White Ladder

So much noise. I don’t remember anything already

This is derivative pop-folk music that adds next to nothing to the style. Low hanging fruit. Nothing to write home about. A respectful nod to 'Say Hello, Wave Goodbye'. There's a classic Van Morrison vibe there in the way he sings.

This is a great album for someone who has never listened to music before. It's accessible and literally anything you listen to after will be better than it.

garbage

If there is a Muzak Museum somewhere this is playing in its elevator. No soul, radio friendly beige designed for soccer mums. Assume it pairs well with margaritas in a bowl and Lonely Lost Reisling.

Never heard of David Gray until now. Wish I still hadn't. 1

1.5 - started off ok but the rest wasn’t good

About the best thing to come from listening to this album was being able to recogise that Babylon was the song I have half-heard in a hundred things over my life, and to finally hear the lyrics clearly. I did not enjoy this, but it added to my store of knowledge, and, like the rest of the album, listening to this song was a horrible, dreary experience. Sappy, overdone caterwauling for singing, bland music, agonising sentiments. Dire.

Pop bullshit. Doesn’t deserve more words than that.

i'm sorry but it's not the 90s and i'm not incredibly basic

Bland.

A very bland pop-folk album with some touches of electronica, I didn't noticed it back then and it stayed unremarkable from my pov. In the end I really hoped the album was shorter. Anyway I have the impression David Gray is the grand father of Ed Sheeran or the like. Favorite Songs: Please forgive me (I was not yet irritated and it has some catchy tunes).

Affected vocals and trite production values. Hard to understand how this was so popular 28 years ago.

I was very happy when this album ended. I never want to hear this again.

no

Meh. Boring.

Oh for fuck sake, do I really have to listen to this?? Surely it can't be as bad as I remember it being when every cunt bought it after Babylon was played on the radio 40000 fucking times a day. Can it??? Not actually terrible music, just really, really boring. Which is actually like the worst thing that music can be IMO. It reall is just music for people who don't really like music. Like Coldplay. Halfway through the first song and I'm struggling. I'm happy to just give it a 1 and move on with my life.

I'm going to be so honest this album is so bland and going i literally feel asleep during it 😭

wtf, this incredibly tedious soft rock album was the fifth best-selling record in the UK in the 2000s? 1 star

generic Gray (keine Wortspiele) c

Eh

David Gray is where boners go to die and vaginas go to dry.

I'm two songs in and I can already say with CONFIDENCE that this sucks. It's upscale-mall background music, made specifically for people who "don't really listen to music". Checking back in post-listen and the remainder of the album did nothing but solidify my initial reaction. What a pile of shit.

A bore of a record.

I am not old enough or white enough to like this.

I suppose this is music for people who don't really like music ...

my ex cancelled meeting for a David Gray concert with the girl he dumped me for, so sorry David but your melodic pop is going in the bin in retaliation.

Forgetable

BORINGGGGG!!!!!!!!

Turgid and dull crap.

Boring as shit

These songs have no business being 5+ minutes. The best thing about it is some songs sound like the end of a rom com

I feel like if I took the things I hated most about Van Morrison, Dave Matthews, and Bob Dylan this album would be the result.

I’m over a year into this journey and I have to finally proclaim that the author is just full of shit. His taste in music is mediocre at best. I hope someone in the future who knows what good music is writes a book that supersedes this one. As for this album? It’s boiled chicken that’s unsalted. White and bland as hell. Fuck David for recording this album and fuck the authors for picking it to listen too. This isn’t music; it’s Muzak.

Boring.

I'm grateful to live in a time where AI music exist and people like David Gray will realize that they have nothing to offer to the music history.

EVERYTHING I hate about bad music can be found in this spawn from hell AKA 'White Ladder' I hope I die before I start liking shit like this.

