Now I Got Worry

A band to see down the pub, but otherwise forgettable.

I am very confused about this album

Yikes

Booooo

Whack

Why

Not for me. Unhinged in a way I find not amusing.

fastest 1star pb

Dogshit

bah

Terrible Horrible Awful Dreadful Take your pick

I'm glad they put this on the list, if only as a warning signal to tell me to never listen to this band again. Unlistenable crap. The only feeling it gives me is the feeling of "turn that shit off". I've seen some people mention similarities to White Stripes and these guys. Maybe there are some slight similarities - but the biggest difference is that the White Stripes actually write good songs with good lyrics that sound fucking awesome. This, not at all. Also - Why does this guy occasionally go into Elvis impersonator mode (voice, not music)? Liked songs on Spotify: 0/16 Rating: 0/5 (this site should allow zero ratings)

Yikes

Fake advertising: was explosive but not bluesy, also why was this recorded on a microwave. A big part of this album is actually not listenable, which brings down the entirety of it. 1/5

This was awful

shit

Nope! I found this album really obnoxious

Wasn’t a fan, couldn’t get into it, nothing really melodic to hang on to, guess it’s academically interesting as a post-punk something or other but I didn’t like it.

It took exactly one second for my ears to get brutally assaulted by whatever god awful garbage that first song was. I thought maybe I was being too harsh and needed to wait another song or two. Give the album a fair shake. Nope. That thought of "instant one star" never left my mind for a moment. It was perhaps slightly tolerable at some points, but I will not use that as a means to justify giving it a higher rating. It started awful and stayed weird and unpleasant. It's inclusion on this generator frankly makes me angry.

Catching up from Christmas break, so added everything to my queue. Now I have to skip all these horrible songs.

Another album you absolutely do not need to hear before you die. This sounds like someone whose just got out of a time machine from 1995 and still thinks this is what the cool kids are doing. Tons of guitar distortion and sweary screaming into the mic are not intrinsically interesting or original things to do though it must be very tempting to do those things instead of having genuinely creative ideas. This album is the sort of thing that gets liked for what it represents; take that out and listen to it as music and what’s left is heavy on attitude and very light on substance.

harsh and dissonant

Have you ever listened to a musician's work and from it you can tell that the person is an insufferable douche? Well those are my feelings about Jon Spencer.

I like blues. I don't like this album however, even if I can appreciate the influences.

This was genuinely painful to get through. The constant shrieking was unbearable. I can’t put into words just how unpleasant of an experience listening to this album was.

wakker worden met geschreeuw is niet echt mijn ding

- Neenee - 0 nummers toegevoegd aan MMMM - 0 nummer al toegevoegd aan MMMM

2Kindsa Love

There will always be a near endless supply this kind of fundamentally silly dirty rock n roll post blues band because the way electric guitars work mean it's the easiest and most fun kind of music to play, the first thing you can do in a group setting, and a ready template to pick up and goof around with. Totally understandable why these bands exist, much less so why they have an audience - I guess it's for guys who like to say "they don't make music like this anymore" while listening to music like this being made right now.

Well. Sure not what I expected based on the name of the band. Nope.

Euh...non !

annoying as fuck

Terrible

Although this was a loud album, I had a lot of trouble hearing it. The vacuum-packed sucking sound of the million vaginas drying up around me, from how utterly unsexy this is, really blotted out the tinny guitar riffs and supposed artful screams.

Love my ears being blown off by screaming in the first 5 seconds. Anyways. What the actual fuck is this? It sounds like something a couple drunk college kids and an Elvis impersonator made in an hour. A lot of the “songs”… if you can even call them that… are loud obnoxious noise and bullshit shouting. One of the worst experiences I’ve had from this project. A waste of 45 minutes.

Yuck.

Zu laut

you don’t even get a witty review im too pissed off

when I was young I was mad at my brother for taking the last bowl of cereal after I claimed it so I took a chopstick, stuck it in fresh dog poop, and then put it in his bowl so he couldn't have any either. it was really fucked up of me. I would eat that bowl before listening to this again though.

First impressions really do matter.

Fuck this poser.

I'd rather listen to a Red Hot Chili Peppers double album than sit through this again.

Nope

This is one of the first albums I have had trouble working my way through. At times the noisy element of it just grinded me the wrong way. Some of the bluesy and hip hop elements were there but then a wall of distorted guitars would come flying at you.

