Crazysexycool

Never been a huge fan of R&B and this is not the album that will change my mind. It's pretty long and the interludes don't add much. To me, it's fairly samey throughout too. There are some really good songs on here but I wasn't too interested.

BANGER NO NOTES

absolute classic with a few too many interludes. also why did one of them end with a twenty second poop joke.

It's fine, not really my jam. Very apt title, whoever came up with that for these three was genius. Never really listened to this one as a concept album before.

If I could give this negative stars I would

Blast from the past! I listened to TLC in college, but never any of their whole albums. This will shake up my algorithm nicely!

one of the horniest albums ever. smash.

Good r&b.

Lazyboringdull

Got Waterfalls is such a banger. Few more of them and we’d have been in fiver territory. Simpsons: Yes

The album isn't that bad but there are too many interludes.

It was fine, not my usual jam though.

The full-fledged songs were nice and smooth and I particularly loved Creep. I could've done without the interludes, which were filler at best and mood killers at worst (the toilet one, eesh)

Really good vibes

Soundtrack to youth

This actually wasn’t as bad as I imagined it would be. A ton of filler? Yes…and honestly, I think at the point where half the tracks are interludes, those interludes lose their punch. But there are a fair amount of hits on here, almost none of which I love, but i understand why someone might. Here’s my main takeaway from listening to Crazysexycool: these chicks are super into porking. I do like the song, “Red Light Special”. The rest of it, meh. But that song jibes with me for whatever reason. 3/5

90's hip hop

Not as good as you would hope based on the quality of the singles...

I don’t listen to this kind of music but this was ok. Can't say I loved it.

Very funky and sensual album. This has a very strong flow and fun melodies throughout the whole album. TLC is said to be one of the best girl group albums of the ’90s, so I can definitely understand the influence. I wasn’t born yet to be the audience for it when it came out, so I don’t have any nostalgia attached to it but I really enjoyed it. I love the 90s R&B and hip-hop beats and grooves. The songs are smooth, soulful, and quite minimal, the blend of R&B, funk, hip hop, and a bit of soul is done very well. The production overall is very warm, silky, very groovy and punchy at the same time. Most songs revolve around sensuality, but the female rapping adds a nice touch to the album. There’s even a Prince cover and a feature from André 3000, which was a really cool. What stands out most to me though is their chemistry as a trio, every one of them bring a distinct voice and energy. Overall, I enjoyed this album, it’s laid back but not boring, fun yet emotional when it needs to be. If anything, the only downside for me is that it runs a bit long, 16 tracks is a lot for me. A few songs stood out. I already knew Waterfalls which is their main banger, apart from that I enjoyed Let's do it again, Creep, Kick your Game, Case of the Fake People, Red Light Special, If I was your Girlfriend and Sumthin' Wicked This Way Comes

Is this where Britney Spears found inspiration for her creaking sound? I don’t know, but one of the singers on this does it too. I find it mildly annoying. The production is quite good. The lyrics are laughable. Waterfalls has a catchy chorus that I remember from back in the day, even though I was in to some very different music. It’s a two for me. 2/5

Totally not my musical taste, but it's overall enjoyable start to finish, with Waterfalls obviously being a bona-fide classic. I feel it's very close to a 5, but to want to relisten to this I'd need a bit less filler.

Cover 5 Classic 90s hip hop. Better than the radio hits. Yes the radio hits are great (Creep and Waterfalls) but more than just those.

8.5/10

En su momento las escuché en la radio, creo que era un grupo más serio que la imagen que daban, cosas del machismo en la música. Recordaba la muerte de una de las componentes y creí que era algo más truculento, pero he visto que fue un accidente de coche ¿Cuántos músicos se ha llevado la carretera? Bastante bien, me he guardado Creep, Waterfall (creo que esta ya la conocía) y Sumthin' Wicked This Way Comes.

Not really my thing

This was a repeat album for me since I first heard it before the start of the group. It was also the first album I gave a 5. After ~450 albums and a much broader sample size, I was curious to relisten and see if I'd still rate it that highly. And to my surprise, it still holds up. All of the tracks were pretty catchy. And if it didn't have any interludes, it'd be even better.

I thought I was going to like this. I don't. Vapid pop. Wasn't this the band with Scrub? I guess not. Some of the more hip-hop infused tracks and interludes were good, I guess. Waterfalls is the highlight track, for sure. Bounced between 2 and 3, but rounding down on this one.

Waterfalls is the obvious highlight and huge hit, but the album as a whole is a real disappointment. It's an excessively long, one-note, shallowly horny album, with some of the most generic R&B beats and lame skits, even by early 90s standards.

Loved, great album

Classic

Oh lord, it’s my early teens coming back to haunt me! This album was so ubiquitous in the mid-90s that even a grunge-addled rural kid like me couldn’t avoid it. And guess what? It still, as the kids say, slaps.

Incredibly horny, Waterfalls is quite possibly the song I heard most in the '90s and I'm not mad at it. 4/5

Fun

A prime example of an album that is carried by its hits. Now don't get me wrong "Creep" and "Waterfalls" are massive hits and bops to end all bops but they do a lot of heavy lifting. The rest of the tracks leave a lot to be desired, especially when compared to those two tracks. Also I don't think we needed 4 interlude tracks.

An okay pop album that was hard to escape at the time.

This one is right up my alley as a big 90s hip hop fan. I loved the beats, and the rapping was excellent as well. Andre 3000 making an appearance at the end was a nice surprise as well. My main gripe is one that unfortunately plagues many rap records of this era, which is the skits. There were quite a few, and while funny on first listen, I think they will adversely affect my desire to listen through it in full again. Random sex noises in other songs were a distraction as well. Still, a killer album by one of the most iconic rap groups ever. I was glad to dig past the hits.

When this dropped, TLC stood shoulder to shoulder with the era’s power girl groups, their sound unapologetically feminine, defiantly Black, and smooth as velvet. Listening now, though, the album feels less like a door being broken open and more like a room being polished to perfection. Maybe when it first dropped, it sounded like the future. There are glimmers of that vision still: “Creep” slinks with jazzy ease, effortless and irresistible. “Waterfalls,” meanwhile, remains anthemic. Yet, CrazySexyCool feels tethered to its decade. Compare it to Aaliyah’s final, posthumous album, also orange-hued, guided by Jermaine Dupri & Timbaland, and you sense the leap from polished present to prophetic future. Aaliyah sounded like tomorrow. TLC, like a perfectly tuned version of the now. And then there’s their cover of Prince’s “If I Was Your Girlfriend.” Stripped of its androgynous ache, it lands flat. Prince’s version shimmered with gender fluidity and daring. TLC’s take feels rinsed clean, safer somehow. CrazySexyCool may no longer sound revolutionary but it still sounds like a moment that mattered.

Nice

Could not finish this.

Waterfalls gets this to a 3

I liked it for the most part. It gets bumped up s a whole star as my wife sung me every song since she listened to it when she was younger.

- Happy to finally get an album by women - there needs to be many more on this list. - I didn’t have this album when I was growing up, but I knew Creep and Waterfalls. Really happy to hear the whole thing. The music is sexy, like everyone is saying; it is smooth and has nice melodies and harmonies. Lives up to it’s name.

It was okay. I'm not really the target market for this kind of music I think. It didn't do anything to change my mind on this but I can see the value of has. Waterfalls is a song I remember from my youth.

This is a great album includes some absolute classics.

Has a few cool songs 3.5

Much better than expected. Liked some of the deep cuts better than the hits.

this album delivered as promised… some songs are crazy, some songs are sexy, and some songs are cool.

