Rising Above Bedlam

Like dubby U2

Bem diferente

2.5

I read the reviews before listening to get an idea of what this was about, so I had very low expectations. but this actually had some interesting parts. It's probably not something I'll come back to often but I don't think it was as bad as some of the top reviews described

Jammer, beschrijving van de band deed me veel hopen

Not my style

This was difficult. Kind of all over the place, nothing really appealed to me.

Rising Above Bedlam by Jah Wobble and The Invaders of the Heart kicks off with the captivating vocals of Sinéad O'Connor, setting an exciting tone. However, the album's lengthy compositions make it hard for some listeners to connect with, especially those not already into world music. It feels like the music is trying too hard to showcase its global influences, bordering on self-indulgence. While ambitious, this approach may overshadow the album's broader appeal. Overall, this might not resonate with everyone and falls short of greatness, particularly for those not keen on world music. NUMBER OF BANGERS - 1 STAND OUT TRACK - Visions of You

After reading the review about the guy from down the hall in college, I felt like that summed it up. Upon reflection I see a commercial outlet for this album. The kid from film school decides to make a combination of Pulp Fiction and Natural Born Killers that will "be this generation's The Omen." The writer/producer/director/star is talking to the assistant he got by falsly promising academic credit for working on a "real film set." "He'll work for a credit and a sandwich? Will he come down on the sandwich? Okay, if Jimmie can't get off from Starbucks, make a PB & J and get him in here."

Not something i'd go back to but it was an interesting listening experiment.

OK.

Ja kuultu albumi kun osasi joskus spotify esittää mieluissaa musiikkia tarjota.. Lopetettu viihde humpuuki kuuntelu ja albumin kopsuttelulla menny.. kopsii kopsii.. päähän menee.. Visions of you tykättynä albumissa ja pakko sanoa ettei sen kappaleen jälkeen paljoon selkään puukota.. hyvä päätös aikanaan kuunnella hyvää musiikkia albumillinen. Loppu osa kuitenkin saatana.. Varsinkin viimeinen kappale.. Jos on yksi sääntö meikäläisellä ollut niin se on että chilling & wibing albumit juotavat yhteen tähteen. Eilisen albumin rento ote tiputti kahdella tähdellä. Onneksi tämä ei ole kokonaan rentoilua, sillä taiteessa täytyy olla pakottava tarve. Kun tuota pakottavaa tarvetta ei ole, lapsi ei opi punnertamaan 30 toiston sarjoja kun viiden toiston sarjoille taputetaan... kun TUOTA PAKOTTAVAA TUNNETTA TEHDÄ HYVÄÄ TAIDETTA EI OLE.. saadaan mediocre kongon paukuttelua.... ketä perkele kiinnostaa kongon paukuttelu.... Toisella puolella spketriä... pink floyd ja jokainen auringon valon väri... sitova kunnianhimoinen konsepti.. kuolema aika.... vakavoittavia kappaleita. Aikuiset. Älkää taputtako leikille. Kumartakaa, kun messias, Jeesus Kristus saapuu. Aamen.

Jadu, inte direkt en favorit! Favorit låten var Erzulie Albumet får 2/5 stjärnor

Groovy

I don't understand how some albums get on this list. Like the first song was ok and then it just got worse for me from there -- fine, I don't have to like every album on here. But what was this album doing that was new or different or that makes it stand out? And my god, those lyrics "Love conquers fear ... in the arena ... of LIFE!" Bleh

Had no idea what to expect here with such a strange band name, the first song reminded a lot of primal scream. The rest of the album is varied and interesting without completely loving this album, I found it interesting and makes me want to go back for more.

Trying very hard to be be influenced by music from a wide range of cultures. Not succeeding in a very convincing way. Rating: 2/5 Playlist track: Visions of You Date listened: 19/02/24

Funky beats. Danceable.

Favorite Tracks: Visions of You Bomba Erzulie

Not on spotify, but it does have Rising Above Bedlam radio with Jah plus an awesome lineup of my 80s idols like Kate Bush, Talk Talk, Echo & the Bunnymen. Had to Jah on the YouTube, and mostly enjoyed it. I understand a lot of criticism from the kids, but hope they can realize that 70s & 80s were a world without internet. Cultural appropriation wasn't a thing when we weren't inundated with vlogs & tiktoks about how to be "correct" and "accepting". It was thanks to albums by artists like Jah, Peter Gabriel, Ryan Cooder et al that different ethnic music and artists were introduced into what is now the mainstream. Couldna done it without them. 👏👏👏

First of all, I'll grant you—I think this is better overall than the last thing I heard Jah Wobble on, METAL BOX. Maybe attribute it to this album's pop sheen, I'unno. Although, with that said, I still find METAL BOX to be, like... More interesting? Now, yeah, the world music stuff is interesting; I'm not gonna deny that. But otherwise, it just kind of washes over me. At least METAL BOX had some parts where I perked up and went "Ah, damn that's cool!" Meanwhile, here, aside from a Sinéad O'Conner feature on the first track, I really didn't get much of anything out of it.

Certainly has dated production, but it still is some pretty decent pop tunes, nonetheless. And to think this dude, was part of the group that made Metal Box. A deserved glowup.

This album could’ve been cut in half, or even into thirds, and I would’ve given it a lot of credit for being (does this sound familiar yet?) a completely competent album with a great runtime that explores a variety of styles and explores them all in short bursts, with some mediocre vocals, and I’d have given it a 3. The completely needlessly long runtime and repetitive production that actually permeates this entire album single handedly ruins it. It’s not an egregiously terrible album, but it just drains on and on, and it gets so utterly boring by the end that you barely realize the final track is the final track. It’s a 2, but it’s an Apocalypse Dudes-style 2 where individually, I’m sure these would be great tracks in bursts, but as a whole album, it’s just a miserable experience to me.

Not as unlistenably awful as a lot of the records I’ve given a 1/5 - I kind of appreciate some of what this is trying to do. I just think its inclusion in this list is such a waste. Trying to be an eclectic ‘world music’ album that just uses the most base level features of the genres and cultures it borrows from over some awfully dated synths. I’d have more leniency if it was a mid 80s album or something but it’s 1991, it should sound cleaner than this

Solid mixing and production. Poor final product of surface level cultural exploitation. Boring. Weird. Not enjoyable to listen to.

Oh cool, today I'm greeted with an album I've never heard of. But wait, it was released when I was a teenager, so why haven't I heard of it? The album cover looks kind of African. Maybe it's something like Femi Kuti which I liked. So lets press play and see what this is. The first track is interesting and is a great start to build off. My curiosity is peaked to see where this goes. Unfortunately the second track falls flat on its face. For me the whole album is hit and miss. There's lots of good ideas here that just don't come together well. At least now I know why I've never heard of it before.

