9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Welcome To The House Of Pain, March 15, 2005
The trio, Everlast, Danny Boy and DJ Leathal, steered away from the norm to give us a damn near classic. Before Eminmem came out white boys were not regarded as serious, besides this group of Irish fellas. Catchy hooks, phrases and simple rhymes did it for the frontman and emcee Everlast. There is a lot of drinking, partying and good lyrics without the shoot 'em up, bang, bang. What kept this from being a classic is some of the samples and solid production to back the fine malt lyrics. Considering this is a 1992 release, it doesn't collect dust in my collection. Top O' The Morning To Ya!
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Addictive, hard-edged, unabashedly Irish white boy hip-hop, August 14, 1998
By A Customer
Trumpeting the joys of Philly Blunts and beating down your enemies, this album has some of the most catchy tracks of the past few years. The grooves are well-structured, with hooks that worm their way to the center of your head and make even the most whitebread fella want to bop around his living room. One of the most enjoyable touches is the way they combine Irish pride with self-mocking references to the more traditional stereotypes. These guys may not rap about the horrors of inner city ghetto life, drive-bys, or the omnipresent ho-smacking, but that's a good thing. Should be a required part of most people's musical arsenal. Plus, extra points for naming a band after a reference to Orwell.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
House of Pain-, February 17, 2005
this is a word this CD: DOPE! it has hard-hittin beats with Everlast rugged voice and tigth producing by Soul assasins.Oh yeah these guys are both white and irish and can still rap tight. These are the tracks and there ratings by me
2. Jump Around-Y'all know this 5/5
3. Put Your head out-Tight beats with B Real from Cypress Hill featuring 5/5
4. Top O' the morning to ya-This is a good song 5/5
6. House and the Rising Son-yeah another tight track-5/5
7. Shamrocks and Shenangans-yeah boom shalock lock boom-4/5
8. House of Pain Anthem-yeah is aight-3.5/5
9. danny Boy-3/5
10. Guess Who's Back-This is dope yknow 5/5
12. Put on your sh-t kickers-good first verse but thats it-3/5
13 Come and get some of this-3.5/5
14.Life goes on-aight-4/5
15. One for the road-3.5/5
16.feel it-3/5
17 All my love-3.5/5
18 Jump Arouremix-By pete Rock 5/5
overall this album starts off dope but then gets worse after track 12 buy for good rap
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