Cee‐Lo Green… Is the Soul Machine

Liked this so much more than I thought I would

Difficult one to rate for me. I really like and dislike his voice at the same time. It works great for singing and almost sounds like a modern day Otis Redding, but his rapping only works in some songs for me. I do like the samples here that occasionally turn up. Production is solid as well as I'm a sucker for 2000's rap and R&B and there are a few tracks I really enjoyed. But there's a few duds to so it ends up somewhere halfway.

Hip hop once again. The brevity of the album summary is remarkable. Obviously there really isn't much more to say. For a rap album, the music didn't really get on my nerves. But it didn't interest me either. After 7 tracks I switched off, bored. 2/5

It was ok. Not really my vibe. Had it on more as background music, but don't feel the desire to give it closer listen.

I liked the soul/hip-hop sound but I am not sure that any of the tracks really stood out to me apart from My Kind of People and that’s because I was trying to work out where I’d heard the melody before . (Eventually realised it was Pass the Dutchie.)

decent album, idk why its got such a low rating

Never realized how awful and annoying his voice is

It had some songs that stood out, but not enough. I guess his work with Gnarls Barkley is a bit better. This is not bad by any means but it's not that good either

Sustainably made using the offcuts of an Outkast album. The Soul Machine is straightforward Virginia Beach hip hop from its heyday: tight clever pop production, that incorporates some disco & techno elements, lots of samples and allusions to 70s soul and funk, dynamic and upbeat beats, call and response choruses with a choir, quick wordy rap verses and big catchy hooks. Better than I expected from what I thought was the Gnarls Barkley one-hit wonder's side project, but it does just sound like filler from the bigger & better albums these producers made at the same time, so it's familiar and accessible, but not especially compelling on its own terms. 73 minutes? fuck off.

Don’t fully understand the vitriol for this album. Yes, it isn’t full of smash hits and it’s definitely debatable whether the album should have made this list. But it’s here and the songs aren’t terrible. Some of them are catchy and fun.

A few good songs, albeit lame ones, and quite a few bad ones, which I never want to hear again. 'The One' and 'Childz Play' are actually two of the worst songs I have ever heard. It gets a bit better with 'All Day Love Affair' and 'When We Were Friends', but most of the other songs are incredibly bland. How this album got onto the list is beyond my imagination. It's mediocre Cee Lo Green with a mediocre album filled with mediocre songs. I will never get that 65 minutes of my life back. I literally had to listen to actual good music afterwards to forget what I had heard.

Must... Seperate the art from the artist...

This was so hit and miss. Lots of bad songs, but then some pretty decent ones

I much prefer his other work. Used to listen to Gnarls Barkley as a kid, and I had The Lady Killer album as a teen. But this wasn't as good

3 ⭐️

Some good things going on musically and good production too, but most importantly good thing it's over because even those qualities couldn't redeem an irritating experience for my ears.

As far as I’m concerned Cee-Lo Grren has one listenable song. And it’s not on this album.

So in the words of Mr Green himself
“Fuck You”

Dude has an EGO!
That being said alot of the music on this album slaps. I had fun listening to much of it, but at over an hour long, and with a couple of clunkers (Sometimes… you need to take a song out. Like Sometimes), this album could have used some editing for sure.
Cee-Lo seems to think fitting in as many words as possible into a breath is a skill to be proud of. Again, editing would have helped.
But there is enough funk on this album for me to enjoy it more than not. I know how to hit the skip button on the two-three tracks that drag it down.

This is just bad (not 1 star bad, but pretty bad), probably why I hadn't heard of Cee Lo before Gnarls Barkley.

Interesting production and a nice variety of styles make this more entertaining than I thought it would be. Some of the more gangster material is a huge bringdown for after what seemed like it would be an entertaining and generally thoughtful album by an interesting vocal presence.

Sé quien es por ser la mitad de Gnarl Barkleys, pero nunca me preocupé de su carrera en solitario aunque en gran parte me ha parecido más de lo mismo. También se que es un personaje mediático en USA pero sinceramente de ahí a que el disco sea imprescindible va un trecho. Hay muchas colaboraciones de pesos pesados de ese momento: Pharrell Williams, Timbaland, Ludacris, ... Me gustó Childz play y I'm selling soul. Parece que tiene otro disco mejor, este no es nada del otro mundo.

Not a fan of hip hop at all. I liked some of the Gnarls Barkley stuff that Cee-Lo did but I just can't get on board with hip hop. 2 stars because he has an interesting voice but I hate this kind of music.