Post Orgasmic Chill

This band were a big deal in the mid 90's UK rock press. Overall more style over substance, a couple of good tracks aside it's meat and potatoes rock. 'Charlie big potato' the clear standout. A dissapointment.

Headache

Just stop already with the parade of UK bands that no one has ever heard of and whose life time sales couldn’t match the weekend of the truly great bands. Dear God just stop.

Why was this even in the book?

I think there’s a lot here that’s good. But the execution almost never hits. Feels like a knockoff evanescence at times. Vocals are super timid and flat out bad

Nice

ljudi koji na ovoj stranici hvale ovaj album isticat će da je pjevačica "kvir crnkinja" ili tako nešto, što ne samo da je potpuno suludo da se uopće ističe nego je sasvim nebitno za samu glazbu. o glazbi pak neće reći ništa jer nije dobra. u najboljim, rijetkim trenutcima ovo zvuči kao evanescence ili rage against the machine, a u najgorim, češćim trenutcima kao linkin park ili nickelback (da, kao nickelback!, upravo tako). i da, znam da ovo prethodi bendovima koje sam nabrojio (osim ratm-u), ali uspoređujem čisto da ilustriram kako zvuči (a ne zvuči dobro). kako je ovo "clit-rock" kad je ovoliko zakurac? ljude zasljepljuje (u biti zaglušuje!) slika, tj. ideja iza ovog benda (koja im se zbog nekog meni neshvatljiva razloga silno sviđa) i ne čuju da zvuči podjednako loše kao i "bijelci" ili štaliveć kojima će bez zadrške jebati sve po spisku. raspiso sam se ko idiot, vjerojatno dosta nesuvislo, no hoću reći: slušajte glazbu po ušnom, a ne po rasno-rodnom (hah!) ključu malo sam se smirio pa mislim da ću ovome dati ipak objektivniju dvojku. album se prema kraju malo smiruje pa nije sve u svemu TOLIKO loš. najveći kompliment koji mu mogu dati jest da na neke (kasnije dijelove) zvuči kao cranberries za siromašne, što najviše dolazi do izražaja u pjesmi »you'll follow me down«, koju bih, kad bih baš morao, izdvojio kao najbolju i daleko najslušljiviju pjesmu. no i dalje nije baš dobro sve skupa... [odslušao i napisao 27/10/26]

To be fair, I could not listen to all this so I might should give it a one star. Hard to say.

Ok what i said on last one I like when its a woman rocking #feminist

A very good so called "alternative" album...nothing more I guess.

This is my teen jam. I was introduced to Skunk Anansie by a friend around the time of Stoosh. When this album dropped it was amazing and was on repeat for months and months! Great to listen to it again, and it's aged pretty well, if you ask me.

This is why first impressions are important kids After a rough start, they settled in quite a bit with the more soulful, melodious vocals; she’s got an amazing voice when she tries to sound good and thankfully that’s most of this album. I dig the themes for the most part, and I do genuinely enjoy the instrumentation since there’s clearly a lot of talent at play. Also wow the variety’s great on this one, every song feels unique Like I said before, the beginning of this album is ROUGH. The first two songs sounded like just a worse version of the punk I usually hate and I was genuinely thinking I was gonna have to sit through an easy one star album. Her voice is absolutely not suited for that Between the…let’s say abrasive artist and album combo and the horrid start I enjoyed this one way more than I thought I would, but I can’t pretend like that didn’t happen. I’m glad they got the stinkers out of the way and let the listener enjoy the rest of the album, but this would be a much better album without them

Never heard of this band before. At first, I kind of liked their style of rock, but as the album went on, I found out that really wasn’t their style of rock. They’re kind of all over the place. And I didn’t like most of the places they went.

Just such a great album overall! I love the vocals so much and confident they sound, and just everything tickles my brain sm :)

1.4 If there were ever a reason to burn a book, it would be for including this piece of shit in your book about 1001 albums you must hear before you die.

One of the top Hard rock from the UK of the lates 90s early 2ks

Went into this album completely blind and I was pleasantly surprised. I liked that after the first very hard hitting songs (like the very evanescense-esque first track) the album gave you some space to breathe. It was a very strong collection of songs and just about the perfect length.

There are a small handful of great songs and the rest are ok. 3.5

Another for the “I knew I’d stayed away from this bad for a reason” list. Unfortunately this is not my thing at all. Not even a little.

Good, but did not like the vocalist

Just meh.

This album was frustrating. There are some very good spots (though few), and a lot of bleh. Screaming and terrible lyrics ruin the experience.

I like some skunk anansie songs but none of them are on this album.

This was unlistenable. Pick a genre! Just a horrible mess of an album.

Awful. Annoyingly awful. I'm angry now. Who thinks this album makes ANY list?

