Fuzzy

I barely like anything coming from Los Angeles, California.

Somebody's bargain bin find that they justify as a hidden gem just because it's slightly better than most bargain bin finds.

i think this is an attempt at y’allternative but it really just wasn’t hitting today tbh

Don’t know why this album is on this list nor what the band was thinking when they approved half-assed lyrics that start promising then reveal themselves to be the work of a smooth brain. I liked the sound of the music though

Mediocracy!

That R.E.M. guy needs better taste in music

I don’t really know if I like this or not. I wanted to skip track 2 constantly because I felt it was a bad version of Moonage Daydream. But other songs on here are quite okay. It’s like a psychedelic folk/country universe

Kind of a cool combination of acoustic and electric guitar sounds for a bit of jangle and a dose of fuzz. Has more of a country folk feel to it than a lot of other 90s alt rock, without going full alt-country. Definitely has the gen x angsty melancholic overwrought emotional range nailed down, an album made for Ethan Hawke to make annoying faces over. Favorites: Grace, Fuzzy

It was just all a bit nondescript. Not terrible but not that interesting either

Bit fuzzy on this one

Reminds me of The Waterboys

Imagine if Father John Misty came out in 1993 instead of the 21st century. That is exactly what this sounds like. Its not bad, but it gets to a point where every song starts sounding the same.

not for me

Boring music. Boring vocals. Definitely had some promise at spots, but it felt like it constantly let me down.

What to make of the singer-songwriter in the 1990s and beyond? Even if it was a solo project, the 90s and 00s largely maintained the fiction that a band was the equal sum of its parts, every group an REM or Pearl Jam. GLB has everything in place for this to work except the songs. Wonderfully expressive and distinct singing by G-LP, at times reminiscent of Jeff Buckley, but the result is something fixed in its era and as I’d half-expected them to show up at the Bronze or Stars Hollow, sure enough, G-LP was one of the Gilmore Girls troubadours. It’s fine but returns us to the ongoing question of who put this on the list and why. Grunge music really did not win over UK audiences, so much so resistance to it was part of the NME/MM push for a uniquely British 90s rock answer to the glum and angsty Americans, yielding a half decade’s worth of chart-topping britpop. But GLB broke through with some English audiences, becoming a favourite of an aforementioned britpopper, influencing the Oasis single Some Might Say.

dull as dishwater

Replacement level rock album

It’s fine, often verging on good. But did I need to hear this before I died? No, I don’t think I did. A two.

Not as awful as THE XX (what is really?) but still not great. I liked a couple songs (The Shining Hour and Grace- a song that sounded a bit like The Dream Syndicate) a bit and nothing on the album made me wish I was deaf like THE XX did, but I heard nothing that would ever make me want to play this album again. Two stars for not outright sucking like THE XX. CONS: As mediocre as it gets. PROS: They are not THE XX.

I was sorely disappointed with this one. None of it was bad but overall it felt like bland alt rock most of the time, and I can't believe I'm saying this as someone who used to hate country, but I just didn't get enough of that country charm from this record

Not very memorable.

Pretty forgettable. Not sure what I was meant to find here. Not awful.

Giving a weak Bowie vibe. Very 1990s bar band. Very of it's time. Takes me back to being in the back seat of someone's parent's minivan driving around suburbia. It's a fine example of rock music in a time. I probably won't think of it ever again. I probably won't remember it. If this is your thing, no harm, enjoy.

There were some good moments, but they were too few and far between. I'd love to tell you what they were, but my memory is a little...

This is almost 1 star bad.

not bad, but pretty forgettable. (2.5/5.0)

Not bad, but not super exciting. Wish You Well is a pretty good track. I'm not sure I'll go back to these, just not interesting enough.

A bit boring although I liked the gentle, americana approach to 90s rock.

Eh? It's fine. No clue why it's be on this list.

2 feels harsh but 3 feels generous idk, it was okay

didn't do a lot for me, clear to hear the influence on later REM records but the song-writing didn't pull me in

It's alright but not super motivated by it and not likely to go back to it

This was alright but nothing outstanding

2.5

Wasn't sure what this album was offering at first, it's some sort of alternative/grittier country sound. Fine enough, but it was already feeling repetitive about midway through. Just made me want to listen to regular 90's alt rock when it was all said and done.

