Now I Got Worry

agitated, herky-jerky, lo-fi blues - it sounds like it was recorded using one microphone dangling above the band as they rock their uncle's garage. on the one hand - fresh, not over-worked. on the other hand - "will this do? that's all we can be bothered doing - we're going for a beer, now"

Screaming is not a great start.

The problem with these kinds of 'throwback' albums is that they just end up feeling like an uncharitable caricature of the music they're paying tribute to. I don't get the point of making a cruder, louder, stupider version of 50s rock when I can just listen to 50s rock instead. If I didn't know any better I would've thought this was a parody of rock'n'roll by someone who hated it. Feels like White Zombie's lame little brother.

weird and noisy but not unlistenable, just not for me ig.

Never quite got into this album, there were aspects that I enjoyed but more that I didn’t enjoy… also it’s WAY longer than necessary, and it suffers from it. Overall 2.5/5 rounding down for the length. Should have liked it more than I did

I mostly only know this group from "Bellbottoms," but I've never really gathered "Blues" from their music. It's much more "Explosion" or maybe "Jon Spencer." This album was very interesting, but it never clicked and ended up feeling like a disjointed mess, but there were some rather good moments. I'll take an interesting but flawed experiment over boring and mass-produced just about any day, though. Favorite track: "Rocketship"

No fav song

How does Blues Explode? Apparently in a fun of cacophony.

It has its good moments, but it just does too good a job at being insufferable. 4/10

Favorite songs: Wail, 2Kindsa Love, Rocketship, Can't Stop

Was somewhat more primed to enjoy this than most as I know their song "Bellbottoms" really well from the spectacular car chase at the opening of Baby Driver that is synced to the song. Seriously watch it, phenomenal piece of action That said, none of this quite hit the mark for me in the same way - a shame

Not what I was wanting to listen to at 7am having just had a night of driving around trying to see the persides meteor shower and ultimately failing but it is what i was handed This may have lead to my dislike of this album a little but year I didn’t really like this 2

A lot of noise going on but not much that I enjoyed.

I enjoyed the jam sessions on this more than the experimental stuff. That stuff sounds a lot like an Edgar wright movie screaming which was cool but it grating.

I thought I was going to hate this much more than I did, given the opening. However the punk rock Elvis Presley vibes were interesting and fun when you could distinguish it from the haphazard noise. Also... extra points for Chicken Dog, that had me laughing my ass off.

What a weird experience. I really don't know what I think of it.

hahaha hot shit

Awful noise

Its okay but not good

It started okay (but I don't get him saying he is anti-rock, this is all rock) but then it went off the rails and just became obnoxious for what felt like no reason.

2.75

Pretty awful start. Some good songs though. Fuck shit up and Can't stop. Guy reminds me of Jim Morrison, but the lyrics aren't anything and the mix is quiet for vocals. Some good rock noise but also some pretty painful sounds. Probably won't ever revisit.

imagine naming a song "chicken dog" and making it onto the prestigious list. My kids CAN get their hopes up. Smart of these guys to start this album at the lowest expectation. You can only go up from screaming into the microphone to kick off your first song. It got better but I don't get it. It's super duper noisy.

2+

I respect the energy and some of the guitar licks but mostly this feels like having an amp turned up to 11 broken over your head by a screaming madman.

idk some of it’s really cool and some of it’s total garbage. wayyyy too inconsistent for me to rate it highly. i kinda appreciate the boldness though.

Finns element som är trevliga (Ty Segall anyone?), fast lite för slarvigt och oseriöst

Some of this is legitimately good. Some of this is legitimately awful. On balance it should be at least a 3...but I find myself frustrated by the pretentiousness of it. Like "check this out, I can write some great blues rock with cool riffs...but I'm also going to throw some bullshit noise into it because I'M AN ARTIST." OK, guy. No one will ever accuse you of being a boring sellout, but no one will ever mistake you for being a successful artist, either. It's hard to be a successful artist, and at least this guy got to work with Weird Al, so maybe that's success enough. 2.4

Me hace gracia la pinta de cutre de la portada. Las guitarras eran interesantes, y aunque intento apreciar que ciertas música busque ser escandalosa, no me ha parecido lo suficientemente valiosa. 2/5

a tour de force of batshit crazy blues rock. Takes the concept of a "wall of sound" to a completely different place. You have to be in the right mood to enjoy this. Unique for sure, but not required listening.

Noisy 90's alternative. Definitely bands who did this much, much better. 2/5

Now I Didn't Enjoy

Fuck Shit Up sounds really cool; could do without the vocals. A lot of it has been.. a lot so far. 2Kindsa Love was cool Hot Shit also fun. Can't Stop has a fun groove to it. Still don't like the vocalist. Very good drum break! Firefly Child has a good groove too; I like the bluesy tracks and this drummer fucking rules. Eyeballin is interesting; again with the grooves. Why hasn't the band been this consistently good til now? RL Got Soul is more of the above. Sticky is just not fun to listen to I'm afraid\ I don't like Rocketship; something about the way he says wild child sounds dumb, and he says it a billion times. It's fine, but it doesn't do a lot for me. 2/5 Favorite: Fuck Shit Up Least: Rocketship Shoutout: Cant Stop, Firefly Child, Eyeballin

The music is intriguing, the vocals step all over it. There are a few redeeming qualities about this album, but overall it falls short.

Le début j'ai frôlé la crise cardiaque

Hardcore punk/post-punk, with noise, garage, and avant-garde features. A bit too abrasive for me. Singer has a kinda Elvis thing going on but it's buried in the noise. Actually we get a riff like A Little Less Conversation, immediately buried in noise too. This is quite tough to get through Best track - choose at random - Chicken Dog 2 stars - i'm sorry it's just too much noise, too far gone

Yeah, this album is just there. Some good snippets exists but it's surprisingly just boring as a whole. Top tracks: "Can't Stop," "R.L. Got Soul"

--Skunk…okay, not playing around. finally a guitar solo I can play! --Identify…noise --Wail…has the cadence of a pop song --Fuck Shit Up…oh my, quite the left turn. it’s interesting, can’t deny that --2Kindsa Love…decent punk. fun guitar riff --Love All of Me…more mid pop punk but it’s heavily distorted so it’s artistic, right? --Chicken Dog…the first track that feels complete and it includes a guest vocalist --Rocketship…some nice bass but overall whatever --Dynamite Lover…another track that feels complete as opposed to the other attempts at songs. nice, chunky sound --Hot Shot…sweet guitar groove --Can’t Stop…we get some much needed piano. a fun instrumental --Firefly Child…some cool, heavy riffs but otherwise meh --Eyeballin…interesting guitar experimentation but that's about it --R.L. Got Soul...nice opening riff. oh, it's the only riff. okay, there's some pretty great guitar work at the end --Get Over Here...there's a decent track buried in here somewhere --Sticky... -_____-

It was awful.

