Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine

Pretty good

418/1001 Cee-Lo Green - Cee-Lo Green Is the Soul Machine Heard before? ❎ Revisit? ❎ This was a frustrating listen. On the one hand, the production on this is top notch, however there's not really anything on here makes you take notice of it all. With all of his bravado etc. Green's delivery is fine. Epitome of a 2.5 star and not sure if I'm generous enough to round it up for this project.

Very uneven. Consistent. A few bangers and good lyrics!

Thos grew on me as i progressed through. At first, meh mothing special, next - interesting, has a flow and cadence like Eminem, later - wow has lots of different flows and abilities, really interesting. It kept me invested. Like the soul influence in his voice and in the samples. Enojoyed this.

It's forever fuck Cee-Lo but this was cool

Cee-Lo Green is such a fucking weirdo. I might find him endearing if he didn’t have that date-rape charge.

Not for me

Listened before? No Familiar with the artist? Yes, a couple of songs Thoughts: - The first thing I thought when I refreshed and saw this was 'really?! They put Cee-lo in the book? How?' - Still giving it a chance but about halfway in I'm still kind of baffled... His voice is just unpleasant to me, no matter if he's trying to sing or rap. - Yeah, definitely one of the worst albums I've gotten yet, congrats Cee-lo 😬

I don't know about this one. Cee-Lo kind of lacks flow a lot. I get that it's southern rapping from the Dungeon crew or whatever, but he often just annoys me in ways that Outkast or Killer Mike don't. I never really loved Goodie Mob back in the day. Also, this is way too long. It does have some great tracks, but wouldn't listen to this again. 2/5

This, but not Gnarls Barkley?

He is a creative genius. And this album slaps. And it has the best quip outro ever. Yet I don't revisit this album like I do others so I can't give it a 5 even though it probably deserves it.

Oh man, I totally forgot about this one. I think I tried to get into this one because of some positive word of mouth at the time but didn’t totally click with it. I don't dislike CeeLo's voice, but I think it's better experienced in small doses. I don't know how long this was but it felt suuuuper long.

i couldn’t even finish it plus why was he looking at me like that

2004 neo-soul hip hop music with tracks that vary between one or the other. He's a talented guy that can sing and rap very fast with a higher nasally voice. For me, the more hip hop/rap a song is, the less I like it. At 65 minutes, a few songs such as Scrap Metal and Glockapella could be pruned to improve the album. Top songs for me are Art of Noise (w Pharrell Williams), Living Again, My Kind of People and Childz Play.

Starts off well, but quickly grows monotonous. He has a few good ideas musically, but they're all exhausted pretty quickly and the rest of it sounds like retreads of conventional soul music. The other negative is CeeLo's rapping, which I find to be annoying. In my opinion, the Soul Machine needs to be shut down and sent back for repairs.

Catchy tunes thx

To respond to the first sung lines on the album: "He's bad" - correct. "He's Ceel-Lo Green" - again, no lies detected. "But you can can him the Soul Machine" - no, i think I'll call him 'the sexual predator who thinks consent doesn't matter if you're asleep or unconscious". What a dick. A second star for the collaborators and production, as it's a damn well put together record. Besides, i preferred his Gnarls Barkley stuff.

I usually can vibe with 2000s southern rap, but this was really dated and generic. Cee-Lo has proved himself to be a great vocalist, but his talent is completely wasted. Expect some neat production and some ok grooves. Don’t know why this is on here.

Cee-Lo Green is a visionary; a creator of completely unique things. This album, while seemingly disjointed at times, is a pure expression of his genius. I, personally, wouldn't revisit it, but I didn't hate it.

This album was the definition of "fine". A couple decent songs, a couple decent beats, nothing to write home about, but not a bad listen. We all know what Cee-Lo Green/Gnarles Barkley sounds like, so you get the idea. 3/5

0.9/5 I'm not a fan of hip hop so this was a tough listen.

I keep twitching every time he sings. I don't think he's a bad vocalist, he's technically proficient and in tune, but the tone of his voice makes me want to rip out my own ear canals.

Didn’t like it

#449/1001. Refreshing set of albums lately - this means artists I've never heard of, or never really listened to, but whose music and albums are still interesting. This starts up with a bang, I was thinking there is someone, who finally brings funk back to rnb and continues where Prince left off at some point, but unfortunately the mood changes to weird falsetto and of course more rap is brought in. Ok, this is the 2nd half from Gnarls Barkley known from the song Crazy, so there was something familiar here. Some of the production is inventive, the visitor list seems to be the who is who in the scene in 2004, but mostly it fails to impress. In the end it is not all bad but is it all great either, something in rhe middle.

In hell, this comes out of the speakers when you put on an OutKast album

Is this suppose to be a Chipmunks cover of a soul album? Why is everything so fast and high-pitched? If it wasn’t so damn long, I would have given it two stars but this really tested my patience.

"Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine" is one of the worst album experience for me on this list. This is a hip hop album by Cee Lo but I don't know why it was included on this list. This album has many downside than positive. This album feel out dated production and I don't know why I was annoyed to listen to voice of Cee Lo when he was rapping. The album is like over 1 hours and there are too many tracks. Almost every tracks are average to bad quality. The only good track is "I'll be Around" and other than that not a single good songs on this album. The good thing is a catchy hooks and a smooth vibe but after that charm started to fade out and album began to feel repetitive. Overall not a great album by Cee Lo and worst album on this list for me.

LOVE

He is not the soul machine. This was lame. Cee-Lo, your voice is weird.

This suffers from being the same song for a half hour then a much worse version of that and a bunch of b sides for another half hour. I liked the first three or four songs and then I got sick of it pretty quick. It isn’t Cee-Lo’s voice, which is interesting at least, it’s the extremely specific mid nineties beats and rhythms. Every one of these could be a Jazzy Pha song, and Jazzy Pha kinda sucks. Way too long and really dated somehow.

what a breath of fresh air

Cee-Lo just ain’t for me

Not his best but still OK

Day 364 Surprised how much I enjoyed this Highlights Bright lights, bigger city Fuck you Satisfied

Nothing stood out in a good way, and his voice was more grating than usual.

It's long, but not terrible.

It's.. ok? I guess?

Appropriately enough this a C-grade effort, not bad but definitely needed a bit of the fat trimmed.

