The Official Needles and Grooves 1001 Album Generator Project

[Hemotep]

Which is exactly why I'm digging the weirdness of this pick so much. What the hell makes something like this get conceived and played consistently on a tour. I mean, beyond drugs.

In high school I went through a ELP deep dive, but I don't think I spent much time with this particular album, more with Trilogy and Brain Salad Surgery.

the Baba Yaga parts are pretty fantastic and out there, but also surprisingly well orchestrated/coordinated with the synth/drumming. And I love me some Hammond B3.

3/5

Glad someone else dug those parts too. I also love the Hammond.

 

[Wicked Dreamer]

Of the little bits of ELP I've heard before, I'd definitely take their more simple acoustic guitar songs like "From the Beginning" over their usual keyboard-driven sound, though I don't think this is a bad record. It's an interesting listen at least, but I totally get why others (especially those who don't like prog rock in general) wouldn't dig this. 3/5
favs: "The Sage", "The Old Castle"
least fav: "The Hut of Baba Yaga (Pt. 1)"

 

[WhiteDahlias]

I haven't gotten a chance to listen to today's album yet but you guys are really selling it, lol.

I also do not like prog so this is going to be fun.

 

[Rip_City]

I also do not like prog

Thanks to those who have posted here (as well as my own random pulls from when I was participating regularly), I am starting to feel the same way.

 

[WhiteDahlias]

Well, I got through most of it but it really wasn't for me. I think I can see why some people would like this though. 2/5.

 

[TrainFan73]

My second listen went swimmingly, I was asleep before I got to the bonus 1 and a half...

 

[TrainFan73]

4/5/23

LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out



Allmusic Review:

Mama Said Knock You Out - LL Cool J | Album | AllMusic

Mama Said Knock You Out by LL Cool J released in 1990. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.

www.allmusic.com

 

[TrainFan73]

Don't call it a comeback!

 

[TrainFan73]

THIS WAS MY SHIT BACK IN THE DAY:


Wonder if it holds up or is creepy today...

 

[avecigrec]

Ugh

 

[avecigrec]

Never really been a fan of LL. Less so with each subsequent album. I can accept his place in the canon, but I'm not excited about it!

 

[avecigrec]

This, though, was my jam:

 

[TrainFan73]

DOING SOME WHACKINESS BECAUSE OF CHARACTER COUNTS, IGNORE FOR A MINUTE!!!
54. 4/5/23 LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out

 

[TrainFan73]

Never really been a fan of LL. Less so with each subsequent album. I can accept his place in the canon, but I'm not excited about it!

LL is the G.O.A.T. (lol)

 

[TrainFan73]

list 1
1. 1/20/2023 Artic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (3.11 stars)
2. 1/23/2023 A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory (4.41 stars)
3. 1/24/2023 Miriam Makeba - Mariam Makeba (2.8 stars)
4. 1/25/2023 Wire - Pink Flag (3.71 stars)
5. 1/26/2023 Bob Marley & the Wailers - Exodus (3.44 stars)
6. 1/27/2023 Nick Drake - Pink Moon (4.29 stars)
7. 1/30/2023 The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (4.29 stars)
8. 1/31/2023 Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid (3.38 stars)
9. 2/1/2023 Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets (2.6 stars)
10. 2/2/2023 Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (3.88 stars)
11. 2/3/2023 Little Richard - Here's Little Richard (3.93 stars)
12. 2/6/2023 Songhoy Blues - Music in Exile (3.23 stars)
13. 2/7/2023 Fiona Apple - Tidal (4.41 stars)
14. 2/8/2023 Leftfield - Leftism (3.13 stars)
15. 2/9/2023 Love - Forever Changes (3.86 stars)
16. 2/10/2023 Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow (3.08 stars)
17. 2/13/2023 Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (4.23 stars)
18. 2/14/2023 Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove (3.5 stars)
19. 2/15/2023 Van Halen - 1984 (2.94 stars)
20. 2/16/2023 Michael Jackson - Thriller (3.86 stars)
21. 2/17/2023 Jeru the Damaga - The Sun Rises in the East (3.17 stars)
22. 2/20/23 The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out (4.55 Stars)
23. 2/21/23 Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas (3.5 Stars)
24. 2/22/23 Ray Price - Night Life (3.57 Stars)
25. 2/23/23 PJ Harvey - Rid of Me (3.58 Stars)
26. 2/24/23 Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker (4.14 Stars)
27. 2/27/23 Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual (3.25 Stars)
28. 2/28/23 Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn & Party - Devotional Songs (3.33 Stars)
29. 3/1/23 Slint - Spiderland (3.8 Stars)
30. 3/2/23 The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers (3.23 Stars)
31. 3/3/23 Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything? (2.5 stars)
32. 3/6/23 Stevie Wonder - Innervisions (4.07 stars)
33. 3/7/23 Sepultura - Arise (2.8 stars)
34. 3/8/23 The Cure - Seventeen Seconds (3.33 stars)
35. 3/9/23 Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul (4.67 stars)
36. 3/10/23 Michael Kiwanuka - Kiwanuka (3.93 stars)
37. 3/13/23 Maxwell - Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite (3.42 stars)
38. 3/14/23 Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies (2.5 stars)
39. 3/15/23 Circle Jerks - Group Sex (3.09 Stars)
40. 3/16/23 Garbage - Garbage (3.36 Stars)
41. 3/17/23 Portishead - Dummy (4.31 Stars)
42. 3/20/23 Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Rust Never Sleeps
43. 3/21/23 The Divine Comedy - Casanova
44. 3/22/23 Faith No More - The Real Thing
45. 3/23/23 Willie Colon & Ruben Blades - Siembra
46. 3/24/23 Jay-Z - The Blueprint
47. 3/27/23 Machito - Kenya
48. 3/28/23 Arcade Fire - Funeral
49. 3/29/23 The Beatles - Rubber Soul
50. 3/30/23 Mylo - Destroy Rock & Roll
51. 3/31/23 Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
52. 4/3/23 The Chemical Brothers - Dig You Own Hole
53. 4/4/23 Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Pictures of an Exhibition

 

[TrainFan73]

GODDAMIT!!!

 

[TrainFan73]

LL is the G.O.A.T. (lol)

@avecigrec

 

[TrainFan73]

https://www.needlesandgrooves.com/members/lee-newman.42/#profile-post-32412

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

@avecigrec

Are you chatting with yourself again Lee?

 

[Bohnjaggs]

THIS WAS MY SHIT BACK IN THE DAY:


Wonder if it holds up or is creepy today...

Great song. One of the best. I have this album on vinyl but have never played it.