Reviews (page 7 of 7)
Wtf! Someone’s taking the piss now. This album shouldn’t be anywhere near the top 10,000 albums let alone the top 1,000!
That was legitimately painful.
Offensively bland and monotonous 80s soft pop-rock.
I always say I don't like 80s music. But what this project has shown me is that there were loads of great albums released in the 80s, but what I don't like is a certain *kind* of 80s music. And that is this kind of 80s music. This sounds like someone created some synthesizer music, tried to sell it to Paula Abdul, and when she passed, sold it to these guys. I do not like it, is what I'm saying.
i just hate the shit out of this record and i always have
Sugary crap
Bleh.
80's cheap pop
No. simply no. This is shit.
I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. The voice. Why that voice?! If you run this album just a hair slower it could be the background music for a horror movie about a carnival run by murderous children. The music itself isn't bad. I just can't get over that voice.
Combining canned 80s pop-synth sound with fey faux-soft vocals and processed drums and putting it all to a Casio-sounding preset beat .... it's not so much that it's bad - and it really is - it's mostly that it all sounds like a Freshen-Up gum commercial I'd hear while watching afternoon reruns in the 80s. I tried to talk myself into a slightly more respectable mark here in trying to understand *why* this might be important.... landmark sampling isn't gonna cut it. Tools ain't songs. And man, his voice is killing me. A more perfect pastiche of cookie-cutter awful 80s dance pop tropes you will not find. Awful. "...Sunday night at 9pm - a new episode of The Beachcombers.....and now we return you the conclusion of Star Blazers...." 2/10 1 star.
Erst Deep Purple, dann diese Platte? Sorry, das fühlt sich an wie Gummibärchen nach Steak. Passt halt nicht!
Vaguely aware of the name, hadn't heard any of their music before, and would be quite happy never hearing any of it again. It's the worst of 80s pop music, billy basic synth pop with cringey, patronising lyrics and nothing to make it stand out from the thousands of others like it. It's Wham without the infectiousness, or Duran Duran without the energy. If a badly made prawn cocktail could make music, this is what it would sound like. 1/5.
Horribly, irredeemably 80s production. It genuinely offended me.
I am not sure if I have come across a more uninspired or more inconsequential album on this list. No reason for it to be included at all. This whole thing is just blah and uninteresting.
what did i just listen to??
Hoeveel ik ook hou van de 80s als muziek-decade, creëerde het wel een milieu waarin groepen als Scritti Politti ongestoord en vooral ongegeneerd het pop-landschap konden verkankeren. 1/10
Zo, dit is echt zo'n plaat die altijd in de vinylbakken hangt. Peak-vinyl tijd ('85) veel van verkocht. Nu is niemand er meer in geïnteresseerd. De eerste song klinkt als een George Michael nummer dat is opgenomen met kinderspeelgoed. Een soort gastoptreden van Michael Jackson in Absolute maakt deze plaat niet heel veel beter. Zullen we deze lekker in de platenbak laten staan? 2/10 Highlights -
At first I thought "this is bad but it's not so bad" then it went on and on and I was very annoyed.
FFS
Oh hell no.
Zuerst dachte ich, das wird was mit den Ska Rhythmen, dann driftete das Album ins belanglose ab.
1/5 - feels like MJ but it’s nowhere near as good
Too 80s for me
This record has aged as well as dental surgery in 1934 London
Not my cup of tea.
Un disco de pop, de un grupo olvidado. Muy ochentero, la producción es típicamente años 80 (bajo, sintetizadores, percusiones... que suenan electrónicas y frías pero en realidad eran analógicas) con la voz de Geen Gartside en tono muy similar al Michael Jackson más meloso (también a las canciones de Chaka Khan), ejemplo claro en Absolute. La producción de Arif Mardin es impecable. Los teclados de Dave Gamson suenan celestiales (al nivel de lo que luego harían Tearas for Fears) Perfect Way’ fue un éxito en los Estados Unidos . Miles Davis hizo una versión de ella en su controvertido y genial Tutu. Perfect way se acerca al reggae desde esas coordenadas, y suena de lo mejor del disco. New wave melódico, pero las letras tienen su nivel. Es algo similar a lo que pasaba con Housemartins con profundas reflexiones y referencias en sus letras. No tenían el gancho de otras bandas, pero tampoco lo buscaban. Este álbum ha envejecido mejor que muchos de aquellos éxitos olvidados, aunque es un álbum que o te gusta o lo detestas. 1985 es el año del C85, Psychocandy, This is the sea, Low-life, Once upon a time, Brothers in arms, Hounds of love, Steve McQueen, Love not money, This nation´s saving grace, Fables of the reconstruction, Around the world in a day, Rain dogs, Meat is murder, Slave to the rithym, Songs form the big chair, What Does Anything Mean? Basically , Rum, sodomy and the lash, Don´t stand my down y Picture book.