4.5 Okay I know unfortunately Cee-Lo Green is a very bad person…but DAMN, this album ROCKS!!! SOOOO much fun. Kinda crosses every style and genre. There’s so many bops here, so many funky beats and crazy choruses. It’s like an amusement park of great songs. Amazing early 2000s production too. What a delight of an album to listen to. I really loved it

This is decent but really doesn't feel significant. I don't know if there's a lot more to say, I haven't heard of this artist before nor can I remember hearing any of these songs, although I guess I have heard his cover of "Kung Fu Fighting." This album also goes on for a little too long. Favorite track: "Living Again"

Album #239 Cee-Lo Green: Cee-Lo Green… Is The Soul Machine I guess ‘machine’ would be a good name for Cee-Lo, because this is this album is a manufactured, commercial excuse for ‘soul’ music. I mean, even the term ‘soul machine’ is an idiom, and in Cee-Lo’s case, he’s all machine, no soul. But this isn’t even really a soul album; it’s a shitty 2000s rap album by an artist with an overinflated ego, who only knows how to write about himself and how great he is, and in Cee-Lo’s case, how multitalented he is. Well, as far as I’m concerned, the only good song Cee-Lo ever made was spoonfed to him by Madlib; you could have put my ass on ‘Crazy,’ and it still would have cracked the top 50. I’m sure this album was popular on release, but judging from the fact that only one song out of an hour-long album has cracked one million streams, it’s pretty blatant that this thing had no staying power. Which really isn’t surprising when your themes are as uninspiring as Cee-Lo’s; really, the opposite of timeless is this album. As far as albums before the 2000s go, this list has been fairly rational in its choices, but they really couldn’t decide if they should focus on popular or critically acclaimed for more modern albums, so we are left with slop like this wasting our time. Best Songs: I’ll Be Around, The Art of Noise, All Day Love Affair Worst Song: Glockapella Score out of 10: 3

If this is your soul music I don't know if you're going to make it to heaven... At first I really didn't dig it, but there were a couple tracks I appreciated a bit more by the end. If you could remove the early 2000's cluby rap stuff I think there could be something here, but as-is felt pretty mediocre.

I really need to get myself a copy of the book so that I can see what kind of bullshit justification they give for including this album in the book. This is just soul music filtered through the lens of a mediocre at best hip-hop artist. I have genuinely always considered Cee-Lo as a one-hit wonder, and that hit isn’t even on this album.

25

While trying to be a versatile voice that can flip between smooth Stevie Wonder soul and Southside ATL jargon, Cee-Lo fails to find a thru-line or any form of consistency. It all comes off as code-switching, and subsequently, a bit inauthentic. I really liked “I’ll Be Around”, but mostly because of Timbaland’s production and feature. The same is true for anything his cousin Pharrell hopped on. I also think there’s a peak into the real Cee-Lo who sits behind all the persona switching on “I Am Selling Soul”. But the flow in “Childz Play” is just ridiculous. It was hard not to laugh. Is this an attempt to get in on the sound Eminem was putting out with the slim shady stuff?? Between stuff like this and the cycling through of a bunch of different styles and attitudes, and knowing the person Cee-Lo is in present day, I’m not totally feeling this one. It’s carried by an incredible group of producers who rarely dropped the ball. Soft 3/5

OK. 3/5

2/5 https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/cee-lo-green/cee-lo-green-is-the-soul-machine/ Gnarls Barkley's St. Elsewhere is still a banger of an album, but Cee Lo solo doesn't do much for me. I like his vocals when he's more singsongy (see Gnarls Barkley), but as a rapper he's hardly convincing and his muppet voice just doesn't work. And mannnn this is half an hour too long. Quite a bummer, because the production is quite nice at times. Oh yea and also of course he's a fucking asshole. Fuck this guy (but St. Elsewhere still slaps).

I made it through this. I lost interest/started doing something else at about the 5th track. Sure...it was okay background music. I never felt like I had to turn it off; certainly, no track made me think to myself: why am I torturing myself. But, still, I only made it through this because I was otherwise engaged. 3 "I did it...all of it" stars.

Bro says it’s okay to rape women. I say it’s okay to not listen to this album.

​CeeLo Green's career is defined by high-risk stylistic pivots. Though some of his later solo releases experienced uneven production or strayed into overly polished territory, his best work is untouchable. When he locks into a groove that bridges the gap between gritty Southern rap roots and soaring, theatrical soul, there is simply no one else quite like him.

Interesting... But not great

Chaz Michael Michaels IS figure skating type album title

672/1001 (2026.08.04) 🌗🌑🌑🌑🌑 Seriously???

2 stars

First impression- 18 songs, too many. Listening and I hear a lot of the Gnarls Barkley vibe in the first few tracks. Good stuff but to me it suffers from bloat. Could've been one 4-5 star album if it was pared down to 11-12 tracks.

Meh

I can barely stand this kind of music. I don't like rap at all—especially not the kind with dirty lyrics. There might be a bit of Black soul music in there too; I don't care much for that either—I’d much rather listen to Black blues. I only played snippets of most of the tracks; I don't want to ruin my Friday!

It's s fun album

His various controversies over the years make it hard to embrace him the way I did when this came out. It sounded like standard Neptunes-era pop with a rapey guy on vocals. But I'm probably a hypocrite because I still like some of the Gnarls Barkley stuff.

I'm torn on writing this. Cee-Lo is a great musician and is very very fun. But he is also a sex pest and a hypocrite.

The stuff I've heard so far by Cee Lo was usually quite good, be it colab, as Gnarles Barkley or as himself. This album had some moments that came near that, other parts were boring, and the album was too long.

Didn't like the sound of mainstream hip hop of the early 00s. Thought I might grow out of it. I have not

I have enjoyed other things that Cee-Lo has done but did not particularly care for this. I found it a bit tedious. Not bad- just kind of boring.

It's fine. Some cool work with samples. Songs have their moments, but ... nothing stands out. The bass is mysteriously un-prominent -- what are we doing here? Do you have anything more like that Gnarls Barkley Violent Femmes cover?

There were a couple of songs in the beginning that made me think I was going to like this album. It would have been a pleasant surprise. The longer I listened the clearer it became that wasn't going to happen. I do think this album suffers from when it was produced and the maximalist tendencies of the time. Some heavy-handed editing, including getting rid of multiple songs off this album, would have made it a much better listen. It might even have gotten into the incredibly wide 3-star category.

Honestly, I got like 3/4 of the way through, skipped a lot of the tracks. Usually, I like a lot of the soul wrap mix like this, and some of green songs, but not this one. Two stars.