The Good: We get to climb a ladder! The Bad: Doesn’t stay white too long as we have dirty boots on… The Ugly: Finding out the ladder leads nowhere… I am not going to repeat what has already been written ad-nauseum, however, fuck you Mr D adding this… As I am totally unfamiliar with the artist, listening to the first song was not that bad. And then came the second song… and the third and all of a sudden the album was done. The above is not an indication that the experience was enjoyable, instead, I found that all songs sounded pretty much the same and I started to get really bored with the whole damn thing. This is NOT something that needs to be listened to before one dies. Period. 1 1/2*

Despite being alive and conscious when this album was big, I wasn't familiar with any of the tracks. I tried to keep an open mind after seeing that it was a singer-songwriter album from the 90s on Dave Matthews' record label. I really tried. Unfortunately, my fears were confirmed almost immediately. The lyrics are painfully trite. The music is unbearably bland. David's vocals are just about listenable when he isn't doing a bad Dylan impression. A purer expression of unoriginality would be difficult to find. This is music for an open mic night, not an essential album list. Dreadful. Simply dreadful. Solid 1

this album is giving NOTHING oh my god. how does he have 3.2M monthly listeners on spotify. you people need to get a grip. saved: n/a.

I could not stand the song "Babylon" when it came out and it was totally overplayed. Still don't like it today but it's not as cringe inducing. Something about Gray's singing style rubs me wrong. White Ladder is a late 90s skipper for me. Not sure why this album is/was so popular. I'm waving goodbye to this one...1.12 stars.

Bland late 90s adult contemporary barf.

so boring

это очень скучно.. искренность не равно 6минутная унылая хуйня

What a bland nothing album. The wikipedia summary basically only talks about its sales because there’s nothing of note in the music itself. David Gray also has mentioned that White Ladder’s success paved the way for Ed Sheeran, so I guess we can blame him for that too

It is completely impossible to listen to this kind of music without being overcome by violent thoughts.

2 out of 5

It's a big ol' meh album. He's got a lovely voice but he doesn't do anything interesting with it. It doesn't help that I remember the singles being rinsed to death on UK radio.

Basically the 90s equivalent of Ed Sheeran, only even more boring. Tailored for the romantically-starved housewife, this is one of the most generic and bland things I’ve ever heard.

Just not my type of music

I didn’t mind the first track but what followed was one of the most boring albums I have ever listened to. The sound of beige.

The same song ten times and it's just as boring every time.

This folk-pop album is like rain on a city window blending acoustic warmth with electronic sheen, pairing looping rhythms and soft textures with earnest, weathered vocals. Like the rain its smoothness dulls the emotional Edge and blurs after a while.

If this music were a colour it would be beige.

Get back

Babylon brings back memories of scrubbing dog shit off floors listening to radio that could only get one station that loved to play the same 5 songs on repeat. The rest of the album made me wish I was listening to Babylon.

bland

Forgettable late 90s too sincere singer-songwriter.

Sa voix est terrible, mais sa musique est pire. C'est étonnant que ce ne soit pas libre de droits tellement que c'est générique. On dirait un album écrit pour un mauvais film de romance. C'est l'antithèse de la description de spotify qui le décrit de cette façon : "David Gray is back doing what he does better than almost anyone, and fans of complex, serious, lyrical songcraft should rejoice." Tellement générique, ça ne tombe même pas dans la catégorie d'albums qu'il faut "hate listen". Évitez celui-ci.

a little too slow and bland for me

vai se fudeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

descobrir a existência do gênero FOLKTRÔNICA acabou com meu dia mais background music que isso aqui não existe. perfeito caso vc seja básico, monotono e chato e quer se sentir triste vendo a chuva cair pela janela do quarto.

just initially looking at the track list, these songs are way too long. eh

Super unfortunate for society that this kind of became the template for pop music in the 21st century. 1.0/5.0: Embarrassing

a complete and utter load of miserable, insipid strumming along to dirgey songs. Couldnt wait for it to end.

David Gray, the name means nothing to me. I don't know any of the songs. I can't stand Ed Sheeran and James Blunt. To me, it's all completely unnecessary garbage.

Boring singer/songwriter stuff

This album has just finished and I've already forgotten all of it.

Completely forgettable. Sings in one tone.

This is not nearly as offensive as the albums I usually reserve 1s for. But this might be the worst inclusion on this list so far. I could listen to this album every day for a year and still probably not be able to distinguish any of the songs from each other. And they’re all boring.

