Reviews (page 7 of 7)
I could tell straight away this album wasn’t really gonna be for me. I got the impression it was a punk-band “experimenting” or “trying something new” but i’m not sure what it was they were going. A lot of the songs felt void of any hooks and I found a lot of the lyrics/vocals fairly insufferable. There was a run of songs in the middle of the album that I thought were decent, my favourite being ‘Flitcraft’. Overall, it felt pretty lacking and nothing really stuck with me. 1.5 stars.
Dreadful
I think I could have survived never listening to that album
I would swear I had never heard of this band, but lo and behold I have two of their songs saved on Spotify. The bizarre faux-country styling of this album unfortunately didn't work for me. There's moments: "Flitcraft" is pretty good. But this one probably isn't for me.
Bad instrumentation, bad vocals. Didn't even finish, why is it on this list?
This has appalling production. Weak songs. No energy or pep. And the concept seems to have been covered more successfully and concisely in ‘The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down’, in four minutes. Really it’s like someone took all the worst excesses of Elvis Costello, Lou Reed and Neil Young, took all the talent out and the appeal and told critics ‘it sounds different. You’ve gotta like this.’ And critics looking for copy thought ‘sure why not? It’s not like our opinions are taken seriously’. To call this a mess really disparages messiness which at least can be beautiful. This is just entropy without chaos. Decay without evolution. Shit without the fertilizer. There’s a fundamental lack of understanding about country. Ultimately it’s a working class music. But it’s that section of the working class that requires a certain pride in its work. If you look at Bluegrass, they’re all immaculately dressed. They’re not hicks. Although Johnny Cash’s singing voice was limited there was a quality to the songs that suited his voice. It’s no surprise that some of the best musicians came out of Nashville and Memphis. So halfhearted drab energy-less stuff like this fails as country. And what is punk if not energy? Say what you will about the damned or the banshees or the pistols or the clash (and I have) they were never lacking in energy and drive. Now I’ll be fair this could have been better with less harsh production and singing that was in tune and stronger songs that understood the genres they were trying to exist within. . And can someone tune the lead guitar? There is only 1001 spots. Badly played and written nonsense shouldn’t be here. It’s like they decided ‘well, we’re a terrible punk band, and a terrible country band, so let’s see if we can improve things by combining them.' No. No, you can’t. Instead of this garbage listen to Waylon 173 , Merle Haggard Emmy Lou. If you want mashups of genres, Sam Bush merged reggae and bluegrass. If you want punk attitude try any of the Johnny Cash songs or even Buck Owens. If you want a concept album, Willie Nelson’s Red Headed Stranger. Yes I know these are older acts. But they did this attitude much better 40 or more years ago. Honestly, fuck this shit.
The Mekons were always there on the side-lines in the 80's, my impression was they were changing all the time, but never really nailed it. This just doesn't work, nor hold up out of its context. The song Country shows some promise, but other than that the off key singing, weirdo arrangements for the sake of being weird and the playing is not very good. I was bored to be honest, not annoyed just bored. Which is probably worse. While I'm talking to myself, I wonder if the guys from King Gizz were inspired by this, and have just done it better?
So these guys remind me of several things: 1. The band you would hear in college when you went to that dive bar that sold $.050 draft beer on Tuesday night. 2. The clearance albums for sale for $3.99 each in the bin at the record store featuring an assortment of bands you've never heard of and now you know why. 3. The band that somehow makes it into some kind of talent competition, but it's the first one eliminated. I'll pass. The lead "vocals" are bad, u less you like toneless speaking to music. The music is average to below average. It doesn't work together for me.
The actual music ain’t bad. Singing awful.
I could be an artist based on this album
This album is so funny to be because you either can't hear a single thing anyone is saying or you don't want to hear any time they try to sing because of how bad it is. The instrumentals feel as loose and questionable as the singing itself, and as much as I tried I really could not seem to get the hype behind Mekons and their album Fear and Whiskey. Last Dance is the only bearable song here and even then it isn't even good in my eyes. This whole album is a mess, and not in cool Post-Punk kind of way, moreso in a "I have no idea what I am doing but I'll make an album out of it." Everything here feels so disjointed and unorganized to the point where it is hardly comprehensive. I am sorry to all the Pitchforkers and AllMusic fans out there but I just don't get this man....