Those tracks sounded weirdly half finished to me

4.1

I was anticipating getting really sick really fast of Cee-Lo's high pitched voice, but I was pleasantly surprised by the depth of sound on these tracks. I especially liked it when he had backing vocalists. I also liked the Ludacris appearance. Minus 1 star for being a touch too long. And minus another for some crappy songs.

Pfffff... bon, alors, avant de l'écouter, j'ai été un peu voir la description sur Wikipédia, comme je le fais la plupart du temps. Et alors vraiment, la section "Legacy" vend du rêve, je cite : "The album was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.". Voilà, c'est tout ce pour quoi l'album est connu. Bon, jusque-là, je restais ouvert d'esprit. C'était peut-être un album méconnu, mais important pour son impact. Peut-être qu'il a directement ou indirectement influencé toute une génération d'artistes, non ? Je lance l'album et au départ, je me dis que c'est plutôt sympathique, mais relativement osef (on a l'habitude, avec Robert Dimery, les albums osef, c'est sa grande passion). Sauf que plus on avance, moins je comprends l'intérêt. C'est un album de rap tout ce qu'il y a de plus courant pour l'époque, avec des relents de soul, si j'ai bien compris. Et plus j'écoute, plus ça me fatigue et je me demande vraiment pourquoi ce bon vieux Bob a décidé qu'il fallait absolument que j'écoute cet album dans ma vie. Alors rebelote, je vais sur Wikipédia et cette fois, je vais voir la fiche de Cee-Lo Green, peut-être que c'est l'ensemble de son œuvre qui est influente ? Alors déjà, y'a rien de particulier sur son influence, mais on en apprend encore plus sur le bonhomme : - il traite de gay les critiques qui sont pas fan de son album et ne voit pas en quoi c'est homophobe, - quand il interprète Imagine, de John Lennon (encore une sacrée tête de con), il change les paroles pour "and all religions true", parce que nique le sens original de la chanson, je suppose, - il a des histoires de violences sexuelles au cul. Et concernant son influence, bah il a eu des récompenses (on sait ce que ça vaut, dans la musique...) et il a été jury dans la version américaine de The Voice (ce qui en fait une sorte de Vianney américain, je suppose ? /troll). Ah oui, vraiment, un indispensable, absolument. Bref, le mec a l'air d'être un con fini et cet album était franchement inutile et franchement ennuyeux. Robert Dimery a déjà sorti d'excellent albums de rap des années 2000 dans sa liste, je lui dois la découverte de Lupe Fiasco, alors pourquoi s'encombrer avec ce truc ? 1, parce que non seulement c'était nul, mais le type est en plus insupportable.

Eh, it's fine. There's little here that would reach the heights of the Gnarls Barkley era, which peaked of course with the mighty Fuck You (yeah, pun intended). I did like the cover of Let's Stay Together though, which also mixes in Oasis' Live Forever. Cee-Lo Green is not the Soul Machine though, not on this evidence, and not by the traditional reading of the genre. He's definitely in the court of R&B/modern soul.

Cee Lo's funk and soul game is stronger than 10 acres of onions, but his rap game is uglier than a mud fence on a rainy day.

An album that could be much stronger if it weren't a Cee Lo Green album, just really cant stand his voice, theres a reason his most famous song is essentially a gimmick song. 2/5 2.5/5

This was surprisingly good!

I like Cee-Lo Green occasionally. He pops up on OutKast songs all the time. He work with Danger Mouse, as Gnarls Barkley, is pretty good too. This album is kinda all over the place, and too long. It's Hip-Hop and its Neo-Soul, neither genre among my favorites, but he does have a big ol' set of pipes. Key tracks: Let's Stay Together

the fucking soul machine!!! solo lo escuché una vez pero tiene varios bangers. la vibe en general me agradó bastante, aprobado

gran album mg

I didn't have enough time to carefully listen to the whole album but from the first songs it's pretty clear that Cee-Lo Green's "Soul Machine" is not my cup of tea: hip hop injected pop with a funny main voice. Not really bad either, so a clear 2/5

Another fine but non-essential album. The picking process remains a mystery.

Not entirely sure why this made the 1001 albums to listen to before you die? It's alright... but.. really?

Pure vanilla … very middle of the road. Nothing stands out to me

shame about Cee-Lo, he has massive talent which was clear when he was in Gnarls Barkley and sang Crazy, but as a solo artist it's all ego and so unattractive - lots of declarations about how fabulous he is but all I hear is arrogance - music and lyrics nothing special. Seems like he gets in his own way

There were moments when this reminded me of the infectious nature of inspirational Instagram posts. They quickly grab your attention with a powerful image and then deliver a tight message that resonates immediately. Then, in a flash, it's gone, and the next one pops up to redirect you.

A prime candidate for the less is more maxim. Still an enjoyable if unremarkable listen.

Cee-lo is a joy. Super funky, super smooth. Varied beats. Creative hooks. His flow is exceptional. Sometimes his attack and voice are a little intense, so not a 5. But definitely a 4.

Okay

This was kind of fun.

I have not heard this before. In fact I have never heard any of these songs before. I wasn’t very keyed in on current r&b and hip hop, or even pop music at all, at the time so I don’t know how this compares to what was going on at the time, but a lot of these songs sound unique and weird in a good way. A lot of the songs also sound standard but these are mostly good as well. Altogether I dig it and I’ll have to go through the rest of his records.

CeeLo Green is NOT the soul machine, that’s Len Houmous. 0.2 1/18 Intro

The problem w/ a record like Cee-Lo Green...Is The Soul Machine, which is by no means a bad record, but still a significantly wanting one, is that it's a bit schizophrenic: too conscious to be blinged-out, too superficial to be a soulful romp, too smooth to be deep, too deep to be a sexualized banger, & too a lot of things to be a couple of meaningful things. That has its real & associated pleasures - I don't mind a long, all-over-the-place kind of thang - & Cee-Lo certainly had an all-star cast of features/producers (too vast to list) behind this lengthy release, but it kinda ends up just being large rather than epic. His voice is not only instantly recognizable - it's made to make records (check out 'I Am Selling Soul'). Yet, w/ Goodie Mob, he's still best.

I can hear the influence of Outkast on this album. That said, Ceelo Green's best stuff was from when he was in Gnarles Barkley.

So used to ceeLo being the singing guy so it’s strange to hear him rap but I can say he sounds terrible when he does, I’m glad he made the transition from this to where he is now I think he did want to make a singing able but got caught up in the time of the 2000 rap which I think his peers from the south were doing a lot better at this time

Deze soul funky rap valt mij goed. De feel van deze plaat is enorm chill, lekker uptempo en toch relaxerend.

