Raw Like Sushi

Me in jr high asking girls to dance to this...it happened

- Clearly not the target audience for this album tbh - Funky and fun - A 2.5 but recognize it's not for me

Recognised the first and second song, from then onwards, more of the same. Pretty good; i liked the well weighted and consistent use of genre crossovers. However, feels a bit dated; it seems half of all music for the thirty years after this uses the same techniques, and the same blends of generic modes of pop, and hip hop music.

This was not for me. It was too 80s pop but I did like the rap that was parsed in throughout.

raakaa... ei oo näin RAAKAA musiikkia koskaan tehty... rraaaaaaaaww shit... totas nois mitäs nyt sanois totanoin...joo-o. hyvähyvä...semmonen tänään taas semmonen stoori niin sanotusti heh.. noh, juu kai tässä, kai tässä mennään seuraavaan sitten katotaas mitä huomenna löytyy ja love ghetto

extremely 2000's for an album from 1989. thats the most impressive thing about it.

I’m not sure what happened here, but this sounds like it should’ve been a lot bigger album than it was. It’s not exactly my flavor, but Buffalo Stance is a GREAT opener. The album does lose some steam from there on, but it is peak 80s pop.

Left me feeling unsatisfied and a bit queasy, like gas station sushi.

It's really all about the first song - nice number. The second song has a nice chord progression. Other than that, the tracks are kind of ordinary.

There are beats and (I assume they're) samples that I like on this album, and sometimes the way Neneh Cherry raps reminds me of Chuck D's flow of all things, but the album feels like a bygone era that struggles to be interesting both in the realm of pop and hip-hop, so a mix of both just spoils moments after starting, and while this album isn't too long, each song feels like it drags. It's okay in short doses, but a whole album can be a bit much. Just a whatever album.

All the tracks sounded the same, not for me but it’s fine I guess. Only good song was My Bitch

It sounds outdated, but it's not the worst of that time. The singing is not that good. The rapping has a more natural flow than a lot of her contemporaries. The first three songs were big hits here, but they definitely wouldn't be if they were released now. Favorite song: So Here I Come.

Ei osunut meikäläisen makuun ja varsin nopeasti mielenkiinto lopahti.

Siinä se meni taustalla ärsyttämättä

Hmmmm not for me

I expect that this was a culturally important album given the time, but it doesn't do much for me.

Buffalo stance was catchy, but the rest of it was hot garbage. Sounded like if AI created a new Michael Jackson album

I was intent on hating this and eventually succeeded, but not without uncovering some interesting factoids about this person ... like, you know that dude Buck? Buck Cherry, that's her brother, and the dude Eagle Cherry, that's her other brother, and did you know she was an original member of the Sex Pistols!? Ok, that's not true, but she does evidently have some limited street cred across the pond which is why I have to expect more from this album. This entire sounds like some ripoff 1980's commercial that runs on Saturday morning cartoons and advertises Kool-Aid with some dork on a skateboard... pretty lame.

Good that it’s not raw like milk (apparently an actual trend in this Bizarro world America of 2025). Sushi, on the other hand, is raw and fantastic. Neneh Cherry is neither raw milk nor sushi, but “Raw Like Sushi” is so very 1989. Not in the birth of Taylor Swift kind of way, but in the rap/R&B/rock fusion that walks a fine line between cheesy and hard. Cherry finds herself too often on the wrong side of that line though. She may have a great musical pedigree, but despite (or perhaps because of) her heritage and background she comes off a bit fake. “Buffalo Stance” is a bop though, and makes you want to know how to hit the buffalo stance. But then you find out that a buffalo stance is, as Cherry told The New York Times, "an attitude you have to have in order to get by. It's not about fashion but about survival in inner cities and elsewhere." I’ve got the elsewhere part down. I’m hanging in a buffalo stance.

Lost a star for all the lyrics that embodied that time period where the message seemingly everywhere was that sex is terrifying and men are terrible.

"Buffalo Stance" is a classic, but it appears there's a reason I only know one of her songs: the rest of the album isn't great (and at times it's outright cheesy).

Hmmm 3

At the time, there was something unique and original about the Neneh Cherry sound (not so much today, but let's give Cherry the credit she deserves). Alas, this unique sound is only well expressed in 2 tracks, with the rest drowning in repetitive mediocrity.

Other than a nostalgic trip back to my junior year in high school and reminding all to not get fresh with me, not all that rememberable of an album.

There’s a bunch of great tracts on here but the album has lots of filler to make up the time.

This was a fine album, not my particular music taste. Interesting combo of raps and 80's beats.

Disappointing really; it sounds dated (to be fair, most stuff of this ilk does) but beyond "Buffalo Stance" and "Manchild" (both great) I really couldn't take much interest.

Not really into this one

meh

tries a little bit of everything that was cool in 1989, fails in almost every aspect

A few nice old school hip-hop moments with kick-ass beats, but when I say a few, it's like 2% of the album. Overall, it ages very bad and it's mostly boring to annoying point.