Album 307 of 1001 Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart - Rising Above Bedlam Rating : 2.5 / 5 Nothing I can really recommend. Might mean more if I were British, I suppose. It is listenable but just kind of odd in a novelty sort of way.

really good album, another one for the rotation

There is more to this than I was expecting. The world music influences feel authentic rather than novelties and there are some very enjoyable moments. Jah's vocals are the low point for me though, both lyrically and stylistically.

I'm not the type of person to throw this phrase around lightly, but I think this album should have been called Now That's What I Call Cultural Appropriation. I think that Jah Wobble and company (Sinead O'Connor sings on this album, neato!) had some pretty big aspirations in making this album, but unfortunately those aspirations didn't play out very well in practice. This album is pretty much a mess: there's Spanish singing, without elements of latin music, there's political messaging without any teeth or meaning, and there's a lack of overall cohesion from track to track. This album feels pretty empty in all aspects, and it was a chore to get through. Sinead O'Connor's vocals were nice, but overall, her talents are pretty much relegated to the background, which is incredibly unfortunate. I'm glad this is the only Jah Wobble album on this list, but now I'm dreading the Public Image Ltd albums.

I don't know, man. It's not that I hated this, it just didn't feel... real. Like, all the "world music" bits felt forced. And that's weird, right? That said, the production was great. The songwriting wasn't too bad. Performances were all solid. It just had this veneer of falseness that I couldn't get past.

Interesting...cool mix of world sounds...some tracks a bit cliché. Solid.

Some interesting sounds but I listened to this album twice and nothing really grabbed me. Pretty mid album for me.

Funky beats, probably ahead of it's time for 1991. Awesome spanish lyrics.

Idk, just kinda fine? Didn't really pull me in in any way, but perfectly decent background tunes.

Guilty by association? Possibly. Was never interested, and after about half the album, won't be listening again. Not terrible, just not my bag

WHAT?!?? I kept listening to this without any idea who or where it came from, foolishly thinking the nex song would tell me more about what this is supposed to be. Then I finished the album. I have no idea what this is and maybe that is for the best. Favorite track? "Ungodly Kingdom" I guess. 1/5

Truly a mess of an album. Supposedly lead by a bassist, the bass lines are simplistic. The genre is "world music" while being written and performed by 5 white people from the UK. It's tiring to listen.

Give Jah head a Wobble.

This is what happened in the 90s when turtleneck sweater enthusiasts discovered a box with a midi player, a cow bell, and some incense. World music by and for the whitest people you know trying desperately to be super deep. Emphasis on trying. The musicians aren’t bad…so it’s not a 1 but it wasn’t fun to listen to… 2/5 NPR turtlenecks.

What to make of this?..world-music vibe but his background is so punk…probably another one that deserves a 2d listen

another little world endeavor like duck rock, and i'm being really honest with you? this one is better. even if there's a decent amount of it that's almost... intelligent slam poetry? that may be a weird description. there's a fair amount of sung but also a fair amount of really good beats over... sonnet-level spoken word. it's certainly good in its own right, but, at least for my first listen i was more stunned than interested in it,, there's plenty to like though! a lot of producing techniques are AMAZING.

just feels fake Okay, I was going to give this a 2, but why? What am I giving it credit for? There’s nothing I enjoyed here, so why not give it a 1?

This was fun and jaunty. Not something I'd listen to regularly, but I can appreciate the creativity. Surprised I've never even heard of this.

I wouldn’t have played this on my own, thinking it wouldn’t be my type of music, but they actually liked it more than I thought I would.

Low key techno vibe

What is this fucking shit

This is perfect. I was in need of something to listen to during my peyote ceremony tonight.

This is why I'm doing this list! this was an absolute shocker of an album for me. Some very interesting music and some amazing song saved for the best of playlist. Loved this

Background music. Songs in spanish, english and french.

Very positively surprised by Jah Wobble, especially after I knew that he was the guitarist of public image and I had a somewhat painful experience with the latter. It was refreshing hearing some non-english stuff on this list of albums. I enjoyed it

A couple of decent songs, but overall it just felt off, for lack of a better term, on the beat. The songs also felt too long.

vocals are not my cup of tea, decent instrumentals, but also not enough going on

This sounds like Mr Wardle ended up relaxing quite a lot on his Spanish holiday. I love his work with PiL, but I really can't get past his voice here. Music a bit too mellow and the voice too jarring to really listen for too long.

The bass dominates here, as expected. There's always an ambience to Wobble. It's more sound than songs. The flamenco guitar was a surprise. Ditto the samba rhythms. The album strays a little towards the end. The focus isn't quite there.

This was incredibly bland and boring, never wanted to turn it off but was happy when it was over.

Liked a lot of this especially the tracks with Sinéad O'Connor. Good bass lines throughout but the vocals feel like they drag sometimes.

90s trendy coffee shop music. While not Bjork bad, I still didn't enjoy it.

Didn't really enjoy this one. Not sure what the point of it was. Lots of different styles, but I don't think they went together. Wouldn't have guessed this was the bassist in PiL, but it doesn't make it good, either.

Unmemorable

Chilled out world-dub fusion. I wish I’d heard more of the bass because what I heard was groovy. A strong 3

Om ditt sound ska vara såhär smaklöst och tråkigt kommer du inte undan med att inte ha en enda bra låt att sjunga med i.... alla kulturella inflytanden känns ytliga och forcerade... vad har du att säga dawg...

Spes. Ágætis tónlist samt. Worldly hljómar og áhugaverðar blöndur. Meginþorrinn samt helvíti boring því miður. 2.5/5...

piece of shite

Pretty painful for the most part with one or two decent moments.

Any album containing a song such as "Visions Of You" is worth a listen and this album is no exception. It meanders a little at times, but overall I'd rate it as amongst the best of Wobble's work (that I've heard).

Decent, not earth shaking. Not to be a hater but dont love the (British sounding) singer's voice. arrangements are pretty engaging and i probably liked Bomba the best. Dl whether i really needed to hear this but it was unique.

It's got a festive tone to it. Appropriate for a Christmas gift, I suppose. Everyman's an island is just a long song. Most of the songs are just really long.

Better than i anticipated. The less Jah Wobble sings, maybe the slightly better it is... he has a talky, occasionally Robyn Hitchcock vibe that doesn't always align with the interesting mix of world and pop/rock. Visions of You is enjoyable, while the rest do start to blend together, but overall a good listen.

Afskaplega non-noteworthy. Þolanlegt bakgrunnsdæmi, ekki mikið meira en það.

Great atmosphere record. Tribal EDM groove. Nice listen. Revist

Stockholm Syndrome: The Album I was almost immediately turned off by this record, but as it played on, I started noticing fleeting moments where I grew to understand, appreciate and sympathize with its goals. Those moments would quickly pass and I would be reminded that I didn’t like most of it and I was, in fact, a captive, unable to escape its grip until it ceased playback. Only then was I able to make heads or tails of my situation and truly see how willing I was to overlook its many flaws in favor of the fleeting moments of sympathy and understanding.