Found several parts pretty annoying with few redeeming qualities

That was a bit much.

Not that good

That was fine. Not the worst thing I’ve heard but I have no desire to listen to it again. Would rather listen to G Love.

I definitely wouldn't call this blues. It was more like angry punk. I'm giving it a 2 over a 1 as some of the guitar riffs on the second half of the album were kind of redeeming.

别nm的叫了

A lot of 90s had some interesting noisy music and experimental stuff. This one didn't work.

Спасибо, мне с первой же песни захотелось убиться

I mean… 1.8-ish. After a couple of first tracks it’s listenable.

First of all that fucking jim carrey dumb and dumber ass scream up front hurt my ears. Fuck you. I liked Wail, and I'm glad I waited through the first two track to hear it, but the rest of this album ranges from okay to booboo. Glad to hear Rufus on Chicken Dog, but that makes only 2 tracks on the cut that are worth it. Plus I can't help but notice what their next album is listed as on wiki and that's bugging the shit out of me. I'm holding a 2 here mostly for Rufus and that one song Weird Al did the music video for. Jon Spencer and his Blues Explosion don't have much part in that 2.

Well, that's a generous two, because it wasn't as insufferable as the Cramps, although they stem from the same branch. Mixing and overall sound: shit Songs: most of them are piss weak Singing: honestly laughable and ridiculous. Instruments: mostly fine, but there are clearly audible slips of playing when the guitarist fell out of time. Redeeming quality: there were one or two songs that had a cool groove going. Spare me this shit next time, please.

fucking scream jumpscare at the start of this fuck you. this is a very fitting counterpart to the last album i got (Raw Power by The Stooges). in many ways this is a premonition of the garage rock revival of the 2000s. more eclectic than a lot of that, which is nice even if i didn't like this all that much. has some killer riffs but it didn't give me much else. the Beck-esque hip hop elements are pretty rough. deserves to be one of the 1001? no.

You know, I was really uncertain going into this. Out of 32(!) songs, only one breaks past half a million Spotify streams. Clearly very few people think this is worth listening to. To its credit, though, there are some gems buried amongst the distortionslop. Skunk and Wail, the first and third songs respectively, are wacky, brash, and surprisingly groovy. Wail in particular pays homage to late-60s acid rock, accompanied by slightly better production than the 60s had to offer. Normally I like to justify why certain tracks are enjoyable, but I can't do that with 2Kindsa Love. Don't get me wrong, it's thoroughly enjoyable – I just can't pinpoint why. The distortion is kind of overpowering here. Like the guitar equivalent of that blinding spacey distortion Matt Bellamy does with his Muse vocals all the time. A couple songs later, Chicken Dog stands out as being perhaps the most commercially accessible recording. Can't Stop would claim the same title, except it's mainly an (extremely catchy) instrumental with some weird out-of-tune singing/moaning at times. Entirely unsurprising: after the first 30 minutes or so, the album's blistering energy really starts to wear off. And then after the first 60 minutes, you catch yourself constantly checking how many damn songs are left. Scratch that – it's from the song Sticky onward. I became sticky with determination to see this semi-experimental crap through to its conclusion. That's not to say the entire experience is a waste of time – there are plenty of great riffs and grooves throughout the album, including on some of the latter (quasi-)instrumental tracks. But dammit, there's a ton of filler too. The last seven consecutive tracks are all terrible and (in the case of the Radio Ad series) near unlistenable. 2/5 Key tracks: Wail, 2Kindsa Love, Chicken Dog, Can't Stop, Buscemi

when i saw the ''blues explosion'' i didn't assume i would hear this much punk. there are so many songs on the album so i couldn't listen to all of them. but the ones i listened to, were they extraordinary? no. were they fun? yes. i respect anyone who did rock/metal/punk in the 90's so i say today's discovery was well received even though i gave 2 stars.

I really want to like the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion but too much of it is just sloppy versions of things other do better. A song like “Rocketship” feels like the best they can get - rootsy raw rock that has a melody and a beat. The rest feels like your friend in a local band that is good enough to go see and cheer on but glad when it’s over.

algunas ideas buenas otras no, me gusta mas cuando intenta ser punk y menos lo-fi blues no es malo ni me desagrado pero tampoco lo recomendaría demasiado

I was very worried how long this album was gonna take me man. It took me days to get through this. There are some gems on here but cheese and they’re few and far between. Won’t be coming back.

Knew this was going to be a weird one just from the cover. Some decent backing tracks in there but the lyrics and voice work were just so bad at times. What was that last song as well. Specific rating - 1.9 Fav song - R.L got soul Least fav - Sticky / fuck shit up

Had a lot of trouble finding this one, and honestly this kind of grating vocal style is just not for me. I enjoyed some of the instrumentals but by the end of it I had had enough. Now I Got Worry that there's going to be another Jon Spencer Blues Explosion album on this list.

Don't know. There was some nice singing segments but was a little too chaotic for most part

No es mi estilo Es un punk relativamente fuerte, sin embargo a la vez buscan combinarlo con una buena sincronización de instrumentos entonces hace un balance interesante Lo único es que en mi experiencia personal no conecté con el álbum Recomendado para capturar ritmos nuevos, un poco distintos de lo que era mainstream en esa época de los 90s

Now I Got Worry is a noisy, abrasive collision of punk, blues, garage rock, and chaos. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion push their raw, distorted sound to extremes, delivering an album that's energetic and uncompromising but often more interested in attitude and texture than conventional songwriting. It's a challenging listen that rewards fans of experimental rock but can feel exhausting for others.

I hear a White Stripes sound and less “blues explosion”. I get that it’s 1996 and the White stripes may not have been an influence. Ok? I get it. I know this guy had a hit at some point because I have heard of him before and I don’t just hear of guys who include their name in their band name. So ya, this just lacks any sort of wow moment for me. It’s really just a garage recording to me. Sort of a “throw everything at the producer and see what sticks” vibe

yikes

its kinda shite

The energy is good, but the songs aren't as interesting as they could be and the album is kind of flat. 2/5 Won't listen again

Jeg regnede med at jeg ville kunne lide det fordi jeg syntes Bellbottoms i Baby Driver var fed. Hørte albummet og var sådan lidt eh, ikke rigtigt for mig. Så hørte jeg Bellbottoms igen og det gik op for mig at jeg heller ikke var kæmpe fan af den uden biljagten fra Baby Driver

Kind of fun and crazy, but also kind of fatiguing for a whole album.