Only needed five seconds to give this one star.

its fine but def not for me. I cant really remeber anything about this almub 💀 4/10

I usually like loud and weird, but this is not getting it done.

pass

I don't like it, screaming out of no where. What the heck dude you sound like you made it in your bedroom not in a good way at all. I feel like I am un hell whlie listen to it, not in a good way or whatever.

Should have ignored it.

Too heavy and screaming. Only listened to start of 1 song

INTERMINABLE. Pas le pire album qu'on ait eu mais j'ai pas du tout aimé. J'ai trouvé ça répétitif et pas du tout harmonieux dans les sonorités. Un mélange de plein de trucs mais rien de coherent. 1/5

Perhaps this kind of punk blues would be good to see live. However it has translated horribly to the album, all the screaming and distortion just hurts my ears.

Take all of the skill out of the white Stripes and the Black keys and you have this shit. What the fuck was that opening track?

None

This is very not good. The band is fine, but nothing special. And definitely not good enough to elevate this into something special. I do think that there is a niche where this style works. This old blues-y influenced melodic structure with 90s grunge distortion and vocals. But this isn't it. I couldn't listen to any more of this album, so I did not listen to any of the bonus tracks that are on the album that is linked in the Spotify. This is not worth any more of my time. Favorite Song(s): Chicken Dog (for the instrumentals)

Too much punk influenced noise for me

I like blues. I like good music. I don't like this.

Lotta noises on this one.

-1 for the WAAAAAHHHHH

This was a painful listen. Not great for me.

Not good

No

what

Hilariously bad. It's an insult this is being classified as punk.

if you think this is cool you suck

Noise...

I do believe the British would use descriptors like “rubbish,” “third-rate” and perhaps “bollocks” 🤷‍♀️ to describe this horrific album which has absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Just a bunch of unpleasant noise and I didn’t get through more than the first two songs before I threw in the towel.

Heel slecht

Yeah, I couldn't do this one. Was like one of those bad openers you hear that have potential but don't put it together.

Not a fan of the blues.

Bad

A lot of screaming and strange sounds. Not my favourite. Repetitive at times - boring.

20 seconds in, 1 star. This is absolute shit.

Not my type of jazz, though I get the explosion part. Some got a new distortion pedal!

Nah mate, that's a pass.

Unbearable listen

Furchtbar! Welcher Rotz wird denn hier noch als Musik präsentiert??

Noise.mp4

i was promised a blues explosion and all i got was this shit explosion

Just terrible.

This started with a man screaming in my ear for 30 seconds and it never recovered

Yikes

Kinda shit. 1 star.

What an artistic feat, with lyrics like "Throw your hands in the air, and kiss my ass, because your girlfriend still loves me." Truly impressive. I went back and forth between giving this 1 or 2 stars, but there are just too many songs on this album that feel aggressively bad or annoying to me, so 1 star it is. I was curios and looked at their artist page, and this is the band that does the "Bellbottoms" song from the movie Baby-driver, so I guess they are capable of decent to good music. This album ain't it though. Standouts: nope Rating: 1.6/5

What the fuck is this. From the beginning, i just despise it. Just sloppy drunken jamming and that's it.

Not for me at all, gave it a few more songs but I hated it from the very start.

<eye roll>

Might be the worst album I've ever listened to, but at least it makes that clear from the outset. I've never been more jealous of deaf people.

Shit Sandwich. (Sorry. I won't repeat this.)

My experience with this album started off bad and only got worse as the "music" wore on. I pride myself on the ability to persevere and give every album a full listen, no matter how much I dislike it. This album severely tested that ability.

Be warned that this album starts with a loud obnoxious scream which sets the tone for the rest of this fucking shit

Hmmm. I think it isn't very good. Maybe someone can enlighten me.

Really not a fan.

Life is too short to listen to this kind of garbage. I couldn't finish the opening track, and ended up skipping three of the first four. I actually liked "Wail". It sounded like some Talking Heads style absurdism. But the quality didn't hold and after trying two more tracks, I bailed on the album.

Couldn't finish

Couldn’t get through it. Favorite Track: N/A

What the fuck

Three albums that are from 1996 that could/should replace this absolute abomination - Evil empire - RATM, Aenima - Tool, To the Faithful Departed - The Cranberries. Does Robert Dimery even have ears?

