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The thing that surprised me most about this album is how much G Love's voice reminds me of Jack White. This could do with some of White's energy too - the laidback, lazy sound is enjoyable for a few tracks, but then my attention started wandering...
So I definitely spent a fair amount of time in college listening to G Love. I enjoyed them then and still do - although definitely not as much. Yeah, It’s That Easy is probably a better album, although this one can be fun. 6.5/10.
I find it unfortunate that the list threw G.Love's first album on here. They hadn't found a groove beyond "stoned frat boys who can sort of get jazzy and rap a little." Five years later, they put out "Philadelphonic" -- a legitimately solid disc. If you squint, you can see the edges of a sound. Unfortunately, this ain't it. That banging snare sound, the whiny vocals, the galactically bad lyrics aren't a good representation of what was to come. Better to put on some Morphine or Sublime or Soul Coughing if you really want some ass-shaking.
If this is what college rock (jazz? rap?) sounds like then I'm glad I went to a non-traditional university. Bleh
Y'all are a bunch of negative Nancys. This album rules.
The cosplay is ... off-putting
Music for American community college students to play hacky sac to. Spiritual cousins to Jamiroqui. Fucking dire - could not finish
The behind the beat groove is cool. That said it’s quite repetitive and got tedious a few tracks in.
This album lies at a weird intersection of genres for which it brings a unique listening experience. This does not make it have enough substance to merit its inclusion, however. 7/10 [DROP]
I feel like this album is the blueprint for a lot of 90s post punk culture (I don’t necessarily know what this means but it feels right). I feel like I would hear some of this in an earlier Persona game.
This sauce is moldy
Favorite Track: Baby's Got Sauce
East coast Sublime. No one asked for this. If someone did? They were wrong. This shit makes me want to punch my ears. This shit makes me want to invent a time machine and beat the crap out of every jock that ever picked on me. And Dan Akroyd. He's responsible, somehow. I'm listening to RECORDED meetings at work just to break this up.
I have to admit to enjoying this a lot more than I expected. This is just weirdo blues with some jazzy overtones. Vocal delivery is pretty unique, reminds me a little of John Spencer or Beck and it fits the music pretty well. I mean, who doesn't like cold beverages?
Carefree ragrock, blues rap 1994 Baby's got sauce Cold beverage
Ruim
G. Love And Special Sauce was an album that i didn't like very much. Their Wikipedia page said that their music was very sloppy and laid-back and that had me dreading what the album would sound like, and the next hour (just short of that actually) pretty much proved me right. The compositions feel off, the instrumentals are sloppy in a not very fun way and the vocals also suck for the most part. A lot of these aspects really made the album feel like it was dragging on and on. The saddest thing is, there are glimpses of something decent there but all the issues it suffers from can't save it from the fact that it is an album that made me want it to be over long before it was. Best Song: Cold Beverage Worst Song: I Love You
#222/1001 🇺🇸 Finding it hard to say anything nice about this so I won't. Best Tracks: ......
This is truly an abomination. As a fan of rap and blues I hated everything about this album. It is gentrification in 1990’s music form. I ended up turning this off and playing Future, because at least when Future isn’t phrasing his verses well it still sounds cool as hell.
Verschrikkelijke zanger
Nope. I won’t give it one star because I did not listen and that would be disingenuous, but I fucking hate this guy. His music at least. might be a nice dude. The special sauce is not my vibe.
Some of the songs were cool. I like the slacker vibe.
CanI shock you? I like gloves
When Come Find Yourself by the Fun Lovin' Criminals came up a few hundred albums ago, I was mystified. Now I understand. This is a sentence I never thought I'd write. The Fun Lovin' Criminals did everything this album was trying to do with more craft, skill and verve.
meh, i wouldn’t listen to it again. song aren’t catchy and they all sounds the same
Pitala sam se kako je moguće spojiti blues i rap. Donekle kontam sad ali je ovo čisto spajanje samo da se spoji nešto neobično. Podsjeća na neke druge alternativne rap fazone ali ni blizu uspješno kao mnogi.
I mostly dug the 'instrumentals' or whatever you'd call them (although most of them were super repetitive), but found G. Love's whole vibe to be pretty insufferable, unfortunately.
Would be a 3.5 if we did halfsies... Fun, but a bit sloppy.
This makes me want to get into flat caps and convertibles
Som en som aldri har skjønt greia med Beck, ser jeg for meg at dette er sånn Beck høres ut for folk som ikke liker Beck. For meg høres det jo ut som Beck, da. Bare med dårligere produksjon. Og verdens mest blikkboksete skarptromme. Move over, Lars Ulrich! Ærlig talt er det faktisk en del ting jeg liker ved dette. Problemet er at til tross for hva som er reklamert, mangler musikken noe special sauce. G. Love klarer liksom aldri å matche det som tidvis er en kul instrumental.
Høres kulere ut enn det faktisk er.
Listened before?: yes and no. this actually took 2 listens to review (i fell asleep a few tracks into my 1st listen) The Things That I Used to Do - 2/5 Blues Music - 2/5 Garbage Man - 3/5 Eyes Have Miles - 2/5 Baby's Got Sauce - 1/5 Rhyme for the Summertime - 3/5 Cold Beverage - 1/5 Fatman - 2/5 This Ain't Living - 4/5 Walk to Slide - 3/5 Shooting Hoops - 2/5 Some Peoples Like That - 2/5 Town to Town - 1/5 I Love You - 1/5 Average score: 2.1/5 ⭐️⭐️ misleading title. ain't nothin special in this sauce i've heard worse, but man this was a drag to get through. the concept is there, however, the execution is poor, mainly due to the frontman. i can't stand this guy's voice and flow at all. despite this being an american group, he damn near sounds british with the strange way he pronounces words. it's really odd. to my knowledge, none of these guys are brits so... what's going on?? overall, i don't think hip-hop and blues should mix. maybe another group will prove me wrong one of these days, who knows. leave the jazz/rap fusion to A Tribe Called Quest, please and thank you
1.5/5 https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/g-love-and-special-sauce I feel like some albums are just included in these books because the one choosing the album has a stake in its inclusion somehow. This album is a good example of that. Who the fuck are G. Love and Special Sauce? Why do I need to hear this before I die? I would rather have not heard this. There's a good riff here and there but the vocals are complete poopoo and each song lasts a minute too long. Also, not that RYM is the golden standard of music knowledge, but the fact that none if this act's albums have more than about 150 ratings (aside from this one due to its inclusion here) says that this is NOT anything to hear before you die.