Het klonk een beetje alsof de minions een rnb album hebben gemaakt. Alle lof in dit album zijn voor de producers zoals bijvoorbeeld the neptunes en timberland die hieraan mee hebben gewerkt en ook de verse van ludacris was wel hard. Maar geen enkele lof naar cee lo green zelf. Wat een irritante stem.

Minder kut dan de cover art deed vermoeden. Cee-Lo kan ontzettend veel en de productie zit goed in elkaar. Hij kan rappen, maar heeft ook gewoon een goede soulstem(of je en nou van houd of niet). Wel iemand die graag over zichzelf rapt en vooral wil laten zien hoe we hem moeten zien als veelzijdige rapper, soulzanger, grapjas en alles daartussenin. Het is alleen allemaal wat veel. Zijn veelzijdigheid wordt daardoor ook zijn zwakte, het album heeft geen eigen identiteit. Er staan echt hele goede dingen op en muzikaal valt er genoeg te ontdekken, maar zodra het afgelopen is ben ik het ook alweer vrij snel vergeten. zonde

Wat ik van hem kende heb ik nooit echt leuk gevonden (Crazy en Forget you) in die zin was ik eigenlijk al een beetje bevooroordeeld bij het luisteren van dit album, ik weet niet precies waar het aan ligt, ik denk dat ik het te commercieel vind, of zijn stem niet leuk. Tis ook niet heel slecht maar in mijn oren ook weer niet heel veel zeggend.

Nah Mate! Seems like Mr Green has been a naughty Cee-Lo in the past and his voice is very annoying!

The first part was fine but it kinda went downhill

Not bad. As the album progressed it sounded like he had sampled other songs.

Surprisingly strong start to an album I figured I would hate. If this album had been 6 songs long, I would have given it a 5. But it's not. It's maybe 562 songs long. Snooooze.

It was fine, maybe even better than I expected, but it's too long and needs a higher rate of bangers.

2/5 - I don't know why this is on the list.

Some tracks here were pretty good, but overall it was just an ok album. Not really sure why its on the list.

Not my kind of thing. This kind of R&B/hop hop always sounds like a padody of sorts to me.

überrascht diesen Künstler hier zu haben. Aber klang gar nicht mal schlecht, hatte n schönen Flow

coole Stimme, mal besser, mal weniger. ganz interessant anzuhören

Ei auf Stelzen

Meh.

Sometimes in this challenge you just have to put on an album and do other things to focus on to keep the time go forward. I have listened to the album, but it wasn’t interesting enough that I can say much about it. There were no hits, also nothing that was too terrible - but I got really tired of the voice. I don’t thin Cee-Lo Green is really the soul machine.

More miss than hit

Er det en del kult her, men alt for variabel og lang.

Kom meg bare gjennom halve plata. Klarer ikke.

Helt ok r&b-soul, med innslag av rap. Lite som skiller seg ut her, plata durer og går. Ikke helt sikker på hvorfor denne er på lista.

It's fun and perfectly fine but not deserving of this list

soul, casi rap/hiphop, meh, ta bien de fondo, pero no conozco ni la famosa

This album was definitely different in context of time but I wasn’t particularly blown away by anything. What made it most notable was the collaborations with Timbaland, Pharrell, Big Rube and my favorite track with Ludacris (Childs Play), but collabs on the early ‘00s wasn’t unique, especially after Santana’s Supernatural in 1999 when everyone was doing it. I did like his incorporation tap many genres from rap to hip hop to ‘70s soul, R&R, and others. Overall, it was a good album, but I would have put Lady Killer on here instead, especially considering the cultural impact that album still has.

Random thoughts: * I was dreading this one due to the Cee-Lo's current standing. I have to separate the art from the artist. * If you can put all that aside, this is a fun album. Hooky jams and some recycled ones too (shout out Parliament Funkadelic and Al Green). * I liked "I Am Selling Soul". * However, some of it just melded together but was a good listen overall.

A nice mixture of rsp and soul with some rock R n B thrown in.

For the fans of nineties Soul, Funk, R&B. and Jamiroquai enthusiasts.

didnt listen

My one listen to this completely passed me by. Cee-Lo , from some of the lyrics, thinks he's a lot better than he is. This absolutely shouldn't be here!

Yeah, this really had no business being on this list. Some of the songs had good beats I guess... but his rapping is just plain awful, he sounds like a muppet. Also, some of the songs are just straight up annoying like Childz Play and Something is just 5 minutes of nothing happening. This album is way too long, way too boring, and way too obnoxious. And that doesn't even get into him as a person. High 1....

Pass for various reasons

531/1089 - This was a lot better than I thought it was going to be based on "Crazy" and "Fuck/Forget You" which was all I knew prior. The instrumentals are especially nice, notably, I Am Selling Soul with it's cool IDM/glitch-hop beat and Evening News with it's reedy chromatic downtempo vibe.

Didn’t have issues up until the the second half. I got bored and wondered when the album would end. 6/10 at best

I really wanted to hate this album, but I didn't. There's a handful of good songs, but I have no idea what this album is doing on this list.

good car music, very outkast 3.5

well-produced tedium from an annoying man

5/10 Not as bad as I feared, but this was pretty poor. Some half decent songs, but who is still listening to this? The sparsest Wiki page of any album I've seen.

i've heard a few ceelo green tracks (hasn't everyone?) but i'd never actually just sat down and listened to one of his albums before. now i have and, i guess i don't really feel like i was missing out.... this album is very hit and miss. "soul machine" is a straight up concerning pick for second track, it sounds so bad it almost feels like a joke and i was getting worried i was in for 73 minutes of clown shit. thankfully it turns out there's a bunch of good tracks in here, like "the art of noise", "my kind of people", "i am selling soul", "all day love affair" and "sometimes", but overall, although i like his voice, it can't save this album from being plagued by some absolute dog ass beats. there's a couple that suck in a way that kind of wraps back round to being good again, like the tom & jerry ass production on "childz play", and..... whatever the hell "glockapella" is doing?? which commits so hard to sounding absolutely fucked that it might actually be my favourite track???? but for the most part it's just a lot of "soundtrack of a mid-2000s shovelware racing game" type shit. the fuck are we doing here, man.... i think this would've been much stronger if it had been cut in half. there's enough audio here for 2 albums but only half of it is any good. this list is starting to make me think that maybe double albums were a mistake. ....i gotta admit the album art whips tho. damn.

