Reviews (page 7 of 8)
Boring and forgettable.
Goofy. Did not enjoy.
I don't know what this is, but it isn't very good.
Who listened to this and thought, everyone has got to listen to this before they die?
Sleazy trash, wtf is this shit? Absolutely did not need this before dying. I need a restraining order against this album.
the introduction alone subtracts a point. he seems awful and creepy. i feel like i'm being date raped Would I listen again: god please no Deserves to be on this list: absolutely not 0.4 (if i could give 0s i'd give one)
We all mean No means Yes....I don't really care if this is 'comedy.' Its a joke unless she means it right? Maybe I'll kill her...violence against women is hillarious. F@ck off man I am really over this list and their need to promote disgusting men and disgusting 'jokes' as art. Its not funny...no means no, no more of this crappy men who think they are artsy and funny and that gives them license to be disgusting creatures. Also F@ck this project for encouraging people to listen to these albums and giving them a listens to their music that should be long forgotten.
This was a real cringe fest. Is the whole concept some mega horny guy who thinks he's a real Casanova but is really a bumbling fool? I guess he succeeded if that’s the case. Regardless, this music is genuinely terrible.
not a fan
Wow (and not in a good way). This band does every track like it’s a show tune. Cool if you’re in the mood for show tunes, I guess. But annoying if you’re not in the mood for show tunes, don’t know the show, and suspect you would not like the show if it were an actual show. A 1.
Is this a joke? Why would anyone need to listen to this?
Did not rate this one. I understand this style of music exists but sometimes it just fucks me right off. I would get up to destroy the speaker it's playing from.
Something for the Weekend Become More Like Alfie The Frog Princess
sometimes i wonder if i have been being too liberal about my five star rating, that it means the truly phenomenal once-in-a-universe albums don't stand out as much against a tier of other admittedly cream of the crop albums. this is the first time i've felt that sentiment in the opposite direction. i, if anything, respect the commitment to the ethos. it is aggressively not for me. either the vocals work for me or the instrumental does, or neither, but never both in conjunction (and anything that doesn't work hurts my ears).
No me gustó. 1/10
This makes me think of that Andy Samberg - Snoop Dogg Corona commercial from a couple years ago where Andy raps and then... Andy: Was that good? Snoop: No. Andy: Oh. Snoop: It was incredible... Andy: Oh? Snoop: ...ly bad.
No.
Sounds like bad karaoke. But sure, put it on this trash list.
There was nothing particularly redeeming about the album. It does feel out of place. 6/10 [DROP]
Really show toon and kitschy
Disappointing. Theatrical, middle class baroque pop. Ugh.
Britpop Sinatra, without the charisma of either. Dull, gray, bloated - like a whale car ass washed up on a beach. When it's not boring it's annoying.
Second album proposé après 'A short album about love' que j'avais détesté (noté 1/5 - trop d'orchestration, ennuyeux). Cet album fait toujours appel à une partie orchestrale, mais qui m'a paru un peu moins envahissante que dans le précédent album, donc un peu plus supportable. Enfin, c'est ce que pensais après les premiers morceaux. Mais j'ai fini par jeter l'éponge avec les vocalises de 'Charge', terribles. Et l'album est beaucoup trop long. =>1/5
I did not enjoy this listen at all
This is a crime. Terrible. OMG. Never heard of this before and open mind but whoa. nope.
This is cringey. A misstep. Love his new stuff, not this.
what if Dead Can Dance was bad I’m probably being overly harsh to this album but the heart wants what it wants, and the heart wants cruelty
Garbage
Incredibly dull for how upbeat and theatrical it is. And my god some of the little talking skits and lyrics are so creepy and rape-y. I could feel my skin crawl as I listened to this
I only listened to the first couple tracks
1089 albums later, almost 3 years, and this album is my last, and my only review. What a fitting end. 40% of this list is irrelevant UK garbage, and this rape-y cringfest of an album is the norm, not the exception. The lyrics are, if I'm being kind, worthy of police investigation for sexual harassment, never mind his limited range and depth of a sippy-cup. So we get to listen to a incel chav's fever dream instead of, you know, actual great albums, hell, even actual great UK albums, like Madvillainy, or any EDM record in the past 20 years - no Tiesto, no Paul Oakenfold, no Armin Van Buuren, Eric Prydz, etc. etc. etc. Fucking hell. What a pot of piss of an album.
I need to shower after listening to this lol
Furchtbares Gesäusel.
🎧We have Pulp at home
This sounds like the soundtrack they play non-stop on the island. You know which one…
This isn’t one star but I gotta take my frustration out that they included a clearly “comedy” album that’s unfunny as hell & the lack of Weird Al is unforgivable. Pulp, but not good. Scott Walker, but not memorable. It’s no Melody Nelson. British comedy isn’t comedy, nor is it divine. (I liked the first couple tracks but then I realized oh, it as a one trick pony & the one trick isnt even good. Like seeing magician do a double lift over and over.)
