First Band On The Moon

Lovefool was the only song I recognized.

Not a bad album, just not my style at all.

From the beginning of the album, I was waiting for the one-hit wonder. I didn't know what it was, but every song sounded so generic that I knew there must be one. Lovefool was it. Nostalgia makes that song enjoyable, but the rest was only tolerable. Iron Man was kind of weirdly fun.

Fine. Not the best album. Only worth listening to for the one song.

Started pretty good, some nice tunes and basslines. Too similar by the end. Lovefool is a classic

One really well known song. There is a weird Iron Man cover. I don't mind the Cardigans but after listening to an entire album, I was glad it ended.

Is this the same woman from Frente!? Two Swedish bands in a row? I'm afraid that this algorithm has the Covid virus. It's a bit uneven. I'm still mad at getting two Swedish bands in a row.

I song carrying a boring lot of other songs. 2

As a whole, this album wasn't bad, but pretty boring and uninteresting. Wasn't a big fan of Lovefool actually and was disappointed as it's their hit, but did like a couple of songs like Happy Meal and Your New Cuckoo. Their Iron Man cover wasn't great, but it was at least unique and took me half way though to recognise so props for that.

Lovefool is a bop, it permeates 90's radio playlists, but that isn't enough of a reason to say that the whole album merits a spot on this list. And I agree with everyone else saying this is one of the shittiest album covers of all time. I would never look at this and equate it with the syrupy pixie pop that comes out of it.

High 2 star. Lovefool is a great song but I find it all sounds the same.

The cardigan was named after James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, a British Army major general who led the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. A cardigan is supposed to be cozy and soft. But the Cardigans are like that sweater that you wished you like more, but there’s just something… scratchy? Musty? It’s just not right. It’s Nina Persson’s voice mostly. I just don’t like it. It’s not just that it’s too high and babyish or twee or something. I like Diet Cig, who’s singer has the same kinda thing going on. I mean, it’s really just “Lovefool” though - I can’t stand that song. The rest isn’t so objectionable. The flute solo on “Your New Cuckoo” deserves mention. "Been It" has a weirdly deep and crunchy guitar riff that stands in interesting contrast to their style. And the percussion on “Heartbreaker” is almost special. But the highlight was seeing the song title “Iron Man” pop up and pre-writing in my head about how much I wished it would kick in with “I… AM… IRON MAN!” knowing that it wouldn’t happen. And then it happened! These silly Swedes actually covered Sabbath two songs after “Lovefool!”

Ihan hyvä levy, melkeen kolmonen

I mean... I still like Lovefool. And the Ironman cover is interesting. But nothing on the rest of this grabbed me.

Yeah, I stopped when I got to that “Iron Man” cover. I don’t even think “cover” is the right word for whatever that was, but I don’t ever want to even speak of it again from this point on, please. Have we even had an actual Sabbath record yet??? This list is dead to me. RIP list. Unspeakable act of brutality aside, The Cardigans are fine.

most instrumentals are good but the songs still feel like a joke that didn't make me laugh

Main singer's voice is a little bit too weak and does not fit the band. But I support women, so I am not going to give 1 star rating.

It might be a decent piece of pop rock for most people, but after a couple of tracks Nina's vocals get on my nerves. It's way too sweet, all treble and throb, solely daydreaming about lost and future relationships. Lovefool is an absolute classic though, and I do like the mysterious tempo on their Iron Man cover. It's a 2/5, but closer to a 3/5 than to a 1/5 for sure.

The throwback sound was cool at the time but now it sounds kind of lame

Had heard lovefool before. Rest of it was fine. 2 or 3 stars.

The Cardigans were always a little too nice for me. I prefer music to be slightly nasty, music you wouldn't strike up convo with in a pub. These guys would be among your best friends after one friendly chat. It's not bad, there are a ocuple of wonderful tracks, it just doesn't really stir any depth of feeling beyond the pleasant smile on the surface.

Too saccharine for me rn, didn’t finish :-/

Not much of a giant leap.

Problem with Cardigans is, while they have truly great songs, the majority are fluff. Also: they have a better album than this.

Never knew this was more than a “one hit wonder” for Love Fool. But can say after listening to this album, which was their most sold,they should have stuck with the one hit. I watched 3 in video style and that helped,but feel the lead singer is too whispy of a vocal lead to push the great beat and words to the top. I did like New Cuckoo and Been It. The Iron Man remake was blasphemy of an amazing song that should never be tweaked. Cant image who permitted the desecration of such an Iron Clad song. So, nope Swedes, not impressed.