Put your finger in the air if you're the one...star album. He's calling himself The Soul Machine? Reaaallllyyy?....okay then. There are some good bones in the production. Timbaland and Pharrell are involved, after all. But man. This guy has nothing interesting to say. He just comes off as an entitled colossal douche the whole time. This would be my takeaway even if I didn't know what a horrible person he actually is. Doesn't seem like he was ever really trying to hide it.

Not really something I liked

Cee-Lo is definitely capable of making a better album than this. Disappointing listen to say the least

Loved the intro, that brought a big smile to this Dad's face. Overall the album was varied in musical style and composition, but didn't feel like a cohesive album. I left it mainly thinking I need to go change my Doggy Style rating, cause aside from language that was a much better album

Another over-long and only marginally interesting hip-hop album.

I actually really loved this. Fresh sounding with lots of different pop and funk elements. The neptunes production of this era just never misses for me. Good vibes!

Fun!

A bop

I liked the first part of the album and then it really started to fall off in the middle.

🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑 (begrudgingly rounded down because of the mood it left me with). This album is truly a 2.5, and rating it any higher or lower feels like a lie to me. Every song has different character, but it all sort of sounds like the precursor to a very annoying kind of pop-rap that dominated the last decade. I'd be like, "boy, this sounds like Pharrell Williams, and not in a good way." What do you know, he's featured! Cee Lo is a great singer and a less than great rapper. It's earnest (the kid was so sweet) and also it's performative (selling soul was so... not sweet). It's corny (good, like that Parliament bit) and corny (bad, like... the entire overall album). I was having fun but I was also groaning internally. 1: Bad | 2: Okay, No Desire to Revisit | 3: Good, Conditionally (OR Inconsistent Mix of Qualities) | 4: Great (OR Technically amazing but missing the sauce emotionally) | 5: Amazing

Oh Cee-Lo... your little elfin voice just does not sound tuff, and I'd much rather hear you belting a ballad on a dramatic stage than doing whatever this was. Like, someone get this man a role in a Shakespeare production or something. Really low 2, almost a 1, so painful to listen to and almost a DNF.

Has anyone seen Cee-Lo Green and D-Lo Brown in the same place? 2.5, would have been a 3 possibly is 20 mins shorter.

That was pretty good but would have been better if it was half as long. Too much fluff.

The Soul Machine, huh? Sure, buddy... Yeah, I wasn't huge on this. I'm obviously aware of CeeLo Green and some of his music. He's had big hits. "Fuck You" is pretty good, and "Crazy" with Danger Mouse as Gnarls Barkley is probably one of the best hits of 2006. None of those songs are on this album. The most popular song here is "I'll Be Around" with Timbaland, and I don't care for it. CeeLo is definitely better as a singer than as a rapper, so the fact that this album tries to balance the singing and rapping instead of leaning into the singing means that much of the album doesn't speak to me. The production is solid for much of the album, I'll give it that. You've got some of the most acclaimed producers of the 2000s showing up here, like the aforementioned Timbland along with a few songs done by the Neptunes, so obviously there are good productions on here. But, I still wasn't engaged with the album for the whole 73 minutes. That's probably the biggest issue that I have with the album. It just goes on for too long without much keeping me hooked in. This album isn't horrible or anything, but I don't have much of a passion for any part of it in any way. It's fine. Light 3/5.

I hated this all the way through. His voice is so grating. Please just shut up. (It's my first day back at work post-honeymoon, I may be grumpy)

🕶️👟🗣️🎧🟢

In a nutshell: fuck this. This album reeks of braggadocio and self-indulgence. CeeLo's voice is one trick - he can sing but there is no charm nor variety. You're better off listening to Outkast. Overall: 1/10

Not bad. Quite funky in places.

i don’t think i like his rapping voice very mucb

Ok

His ginormous ego is off putting. Not even his mother thinks he is that good.

NO. ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOT. It took me a while to figure out why I didn't like this. Cee Lo's rapping style is okay, the production is sometimes interesting, and I'm usually a fan of eccentric voices. When I got to Childz Play, it hit me. What was absolutely killing me was this guy's attitude. He is trying soooo hard to sell me on the fact he's the greatest rapper, the greatest singer, there's nothing he can't do. Well okay then, stop trying to sell me on that and just do it already. Stop trying to convince me that you are the Soul Machine™ and just.../be/ the Soul Machine™. It's so endlessly frustrating. I cannot get past his attitude whatsoever. The only parts of the album I legitimately enjoyed are the parts where someone else is speaking! UGH!

Я не люблю Сі Ло Гріна.

Я люблю нарлс барклі, але цей альбом як на мене сильно програє їм. Особливо друга половина максимально нудна. 2.5

The beginning of the second project of Cee-Lo quickly brings in the 00s nostalgia being a good representation of the hip hop of the time. An overall lighthearted record, it is by any means enjoyable. Certainly, it does not avoid having fillers and worse tracks, which tend to feel like a background radio not bringing much attention but also never really being bad. As for the good stuff, the record did surprise me several times. For an hour-long runtime, it has outstanding instrumentals here and there and even incorporates normal singing a couple of times. "Scrap Metal" is by far the best record on this sophomore, and I would also highlight the early tracks "Soul Machine" and "The Art of Noise". Perhaps not the best of its kind, the record offers much fun and resonates either with great instrumentals, cerious rapping, or both. B−.

ok soul gospel. - not list worthy but.. hey, neither are about 50% of these

A very fun album, a lot of cool music and lines I had fun listening to it. I’ve still got his song with timbaland going round my head

I generally like Cee-lo’s vocals but over a full album the high pitched whine element can be a bit much. Given this the best tracks for me are where there’s a feature. The production is great and the first half/ 3/4s of the album is generally fun/easy to listen, but just feels like there’s something lacking and the whole thing just goes on far to long, reducing the enjoyment levels massively

This was boring, albeit inoffensive. I have no idea why it was deemed worthy of inclusion, but alas.

