Shocked by how great Hard to Swallow Vanilla Ice album is. I mean it's generic and pretty dumb, very Limp Bizkit like which is not a good thing, though for what it's worth I find LB music endearing these days.
But it's miles better than 90% of other nu metal offerings of the time. Production is brilliant (Ross Robinson was a genius back then), the grooves are tight, riffs on point. It's just great. Serious. As ambivalent as I always have been about Vanilla Ice as a performing artist.
From wikipedia
The album did not chart.[24] The album appeared on The A.V. Club's list of the "Least Essential Albums of the '90s,"[25] at number 24 on Maxim's list of the "30 Worst Albums of All Time",[26] and number 26 on Q's list of the "50 Worst Albums Ever!"