Some good songs, but talk about overstaying your welcome. This album feels incredibly long, and the cheesy interludes (which from previous albums on this list I've come to realise are a staple of 90s hip hop) don't add anything of value. Waterfalls is catchy as ever, but I'm not surprised that I've never heard anything else from this album before

I owe you an apology TLC, I wasn't really familiar with your game. Not that I was expecting this to be bad, but aside from liking No Scrubs (and mostly because its great for karaoke), I just was expecting to be ambivalent to this one. But there are some vibes/bops on this thing. Songs like Creep and Case of the Fake People. Obviously Waterfalls is a classic. Obviously there are tracks that I just am not into, such as Red Light Special. I think it was Todd in the Shadows in his review of Adina Howard's Freak Like Me (fantastic song, BTW. Break that out at karaoke too) where he said a lot of artists trying to be sexual felt like they were trying too hard and like it was work (which is the vibe I get from Red Light Special) whereas Freak Like Me sounds like Howard is having fun and being legitimately effortless about it. The interludes honestly could have been cut, especially Sexy - Interlude. I'm not going to hold them against the record in my rating, but if I were to, that one in particular would knock it down to a 3 by itself. Just horrid. Onto some more good though, I don't think they were directly or intentionally influenced by TLC, but honestly you can see the through-line from TLC to acts like Eminem and Kanye even. It's pretty impressive. But yeah, went into this expecting it to just be OK and I'd never touch it again, but found myself enjoying it quite a bit.

Tiene cosas muy buenas, aunque lo que pasa con estos discos es que pecan de golosos. Se les va largo

I wasn’t looking forward to listening to this album, it’s not my normal choice of genre. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. The album creates a mellow atmosphere that washes over the listener and leaves them feeling chilled and relaxed.

This is quite a bit hornier than I was expecting. And there's definitely some 90s production style going on in here, but I actually don't hate it for once. Which means, I'm either growing and developing as a 90s music listener, or this is actually a really good 90s album. I'm going with the latter. I'm really surprised at how much Waterfalls stands out in the album. I figured it would be the best song, but it fits really well in the context of the album, while also being kind of by far the best song on the album. It gets a low 4 from me, but hey, that's still a 4. Favorite Song(s): Kick Your Game, Waterfalls

Whilst I can appreciate Waterfalls - I guess due to repeated exposure and healthy slice of nostalgia the rest of the album was largely forgettable and not my jam.

Crazysexycool It’s a bit dated in places, and the r’n’b cheese works its way through the surface a little too often, the guitar on Red Light Special, the male rapping on Kick Your Game or Take Our Time for example, but for most part I enjoyed this. The polished r’n’b production allied to some harder edged hip hop rhythms and percussion works really well, and there’s no doubt they are excellent performers, with some great harmonies and rapping and in Creep and Jason Waterfalls there are two absolute belters on here. Those are the two standout tracks, but they are supported by some solid r’n’b-hip-hop-pop like Diggin’ On You, the rhythmically interesting take on If I Was Your Girlfriend, Switch and the very good Sumthin’ This Way Comes. But it’s not without low points, the aforementioned Kick Your Game, the skits (apart perhaps from the Busta Rhymes one, and I’m in two minds about the one where she shits in a bucket), the anodyne Let’s Do It Again and the rather cheesy Take Our Time. I think that adds up to a solid 3, some undoubted high points, and even when it’s not great there are often interesting things happening rhythmically that make it something I would come back to. 😜😉😎 Playlist submission: Waterfalls

I'll have one red light special and some fries please, hold the slaw. This brings some 90s stylings of polished production; people whispering sexily, and songs almost exclusively about sexy times; the obligatory interludes that don't add much. It is dated. Wah-bass is never advisable, as heard in 'Kick Your Game'. 'Case of the Fake People's is pretty derivative and bland-funk; 'Let's Do it Again' is a lazy, monotone attempt at seduction; they choose a torpid Prince song to cover, not much improving it; and the interludes are a waste of time. The phone call interlude, amongst all the album's breathy sexiness, where the caller wipes her arse and then farts (an odd sequence of events when you think about it) is jarring, if chucklesome. There are a handful of decent to great tracks though. For the former, 'Diggin' On You' is kept on track by a good chorus, and some competent harmonies. 'Creep' is anthemic 90s RnB with nice sample; some nice vocal and brass hooks mean it flows along quite nicely. 'Waterfalls' is rightly a classic and dat bass! Had this lost a few of the lounge rnb efforts it would be an excellent album, but as it stands is a good listen, great in places. In fact, notwithstanding the chaff, it's probably a high watermark for 90s pop/rnb.

Not that crazy, but did hit the sexy and cool. RIP Left Eye.

One of my least favourite genres, and I only remember Waterfalls and a lot of horniness after listening to this

Smooth funky RnB with light hip hop touches and lush sultry neo soul style to the production. A couple of huge singles (but lots of filler) definitive of the radio pop sound of the mis 90s. Was never really my thing, but have come to appreciate the style and sound of this stuff more with distance - it's way better than the Swedish factory pop and bland asexual talent show diva stuff that replaced it.

Cheesy pop guff. No idea why this is in this list.

Didn't listen. Just not my shit.

I joked to my friends about this album. I only know the one song, and ironically that day I was driving to sight see some waterfalls. Well, it's very 90s. I can imagine it's a blueprint for the girls' Rnb album of that era. Light rap, and that classic hip-hop beat that so many albums have are all there. The melodies catchy, and enough attitude to know that it's not three white girls singing. I had it on for a car trip, so I was listening in and out. I will say that it was quite catchy. It didn't pull me away from trying to entertain my son though. I would say that the lyrics painted an odd picture. I'm a bit indifferent to the whole 'we're sexy' vibe that gets put across. These are, of course, very attractive people. And perhaps it's just a product of the 90s. But there must be more to shifting albums than this. I mean, they can sing! Surely that's the selling point! I'm glad I listened to it, but I'm not sure I would bother again. 3 stars.

It is the first class of your sixth form year at school. Halfway through roll-call, a new girl walks into your class and sits down. She doesn't apologise for being late, and has a faint smell of cigarette smoke lingering around her. Dressed in skate shoes, baggy denim jeans and a loose fitting grey hoodie, she slumps into her seat, as if to tell the room she is already bored. At lunch, you go over to her to introduce yourself. She doesn't seem interested in learning your name, but cuts straight to asking if you want to ditch the afternoon and go hang out at her house. Normally you'd never agree to truancy, but something about her draws you to say yes. You're not attracted to her at all. Or are you? You go to her house, where her brother and a couple of his friends are already relaxing, playing playstation and drinking alcohol. You immediately feel out of your depth. Nervously, you question if maybe you should go back to school. You've got a strict chemistry teacher who wouldn't tolerate your lack of attendance. 'You'd rather hang out with Mr Southern than me?' the girl says as she takes off her hoodie to reveal a tight fitting tank top. Next thing you know you are playing Madden while drinking something called Mad Jacks Gold. The girl asks if you'd like to go up to her room with her. You say yes before she's even finished asking. Excitedly you stand up, but she bursts out laughing and says 'as if!', punching you in the arm. This girl is going to be the end of you.

Was ok. Some good tracks. Some drag. Don't know if it stands the test of time.

Better than I expected. Liked the hip hop stuff and the Phife feat. The R&B stuff wasn't for me.

Funky hip hop e jo gøy det:) Kick your game hadde ein goofy as beat. Sexy-interlude smh hahahhaha. Beste sang: Waterfalls

I find this woman’s voice to be incredibly annoying. are we trying to sound disinterested? Most of the instrumentation is pretty uninteresting to me as well. A couple nice songs save this from the cellar.