- lief im Hintergrund und nichts hat es aus dem Hintergrund wirklich hervorgeholt - insgesamt aber entspannt und ganz gut hörbar 2,25/5

I remember these guys. I remember being a bit bored. It's very 1993 in the sense of not sure what it's trying to be - it sounds nice sonically, but I'm not feeling any bit of it. Bit of a Bowie knockoff on track 2, no? I don't particularly like Bowie. Fuzzy. Yes, I remember this song now. ... or do I? ehh...man I've already forgotten it all after finishing 10 minutes ago. Absolutely inoffensive and completely fine and utterly reverb-washed-boring. On some level it is weird criticizing something that's not "bad" but this is a great anti-example of everything I listen to music for. I felt nothing during this other than an impatience to finish to get to something more dramatic, more exciting, more dynamic, more passionate, more dangerous. More ANYTHING. 4/10 2 stars.

[5/10] Big shrug

Gay

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Ok album

I’ve been doing a thing where I let albums accrue and then skim. Maybe I miss some gems but albums like this really validate the theory that maybe 30% of the 1001 albums I HAVE to hear are actually worth a listen

Aggressively mediocre

this was so much nothing to me

Clean sounds and interesting songs. Some songs are much catchier than others though. Not catchier as in sing-a-long catchy. More along jamming along and wanting to listen to again catchy. I had a good time listening through the album but I don't think I will come back to it anytime soon.

wasn't the best but no means the worst

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I really disliked this. The overwrought singing style reminds me of some combination of Hunter, Jan from the Offices former assistant, and the kid on the stairs in Animal House who has his guitar destroyed by Bluto. The progressions and melodies aren't particularly interesting, the production sounds good. Wouldn't say this offended me - i could understand how someone may enjoy it. Despite all this, I'm not sure i can argue with Michael Stipe saying it was the best album of 1993... pretty rough year for music.

I admittedly have a pretty low threshold for being annoyed by vague protest songs, but "America Snoring" struck me as a particularly condescending and whiny addition to the genre. The rest of the album is so staunchly 90s it almost sounds like a parody. I hear a LOT of REM in them, little bit of the Pixies (if I'm being generous), maybe some Goo Goo Dolls (if I'm being cruel). The songs are very conventional and formulaic for that era, both in structure ('verse chorus verse chorus bridge, guitar solo that reiterates the vocal hook, chorus chorus';) and in the playing (standard drumming, bass that doubles the root note of whatever open-chord the rhthym guitar is strumming, inexplicably moody singing) The melodies and progressions all feel very basic - which is fine if the song is primarily a vehicle for interesting lyrics (a la leonard cohen, dylan), but I can't say that's the case here. In fact, this album is almost entirely devoid of unusual or interesting decisions. On top of that, I detect a note of preening self-seriousness in the vocal delivery, which is annoying. Does anyone remember the Sopranos episode where Adriana is trying to manage a shitty 90s pop rock band, and Heche tells her 'I just don't hear a hit' ? This band reminds me a lot of them fictional band. That said, some formulas are formulas because they work - Jupiter and Teardrop + Fuzzy both kinda rocked. But it's no surprise at all that, amid so much 90s nostalgia, this album has been lost to history.

Lead singer's voice sucks

First song was okay, kind of reminded me of Okkervil River but really nothing memorable on the rest of the album.

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Declamatory vocals reminiscent of The Waterboys, guitars and backing vocals drawing from Bowie's glam era with Ronson - ok, but nothing remarkable here at all

2.5

Fine enough but unremarkable and nothing I’ll come back to

Cool that the lead singer is the troubadour in Gilmore Girls, but I wasn’t feeling this album.

Eh, nothing stands out here. 2.75 but rounding down bc ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Never heard of this band or album before. It was ok, nothing outstanding, another one I don't understand why it's here. 2*

If David Bowie and T. Rex made me want to kill myself. 2

Underwhelming

Just okay. 4/10

Okay. Nothing special.

Pretty strange genre of country. Some of it was pretty good but was all around kind of cheesy. This is a high 2 because it was kind of boring, but not offensive to my ears at all

Very bland, soft rock, with bland singing. In some ways it's nice to have these unpopular choices on the list, it makes me think that the curator(s) of the list put them on out of personal love and passion for the album instead of because of their cultural significance. I didn't like this, though.

Eh, there's better music

Holy mid. Resident sleeper

It’s not bad, just didn’t stick out to me

generic and monotonous Favorite tracks: the shining hour, fuzzy

It wasn't only America snoring during this record... snoozfest... next

Not as bad as I thought it was be but still didn't really like it

I listened to it, and after it was done, I can tell you what the album sounds like, but can’t tell you anything about the individual songs. Nothing stood out to me.

Somehow manages to be all over the place and boring at the same time.

An inoffensive unremarkable album.

This feels like I was transported to a coffee shop in the early 90's and have to listen to a guy play grunge-folk for the entire place.