12 year old me had a huge crush on Nina out of the Cardigans. Having said that I only know the brilliant Lovefool from this album, so was excited for this. Sadly it’s mostly filled with quite average 90s pop songs. Her voice is undeniably sexy and carries a lot of it but this album has no place on a list of 1001 great albums. 2/5 and that’s almost entirely for lovefool and the singer being hot.

4

I’m giving it two stars for the ‘Lovefool’ song, but a one-hit wonder doesn’t make an album iconic. Feels like scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Meh. 1 good jam.

I'm listening to The Cardigan's 'First Band on the Moon' and I'm having a little trouble with it. I'm two songs away from their gigantic hit 'Lovefool' and I can imagine liking this in the 90s. I think no matter how jaded and serious you can get about music, it's always nice to be open to some very finely produced pop music. I went into this album thinking I would not enjoy it very much. It makes me wonder if this is really one of the 1001 Albums I MUST listen to before I die? Lovefool has kicked in now. It's a great song and I have no complaints about hearing it again. Though I believe in the last twenty years I've been very sick of it. It was everywhere in TV and movies for a while. I would take this off the list. It's a great little album and very finely crafted musically. And the singing and vocals are nice. It's gotten to be sicky sweet. I'll finish the album. We are doing a Black Sabbath cover, okay well this is kind of cool. And odd. Okay it's finished and I'll say it was sugary and sweet, and elevated above your standard pop - but just not my speed these days.

Intriguing, quirky, and kind of fun, but a lot of noise as well. Very strange version of Iron Man.

A little too sugary sweet for me. Listening to a whole album is like eating too much vanilla frosting

Heard some Sabbath licks throughout the album, glad they fessed up with an Iron Man cover. Surprised they were just a one hit wonder since the entire album carries the same vibe as Lovefool.

Que fuerte tener un disco con un tema bueno.

Who’s kid is singing?

Not the worst 1 star but it’s not great

p791. 1996. 1 star. Sickly sweet 90s pop with really annoying little girl vocals and one bubblegum hit. WTF is this doing on the list?

Didn’t really enjoy other than lovefool which I love. Feels like a one hit wonder to me.

The whole thing just sounded like awful background music in 90s cooking show. There was nothing I liked about it- the vocals, lyrics, musical composition all awful! The only saving grace was its run time - small mercies. I’d rather listen to the Tom Jones version of Burning Down the House (feat. Nina Persson) on repeat than this album again.

Could only make it in 5 songs or so before I started to opt out, then I listened to the most listened to track of the album, Lovefool, and it reinforced what I was thinking. So bland, boring, waste of time.

One of the lyrics to a track on this album was ‘that’s what you call a waste of time’. That’s exactly what this album was, apart from Lovefool

Can’t believe this sappy pop nonsense made it on here. Bollocks.

Really not for me. I don’t like the vocals. As a one off song, maybe it’s fine. But a whole album of it ? It was so bad to the point that by the time I got to Lovefool, even that song started to sound annoying. And the lyrics man, It’s just not good. They were so cringe at times. The only two songs I found okay were Lovefool (I don’t really like it but It’s catchy) and Ironman (which is apparently a cover so does that even count?). 1.5/5 because the vocals and lyrics

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Voor elk goed nummer een ster

Pfff

Nada. Cero. Horrible el timbre de voz de la cantante, desesperante producción. No me gustó ni un poco. Hasta Lovefool me parece un hit aburrido. Ese cover de Black Sabbath. Mamita. 38 minutos que detesté. 2/10

salvo la cancion conocida despues es insoportable ka voz de esta muchcha por dios

The vocals on this are just pitched at irritation for me. I mean they kinda work on their hit 'Lovefool' but only if you like insipid. This goes in the 'never again' bucket, which is getting to be quite full after all the dross I've had to endure on this list.

I found the first 30 seconds of this intensely annoying. Can it recover... No, her voice is annoying, the compositions are annoying, everything sounds a little weak and fluffy. Perhaps it's a case of wrong album on the wrong day.

Bland for blandness sake with a contrived singing voice. Makes Coldplay seem interesting.