Best Song: Chicken Dog. The lyrics were annoying but the riff was alright. Worst Song: Skunk. I cannot forgive this song for its atrocious start. Overall: One of the worst starts to an album I've ever heard. Some of the bluesy punk was okay, but it started off on such a bad foot that the album just annoyed me. There's a reason this album has already been lost to the annals of history.

You know, this is actually a pretty interesting album for being kinda ass. It really does have quite a few tunes that sound like something straight out of a garage in the late 60’s/70’s. I’m also getting heavy steppenwolf vibes (can’t stop for example) Not sure how I feel about the more twangy tracks though. Now that I listen more, this album could be totally salvageable and more palatable if it were a lot shorter. This just isn’t the kind of shit you need 16 songs of. I’m gonna have to revisit this again, because there’s definitely stuff here I genuinely enjoy.

Dang i am indifferent about this honestly its just rock music and it’s not really boundary setting

Something irritating about the whole album all the songs were just poorly written and badly produced probably quite a talented guy but sound quality and balance was all off. I liked some of the 'bonus tracks' but overall really didn't like the album.

I'd probably enjoy it more if I was on whatever he's on. I was initially excited as I like Bellbottoms, shame.

отличное название, но очень странные звуки, не понравилось

Was really hoping to see that this came out in like the 70s or something so i could say that it’s ahead of its time. Kind of makes me think of a more poorly executed White Stripes sound?

Shit. From a butt. A few cool guitar licks, but this does nothing for me.

No me gustó, pensé que era blues y es rock alternativo

Just hooting and hollering Favourite track: Eyeballin

Ahhh man another generic blues album, here we go… Press play AAAHRHRHHFHFHHHHHGGGV Wait this is 32 songs long?

John Spencer? Die sympathieke countryzanger uit Brabant, echte naam Henk van Broekhoven, die begin jaren tachtig een paar leuke hits had met Nederlandse vertalingen van oude rock 'n roll-nummers als Lana ('Oh Lana, wat heb je gedaan-a') en 'Johnny, vergeet me niet'? Ja, leuk, kom maar door! Oh wacht, het is Jon Spencer zonder h? Hm. Want vanaf de eerste seconden besef ik: 'Nu moet ik me zorgen gaan maken', dus de albumtitel is goed gekozen. Daarna wordt het niet beter. Een soort kruising tussen blues en glamrock, maar dan expres slecht uitgevoerd en geproduceerd. In feite een dikke, knipogende parodie op de Rolling Stones, gemaakt met iets teveel geestverruimende middelen achter de kiezen. Het cruciale verschil is natuurlijk, dat de Stones onder invloed nog steeds goede muziek maakten, terwijl deze malloten er juist niks van bakken. De beste stukjes zijn die waar de heren ook echt gewoon lekker spelen. Kennelijk waren de pilletjes toen even uitgewerkt. Dat tilt het allemaal net boven die andere Brabantse zanger (Frans Bauer) uit. Hoe dan ook, na afloop van deze plaat heb ik Henk opgezet, pardon John Spencer met h. 'Als de mist gaat komen en de regen stromen...' Heerlijk.

Vuige en wazige garagepunk uit de 90s. Dat moet wel muziek voor mij zijn, zullen de zure broeders waarschijnlijk zeggen. Nou, ik moet er sowieso even aan wennen, want het begint met een irritante schreeuw. En ik had me eigenlijk verheugd op een potje bluesrock, gezien de titel, want ik kende deze band totaal niet (wat al dubieus is, aangezien we alles wat goed is uit de 90s zo ongeveer wel kennen). Blijkt het alleen meer explosion te zijn dan blues. Dat begint al met een flinke tegenvaller. Vervolgens is de muziek theatrale punk, de zanger is zo te horen een beroepsaansteller met een goede vleug Elvis. Ik moet even wennen aan de rauwe garage stijl. Geluidskwaliteit is daar niet prioriteit nummer 1 zoals we weten. Het doet me verder denken aan een mix tussen the Hyves en Captain Beefheart. Vooral die schreeuwen tussendoor gaan echt door merg en been. Het leidt af van de muziek, die ondanks dat het rauw is, soms niet eens zo slecht is. Al gaan ze dan ineens met zijn allen blaffen, net als het een beetje lekker begint te rocken. Nee, dit is wederom niet mijn kopje thee. Ik geef ze 2 sterren voor de moeite, ik was weer blij toen dit klaar was en ik wel een goede pot bluesrock op kon zetten.

2 out of 5. Not much going on for me here.

Not one of my favorites, maybe was better in a real show but that i will never know

Not my kind of music. Too screamy and loud overall. Didn’t finish the album.

this was a good one to listen to whilst doing the dishes. already forgotten what it was like though. but not bad

while i probably enjoy this a little more than when i first (and last) heard it back in '96, it's still not an album that anyone MUST hear before they die

First half is really interesting. It reminded me of the White Stripes.

fuck shit up? more like fucked these ears off!!!

Music can be both abrasive AND good, so in that sense this album is batting .500.

Alter, die ersten Sekunden vom ersten Track.... Fickt euch!. Sticky was ist das für eine Geräuschkulisse, das drückt ja auf den Ohren wie ein zu schneller Landeanflug. War mir zu stressig und chaotisch

schlechte Mischung aus Country, Elvis, Indierock. Nein, danke.

Hui, so schlecht, dass man manchmal lachen muss

It's alright at best. The nonsensical aspects of it don't land for me. The instrumentation is actually pretty good for most of the album. Until it isn't. The parts where it's bad are really bad. I will say a couple of the a side tracks I genuinely enjoyed and I think It's actually mixed pretty well. It really went off the rails in the last third. The entire last 5 or 6 songs are really rough. That run is not enjoyable at all. 2.3/5

Grungy and full of fuck you attitude, mostly not the greatest to listen to but has its place. Simply not my style with how raw it sounds and the experimental things they are doing. Didn't mind Can't Stop or R.L. Got Soul but the rest didn't grab me.

36/100. It is interesting for sure but I did not really enjoy listening to this release at all. It features sounds that I do not really enjoy together like a punky sound mixed with a country feel. At times the music came close to the style of Captain Beefheart for better or worse.

Sort of punk garage band, sort of rockabilly, sort of elvis. It's harsh, and the deliberate discordance keeps your attention, even if it crosses over into being deliberately annoying too much. 2/5

Didn’t dig this. There are interesting ideas all over the place, but they never come together to great songs. There are some genuinely bad songs on this. But the inventiveness and cool sounds keep it from being a 1.

estoy poniendo esta review a mitad de disco: no me puedo creer que quede la mitad del disco por delante aún, todas las canciones suenan igual que la anterior!!!! podría ser peor supongo pero es que esto es infumable!!!!