I get it, she's Swedish and was a power figure in the British urban scene. Somehow she was a major influencer in the industry and opened the doors for the Wild Bunch, which led to Massive Attack / Tricky / Goldfrapp. I remember this record from the 80's and I couldn't get into it, and decades later it hasn't aged well either. I can't discern anything innovative, compelling or talented, other than the deft DJ and studio engineering chops. However, though it may not count to the score of this record, I'm still wrecked by "Move With Me" which was featured in Wim Wenders' "Until the End of the World."

I still can’t tell what the big deal is with this record.

Meh, I liked it when it cane out but not my jam anymore

Ok. Very niche 80 sound

Yeah, you guys pretty much covered it. Honestly, I had a moment early on where I thought, "You know, this is kind of nostalgically fun." But that lasted maybe two songs? Craig, that lyric you quoted is terrible and it's not even the worse line in that song! Bad, bad. Sadly, I guess my takeaway is that Neneh Cherry is horny?

album feels quite dated, got a couple catchy hits.

Mixed feelings "eh, it's not that bad" with "when will it end??". Nothing changed in my life after hearing this album

It took me a while to get through this one, not because it's a bad album, but it just was not my jam. 2.25/5, rounding down to 2/5.

wow, i really thought this would be right up my alley but i didn't end up liking it at all. pretty bummed about this one.

What a dumb title and the production has held up over time just about as well as sushi does, which is to say not very. The whole thing sounds thin and tinny and like they played the most basic beats on discount-store equipment, and like a lot of other reaching pop/R&B acts of the time (hello Bill Biv Devoe). There's some likable energy here, but this feels like a kids records – made by and made for – with not much heft and one guesses most of these protagonists long since would have outgrown and/or have fett a bit embarrassed by it.

It’s too bad this album doesn’t feature 7 seconds, (with Youssou N’Dour) which IMO is her best song. Buffalo Stance is a decent cover of Malcolm Mclaren’s hit, but the rest of this album sounds dated and doesn’t grab me at all.

Not my bag

Meh

Not for me

I bet this felt so progressive when it came out but feels extremely dated.

Found it quite boring, with a lot of the songs sounding the same to me.

not for me

This sounded like a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles album if the turtles were angsty teenage girls. if I were a teenage turtle or teenage girl I’d probably give this 4 but I’m neither so 2.5 stars from me

Buffalo Stance is a nostalgia grenade for me, but the rest of the album didn’t particularly stand out as anything more than fine.

Instant hate. What the fuck is wrong with you, 1001 guy?

Mais pourquoi Robert a t'il selectionné pour sa liste elitiste, un album d'une rappeuse suedoise des années 80 ? Cette question m'empêche de dormir depuis plusieurs jours, je suis actuellement interné au Triemlispital de Zürich afin que plusieurs médecins puissent m'aider à retrouver le sommeil.

Too 80’s sounding for me.

Not a big fan…

Corny rap from the late 80's with production that is distinctly electro synths and hip hop beats. Buffalo Stance is memorable for it's incredibly busy hooks and interesting production choices. The truth is that Neneh Cherry is remembered mainly for being one of the few women rapping during this period. This is especially notable because she was born Swedish, but moved to New York in the early 70's, and then again to London in the late 70's. It was there she remained, though the pop rap influence of New York would also cross the Atlantic into the 80's. This would serve as the basis for Raw Like Sushi, along with the typical 80's dance-pop production that was shifting and adopting various different elements from subgenre such as new jack swing, trip hop, and freestyle. This smorgasbord of production styles comes across as disjointed and poorly conceived. Oh, and dated. This album has aged like milk. It's a skip from me.

Didn't activity make me want to not listen. I tolerated it, more than I enjoyed it. 33/112

Can appreciate it was a trailblazing album for 1989, but it's just way too cheesy for me. Doesn't hold up well now.

hopefully the worst album to make this list. horrible, trite, affected, sophomoric lyrics. despite that, some of the tracks are definitely fun listens, and she got better at least.

klarte ikkje høyra heile

Ya know what, I like most music. It's only if it annoys me that I tend to actually dislike a particular song or artist. And this album definitely annoyed me. 2 stars because it wasn't actually terrible. Just annoying.

Great opener with Buffalo Stance, then Manchild is okay, but it's all downhill from there on out.

Not my cup of tea.

Kasariretroilua, joka onkin tehty jo kasarilla. En osaa suhtautua tähän millään tasolla romanttisesti, minkä takia tuskin kuuntelen levyä koskaan uudelleen, mutta on tällä tarttuvatkin hetkensä.

- [ ] This really isn’t my style, but it’s fine pop music. I do think the novel 80s pop trends (drum machines, synth, sampling) have aged incredibly poorly. And this CD is super-long on them. But like peak MJ, there’s enough of classic R&B here to make it worthwhile. Nehneh herself has a nice voice, although I don’t care for her rapping, and there’s too much of that. The opener is the strongest song, a nice upbeat pop hit, with fairly effective use of sampling (although instantly dateable in a not-totally-good way). The rest is similar, barring a couple just totally-garbage all-rap songs like “Next Generation”- it’s just not as catchy, which is the only goal here. On a list of 1001, this almost certainly gets a boost for early influential female rap-pop plus Latin crossover, which I don’t care about at all (wrong kind of influential). And I’d never pick it for myself, but I actually thought it was a nice listen, or most of the songs at least- just a few too many duds, and not at the next level like some other comparably 80s pop (eg Whitney).