This list is just an British prank to be played on Americans
Hated it
Painful. I did not like
If Leisure Suit Larry wrote an album.
This isn’t even fun bad. It made me sad with how bad it was.
Chamber pop is definition that I haven't heard before. Theatrical, dramatical and somewhat annoying. This wasn't a joyful listening experience as album feels too much of chamber pop to my taste.
Whoa! A band I've not heard even the name of, that I remember that is. Anyway, the music is kinda shite. It reminds me of the cheapest of Finnish shlager or iskelmä as we call it, combined with cheap Las Vegas stylings and delusions of grandeur. I need to add that I dislike the term/genre chamber pop.
Flög in som en lite udda fågel under britpopparaplyet. Det här albumet var väl den stora lilla kommersiella höjdpunkten. Dom två inledande spåren, tillika singlarna, är rätt kul. Men sen händer inte så mycket mer kul. Ibland drar det år nån slags varitéemusik som jag har lite svårt för. Bombasm står på programet och det hade gott kunnat ge fan i Når inte godkänt
Det börjar relativt okej. Men låt för låt blir detta album alltmer outhärdligt. En massa teatraliskt dravel. Har oerhört svårt för sången. Instrumentalt är det inte mycket bättre.
Första intrycket var att det här var snyggt men tråkigt. Men som kom det skojfriska musikalnumret Charge. Det uppskattas inte. Tillsammans med vidrigheten The Frog Princess kan betyget inte bli annat än underkänt. Det musikaliska skämtet att spela marseljäsen i låten med grodtitel är bara tröttsamt. Tydligen ska bandet ha varit återkommande förband till Suede i början av 90-talet. Utifrån hur den här skivan låter är det är helt obegripligt. Sparks har ju redan varit med på listan. Vad är nästa skiva i genren? Tenacious D? Det får räcka nu.
Album I would replace this one with: Stone Temple Pilots - Purple (1994) 5/5
Not good, not memorable.
Not for me. 1/5
Put off listening to this because it looked really bad at a cursory glance. But then, I did a little bit of reading and oh, frontman Neil Hannon credited Scott Walker as inspiring him. That's cool, I love Scott Walker so much that I've got a book of essays on his albums waiting for me on the holds shelf at the library and I often find myself wishing that Walker had recorded more baroque pop before transitioning into the amazing albeit abrasive industrial music he's become celebrated for. Okay, maybe I'll actually love this album. Didn't happen! Staggeringly unpleasant listen. Hannon imitates Walker, sure, and the album's best track - The Dogs & the Horses - is just that but his sensibilities are just a copy of Walker's and his voice is much closer to the Stephen Merritt than Walker. I love Merrit's voice but the result of this guy trying to do Walker but sounding like Merrit is distracting. The album's concept is juvenile and underdeveloped, a one-note concept totally eclipsed by any Magnetic Fields album. Favorite Tracks: The Dogs & the Horses, Something for the Weekend, Charge
I tried hard to connect with this. But it’s awful.
David Ackles if he sucked
Not good. At all.
wyspiarskie popowanie z 96, album naprawde dobrze zrobil motyw casanovy, bo doslownie wychodzi mi bokiem kontent liryczny tej plyty, o ile the divine comedy to banda, to slychac ze jest mocno skoncentrowana wokol swojego wokalisty pana hannona, nawet nie wiem ilu czlonkow ma zespol, bo wiki listuje caly personel bez ladu i skladu, a sporo ludzi trzeba zeby nagrac bogato brzmiacy pop bez wzgledu na rocznik plyty, natezenie instrumentow detych i smyczkowych zdecydowanie nadaje chamberowosci tej plycie, ale nie buduje jakiegos charakteru, ktory znowu robi lirycznie motywem casanovy, juz nawet okladka z panem hannonem pasuje do motywu przewodniego, tak samo wokalno liryczne wypociny milosno nisko romansowo kasanowe, jesli zazwyczaj nie lubie tego typu muzyki to dzisiaj jest to jeszcze bardziej wyrazne, plyte uratowal utwor casanova theme, ktory okazal sie byc instrumentalem poprzedzonym malym intro dajacym troche insajdowego luka na plyte, ale wreszcie cos czego dalo sie sluchac, wiec tylko ten traczek dodam na plejke, a sam album zdecydowanie zapamietam z niesmakiem, bo juz zygam miloscia i jej wszelkimi odcieniami, nawet tak niskimi
Sounds like the soundtrack for Epstein Island. While there's some interesting music happening, I cant get past the lyrics. "Everybody knows that 'no' means 'yes'." Just gross.
so cheesy so not my thing 1/5
Wtf is this
It's like if a theater kid with no taste liked David Bowie and took all of his dating advice from 80s movies.
