Reviews (page 7 of 7)
Hätten nicht 2 oder 3 Titel gereicht? Warum immer gleich ein Album?
not for me...
не понял зачем это здесь
this made time move slowly, in a bad way
I found nothing to like about this
Like a bland, boring, linear, unimaginative version of the weird wonders Soul Coughing was offering around that time period. The most distinctive track as seen from 2024 is "Blues Music", and it's basically a rip-off of Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth". Being nice performers doesn't make you a "1001 Albums You Must Listen To Before You Die" fodder. Some people in Robert Dimery's team were definitely out of their depth (hopefully not Mr. Dimery himself). There were at least 60 albums released in 1994 (admittedly a stellar year for music at large) that were far better than this one. Here's the list: Weezer - Weezer (The Blue Album) Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain Portishead - Dummy Nas - Illmatic Blur - Parklife Shellac - At Action Park Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral Nirvana - MTV Unplugged In New York Hole - Live Through This Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Let Love In Beastie Boys - Ill Communication NOFX - Punk In Drublic Jeff Buckley - Grace Vangelis - Blade Runner Green Day - Dookie Tori Amos - Under The Pink Massive Attack - Protection Sonic Youth - Experimental Jet Set, Thrash And No Star Beck - Mellow Gold Gravediggaz - 6 Feet Deep Liz Phair - Whip-Smart Sebadoh - Bakesale Frank Black - Teenager Of The Year Low - I Could Live In Hope* Lisa Germano - Geek The Girl Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works vol 2 Superchunk - Foolish Method Man - Tical The Magnetic Fields - Holiday Beck - One Foot In The Grave Lisa Germano - Happiness REM - Monster Oasis - Definitely Maybe Helmet - Betty Neil Young - Sleep With Angels Kristin Hersh - Hips And Makers Soundgarden - Superunknown L7 - Hungry For Stink The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready To Die Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime Kyuss - Welcome To Sky Valley The Divine Comedy - Promenade Korn - Korn Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible 2PAC - Me Against The World dEUS - Worst Case Scenario Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand Girls Against Boys - Cruise Yourself Pulp - His'n'Hers Joni Mitchell - Turbulent Indigo Rancid - Let's Go Warsaw - Warsaw *Soul Coughing - Ruby Vroom* Tortoise - Tortoise Dinosaur Jr - Without A Sound Body Count - Born Dead TLC - CrazySexyCool Pearl Jam - Vitalogy The Offspring - Smash Suede - Dog Man Star Now, Mr. Dimery... Can I be part of your team? Where should I send my resumé? 1/5 for the purposes of this list of "essential" albums. 6/10 for more general purposes (5+1) Number of albums left to review: 92 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 391 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 228 Albums from the list I certainly won't include in mine: 289 (including this one)
is the special sauce a load of old wank
Meh. Blues rip off.
I hated this when it came out and it's aged to be worse. Dumbed down lyrics and repetitive guitar tracks. Nah.
Not a good or really meaningful album, but more of a symptom of the time. In the early to mid 90s pressing a cd was cheap. The break even point was so low that record labels were willing to gamble. There was just as much quality music in this period as any other period in modern history, but it was awash in a sea of crap. This album is part of the larger sea. This reminds me of the band you got to play your kegger in exchange for free beer and felt you overpayed.
This is like blues-jazz-alternative-rap fusion, right? Honestly I’m impressed someone can mix four genres and not be good at any of them. Oh and add in a bad blaccent? The cherry on top. Hard pass.
Not my jam. Quite samey, quite quickly. If music were a wraith, it would be G. Love and the Special Sauce. As the songs played I felt my life-force being drained. None of the tracks made it into my playlist.
Pure rubbish. The list never ceases to amaze me with bad selections
I didn’t listen to the entire album because it was not only bad but boring as well.
no
This is pretty terrible. Baby's Got Sauce is particularly egregious. Couldn't finish - toughed it out till half way through. Gave me a migraine, though that may have been coincidence.
No idea how this obscure artist with a crappy album makes it on a list like this.
No.
More terrible 90’s music
This smells like hackysack.
Blir uppriktigt sagt förbannad när sådana här album dyker upp när man vet grupper och artister som inte är med på listan. En skiva att torka sig i röven med.
The singer's voice is really annoying.
Ugh that mush mouth semi rap. Spare us.
Great, hip-hop one of the music styles that for some reason rub me the wrong way (together with punk and jazz). Some of the music is actually OK but as soon as the "singing" starts it is immediately ruined.
Nothing special on the sauce
What the hell was that? 1/5
Like it's not bad, the production is okay, the singing is okay, but its so so boring I couldn't finish the album 1.5/5
Typical rich kid wants to be a hip hop artist. Found nothing to like here
This singer is annoying and the music isn’t that good, either. How ‘Baby’s Got Sauce’ was called the song of the year for 1994, a year with great output from much better bands, is beyond me, considering that I don’t remember a second of it. I don’t remember most of it, because it wasn’t notable enough for me to pay attention to it during my morning activities. I do remember the last song, though. It, like the rest of this album, is bad. This is one of my less bitter 1 star reviews, but it’s not like I have a higher opinion of it.