Opens with a scream. And it's downhill from there, nothing redeeming.

- phew, teilweise echt anstrengend, insgesamt auch einfach nicht so richtig der Hit für mich - nicht wirklich was hervorgestochen (außer negativ)

This album fucking sucks

Sitting through multiple times this was painful. Struggled to find anything to enjoy... The song Can't Stop wasn't too bad I guess. Gets a 1.5, rounded to a 1 because I don't want to hear it again.

Edgy for the sake of being edgy, not so great

This is very noisy and the vocals are very bad. Could hardly finish it 1/5

This is probably the worst album I've ever listened to. Its Nothing but pure junk

this blows There are a few moments of something decent here, but for the most part, see above. 1.5

not my fav :/

Instantly hate it

What on flat earth was all this

Just No

Crappy noise

Sounds like amateur night at the local dive. Except it’s bad. First song was exceptionally horrible.

Now I Got a Headache

Truly awful at parts. Smells like old beer cans and onion breath. The only album out of 400 so far that I have skipped and had to return to much later to finish.

Hideous

Some things are best kept inside your head.

Cr*p.

While this is probably an "artistic choice", but making your music (album?) sound like it was recorded in the 1940s is a weird one. Especially when the distortions are then very apparent which just makes it sound cacophonous. Not my thing...

Heavily distorted crap.

2 seconds in and I already knew I would hate this.

Is it over yet? As I listened I really just wanted it to be over. Sweet Jesus please tell me it's over! I hated every second of this one.

This wasn’t great. There was some nice guitar work in the there but the vocals didn’t work at all.

No

The band's name is kind of misleading, there was very little blues. I would have done less damage to my ears listening to 45 minutes of real-life explosions than this "music"

No!

Not overly optimistic on my chances of liking this album, but I will listen nonetheless. -not the screaming… -not a huge fan of the vocals, but I do like the music -love all of me and chicken dog aren’t so bad -the vocals are either improving or growing on me - they’re losing me again -Why is this thing so long?? I thought i was nearing the end and i’m only halfway through? -it would seem i was listening to bonus tracks? Idk. This wasn’t great. 1.5 stars

No.

Track 1 is a jump scare

Why o why…incredible this album made the list…gives me hope in making a living as a musician

Standouts: • Chicken Dog

This was bad, I made it half way and gave up.

Nasty Noise

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh

More like Blues Implosion, amirite?

Förstår verkligen inte vad den här skivan har gjort för att förtjäna en plats på listan. Varken musikaliskt eller konstnärligt så tycker jag det är något att skriva hem om. 1 av 5

Nej. Tråkig blues rock

Bro what

Idk who this is for but it sure as hell ain’t for me

this some experimental shit right hurr. The entirety was not bad, but a few songs were, hence the one star. Unplesant.

With "Now I Got Worry", I think Jon Spencer Blues Explosion is not the only one worried. Honestly, this was not a good experience. The sound is confusing and maybe that is the goal but it doesn't work for me. It seems to me that they took every possible rock genre thinking it would be a good idea, and maybe it could even be for their proposal, but not for me.

Ingen skiva ska börja sådär. Helvete vad jag inte vill lyssna på resten. Det var en dålig skiva.

Börjar helt vedervärdigt och får mig direkt på dåligt humör. Sen kommer Wail och då inser man att det ändå finns något där, djupt begravet under allt fritidsgårdsreplokalliknande bajs. Därefter återgår det till samma skit igen. Mönstret upprepar sig, här och där skymtar bra grejer fram insprängt mellan allt oljud och trams. Skit ska skit ha och eftersom stora delar av detta gav mig försämrad livskvalitet så förtjänar det inget annat än en etta.

This album was complete ass, it sounded like drunk karaoke and there was nothing redeemable about it, wtf man?

Ugh. The closest thing to anti-music I've heard in this experiment so far. Halfway through Fuck Shit Up, someone says "this sucks". No-one has ever been more right about anything in the entire history of the world, than they were about that. If I had only this to listen to for the rest of my life, I really would have to worry. I have to rate it, so it gets a 1, but really that 1 should follow a decimal point and a near-infinite series of zeroes.

I really hated this until Firefly Child and the two tracks that followed. Everything else was awful. A lot of it sounded like 80s punk, but not far enough removed to be a revival or homage.

