doing. It’s very 90s.

I just cant imagine anyone ever having this in their top 1000 albums of all time.

Not for me

Don’t love this. Gonna bring in rock and blues elements to your rap album? 4 years after RATM made it pointless for anyone else to try?? I don't think so. I mean, it's fine, I guess. Won't ever listen again.

This shit was ass. How can you be a budget Kid Rock. Will I listen to again: 0%

Dès la première chanson j'ai tout de suite été captivé. Malheureusement, cet effet c'est très rapidement estompé. Malgré le mélange de sons et d'influences, cet album est tellement long et répétitif. J'ai l'impression que cet album est présent juste à cause du gros single qui semble avoir été très populaire, ce qui est plutôt ironique considérant que j'ai trouvé que c'était l'une des chansons les plus faibles de l'album. 3/10

I’m not sure what it is, rock, rap. Strange music.

Boring and repetitive. No redeeming qualities to this one.

There's nothing fun or anything to love about these so-called criminals. This has not aged well.

people of gen z, myself included, like to focus on all the cool music of the 90's. the shit that led to so many revolutionary genres, or was just stellar pop music. siv of time and all that. this is a grain i'm happy fell through the filter.

Not for me. 1/5

So I have to listen to a novelty album before I die? If so, I'd have preferred Weird Al.

Pop infused hip hop. Not a fan.

This is embarrassing and I hated everything about it.

Come Find Yourself is rubbish really, a couple of interesting bits where they seem like they know what they're doing, but really it's a mess of stolen influences repeated in shoddy fashion, immature production and execution, doesn't really come together well, and features far too many of the worst tropes of late 90s music. Struggling to find a reason to push it into 2 territory.

Brain numbing boring...

This is cringe before cringe was defined in our modern era. I’ve lived through this time, and I’ve never met one person who says “I’m a fan of the fun lovin criminals“ how this made it to the list I’m not quite sure couldn’t find redemption in any aspects of traditional music production that I’ve been using to grade albums this entire time

Lol. The sliver of time this has to be popular could be measured to an egg timer. Let's leave it in the past.

I kinda hate it. Pass

Um, so I’m guessing the list authors have a friendly connection to this man because BBC stuff or something?

Crazy to go back and read contemporary reviews of this. 90s was crazy for genre mash ups and this is a great example of some of the rubbish put out. Lyrically, it is relentlessly cringe faux gangster rubbish. The music is somewhere between Muzak and throw away chill house samples. Scooby Snacks is fun I suppose, rest is crap. 1.5* Also, free John Gotti?!

Very much not for me. Seems like a precursor to things like Everlast or Uncle Cracker. Nope. 1.25/5

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a one hit wonder that's mostly clips from Tarantino movies. it's catchy but not enough to carry a whole album.

One minute in, I kind of hate this. It feels a bit like G Love, but way more corny. Tried my way through Passive / Aggressive, but quickly noped out. Skipped forward to the other "single," Scooby Snacks -- this is a touch better with the dubbed out vibe, but only margnially. I'm not putting another 40 minutes into this one. 1 / 5 for me.

Derivative and sophomoric. Sure it’s full of hooks that not only are samples but samples that have been used a lot before this came out.

Not for me

no. no. no no no no no. the album with "Scooby Snacks" is not, in fact, worthy of any praise. fuck off.

This is one of the worst albums I have listened to on this list so far. And not really in a way that screams at you how bad it is. It's just hilariously cheesy and very meat and potatoes. It's wild to me when music like this exists, like there is enough people who are on board throughout the whole process to make it happen. Just so hilarious bad.

Garbage, trash, a 0. Soulless reproduction of hip hop to be available to a white suburban youth. Everything about this album is childish. The best song "King of New York" has the worst hook of all time: "La di da di, la di La di da di, free John Gotti" Like, seriously? You couldn't rhyme Gotti with anything? The only reason this album is even remembered at all is for the ripped lines from Pulp Fiction in "Scooby Snacks."

I really tried with this one... It sounds like what I imagine people who think that the music from Sonic Adventure 2 is too high class listen to. And I think SA2 music is oddly dope. Its the butt of butt rock. 0/10.

No thank you

This is garbage drug-rap. Pretty much everything wrong with the world.

Worst corny trend-genre ever

The music was fine, but the lyrics were rap. If they were just instrumentalists, I probably would have liked it.

Ok listen some tracks, although We Have All The Time In The World is shocking. 1/5 because of that

Favourite Song: Scooby Snacks Didn't really feel like it was doing anything. I do absolutely love Scooby Snacks as a song, but I struggled to keep my attention with the rest.

This is the first album on this list that started and I thought oh, oh no Not a fan

This sounds like a parody of hip hop. No thanks

Scooby snacks is goed. En title track ook. De rest is teveel stoerdoenerij in een genre dat er geen is. Pubermuziek. Tof voor toen, maar absoluut niet 1001 must hears wat mij betreft.

Goodness me this is silly and juvenile. Overall, just a bit too much. 1.4 stars. Wouldn't listen to anything else by them.

There was nothing fun or lovin’ about this, though they did steal 50 mins of my attention so they were right about the criminal part. 1 star

Rap crap. No tune. All sounds the same.

Hardly a classic

ЙОУ ЙОУ ЙОУ НА МИКРОФОНЕ ДИДЖЕЙ ДЖОЙСТИК ДОСТАВАЙТЕ СВОИ СТВОЛЫ СЕЙЧАС Я ИХ НАЧИЩУ 3/10

This hasn't aged well.

i dislike hip hop

Not a fan of hip hop

Look, 1001 is a big number. That’s a lot of albums! I would struggle to name that many myself. But I think I would round down if it meant that I had to include this album. How is this something I need to hear before I die? It’s like Sublime without the reggae/ska tinge to it and more of a sense of humor about pretending to be hard. Sublime is not someone I’d want to be compared to. Whoever the main rapper is has zero emotion. The same monotonous voice throughout. I guess the instrumentation is interesting but it ends up being a lot after a few tracks of the same intensity and I can’t even tell if the lyrics are clever enough to make up for it? What is this even trying to be? Just why?

It was fine. Scooby Snacks is a classic, but not a great song. Nothing really remarkable here. 1/5