Better than Coldplay

I saw this band at a festival show about the time this album came out. I was a teenager, but I remember thinking to myself that this band was not very good. After listening to this album as an adult, I am proud of my teenage self. This album is not very good.

Several of these tracks sound like they should have been in a turn of the century vampire movie, like Underworld or Queen Of The Damned, so I’m kinda shocked to have never heard of did this group before. I guess their first two albums technically came out in the gap between The Crow (1994) and the movies mentioned above, and maybe they were just unlucky to miss the boat. Crazy, because I’m sure if my highschool girlfriend had heard this band she would have made them at least 33% of her personality. And had that happened and Skunk Anansie was in regular rotation in her car during highschool/college, I’d probably hate hearing it today. Fortunately, things didn't go that way and I'm able to enjoy this a lot. It's simultaneously new and nostalgic in a way that isn't weighed down by any specific associations. Certainly going to go down a bit of a rabbit-hole and check out other works. "Charlie Big Potato" feels so huge, it's hard to believe it's not the genesis of bands like Evanescence. I think I really get into it when the sound shifts punkier later in the record.

Pretty nice honestly! Skunk Anansie is a name i’ve heard for years but i could not for the life of me tell you what they sounded like before today. Skin’s got a great voice! She does a lot with it on this record, but also she doesn’t do A LOT with it if that sense? I think the style of this band kind of unfortunately keeps her in that box for the whole runtime. This is one you kind of “get” a couple songs in and not one i see myself revisiting.

Can appreciate it, definitely liked it more upon relistens. One to revisit.

Was not into the first half of this but found myself enjoying the back half of this album quite a bit!

A bit jangly. Super evocative of a specific cultural moment and sound that I strongly associate with The Matrix. I preferred the moments when they got softer and/or more operatic.

7/10 Highlights: Charlie Big Potato On My Hotel TV The Skank Heads And This Is Nothing That I Think I Had

Honestly a bold choice. Skin has a big powerful voice, a confrontational style, and a reputation that is high while the household name recognition is low. If we are taking this project to not only mean “these are the best albums” but “these are artists and albums you owe it to yourself to learn about,” Skunk Anansie is a blessing to the list. There are a million Vines. There is one Skin. Despite this, for me previous attempts with the band have been mixed, though their song “Weak” was a revelation. But I am immediately impressed with how a song called Charlie Big Potato can be so compelling. It brings in a lot of influences… it leans a little nu metal without being intolerable. It has a layer of trip hop under everything. Skin is not Beth Gibbons, but she can mine similar veins in her own way. But the chill lasts briefly. “On My Hotel TV” brings a rage that actually stems from something real (unlike the milieu of angry rock at the turn of the century). It's the classic “oh, look, the media is fucking trash now that we have a bit of fame” narrative. It's a bit jarring, but as the album coalesces, that side of it gets more clear. There's a reason Skin chose her mononym. Skunk Anansie is a vehicle that runs on a very specifically black feminism, a very “i am going to shock you by repeating what you say about me” vibe. Again, it's a bold choice when so many of the albums here are the blandest white men on earth. Who picked this among a bunch of folks who thought three whole Kings of Leon albums were necessary? It's a rare palate cleanser. And of course, she can back it up. “Tracy's Flaw” runs the gamut of her skills, that wavering sultry voice of late 90s electronica, coming right into the raw power of Rock vocals. That back and forth is part of the charm. It never really overstays its welcome in any one area, and it does what it intends to do throughout. It manages to be well produced but unpolished, and it definitely feels like growth compared to rawer early work. I was excited to hear this, but i think it surprised me into a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

omg. a total surprise for me. i thought i was going to hate this after "charlie big potato" (which honestly wasn't that bad), and then this album felt so fire all of a sudden. i think "we don't need who you think you are" is the best track on here. generally i don't listen to metal, but sometimes some albums stand out - this being one of them.

At times it felt like solid 90's alternative. At times it was less enjoyable. Overall a resounding meh.

This is a really unique blend of genres that just doesn't really come together in the end. The first few songs make use of metal riffs, with sounds that span from funk metal in "On My Hotel T.V." to alternative metal that sounds straight out of the mid-2000s. The songs are heavy, but the riffs aren't super interesting. The album slowly starts to ditch those sounds in favor of strings and dramatic, swelling climaxes on songs like "Secretly" and "You'll Follow Me Down," and those songs are largely overdone and a bit tiring. Some electronic trip hop trappings and soulful vocals, add to a mix of ideas that don't quite come together. "The Skank Heads" is a quick, energetic adrenaline rush, but too many other songs are drawn-out or feature sudden genre shifts. This has plenty of ideas and attitude but not enough that hits.