Waterfalls is a heater and Red Light District or whatever is pretty good but the rest is very flaccid and mediocre.

Malik of Tribe being featured on the first song really set the tone in a way I did not expect (my knowledge of their discography extends to ... Waterfalls). There was more diversity in music style than I expected, although the lyrics are fairly one-note

Finally this site have remembered female artists exist

finally some music by women

Waterfalls is genuinely good, but getting through 54 minutes of dead weight just to listen to a single is a chore

I really can't stand this kind of stuff and I really don't get how it ever got popular. My only explanation is that people were horny as fuck back then and needed dumb music to cum or something.

Nothing wrong and strongly bad, but damn... So long winded with nothing to offer.

"Waterfalls"! Ab jetzt kriegen alle nicht weissen dudes, die keine Gitarre spielen, min. 4 Sterne. eine der ersten girlbands? r&B-soul leider nicht so meins...c

Only heard Waterfalls because someone made a reference to it and apparently there is a EDM track using the Creeping Acapella. Other than that, very dated 90s pop. a bit too long felt done after waterfalls but yeah, not my type of music. ...finishing this album it fell from a generic 90s pop 2 star to 1 star diddy production

Even as someone who had moved away from R&B and Hip Hop when this came out, I still recognized how good the singles were. If nothing else, the theme and production values are strong--the vibes are great, even if the non-single songs themselves are a bit forgettable. Overall, it's more of a 3 for me, but bumping for importance.

R&B/Pop classic from the 90’s. What’s not like?

It was fun. A very bloated album, but not bad

I mean, this is easily one of, if not the best, girl group albums from the '90s, right? It's all in just how intimate, fuzzy, and warm the atmosphere of this thing is, especially as it enters its second half. And also in just how catchy and well-paced each one of these R&B staples is. And also just in how this group was (and continues to be) ripped off relentlessly, over a decade after this record was released. No matter what, though, the production here is leagues above your average '90s R&B record, with top dogs like Babyface bringing out the absolute best in the three vocalists here. The production on this album does this thing where the first few seconds of almost every song have some strong hook, to force your attention, before slowly coasting and sliding off into something more relaxed, light, and digestible. And you do have your fair share of spacey instrumentals here, like with the impeccable closer 'Sumthin' Wicked This Way Comes' - space that allows the girls here to harmonize in the forefront, as they love to do. The southern Outkast-esque funk hip-hop influences also ooze through on the songs 'Case of the Fake People', 'Switch', and 'Kick Your Game', the latter of which has one of the gnarliest beats, choruses, and Left Eye (RIP) verses. And, again, this song's lightyears ahead of its time, in my opinion. The opener, 'Creep' is straight up one of the greatest pieces of music of all time, I mean, you don't get choruses this good, like, ever. 'Diggin' On You' may have the most surreal instrumental here; it's honestly kind of unsettling at first, but after just a few seconds, it becomes more intoxicating or hypnotizing, especially with the very subdued lead vocals. It's songs like this that are perfect demonstrations of Babyface's producing prowess. He does equally as well on 'Red Light Special', which has one of the most expressive vocal build-ups here near the end, leading into that soaring guitar solo. 'Waterfalls' is another obvious winner here, with some pretty positive messaging, despite the macabre nature of the opening verse. And yeah, I can sniff out that Organized Noize funky funky production from a mile away. Speaking of, there aren't many features on this album, aside from Phife and Busta in some of the interludes, but Andre 3000, in my opinion, delivers one of his absolute best feature verses on that closer 'Sumthin' Wicked This Way Comes'. I mean, neither he nor Outkast were a big name at this point; it was still 1994, but Jesus, does he steal the song, and I'm saying that as someone who thinks the rest of the song is utterly gorgeous - another demonstration of incredible chorus writing. Really love this album. The obvious flaw with it is the skits/interludes that generally bloat an otherwise tight collection of songs for no real reason, but, TBH, I enjoy them for what they are. I mean, Phife's opener is cool, Busta's interlude is horny as hell (on par with the rest of this already horny album), and 'Sexy-Interlude' is so over the top and stupid that I can't make myself hate it. Skits were a huge thing at this point, mainly in hip-hop, so it's whatever. It doesn't ruin other albums for me, so it most certainly won't ruin this one either. The rest of the music is just too damn good.

It’s really crazy sexy cool

Classic. Creep, waterfalls.

The lyrical depth is basically that of a human spread out on the surface if a neutron star - one atom deep. They wanna fuck, and they aren't going to he subtle about it. The music is decent though, very laid back R&B, some quality basslines and it's nice background music. Waterfalls is the classic. The Sexy interlude is fucking hilarious but I don't think I want to listen to it again. Not bad at all but I don't think I'd listen to this on the regular.

I thoroughly enjoyed this album, and it has absolutely NOTHING to do with my unhealthy teenage obsession with Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes.

Good that album that reminds you of the title every few minutes.

Needs more Left Eye. Very pleasantly surprised that I enjoyed this.

A couple bangers and a bunch of meh. I mean, it's incredibly stuck in the niche period it was produced in, but TLC were also super influential in developing R&B for the next decade.

I’m more of a Fanmail fan myself.

I remember how big this album was back in the day. You couldn't go anywhere without hearing Creep and Waterfalls. A decent time capsule to 90s R&B.

Fucknindont want to listen to this today but here goes.....it was fine.2.5/5 because I've been forced to listen to it too many times.

Prefect early to mid 90s R&B with rappy hooks, En Vogue, SWV, and even Salt & Pepa were massive and still didn't touch the rare air TLC were in when this came out. A soulful all girl trio who accentuate each other. Horny as all hell, as is their wont.

Yes. This album and videos were a great aide for puberty as well as great songs.

Was a little disappointed in this one. I love Creep and Waterfalls, but none of the other songs even come close to being as good. I really wanted to like this more. 3/5

I’ve always loved the hits from this one. Album as a whole is nothing groundbreaking to me, just very 90s. Solid overall, but I didn’t find a ton to come back to

TLC stands for Totally Lame Comment (from a previous reviewer, who never seems to have progressed from their 12 year old sense of humour). ANYWAY... I never listened to this at the time, only knew the main singles. Brilliant production, enjoyed the whole thing.

Very 90's. Horny. Not my kind of music but definitely a kind of music.

It's not too bad. It is incredibly dated, though. For one, a LOT of the slang they used had the shelf life of a banana. For another, skits. I can't think of a single record from the 90's where the skits aged anywhere close to gracefully. On the whole, it's not unpleasant, but it's unsatisfying.

Siis hyvä mutta mitä ihmettä - Sexy-Interlude?? Yleisesti ottaen kivan menevä ja rento tunnelma. Interludet rytmitti albumia mielenkiintoisesti.

3/10

Creep and Waterfalls are major classics. I don't know how you can get tired of this kind of R&B. Not really feeling the interludes though.

Again, I don’t feel at all qualified to offer any meaningful critique. My feeling toward this album is the definition of ambivalence. It exists. I neither like it nor dislike it.

Actually enjoyed this more than I expected as I had a particular dislike of their music when growing up… It is still not something that I would listen to out of choice but I didn’t hate it. The last track was the standout, mainly due to the participation of Andre 3000, which provided a nice contrast to the rest of the album.

I want a refund. This was neither crazy, sexy, nor cool. Not a genre I think I’ll ever really like, and this just came across as bland. It might have been culturally significant (was this a particular standout moment in all female, black pop groups?) but that cultural significance is probably lost on me.

