Reviews (page 8 of 8)
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
// Favs: Oh Bondage! Up Yours! Score: Strong 1
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