I can see why people say they like this, I can see why it's important. It's not "good." It simply is not one of the best 1001 albums, or an album you'd need to hear. I'd never say to someone, "oh shit you gotta hear this album!" 2/5.

So cool, just so cool. "Pusherman" might be the coolest song ever made. This is what you want when you're after an album with a social justice lens. The music can also be good! 5/5.

Had never heard this before. Minimalist soul. Low volume soul. I really love how you can hear the whole band. "So in Love" is really really good. Overall, it's a nice album, but it's not capturing me in the way I'd expect for an album I "need" to hear. 3/5.

I enjoyed listening to this. It makes me sad thinking of the shitty music that this (helped) inspire, but Black Sabbath are a great band with some great songs. I don't know if this album in particular is the one I needed to hear, but I'm glad I did. 3/5.

I understand why this is good, but it's also just not for me. I don't like the psychedelic-rock-infused funk as much as the pure funk. George Clinton and Bootsy are obviously legends, this just isn't grabbing me. 2/5.

The first album that's completely new to me! Really intriguing, low-volume electronic music. I like the vibe more than I like the songs themselves, but in places it's very cool. The opening track especially. 3/5.

It's good. I like some of it, I don't really care for some of it. Like a lot of hip-hop albums, it should be 10 songs instead of 27 (!!!!!!). I can see that it's influential, and I love the musicality of it. If this were tighter, and there were 4 or 5 great songs on a 10 song album, it'd be a 5/5. As it is, 4/5.

20 songs! It's so haphazard, could have been really good with half as many songs. I wish I hadn't read the stuff about how Dion came to regret the Phil Spector production by the time it was released. But I can see how the lack of cohesion happened. 2/5.

Three complete classic songs (Cherub Rock, Today, Disarm), but the rest of it just doesn't grab me. I agree that it's an essential album, and is a much better representative than their contemporaries in the "rock, alt rock, whatever you want to call it" scene of the early 90s. On the strength of those 3 songs alone, 3/5.

I appreciate this, genuinely, for what it is. Honest, authentic 90s music in an era when there was so much bad music. This isn't bad, but it's also not very good. 2/5.

I really didn't like this. I don't like live albums generally, and this one just doesn't sound good. 1/5

Well this takes me back. The music holds up incredibly well, the content, uhhhhhhhhhhh, does not. But the hits are so good, and the talent/intelligence is just as evident now as it was back then. 4/5.