🤔

don't like this at all! the vocal jazz/city-pop thing feels fake, and the 90s rock songs buried under it are dreadful

Not for me. 1/5

Så äntligen första svenska plattan, om man inte räknar Cherionproducerade Brittan. Precis efter Norge förstås, inte ens här kom vi före. Jag funderar på om detta är det popigaste vi haft hittills (Brittan undantagen)? Jag gillar Cardigans debut, spelar den ibland fortfarande. Även cocktailpopen på andra albumet är rätt kul. Men här hade jag tappat intresset och det har jag fortfarande fog för. Det här är ingen bra platta. Det bästa får vi först, "Your new cuckoo" är kul pop och albumets bästa låt, annars är det mesta steril och ganska medioker dito, alla eventuella indiekvaliteter är bortblåsta. Singlarna är heller inte så angelägna att dom lyfter skivan. Det saknas en tydlig avsändare i Cardigans musik, särskilt på den skivan. Frågan är hur man ska bedöma en såhär utpräglat popig skiva, inte minst i en sån här kontext? Den är ju väldigt mycket ett barn av sin tid. Dessutom ligger det i popens natur att vara här och nu, eller i detta fall tydligt där och då. Men jag måste trots allt utgå från idag och då tycker jag den är rent utsagt dålig och jättetrist. Cardigans blev bra och intressanta (igen) först när dom omformade sin identitet med den americanadoftande "Long gone before daylight" men det är en annan historia...

No thanks

Clean, softly polished grooves built from gently chiming guitars, light electronic touches, supple bass lines, and cool, airy vocals move this indie pop album like flipping through a well-designed magazine in a waiting room—pleasant, tasteful, and easy to take in, even if it never quite sparks real excitement.

BBBBbbbboooooring. And horrible cover of Iron Man.

Synes godt nok det lyder generisk ud over den meget fine stemme på sangeren. Selv Lovefool er sådan lidt… fin? Mest nostalgi derår den til at stå ud fra de andre numre. Stor 1er

Early evening Starbucks playlist adult contemporary slop, they're named after a boring sweater, I would've taken a sweater over this album 11 times out of 10.

Won’t listen again

Thought it was annoying

meh

There's something that feels off about the Cardigans. Maybe it's the lounge band vocal delivery, maybe it's the overproduced twee/alt pop sound, or maybe it's the boring songwriting. Nothing seems like it's working, and yet the pieces were jammed together anyway. I can't say I understand the appeal of "Lovefool" and I question the wisdom of the Black Sabbath Cover. This an instance in which the record was more of a chore to listen to than a joy. The Cardigans don't deserve to be here. A fourth string band who got lucky once and has made that our problem ever since.

Meh. Knew their big hit wasn’t crazy about it, and this album didn’t change my mind…

This sounds like music for people who are happy. I hate it. Nails on a chalkboard. Too twee by three quarters.

Nothing much here. A decent catchy single is not a album I need to hear before ( or after) I die.

A middling effort across the board. Not a classic album worth revisiting. Wasn't a relevant band or album in the 1990s and definitely is not one now. Some of the worst ideas from the 1990s on display. "Lovefool" is clearly the only peak on this album. "Iron Man" is an abomination. Her vocal range cloys pretty quickly. I suppose the irony is supposed to be a feature, but it strikes me as a bug. While the varied instrumentation is fantastic, the song arrangements are pretty boring, and with the exception of "Lovefool" lack any real momentum or vigor.

There's that single which is a great song - the rest of the album seemed to me to be a filler for the one song. We get it, she's got a voice like a delicate flower and it suits certain songs but not all whatsoever. It was irritating after an album's worth of songs. It was going to be a 2 but after all these songs, this last one has managed to demote the album to a 1. Please never again, except for that one song.

Good lord. Still no Seger.

Not a fan

idc how viral that one song is, the whole album is literally unbearable to me im sorry

Listening to this album felt like Betty Boop joined a space-age jazz band and tried to do Indie pop. I have heard "Lovepool" plenty of times, but it does not carry the album. Not for me.

Not a fan

Hated this. Viscerally. Lovefool is catchy, but -by far- the best of the album. Iron Man is a crime and charges should be filed.

Good grief!!

So much of this album just seems annoying

🎧This really is not doing it for me. In fact it’s actively irritating me, almost angering me. I used to not mind Lovefool but now I think I hate it.

No thanks. Not really into the music.

Mega schwach und langweilig

Meh

Don't care much for this band. Don't like the vocals.

Only one decent song in this whole album, and I heard it so many times in the 90s that I never want to hear it again.

I tried. Was about to quit and found the one song worth anything (Lovefool) before giving up and moving on.

