Reviews (page 8 of 8)
fucking woof, dude
listening to the intro like: ☹️ I felt a little redeemed on this one as I read the album blurb. "Dr. Octagon is an incompetent, time-traveling, possibly extraterrestrial surgeon who pretends to be a female gynecologist and molests his patients and nurses. The concept makes for some undeniably juvenile (and, arguably, hilarious) moments..." Well, juvenile, sure, let's keep reading - "Keith has since lost his taste for the album, tiring of hearing it compared favorably to his subsequent work, and complaining that the only new audience he gained was white." Honestly there's something very fitting about the idea that this album mostly brought underground hip-hop back to the attention of white people who had mostly moved on to different types of music after they stopped voyeuristically consuming the late 80's gangster rap (if this blurb is to be believed). It feels a lot like how popular Eminem got with his "my dark and twisted mind > : ]]] you can see it through my alter ego!!! it is HIM talking about doing these things" ....thing. Or maybe I'm just really boring and whiny and millenial for being mostly grossed out by this. Every time one song had a good groove and interesting enough lyrics it was like a guarantee the next one would be a creepy skit.
Really not my thing at all. Didn't enjoy it.
Strange, thematically consistent, but not good.
Sonically good but too crass to be classy.
por favor menos álbumes misóginos y más hechos por mujeres
"Earth people, I was born on Jupiter". I wish he stayed there.
Just the name is enough to turn me off. And yep. There’s better hip hop. 1 star. Shouldn’t be here.
Rap
The Good: In case we get sick, there will be a doctor in the house! The Bad: this only applies if you get sick in your private parts… The Ugly: I’m not a girl… What in the actual FUCK!!!!!?????????!!?!?!?!??!?!??!? How many times does a rapper from the ‘90s have to mention Shakespeare as this will give his “poetry” more meaning? When will the NON OBVIOUS ABUSE of a thesaurus be rewarded? Why my personal abuse of many CAPS and !@!!!!, well, glad you asked… The last 7 albums, SEVEN albums, that I’ve had the DISPLEASURE of finding on this list has contained only 1 3*, 2 2*, which means 4 1*… and with this utter piece of useless TRASH that makes 5 1* Then again, I don’t like hip hop, nor really care for country, and those were the main genres I was forced to listen to… Here’s to tomorrow ROCKIN’ my socks off PLEASE 1*
Wasn’t a big fan
Nope
The opening sex scene is an immediate skip from me dawg. 1/5 did not finish
Langweilig, aber nicht nur das: Das Album und die Songs widerstreben mir oder ich strebe mich, die Musik darin zu hören oder überhaupt zu erkennen. Zuerst zum „Langweilig“: Dr. Octagon probiert nicht viel und die Beats sind sehr starr und wandeln sich kaum. In jedem Song hat es sehr viele Wiederholungen im gleichen Beat, das finde ich langweilig. Keinerlei Harmonien, nur einzelne Basslines oder Stimmen, die sich x-fach genau gleich wiederholen. Nur in Blue Flowers passiert was, das klingt am Anfang vielversprechend, ist dann aber doch sehr repetitiv. Jetzt zum Widerstreben: Ich denke, die Lyrics sind der Kern dieser Art von Musik, und das liegt mir nicht. Mir sagt Musik nur etwas, wenn mich die Harmonien und Rhythmen fesseln und diese den Text oder ein Gefühl so vermitteln, dass es mich trifft. Ich höre nicht von selbst auf die Lyrics, vor allem nicht, wenn ich die Musik drumherum langweilig, nicht ansprechend und uninteressant finde. Ich habe mich angestrengt, den Lyrics des Albums zuzuhören, aber sie sagen mir nichts. Abgesehen von der schieren Menge, mit der man bombardiert wird, und von Verweisen, die ich nicht verstehe, widern mich die Lyrics oft an: Zu viel explicit content, ich finde die Lyrics teilweise patriarchal und beinahe durchgehend unangenehm obszön. Vielleicht hat Dr. Octagon bei mir genau das erreicht, was er wollte: Ekel, Widerstreben, Wut. Er hat provoziert, das ist ihm gelungen. Aber wofür? Ich persönlich bin vor lauter Provokation, Obszönität und uninteressanter Musik nicht gewillt, zuzuhören. Bei mir kommt keine wichtige Message an. Ich verharre in Unverständnis.