C-grade Beck with a dash of Chris Isaac. $3 bill y’all era Fred Durst. I think I actually like this album. Went in prepared to dislike - this record came out when I was 12, and some of these tracks were played on the alt radio stations. I don’t remember liking G Love back in the day, but I am rescinding that opinion! Saved to my iPod. 4.5/5
Man these vocals are awful. This isn't doing anything I haven't heard better in all avenues. Far from mandatory listening. This genuinely sucks. Alright the second half got a bit better but this is a generous 2.
This is not good. This Ain't Living is kind of catchy, the rest of the album is pretty unfortunate.
6/10. Con este disco aprendí algo muy valioso: nunca leer las reviews de los discos antes de escucharlos. Las valoraciones más destacadas que me aparecieron al ver las reviews de este disco eran mayormente negativas (parezco Steam), y por eso mismo empecé a escucharlo con una mala preconcepción del mismo, y pensé que me iba a encontrar con otro disco de rap promedio más. Estuve muy equivocado. Aunque no entienda la mayor parte de las letras en la primera escuchada, es lo que menos me importó, ya que la banda se compone más de sonidos sucios y estirados, con un flow particular mezclado muy bien el rap old street con el jazz y sonidos más elaborados. Las guitarras melodramáticas, el bajo melódico y la voz raposa y con odio hacieron que la experiencia de escuchar este disco sea bastante única. Lo tengo que volver a escuchar entero seguro.
Didn't really get it.
This is a tough one. I’ve been listening to G Love for a long time - though not proudly. Is this good? I don’t think so. But I don’t think that means it isn’t enjoyable. I certainly don’t think that it qualifies as an album that must be listened to. So…sure. Whatever.
Best Track - "Cold Beverage"
This album is a great example of everything I didn’t like in 1994, and my opinion has not changed. Self-indulgent and lazy vocals over repetitive (but skillfully played) music that never leaves the same temperature setting. I didn’t make it all the way through. ⭐️
This is kind of like the Fun Lovin' Criminals without the fun or the loving but with music crimes. Utterly inconsequential and a bizarre choice.
Was a mid/meh until the last few dropped it to a 👎.
Not bad.
I love this record.
Heard the name, recognise the album cover, never listened to the band before. I don’t know if that was on purpose or just a very lucky escape. This was shit. Didn’t finish it as really disliked it immensely. Played snippets of each track to see if it improved. It didn’t and I’m now listening to much better music - although to be fair that’s not a high bar to aim for. Any guesses to my rating for this ONE? Thought not.
From the description I had high hopes for this, never having heard it before. Sadly it did nothing for me and the guy's voice is really quite irritating. I love lots of vocalists that can't sing in the traditional sense but this just got on my nerves for some reason. The music wasn't that interesting either.
Didn't grab me - But maybe if I listened a few more times it would grow on me
Philly gold
I liked the loose, trash can sounding drums. This worked for me and I enjoyed it.
Ya, kinda chill 🤙🏼
bluesy rap, I guess. Not much to like for me here a solid 1 star
that's a hella something idk i recommended it to my friend she doesnt like blues nor hip hop good luck for her wish or smth i also like the icelandic bonus shop with the pig ya know its fun ok bayie
Pretty creative
I really thought "Baby's Got Sauce" would be able to hold this shit up. It does not. It cannot. I liked the novelty of the song back when I was a kid but listening to a whole album of this dude do his best impression of what he thinks black people sound like was just terrible. Idk why you would even put this on. Like what function was playing this back in the 90s? They need jail.
For such an insanely terrible band name, what a kind of fun record. a bit of jack johnson, a bit of soul coughing, a whole lot of 90's surfer bum/stoner funk/ska/rock/jamz
2.5.
Some of parts of this work better than others. Not entirely unlikeable.
What if Beck was shit?
It’s fine
it's okay.
I couldn't get past the vocals - or lack thereof.
I think fusing the blues and rap together like this makes total sense. As a 50-minute collection of songs, it fell to the background for me. Pleasant enough, but nothing that stood out or shocked me or got me going. Just a lot of “oh, that’s fun” or “oh, cool guitar tone.” Parts of it are also a little embarrassing; don’t tell me my baby’s got sauce, that’s none of your business. I also don’t want to harp too hard on the “white guy blues/rap” thing, but this is a pretty pointed example of White Guy Blues. The vocal performance was getting in the way of the truly enjoyable work by the band. If I may be glib for a moment: RHCP if they smoked clove cigarettes and pursued older women.
Really tried to get into this, but just not my jam. Drum grooves were cool, but the mush mouth singing kinda turned me off of it.
Huh. I’ve never heard of this dude, and never heard his music before. But god damn is this catchy as hell. Not my fave, but definitely novel !
Not too keen on this
Laid back and nice. Not bad but not good either
#442 / 1089 Heard before? ❌ Revisit? ❌ I'm a big fan of modern soul and actual rhythm 'n blues. Before reading up on this group I had never heard of Philly soul and I'm intrigued. While it's a decent album, the drawl got on my nerves very fast. Music sounds vaguely familiar all the way through, like if street musician puts on his own spin on a newish song which you've heard few times. I wanted to give this at least 3/5, but this kind of sluggish bluesy soul is not to my taste, so 2/5.
Meh
More than just a clever name
i'm not sure this works
Couldn't believe this made the list. Just not that interesting.
Dreadful, but in an interesting and unusual way.
Hehehh. I don't know. I didn't closely analyse this, but I enjoyed my day.
Nothing good here
It’s not really my thing but I suppose it’s alright.
G. Love, my bull, used to give my ex wife some special sauce
This threatens to be cool but never actually follows thorugh on it.
This might've been a novelty back then with that fake-rapping combined with blues, but novelty alone doesn't carry an album.
The Things That I Used To Do Blues Music Baby's Got Sauce Rhyme For The Summertime Cold Beverage Fatman This Ain't Livin Shooting Hoops
Laid-back to the point of indifference. It's fine, I suppose.
Great!
Never heard this band/album before. At its best this reminded me of a cross between beck and the fun loving criminals, maybe a bit of beasties in there too. Wouldn't say it was often at that level mind, it ticked along nicely enough in the background but only came out with something to pay attention too every now and then. So yeah generally pretty cool but not better than that, 3.5
Not exactly stirring stuff. Really still, dry, hypnotic. Beats were basic. Little too chill to make me feel anything.