An insult to The Blues

viel tom waits influences aber schlechter. Kann eigentlich kaum neue oder oder gute ideen erkennen. paar ganz coole guitar licks aber sonst nicht hörbar für mich.

It's not often you get a truly tortuous experience that you will also forget you ever endured it in the first place

I’m good, thanks

An album that tries so hard to embody chaos and swagger that it ultimately feels exhausting rather than exhilarating. While the band’s raw energy and fearless experimentation are apparent, the end result often comes across as disjointed and unfocused, lacking the cohesion that might allow the listener to fully engage with the music. Spencer’s trademark yelps and grunts, which are supposed to channel the primal essence of rock ‘n’ roll, can feel more like a caricature than an homage. Tracks like “2Kindsa Love” and “Love All of Me” descend into overindulgence, more about noise and attitude than actual substance. The blues influences are there, but they’re buried under layers of distortion and bombast that leave little room for nuance or melody. At times, the album feels like a chaotic mishmash of ideas rather than a well-crafted work. Even moments of promise, such as “Wail” or “Identify,” feel half-baked, teasing the potential for brilliance but never fully delivering. Instead of pushing boundaries in a meaningful way, Now I Got Worry often feels like it’s just trying to be as raucous and abrasive as possible, leaving little for listeners who crave something more than surface-level intensity. Ultimately, while the album may appeal to die-hard fans of the band’s unhinged style, it’s unlikely to win over new listeners or those looking for something more polished or substantial. Now I Got Worry feels like a missed opportunity to channel the band’s undeniable energy into something truly memorable. Would you like me to adjust the tone or focus on specific aspects of the album? Thanks Chat GPT. Couldn’t have put it better myself. 1/5 26/1/25

While the Skunk intro is relateable at times 😱, this is a lot. V chaotic.

Not overly optimistic on my chances of liking this album, but I will listen nonetheless. -not the screaming… -not a huge fan of the vocals, but I do like the music -love all of me and chicken dog aren’t so bad -the vocals are either improving or growing on me - they’re losing me again -Why is this thing so long?? I thought i was nearing the end and i’m only halfway through? -it would seem i was listening to bonus tracks? Idk. This wasn’t great. 1.5 stars

The instrumental song "R.L Got Soul" is quite good

This album is really annoying and way too long. Sounds astoundingly bad as well. Doesn't merit a long review.

I like the review that says "like your drunk neighbors are having open mic night". I get the punk aspect with the gritty aspect but this album is kind of all over the place. It's like an Elvis impersonator is singing for a while, then it's Beck if he wasn't talented, songs stop and start randomly. Like the beginning of "Love All of Me" is cool...some sort of Beach Boys or Strokes riff to open and it's going great, and then they just completely ruin it. It's not as bad as that Genesis album, it's a tiny bit less annoying, but still, this is really just "noise". I feel like I'm someone's father saying "turn that racket off".

God, no. Blegghhhhh. I should’ve known that someone who names their band “[name] Blues Explosion” was gonna be something I didn’t like, but I went into this optimistically and was very disappointed. It sounds like everyone who was involved in producing, “writing” (not sure how much foresight actually went into any of these songs), performing, and recording this album was absolutely sloshed. It feels sloppy, self-indulgent, tacky, and like it falls into tropes of being experimental in ways that are totally unexciting. 1/10 nope

I think I had fun a couple times but mostly this seemed intentionally annoying

It is, as we all know, against the law to get up if a cat is sleeping on your lap. It is a further violation of international treaty to do this if the cat has its nose tucked into your hand. Luckily for us all, I am afraid of being sent to The Hague, so I actually finished sitting through this album today because I got entrapped in such a manner. I don't know who this artist is so I apologize if I'm deeply off the target here, but it sounded like it was trying so hard to be edgy. Every vocal felt like someone screaming "I'm really cool!!! I know a few jazz chords!!!" (sometimes literally screaming). It's amazing just how many components here are components of music I really like, and in this particular arrangement I found every single song difficult to get through.

weird album to get for christmas. First off, what a garbage way to start an album. Skunk is awful. If you have to start by screaming out of tune its a bad sign. The rest of the album stays at the bottom, I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up. It's like if they played the blues backwards and underwater, just because its different doesnt mean its good. Now that I think about it, I'm getting Jack White vibes from this, and I feel bad for saying that.