Bändin niimi ja levyn kansi lupaili merkittävsti pahempaa. Parista yrityksestä huolimatta ei tehnyt kummempaa vaikutusta.

This is not a good album. Generic singer/songwriter music that sounds exceptionally derivative of David Bowie (though a watered down version). 1.5/5 -> 2/5

Jeez… could they be any more formulaic and tedious? Yea, they sound a little like Neil Young, but that’s about it. Besides, that’s not really that much of a high water mark in musical genius…. Vapid shite made for sorority girls who want to feel “edgy” but don’t know how

Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo. And by that I mean I don’t like this album very much

It’s a shame to waste that gorgeous voice on overly repetitive choruses and sometimes caterwauling cries. Good musicians put to waste, too.

Not for me

A mix of rock-folk and country-folk that is representative of what the early 90’s had to offer, which means it’s just not that good. Hipsters who think they are into politics and wax on about how “both sides are bad” probably love this album. (BTW, the “both sides are bad” are among the most politically ignorant among us)

🥱 not sure what this is doing that it deserves to be on this list?

From the Wikipedia article, I can see that this artist and album influenced many people that I like, but this is just another proof that sometimes it is better to stay away from (bad) influences.

Started strong, became very meh

I couldn’t get through this album. This used to be my wheelhouse, but I found this, honestly, lyrically, musically and spiritually, empty. I like to believe that I’m always looking forward and waiting for new things to amaze me - this helps me to see that I’ve moved on past vapid, navel gazing, Yawn Rock.

I had never heard of this album or guy before. He sounds so much like a Ryan Adams on some tracks (the shining hour, you just have to be crazy). I think I need more time for this album to grow on me- at some points I wanted to shut it off but there was something that prevented me from dismissing it completely. The fact that Michael Stipe called it the best album of 1993 means there is something there.

Did not love it. Some of the guitar was cool.

Can't say this really did anything for me.

Just not really my speed. Probably wouldn’t throw it on rotation again.

A whole lot of meh...

I liked the guitar some, but it's not good enough for this list. 2/5

Hmm, it’s okay. I listened to it while working and it didn’t really catch my attention.

Production is great, strong chords and arrangements, vocals not so much

Didn’t quite finish

After listening to this album twice, I still don’t remember a single song. If you don’t count the Sweet Home Alabama-riff, which I found annoying. Will not listen again

Correcto

Kinda forgettable

Boring.

I wonder if Grant Lee Buffalo has any relation to Tokyo Lee?

Eh, kinda interesting at the start but fairly forgettable afterwards.

Forgettable, even to unpack to. 2/4

It's ok, didn't grab me Will I listen to again: 1%

Sounds boring and uninspired. Monotonous vocals, same-y guitar sound all throughout.

Best Song: Jupiter and Teardrop. The electric guitars brought some much needed energy to this one. Worst Song: The Hook. Just an objectively worse song than the one by Blues Traveler that uses the same gimmick. Overall: Kind of generic, sleepy-sludgy alt-rock. I can't imagine that this was very revelatory when it came out, and it's even less so now.

I don't think the songs are very good and the vocals have too much "performance" in them. I bet this guy is really into John Lennon.

Ehhh

exceptionally white music

Not offensive but also not good

I did not care for this. The syncopation in the first song tricked me each time into thinking there was going to a shift in tone and energy and I left disappointed. I made it 6 tracks in before putting on Mom Trapz II, a far superior listening experience.

Not sure why this is here but it's fine outside of the context of this list I suppose.

Meh.

America Snoring because this is boring.

Never heard of the group, all the songs are new to me. I'm reasonably ok with the songwriting but don't enjoy the overall package. The voice is grating to me, the pace a bit too laid back, the overall feeling is more twangy than I enjoy unless you are going all the way there.

As the title suggests, this is a very hazy album with some good moments but okay and passable moments are few between. I hear david bowie, I hear Bruce Springsteen, I hear Elliot smith I hear R.E.M and yet none of it really feels like it is fully realized. The 90's had some really great records and I love being thrown onto new artist but this just wasn't as excitable as one would lead you to believe. The song the Hook uses the chorus to talk about the Hook kinda fun and engaging but American snoring is RATM inspired too but It is all so passable. I will not be revisiting, and I have a strong letter written to the creator of this book and list cause how much were you paid. By the last song I was glad it was ending even if the song itself was good. 4.5/10 but really a 4

Never heard of GLB back in the 90s, and now we know why. Not that good. The Hook is the best song, again not that good. America Yawning is more like it as this album in a snoozer (1.6*s)

A pretty good 90s album. I imagine if Michael Hutchence didn't die, INXS would have put out something liken this as they mellowed. Band sounds like they could have been featured on VH1 crossroads. Not leaving a major mark but holds it's own.