Not a fan

Conceptually this album is very good. The album is fun and takes you on a journey with a mix of Spanish and Arabic styles of music along with a progressive bassline that refuses to quit. Some of these tracks are presented very well especially the songs featuring Natacha Atlas. Not a massive fan of Wobble's vocals but it works in some instances, especially the spoken word parts.

Sounds of togetherness.

I liked it, cool fusion of music from different cultures. Every Man’s an Island stuck out as a good one. Overall, I enjoyed listening to the whole thing, it was surprising and strange and unique, and most importantly, pleasant to my ears. 3.5

Yo I liked this mostly. The only songs I really enjoyed is Every Man is an Island, and Soledad, but I liked the sound throughout. So many fusions of different cultures and genres, my ears were pleased listening to this.

Visions Of You is a fairly boring song, but Sinead O'Connor's voice elevates it significantly. The rest is pretty terrible.

I couldn't find the whole album anywhere, so was only able to listen to the 5 songs available on YouTube. This was interesting, but kind of cringe also. It sounded a bit like a worse version of Cornershop

Big swings that are successful throughout

To be fair, when this came out, I'm sure I was listening to Deep Forest or Enigma or any number of those "world music" mashups of this era. I probably saw this and thought "Jah Wobble" was a joke name. It's not a bad album, but it's not great, either. The world music part is kind of fun, but it keeps getting interrupted by the singing growl of a Londoner for some reason.

A couple good ones but the rest is a bit out there

The first song is probably where Enigma got his inspiration for "Principles of Lust". For crying out loud, what a horrible album.

Visions of You - 7.5/10 Relight the Flame - 7/10 Bomba - 8.5/10 Ungodly Kingdom - 7/10 Rising Above Bedlam - 7/10 Erzulie - 7.5/10 Everyman’s an Island - 7/10 Soledad - 7/10 Sweet Divinity - 7/10 Wonderful World - 7/10 TOTAL - 72.5/100

Oh man, this isn’t for me. It didn’t feel like there was much cohesion from song to song and dragged on for me. Next.

Well, this is interesting. It isn't what I expected this album to sound like, but it still isn't really my cup of tea. It gives off that "desert in movies" vibe to a lot of it, and while some of the songs around the 3/4 point are better, it still leaves a lot to be desired. Perhaps were it more engaging up to that point I'd be more happy eith my experience, but it was getting to be a slog, and really only survived because of picking up. I really hate albums at this length. Either commit to the over the hour or cut down your filler.

first listen some fun sounds but overall slooooow

Not my stuff

Sounds like an album a bloke made in his bedroom sipping on stella after coming home from a trip to india where he went to "find himself"

Got 4 songs in and said nah i'm alright

2.5/5 - A few highlights and good moments, a mix of genres, going from very 90's Britain/London to foreign styles. It doesn't quite work for me but the last 2 songs were pleasant and probably my favourite.

It's ok, I feel like it borrows from a lot of places but doesn't really do anything interesting with it. Can't really justify more than a 2.

I’m not really sure how to describe this album. The first track is pretty cool, but the rest is such an unusual, eclectic mix of genres, languages, and instruments that I can’t see it having any clear appeal to any listener. It does so much, but nothing is done particularly well, so I don’t know how to react to it other than by being bored as it lasts over fifty minutes. Not the worst album I’ve heard, and I’m sure it influenced some musicians, but it’s not my cup of tea. 2/5

I can see the talent here and why it’s very popular but I am rating these on my own personal opinion and this just wasn’t for me. Favourite: Wonderful World Least Favourite: Erzulie

Listened to this in bits and pieces (wasn't on streaming as an album) but still enough here to want to revisit. Lots of good basslines and soundscapes.

More than 3, but less than 4. Good Album

It was alright, but got kinda boring over the course of the album. Some of the songs were too long. I don't hate it, but it's something I'll probably forget about. My favourite song was Visions of You.

Huh. They needed all that diverse instrumentation because that man sang literally 1 note. That's when you just have somebody else be your lead singer. And he kinda knew that because he brought in the ladies to do some actual vocals. Rating 2.

Nice bass lines. I do like Public Image Ltd. I am getting tired of listening to albums by white dudes inspired by the culture of POC instead of music by those folks.

Interesting instrumentals.

Apart from track 4 (a dud) and 5 (a filler track), pretty interesting and even often elating foray into "global" sounds. A lot of people noticed Sinead O'Connor's featuring on the single "Visions Of You", but the real star of the show is Natacha Atlas, at least on the many cuts where she appears. Yet some of the tracks where she is not invited are still quite good as well. Is it material for " essential albums", tough? Well, the jury's still out on this one. You could argue that the penultimate track is almost ruined by that (fortunately short) bridge filled with horrid synth horns, also found on track 4. A way to point out how some of this music sounds dated now, even though other parts of it still aged surprisingly well. 1991 is also filled to the brim with far more striking LPs, as interesting as this Mercury Prize nomination is (wonder if an old member of the jury for the prize didn't work with Dimery for that book--heck maybe even Dimery himself is a member of that jury!). So wait and see... Number of albums left to review: 376 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 282 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 149 (including this one) Albums from the list I won't include in mine (many others are more essential to me): 200

Pretty chill and unique

Ugh, I admire the incorporation of African and Middle Eastern elements, but this is really just too unfocused. Jah Wobble's singing voice is horrible, and the best tracks are unsurprisingly 'Visions of You' and 'Bomba' where *actual* singers lend a helping hand.

Momentarily inspiring tunes drawing from both Middle Eastern and African traditions. There’s some great production choices on this record as well. In the end, unfortunately, Rising Above Bedlam is just wildly unfocused, unable to convince the listener that there’s any sort of plan - but most of all it’s just rather tedious.

I don't know seems like a random album, that made it's way in here.

def experimental. Like some of the bass tracks, cool sort of tabla ish percussion in the beats. Overall didn’t love but first track was good

Not a good example of a fusion record. Mostly faded into background noise for me. Jah Wobble (real name John Wardle) seems like kind of a hack. A few songs got my attention and it’s not like it was actively unpleasant to have the record on, but certainly unengaging. Top tracks: Visions Of You, Rising Above Bedlam, Erzulie

Latin Graceland minus all the fun and talent. There were interesting elements but overall kind of a drag. If there was a hit single I might bump it up to a 3, but no. Just a forgettable album

Think I quite liked it, even though raising that statement can be tricky for an eccentric-sounding album

Whoa, talk about all over the place.

That's some world music right there. It was good background music while driving. There were a couple songs that peaked my interest, but it's nothing great.

