Reviews (page 8 of 8)
I ended up giving up on this as I wasn’t enjoying it. I like some of Billy Bragg’s own material but guess I’m not a fan of him doing covers. I don’t know, this just didn’t work for me.
It doesn't matter how good the lyrics are when the music is boring and the singer is whiny
Didn’t enjoy this album. Was folk music that I didn’t connect with
Lo escuché mientras me bañaba
I really didn't like this :(
1.5 - Bad
nope
Fuck Wilco, already... they don't have one essential song, let alone this many "must hear" albums....
Wilco for a third time?
This might be one of the more annoying albums I've ever heard. I read that this was a collection of songs based on unrecorded lyrics by Woody Guthrie, but either way it was really lame.
I cannot be bothered with this. I’m trying not to write albums off after a few tracks but this is really dull. (I did power through to the end)
Every song sounded the same
Not my thing at all
not my cup of tea
Not my thing, and worse yet, really boring.
I’d generally avoid Billy Bragg and this album reminded me why.
Limp wristed shite.
This is country. Idc. It's boring enough that I didn't even finish the first song. If I somehow missed a piece of generational art, I'll die a rube (or the opposite I suppose). Instead I listened to the amazing 2024 record "The New Sound" of Geordie Greep. An amazing record I expect with time to only ripe and become better. It mixes prog-rock, samba and elements of jazz. It's a thrilling ride following one mans descent into insanity as he loses his grip on life because falls in love with a lady of the night. It is an album with energetic highs such as the amazing "Holy, holy", but most songs will have me moving. Only "Motorbike" is a little bit meh. But by the time you reach the last three songs you might, like me, be an emotional and physical wreck. Then is the exact moment Greep hits you with the most touching songs "As if Waltz", "The Magician" & "If you are but a Dream". The first time I finished this record I felt my brain synapses make new connections and I knew my life was changed. That is the power music can have. 10/10 Of course unless its a country record which I'll give a 1.
Nah.
наче саундтрек головного героя підлітка з фільму про дорослішання, який приїхав з маленького містечка в Каліфорнію. короче зовсім не relatable
Snoozefest
Couldn't finish it
Alt det værste på ét Album. Langt, kedeligt, belærende, grim cover art.
Jeg syntes det var ret ringe folkish country lort. Så hørte jeg en sang der foreslog at gøre Jesus til Præsident. At ønske mere medmenneskelighed fra sine politikere er da et dybt sympatisk synspunkt. At personificere det ved en religion der har misbrugt, dræbt og undertrykt flere end nogen andre i verdenshistorien giver mig kvalme. Der klemmer sig et par fine melodier ind, desværre er det alt for få til at trække det her album op af sumpen.
This is simply not my musical genre. I couldn’t listen to it. The droning vocals do absolutely nothing for me. A few faster tempo songs would have been ok as instrumentals.
First listen Saved 1/15 Top track: One By One
sooooo boring
Country music sucks.
Beautiful playing on this record. However the voices do not mesh. Bragg is an acquired taste and Wilco are Americana personified and just not very interesting. A lot of the time I wished for less vocals not more. Not a case of what might have been but just what should not have happened!
Not my cup of tea
Horrible voice, awful lyrics, terrible genre
1 star
Like woodie guthrie, didn't like this, sorry billy.
i dunno man. Sometimes I get tired. Im open minded but this tested me. Im not a wilco fan I like some of Billy's stuff but i didnt enjoy this one bit.
Jeg er veldig glad i Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, men dette gidder jeg ikke. Etter å ha trykket skip på 11/15 låter er jeg fortsatt litt glad i Wilco (Jeff sang på alle jeg endte opp med å høre) men ikke noe glad i Billy Bragg.
It's more folk than country, but the country influences are too strong for me. No thanks
Country music automatic no stars.
Umrijet ću od dosade. 1/5, 1/10
First song, i hate it. Im just not gonna listen to the rest.
A little m'eh for me personally. You might like it though.
Tiresome
This list has made me dislike country more than ever before.
No thank you
Where dad and I diverged on Wilco. If A Ghost is Born is not on this list the whole thing is a crock. Music was fine. Billy Bragg just doesnt do it for me. It's protest music for liberals who still believe in 'the power of art' and think their witty rhymes on signs are gonna stop a fucking genocide.
Not sure why I need to hear this
Did not like at all 😭.
i cannot be arsed with all these wank folk rock albums anymore
Not really sure what to say about this. Some catchy tunes, reminds me of a folk album from the early sixties and sounds like it was recorded in someone's basement. Maybe this place on Mermaid Ave. Definitely a roots rock, vibe a la The Band. I guess a cool side project collab with these two bands. Never really understood the Wilco fascination, myself, but that's neither here nor there.
A for me rather boring Country Album. Sorry!
Yeah, thats not for me
Terrible. Don't even know why he's considered classic.
Folky twaddle.
Meh
BORING
Way Over Yonder in The Minor Key is ok. And I like Natalie Merchant’s vocal on Birds and Ships. But too much of this is plodding, b-grade alt folk or featureless Americana or Keir Starmer country. Background music for eating a rack o’ribs at a mid-price smokehouse chain. I remember seeing Billy Bragg performing To Have and to Have Not on The Tube (the TV show not the underground railway) back in the day and he was so angry he could barely get the lyrics out. Yeah, we’re all older now but that’s no excuse for mid-Atlantic twanging.
Apparently, California Stars became a big deal. Not sure why. Hoped for much more from a Guthrie/Bragg work. Bored. Very bored. Favourite tracks: Birds And Ships, gave up
Billy Bragg with Wilco? No thank you.