This is a horribly dated album. On top of that, the list's entry for it namedrops her stepfather, Don Cherry, despite not having a single album by him or his bandleader, Ornette Coleman, on the list. What is this garbage? Why isn't there a single album from the founder of free jazz but there's this dated, obnoxious, late-80s rap album from one of his bandmembers' step daughter? Can we get someone who knows something about music to curate this stupid list?

The hit is pretty good I suppose. But this is just early 90s pop. Not for me.

This is not a genre of music I tend to enjoy listening to and that didn't change for this album. I found the lyrics clunky and the songs too long for how repetitive they were. I also dislike when singers start speaking during songs and there was SO much of that in her music. Not for me.

Damn that's an "old school 80" style album. Not my style unfortunately.

Nah. Uninspiring pop.

Some numbers are okay and even recognizable (buffalo stance); some are really not for me (especially the rapping parts).

I honestly don't understand how this one made it into the book. To my ears, the album is chock-full of mediocre-at-best hip hop.

Zeer pop-achtige hiphop en R&B muziek. Goed als achtergrond voor mij

this sucks expect manchild was kinda nice

Mñe, no mi estilo pero bien. 2

not my thing, soz

I’m surprised this came out in 1989. This sounds like much older (late 70s or really 80s) rap both lyrically and musically. It was an ok album, kind of generic lyrics.

The sound of this record is very dated and doesn't hold up at all. The rapping was mediocre and I wasn't a fan of her voice. I did not enjoy this album.

Unbelievably 90s 2.5

Oh boy, does this album broadcast 1989, or what? The videos for some of the tracks are a perfect encapsulation of that point in time for popular music. Other than recognizing a time period, I don't have much in common with who this record was written for. I like understanding different cultural perspectives, but this is not music I would choose to listen to. Once was enough.

This album made me smile, and I’m not a fan.

I said I would give everything album on this list a chance, but I just don't like this. It's not bad, I just don't like the style. I couldn't listen to the whole thing.

So dated. Nothing that sounds great these years later besides her nice voice. Not a total waste, still interesting to peruse through it, so it's saved from the dreaded 1...

This one was a slog. I managed to finish it so it gets a 2, but I am really not into 80s/90s hip hop

What could generously be called an eclectic mix of styles or truthfully: throw enough shit at a wall and see if it sticks. 80's R&B/pop with lame attempts at rapping. Once again, more proof that the 80's was fairly dire for mainstream music. Best Tracks: Buffalo Stance; Manchild; Kisses on the Wind

Não curti muito mas tem seus méritos 😅

"Raw Like Sushi" is Neneh Cherry's debut album. It's a hip-hop album incorporating many different instruments from the trends of the 80's, and has Neneh either singing or rapping. This album's popularity at release was bolstered by the hit single "Buffalo Stance" that took the world by storm. I appreciated the classic 80's hip-hop sound, paired with the beautiful rhymes by Neneh. However, this is not an album that I would add to my collection, based off of my preferences.

Even though I enjoyed Queen Latifah's album I got a while back, I still don't think this type of music is entirely my thing

Weer een redelijk slappe r&b plaat, iets beter als die van mariah carrey maar totaal niet mijn ding

Thought this would be a quick buzz thru, but it reminded me of Will Smith and others so I hit the skip button only a couple of times. Still, I'll never listen again.

Umm, no.

This was not my bag

Sounds really dated. The pop bits hold up a bit better, but the rap-heavy sections have aged poorly.

Not impressed. I don't like most of the music and I don't find it genre or industry changing.

All that I loathe about the 80's rolled into one dated-as-fuck sonic package.

I have to be in the mood for 80s pop and synthesisers. I was not in the mood today. Full disclosure: I couldn't make it through the full thing. My review is based on the first four songs.

Two good openers followed by a load of old shit.

2 openers that most will recognise and like. The rest is, well... a bit shite.

Sooooo I remember when this came out and I basically feel exactly the same way now as I did then: I should probably like this more than I do, but this tracks do nothing for me. :/

A couple of good tracks, but generally not me.

More of a 2.5 but just not much there. Very 80s and it's all very similar. Buffalo Stance was cool for some pop nostalgia but I didn't need six minutes of it. Meh.

Can appreciate the inclusion of this in the list without really loving the listen, outside of the opener Saved: Buffalo Stance*, Inna City Mamma

Saved Prior: None Off Rip: Buffalo Stance, Kisses On The Wind, Inna City Mamma Cutting Edge: None Overall Notes: This is what plays when a documentary flashes back to 1989 and needs to set the vibes

Eh. Buffalo Stance is good, but one song doesn’t make an album.