This whole album reminded me of that 1 beck song, "where it's at". Which is a decent enough song, but a whole album it does not make. Almost like the fun lovin criminals too? Feels like it's trying very hard to be cool. Although saying that, this album predates both that beck song and the fun lovin criminals! I might have enjoyed the odd song of this style but it got tiresome pretty quickly. 2.5
Yuck. I need to know what these guys are up to now.
No comprendo que sea uno de 1001 discos que tengo que escuchar antes de morir. Repetitivo y aburrido. En sus mejores momentos me recuerda a los peores de Gorillaz o Jamie T. Sin más.
Always fun listening - 90s chill personified.
not really mine.
Somebody is trying really hard to be something he’s not.
i see a direct link between this and the white-boy-reggae-rude-by-magic epidemic. can’t say i was rocking with it.
I always lumped these guys into the jam band scene, thanks to a coworker who was all about that vibe and constantly raved about G. Love & Special Sauce. So, I wasn’t exactly eager to dive into this album. But from the very beginning, I realized I had totally misjudged it, and it was way better than I expected. What really hooked me about this album was its funky, raw energy. It’s laid-back and groovy, with a strong jazz and blues feel. The production is stripped down and unpolished, giving it a vibe that feels almost like a live performance, which I loved. However, there were some aspects I didn’t vibe with. The rapping and lyrics felt sleazy, simplistic, and fell flat for me. Honestly, I think I would have enjoyed the album more if they had dropped the rapping altogether. All in all, I’d say it’s worth a listen. Even though there was one element that didn’t resonate with me, I can’t ignore the other parts that were genuinely enjoyable.
Honey, go up to the attic and get my cargo shorts and puka shell necklace RIGHT NOW!!!!
I appreciate the blend of genres. And that's a nice drum sound. Beyond that, I'm a struggling to find the positives; definitely of a time and a place. The vocal delivery became grating a few tracks in. 2
Not really a fan of this band. I'm familiar with their name, but had not listened before. I wouldn't listen again.
It was awful. Absurd name for a band that has nothing to offer. Total miss on this one.
What sounds in the description like two of the four horsemen of the musical apocalypse – rap and blues (the other two being country and techno... or was it country and reggae?) – is in reality an incredibly dull, remarkably sluggish and lacklustre album. I’ve no idea why this ended up in the ‘1001 Albums’. Is it because of ‘Cold Beverage’, which, according to Wikipedia, became a ‘college radio staple’? What’s next? ‘Popular in Polish sausage adverts’? Dull, just plain dull.
G Love seems cool but white people copying blues is never a good recipe. Terrible frat blues rock. Beck did it better and I dont really like him much either. Cigarette moms everywhere love this shit though. I remember one lady I worked with her favorite song was Loser by Beck. Having a loser complex I guess is something cool in the 2000's? Idk bro maybe if you didnt listen to the worst music ever maybe your personality would be more likeable. Gonna go jork it to some Miles Davis or Mingus just to feel superior ✌️
Everyone needs some g.love in their life.
The vibes are absolutely immaculate on this one. 4.5 bumped up to 5.
I’m at a 4. I couldn’t quite grab the vibe through 3 of the first 4 tracks. “The Things I Used To Do” felt a little too broad lyrically as an opener with his looser vocals throwing me off, “Blues Music” had some slightly plain instrumentation that took away from his flow, & “Eyes Have Miles” felt just a bit too stream of consciousness for my tastes. The first track that really clicked for me was “Garbage Man”, just because it found a consistent theme to talk about & the Beck-esque qualities within felt good to listen to. Once this album hits “Baby’s Got Sauce”, it finally finds itself, or at least for me, it found a more relaxed vibe that was much easier to bounce with. This album’s mistake early on is an inability to properly marry the energy of both blues & hiphop, with some tracks leaning more towards one than the other. I think it finds that balance on “Baby’s Got Sauce”, but it also clicked with me because it just has sort of a Sugar Ray vibe to it that I like. The stretch of this album that really won me over, however, was “Rhyme for the Summertime” through “Shooting Hoops” – the ‘Mac Miller freestyling his way through a Tiny Desk concert’ energy this album gives off is at its most potent through this stretch. “Rhyme for the Summertime” is just a stream of consciousness about a nice summer day, “Cold Beverage” is a goofy yet catchy love letter to iced drinks that I appreciate in the middle of this heatwave, & “Fatman” is… a touch shame-y, but the storytelling of this guy being more obsessed with finishing his food than finishing a car sale is just kinda funny to me. “This Ain’t Living” has a lot of cool perspective shifts while advocating for a better quality of living for all, “Walk to Slide” is about a man with so much swagger that he can brighten up a rainy day just by his presence alone, & “Shooting Hoops” is just a fun track about basketball in a way that’s tailor-made to my interests. The album does sort of stumble to its early woes after that with “Some People Like That” not being quite as compelling (although chill), & with “Town to Town” being far too narratively loose to craft the picture he’s trying to paint of the moon being his only constant in a lonelier time. “I Love You” is a good raw closer though, with all the little flaws giving it an intimacy that just kinda fits. As a whole, I’d say this album took a bit to win me over, but once it found its groove, it flows much better than its earliest efforts. As always, first impressions are the most potent, and that’s likely why this has a 2.72 on the site, as this album just doesn’t quite make a great first impression. Combine that with the runtime, some tracks that do feel a bit pointless compared to traditional rap (if it weren’t for my enjoyment of early Mac Miller, I’d also be complaining about ‘Cold Beverage’ as a nothing track, believe me), and a soundscape that doesn’t really shift that much throughout, it would be easy to paint this in a much worse light. However, for my tastes, I’m just a sucker for good useless conversation in music when it’s done to a catchy enough beat, and since G. Love & friends found a way to make the things we take for granted sound compelling, I found myself enjoying this. It’s not consistently strong enough to get up to a 5 (although some of those earlier tracks are clicking a little more now), but I’d say it’s solid enough to earn a 4. There’s not really a bad track here. Do I think I HAD to hear this before I died? Jury’s out. I’d prefer if Mac were here, especially with “The Divine Feminine” or “Swimming”, but given that he was a fan of these guys, I’m glad to have heard a band that inspired him.
It’s a personal favorite. It’s probably not everyone’s cup of tea but he was doing the sloppy blues thing a bit better than Jack White IMHO.