Silly. No list of must listen to albums needs to include this.
Borderline unlistenable.
Ehkä seassa on jotain hienoja lyriikoita, mut päällimäisenä tuntuu aika genitaaliselta levy yleisesti. ykkösen ja kakkosen välillä (levyn teemaan sopivasti). kiinnostava faktoidi: prodigyn smack my bitch up samplaa tätä äijää (ei tosin tältä levyltä).
Got about halfway through this album and realized I didn't like a single song yet. I skipped ahead and listened to about a minute of each song, and nothing was great or amazing. Sorry, this is not an album I must before I die. It's not great. 1/5
Terrifying
cheesy and totally dated
Welp. This, from the Wikipedia article, should tell you all you need to know about how I feel about this album -- "Dr. Octagon is an extraterrestrial surgeon from Jupiter who uses space technology and primitive tools to perform medical procedures on his patients, some of whom die as he conducts his rounds, while others are murdered by his careless, barbaric acts. Octagon also practices as an orthopaedic gynaecologist and seduces and engages in sexual intercourse with his female patients and nurses." Also this album is obsessed with the word "rectum"
American shit
Nee. Zu unruhig für mich.
Als het internet zou bestaan zouden zij zo gepest worden dat dit nooit uit zou komen. Het is echt niet goed, en uit rancune geef ik het een 1 ipv 2 omdat dit een plek inpikt van zo veel betere artiesten in dat weirdo sci fi cartoonige hoekje die hier wél in horen
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Subject matter is shit, vocals are shit, the beats are...fine, theres one okay song but I hated alot of this, I then navigated to the Wikipedia and found out that our Doctor is a actually homicidal, extraterrestrial, time-traveling gynecologist and surgeon and I hate it even more because of this, it does explain the opening track being noises from a porn film. Fuck this noise
Childish lyrics / how is this in the top 1,001 albums
Ganz furchtbar.
The only comedic part of this that I found funny was his flow. I can only guess what the lyrics are, but if they are the same old "throw in as many edgy bars as possible to shock somebody's grandma", then I didn't lose much
Weird.
Not my thing. This came immediately after I had listened to AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, which only made it worse. The flow is clunky in comparison. The lyrics aren't doing anything for me - he's seriously out here making pee pee doo doo jokes. Also this album is LONG.
Another album that should have never made the listing.
Eh did not like the bathroom humor
Nope
This shit is NOT it 😭
Ok. So far I haven't found any hip hop album that I liked. They're all so bad. I had hopes for this one when I saw the cover, it's a cool image. Pressed play and all my hopes were immediately shot. This is so much garbage. Why the hell is this on the list of albums I need to hear? I mean even though hip hop is not my taste, I understand why all the hip hop records I've come across so far are on the list, but this? It's just 100% terrible and has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. The lyrics literally sound like a 7-year-old wrote them. Or maybe the kid we all knew in high school that either thought it was funny to have a 7-year-old sense or humor or just never grew out of it for some reason. Either way this record is trash and should be forgotten so future historians don't accidentally come across it thousands of years from now an judge us by it. “No wonder they died out” they’ll all say. 0/5
The “Doctor” performed an experiment that failed.
Starts with a sex skit. Doesn't really improve from there.
Most tracks seem to be about nothing, and the beats are same-y. A concept album really needs more than just a vague idea.
Was not good at all.
Terrifying.
Yeah ok, I get it.... wibbedy scribbedy wack wacka wibbedy wack, *spit lyrics* bang head* low pants * high gimmicks. Very high shock value, no real musicality. I'm disgusted by the gynecologist song. More misogyny. Would like to hear - ripping the penis open and inserting things inside it- version of this.
No thanks
I can kinda see what they were trying to do here… it’s just not for me
Super weird. First song was porn. Some of the songs are just repeating the title of the song or a one-sentence phrase over a repetitive beat. I like a few of the songs but I would never buy this album.