The worst album to get for Christmas

That's enough music for today. It starts rough, has several rough parts throughout, and only a couple of moments shine through. I did actually like Love All of Me, but the rest of this album was difficult for me. I will say it sounds like a guy who made the music he wanted to make, but it's not for me. Too chaotic.

I was into maybe the first track or two and then it just felt like noise.

“Y’all got any good albums?” “We got abysmal dogshit.”

So boring

”Blues”… olisi edes yksi biisi tällä yli tunnin (?!) levyllä.

Bändi poistaa musiikista kaiken epäolennaisen - ja olennaisen.

Ik vind dit heel rommelige muziek. Het luistert niet lekker. *

The first few seconds tells you everything you need to know about this album. Screaming and terrible noise. Life's too short to listen to more of it.

As someone who is squarely Gen X, I think I get what they were going for in the moment, but from the first note (or scream) this was a complete fail. There were so many good albums that came out in 1996 that could have been on this list: Gin Blossoms - Congratulations I’m Sorry, Cowboy Junkies - Lay it Down, Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Music…, Barenaked Ladies - Born on a Pirate Ship and Rock Spectacle, Marillion - Made Again, Slater-Kinney - Call the Doctor, The Verve Pipe - Villains, Local H - As Good as Dead, Veruca Salt - Blow it Out…, The Cranberries - To the Faithful Departed, DMB - Crash, The Wallflowers - Bringing Down the Horse, De La Soul - Stakes Is High, A Tribe Called Quest - Beats, Rhymes and Life, R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi, Rush - Test for Echo, Cake - Fashion Nugget, Weezer - Pinkerton, Nirvana - From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah, Phish - Billy Breathes, Counting Crows - Recovering the Satellites, Paula Cole - This Fire, Wilco - Being There, Rusted Root - Remember or even Nerf Herder. But instead we got…this… 1⭐️

Have to wonder how this album even got on this list.

long. really boooring 1h

No thank you

Screemo rock not my thing

This album starts off with annoying nonsensical screaming, and it doesn’t get any better. By track three I was so turned off by this utter garbage I hit stop and went to go listen to something else. No way should anyone have to listen to this before they die. Get this shit out of here.

not for me - got confused bc in my head I was thinking Spencer Davis and then heard these guys and was immediately turned off - not my scene

Not in by mood today.

I tried. Heavy metal blues? That’s what it felt like. Ultimately I just couldn’t get there.

God this sucks

Blues guitar but punk screaming and the distortion is insane. Could barely listen to 2 songs it was just noise.

The first seconds did it for me. Absolutely disgusted.

Not for me. 1/5

que cojones que cojones acabo de escuchar

This is how overdosing on Skittles must feel like.

Death metal blues…?! It made me feel this way: “oof… this guys got issues” not for me!

ResidentSleeper

Cannot bear myself to listen more than few seconds, this pile is still steaming

This album feels a bit disingenuous and a product of its time, specifically the 90s counterculture. The more I listened to it, the more it reminded me of that specific era, with references to movies like Natural Born Killers or Love and a 45, and vibes that fit right into a David Lynch film. It feels like this album was more appreciated for what it represented, a certain counterculture aesthetic, versus for its actual musical substance. While it likely got high praise from 90s icons like Trent Reznor, the music itself doesn’t seem to hold up as well over time and feels somewhat artificial.

It's been a real nice week on this generator but all things must come to an end, eh? "Now I Got Worry" occasionally shares some DNA with music I might enjoy, maybe like if Jack White and the sound of a Melvins demo tape found in the gutter had a baby but here I look into the pram and recoil in horror at the sight of that mutant edgelord brat. How embarrassing!

Got 3 songs in and had to give up. Not for me 1/5

Is this unintelligible on purpose? You're immediately greeted with screaming over an explosion of sounds, which is guess is a sign of things to come over the next 45 minutes or so. There is actually some decent guitar playing underneath most of this, but the visceral Elvis-like vocals gave me whiplash. Throwing punk and blues together is an interesting genre fusion that may be slightly more appreciated in a live setting (for those who are even into that...). I appreciate both independently, but this just wasn't it for me.