Gear: ZMF Auteur Classic LTD Shedua Artwork: 🍺🍭📷 Production (30th Anniversary Expanded Edition): 🛢️🥩🤩 Music: 🙃🛋️🎯 Rating: 🥫🥫🥫(🥫)/5
Una mezcla de hip hop con blues, es extraño, no me gustó mucho
vrlo loš znak prije slušanja: nema torenta za ovaj album na rutracker.org, a oni obično imaju fakat sve živo i jako su strastveni oko svega toga. mislim da vrlo često imaju i znatno manje popularne cd-e, tako da ovo nikako ne sluti na dobro... našao na jednoj drugoj stranici, skida se, vidjet ćemo... da, uglavnom je zakurac
This dude's voice is hilarious, I love the way he says "sauce"
Hated this! Like Sublime without the sauce! White boys impressed with themselves for knowing blues music AND hip hop like that’s some great accomplishment. Insufferable and far too long.
Sería un 3.5 pero en fin
I grew up in the Philly area in the 90's so I've had enough of this band to last a lifetime.
Boring as hell
I get the feeling that whoever wrote this book is about my age. I remeber these guys from the 90s where they had one hit, but honestly they are pretty irrelevant (and weren't even relevant back then). It has some charme (especially their hit Cold Beverage), but the white boy raps are just too much for me.
i can't say this is really my cuppa but i can appreciate this is a pretty good album. very funky very fresh.
I don't get this, but it's pretty typical of some of the crap that came out of the 90s. I could round up to 2stars, but rounding down because it seems so fake.
Lord save us from more annoying white boy blues schtick. Folks this is just another Tower Records bargain bin pick. The record was cheap and it's helping to pad out this damn list.
I listened to this a lot and I mean a lot……in the mid to late nineties. Haven't listened to it much lately. The authenticity of his blues music (meaning he grew up in private school and dropped out of Skidmore) is a bit suspect - I have always liked the pace and rhythm of his music. It evokes memories of drinking a cold beer on a hot, muggy porch in central Indiana trying not to do anything to important that day.....
Mira, no está mal a nivel músicos pero bro QUE ABURRIIIDOOOOOO
Another album that was ok. Wasn't bad but wouldn't listen to it again.
I love this album!!! Perfection
I must listen to this before I die? But what is it kills me?! Terrible. He can't sing, can't rap, the musicians aren't anything special, the compositions are dull, words are just plain irritating. Maybe a bit hard on the musicians there, but when the vocals kick in it just does not work. Not one little bit.
Well, it's OK. Not a lot of variety in this album, and I'm far from clear why this is considered an album I must listen to!
Never heard of this band or album but I very much enjoyed it!
White boy funk and swagger
If I opened the CaseLogic CD case in your car in 2002 and saw the whole Sublime discography, I know this CD was right there behind it. Maybe even that Fun Lovin’ Criminals CD too. You’d probably go on to tell me about how your stoner older cousin, or your middle-school best friend’s older brother, turned you on to them and how it reminds you of fun times like [insert story here about smoking weed in someone’s basement in middle school]. I love that for you, but let’s move on, yeah? …Or maybe I’m just assuming all Sublime/G. Love fans are just like my highschool girlfriend. Anyway, I don’t think we need Sublime, G. Love, AND Fun Lovin’ Criminals on this list. Certainly, if there’s a fourth thing, we don’t all need to hear that one before we die. It feels like a whole lot of investment in a niche corner of the music world that most people really shouldn’t have to make. Maybe let’s all listen to August And Everything After by Counting Crows instead, and contemplate what that says about the monoculture and life in the mid-90s.
Belle découverte! Très dansant, très laid-back comme j'aime. Dès la première toune difficile de voir qu'on s'embarque dans du 'hip hop' (Alice a même fait un parallèle avec les Colocs mais peut-être qu'elle était biaisée par le fait qu'on était le 24 juin). On s'en va dans toute sorte de direction, blues rock, funk, hip-hop, mais sans jamais lâcher le groove. J'ai trouvé le son assez avant-gardiste, ça sonnait plus '00s que '90s à mes oreilles. Mais on entend assez bien du Red hot là-dessous aussi.
Bien aimé! Groovy et laid back
Back when we thought that Beastie Boys' Check Your Head was a revolution in sound, GL & SS seemed like obvious descendants, alongside bands like Luscious Jackson. However, they didn't have the songwriting skills necessary to sustain my interest beyond one side or so. Cold Beverages, Baby's Got Sauce, Things That I Used to Do, and Blues Music are the only tunes on here worth listening to, unfortunately.
Although I'm sorry we didn't get their later "Philadelphonic" as the lone G. Love (and Special Sauce) album, I definitely enjoyed the chance to supplement my G. Love familiarity (through "Philadelphonic" and one of his solo albums "The Hustle") with their new-to-me debut album. This one is definitely a bit rougher around the edges than later albums, but it still has what seems to be their signature jam session sound with great-but-sloppy lyrics; I'm always reminded of a weird cross between Beck, Beastie Boys and Fun Lovin' Criminals (plus a little Soul Coughing). I can see why "Baby's got sauce" and "Cold beverage" got a lot of (college) radio airplay, but the remainder is also a fun listen. True, there's not a lot of variety on this too-long album, but I've always appreciated it that they seem to know where their strengths are, and they stick to it.
They would be great as a house band in a hipster bar.
It has a semi-familiar rhythm to it that I’m not sure if I specifically like or just remember fondly from that time, but either way I liked it.
A total surprise to me that this album made the list- but I absolutely love it. This captures such a real and authentic take on the time and place this was made. The DIY blend of genres and influences come together into something incredibly genuine. If you don't appreciate G Love I don't think I want to go to your party...
In 2008 I bought tickets to a G Love & Special Sauce show mainly because I wanted to see the opening act, the John Butler Trio. I had absolutely no idea who G Love was at the time. Almost 20 years later and I honestly remember very little of that show. I do remember enjoying the show enough that I found a copy of this album and listened to it quite a few times afterwards, but neither G Love nor John Butler have remained in my listening rotation. For some reason, I wasn't really expecting this album to hold up after all these years, but I actually really enjoyed listening to it again today. I get how some people would dislike it, but I really enjoy their blend of laid back, spoken word hip-hop over blues riffs and jazzy drums. It does lose a bit of steam in the last few tracks, though. Overall, is it a masterpiece? No, but is it a fun listen? Absolutely!
I liked this much, much better than I thought I would!
Love the sound!
My copy of the book refers to G. Love & Special Sauce as a break away from the stigma revolving around Vanilla Ice when it comes to white hiphop. As a certified quirked up white boy myself, that didn't happen in this album. It's the lamest hiphop I've listened to in my experience with this challenge.
A form of hip hop that to me sounds like a proto-gorillaz or early beck with blues guitars. The layd-back vocals really fit the bouncy guitars and double bass layering. A pleasant surprise.
