Reviews (page 7 of 7)
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Don't you know what it means to become an orgy guy? It changeseverything. I'd have to dress different. I'd have to act different. I'd have to grow a mustache and get all kinds of robes and lotions and I'd need a new bedspread and new curtains I'd have to get thick carpeting and weirdo lighting. I'd have to get new friends. I'd have to get orgy friends. ... Naw, I'm not ready for it.
Well, really nice hotel lounge music, which is perfect if you don't like to sit in silence, but you don't want to listen to anything that requires attention. It feels like Maxwell had an idea for a great bass line, and then decided to build a whole album off of it. Honestly, all that I remember from this album is that bass line, otherwise everything is so forgettable and mediocre. Very surprising choice for a "greatest album of all time", even if that would mean a place closer to 1000. Very disappointing.
Dated and repetitive. It's not terrible, but this should not be an hour long. I did not enjoy this.
Starts promising but quickly delves into this "smooth" jazz and funk that is played in late night "cinema". Till The Cops Come Knockin' is a bit creepy. It's also too long. I know it's a concept album so it gets bonus points for the attempt but it didn't do it for me.
2/11, 18%
Not my thing
It starts off interesting, gets less and less interesting until it finishes completely tedious
Below average bedroom music. One or two tracks could probably be remixed into something upbeat and more interesting. Best track: Sumthin' Sumthin'
Liked the first track, much less so when he started singing.
Yeeeeah no. This was just one hour of sex music. Kudos to those with that kind of stamina I suppose. But yeah, either way it wasn't really something I cared about. Everything seemed quite same-y. Definitely felt like this was just a mood-setter rather than a sit-down-and-listen kind of album. I don't think I'll come back to this. Favourite: Ascension (Don't Ever Wonder)
An album with less than zero 'oomph'. I didn't mind the chilled and laid back vide initially, but it quicky wore thin. Rating: 2/5 Playlist track: Ascension (Don't Ever Wonder) Date listened: 09/06/23
I do be lovin jazz, but only when it’s the best of the best. Okay jazz songs aren’t really worth my time listening to. Fav: welcome Least fav: reunion
Apparently this was the start of neo-soul, but I found it pretty bland.
I did not know Maxwell from Adam. I just listened to the album. There’s nothing offensive about it. But I think I have to side with Robert Christgau (Village Voice) who did not go along with the great reviews it got & rated it a DUD (see Wiki). Actually, I suppose I don’t think it’s a total turkey. It’s just annoyingly derivative. I didn’t mind the opening track (an instrumental), but the clown (RoniSarig?) who compared the first 2 tracks to Steely Dan - well I’d horse-whip him if I had a horse. By the time you get to Lonely’s The Only Company, it’s really sounding like a Sade outtake. But, hey, it’s reasonable background music.
2.5 at best. Just not my cup of tea.
I guess this album was picked for this list here on account of the first track, because all the rest of the album is pretty boring. Should an album get listed here on account of a single track? I think that's wrong.
- Groovy - Music to get freaky to - The type of music your Uber driving is playing at 2:30 in the morning
Cheesy 90s R&B pop music. Sounds like music from a soft porn film. Not for me.
Maybe just not my thing. The vibe was cool, but went on too long.
Gotta admit, I gave up on this one a few tracks in. This era of music is just not my thing.
Wat een smerige, zweterige neukmuziek zeg!
Prima op de achtergrond, maar niet heel enerverend.
Ik had me echt voorgenomen om die als achtergrondmuziekje tijdens het werk wel even weg te luisteren. Maar na een nummer of 6 vielen m'n tanden ineens uit m'n mond van die zoete gedweep.
All the songs sound all the same
Heismusikk
Too smooth and tacky. I know this kick-started the whole neo-soul movement but there are better projects out there that better represent the sub genre.
He’s laying it on pretty thick. I kept imagining Chef from South Park singing vocals to some of the tracks. I wonder how many 26-27 yr olds were conceived to this album. Still miles better than George Michael’s.
Oh no, this was not a fun listen at all. Talk about poor r&b. Awful.
This is probably objectively pretty good, but trying to focus on R&B for an hour feels like being trapped in a time vortex for 300 years. I will now proceed to live the rest of my life without ever thinking about this album's existence again.
