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Lenny Kravitz gets on my nerves.  I get tired of seeing him shirtless.  I don’t need to see Lenny’s navel.  It irritates the hell out of me that he wears aviators in every goddamn spot Rolling Stone does on him.  Most of all, I get tired to seeing his face on magazines when I’m humbly checking out a six-pack of Budweiser at the store.  I can’t relate to him at all.  He seems more concerned with Paris fashion shows and doing sit-ups than he does with music, which I would imagine renders being a musician pretty fucking secondary.

Before losing himself in himself, however, Kravitz did at least put together a couple of good and interesting records.  Mama Said is by far the best.  Lenny croons a little like Prince and rocks a little like Hendrix.  It’s also easy to forget that Kravitz’s secret weapon from his earlier days was Karl Denson on sax – who adds jazz-soul undercurrents on tunes like “What Goes Around Comes Around”.  Hell, Slash even stopped by to guest-shred on the heavy “Always on the Run”.  (Quick sidenote: As a matter of course, Slash’s appearance alone, anywhere, qualifies anything as heavy.  As in, “I saw Slash at Pinkberry last night – he ordered the green tea frozen yogurt.  That shit’s heavy.”)

If you have a just-under-the-surface hate for Kravitz, it’s OK to admit it.  Just try to remind yourself of Mama Said next time you’re assaulted in the grocery store with a visual of Lenny’s nipple rings poking through a fishnet shirt. 

Zeppelin Division:  Mama Said has some soft, R&B tunes on it - but it's mostly crunchy electric guitar rock. 

Honorable Mention:  A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
 


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Dave Sendre
11/18/2009 08:26

Just wanted to be the first to comment!!!

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Brent Cameron
11/18/2009 08:44

Probably one of the funniest and most true reviews of him I have ever read. Great work!

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J
11/18/2009 10:23

Love the new layout...vast improvement. I will forevermore think of you cussing at the computer in the kitchen as you learned html while perusing the site.

Also, ironic that Kravitz (one of my least favorite albums on the list so far) is one of my favorite articles!

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Mikey link
11/30/2009 21:44

What's wrong with Third Eye Blind?

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Mikey link
11/30/2009 21:48

I meant what's wrong with Lenny.

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Theresa
01/06/2010 13:06

Ha ha, love the review especially of him. There is a new commerical out for a flip camera or something and he's in it, barely dressed and claims "love" is the word of the day. Gross. Lame. Tired. He fails to evolve.

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