Reviews by fruktsupp

Definitely on my short list of best hip hop albums of all time. This one settles into a groove a maintains it all the way to the end. Five stars.

Classic album by an all-time great band. The first four tracks are still huge nearly forty years on.

‘Where is my mind’ is a favorite of mine. Not every track works, but it’s all interesting and creative.

Meh, not really my thing. It’s competent, just not my taste.

There are several rock classics on this one, as well as some neat ideas. If this had been edited down to about 10-12 tracks, then it's probably 5 stars. The filler tracks knock it down to a 4 in my book.

Pretty interesting listen, even if I’m unlikely to ever come back to it again.

I saw this band live in 2003, opening for the White Stripes. Fun show, much like this album. Not quite 5 star material for me, but this was definitely better than most from this era.

Oof, the front half of this one is not great. Jerky delivery, weak lyrics, generic beats. Later on, ‘Get out of my house’ is fun only because the female rapper is superior. This album peaks with ‘Fit But You Know It’, which is actually pretty solid, relative to the rest of the album. Huge drop off after that again. This album doesn’t belong on the 1001 list - I’m not even sure it’s one of the top 20 hip hop albums of 2004.

This one was all over the map. Some really good, some not so much. Sometimes it sounds like the Doors, sometimes Velvet underground. 'Girlfriend' is a low point on the album. All that said, there was some pretty enjoyable and interesting stuff overall.

Hard not to like Stevie, especially in this era. This isn't the strongest of his albums from this time, but it's still pretty great.

It's fine, but I agree with some other reviewers - it's too melancholy for my taste.

There are some classic tunes on this one, worthy of four stars. Holy cow though - mother? What the heck happened there?

One of my all time favorites. Even if the music isn't for you, it's worth checking out the recording production techniques that were essentially invented for this album.

This one got old pretty quickly. Poor audio quality, too.

Total classic. Every other song is a single, and the ones in between are great. Easy five stars.

There’s a soft spot in my heart for this one. I was 13 when it was released, and alt rock was my genre of choice. I hadn’t listened in years, but it still holds up. Great album.

Worth 4 stars for Heroes alone.

A few interesting tracks, but this one didn't really grab me. I don't think this would even crack the list of the top 30 best albums of 1991.

Fascinating, tragic background story, but this is a slog to listen through.

From the wikipedia link: '...Rubinson chose to stay away from the studio, concerned that Spence's recording activities would be distracted by the presence of a producer.'

Sounds like the recording process was Spence just rambling in a studio for hours on end with no input, and it shows. Too bad they didn't give him some help, maybe something interesting could have been made of this.

If you’re into Wu Tang, you’ll like this.