At least Nick Drake was a talented sad boy musician. Probably a 1.5, but I penalize this album as it apparently paved the way for other trash like Ed Sheeran and James Blunt (at least "You're Beautiful" is objectively funny)

Kinda like cold play if the lead singer was Scott Stapp from Creed.

All time snooze-fest.

makes Coldplay sound like heavy metal. as interesting as watching paint dry or doing laundry by hand without electricity. Why is this on the list?

Autsch, das würde ich selbst als Hintergrundgedudel beim Autofahren nicht ertragen. Aber ok, wenn die neue Flamme das erste Mal zu Besuch ist, kann man das nach der James Blunt Playlist schon mal gerne laufen lassen.

9 straight albums from the UK and 48/126 - what the absolute fuck is this!?! There are 194 other countries on this planet that all make music. I know the US and UK will hold a bulk of this list, but some of this is just a British circle jerk of what they listened to when they broke up with their girl friend or went on a road trip with their 'mates.' This is a generic dentist office waiting room album - I can partically hear the whizzing of the dentist's drill in the. background and clacking of the block on that rainbow colored loop-di-loop thing meant to keep kids occupied while they wait for their appointment. I was 15 when this album came out and have never heard one of these songs or this artist, and somehow it is so special that it need to be heard before you die?!? This guys vocals are so basic and bland that it wouldn't surprise me if it was a baked potato singing. It is so bland that I forgot I was listening to it for 3-4 tracks. The only list this belongs on is albums you must hear in order to become a right proper English twat. This list is really testing my dedication the last 2 weeks. 2.8/10 126/1001

This is the most boring, generic music in the world. If I never have to listen to David gray again, it’ll be too soon. This is the kind of music they sell at Starbucks.

In 2000, Dave Matthews released this album by David Gray. In 2004, a tour bus belonging to the Dave Matthews Band released an estimated 800 pounds (360 kg) of human waste from the bus's blackwater tank through the Kinzie Street Bridge in Chicago onto an open-top passenger sightseeing boat sailing in the Chicago River below. The incident became popularly known as the Dave Matthews Band incident or Poopgate. I can only conclude that Dave Matthews is a scatological menace.

No me gusto, música ed sheran total

Too pop

If vanilla had a soundtrack it’d be this

Wave goodbye! Another one on the list that I didn't NEED to hear!

Hoe is dit zo hoog en zo bekend? We've got Bob Dylan at home: Oersaai

Never heard of this guy but assumed he was British and I was going to be in for a boring time. I was correct. This album is so bland and the basic outros go on for way too long. Almost an hour? No thanks. Don't even bother with this.

Thumbs down

Too generic, and something about his voice is off for me. I didn't like it.

So boring, so lifeless, so just bleh.

Meh.

Never heard of him. Could have stayed that way…

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Oof. Not for me. I feel like I’m too nice on here so this will be my first 1. His voice is just sorta annoying? The weird beats with acoustic whining, dude, I dunno.

Awful

Pro-tip: if you're a pale imitation of Van Morrison, don't end your album with an interpolation of his best song, it just reminds us all how much worse you are than him. This is a perfect album for when tap water is too spicy - perfectly crafted and perfectly dull totally disposable slow sad guy acoustic pop. There's a place for this kind of music in the world wherever mellow inoffensive sound is necessary - waiting rooms, fast casual sandwich chains, airport gift shops, overwrought scenes in boring movies. It's music you hear constantly but only involuntarily.

It started OK with an electronica adjacent track. Well, it could have been better without the singer. And then it's generic boring pop music. I can't believe this made it to this list. THe guy is claiming that he paved the way for this kind of yawning music in the following years, which is another good reason to loathe this record.

This is probably the kind of thing that was big in the UK but never made much of an impact in the US. Needless to say I expect to see a David Gray biopic where he is a CGI moose in the next couple of years. Like music for a dentist’s office. I continue to remind myself that boring stuff like this made the list over the Blue Album, Madvillainy, The Black Parade, Discovery, In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, etc.