Waterfalls is catchy--until the nasally rap-then falls apart quickly. A few nice harmonies, but not enough to keep it interesting. The interludes were the best part.

Not my scene

Not a bad sound. Just not for me.

I’m gonna be straight with you: I got kind of bored. These ladies truly were a CrazySexyCool, but this album doesn’t hit the same as it used to. There are still some bangers on here such as the song Creep but much of this album just feels like a relic of the 90s. Favorite track is still Waterfalls, which is ripe with social commentary, but also for personal reasons, aka, reminds me of a girl. For R&B aficionado‘s this album is definitely a classic. For the casual listener, I think this album as a collective unit may be passable.

Random thoughts: * I don’t have a ton to say about this one. Solid listen, I never listened to this album in full before. * Creep and Waterfalls were the big hits when this came out. Especially Waterfalls, which I’m still not sure I know exactly what the song is about but it’s serious. * Red Light Special. Damn! I’m speechless. * I hated the last interlude. I really hate the skits from rap albums and thought this album would be free of them. * Play the hits and the rest for a jammin good time.

This album is a whole vibe. I was instantly transported back to freshman year.

This album is too long but it contains some of the most formative RnB songs of my childhood. The confidence in these vocal performances is undeniable. This is sit up and listen music. Creep and Waterfalls are their biggest hits but Red Light Special is hands down my favorite TL song and the sexiest song of the very sexed up 90s.

So this is my first 1-star album. It's odd too as I really like TLC's radio stuff, including the radio hit Waterfalls. I didn't love the album as a whole (and it's not the explicit content, which I was a little taken aback, I've heard and liked far far far worse) it was the Interludes - they just seem childish and sophomoric, I struggled through them. If I was a tween girl in 1994 I could see this being a lifetime 5 (and for those of you that feel it's a 5 I support you - continue loving it!) I do feel bad - I hope this is my only 1 but I just didn't like this album and I don't think it should be in the top 1001 - still if I hear Waterfalls on the radio (or other TLC hits) I'm still loving the song.

5/10 Not for me.

First all female band I've seen so far. Unfortunately it's not to my taste, but I can't deny its relevancy nor it's place on this list. No Scrubs is a great song. 5/10

Cool

Lots to enjoy, although lots sounded the same. Sumthin Wicked the best track.

I tried to like this. I thought I would. I enjoy the laid back grooves, the lyrically style sits in with them well, waterfalls is incredible... But the rest just faded into the background for me. It just felt like nothing music and I kept finding myself drifting off doing other things and not listening. I dunno, maybe it was too laid back.

To be honest I expected more from this, but I feel like you stil can't go wrong. There is definitely still a coolness about it that makes it feel unique, even if the album as a whole isn't quite as consistent or as dynamic as I would have hoped.

Ok

This is more like it. This is one of the greatest albums of all time. You should give me artists I listen to more often than you do. Stop throwing crap at the wall to se what sticks. I'm incredibly picky about my music and won't listen to just anything, that's why most albums you shown me haven't been listened to, and won't be listened to.

Pretty good. 3.5

I owned this CD when I was little. I have always like TLC. I’m not sure if I ever listened to the whole album before though. I’m sure I did, but probably only once or twice. I tended to just listen to the songs I liked. I knew quite a few songs on here though.

9/10 super fun R&B, really enjoyable stuff here

So many hits but doesn’t all work together. The asswipe joke comes out of left field

On kovia biisejä ja tuo muistoja mieleen

Ehhhh not a huge fan

8/10

One of the best all-girl R&B albums I have ever heard. To be honest, there haven't been many, but I really liked this one. The hit song 'Waterfalls' was, in my opinion, one of the weaker songs. 4/5

Ghastly

Not really my scene but I can see the appeal.

Enjoyed this!

I feel bad about my ratings for female musicians. There aren't many on here, but each time they get a 2, maybe a 3. Destiny's Child, Joan Baez and now TLC. I know that men aren't 'better' at music, but this list is not helping. I did not enjoy this modern R&B album. Waterfalls was good, but the rest was very uninteresting.

Its good, a bit weird to listen to it while working due to the moaning in some tracks. but overall a solid album

Nostalgic. Some good sounds. Very of its time.

There's only one song i know about these girls and it's not even in this album. I enjoyed it though

enjoyable smooth r&b, but something gets lost on the second half. I really liked the first few tracks!

i don't really care for horny R&B from any era, but at least it's not someone's creepy uncle singing it this time. all of these songs kinda sound like i've been trapped in a video game water level for an hour, so that doesn't help. waterfalls is great, at least. favorites: creep, waterfalls

CrazySexyCool – TLC (1994) | R&B / Hip-Hop Soul | Avg: 7.77 | Favorite Song: “Waterfalls” So with CrazySexyCool, what really struck me was how smooth and self-assured it feels, even thirty years later. The production is clean, warm, and consistently serves the group’s chemistry, which is probably the album’s biggest strength. “Waterfalls” was the clear standout for me; iconic for a reason. It’s not just catchy, it’s conceptually tight and emotionally grounded in a way that gives the whole record more weight. Most tracks fell within the 7 to 8.5 range for me, and that consistency speaks to how well the group managed to blend sensuality, confidence, and vulnerability throughout the project. From a reviewer’s standpoint, I think this album nails what a mainstream R&B record should be: accessible without being shallow, polished without losing its edge. Even the moments I didn’t score weren’t duds—they just felt more transitional or interlude-like. There’s a clarity of identity here that’s hard not to admire. TLC knew precisely what kind of album they were making, and they pulled it off with an effortless cool that’s still hard to replicate.

not that great

As great as I remember when I first bought it on CD

“Waterfalls” is the clear standout here and I remember how huge it was at the release. That alone gets this to a 3. The rest to me is just good R&B, if it was a preferred genre of mine I would probably round up. It’s a decent listen all the way through, although takes quite shocking left turn with “Sexy-Interlude” LMAO. 3.5/5

It’s probably a fair question to ask whether TLC were more impactful with their effect on pop culture in general rather than the music industry itself. But, the success and ubiquitous presence of this record can’t be denied. I mean there’s nothing too deep going on here. Lots of sexy time lyrics and mid-tempo grooves that I’d probably rate higher if the interludes were shaved down. Still, you gotta appreciate or at least chuckle at lyrics like this from Red Light Special: “I’ll let you go further if you take the southern route.”

So so much 90s cheese. How can you sing Kick Your Game and Diggin’ On You with a straight face. 🤣 But man, Creep and Waterfalls were soooooo massive. They sound a bit dated but still have to respect. I personally love Red Light Special. “Take a good look at it…look at it now…” and it just gets better from there. 2.5 but gotta round up for that.

It doesn't deserve the rating I'm going to give it, but this album was so massive and still occupies a place in my brain that I gotta round up. 10 year old Eric jamming out to and totally understanding the meaning behind Creep, Waterfalls, and Red Light Special. Good stuff. My first time listening to the album all the way through and it's just ok outside of those songs. I did also enjoy Diggin' on You. Sexy (Interlude) is an all-time WTF did I just listen to. Lol. 3.25/5

Good collection of songs, but I was glad that it ended. It's one of those weird albums where I feel it misses something.

Paar prima nummers maken de hoeveelheid middelmaat niet goed.

Waterfalls is obviously great, but the rest is just horndog songs and the obligatory hip hop skits that I find completely baffling.

Can totally see why this is a classic. 90s R&B is hard for me to get enthusiastic about.

Iconic 90’s.