Blues, not so much. Explosion of sound and fury, yep.

Weird out there stuff not awful.

Two or three good songs in a mess of songs that are quite bad

It is fine, I am not sure I will listen to this going forward, but if I hear it I won't be upset. 2.5/5

3/10

The opener was a 1 but other parts dragged the overall score up to a 2

This was a drag to listen to

It wants to be dirty blues but kind of falls short. It needed more fuzz.

Too discordant and ear-splitting for me.

Maybe it's me (and my morning mood), but this flavor of noisy low-fi difficult-on-purpose music is all the more pretentious in its posing as trying to come off as the opposite. Bah.

5/10

eh, not my thing

Wail

Raucous

Might have worked with Mark E Smith on vocals but he wasn’t so it didn’t!

that first track is a DOOZY. nothing like turning that on at 8am as you're sipping coffee. all in all, this just isn't for me. its stripped down, its raw, and i really appreciate that. i actually listened to the extended version with a ton of bonus content. i felt most of the songs just bounced off me and i had a lot of difficulty absorbing the music.

This album feels like the artists were just throwing stuff at the wall and see what sticks. I think it had potential, but it desperately need refining. Wail seems to be the most popular, and indeed, it's the only one that has some coherence in melody and lyrics. Others are just... Chaotic.

Not something I'm going to listen to regularly - but some good stuff on here.

It would be easy to hate this based on the opener alone, but it is honest. Garage band with some catchy hooks dragged down by dumb lyrics and pointless noise.

Couldn’t finish tbh

kind of like all the worst parts of jack white's musical personality.

poop

Was potty training my son with this in the background, a very stressful experience and the music didn't help

First impressions, the vocals on this are really not my thing. Skunk was a good opener, but this is definitely not what I expected for an artist with “Blues explosion” as part of the name. I think the guitar work is awesome so far, I just wasn’t expecting a punk/blues/alt album out of this. Wail is the first track I think I could say I enjoyed. The vocals weren’t as in your face off putting as they were when they first came in the first couple tracks. It had a good groove to it. Fuck shit up was just great! I like a track occasionally that just exists because the artist wants to swear loudly into a microphone to some sick beats. I can now add electro into my genre list from earlier with 2kindsa love. This is the kind of track that I can easily bop to. Chicken dog was weird, I genuinely don’t wanna listen to that ever again. I can also now add country to the list with rocketship. Dynamite lovers was good. Can’t stop was alright. Firefly child was a good track. I thought it stood out as decent in a sea of weird. I’m done trying to classify genre here with Eyeballin. R.I got soul. Some good music in here. Get over here was middle of the road and Sticky made me regret I was born with fully functioning ears. 2.5/5 ⭐️. Some good moments but some tracks really made me hate myself. 56/1089

Eh, ok

2.5 - Not really my type of listen, but pretty interesting. Hits this electric blues and punk alt side of things pretty hard with a weird funky undertone. Definitely the most abrasive start to an album I have heard in a while. Top Songs: Wail // R.L. Got Soul // also kind of like the weird, disorienting outro, Sticky for some reason.

Listens: 2.5 Standout Tracks: Skunk, Fuck Shit Up What is this? Screamo-blues? Thrash-blues? Blues-grunge? This album feels like the intersection of a bunch of bands and genres: Elvis Presley, Cake, Jack White, uh... Beck? MudHoney? Turbonegro? I don't particularly care too much for this, between the weird and glitchy instrumentation and the sing-speaking vocals. It's a tad too discordant for me and its not getting better almost 3 listens in.

No private session used for Spotify. Lots of explosion, not a lot of blues. I remember hearing a few songs from this group in the 90's, never really dug them up after that, it was good to listen to it again and figure out why. I don't mind songs that aren't easy classified, but this had too much repetitiveness, screaming and off putting noises to enjoy.

Not a fan.

Meh

Not awful but not really what I’d consider to be good or mediocre either. Awful cover art though. Who came up with this shit?

I was into some of the distortion and rockabilly but not quite enough to get above a 2. Closer to a 4 than a 3 tho if yanno what I mean.

On paper The JSBE should be one of my favourite bands - lo-fi, blues infused, punk cacophony - sign me up! But when I hit play... nope! Auditory cilantro.

DNF. Not bad. Just not for me

Not good, not bad, resembles paralympics for me, you appriciate the effort, but wouldn't call this entertainment either. I wouldn't put this on a must listen before death list for sure

Jumpscare

2 1/2

Not my favourite thing in the world

If they removed any attempt at singing this would be a halfway decent album. This is a product of its time and will hopefully stay there.

202/1089 pressing play on this album and jus immediately being attacked oh god i think this could make a decent soundtrack for an SSX game but otherwise it’s generally just too noisy in a screechy way for me fave: Eyeballin 21/100

It is more and instrumental base album... I can't it is bad or any other negative word but I can't say it is amazing either.. I guess it is just fine 2/5

This is #day543 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and… now I got worry that the generator is back on track, throwing shite in my ears. Because, well, here we are with punk blues, or so they say. At times this feels like Tom Waits during his '90s phase, at times like Nick Cave back in The Birthday Party days. Fun in places, but mostly hard to get a handle on. This is a 2 out of 5. Looking forward to #day544.

No idea why I needed to hear this

Inderdaad wel alternative

son im crine why was he screaming the whole first song

I did not get a kick out of this.

Oh not now. Fuck off.

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion liefern mit „Now I Got Worry“ ein chaotisches, lärmendes Album, das vor Energie strotzt, aber oft über das Ziel hinausschießt. Die rohe Produktion und wilde Genre-Mischung sind zwar mutig, doch viele Songs wirken unfertig und ermüden durch übertriebene Verzerrung und fehlende Struktur. Trotz einzelner Highlights bleibt das Album schwer zugänglich und hinterlässt eher Frust als Faszination.

I don't think it was downright unlistenable, but I do think it was trying to achieve something that it never did.

I didnt hate it? It started off with earrape which is a choice, but some songs were pretty good. Higher end of a 2 I guess.

Not a great sign when I haven't heard of the artist let alone the album considering it isn't that old. My notes aren't kind to this, but I can imagine this would be fun to watch live in a crowded bar. One or two good songs, not a great album. Highlights: Firefly Child

Shouty and loud, enjoyed some of the tracks before the end of the album. But loud for louds sake a lot of the time. 5/10 .... More 4.9 than 5.1 so rounded down.

