Reviews (page 7 of 7)
Sh*t
sunshine did not hit me. I am imagining a bunch of pasty Brits making the music of Angryman, and it makes me angry, man. so they have some limited success? Then they cover Os Mutantes so the song could be used in a car commercial! "well come on what ISN'T cultural appropriation??" - The Bees, after playing the reggae song their latest ayahuasca experience inspired music: hated. (⌐■_■)
I try not to let my Hater Friend influence me too much but he got me on this one. Call it a rounded down 1.5. The Bees?? More like the Dee Plusses!
Seems unfinished. This is the sort if album id expect from a kid with a 4 track in his bedroom.
What a load of disjointed crap. Sometimes one part of the "groove" sounds good, but it is badly mixed, the vocals are consistently shithouse, while they emphasise percussion performed by the trainees. Avoid.
Filler. Sounds like it’s written for retail shopping background. No thanks.
Two dudes wrote and recorded this but there are six dudes in this band? What the fuck is this? Hipster Slipknot? Additionally, this album is some weird soft indie shit. Like, you have to actually write songs to be good. Did they know that?
boring
Not my type of music. Quite "jammy".
No.
New album for me. The album felt like another hyped-up UK album just like the previous 1001 albums from Ash, Django Django, the Thrills, Doves, the Coral, Coldplay, the Icarus Line, Hookworms, Travis and the list goes on and on (and on).
Super slight, super inessential, not very cohesive. The fact that the big single is a toothless cover of a Brazilian song is points against the album.
1. punch - 1 2. angry - 1 3. trophy - 1.5 4. bay - 1 5. zun - 1.5 6. menina - 1 7. touun - 1 8. champion - 1 9. znouu - 0 10. zia - 1.5 11. zky - 1
Not good. This is a bit like if Ween recorded in someone's garage and had no money. How on earth did this make it onto the list? Feels like one of those that was released shortly before the book came out. Might have seemed cool at the time, but it stinks now.
It was good. Very talented. But still a 1. Not a bad 1. Not a strong 1. Just a 1.
Not in my edition of the book! 2002. 1 star. Redundant bland pop songs from a bland pop group, with one song used for a car advert. Utterly forgettable. WTF is this doing on the list?
Where does 60 homage end and outsider art begin?
The opening track is kinda promising and then the second track hits you with that horrible blindingly white kid indie falsetto in a shit attempt to grab some sort of "I listened to my parents cocaine music and now I'm cool" cred. It's the audio manifestation of the mustache on 40 year old guy riding a fixie and wearing a flat cap. It goes extremely predictably on from there. Given this came out in 2002, this is music for ipod commercials. Maybe that's why it's on the list given the amount of stuff that sounded like this that came out in the following decade. “A minha menina” is not a butchering of the original mostly because they abandon most of the Portuguese in favor of new English lyrics. After that everything is fairly boring, though I wouldn’t be terribly irritated if I heard the beginning of “lying in the snow” if I was five beers in on a sunny Friday. I’m mad about how bad this is.
Didn’t really enjoy it. This went nowhere fast
Nice of the album cover to give away exactly what to expect from this album. Which, hey, points for lowering expectations I guess. That's something.
Seichter, sphärischer Indie Rock.
Jesus, what a drag
Not for me
Boring and painful portuguese pronunciation.
Its indie music. It was not great. I tolerated it but thankfully it was a short album. I did need to listen to any of it. Certainly there are worst albums to listen to but no need to consider this one. I will round down.
it’s 2002 and he’s found psychedelica again
Hmmm. Yet again an album, where I wonder why it is on the list.
Fucking Awful!!!!
If I were to make a list of one million and one albums to hear before you die, this album would fall about 450 short of the cut line.
UK indie shit, like no plays on Spotify, did not need to hear before I die
I'm totally unfair and the Bees are totally forgettable. The discovered-here and still mysterious anti-British bias doubtless rears its head: I'd be fine with this as a contemporary discovery on Bandcamp, say.
1/11