Wasn't expecting anything from a band called Grant Lee Buffalo. Was pleasantly surprised at what I got. It hit a very casual 90's sound that I'm surprised I hadn't been exposed to previously. It's not my favorite but was an easy listen. I guess all I can say about it is that it's fine but nothing special. I don't really have much to say about it in the wake of the listen. 2.39 stars

That time, when they are strum strum strumming along, and then they stop . . . and THEN start strumming soooo hard!

I didn’t necessarily hate it, but I wanted it to end by the fourth to last song, so that is not good. Obviously. Bye bye

90s alternative is probably my comfort food as far as music goes, and this definitely has the feel of the early 90s. Unfortunately, that’s really about all it has going for it. I just didn’t find any of it very interesting. Mostly it’s just there. I wouldn’t jump over a couch to shut it off, but I’m not going to intentionally listen to any of this again. Knowing that Michael Stipe loves this album actually knocks it down about half a star for me, too.

It’s ok….

I'm really not feeling this. I realize why I never listened to this when it was new. The first track gives a little hope, but my attention is quickly fleeting after that. I was glad when the album suddenly ended and I was graced with silence.

Nineties rock is so hit and miss…for me, this was the latter.

2.5 Got bored, wasn’t bad but won’t be coming back ever again. Lick my asshole Grant Lee Buffalo

lacks good songs

Silly

White bread

No thank you! There wasn't anything bad per say, and I'm glad other enjoy this because the artists sounded skilled, but I was quite excited when this album finally ended. It just wasn't for me.

This was ok, but overall sorta boring. I kept hearing things that reminded me of other bands, but nothing I could *quite* put my finger on. Overall, it was too slow. 2.49/5

Just boring.

Boring, bland, unoriginal. A bit waste of time, even the few songs I listened to.

Pretty standard alternative rock album from the 90's. Only one song I actually "liked". Dixie Drug Store was pretty good, but again, it sounds like a standard 90's alt rock group. Musicians sound talented, but this is a forgettable album.

Meh

I started out kinda liking it. Then I realized; this was the early nineties! I like some stuff from the late 90's-2000's that sounds like this! Must have been an influence! Then suddenly after a few tracks his singing started to remind me of Bono. Anyway, I hate music now.

Extremely generic rock. Choruses repeat way too many times in some songs. Idk how anyone would ever be in the mood to listen to this.

Decent, a pleasant listen but nothing that grabs you and won't let go. Stars 'n' Stripes threatens to be interesting; Dixie Drug Store is probably the highlight.

A solid example of 90's mainstream alt rock. I wouldn't ever want to listen again but I didn't dislike it completely

Fine. Not great.

Not what I expected but still unlikely to revisit

Not great Bob. Only barely made 2 stars.

Meh I couldn’t get into this one at all. Not for me.

Laughably bad

Meh

Meh.

This feels like a band they'd play in High Fidelity.

Maybe I'm not familiar enough with the genre, but this doesn't seem groundbreaking enough to really land towards the top of this sort of alt rock genre. Grant Lee-Phillips vocals are serviceable at best, and whiney at worst. The heavy focus on rhythmic guitar outstays its welcome, and overall the album drags as a result. Highlight: America Snoring

Boring

Prickly.

Dull, ponderous Alt Rock that Screaming Trees, Morphine etc did better.

Countryish, not super interested.

Kinda bland and uninspiring

2.5 This sounds like a hundred different 90s albums thrown into a blender and puréed into a CD.

Jupiter and Teardrop - tune! the rest less so

Ok.

Bandet har bra sound men inga bra låtar att spela. Oinspirerat tbh, inget man rycks med i

Go back to Stars Hollow, nerd

2.5

Each song reminded me of another, better song. Lots of derivative moments. Shining hour sounds pulled straight from The Waterboys Opening chord of Jupiter and Teardrop unashamedly borrowed from Moonage Daydream. And so on.

Eh

This is extremely 90s alternative in a way that I just don’t care too much about after 1018 albums

Okay............Who owed somebody a big enough favor to get this included on the list? Definitely not my jam.

Pff.. encore un album où je me demande bien l'intérêt. Rien de nul dans l'absolu, juste du rock tranquille très quelconque, bien pour un ronronnement en fond sonore mais guère plus

Pretty meh of an album at least on first listen. Found the first song or two good enough to bop my head to but fell off it quickly. Not the worst mind.