As someone who entirely knew Cee-Lo through two massive singles (Crazy and Fuck/Forget You), I have to say I wasn't entirely looking forward to this. While I do enjoy his flow, I am not a massive fan of the timbre of his voice. In reading stuff about this album, I found a Guardian article that described it as "a shrill, slightly nasal voice that recalls the Bee Gees' Barry Gibb". Yes... very much that. But I think was ok with basically everything else. Especially the brass and occasional gospel tinged parts. Even the skits were mercifully brief, and for the first one at least, very cute. However this is also far longer than I tend to have patience for. Were it 45 minutes long it might be getting a higher score but it was a long time to be subjected to that voice. This is probably a 4 for the music and a 1 for Cee Lo's screeching. After much consideration, and with a lack of half marks: 2

Some good tunes here. However, when he tries to go gangsta (tracks 12/13 especially) it falls kind of flat, as I think his voice is much more suited for sweeter sounds. Also overstays its welcome, clocking in at like 65 minutes. The only one who probably needs a full hour of CeeLo Green is Mrs. CeeLo Green.

did i invoke this by singing "fuck you" at karaoke the night before?? didnt hate it. charitably it feels dated. will add this to the "oh you want to be nostalgic about actual early 2000s culture??" list when i have the chance to culturally reform zoomers by making them read tao lin and watch the most boring vh1 celebrity reality shows, preferrably one with andy dick. i like cee los vocals, i like the gospel choir moments. fave track my kind of people

pass

I found this quite listenable

This was funny.

Мех

First half isn't all too terrible but it really fell off for me in the back half.

This guy rapping about common sense but used to tweet insane things about rape. 4 star music, 1 star attitude

Honestly, I didn't hate it but the features and Timbaland are kind of the real stars here

Cee Lo is one of those artists who works better as a collaborative artist with an occasional single every couple years. Likes: I’ll Be Around; The One; All Day Love Affair

I was bored with this by the third song and didn't finish a single song after. Definitely not my thing.

Hip hop. Can’t remember much. A bit too long. Not nothing went terribly wrong

honestly, not bad. for an artist that was so big while we were in high school, its cool to go back to his earlier stuff. having an awesome Ludacris feature on there, we get some of of Cee-Lo's singing features, and hear some of his actual rapping ability as well. all in all, a solid album - not bad for someone who (i would assume) is often regarded as a one-hit wonder

I think this rating is higher simply because I listened to this album directly after listening to Captain Beefheart. Contains zero of CeeLo’s big hits, but does have enough rhythm and flow to keep me invested the entire time, and production from Pharrell never hurt anything. A couple I’d go back to but it’s easy to see why this is an album to check out.

This album did nothing for me. It took a couple of days to get through. It's not bad, but I didn't find any enjoyment in it.

Ugh, begint een soort van boeiend, maar daarna gaat het veels te lang door met z'n verschrikkelijk irritante stemgeluid. -0.5 voor de lelijke albumcover

Dit hoef ik niet nog een keer te horen in mijn leven

Bloated, wisselvallig in kwaliteit, wisselvallig in productie, gedateerd... Kortom: vermoeiend. Het is dat er af een toe een redelijke Pharrell productie in zit, anders helde dit naar 1 ster. Bizar hoe veel beter deze man is op de Gnarls Barkley platen.

I dig both the early Goodie Mob stuff and CeeLo's work with Danger Mouse in Gnarls Barkley, so I was already inclined to have high expectations - and maybe that's the problem. CeeLo, his rapid-fire flow, and his star-studded lineup of collaborators (Neptunes, Timbaland, Organized Noize, DJ Premier, T.I., Ludacris) position him as the heir to both neo-soul and his erstwhile collaborators Outkast's futuristic visions as heard on *Stankonia*. And yeah, with the level of assembled talent here it's basically a foregone conclusion that the results will be at least competent and sometimes better ("The Art of Noise"). But Green doesn't do anything here to suggest that he's capable of really signifying; "take me where the darkness is still beautiful," he warbles on "Evening News," aiming for Black Sky Masterson but landing more in the range of Black Nicely Nicely Johnson. He's unconvincing as a tough guy but he knows that ("Scrap Metal"); he's not all that more convincing as a Southern-fried shaman, and I wonder whether he realizes that ("Sometimes"). Perhaps he spits as many words as he can because, deep down, he's anxious that he may not have that much to say - and if so, maybe he's right about that. Only the finale "Die Trying," a gospel-inflected number that sees Green calling out his own bullshit, really rises above the waterline here.

cee lo. vocals. all over.

This album is far too long and not very inspiring.

Without. Not. Charms. Etc.

It’s interesting. He’s got sthg for sure. I see the “neo-“ label applied to this cat fairly reg. At this stage I’m just not about it. Seems like in this case it mostly means “cut w straight hip hop.” And there’s some good in there. But for the most part, ‘s’aight. 3 stars

Good southern rap/soul from a legend.

Para nada agradable de escuchar, por eso no terminé de escucharlo. Encima metió 18 canciones.

Didn’t this guy have another (chances are, better) album in about 2010?

I have heard of him but never really listened to any of his work. Not terrible but just not my thing. I noticed that one song had a ton of listeners on Spotify and the others were way lower. Didn't recognize the sone with all the listeners. His voice is a little bit annoying to me, just personal, I'm sure others don't mind it. It's kind of high pitched and reminds me of Dave Chappell doing an impersonation.

Pretty good neo-soul… but give me Goodie Mob over this.

ehhhhhhhh he's got a killer voice I'll give him that. and the production/performances are killer but the songs are just not super memorable to me.

Ok, not bad

Not for me!

This was a lot better than I was expecting. He has a great voice. There was a couple songs that it could've done without but overall it was pretty good

Surprising that this Cee Lo album made it, while Gnarls will probably be his legacy. Dungeon Family does always rule.

Groovin

Really soulless album which is ironic considering the title. Ceelos voice Is just annoying to listen to and the production is so dated. Also it's worth mentioning ceelo has publicly stated that he thinks it's ok to SA someone if theyre unconscious.

El chabon ya de por sí tiene temones. Muy bueno

I understand people who separate the art from the artist, I even think that it's a fair thing to do, if you like a piece of art from a controversial figure. But I think part of of separating the art from the artist is that the art has to be good. I truly can't understand how anyone could possibly like this album, and the fact that Cee-Lo Green is an accused rapist who says things like "real rape victims remember" just makes it worse. There's no reason in the world to listen to this, I can't believe I wasted over an hour of my time on this garbage. There's nothing appealing about his voice when he sings, he can't rap, his beats are background noise at best, and the whole thing is topped off by the ugliest album cover of the 2000s. The world is better off with him in retirement somewhere far away from the rest of us, chattering to himself about how tough he is. Though, to be fair, he's probably the toughest bald midget I can think of.