R&B just isn't my thing. First track I was enjoying, then when the vocals kicked in the second it just made me groan. Some ok tracks, mostly due to backing band. Some great bass lines. But most tracks I was praying for the end. I'm not trying to skip a single song in any listed album but by the end of this one I couldn't resist. Would give it 1.5* if I could purely for some of the decent backing tracks
Great voice, very slick production, but it just does nothing for me and the songs blurred into the next and then it stopped. And I hate the tone of the bass guitar in Modern R'n'B / Neo-Soul, especially when slapping (which is a lot of the time), ewwww. 2 / 5.
There's a lot of subtle detail in this album with all the little instrumental flourishes that pepper the tracks but none of it is out of place. It's an incredibly easy listen that would fit right into the background while you're working/studying since absolutely none of it demands your attention. That said, this really isn't my genre.
Sounds like background video game music, takes forever to go anywhere and when it does you wonder why it bothered. 2
Maxwell
very chill album but nothing revolutionary
Вроде одновременно и приятный бек с вокалом, мелодика тоже нравится, но тааааак нудно, что периодически желание попереключать и выйти
I like the production on this, bass to the fore, which reminded me a little of Morcheeba. However, it’s a very samesy album otherwise, I didn’t come away with any sense of individual tracks, just a mood. Ok, but nothing memorable.
Zwoele neukseks muziek
Vähän tämmöseks hissimusaks menee. Taustalle laittaisin mut kuunneltuna aika tylsää. 2/5
The dry, clear sound of the bass tone on this is awesome. It just strikes me as too repetitive and shallow to really enjoy with all of my attention. At the end of the day, I suppose it's for bangin', and it succeeds at getting out the way.
Kjedelig
Is it possible for an album to be too smooth? If so this is an example of one, so smooth I kinda forgot I was listening almost a forgettable album,
First porn music album we've had for a little while. Doesn't do anything for me at all, it's not unpleasant to having washing around you whilst you get on with something else, but no real appeal. 2/5.
i dont know if i should give this okay, un of the mill funk album this score, but im doing it. dude can sing. music washes over you. the not standing out part is the problem. i kinda don't remember it….. sooooo thats bad. oh well.
Mellow, smooth, cool. Dull. Smooth, Forgettable. 2.2 Also smooth.
Hotel lobby music
It's got some solid bass parts, but I thought a lot of it sounded like department store muzak. And that's what I can remember of it. It just kind of went by without leaving much impression. Not terrible, but I don't need to hear it again.
Very smooth, very funky and Maxwell has a lovely voice. But a bit dull and samey after a while. Could have done with a little more grit
Okay I guess.
R&B just doesn't do too much for me. Nice background music, but that's about it. Favorite track: ...Til the Cops Come Knockin
So smooth I almost fell asleep.
lite gött sound ändå men långtråkigt. sumthin' sumthin' är en rätt go lät
Was this porn music? Lol jk not really my thing and didn't care much
At first I thought 'wow I love being in Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite'. By the end I was very ready to leave the Urban Hang Suite. Unfortunately the buses weren't running and it's impossible to get a taxi at that time so I had to walk to the nearest station.
Too smooth for its self. Very mediocre
retty generic sounding R&B dance album in the mold of Michael Jackson. It does have some soft jazz elements that give it a Sade vibe as well. The recording and mixing is outstanding, and who is the bass player. Brilliantly played and beautifully mastered. 2.5 🌟
Some people have a very high opinion of themselves….that’s not a comment on the musicality because it was a very polished album, but the lyrics were laughable at times.
This started off nice, with some good vibes. But it gradually trailed off into very sugary and tepid mediocrity that was hard to finish. Ok I’ll fess up, I couldn’t finish it, but what I heard was a solid 2 stars.
I am sure this is a great album for its genre. Unfortunately, it’s a genre that i actively dislike.
Ok, a bit long for me
Vamos para música de fondo bien pero en general no me ha hecho «tilín» ninguna canción. Prescindible.
Maybe it's because so much time has passed, but a lot of this now sounds like a parody of the thing it most likely originated. I liked the opening track or two but also became a lot of the same thing over time to me.
Not my cup of tea. I feel like it got lost in its own groove.