Say what you will, but I never would've listened to The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion's Now I Got Worry without this 1001 albums list. Combining punk and blues is unusual, and I initially didn't think it could work! But there was something about the deep, blues beat with the fast, punk sound that makes this album unique. The lead vocalist could sing like Elvis, which reminds you Elvis played the blues too--not just rock and roll. Anyway, this album was not for me. The screaming aspects were unpleasant and soured everything else for me, even if it was a different kind of listen for me.

Listened Before? N These edgelords screaming and making noise do not deserve a spot on this list. Go away. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Wail

A frustrating listen. A few of the songs are pretty good but most of them are quite awful and just sound like noise to me. This was really on the line between a 1 and a 2 for me, but ultimately it came down to a 1. The reason why is purely the lead singer, for the simple reason that he sounds like a teenager trying to act like a blues/rock/punk frontman and failing at it.

This is just noise.

Awful grunge music

I like unlistenable music but this just felt wannabe

Trash. I honestly don't know how they came away with that hit Bellbottoms, which isn't even on this album. The singer sounds like a bad Elvis impersonator, and the music behind is voice is erratic, stupid, and noisy.

What is this cover? It looks like somebody coded a website all wrong. This really grated. There are some interesting ideas here but really overstayed its welcome.

Fuck, what even was that? Skunk and Identity were just noise. Wail was interesting, made it all the way through because of the rock-a-billy vibe but the production sounded like a garage band drinking too much PBR. And then Fuck Shit up clearly took its own advice.

Geez...

You might say you like this, but do you really?

1 star nope. Just a bunch of random noise and shit.

just not good. at all. while every song is short they still don't end fast enough, and there are unfortunately 16 of them.

One of my most cherished CDs is an album from a band called Night Owls called Explosions which was handed to me after I finished a set at a comedy open mic by the then 67 year old bass player. The album is a very fun garage band dumpster fire that I will never fall out of love with. The love of that music has everything to do with how I acquired it and nothing to do with any (lack of) talent from the Night Owls. The album lived very proudly for many years next to the insane pamphlet from the cat boy comedian from another open mic night and the healing crystals a random hippy girl gave me after a party one night. That’s what this album is. It whoops it’s way onto a list of albums to listen to before you die because the author forgot the difference between personal favorites and worthwhile music. I get it. It’s fun, but Jack White runs circles around this band and I don’t even know respect him that much.

first listen. I've had like 3 attempts but I can't go through this album it's just a bunch of noise to me.

WTF IS SKUNK GODVERDOMME wat een nare opener, WIE vond dit nodig? Het is trouwens geen blues album, leugenaars... Eerder een matig rock album, met vooral scheurende gitaren, maar dan niet goed afgesteld en opgenomen? Telt dat? Dit neemt alles wat ik kut vind aan punk en tyft er dan distortion overheen. Wat een matig album... en dan staan er 35(!!!!!!!!!!!!!) nummers op dit album, ik heb het eigenlijk na 5 al gezien Heb gekeken en na nummer 16 ga je de bonus edition in, ze kunnen de tering krijgen, na nummer 16 ga ik iets anders doen met mn leven, wat een bagger is dit. Een explosion is het zeker, maar dan wel van het soort waarvan ik wil schuilen en hoop het nooit meer mee te maken.

No. That’s a no from me. 1/5

Was weird, from the first scream on.

I knew my afternoon commute was ruined when the first track began with that scream. Downhill from there.

Garbage. Noise.

1/5 non

An edgey start to the album to ensure it isn't endearing to me. I'm getting old. I don't think I can listen to this. I got through it. It was torture.

In the context of “should you listen to this album before you die,” no.

Went in wanting to like this as I only really knew Bellbottoms (which I like) but this got very tedious very quickly and I gave up

Every 2/5 rating I've given now feels harsh in hindsight.

this is so fun. really good. but still a 1. a strong 1.

too much screaming. I had to turn the volume way down but it was still bad. I was excited for silence once the album was over.

Why!!!?

The music is OK. The vocals are so so bad.

Was not a fan, I get the experimental aim of this album but it was both too much for my ears and too long

Every time I see the title of this album I just think of Alfred E. Neuman/Mad Magazine. “What, me worry?” As an album, though? Completely obnoxious.

This album made me regret being born with ears.

No, didn't get on with this at all.

Så dåligt så jag blev illamående.