This 1991 album still carries many hallmarks of the 1980's production values, which sounds dated and in many ways, unappealing to me. Digital recording was perhaps nascent and synthesizers overused. However the bass lines are excellent, and this album is sonically interesting overall, incorporating various elements of world music (Spanish, African). It flows continuously through various attractive grooves and trance inducing states. It's psychedelic and an interesting listen for sure, but the vocals by Jah are by no means exceptional. Meanwhile the lyrics, when not profound and deep, come off occasionally as trivial and of low caliber. That said, on RISING ABOVE BEDLAM, Jah Wobble is reflective, cheeky, and an extraordinary instrumentalist and this album was an interesting and new experience.

So 90s. Very random, the singer sounds like he's too lazy to even say the words fully

Not the worst thing, but not really good either. 2/5

An interesting man with an interesting story. Though there's not much said for the album, reading about Jah as a bass player / singer resonates with me, plus he lived with the guitarist of the Sex Pistols. It's a well thought out album of world music with a lot of interesting sounds and moods to choose from.

Oh another world music album. I winced as I started listening but to my surprise this wasn't too bad. I'll give it a generous 3. It's more like a 2.5 because I didn't dislike it, but I didn't really like it either and will probably never listen to again.

Not as bad as I thought it would be. Did feel like I was in Nando’s at times because of the relentless beats.

very cool

"Rising Above Bedlam" is a studio album by Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart. English bassist and singer Jah Wobble had been involved in a number of musical collaborations and bands including Public Image Limited (PiL) when he formed the Invaders of the Heart. The genre listed is World Music; the music does seem to go all over the place, I guess that's as good as any reason for that. The album was self-produced and the band included Wobble (vocals, bass, keyboards, drum programming, timbales), Justin Adams (electric and Spanish guitars, Arabic percussion, vocals), Mark Ferda (keyboards, drum programming, sampler) and vocalists Natacha Adams and Sinead O'Connor. The album was also short listed for the 1992 UK Mercury Prize. The album opens with "Visions of You." Sinead and Wobble on vocals. The guitar and beat sounding very 90's indie pop. The Soup Dragons came to mind. Dreamy lyrics. The guitar solo going up and down the scales. I was confused by its so-callled world music genre at this point. No need to worry, "Ungodly Kingdom" continues the Carribean beat of the two previous songs and adds horns. A percussion adds afrobeats. Great backing vocals by Natacha Atlas. Solid production and also sounds like it belongs on a soundtrack. A simple drum beat and slide guitar begin "Rising Above Bedlam." Wobble is whispering/talking. People screaming in the background. This song is purposedly creepy. Switching gears, "Erzulie" has ambient keys, Spanish guitar and horns. An electric guitar providing echoes. It goes shortly to big dance music and then back. Atlas singing in French (I believe). Well, Erzulie is the Haitian goddess of love in the Voodoo pantheon. "Everyman's An Island" takes us to the Middle East with its guitar and percussion. It's hard not to like a song with keyboards sounding like Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir." We'll, maybe some of you but not me. There's no doubt the variety of music is what kept this album interesting for me. 90's indie rock to Latin/Carribean to Afrobeat to Middle Eastern to soundtracks. I can't say it expands any of those musical genres but the music is extremely well-produced and very happy. Yeah, happy. Natacha Atlas is just fantastic and a highlight on vocals. This album does perk my interest in some Jah Wobble's other works.

This felt like some sort of bizarre time machine back a couple of decades, and not in a good way. Nothing here really stuck with me, except for maybe the somewhat pretentious feeling of it all. Not my cup of tea for sure, but it is music! Highlight: Erzulie Lowlight: Sweet Divinity Surprise Hit: n/a

I tapped out after the embarrassing spoken-word stuff in the title track.

We live in a world where Harry Belafonte is ignored completely in this book, where The Cars and Tom Petty have one album in this book and there are zero Chuck Berry albums represented. I mean, the man invented (waves hand around) the music presented by so many artists on this list. So that's our world and this album IS included on the 1001 Albums I Must Hear list. By no means is this a bad album, but it's not essential or nor does it need to be heard. I have questions about an album's essential nature when the description is three or fewer sentences long. This album has a description that is two sentences long. The description states when the album was made and that one time it was nominated for a list of good albums. It didn't win the Mercury Prize but was nominated. Go to the Wikipedia page and it's just as sparse. Hey, maybe it is an underrated gem, so upon taking a listen and it turns out the music sounds like Paul Simon if he used Phil Collins' production on mid-80's Eric Clapton albums (remember, this album came out in 1991) and then decided he wanted to try some Grateful Dead type of jams. What are we doing here, people? This is not a bad album, though no songs but the first one is going to be remembered by me. There are a lot of not-bad albums and there are a lot of artists who made better than not-bad albums and they were excluded from this listing. Even most of the reviews read like, "Hey, this album isn't as bad as other Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart albums." It's a low bar to clear. Listening to this album may rise you above bedlam, but it sticks you with the lunacy of inclusion on this list. If Jah Wobble and his band are trying to invade my heart then perhaps a little artery blockage wouldn't be such a bad thing.

Blind album and artists. Creative for sure... but I did not enjoy this 1 bit. I can see what they were trying to do and step away from the norm at least, but this is not the way to stick out and fuse the styles together.

This is something I've never heard of at all in the slightest!! Love the international almost New Age vibes. There's a lot of different sounds in there! At first listen knowing nothing about Jah Wobble, I thought this wasn't anything that interesting or impactful and wondered why this might be on this list. When I read up on him a little bit I realised why, his life was insane and if I was someone who cared about celebrities a bit more I'd be really interested in his life and the people he spent time with. I am interested to the extent that it's cool the opportunities he had available but also mad how it messed up his life... The music is cool though, I like that bass and bits of this really remind me of Graceland which I love. Cool discovery actually. Some parts have some self-indulgent guitar parts which I don't love though, eg the title track Rising Above Bedlam.

I have no idea what to make of this whether I liked this or not! It was extremely varied, at least. Some I liked more than others so it probably has to be a 3*

I quite liked this but can't say I'll come back to it, not particularly memorable, but fun none the less.

Could only find one song 🤷🏼‍♀️

Interesting sound. Would listen to in mornings

this one was a little strange for me, didn’t like it Top Tracks: 1) Relight The Flame 2) Visions of You

2.8. Unlike much I’ve ever heard.

Not for me. This probably sounded much fresher and more interesting in 1991, but not now for me. Kind of like how Myst was an amazing video game in the early ‘90s but I probably wouldn’t enjoy it as much now.

Another one not available to stream except YouTube. I’m somewhat familiar with Jah Wobble from PiL and some other projects. This was decent, not something I’d normally check out.

This was pretty good! I liked the bass playing and the overall vibe and sound. This is another album I had no idea about and would’ve never listened to until this project. If the second half of this album was as good as the first, it would’ve gotten a 4.

Sucks Cultural appropriation the album

Interesting sound. I definitely would have enjoyed this when it came out. Not really my vibe today, but I enjoyed it.

bad singing

Decent

Really cooool

I can confidently assert that I'll not listen to this again.