This is pretty awesome and kind of something that doesn't get done anymore. I think there was a moment in the 90s where this was ripped off just enough that it kind of became a meme of itself. Kid Rock kind of appropriated some music like this, which is a shame, because there are so many layers and elements to this sound. Obviously, the blues and stoner rock layers, but the laid back hip hop grooves are really cool. Its super unique and really easy to just kind of live in. I wish there were some more contemporary artists like this. I really liked this today.
Bluesy rock with like rapped lyrics? Kinda gave me Beck vibes. Okay.
3,5
This album should not have been included in this list. "This Ain't Living" is nicely done, but, beyond that one track, there's not here much that's particularly interesting. And "G. Love" sings with an affected blues-rock style, which I find annoying.
I've never really listened to this record before. The early songs draw through line between hip hop and the earlier history of the talking song found in folk, blues, and country music, although later songs sound more conventionally hip hop. I thought of this sound as associated more with Beck's Loser but this came out at about the same time as that song. The backing band is pretty talented and I probably would listen to an instrumental record from them, but I really don't like the vocals and that's enough for me not to return to this album.
Listen, it's fine. It's OK. But I didn't like it and it's too long, but it didn't offend my ears. I wasn't grooving, so I'm gonna give it a 2 instead of a 3.
Fun, but kinda dumb. You know, musically, these guys are pretty good. The jams are there. The drums and guitar are pretty tight. They're good together. G. Love needs to ease off the weed, though, because the whole thing with his delivery feels like you got a guitarist that worked on a groove for three hours, played it once for the guys, and G. Love stands up with a mic and says "Hey, y'all, check this..." with no engineering and freestyles the whole thing. I mean, there's a whole song about basketball that feels like four dudes playing in the driveway. I kept expecting to hear him take a pull off a joint right before starting to "sing" on each track. I'm not opposed to musicians using chemicals, I'm opposed to chemicals writing the entire album. Not really my bag, but it's not horrible. My Rating: 3/5
Probably always best to avoid the special sauce.
You know what, this was alright.
I didn't mind most of this
Maybe if you are on a beach and this is on in the background… maybe… otherwise found it a total chore to get through. Awful name too
i can tell he's trying really hard to sound like bob dylan or lou reed. but it's lowkey not working. this also sounds like lin manuel miranda in hamilton. couldn't bear listening to the whole thing, sorry.
I have no idea how this sold 500k copies. It’s like they took Sublime’s sound, made it grungier, and removed all the suave. A compilation of mediocrity from start to finish.
Incredibly corny. It sounds like Beck but without any talent. The singing is unbearably bad.
First album I dreaded listening to on account of the 'white hip-hop'. A shame, really, since some of the tracks have genuinely good instrumentals. Couldn't finish most of the songs except for - Rhyme For The Summertime, Walk To Slide, and Some Peoples Like That. Can't give 0 stars, so 1 it is.
This sounds like the blues version of what RHCP did to funk and what Sublime did to reggae. Maybe if Beck and Black Keys had a baby. Not actually sure why this is on the list.
piss off
Rap blues rokkia...? Hyvän rytmikästä, pää nyökkyy. Silleensä ihan hyvää, mutta ei kuitenkaan mitään erikoista. Parhaat: Walk To Slide, Garbage Man, Fatman
Enjoyed this album a lot, the mix between bluesy rock and rap really worked for me. But the album is too long for its own good, at the end it just drags on. 1. Baby's Got Sauce 2. Blues Music 3. Cold Beverage
I like cold beverages!
Not my thing.
i think i saw guy open for jack johnson back in the day and i'm sure i had a good time but this is almost unlistenable
This album sounds like smoking weed out of a lightbulb in high school.
Not a very good special sauce
I missed this the first time around, not sad about it.
Well, that's some shitty college radio rock from the 90s. The music is dull, the singing is bad, the "rapping" is terrible. Somehow, it's not the worst thing I've heard on this list so far. 1.5
I went in with admittedly low expectations. Roomy snare
Easy folk
Sure 'Baby's Got Sauce' is iconic if you grew up in the 90s and early aughts, but the rest of this album is just...pretty average.
Kind of like early Beck, if Beck fucking sucked
can music be punchable?
Your baby ain't sweet like mine!
Ganske kult
I had no idea what this album was going to be but I liked it alot. Four stars
For the first few songs, I was in. But they just kept being the same, song after song. I did get pretty tired of the album by the end.
Ok so I am completely unfamiliar with this but I have seen the cover like a million times. I am already turned off by the name and the cover. G Love and Special Sauce is up in the running for the worst band name of all time. Top 3 at least. And the cover is super contrived and stupid. Something a 13 year old would think makes him look cool. Ok. So I appreciate the laid back sound on this album. But it's just not good. Baby's Got Sauce may now be the worst song I've ever heard. Like, what the hell man? Who thought that was a good one and decide to include it on the record? However, great bass throughout which oddly doesn't sound out of place. I was glad when this was over, 2.25/5
My first thought was that it reminded me of early Beck. I really like the vibe. It's not profound in any way — "Cold Beverage" just seems like a good song for a summer afternoon.
This guy’s slurred-speech affectation is insufferable. Is he trying to put on a Blaccent or is he drunk? Either way it sounds like a very misguided attempt to seem cool. The music isn’t terrible but is uninteresting - reminds me of Soul Coughing but with less soul and creativity.
Didn’t like them live in 2001. Liked them even less on this relisten. Reviews on this site cracked me up though.
It started out all right, then shifted into a territory of same-same. The concept isn't terrible, and some of these songs are pretty decent, but it's also kind of bland. It worked well as background music, so I can't fault it there.
Very fun. His voice is very punchy and I like that. Not very memorable in my eyes though. I remember the first three songs or so being good, and Shooting Hoops was another standout. 5.6/10
G Love is a sort of fusion of hippy jam band music, jazz, funk, hip hop and more. My girlfriend really likes My Baby Got Sauce so it has a soft spot for me. This album is a bit all over the place, and I'd probably rate it a 2. But I saw G Love a few summers ago open for OAR and Dispatch. It was a ton of fun, and he was good live.
Great album. Reminds me of Beck and Cake and bands like that. Kind of a hip hop delivery over indie rock music. Clever and entertaining songs.
Sloppy and unfocused. It felt way too long.
Day877 - sounds forced and phony
G. Love was interesting. A groovy, boppy record, that felt silly and fun. I don't get how I slept on this band in the 90s...