Supposedly as a reaction to 90’s R&B’s obsession with violence, casual sex and drugs, Maxwell became a pioneer of neo-soul with his “Urban Hang Suite”, a concept piece about all the twists and turns of a relationship. Considering this album was released in 1996, there’s a concerted effort to diverge from the prevalent sounds of the genre, both lyrically and musically. The songs here are all profanity free, built around declarations of sensual love and commitment. It’s refreshing on the one hand, but on the other they lack any of the wit or wordplay that often makes R&B and hip-hop tick: instead, they’re formed on vague generalities like “you’re still welcome, any time you want some; make yourself at home, ‘cause you’re welcome.” Poetry. In musical terms, there’s a real retro-soul feel to this album which places it in the mid 70’s. The production is lush and warm, with low, lithe bass grooves and soft, airy vocals (often faintly multi-tracked in harmonies or octaves). Take single “Til the Cops Come Knockin’”: electric Rhodes piano and some subtle wah-guitar wash around the main hook, which is gentle and soothing right up until the point it becomes… well, boring. There are flashes of good moments peppered across the record. “Ascension” is a strong track with a fantastic bass groove. There’s a fun breakdown in highlight “Dancewitme”, announced by a bass solo before some brittle rhythm guitar kicks in. There’s a rare grittiness to Maxwell’s voice in “Suitelady (The Proposal Jam)”, one of many tributes to monogamy. They’re sharp moments in a hazy record, which generally is concerned with a lighter touch. There’s a tendency for the jams to repeat themselves ad-nauseam, often letting a groove peter out. And from around the album’s halfway point, they’re scarcely present at all. So while "Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite" is always pleasant, sometimes the silky-smooth production is just a little too smooth. As we’re promised a concept piece chronicling the arc of a relationship, it would have been nice to hear a bit more range in Maxwell’s delivery… to get a sense of rise and fall in the music, peaks in intensity and drama. But instead, it’s unarguably and unambiguously make-out music… for a whole 58 minutes! I have neither the time nor the stamina to manage that.
A funk and soul album that came out in the 90s. I was not familiar with the album or the artist. It was alright although I do not think I will be returning to it. There are better funk and soul artists that I would listen to if I ever felt the need.
It’s a fine funk/soul album. Not Maxwells finest moment.
Alku todella lupaava, mut oispa loppulevy ollut vähemmän kutumusiikkia.
not too bad, but not my thing
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It has not aged well, rather sleazy in some ways.
I’m cool with the occasional soulful slow jam, though I’d never put one on intentionally. This album is packed with them, and they get hard to differentiate after the third or fourth.
Sorry Maxwell, not my jam. Every song is individually decent, but rhe lack of variation in the backbeat makes it a slog to listen to album through.
Wicked beats, and the title track had me hoping for a new find but then R&B and that just dont grab me. The beginning had me thinking this was going to be more like Jamiroquai - but it wasn't.
Second list within the past two weeks. Gave it a 2/5 then and still just a 2/5 for me now. I will say that I am enjoying it more this time than last time, but not enough right now. I can see this being a 3/5 sometime in the future.
First listen. Smooth jazz and funk, R&B. Very nice. Love to hear more of this. 2/5 for now.
Never heard of this record. Liked this better than I thought I would... but I wasn't expecting much when I saw the wikipedia article mentioning similarity to D'Angelo... I'm not a big R&B fan but there were elements of funk in here on occasion that I liked. Excessive use of wah and fun modulation effects. Seemed like a good R&B record but I'm not a great judge of that. It did go on a little long at times. Close to a 3 for me but probably not quite there. 2 stars.
It's agressively meh.
Ooh, sax. Whenever, wherever, whatever is how I feel about this album. High expectations from the start and then *blow raspberry*
Felt so much like background music I forgot it was on a few times.
This album played with fire and gets a 2, but that 2 is very close to a 1 insanely boring and baffling choice, you're gonna make me point at the sign with all the obvious picks missing from the list again
the sex scene in the movie except your mom has her hands over your eyes
comically ceefax
Easy listening, but very forgettable
There’s no denying this LP is well-constructed, but it leans so hard into one-note rhythms and song structures that it all kind of blurs together into an overlong porn Muzak compilation
ok
Maxwell has a great voice but this music is too chill for me to listen to without getting sleepy. Appreciate his whole deal though. I’m just a sleepy person.
This wasn't my thing. A few songs I could get into but that early 90s commercial R&B vibe isn't for me.
This not my style of music and I won't listen to it again.