Not into this style of music to begin with, but I’ve been doing my best to be objective on these. Unfortunately not much sounds that unique to me here. The 80s sounds in this album have not aged well imo and it’s overshadowed by a whole lot of music in 1989. Benefit of the doubt gives it 2 stars instead of 1, but I didn’t hear much to justify elevating it past 2

It's a no from me dawg

Like stepping in a time machine.... fine for what it is (mix of female hip/hop and pop), but definitely not my thing.

Hated it when it came out. It was such a lame pop interpretation of hip hop. I thought it might have been an unfair judgement. Nope. It was totally fair. What a POS. In the Demo tracks on Spotify there was a track with a Swedish Roxanne Shanté vibe, but in a good way. It shows she had some promise. But that was it.

Not my favorite style. Very dated sound. Lyrics don't always rhyme, even though they likely "would" if they were pronounced differently, but for some reason she didn't. Nothing in this album reached out to me as special. Did somewhat like the record scratch sound, but didn't really need an hour of that.

Really didn't like this, just because of the 80s pop sound and high cheese factor. Some of the lyrics were a bit cringe, but some were good. There were a few songs that were a bit political and I liked those because they had more depth. Maybe it would have been better 20 years later with less synth.

Not bad per se, just too familiar and too much filler.

Groovy, but, somehow this album has not aged very well. It has a very 90's pop and early 2000's pop sound.

Got a few tracks in, not as bad as I thought it might be. Not really in the mood for this kinda thing..

Not for me

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Tja, voor mij nu niet echt een album wat je "gehoord moet hebben", de hitjes zijn voldoende voor mij

Afgezien van de hitjes deed het me weinig. De tand der tijd ook slecht doorstaan; klinkt erg gedateerd.

Mja, vroeger vond ik dit schitterend. Nu vind ik de hits wel te doen, maar voor de rest erg gedateerd en behoorlijk Rick Astley gehalte qua sound.

Ik was in mijnnjeugd een verknocht radioluisteraar en top 40 liefhebber. De eerste 4 nummers van deze plaat zijn blijkbaar destijds de singles geweest, want die kon ik nog woordelijk meezingen. En was leuk om weer te horen. Maar allea daarna was meer van hetzelfde of beter: minder van hetzelfde. Heel gedateerde 80's rap.

Ik heb er niet zoveel mee.

Mix of good and awful

No didn't like this one either. Sounded like the soundtrack to a rubbish 90s film.

Stupid

I have no idea what's going on. But this sounds like it was a banger in the 80s. Good for her?

Not my style. Repetetive melody, uninteresting lyrics.

overall not great, but Buffalo Stance is badass

4

Some great energy and messages here, but the tracks could've used some editing -- cut everything by 1-2 min and this would be a much tighter, catchier album

kõik lood suht ühesugused.

Buffalo Stance & to a lesser extent Manchild are decent tracks, the rest leaves a lot to be desired, she was definitely on the cutting edge of what would be later early 90s era pop/hiphop

imm sorry, i know this album is very drag and gay culture but i didnt vibe with it

I would have enjoyed this more if you told me it was a comedy troupe’s attempt at cornball, self-help-twinged, socially overconscious, 80’s music parody, comedy record. As is its complete garbage.

Terrible. 1 star. One of the least memorable and generic albums we've ever listened to.

If you listen to this with today's ears this is extremely dated. Oh god, so dated. But this is a child of the late 80s and early 90s so expect a lot of high note keyboards, high reverb beats and a lot of scratches. Having said that for the time, the daughter of the great Don Cherry and sister of Eagle-Eye Cherry also brought some unusual instrumentations for her song structures but overall it has not aged well. Tough to listen to.

In my opinion, basura

1/2

Imagine including this on the list with a straight face. Did Queen Latifah have a say?

Other than Buffalo Stance, this album is absolutely horrible. I truly have no idea how it made the list. I wish they would put where it ranks on the list. Bet this is in the 900s. I think I would listen to Leonard Cohen again before listening to this album again.

This is definitely not for me and I think I actively do not like it. You can do so much better when it comes to pop music.Lana Del Dey, Madonna, Lady Gaga, the list goes on. 1/5

nah

What fresh torture have you in store for me today generator?

??? Das kam im gleichen Jahr raus wie 3 feet von de la soul... 1/5

Too raw, need to cook.

Eh why is this on the list

A shameless cash-grab that tries to integrate the nascent rap culture into mainstream pop. Quite sad when you think Neneh Cherry started her career with punk bands... The occasional rapping is actually not bad for someone who was probably quite far from the action at the time. But the overall result is terribly outdated - the mix of cheesy synth sounds, annoying claps and wannabe Michael Jackson singing is insufferable, and the way she uses all the early hip hop gimmicks out of context, and at a time when the genre was already evolving past them, feels like a caricature (this came out the same year as 3 Feet High & Rising and Paul's Boutique, for crying out loud). As someone who was a preteen when Neneh Cherry was trending in the charts, this just painfully reminds me of everything I used to hate about 80s commercial music. Hard pass. 2/10

Except for Manchild, I have a hard time getting into this wall of 80s sounds. By then, plenty of artists had already started moving toward a more 90s sound.