Babylon is a great single but the rest are quite dull. In fact I can honestly say in the 90’s I went to see him and it’s the only gig I have ever walked out of. Boring

commercial nonsense

This must have never made it to the States. I have no recollection of this at all. My SO says she knew the hit(s) but I literally didn't recognize anything. This wasn't good though. In fact, this is the white bread of music. Nothing really going on and the only people who would be interested don't know any better.

This one I will forget about Will I listen to again: 0%

this album feels like a beige doctors waiting room

It’s a 1.5 that I would normally round up. I’m rounding down because the last album I had was the Hendrix debut and in human spirit alone, it wouldn’t be fair to say this is within 3 stars of that. There aren’t enough stars in the world to bridge that gap.

First time hearing this - I'm not from the UK so I've never heard of David Gray before today. The music is inoffensive and a bit boring. It really does sound like a soundtrack to a sad scene placed somewhere in the middle of a romcom movie (maybe a slow motion reminiscing scene or a sad male lead looking through the window to the rain juxtaposed with the female lead laying on the couch with a blanket and a phone). The most interesting part of it is how it includes bits of folktronica, which was interesting and I guess kinda innovative. I feel like if it hadn't been made in the UK, no one would have cared today. Instead, we have all those sentimental reviews how it reminds people of their childhood without any mention of the actual qualities of this album. There's so many better albums that were not included on the list instead. 2/5 (This Years Love is so annoying it made me want to lower it down to 1/5). Actually having listened the entire thing, I got really annoyed with the last three songs. 1/5

No por qué la gente disfrute por tres semanas seguidas un disco aburrido significa que es bueno. La gente no siempre tiene la razón y eso es algo que el autor de esta maldita lista no entiende; cada disco comercialmente exitoso de Inglaterra aparece acá, cuando hay ocasiones en que no tienen ninguna relevancia para el panorama musical general y definitivamente no son un "esencial que hay que escuchar antes de morir". Sigo encontrando increíble que trabajos como este se prioricen y se dejen fuera LPs tan importantes para la música alternativa (que muchas veces es aclamada por la crítica) como Modest Mouse se dejen afuera. "White Ladder" es prueba fehaciente de que el gusto inglés no siempre equivale a "un buen disco". Sálteselo, o si no se quedará dormido. PD: Muchos comparan en los comentarios a este LP con algunos trabajos de Coldplay. Debo admitir que me sentí algo ofendido porque ni los peores discos de la banda de Martin son tan malos como "White Ladder".

I've listened to enough of this. Could be described as both radio friendly or coffee table music, but in both instances the word bland must also be applied as a prefix. I don't like his nasal whiney voice either. I know it sold bucket loads but there's clearly no accounting for taste. Definitely not an album you ever need to listen to and if you do it will be instantly forgettable. Has no place on this lis

You may have heard David Gray before but forgotten. It's definitely not for me. Who likes this? I bet you relax a lot and smile at strangers. He sounds like Ben Harper took some sedatives. I'm gonna go listen to something good. One dull star. Like an imploded dwarf that has consumed all of it's fuel and no longer emits light in the visible wavelength. It's up there in the night sky, but you will never know. That's the star I give David Gray.

# 349 : Slow & dull, Average at best.

"VH1-core" "music for people that don't really care for music" At it's most exciting I'd give it "The Business Casual Smashing Pumpkins." In that this is a genre that a weirdly large amount of people enjoy, I think this belongs on a "must hear" list. However, I don't know what this does to expand anyone's interest or knowledge in music. There's nothing original happening. Everything about it is washed out and drained of personality. It feels like being told "calm down" in that attempting to force calmness just causes more anxiety. The music is so calm/boring that it makes me panic a bit in a way that I've rarely felt since childhood. The most infuriating part of that is tracks often open with or have brief clips of actually interesting music before it suddenly cuts out to generic 1-week of playing experience acoustic guitar riffs and a guy singing, whom you can tell actually wants to do spoken word, but that doesn't put food on the table so he's doing whatever this is. He has a nice voice, but similar to the music, it feels like a digitized hybrid of Bob Dylan and Billy Corgan that's been washed out and auto-tuned to the point that it feels inhuman and robotic. There's barely melody here. It's kind of background noise on background noise. If this is your genre, this is probably phenomenal. Is it good music though? It feels like it's barely music to me. It went through the motions, but it didn't try anything whatsoever. It kept the beat, it hit those strings, and it made the mouth noises, but nothing else. There's nothing to grab onto. It is a polished, grey ("Gray" lol) stone lacking any interesting feature. A monotone painting that's just a canvas covered in one color simply because the artist liked that color, no deeper meaning. I'm trying to talk myself into giving this a 2/5, but there's literally nothing positive I can come up with to describe in it. Tried my best to be objective, but it was very difficult to make it through the whole album. This is in my short list of "music that kind of makes me hate music a little bit." 1/5