ANOTHER Divine Comedy album. I didn't like the first one I got and I don't like this either. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
this was woefully bad i couldn’t even finish it please don’t ever give me this shit again
Don't like it.
New band for me in every way and they definitely did not gain a new fan. Bland, boring, and background music are how I would rate it. It's like the meh emoji in music form.
I tried not to skip.. but it was a mistake... you should always trust your guts. Just skip this album.
Never make me go through this again pleaSE. Some okays were Middle-Class Heroes and The Frog Princess.
Is it just me or were these lyrics incredibly creepy? It's giving that incredibly horny middle aged man who just goes for anything with a pulse. It's too much. I only really liked 'theme from Casanova' because Neil Hannon wasn't singing about school girls and not ever wanting to be deprived of Wonderbras and thunder thighs. And 'the dogs and horses' because he says goodbye - and with that I never have to listen to this again. I did not enjoy this. No thanks.
Is this an April fools joke in January? This makes me think I can make an influential album.
I rarely disagree with my best mate. We share lots in common in life and musically. He thinks that The Divine Comedy are awesome and funny. I however think this fella is a pretentious bore.
The Good: The last time I will ever have to listen to The Divine Comedy on purpose… The Bad: The fact that something so great as Casanova, the person, was tainted by association to this album… The Ugly: The scratches on my skull as I try to figure out why someone would grant this shit 2 entries on a list of 1001… Here we go again, why not include Saturday Night Fever soundtrack to this list, instead of this absolute garbage? I really tried to listen to this with virgin ears, but as the afore ears were already once raped by having to listen to “a short album about love”, this experience proved to be excruciatingly painful. Fuck you Mr Dimery for making me listen to this shit twice! 1*
Pevert
Meh
imagine thinking somebody should listen to this even once of all the albums made in the 20th century then writing it in a book and that book is published. what the fuck are we doing here. dweeb theatre perverts: hated. (⌐■_■) 🚬
This has negative appeal to me. Absolute stinker. Get outta here.
dominant male sexual self-admiring is off-putting, sentences like "no is really yes, you know it" etc are kinda disgusting and added by that chearful-christmasy background makes me nauseous
And this album is a must listen because...?
1. uueekend - 0 2. alfie - 0 3. heroez - 0 4. London -0 5. Charge -0 6. Love - 1 7.frog - 1 8. Woman - 0 9. Night - 0 10. Casanova - 1.5 11. Horses - 1.5 FUCKING ZERO BUT NOT AN OPTION !!!!
I haven’t liked a single album from any Irish band so far
50s crooning in a 90s package. Does not compute and sounded like garbage.
Uno de tantos sonidos tontorrones que hacían los anglos cuando se estaba acabando el siglo (es de Irlanda del Norte, cuenta como anglo). Tiene esos momentos ascendentes donde la voz se apoya en algunas cuerdas para sonar más grande e importante. Si es que cuando se trata de ser cursis, a estos nadie les gana, te lo digo. Suena a lo más insoportable de Robin Williams y a otro puñado de cosas a las que se intenta parecer. La teatralidad que se entromete en algunas de las canciones, siendo algo que me suele gustar, es tan incómoda de escuchar... Favs: Además de que no me gustó ninguna, le voy a poner un 1 en señal de protesta para que nos dejen de llenar la lista con sonidos que no tienen nada de esencial
Just ew. This man makes me uncomfortable.
Horrible.
Oh god I _despise_ this self-satisfied bullshit
I dislike a novelty song, so imagine my pleasure at finding a whole album of them. Neil is so up himself, and a lot of the songs seem pretty demeaning to women. In summary - no.
They’ll just give record deals to anyone over the pond huh? I thought this was a parody at first.
Well, I'd never heard of chamber pop until today. I'm not sure that my life is more enriched for the experience. The first song sounds like Christmas music, and the third song sounds like a mix of Christmas music with Tom Jones' voice. The whole album sounds like a relic of mid-90s "let's see if this works." Given that nobody knows what chamber pop is, the answer to that is pretty clear. The longer this album goes on, the more I suspect Bowie had something to do with this, as that would mean automatic inclusion on this list for Dimery. Just a lot of cheese. It's only 11 songs but seemed to go on forever. 1/5
"Everyone knows that no means yes." Yikes. Pretty shit album, close to completely unlistenable. Couldn't finish it.
Grand idea but execution was not there.
Middle-Class Heroes was so bad it was comical. And, as with A Short Album About Love, I'm not convinced it is purposeful.
I don’t like this spoken word-esque vocal style.
This made me wriggle... and not in a good way.
Music to be shot to
come on man
This is going to be a long 1001 albums with stuff like this.
I can't stand this theater kid bullshit
As far as Brit-Pop goes, it's not terrible. It's just that Brit-Pop isn't very good. I don't think we needed 10 of the 11 songs to be about sex. Maybe branch out a bit. I think this guy is wasting his talents on this album. I can tell he has vocal chops, but he uses them to sound like the biggest douche on the planet. With better lyrics and less focus on the low register, i think I might actually enjoy this band. But alas, i do not enjoy it. I often adjust rankings based on potential, but I don't think I will this time. 1 star.