Kan iemand deze gasten even vertellen dat het al 1985 is? Dat deze debiele manier van zingen allang door Talking Heads is verkend, en dat dat een doodlopende steeg was? Dat maar wat aanklooien inmiddels hopeloos achterhaald is, en dat muzikanten mét talent gewoon weer succes hebben? O ja, en dat vals spelen en zingen sowieso nooit tot wat dan ook heeft geleid? Hoogstens haal je er over een paar decennia een of ander snob-1001-boek mee, dat er behagen in schept om zoveel mogelijk muzikale drollen van een onterechte gouden omlijsting te voorzien.
I've never even heard of this group. And, uh, yikes. I don't like this at all. It sounds like a bad local band at a pub, with absolutely atrocious production. I think I can pull together a list of 1001 albums that aren't on this list which are better than this album.
Hvorfor...
Apparently this is a humorous band. One listen in and i think the joke is on me. Nothing memorable or funny on this album. Interesting production but not much to it at all.
iğğrenç
There were a couple of tracks where they constructed a song. But mostly it was just nonsense backed by mostly unpleasant violin.
**Fear and Whiskey - Mekons** General thoughts - 80s English rock - Felt like I was going on a long ride through English countrysides where I felt vaguely unnerved, as if there was some event I didn’t quite want to go to coming up, but I was resigned to trying to enjoy the journey nonetheless - Very transitionary music Songs I liked - Trouble Down South - Psycho Cupid - always like a bit of monotnous walking to accompany quite a chaotic backdrop of sounds, gave some Killing Eve vibes
You could hear a variety of background sounds. I think it was probably in the year it was released, so their voice was kind of distant and as if reciting a poem. The intro was also long and not my cup of tea.
Максимально не моє. Аранжування, звук, вокал, сам матеріал - все повз. На середині здався та вимкнув.
Ian Dury has some competition for the title of the worst vocalist on this list.
No good to me
Mekont give high rating for this.
Feels a like a jam session at English pub with annoying entitled talentless jackass. Another album on my list to never listen to in your life time. Not worth of a star
Obviously something was in the water this weekend, as this was another album that I couldn’t quite wrap my head around being on this project. It was terrible. And “Psycho Cupid” was the worst thing I’ve heard in a long time.
Not for me. 1/5
Nope
This is one of those albums with enough great elements to make you wish it were a good album, but unfortunately, it isn't. There are so many glimmers of greatness sprinkled throughout it that it makes me mad that the album as a whole is so grating and repetitive
A puke from an ass
This was a weird album. I dont know what I just listened to. Having absolutely never heard of The Mekons I was like "OK maybe this will be a cool surprise" and I was so horribly wrong. Then I looked them up and saw they just pump out albums that, if I had to guess, are more "art pieces" than well executed music and it started to make sense. That works sometimes, but not in this case. Musically there's nothing to write home about. The fiddle didn't seem well integrated with the songs, which was such a disappointment because I like hearing a fiddle or violin when done well. Random flute and harmonica notes everywhere. Weird talking. This is a concept album about war or something? The guitarist is halfway decent but is usually just drowned out by nonsense. Everyone else seems to have just learned their instruments a year or two ago and ascribe to the "fake it till you make it" way of life. Standouts were probably "Darkness And Doubt" and "Flitcraft" if I had to pick. I dont know what I'm doing here. I dont think they know what they're doing here. I dont give a lot of 1s out, but this certainly deserves it methinks. Mekons. Whatever.
Dreadful. Like a second-rate Clash tribute band playing something for the locals at a hoe-down.
It kinda reminds of some of my favourite aussie pub rock bands but like, not as good. It’s weird but not the good weird. I got about 5 songs in before I’d decided I’d had enough tbh
I had no idea who the band was so when I looked them up I saw this album described as “alternative country”. I think it’s more Scottish or Irish punk. Either way it’s not an album I can recommend.
Wtf was this?
Not quite my tempo
This is horrible
After that first track my confidence that I will enjoy this album is waning. I give them credit for taking chances, but it does not amount to enough to be notable. Not even a good album for 1985 much else 1980s or all time. It just shows that the editors on this list are trying to rewrite music history rather than reflect upon what the history actually was as they should. Better replacement's that are not on this list that the market has already determined were more worthy: The Cult's LOVE, Whitney Houston's WHITNEY HOUSTON, Sting's THE DREAM OF THE BLUE TURTLES, Phil Collin's NO JACKET REQUIRED, and Simple Mind's ONCE UPON A TIME, Stormtroopers of Death SPEAK ENGLISH OR DIE. Those are just off the top my head. Imagine what the editors could do with a bit of effort. No wonder young people don't realize how great music was in the 1980s. This list doesn't do a great job of representing the decade.