This dude sucks

Boring. I’m bored

David Gray once hit on my girlfriend in a bar in Manchester in front of me. She laughed in his face and told him to fuck off. When I said did you know who that was? She replied he’s that sad boy singer and he’s a twat. She was right

2.5/10. It just went on and on and on. It really bored me. It's really not my vibe at all. My favourite part of the experience was when I got a Bon Jovi advertisement on Spotify. Sorry.

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Maybe i'm being harsh but this is just so boring, I can't imagine a world where this is required listening for a music fan. It's background music for TV or shopping centres. At least I know who did that Babylon song now, been hearing that since i was a kid.

I am struggling to stay awake long enough to listen through this album. It does make for an alright lullaby though. 1/5

could i write poetry to this? n

Another one hit wonder album, straight from the Grays Anatomy soundtrack. Next.

Boring rom com walking in the rain album

Я ничего не чувствую. Лучшая песня - Sail Away.

Dull....

This was so bland ugh.

I'm sure there's an audience for this. It's not me though!

This is the first album that I don't understand why it was included on this list.

This album was so big that contemporary music writers were calling David Gray the 21st century Bob Dylan, a claim both a) incredibly stupid and b) true in a way that speaks much more to the quality of this century then the talents of the asshole responsible for “Babylon” One star

Some generic ass mall shit

Generic af. Boring too. Intro is pretentious and then it tries to be all sappy.

Babylon Sail Away

Dido for the fellas og jeg hader Dido

Der er satme nogen generiske 90er-plader på den her liste. Kedeligt. Meget meget skippable.

Utter nonsense - worked in a record shop when this came out and heard it on heavy rotation - still have PTSD listening to it

The hell is this. There are like 500,000 albums like this on Spotify that are by artists who have <1000 monthly listeners. And some of those are better, they’re more interesting at least. This shouldn’t be on this list it’s really fucking lame.

the white sauce of music

Bailed after three songs. Just not my thing.

Of all the albums ever released across the globe this one does not come close to ranking in the top 1,001.

Kan hier echt niets mee, saaie meuk, niet vernieuwend, irritante stem

This is the perfect album for when you're having love sickness. Because this album is so fucking boring and bad you forget about it in a minute and come to the point that it's just not worth it listening to stuff like that.

Another nice 1990s album of nice music for nice people who can only bear to listen to nice things. Male Dido. OK 'Sail Away' is a good, the rest is wishy-washy and forgettable... I was happy to have forgotten this.

I didn’t think I was familiar with this artist until I started listening to the album and heard the song “Babylon.”It’s one of those songs I’ve heard for many years in the background of just about everywhere and everything, but disliked so much that I’ve always shut it out and never pursued finding out who it was. Lots of droning singer/songwriter stuff that, I believe, fails. For me, this type of music has to have melodies, lyrics, vocals, instrumentation, SOMETHING that draws me in and plays on or to my emotions. Nothing. Not even his cover of Soft Cell’s “Say Hello, Wave Goodbye” could even impress me, though it’s the best song on the album, because… it’s Soft Cell! But without Marc Almond’s deadpan, torch-song delivery, it falls flat. This album spent three years on the British charts. Must have been a fallow three years in music over there.

No.

sooo boring. there’s nothing interesting about this album, the drum machines are bad, and i don’t like his voice (or anything about his music really). and to top it all off the last song is nine minutes. nine painful minutes.