50/100

Not terrible, but also not compelling. Suffers in places from some of the early 90s production stalwarts (a nigh-suffocating amount of studio reverb, instruments mixed into the background beyond the point of notice). In general, it's pretty rare to get ear-catching tone choices from instruments in this era of music production; guitars sound anemic, the bass disappears and the drums are just ok). The best sound is late in the record on Dixie Drug Store and Grace, where the producer relents just a little on the overbearing reverb. All the same, the whole thing lacks texture. Grant Lee Phillips himself sounds like he's taken influences from Bob Dylan and Eddie Vedder -- two talents to be sure, but idiosyncratic in their vocal delivery to say the least. Lyrically, the effect is a bit indistinct at times and less emotive for it. The overall feel is more of the darkness and angst of Alice in Chains than Dylan or Pearl Jam. He's got talent (Phillips's range comes through a bit better with the closer, You Just Have to Be Crazy, but it's too late by that point). In all, nice to hear some truly alternative voices from the early 90s, but I'd rather listen to Sloan or Thrush Hermit. There's talent here, but not enough drive to compel further listens. With that said, I'll remain curious to hear more from this group, even if I'm not returning to Fuzzy for a full listen.

I didn’t hate this but the vibe for me was very “CD my parents bought on sale at barnes & noble in the mid-90s but never played and is still collecting dust in a corner of the cabinet.” 2.5 rounded down.

Hmm not sure what to say about this one. A good sound, almost like a calm 70s southern rock vibe, but coated in early 90s sounds? Nice, but not too captivating

Wordy, sometimes whiny, mostly acoustic alternative.

Mehh roleg ekkert spes

Va kje heilt for meg detta

This just made me kinda sleepy tbh

Mulla ei ole tästä mitään sanottavaa. Ihan hyvää kai? Tai siis yllättävän hyvää, odotin tästä pettymystä. Tämä oli perusrokimpaa kuin costellomainen musa, jota jostain syystä odotin. Mutta toisaalta ei yllättänyt niin paljoa postiivisesti, että kiinnostaisi.

Melodisuutensa vuoksi erotettavissa niistä, jotka eivät hyvällä tahdollakaan jäisi mieleen. Mutta miksi passiivisuus, hitaus? Tarvitsen jotain singlemyönteisempää.

eh, nothing special.

Troubadour! Chillin' with some Gilmore Girls! They plucked him from complete obscurity and gave him a humble space in Stars Hollow to occupy with his musical noodling and musings. It feels like a value bin CD from Walmart that I might have been able to get into in the 90's. But I'm too old now for this formulaic and manufactured "poignancy" to strike the desired chord with.

Þetta er ekkert sérstakt. Ekki alsæmt þó.

Totally bland. Why is it on this list?

mmm, not moving

I really don't see how this album is considered a must listen. Nor do I see how R.E.M's Michael Stipe called this the album of the year in 1993. Was music just bad in '93? Don't get me wrong, this isn't bad, but it's probably among the most generic sounding thing I've heard so far in this list of albums. I don't get it. I don't like it. Dixie Drug Store was interesting, at least. The rest had me like America, snoring.

A solid ‘meh’

I wavered constantly being hating this and kinda not minding it. It was a tormenting listen. None of the songs particularly interested me.

shame he couldnt decide on a genre it was alright but could have been better

The name GRANT LEE BUFFALO screams country, but the cover photo says it's not gonna be that cool. Ok no, it's not that cool. 90s alternative of some kind. And it's garbage. Nothing worth my time here. 2/5.

Doesn't appear to be as good as any of his obvious influences. Mediocre.

Didn’t know this artist before listening, can’t remember this artist after listening. Sorry buddy.

Kind of annoying to be honest

Tome was not my friend so I only half listened to this. What I heard wasn't working for me

According to the WIKIpedia article, 'R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe praised Fuzzy as "the best album of the year hands down".' It would appear Michael Stipe and I have wildly differed musical tastes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_in_music -- Decide for yourself.

2.5

Average

This was ok

cranboneeeee

This was alright, nothing wow but not bad

Apparently Grant Lee Buffalo is a band, rather than a man or indeed a buffalo (as per Peter Rabbit, Rupert Bear or Phileas D. Hedgehog). From this, they seem to have a penchant for 90s soft rock music that washes over you. It is a not unpleasant experience, but also not one that you are likely to recall 10 mins later. Rating: 2.5/5 Playlist track: Jupiter And Teardrop Date listened: 14/02/23

Meh

Kinda folksy and boring. Not for me.

First song sucks, not a great start - skip. Second song "Jupiter and Teardrop" is completely different and I like it. Fuzzy is next and it's really nice as well. Lots of nothing in the middle. America is Snoring, and so am I... Sounds like he's trying his best impression of Bono, and failing. Poor vocals, instrumentals and production. The worst part for me is the lyrics, no depth or emotion.

