Reviews (page 8 of 8)
Das Ding hat mich nicht nur nicht gekriegt, es hat mich sehr genervt. Klang für mich wie Talking Heads aber weniger gut und die haben mich ja auch schon nicht gekriegt. Naja der Lauf der letzten Tage war auch zu gut
nothing
I thought I liked it at first, then I realised I didn't.
This "list" goes downhill a little everyday huh?
I was willing to give this 2 stars, figuring that there was some good reason why it was a thing back in 1990. Even after Bob's Yer Uncle which is a truly horrible song, I was willing to give the album a full and fair listen. But after that it was yet another song with a single unchanging drum pattern for 5 fucking minutes and it really pissed me off. The hi hat just started feeling like an ice pick in my ears and I was done. One star. Playlisted: Loose Fit, Grandbag's Funeral, Kinky Afro.
I was surprised to see how beloved this album is in some quarters. I wasn't familiar with it at all. Alas, it was... what's the word I'm searching for... annoying. It was kind of annoying.
Back to back dog shit 🥵
Sounds like a club DJ and an Oasis cover band were both hired to play the same wedding by mistake, but instead of sending one away, they forced them to play together on the same stage at the same time. Atrocious. Also, what the fuck is with “Bob’s Yer Uncle”? That is a blatant sex crime and I someone needs to be arrested for recording that.
En kuunnellut kun alku oli niin huono. 1,25/5.
Not quite
They must have been a very charismatic live band. They were one of the main underground bands of their time. Can’t be because of the music. Especially the singing is really bad. I don’t like anything about this record.
Oh HELL no. This is suffering. Atonal, says nothing, no aesthetic, not heavy, not light, no real plotline or narrative, this is like blur but without any charisma. Deeply uncool music. It's not even small guys or a home made aesthetic. There are literal bedroom USB stick albums better than this.
I always saw people with shirts for this band. Or maybe hats? But never heard them. I can’t even remember seeing their records at record stores. “Kinky Afro” is doing nothing for me. But I remember everyone in happy Mondays gear always looking sad. And this song tracks with that. 🤣😂 Second track is better. I like the groove. And I wonder if the lo fidelity all stars took inspiration from this track. It sounds like whatever their hit was (battle flag). “Donovan” reminds me of a PIL song, right down to Johnny Rotten vocals. I’m on the 4th track now. So far this album is not for me.
Can someone explain this band to me ? Because I truly don’t get it. I don’t understand what they’re trying to do, and I don’t understand what people see in them. It just feels so completely amateurish to me, it was painful to listen. The music is abysmal, and the singing feels like nails on a chalkboard (seriously, the singer sounds like the local tavern drunk was allowed on stage for a live karaoke session). I tried listening as background music, but even then it was exhausting. Sorry, I just can’t.
Profoundly boring and inspiring. The opening song is remotely interesting, it goes downhill fast after that. It sounds like something Rick created, Neil is into and Vyvyan rightly trashes. 90s music in all the wrong ways.
I can’t put my finger on why, but i found this album to be extremely irritating
I know, I know that curating any list of albums that are the best, most significant, or popular is always going to be an impossible task. But seriously, THIS album? How can its inclusion be justified? It's not that popular, or good, or influential, is it? The band has a separate maraca player, for God's sake. This is perhaps the most glaring example of the curators' Britpop-philia so far. And to top it off, I didn't enjoy this at all. Flat, tuneless, lyrics that are nearly meaningless.
Not a very interesting one, weird lyrics, but the backing vocals were nice. 3/10
Was it a joke?
Hvítir strákar að syngja um "kinky afro"... hmmmm soldið spes Það minnir mig smá á "you've been kris jennered" lagið "yippy yippy yaya dada" Næsta lag er reyndar frekar woke þannig ég er smá confused Það er bara verið að moana á fullu í Bob's yer Uncle Þetta er í heildina ekki beint mitt vibe. Ekki eitt lag sem fær að fara á playlista.
1 Stern
Did nothing for me.
DNF
This is kinda boring ngl.
I had never heard of this band, and I just found out that Manchester, in 1990, could give birth to a group that sounds like it’s from 1985. I understand that they make sense because it vaguely contributed to the early days of the local electronic scene.Their most prominent member is a dancer/maracas player who can neither dance nor play the maracas. This album is supposed to be the peak of their short career.
Which bellend thought this belonged on this list? Slog to get through, nothing of value here.
Similar to other 80’s/90’s music in this genre, it’s just crap.