Country. No me gusta
That was worth a listen, but just once.
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What a boring album. Lyrics like nonsensical poetry, no meat to it whatsoever. It’s not the worst instrumentally, as I do like folksy music, but nothing there to bring me back.
Excellent stuff
Not a Billy Bragg fan unfortunately. I like great vocalist and melody, and he brings neither to the table.
My god i hate it
Holy shit is this bad. I made it about 20 seconds into any given track. While I’ll give Tweedy a partial pass for being a third-rate musician, Billy Bragg should be banished a long, long way away. Can’t sing, can’t play and can’t write songs worth a damn. This is an album that owes me some time back.
Rubbish. This is not the Billy I know. Boring meh.
Not for me
Definitely not my taste in music. In all fairness, that was a pretty tough album to get through, However, i didn’t mind track 2 “California Stars”. The riff and melody were pretty catchy but unfortunately, that's the only highlight on the album. 23/100 ⭐️
I don't know a single Bragg song. When this album came up, I didn't see that it's him AND Wilco - not that that makes a difference, to be honest. But I don't get it. Only one track really stands out: Hoodoo Voodoo. The more I listen to it (though at this point, I'm just sampling bits from each song), I think I get what I don't like... he's got that Bob Dylan apathetic drawl in his voice. I'm not engaged.
Post-humous music really rubs me the wrong way. Taking Woody Guthrie's unreleased lyrics feels like peeling back a curtain we weren't supposed to see. I understand that his daughter asked for this, but it still feels like plundering incomplete ideas for the sake of money.
So far, it's started off awful. At song 3.. it's still awful. And there are a lot of people who can sing like you because lots of people also sound terrible, just like you. No, this is just terrible.
3/10. This album really bored me. It felt never-ending. I think that it's cool that this album revived some of Woody Guthrie's old works, but it doesn't make the album any more pleasant to listen to. Just because it's an important record doesn't mean that it's a must-listen.
Incredibly boring album. Not a single song grabbed my attention for long
Not for me
nah
Modern folk music is still just that - folk music. Not for me, thanks.
Another day, another dull album. Surely there are at least 1001 better albums than this.
Trash. I’m sorry to the artists but I hated everything about this. Boring, Christian, nothingness. Get this tape out of my face.
Dit is de Gordon van Amerika. 0 points.
very rustic
Too much folk for me, folks. I think maybe one song caught my ear…for a minute.
No me gustó.
I feel like for most matchups, I tend to like british interpretations of what "folk music" is, compared to americans', so there was a part of me like "man what are you doing" at Bragg doing American-style on this
"A girl took down a book of poems (Not to say which book of poems) And as she read, I laid my head (But I cant tell which head) Down in her lap (And I cant mention which lap)" The songs called "Walt Whitmans NIECE" Fucking puke This is the first song of your album? This is how you want new fans to hear your music? Fucking hell. Old perv singer songwriter country shlock fuck you NOTHING will be lost if this album just vanished from existence. Significant 31/97 Liked 15/97 Added 4/97 No, No, NO NOOOOO
I hated that. I don't know Billy Bragg, I don't know Willie Guthrie, but I have zero interested in hearing anything else by them.
This is the exact type of music I would throw canned beans and tomatoes at if I ever saw it live. Get outta here, I don't want to listen to your stupid fucking yoinky sploinky country for people who clap when an airplane lands. Billy Bragg is annoying, Wilco is boring, put the two together and I want to rip my ears out. 0/10, find another hobby. Grow some carrots man. Go on a hike man. Learn integration by parts man.
Painfully boring
nah doesn't do it for me, smacks of rich kids who squat 1.4
Songs were kinda wack
I'm honestly just not interested in this style of music, regardless of how cool the backstory is behind this record. It does nothing for me at all.
Nope.
I hated this album. I'm sure it has good qualities, but not for me.
Not for me
Naaah
Reminds me of someone
One time to listen too…
Really really awful.
Meh. Country.
Must be the worst opening bars to any album. Terrible drums, terrible singing, mad false accent, poor tune, just nothing to make me want to listen past the first 30 seconds. I loveBillyBragg. His first 4 albums wsre the soundtrack to my coming of age, but this is just awful. Hugely disappointing.Let's be kind and put it alk down to the inclusion of Wilco - I realky didn't like Wilco's own album and now they've ruined this one. Sorry Billy.
Ah man I should love Billy being a full on leftie and I'm sure what he's saying is great. However the music was just frankly horrible like someone punching you in the face with a wet fish. At first it doesn't hurt that much but by the end it's unbearable.
Like Guthrie..Like Wilco…this is absolutely terrible, waste of my time
I didnt make it two songs in. too much. twang, blech. such a good name too.
Personally this album was a bit slow for my liking, did listen to the full of it but not for me.
“Previously unheard lyrics written by American folk singer Woody Guthrie, put to music written and performed by British singer Billy Bragg and the American band Wilco.”
Dreadful
Crap
Meh, te Hill Billie voor mij
nem ideia do que eu ouvi, foi ruim.
Awful. Just Awful. Uninspired and boring songs. Hesitating beauty is the crappiest on the album. "You're itching to get married and I am twitching for the same thing" was the cherry on top of this album. If she wants to get married, how is she hesitating?? If you hate this album after 3 songs, just skip this one. The only mercy on this album is that the songs are short.
Folky rubbish. Sorry Billy, would not listen again.
Hate it. Hate the artist.
gaat zacht
idk, kinda meh
Not my cup of tea...
Beginning of the first song made me think of Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer... Never got into it at all.
Excellent Woody Billy And Tweedie