Super smooth and enjoyable R&B, but I can't help feeling it would be better if it tried more things. The most well-known songs are great: "Creep" has a nice and funky vibe and "Waterfalls" is the catchiest song of the bunch (not surprising since it was the big hit). There are a few good rap verses, both from TLC and also from Phife Dawg and Andre. Outside of those moments, it's largely filled with slow jams. These songs aren't bad, but there's also not much to separate them from similar songs from the era. Like "Red Light Special" is a good song, but it sounds like a song many other 90's R&B artists could write. Definitely has a nice vibe, but there's also not enough unique about it to make me want to come back.

lata 90, roczne czasy gdy rnb zaczynalo romansowac w rapem, czego przykladem moze byc wlasnie crazysexycoolod TLC, pierwsze zderzenie z ta grupa i pewnie ostatnie, bo po godzinnych meczarniach nie wiem nawet ile pan bylo w bandzie, bo calosc jest tak mocno overdubowana adlibowana, ze ciezko tu sie doszukac orginalnego brzmienia, a slyszy sie warsztat ludzi znad konsolety, ktorych to lista przewyzsza nawet liczbe guestowych raperow, ktory musza na skitowych trakach poopowiadac o dupie maryny, bo lepszej promocji nie mozna zrobic plycie niz miec na niej gosci, im wiecej tym lepsza promocja, jesli do tej pory nie bylem fanem rnb, tak ten album nie zmienil mojego podejscia do gatunku, a jeszcze bardziej poranil moje uczucia wzgledem niego, nie udalo sie nawet wylowic traka na plejke, ale chyba po prostu nie jestem w nastroju na klimat jaki sie wylewa z crazysexycoola

Don't go chasing waterfalls. Stick to the rivers and the lakes thst you're used to.

Mid-’90s R&B didn’t just sound smooth—it looked smooth, and TLC were the blueprint. CrazySexyCool is that rare mix of radio-polished hits and personality-driven swagger, with Dallas Austin and Babyface crafting beats that slide right into your head and stay there. “Creep” oozes sly confidence, “Red Light Special” turns seduction into an art form, and “Switch” flips Jean Knight’s “Mr. Big Stuff” into pure bounce. Even the slow jams in the second half keep the vibe warm, though they can’t match the fire of the singles. And when André 3000 opens “Somethin’ Wicked This Way Comes” with that off-kilter drawl? That’s just the icing on an already iconic slice of ’90s soul.

A few songs sound dated but otherwise I was pleasantly surprised! I remember a couple from my youth too so it was a good listen.

I have a few confessions about this album. First, I honestly thought it came out much later in the 90s. In my memory, “Waterfalls” was still all over the radio well into the second half of the decade. Second, I had no idea TLC was still an active group. And third, while this wouldn’t be a five-star album for me personally, it absolutely earns that rating when I step back and look at it objectively. The roster behind it is stacked. You have heavy hitters like Jermaine Dupri, Chuck Thompson, and Diddy (in his pre-scandal days) on production, plus guest spots from André 3000 and Busta Rhymes. TLC was one of the most dominant acts of the 90s, and this album shows why. The whole thing oozes nostalgia, with smooth, slow-burn tracks that feel tailor-made for late-night listening. “Red Light Special” makes its intentions crystal clear, and the closing stretch is a nice change of pace. “Switch” is pure fun, and “Sumthin Wicked This Way Comes” closes things out with some great guitar work that I could have sworn was sampled from somewhere, though I could never find proof. This is TLC at their peak, and even if it is not in my personal all-time top tier, it is a landmark album that deserves the recognition.

Mediocre pop music from a bygone era. They were an important counterpoint to the misogyny that was rampant in 90s hip hop. I was there; I remember. But this project isn't "1001 cultural players you should respect and applaud" its "1001 albums you should hear ..." This ain't one of them. Computer generated soul (consider the oxymoronic depth of THAT concept), mediocre lead vocals, and sophomoric lyrics.

Better than Missy Elliott at least

Not bad

Das Album CrazySexyCool wurde in mehreren Studios in den USA aufgenommen, darunter Doppler Studios in Atlanta sowie Larrabee Studios in Los Angeles. TLC ist ein US-amerikanisches R&B-Trio, bestehend aus Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes und Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas. Musikalisch bewegt sich das Album zwischen R&B, Hip-Hop-Soul und Pop, wobei einzelne Tracks auch funkige oder balladeske Elemente enthalten. Besonders prägend sind die Titel „Waterfalls“, „Creep“ und „Red Light Special“, die sowohl kommerziell erfolgreich waren als auch den Stil der Gruppe nachhaltig mitprägten. CrazySexyCool zeigt eine klare stilistische Ausrichtung und wirkt in seiner Produktion durchgängig kohärent. Das Album verbindet persönliche Themen mit zeittypischem Sounddesign und legt dabei den Fokus auf einen ruhigen, aber bestimmten Ausdruck. Insgesamt ein sorgfältig produziertes Werk, das den musikalischen und gesellschaftlichen Zeitgeist der 1990er Jahre aufgreift, ohne sich rein daran festzuhalten.

can't wait for this album to finish

Not bad, but not sort of thing I’m likely to revisit. Hadn’t heard any of these songs expect for “Waterfalls,” which was probably the best on the album.

A few things I noticed about this one. There are some great tracks and there are some perfectly mediocre RnB tracks. The great tracks have certain things in common, they either have Organized Noize doing the production (Waterfalls, Sumthin' Wicked) or specifically have Lopes as a writing credit (Waterfalls, Sumthin' Wicked, Kick Your Game, Switch). Unfortunately, there is so much filler outside of these tracks and I think that's a shame. I've seen reviews that say that Crazysexycool is a step up from On the TLC Tip, but the first album was a solid hip-hop album and I think it's a shame that they started releasing more generic RnB. They did help continue to pave the way for strong female RnB acts and for that they deserve a 3 but this offering is just for the most part a bit bland.

Great back-to-back listen with Prince’s Purple Rain.

Quite impressive for 1994. Has the neo-soul sound of much later. But in places also has that late 80s/early 90s hip hop sound. Some funk elements in there too. Best track - Creep, Sumthin Wicked This Way Comes Gonna say 4 stars as it's still a refreshing sound and would have been moreso when released

A sladak mi je ovaj album, ima tu dobrih hitova. Da bih cijeli rateala nešto previsoko, realno ne, ali oko par stvari sam nostalgična dosta. 3/5, 5.5/10

TLC is really a singles group for me. I’ve never been in love with their deep tracks. However, they sound amazing together, and the singles like “Creep,” “Diggin’ On You,” and “Red Light Special” are so freaking good (I never liked “Waterfalls,” I’m sorry). It’s a fine record, but I’m not in love with it. Still good, but I’m not sure this holds its own on this list, though TLC more than deserves to be here.

I didn’t appreciate this music when I was a kid but it’s actually pretty fun.

3.5★ Title checks out.

"I want you to pass me some tissue... so I can WIPE MY ASS!!!!!!!"

Canonically horny.

It's not a bad album. It's pretty much just OK. If this is your style, and you were 15 years old in 1994, this album would probably be a 5/5, but that's not me. Waterfalls is still a banger, 30 years later (which hurts me to believe it's been this long).

Awful.

When this came out, it sounded state of the art. Now, there are a couple of standout songs - Waterfall and If I Was Your Girlfriend - but the rest has not stood the test of time at all, sounding very dated.

1.5

Absolutely iconic

Cool look back, I remember TLC being huge. I think they got Wally Pipp’d by Destinys Child. Found this pretty boring though, mostly the generic production and repetition of the beats.

Waterfalls is great but not really surprised or impressed w the rest. Not bad though.