I know I listened to this but I barely remember doing so. Blah.

Beyond this list, this felt like a middle of the road album by a knock off of other better albums. I couldn’t place it but it just felt like I’d heard songs like this before and it made me wish for those. No way does this album need to be on here.

The fact that Stars Hollow had a town troubadour was just one of the many fun quirks of "Gilmore Girls," but the troubadour and his songs were ultimately quite forgettable. And just as forgettable as town troubadour Grant Lee Phillips was, his previous incarnation as 90s rocker Grant Lee Buffalo was just as forgettable.

Fine, nothing more, nothing less. Perfectly serviceable 90s rock, but nothing stands out to me on this, won't listen again, and it drags towards the end. 2/5, not unpleasant but nothing worth recommending.

Mildly pretentious, though as much as I found the protest song a little full of itself, I still think it had a catchy melody. The vocals alternated between annoying me and genuinely enjoying them. Very 90s. Don't think I'll be revisiting it. Favorite tracks: "You Just Have to Be Crazy", "The Shining Hour"

Another one that didn't make my earholes bleed, but it was not interesting nor was it inspiring for me. It just became a drone in the background. My ears did perk to Dixie Drug Store, but not enough to save this album for me.

Okee dokee. I listened to that. What's next?

Never heard of this artist before. The first song had some pretty interesting lyrics and I kind of liked the music. Throughout the album I didn’t always get all the myriad of references and wasn’t always sure I knew what the lyrics were about… at other times they seemed way too spot on tied quite specifically to the early 90s. Speaking of the early 90s, I think I might have liked this album better then. Today it sounded muddled and didn’t really compel me to want to listen again.

Nothing too exciting.

Saturday, porch fest? Book pizza, stuffed pepp, weird thoughts about friends and choice and time and partners, home, drinky, bikey, monumenty, a good talk good vibes

Some moments I enjoyed but overall dragged

No thanks.

Dull. Not a sound worth galvanising.

Very boring - fine voice but nothing stood out

It sounded like it was muzak.

nada de mais

There are bright moments of interesting composition and guitar work on this LP (most notably the genre-androgynous title track), but most of the album just felt too pedestrian to be overly memorable

Como música de fondo

Honestly, didn't care for it. I like that they tried, but I can see why it didn't work

Not a fan

There were moments when I liked the music and his voice, but overall I thought it a weird and inconsistent album, and a band that didn't understand their sound or what style they were aiming for.

Kinda like a pop rock opiate dream. Not sure what I was supposed to take from it. {Prior rating}

Alternativ 90’er roots/folkrock, stille og roligt, akustisk guitar

What's special about this album? Is it the lyrics that don't seem to get anywhere interesting or introspective? Is it the instrumentals that feel bland after the first song? Is it the vocals, which sound like every other generic folk, or country, or Americana, or whatever the hell this is, singer? It's nothing special and it doesn't break the mold, which is a real shame.

Listened to it in the morning and it had no impact on me. Worked much better in the evening with the lights down low I thought. Still though...

Meh. Has all the right elements but somehow doesn't add up to much. His Mum should be proud of him but no-one else needs be. 2.5/5.

Dated early 90s rock. Reminded me of that No Alternative album.

Not digging this one. Has a college rock feel. Not very memorable. Lyrics and vocal line feel made up on the fly. America snoring is a highlight. Apparently front man grant compares himself to Neil Young. There's a very thick line between inspiration and imitation, and he's on the wrong side of it.

Didn't hate it. Didn't love it. Don't remember a single song. Was I asleep?

Mä en saa otetta tähän. Ei oikeen lähe. Vaatis ehkä jonku toisen mielentilan tai valiumii tai jotain... 2/5

Aika kädenlämpöiseltä rokilta tuntui. Vähän liian lätisevää ja hidasta mun makuun, en varmaan jaksaisi kuunnella uudestaan.