This is definitely some 80s music. There's a couple of moments that are pretty good, but for the most part it's overproduced and cringy. Any moment that I start enjoying the music is ruined pretty shortly after. I didn't really find any whole song good or enjoyable. Favorite Song(s): Small Talk
Awful
The reason you hate synthpop
Couldn’t it
Holy shit, this album is TERRIBLE. Like, the only way this makes a list of albums you must hear is either as a joke or as a payoff. 1/5
I hate this band. I’m halfway through this, and it’s the worst workout experience I can remember. Horrid. I’ll update this if it gets better. But despite my option about most things, I have little hope for this. Screw you, Scritti Politi, you pablum spewing over produced 80-something-schlock muckers.
Piece of shit
WTF peak 80s awfulness is this bollox! I know everyone was fed up of prog/punk etc, and synths were now readily available to all, but I genuinely wish someone could explain to me why making music sounding like this emotionless fluff was considered entertainment. It just sounds like some 18yr old was let loose with a new Casio keyboard hellbent on using all the settings (I haven’t googled the making of this album, so there might not be any irony in that statement!). At best, the lively bits sound like filler between scenes in Ferris Beuler’s Day Off, and I guess the vocalist isn’t awful. I pity the fool who has to listen to this ever again, obvs I won’t be.
Good name, shit sound. Quite enjoyed the first song but then descended into mid 80s horror.
This is my second-favorite album. All of the rest are tied.
No thanks. 80s gone wrong
I'm struggling to find the right words for this album beyond, "Maybe the worst one yet on this list." It's not even that it's musically awful, it's just completely dated, boring and soulless. At least shit like Limp Bizkit is ATTEMPTING something that makes you listen. I don't know if I've ever tuned out of an album I'm intentionally listening to so quick.
Ugh 1985 is the worst year. Couldn't finish this shit
Nope.
The amount of genres for this is overwhelming but I'm excited to listen. I'm immediately let down by the 80's cheez pop sound that I hate. The only redeeming quality a few songs in is some of the sounds they are able to make, I just hate them together. Looks like one dude used 10 different keyboards on this album. Fuck this. Future Kev do not listen to this. You DID NOT need to hear this before you die.
Terrible
This sucks.
couldn’t finish. this is too 80s for me and it sounds like discount michael jackson
non I want Michael Jackson! we've got Micheal Jackson at home
Soou como pop dos anos 80, mas sem reconhecimento maior ou percepção da importância.
Cupid and Psyche 85 aims to capture the 1980s sound with its blend of new wave and pop, but falls short due to disjointed execution. Heavy use of synthesizers and whispered vocals overwhelms the music at times, making it challenging for me to fully connect. While it may appeal to fans of 80s nostalgia, its dated influences limit its lasting impact and prevent it from becoming a timeless classic. NUMBER OF BANGERS - 0 STAND OUT TRACK - None
Not really too sure about this album. To mean it sounds like the artist wanted to make a Michael Jackson album but didn’t have the chops or songs. The synth work is pretty good but when I think of 80s pop music, I think there has to be about 150 albums above this one.
This could be the most useless record on the list
Awful
80's pop.
Such generic, forgettable 80s pop. No thanks
Bland. So bland it makes nature yogourt and unleavened hosts a really tasty meal.
Bland and dull sophisti-funk. The definition of a soulless piece of music.
Welcome to the 80s
WTF was going on in the 80’s
meh.
My life certainly feels complete for now having listened to this album!!
Genuinely some of the least interesting music I've heard in a long time. Bland, soulless and overproduced. Can't be bothered to say much more.
Off the Wall Michael Jackson + WHAM! now make it fucking suck.
I generally don’t hate 80’s British pop, but this is just lifeless. Seriously, this is just all the stock instruments and effects of the era without any soul.
The Word Girl - No Small Talk - No Absolute - No etc etc Entire Album - No. Stick it in the microwave for 3:00 at 900. A boring pop 1 star
I almost threw my phone in disgust. Sickly 80’s shite.
1.5 stars. Struggled through this. 80's pop at it's worst. This sound is why the decade gets a bad rap musically.