I know this band from Baby Driver and their song Bellbottoms. I really like that song and was ready to jam to this but this was just not my vibe at all.

This was the first album I was unable to make myself finish. I got about halfway through over the span of several days. There were some decent guitar playing, but everything else was extremely obnoxious while also somehow being bland. 2/10 Would I listen again? Absolutely not

Utter shit

I kept wanting to like it and it kept giving me reasons not to. And I even tend to like noise punk, but not this one.

I am 143 albums in and this is by far the worst album so far. And I’ve already listened to Devil Without a Cause.

There was glimpses of something that could of been good but in the end it was just a train wreck.

Shite

Can I give it a zero

Pretty sure he had to worry because it was obvious this album is complete crap. Sounds like a freshman art project or your idiot neighbor who thinks he has a garage band that rocks. Over compressed was a trend but this one sounds like it was recorded through soup cans.

I like this band but this album didn't do much for me

Dåligt men inte så dåligt att det blev kul

maybe 2 listenable songs in the album.

Full-blown scream to start things off, way to ruin the vibes. Seems silly, but a few songs in and I just can't get in the mood to keep listening. Let's just write this one off for now...

What a colossal waste of time. I guess the type of person who think starting an album with an obnoxiously loud and distorted scream, is also the type of person that believes the rest of this nonsense album could be interesting to anyone not involved in making it. After surviving the first track, there's still more than an hour of this muck to wade through. Lord have mercy.

starts out with a long, loud scream...terrible from the first few moments

This is horrid. I can scream my lungs out too.

prohíban que los blancos punketos hagan este tipo de cosas horribles

Just noise.

Wail is the only song that didn't make me want to wail

An explosion of blues-like sounds, only hints of it sounded good. Within the realm of stuff I like, weird, funky, out-there, & creative. Just none of it really came together to make it a listen I'd actually enjoy. 32 tracks... This was a rough listen. Would have rated it much higher if it was trimmed down to a few main tracks, & fleshed out a bit more. The slog had me slowly hating it more & more.

Album Nr. 56 Nope.

Sounds like someone asked a first gen generative AI to create a White Stripes album. Pretty trash.

Annoying from the very first second.

zero, but you don't allow that

Not sure what this is. Not the blues, unless blues is a lot of loud music, and screaming. Not impressed.

So very awful.

Some of the jammy parts are okay, but whenever the vocals cut in it just kills it for me. Certainly not my cup of tea, but this one is borderline just bad music.

What? Am I being punked?

What the hell is that intro

It's like trout mask replica but less thoughtful

Broooo ersch mal mad verschrocke wo de eifach afangt schreie. Isch ja nuts de dude. Blues explosion? Tönt als wär das damals so ahead of their time gsi (Aber the time isch denn nie cho). Isch ja schön Pioniert meh e Musik richtig aber mengisch het mehs denn doch besser lah. Broo wie fucking lang isch da album au?? Vorallem tönt alles fasch glich? 1.4/5 wells amigs no es cools Gitarre riff drinne het.

Hmm not for me

Yay we did it!!! My first ever 1 star review (so far)!! I knew from the very first second of this album, when I was jumpscared by the most horrendous and unnecessary screeching I have ever heard in my life, that me and The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion were going to be enemies. Not one redeemable or enjoyable track.

Ass sandwich

More like “noise explosion”. 1/5

Ain’t no way I HAD to listen to this before dying

Waited patiently for something that resembled a decent song. None of the musicians at any point making this album thought, hey this is ridiculous?

oh, i -suffered- through this one. there isn't a single song i ever want to hear again on this album. i really am not sure why it's on this list.

This is one of the worst albums.

I can't listen to this crap. Gave it 2.5 songs 2/10

I don't give a 1 star often (this album is my third after 300+ albums), because I can usually find something redeemable, but this album was just a pain. The singing/screaming is often incomprehensible, it is a lot of harsh noise and the worst sin of all (which knocked it down from 2 to 1 stars) is that it is 1h20 minutes long. You have to come with something really special for me to want to spend ~1/24th of my day listening to you and this is very far from that. Couldn't even finish it (first time that happened!!!) once I realized I barely made it half way, This is too self-indulgent.