I did not care for this album, but, when I don't care for an album, I take a star but otherwise try to rate it objectively. This is an album where I might say something like "For what it is, it's very well done." This album is well produced and performed well, but in this case, we have to talk about what this, in fact, is. It's 90's brit pop that's a parody of 70s lounge acts. It's Frank Sinatra meets 90"s kitchy offbeat humor. I'm sure this stuff a load of fun for the Brits at the end of the last millennium, but that's where it needs to stay. The Frog Princess is a straight up spoof on Frank Sinatra's "My Way" but it's about a one night stand with a fat ugly girl? Ugh. (I'm assuming the euphemisms "frog" and "cow" have the same connotations across the pond that they do here). No, I did not need to hear this album.
Didn’t like it
Second track just put me off with the no means yes thing I am not listening to any more; i did like the music decent enough and was trying to see if there it's trying to be ironic or anything or fits a grander narrative- what ive read from the wikipedia and global reviews though a lot of it surrounds sex and seduction and I am not for it. The first track was creepy enough with the weird deep voice. I think the album doesnt seem significant enough to give it another chance
Look, I love Andrew Lloyd Webber, but I didn't need a guy pretending to be the neckbeard version of the Phantom hitting on me non-stop.
p780. 1996. 1.5 stars. I always feel I should like the Divine Comedy, but there is something about the oh-so-clever lyrics and Neil Hannon's smug faux Scott Walker voice that makes me want to slap him with a wet kipper. Saved from 1 star by the theme from Father Ted. Speaking of comedy, how does Neil Hannon get two albums on this list and The Cranberries get none?
Horn and organ heavy. Not sure what it's alternative to for 1997. Something for the Weekend lends itself to a 80's pop sound. Curious how a band with a handful of songs barely cracking any significant UK chart making a list for entire albums you need to hear before you die. Production sounds good at least. Plenty of big band influence. Lots of orchestra for 90's Alt. Dude has talked way too much through 3 songs. This will be the one and only time this will ever be intentionally played by me. Were they trying to have a modern 90's take on the rat pack? The talking on tracks is a common theme. This is in the bottom three of the minimal 54 albums I have listened to so far on this list. One of those that I really didn't want to have to finish, but ya got to hear it all.
This isn't a parody album? BSFFR. This 1001 album experiment might just end here.
To quote Beavis and Butthead, "This sucks more than anything that's ever sucked before."
Somehow more pretentious than a mediocre "SING" act at Baylor, plus some extra lounge overlays. I'm not a fan.
This is not the worst pop record but one of the worst I had to listen to.
I had to look this up on Rate Your Music. It says, that for genres it's Chamber Pop, Baroque Pop, Art Pop, and Cabaret. If that's what it is, I'm pretty sure I don't like these styles. For descriptors, it says that it's humorous, sexual, sarcastic, male vocalist, quirky, romantic, love, bittersweet, passionate, orchestral, lush, poetic, epic, satirical, playful, energetic, melodic, breakup, theatrical, lonely, self-hatred, hedonistic. Again, I don't think I like this style. Maybe I'm not cultured? That's fine.
Bono's Mephisto made a record. Hard pass.
Reminds me of an English Nick Cave mixed with chamber pop; which did not really interest me at all. Has a strange mix of bombast that feels very misplaced. Some okay moments, but not much going on
Like Neil Diamond in the worst way
“Everybody knows that no means yes” Yikes, no. This whole album made me very uncomfortable. I wish I could give 0 stars.
:/
For some reason I'm getting 'Robbie Williams' vibes. ...also, very "m'lady", and the lyrics are more than a bit creepy. 1,5/5
A concept album where the concept is getting laid and I'm not sure if this is supposed to be a comedy album or not. This reminds me of Moore-era Bond, but without the charm of Roger Moore. I hate the skits on this album, it makes me feel embarrassed to start playing this and also makes me thankful for headphones. There are some albums on this list that are bad, but at least I am interested in what they're trying to do even if I think it's bad. I don't remember the last time I checked how many songs are left or how long I have to go. I probably should have liked this considering some of the slop I regularly listen to but this was ass. Highlights: In & Out of Paris & London
Everyone is allowed to have one or two of those artists they just dislike for no good reason. So when this was generated for me on a lazy Saturday morning I was deeply irritated. But I’m committed to the project. So I duly listened. And now, in fairness to The Divine Comedy, I actually do have good reason. His voice and delivery are unbearable, the arrangements are needlessly OTT and the lyrics are painfully pretentious. It’s nowhere near divine and it’s not remotely funny. Get in the bin.
Did somebody lose a bet? Why is this album on this list? I fail to see what I would be missing out on if I didn't listen to this before I died.