Bad country-rock with a strong English accent. Please never make me listen to this again
Wow this album is pretty bad. I think I wrote most of these songs like 10 years ago when I was still drinking and rambling on and on about randomness. "My dad burnt the toast this morning" like c'mon what are we even doing here? And that was just the start to the rambling words (can they be called lyrics if they're just spoken?) and seemingly rambling instruments.
Whole moly that is bad.
Overall: 1/10 Quite possibly the most annoying album I've listened to in my entire life. The vocals are mediocre and they did a horrendous job of combining the attitude of punk with the melancholy of country. It's sad too cause I enjoy The Pogues and similar artists to them. Fav Song: Darkness and Doubt
Por su valentía de intentar
This might be the most outrageously British thing I've ever listened to. I hated it.
Did to appeal to me. 70’s and 80’s punk is one of my least favorite music genres, so it surprised.
Gut gemeinter Crossover, aber ich kann fast nicht zuhören. Entweder oder ist mir lieber.
Realky quite shite
did not like
Hey did you want to know what country and punk sounded like together?? No neither did I but let me warn you it’s shit.
If Pulp and The Streets had a baby but the mother had smoked and heavily drunk throughout, potentially taking meth resulting in a tone deaf whaling monster with zero rhythm being born, the parents gave it some instruments and left it locked away to create this.
Not my glass of whiskey
Jesus Chris.
Diría que desde que empecé con el rollo de ratear álbumes, fui creando unas reglas no escritas sobre como hacerlo. Una de las principales es definitivamente la obligación de escuchar el disco en su totalidad, por muy malo que fuera. Hoy he roto la regla. Es lo peor que he escuchado en mi vida. Me gusta un montón la página esta y el libro físico donde están los albumes en la que se basa; pero este se coló del 1001 peores álbumes. No hay absolutamente nada que se pueda rascar. Es el peor cantante que he escuchado en mi vida, y me refiero en general, incluyendo a mis amigos que solo escuchan mierda y que desafinan tanto que acaban armonizando con la canción sin querer. No hay ni sentido del ritmo ni del tono. Las bases son típico britpop rock (que me parece top 5 peores géneros con peores bandas) a las cuales se les inserta instrumentos aleatorios y sonidos raros con 0 coherencia. Las grabaciones son terribles, llenas de fallos y con 0 sentido del ritmo. La producción es horripilante y las baterías suenan a plástico. Me parece penoso que esto llegue a una lista así. Me voy enfadado a cama. 0/10->0/5
This is just so 80s I can’t
It's just bad.
This was not to my taste. Although I'm not averse to a bit of tuneless shambolic music if done right, this version of it doesn't work for me.
Not my thing, just kinda aggravating to me to be honest. Too loose and not interesting enough to hold me at all.
My head hurt listening to the start of this album but it cleared towards the middle. Just a very boring, repetitive album. Fell asleep twice during it.
I really did not vibe with this
What the hell was that?
Flogging Molly is a great, great band. Totally unique, there is really only room for one Flogging Molly in musical history (proof of concept, I once saw FM, Gogol Bodello, and Mariachi El Bronx - an ethnic punk show that was top 5 concerts I've ever been to). I respect that the Mekons made FM and that ilk possible, but this is not good.
Such a strange, abstract alternative album; very deconstructivist. Not a fan. There are some redeeming tracks like Lost Highway, but overall a messy snoozefest.
The drum machines feel out of place. I don’t really get it. Hard to listen to
Truly awful. Every song was worse than the last. I think these may be my least favorite vocals ive ever heard
I imagine they are equally confused about why they are on this list
Punk lite, country, folk. Classify it however you want musically, it sucks in any genre. And as a bonus the vocals are awful.
3/10
Awful, I wish I could give zero stars. It sounded like bad karaoke and believe me I know what bad karaoke sounds like
For every classic album this list throws you a dud like this
141/1089 - Sounds like Joy Division with violins and electronic drums (so a slight improvement from Stephen "can't keep the beat" Morris). Non-list recommendation: First Circle - Pat Metheny Group (1984) Great guitarist and keyboard player playing a very unique type of jazz fusion.