Definitely different. I liked some of the international sounds and singing. A little weird overall.

Surprisingly enjoyable world music album because it is so versatile

AJ/ wobble my ass

Unorganized collection of random genres and vocals. There were some passages of some songs that were average, but no one track is even good on this. Then you add in the bad vocals on each track and there is nothing positive about this album for me.

Uninteresting. Visions of you was ok. close r to 1 star than 3

There were some good moments but overall it was not good

Mega ASS

Kinda cool :)

3/10, 30%

Jah Wobble’s had a prolific solo career over many years, and he’s always experimented with different styles of music from different genres and cultures. ‘Rising Above Bedlam’ is no exception with its dance, dub, latin, middle eastern and African flavours, all often present in the same song. It’s already a lovely mix but things really take off when the female vocalists come in and do their thing. Natacha Atlas, Sinead O’Connor and Margot Vynia take ‘Rising Above Bedlam’ to places Jah Wobble’s monotone simply just can’t rise to and the album is all the better for it.

Did not expect to like this but I thought the music was really interesting and good. The sticking point was the male vocals: just lacking in strength and range - a weakness highlighted by the presence of singers like Atlas and O'Connor. Still, pretty remarkable.

Its like if Indian singers sung in Spanish, pretty solid actually

What an odd album

Coletânea meio sem sentido de catados de músicas pelo mundo.

??????

wasn't really sure what to expect but enjoyed this

Really fun with an album that sounds different from the rest. I had hopes this could be the same revelation that the Massive Attack album 'Protection' was. And the first half kind of had me leading on to that, but then it changed format to a more oriental one, which can be fine of course, but it felt a bit disconnected and messy just splitting the album up in two parts like that. In general it didn't quite hit home for me, but I'll give it plus points for trying.

I just couldn't finish this album. This album sounds like someone went backpacking around Asia, went to a few full moon parties and came back "enlightened". It's pretentious and feels like someone is just trying to hard to be deep and worldly. Relight the Flame sound like someone singing bad karaoke of a lesser known Disney tune whilst trying to imitate Leonard Cohen.

I thought this was pretty fun. File under boutique hotel pool with Latin vibe

Made the mistake of looking into this guy and seeing that he was a founding member of Public Image Ltd (PiL). I think think those guys succcckckkkk. So I went into this with a chip on my shoulder. Turns out the album rules! Really great mix of world musical styles and grooves.

On the one hand, the trend of mindlessly incorporating traditional music from around the world with dub and electronic music probably deserves to be represented. On the other, this is one of the most heavyhanded and poorly executed examples of the above. Two hands, clapping unenthusiastically. 👏👏

Rating: 2.5

Not bad. Good bass. Front half is better than the back half.

Duke, I smell the hippy salad. Are the Gipsy Kings on next? My contemporaneous contempt for the '90's tie-dye revival may have mellowed to indulgent fondness, but don't injure me with an album of the stuff. This is not atypical of the time in throwing revolutionary rhetoric onto an unadventurous soundtrack. Strobing a song with Arabic singing and psychedelic dub effects does not immediately make it interesting. This record is rhythmically soporific, perhaps to let Wobble's shake his flashy bass at us, but the absence of hooks for most of playing time left me bored. I just looked down to see what song had started playing to mention a standout exception, only to see that Spotify had moved onto Julian Cope.

A real blast from the past, if rather incongruous here. I'm probably in the minority having heard this quite a lot when it came out, very popular with the early '90s Camberwell indie squatter set. When it's good, it's pretty great - Sinead's vocals over Wobble's signature bass rumbling. Mostly, it's OK, but always interesting. Check out the original "Becoming More Like God" if you can find it, probably his solo best. 3 for the highlights and because Wardle is the very definition of "Diamond Geezer"

BEST SONGS: - Relight the Flame - Bomba - Rising Above Bedlam - Soledad

I don't even know how to label this kind of music. Very multi genre.

Huh

kymmenissä tuhansissa kuuntelukerroissa suurin osa biiseistä spotifyssä. tällä kertaan huomaan kyllä miksi ollaan nimi pysynyt visusti pois jokatalouden tuntemuksessa... eksperimenttaaliista etnistä fuusiota... enemmäkin fissiota sanoo meikä heh... no hyvääkin tästä löytyy, saa kunnioitus kakosen bomba

It was alright. The dial didn't move much one way or the other. I have no desire to listen to this album again but I didn't hate it. It was just kind of there.

Fun, smooth. I generally like Jah Wobble but had never listened to any solo material. I don't know if this is revolutionary, if I could give it 3.5 stars, I would... It's definitely above average musically but conversely I didn't find it all that super creative. Ah, second listen. Rare, but felt like it was necessary. Feeling four stars now. Very funky world music. Definitely some creativity and some energy.

Weird album. It took a couple of tracks to learn to ignore the terrible singing. Still not that great once you can. Kind of reminds me of the last record by the Clash, which was terrible.

Not my vibe but kind of interesting at first, gets real boring real fast though

Really enjoyed the album. Catchy tunes, great vibes, "Relight the Light", "Bomba" and "Erzulie" were my favs.

Not very good and kinda pretentious.There’s a reason no one really talks about this album.The lyrics kinda suck,the vocals are so so.The instrumental is mediocre and it sounds cluttered.Nothing catchy and sometimes annoying.

Bit of a weird one

How is Jah Wobble on this list?

Sounds like accoustic stuff but I could be wrong. Hopeful about it being a good one! The verdict: It's pretty good, and I see why it was popular back in the day, but I also don't connect with it.

Kinda interesting and fun. 5/10

Very little interesting with this one

Never heard of this guy but this was interesting

awesome

Kind of enjoyable, a nice groove but ultimately not very satisfying. Strong on vibe, short on tunes. Nothing to make me want to go back to it.

this is certainly eclectic. awesome tunes and goes in different directions. Love it

Different than I was expecting

I didn't expect to enjoy this album as much as I did!

Dne

Groovy, loved it

There wasn’t one part of me that liked this.

Dance music with some latin music sprinkled on top. Not bad, but nothing special either. 2.5/5

Best Song: Bomba. Every female vocalist on this album is 300x better than the male one. Why would he set himself up to fail like this? Worst Song: Rising Above Bedlam. Aimed for weird, landed on boring. Overall: It isn't unpleasant, but it feels like the "Taco Bell" version of world music. Everything superficially resembles the kinds of dishes you're expecting, but everything tastes a bit flat.

Not really exciting. Once again an ok album, but why it is in a list of “must hear” I dont know.

Interesting but not really captivating.

I did not like it. Lyrics were gibberish.