I vaguely remember Maxwell being part of the current music scene at some point. I don't know if I've heard a full song from him before, but I was pretty sure back then that Maxwell is not for me. In general, I want to listen to about 0% of the "oo, baby oo" songs. This album was a solid 2 for me (I did not like it). The one song that has even the possibility of a replay was "The Urban Theme" and it was an instrumental. The music wasn't enough to get me past anything with lyrics.
The groove is too deep for me.
Really nice grooves at times. Not the kind of music I like to listen to, though.
Just really forgetable.
yeah idk. smooth r&b isnt my thing
Grand, not really my thing
There will be days when the fit isn't there, or totally there. No doubt this is a better experience when the listener is in a better mood.
This whole album sounded like one continuous song to me, though I’m admittedly not a huge R&B fan. Fine as background music, but not my favorite.
Not my favorite genre but pretty groovy!
Couldn't do it. First tune was funky, cool bass lines, but can't get into the lyrics/vocals. Very 90s Rn'Baay
I did not like it very much. No further comment.
R&B isn’t my thing
4
I didn't understand it.
Seemed liked music you'd hear at a hotel bar or cocktail lounge. Was over it after a few songs
Did you stop at a motel by the road with your hooker? Enjoy Maxwell's progressive soul!
Like I said before, lofi hip hop beats to study to
Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite is the debut album by American R&B singer-songwriter Maxwell. A concept album, Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite was composed as a song cycle that focuses on an adult romance, based in part on Maxwell's personal experiences.
It is just too slow and uninteresting. Too much of it sounds the same and there's nothing that is particularly catchy or stands out.
I really enjoyed the first track and was hopeful, but recognized that it could go either way depending on what happened next. It had a potent mix of funky-as-hell, kind-of-cheesy, and that Kool and the Gang summertime vibe. I was disappointed that the subsequent tracks descended into the 90's idea of baby-making music. Kind of went gradually downhill throughout the album for me.
This is lounge jazz music not my style kinda cheesy. The thing you would hear in the background of a home makeover show
At the start I was really into it. Got a little weird as it went on. Overall a good funky jam
If I ever have a sensual relationship with a black panther I will put this on this give me some good vibes. Apart from that, really not my style.
sunday night slow jamz
1996. Key Songs: Sumthin' Sumthin', Ascension
Instrumental was brilliant, the rest not my cup of tea.
Garbage
Maxwell - Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite ⭐️ Skillful enough I guess, but this type of music is not of any interest to me.
Today is set to be the hottest day on record in Ireland. Thirty-four degrees. We're not able for heat like this. We're just not set up for it. Sure, we can go on holiday to the south of Spain for a week or so and bask in the glorious heat while we slow-roast ourselves until fully cooked. But when we're trying to work, go about our daily chores, and keep two double-coated golden retrievers from overheating, we're just not built for it. This is not the soundtrack I want for a day like this. The whole album feels like a parody of the kind of music a hapless character in an awkward comedy puts on when he's planning some sexy time with his date. Like it was made by a horny teenager in the hope that it'd help him get some action. The opening instrumental, "The Urban Theme," sounds like a kid who's just got their first wah pedal and is trying out every '70s trope they can think of. "Welcome" has some stanky funk sounds, but the vocals are a bit too close to George Michael for my liking. "Sumthin' Sumthin'" is irritating, and not just because of the way he says the word "schumtin'." "...Til the Cops Come Knockin'" could easily be mistaken for a kidnapping scenario rather than a song about business time: “Gonna take you in the room, sugar / Lock you up and love for days / 'Til the cops come knockin’”. Dark stuff. And that's what every song is about. Cringey lyrics about lovemaking, or, as Maxwell might put it, a little schumtin' schumtin' 'til the cops come knockin'. Ugh. I'm working from home. On a day this hot, I'm either sitting outside in the garden under a parasol, squinting at the glare on my laptop screen, or I'm inside with every window and door wide open, desperately trying to circulate some cool air through our incredibly warm house. So I'm listening to this on headphones. Out of embarrassment. Not because I'm a prude (although I kind of am) and want to spare my neighbours the suggestive lyrics. I'm listening to this on headphones out of embarrassment because it's terrible.
this album has no personality
Dreary lounge music
Nine-hundred and fifty-eight albums into this project. This is 🎯easily🎯 the worst If this is "sexy music" hand me a wimple and sign me up to the nearest nunnery.
