Reviews (page 8 of 8)
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