Reviews (page 8 of 8)
Aivan megatylsä. Alun yli kymmenminuuttinen introilu koettaa tiputtaa heikoimmat matkasta heti alkuun, ja todellakin olis kannattanut liittyä siihen joukkoon. Kai tässäkin jotain rockoopperaa tavoitellaan.
vaikeaa kuunneltavaa mutta aikansa tuotos varmasti. Relax dont do it
Not my thing at all. I didn't enjoy it.
No.
This is such a fucking mess lmao what's with the covers? the bossanova? "Relax" honestly kind of overrated too tbh like "Sweet Dreams" is a real ass song, feel like it's notorious (and like quasi-important) more than it is good music
This was slightly better than I expected and I’m still giving it one star. Just a slog of uninspired electro rock. It seemed like it would never end.
Dans la période New wave, tellement de groupes surclassent celui-ci pour moi. A commencer par Simple Minds.
Nothing moving at the exception of the hit Relax.
Really not my cup of tea.
The first of only two albums, a band that barely plays on its own recordings, lyrics about gay sex which I hardly relate to. The hits are, however, fun to revisit, and there is an iconic voice, but beyond that, it’s not exactly groundbreaking except in the fact it came out in a conservative British era with outrageous lyrics. The whole thing is a well-packaged marketing product - a symbol of its time, but ultimately, a very artificial one. One of the worst overproduced excess of the 80s with “The power of love” sounding very delicate comparing to any other songs.
How bad does an album have to be to weigh down a classic 80s song I still (inexplicably) like? This bad. This was ridiculous. Bad cover songs. Discursive flights of fancy. A lyrical mess. Hard to understand how this made the cut.
Incredible title track and relax is a certified slap, but the rest is extremely uneven synth pop, including a bunch of random covers. Fun enough, some cool bass parts and synth tones, but too long and gets a bit tedious.
This is terrible and I hated every second of it. In fact, the one song I’ve heard previously and thought was okay I now hate. This album blows
Putain mais la décennie MAUDITE
everything on here besides relax sounds like relax outtakes this might be the new most "this is only on the list for the single" album we've had. yawn.
Entering the pleasuredome. Pleasure suit, engage. Activate intro. Initializing. 64 minute album detected. Inject pacifying drug. Flushing memories of “Relax” from system. Process complete. Let’s get slay folks. Let’s start off with a 13 minute romp through the jungle. Oh sweet Jesus no. The vocals. Well as this keeps going, it’s at least varied. The bass breakdown section with the shouted background vocals was really sick. That was fine overall. Some terrible portions. The big hit. Hey Frankie. Don’t tell me what to do pal. I’ve never been able to relax in my whole life buddy. Also, don’t say “come” and make that noise. I’ve called HR. The bass was pretty good but overall this isn’t for me. More fun synth bass in music that I don’t care for. Vocals too close to the mic. Wait it’s a sample of a Reagan… impersonator? I can’t imagine big Ron saying something positive about Che Guevara or Malcom X or even knowing the word endeavour. This is a multi-layered, interesting song. Two Tribes is mid to me. 80’s new wave bleh. Doesn’t really move the needle. Ehh dumb. I am repressed and that’s the way I likes it. Ooh scouse accent. That’ll save anything. Still bad. I never want to hear Bruce Springsteen do anything. I can’t imagine a worse singer. I destroyed the Killers. They’re truly awful. I demolished U2 as they are bloated rich twats who think they’re revolutionaries. Bruce Springsteen is blue collar cosplay who is the musical equivalent of a Bryan Adams impersonator who has a half full punchcard at Jersey Mike’s. This SUCKS. Oh boy we’re really going downhill here. San Jose sounds awful. Won’t visit anytime soon. I think we all wish the lads were here. Nothing beats hanging out with the lads. Now it feels like every thing I say is also a gay euphemism. When in Rome I suppose. Not a great review or even a great song. Moaning nosies over the intro to wanted dead or alive by Bon Jovi. Surprisingly, not great. Krisco Kisses is apparently ANOTHER euphemism. I learned this one from the good people of RYM. Most of the people of RYM are not good people actually. Most are extremely angry and pretentious dweebs with a high degree of self-importance. Doesn’t sound like anybody I know. Anyway, this song is like if Devo was hyper sexual and also not good. Wake me up when this song ends. Zzzz risjh doitnr huh im awake. Unfortunately. Awful ballad. Plodding, listless. Boring outro. Initializing pleasuredome exit procedure. Generating scathing remarks nobody will read. Increasing musical ignorance. Enhance. Engage. An album that I hated with moments of vibrancy. Can’t say it’s bad, but this isn’t about objectivity is it? Will never listen to again, and after 64 minutes, I limp out of the pleasuredome with a new appreciation for the sweet sweet silence all around us. 1.5 HIGHLIGHTS: War
Sheer crap. Over hyped at the tome. Overrated since. Frankie says relax. I say reject.
Wow, I had no idea that Trevor Horn produced this and Steve Howe plays on one song. It's practically a Yes album...if Yes was a sucky cheesy 80s synth-pop band. By the way, which one's Frankie?
Rough run of albums here. These guys suck. The Born to Run cover was so random. Nearly as good as the original because Bruce Springsteen also sucks but that's his best song.
Mostly self indulgent crap. I never realized how redundant Relax is, maybe because this time it followed 15 or 20 minutes of the same sound in the previous songs. I was happy to hear their version of Born to Run, not because it was good (because it wasn’t), but because at least it didn’t sound like a continuation of Relax. Everything after that was just bad.
Dumb British music
No va
Never did like them much and listening again after 40 years, I haven't changed my mind.