Just not really it
As corny as it is boring.
Boo
thought this was an album named “the divine comedy” by the guy on the front who called himself casanova. so i was gonna write, “lol what an asshole.” but it turns out it’s an album named “casanova” by a band named the divine comedy. either way, it stinks.
Please no more of this garbage
I gave up on track 8. Not even the theme from Father Ted could redeem this garbage album.
Big "TEMU Scott Walker" x "We've got Pulp at home* energy here. Lyrically, this belongs on a list, just not this one...
This is the corniest shit I have ever heard in my life.
I think I missed the reason why this album is on this list. 1 star
Found this quite boring, nothing stood out for me. Around the end of the album it started to pick up a bit, but unfortunately it was too late. Background music for me
1.5, ugh. I try not to question why things are on this list but this one has me asking.
i dunno what this is and i am not interested in discovering more about it. it was dreadful to experience.
Too cheesy to take seriously.
The first 4 songs were absolutely terrible. It improved marginally after that with a Prince feeling and acoustic guitar song. Then sounds back into the first few songs again. Comedically bad
Belanglos!
Not quite
What a dumpster fire!
The authors' obsession with britpop strikes again. Adding in an orchestra makes it sound even more pretentious wow.
Annoying. Vaudeville musical is not my cup of tea.
Didn't really rate this one, it was giving musical vibes, but not a good one.
Didn't really ever get better from the start. I can hear the great sound but all the different parts come together to just feel corny and boring. Not sure why this is on the list I could've done without hearing it to be fair.
Sorry but this is godawful. I think it was supposed to be funny and I tried really hard to get into it but I just thought it sounded weird and crap and it couldn’t finish fast enough.
Creepy little bastard. Out on this guy.
The only comedy here is the singing. It's like karaoke.
it started off not strong... and then just continued to go downhill for me. turned into a bunch of wailing and ultimately just felt silly to listen to. i think by the 5th track i was wishing the album was over. sorry Divine Comedy... but it ain't for me
I’m four songs in and I can’t tell if it’s supposed to be ironically cringey or if this is a serious attempt at making music. Alright, apparently it’s just the sub-genre being different but I’ve finished the album and it doesn’t make me look at it differently. He absolutely has a wonderful singing voice, so can’t say much of anything negative in that regard. But overall, I can’t see myself ever listening to chamber-pop again. The writing comes off as way too simple and there are parts that are so European it hurts. I wouldn’t say it was a waste of time, more of a one-hour session of learning I don’t want to explore this branch of popular music.
not my vibe
Unbelieveably boring theater kid music, i'm good thanks.
I always listen all the way through. Always. I had to turn this off after like five songs. I wish I knew exactly why I didn't like it so I could avoid all things like that forever.
Did not care for this.
Nothing grabbed me. Could of done with never listening to this album.
I vaguely recall National Express, disappointed not to hear it. Overall, found this a slog. A lot of the tracks sound the same, backed by carnival music. Would go down well on the Waltzers. Lyrically silly. Really not for me, somewhere around 1.5. His commitment to almost never singing is remarkable.
Not interested in this type of music.
tinha um tempo que eu não sofria tanto p escutar um álbum muito ruim filho puta merda
Fine, I get it. But not for me.
This is lame as shit, these vocals are irritating and the mixing is so jank, absolutely trash
1 star. I hate you albums about sex I was gonna say the music was enough to take it to a 2 but man do I fucking hate the overall theme of this album 👎👎👎👎👎
Sounded like a dull musical
Day 91 - March 4th, 2025 This shit actually made me uncomfortable. 0/5
Not my style
If this album is supposed to appeal through comedic value, it fails, because it is just so unfunny. If not, it still fails, because I just can't take it seriously. Indeed, it is a conundrum, but one that lacks any stimulus to unravel, so I won't even try. Possibly the most perfect example of a one-star album that I have come across so far.
No. Just no. It's over-the-top brit pop, it's silly, and there are references that just aren't relatable outside the isles. And they're not even proper british, they're irish. I just can't any more.
I don’t get it
Never heard of him. Music just ok.
The real comedy here is that someone with their unbearable Brit bias thought this album was something you had to hear before you die. This was straight trash. 3 songs and done.
This was not my jam because it’s dumb.
Boring and pretentious, hard to see anything redeemable about this, makes me wonder why Neil Hannon is as well known in the UK and Ireland as is he 1.5*
Ugh. I did not like this all, for reasons I can’t fully articulate. 1 - 2
What the fuck is this shit. 1.46
Way too rapey vibes for me.. The concept/compositions were pretty original though.
Neil Hannon wrote My Lovely Horse and genuinely seems like a sound guy but I simply do not like his other musical projects. I find them grating and annoying, I'm not nostalgic for them, I never liked them and I don't think I ever will
Tries so hard to be David Bowie. Fails spectacularly. Godawful. Ugh!
