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The Id
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The Id Image
Metascore
71

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5.8

Mixed or average reviews- based on 16 Ratings

  • Summary: This is the follow-up to the singer's acclaimed 1999 debut. Rick Rubin produces, with guest appearances from Slick Rick, Mos Def, and Erykah Badu.

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Sweet Baby
Many times I've been told that I should go but they don't know What we have baby they may not see the Love in you but Love I do and I'll stay right... See the rest of the song lyrics
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. Sonicnet
    90
    Even though one can hear echoes of everything from "The Threepenny Opera" to Bitches Brew here, the funk is in her DNA.
  2. E! Online
    83
    Musically, the album bounces from a full-on urban polka ("Oblivion") to tracks with plenty of Apollo Showtime-style organs, horns and disco and funk elements that keep the wacky tales from sounding wack.
  3. Blender
    80
    A conceptual bacchanal of sweat-drenched lust. [Oct/Nov 2001, p.104]
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  4. Playlouder
    70
    The music itself doesn't quite have the simple accessibility and easy soul of her debut, but it's loads of fun and bursting with ideas.
  5. Dot Music
    70
    With this eclectic, eccentric approach comes a lack of cohesion and quality control.
  6. The A.V. Club
    70
    Amazingly, the disc still feels cohesive in spite of its unpredictability, aided by can't-miss crowd-pleasers like the irrepressible disco-pop blowout "Sexual Revolution."
  7. New Musical Express (NME)
    50
    But while Gray's voice is still beguiling and unique, The Id is basically Brit-award winning, corporate soul with little identity, too cosy and calculated to have any genuine depth.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. toma
    Oct 18, 2006
    10
    i finally came across the id 5 years after it was issued and fell in love with it, as the finest post-60s psychedelic record since i finally came across the id 5 years after it was issued and fell in love with it, as the finest post-60s psychedelic record since beck's midnight vulture (better even). totally love it, can't stop playing it. went to get a couple more of her records -- very nice, yes indeed, but the id's definitely my favourite. this is an enjoyable artist -- and i'd been put off her because paul holmes interviewed her on television making her appear like some little dimwit. but no, as an artist she's brilliant. i can't stop raving about her, and her lyrics are great too. just wonderful.… Expand
  2. JoseAntonioA
    Oct 8, 2002
    8
    Clear & deep songs of life looking for a soul.