Well that was pointless and extremely irritating. DNF

Tried to listen. Just couldn't

More like Jon Spencer Blows Explosion. 1.5/5

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion sounds like a pretty feral name, which sounds good to me. I’ve never heard of him before today, but I’m hopeful for this one. The album cover makes me think of somebody staring at a whisky bottle, but I’m not sure why. Songs I already knew: none Favourites: Chicken Dog I have been saddened at how rubbish this album is. Art is divisive by nature, and this is most definitely art rock of some kind. There are overly distorted parts, occasional screaming as if being stabbed, and overall makes you feel like you must have taken something and be on a bad trip. I’ve mentioned Chicken Dog above, but that’s mainly just because the title conjures a funny image.

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion had live shows that were describes as explosive and energetic. The recorded version of their music captures their energy, but does not present much of interest. The songs are repetitive, simplistic, and unpolished. This is certainly not "blues," in any traditional sense. Described as "scuzz-rock" or "scuzz-blues," these songs have a post-punk sound, and some of the guitar riffs and bass lines may interest those drawn to punk. Even those drawn to this will likely be disappointed - these inconsistent songs are not that memorable.

I just don't understand blues music. It's sounds like a bunch of sounds just mixed together. Also, the album was way too long.

Too extreme - shouty vocals, lack of melody or coherent structure and generally awful. I found this unlistenable.

Not sure if he was serious with this or ironically doing avante-garde punkish music. Either way it's bad.

This was hard to get through. I hate when people just play noise and try to call it punk. It didn’t feel genuine. It’s like someone said I think I’ll make a punk album next and made this.

This shit sucks, real bad

Yeah, Blues Hammer meets Iggy Pop. Uneven sound, screaming, does not work for me even a little bit

Imagine a very bad Lenny Kravitz cover band, but instead of the usual singer, it's someone from the crowd who has, weirdly, never heard of music before. Imagine that for 119 minutes.

Trying to be a rock band and Elvis at the same time. Not what I would call blues. He may have a blues guitar somewhere in the noise. But this I not blues. The title effected the way I listened, otherwise I may have liked it more. Quite chaotic.

Thoughts before listening: I'm pretty surprised to see this on here. John Spencer Blues Explosion were a big deal underground band in the 90s, but they seem to be mostly forgotten. They definitely aren't mentioned with the same reverence as a band like Pavement is. That being said, I do feel that they should be considered as a major influence on 00s bands like the White Stripes and the Black Keys...alt rock/punk bands playing blues based music. My memories of this album are that the JSBE updated their sound with some hip hop type beats but still remained firmly in the trashy blues world. I don't think I've heard this before so I'm excited to listen. Review: Well I was mainly wrong on the hip hop beats thing. There are a couple songs that are like a more punk rock Beck or something, but they come off as jokey interludes more than anything else. This album is mostly just a really dirty garage punk take on Mississippi delta blues. It's a little annoying if I'm being honest. It sounds like he's doing a bad Elvis impression with a ton of effects on his vocals throughout. I should have been into this back when I was listening to rockabilly punk bands like Rev Horton Heat, but I wasn't.. after listening, I can tell why: JSBE just don't have the melodic songs that drew me to those bands. I'm sure these guys would be really fun live, but this just isn't translating to record for me. It's too abrasive and seemingly focuses more on style than actual songwriting. In fact, I don't hear any songs that I like enough to add to my playlist.

Did not like, weird

Opening song was annoying. My understanding of the blues may not be complete, but I did not really hear anything other than a couple of bars in one song that sounded anything like a blues riff.

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Get out of my house. This is as bad as the worst on this list. I hate it. Go away. Hard pass.

Not for me, Clive. Did not like this one at all. 2Kindsa Love was the only song I liked.

Not really a fan. I like some music that others might describe as too noisy, but this was too noisy for me.

Not for me

Honestly I was scared and anxious while listening to this. Nightmare fuel. You’d have to pay me to listen to this again. As a piece of art very interesting postmodernism, as music to listen to its terrifying.

How is this a best if all time?

First time I’m genuinely not giving an album three songs. This is just a bummer.

Just don’t like it. Added to playlist: Can’t Stop

Listening to this was the first time in my life to make me wish I was deaf

Sounds like hes trying to sing like Elvis lol

No please, open the album with an extended scream. You know how that thrills me.

idec

Not having a good run on these!!!

I don't think i want to listen to this

No. Just no.

p791. 1996. 1 star. As rough as a bear's arse.

actual torture