Not what I was expecting when I saw “blues”

I don’t understand why JSBE never really clicked with me. Some of the bands in their circle I’m a huge fan but these guys are a little to loose even for me. There were some good ideas in here but few and far between. 4/10

This has nothing at all in relation to blues music. Dang it. On the real, several of these songs were actually kind of a hearty, angry, vibe. Can't say that it's necessarily good music, though. Fave tracks: - Wail - Fuck Shit Up - Dynamite Lover - Hot Shit - Can't Stop - Firefly Child - R.L. Got Soul

strong first half and the second was just meh

Liked 2Kindsa Love, Chicken Dog, Rocketship and 1-2 others i don’t recall the names of. 2

I mean, that sucked.

Why.

Df was that first song i literally lost 10 years off of my life

Of all the weird and wacky music that came out in the mid 90s I'm surprised they selected this trash. Ween or Beck would have been a better option.

I only got about halfway through this album; it was a busy day. Some of the songs started out like they were just going to be good old rock and roll, but then they would deteriorate into just noise, or something worse. Others were just bad from the get-go. It’s between one and two stars for me. I’ll give it a generous two.

Definitivamente una declaración de intenciones el comenzar con los alaridos de Skunk. Si no pasas esa prueba, pues el disco te pasará por encima. En general, prefiero melodías al ruido, lo que no quita que las guitarras sobresaturadas no tengan un espacio, pero siempre deben rendirse, tarde o temprano, a la melodía. Y me pasa con este disco que, por mucho talento que exista, si hay más ruido que melodia, pues no me vas a enganchar. Hay algunos temas que priorizan la musicalidad, como Can't Stop, pero, en general, hay menos blues y más explosiones.

Meh not bad but not really good either.

mid

Pretty painful

*1996. New York punk blues, whatever that is. *I’ve read that this is a live, not studio, band, and they are band’s band and never write any radio friendly stuff for the masses. *Eclectic and interesting at times, but a little goes a long way. RATING - 5.5/10

There's enough interesting sections to keep it from one start, but not sure why this one made the list. Checked Spotify thinking it must be close to over and there were nine tracks left.

2 stars but I bet the live appeal is real

2.5 stars. I like it but I won’t listen to it again

It's okay, I guess. Probably was the buzz band of month at the time. I only really know them from the Floria Sigismondi-directed stripping nuns music video from years later. I do, however, find it curious how this type of punk-y garage rock would became way bigger a few years later. Key tracks: Wail

J’ai avorté l’écoute de cet album après 5 ou 6 musiques…

Not bad

This was a lot of noise, but in a kind of charming kind of way. I might have starred this higher but unfortunately, it was unnecessarily long.

Saw the name of the band and thought cool this should be good. Boy was I wrong.

Some truly excellent songs like Wail, Chicken Dog and Rocketship, surrounded by literal shit. This might be the most confounding album I've ever listened to. 2 Stars.

Good

No me está haciendo sentir nada

Dokaz da se treba pažljivo slušati cijeli album a ne donositi nagle odluke. Nakon prvih 20 sekundi bila sam spremna ovo proglasiti jednim od najgorih albuma dosad. Poslije je bilo svega, od vrlo neuspješnih eksperimenata do sasvim podnošljivih pjesama. Neke ljude jednostavno treba pustiti da budu čudni i autentični, makar se skoro nikom ne sviđalo.

On paper, this should be right up my street, but I’ve never got it. I just hear forgettable, thin, scratchy indie rock that paved the way for the White Stripes. Not a good thing. I think I’d like them more if people didn’t keep banging on about them - the praise they received seems hugely disproportionate to how good they are.

There is the beginning of a worthwhile album here but it is buried in the harsh production. I don't mind noise but this is way, way too much. Slightly more melodic presentation and it would have been a 3 (maybe even a 4)

Expected blues. Got bad 90s music.

an album okay only in bits and bites. halfway between white man blues and cool noise punk and never quite figuring out when to be which

I don't know what that was or why there was so much of it. Every time I thought I was starting to enjoy the album it reminded me that I did not.

Kind of hard to explain this one but it seems kind of punkish experimental sort of stuff. It's totally different from anything I have heard before, not terrible but not something that I would put on and jam to. It's also not something that I might find relaxing or chilled out. It's interesting but not for me.

Genuinely difficult to listen to. I gave it a try but it just wasn't for me.

This is just loud grungy "alternative".

How I expect an album by a band with the name "The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion" to go

interesting that this is on here cause i'm not sure why, it's a period of progression between the 80s and jack white that's easily forgotten

01) Skunk - 5,5 02) Identify - 5,5 03) Wail - 5,0 04) Fuck Shit Up - 5,5 05) 2Kindsa Love - 6,0 06) Love All of Me - 5,5 07) Chicken Dog - 5,5 08) Rocketship - 5,5 09) Dynamite Lover - 5,5 10) Hot Shot - 5,0 11) Can't Stop - 7,0 12) Firefly Child - 6,0 13) Eyeballin - 5,5 14) R.L. Got Soul - 5,0 15) Get Over Here - 5,0 16) Sticky - 5,0 TOTAL: 5,50 (55/100)

I remember going to some shows and trying to get into JSBE, but it never clicked. Still doesn't in 2025.

The guitar on this album is interesting and largely enjoyable. I didn't enjoy the vocals as much. 2.5/5

It was ok. Unique some cool riffs and catchy hooks but it was a little too messy for me. And I was a little bored.

Frenetic electric blues. A lot of energy, to mostly no great effect. Occasionally okay, often annoying.

Je vois le truc mais c’est trop long… L’album est mieux au fil des tracks

It was ok. Not my favorite genre with the yellish lyrics. Won't download the album.

This is the shit edgy teens listen too. Not for me

Didn’t like. Dissonant and empty.

A favourite festival memory is of seeing Jon Spencer at Reading ‘99 with zero prior knowledge of his work. In a live setting, those chaotic, primal elements work fine. On record, however, the chewing gum loses its flavour after a few tracks as it just doesn’t really have enough there to really connect with beyond the noise.

Can’t tell if I like or loathe this album

This is A LOT. Jon Spencer sounds like a louder, messier Tom Waits. Don't @ me.

You’re not what you think you are.

Not much to say here. Some songs have merit (Rocketship, maybe Chicken Dog) but this album is largely noise. I see it as more of a frenetic Beck album or more disjointed Primus album (with much less of the sick bass lines). Probably not coming back for the Blues Explosion

Not my vibe.

I love loud guitar music as much as the next person but this didn’t do much for me. Absolutely admirable to create something purposefully against the art of the time and for it to be received so positively that it makes this list. Great moments but no great songs. Sound design in fuck shit up for example. Cool ideas, didn’t translate to a good song. Eyeballin might be a good song. Wavering between 2 and 3 but I have to remember that interesting does not always translate to good.