This bored me so much, it feels like so much of late 90's early 00's pop ballad music and it doesn't stand out within that group of music.

Man, I went into this with an open heart but this is mediocrity and blandness sonified. Every song is very similar - musically, the sequenced drums are completely uninspired and flat, the guitar loops around and Gray's voice, his only redeeming feature here (he can, at least, sing), whine's on. This is tedious. Having read about the original failed launch and then meteoric second launch of this album I am stunned at how this was so succesful. Maybe I can understand it gaining a little success given how inoffensive it is, but to be in the top 100 albums for multiple years, the 5(?) selling album etc is absurd. Wow, mega-bland.

boring shit NNN

Not into it. His voice grates on me

The second it started I couldn't wait for it to end

I didn't like David Gray when the Babylon single was being pumped out every 20 minutes and I don't like him now. It's the kind of music you expect to hear sitting in a Starbucks.

Not good at all - why is it on this list? Just nothing to it. The singing/lyrics are weak. The chord progressions are basic. No value what so ever. 0 stars if I could.

How anyone chooses to listen to this is incomprehensible.

Han som tror han är Bob Dylan då. Knappt lyssningsbar om vi bortser från Soft Cell covern.

I was hoping for something good this morning after a rare heavy night of mid-week drinking. But no, the music gods decided I deserved this drek instead. This is music that firmly falls into the "the world would be a better place if this didn't exist" category. I can't rate it less than 1, but I would rate it negatively if I could. Just awful, affected, bland, over-produced shite. This is the music that made me cringe at the time it came out, when you literally couldn't avoid this dross as it was everywhere. After twenty years it actually manages to sound even worse. Appalling! I promised that I would listen to each album from start to finish, but this one was difficult. Just fake music for fake people. I can't quite decide which part of this is worst, the horrible false vocal performance, the dreadful computer synth noises, the nasty harmonies, the dull and repetitive lyrics, or the relentlessly slow and drudging pace. This was audio torture. David Gray manages to sound like a goat bleating in pain at times, sometimes a failed Bob Dylan impressionist, then at other times he sounds like a talentless busker/ pub singer who has had one too many drinks. This is a vile abomination of a record and I'm going to need to listen to a lot of proper music when this is done to cleanse my soul. God he butchered "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye" - that must surely be a crime against humanity? If someone gave me a gun with one bullet, a time machine, and told me to "save humankind", then I would be sorely tempted to visit David Gray at the moment of his birth. Sorry, but anyone who likes this music must have something wrong with their hearing. I can understand different people have different tastes, but this is beyond bad music.

There was a time when this sort of bland music was popular - blame the search for the next Coldplay. But nowadays, many years later, it doesnt wash at all. dull.

David Gray se prý tímto albem dost proslavil, nicméně já o něm dosud nikdy nic neslyšela. A kéž by to tak bývalo zůstalo. Poslech tohoto alba byl pouze ztráta času, který jsem mohla vyhradit něčemu, co si aspoň budu pamatovat déle než je průběh jedné Davidovy písničky. Nejhorší je, že to není vyloženě špatná hudba. Nevím, jak lépe to popsat, než je to zcela „neutrální“. Žádný experiment, žádné riziko, sakra ani žádná emoce v tom není slyšet a přitom texty napovídají, že by mohlo jít o docela fajn melancholický počin. A to je ten nejhorší zločin, co v umění můžete udělat – stvořit něco zcela vyprázdněného, generického, kompletně bezduchého… kdyby to aspoň bylo špatné, že by to bylo něčím zajímavé, ale ani to se nekonalo. Absolutně nechápu, co na tom tolik lidí zaujalo, že se to dostalo i na seznam alb, které by člověk měl alespoň jednou před smrtí slyšet. Zní to jako pre-Ed Sheeran hudba a více než jeden poslech bych opravdu psychicky nezvládla. Nejlepší písničky: nic Nejhorší písničky: nic Hodnocení: 1/10

This was the beginning of modern pop, bollox meoldies, weary lyrics gentle sounds. It's like sitting on the toilet after a heavy night and too much curry it makes you cry and hurts in such a tender place and is just awful

Dismal, left me feeling that I've just wasted an hour of my life. Doesn't even work as background music, kept intruding into my consciousness by annoying.me.This is very, very far from being music that I like.