This leans into all the worst parts of 80s pop, to my ears. Clinically produced tunes that don’t go anywhere and just leave me cold. I don’t *hate* it, but it’s like being in a department store where the lights are a bit too bright, and there’s a perfumey scent in the air. Occasionally it’s intoxicating, yes, but more often it’s nauseating, and it all seems designed specifically to get you to buy stuff rather than feel anything. Also, the songs all sound like inferior Michael Jackson imitations. 1.5
Cupid & Psyche 85 is another 1980s pop album. This one starts a bit generic and ends quite annoying. Apart from the lack of decent songwriting it stands out with pseudo intellectual lyrics that only put more attention on the fact this is something very pretentious and a hollow shell.
Nah.
As bad as 80s music gets
One of these songs: fun! All of these songs: insanity.
Generic, boring, and repetitive. It sounds like I'm in a roller rink from start to finish.
ret tæt mellem en 1'er og en 2'er fordi nogen af dem var catchy nok, men syntes simpelthen sangerens stemme var for anstrengende
Hold nu kæft hvor er det bare britisk 80er pop... Det er sååååå kedeligt.
This was uneventful saccharine pop when it came out. It is less important now.
Positively grating. Gartside has overloaded this album with his wavery attempt at a Prince-like voice and an assault of synthesizers in stereo. An album that would garner strange glances if jammed at a party.
Meh, standard even cliche'd new wave / new romantic pop of little consequence. The kind of music that gave the 80s a bad name. 1.5 stars
Fucking dreadful. This album was so boring I genuinely can’t figure out how it got on this list.
Didn't like it at all, definitely not my kind of music
When you ask people who hate 80s music about what a stereotypical 80s band/album sound like, this is exactly what they think of. 0/10
I couldn’t stand it. This was so annoying that I don’t want to hear it again.
Horrible 80's over produced synth-pop with a heavy emphasize on the pop to the point of absolute cheesiness. This was bad.
Maybe it's the singer, Maybe it's the production. I really disliked this album.
The vocal mixing was awful, but maybe that's a good thing because their voice or vocal effect used was awful too. There were a few good bass lines and drum beats, but everything around them was boring.
Didn't like this one at all. Not sure why it's on the list
I did not care for this album at all.
What is this? A whole album of rejected Mario Cart songs? Holy crap that's bad. Every song sounds almost exactly like the one before it and they're all at least a minute too long. It also doesn't help that the lyrics and vocals are all lame. And, again, the whole album sounds like background music for an over-saturated, cutsie-tootsie childrens' video game. If no stars were an option, that's what I'd be giving this one.
Lauere Elektro Funk
This is one of the worst things I have ever heard. This album sounded outdated the day it came out. Obviously they put a few joke albums on this list because this is utter shit. 0/5
The band's picture on Spotify fits pretty well with the feel of the album. Made in 1985, but contains maximum 80's! Not in a good way, for me. 1/5
Seems well done, just absolutely not for me. All the things that I don't like about post disco
what a load of total shit 1/5
I didn't like this at all.
This is some shitty, empty, soulless horseshit. Absolutely nothing redeeming about this generic, saccharine album. I wish I could go back to my life before I knew this 40 minutes of grating, whiny whispering existed.
This album is so annoying.
Listen: this list has a lot of 80s synth pop. It's not my favorite genre, but there are certain exceptions to that. I can admit that "Small Talk" off this record is a bop, but the rest of the record? Someone on this site compared the singer to Michael Jackson, and while I agree slightly, I find these vocals much, much more annoying. Something snapped around the weird sex/sensuality song ("A Little Knowledge"), something that "Small Talk", far too early in the record, couldn't save. The instruments are dated, and it's constantly jump-scaring you with different parts randomly coming in. It almost escaped my graveyard, but fuck it, bury it.
Not my favorite, pretty repetitive. Sort of a more joyous Huey Lewis and the News. Wouldn't listen to again.
Holy crap, this might be the most annoying album yet, and that's counting homework. Every single song sounds exactly the same, with the exact same synth garbage, and that annoying voice that sounds like he's just sighing. Hated it.
I feel like the editors wanted to recognize an 80’s new romantic album, but ABC’s Lexicon of Love is a far better choice. There are some good songs here but more filler. Listen to the 2022 remastered version and have the skip button handy. Perfect Way still kicks ass, but not even Wood Beez, their second most popular song, comes close.
Of all the synthy 80s pop on I’ve gotten so far, this is my least favorite. 3.1/10
The most 80s synth pop album of all time. It sounds like every 80s soundtrack. Nobody wants, let alone needs to hear this
Meh
Not a fan of this one at all. Legit don't get it. I also don't understand how this album was so critically well received. It just feels like cheesy, hollow 80s pop. Standout Tracks: N/A
Very boring. Sounds like the soundtrack to a made for TV kids movie in the 90's, but not a good one. 1/5 Won't listen again
Wowzers. This is god awful. Well, maybe not that bad, but oof. Can't stand his voice and the 80's keyboard tones, and the fact that he's singing boy band lyrics. Gag. Hated this.