Feeling grateful that we all have to lower our music critic shields occasionally to let these through - another example was Meat Loaf From Neil Diamond to Petey Pablo, we've all heard our fair share of DIRTY songs from a dude's point of view. The confident lady trio concept here is/was different and really turns the tables. This is the earliest example of that idea that I know of And on top of that, these songs aren't corny like the Backstreet Boys or Nsync were. Its a serious mix of baby making music and R&B worth sticking around for (and I mean that) The hits gave me goosebumps (Waterfalls - damn those horns). Sexy (Interlude) had me laughing out loud on my bike ride to work (that rug pull was FUCKING hilarious). There are 2 or 3 other deep cuts worth going back to and only a few skips (falls off a bit at the end). Music aside, these ladies have some extraordinary libidos. Great work

Some nice surprises in here - Kick Your Game was fun. Not gonna come back to this if I’m being honest, but I enjoyed it

Overall: 6/10 A pretty good pop/r&b album. I honestly just don't have much to say about it, most of the songs were pretty good but it didn't do much for me overall. Fav Song: Waterfalls Least Fav Song: Take Our Time

100x better than Destiny’s Child and B.

178/1089 - This definitely sounds like RnB (the diarrhea-shit-poop-fart-interlude caught me off guard, gross but kinda funny). I rate these sort of albums neutrally but I think I find a lot more interest/things to talk about in the albums I strongly dislike and like. Here's my current rating scale: 5 - :D 4 - :) 3 - :/ 2 - :( 1 - >:C

The sounds of these 90s albums is just something different man. Nostalgia maybe I don’t know, but it slaps.

One of the sexiest albums I've ever listened to.

Ehhh, look definitely not my jam then or now, but, I can appreciate the cultural impact aspect.

Not my scene but Waterfalls is a classic tune.

A decent mid 90’s female hip hop album - probably the template for countless bands at the time and waterfalls is still a classic pop song.

11 millions can be wrong

Urban bar Background music having a slow beat, and lyrics about fucking at night making this HipHop R&B.

I had Ctrl by SZA yesterday, which was released 24 years after this. They could have been released on the same day for the amount of artistic progress made between the two exceedingly similar albums. This is less obsessed with minge, which is probably a sign of the sensibilities of the times, and it has Waterfalls which is an objectively good song, so it is better than SZA. Not enough to go up a star, but it’s a high 2 as opposed to a low one.

Solid album. Not my favorite genre, but it was well done.

2.3 1x catch up 11/21 -- decent enough, just not my style

Had only heard the singles and loved listening to the whole album. Last song is 🔥 and some great moments.

This is absolute dog shit. I yearned for deafness. No idea how anyone could listen to this whole thing at once. I had to break it up into 20 minute segments in an effort to give the whole thing a legitimate chance. All copies of this, physical and digital, should be burned in a fire. I'd rather listen to raccoons mate in the woods.

Good listenable album, ill probably only return to the hits tho

So good!! Idk how I have never listened to this

Their singing is very nice. Cutting the interludes and intro would help the album quite a lot.

As far as hip hop albums go, this one's okay. More remarkable that it's women. (Yes I said that out loud).

Standout Songs: Creep Diggin' On You Waterfalls If I Was Your Girlfriend

Big deal - a girl group with a break out performer. That’s so surprising.

90's R&B is not my thing at all. That being said this is still an enjoyable album, especially the first half. Get's a bit repetitive in the second but still. 6/10

Great album for driving around on a summer Sunday. This is about as early as my memory of contemporary pop music gets, kids singing Waterfalls on the playground.

An inescapable experience in the mid 90s and it holds up mostly well. Drags a couple times but the high points are spread evenly through out

This is right outside of the range where I'd know the whole album by heart. All due respect to waterfalls and creep, this was not for me

Creep is obviously the standout but so much of this is good groovy sexy summer music

Waterfalls is great and Creep is good but the vast majority of this album was, to my ears, uninspiring and drab. I’ll probably never really be a fan of RnB but some of the more hip-hop elements are ok. Reading more about them, we’re talking about essentially a manufactured girl band who had to rename one of their members because their gimmick of ‘TLC’ being the initials of the three girls fell apart when they binned off the original ‘C’. I’d stop short of being too critical as it’s not terrible but I’d happily never listen to it again.

-Omg Creep reference -Let’s Do It Again got my hormones going crazy so they gotta be doing something right -Sexy has got to be the most insane interlude I’ve ever heard

lowkey mid except for “waterfalls” PLUS the interludes. everything else lacked spice. unfortunately, the good songs couldn’t save the bad. 2/5.

fun 4/5

I’m about a decade too young to truly appreciate this record, especially as a young woman, but I did experience it in a lesser sense through the millions of 2000s girl groups and female R&B singers I saw on TRL in middle school and high school. I fully walked into this expecting to like it, but not love it. “There’s so many R&B albums I would put above Crazysexycool,” I said to myself, “It’s not even my favorite TLC album!” And then I pressed play. Hell, it wasn’t even actually listening to this album. It was how, for the next 24 hours, despite listening to other music, I kept humming these songs to myself, and not even the hits. I was humming the deep cuts!! That is how great this record is. It is just impeccable ‘90s R&B. The major hits rope you in, and the minor hits give it momentum, but it’s the detail in the tracks between that really make this record special. There’s such a diverse range of emotion expressed on Crazysexycool. You can feel how intentional that aspect is both in the lyrics and in the music itself. More importantly, this feels like an album especially targeted at the Female Experience™️: going from turned on to making fart jokes to piss off a man, bitching out fake friends to deep self-reflection about your own flaws, trying to be the hottest girl around (mentally, socially, and physically) to just trying to chill out and vibe. There’s so much depth here, you almost forget that it was also a hit-machine. I mean, hell, Left Eye’s verse on “Waterfalls” alone is kinda shocking in and of itself, showcase the dichotomy, and on ONE OF THE BIGGEST SONGS OF THE 90s, to boot?! Sprinkle in a Phife feature *and* an Andre 3000 feature, and you have an amazing record, even today. Honestly, the weakest thing about Crazysexycool is that Left Eye isn’t featured more on it. Sure, some quick research will make you realize that her vision and artistic direction are pretty much the main things driving this record, but her literal presence is still a notable absence. I could also see a critique about the interludes, but the more I think about it, they add texture to the themes; it was the CD era, interludes were made to be skipped if you’re just trying to vibe, but sometimes an artistic statement needs context, and I think the interludes provide that. Still not my favorite TLC record. Still would argue that there’s even better R&B albums from this era that should’ve made the cut. But neither of those things take anything away from how amazing Crazysexycool is.

Pretty samey the whole way through. Its listenable but the only standout here is "Waterfalls" the rest is pretty uninspired. 5/10 Favourite: Waterfalls Least Favourite: Can I Get a Witness (Interlude)

This genre is not for me. I get bored and want to skip the songs. Even when Waterfalls was on MTV all the time, I couldn’t find the love for it. But they are good at what they do

Hmm. 2-

Way too many moans. Mildly interesting music, but nothing that really sticks. Song I liked: kick your game. Would I revisit this: no.

I'm not really a huge listener of R&B music, and even though this album is a bit dated in a few areas, it's fucking great. I loved it. I listened to it at least 5 times over the course of a few days, I can't believe I never sat down and listened to it. Very good sounding music. RIP Left. 4.5/5

This is a very good record, but the only downside is that 5 out of the 16 tracks are interludes. This makes it incredibly hard to rate and analyze. While, I loved the record, the interludes made it hard to follow the story. And I feel like I need to rate the interludes, since they are on the album and define it in the R&B world. This made it feel MANDATORY to have to listen to every single track from back to back. But I enjoyed the normal track list, excluding the interludes.

