Next

Uhh, those vocals were sleazy af, not in a fun way. I enjoyed the guitars though

I see how Harvey’s bizarro delivery was a big influence on Nick Cave but the style here didn’t excite me and none of the songs were very memorable.

Nothing against Glam Rock (even though I'm not a fan), but this one is just pretentious and lacks the songs to back it up. 2/5

4.5/10

Not great. Never heard of them before.

I just can't do glam rock. This one is admittedly better than most. I don't outright hate it but it also isn't something I'd really ever listen to.

70s glam rock with the cheesiness of Eurovision, but none of it's charm. Not all that sensational, really. Rating: 2/5 Playlist track: The Faith Healer Date listened: 28/06/24

Naja.

Bad glam rock, it adds nothing except the idea where ac/DC got their sound

Found this one to be quite boring and uninspired. Not very good. 2/5 Won’t listen again

Really left me wanting more and honestly. This is comparable to the house band a town hires for their annual summer event at the park, except no one knows the songs and mostly just serves as background music while everyone does their thing. 4/10.

Not really a fan of this. The music wasn't bad, but I wasn't a fan of the vocals sometimes and the song writing--mainly the lyrics--was stupid. Vambo Marble Eye was pretty good, but the rest could be forgotten in my opinion. 2/5

🎧Not really my kind of glam

He over-promised.

Never heard of it. Doubt I will hear it again

Ok sounds but geez ive really been wanting softer music lately

Nope, not for me

Für den Faith Healer gibts einen Extrapunkt, ansonsten ist der Rest zu Recht unbekannt.

This one was a little too performativ with the razzle dazzle for my tastes. Not well understood by me and hard to contextualize. Lyrics pretty blech and the instrumentation was banal.

What the heck was going on in Glasgow in the early 1970s? And even before that. It seems the experiences that had a lasting impact on Alex Harvey and informed his later behavior and songwriting started young. He was “just a child” in the story told in “Next?” Well, how old of a child?? And they played that song on the radio in Cleveland in 1974?? But Harvey got no tenderness, instead only a case of gonorrhea, and it’s no wonder that some years later he wrote and sang about the experience paired with another song about a 27-guy “Gang Bang.” Sometimes I don’t really pay attention to the lyrics. Should’ve gone that route here. The group’s over-the-top theatricality may have made a big impact on many musicians in the late-70s, but I’m not sure that is enough to justify this otherwise obscure entry on the list.

At times, I hear AC/DC. Other times, not so much. The two songs about a gang bang and a military wh*re house really threw me off. They were different times but still, not appealing lyrics.

Didn't grab me. In no way bad and I get why this would be influential.

Very forgettable. Ain't nothing like a guy who wants to put his dick everywhere. 2/5.

This is pretty bad

Meh. Very forgettable album mainly focused on his dick. At least it's short.

Not for me...

I really hated the first two tracks. Of the rest, some of the music sounded okay to me, but I wasn't a fan of the vocals at all.

Stopped after track one.

Man this one seems obscure. Yet they really didn’t do anything interesting on this album. Which leads me to think, why is it included on this list? Oh wait, Nick Cave mentioned he liked this album and basically everything Nick Cave ever thought about is included on this list. The music itself isn’t that bad, but the lyrics are so juvenile and shit.

A very interesting mix of influences showing through. Some of it sounds very much like Carmen. Not sure how to react to this album, but at least I could follow along with what was happening and I could actually learn these songs if I wanted. Having a whole run of experimental British albums has been tough, but this is one of the easier ones to digest

Joitain hienoja juttuja, mutta ei ihan mun makuun.

Liked the music, didn’t like the lead vocals or the lyrics.

It’s quite a crass and at the same time, bland album. The glam element pulls you in but then when you realise the songs are about Swampsnakes and Gangbangs - it goes downhill from there. The song ‘next’ comes up and you start thinking it can redeem itself but then you remember it’s a cover. next!

Zelf je band 'Sensational' noemen is natuurlijk vragen om problemen, maar ja, 'The boring Alex Harvey Band' trekt ook geen volle zalen natuurlijk.

The Faith Healer is a banger, the rest of the album is meh

Meh.

Nah, not for me

First songs were okay and got worse

2.5

Not really my thing tbh, it had some alright moments, and it's eclectic enough in sound and energy where I feel like many would find SOMETHING here to love, but overall... It just feels meh to me. Fine to listen to once, not something I'll ever really want to come back to. 2.5

Rating: 5/10 Mixed bag album. On one hand, I really enjoyed the energy and passion of this album, the first two songs were great and a lot of fun to listen to. On the other hand, the singer is incredibly annoying and this album becomes more difficult to listen to as it progresses. This album is definitely best with a faster tempo, the slower tempo songs were not enjoyable to listen to. Favorite songs: Swampsnake, Gang Bang. Worst songs: The Faith Healer, Next.

Started off promising, descended quickly into Rocky Horror Picture Show B sides, never redeemed itself.

Weird.

It's like ACDC without the Rock guitars

Next.