I enjoyed this. Worth another listen and will check out other albums in their catalog. Some of the songs did seem to run together and feel like more of the same, but overall, it was good.
Me gustó. Por momentos bluesero, en otros momentos con una onda de rap o hip hop extraña, pero en general una mezcla sólida. No me haría fan, pero no me la pasé mal.
A cool mix of funk, rock, and maybe hip hop? I enjoyed what this was.
I don't really know what this is but it carries a ratio of about 60:40 of cool to cringe, and it's absolutely the sort of thing Beck, Fun Lovin' Criminals and others were getting away with in the later 90s, so I guess this is part of that same subgenre. The bass work is frequently excellent and while I think the vocals haven't aged amazingly well, the whole thing works, for the most part. Could've definitely been a few tracks shorter, but that's been easily half of the albums on the list at this point.
Deze komt voor mij uit het niets. Ik ken het niet, maar het bevalt me enorm goed. Een ontzettend relaxte combinatie van blues, hiphop en misschien zelfs wat jazz (de drums zijn wat jazzy). Rap in combinatie met 'echte' instrumenten is iets wat we moeten aanmoedigen met z'n allen. Het geluid van de drums is lekker clean. Wat mij betreft is dit een reden om je, soms met wat moeite, toch door deze lijst heen te worstelen. Man wat wordt dit album met 2.73 gemiddeld hier zwaar ongewaardeerd zeg. Schandalig. 5 sterren van mij.
Never heard of this before, actually some really fire stuff
Loosely blues and loosely hip hop, this feels very at home amongst 90s jam bands like Rusted Root and Spin Doctors that mixed genres. It's laid-back and loose, with largely acoustic songs that meander under G Love's formless rapping. So far that sounds pretty good, like a relaxed album for a summer day. And the free-form guitar can be fun to listen to. But at the same time, it feels like a pastiche of rap and blues. The lyrics are meaningless and off-the-cuff, put together for the sake of rhyming. Every song plays out the same until the final two, which are half-assed blues tunes with skeletal, simplistic guitar parts and vapid lyrics. If I'm trying to look at this from a positive angle, it feels like some friends just goofing off. But nearly an hour of that is not something I get much, if any, enjoyment from.
Sounds if the Beastie Boys and RHCP had a child. Its okay and diverse, but would not listen again.
Couldn't do it, the vocals are so off-putting and way too close to jam band territory.
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Good
Not for me
Head bop every song. Favourtie songs from the album are Baby's Got Sauce and Cold Beverage. The band has great pocket which makes each song fit so well
The music was relaxing but the vocals were pretty amateur. I felt it got worse as it went on. Rating: Low 3
Literal torture. Puts this whole project into question…
Du rap, mais jazzy, en vrai ça change c'est pas mal
J’ai trouvé ça vraiment top !! Dans la façon de chanter et le timbre, ça m’a fait penser à Beck Ça sort vraiment du lot par rapport à tout ce qu’on a entendu
Sympa!
With that name it was either going to be great or terrible. It's not great.
A punishing 57 minutes.
I don't know what this style/genre of music is, but I do not like it. His vocal delivery pissed me off more and more as time went on.
Dinoland U.S.A. was never really 'beloved' at Disney's Animal Kingdom at Walt Disney World. Didn't seem to fit in a Disney theme park - it was more like something you'd find at a regional park, or even a traveling carnival. It didn't matter how many times the Imagineers said 'Do you realize how much time and work and money it took to make it look like this?' Park guests saw it for what it was supposed to represent - a cheap roadside attraction - and expected more, and better, for their own dollars and time. Anyway. This album is the Dinoland U.S.A. of the 1001 albums, and I am a park guest who sees what G. Love and the boys were doing and wants more out of his time.
I like the vibe of the songs but it's a bit too similar
Like if Beck was as bad as he seemed on paper
So funky! Always a great Summer album.
Such a unique sound that came out during a time that was in dire need of unique sounds.
I just...I'm very tired of this "laid-back" sound being considered "good."
Have managed to nearly get to 50 without hearing or knowing about this album. Terrible name and pretty terrible album. Probably just scraps a 2 as not quite an ear bleeder. Maybe if I knew more about them I would dislike them more.
G Love & Special Sauce A couple of American friends I had in Japan were really into this band, but I never listened to them - mainly on the basis of the name and their description of them. Listening now, with that in mind, I was a little trepidatious, but it was much better than I was expecting, even if, ultimately, I wasn’t that sold on it. I don’t think I like his sing-rapping, more from the put on slurriness than the rapping, and there is a touch of Kings of Leon to his vocal tone, but also a touch of much easier to listen to Jon Spencer Blues Explosion with a much looser, blusier feel. That looseness is probably the best thing about it, giving it a degree of sloppy charm. I suppose Fun Lovin’ Criminals would be another comparison, although FLC have a slightly more diverse set of influences and a bit more about them. It's pretty long too, at nearly an hour. 30-40 minutes would suit it much better, so many of the songs have a similar feel that it definitely drags from Walk to Slide onwards. This Ain't Living is the one true highlight, sharing a similarity with Concrete Schoolyard by J5, and that loping piano stands out against the rest of the guitar driven songs. It’s on the border of 2 and 3. I didn’t mind it at all, and it feels like a 3 on that basis, but realistically I don’t think I’ll actually remember it and think to listen to it again, so I’ll go 2. 🌭🌭🌭 Playlist submission: This Ain’t Living
This was a bit like a less enjoyable Fun Loving Criminals, or less clever Beck. It smacks somewhat of college band thinking they are clever. Which is basically another way of saying they're an American Gomez. The college-level rap n blues feels hugely dated. It's 3pm on a Saturday on the other Stage. I'm surprised G. doesn't wear a moo-moo, as he sings about food and drink on pretty much every track. It's a big part of his life, so much so it often becomes a metaphor for humping ('Baby's Got Sauce'; or 'Cold Beverage'). Must've gone down a treat with the frat boys. There's a couple more enjoyable tracks towards the tail-end ('Shooting Hoops' and especially 'Some Peoples Like That'). But overall a rather uninspired journey through the mind of the son of a banking lawyer in Philly in the late 90s who can play guitar and likes rap and the blues, and loves eating.
Very cool. Sounds like it was recorded in their garage, but in a good way.