Only got halfway through this. Really bad, hip hop type rap, trying to be pop. Pretty poor not a clue how this made the list

Bruuu que guay. Quizas me cae hate o algo, pero no me duele admitirlo, he disfrutado un montón del album. La producción es buenísima, todo está en su sitio y el bajo suena brutal. Todos los temas son muy buenos y "Waterfalls" es mítico. Tambien me gustaron los interludios sobretodo el segudo y el cuarto por el bajo que mola un mega montón. Album hiper sólido con muy buenas vibras. 9/10 -> 4/5 Me siento crazy, sexy y cool.

Nunca había oído hablar d este álbum y la vdd es q me sorprendió para bien. Todas las canciones me parecieron bastante buenas y me encantó la vibra en general del álbum.

Horniest album so far on this list. It feels like admitting to a guilty pleasure... But I enjoyed it surprisingly much. Great songwriting, with just enough diversity to keep it different and interesting. Groovy. Nice chords. And then again, also incredibly corny and too "90's" sometimes... Whatever, I enjoyed it more than I expected

⭐️ 1001 ALBUMS- # 63 Tboz, Left Eye, Chilli… The ladies of TLC who could be easily branded as The Lame Crew with how formulated this music is, produced by those behind the scenes songwriters and the mass marketing machine of the music industry that propped up these three as hip hop’s answer to the Spice Girls. From the opening ‘Intro-lude’, which doesn’t even feature the voice of these singers, the vibe is as predictable and generic as you would expect from this era of R & B pop, little to be intrigued by, simplistic lyrics and bloated filler wedged between the few songs that were molded for mainstream radio. 🎧 Classic Track: Waterfalls 🚫 Skip Track: The Intro/Intermission/Sexy/Can I Get A Witness ‘ludes Just keep repeating ‘Crazy…Sexy…Cool…ummmmm can anyone feel Crazy…Sensationally…Corrupt? So. So. So. BAD. 🖼️ Album Artwork: No smiles ladies? Reprehensible highlighted by the embarrassing Interludes, fronted behind meticulously choreographed songwriting that spells out everything that is wrong with pop music. At least AI will save us from these talentless, vain, performers from continuing to milk the cash cow 🐄

I'm in two minds about this album. On the one hand, I see its merits and appreciate that it's an important record. On the other, I think it's just not for me. As I listened, I could appreciate it - to an extent, maybe academically - but I kept coming back to thinking that that it felt one note. There are those who love this record, but for me I don't anticipate a follow up listen any time soon.

Honestly, not really my kind of sound. It was better than your average album (hence the rating), but it just didn't click for me.

Some great parts. Started to drag a bit towards end

eh

Fine album.

Blahhh not my thing but good for what it is? I guess?

Well produced, but really not for me. I hate the era of RnB/rap that had all these skits - it wasn't that great on the first listen, and it hasn't aged well.

Det här var ju inget kul.

Not for me, but also a cool capsule/sign of the times

This was a tough listen for me, didn’t make it through the whole thing

I was surprised that "waterfalls" was lifted from such a horny album. I thought everything was really nice sonically. The instrumentation was very clean and the whole album was pretty groovy. Something about it did feel like hip hop musical theater or something though. I got pretty bored about halfway through and the rest felt like a slog

Outside of Waterfalls (LOVE the chorus in this song), I don't think I've heard other songs from this group. Love the beat in Intro-Lude off the rip. Shame it's only a 1 minute song. Creep is just some solid 90s hip-hop/R&B. Loving the beat on Kick Your game. Into this so far. Vibes dip from Diggin' On You until it gets to Waterfalls (DON'T GO CHASING WATERFALLSSSS). The horns and the funky bass give the song such a smooth flow. Such a jam. Unfortunately nothing else stands out until Andre 3000 comes on the last track. This one was probably a little too R&B heavy for my taste. It's usually hit or miss with straight R&B songs and it was 50/50 for me on this album. It made the album drag slightly and the runtime is fairly long. I'd give this a High 3 (3.5 stars) that borders on a 4.

NGL the Intro-lude was pretty dope. Pulling Phife Dawg in to throw down a solid 45 second group intro is a fine investment. Creep is some solid downtempo R&B. Vocals trend a little nasaly for my liking, but are otherwise fine. Good cruising music. Kick Your Game has a distinctly 90s funk vibe about it -- mirrors some other boy band production elements (cowbells, etc.) -- I'm into it, solid mic passing and vocal layering. Not diggin Diggin' On You. Kinda makes me sleepy. Waterfalls is a classic for a reason -- that chorus is catchy as hell and the production is delightful. The mic'ing on the toilet flush of Sexy-Interlude was for some reason deeply uncomfortable. Always enjoy early Andre 3000 -- this coming before they even dropped ATLiens. Sumthin' Wicked This Way Comes is a solid track to end on. When I think of 90s R&B I don't tend to get excited, but this scratched a certain nostalgic itch this morning. As a whole the album runs a bit long for my liking, but the production throughout was fine and there were only a couple of songs that I found skip-worthy. For me this sits somewhere in the high 3 territory.

Had a couple songs I really liked and the vocals were really great all the way through. Ultimately though this falls into the same bucket as all other 90's hip-hop where it's fine/good, but it's just too long and never really excites me outside a couple songs.

Pretty standard sounding 90s rap which I really do not like. I really hate interludes in albums. Just watched The Other Guys a couple weeks ago and this reminded of that one detective who can't stop making TLC references without even knowing it. Five 2's in a row for me, this has been a rough week.

Solid start with Phife on the intro. Always in the mood for some Tribe even if he’s just a hype man here. Creep is the fourth best song named Creep that I know of. Sounds like a cat meowing all throughout Kick Your Game. Taking me out of it. Waterfalls is a classic can’t deny that. So catchy. Why do they have all these dope rappers just in the interludes? Weird. Finally Andre 3k actually rapping on a song. Not enough to push this one for me. 90s r&b just doesn’t do it for me.

This morning I went out for a drive I listened to TLC. RnB is not my thing, but to be fair, the vocals were really good. Great instrumental arrangements, good balance on drums and percussion. It doesn’t get tiring. 4

Forget what real R&b sounds like

I'm sorry but no

Good r&b, had some truly classic interludes, nothing crazy special but I enjoyed it as an r&b album

Der Sound ist sehr recognizable und distinct, gute Wissenslücke gefüllt, gut klingendes Album.

Good

Love it

Good vibes, did not appreciate the overly sexual songs. 2.5

Too horny for Monday at 11am in a cubicle lol. While it’s fun at times, the production is incredibly dated. The slang is dated too, so much so that I’d sooner use the word “cringe” than “cool.”

It was basically R&B elevator music for me. I didn't not enjoy it, but it did absolutely nothing for me. I think I need to listen to some Patricia Taxxon to cleanse my musical palette.

3.5

é uma energia muito urbana, um ritmo e uma lírica que se perdeu no tempo e se imortalizou pois ninguém fez nada igual. Não é a toa ter feito o sucesso que que fez. As vozes se mesclam e se sobressaem. Menção honrosa para Creep, Kick your Game, Red light special e Let's do your again Rest in Power Left Eye💕

I can't quite tell, but suspect that some of these songs were about sex.

Overall solid album, good rhythms, pretty steamy at times. Was “Sexy (interlude)” the mirror version of Dre’s “Deeez Nuuuts”?