Very jam-bandy. Wasn’t really into it

• It’s giving “on my gap yah” • The male vocals are a bit unbearable if i’m honest • I would never listen to this album again • Favourite song: Bomba

No

So this is where Kula Shaker got all their ideas. "Rising Above Bedlam" is patchy as hell, but you can see how its east/west fusion pushed things forwards.

faux ethnic background beats, ranging from groovy Sim City 3000 to passable new wave to self-indulgent filler. extra demerits for distracting vocals, heinously cringy spoken word, and jank MIDI blather on the back half of this album. 2/5

I don't see myself ever listening to this

Popurrí de músicas del mundo. Me ha gustado. Un 4.

No tiene estilo definido. Alguna se parece a James. Otra es como música de honololú. Otra como samba latina. Otra como árabe. Un poco Enigma. Le daré un 3 porque alguna canción no está mal.

Interesting mix of world styles. Very chill. Definitely something I would've smoked hookah to in college. It feels VERY 90s though, for better or worse.

fuck, stop trying to cram some bullshit UK artist no one has ever heard of down my throat. This dude's sad, jazzy-synth, world music was not something I needed to listen to before I died

Significantly better than I though it would be. However, I can't say it rises to much more than background, or mood music.

Ok ish

Weird album, but I liked it alright. Looked into the dude, and he was in Public Image Ltd. And the first song has Sinead O'Connor. More enjoyable than most dub-ish things for me. 3.25/5

Funky, but not really my thing. C-

I mean, not boring. Didn't necessarily grab me much either for the most part, but I might come back to this.

Not really into it.

Really enjoying this. A bit of dub, a bit of Arabic world music, a snippet of 80s indie - all with a positive feel. Only negative is Wobble’s voice which I’m sure he’d agree is not very good! A high three stars.

Well that was fucking weird

Really liked the first half of this surprisingly, will listen to more of his stuff for sure, 3.5

3.3 - A white British bass guitarist named Jah Wobble? Really? That's your stage name, Jah Wobble?? This record seems doomed from the jump, and it mostly is. It's a spliff and mushrooms party that's just one didgeridoo away from becoming a full-on nitrous balloon party. Hippie inspired world music - think trance-like electric guitar à la Santana mixed with Spanish/Arabic chanting, and maybe some wind chimes and massage parlor beats for good measure. Wobble's voice is terrible, spouting psuedo-spiritual drivel. I was, however, delighted to hear Sinéad O'Connor on "Visions of You." Some of the other female vocal performances are good, too (see "Bomba" and "Soledad").

Það eru ágætis hugmyndir og stef hér á ferð, en þetta líður fyrir mjög dated hljóðblöndun og leiðinlega rödd. Sum lögin eru leiðinleg, önnur byrja vel en svo fer hann að syngja...

Enjoyed, unique music

A gem! This is why we 1001

It was fine

Her en der echt boeiend, z'n tijd vooruit in een soort duistere prog elektro iets, maar op andere momenten ineens een soort Spaans Middenoosterse muziek. Dat stuk is dan weer helemaal niks. Dat maakt dat dit niet voorbij de 3 sterren komt.

I remember when I first exposed to Jah Wobble. It was on tv, a clip from Glastonbury in the early 90s. Probably about the time of this album. It struck me as weird hippy shit. Maybe, I figured, if you were in a field on mushrooms, it might sound alright…

Rhythmic background music. 2.5 stars.

I've never listened top this, but dig his bass in P.I.L. sofar...i love it

This turned out to be quiet varied, passable for the most part. Some of the vocals were poor.

Eh, it's different. I'm not really sure how I feel about this. I guess it's average.

This was very interesting to listen too. Very unique, a lot of varying styles. I will give this a 3 and I will add “Relight the Flame” to my playlist.

Meh

The male 'singer' was awful, a lot of the songs didn't go anywhere, but there something about it I enjoyed. I think the drums were great and there was a nice rhythm to a lot of the tracks. Not a brilliant album by any means but decent for one listen.

What on earth was all that about then? Not particularly interesting or enjoyable, as hard as I tried to listen.

It's like someone decided to fuse a load of music together without realising it sounds awful. I found the singing to be especially grating. Couldn't manage to finish it.

This was pretty interesting but don't think I'm interested in hearing it again tbh. Think I enjoyed "Erzulie" with all the trumpets the most

So cool! So many great musicians

Didn't work for me at all. Best track: Not sure? I tried to pay attention and I couldn't

2/5. Yeah it was okay, two songs on the album were great. The rest were not memorable.

Good wobble styff, can hear the bass creep in. I onky know him for Dub?

My memories of this were better than the reality of revisiting it, sadly I was disappointed this time around

A little pretentious but interesting.

More like descending into Bedlam! Opening track was alright, then I kinda lost interest about halfway through.

Yuck

Very naff production and a bit too "World Music" but enjoyed this more than I expected. One I may return to

Visions of You is a kinda cool song and the bass licks are cool throughout, but this is very dated and 90s in the worst way. Sounds like it would have been described as "world music".

I’d have loved it in the 89’s

En ihan ymmärrä, mitä tää on, mutta ok

En raaski antaa ykköstä, basso jymisee niin viattomasti!

Interesting album and concepts to incorporate world music sounds. It ends up sounding like background music in a cafe that tries to be a bit posh. At least the bass lines are pretty solid. Standout tracks: Bomba and Erzulie

interesting basslines

Love the atmosphere created here. Spacey yet vibrant with super diverse instrumentation. This album has such a powerful identity, where style is substance and it comes together to become an enriching quality. Faves: Wonderful World, Vision of You, Relight the Flame

интересный альбом. точно стоит попробовать послушать, некоторые работы мне прям очень зашли (например Soledad) что-то похожее вспомнить сложно, крепкая 3

Милый хиппи рэгги альбом с позитивным Вайбом Мексики(хз откуда эта ассоциация)

Ого, world music... Честно говоря, не ожидал совсем. Наверное, это не лучшее исполнение и не лучшая запись подобного рода (хочется верить, потому что саунд здесь мне не очень понравился), но как минимум пластинка заслуживает респекта за игру с этническими жанрами. Этнофутуризм, чтоб его...

Что-то необычное и интересное. Не сказал бы, что мне очень понравилось, но точно понравилось и послушать правда стоит

Disco desconocido para mí y de los 90 nunca pinta bien. Un pastiche house, chillout con mezclas étnicas y pseudohispanas como en Bomba. Aburridísimo y cero interés para mí.