Another one for the Hip-Hop pile. 1/5
Beats sucked, hooks were bad, rap was decent. this was an hour long grind.
Awful. Tried to listen but couldn’t get through this.
Wtf is this?
I'm not really familiar with the overall rap scene, but I know this isn't typical. I really just don't know what to make of it. If you told me these were songs written when Dr. Octagon was, what, 8 or 9? It would make total sense. There is something there, and it's bizarrely surreal, but it's also obsessed with the things kids get obsessed with when they learn about sex, but haven't hit puberty yet. I also vaguely wonder if he was committed to a psych ward for a while. Also, was Andre 3000 a hit of this album as a kid or something? Maybe the year 3000 just fits well into rap lyrics? This album definitely encourage my tendency to have random thoughts float in my head.
So I usually have a few thoughts on just about every album, but “Dr. Octogoncologyst” – not so much… It’s basically the same, on long musical track throughout – interlaced with some pre-recorded loop shit, where the artist tried to work the word “rectum” into just about every track… Dreadful effort, produced by someone with the sensibilities of the 5th grade boy… Ugh…
Spotify, please bring back the "Exclude from taste profile" option EXPEDITIOUSLY
Maybe this doesn’t deserve a 1 but I really did not have fun trudging through this
This was atrocious
der sound ist gut, aber sonst?! eh ja.
Wow, another rap album where all the tracks and interludes are about how much sex the rapper haves. Exhilarating
can't even
I really don't like to be a hater, but sometimes I have to. This whole thing felt like a 30 Rock bit, he kind of sounds like Tracy Jordan and I was just waiting for him to break out with "Werewolf Bar Mitzvah" at some point. That was the vibe of this thing. Like listen to "Halfsharkalligatorhalfman" and tell me this exact thing couldn't have been some Liz Lemon-Tracy Jordan bit in 30 Rock. I don't have a ton to say about this, but it's just so random that it's hard to even wrap my head around. I'm not exactly sure who this is for, but I guess someone is into it. It sounds like someone that's either trying to be a little too edgy and it falls flat, or someone that is legitimately crazy. Hilariously, the artist, Kool Keith aka Dr. Octagon, apparently has since dismissed the album saying that "it unfairly overshadows his later work, and that the only new audience it attracted was white". I don't know, not me, it was too weird. Favorite song: Blue Flowers Other: Halfsharkalligatorhalfman 6/15/24
What a wackadoo concept. Completely ridiculous lyrics, like this guy is not all there. The parts of it that are coherent are just so wrong, on levels. Musically, I didn't hate it. But on the whole, I can't bring myself to anything higher than a 1 after that intro.
Slightly different childish skits and sexist lyrics to the standard hip hop. Still shit
Immature concept in every respect. Alice Cooper: Welcome to My Nightmare succeeds where this one fails.
How does only one of these tracks get an explicit tag?
This felt like an hour and five minutes of Tracey Morgan making unfunny sex jokes. Beats were ok.
what is this crap... couldn't stand it after 3 tracks
This list has terrible taste in hip hop.
Moraaliton..m
Like many of my early relationships, this album was childish and messy. At least I can look back on those relationships with some semblance of joy; this album I would rather forget.
No thank you
The Worst !!!
Production is ok, but honestly this was kinda corny. I probably would have loved this when I was a teenager though …
in some way it's iconic, but it objectively sucks
No bueno
Glad that is experience is over.
Bot my type
- - wow - what trash. Open mind or not - the quality is garbage. It's as if it was produced of self satisfaction to say \" Yo - I did a record, bitch!\" Move on... Only good thing is all of the songs are short.
Old school, scratchin' rap. Plenty of toilet humor and cheap double entendre. Rap or not, still .... meh.
About as bad as it gets.
Crap
I got 10 songs in and had to stop at a "A Visit To The Gynecologyst". I really tried to give this album a shot but it's trash. There's a bit of potential here but it's totally undone but the 90s rap crudeness and unnecessary vulgarity. 2/10 (1/5)
¿ nope
Pass
Not a rap fan
The beats and samples are intereting. The mood varies from Prince to Rage Against the Machine. But, in reality, I'd simply listren to prince or Rage against the Machine. Not terible but not really my thing.
