Reviews (page 8 of 8)
Terrible singer with mediocre music behind it. It's bad so just save your time and listen to something else.
Never heard of this band... The album is a no from both of us
Actually hating this one. Like sandpaper for the ears.
Too loud. I'm old.
uhhh that was... something
no
fun cover art but didn’t like
no.
This is fast becoming the 1,001 albums to avoid.
70’/
This album was not for me. It was general punk pop but not very interesting or engaging at all. Great album cover though!
The entire album was noise. Just dreadful.
not for me
What
the only good part how cute she sounded as she said "warrior warrior warry-warrior"
I guess I just don't like punk. That sax really made me wanna stop listening
Didn’t even finish. I get it
Yeesh. "Grating" is probably a good summary
Bad, really hard to get through this one
i've never been the biggest punk fan myself, i like some ramones/sex pistols on the radio from time to time but there's always been a sentiment of "no you don't get it, punk is supposed to be annoying to listen to.", i don't like being annoyed. at least they had the decency to keep it short. (shoutout to the sax tho, ya love to see it)
Okropny głos. Nie mogę tego słuchać tbh
These are some of the most irritating vocals I've ever heard. Too many (sometimes one-note) melodies being unpleasantly shouted at me. I made it through, but it was hard to listen to.
What the fuck is this mastering. I'm only on the first track and it's unbearable. The female vocalist's voice is simultaneously muddy, without detail, and piercing. When the other instruments kicked in, her voice still sounded far too loud while every other element was significantly louder. This track sounds like a pre-set rhythm on a knockoff Yamaha stapled to a dying cat. It's like Poly Styrene has zero control over the volume of her voice and it's constantly maxed out, so they just turn it down during editing.
Lmao what? Nah.
I'm bored of punk now DNL
Not my style of music, the singing sounds like screaming at some points Some of the lyrics are also slightly questionable: "I dreamt of being hitler" for example I probably didnt catch the full context, but out of context that is not the greatest look
Absolute shite from start to finish.
Now you're pushing it.
You know how British artists can sing and not even sound British. This is one of those times where that never happens. The singer may be one of the worst I’ve heard on this list. The only redeeming part of this album is the saxophone. The jazz punk sax was pretty cool but not redeeming enough for the rest of the bad album. 2.5/10
La música no esta mal, pero la voz es repugnante.
Not really a fab of punk so this album was going to be a bit of a stretch for me to listen to
Never heard of this band before. Wish I hadn't.
I can see how this was progressive at the time and an influence on the future, but not for me.
I thought this was punk. This is new wave. I love punk. Aside from Talking Heads, I can't stand new wave.
Highly disliked, awful noise
Amateurlärm
DNF
Garbage
It's very erratic but that's obviously the theme they are going for unfortunately most of the tracks on Spotify are blocked for me so I can't give a decent review.
this shit sucks
no
Just awful
This was just noise, and I did not enjoy it.
Purposefully jarring singing is not good.
No.
One of those punk bands with an annoying lead singer voice
I just couldn't with this one. I thought the horns might save this but no.
bad
It was okay. I never got into them.
About as bad as the human mind can imagine.
Kass
Apologies fellas, i am late to the game but alas i am still here to review. I hate it already. Good god i’m 30 seconds in and i hate it. Lets see if that changes… Well it was the 70’s, so the vocal style makes sense, it just doesn’t sound good. The instrumentals are good, no problem with the backing track. Its just those awful vocals. The saving grace really the saxophone and thats about it. Each song sounds to the same i hate it so much. Just like kid rock, i could not finish this album. Apologies, fellas, i tried my best.
Ikke lige min kop te. Meget uforløsende punk med rigtig skrabet blæs. Bliver kedeligt i længden.
This was not good.
I was not impressed with this punk album until hearing “Plastic Bag.” “It’s 1977 and we’re all going mad!” and the Black Sabbath slow guitar and single sax make it strange and likeable. The recording quality, like most punk of the era, sounds like $%\+.
Really don't like this sound
Awful vocals
What I remembered of X-ray Specs was a lot of noise and very little music. It turns out that my memory was reasonably good. The version of the album that I listened to only has 15 of the 37 tracks available (Spotify in Brazil) which means that I have not had the dubious pleasure of listening to either the live versions on disc 2 or the rough mixes etc at the end of disc 1. I am sure that I haven't missed much. One or two tracks on a compliation of punk would be OK, but 15 tracks in a row is about thirteen too many. ( I dread to think what 37 would have been like)
Wow, that's so bad, it's like a constant whining My mother begged me to stop this torture, but I endured until the end.. it was painful
The music is good but that has to be the single most unpleasant ear-shattering vocalist I have ever heard.
no me importó en lo absoluto en una palabra: meh
Nope. Voice is the main put off.