Valitettavasti tässä on korvamatopotentiaalia. Olisipa hänellä vain ollut riittävän hyvä itsetunto, ettei olisi tarvinnut heittää hommaa läskiksi.

Wildly irreverent, theatrical, unhinged musical experience. Not really my style but the instruments and vocals are varied and good. Gang bang and giddy up a ding dong had me shocked and entertained. May not be for you but definitely has a place and assuredly an influence on bands that came after it.

If someone started playing the first track for me and said "this is a new Tim and Eric band" I wouldn't be surprised at all. I love Tim and Eric. I think the mock bands and music that they make are hysterical. I think relating a real band to a fake Tim and Eric band is a bad thing for a real band. The lyrics are weird and the voice tone isn't doing anything for me, and the production has so many phasing issues. Yea I kind of just wanted this to be over with quickly. I don't think it's bad enough for a 1 but do you need to hear this album before you die?

This was weird and I'm glad it was short. Glad to see people trying something unique but this didn't land with me.

"You can call me the soft shoe banana" No thanks Some of the production made me nauseous. I wanted to like this. Some of the instrumentals are pretty good. The vocals turn me away. Sometimes they are kind of fun, but I think I would just ironically listen to it.

There are a few good tunes but sensational ain't the first word that jumps to mind.

Obnoxious singing.

Its okay. Doesnt belong on the list.

Brb. I need a shower.

I don’t like Rocky Horror, I don’t like glam rock, I don’t particularly like this.

Talk about a mixed bag. It wasn’t all bad - “The Faith Healer” was kind of cool, “Last of the Teenage Idols” was kind of fun - but I hated “Gang Bang” so much that it spoiled the rest of it.

I'm not sure what I thought about this at all. It was just all a bit weird and I'm not sure it married as an album. All over the place didn't ressonate with me

1 star except for a good old gangbang taking it to 2

What an eccentric album. There were humorous parts. I have never heard of the band before and was not familiar with any of the songs. It was a short album which helped. I do not see myself listening to this album again.

Really, really wild. Had just heard of Alex Harvey for the first time on a recent podcast. Just super wild and on the strange side of glam. Nothing that I would prefer to come back to though. 2/5

This was kind of just on. Odd really as the first track suggested a rollicking good time album but I kind of got bored fast. Faith Healer stood out because it was so tonally different, but not particularly good or anything. I love Jacques Brel so was looking forward/trepidatious about Next. We also already have the Scott Walker cover. This one wasn't good. It was demented though so kind of funny.

Mishmash of uninterestingness.

Gang Bang and The Faith Healer both gave me some creepy vibes. Actually, most of the album did. Is that on me? Maybe. Giddy Up a Ding Dong (weird weird song title) had my foot tapping.

A mix of blues, hard rock and glam. It sounds like it's trying so hard to be having a good time while actually it's about as exciting as a fish paste sandwich. Best Tracks: The Faith Healer; Giddy Up A Ding Dong; Vambo Marble Eye

Weird mix.

Of-its-time boomer stuff with no other redeeming qualities for me.

i'm actually impressed by how little of a fuck i give about listening to this album. i must done the sum total of a minute of it.

shite

Just a bit of innocent rock and roll with some macabre thrown in for the heck of it. There’s nothing here that’s going to blow your mind, but I doubt you’ll be offended by it. Maybe the band was sensational, never saw them live. I’m sure there’s a story as to why it’s on this list, but I don’t really care to hear it. Next!

The only sensational aspect of this album can be found in the song titles (shout out to “Giddy Up A Ding Dong”).

The cabal who put this book together must think the pinnacle of music is “blues performed by sketchy white guys” because there is a lot of that nonsense on this list. At any given point this album is either dull or obnoxious. The best song on the album, Faith Healer, has been performed better by many others. Enough of this kind of garbage.

p307. 1973. 2 stars Average 70s Brit-rock album from an average Brit rock band with a frontman channelling his inner Tim Curry. They weren't really successful at the time, and this is perfect evidence of why - no real standout tunes, and the usual 70's rock wankage with 7+ minute songs. I suspect this is on the list because of memories of what a good live act they were.

Some songs I liked but overall a poor record

It was jolly enough. A whiff of Sweet at times. And although I know it was a different time, anyone who writes about women so badly should be ashamed. Your misogyny and ignorance is showing, you should cover it up.

Some weird punk music that never got credibility

It's weird, but not really in the way that I like. Couldn't decide if I dislike the singers voice or not, but it did irritate me at points. Didn't expect a cover of Next to be on here, so that's neat. I don't know, I just didn't care about anything happening and I was waiting for it to be over. My favourite part of the album was the last two minutes, and I'm sad that it's stuck in a seven minute track. I guess my favourite song would have to be Next.