It’s a no. The genre I most struggle with. Not for me. 1/5
Выдавливание подростковых слез. Вообще решил впервые прочитать что-либо про альбом и понял, что это бессмысленно ведь мнение от прослушивания не изменится. "Эталонный" неосоул, мне показался наискучнейшим. Не смотря на потрясающую аранжировку очень точную продуманную элегантную и красивую. Все портит скучный одинаковый безэмоциональный вокал. Может быть первая песня покажется реально цепляющей, но все последующие - нет. В конце альбома от слова baby будет подташнивать, а сонливость это кредо данного альбома. Я совершенно не понял жанр неосоул и конкретно этот альбом, очень жалко аранжировку там могло быть что-то потрясающее, даже просто инструментал был бы волшебным решением, оценка 2/10.
I knew this was going to be dog sh*t within .2 seconds of it starting. It's the music Action Man f*cks to. I actually think that, had he lived longer, Jim Morrison would've ended up doing sh*t like this, self-important juvenilia. There's a part with a repeated wah pedal stab that sounds like Zippy from Rainbow (he was kind of like Elmo but for p*ssies, for young or non-UK readers) interfering with himself.
No se si como definirlo. House lento, aburrido
The most boring, vanilla, generic shit I've ever listened to
1/10
No thanks
Lounge easy listening jazz. Niet mijn ding
Silky smooth R&B ... not my thang.
This album is for someone. I don't know who, but it's not me. If I'm gonna listen to a 90s R&B album, it would probably have D'Angelo's name on it. Even if it was a Maxwell album I chose to listen to, it wouldn't be this one. I was thinking, "I don't know if its fair for me to rate it". But the album started out with a Muzac song and that is just plain unforgivable.
Føler den sjangeren kun fantes på 80/90 tallet. Skjønner ikke hvor og hvorfor man skal høre på det.
Every bad r&b trope you can imagine, all of them, they are all here, and done by a guy who clearly thinks he’s a way better singer than he actually is. There are far better/more influential, and more over, actually interesting neo-soul records out there in the world, e.i. D’Angelo’s “Voodoo” & “Black Messiah”, Cody Chestnutt’s “The Headphone Experience”, Bilal’s “Love for Sale”, and Hiatus Kaiyote’s “Choose Your Weapon”, to name but a few, so why /this/ got the part is beyond me. Y’know what, -1 star for being a completely wasted spot in the list, to hell with it.
I listened to this album and it made me pregnant. Not my cuppa tea I'm afraid.
this was sooo background music. forgot i was evening listening to it tbh. and as my pal logan puts it: “this is like sade without the sauce”
Check out my sex organ!
No
was für eine langweilige scheiße
What is this insipid dross? Sugar coated bland unimaginative crap. Please, I haven't been given a 5 album yet. How is this a great album?
Absolutely not for me. 1 star
Not good at all.
What's worse than jazz? Easy-listening elevator jazz
This album was irritating and boring. You’re not Marvin Gaye bro.
R&B sound. Not my kind of music.
Maybe a great record for urban seduction. I can't stand it.
I’m sure this is revered, I just really hate music like this
Not for me.
This almost defied my expectations, with an opening jazz instrumental track which sounded quite interesting and briefly made me think this wasn’t some awful R&B/Soul but then it was. It started off ok but got progressively more uninteresting, and it’s an hour long.
Opening track - nice groove, i thought I'd like this, 4 stars! But then the rest - each of them on their own low 2 stars with perhaps 2 or 3 threes. But... the album as a whole became just so repetitve, bland and boring that it started to annoy me. As a whole: 1 star.
Gepflegte Langeweile - schon wieder!
Couldn't make it past Somethin' Somethin', I have not encountered anything more trite, something about this feels like nails on a chalkboard.
I guess they have to throw in something to keep the Americans happy, even if it’s clearly terrible!
Introducing you to a new genre, ‘Flunk’. Slow R&B funk for those seeking to add just that bit more blandness to the endless daily cycle of your life.
Would rather listen to Maxwell’s Silver Hammer on repeat for a hour. This was not enjoyable.
1 - my least favorite genre of music
Probably a very good album for some but an endurance for me
- Niet mijn ding - 0 nummers toegevoegd aan MMMM
Smoother than a thing which is very smooth, I can't think of the right analogy today. How about this, I would have been happier if the vinyl version had very smooth sides and I only had to listen to the sound of the needle skidding all over the place. Unfortunately I had to listen to the digital version on my streaming service and I was bored of it by the second song. I realise he was a precocious young man at the time who had made a very grown up soul album for the ages. But just not my ages. Sorry mate but the odd feedback screech or an out of tune guitar would have created a fantastic juxtaposition and made me happy, but your producer and target audience would have strung you up.
drab and irritatingly boring. wanted to strangle the singer. some great reviews!