Crazy, sexy, 90s pure bliss.

Once again a record I put off for ages and turned out to be qualla. Maybe one of the best RNB records? Could do without the track where she has a big shit though, especially with Paedodiddy in the background.

Good for what it is but 90s R&B really isn't my sort of thing.

I thought I would be familiar with more of this album than I was. I think I was just a little too young to have gotten into it when it came out, so really only knew the hits. Enjoyed the rest!

This is fine but nothing special. Makes me think of Michael Keaton quoting TLC lyrics in “The Other Guys”, and Will Poulter doing the complete middle rap of Waterfalls in “We’re the Millers’. Both are hilarious.

Verdict: Crazy? In 2025, there is something “crazy” about having Diddy intoning “crazy, sexy, cool” on your record, but I can’t blame 1994 TLC for including him. I doubt they knew. “Ready to Die” only came out two months before this album; Diddy hadn’t even gotten big yet. I give this a 1/10 crazy. Sexy? Yeah, so much so I’m surprised we had this in our house when I was 11. Cool? In the 90s, you could not get cooler than this album. But its production now feels a little dated. I haven’t even watched the Waterfalls video and its CGI attempts. So, not awarding full “cool” points.

Waterfalls is a song for the ages, but I did not connect with any other track on this album.

2.41

Everything about this album feels dated, including "Waterfalls," the best track.

I’d probably give it 3.5. But I thoroughly enjoyed listening to it

Pretty standard

big ones and filler. could i write poetry to this? n

Remember when Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes burned Andre Rison's house down? That shit was crazy, right? And then the whole David Justice and Halle Berry thing...that was some news back then. Winona Ryder was dating all those shaggy-looking Rock stars and shoplifting too? Just nuts, right? Aww, man... I almost forgot about Jennifer Lopez and that green dress. Wasn't she with Puff Daddy at the time? Damn, I miss the Nineties. Anywayyyy.... "Waterfalls" is a killer track. The rest is pretty alright, I guess. Minus at least a half-star for TLC's association with the aforementioned Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs.

Pretty good. 2 bangers and some generics, but good enough for a 3.

Sorry I'm not into this. There are great moments (eg. Waterfalls), but I find it mostly over-produced with decent rhythms wrecked by the over-use of drum machines.

Big bangers, a load of clangers. There's a real consistency in the big pop albums on here being simply too long. When they hit though, they hit hard, and obviously Waterfalls is a huge song.

3.5

As advertised.

This album allowed me to go into a rabbit hole of what happened to Lisa Lopes. Heartbreaking story. Music-wise, there's not a much to say. I didn't like this band as a kid, nothing changed as an adult. Not a pleasant session with TLC, seems like it's a product of 90s, which is very much outdated today. Some radio stations are still trying to push Waterfalls down our throats, but there is only one possible response - stop, please.

This album was a nice surprise. Despite being a huge fan of A Tribe Called Quest and Outkast, I had never heard the opening and closing tracks with the verses from Phife Dawg and André 3000. It is a bit dated, but really nice early 90s vibe.

Some good/forgettable moments

My appreciation for this band was flushed down the toilet during "sexy interlude" Two stars only because of "waterfalls"

Really wish I could give this a 3.5; it deserves more than a 3 but doesn't quite reach my personal criteria for a 4.

0 смысла в песнях, тексты херня.

One of the better female group. Some vibey songs. "Don't go chasing waterfalls" album

I am a straight man in my 40's, so I almost skipped listening to this one just because I didn't think it was going to be for me. But in all honesty, this was a pretty good album! The beats were solid and the vocals were on point. TLC's radio hits don't do them justice.

Not for me.

Ok, some very nice songs, some not so ...

Favorite Track: Waterfalls

Crazy sexy and cool all at once

I'm sure TLC and this album means a lot to a lot of people, but not for me. Clearly, I'm not in the demographic or target audience for this saccharine, generic pop experience and I'm not sorry I can't relate. I get it, they're influential and Beyonce and Destiny's Child might not have existed without "Crazysexycool", so for some people the world is better, but really, is it? My life has been just fine without wasting an hour of my life listening to this. No thank you.

Happy to listen to this, nice flow

Crazysexycool is a pretty darn good album if i say so myself. This is a group i only ever knew for their really big single, that being Waterfalls, but the rest of this album is a pretty fun bop as well. The instrumentals were easily my favorite part of the album with some great compositions, super funky beats and some cool guitar sections as well. The lyrics also flowed really well and definitely helped the album keep it's pace which the vocals also do help with. I guess if i had one issue, it would be the intermission tracks as they are just way too weird for their own good especially Sexy-interlude, now that was mood whiplash if i had ever seen it. This is still a really good album and a fun listen. Best Song: If I Was Your Girlfriend Worst Song: Sexy-interlude

Would have been four stars if it was half the length

#574. I remember TLC being a force to be fucking reckoned with back in the 90s, but listening to it now it just doesn't seem to be as powerful for whatever reason. I suppose all pop music expires after the time period it existed in, and there's no getting around that. 3/5: still not terrible by any means

This is SO MY VIBE today! This is exactly what I wanted to hear. This type of groovy r&b chill electronic 90s music is one of my forgotten passions. I listened to it all this morning, and it was so the vibe. I will now be listening to Creep on repeat for the rest of the day. Wow what a good one.

i loveeee TLC, this is my favorite one of their albums. i think that every song on it has great purpose, especially the placements of the interludes. im obsessed with how this album opens with the song: intro-lude. however, my favorite song is "kick your game", or "creep", OR "intro-lude". ugh this album was so so good i love it. also- ofc it is good because babyface produced it

It was alright. I did enjoy the vibes.

I mean waterfalls is good. Not really much else that I’m into.

Half the album are interludes

Aight

Something a bit different, finally! I'm sure I subconsciously heard this album often when I was younger, since I'm sure my sisters played it a lot, and of course the very popular singles you would hear everywhere for years. I've definitely come to really appreciate and enjoy the 90s r&b sound, and I think I've probably even listened to this album once or twice on my own in my adult years given its significance. Now that I'm a big Prince fan, I realize that "If I Was Your Girlfriend" is actually a Prince cover, which is pretty sweet! Great song. "Creep" is an ear worm that I've definitely enjoyed hearing over the years, and of course "Waterfalls" is a classic. And now I realize that it was strongly influenced by a Paul McCartney song on his II album, pretty neat! While I don't seek out this style of music all that often, I will never complain when it's on. So much more interesting to my ears than most pop/r&b type stuff on the radio these days; as the years go on looking back on the 90's gets better and better, especially in comparison to today! It's refreshing to hear music of this style not entirely overproduced and over-processed.

I was only familiar with the two TLC songs (scrubs and waterfalls) which are good songs. I couldn’t get into any of the other tracks. I’d consider this group a 2 hit wonder.

YAAAY

I was super disappointed by this album. Outside of Creep the rest of the album is a bunch of boring slow jams.

Banger after banger. Sequenced to perfection. A mid 90s hip hop-informed r&b treasure with so much spunk.

This was a dope album. Just vibes all the way through, you can see why they popped when they did. Not particularly my cup of tea, but good.

Shit like this is exactly why I hate skits & interludes. I've never gotten through an album and thought "solid but it could use more yuks." How are you going to get 90s Busta Rhymes on your album and not let him rap at all? I thought they rapped a little more, but i did enjoy the music. They get an extra star for the Andre verse that I never heard, but lose points for filler bullshit.

The big 3 are still alright songs. Maybe 14 year old me should’ve listened to this to this. It could’ve of given me a better understanding of the importance of “game”. However, those days have long past.