Wow, so that was a bit of a rough listen. It's weird because it's rowdy and trashy and a little glammy in a way that should work, but it comes off as rather joyless and not at all fun to listen to. The lyrics, best described as lusty and dumb, don't really help. If this sensibility appeals to you, you're probably better off checking out some early AC/DC. Fave songs: Vambo Marble Eye, Swampsnake

Glam rock never really took off and was only big for a short period of time. This album, I don’t believe added much to the genre. Most of the songs are really forgettable, although the title track has some originality to it as well as some lyrics with actual substance. I also do appreciate the change up in part 3 of “The Last of the Teenage Idols, Pts. 1-3”. Most of the others fade into obscurity with their derivative chords and structuring as well as boring lyrics. Production and instruments can be hit or miss. I can enjoy this album while also realizing that it isn’t very good. 2/5

Ugh.. lag nr tvö eyðilagði þetta alveg. Mjög ósmekklegt. En.. þið vitið. Sjöundi áratugurinn var skítur að því leyti í sumum kreðsum. Þannig að bara... nei.. ekki fyrir mig.

Favourite song: Next

i felt a bit uncomfortable with some of the lyrics but really liked some of the musical ideas but not an awful amount it certainly wasnt sensational

Well that was just weird. I don't know how it made this list, but a couple of the songs were fun I guess.

Impressed by the performances, unimpressed by the content.

God those song titles. Lyrics suck too. Instrumentation is fine and vocally it's a bit annoying but it's a commitment to a bit for sure. Next! Neeext! Neeeeeext!

I'll bet they were quite fun to enjoy live in concert. Didn't love the album. It just didn't really click in for me.

first time listening

It was ok, but very dated. Not sure I’d listen to it again.

You can peel away my skin.

Sensational is subjective.

Bit weird.

Cringe. It should be up my alley because I like camp rock (Rocky Horror?) but this is too tryhard and kinda gross.

5-ish.

En dan jezelf een sensational band noemen, niet mee eens hoor!

Had niet in deze lijst gehoeven, zeker voor uit die tijd met deze muziek

Heeft niet per se een indruk achter gelaten, weet niet zo goed wat ik ervan vind

This album has some truly awful songs and the singer is so annoying! With a different singer and different songwriter you might have something but this was pretty bad!

Porn for brain dead sketchy guys in the glam scene.

Come on.

I don't know the band. Weird music and I don't like the vocal.

i appreciate the instruments but i really can’t like the songs they’re too long and repetitive for my liking and i get bored easily i also listened to it when i was fall asleep so i never really finished listening but if someone recommends a song from this album i'll definitely give it a try

Trash

Boring, repetitive, simplistic and overly drawn out Rock'n'Roll songs with the most annoying singer I have ever heard in my life. Each and every one of his countless mannerisms makes me want to pour boiling lava into my ears.

Dreadful

This doesn't rise to clever. It's just gross. Musically, Next was okay. Feels like it was cut from Cabaret. Still made me want to vomit. No, really. The performance genuinely caused disgust, and I started heaving over a bite of my breakfast. So, I suppose that performance was effective at least. Would my edgier younger self liked this?

couldnt finish it

Hated this so much. Nothing redeeming about it lyrically or musically. Just absolute crap.

Sensationalist, but not sensational, overcooked glam with some fairly horrific lyrics and few redeeming features other than its relative brevity.

Awful

Ännu ett humorlöst skojband. Den här gången med ett Boogie woogie piano som är rätt ok. Men låtarna är alldeles för långa.

Thanks, I hate it.

Swampsnake - 2.5/5 Gang Bang - 2/5 The Faith Healer - 1./5/5 Giddy Up A Ding Dong - 1/5 Next - 1/5 Vambo Marble Eye - 1/5 The Last Of The Teenage Idols - 1/5

(26/100)

That was like the B Sides to the Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack. And without copious amounts of drugs and alcohol and a 11:30pm showing in a 1940s era theater, with live actors - that’s not a compliment.

The lyrics are quite exquisite, like I actually can smell them. Unfortunately the smell was shit. And when it comes to the instrumentals, they were all nothing special, and the voice was not that good either.

Dross, basically. A very bad singer who seems to take great pleasure in singing bad and stupid songs. It starts vaguely acceptably, and then becomes extremely unacceptable.

its whatever

Did not like it.

Gear: ZMF Auteur Classic LTD Shedua Artwork: 🦓␥📛 Production (Remastered 2002): 😐👍🆗 Music: 😳🤢🚿 Rating: 🐓(🐓)/5

This is Glam cock. Goes on about gang bangs and his cock. If he was alive today his hard drive would definitely be getting checked. Whoever decided I need to listen to this shite before I die needs to give their head a wobble

mental

🙄 gimme a break

Some of the worst stuff this list has to offer

What the actual fuck

these guys missed what made Led Zeppelin sexy but decided to try to emulate it anyway. it's like I know Spinal Tap was satire of a bunch of different bands but I could almost believe that this was a similar parody band bc of how indistinguishable it is.

Eh, it wasn't quite my jam. Not bad, just not the right fit.

Raro, incómodo.

I had a hard time getting into this album, there was lots of screaming and weird lyrics. I'm glad it was only 35 minutes long.