Sounds like a parody of Barry White's music. I'd rather hear Don "No Soul" Simmons Not good and not to be taken seriously
Just ew
Annoyingly bland
Interminably smooth. Just horrendous.
Meget fløde. Kom kun igennem fire sange.
Bellyache music
Not mine...
At it's best this is some pretty well crafted elevator music, or easy listening if you want to use more generous terminology. Either way, pretty bland stuff.
After listening to the first track I thought this would be good. It wasn’t.
Rating: 1.1 Also known as “albums for your auntie to get fucked to.” I’m not going to get anything out of this sorry.
Boring and generic.
Awful. Sounds like weather channel music. Couldn't make it through a single song, even as background noise.
Boring as hell. Too cliche. And it’s not that I don’t like the style or genre, I’d just take Bobby Womack any day over this.
Meh
too smooth jazz-y
Very funky opening with "The Urban Theme", but as the album progressed I thought it became way too chill/relaxed. The funk is still present in most songs, but the general tempo of the album could've sent me to sleep - feel like I've just listened to an hours worth of elevator music, which isn't my cup of tea.
Bäh
Gah...this started out the gates with some sweet groove but quickly deteriorated into a slow jam, border-line muzak snooze fest. Oozed a bit too much with saxy serenades, proposals and love sounds. Max was probably getting laid while he was in the sound booth. Wished he stuck to the funk and kept it chill. I can see a horny, desperate woman hanging on Maxwell's Suite Urban Wang but I'm skippin'...1.15 stars.
Smooth Neo-Soul offering up every R&B-trope I know.
Couldn't stay awake!
not for me
not my thing
Not the genre for me
Pebble Mill music. Drab.
Not a fan of soft R&B/soul at the best of times but this album was a particularly bad example. Overproduced 90s sound, everything at the same tempo, designed to be background music. Had the worry when I stopped halfway through yesterday that I had no idea where I was up to but that cops come knocking song lasted long enough that I knew I'd finished that. Otherwise, not memorable, 1.5 but more a 1.
As smooth as butter, but much less exciting.
Menu music for an unlicensed sports game franchise
Wiggins sold me a dummy with the "unlicensed video game soundtrack" line which only applied to the first track. Garbage
It just kind of sounds like a caricature of music to have sex to. I can't swear to it I haven't heard this come on in a bunch of network TV shows right at the start of the (all-PG) sex scene. Apart from the humor of that, there isn't a whole lot going on here - it's basically muzak.
Not my thing.
This was so sexy it hurt.
This is a really weird choice. There possibly isn't a genre that has dated as badly as 90s neo-soul. Nu metal maybe. Also, if that's the front cover I am absolutely dying to know what is on the back??? Just a giant picture of his cock? The only question remaining is will this unremarkable album hold on to a 2, or will it annoy me sufficiently over the course of 64 long minutes to drop a point? Yes.
Oh goodie, another hour long album about sex. As an bonus, this one also somehow manages to sound like department store music.
This makes two albums in a row of music that shouldn't make this list, and that is a chunk of my life that I'll never get back.
Wallpaper music.
The Birth of the Uncool hated. (⌐■_■)
1.5
For soul music this is pretty soulless.
1. urban - 1 2. uuelcome - 1 3. zumthing - 0 4. azcenzion - 1 5. dance - 1 6. copz - 1.5 7. uuhatever - 1 8. company - 1.5 9. reunion - 1 10. lady - 0 11. zuite - 1
No
Nicht meine Richtung
I am completely incapable of enjoying this music, well performed/arranged/written as it might be. 1.5/5
Muzak
Schmaltzy, sexy, steamy. It’s groovy and he’s got a great voice, but nothing grabs me here. The only line I can remember is “until the cops come knockin” which just conjures negative things. I didn’t enjoy this one very much.
Ultra smooth, ranging between meaningless and repulsive.
Sweet, sweet loving... Lyden er så... absurd seksualiseret at det grænser til det komiske.
Øv, den her kan jeg godt nok ikke tåle. Fy for en skefuld fløde.... Det er for meget, men med endnu mere på.....