Lovefool

Meh

Another listener described this as Saccharin and that's exactly what it is. Gross. 1.45

When you talk to people who grew up with iTunes and Spotify and talk about what things were like back when we bought albums, this is one of the albums I think about. You hear one song on the radio or MTV, you like it, then you have to decide, do I want to spend $15 for the album with a chance the rest of the album is no good. Like this one! Luckily I never bought it. However, when I was in college the Cardigans came through town and I went to see them. I was thoroughly unimpressed. Luckily for me, then we opening for Beck, who was amazing.

I’ve never called a 1-900 sex line before but the baby talk vocals of this album are what I imagine it would sound like.

Nope.

This is the kind of record that if you don't care for the lead vocalist, you're really not going to like it - the vocals are mixed really up front. I don't care for the singer at all. The whole thing smacks of easy listening that you might hear in an old film, or maybe the Swingle Singers. The only redeeming feature is that that they (rather bizarrely) cover the Sab's Iron Man in the same style. Sorry but this is not for me at all, and I played it through twice.

Never heard this album before. I like Lovefool well enough, so I expected to like this album. Where to start? Lovefool was clearly a high-water mark for this band. Listening to the album gave me a migraine. The singer's voice is consistently annoying and the music is insipid. By the time Lovefool rolled around, I didn't care. It didn't stop the annoyance. PLEASE MAKE IT STOP. "You know, the ABBA makes more money each year than the Volvo corporation" - Not a lyric, just a quote from a Swedish friend while we were in high school. That odd brag still makes me laugh to this day. Famous Swedish Bands: ABBA The Cardigans Europe Hmmm...I guess I'll take ABBA?

Not the biggest fan of the pop alt music of the 90's. I mean, lets be fair, I wasn't a fan of any alt music that was "popular" post-Nirvana. Not sure if it was just hipster elitism and the "underground" was still way cooler, but this particular music in not interesting to me. Feels like a bunch of high school choir kids saw how the music winds were going and they wanted to make it. Wimpy, boring, stuff.

Terrible horse shit.

What's funny is that the Spotify description for The Cardigans under this album is "... the Cardigans specialized in sugary confection that would grow annoying very quickly if they weren't backed by solid musianship and clever arrangements". And I whole-heartedly disagree. I found that the singing and the overwhelming saccharine vocals and production left this so grating. Sure the songs were arranged decently, but that doesn't make it enjoyable to listen to - You can arrange a gaggle of James Corden clones in a straight line and just because they are organized decently doesn't make it any less obnoxious.

olha...é bom mas é ruim. Digo, o som é agradável, a voz dela é boa, mas a guitarra é péssima e a banda, de uma maneira geral, é fraca, desperdiçando a magia que é a voz da vocalista. Não há inovação, nada de mais. É QUASE um one hit wonder, por conta de Lovefool... Ouvi essa vez, e agora deixo no armário.

Trash.

Never heard this album before. I like Lovefool well enough, so I expected to like this album. Where to start? Lovefool was clearly a high-water mark for this band. Listening to the album gave me a migraine. The singer's voice is consistently annoying and the music is insipid. By the time Lovefool rolled around, I didn't care. It didn't stop the annoyance. PLEASE MAKE IT STOP. "You know, the ABBA makes more money each year than the Volvo corporation" - Not a lyric, just a quote from a Swedish friend while we were in high school. That odd brag still makes me laugh to this day. Famous Swedish Bands: ABBA The Cardigans Europe Hmmm...I guess I'll take ABBA?

Classic album for sure, but I was never a Who guy.

This mostly just irritated me. When Iron Man came on, I gagged. Kinda how I felt about Lovefool back in the 90's.

Day41 - one good song doesn’t make an album worth listening to.

Boring

Warmed over disco. Big pass.

I was hoping to like this one. But baby voices are annoying and the music isn’t good enough to compensate. Boring, uninspired pop crap. Men love that sexy baby sound.

Zzzzzz

Don’t like it

The album is kind of boring. Lovefool is the obvious standout but it seems to me that this song is overplayed everywhere and I am pretty sure I would be happy if I never heard it again. Iron Man cover is sort if interesting but nothing to write home about. One star.

One okay song and the rest is a bland soup.