Not entirely devoid of value, but pretty terrible nonetheless. There were times when I couldn’t tell if it was the song or my car’s Bluetooth failing. In the hands of a better vocalist, I could see some of these being okay early white stripes b-sides. Does not deserve a place on this list, but also not total buns. 2/5

This definitely wasn't the blues like I was expecting based on the band name. I didn't really care for it.

Erratic and fantastic at times but often focuses too much on their fun and not the listeners

Cool stuff

Ugh. Really? A must listen to??

Intentionally rough and grating. I enjoy it for about 10 or so minutes and then find myself skipping or going to something else. OK, what's next?

I was hopeful based on the title but it took less than 2 seconds of the opening to disabuse me of the expectation of enjoying this. There's an association with R.L. Burnside and while this tries to channel chaotic energy, it falls short. Maybe you had to see these guys in concert?

Meh.

I feel like if I heard this in 96 I could’ve convinced myself I liked it. But this isn’t 1996 anymore.

Blues explosion? I think not, maybe "fusion". There are some bluesy elements I like to some songs, but I was expecting something slightly different to this. A few of the guitar riffs are well done, but lyrically and vocally a misfire. I think I've heard "Wail" somewhere before. I liked this track for the most part, but the rest I could happily pass without much thought. It wasn't terrible, but not to my taste and way too long. 2.

Too rowdy for me

Has it's moments but mostly unremarkable. The ear splitting vocal recording was mostly not for me.

I knew the (Jon Davis) Folk Implosion was jokingly named after these guys but never heard them before. Blues isn't my thing but this is more punk rock blues I guess. It's noisy. I see the Elvis singing White Stripes comparisons people are making for sure.

What the fuck, how can a band name fill me with so much excitement and then just scream at me? Not good fun.

Bueno, hay que ratear esto. No conocía al disco. A la banda solo de nombre. ¿Me gustó? Definitivamente no. Fue duro, sobre todo al principio. Los AHHH AHHHH de Skunk, la primera canción, y que mencionaran al pelotudo de Weird Al Yankovich me hicieron pensar que esto era una especie de parodia del blues y el garage rock. Estuve tentado a ponerle una estrella y seguir de largo. Por suerte insistí y lo escuché un par de veces más. Me sigue sin parecer muy bueno, pero alcanza las dos estrellas. El poroto que tienen es por hacer una especie de revival del garage rock en los 90s. Son unos White Stripes adelantados. Mucho menos talentosos que Jack pero quizás un poco más que Meg jaja. Y mucho más punkies. Y eso es un poco todo lo que es este disco: una amalgama garage, blues y punk, grabada medio para el orto. No le di mucha pelota a las letras, pero viendo la actitud de la banda y los títulos de las canciones, creo que hice bien. El disco empieza muy mal. Se empieza a volver escuchable a partir del track 5. No entiendo porque el disco está entre los 1001 discos. ¿Habrá sido muy popular en EEUU? No lo registro. No entiendo su importancia como para incluirlo acá. Por lo general no hay canciones memorables, no te vas a quedar con ninguna melodía tarareando en la cabeza. ¿Temas a destacar? El primero, sin dudas, Skunk: si hay algo que todos (lo que participemos acá) vamos a recordar de este disco es esta canción y sus primeros segundos AHHHH que hacen una buena presentación del disco; 2Kindsa of Love está "bien", si bien tiene un riff feo que se mantiene durante casi toda la canción, es algo RECORDABLE, y el estribillo está simpático. La que le sigue, Love of me, está simpática. Es cortita y no molesta. Es la que podría haber sido grabada con mejor calidad y estaba bien. ¿La mejor canción del disco? Es muy probable. La que sigue también está bien, Chicken Dog, con cositas interesante con la guitarra. Estas tres canciones están bien, pero después el cantante borracho hace una impresión de Lou Reed bastante mala y volvemos a foja cero. Y después el tipo vuelve a imitar a Mick Jagger. Me imagino a Lou y Mick tomándose un par de birras y después ir a la casa del cantante a pegarle en las "partes bajas". Después el disco vuelve a repuntar un poquito con Can't Stop y Firefly Child (esta última también puede ser la mejor canción del disco), pero después cae otra vez. Y después rescato Get Over Here casi al final. ¿Soy un Patriota por haber escuchado este disco varias veces en vez de ponerle un uno? Creo que sí. En fin: dos estrellas, pero es un dos estrellas débil: serían 3/10 estrellitas. Me inclino por el 2 y no por el 1 porque en algunas canciones se ve algo de talento, y chusmeando las reviews vi que varios le pusieron un 1 sin pasar por más de un par de canciones. Comprensible, pero igual es un poco injusto ratear antes de escuchar. Por suerte ya vi que el que me tocó después es de Radiohead.

I can’t tell if these jokers are angry or horny or high or all three. This was a 1 star for me until the back half of the album. There’s even a couple tracks here that you might confuse for music. Good riddance

Ok here's the thing about Jon Spencer. He plays some songs that shows that he knows how to make a catchy song. That means that he is choosing to suck. And that's the worst kind of sucking. Some people give it their all and fall short. That's ok, it happens. Jon chose to suck, and slaps your ears with terrible noise.

Overall not the style of music I’m used to listening. One particular thing I’m not too fond of is the instrumental seemingly being louder than the vocals. Songs like Wail and 2Kindsa Love peak my interest, while Skunk was an instant skip for me. Overall not a project I’ll spend much time coming back to.

Blues that’s trying really hard to be new and cool. Sometimes gives Dj Shadow vibes. It’s fine but unnecessary 4.4/10

1.5 Like a 45 minute joke you don’t get to be a part of. The type of music that “too cool for school” white guys told you to listen to in the 90s.

Inventive and energetic: 1001 ways to make distortion sound interesting. But the pervasive devil-may-care attitude ultimately makes this a meal lacking in any shred of nutrition.

not bad

oh god no!

Maybe I just caught this on the wrong day but I hated the dissonant chaos of it. It's a shame because there are flashes of real musicianship throughout but man I did not have fun with this.

Most of it just sounded like a guy screaming

This album is like walking into a pub where there is a fight in progress and you think we'll go to the quiet one down the road for a game of dominoes.

Noise rock that has too much noise and not enough rock

I saw the vision, did not like the execution personally.