This album smells like stale cigarette smoke. It smells like cask ale left to sit in a pint glass for three days. It smells like 3 day old sweat. It smells like a car that hasn't been cleaned in months. It smells like drains. Blues Rock is not for me, especially when it's shuffly and sounds like this. The band is tight and they can play. That's fine. Good drumming. The vocals and the lyrics kill me. Rhyming couplets straight from primary school. Sorry to shite on a Scottish artist but SAHB gives off complete Rangers FC energy and I find that disgusting, quite frankly. To be serious though, it's uncomfortable listening to songs like Gang Bang in 2026. "It was a different time", sure, but if you're gonna write about sex, be smart and don't whack us over the head with it. The whole album has that dark 1970s veil over it - bad things happening behind curtains that shouldn't be happening. There's a reason so many of the 70s TV presenters in the UK ended up in the clink. Then there's the whole theatrical approach to this album, and the band in general. That'll appeal to some. Not to me. The cover of Brel's 'Next' sticks out like a sore thumb on this album. The closing track, 'The Last of the Teenage Idols' has one passage near the end that shows a nice bit of studio trickery and diversity but it's woefully short lived. I can't stand that harlequin-looking MF either. Aye, this album sucks. Makes me uneasy throughout and I am certainly no prude. A complete lack of subtlety which is a shame because musically, the band has, on occasion, some serious chops. Crazy that the longest review I've written is about an album I loathed. Still, that's the point of this exercise, right? At least I listened to the whole thing.

Strange and surprisingly shallow album. Glam rock has never been for me, but this album ranges from meandering and derivative at best, to aimlessly bizarre at worst. At least it wasn't too long

This was fucking stupid. 1

Kan godt høre at den her er britisk (fordi det vel er den eneste grund til at den er på listen?) Lyder lidt som uironisk Spinal Tap, hvilket jo ik nødvendigvis er en dårlig ting, men hele den der tjubidubi 50er-rock ting gør bare at det ikke virker for mig.

Who signed this 36 year asshat?

ungodly terrible. this is some of the most annoying and obnoxious rock i've ever heard in my entire life. never show me this shit ever again omg i hate it

This was a day late for an April fool. 'Gabg Bang' was as bad as I anticipated after reading the tracklist.

Only played it once. Did nothing for me a pretty forgettable album.

Might genuinely be the worst one on the list so far. Why is this even here?

The lyrics were mostly awful, and at times just icky and gross. Maybe I'm supposed to think it's funny, but I guess it doesn't appeal to my particular style of humor. The frontman was a bit over the top in his vocal stylings, too. It's a shame, because some of the music was actually fun and catchy, but literally everything else marred it.

This is prime your coworker has a favorite local band from back in their hometown core. The musical inclination is there but there are (so many) reasons you’ve never heard of them. Swamp snake comes across as a competent blues rock satire;nails the style with terrible lyrics. But then that 5 minute song describing how much he loves gang bangs really conveys this dudes ego but also solidifies this album as ass. Following up that annoying shit was never going to be easy but what if we had a one chord riff with slide whistle over it for 2 and a half minutes and then 5 minutes of the worst Black Sabbath rip off you’ve ever heard after it? It’s an awful, 0/10 song. Giddy up is like if someone tried to write jailhouse rock from memory after hearing it once 30 years ago. There are two key changes in this piece of shit song. What is happening. Next is the first glimpse into the glam rock of it all but in trying to be dramatic he adopts a faux-Jamaican, Sebastian from Little Mermaid accent when he’s trying to be British? I do like some of the over the top theatrics in it though. Marble whatever is ultimately forgettable but fine. The last of the teenage whatever’s is the best song on here but am I insane or did it just randomly hard pan left in the middle and then right and then slowly fade back to stereo. What was that. Idk, I want to give this a 1 but I think hearing this in 1973 may have been a cool counter culture moment. It’s the first album I’ve heard in a long time that makes me question its inclusion on the list, so it has to be a historial addition right?

Oh to be a rocker from the 70's where you can put out anything and get praised.

Of course Nick Cave thinks this is good.

So this sucked. Like it was just so meh in every way.

too edgy

Complete ass

Just awful

Rubbish

This is the sort of album that makes one question why one is following this album list at all. -3 stars, rounded up to 1.

This did not age well, and perhaps wasn’t so great even when you were there the first time. Chalk it up to the list maker’s personal preference for obscure Scottish music that objectively doesn’t deserve a spot on any list of top albums. 1⭐️

I'll be honest, I pretty much hated this. Never heard of this band and I guess now I know why.

если бы кризис среднего возраста был альбомом.

Too meh and raunchy Gang bang, really!??

Descobri em decorrência desse site que eu gosto de glam rock. Mas não esse álbum. Provavelmente o álbum mais hétero que recebi até o momento (isso não é positivo).

Stupid

Nope.

I like Glam generally, but this sucked. The hooks aren't great. I find his voice annoying - listen to the last song and tell me it doesn't sound like Adam Sandler is singing in character. There's a part in Spinal Tap where Rob Reiner is reading reviews of Intravenous de Milo and it reads: they are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry. Exactly this!

