Reviews (page 8 of 8)
This album didn’t stand out in any way one star
Barf.
patrick bateman-ass band. there’s just a lot of effete jazzy instrumentation and sometimes they forget about writing any decent hooks. a gospel having white boy rapping almost sent me into total despair. at its worst makes steely dan look like gg allin. there’s a couple good songs and it picks up a bit towards the end but this was a real like-hate album for me.
Well, there have to be some albums I hate and this is one of them. I think this is my first one star album. Who thought it would be fun to have an album with lounge music mixed with Ska music mixed with jazz and then throw in a song with a fiddle reminiscent of country music and oh wait you aren't confused enough? Here's an awful rap! It's a mess. It's a bloody mess. Some of the jazz is... OK. I especially liked the title of Dropping Bombs on the Whitehouse, but the jazz in that does not match that title very well. All I can say is it's a mess and I didn't like it.
cool clothes on cover wack ass music within
Just because The British make Stilton and Pork Pie, doesnt mean their cuisine is any good. Likewise this Album. its so... Imperial Leather. Which brings me to Pause momentary and lament the land of The English - as much a mindset as a destination - that land of soap lovers, awkwardness and longing for a lost (breif) greatness, coloured by misery, clouds, a fragmented rail network, failed privatisations, the Glasgow Effect, of flouncy PMs and now the Economic Self Harm of Brexit. As if the food and accents werent enough. They have to be drunk to eat it, it seem, based on how they hit the pubs before going home for supper. Maybe they vote drunk too? Oh yes, the album. So at some point they made some pleasing sounds, and feeling rather good about that, they posed (non ironically it seems) for the cover art, or a hair salon poster, wearing black skivvies and (lead singer) a gold chain, like a Hard Man with a High Voice. But they then needed to go back and fill an album. And they made filler, in the good old English tradition of Stuffing. Which of course you're not meant to eat (the DiMaggio family recipe is an exception, but dont get me talking about Marilyn Munroe and turkey basting, I'm writing here!). The album is dry a turgid and too bready and milky for me. It reminds me of "bread sauce" in that it only brings to mind what is missing. Could it be that in deed there is a thang called Manisfest Destiny, and that it is the English will incessantly make jokes about the French, only to mask their own envy embarassment as being so very English and forever unstylish. Meanwhile to their political future - what will they think of next as their ignorant, pallid version of Populism drives the bus of British history even further off course, insisting "we're not lost, no need to ask for directions!" I do like a few songs but this album annoyed me. So I say "NON alors!"
This album was interesting up until the song A Gospel. That song and everything after was awful. Won’t ever listen to this one again.
Aside from the first track, there's no reason this album should be on this list.
Definitely was not expecting what I would be listening, like everybody said, the sudden rap really throws you out. Not really familiar with the people involved in this album, but it's not something that I would like to listen again.
Live fast, have a mid-life identity crisis young. A rocker's experiment with smooth jazz ballads, this is a genre crossing set of songs that sets a mellow mood with careful production and rich instrumentation. His voice isn't built for crooning, and feels like a sodden blanket drapped over the delicate music. Sometimes you can be so open-minded that your brain falls out, A Gospel is the sound of that happening. It kicks up a notch in the final stretch with a more high energy synth pop sound. Hard to imagine who in mid 80s Britain was the audience for this, but speaks to an interesting eclecticism (or lack of direction) in popular music burning out after half a decade of post-punk and new wave.
Not very interesting.
i wasn't expecting to dislike this as much as i did. it's such a disjointed listen. also, it's like musical tourism or something. dabbling in several genres, none of which quite worked—especially that rap tune, but also the jazz didn't swing. and the songwriting didn't work for me. i'm going with a 1 because i didn't like it and I'm also dinging it for being included on this list. it's not Style Council's fault, of course, but there are so many more deserving albums.
What a waste of time
Gepflegte Langeweile.
Utter shite. Actually got on my tits.
It's quite impressive that they've somehow managed to produce quite shit songs for this wide a range of different genres
BOOOOOORING. Didn't like
sucked
I get why people would be into this, but it's not for me
I feel like I was in coffee shop open mic hell
it is not often i think something would be better without words but…. could i write poetry to this? n
I'm a big fan of some of the musicians on this album (Paul Weller, Tracey Thorn, Ben Watt), but this is a mess of the worst of the 80's. The "Style" that their name references was out of date within five years of its release. The Rap on "A Gospel" is especially cheesy. The jazzy bits are fine, but derivative and unworthy of being on this list. The British Blue-Eyed Soul songs are very similar to plenty of other 80's records (i.e. the Simply Red album that was covered earlier on this list) and don't need any further exploration. One and one-half stars. The extra half star is a gift because I really like The Jam and Everything But the Girl. Unfortunately, this album sounds nothing like either of them.
This is one of the worst album I've ever heard of my life. Not only it was boring, but also annoying, out of place and made with bad taste. What the hell? I can't believe this album was actually made. Lame jazz meets unpleasant pop with their friend, the uncomfortable rap song. Seriously, I can't believe at what I just listened.
This is one of the worst album I've ever heard of my life. Not only it was boring, but also annoying, out of place and made with bad taste. What the hell? I can't believe this album was actually made. Lame jazz meets unpleasant pop with their friend, the uncomfortable rap song. Seriously, I can't believe at what I just listened.
Not every experiment should be published. Sometimes an idea isn't working out and shouldn't be put to tape and spread to the masses. Just saying.
inconsistent and two much. reading other reviews there are a lot of these two songs are good, doesn't make up for the utter amateurishness of the whole endeavor and nothing makes up for A Gospel.
White guy rapping
Volvemos a los coñazos habituales.
Really bad. Nothing that really appeals to me at all. 1/5
I’ve listened to each of these albums with as much of an open mind as possible. This was bad. What genre are we focusing on? What’s the theme? Very weird.
No! I mean just no! How did this even make the list? If we are putting this on the list there aren't 1001 great albums.
It was music, there were instruments and vocals. Possibly the worst album we've had so far.
What a mess of an album. This should never have been included in this list.
Hate the Style council almost as much as I hate NLC
Ass tbh
Paul Weller was in The Jam before he was in The Style Council - you couldn't get two totally different groups. The Style Council are a strange mix of jazz, soul, and funk. Not for me.
The beginning of the sad decline.of the modfather. More Jam please.
"Yes!" I thought, "The Style Council! Great!" It turned out I was thinking of The Jam.
one of the worst albums of all time
WTF is this bullshit?
As per Paul Weller’s biography, “[Cafe Bleu] left some fans confused and critics divided”. I’m not really a fan and I’m confused.
cafe brun
I thought The Style Council were good before I heard this awful album of terrible jazz-style coffee shop music.
Fomísimo
Where’s the words
Not good
Paul Weller, a social consciousness in the Thatcher era, plenty of guest musicians; this album should be great, but it's a mess of styles muddied by ever present 80's synths and saxophone. I wanted to like this one, as I do early and contemporary Paul Weller. Unfortunately, this is about as bad as the mid-80's has to offer.
I really want to like this, but I don't.
Not feeling it. Some weird 80s European-mod-jazz
chiant
Bland 80s. I liked Paul Weller in the Jam, but this is the worst kind of boring. The Jam was rollicking and fun, but this I do not like.
Not my thing... jazz that turned into weird hip hop.
Worse than imagine
terrible album. very confusing.
Pfoe, daar had ik wel wat meer van verwacht. erg gezapig
Not good. Dated
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