Are we definite that AI was not around when this was released?

Apparently "noteworthy" because he supported Dave Matthews Band and had good album sales in the US, (which always seems to surprise the UK press). What's the album like? Yawnville! 🥱

not my type

I get that this album had a bunch of hits, but that doesn't automatically make something this boring and bland warrant a spot on the list of albums I NEED to listen to imo. Well, to each their own I suppose

That voice, that repetitive background music….No.

If negative stars were an option this would be a -2. I actually hated this album and I’m not sure why I forced myself to listen past the first song, I guess some innocent part of me thought it would turn, but that has now been robbed from me. In summary this album was as dull and melancholy as unseasoned oatmeal and reminds me of the color grey, uninspired and lacking anything mildly appealing

Hey kids let's make an album that sounds like Phil Collins B-sides.

My GOD this was boring. I think I'd rather listen to that Kid Rock record again than this sappy garbage.

Fördjefla tråkigt. Snäll singer-songwriter folkpop. Här tas aldrig några risker, inga äventyrliga utflykter. Nejdå, vi stannar i det trygga smöriga skitpoplandet och tittar på alla oinspirerande gitarrackord och klyschiga textrader. Tvi vale, jag betackar mig. David Gray har själv sagt att framgången detta album hade banade vägen för artister som James Blunt och Ed Sheeran. Det kan jag höra, han var säkert inflytelserik. Det ÄR att bana vägen för något. Du banade vägen för SKIT, David Gray. Av de låtarna som gjorde intryck kom följande betraktelser: Dricker cyanid före jag frivilligt lyssnar på 'Silver Lining' igen. 'Sail Away' har något lite fint över sig. ELAKT att avsluta ett sånt här album med en 9-minuterslåt. Den är iofs helt ok, men det är nog mest för att det är en cover. Albumet beskrivs som "folktronica", och i första låten, 'Please Forgive Me', finns ändå ett härligt elektrobeat i bakgrunden, låter lite brittiskt och big-beatigt. Utöver detta är det lika bra att gräva ned detta album sex fot under jorden och gå vidare med livet. Bästa låt: Please Forgive Me.

Garbage

If Sour Cream could make music, this would be it. This was the blandest thing I've heard in this journey so far. At one point while listening to the album I said to myself "this whole album sounds like something that would play at the end of a bad Scrubs episode" and I googled "David Gray Scrubs" out of curiosity and turns out "Please Forgive Me" DID play on Scrubs. Glad this one's over.

Jævlig fra første sekund. Lure på om eg har 20-årsjubileum på å mislika han fyren her i år? Ref første sesong av idol

Beginnt schwach, lässt dann aber stark nach, hab bei der Hälfte abgebrochen. Naja.

ugh

Så länge en lasagne inte är rent kass så är den alltid ok. Precis tvärtom med singer-songwritergrejen tyvärr. Den är ju rätt väl inmutad av genier, så om nåt bara är bra så är det bara tråkigt.

didn't like

Hmmm, what is this and who is this? Who is David Gray and why is he saying these things? I have to admit I'd only heard We're Not Right before as it popped up on one of those brilliant Q Magazine Best Tracks Of cd's, and I didn't give it much thought then and having just listened to the album I've probably dedicated far too much of my mortal coil allotment on this stuff. It's like the male companion piece to Lisa Stansfield, seriously it's for people who send food back in cafes. And yet....a quick glance on Spotify shows millions of hits, good to know I'm completely out of step with the bourgeois zeitgeist. I know I'm sounding very smug and self satisfied, but I think it was Balzac who put it best when he said "this sucks"..

Apart from Babylon, the material on this album was unfamiliar to me. Now I have to try to erase it from my memory. Very forgettable, I hope.