Pierwsze slysze, a brzmi dosc generycznie jak na rokowe standardy lat 90, to raczej nawet gdybym gdzies slyszal, to nie przypomnialbym tego sobie, plyta z 93, ktora jest debiuten pana Granta, nagrywana jako trio z Kimblem na basie i klawiszach oraz Petersem od instrumentow membranofonowych, sam Buffalo poza wokalem ogrywa jeszcze gitary, akustyka i elektryka, wiec plyta mocno overdubowana co dziwnie czuc, niby znosnie sie tego slucha i sa momenty gdzie zmiana pomiedzy akustykiem, a elektrykiem w locie daje ciekawe efekty, jak na tytulowym traku, ktory jako jedyny jest sluchany na spotifaju, bo iles milionow wyswietlen ma, gdy reszta plyty ledwo setki, bo reszte najkrocej podsumowac mozna jako mialkie 48 minut rozbite na 11 trakow, plyta nuzy nie tylko dlugoscia, jest to alternatywny rock, ale pan buffalo nie tylko z nazwiska czy okladki wyklada raczej na folkowca, bo lirycznie tez potrafi opowiadac o wszystkim i o niczym, a znalezc w tym cos dla siebie bylo mi ciezko, jedynie kawalek dixie drug store swoim poziomem absurdu i jambalajowym chorusem mnie kupil, wiec bedzie to plejkowy pick, ale reszta pomimo tego, ze jest sluchalna nie trafila do mnie, do tego dochodza denerwujace aspekty techniczne tego overdubowania, ktore nadaje sztucznosci brzmieniu, a zwlaszcza majac swiezo przesluchanego lajwa od Younga jest to jeszcze wyrazniejsze, kolejna sprawa sa wokale, ktore tez dziwne zmasterowane, bo o ile pan Lee spiewa jak spiewa ani mnie on grzeje, ani chlodzi, to jednak sa moemty gdzie trzeba krecic glosnoscia w jedna czy druga strone, bo pozycja wokalu lubi sie zmieniac z utworu na utwor, moze przez to ze w dwoch roznych studiach nagrywane, ale zeby az tak to bylo slychac jest niecodziennym sluchowiskiem

boring

Kinda like a pop rock opiate dream. Not sure what I was supposed to take from it.

seems disjointed, couldn't get into it despite nice chords

boring

Some of the songs were good. Most of them were fine. I didn't particularly like it.

I listened all day and can't remember a song... 2/5

The moment I saw the album cover, name of the band and album cover, I knew I was going to hate this. After the first 30 seconds I wrote, “fuuuuck, I knew it.” But then after a while I realize even though I wanted to hate it, I didn’t really hate it. I heard I think all of the bands from the early 90s in their sound, Pixies, Morrissey, Jane’s Addiction, REM, Four Non-Blonds, Jeff Buckley, etc. mid way through there were a couple 4s in my rankings, surprised the breached 3. But then the lyrics started to stand out and I realized they were awful, Dixie Frug Store maybe the worst offender. And the quality dropped. Thank god I didn’t like it. 2.

His voice sounds very much like the waterboys on the first track, I swore he was irish and then saw it was an american rock group. It is not my favourite rock sound, like a mellow, laid back style of rock which doesn't resonate with me. It is pleasant enough though, I am happy to listen through. Not liking their choice of chords, they always seem so melancholy. It is making me feel a bit sad. America Snoring was better though.

The first song and the guy's voice are good. The rest of the album is not even worth mentioning.

I sorta like the sound, but not enough to listen to nearly an hour of it. It's indie folk with Americana influences. The tracks are nice to listen to individually, and there are many redeemable qualities that folk musicians can learn from, but the flaws get increasingly annoying as the album goes on, becoming almost monotonous by the 2nd half. Songwriting not particularly provoking or clear either.

I couldn't tell what this was, country? Rock? Country rock? Anyway it was shit

Forgettable

Feels like it is missing something, a little too country.

Inoffensive but uninspiring

Not bad, like a less interesting Frank Black

Is this album racist? It felt a little racist

Felt like clean grunge if that makes any sense. Back to back with Nirvana was an unfair comparison. It was ok.

Meh

Iskreno nisam imao nešta vremena ga preslušati detaljno, no ovo što sam čuo, nije baš nešta iskreno posebno, ne da je loše, nego jednostavno mi se baš nije toliko ni slušao album, nije me zadržao da budem željan slušanja. Iako je Michael Stipe iz grupe R.E.M. rekao da je ovo najbolji album 1993, ne bi se sigurno s njim složio, a zbog toga sam i dobio želju da ga poslušam. Okej su pjesme, međutim ne dira me previše.

Did not like. Just seems like a mishmash of Bowie, Neil Young, or Pixies tribute songs.

Meh

Pretty middle of the road for this genre wasn't bad but equally not interesting.

Ok. Like a weaker Jeff Buckley

Dull and long

can't stand the Gilmore girl town troubadour

Meh

It was alright, not necessarily my taste.

Average americana

The Shining Hour is such a good opening track, but the rest of the album never really lives up to that greatness in my opinion.

Music was there, just not my taste

it's aight.

i don’t believe one thing this guy says or does. nice photo too my dude.

Dull, sadly

idk..