You Call Me Mr. Rhythm 1001 Albums Generator 89 (08/05/2025) From the scream that opens Now I Got Worry, I knew that this was not going to be an album for me. Don't get me wrong, I like some noise rock stuff (hell, I gave Atomizer a positive review), but The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion is different. Negative connotation. Even once the band settles into a groove, the sung vocals are also quite annoying unfortunately. This is also quite an experimental album, with sounds that are not just confined to rock/punk. Fuck Shit Up sounds like a really glitchy version of a more trip-hop-ish Beck track. Sticky leans into some neo-psychedelia experiments. But for the most part, Now I Got Worry is a noisy punk blues album. This is a style that can sometimes work for me (see The White Stripes), but The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion did not interest me. There are some slightly bright spots. Identify is a short burst of sound that works pretty well. Wail has the closest thing to actual riffs on the album, and is all the better for it. Love All Of Me almost sounds like a really noisy indie track, which is kind of cool. The second half of Chicken Dog, when it's mostly instrumental, is pretty good. Eyeballin is also kind of cool with its guitar that sounds puled out of some southern rock song and drums that switch from more classic rock sounds and electronic. But then there's all the rest. While songs like Skunk and Fuck Shit Up feel too experimental and out there for me, songs like Rocketship and Dynamite Lover feel overly simple, almost like a parody of themselves. Sticky is also an absolute disaster. I think this album just doesn't know what to do with itself; it tries to do so much, but most of it doesn't end up working. In addition, Jon Spencer's vocals just do not work for me at all. In spite of some interesting riffs and grooves at various points, this album is less than the sum of its parts and does not deserve a spot on this list. 1.5/5, rounded up to a 2 because there were some redeeming songs. Favs: Wail Love All Of Me Eyeballin Least Fav: Sticky

This album starts with the most unpleasant screaming. It doesn't get much better than that the rest of the way through. However, it seems that when they try to make music that is less discordant they are able to. I actually quite enjoyed Can't Stop and R.L. Got Soul. I imagine many others didn't have the endurance to get to that part of the album.

This was meh? It really should be my style, a fast paced rock/punk band with tons of energy and guitar should be right up my alley but it just wasn't here. Coming in I knew "Bellbottoms", (thank you Edger Wright) and expected stuff closer to that so perhaps that's why? Maybe it's my mood? idk. Could see myself giving this another listen down the line but for now I didn't connect with it. 3/10

Explosion is probably the key word. Blues… less so. Little more heavy than what I like.

Okayish.

Not for me. I made it all the way through and wonder why.

Raw, energetic, eccentric, not quite to my taste.

Didn't seem interesting or original. The vocals seemed to be an Elvis rip-off at times. This is one of many where I am not sure how they made this list.

Can't quite get on board. In other context I really love that lofi style but here I can't get past it just feeling annoying. Not much notable songwriting that I can discern. Maybe caught me on a bad day.

Loud, chaotic, and full of attitude, but the noise rock/rockabilly thing just isn’t my vibe even if I get why it hits for some people.

punky noise - not my style.

Didn’t do a lot for me. Felt like Rolling Stones wannabes

The first song is horrid. However the rest of the album does get progressively better. Still the first few song are rough.

Album 846 of 1089 The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Now I Got Worry (1996) Rating : 2 / 5 Right out of the gate, this one brought to mind the absolute worst of Captain Beefheart—chaotic, noisy, and completely unconcerned with format or structure. Just a barrage of sound. But as I stuck with it, I started to catch little bursts—moments of genuine musicianship and flashes of creativity that hinted at something more beneath the mess. That said, overall, this was a real wreck for me. Not something I’d ever revisit unless I was trying to win some kind of “top this disaster” contest. I’m still glad I heard it—if for no other reason than to confirm that sometimes, art can be more fun to survive than enjoy. Today, we part ways, JSBX.

Already negatively inclined towards this because Ozzy Osbourne died yesterday and this wasn’t a Black Sabbath record. Noisy white boy blues. Gets old fast.

Obnoxiously noisy, as opposed to artfully noisy, or ragefully noisy, which I enjoy.

My ears need a break

Chaotic and sloppy, but he walKed so The Black Keys could run. Some decent grooves and dirty blues guitar but would probably never listen to this again.

Very noisy and a little bit chaotic. I didn't find it to be the most enjoyable. high 2/5

Meh. Although I can imagine some of these songs sounding better live

There are albums where chaos feels liberating. And then there are albums where chaos becomes so overwhelming that all sense of direction disappears. Now I Got Worry unfortunately falls into the latter category for me. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion tries here to distill their scrappy blend of blues, punk, and noise rock into something raw and energetic, but the result mostly feels like a loose jam session without clear direction. There’s plenty of attitude and bravery, but the songs drown in muddy production and a constant sense of unrealized potential. There are a few moments where the chaos hits something interesting, for example, in tracks like “Chicken Dog” or “Wail”, but overall, I miss a clear thread or just some basic musical coherence. It all feels too random and unfocused. The boldness and uncompromising attitude push the album up to 2 out of 5 in my book. But honestly, it’s an album I leave feeling more frustrated than fascinated. 2/5

Don't be confused by the band's name, this is not what I would call a "proper" Blues album - Wikipedia gives the genre as Punk Blues / Alternative Rock and I would say that Punk Blues is probably the most apt description, although angry noise might be another.

A couple of good grooves but mostly annoying snippets. Somewhere between 2-3 stars but the bad outweighed the good so going with 2.

Kind of agree with the consensus here, it’s annoying and amazing in equal parts. I think I can tolerate annoying a lot more than most though.

I missed this one the first time around—and it’s fine. It has its own sound: choppy, messy, full of guitar acrobatics—l noisy showman with chaotic flair vibes. I tend to lean more toward classic blues, and this felt too fractured for my taste (for a blues explosion). However, I kind of felt some Velvet Underground meets Stones influence on “Rocketship”…which was probably my favorite track. And ‘Sticky’ was kind of weird in a good way. But overall, I probably won’t revisit this album anytime soon.

Okay, it really grates on the ears. But it's also quite interesting. The further I got into the album, the less I liked it. In the end, I gave up. I won't listen to it again. 2/5

The fact this came out in the 90s and not the 70s makes this album slightly worse. Not that good either way.

Meh

A little chaotic.

i hate this type of music and most of the songs sound exactly the same. there were one or two good ones but i couldn't even finish it.

Ok listen. I was listening to this in the morning, which was a huge mistake. I got to song 17 (a little over half way!!) and said to myself “This almost certainly a 1 star, who are these people who choose these albums, let me pick it back up later because it’s simply making me too miserable right now and there’s so much more album to get through.” After work I had two (2) beers and on the walk home resumed the album, picking up at “Fish Sauce” and it was a BLAST. So I give this 2 stars instead of 1.

Very blues and punk at the same time.