Oh my god, I am dying of boredom. Even attempting to describe the boredom is deadly dull. I did actually listen to this all the way through, but I cannot express how much I hated this pre-masticated pablum. Deathly, deathly, boring. His name is boring. The album cover is boring. His voice could bore for England. Apparently, Mr Gray believes (and I have no reason to doubt him) that the success (175 weeks on the UK charts!) paved the way for "soul-baring" artist such as James Blunt, Ed Sheeran and others. As if I need any more reason to despise this record, and yet here it is. It is neither hot nor cold, and I shall spit it out of my mouth.

literally one of the most boring albums i have ever listened to

The definition of mediocrity. And yet somehow, mediocrity, served just the right way, often manages to become wildly popular. I'm not gonna compare this to a McDonald's burger, because I don't think it's analogous. A McDonald's burger might not be a culinary masterpiece, but I can at least basically remember what it tastes like - even years later. No, this album is like a Wendy's burger. Although I've had Wendy's burgers before, I can't really remember what they taste like. There just aren't enough distinct characteristics to hold onto. I saw this album cover and I was like "oh yeah, that album...I remember that...No wait a minute, no I guess I don't..." It had basically completely faded from my memory, and I liked it that way. It kind of makes me sad that this list is going to perpetuate an album like this, even by a smidge. Just let it continue to die slowly from our collective memories.

Bland as fuck

"Dad! I want an R.E.M. cd!'' ''We've got R.E.M. at home.'' R.E.M. at home:

Not my thing.

Another artist I had never heard of--and right off the bat I know this is not for me. The folktronica aspect of the beats complementing the backbone of these songs is just too distracting and too much for me. Though there are some more straight up singer-songwriter guitar based songs in the middle of the album that I did find appealing. His voice reminds a ton of Ryan Adams and the whole album I just wished I was listening to one of Ryan Adams early solo records instead. I'm sure this album is great for a lot of people, but it's not for me.

highlights: why they all sound the same liked: no, poopy album sounds bland, repetitive, generic, most of times boring USE DIFFERENT DRUM PATTERNS FOR GODS SAKE

I've never been angry at a record just for existing before, yet here we are. This is a album so banal it's offensive. One star because I can't give zero.

Not a chance. No. No. No.

I did not like it.

N0pe

Nope. Selling loads doesn't mean i have to listen to it, I heard all the identical singles 1001 times, that's plenty. Babylon is a place where this doesn't exist.

Maybe just not in the mood but this kinda sucks!

Ugh.

Payback time. From wiki: "Gray believes that the success of White Ladder paved the way for 'soul-baring' artists such as James Blunt, Ed Sheeran, George Ezra, James Bay and Tom Walker."

A nice, albeit bland, listen. This Year's Love is the standout song.

Well bad.

Urrgh. Yes, Babylon is a good song but the whole album?? How is this Ireland’s best selling album of all time? Is this guy responsible for James Blunt? The horror.

I'm glad this list picked the album that has the only tolerable song on it. Babylon was a tune back when I was a teen and listening back to this song brings with it memories of the 90s and carefree days. But I think it's more with nostalgia that I am fond of this rather then any real musical credibility. Not if the rest of the album is anything to go by. I'd like to say it was mediocre and middle of the road, but I think that would be giving it too much accolade. Dreary at best, track after track goes by without a memorable melody, lyric or rhythm. The sort of music you can put on in the background and completely forget its on. It's so disturbingly apologetic that I find it offensive. Bland. Boring. If this is an album I have to listen to before I die, I'd have preferred to have waited til I was in a coma and couldn't remember it.

nope

Ugliest album cover ever. The music wasn't much better in my opinion, too slow and sad sounding

I made it though Please Believe Me. I had an old dj mix that started w/ a remix of that track, so there’s a little nostalgia there. And I’ll admit that if I’m feeling particularly depressed, This Year’s Love can be borderline tolerable. Alas, I did not make it more than 1.5 minutes of the 2nd song. I decided to listen to Neu! By Neu! Instead. I ended up buying NEU!’s first 3 albums. I’d review those instead, but I assume at least one of them will be on this thing at some point

The sound of accepting a dull fate. The feeling that haunts you when you enter your emply house with the blinds closed. The opposite (?) of Baroque music.

Boring, middle of the road, no thanks

alright