Reviews (page 13 of 13)
Fav Song: Last of the Steam-Powered Trains
the album was good quality, just not sure why this particular kinks album. It was long.
This was pretty rough to get through. A very, very discount Beatles IMO. Sucked.
Perhaps it's just not the day for me to listen to the same old same old shit cuz this also a 2 lol... just standard stuff idk what to tell u
60s innit
Not really my sort of music but it did generate some foot tapping. I'm becoming to appreciate that my enjoyment of music is influenced by my mood. It is Friday today. So close to a 3 but I will probably never choose to listen to this again. Rating 2.8/5
Meh
Ei kyl hirveesti tämä Kinksin levy puhutellu, parempaakin heiltä kuullu
1968: Picture Book, Do You Remember Walter?
This album could be an advert highlighting the dangers of LSD. Just total, nonsensical guff.
None of this sounds consequential Ah wait the 2nd side is just hair raising, holy crap there's a lot of bad stuff here, this is best left forgotten
No me pareció nada relevante, es prácticamente lo mismo de lo que he escuchado de ellos anteriormente
The dissapointment of white cis men music can go throught all the genres.
Felt very boring and just repetitive the album just felt difficult to listen too they sing in the same mundane voice every single song and the instruments additionally sound exactly the same.
Every song sounds almost the same, and the album as a whole is pretty boring. Definitely of its time.
Captures several of the things I hate all at one: nostalgia, the sixties sound, parochial anti modernism.
This is the same band that wrote "You Really Got Me" ? I'll pass, thanks. Too cute for me - I'm not really interested in full album's worth of nostalgia for an English village.
No thanks, this sounds like the a bad Beatles tribute band. Much rather hear, "You Really Got Me" or "Come Dancing" really almost any other Kinks music than this.
Jag giller verkligen The Kinks jättemycket, men 3-4 år tidigare "All of the day...", “You really got me“, "Dedicated follower of fashion" och den prylen, då är man minst lika bra som The Beatles. Men det här? Här har man ju gått vilse och blivit totalt orelevanta. Ray Davies är i grunden en utmärkt låtskrivare men det märks inte alls här. Ett par år senare kom"Lola" och den grejen, då hade han hittat rätt igen. Så psykadelia åren är nån slags passus som aldrig klädde The Kinks alls, det är ofattbart att den är med här.
Tyvärr! Det ger mig ingenting. Rakt igen dåligt försök till något som ska likna popmusik. Musikalisk undermåligt. Textmässigt är det inte bättre. Ibland kan man tro att är ett barn (medelmåttiga sådant) som skrivit. Låtar som Phenomenal cat är som Lidbom skulle sagt ”Trams!”. Dessutom uselt trams.
favs: last of the steam powered trains sitting by the riverside rating 0.5/5
Reconozco que es un buen álbum, pero a mi no me gustó, no lo escucharía. Me gustan temas de The Kinks, pero este álbum no es mi estilo.
Not good. I really dont like thr kinks
After hearing the first few seconds, I already felt like I wouldn't be the biggest fan. Boring melodies and instrumentals, feels like if the Beatles never evolved from their first album. Had to fight not to fall asleep most of the time and could not wait for it to be over. I'm sorry, but this has no right being close to the top 1000 albums of all time.
Not my vibe
i really liked lyrics but not the music itself they sound like the beatles and bob dylan collaborated
По вайбу якась сільська дискотека. Абсолютно не моє
Little country not for me
Meh
Kinda kinky 😛😛😛 most of the songs for me sounded pretty damn similar idk
Ay no que horrible esto.
Interessante
Very dates sound - not a favorite
dnf
This might be the worst album we have encountered in our journey, hidden beneath the umbrella of a ‘concept’ and the melodic hooks of 1960s pop. “Oh, how innovative,” say the critics. But, this is really just a banal collection of utterly forgettable songs. How the hell did this come out in the same month as Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland?
Ok
2/10 - too hippy for me, I think this style of music is just not for me
I did not like this at all
Not for me.
Going in blind, I don't know any songs from this. Title track really good. And then gradually I started hating it more and more. Considered a point for the influence on blur, but I just dislike everything about it from track 2 till the end. The sound, the singing voice, the drumming, the songs, everything.
beatles copy cat that was extremely annoying and grating on the ears
meh
Oh my gosh, this is just so boring...
Woof, I love a handful of The Kinks songs, but this album didn't contain any of them. Difficult to get through.
Not my jam, pretty boring. It feels dated, as one would expect. 1/5 stars.
Dogshit Britslop. I’m allowed to say this, I’m English
The kind of music I can't stand. I can see where it would be important as a precursor for future rock bands or a touch-point for music at the time, especially as it relates to the UK and their lasting influence on the genre. However, this was tough to get through and I will not pick it up again.
Not a fan - if I wanted to listen to The Beatles, I would just listen to The Beatles. (03.25)
Not into it, kinda corny and too wacky for me
Boring with all the songs sounding the same.
Why is your name done if you are not done mate
1. village - 1 2. uualter - 1 3. book - 1.5 4. thunder - 1.5 5. zteam - 1 6. zky - 1 7. riverzide - 1 8. farm - 1 9. village - 1.5 10. ztruck - 1 11. cat - 1.5 12. friendz - 1 13. uuicked - 1 14. monica - 1 15. picturez - 0
Not for me. Sounded beatle-ish
Beatles but poopoo and terrible
1, немоа ги слушам колко са посредствени
I remember nothing after listening
Rhythm and blues good. Fairground novelty bad. Beatles did it better. Vocals are monotone.