A low 3 for me

Not my type of rap album

Grating loops, serviceable lyrics, caught up in the early 00's club movement. Makes for an obnoxious album. Highlights: "The Art of Noise", "When We Were Friends"

most of this was fine but some of it was quite bad and it’s way too long

52/100. Ego has a strange way of exhausting art, the louder a person insists on their identity, the harder it becomes to feel the humanity underneath it. Despite the title, this never really felt like a true “soul machine” to me. Cee-Lo Green throws a huge range of styles into the mix here, from southern soul and funk to gospel influenced hip hop, but the result often feels more manufactured than genuine. The problem is that a lot of the material feels overly polished and emotionally artificial. The album constantly circles themes of ego, desire, and identity, but the execution rarely feels convincing or deeply engaging.

Almost certainly need something by Cee Lo on a list of 1001 albums. Might as well be this one, I guess.

He really is the soul machine.

Alrighty, time for over an hour of Ceelo Green. To be honest, I’ve never really listened to him outside of Fuck You. I could hear the gospel influences on Soul Machine which were quite interesting. The art of Noise was an interesting sounding, but it wasn’t something I overly enjoyed. Living again was actually quite fun! I quite enjoyed I’ll be around. My Kind of people: I found it quite boring if I’m being honest. Childz Play was not great. Am I selling soul had a better beat to it. All Day Love affair was alright. The flow was there in Evening News and Scrap Metal. Glockapella was weird, but eh. I actually didn’t mind the spoken word style of Sometimes. I thought the flute in the back was very interesting. Let’s stay together and Die trying were more what I expected out of this album. I definitely didn’t love it, but it wasn’t awful. 2.5/5 ⭐️ 142/1089

If one was judging an album by its cover then this would score low. Judging it by its music also scores it low. Nothing memorable other than his abnormally high pitched voice, which jars after a short time.

A couple of interesting songs but mostly generic 2000s rap. The guy has a weird voice too

Not the best, not the worst

The Art of Noise is the most 2003-ass music I've ever heard, and it's probably one of the strongest tracks here. It's...fine. But Cee-Lo is a much better singer than rapper, and his work on Gnarls Barkley was better.

Whatever. I guess it's not that bad but it's also not very good

Not Good.

Hiphop levy käytännössä. Hauska levy, ei ota itteään liian vakavasti. Hyviä kappaleita ja biittejä silti. Vahva alku 2000-luvun soundi. Parhaay: Childz Play, The One, I'll Be Around

Way better rappers and hip hop albums that arent on this list Standout songs: Childz Play Evening News

This album is only justified to sound the way it does because it was released at the time it was... Also, if you look at a small version of the album cover and squint your eyes, it looks as if he's staring deeply into your soul

Cee-Lo Green....... made a decent album here.

This was an incredible album. I had forgotten how expansive and collaborative this Cee-Lo sound was. Pharrell, Outkast, it had such beautiful sound and rhythm. I'm a big fan!

This was a pretty awesome hip-hop album. Great flow to it, fun beats.

Damn, am I that out of touch? One of the most fun hip hop projects so far. Or maybe I'm just way more into neo soul than rap music (this might be my first record of the genre after all).

First album that I have never heard before getting 5 stars. Really enjoyed it

Just a fun album

Eh. Long walk and drafted email to Justin.

Enjoyed this a lot more than I was expecting

2.5

3.5

This is definitely one of the cases where I'm not one of the best people to be rating this one. I think it's pretty good. I like where he's blending several styles of hip hop, rap, soul, and R&B were running around at the time. All in all, none of the genres are what I would call in my general wheelhouse especially in 2004. Some of the slides in the 70s soul I did like, but I think it's real strength is when he blends pop into his sound such as he did with "Crazy" and "Fuck You", which really isn't represented on this Lp. I guess overall enjoyable listen but nothing I'd return to immediately. (7.33) ★★★½

This was not what I expected, but was a jam. 4.5 stars

I thought this was pretty good. It's an interesting mix of hip-hop and R&B, and mostly like a less weird Andre 3000. As is often the case with hip-hop albums in this era, there's a bunch of producers on the album, and hip-hop being largely a producer's medium, the quality is a little uneven. The Neptunes and Timbaland stuff hovers above the rest. "I'll Be Around" is pretty easily the song to beat here. 3.5 stars.

2.5

Cee-Lo-Mony rape machine. Twitter did corrode him.

Bad album. Dude's also a wrongun.

7/10

Much too bland for much too long. This became a chore to listen to. Feels like it's lacking something to make it anything but mid.

Art over artist. I liked this one...

Not terrible for a hip-hop album but it’s still hip-hop. Talk to me when the album has Forget You

One of the albums that make me wonder about the criteria for appearing on this list

Highlights: Living Again, I’ll Be Around and Let’s Stay Together. 2.9

Favorite Song: None

Really soulless album which is ironic considering the title. Ceelos voice Is just annoying to listen to and the production is so dated. Also it's worth mentioning ceelo has publicly stated that he thinks it's ok to SA someone if theyre unconscious. 3/10 Favourite: None Least Favourite: Childz Play

This is extremely mid. I don’t love Cee Lo Green’s vocals, and the lyrics and music are uninteresting.

Completely unremarkable

Nothing really exciting here

Not for me

Just enough of interest to avoid a 1. It's fair to say this project is not turning me into a hip hop fan.

Honestly I fw this. It’s funky and fun and just pretty solid pop soul. Feels like a dude in the music industry too long was just like “fuck it ima do my own thing.” Little long but overall I felt every song brought something worth listening to.

Enjoyed it more than I thought I would. But is it really that notable? Two singles which didn't crack the top 40 and Wikipedia's "legacy" section merely mentions its inclusion in this list. Weird.

Had my in the first half, ain't gonna lie

This record would be tighter without the rap-required crappy skits and the pop filler that's clearly radio material. It's not bad, but the sub-par stuff drags down the enjoyable material.

Not a genre I enjoy. Not offensively bland, but not something I’d listen to again.

A listenable version of a genre that has never grabbed me, but still not my thing.

This album has an odd mix of both good and bad. As well as some great production and features that kinda steal the show. Cee Lo's voice is pretty solid for the most part, but there's some tracks where he gets a little nutty with it that just take me out a bit. You can only take so many songs about how great he says he is. Also fuck Cee Lo Green.

Me gustó

Semi-enjoyable

This is pretty fun but one of the stranger additions to this list imho. Sometimes this list feels like one critic's stock portfolio & Green was trading at $2.04 a share so he scooped him but now it trades at $1.05 a share.

I quite like Cee Lo Green's voice, I like his range, I quite like the variety to the album and the soulful vibes in much of it. I generally like hip hop and appreciate Outkast and Killer Mike and Southern style rap a bit. But this just isn't enough of an album to really impress for me. It doesn't wow and make me impressed. His Gnarls Barkley work is excellent, but they may be down largely to Danger Mouse on production.