I ran out of interesting reviews to give generic and boring albums like this ages ago, so let me tell you about something really cool I would like to do instead. There's this guy whose videos I often see on Instagram, he makes videos about politics but with a twist: in order to hold the attention of people who can't focus on a video talking about politics for more than 10 seconds, half way through he does a beatboxing intermission to keep things interesting. It's genuinely really funny and entertaining to watch this guy making a serious video about politics start beatboxing out of nowhere. I would like to do that myself in this review, however I can't beatbox, and even if I could I wouldn't be able to in a written review like this. So hopefully you enjoyed hearing about it instead.

Absolut nichts auslösend. Vollkommen belanglos.

Meh

Garbage

Never have I been more underwhelmed by an album. The music is there, but it's not remarkable. The lyrics are forgettable. There are no hooks, and nothing that brings you back. I've been less enthused with an album, but I've never wondered more why such a boring an album was considered essential for the WORLD TO HEAR. My Rating: 1/5

Don’t like

I hope I don’t die today, because I’ll be pissed if this the last album I hear before my untimely demise .

No. I mustn't. Your list is going through a rough patch.

boring

Not great for the interval run I was doing. Was going to give 2 but then that last song really drove it down

1. hour - 0 2. jupiter - 2 3.fuzzy - 2 4. uuizh - 1 5. hook - 2 6. uuolf - 1 7. ztarz - 1 8. dizie - 0 9. america - 0 10. grace - 1 11. crazy - 2

hoy he descubierto que el rock country no es mi estilo musical favorito

Early 90s dude alt rock is really not my genre of choice. I found this so boring

aimless soft rock.

Old boy thought he was Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen combined. Turns out he’s just a Chris Gaines. Awful awful awful

I don’t get it, why are we here?

i found it boring

Nein 🦆 Und ich fänds echt voll süß, wenn ich hier vor Creed und Nickelback verschont bleibe (in mir macht sich Angst breit..), dangööö 😘 Stattdessen: Giant Sand: Glum ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Droning and boring 1 star

Yawn.

Not sure what the deal is with the out-of-tune singing. Acoustic guitar offers a classic 90s atmosphere. Ultimately DNF.

Meh. This album was nothing special. Full on 90's alternative rock sound but I probably wouldn't recognize this guy if I heard him again...

Snoozefest

This list is comically, detrimentally 90s

govno

Would've loved for this to go anywhere or do anything, but it instead settles for loads of 90's acoustic rock pastiche. Karaoke-level singing allowed by the onset of Pearl Jam a few years earlier really rears it's ugly head on this album. "The Hook" almost had me hopeful for something of substance, but "Soft Wolf Tread" dragged things right back down. It's all a bit sad, I could see country and 90's alt rock going well together, but not this way. This album isnt gritty and visceral, it's poorly-performed and sometimes hard to get through. Surely most people that like Fuzzy were of an impressionable age in 1993. I'd love to get behind the messaging of "America Snoring" if I could get over how on the nose it is, or the shrill, harsh singing. The closing "You Just Have To Be Crazy" is a suggestion for the mental state you need to attain to thoroughly enjoy this one. Unfortunate 1/5 we go next

Woof

By the time you read this, the album might have finally finished but its certain type of blandness will continue to haunt me for a much longer time. I'd heard the name of this band back in the day - I think it was one of those bands that the cool people had heard and if you hadn't, you weren't as cool as them - I am happy that I wasn't one of the cool people. In a different vein, I have a friend I told the 1001 albums project about. They said that they wouldn't be able to handle the indie rock sort of music that they would inevitably have to hear. This album is the sum of every single one of their fears - it ticks all the boxes and as a result it is flavorless. It is no surprise that this band remained only for the cool kids. Update: it still hasn't finished. Now a profound acoustic intro and some moaning and big rock chords. It's not the Doors, or Echo & the Bunnymen or World Party but sounds like what a crap AI would produce if you lazily prompted it to come up with a mash up of those great bands' most bland moments. This is the second album (out of 74) that I couldn't handle finishing.

An entire album's worth of Wonderwall. Absolute horseshit.

Not enough of anything

Dreary

I’m like 30+ albums behind, but I keep revealing albums every day. This isn’t making me want to chip away at that number. Take Soul Asylum but make it even worse somehow! Honestly this sounds like if you took every 90s folk rock act and blended them together into one bland soft rock smoothie.

A ono, opet dosta dosadno, Fuzzy stvar u jednom dijelu mi je dobra. 1/5, 2/10

Awful. Dull. Boring. Unengaging. Snoozefest. Blah.

I personally don’t like minorities

This one was rough. I was open to it at first, but it just got worse and worse until it hit me with Dixie Drug Store, maybe one of the worst songs I've ever heard. I will say that it makes total sense that Michael Stipe loved this album in 1994.

Fuzzy