Yeah, i did not like this album at all.
No, no, no. Someone pointed out that it "threatened to be good, but that never materialises". This is spot on. I gave up towards the end, I couldn't take any more of the slow "Cotton Eye Joe". A weird start to my weekend.
This is pretty shitty.
What the hell did I just listen to? What were you Brits doing over there in the 80s?
Not my jam.
Terrible
I couldn't finish this one. A weird mish mash of punk and country that just doesn't hang together with some quite muddled production and what I thought to be pretty awful vocal performances that.
really
Couldn't stand this album -- had to cut it off.
Unpleasant to listen to
The sound of bawling drunks in a studio with out of tune instruments they cannot play.
Instrumentals were a 3/5. Vocals were a 1/5. Honestly one of the 2 or 3 worst vocal performances in over 200 albums so far. I was happy when it ended.
1 star
I thought from the description I'd hate this album and wasn't far off. The instrumentation was actually better than I expected. But every song sounded like a mess and the fiddle was too much. Really the only song I enjoyed was Psycho Cupid. Not enough to save the album though. 1.4/5 -> 1/5
A waste of time
Recording the drunk uncle at an Irish family fest.
This started out OK and got progressively worse with each song.
What the hell. When this started I thought I might enjoy it. It started out like maybe a nice piece of 80s pop I hadn't heard before. Then it got annoying really fast. Turns out I didn't like this at all.
If you give a British person a synth they’ll ask for a drum machine too. Than make bad music
Oh this? Yeah it's by Mekons, you probably haven't heard of em.
Most "This doesn't deserve to be in the top 1000" album i've listened to thus far. feels like one of those bands that the people writing it were like "oh yeah i really like this personally so i'm just gonna add it" sorta vibe. Genuinely fell asleep to it.
terrible
Bizarr.
Awful awful noise. The disassociation between the vocals and the music has to be heard to be believe. Had the singer even heard the songs before attempting to sing on them? That's if u can call it singing. Possibly one of the worst voices I've ever heard on a record.
Could not make myself listen to another old man British rock band
In some strange way this album reminds me Of a “Mash up” between “The Clash” and Elvis Costello. I couldn’t decide if they were doing a “send up” on the country tunes or were doing a serious reinterpretation. I finally decided they were tweaking some noses.
I was listening to this album as I hopped on my bicycle for my commute home last night, then I thought "if I get hit by a car tonight, is this really the last album I want to be listening to?" It's not. I changed it to something else. Is this "Outsider Music?" I have to be missing some historical context here. It's just sonic goulash that wasn't left to simmer.
Don’t like this style
1. chivalry - 1.5 2. zouth - 1.5 3. human - 1.5 4. doubt - 1.5 5. cupid - 1.5 6. craft - 1 7. country - 1.5 8. 1984 - 1 9. dance - 1 10. highuuay - 1
wau kiitos lyhyemmästä ajoajasta saakutti vieköön viimeiset kolmesataa ja kaksikymmentäkuusi albumia tuntuvat kaikki olevan vähintään se 50 minuuttia.. huono puoli tosiaan että hirvittävä laulaja. (luumukurkku) ehkä yksi kammottavimmista mitä olen koskaan kuullut, ensimmäiset sanat ja sain reaktion. jonkinkaltaisen hyljevän reaktion ja kauhunaaman... the mekons are the most revolutionary group in the history of rock 'n' roll, and although he wrote it as a fucking joke, he was obviously completely fucking wrong???? tämä bändi ei ole tärkeä missään kapasiteetissa? miksi otatte lesterin sanat ja vittu väärennätte niitä, tämä bändi on täyttä vittu paskaa, aivan vitun aikaansa jälkeen, eikä kukaan saatana halua kuunnella tätä paskaa.. mikä siinä on että yksikään näistä vitun britpunk horoista ei voi etsiä vokalistia jota minä en halua surmata, haista vittu trouble down south
Incompetence, not eccentricity.
Pish - pish pish
utter dross
80s britpop/punk is garbage. I didn’t need to listen to any of it before I die, let alone the 100 this app feeds me, especially this band. Stop it
Just a bad album
...in retrospect the group decided that drinking grain alcohol for 3 days straight then heading straight to the studio while handing the microphone to the local bridge troll for this album was an egregious mistake... 2/10 1 star
Nope....I don't care for English Punk, nor punk in general. But this combo of punk and country is not palatable, at least for me. And to say that this is considered the first "Alt Country album" is an insult to Alt Country. Unlistenable.