Seriously? One great song followed by a bunch of middling detritus. Oh Mr Dimery- why? Give me Pretzel Logic over this any day.

I think I liked one song, but I don't really remember.

It's just not good. Didn't age well

Another one for the I never needed to hear this crap list. 0.0000

Already rated this why is it not submitting?

Look, I believe that art is subjective, and thus not everything appeals to everyone (don't yuck someone else's yum). But this album is so bad, that if you like it, I don't want to be your friend because you have no taste and should be ashamed of yourself. Also, that any critic gave this anything other than the lowest possible ranking explains why I have trust issues.

An entire album with only a few minutes that I found interesting. So dated, I don't even know what movie could include anything from this album, probably Buffalo Stance the only track that has a catchy moment. Even that track isn't solid the whole way through. Is this the beginning of swedish people writing american music. Obviously they've gotten good but this is not.

I'm sure I'm not in the majority here but I hated it. I would've told you it's bad AI music if I hadn't known it was from '89. The vibe is trying to be edgy with no substance, or vulnerable with no texture.

80s era corporate pop crap. A Dominican Tiffany with low rent backbeats.

There's some catchy stuff here, but overall not my thing

1. Удари ме деведесетарска носталгия, ама мн ме дразни тая музика

1.5 este álbum nada que ver aquí

Me costó mucho escucharlo

NO

yuck

I mean.... come on...... it's not for me is it! I had a quick spin through a couple of tracks, shan't be back. I did have a quick listen to the track Outré Risqué Locomotive, in case it was about a steam train 🤣

Ne, ne, Neneh!👎

No

Struggled to engage

Well, I got through the whole thing, but the less I listen to this, the better.

Not for me

I mainly know Neneh Cherry from her collaboration with Massive Attack. It's a mix of hip-hop and pop but it sounds way too much like the 80's shitty pop sound for me to like it. Favorite songs: Manchild ; So Here I come

Not for me. 1/5

Nope 1

Meh

Wasn't a fan. A lot of the lyrics sounded super dated and it just didn't click for me. 1.5/5

Buffalo Stance 3/5 Manchild 2/5 Kisses on the Wind 2/5 Inna City Mamma 2/5 The Next Generation 1/5 Love Ghetto 1/5 Heart 1/5 Phoney Ladies 1/5 Outre Risque Locomotive 1/5 So Here I Come 1/5 My Bitch 1/5

Pass

2 words God Awful

Now TAMBOURINE!! UNHH!! Has the same energy of CJ doing the Jackal on West Wing. If this is on this list surely Weird Al is on here somewhere.

This was so painful. My ears are raw from this onslaught of awful digital, harsh electronic over-produced pop. Grating is being kind. Lyrics are vapid. "All those feelings, I felt them first"?!? Puke. I couldn't find anything redeeming here to lift it above 1.

Oh, c' mom!

Oh, fuck no. I can't even give her an extra point for not being Rufus Wainwright or Sad Jitrag (or whatever the fuck that shit-ass band with the Steve McQueen album was called). This album is the 80s dance-pop equivalent of some sad British bastard whinging about the weather or something. Uuuuuggghhhhh.

Predictably, I really didn’t like this album. Buffalo Stance nearly made me think I was going to get surprised. I kind of like that song and faintly remember it. That might have earned this 2 stars but the shallowness of the beats and songs erased that goodwill. I think it’s telling that this was 1989 and it sounds like mid-80s production. This album was retreading ideas. Finally, why on earth is every song 5 minutes long?

1/5 - No

Didn’t expect, with this album name, to have a tambourine directive within the first 20 seconds. 1 Point

Raw like sushi. Aged like milk.

This really isn't for me. Super upbeat, overproduced, doesn't really let her voice get going, overall quite dated. Felt like Paula Abdul. I much prefer Save Tonight, by her brother, Eagle-Eye Cherry.

Not a fan. I am sorry 😞

Absolutely terrible, pseudo hip-hop pop. This sounds like something that would be whipped up in an afternoon for a low-budget 80s high school comedy. It's practically a satire of itself.

Always considered this artist a one hit wonder. Nothing really stands out here.

I've heard one of these before. 80s noise

dated

Not a fan of this album. It's too 80's sounding. It's supposed to be the roots of trip-hop but the samples are lame.

Unlistenable

The singing, songwriting, and producing was so bad <3

Yup …. Still don’t like her

Not for me.

Day Should this be on the list? No.

Not really my jam. It has some very few interesting parts, some rhythms and instrument usage. But I'm missing more melodious songs, and better lyrics. It's a bit too much 1989 for me. 1,5/5

So bland and plastic, couldn't wait for it to end.

Music is supposed to be evocative, to make you feel things. Well if I was reviewing albums on their ability to do that, this album would score high. Unfortunately how this album made me feel was annoyed. There were small bits where the rapping was somewhat interesting or enjoyable but the choruses, singing stole, lyrical content and backing tracks were just beyond irritating. Definitely not my style so I wouldn't expect to enjoy it, but getting through this was a genuine challenge.

trash

very dated, not a top 1000 album imho

Tää oli aika karmeeta jotenkin. En saanut nyt yhtään otetta että mikä tässä on hyvä. 1/5

Never liked this 80s / early 90s pop / rap sound. Very dated, very repetitive, and not at all enjoyable.