Not for me. 1/5
the "rapping" was.. too painful... i didn't finish.
Dreadful. I tried to treat it as Captain Beefheart, to which it has a superficial resemblance, but I really hated it.
Seems like every song sounds like the other. Boring
Embarrassingly bad.
Absolutely fucking awful.
Music that you want to punch in the face. If it was just one song of this style of music I could cop it and maybe even enjoy it in the background, but a whole album of samey douche slacker rap was a heinous assault on my ear holes. Even for people who enjoyed this album, surely they'd agree it shouldn't be on this list, what does it bring to music?
Fucking hated this album. I can imagine everyone that loves this band to be completely insufferable. So, so lame, boring, lazy (not in a good slacker way). Awful college douche music. Can't believe it got on this list. Even the name. Fuck this album. My new worst of the project! Half a star. Fave track: This Ain't Living
This is what happens when you let annoying people go without bullying. Awful. Just awful.
What fresh hell is this? White boy rapping over swinging beats? No fucking thanks
This is too jammy for me, and sounds like several afterparties I went to as a kid. I dont remember one single melody after hearing through, and I am probably even more bored than what the musicians performing on the record sounds.
Awful, grating. Nice drums, everything else painful.
Very dull
ohhh man i'm soooo baked hahahahaha
Cringe inducing pretension. Clearly introduced to blues and funk legends through hip hop samples, these guys decided to have a go. I like the sound the band aspires to; they just need about 5 more years of constant gigging to be able to pull it off. The drummer is so distracted by ornamentation that he can’t quite hold the pocket. The guitarist has zero melodic sense so his leads consistently CLUNK; and while he’s clearly spent a ton of time learning cool chords, he can’t play them in real time so his rhythms feel forced. (And of course in funk, feel is EVERYTHING.) But while the band misses, at least I get what they’re shooting for. G. Love is just an embarrassment in everything he does. His contribution constantly displays an idiocy combined with arrogance. If I were on a bus and overheard him having a conversation, I’d probably get off and wait the 15 minutes for the next one rather than have to listen to any more of his nonsense. And what is that weird vocal affectation? It makes him sound like he’s developmentally disabled. Finally, in Blues Man, “G” celebrates a number of blues, soul, and funk legends. I’m 550 albums in and, while I’ve heard literally scores of albums by mediocre British kids imitating these legends (mostly from the 60s but let’s throw this album in with the detritus), I’ve heard albums from exactly three of those who actually deserve not to be forgotten. Put a different way, in what music-loving universe should people hear G. Love & Special Sauce but not Blind Lemon Jefferson, Albert Collins, Bukka White, James Brown, Chaka Khan, Sonny Boy Williams, Leadbelly, Robert Johnson, Junior Wells, J. B. Hutto, Howlin’ Wolf, John Lee Hooker, etc. etc??
Not my cup of tea
Not for me Garbage
Sounds exactly like you would imagine a band called "G love and special sauce" to sound. Which is a band that sounding like background music at a bad restaurant, while "G Love" throws out rhymes like you would expect someone who calls themselves "G Love" to do. Awful.
Not sure how this made it on any list of great albums. Couldn't even finish the whole album.
No more special sauce for me
Boring and amateurish.
nope!
1 - I couldn't understand a word this dude was saying because he can't sing for shit, but I felt like this album was sexually harassing me.
Christ. We really let white boys do whatever they want, huh?
Don't love G. Love. Always felt it was super overrated...this listen backed that up. 1.5/5
One hour of the most aimless, sloppy, poorly executed blend of rock, hip-hop, and blues that should be forgotten with time. I’m gonna go read a book.
OK, this is the new bottom of the ranking of all of these albums so far, out of 364. (I also figured out just now that my ranking is missing some albums, which means I have to sort it out again, which adds to the list of grievances I have against this album.) It was already apparent that this would be a new low by the title of this album (also, why does the band name use an ampersand when the album doesn’t?), and it pretty much proved my assumption correctly. It was a lot more boring than I imagined it being, but whenever I started paying attention again I wished that I hadn’t. What was the reasoning behind putting this on the list?
Unfortunately not my sort of music. Just didn't really give with the singer's voice
It's funny to think that the only reason this record exists is due to world war 2 propaganda. Without it the Nazis would have won and where would we be now? Thank you G. Love and Special Sauce. You saved us.
Vocalist sounds like he is trying too hard
Fuck this album boring vanilla ice rapping over pseudo blues bull shit
what even is this nonsense
Songs that sound like they were written by middle schoolers who just discovered the blues, with horrible singing to boot.