OK, Jah Wobble, never listened to his stuff but I know he has a cult following. Just had PiL's debut but I doubt this will be similar based on what I already know. 1st track, nice, this could be on Screamadelica. Ha, it was released a week later. 2/ Oh oh, 90s reggae/dub, this took a turn. Wait, Spanish guitar? What's happening here? 3/ The production here is very early 90s, reminds me of Leftfield. Except with Spanish guitar and vocals. Remember Jam & Spoon, right in the night? yeah nothing like that. 4/ ok, proper mix of styles here, I like this. The vocal has a striking resemblance to Alabaster dePlume of nowadays. Something very Talking Heads-y here too. 5/ the dub influence is back. The guitar sting which develops over the nippy dub bassline here eventually reminds me very much of Trainspotting off Vanishing point. So more Primal Scream, but later. I reckon the boys from Lo Fidelity All-stars were fans of this too. 6/ ahahaha, this one sounds more like Jam & Spoon (if they had a brass section) - I didn't plan that. Actually that's unfair, this grows into itself, with the arabic singing, interesting hoppity bass and more Talking Headsy guitar and horns backing it up. 7/ What's this then, desert dub? I like it, give me more. Oh, it drags on a bit, give me less. 8/ so this is more of that. I like it, but I'm not sure I love it. 9/ My mind is wandering at this point and this song didn't bring it back 10/ a jaunty one to finish. Very obviously a band lead by a bass-player, which usually makes for different music. It's reminded me of a lot of things that I like, which came after it. Whether they were influenced by this I don't know but that's a good sign. I wish I had come across this a little closer to the time because there is no getting away from the fact it's production has dated. At the same time the mix of styles and the North African / Spanish influence helps ease that. Spanish guitar doesn't date, that is permanent. Overall a mixed bag though.

Sounds late 80s in it's production. Ethnic pop-orientated sounds with traces of a number of other. It's ok but nothing special.

I wanted this to end so badly. The best of the album feels borrowed. The rest, cringe. There were delightful moments of 90s nostalgia early on but they got swallowed up by the overall awfulness of the rest of the album. Was wavering over 2 stars but song by song, Jah Wobble talked me down to 1.

It's a good world music album with very diverse influences. I liked the second half of it a bit more, it was more interesting.

An eclectic collection of beats. Kinda sounds like generic resort music. Fun is a word invented by executives? Just a bit stereotypical for this time period and the album cover.

Interesante, aunque no es mi tipo de música claramente. Aún así me pareció muy copada la idea que hay detrás del disco y cómo mezclan los instrumentos, especialmente en canciones como "Erzulie". A veces, logran generar una especie de aura misteriosa, sobre todo con el canto de la mujer. Es como si estuvieran tratando de conjurar algún tipo de espíritu en el medio de una selva perdida en Sudamérica. 6/10

muy falopa muy

This album is fine. It's solid reggae but nothing insane. Not sure why it's one of the 1001 albums everyone must hear.

The only track from the album Rising Above Bedlam that I've heard before was "Visions of You". I don't know if I've heard anything else from Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart. I enjoyed listening to something different. There was a track or two that reminded me of Dead Can Dance, which I like. I enjoyed that some tracks had Spanish lyrics, or lyrics in what sounds like it may be a middle eastern language. I like Sinéad O'Connor's guest vocals on "Visions of You" which is my favorite track. "Erzulie" is my second favorite. I would be interested in hearing more from the band, but the album is too uneven to round up to 4 stars.

I love the first track and really wanted more of the same. Didn't always get it.

Some weird Australian stuff? This doesn’t belong on the list.

Just incredibly mediocre

Not my style

2.5

This is surprisingly cool. Although maybe that's just because I finally switched to Tidal. If any listeners are still on Spotify, might be worth making the switch to any other service that has lossless. Favorite tracks were "Visions of You", "Bomba", "Erzulie"

It’s not the worst thing I’ve ever heard, but I just think it doesn’t deserve to be on the list

Meh

A bump up from the rest

demasiado

Jah Wobble hero of course and I loved this one with exotic music, even sometimes thought I heard Fad Gadget! 5 stars

This is an interesting album for what it is and especially for when it was made, but it's also one of those albums that I kept turning on and then finding reasons to turn it off and listen to something else. I think that this album does have merit in terms of the types of music that it brings together and the technology available at the time, but it also sounds a bit dull to my ears now 3/5

Marvelous! Genuinely something new to me, only knew him from PiL

Decent

Cack to Bedlam

Interesting. Might go back for a second listen.

Bonkers and really enjoyable :)

Had a great time with this 😂

Jah Wobble is trying to make something different here and I admire that with its fusion of world hooks and rave culture beats plus Sinead O’ Connor always welcome. Downside is the new agey vibe and come down sound (too bright and shiny and polished in the mix) is underwhelming and ultimately repetitive.

I liked what Public Image did; this album is completely different but also very enjoyable. Jah Wobble is a very good bass player. Too bad they don't list the other musicians on the album. I read that the female vocalist on Visions of You is Sinead O'Connor. The other female vocalist (on Erzulie and several other songs) is amazing. The Arabian beats work beautifully with her vocals.

I think that Natasha Atlas is the star of this album. The best songs she co-wrote and sang in, and probably got less credit then she deserved. As a side note I was surprised to hear her singing in Spanish, though Wikipedia tells me she started her career in a Belgian salsa band. Natasha's songs I would give a 5. Musically the rhythms and textures and bass playing are nice & I'd give the rest of the album a 4, except that Jah Wobble's voice ruins everything. He should know better.

I would say Wobble was one of the earliest and more influential purveyors of the emerging genre of World Music back in the 80s'. Him along with David Byrne perhaps. Kudos to him for being able to attract top vocal talent including Sinead O'Connor and Natasha Atlas, and later Delores O'Riordan. Coming from PiL you wouldn't guess that Wardle would be a fan of Jamaican reggae and dub but he was and and he plays his bass guitar here with aplomb channeling Robbie Shakespeare (of Sly and Robbie fame). I also really enjoy him mixing Latin and Middle-Eastern music seamlessly into this album. Spotify's algorithms also gave me some tracks from his 2004 album The Celtic Poets and I thought that was an even better album. Wobble's sound also reminds me a lot of Malcolm McLaren's forays into tribal/world music on his Duck Rock album. Overall, this album works really well and was quite enjoyable.

This is bizarre.

Not my cup of tea but I respect the homage to music around the world. As for albums I prefer a bit of cohesion at least a motif and I might be dumb but I couldn’t find it

This sounds like something my dad would listen to, I didn't dislike it. I felt like I was on vacation in the DR but that something was off. Perhaps it was the rice and beans I ate earlier or maybe I took the tequila too fast. It could also be the restlessness in the air that often accompanies the threat of revolution. This could be my chance to change the world: I single-handedly dismantle Dominican democracy and install the Taco Bell Chihuahua as the new leader. Regardless, it served its purpose as background music exceedingly well, but I won't be coming back anytime soon. Or maybe ever.

Not the worst thing in the world but not anything I would ever come back to. Just plain boring, but not on the same level of a 1 star. Those albums hold a special place in hell.

