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Alongside Tapestry by Carole King, this is the epitome of 70s singer/songwriter.

Sounds like bland blues by a token band at a corporate event. Unfortunately this falls into the category of “if you’ve heard three or four blues songs, you’ve heard them all.” Boring, repetitive, predictable blues music. John Lee Hooker is a seminal figure in the blues/music. This is not the album to showcase a man who at that point had been making music for forty years. Last track brings this snoozer to two stars, as it’s the only song here that does not sound like stock footage blues.

A couple of these tracks are great hype up music and some are interesting musically. However, that is quickly overshadowed by Durst’s nonsensical and lazy lyricism. I always found it funny that this band and their fans mocked the pop singers of the time while they were mainstays on MTV/TRL. Durst’s lyrical ability was as low effort as those pop songs and his voice/cadence actually reminds me of Aaron Carter. I enjoyed Three Dollar Bill Yall and could see that album being on this list for its contribution to the music scape at the time. I guess this album acts as a time stamp, too, of just how bad this period of pop music was.

Classic Motown, soul sound with no standout track. Easy to listen to but unremarkable.

Some killer beats and instrumentals are made uninteresting by generic, stock 90s vocals. Very dated and somewhat boring, which is a descriptor for much of trip hop. I never understood how it became so popular at the time. Vocally speaking, British rap maybe the most embarrassingly painful form of communication ever.