G. Love and Special Sauce

A bit shit. The voice is annoying and the instrumentation is annoying. It's not 1 star bad, but it's close.

I might have seen these guys at Woodstock ‘99. In any case, the hook from “Baby’s Got Sauce” has occasionally popped into my head over the years. There’s some decent jazzy grooving here, but the vocals are rather obnoxious.

we'll see
it's bouncy and swingy in a fun way but still not sure about it
kinda boring and repetitive unfortunately
i haven't wanted to skip another album this badly (not necessarily because this is the worst one so far - it's not)

quintessential early-mid 90's college band

It's here to so the 90s had some dodgy music? Saw someone say Temu Beck which is accurate and makes it worse when I'm not even a Beck fan. 2.5/5. Raising to 3.

Sometimes I wonder how it's possible that I've never heard an album that's on this list because I'm so blown away. Sometimes I wonder why an album on this list even exists. This is the latter. Feels like it was put on this list just to check a box. Shit box? I don't know.

*Very cool and funky beat to it, even if its slow at times.
*Baby's got Sauce and Blues Music were my highlights.

The Good: We get some G. Love!
The Bad: The waiter ignoring our "hold the special sauce" bit...
The Ugly: Album and Artist share the same name...

When the album popped up, something in the back of my head said "you're in for a fun time"... then I started listening to the album, and I had to crawl into my head, make my way to the back, and question the something which previously had kept my hopes up high...

Not that the album is bad.
However, in order to really enjoy this album there are several factors that come into play:
1) you need to have attended college in the '90s
2) you need to have spend too much time in a coffee shop
3) you need to have a really open mind

Now, I check all the boxes above, yet still find listening to the entire album start to finish a chore.
It's a little too much of this, a little too little of that... guess the special sauce was missing?

3* because, well, there are far worse albums I have had to listen to on this list...;

Better than Coldplay

I don’t like this album and I’m not interested in his Special Sauce!

Favorite track(s): Whenever I mentioned playing bass at parties in college, people would tell me "Oh, my friend here plays guitar!" and I would then have the misfortune of getting introduced to a guy like G. Love.

Unique and interesting combo of delta blues and hip-hop. Gave me Jack White vibes. Easy to see why it made the list. That said, 57 minutes is just too long for this kind of thing.

3.5/5.0: Very Good

musically pretty enjoyable, the vocals werent great

14 songs that all sound the same. And folks, that sound? It ain't good.

A Philadelphia trio making a sound that nobody else was quite making in 1994 — blues, hip-hop, and lo-fi folk colliding with a naturalness that felt genuinely original rather than calculated. Garrett Dutton's slack, mumbled vocal delivery sits over acoustic guitar, upright bass, and drums in a combination that absorbed the blues tradition completely and then ran it through a hip-hop sensibility without losing what made either thing work.
The lo-fi production is exactly right — this sounds like a band playing in a room, which is what it is, and the warmth and immediacy that creates is something overproduced records of the era couldn't manufacture regardless of budget. "Cold Beverages" is the signature, a lazy summer groove that establishes the record's temperature immediately and delivers on every promise the formula makes. The blues DNA throughout is real and direct, Robert Johnson and Mississippi John Hurt filtered through a Philadelphia kid who understood the tradition without being reverent about it.
A lot of fun — which is its own category of achievement and the honest reason this lands at a comfortable four. Groove doing real work, blues roots genuine rather than decorative, and a record that delivers exactly what it promises without pretending to be more than it is. Sometimes that's exactly enough.

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...

Music for American community college students to play hacky sac to.

Spiritual cousins to Jamiroqui.

Fucking dire - could not finish

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 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?

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