Made it 1.5 songs in. I don't even dislike this style of music, but this is shite.

Every song would be skipped every single time they came on if they were in any of my playlists. Only exception would be if I were chained up in a dungeon and had all four limbs restrained, about to be murdered

This really icked me for some reason. Not a fan at all.

On one hand it was terrible. On the other hand, at least it was short.

Yeah, no clue how this was even included in the list. Just terrible.

Individually, there are some songs that are likely 2s or 3s. But this album has so much of what I dislike about music broadly and about this list particularly that it would feel Iike a self betrayal to give it more than a 1.

sex! sex! sex! sexy sex sex! sex! jesus christ dude do you have literally anything else to do than to write generic hard rock songs that don't even pretend to be about something other than sex

In all fairness: If I was tasked to compile a list of 1001 albums you should listen before you die, there would be some utter garbage on as well.

Wow… no!

I stopped listening at the song talking about how sick gang bang is.

The period where musicians started talking about sex openly is just nauseating. An entire decade of manchildren caterwauling about how much they love pussy. Really embarrassing.

⭐️ Är väl någon form glamrock med könsrocktema.Hur kan denna hamnat på en lista med de1001 album man ska höra innan man dör?

Never heard of this one. Listened to enough to know it’s trash.

I did not think this one was very good.

Not so sensational rock band. 70’s band that never made it big. Nothing that set them apart from other rock bands.

Not for me.

What the actual fuck

Ewww, no. 👎

Honestly quiet excrutiating

detestable.

This album makes me want to change my other 1-star reviews, because this is so much worse. Just full of gross lyrics and uninteresting music. The only good thing I have to say about it is it's fairly short.

oh hell no. why is this on the list. so not required listening.

I didn’t like this album much at all. It sort of reminded me of Styx jn that it features a lead singer trying waaaaaay too hard and ultimately sounding to my ears like nothing more than a cornball showtune artist. But in this case mix in lyrics about gang rape and gonorrhea.

Didn't like anything about this one

classic rock, bluesy de hit van het album is een kakanummer niet goed, nooit meer luisteren

Didn't listen.

No. 1.

This shit is lame.

Is this a joke? Please tell me this is a fucking joke.

mmmmmmmmmm

Didn’t get into it.

The only sensation this inspired in me was disgust. What a waste of time.

So so bad. “Ain’t nothing but the gang bang”. Wow. So smart and inspirational. If I’ll write a song some day, will definitely use it.

The last song does some neat tricks with headphones, so listen to that one with headphones. It has good instrumentals. However, literally any person good have written better lyrics. There is no reason anyone should listen to this, let alone should be on this list.

If you have to say you are sensational, you probably aren’t. And this band is definitively not. They sound like a joke. Absolutely horrid.

Insultingly dumb and stupid

Tenacious D but not funny. This shit fucking sucks. One of the prime examples of why I didn’t listen to classic rock for years.

I'm on a 10 album run of nothing below a 3, multiple 5s... (I try not to hand out too many 5s or 1s) and was just starting to wonder if I'm being too generous lately when this album came along to assuage my concerns. Musically, Next is nothing special. It's fine, perfectly listenable... which would normally earn it a 3 from me - 3 star albums for me are good but nothing more. Nothing I dislike, but not deserving of any higher. Lyrically, this album is a travesty. How one man wrote an entire album of mediocre songs about his penis and what he does with it (with the exception of one track where he instead wrote about what he and his 27 friends do with their penises) that is considered by *anyone* to qualify as "must hear before you die" is beyond me. Nobody needs to hear this. I probably would've died happier having not heard it. Like I said, I try not to give out too many 5s or 1s, and I tried as hard as I could to not judge this too harshly on the lyrics alone, but at the end of the day, the music doesn't do enough to redeem it.

1,4/5

Painful, stuck it out but begging for the end from the second track "Gang Bang" (as awful as it sounds). HTF is this included. It's not even generally regarded as one of their best albums, not that I'm going to be sampling the others on this showing. The worst album on 1001 that I've listened to so far (Ye didn't get heard due to a built in self professed Nazi filter).

I turned this off as soon as the vocals started

I've never heard of them and it's surprising because based on just the Wikipedia article alone some people I listen to say they were influential. Well... I don't see what's so "sensational" about the band. The guy's vocals actively pissed me off 1/5

If somebody wrote an album by querying ChatGPT with "make a glam/punk rock album but make it incredibly, unnecessarily about my personal sex stories that my friends are tired of hearing about." Take this off the list.

Funky vibe but just overall……very odd. A few of the songs had instruments that sounded similar to a boat horn. Faith Healer - Sounded like they saw a sound machine near a dumpster and decided to give it a roll in the studio. Giddy Up a Ding Dong sounded almost like Jailhouse Rock by Elvis. Seriously what in the hell is this? Next - This is giving broadway musical song where the rat looking man has his solo revenge song. Anyone know what a Vambo is?

No me dijo nada 🥲

Which sensation? Disgust? Indifference? Bloat? Is 'meh' a sensation?