Passionless. I'm certain Nenah Cherry spent no time in the ghetto or the street corner. She has a relatively weak voice and limited range. But most of the songs are for 16 year old girls anyway, so it is difficult for me to relate. Simple production, monotonous and even a little cliché. Is this trying to be the English Madonna? Do we really need another Madonna? Do we even need ONE Madonna... But then I gravitate toward stuff like De-loused in the Comatorium by Mars Volta, so what does that say about my taste?

Awfully dated, does not embody 80s pop or hip hop all too well. Dreadfully repeative and formulaic. This is the type of hip hop your nerdy cousin listened to because his parents didn't let them listen to anything of actual poignantcy.

Listens: 1 Standout Tracks: Inna City Mamma I did not care for this. At all. The music tries way to hard to be authentic in its approach to hip-hop and utterly fails to do so. Inna City Mamma had a nice piano/keyboard arrangement. That was the only thing that stuck out to me.

Woof

Big John Studd was your Royal Rumble winner, Sushi had a vice grip on the Western World’s most insufferable people and Neneh Cherry inexplicably titled an album using the latter fact rather than the first. Westside Gunn wouldn’t fumble this. He would say something about “EATING SUSHI AT THE MAYBACH DEALER, PASS THE BRICK THROUGH THE TWO WAY MIRROR. GET THE BAG LIKE BIG JOHN STUDD IN THE BODYSLAM CHALLENGE.” Keen eyed observers amongst you will have ruled out that this review was written by Westside Gunn AND will note that it was Andre who took the bag of money and spilled some of it for the fans. You can’t blame a guy for trying. What fresh hell awaits behind the tough guy pose of Neneh? Buffalo Stance - At first glance I thought this said “Buffalo Sauce.” I am indeed too fat. I am also cringing from the very first word. This is ROUGH. There are so many good female rappers. This does not appear to be one of them. Chorus is insufferable. I have heard better songs made by insane people on instagram reels. At least those elicit mild amusement and end with a swipe. Manchild - I made the mistake of reading some reviews of this album. This is one of those days that I don’t feel like I’m a human. The singing? Dreadful. I wanted the lyrics to hit harder but they are incredibly middling including the random rhyming dictionary bridge. This is supposed to be a blistering one two punch to start the album according to the morons on the internet, but both punches whiffed here. Kisses on the Wind - We’ve got an English woman born in Sweden doing some Latin dance music about a neighborhood crush. Why is this here? I know why the song is here, because of the horrible taste of the artists and album staff, but why is this record in this list. Inna City Mamma - Ham-Fisted relatability always sells. This feels heartfelt, but it just doesn’t resonate with me. I don’t hate it as much the other songs, so we’re getting somewhere. The Next Generation - Are there weird anti-abortion undertones to this? If so, gross, if not, it’s still incredibly preachy. She’s like Queen Latifah if Queen Latifah had zero talent or gravitas. Love Ghetto - I know this was 36 years ago but can we please retire that dumb instrument that reminds me of Brazil. That’s the only reference point I’ve got. It’s bad. Heart - That “full of baloney” line had me ready to stop this whole thing. I feel like I would be embarrassed for her if I heard that in the second grade. The word “confident” seems to come up in reviews for this record. Maybe she need to dial that back a little bit. Phoney Ladies - Ladies who talk on the phone. Next. Ehh you know what. The weird little breakdown around 2:30 is actually pretty rad. Obscenely rare W. As the kids say. Outré Risqué Locomotive - Gross x2. Actually just keep that going. Oh man. The deep male background vocal “Coca-Cola Cool.” Trying to write hits 101. So Here I Come - What the sweet hell is she talking about? I was dressed in green and I wore a dress I must confess that I was the best dressed. I went to school and I wanted to learn. It goes on like this. This ain’t for me dawg. Terrible rap somehow worsens lame pop tunes with really laboured messaging. We act like people were dumb morons who were just discovering basic concepts just because this was like 35 years ago. Whoa! A confident female! What a revolutionary!! This sucks and I was in pain the whole time. Never again. 0.5 HIGHLIGHTS: The sweet release of realizing that the standard version doesn’t include the last tracks.

Pure trash.

boy, has this aged badly

This one simmers in the zeitgeist of 1989 dance music that I rebelled against. If I could capture a scene, it would be like coming back from far-off travels to your suburban hometown, walking into a bar where the music is so loud you can’t even hold a conversation. You’d scan the top shelf hoping for an anise or something exotic, but all you see is Jose Cuervo Gold, so you order a Bud in a bottle and try to drown the mediocrity. Good grief critics, this is one of the 1001 albums. If pressed, I think I could come up with 10,001 better albums. This one conjures up shitty memories of shitty times with shitty music. Wish it was better as Neneh has a decent voice and although some music does breakthrough in the same genre like Madonna or Deelite or from some Acid House dj booth, this one will get the lowest rating. Sorry Neneh, but you caved into the time and place to make something rather forgetable.