Bleh...really nothing interesting about this at all. 1.5/5
Utter, pretentious, claptrap. Was this supposed to be a comedy album? A Noel Coward tribute band? I did a lot of laughing. Mainly at the compositional awkwardness, curious arrangements and choice of "instruments". Another 50 minutes of my life wasted. 1/5. Why can't I give this zero?
Estranhamente, caso o disco tenha se inspirado na história do Casanova, ficou resultado bem sem graça.
Was this supposed to be a rock opera? It felt like the soundtrack to a bad musical. Hard pass.
If I made my own 1001 albums list, it would absolutely contain some terrible stuff that I personally adored, and I’m convinced that’s why albums like this one are on the list. I skipped the last two songs.
Не мое
Really terrible
Is this really on this list, I thought they were a comedy act, like the wurzzles or raw sex. Pants.
This is on the same level as Scott Walker - god awful. It’s some cheesy lounge act that’s trying to be serious. Even the Thom Yorke-looking-dude on the album cover can’t be taken seriously as a “Casanova”.
I honestly have no idea what it is that I just listened to.
all over the place
I’m going to put exactly as much effort into reviewing this album as there is quality music on it.
I couldn't take it. This sounded like the worst attempt at creating mildly offensive show tunes. Not a single thing works on this album
Was this a joke? Did someone lose a bet? Surely there must be a logical explanation for whatever this was.
Not my vibe
This is just terrible and to the brink of annoying to listen to. Not my jam
The guitar tone is quite well mixed and that’s the only good thing I can say about this album. Annoying vocals, like a Bowie/Morrisey wannabe. Boring songs that don’t build up, too wordy. There are no hooks. Not sure why this should belong on the list. Do I have to be a Brit to understand it?
Definitely not my cup of tea.
Dumb album, would never listen again.
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I nearly didn’t make it through this one, not my thing at all. Awful Bummed that the recent few weeks of albums is bringing down my average rating
Is this a joke? Comedy is in their name so maybe the whole thing is supposed to be satire? It's like the soundtrack to a musical that I do not want to see. My ears feel dirty.
Alright, what the hell is this? RESISTING THE URGE TO READ ABOUT IT BEFORE LISTENING... here we go... imagining myself seeing this at a record store, not gonna buy it based on the cover alone... plus who calls themselves "Casanova?" Later, after buying an Oasis album or something, I go to a friend's house and they HAPPEN TO HAVE CASANOVA's "The Divine Comedy" (and you thought Jethro Tull was pretentious) and I'm like, "Well, I guess we should listen to this." My fictional friend only has this album because he's a DJ at the local non-profit alternative radio station and everyone at the station has to review a few LPs before they play them. Record companies give these away to radio stations in hopes that the station will put it on their playlist. Alternative radio gets to be independent and play stuff that they judge to be worthy, unlike commercial radio, whole other story. ANYWAY my bud throws this on. Poptones. Is this a throwback attempt? Seems a little professional for something that just comes out of left field. First song ("Something for the Weekend") is a little story-song with a twist ending. The next one is a cheeky little number, self-referential but, DO I KNOW YOU? Song 3 "Middle Class Heroes" is a cringefest with some weak abstraction of a moral judgement on... the middle class? People with children? Indians? "In & Out of Paris & London" is literally hurting me - trying to do a Morrisey thing? The reasonable side musicians he had on the first couple songs have now quit in protest and now Casanova (?) relies on synths. But not in a cool way. He's doing a lounge-lizard thing but the compositions are making me lose my faith in humanity. How did this get made, let alone released? I'll find out later. The next "song," called "Charge" (some war metaphor, clever, never heard that before!) contains a disturbingly childish derivative of a Brechtian march of some kind. I keep using phrases like "of some kind" and "a ____ thing" because this is so badly executed I can't determine the musical roots to which it is trying to emulate. This person is TRYING REALLY HARD to be clever and it comes off as misplaced arrogance. Really difficult to get through, the vocal quality is awful, like a dude who just can't get enough of his own voice and no one has the courage to tell him it's medocre at best. Trying too hard. I don't know if I can get through this, wondering why it's only the list. {EDIT: found out why it's on the list} Gah, more callbacks with the synthesizer trumpet and the dorky toy piano sound while this fool does his best Sinatra. "You don't really love me and I don't really mind, cause I don't love anybody, that stuff is just a waste of time, you don't really love me but I'd do you" WHAT IN THE LITERAL FUCK. Argghhh second song in a row with the stupid whistling like it's 1937 or something. This is making me want to destroy my own house. Kill me now. Gonna stick it out because I'm a masochist I guess. The little jazzy breakdowns are godawful. I'm guessing this dude is like an actor or theater guy, who made this album as a side project. "Through a Long and Sleeples Night" starts and all of a sudden something extreme and sinister is happening, but the cheesy syntho-trumpet remains. No growly vocal will save this from pure amateurish contrived garbage that has made this bed... OH!!! This is that shite The Divine Comedy! The BAND is The Divine Comedy! Ah, also responsible partly for the insanely bad Ute Lemper album. I'm leaving in the first bit where I mistake the name of the band for the name of the album because that's: 1. Bad graphic design, 2. Self-centered to think that I would know your band well enough to make the distinction correctly, and 3. The name "The Divine Comedy" is one of the worst band names I've ever come across, while it is plausible that the guy on the cover might have the stage name Casanova - as many others do. In all seriousness, this is so bad to be offensive. Hire a fucking trumpet. This is making me want to jam a sharpened pencil into my ears. Shocking to me what becomes popular.