Did not like this. Had guitars, horns, keys - all of the things I like, but it just did not work.

All of the songs kind of blended together and wasn’t melodic or anything drastic in the songs that kept me interested for more than a few songs at a time.

No thank you

There’s about 3 great songs on here and the rest is chauvinistic 70s rock sleaze. I initially dug the sounds, but upon further listen, am not as impressed. Lyrically, it’s all over the place. Musically, mostly it’s right up my alley, but then there’s this thing about it that takes me out. When it opened I thought it was going to be an early 70s version of Low Cut Connie. And I am pretty disappointed in the direction it went!

Bad. Like joe cocker on an angry binge.

Bad. Just bad

Sensational? I’ll be the judge of that. That’s why I’m here isn’t it? I like to imagine that the sole purpose of this endeavour was to get the lazy musings of a poorly educated Canadian with little to no musical knowledge. That was the lofty pipe dream of our dear author when he first set out on what was and remains a monumental triumph of a starter guide. A labour of love dashed upon the jagged rocks of a small text box. With universally appreciated art spilling into the murky brine of “this was kinda mid,” we sift through the wreckage and pull another of the 1001 remnants of the capsized craft. What horrors will die in my arms this fateful morn? Swampsnake - A song title that can only be described as “rad as hell” begins our first foray into what sounds to be uhh Religious? The singer is a little unhinged. That is surprising. I don’t care about it, but it’s surprising. Gang Bang - if this is that gangster music that the kids are listening to, I am fully on board with banishing it to the nether realm. This is the late night act on a cruise ship for adults. If that doesn’t make your skin crawl, we have nothing to discuss. Horrific. Longest 15 minutes of my life. It was 4 minutes? Wonderful. The Faith Healer - Who gave this moron a studio? This song is an extended intro for the band that is the central crux in a wet dream in the head of a delusional man in the midst of a mid-life crisis. I need a medical healer. Let’s leave deities out of this. I feel ill. Maybe I need to restore a Chevy Bel-Air and make a female administrative worker uncomfortable. The American dream. Giddy Up a Ding dong - Fuck you for making me write that. This is not “fun.” This just sucks. Like being at a wedding where everybody is drunk except you. Just a bunch of sunburnt lushes writhing around in the sun to this garbage while you dream of a prolonged hermitage deep under the earth. Dead or alive. Next - Hey! That’s what I’ve been saying. NEXT. I hate that is the best song by far. It at least has a sense of irony and humour. Although based on the previous tracks, maybe this is sincerity I’m mistaking for taste. Incredibly, this reminds me of black midi. I’m holding my nose for this next part. I like this song. Ugh. Vambo Marble Eye - We’re back in stink town. Alex and the boys have a permanent residency atop the stinkiest landfill in stink town. Get ready to hear “Gang Bang” on repeat. If you’re lucky, they’ll do the whispered gang vocals of Vambo Marble Eye to the visual of fat boomers snapping their unwirked fingers to the beat. The Last of the Teenage Idols - See when I ask people to call me “The Sheik of Tomorrow” they get really upset. I for one, will not call this idiot anything of the sort, but I will call him a terrible musician. Well. Terrible is relative and in the eye of the beholder, but as the current beholder, I will use that authority to say I hate this. This was a violent plummeting through labyrinthine terrors hitherto unseen. Maybe sight is not the sense I most associate this record with. Let’s go with smell. Boy howdy did this album stink. What was this? A horrible band playing sleazy songs for the sleaziest demographic. This is music for the kind of people that think “no” means “keep trying” and I ain’t talking about trying to land employment. Sure, I’ve had a laugh at my own expense here in saying that I am a musical moron, but I certainly know what I like and don’t like. This is entrenched solidly in the “don’t like” camp. Abandon ship, and while you’re at it, abandon all hope for 70s boogaloo sweat rock. If you had any of that hope to begin with, you sadden me. Call your children. They hate your new wife. 0.5 HIGHLIGHTS: Next. No really! It was good.

This wasn't AS bad as the reviews suggest, but it's certainly not good. If it weren't for the vocalist and lyrics, it could probably be a 2.5-3 star album. I'm just glad it was short.

Johan fikk en enorm bæsjebleie mens jeg hørte på dette albumet og jeg syns det var mer fornøyelig å vaske bæsjen hans med en tørr våtserviett enn å høre på dette

Tbh nije mi bilo bas posebno, ne sviđa mi se ovakva glazba ://

Bit rapey. Funny that we consider the 90s rappers as mysoginsts when this is a bit of fun. Awful man awful lyrics awful music.

If the other tracks were anything like "Faith Healer," I would agree that this might be an album worth listening to before you die, but they are definitely not. Dreadful.

I hate his voice. I hate these lyrics. I hate the music. These songs do nothing for me. At best they're boring. At worst they're unsuccessfully trying to be edgy.

In which a woman is objectified, debased, and abused, and “smiles through the tears.” Take this album off the list.

How did this guy get an album released? This just feels trashy.