This was terrible.
After reading that the Mekons went to school with Gang of Four I can only assume that this 1980’s art college had frequent battle of the bands contests and GofF needed a Washington Generals to their Harlem Globetrotters.
Don't care for the violins. Yeah not a fan.
yuck
Some of the most boring and soulless pieces of music ever. Would've given a zero.
Well it has the decency to be short anyway
I don’t need to come back to this
At first I thought that this sounded like an Irish Bruce Springsteen cover band, but it went downhill from there
# Playlist Track - Country # Notes - I'm starting to believe that British music for some reason is like British cuisine. - An incredibly boring album with just enough almost-interesting moments to double the frustration of listening to the whole thing and not actually liking a single track.
pass
Pish
I can't even. As the kids say. Didn't make it past the 5th track
not for me. bored me so bad I didn't finish.
"Trouble Down South" was an okay song. "Country" had a nice hook to it, but the vocals were pointless. Punk doesn't work well in 3/4 time. This album shows why punk bands should never get clean and sober. These guys are trying way too hard to be the Clash, which left me wondering why don't' I just go listen to the Clash?
I loved the second track. The rest of the album… exists. I’m sure there’s a niche audience out there that adores this band but they were never going to be more than indie darlings (actual indie darlings, not a multi platinum group of supermodels with a lofi aesthetic) at best.
It's like listening someone doing karaoke of the worst Pogues songs
1-2/5
Can’t finish this
Started off terrible, but towards the end it got a little better. Of course, that was when I noticed that it had ended and Spotify was playing random songs. This was garbage.
Awful.
just too out there for me
Da fuq is this? I can’t fathom that this is one of 1001 albums anyone should listen to. What cultural impact is found here?
Couldn't finish the first song
i mean i guess there is something deep down there that is okay? but its buried with boring ideas, horrible quality of recording and atrocious vocals like its just a random shitty british band from 1970s, wow, such important musics mm yes NNN
Bottom of the barrel or whiskey. British gibberish. 2/10
Not much more annoying than a fiddle played out of tune.
Hated this from the first note
At #150 there have already been a few albums of the Punk But Let's Make It Weird variety but this might be the most egregrious yet. I could be arsed to find some qualities in it - like when no one's singing and the reverb is up - but I don't want to.
Who is this for? Atrocious singing. Instruments sound like they’re coming out of a Casio keyboard.
Ah, one more in a long, long, LONG line of English bands from the 80s/90's that I've never heard of. Sigh. Some of them have been pretty decent, some have not been. This is the latter, Not good. its all rather irritating. 1/5
Ehhh...
Incoherent rambling, too much violin … and obviously too much whisky. I wouldn’t pay the cover to see these mopes in a pub.
Couldn't get into this at all, dunno what to think, bizarre but not in a good way
Hated every second of it. F teir
Wanted to like it, but was noisy meh.
Someone failed New Wave School.
Ambitious mix of genres ranging from mountain country to punk, but it didn’t go together like peanut butter and chocolate for me.
Didn't love this one. Listened to it this morning and genuinely none of it stuck out to me.
No thanks
It's like The Pogues but much worse
Never heard of them. Hoping to forget them.
Hmmm
An uninspired jumble of words and sounds. Claims to be a concept album with obviously no concept.
Remove the energy from punk and combine it with the "woe is me" lyrics from country, throw in a violin, and you get this truly depressing unmucial awful album. I could feel my will to live slipping away as I listened to it. This album only gets one star because I can't give it zero.
Bad.
This might not be a fair rating because I only had time to listen to three songs today but I didn’t like them. Sorry!
Not my jam.
Really not a fan
Again, this experience has afforded me the opportunity to sample music I'd not heard of nor would have tried. I sampled the first 4 songs after about 30 seconds each. Just not what I'd add to my library/play list. Thanks, we're enjoying this.
Damn. The author of this book loves pub rock. I don’t drink enough to make this sound good.
Did not enjoy this!
