Soul Coughing: Ruby Vroom (Slash/Warner Bros.)
Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 15 December 1994
RAP & ROLL exploded five years ago, long enough to spawn a second generation, mongrelized by even more influences and hence more sophisticated. Beck, Bobby Sichran and G. Love and Special Sauce have already staked out this territory, but Soul Coughing — with reference points like the O'Jays' 'For the Love of Money', William Burroughs records, Benny Goodman's 'Sing, Sing, Sing', 1991's landmark Unplugged rap show, Big Audio Dynamite and Lou Reed's 'Walk on the Wild Side' — take it to another level.
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