Not great. Didn’t like really any songs. Not for me I guess
Why would this be on any list of anything? This is like some AI generated thing where the prompt was "make me a british pop album thats the most boring thing ever." 1/5
what the fuck was this shit???
What in the world? Cheesy campy. I suppose if you're looking for that maybe
Jill told me not to listen to this. I should’ve taken her advice
Pretty unlistenable for the most part.
Blech
Langweilig..
It's like Spacehog got fed up with their contract and decided to put out a joke album to fulfill their obligations to the company as a final f. u.
Incredibly generic, boring pop. Easily skippable
Why is he doing that voice
Dracula röst+royalty free beats+ jag tänker våldta dig SÅ ironiskt Kanske det sämsta albumet jag någonsin hört? Kan inte tro att detta band har mer än en plats på listan
Meg
Somehow more insipid than their other album on here. And longer.
Yeah, really don’t like this. It actually got worse the more i listened. It’s just strange and a little bit creepy.
Is it trying to be funny? Is that the gimmick? Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine Ass music.
David Bowie wannabe. Did not like.
I made it all the way to one minute into track 3 before I noped the hell out.
Boring
Nope
Pretty cool. Love Middle Class Heroes
(Pinkies out) Really not my cup of tea. Becoming More Like Alfie is the best song, but the whole album is a bit too Benny Hillish for me (1.0*s)
Did this guy lose a bet? The whole album is too theatrical, overly dramatic, and campy for me. It completely creeped me out and I couldn't wait for it to end. Who is this bizarre sleaze ball and how do I get as far away as possible? If there's something to like here it was definitely missed on me. In one song he's just screaming "bang, bang, bang" into my ear and in another he's turning frogs into cows. Not for me at all.
Couldn’t wait for this album to end. Not for me 1/5
No. There’s a reason this isn’t constantly popping up on “best of” lists.
J'ai pas écouté en entier psk vrmt j'aimais pas du tout
This guy gives me the creeps. Which sucks because the rest of the music is actually pretty good. But this is unlistenable because of the lyrics.
Heavy orchestral pop influences, not for me had to put it down
Divine Boredom
90’s music makes me so sad. Nope
Don't have anything good to say about this.
Dudes trying way too hard. Wind your neck in
Why must you waste my time with this nonsense?
musically it's not that bad, but god damn it is cringe. I don't think it's supposed to be taken that serious. At least I hope it isn't.
Could not finish
If irritation was the goal that this album succeeded like a hemorrhoid flareup.
Not particularly funny to me and not particularly good music to me. I don’t believe that novelty records have much of a place on this list.
At best it sounded like bad Belle and Sebastian or bad Pulp. I never got used to the singer's voice and was happy when it was over.
I feel like I 'get' Divine Comedy but I don't enjoy them. National Express was a chirpy pop ditty, but the cheeky, wordy Britishness misses something for me. Maybe it needs a bit of the other side too - some kind of edge under the quaintness. Mark Smith did this 'wry observation' stuff much better. And The Fall's music was far more interesting. Close, but no cigar(ette)
Weak Noël Coward crap.
0 stars
It's like if Rufus Wainwright and a crooner had a baby, and that baby wanted to be Bowie but fell short of the mark.
Not, Thks
What did I just listen to?
Not my music
This sounds like a parody album by a less talented Robert Cheese. No thanks.
Kind of got annoying after awhile.
I'll be honest I wasn't paying great attention to this album but at all the times I was listening to it I was extremely confused. Im not sure if this is a masterpiece that I have yet the artistic capacity to enjoy but... I fear that that is not the case.
Not sure I’d call this Something for the Weekend. Felt like I went Through a Long & Sleepless Night on this one…
I hated many things about this record. The music was whatever, but the pretentious singing style was grating, and the lyrics were super rapey. Not a single thing I liked about this, and I would never want to listen to it again.