I'm not a fan of rap, but I am a fan of trying everything on this project with an open mind, so looking at the track listing I was excited to see a rap album where every song didn't have the explicit filter next to it. Boy, how did all these songs dodge the NSFW filter? The first "song" is a porn scene with someone that sounds remarkably like Arnie. There's another porn scene in the middle of the album and the rest of it is full of doctor-themed inuendo and weak rhymes. No idea how this made it to the top 1001 albums.
Det är så man blir både ledsen och förbannad på en gång! Mest ledsen.... Och förbannad!
No thank you.
Gafst upp á miðri leið, ekki gott.
Shit like this is what gives misogyny a bad name.
This didn't age well. Also one of the rappers sounds like Tracy Morgan which made the whole thing sound like a bad SNL skit.
I really hated this. Not too many albums that I've wanted to turn off, but add this one to the list. Alternated between bored and annoyed the entire album.
Really ???? With so much great MUSIC out there what is the obsession with rap ???? 1*
I don't know how I feel about this. There's definitely a cool sound here that I can get in to, but nothing really grabs me. The lyrical flow is really solid and it's bizarre in a good way, but just isn't for me
Me podría morir sin escuchar esto.
Horrible, worse than horrible
Meh, not great. Boring
This was a chore to listen to. I didn't find it doing anything really interesting other than moral shock stuff. god that stunk
I liked the beats (sucker for trip hop), but even that couldn’t redeem this album. Far too many uses of “rectum” 🤮
Boring now a days
I want to like this album so bad but the lyrics are just so mediocre and gross at times. I love the beats and the idea is so cool. Its just when there's 2 min of record scratching or sexualizing a gynecologist visit? Like that's so weird! When have you ever heard someone sexualize a colonoscopy? Like what does that have to do with being a mad scientist? I know this is a debut album so I'm still giving credit the cover is pretty cool. Honestly skipped multiple tracks due to the lyrics being to uncomfortable. Horrible start to the 2024 album review list.
I guess the editors wanted to put an "alternative rap" album in the book. This album is not as interesting as Dr. Octagon may think it is. No clue why this album is in the book.
First listen Saved 2/20 Top track: I'm Destructive
Haha funny rap
This is just another example of me really not enjoying hip hop. It’s so bad. Maybe in terms of hip hop music this is actually incredible, but I have heard very little hip hop that I’ve liked. Wanted to give up half way through but I kept going. Not many tracks I can say I enjoyed, and some (Earth People, how is that one of the most streamed on the album?!) were just straight up annoying to listen to. What a waste of time this was. 2/10 Top 1: 1. No Awareness
Way too off-kilter for my taste.
AJ: read the wiki. Hard pass.
Skits...Repetitive...Meh, not for me. It is also very crass, I would not feel comfortable playing this in public. I did like "Halfsharkalligatorhalfman" though.
“A Visit to the Gynecologist” ummm WTF no thanks.
I did not enjoy this.
Yeah, give this a wide berth! I had to check whether ‘Kool Keith’ was a 12 year old boy, in which case some of it would have been impressive, but sadly not.
Wasn’t really a fan. There were some okay beats but the lyrics were kind of weird. Maybe I just didn’t get it
Too long; didn't care. Doesn't need to be on this list. Don't know why it is.
Couldn’t finish this. What a waste of one of the few hip hop slots here. Never heard of this this guy before and with good reason.
Really truly awful
couldn't finish it, it sucked
1. Absolutely not.
Absolutely horrendous
I couldn’t even finish it that’s how terrible it was. I stopped after visit to the gynaecologist it’s basically a song about a dude pretending to be a woman doctor so he can look at a girls vagina. He gives her exercises to do to loosen it and then after he reveals that he’s a man and obviously she freaks out. The other songs were also just the worst music I’ve heard in a long time. Terrible album don’t listen to it
- incredibly sexual - uncomfortable at points - uses big words and phrases to sound smart, but he’s just listing them - the only saving grace is the beats, but that’s not enough
No.