You know how you have that one absolutely batshit right wing uncle? You know, the one that had enough broken guns lying around the house that he decided to sift through them and made a working AR with what he found? Well, this is the music that his sister listens to. That's right, your prius loving, old wave hippie, free spirit aunt. You didn't forget about her, did you? Every time you go to her house you find a new American Indian trinket adorning her "den" and can't help getting wrapped up in the ambiance of the place. She might not be as scary as your uncle, but she whooped his ass into shape when they were younger and unlike your uncle, her bite is worse than her bark. Don't let that deter you from seeing your aunt though. Most of the time when you see her you drive to the woods and go on a hike or she offers you to join her on a flight to rural Oregon. Why's she going to rural Oregon? You're unsure, but from what you know of her travels to Africa and Asia, it's gonna be pretty fun. As soon as you guys get there she asks what you want to do. You're unsure. Why didn't she already have a plan? It matters not. A mere two hours into your walk around this rinky-dink town your aunt stops in a store to go to the bathroom and kicks up a conversation with some local Indians. She walks out the store asking you and your cousin if you want to go to a real Powow, apparently a girl in the local tribe had just reached womanhood and her new friends thought you guys might be interested in coming to the party. You go to this powow and get absolutely blasted off of some fire water as you bond with the tribe. On your way back to the plane you wistfully look out onto the land. You realize you're not a native species here and maybe it's time to go away, give the land back to its original caretakers... "nah that's unreasonable, one man can’t make that large of a difference" you think as you decide to give some money to the new woman from the tribe you just gouged of alcohol and unknowingly impregnated, just as your forefathers before you. It’s a 3/5 for me, I’m feeling generous, it’s not rock, and I have a feeling it’s the only time we’re gonna listen to something that’s not either Spanish or English and as someone who likes music from other cultures I gotta give it some love. But the dude’s singing is cheeks and dates this album like nothing I’ve ever seen. Does it truly deserve the 3? Is it on par with Oasis, REM, Tribe, Wilco, tortoise, muddy waters, and earth wind and fire? No absolutely not.

That felt like a bad dream where you’re forced to listen to Ferris Bueller’s monotone teacher try to weasel his way onto Indian techno dance idk wtf to call is music. You could strap me in a chair Clockwork Orange style and I still wouldn’t listen to that again.

You remember that kid from your floor freshman year with the guitar? This is what he makes when he’s in his 40’s, after a trip to India in which he thinks he’s found some life-changing revelation while talking to the first yogi he can find. He’s not deep, he’s not insightful, and he’s certainly ignorant. Oh and he paid for the trip to India with the money from the divorce settlement. A marriage in which he hypnotized a business student to fall for his false sensitivity during college. By the time he’s 30, she realizes he’s going to live up to nothing and all that talk about changing the world was BS. By the times he’s 40, he can’t even maintain an erection without his guitar in his hands and she’s plowing her boss, a Fortune 500 CEO. She ditches him, but not before he can suckle off her teet one last time and take half the money. After the trip to India, he spends the rest of the money on American Bald Eagle tattoos and studio time. He makes the album cover himself, because no one else could quite possibly understand the tortured artist that is him. He can’t afford Adobe Suite by this time, so he has to settle for a bootleg version, risking his computer’s health while downloading it off a foreign website. His computer, a thrifted 1998 IBM, “it’s vintage”, more like he’s “poor af”, does eventually concede to the virus it extracted from “freecomputersoftware.cn”. After releasing, he waits for the praise from all his loved ones, as well as his adoring fans. Unfortunately for him, he has no loved ones. His family distanced themselves after a story went viral of him attempting to live in the ceiling of a Starbucks after hours because he couldn’t afford rent. He only got caught because his late night diet of caramel macchiato’s and pastries led to terrible IBS, and without a bathroom to use in the ceiling, he had to come down during the day or risk sh***** all over his living space. Once he did, he still didn’t reach the bathroom in time, because a group of 15 year old’s were in there doing Tik Tok’s to a Meghan Thee Stallion song where she queefs the National anthem. Furthermore, he has no fans because no one likes the album and the small minority of people that do hate him more. After crapping any ounce of hope away, literally, he is booked by local PD for trespassing. As he is walked to the car in handcuffs, he intentionally trips himself and claims police brutality. The judges rule in his favor and awards him $1.3m in damages. By the time he’s 50, he’s spent all his money investing in a penis growth serum. Naturally, it fails, like his erections, and he’s left wandering the streets of Chicago with nothing but a shopping cart full of Rising Above Bedlam CD’s. He tries to pawn them off to other homeless people, but they bark at him that “physical media is so not in style anymore.” He is found one morning, frozen to death, the last ember of his fire gone out. In the fire, Chicago PD discovers that he had burnt the last of his CD’s to stay warm. The coroners office cannot decide whether the cause of death was from freezing, inhaling burning CD’s, or broken heart from a dream lost. Without a clear answer he writes: “cause of death - Covid-19.” Not on Apple f*** Spotify Free has ads and Random songs throughout Haiku aside, I can respect the experimental nature of this. It’s very interesting to listen to and I’d give it a 2.5 if I could. It’s not bad, and much better than some of the 2’s I’ve given. Idk if it’s a 3 tho. Also, I had to listen on Spotify Free which included ads and random songs in between songs. It definitely did not help this album. It also meant I couldn’t listen in order which was soul-crushing.

2.5/10. parece musica q pondrian en una club scene de una pelicula del 2010 sin presupuesto como el pico. nose me cargo todo excepto la ultima cancion y las primeras maybe.

This whole thing just faded into the background. The male vocals were very weak and the songs with the female vocals all sounded the same. Not bad but nothing more than fine

There were sounds. So I guess that constitutes an album.

I liked the diversity of songs on the album. That doesn’t mean I liked it at all. Vocals were unbearable at times and the sound within each song was repetitive.

Really like the "Visions of You" track

1.5

Honestly I'm confused here's a rating

Je pense que beaucoup d'entre vous ont écouté cet album sans même savoir que Jah Wobble était depuis 2006 le détenteur du record de la personnalité la moins célèbre du monde. Un huissier s'est en effet basé sur le fait que personne n'ait jamais entendu parler de Jah Wobble pour homologuer ledit record. Ce dernier a pourtant bien failli lui être retiré en 2018 après qu'un internaute a découvert que son compte Instagram comptait trois abonnés. Une enquête a finalement prouvé qu'il s'agissait de bots (le groupe de chaudières TLC pour être précis).

Derrière cet infini nom d'artsite se cache en fait tout simplement Kingsley Coman, tout fraîchement revenu de sa médiocre coupe du monde au Qatar. Un album coup de poing à mettre entre toutes les mains.

Never heard of this one before. I thought the 1st and 3rd tracks were alright, not mad about the rest though. Terrible singing, but some good bass and guitar playing. Another case where I'm not sure why this was included in the book!

HL: "Bomba", "Every Man Is An Island", "Visions of You" Hard to rate, somewhere between 1 and 4 stars :p Pro: très éclectique Con: It's like Graceland without the memorable songs Pro: Inspired instrumentals Con: Wobble's singing voice Con: I'm not feeling too hot tonight, so that might affect my enjoyment too January 3 2023

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