A slightly raunchier Paula Abdul.

Not my kind of music at all

“Ghetto love” “inner city mama” bitch you’re from Sweden

Fuck that!!!!

I do not enjoy this album.

A nauseating jumble of pop and phoney attitude.

It’s never wrong to sample Stevie Wonder, that one song stood out. Sorry the rest sounded the same

How to make an hour feel like 3 hours

It's amazing what you can accomplish with a $40 Casio.

Ears hurt

Uninspired beats, mundane lyrics that often felt like free styles, and the oh so distinct flavor of the 90s. To borrow a term from the era… WACK!

Eletronic swedish dog shit

Ne, das war jetzt gar nix für mich…

Prior to this shitshow, I only knew of Neneh Cherry because of the song "Kids With Guns" by Gorillaz. The opening track was fun, and catchy, but the rest of the album was forgettable dollar-store Hip-hop/pop/whatchamacallit. Favorite Track: "Buffalo Stance".

Buffalo Stance was her big hit and it was everywhere when this came out. I wonder if the Buffalo in Buffalo Stance refers to the city or the animal? I wonder what a Buffalo Stance looks like? Is it her pose on the album cover? An hour of 80s Swedish dance music? That is not an appealing prospect especially when the big hit is the lead single. Manchild is the second single off the album and it is laughably bad. The rapping is hilarious in the context of a Swedish woman in the 1980s. This is classified as New Jack Swing for some reason. This is terrible. The Next Generation is like terrible, socially conscious MC Lyte. This is an awful album and a terrible representation of New Jack Swing if that's how it made the list. This sounds like the rap from a 90s cartoon. My Bitch sounds like a parody song The Lonely Island might do. Nothing says hard like a Swedish woman rapping and using profanity. Closing the album with two remixes is just filler. The stupid "What is he like?" line in Buffalo Stance is doubly annoying in a remix. Two awful remixes.

Boring. Every song sounded the same. I'm always amazed how artists get rapped up (no pun intended) in sounding of the times (gated snare drum , bad synth sounds). This album screams 80's and sounds old and dated. Not sure why this is a "must listen".

Just not great…

Not my style - 1

#645. This sucks. I don't know how anyone could like this. 1/5: no

I can’t remember why but I once owned this CD. Must have had some aberration because listening today there not one track upon it which appealed and was glad that I eventually sold the CD on to Music Magpie for a few pence and it no longer stinks out my collection. Only dilemma I have in rating this album is should I take note of my younger self and accept that 36 years ago there was something likeable and don’t we all have a guilty pleasure? Hell No! I do have guilty pleasures but these involve the likes of Abba. Instead I plead guilty and ask the music community for leniency for my incongruity. 1/5 15/7/25

I’m surprised I made it as far as I did. Turned it off after she started talking about unwanted black market babies. This may be the most dated album I have ever heard, not timeless in the least. Still trying to understand why I needed to listen to this? Who exactly was influenced by this? Definitely not hip hop.

80s dross. Completely forgettable.

One "hit" and an hour long album full of songs that nobody has listened to since 1989 that sound older than that.

It might have been 'groundbreaking' at the time, but it's not working for me today. Sorry Neneh.

Hip hop - strike one. Electronica - strike two. Highly representative of 80's music - strike 3.

- nicht meins, aber keine schlechte Musik 1-2/5

Nah.

1. buffalo - 1 2. man - 0 3. uuind - 1 4. mama - 1 5. nezt - 1 6. ghetto - 0 7. heart - 0 8. ladiez - 0 9. rizque - 0 10. come - 1 11. bitch - 0 12. heart - 0 13. ztance - 0 14. child - 0

EHH. KINDA BAD

I only listened to the first two tracks, didn't like them and looked her up on Spotify. It turns out they are the most popular two on the album. I won't be giving it another listen.

Un álbum al que me parece que le pesan mucho sus casi 40 años. Temas de protesta, de rebelión, pero enmarcados por una música que parece salida de un disco de Paula Abdul o Janet Jackson de los 80 o 90, lo que me mata de la flojera.

Produktionen lyder SÅ flad. Gjorde ikke noget for mig.

Horribly dated

Just rating this album while in a Buffalo Stance...

Robert man what are we doing here?

I hated every minute of the album, due to the terrible fad of the production (New Jack Swing?) Neneh did her best with the vocals but the music was bad back then and hasn’t gotten any better since. A short era of R&B/Hip-hop that deserves to be forgotten.

A little bit like Mano Negra, but they were better.

A hippity hop please stop.

I tried with this one, but I just can't stand any of it. Just annoying. Stopped after The Next Generation. 1/5

Yes, it's raw, but freshness is a different story

1 minute into the first song and I can tell I won't like this album. Oh it gets worse. Manchild is so, so bad. Kisses on the Wind? (FFS, what am I listening to, and why?!) This album is like a bad parody of bad commercial 80's music. Did not finish.... was this a test?

