Reviews (page 7 of 7)
This stuff sucks. If I had a company that had a help line, this is the kind of music I would have playing for the people on hold to make them hang up so I wouldn't have to deal with them.
I like the band and this album is fine, but just because an album is likable doesn't necessarily make it worthy of some rando best albums list, does it? I don't see what this album does that's notable that makes it worthy.
I got through about half this album. More generational discord emanating from this list. Not sure what this genre is called, but I dislike it. I don’t understand why this one is in the 1,000 list. Don’t like it, don’t appreciate its contribution to music in general.
no
Really soft and melodious kind of boring and cringy. Didnt like any song
This was way to experimental for me. I couldn't vibe with it at all. Most songs are just so slow and a lot of the background notes physically hurt my ears.
Fuck me sideways. Not one but TWO Beta Band albums. Arbitrary award winner, worst album covers for a band featured more than once on this list. Jesus Christ. Is it better than the other album? Maybe. I don’t remember that one. I don’t really remember this one either. It’s trying to be smug and carefree in a real 2001 way that just doesn’t happen anymore. I just can’t be asked. Parts of it are fine, there are moments of shine but like. There are times when I’ve had diarrhea twice in a month and there were parts that were bearable there. But I’m not gonna give it more than one star. Fuck you.
This was bad.
Not my thing.
What did fucking beta bands sponsor this thing?!
Motorhead only gets one album. Thin Lizzy only gets one album. No Mastodon. No Death Metal. No Black Metal. But there are generic Britpop/Alt bands for days. Fuckin nerds
Snore fest
Why the fuck do these knobs have 2 albums on this list? I feel like this is Robert Dimery's personal playlist moreso than an "essential albums" list, because I definately could have went my life without hearing 1, let alone 2 Beta Band albums. The last thing I need in my life is to listen to more shitty British indie. Classless garbage. Bland and depressing. I'm beginning to realize that the lions share of UK music doesn't translate on this side of the pond. Too bad this list is made up of 85% of this trash. Favourite songs: Squares Least favourite songs: Gone ... I don't know, I lost interest.... 1/5
Urg!
The opening track is memorable, but not amazing or anything, and the rest is just indietronica whateverism. F
Começa bem, clima interessante com uso de elementos eletrônicos e depois soa constantemente como uma derivação fria do Paul McCartney
A while back this would have been a 2. It's inoffensive. It doesn't make me want to turn it off. But then I got to Kollaps. That was an album that was so offensive to the ears that it got a reaction and made me reevaluate how I feel about these bland, generic albums. Kollaps was not a good album, but it at least got a reaction out of me, which is the purpose of art, to speak to someone, whether that be in a good or bad way. Kollaps spoke to me so I gave it a 2. This doesn't say anything to me. This is a 1.
I listen to this in the background and more often than not I felt like turning it off, then turning it up.
The Beta Band fuero una banda poco conocida fuera del circuito alternativo a caballo entre los 90 y 00. Sin embargo sus discos y EPs tiene calidad de sobra para un mayor reconocimiento. Este segundo álbum, no está a la altura del siguiente, su mejor disco, pero tiene canciones exquisitas desde Squares (conocida por usar Daydream) hasta Alleged. 2001 también fué el año del revival garagero con Is this it de los Strokes y White blood cells de los White Stripes como punta de lanza, así como otros discos estupendos: el canto del cisne de Bjork con Vespertine, Things We Lost in the Fire de Low, Rock action de Mogway, el album verde de Weezer, Origin of symmetry de Muse, Morning view de Incubus, Gold de Ryan Adams, The Invisible Band de Travis, Rings Around The World de Super Furry Animals, debuts de Gillian Welch o Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions, It's a Wonderful Life de Sparklehorse.... (otros discos notabes también fueron Love and theft, Hallelujah! de La Buena Vida, Pleased to Meet You de James, Free All Angels de Ash, Souljacker de Eels, Can Our Love... de Tindersticks o el segundo de Manu Chao) y con la electrónica a pleno rendimiento ya fuera por vía experimental (Amnesiac), estética (Discovery de Daft Punk, los debuts de Gorillaz, Röyksopp, Zero 7) o simplemente lúdica (Fever de Kilye, Survivor de las Destiny´s Child...) ese mismo año publican Madredeus el sugerente Movimento y Gotan Project La revancha del tango....
There’s something particularly annoying about how thoroughly mediocre this album was
This is what happens when you listen to white boy critics. Another 0 stars.
It feels late in the game, at album 1060, to be handing out one-star ratings. I had received the other Beta Band album (Heroes to Zeros) earlier and thought it inoffensive and dull. I find this one more of the same, but with a renewed question: why does this band have two records on here? Is it because Radiohead said a positive thing about them at one point (as noted by Wikipedia)? My one-star graveyard seems to be reserved, at the moment, for things I can't imagine being in this book at any point, and I can't think of a better example than the band that brought us the lyrics: "I don't want to be the type of guy / who lives alone, reading books, and never eats a pizza pie". Just really world-changing stuff, lads.
not into it.
Ugh.
Experimental nonsense. That's this album in a nutshell. I could've been fine without hearing this before I die. s
Urhgg sorry not for me
Who a pile of crap
huonoin ensimmäiset 10 sekuntia albumiin ehkä koskaan. sentään vähän parantui meno, kakassa lojuttiin kuitenkin koko ajan... huoh... ei jaksa nousta... siksi kolme pistettä... väsyttäää... jäädään kakkaan...makaamaan... jaksa hyvää musiikkia tehdä heh... porspunk funk ancient breakbeat madness.. alleged
Tykkäävät 60-luvun musiikista; leikkivät 2000-luvun alun elektronisilla taustoilla. Tämä ei putoa: soundissa on jonkinlaista "pompsahtelua", johon liitän Paul McCartneyn hupsun puolen. Viimeinen biisi varmistaa epäonnistumisen. Hirveä kappale.
There's a reason they're not the alpha band or the sigma band
Listened to the entire album and found absolutely nothing I liked. Not a single track I wanted to listen to a second time. A definite 1
Not one point in this albums where I noticed I was listening to music 1
Did not like this at all.
Too dull, too esoteric, not my thing at all.
It’s not for me
I like some of the production but most of the execution is not good.
Boring mushy gibberish
Not for me.
Hot shits
Umm…nope not for me
Who cares dude. This was such an unremarkable album from a band that I've never heard of. I guess there was a bit of a point of interest when the music veered into an electronica version of '60s rock (specifically, parts of Alleged and Eclipse), but neither of those were interesting enough to elevate this beyond a 1 star effort.