★★★★☆ “Charlie Big Potato” is a killer opener and easily my favorite track. The whole album has a very late-'90s alternative-rock sound, mixing heavy guitars, punk, industrial and more melodic radio-rock moments. Skin is a fantastic vocalist, and several songs really benefit from starting restrained and gradually building into something much bigger. The album does start to feel a little stale toward the end. The songs are still good individually, but after a while I wanted a palate cleanser and a little more variety. Thankfully, it finishes strongly enough that it never completely loses me. Overall, this is a consistently good album with very few weak spots, even if nothing else quite reaches the opener. 7/10. 4 stars.

★★½

I have never heard of this band in my life, but I was shocked at how much I enjoyed this. I am definitely the target audience here though.

i tried. i couldnt.

Nope

Hoooooly crap

Excitingly untamed and fresh

Alternative hard rock? Interesting.

Kind of dig it, kind of like Evanescence meets Garbage meets PJ Harvey

Starts strongly and then sort of fizzles out into dullness.

Christ this album covers some serious bases. I've never in my life heard of this record or this band and I'm amazing that people don't rave about both to this day. This kind of thing is precisely what I signed up for. It's got range, it's got passion and it's got weirdness.

Banging album even if at times it leans too much into butt-rock territory. Which I guess is fitting as the singer described this as "clit-rock". Some nice hard rock playing with a great frontwoman

Performed with passion, but that isn’t enough to make me even remotely enjoy it.

Neither chill or orgasmic

Amazing

Sorry but production is so thin and dated

This is an album that I listened to and did not hate. It has no business on this list, but again, I did not hate it. I mention that I did not hate it because there are at least 100 albums on this list that have no business being here and that I do, in fact, hate.

when i heard the amen break i was like !!! and then the song started for real and i was like ??? i can never get into this "alt" thing where the guitars are heavy metal but the melody is drawn out operatic vocals. i like the moments when it gets more chill hop and adult, the track tracy's flaw is a standout. good album art and cool band name doesn't hurt. im neutral on the riot grrl lyrics for the 1001 albums meta, just happy to listen to something i haven't heard in a thousand southern bars or bbc shows and that isn't painfully milquetoast

Somewhat interesting genre blend, but blending genres alone isn’t enough to make it a great listen. Vocals were shaky, production was flat, and many risks did not pay off. A lot to like, but a lot to hate too.

Unexpectedly aggressive rock styles, sometimes it was too much but other times it was just the right amount of in your face.

Raro…empieza como de nu metal muy late 90s y luego deriva en una onda popera, sin perder guitarras y batería electrónica y ese sonido, pero canciones súper fresas y melosas.

1999 alternative metal, Paramore We do not need who you think you are

This did nothing for me. Granted, I'm feeling under the weather and in a piss-poor mood so I know that doesn't help

Ass

really liked this one! easy to hear and sound is really dynamic

Painfully trying to hard with the lyrics … solid guitars, though 2

Groupe inconnu. Metal à chanteuse, mais avec trop de chant (même si il est très bien exécuté) par rapport à l’accompagnement. Les morceaux dynamiques sont plutôt pas mal, mais d’autres sont un peu mous. Et les morceaux ont tendance à être un peu long sans être assez variés. Ceci dit l’album est plus intéressant qu’une grande majorité des albums de la liste, je pourrais donc l’écouter de nouveau. =>3/5

ready to run through a wall for any woman. my only complaint was the vocals felt a bit too dry in the mix, though it may have been my speakers. I really liked this otherwise.

Neat

I can tell this is well done it just isn’t my bag baby.

I've never heard of this band and I'm really impressed by them, there's a particular way of producing rock bands in the early 2010s that focused on filling the stereo with volume, bands like System of a Down used to do this so much, and now it's maybe less common or considered a 2000s and 2010s nu-metal thing, I find that they do this in a very innovative and unique way though

Rate: 9/10.

Du très lourd

This is good. I like it.

I had never heard of this band before today, and honestly, I think I could have gone without them (which I suppose defeats the exact purpose of this list). Obviously, the vocals are impressive, but everything feels a little too polished to me. I also got tricked by the first song into thinking that this was going to be trip hop or at least Prodigy-adjacent - what I got instead is probably my least favorite kind of rock. Leans too metal, is too showy in all respects, and paved the way for shit like Evanescence. I can't say whether there were any songs I particularly enjoyed, and I will most certainly not be listening to anything from this album again. Unimpressive despite trying really hard to be exactly that. Favorite tracks: none, sorry

As far as artists go that I've never heard of on 1001, this one is actually quite good. Very impressed by the guitar riffs on this - it ain't easy to create new riffs for the world to hear post mid-90s. Vocals on point as well.