First impression when I got the album… raw like sushi just sounds stupid, it might’ve sounded cool back in the late 80’s but now you can get sushi literally anywhere it’s just cringe. Isn’t Neneh cherry who is on seductive Barry by pulp??? I don’t know. But Before I started this album I had to listen to the track again it might be one of pulp’s worst songs but it’s one of Neneh cherry’s best. I would also like to note in my boredom of this project I distracted myself halfway through buffalo stance (the first track) with an AI 60’s cover of love will tear us apart. Admittedly manchild isn’t a bad song, that’s something. But the rest of it is just difficult to get along with it’s just a genre problem I think, the specific kind of pop rap fusion feels messy! 1/5

Holy 80’s

Fuck det her stinker af sure MC Hammer bukser.

This aged like, well like raw sushi that's been sat on the shelf for over 30 years I guess. Neneh Cherry sucked in the 80s, somehow managing to put out an album that felt dated even when it first dropped. I guess the only silver lining is that we were about to go into a period of some truly great music, music that actually was innovative and not just awful pop music constructed to a formula. This is truly awful, soulless, bland, and deserving of the 1 star rating I'm giving it.

Sounds like a one song album and the one song isn’t very good.

1.4 I was going to make the joke "Raw like" and then say something that was old and rotten but Im better than that. Album sucked. Where else have I heard that guitar lick from Buffalo Stance?

Not my kind of music, just couldn't listen to it. Nothing against the artist eho was probably good at her job.

Generic

Ik vind dit hemaal niks. 2/10

Really really bad. Gave me more appreciation for the good ones.

Only got through a few songs. This sucks. Feels like a mishmash of random beats and samples thrown around poppy choruses to cash in on ‘street culture’ despite this chick being from Sweden.

nah, this aint for me

Do you remember the classic 1989 movie Teen Witch, and there’s a rap battle in the streets? That's all I could really think of. https://youtu.be/se7csr5LZgU?si=mZ8NM3T0EJMna_N_ Respect, but no thanks.

Nope

“Senator Peterson, do you vote in favor of this album being one of the greatest of all time?” “Neh”

Album 554 of 1001 Neneh Cherry - Raw Like Sushi (1989) Rating : 1 / 5 While I'm sure this is someone's favorite, in my opinion it really sucked. I laughed a couple of times.

Very dated. Not heard of for a long time. Very telling.

Sooo terrible

I hate this shit.

What... really. I dont think i will last long listening to this one. Whats a buffalo stance? - I looked it up... "an attitude you have to have in order to get by" "Don't get fresh with me".

Pass.

Goofy, amateurish and uninspired. Asinine lyrics that sound like what some put of touch executive thinks sounds like music for teens. Very dated, and aged poorly

Maybe it's just that I had to listen to Beyoncé, Destiny's Child, and this all in one day, but it's just a no. This album caused me way more stress than I needed today.

This is another of the 1001 albums that was a hit in Europe, but never really landed in the US. I don't feel that I missed much. It's a pretty bland hip-hop production. And the CD version runs well over an hour. I guess you had to be there.

szwedzka czekoladowa typiara probuje nasladowac klimat NY, w trzecim utworze nawija po hiszpansku, takze ten... ogolnie jej nie idzie

Very, very much of its time. She's really getting very excited about really bad electronic versions of hi-hats and tambourines. And that's in the first few seconds of the album, which has a surprising amount of cringeworthy production, raps and lyrics. I mean... She's definitely matured since then, but I can't bring myself to give this 2 stars. It's just... Phew. It has so much really bad 80s stuff on there in bloody 1989.

Ugh

I don’t understand how multiple human beings with functioning ears could be involved at every level of the production of this album and then just release it out into the world like this. Did they lose a bet or something?

Absolute shit.

Like sushi that's been left out too long. 1 case of musical diarrhea out of 5 💩

Bad

Thought about two stars but really didn’t find much to like

This was the most 80s teenage pop music you could make in a lab if you had to. I like how she taught us the instruments for the best of the song. All we needed was a fun math problem and a zany side character and we’d be all set for a weekly show. This was really some Sesame Street level music. Surprisingly awful for having Norma beats and being in English. 2.0/10

Meh, is my best response. The album feels very amateurish. The music is thin and soulless. This album does not belong on this list.

Couldn’t get through this one. Dreadful. Some things need to stay in the 80s.

Unbekannt

Not for me. Not even the nostalgia could keep me engaged.

This is NOT one of the 1001 albums I needed to hear. Sounds like 30 year old teen pop.

Really loved the McDonalds kitchen line beeping thing sample on this one. A real Highlight

Nah this aint it

It's okay, music sounded good but I'm not a fan

Unlike sushi that album was terrible

I said no rap

I wanted to be surprised with how much I’d love it but honestly so dated sounding!! Amazing that the female empowerment was so strong and bold and ahead of its time though.

Somehow made it through the 30th Anniversary Edition / Deluxe, but really didn't like even a single track.

Ugh - horrible. Bunch of screaming nonsense.

Lord give me strength.

Hip hop sueco e não percebi nada de mais.

Buffalo Stance

Not gonna lie, this was bad 1/10