Not for me. 1/5
I’ve never been a fan of the Kinks, and listening to this album has only served to reinforce those feelings for me. If I wanted to listen to the Beatles then I would. This feels like a very insincere attempt to capitalize on the insane popularity of the Beatles during this time period. It’s almost identical musically, just without the magical songwriting duo of Lennon-McCartney. I’m not surprised that this album was initially considered a flop, but I have absolutely no idea how it ended up being popular. 1*. No bueno.
I am really tired of being force-fed cutesy, tepid, unremarkable 60s British trollop. Musically, it’s like a bad imitation of Beatles records released 5 years prior, and lyrically it comes off as a hokey caricature of some pastoral English fantasy. It’s kind of like the bro-country of its time and place: lyrics that harken some made-up version of rural life over boring, uninspired tracks. Ranges from deeply unmoving to actively irritating. 3/10
Awful
Whoever is ‘the poor man’s Beatles’, the Kinks are the poor man’s version of that. Insipid rubbish, don’t know how they’re possibly popular. Even their best song (don’t need to name it) is sort of shit? Imagine making this at the same time that the Beatles and Beach Boys were releasing those records…. Embarrassing.
Not good
Blandly unexceptional 60s rock. Should have been the album with Lola on it instead the second half of this album really sucks except for wicked anabella
I’m getting bored just writing this review
3/10 very repetitive in all the wrong ways
Feel like they’re singing about nothing important or significant. I’d rather listen to the Beatles.
most of these songs feel like children’s music. fave: johnny thunder, people take pictures of each other least: annabella <~ why was it so scary “people take pictures of each other just to prove they existed”
Not music
Twee bollocks
Did not like it. It was putting me to sleep.
nah
Not impressed this time around either
Couldn't get into it. Sounded like Spinal Tap's Flower People
Meh. Definitely older and not really my style. The link is to the deluxe version of the album, which is 2hrs 40mins instead of the standard album which is 40 mins. Overall a cool vibe, but not my style at all.
No, not for me at all!
Hated it
Too much Beatles-style.
Far too 60’s for me. Not a sound/vibe a like. Three tracks is enough.
kamala albumi. kauhea. halloween oli viikko sitten, tarvi pelotella enää tälläsellä KURALÄISKÄLE 60-LUKU POPPEILUA... Kink? Was soll daran Kinky sein? beatles maininta tähän väliin (1/116). album is over... The time is gone, the album is over, thought I'd something more to say... incredible... picture book
Saai hippie gezeik
Boring old hippy music
The late 60's period where the main British pop songwriters started turning their minds to more "serious" work is a whole genre unto itself. I love those early seventies films That'll Be The Day and Stardust, with David Essex playing prototypical British 60's popstar who then becomes a bit of a legend in his own lunchtime and gets all conceptual etc. Sports fans if you've not seen those films they are well worth checking out. I don't think it is any coincidence that Pete's going down the Pinball Wizard/Quadrophenia path and Ray pops out Village. Serious artists they are by gum. Now in Pete's case I lurrvve Quadro, and as big a Ray (and Dave) fan as I am Village just doesn't cut it for me. I was told to listen to back in the day, in one of those Pet Sounds moments we've all had, but despite repeated listens it just doesn't do it for me. The master melody maker spent a little too much time on the concepts and forgot about the melodies, now that I think about it I don't think he ever really got the magic back, bar a couple of super moments later. The problem dear brethren is that it is just straight out boring. I saw Ray at the Enmore about 10 years ago, great show, not a whole lot of Village in the set let me tell you..
60’s English rock. Similar in style to the stuff the Beatles were doing a couple years earlier but not good. It lost me at the “fum diddle dee” part of phenomenal Cat. 1-2?
I hate this. Sitting by the riverside is like a nightmare circus. Phenomenal cat and all my friends are some of the worst things I’ve ever heard. How can someone make a song like that. Steam powered trains sounds like a rip off of smokestack lightning. I hate when these square British bands play blues, it’s so cringe.
Super duper not into this.
Certainly better than their Arthur album but still pretty bland. Starts off ok but descends into bland 60’s twee shite nearer the end
Audible AIDS. It's like they decided to create a whole album based on the naff shite the Beatles did and forgot about the rest
Why?!
Wouldn’t listen again: a poor man’s version of The Beatles!
Ehh
shit album fr. this some redneck ohio alabama long island shit
Completely Naff
60s whiny hippy garbage
Слишком тяжело слушать
60's generic Brit Pop ......
Boring. All sounds the same. Weird songs, not accessible.
I found it kind of silly and weird. Not for me.
Just hasn't aged well at all I assume, too many songs that are just nothing or even almost annoying now. Two good songs on it are within the first three listed, which means you have 12 really quite bad songs left to listen to.
Not my cup of tea at all
Mega einflussreiche Songs auf alles von den 90ern bis Mac Demarco. Aber das ganze Werk nur historisch zu betrachten, steht quer zum instinktiven Hörgenuss, der sich hier fast nie einstellt. Hörmüde 1.4
Kink? Was soll daran Kinky sein? Schlechter hippy schmutzt, bah. Sind das die Beatles in b e h i n d e r t?
Meh. Hot Fuzz took the first track, the rest of the album sounds too much like the beatles
Wannabe Beatles. Starts off way too country. Wack. 1/5
Couldn't make it through the whole album.
This is the biggest Beatles wanna-be album I've ever heard. I hate it
Очень похоже на битласиков, но битласики лучше. Для расслабончика 7/10
Like if a Wes Anderson movie was set in high school