Not my bag

Voy a escuchar solo los 16 temas del álbum original. Este grupo/autor siempre rondando lo que se supone que me debería gustar, pero nunca le he cogido el punto. Aburrido e insufrible. 2 estrellas.

Reading the reviews before listening (don't recommend doing this) made me think I would hate this. The opening of the first song starts with some screaming which I did in fact hate. However, the album itself is fine. Sounds kinda like Jack White to me. My biggest issue really is the length. It really doesn't deserve 1 hour and 19 minutes. If it was half that time, it'd be a 3 but I have to mark it down for being pointlessly long. The best song is 'Get With It' which sounds like Elvis singing whilst reversing a HGV.

# 489 : Now I Got Worry : 27/05/2025 A two line bio, opaque album cover and the first few reviews don't give me much confidence in this LP. Alas it lived up to it's hype. Another album which makes you reconsider whether there are as many as 1,001 albums you MUST listen to before you die.

I didn't like this one much at all, really dislike the first half but the instrumentals on most of the songs in the back half are pretty good (still don't like the vocals). Just barely enough to turn 1 star into 2 for me

The start of the album was jarring. I immediately disliked it and wasn’t looking forward to the rest. The rest except the ending was okay however. It was tolerable but sounded a little repetitive among some songs. I don’t think I would listen again but I’m glad I listened this one time.

This shit sucks

exceptionally okay. some stuff was flat-out weird, some was pretty vibey. nothing really stood out, and the album could have definitely been shorter. 2/5 because i just did not care for it. didn’t suck though.

This instead of 'Orange' on the list?! Tell me Orange is on the list. Nobody needs to listen to this album before they die.

The middle school level graphic design of the album cover should have been the first sign that I wasn't going to enjoy this that much

The screeching that opens this album is a pretty rough first impression. It is cool to see the thru-line here: a sort of missing link between punk of the 80s and blues rock revival that would follow in the form of White Stripes and Black keys. But the space between is pretty rough. Lots of extraneous punk style screeching and distortion that is jarring rather than, you know, good. If there's an artistic purpose to it that justifies the surface-level unpleasantness, it eludes me.

Could be better if the lyrics weren't non existent

What the hell was that opening to this album....all that screaming in "Skunk." It is a shame that some really interesting guitar riffs and Instrumentals were wasted on vocals that I feel at times were weird just for "shock value." This wasn't great. I'm gonna round it up to a 2 for instrumentals but some songs were REALLY bad. I'm looking at you "Fuck Shit Up." This album was also LONGGGG. Too long to be this bad. Actual....1.5 Liked Songs: "Wail" , "Love All Of Me" , "Chicken Dog" , "Rocketship" , "Dynamite Lover" , "Let's Smerf" , "Dig My Shit"

Sounded like when my brother found an electric guitar in our neighbors alley and plugged it in. He couldn’t play either.

Interesting. But not for me. I'm not entirely sure what's going on here.

This was a roller coaster. I hated it and almost stopped listening out the gate and then by Chicken Dog I was at a 3, then it fell back off. Half the songs sounds like someone is getting tortured back stage.

certainly a strange album even the album layout is strange

Really truly quite terrible isn’t it

# Album Name: Now I Got Worry # Artist: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion # Rating: 2/5 # Comments: The first half is An absolutely terrible album. From the first 3 seconds i just knew it was dog shit. Enough said. I read another comment saying it picks up half way through. So i gave it a chance. It morphs into something a tad better from rocketship onwards. The first half absolutely kills this one though im afraid. Theres some listenable tracks on the 2nd half. But there is no way this should be on the fucking list. My gawd. # Top Tunes: Rocketship / Dynamite lover / firefly child # Would I listen to it again? fuck no

What a string of weird albums…

Almost stopped after the first two tracks, but the middle stuff was a bit better. Not my jam.

I didn't hate it, but I doubt I'd listen to it again on purpose.

Tries too hard.

#577. This is pretty annoying from start to finish. I'm pretty sure I can see what he was trying do do, but fuck man, the execution is lacking 2/5: no

Not as bad as I would think. There’s some good stuff here, but it’s a bit too much noise for my tastes. I don’t think I’ll go back to this one.

Bad

Not my thing but not unlistenable either.

The shtick grows old pretty quick.

4 seconds in and I already want to turn this shit off. Maybe it’ll get better. Update: it wasn’t that bad!

Happy for the noise music community. Not for me. I don’t want to get on a pedestal and say it’s bad, but it’s certainly lacking something I like when I listen to music - and I listen to some unconventional stuff. I listened to this album all the way through though!

Ok

“Wail” is a banger. Also liked “can’t stop”. Everything else was just fine. Didn’t like the overall sound.

Some good stuff in here (chicken dog comes to mind) but I can't justify the length, it's an avalanche of improv and rambling

This oscillated between absolutely terrible and not awful. The floor is very far below ground, and the ceiling on it is of an average single story home. They could have been pretty decent in an alternate dimension.

The first 15 seconds of this album is funny as shit. I've never heard of this band before and I definitely wasn't missing out. It's mostly annoying. I can't think of any reason why I would need to hear this before dying. The chicken song was certainly a choice.. Favorite track: Rocketship

Some bits I kind of liked but it was too incoherent

A lot of that was annoying. It was decent at best.

Now that's an opening line. Cover art brazenly sucks. I don't really like the fake Elvis stuff on songs like Wail. This music would feel more authentic if the lead singer wasn't doing that impression, it just feels like a shitty high school cover band that's trying too hard. I do love grungy and gross slimy distorted jarring guitar and synth tones, so all my stars in this rating come from my enjoyment of those dirty sounds. Shout out to the guitar distortion on 2Kindsalove. Same with the wah wah sounds on Chicken Dog (and the clogged-drain sounding clucks and cock-a-doodle-doos make this prob my fave song on the album, very Zappa, very Melvins). But the second half of the album totally lost me. The song Fuck Shit Up makes me want to go to sleep. Why did they have high energy on every song but this one?? More Gen X grunge-adjacent Ameri-Brit white boy stuff from the 80s-90s that won't move an audience outside of that small demographic. I've decided whenever I get yet another one of those 80s-90s angst repeat albums on this list that I'm going to look up "albums that should have been on the 1001 list" and listen to one of those instead. Because this guy wants to sound so much like Elvis, I decided to go with a recommendation of Elvis' first album. Absolutely beautiful album, emotional, talented, unique, cultural zeitgeist. Shout out to the black musicians around Elvis for creating the beautiful and timeless sound that he stole. 4 stars to Elvis. Final rating of Jon Spencer: Jack White, Injury Reserve, Elvis, King Woman, JPEGMAFIA, Melvins do it better. Why did I need to hear this before I die?