Dont touch me

nope

Very sub optimal 1970 ‘s rock nothing sparks nothing new, not sure why it merits inclusion. Not glam, not pub rock, cardboard music.

Just nothing

1 stern

Was pleasantly drifting along, half-listening to the mediocre rock music, when he started talking about gonorrhea. If you're going to to be edgy and confrontational, at least have the courage to commit to it, instead of couching it in adolescent humor.

This was very icky. Musically I didn't mind it - I even kind of liked Next and The Last of the Teenage Idols. But lyrically? Woof. Idk man, I think dudes in the 70s were straight-up predators.

Can’t tell you how much I hated this. My god I wish I could give it 0

if i wanted to listen to a really unpleasant and annoying man go on and on about a gangbang I'd just redownload grindr

What in the world did I just listen to? Part Meatloaf, part Twisted Sister. Throw in some Ted Nugent and a little KISS. Maybe a splash of Alice Cooper and even a bit Weird Al. Regardless, I was not a fan.

Singularly the worst album I have ever listened to.

Not for me!

RIP Alex Harvey you would have loved Diddy's freak-offs

Musically it isn't so bad, but maybe a bit generic at times. Has a Mississippi rock sound with a mix of Chicago. The lyrical content is funny but gets old quick. I think I enjoyed the track the Faith Healer the most, but mostly the intro was hypnotic, the second half of the song was just ok. Overall, this album is not good. Not sure why it was part of this collection.

This is sensationally bad, but I do see how its crude sensibilities could delight Nick Cave (and other iconic artists as different as AC/DC and The Cure). If you’d like to hear a better version of ‘Next’, please listen to Scott Walker’s dramatic take on that same song!

Sometimes the joke just doesn't land.

i really did not like this. very theatrical in a musical theater kind of way. not my thing.

Unforgettable. But not in a good way

Yeah....not good. I'm not sure why it's on lusts as the reviews don't really say either

So cringingly bad. A very uncomfortable listen with the icky sexual references.

Ouch this just doesn’t age well. May have enjoyed some of music but lyrics make for a very tough listen.

Not my thing.

This doesn't belong here.

I hated this. I failed to make it to the end of a single song. Is it here as some kind of joke? Hands down the worst album so far.

"Aint nothing like a gang bang"

Next is like a shitty version of shitty albums by shitty bands like: AC/DC, Kiss, Meatloaf, Aerosmith, etc. When I was in second grade, a kid brought in a record that his dad's band had recorded. Everyone in the class got a copy of the 12 inch album to take home. I ran home to listen to the tunes and I remember it sounded kind of like this. The cover of Next was fun by I recall liking the Scott Walker version more. Giddy Up A Ding Dong!

I loathed this album. The writing was shit, the band was shit, the singing was shit. It was like the singer decided to sing every song in the worst possible way.

Like a mix of southern rock and Gwar, with sound quality that just doesn't land for me. I find very little redeeming in this.

that was absolutely disgusting. very uninspired and repetitive and annoying . I'm very much surprised that it made it onto this list.

Not for me 1/5

Another godawful irritating one

My poor ears

Well, that sucked.

Listened Before? N Hopefully I'll never listen to this again. Wailing, noisy, overtly sexual trash. I'd say it's a product of it's time but it does a terrible job capturing the 70s too. Whatever. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Gang Bang (because fuck it at this point)

ugh pretty bad

Сенсэйшнл(ли) не моё. Лучшая песня - Next.

not great, todd. how many impossibly horny men writing 70s blues rock albums do we honestly need on this list? at least the commenter saying this sounds like rocky horror b-sides was spot on. favorites: the faith healer? i guess? tbh this all sucks

Flipping between the completely forgettable and downright offense to the ears. There's really not a lot to like from this record - no particularly new or interesting instrumentation, no engaging lyrics, no songwriting to note. Maybe it's very of it's time, but this making a top 1001 albums seems like an April fools joke. Best Tracks: N/A Worst Tracks: - The Faith Healer - Giddy Up a Ding Dong Rating: 1/10

The best thing about this album, is knowing I'll never have to listen to it again.

a very long 35 minutes

Bruh like huh?? The vocals are fartin garbidge. Can't do it. Not goo. This might be worse than prince.

wtf

I just didn't care for his voice or the topic of the songs.

This album sucks. Like, suuuuuuuucks.

Glamrock kan altijd zo lekker omslaan in cringey meuk. NEXT

Leuk dat Nick Cave dit als inspiratie zag voor the Birthday Party. Ik vind er bijzonder weinig aan te beleven. Schiet echt alle kanten op. 4/10

Very disjointed for me.

Dramatic delivery

Hm so I really hate this. The lead vocal’s singing is essentially just screaming constantly which is quite annoying. The music itself is fine, good even, but the vocals and lyrics are so poor that it ruins the album. Fave Song: … Least Fave Song: Gang Bang Rating: 1/5

Best part of this album was the sound effects (like on the first portion of The Faith Healer). Everything else made me an active hater. Gang Bang had me inches away from Banging my head onto the table. Faith Healer made me wish my ears were un-healed. Most songs on this album should've stayed instrumentals; that would be something. But alas, I wanted to hit Next for nearly 36 minutes straight. What a chore. Least Fav: Swampsnake, Gang Bang, The Faith Healer, Giddy Up a Ding Dong, Next, Vambo Marble Eye, The Last Of The Teenage Idols Fav: N/A

Horrible sexist shite.

