Black LipsBest Black Lips Albums Ranked
7.5
Avg Score
13
Opinions
6
Albums
6
Reviewers
Summary from 13 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Black Lips's catalog across 6 albums from 13 opinions, with an overall average of 7.5/10. The top-rated Black Lips album is Good Bad Not Evil (2007) with a 10.0/10 average from 1 rating, followed by Los Valientes del Mundo Nuevo (Live Version) and Satan's Graffiti or God's Art?. The discography on Wavelength spans 2007 to 2017. O Katrina! ranks as the highest-rated Black Lips song on Wavelength with a 8.2/10 average.
Good Bad Not Evil
“Black Lips are a go-to band for vintage lo-fi freaks, and their raucous live shows have helped them cross over outside of crusty dive bars. Good Bad Not Evil, however, is the record where naysayers, disinterested friends and aquaintances, people on the street, and anyone else within earshot has to sit up, shut up, and listen.”
Los Valientes del Mundo Nuevo (Live Version)
“Atlanta band seems to have found the ideal context for their brash, loud, and sloppy garage rock: live onstage in Tijuana, recorded by John Reis of Hot Snakes and Drive Like Jehu.”
Arabia Mountain
“Working with producer Mark Ronson to get the best 1960s-style production sound money can buy, Black Lips have crafted a very solid album.”
200 Million Thousand
“Whatever you like to call the Black Lips' particular branch of guitar rock-- garage, revival, their own "flower punk" tag-- it's an easier sell whenever the band in question is painted the fastest, craziest, or most depraved in the land. But it's long past time we put the band's reputation and ridiculous press aside and look at them for who they are; they're neither buffoons nor savants, and they ”
Satan's Graffiti or God's Art?
“Despite its overture, interludes, and finale, the new(ish) Black Lips album doesn't quite succeed at being some sort of grand statement. However, the band still has a killer sound and delivers a plethora of great tracks here.”
Satan's Graffiti or God's Art?
“While just as prolific as their fellow Atlantans Deerhunter, Black Lips seem to have been content to plough their “flower punk” furrow comfortably under the radar. Two albums ago the band roped Mark Ronson in to work on ‘Arabia Mountain’ in 2011; ‘Satan’s Graffiti…’ is helmed by the better-suited Sean Lennon behind the boards, although, seriously, has that guy had a chance to sleep this year? As s”
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