Head bangingly dull.

should have stayed there

Hard no. The 90s gave us some great albums. Just not in 96. It was a spectacularly crappy year for music. If it wasn't for The Fugees it would almost be a complete wash. "First Band on the Moon" is a great example of mid-90s garbage rock. No, that's not a typo. It's not garage rock. It's garbage not because of technical or monetary reasons. One can only assume it's garbage on purpose. Like, that was their aesthetic. Utterly pretentious trash... with an ever-so-slight rock tinge. It's a collection of parse, poorly-mixed songs lead by whispery, too-twee, fairy-garden vocals and stuffed full of pseudo-intellectual lyrics. It's just garbage. I'm not even going to give it credit for "Lovefool" because there are a dozen covers of it that are 100x better than this garbage original. Did I mention that this is garbage? Because it is. Utter garbage.

Could’ve easily gone my whole life without listening to this album. The vocals are lovely but the music is so dull. Was interesting to read that The Cardigans are Swedish tho - so much famous music from Sweden !

🤮

Didn't care for it. Her voice was nice.

No didn't like this one. Too warbly...

This album is shitu

Boring.

Dump

Weird, unique sound but songs quickly got fluid in that they sounded like one another. I think the album could be in any order and would still work

Twee beyond twee. Each song seems to include a break down ending over spaghetti mixed guitars, pretending punk chaos after frankophile bile. The teo highlights are the bizarre malicious cover of Black Sabaths Iron man and that the album mercifully is only 39 minutes long.

No

Insipid

Boring.

Not for me. Lovefool is decent I guess.

Chiant mais lovefool sympa

Didn’t like

Wholly unremarkable. Can't imagine a time when this is what I'd want to listen to

Un disco poppy aburridillo. Me sorprendió el homenaje a Black Sabbath, pero para mal.

Wreszcie jakis reality check, ze jednak jest to lista mocno popowa, bo po ostatnich pikach wydawala sie zbyt spersonalizowana pod moje gusta, wiec obudziny zostalem pierwsza szwedzka banda, o dziwo to nie ABBA, ale the cardigans, jak to bywa z tak niszowymi zespolami ktore swoj sukces zrobily na popularnej muzyce lat 90, czyli rokowaniu dla szerokiego grona sluchaczy, wiec typowy pop, spiewany jak przystalo na szwedzka bande po anglinsku, bo popularnosc zyskali glownie za wielka woda, czyli hameryka i o dziwo w japonii, gdzie podwojna platyne plyta wyrobila, troche rozumiem dlaczego, plastikowosc i mialkosc tego albumu przypominaja troche japonski city pop lat 80tych, na wokalu zenski pierwiastek bandy, czyli pani nina persson, traki pisane w duecie wokalistka i gitarka prowadzaca svenssona, o ktorej za duzo dobrego nie moge powiedziec. jak o reszcie granej tutaj muzyki, do drugiej strony sadzilem, ze to pierwszy raz gdy slysze ich muzyke, a potem pojawil sie on, lovefool, czyli koncentrat popowosci tego krazka zamkniety 3 minutowym 21 sekundowym traku, ktory zrzuca okowy rokowej otoczki na rzecz prawdziwie popowo diskowego brzmienia, musialo mi sie to obic o uszy za dzieciaka w radioodbiorniku lub w jakiejs kiczowatej komedii romantycznej, idealnie tam pasujac, plyta zawiera takze gwalt na czornym sabacie i ich iron manie, ktory zostal tutaj poskromiony i zapakowany w sluchable szaty, cale szczescie, ze plyta nie jest zbyt dluga, bo ponad 40 minutowej dawki popowania szwedzkiego raczej bym nie wytrzymal, zastanawiajac sie nad trakiem ktory moglbym dodac na plejke, zeby jakis slad pozostal po tym piku, to chyba najlepszym lub mniej najgorszym kandydatem wydaje sie byc drugi numer krazka, czyli been it, opowiadajacy historie milosci, jak wiekszosc trakow, wiec czym to nie byla pani nina w tym zwiazku matkomlojcem, dziwkom, szoferkom, jest to takze kawalek na ktorym drumsy robia robote, jesli chodzi o czesc instrumentalna, bo niestety gitarka nie ma dobrego traka na tej plycie, moze koles byl lepszym teksciarzem niz grajkiem, skoro tak popularne traki udalo mu sie tworzyc, nie rozumiem nazwy bandy, ani okladki ktora przedstawia scene z koncertu, ale czy to jest nawet ta banda, nie mam pojecia i tak jak w nazwe wnikac nie bede, bo jednak nie zainteresowala mnie strona muzyczna wystarczajaco mocno

Swedish elevator music, don't care for it

90’s pop album Typical Not exciting 5/10