Not super into this, though I do appreciate that there's a decent amount of stylistic variation from song to song here. They're not settling for being just a hard rock band. But sounds a little too polished for my taste. "And This Is Nothing That I Thought I Had" stood out as a fun track, and interestingly has the least number of plays by far.

I'd never heard of this self-described "clit-rock" group, but I always like hearing bands that are huge elsewhere but not well known in the U.S. That's a little surprising to me, because Skunk Anansie would fit in well among various American/Canadian hard-rock acts doing the second-tier festival circuit. You know, the ones with other bands I don't like. While I found some parts of this interesting—and I always like seeing non-white dude-bros in this space—I was ready for Post-Orgasmic Chill (the album, not the phenomenon) to be over before it was.

What a load of malarkey, I don’t get them at all, hard to focus

Two things can be true at once: I do think Skunk Anansie are underrated, and I don’t think they ever produced an album that NEEDS TO BE HEARD BEFORE YOU DIE.

One of the most wretched recordings I’ve ever been subjected to. At first I thought they were talented if a little misguided but I soon found they were entirely misguided and just a little talented. Each song is a foray into some other terrible 90’s genre. You want some Hootie and the Blowfish? They got that. What something Korn-y (sic)? They got that too. Sheryl Crow? Natalie Imbruglia? They got all that shit and more. Each song more unlistenable than the last. I think my Spotify may have randomized the play order but who gives a shit. Nothing could have saved this.

Total unnecessary, pointless girl-korn nonsense. All but unlistenable.

me gustó bastante más de lo que pensaba, grata sorpresa, capaz es para 3½ pero puede crecer sin dudas a 4 estrellas

Pretty decent, liked the harder vibes of it!

God, Skin just has one of the best voices in music doesn't she? A superlative mix of harsh rock, punk, hard hitting themes and soulful slower songs to keep the album varied, there's not a bad song to be seen. Also, it's so cool reading all the reviews of people discovering Skunk Anansie for the first time - of you enjoyed this, they're still going and their album from last year proves they still got it! :)

5/

lead sounded kinda like bjork to me. In general not my favorite but thought it kinda neat Rating:5.5 Fave: Cheap Honesty

Not my thing. This made me think of Nickleback. Unfair? Probably.

Hope, definitely didn’t need to hear that before I died. Maybe right before.

I kind of inexplicably dug it. As it went on, it really grew on me. I don’t know.

5/10 An odd album and an odd choice for this list. Half the songs are the uninspired hard Britrock from the late 90s, including a terrible faux-RAtM that is embarrassing. The other half of songs are tuneful stabs at commercial rock. Neither half is very good and it is wholly included on the charisma of Skin, I assume. If only she'd had good songs to work with.

High 3. Engaging and energetic.

High energy, high 3

Unashamedly dramatic and bombastic, Skunk Anansie are putting on a show, especially lead singer Skin who has ample natural charisma to drive forward the whole project, though the band are great and put a lot of energy behind her. I don't know if the songs themselves are always that interesting but I like the mix of approaches, alt rock at some points, power pop and elements of trip hop at others, and I like that they are not afraid to get emotionally raw, heavy and angry. Its entertaining!

This Skunk Anansi gets a high 3, blends styles I don't usually love but really effectively and excitingly

Enjoyed this

Hollow Man brought me here

Not for me

Good album. Not very impressed after a first listen, but it got better after a couple repetitions. And, in any case, Skin's voice is really good. Very good singer. Some tracks I enjoyed: "Charlie Big Potato", "Oh My Hotel T.V." (probably my favourite), "We Don't Need Who You Think You Are" (great vocals), "Secretely" or "You'll Follow Me Down". Overall, this is in the range of 3,5 stars.

Wow this shocked me. I was dreading this album when I saw the title and the first few seconds are filled with a sitar. Which isn’t automatically a bad thing, but maybe I’ve been burnt but Indian music on this list already. My dread quickly turned to joy though as the album rocks hard. On My Hotel TV follows where the album truly shines. The other rocky songs like The Skank Heads and Cheap Honestly really do it for me too. And so do the slower songs. Lately being my favourite. Loved this 5⭐️

i enjoyed it! i don't think it's something i'd really return to but i think skin has a beautiful voice that i find more compelling for this kind of music than what i've heard in the past, and the slower more emotional songs are really beautiful. fav tracks: Lately; You'll Follow Me Down

Interesting fusion of genres

Charlie big potato - 3 On my hotel tv - 3 We don't need who you think you are - 3 Tracy's flaw - 3 The skank heads - 3 Lately - 2 Secretly - 3 Good things don't always come to you - 3 Cheap honesty - 3 You'll follow me down - 2 And this is nothing that i thought i had - 3 I'm not afraid - 3