Alright

I truly did not need an hour of Cee-Lo Green

Dated and absent of tunes, seriously poor

a delightful album! really nice instrumentation and nothing felt too samey. especially fun horns in living again

Not sure the warning sticker on the album cover is about the music or the man himself…..

Very pretentious but I’m all for it! Opening with The Art of Noise is very cool. Quite some duds but overall the all over the place vibe works for me

7/10 Did not listen to the whole thing, but like at least 70% of it. It was very good, the dungeon family. duh. but Yeah cant say that I am going back to this one for fun.

I really did not connect with this album at all. I found Cee-Lo's voice particularly unappealing, and nothing about the songs stood out in a meaningful way beyond anything else produced around the same time. Unfortunately not for me

# Playlist Track - The Art of Noise # Notes - It's incredible how bad half of Gnarls Barkley is. - Most of the album is uninspired, generic, bland music. - I'm genuinely surprised.

Good sound.

Better than I expected.

Honestly wasn’t expecting to enjoy this so much as a Sunday morning party prep soundtrack. I’ll return to this at the right moments!

Middle of the road

Does anyone involved realize the inherent contradiction in the sobriquet "Soul Machine”? That said, not terrible.

Funky, but too long

No it’s fine, I just didn’t know they only made 1300 albums

There are way worse albums that have been too long.

generally enjoyable, not so interesting that it withstood the runtime and maintained my attention throughout but i do think i could have been sucked into this guy's artistry at the time.

a real document of an era but totally inessential other than a couple fun tracks

Never listened to a full Cee-Lo project before...I'm not mad at it, but there is only so much of his voice that I can take lmaooooo

I feel like I’m starting to repeat myself, but Cee-Lo Green... Is the Soul Machine is another entry on the growing list of albums I definitely didn’t need to hear before I died. Was it enjoyable? Mildly. It has some playful moments, but not enough to make me truly care. Does Cee-Lo bring a unique blend of rap and R&B? Possibly—but his most memorable contributions to music aren’t found here. Those would be Crazy with Gnarls Barkley and Fuck You, both of which left a far stronger impression than anything on this record. If this album is the preface to the novel that is CeeLo Green, it’s one you can safely skip without missing much.

There's nothing stellar or interesting about this album. It has a singular vibe throughout and nothing I would consider worth an entry on this list.

Some catchy tunes, but Cee-lo has a voice for novelty songs, not an entire album.

pretty good

11/1001 Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine - Cee-Lo Green (2004) What a frustrating listen. I love Southern Hip-Hop, I like Neptunes & Timbaland, and in general I do enjoy R&B/Neo-Soul - so needless to say I was quite optimistic for this album. Instead, I got an album with several good ideas, which then beat those ideas into the ground and milked them so dry that they became annoying and I wanted the next track to come. Repeat this for at least 10 of these tracks, and I was glad when the album was over, despite the fact that some tracks such as "The Art Of Noise" and "I'll Be Around" showed the type of tracks that could've filled this album in a better timeline. Cee Lo was honestly the weakest part of this album, and as someone who tends to like non-conventional vocals and flow, this just did not do it for me. I'd rather be listening to just about any project from anyone else that came out of The Dungeon than this. ★★½

This album is great. The production is brilliant and Cee-Lo Green is such an engaging vocalist. I wasn’t expecting to enjoy this anywhere near as much as I did.

To make the most obvious joke possible, Cee-Lo Green is not The Soul Machine, no matter how many times he says he is over the course of this album.

I'm a fan. Cee -Lo Green grew up in an Atlanta of gospel, funk, and soul with a mindset of collaboration and cultural renewal. He has worked with Danger Mouse, OutKast, and Pharrell Williams (their "Art of Noise" is a standout track. Green was the original voice for "Happy"). That's the kind of musical future we should all hope for. And the Gnarls Barkley Star Wars themed video for "Crazy" is one of my all-time favorites.

Really into it but was glad when it was over. Drop a few songs and you’d have a much tighter and enjoyable album.

Not listening to a rapist.

Great album with amazing funk. Loved it. More of this please

Cee-Lo Green is a strange man. He can make some genuinely good music, but often when working with other people. It seems mr Green misses a certain something to make the best of his excellent qualities. This record is a good example. The best songs are the ones where he has either Pharell or Timbaland as a feature (both great producers), the rest are however very meh. Not bad, it's kinda soulful, but nothing to speak home about. A far cry from the highs Cee Lo can reach in for example Gnarls Barkley.

Can't say it is my type of music, but it was still very fun to listen to. Something about the personality of Cee-Lo just infects his music and makes you smile.

*Unique hip hop album for its time

Certe basi non sono male. Ma non c'è niente di eccezionale.

Has that 2000s nostalgic hip-hop sound. Favorite track: I'll be around other picks: art of noise, living again, childz play, let's stay together

Can't say I expected to see this one on here. When this first debuted, I thought it was okay and was kind of fun, and that still rings true today. It has a funky swing and good energy, and it's enjoyable. Not something I'd regularly revisit though.

Cee-Lo has a Gene Simmons-like sense of self-importance, which is more than a little tiresome. Even a series of excellent featured guests can't save this album.

Cee-Lo = C minus

Most recent entry so far! I'm only familiar with Cee-Lo's hits and some of the Gnarls Barkley songs. I like the funky vibe, but wondering if this album needs to be as long as it is! I recognize I'll Be Around. I didn't realize this was Cee-Lo. A great Timbaland beat! I never realized Cee-Lo had an album that was held in enough esteem to be included in a list like this, nor that it would be this one without a real recognizable hit, but I'm not mad about it. I'm enjoying this.

Nice

His voice is odd, I don't enjoy the rapping, and his singing is just okay. The songs were silly. I did not enjoy this.

Loved the beats on this, CeeLo's flow was really good, and it had good variety to make the long runtime worth it. Favorite Track: Evening News

Pretty forgettable album, no tracks stood out and it dragged on and on towards the end. Had higher expectations based on his later hit 'Fuck You' but this album was more 'Fucks Sake'.

Meh. Some tracks were cool, but it's not my style. Just learned that he did Crazy with Gnales Barkley, though. Kinda cool.

Good album, but I don't see why it's on the list. It matters for CeeLo's career, but not for music as a whole. The backbeats sound much like all the other "Hot-Lanta" acts of the late '90's and early aughts. The only thing making this different is CeeLo's vocal delivery. My Rating: 4/5