I always listen to albums all the way through but I couldn’t for this one. It’s just off putting and the intro was so weird
Can I stop listening to this? This is boring at best and disgusting at worst. Nothing here earns that musical quality seal to excuse some of the things said on here, and while I know that's the point, that doesn't mean I want to listen to it. Yes, the scratching and some of the beats are rarely good, but any album that thinks using Canon in D as a back beat is clever is no musical genius in my eyes. I'm only halfway through this and already want to stop, and that's rare for an album, even my one stars. After finishing it (although I did skip a good chunk of the songs once I figured out he was just gonna be rapping about rectums once again) I can confirm this is the lowest of the low. This may be my least favorite album so far, and if not, it's still terrible.
Laughable, belongs on the list of 1001 albums that were released for no apparent reason.
Awful, Actual Garbage
I felt violated. It was either a shitty song, softcore porn, or both.
Why are the worst albums always the longest? There's an attempt at making some sort of themed narrative throughline here, but no effort is put into making any of the beats or bars interesting. Every musical aspect of the LP feels phoned in and tired, and that's exactly how I felt as a result of listening.
What the heck was this? Hot garbage. Maybe it's an example of the first cringy annoying rap album? Did it rhyme? Sure. Was it good? No.
Lazy beats. Some corny bars even for the 90s. Flows are nice which compensate for some of the lack-luster rhymes but fail to save the album as a whole. Pretty disturbing. Favorite song: I’m Destructive
Terrible
Jesus, this album is gross. Don't really want to hear about a gynecologyst making sexual advances towards his patients... The music isn't really that good either. It's not absolute horrible, like many of my other 1 stars, but there's nothing interesting happening, and the flow isn't much to write home about for a majority of the album. Some of the sounds present on the album aren't pleasant on the ears. The scratches can be nice, I suppose. I guess the most notable thing about this album is how horny it can get, but it gets a bit uncomfortable. The humour didn't make me laugh, so that probably affected my enjoyment of this album. If I had a quarter for every time I heard the words "butt crack" and "rectum" on this album, I'd have a decent amount of quarters on my hands. I'm just glad it's over. Not a good way to have spent an hour of my life. My favourite song was Blue Flowers, but I didn't really like anything on here.
Angry rap.
Ew.
Damn, how old is this guy anyways, 12 yrs old? Gimmicky, sophomoric and crude lyrics. The intro that sounds like its from a porn flick made me roll my eyes but the worst song is I got to tell you which drops infantile bombs referring to doo doo and pee pee with Pachelbel's Canon in the background (ie., Classical music for people who don't know shit about Classical music). Also, the cover and name of the album sucks.
1 star
Awful.
Vibe of this album summed up in one word is “Weird” which I usually quite enjoy… But I hated this. And it’s an hour in length, so basically torture. Only positive comment I really have is that it was certainly a unique concept! Terrible execution. I didn’t enjoy his flow or voice, though some of the beats were fine. Lyrics were undeniably unique, but the interesting lyrical moments were undermined by some of the excruciatingly repetitive choruses (if you can call them that…) and the juvenile topics/jokes. It did improve as it went on, from the first 5 songs I honestly thought it was the worst album I’d ever heard but by the end I was less horrified. Best tracks (i.e. vaguely bearable): Blue Flowers, Bear Witness, Dr Octagon, Technical Difficulties Worst tracks: Intro (gross), 3000, I Got To Tell You (shockingly irritating for an interlude), Earth People, No Awareness (one of the worst songs I’ve ever forced myself to sit through), Girl Let Me Touch You (creepy), 1977
Stupid
Absoluut niet mijn ding. Hier zijn al veel betere rapalbums gepasseerd
pretty childish and boring album, can't believe this is here and animals by Pink Floyd isn't
Honestly, this isn't the worst rap we've had from this list so far. Not by a long shot. So I guess it merits at least 1.5 stars. However, I'm still rounding it down. I really don't like rap and this album isn't doing anything to change my mind about that.
1996: Blue Flowers