This fucking album is as meh as possible. The Truly meaning of ridiculous. I'm so angry with this fuck that i don't have too much to say. And to the traditional families that probably are reading my review i apologize for the bad words but i need to put my anger somewhere. I hate mondays in general and now i hate Happy Mondays.
Very boring no real highlights
the english need to be stopped
Not for me. The mix of British 80s into proto-90s does not age well.
If you made it past Bob's Yer Uncle, you're a stronger person than me. Jesus Christ that was insufferable.
I didn’t even finish it. Vocals are horrible
Yep, this garbage will give you a bellyache. But no thrills.
Different
The only good part of the album is when they rip off Lady Marmalade for one line.
Highlights: Kinky Afro, Denis and Lois -Truly funky -Lacks the energy it needs at times -I find the vocals really lacking -What the actual fuck is Bob's Yer Uncle. I haven't felt more uncomfortable listening to a song in my entire life -Doesn't really have that much to make it interesting so it gets boring a lot of times -The lyrics are mostly shit -Overall boring and uninteresting album, wouldn't listen to it again Rating: 3/10
Nothing special, just more Britpop that I have come to expect from this list.
Just totally glazed over listening to this one - nothing here I even remotely enjoyed
Fuck britpop and whatever this is, too. 1.3
not really my thing.
Couldn't make it through. Some tracks were mildly interesting, but many were just grating.
Niet mijn ding
No me gustó
Nooo I can make it Just one month Please have mercy 1
Nicht meine Richtung
ummm wtf
Not a fan. Bland garbage that didn’t feel different or new for being from 1990
Really didn’t enjoy any of this
Just noise to me. 1/5
cool concepts. flop album.
Just didn't like this album. It sounded like worse versions of bands I like and don't like. 1/5
Soort van post 80 vibe. Word er helemaal gestoord van.
Trippy, Brit-hippie nonsense. I like some of the Martin Hannett-associated stuff, but this ain't one of them. Sounds like the Spin Doctors fucked Blind Melon and the offspring were raised on a diet of cheap ecstasy and dirt weed in Manchester.
This was terrible
OK so the album opens w/ a song called "Kinky Afro" and then you look up at the player & there's an actual music video for it, in which you see.... a bunch of awkward white guys bopping along as they play to a bunch of expressionless white women awkwardly swaying back & forth. The rest of the album was a mix of horribly annoying & constantly-sliding-off-tune half-spoken half-sung wails, and just plain generic. Maybe this album has some special meaning to Brits for some reason, but I won't be listening to them again.
I don't get it. Is this a joke or too much a product of its time?
back when people were looking forward to what future holds with stupid optimism "whohooo, let's ride, ride on, ride on!" absolute nightmare to listen to awful voice the epitomy of "repeat the same notes enough times, they could start sound somewhat pleasant" how did this make it on the list is beyond me, I can find 10000 albums more interesting, pleasant and important. or was it somehow so influential that it absolutely needs to be heard?
Is this what sublime would have sounded like if Bradley Nowell had stayed clean?
Wasn’t really my jam.
Unfortunately, this feels like it’s right in between two genres that I don’t really enjoy. I feel the 90s Manchester punk rock club scene creeping in, which to me just feels dirty and sticky and it’s something that I can’t identify with. I also feel the distant drum machines of the late 80s new wave, and I just don’t enjoy it. It just feels grimy to me, like a hangover where I wake up with a bad taste in my mouth. Numbly violent. And I feel like the people that it bred are people that I don’t actually connect with very much. So, I feel bad to hate an album that I’m sure means a lot to a lot of people. I mean, it certainly made me feel something. Just not the feeling I ever really want to have.
1/5 Best: Kinky Afro Worst: Loose Fit
the cover is more interesting than music
DNF
I don't like this music.
Why do I keep getting BritPop in here
Nope.
Don’t see anything redeemable about it. Boring as hell
No.
there’s nothing happy about mondays
Yeah, didn't love it. A little too poppy. A little boring.
God what an annoying album, I wholeheartedly prefer silence. No favorite track
Despite the cover art, this album is kind of boring and uninteresting to me. Guess you had to be there.
Langweilig und verzichtbar.
Could’ve gone without this one also. 90’s movie soundtrack vibes. I do not like 90’s music. Why does this website suggest that I do?
No es mi estilo
not enjoyable
Even their big hit, "Step On" was ranking a solid 2 for me, at most. It felt muddy, like the songs had no clear direction.
Kind of hit and miss for me 3
Could not determine as half the tunes were blocked out on spotify.