Nah
Horrid
Virtually unlistenable. Like a cat was being mauled inside a garbage can
Whenever I'm about to listen to one of these albums and the Wikipedia says this one "marked a dramatic shift in the band's sound" I just assume it's a band of white dudes playing mediocre rock music who decided to add something other than guitar this time. I haven't been wrong yet. This album was meh, there's been much better versions of this sound done by much better bands.
Literally terrible. I hated every second of this.
Yeah I don’t knownabout this one. What a weird album. I found it hard to find anything likeable on this album, too bad. 2 out of 10
Sounds Like Robert Smith violating the violin
Ass
Why?
Awful everything !!!!!!
I jinxed it...surprise surprise, another UK band. Funny, it says it was released with commercial success but no mention of where it landed on the billboard charts...I need to stop judging and just listen to this. Upon listening, I can fully stand by my prior comments. It’s sad when an album makes me wish we were done with this list. Just annoying that we get put through so many inconsequential albums like this. I literally feel like I'm listening to the animatronic animals at Chuckee Cheese, and after the two powerhouse albums we got, it's just frustrating.
Woof. I know I'm just bitter that this album broke the streak of classics, but still, it's really pretty nothing. I made it so far into this thing before finding the one song that I would keep, and even then I wasn't sure if it was pity or stockholm syndrome. I know they can't all be Jimi Hendrix or Outkast, but I know there are hundreds of better albums out there that should be on this list, and this one shouldn't. Favorite tracks: Last Dance. Album art: Pretty cool color-graded shot of a desert highway. A shame the music is nowhere near as interesting. 1.5/5
Surprise surprise, another obscure 80s UK new wave record! This one was at least a bit different. They took more of a punk route with some added country (?) elements that borderline a celtic sound. This really reminds me of some drunken UK pub band. I'm American god dammit, I want my punk music loud and in your face! I need to throw on some Bad Brains to reset myself.
Horrible
Not for me thanks
Pretty bland and boring, wouldn't repeat.
Not good
First 1 star review - couldn’t finish this album as just not my taste at all.
Couldn’t get down with it
Shit
What even is this? Just rubbish that hardly anyone has ever bothered listening to.
p534. 1985. 1.5 stars. Poor man's Pogues, out of tune, no decent songs and with a worse voice than Shane MacGowan. Bonus star for keeping it short.
This is annoying and difficult to listen to; an up-its-own-arse record. It's the kind of music about which people would say "Oh you've probably never heard of them, but I love The Mekons". It's just not to my taste - purposely bland songs with too-clever lyrics; music for the head, not for the body or the heart. This review has become a bit of a diatribe but it's the kind of music I really hate now - I want visceral, powerful, moving and beautiful songs, not post-punk rubbish that's stuck in its own head. One star. Couldn't get past track 3.
Meh
WHY?! Why is this garbage on the list?! It's so bad. The vocals are terrible, the songwriting is garbage, the musicianship is subpar, and the production values are nonexistent. Every track has at least one instrument that's just not playing along with the song. Often not even in the same KEY as the song. It's consistent enough that it's clearly a stylistic choice. A really bad choice. This album has no redeeming qualities. Fail.
Dit kunnen wij ook met een paar weken oefening haha, wie zingt? 😅
They might have been uniquely peculiar some 40 years ago, but they definitely didn't withstand the test of time. I would not count this as an album to go back to.
This is a band from Leeds doing alt-country. This shouldn't exist, it definitely shouldn't be on the list, and I'm not sure I can trust anybody that thinks otherwise. Best track: Darkness and Doubt
Wat een verschrikking was dit en ronduit vals. Bah...
This was not good music.
The spoken word of Trouble Down South and Psycho Cupid was off-putting. Darkness and Doubt had some twang that was completely out of place. At least on Abernant the twang verged towards irish drinking song. This album is a big No.
Being a big fan of the Melvins, searching for their music in countless record stores, I've come across the Mekons on more than one occasion. I was always curious what they sounded like, but never really had the motivation to give them a listen. Now that I've heard them, I feel like I haven't been missing out on anything.
4 tracks in…this album is legitimately terrible. 10 tracks in…still sucks. Just bad.
It was ok. Vocals were rough at first. Little too punky.
Took the worst parts of country and married it with punk I could not think of anything worse than this. 1
I hate this kind of 80s British mopy synth pop lol
Probably the most awkward thing I've heard on this list
meh
I can't stand this one.
Here's a sentence I never thought I'd say -- I'm sick of post-punk country music.