[album #12] couldn’t really get myself into this one. fine i guess but just not for me. i will say that i had never heard of this band before today so at least i learned something new. 2/5 i guess, i didn’t hate it i just really wasn’t feeling this one
honnêtement cool, je sais pas pourquoi tout le monde hate 3/5
This one was rough to get through. The music is fine, I guess, but man, G. Love's mumbling gets old really quick. The album itself does get a little bit better as it goes along, although that shouldn't be hard, G. Love's cover of Guitar Slim's The Things That I Used to Do really started this album off on the wrong foot for me. There's no reason this needs to be an hour long. I'll admit, Baby's Got Sauce is fun, and I have good memories of Cold Beverage from American Dad!
I don't particularly enjoy Sublime, and this felt like a Sublime knock-off. I didn't think it was absolutely terrible, but it definitely wasn't for me.
I found this immediately unappealing, the "white-guy with soul" trope in music is really hard to overcome the immediate cringe factor, and this just gave me the ick. I guess to each their own, and I don't know much about G Love & Special Sauce's background, but I feel like this is similar to the Black Keys - it might have been notable at the time (although the Wikipedia is pretty scant), but is it really that important? The overall sound was done better by others (Sublime comes to mind), and this was just repetitive and uninteresting.
Ik erger mij kapot aan deze jongen en zulke types in het algemeen. Namaak swag van het ergste soort. Tekstueel is erg dom. Een belediging van alle muziekstijlen die hij probeert te combineren.
Moeilijk album om doorheen te komen, en dat heeft eigenlijk alles te maken met de zanger. Het is natuurlijk altijd te prijzen wanneer je je laat beïnvloeden door verschillende muziekgenres, maar daarbij bestaat ook de kans dat je de plank volledig misslaat. Deze gast slaat compleet door in zijn laid-back delivery: half rappend, half pratend met een soort gare swag waar ik slecht tegen kan. Ik kreeg er nogal Atlanta-vibes van, als je begrijpt wat ik bedoel. En dan duurt dat ook nog eens een uur lang. Ook een minpunt voor de mondharmonica. Ik vind dat over het algemeen al een vrij irritant instrument, uitzonderingen daargelaten, maar hier helpt het niet mee. Dan toch nog één positief ding: de drumsound is wel echt lekker.
Blandness can't be great.
Is it cheesy? Yes. Do I like it? Also yes.
i can say that this is an album that falls on a personal category of mine: foodie albums. Albums that relate to food in some songs, but not only that: albums that have the feeling, the sensation, the hedonistic persuasion, the pleasure transmitted, that you get when eating a good food. Sonically is like that. This album sounds exactly as the internet says about this band: sloppy, bassy, relaxed, chill, like that cool friend that has drugs, a place to chill and smells a bit bad. In that sense, i find this band a great surprise, a likable band under my sensibilities. But, if i must say, a problem, is that i find to some point, the song blend between them due to the overall vibe of the album. And if you don't like one, you will probably hate the rest.
College-rock/rap. Happy Mother’s Day yawl. Anyway this album is pretty wack. I wish it wasn’t. It’s just that it’s this like really blasé, low effort bluesy alt-rock, and the vocalist is sooooooo uninteresting. Just this dubiously Ebonic white guy spitting nothing bars about nothing. Flow’s awful. Not much stands out. Sounds like Jack Johnson. Or Jason Mraz. Which is exactly what you don’t want to sound like, mid-aughts adult alternative. But hey, even though it kinda sucks, at least it’s not super long, right? RIIIIGHT? I can’t with this project man. I’m sorry. 4.7/10
An absolute 5/5. The singing/rapping is great, backed by an incredible band. I'll be returning to this. A true revelation of an album and artist.
They are desperately trying to pull some jedi mind trick to convince you this is cool and authentic 2*
In no way good but not the worst I got from this list so far. But again, why is such an album on this list? Did the author too much drugs to come up with actual records that someone should have listened to before dying? 2/5 but only because I got much worse before.
This felt like the missing link between Blood Sugar Sex Magik and Odelay to me. Unfortunately, it largely felt like my least favorite parts between these two albums. Not without merit, but not for me.
half decent jam band absolutely ruined by that one really annoying white guy you know who swears he can freestyle. ungodly terrible i was begging for it to end by like track 2 this is so bad omg. genuinely offensive to my ears
A lot of people complain about Trout Mask Replica being on this list. More people should complain about this slop. This is truly one of the worst things I've ever heard. Did we need an album full of some white guy wrapping over blues rifs? No, we did not. This is a truly awful record.
they don't make white boys like this anymore.
Not bad. Not good. I appreciate the vibe. I like that he didn’t take himself too seriously. He could’ve stood to take himself a bit more seriously though.
Very 90s garage vibe. Done well
First off, this may be the worst band name on this entire list. Second, the vocals feel so affectatious - he's trying SO HARD to sound like he isn't trying or he's got a speech impediment. Finally, it's gives me the feeling that this album was the soundtrack to hundreds of mid-90's frat house sexual assaults. Best Tracks: Baby's Got Sauce; Rhyme for the Summertime; Cold Beverage
A lot of emotion tied up in this one. I saw G Love at the Riv in Chicago on Halloween in 2001. Felt like the world was coming apart, I walked in and heard Mike Doughty playing songs from Skittish - I love Soul Coughing - and then this crazy fun show with the band dressed like pimps. I get that this isn't for everyone but it really takes me back. Listened to the live set today, so cool.
A band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
nothing special about this sauce .very M.O R. vibe don't know what it wants to be...🤔
This great record sounds like so much other mid-90s music -- Beck, Sublime, even a little Beastie Boys -- but somehow remains distinctive, with its fusion of blues into all those other genres. And it still sound fresh, despite being so utterly 90s.
Sounds like the bastard love child of Beck, Sublime, and Beastie Boys.
Been a while since I listened, can't recall much.
Geeft me "my Sister = My Clock" vibes...
About 30mins into the album I noticed I accidentally enabled shuffle, so there goes the 'album experience'. Show me any individual song on it's own and I say yeah, this is fine. But listening to more than 4 is just too much. I didn't finish the album.
отличный пример смешивания жанров: блюза, репа и психоделик рока
Couldn’t get through this, awful
It’s just not good. I don’t know what else to say.
The drum sound earns this 5 stars automatically. But, something about it all reminded me off running around Galbadia in Final Fantasy 8. The cool upright bass sound. The rap is pretty 90s, I'll admit. 5 Stars.
This album is like a white guy sitting in a student bar wearing a cheesecutter. A couple of Māori students walk in the door, and the white guy makes eye contact. He doesn’t know them, but feels compelled to make a fist and beat his heart a couple of times before throwing up a peace sign towards them. They ignore him. He scurries to the bar to catch them for a conversation. After rambling for a while, he mentions that he is up to Galbadia Garden in Final Fantasy VIII. They have no idea what he is on about.