Terrible, I tried
pass. basically a cover band album from the 80s? I don't get it.
How can it be I only recognized half of the chorus of Relax? Can a band be a half-hit wonder?
This is just the absolute worst of 80s schlock. Garbage all the way through with a literal handful of half-decent moments. Do not listen to this, ever.
idc
Boo no
Terribly disappointing. True one hit wonders. Relax…don’t listen….
Rating: 3/10 Hell no.
I never liked FGtH and this didn’t change my mind. Grandiose, repetitive, and a bit fixated, no? Also, the worst covers of Born to Run and San Jose I’ve heard.
I neither enjoyed nor respected this album. It's satirically self-absorbed at best. Disturbingly self-pleasuring at worst. I found nothing redeeming in the entire hour-plus experience.
Much like my landlord and ex lovers, this record takes forever to change keys. After three "songs" and more than 20 minutes, it mercifully ventures away from the key of B. This feels like a concept album. And the concept is an 80's synth pop opera that sucks.
I don't like this at all. like at all, damn. I enjoy a lot of 80s music, it's one of my favorite decades for music, but this is too 80s somehow. I can't take it seriously at all.
My car has this irritating trait where it plays something random on my phone the minute I start the car. I’ve googled it and I can’t stop it. Sometimes it’s what I was listening to on Spotify, sometimes it’s my white noise app, and sometimes it’s something completely random from my Apple library. Yesterday a tune came on and before I could snap it off, I said, “well I don’t know this one but at least the intro isn’t bad.” It was Black Night White Light from this album. Whadya know. I was set to give this a “did not listen - 1”, and now this. But it’s still no good. It’s not just the heavy handed reverb, so characteristic of this decade. For me it’s the blatant sexuality of Relax in a post-Me Too world. Sometimes it seems to me like a large percentage of 70s and 80s songs were written by young men singing about what they loved most — trying to get a woman in bed. There are some female artists from this era that did that too (Donna Summer and Sheena Easton come to mind), but mostly heterosexual men. So first and foremost, I wonder if that percentage has fallen with Me Too awareness. I hope so. But second, it just seems so unimaginative. There’s so much else in this world to sing about. Maybe that’s where the money was and always has been. After all, Relax is the only hit on this album. Give the people what they want. Hopefully what they want is changing. Or rather, hopefully there’s a recognition that what half the people want is something else.
I'm certainly not an 80s fan. This album just is not appealing to me at all.
Found this to be really boring. Relax is definitely the best track.
Kaukana mistään hienosta varmasti vapauttavaa 1984 kuunnela heh rivoa albumia virtu kiinnosta ejakulaatio lyrics 2023 ÄLÄ ANNA ALUN USKOMATTOMUUUDEN HÄMÄTÄ HYVIN PASKA ALBUMI KYSEESSÄ.. seksisque tho..
Basically an entire album of the same sound...not for me. 1/5
I didn’t enjoy this in any way
I HATED THIS
I thought this would be a hood one, it was not
i’m not ever going to listen to this i don’t care if it’s the greatest album ever made
How many covers are in here? What is this? How does this shit get made? Surely there were better bands for the A and R guy to sign at the bar that night.
Notes - Debut album by synth pop band Frankie goes to Hollywood - Mostly re-recordings of previously released singles as well as covers - Drew additional criticism because a lot of the instruments on the album were re-recorded and performed by producer Trevor horn of the boggles & yes - feels extremely overproduced - no momentum on the album, every time theres a song with a bit more drive to it, the next song sucks all the energy - genuinely checked if i had it on shuffle by accident - technically proficient but nothing works for me, not even the big hits Fav - born to run - Just a cover of the Springsteen song but its a good one! least fav - san jose - nahhhh 1.5/5 - it was a big hit when it came out but not for me
Dreadful
I don't know, it feels really cheesy for some reason. Has that typical 80's vocal inflection I can't stand.
I hated this honestly. It does sound very Hollywood and big budget. But fuck man it got on my nerves the entire time. I don't ever want to listen to this one again. I enjoyed power of love.
Ógeðslega leiðinleg
I would describe this record as truly avoidable.
Not feeling it…
The 80s are the worst decade for music, and this album is exactly why. I can't do it
It's long and honestly not great. Reminds me of songs I would hear in the original TMNT movies, but not the good ones. Like the classic early 80's songs. Couldn't finish it
No. Not a big fan.
Anche se ci sono alcune eccezioni, nutro di base una certa repulsione verso quel sound new wave e i synth a trombetta degli anni '80. Non lo so, mi sembra tutto finto. L'ascolto è stato difficile. Ho dovuto suddividere l'ascolto in più sessioni. Mi sono anche innervosito quando a San Jose il basso era tutto pannato a sinistra. Per loro sarà stata una cosa geniale. Comunque voto 1, avranno sfornato anche dei successi, ma per me non hanno un'identità.
Not a fan.
i made it three songs in and it sucked
Just too weird and random. It seemed like they had to give every song some weird intro with a person talking or odd sound effects. Some of the songs were kinda groovy but a lot of the songs sounded the same and there was also 4 song covers which is a little odd.
Not a huge fan lololol
Relax is the only jam that I knew.
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! Garbage!
Not for me.
Relax seria un hitazo, pero no entiendo la obligación de escuchar este disco entero.
shit. those damn 80's synths did not age well anywhere
There was no pleasure in listening to this album. I would never consider this one hit wonder from the eighties an album to hear before you die. It is a wonder they got the one hit. This is an album of the same song presented 9 different ways and feel like an eternity. I would give it less if I could.
Nope