Ok, this album was put out the same year as Queen’s first album. I don’t know whose ideas got stolen, but Queen did it better. Nothing here caught my ear and made me really take notice. At least it’s a typical 70s album and it was only 35 minutes of time lost.

Generally I'm quite keen on things which claim to be "early punk" or groundbreaking, and I like almost all the music that comes out of Glasgow, but this didn't do it for me at all. I'll admit I didn't make it the whole way through, but once I'd struggled through seven and a bit minutes of the third track I was done. I also found his voice particularly annoying- shades of Rod Stewart.

Nope

Thanks, I hated it.

Not much to like about this album if i'm honest. The opening track "Swampsnake" is fast-paced and kinda catchy. Same can be said about the second track "Gang Bang", even if the subject theme is completely out of pocket. The beginning of track 3 is the point in the album where the musical composition slows right down and becomes quite boring and bland. "The Faith Healer" is an interesting song. I wouldn't say it's terrible, but it did feel bland and drawn out whilst also being pretty forgettable too. The rest of the album just sounds like Alex Harvey has descended into madness, as he screams his unhinged, schizophrenic thoughts into the microphone. This certainly isn't an album i'll be listening to again anytime soon. Probably ever.

This is the glam rock Dr John tribute act you never knew you needed, because you didn't. Somebody nuke the swamps of the Glasgow Cajun Quarter before this abomination breaches containment.

I hate this man. No idea when to end a song and thinks he’s funny when he is painfully unfunny and cringey. I was so excited that this one was only 35 mins but I felt every second. NEXT!

This would’ve been a great instrumental album but this guy just had to open his mouth

Nope.

Blech

Brought to mind the review of Intravenus Di Milo from Spinal Tap: “The musical growth rate of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry."

Fantastic album from start to finish.

It's just not for me.

Passou batido, nem lembrava que coloquei para tocar.

As my mom would say “this music has no redeeming values ” Or my friend Ray, “this some butt rock” Or my friend Chrisbee “Yecccchhhh 🤢” Straight trash.

Bonkers, some songs sound like musicals

I'll gladly stick two used tampons from two Vegas hookers in my ears and hope the subsequent infection renders me deaf, if it means I can avoid listening to anymore of this talentless 'sensation'.

So much cringe on this list!!!

No me gusta

Occasional good song, but had to skip some of these

I definitely could've died without hearing this.

One song in particular made me feel uncomfortable.. You can probably guess which one. I don't think this album is for me. Musicianship was cool, but nothing special in my opinion. There's nothing really that memorable about this album. Honestly sounds like something you'd hear at a diner on the jukebox. Next was a cool song. Very different then the rest of the tracks on this album. Sounds like it could be part of a musical. I don't think this album is something I'll think about ever again. To be honest, I'm glad it was short. Really just, not enjoyable for me. 1/5

Very, very strange

This was awful. Sensational my ass.

Well that was a terrible album, some of these I really question if they stay true to the topic of 1001 albums you ‘need’ to see before you die.

Pretty bad

"Next" is super weird, and "Gang bang" is just them singing those words over and over again - I did not enjoy this album.

Disliked just about everything about this.

This fucking sucks. Yeah, I said it. Not that anyone cares since I don't think anyone even gives a shit about this album in the first place. Why is this even on the list? Well apparently, this guy was a big inspiration on Nick Cave, a musician that Robert Dimery seems to have a gigantic boner for since he has 6 ALBUMS on the list. If any of those 6 albums is anything like this, I might just quit the project entirely. I don't know if I can handle 6 more albums like this. I'll start with the one decent thing about this album. The instrumental sound is not bad. I don't particularly care for it, but I can respect it for what it is. However, everything else about this album is so bad that that barely even matters at all. The singing? Atrocious. Absolutely horrendous. It's Pere Ubu levels of bad. And I literally said that the vocals in Dub Housing were the worst I had ever heard! And somehow the writing is even worse! It's awful! "Gang Bang" has some of the worst writing I've ever heard in a song before. But all of this begs the question... the ultimate question to determine if this is among the worst of the worst. Am I upset that I listened to this album? Well, despite the admittedly okay instrumental aspects of this album, my answer to that question would have to be a resounding YES. 1/5. The only sensation that Alex Harvey makes me feel is pain.

No thank you. Go away and never come back. You are not welcome here.

Какая-то хренатень

Weirdest album ever. Will not listen again. Did not enjoy.

This was abysmally bad.

I found this pretty repugnant. Lowest common denominator, puerile and lacking in any kind of heart. Gang bang sounds like it was written by a 14 year old boy in the first flush of teenage hormones and is the shallowest point of this very shallow puddle