Let's get the good out of the way first. Nice sounding drums, though maybe ease up on the constant rim shots. And some interesting guitar parts. Ok, the rest. The uninspired vocals are the same on each track. Hot some low-fi distortion on top, right some middle school rhymes, and then put no effort into announciating anything. It all comes off as trying way too hard. And sadly you can hear how it has gone on to influence so many 90s/2000s acts and not in a good way. I can imagine minding my own business at a party and having a guy named Grant come up and lecture me on good this group is before heading off to request the DJ plays Sublime, but none of that obscure shit they do, only What I Got.
I’ve always liked a number of his songs but I never sat down with a full album. After this, I understand better why. His vocal style is like someone gasping for breath. That works on some tracks, but leaves me gasping after a near hour’s worth. He plays the blues far better than he raps.
They don’t move much out of the groove they built for themselves, but they really do make blues-rap rather funky.
Nice beats, weirdly mellow. I didn't hate it.
Like Fun Lovin' Criminals, but less fun, more criminal and thus boring.
A good one ngl
Just speak normally
-5. This was easily the worst thing I have listened to thought my multi year journey with this project. What the fuck.
Chill
wow never heard of them, except for a section of a song that played in american dad?, and i fell in love in love with this band already, what a record the kind of unusual flows and the cadences are sustained by an outstanding rhythm section, you get tasty jazz progressions over heavy funky grooves on the drums, gotta point out also the guitar parts that perfectly serve the songs you could say it doesnt try to get very far away from a certain sound but man they nail it, everything sounds cool af
absolutely horrible, could barely get past the first half for most of the tracks, but pretty unintentionally funny. why the hell is he singing / rapping like that....
Hip Hop, 58 eme album =>1/5 Le premier morceau m'a paru plus original au début malgré le chant, mais par la suite les travers habituels du genre m'ont vite fait décrocher (musique répétitive, chant sans intérêt pour moi, album trop long - je ne suis pas allé au bout).
This probably doesn’t deserve five stars, but I dig this style so much that I don’t really care. I’m especially enamored with the kinda funky, kinda jazzy drums. Most anything with that backbone would be cool.
Is this a good album? Nope. But I like this album. Very reminiscent of Beck but not as good. The bass is the instrumental highlight here. Favorites are Baby’s Got Sauce, Blues Music, and Cold Beverage.
You know, I really do like cold beverages.
Surprised myself… not into it. lol I think the lead singers rap-talk delivery is monotonous and unintelligible. After about halfway through I found I’d rather be listening to Sublime’s 40oz to Freedom or a Cake album, or perhaps something from a band that more fully embraces the funk… elements that this album tentatively touches on here and there. A few standout blues inspired tracks earns an extra gold star from me, otherwise, the style and delivery are just too unresolved. Though, I suspect this band is probably a fun watch in person
The Arc of 'must be nice to be a man and making boring music just because you can' goes on and is going to wreck.
Ok so I literally thought of this album cover this evening. what... You could draw a line from blues to hip hop and this record does its best to merge two of these forms together. I like the result; as if 60s blues rock was sampled. Lyrics are 🌽 but at least G. Love’s committed to the vibe. (3.5-4)
2.5
I’ve heard this before, but I don’t believe I’ve listened to it since college. I forgot how minimal this is compared to their later records, and it’s entirely hip hop based without the rock and soul influences from the later albums. It’s a solid album, although his voice kinda irritates me. That’s forgivable because he’s from Philadelphia and they all got weird accents there. None of the songs are amazing but none are bad either. I like it just fine.
A whole lot of nothing
It was okay! A fun way to spend an hour, but not itching to return to it. Happy to have given it a go and to know a band I didn't before though! :)
Funky white boy music is what the 90s were all about.
I liked this a lot more when I was a teen.
Three all beef patties
The music can be quite nice. The vocals are wank.
Fine
Not good
Lame
Truly truly awful
Kinda fun for a while but does drag on. At least it's something else from britpop. 3/5
I liked it at first but it started getting repetitive
Buenísimo, me gustó mucho, no los había escuchado antes y me encantaron
Highlights: Blues Music, The Things That I Used To Do, Baby’s Got Sauce and Cold Beverage. 3.0
Theoretically great music, terrible execution
This album is probably best played in a noisy coffee shop where it lends its sound to the atmosphere but isn’t listened to on a deep level. I don’t particularly hate it but, man, I don’t particularly like it either.
Sounds a lot like mid-90s Beck. Some decent stuff but not something I'm likely to revisit.
Not my vibe, but I think my boyfriend would maybe like this? Maybe not though
Good things
Really enjoyed the funky beat, and the hiphop vocals suited the music perfectly. Really nice listen
Meh
Rv
This is such a bizarre fusion of sounds. You've got honky-tonk, blues, jazz, jam band explorations and...hip-hop vocals. This is like Tuesday Night Music Club's evil cousin. I'll give it this, I don't know if I've ever heard anything that sounds quite like this before, not with this exact fusion of genres. I can see why this is on the list, honestly. But if I want laid back jazzy hip-hop, I'll take A Tribe Called Quest instead. If I want vaguely hip-hop white guy 90s rock, I'll go for Spin Doctors.
It’s a fun listen. Reminds me of a blues band covering sublime. Other than a few songs, I found it a bit samey but it would be good background music for a summer party.
alright
this album had some style i really liked it, it’s got sauce
Brings to my mind hot city days/nights. Something summery sounding to me despite the heavy percussive sound. Stand out songs for me are “Town to Town,” and, of course, “Cold Beverage.” My am streaming service included bonus songs m. Really like “Move Me.”
Una batería espectacular, mucho flow en cada canción. Gran sonido. Disfrutable.
Not my type of music, but I would not be mad if this was playing in the background of a party or at a balcony or roof top bar. Music is tight. Do not know one song on this album.
Another I used to practice drum set to. Props to House Man
I remember when this album came out - feeling like it *seemed* like something I could like, but I didn't. Listening again it's still just "fine".
At first I thought it was a little cool for being different than most other bands on the list. That thought lasted for 3 songs and then the annoying vocals got the best of me. The rest of the album I listened to out of duty. If RHCP were slightly more annoying they would sound like this
Wow for want of a better word, this funky bluesy rappy 90s treat just feels cool.
Half-assed, uninteresting blues with a huge amount of cultural appropriation injected into it. No redeeming qualities whatsoever.