I can almost hear the cocaine dripping in the singer’s voice. This one may have been popular in the 80’s put i would dare say it should have stayed there. It wouldn’t even make for a good soundtrack to a bad 80’s teen sitcom taking place in an effluent high school that gets disrupted when the “bad” kid comes in from the other side of town.
This is absolute hot trash of the highest order. Nothing here is worth hearing them or now. This should not be on the list.
Shit
This really is the most generic 80's music I've ever heard. All the tricks, all the filler sounds, all the exact drum loops. This has not stood the test of time
Until now I never knew any bands that were influenced by ABC. The Lexicon of Love is the gift that keeps on giving.
Insipid pop songs and unbearable ballads.
Even back in the mid 80s I found this album to be too poppy, and now almost 40 yrs later it's unbearably cliched and dated sounding. Looking at the lineup of instruments that they play its almost entirely comprised of synth/keyboards such as the Mini-moog, Fairlight, Roland and Oberheims so the sound is replete with synth beats that don't vary much. This is a record that shouldn't be on the list as there are a lot more deserving albums out there.
I bailed five songs in. It's just irritating - the songs all sound the same, and to start with it's all charming 1980s synth pop, then you realise, ugh, that's all it is. And like Vivaldi's Spring, when you first hear it, it's nice, but after the fourth or fifth time you end up wanting to gouge your own eyes out. One star.
OK we are 1980s caricature now. Is there a famous or brilliant track here, is this Paula Abdul's backing band doing intro music for straight to VCR movies? Hmm cater a few tracks...is album is here because it fits into a micro genre and if we're going to fill out the entire colour wheel of musical genres in this house and one album left we're taking a box birth other than the curiosity fact there in musical education of 80s synth pop background music that could well be elevator music I really don't understand what special here
So fucking terrible. The worst kind of 80s pop. And another absurd pick that is clearly only here because the 1001 editors have a hard on for obscure UK garbage.
Hahahahaha!! Hahaha! Haha. Ha. ha... yeah, nah. Nahhh. No. NO. NOOOOO!
The wife said, it's a bit 80s, and it's hard to disagree. It's just a bit naff. Next!
Possibly the worst thing I've ever heard. A form of torture, surely a crime against humanity. They should have called it 'things that were shit in the 80s, the soundtrack'.
Still irritating after 40 years
Alexa, play me bland 80s synth pop... Are you sure? OK, here you go.
Garbage '80s schlock pop
Awful 80's pop. That's it. Best Tracks: The Word Girl; Absolute; Perfect Way
Never heard of this before. Can't even begin to guess what it is apart from just assuming it's new wave or synthpop bc 1985. Ok it's mindless pop music. It's from the UK! what a fitting way to reach 1001. This is... so bland and dumb it hurts. Michael Jackson vibes in places. But the best way I could describe it is "stupid shit". No standout tracks, it all sounded pretty much identical. A special day. 1/5.
Tweede album van band / soloproject Scritti Politti. Hoewel bedoeld als analogie bestaat de tracklist uit uitzonderlijk oppervlakkige en vervelende popliedjes die alles wat mis is aan de jaren '80 omvat. Niet alleen irritant maar ook een thematische desillusie. leukste nummer: Perfect Way De albumtitel is ontleend aan de mythe van Cupido en Psyche. De analogie is mega vergezocht en verhult wat vrijwel zeker een poging is om met makkelijke nummers geld te verdienen.
2/10. Europop synth is just not my thing.
this sounds like the lovechild of noncey jacko and phil collins. it sounds just as horrific as both the mental image of them producing the lovechild and the lovechild itself.
Kon hier echt niet langer dan 1,5 nummer naar luisteren sorry!!
So catchy but also SO incredibly annoying. Their earlier, less commercial endeavors are light years better.
Pretty bad eighties music that aged pretty badly since.
Tää meni jo tuskalliseksi. Yhdentekevää kuin AI:n säveltämä MJ/Prince.
Never heard of this band before. Should’ve kept it that way. This album sucks.
Aivan todella yllättävä albumi, ja yllättävän huono
Kuulkaas pojat, nyt kannattaisi pitää pieni tauko ja vetää vähän henkeä. Kyllä se siitä - tällaiselle ei ole mitään tarvetta.