Tical

Rap.. no thanks

I have no real sense of what makes great rap or hip hop — a lot of it sounds quite similar to me, and that definitely applies to Method Man’s Tical. I’ve tried to get into Wu-Tang Clan over the years, mainly because I love “Gravel Pit,” but their sound has never quite clicked with me. This album has some strong moments and a few great beats, but overall the lyrics feel dated and nothing really grabs my attention. It’s just not my kind of music. Favourite track: “Mr. Sandman” was decent. Least favourite track: Most of the album feels dated — it’s just not for me. Album artwork: A fairly standard rap and hip-hop cover.

Not a rap fan

Album Nr. 86 Trifft meinen Geschmack überhaupt nicht.

Feels like some drunk kid slurring and trying to rap. Meth man.

Done meh

Vou falar nada, 0/10

# 601 : Tical Tical – Method Man’s Method for Making Me Nap Nope. This was bad. Hip-hop is already low on my personal list, and this album sits near the basement of that genre. Every track feels like the same beat copy-pasted across the runtime, with lyrics buried so deep you’d need a mining permit to find them. It’s not fun, it’s not engaging, and it’s definitely not something I’d revisit. I got bored fast—like, “checking how many tracks are left” bored. Method Man sounds like he’s going through the motions, and honestly, so was I by the end. Best Track (if you must): None. Unless you count the sound of silence after hitting stop. Verdict: ★ for endurance. File under “albums that make you question your life choices.”

boze negers

cRap

Garbage

Trying to open my musical tastes with these albums, but still struggling with rap. This one doesn't change that. With the same drum machine beat on all tracks, they all just merge into one, with an angry dude giving off bravado. Nothing deep in those lyrics, and not much from a musical perspective.

Such a cliche.

East Coast Hip-Hop. I don't care what coast it's from, I just don't see the point of yet another Hip-Hop album in this list.

Репчик

Just awful

slow rap? same shit. "nigga nigga what the fuck, fuck, fuck, kill a bitch, gun gun, fuck fuck fuck" not music. pure garbabge

Rubbish.

I can't help myself but I really can't connect to rap

Love his voice but this did nothing for me.

rapeo oscurito (que no se malinterprenten mis palabras, me refiero a la atmosfera) bases rarungas hacen cosas que me sacan de la cancion cada dos por tres. tiene una cancion buena "Bring the pain" me lo esperaba peor pero no ha sido tan malo como esperaba, muy repetitivo eso si

Aha, a Wu-Tang Clan member. I sure hope this won't be self-centred and full of sexist, violent lyricism that lacks any kind of musicality. Well, shoot. The music is pretty much devoid of any interesting melodic or harmonic musical ideas. Everything is looped, nothing is fresh or interesting - possibly barring the vocals. But even those are suspect. Method Man's vocals are touted by Vibe magazine as having "complexity", and Wikipedia describes it as a "distinctly smooth-yet-rugged voice". I get the feeling the authors are grabbing at anything to describe his voice, mostly because it's incredibly nondescript for the genre. Just monotone shouting with an East Coast accent. (A slight exception is Release Yo' Delf, which includes a pretty solid intro with actual singing. And a fun looped trumpet melody. For obvious reasons, it's one of the strongest tracks on Tical.) Sometimes Method Man invites a guest vocalist so they can both shout the same words at the same time with (vaguely) the same pitch and intonation. It's so bland, unchanging, and passionless. If you really must pick something that separates this record from the rest of the vastly-oversaturated hip-hop market, Method Man's voice doesn't cut it. And the collaborations don't bring much to the table either. The track All I Need may as well consist of Method Man double-tracking his own vocal. That's how insignificant Streetlife's contribution is. Or, maybe, it shows how inflexibly dull the composition itself is. What The Blood Clot isn't much better despite having not one but two guest musicians contributing. I don't pay much attention to lyrics unless they're very obviously brilliant or terrible. These were unremarkable in either direction – though I will criticise the frequent references to the Wu-Tang Clan and their 36 Chambers album. I get the sense it's done to mooch off the earlier record's commercial success to earn some credibility points with the listener. But it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. It's comparable to the Beatles releasing a new album after Abbey Road that includes near-identical music – except all lyrics are replaced with "We're the guys who made Abbey Road, yeah / Abbey Road's the best, and so is George Martin, hey / Oooh, my girl loves George Martin and I feel fine. yeah yeah yeah". It's also analogous to early-90s hip-hop artists having half their lyrics be shoutouts to Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg. It's a cheap method to make the music "feel" more important than it is. The song Bring The Pain is saved entirely by its hummed backing vocal. Maybe Method Man should've run with that idea, because it's clearly something his audience appreciates (judging by relative popularity). 1/5 Key tracks: Bring The Pain, Release Yo' Delf, Stimulation

1.5 - since lyrics aren’t a priority to me when listening to music I’m sure a lot of what makes them album great was lost on me. With that being said the backing tracks were not interesting in the slightest and dry repetitive

Not my thang

Not bad but not for me. 1/5

Not for me.

not my thing

Can’t tolerate this

No.