Não precisava conhecer mais uma banda de indie da Inglaterra. Segundo a minha lógica e ritmo de audição envolvida e atenta, não tem mais espaço para músicas que soam monótonas e previsíveis.
oh no darling, this is just terrible stuff
I couldn’t find one good song on this or any of their albums. A singer doing a Robert Smith impression doesn’t match this group’s so-so instrumentals.
Nah
mehkons?
Depressing and out of tune
Didn't find much I enjoyed with this one.
typically i've admired albums on this project that mashed together drastically different genres because some unique, creative sounds can be a result. well, fear and whiskey has changed my mind. the combination of alternative and country on this album does not mesh. i guess this was music but it was so disjointed. it didn't flow, no interesting sounds were created. other albums with unusual genre combinations were cohesive, at least. and that damn fiddle got on my nerves. i walked away unimpressed and bored. in fact, some of this was not listenable or enjoyable.
I had concerns when I saw the genre of "alternative country". I grew even more concerned when I read other accounts that this was essentially a mash-up of country and punk. I'm open to the idea, but I definitely wasn't convinced this album would be a masterful example of the mash-up. My concerns were definitely valid. It's an incredibly bizarre mashup that was not well produced. It's like hearing two different tracks, one country, one punk, that were layered on top of each other and just turned loose. The way it ends up manifesting in the final "mix" on most of the tracks is in the form of punk sounds with weird fiddle overtones. It's discordant, and it's messy. The vocals on this album are annoying and often rambly, too. I've heard worse on this project, but I'm not going to let it stop me from conveying in my rating that this was far from necessary listening.
Shockingly bad vocals. Sounds like a bunch of off-the-charts drunk people decided to form a band and record an album all in one night.
I love their first single, a proper slice of messy punk pop. But I have never gotten along with their country-tinged later work, despite endless plays on the John Peel show. I was hoping this was a chance to change that, but I remain unmoved. The ‘looseness' of their earlier work is still there, but it sounds to me that they have sucked both post-punk and country dry, and this is what was left. And poor Hank must be turning in his grave at the karaoke-style closer.
Ridiculous.
Прослушивание 1 1 Что происходит вначале?) Он специально в ноты не попадает?))) Ну и дерьмо. 2 Ничего не понимаю. Эмоций нет. Похоже на проходняк 3 Ну и хрень 4 Скучное дерьмо 5 А в чем прикол говорить хрень весь трек? 6 Какая скукаааа 7 Спасибо этой группе за то, что в альбоме так мало треков. Слушаю из-за уважения к сайту и автору книги. 8 Исполнитель не умеет петь. ЖЕСТЬ 9 Вот у меня вопрос, а почему это в 1001 альбоме? Видимо надо было заполнить дерьмом. 10 Ура конец. Какой ты rollin stone. Как хорошо, что это всё Вывод: оценка понятна: 1/5
Alt Country? What in hell? This sucked ass
Not much stood out for me from this album
1/5 - Utter nonsense
Had high hopes for this - a punk / country hybrid, what’s not to like? - but I thought it was utterly dire from start to finish. An ugly ungainly mess.
Not for me, not really sure what genre this fits into as it all feels a bit unstructured.
If someone decided to start a Country themed parody band based on The Cure. The auditory representation of r/cursedimages.
Well, this is terrible. No wonder I've instinctually avoided it all these years.
Jesus Christ. This is awful. Singer can't hold a tune, and the lyrics and concepts at play here are beyond cringe-y. Kind of like a mix of Ricky Gervais' David Brent character from 'The Office' and Daniel from the doco series 'The Undateables'.
never heard of them. first thought: i kind of like this. weird bg vocals, nice. music is okay ish, guy singing is not it :( i'd enjoy this a lot more if it was just the instrumental... okay no, shit sounds off key in a bad way :/ i guess that its what they were going for but its purely unpleasant, i like weird music but this is not hitting
This album is really weird and also, I really hated it. At least the four songs I was able to listen to (OK, two of those I only listened to partially).
Sounds kinda like country, but gay
Not a fan at all of this
Not really for me—kind of experimental, but doesn’t quite work
Despite my penchant for folky stuff, I felt the vocalist had little talent. Particularly hated Psycho Cupid.
I really didn't enjoy this album. Which is a shame as it has the coolest cover so far.
I did not like that country music. Just not good.
Meh