Wow my ears were already super fatigued of listening to that voice after 2 songs. And then I had to listen to the rest of the album. Actual pain, not just dislike. Had to listen at lowest possible volume. Even HER voice sounds fatigued the whole time. It sounds like the b52s tried to make a punk album. Best lyric was “I’ve dreamt that I was hitler, ruler of the sea, ruler of the universe.”
For the love of God, DICTION!!!!!
The singer's voice is unbearable, and the band takes liberties with the instruments, including a saxophone, which doesn't fit the feel of the songs at all. The singer feels like she can only hit 3 notes and seems to find a frequency which could break eardrums if played too loud.
I can hear how this never made it. Cover redeems it. Cover art 5/5
Found a shitty YouTube upload of the album. Cool use of the saxophone, but I’m not digging the punk sound overall.
most of the album missing on spotify. Like the melody and beat but the vocals aren't great imo
Objectively bad music. Kind of felt like I had Stockholm syndrome when the title track came on. I asked myself, “is this good? Or was everything else before it so bad that I now think this is good?” It wasn’t good. Not sure I needed to listen to this one, but it’s still better than that John Zorn album.
Rownowaga we wszystkim, wczoraj peakowy album, to dzisiaj zwiedzamy otchlanie brytyjskiego punka, Germ Free Adolescents to debiutancki album 5 osobowej bandy X-Ray Spex, wedlug wiki jeden z najmocniejszych punkowych materialow z wysp, a jak dla mnie jeden z najbardziej pretensjonalnych i niepowaznych materialow jakie mialem okazje przesluchac w ramach tej listy, dziwnym trafem frontowym menem jest baba, mianowicie Poly Styrene, ktora na materiale jest odpowiedzialna za teksty i "wokale" czyli najbrutalniejsza strone plyty, bo o ile granie ani mnie grzeje, ani nie chlodzi, a jedynym zaskoczeniem jest mocne wykorzystanie saksy, tak niezbyt punkowo, a raczej skowo, ale to co pani poly przygotowala lirycznie potezna dawke punkowych oczywistosci doprawionych mocnym feministycznym stylem bycia, no ale to jeszcze nie jest najgorsza strona plyty, najwiekszym problemem podczas odsluchu byl dla mnie wokal, wiadomo ze wyspiarskie klimaty, to poziom hard zrozumienia, ale tutaj niektore traki brzmia jak giberisz, dopiero po odpaleniu tekstu da sie cos zrozumiec, moze to ze wzgledu na multikulturowe korzenie wokalistki, mlody wiek rozpoczecia dawania po kablach w hipisowskich sklotach, dopiero teraz zguglowalem sobie pania wokalistke i okazalo sie, ze podczas nagrywania tego materialu miala na zebach potezny aparat, ktory nie tylko robil ja o wiele bardziej feministycznym baboem, ale takze w tak prosty sposob byl wymowka tak okropnych zdolnosci wokalnych, cale szczescie tym razem nie musze wybierac co dodac na plejke, bo dyskografia bandy nie istnieje na spotifaju, poza livowym albumiki z 2k09, wiec material zszabrowany z soulseeka, ale rownie dobrze moglbym posluchac tego na jutubie, jakosc wokalu i tak pewnie by duzo nie stracila, takze od strony technicznej sluchac biede i brak doswiadczenia ze strony producenkiej, takze jeden z pierwszych materialow pana na produkcji, ktory zostal producentem kolejnych albumow zespolu, dawno nie wymeczyl mnie tak bardzo 35 minutowy krazek
In een woord, verschrikkelijk!
We hebben een K, we hebben een U, we hebben een T, what's that spell? KUT muziek!
Hatte nie viel übrig für den rotzig/bratzigen riot übrig. Anfangsworte des ipeners unterschreibe ich sofort, aber musikalisch werde ich nix warm. 1.4
NO.
Solo vayamos con el siguiente por favor
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Soooooo. That was so fucking annoying lol. Lead singer has a gift for contorting her voice in the most mind rotting pose possible for each note. God that was just... annoying. In your face for no reason. Plastic Bag was an... experience. Though I appreciate what she was going for ok that song hearing "I dreamt that I was Hitler. Ruler of the seas"... let's just say I was not ready for that on this fine Saturday morning. But yeah, paper bag and warrior in Woolworths are the only song that stuck out to me. Just not my cup of tea.
Pants. Not nice comfy ones either, I mean pants so tight and ill fitting that they ride right up inside you and give you a nasty rash. And they're made of thistles.
Too shouty, not for me
Load of rubbish
Crap
I was not a fan of this album at all. I thought the "singing" was terrible, and it felt like it was off-beat or each member of the band was doing their own thing. It wasn't all bad but it was not good either.
Too much reeing noise. You may as well start screeching.
asd
First track started promising and just sounded the same
Definitely not a fan...
Chore to get through.
Not too bad, debbie horris like