Bring the Pain Release Yo'delf

The shittest kind of rap. Just samples heavily looped with unimaginative talking and random sound effects. There’s so much original hip hop on the list, this is not that

East Coast HipHop with mumbled vocals, and repetitive beats. After the first song I was hoping it would end soon.

Disgusting lyrically.

Another american hip hop dog shit

Very simple: Terribly boring.

Well I know it was too good to last but it’s ages since I’ve had the misfortune of having a rap crap hipperty hopperty album served up. Despite the break my view of this utter rubbish has not changed. Please no more!! But I guess that there is plenty more of it coming my way since I have yet to hit the half way point of this process. 1/5 14/4/25

Oscar Wilde would struggle to find words to describe how bad this is.

This wasn’t floating around at the time on tape. Never heard it. There’s a reason. It’s not very good.

It was bad. I don't remember enjoying a second of this album. It's a strong 1, almost 2 though since this album didn't immediatly make me want to turn it off but after not long I wanted it to end.

This album is a mess, even for 1994 rap standards. Just lazy, uninspired, predictable, bland tracks. 1993’s The Chronic smokes this.

I would give this album 0 stars if that was an option. I have no idea how this made it onto the list. Absolutely dreadful!

Kudt

'sfleafzy'... mc Articulation Distorder

Love Wu Tang, love Method Man, but this album is objectively bad

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Rapper in the crapper. I never considered rap as music.

I could not get through it. The beats were not enough for me to listen to the rapping. Will not listen again.

no

more rap, do not like

Pas du tout ma cam. Ennuyeux .

2/10 Monotonous

Trash

Not in my edition of the book! 1994. 1 star. (C)Rap. Tedious, dated, misogynistic, obnoxious, foul-mouth rubbish. Give it another 50 years and people will wonder why anyone ever wanted to listen to it.

Skipped it sorry.

Not my bag. I tried.

Dogshit

Fav: All I Need Least Fav: Tical There’s a lot of hip hop albums that that I’ve enjoyed hearing for the first time through this list, this was really not one of them

Gruseliges Rap Album ohne Sing und Verstand. Es gibt aber auch nichts irgendwie positives über das Album zu sagen. Shit, shiter, stitiest ..

Really didn’t enjoy

This was painful 1 ⭐️

Óþarflega leiðigjarnt.

Doesn’t speak to me

Normally don't mind east-coast rap but this just didn't do it for me

I just can’t adapt to this type of music. Repetitive and negative

Not my thing at all

Yawn…

If Mr Man were ever on Sesame Street, his letters of the day would certainly be the letters "N" and "F". And for the record, this is the exact point at which I thought "no thanks": "The ism helps to stimulate my pugilism I bust rhymes like jizm Impregnate the rhythm with the wisdom"

I hate this early/mid 90s “I think I’m a gangster” rap. I can’t get past all the misogyny and “tough guy” braggadocio posturing. The title is so discordant with the content of the record.

This person keeps teasing is with an introduction that is musical. Then we proceed into the standard hip-hop routine: repetitive beat with person talking. There are some who claim this isn't gangsta rap. Let's see, does he go on foul-mouthed rants threatening violence. That's a big yes. Same shit. Same rating.

I did not finish this. I gave up at the beginning of the fifth track when I realized that I was going to be listening to the same effing song for the fifth time. This should heve been a single (actually half a single as there is not even enough material here for a B side). After about two minutes you have really heard the whole album.

Ugly songs

Not really a fan

Puh - nothing for my ears. Some beat on each song. No, I'm not a hip-hop fan

Nope!

I also gave this hip-hop/rap album a chance. I can't get anything out of the genre.

ugh! 👎🏼

I would give it zero stars

Not my kind of thing

DNF: I really wanted to give it an honest try, but I only made it about halfway through. I really want to read the 5 star reviews to see what people love about it, but the lyrics are just so hard for me to get into. 1 star for now, but I might update after another listen if the high reviews intrigue me.