Ekki mitt te
Gash
Easy listening background music
So smooth it completely fell off
For me this is not music, but torture. Same shivers as when i had to play a Michael Jackson album on this list. Slicker than slick, every human emotion taken out of the music. Not often I have to give 1 star. This is not my life and hopefully will never be. Worse song, if possible between all others that I hated " Reunion.
The best thing I can say about this album is that my first impression of “…Til the Cops Come Knocking’” was about romanticizing/normalizing rape. Then I googled it and it seems I’m mistaken. Disaster averted, kinda.
Chill but didn't get into it. 1/5
The RnB piss take by Goldie Lookin Chain is less cheesy than this...
This just really isn't my speed. It's so boring for me. There's nothing for me to focus on, and it just seems to go on and on. The basslines can be good, but by the end of the song I'm far past ready to hear something else. 1.25/5
You managed to create an album with no hit songs. Congratulations.
Just no
The very beginning of this, before he started singing was good. It was all down hill from there.
An album so smooth that its front cover slips away from the CD case as soon as you buy it, and all you have left to show on Spotify, Wikipedia and the 1001 album app is the back cover. Also, an album so *square* that in 1996 it was named one of the year's 10 best albums in lists published by Rolling Stone, Time, and USA Today. Number of albums left to review: 537 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 221 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 108 Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more essential to me): 135 (including this one)
Pf
At it's best, but very infrequently it sounds like a chilled out Prince song. At other times it sounds like Luther vandross, but sadly always, it sounds like background music.
Overwrought and overpraised by later day folks who couldn't leave well enough alone, not appreciating those of us clever enough to ignore it when it was first released and waited for Erykah Badu to come and perfect neo soul.
Of the 415 albums so far. This is the worst…and I love almost everything
Eihän tätä pysty kuuntelemaan, kammottavaa hissimusiikkia.
Ihan hirveetä. Ei pystytty kuuntelemaan loppuun asti. 1/5
Nope, a load of old pants!
Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite is porn music for the common man. No thanks.
i would never listen to this
onpas karamellinväristä ja samettista, jenkkimusaa. en saa kiinni: ei herätä tunteita. (erikoinen kansi, miksi enari on siinä noin isolla?)
Ähinää hissimusan päälle. Loukkaavaa.
I didn’t actually finish this album bc I wasn’t enjoying it
It's an ok album till Dancewitme, it's very easy soul with just a little flair of funk. But starting from 'Til the Cops Come Knockin' the album collapses into generic RnB. Listened 3 times, and will not put this on ever again.
Wohlwollend könnte man sagen: was für eine exemplarische Platte hochwertiger Fahrstuhlmusik. Böswillig, und dazu neige ich hier eher: was für eine belanglose, seelenlose Neo-Soul-Platte. Grütze.
no
Not a huge fan of Neo Soul or R&B and I can't say Maxwell won me over here. That said, the bass on this record absolutely slaps and the album title is prettay funny. This here is some baby-making music indeed. 🌟
Not for me. Liked the bass in it.
I didn't like anything about this. Surprised anyone would sit down and listen to it
Powrot do hameryki i do czegos co powinno byc ratowane ogniem, bo jest to R&B, czyli najbardziej popularna muzyka czarna siejaca popularnosc glownie w latach 90 i wczesnch 00, porownac mozna spokojnie do disko polo, podobny pomysl na muzyke, ma sie podobac szerokiemu gronu niezbyt wymagajacych sluchaczy, a przy tym byc jak najbardziej nijaka, samego Maxwella nie kojarze, a nawet jesli bym gdzies slyszal, to pomylilbym z X r&b grajkami, jak wielkie moje rozczarowanie bylo juz na drugim traku, gdy uslyszalem ten tjunowany wokal, ktorego taretem jest tworzenie nierzadnic z zakonnic, takie wyczyny wokalne przewiaja sie od traku 2 do 11, ktory jest przed zamykajacym instrumentalem, bo 12 tez ratuje sie instrumentalnoscia, z krwawiajcymi uszami i cringujacym wyrazem twarzy udalo sie dotrwac do konca, jedynym pozytywnym momentem tego przesluchu byl otwierajacy the urban theme, dlatego tez leci na funkowa plejke, reszta plyty moze isc w ogien
No my kind of album!
Really didn't understand this album, was pretty much useless. Concept mon cul!
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