A hard pass

when listening to music i‘m really not listening to the lyrics but more to the vibe/feel and melody. so lyric heavy music like rap/hip hop is rarely my thing like in this case. Some head-nodding beats on this but nothing’s really standing out to me

The violent lyrics made it impossible for me to enjoy this album. Not my thing.

Incoherent mess over a drum machine.

I’d rather have a root canal than listen to this again.

First listen Saved 1/13

The background tracks were atrocious in my opinion, with “Mr. Sandman” as an example of a particularly terrible one.

I finally noticed the essence of gangsta rap is that you have to claim you constantly smoke weed but you can never claim to enjoy it.

Meh.

So incredibly boring and one dimensional

Pretty lackluster and boring, even compared to other hip hop albums I’ve heard on the list.

More rap. The world already has too much. This is rubbish.

Man, this list just loves to sneak in all the Wu-Tang members one by one don't they...and I haven't liked a-one of them (Raekwon, Ghostface, Wu) - I could go back and try to connect lines between them but who cares. As for Method Man...I'm not a fan of his rapping (monotoned), and I don't like the production (almost lo-fi bass heavy) nor much of the music on this one. Sounds like a winner! 2/10 1 star

♾️

Ugh. Double dose of rap. I just can't enjoy this genre.

Look, I like Wu-Tang. Saw them at the Enmore. And I liked the RZA album we rated - Liquid Swords(1995). But I found this repetitive & boring. And the Gloria Gaynor re-write was rubbish. Can’t believe this was so successful.

1/5 Ugh. I hate this. I don't like rap on the best of days, but repetitive off key singing, with n-bombs being dropped constantly.... Is a whole new low. I have heard of Method Man, but I didn't know I was going to be so disappointed. I kinda liked All I Need. It was a "love song" so that makes sense. Overall, just talentless pointless angry droning.

Sounds like a very tedious production in a genre I best avoid.

I don't like when people take other people's songs and dramatically change them.

o.o wut 0/10 no brain lyrics

I'm on a 1 star review roll so sorry Method Man.

Boring and valueless

Pass

It isn’t my kind of music, couldn’t listen tot the whole album….🙁

not my thing

Rubbish Cover art 1/5

Part de la que sembla tan inevitable com innecessària quota de hip hop random i sense interés de la llista dels 1001

Not for me.

Hip-Hop. Ya know one - ya know 'em all. 1/5

Met HipHop moet men bij mij van goede huize komen wil het indruk maken. Method Man komt helaas uit een achterstandswijkje...

Bah...

This project has helped me to be more open-minded about music and to find stuff I like in genres I'd mostly rejected, such as heavy metal and hip hop. I have found albums I really like and have learned to distinguish between sub-genres. (Hip hop is a really broad category, I've found.) For example, I've learned that I am much more inclined towards West Coast Hip Hop than East Coast. To quote Wikipedia, "In contrast to other styles, East Coast hip hop music has prioritized complex lyrics for attentive listening rather than beats for dancing." I like dancing better. I attentively listened to the lyrics of this album, and other than the occasional Schoolhouse Rock reference, I found them distressing...and maybe not so complex. Violent, destructive lyrics without a whiff of humanity or redemption, accompanied by a complete lack of catchy beats to make you want to move. You can't win them all, and there are reasons I thought I didn't like hip hop. This is exhibit A.

Too dark for me! I only really listen to upbeat hip hop, and even then it's not my favourite, so I'm not surprised that I didn't enjoy this one. Mary J. Blige came in at the end and saved it a little with 'I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need to Get By'.

nah

Not my sort of thing at all.

I don't like this one either

Niet mijn muziek

Boring and bland.

No. This just reinforced my idea that this kind of music is dick-swinging about how cool the vocalist is, whilst never actually contributing a memorable melody or possessing a good voice.

Language

Are you fucking kidding me?! No way.

meh

Gangster N-word garbage

method man's public personna kinda makes you want to like this. but nope. this shit's cringe whack

Black person

Just listened to a bit of the first song. Not for me. Don't get it.

Nope

Really not my thing

Some catchy bits but not for me. What's with the piano in a different key?!

Rap raro de cojones

Very boring repetitive beats. Decent transfers between tracks. Sorry method man, not interested.

Didn’t like it. I feel so removed from this music that I don’t feel qualified to offer any commentary at all.

Excellent