Sucks. No notes. Ok, one note. It sorta sounds like the overdramaticness of Nightmare Before Christmas. 1.49/5
Not one of the Britpop acts of the 90s that I ever got into. I've heard of the band but never felt the need to seek out their music because it was never really in the conversation among anyone I knew. I'm not a fan of the cheesy, swanky nightclub vibes he puts in his lyrics and singing. He seems like he's trying to play the part of a posh playboy and that just doesn't speak to me at all, which makes sense as to why I never got into him or his music. He definitely feels inspired by Scott Walker but it feels a bit forced to me. I also wasn't a big fan of the sampled and jokey voices that were added to a number of songs. This one was kind of a slog to get through and I can't imagine a scenario where I'd ever voluntarily listen to it again. Not that it's unlistenable or horrible, just not my thing. Standout Tracks: Something for the Weekend
First song was dog shit. When the description claimed they were irish I was excited but it makes sense theyre northern irish. This album is a car waiting to explode. Fortunately it gets a little better but its albums like this that make this project difficult sometimes. I really would love to know how this is a top 1000 influential album. Sadly Im expecting there to be worse but still 1 star
I hated it.
Hated it. couldn't finish
Sounded like the soundtrack to a movie to me. Really not for me.
Someone thinks they are cooler than they are.
I don't really enjoy this album. From the the first song I was kind of off put. I trudged through the album to completion and came away with a few interesting moments. I don't think this record is terrible, I just don't think it's for me. Some of the instrumentals were interesting. His voice had some fun and expansive range. The lyrics are kind of funky and tongue in cheek. I think the track "Through Long & Sleepless Night" is cool. The crescendo and grand ending was fun. Again, nothing really stood out, nothing really made me bob my head, nothing really got my attention. This could easily be in the background or in some Rom Com movie and I wouldn't really think too much of it.
What the heck was that? Was that for real?
oh so it’s like if prince charming from shrek 2 was a pedophile. got it. fuck this album.
The only parts that were remotely interesting were those that were downright cringy.
Didn’t like it. Cheesy, boring, basic instrumentation.
first one i couldnt make through
Nobody needs to hear that dismal crap.
Second Divine Comedy album this week and this one seems to have a theme: British Carry-on humour. I desperately want to like it but it's so bland and formulaic. Very well put together and produced but devoid of a spark for me.
Two songs in and I'm noticing the lyrics (almost always a bad sign). And I hate them. In a not-shocking corollary, I'm quickly loathing the lounge-singer/musicals garbage singing on this - almost making me irrationally angry. Mostly because the music is interesting in so many ways - so the only question is: will I get used to these absurd second-rate Bryan Ferry vocals by the end of the album....? ...good god no; by just track 3 I'm already all set. Feels tough to slap down such an obvious musical effort but it doesn't take much introspection for me to admit that I hated this and in the end rather than feeling bad about not giving this a 3, not even midway through the album I was trying to come up with reasons to not give this a 1. And by song 5 was re-evaluating my interest in music altogether. (HOLY HELL OF COURSE this guy assisted on Ute Lemper's "Punishing Kiss" album!) I'm not sure how to even sum this up. Almost like listening to a way way over-the-top soundtrack of a somewhat-funny nightmare. e.g. It's not Velvet Underground-horror but more like "clowns aren't really funny so please direct me to the exit" horror. Memo for future-me: just listen to the song "Charge" and you'll know. Almost a shame it couldn't have been more *restrained* like "Songs of Love" which is actually kind of quaint in a Brian May / Queen way. Not nearly enough to save this in any way for me. 2/10 1 star.
A second Divine Comedy album? Why? It is not good. Unnoteworthy. Better than a one I guess not really a two.
Not the worst thing but I don’t get it. you get one of these songs per album but this a whole album of them. Maybe with a better singer… Not sure why this on here
Uniquely terrible. Each song was worse than the last. Completely unhinged in the worst possible way. In&out is truly one of the worst things I’ve ever heard. I think I would rather listen to kollaps
This has to be a joke
absolute wank. hateful
Did not care for this album. Only got through the first 4 songs. 1/5
not this fucking guy AGAIN. there’s a total of like 13 soul and country albums on this list, and somehow, this is the THIRD Divine Comedy i’ve gotten. what is going on
Nothing funny about this.
Awful songs. I stopped the album after about four songs. I did discover the origin of "slap and tickle" though!
God I am so tired of Brit-pop. This is just a slog of smarmed up bullshit. The operatic grand The Dogs & the Horses is the smelling cherry on top of this truely terrible album.
I know we aren't supposed to just an album by its cover, but I wonder if the divine comedy is that they got Elijah Wood to pose with a little cigarette in his mouth. A true Casanova. All that to say I wouldn't listen to this album based on the cover. Upon listening, I should have trusted my instincts. If I wasn't so dedicated, I'd have stopped after the first song. I only listened to about 30 seconds before skipping. Anyone who has the balls to start an album with some casual non consensual kissing does not deserve to be on this list, but then to actually get into the song and it be terrible is a whole other level of dumb. As I said, due to my principles, I did listen to the second song as well, but as soon as he started singing in that played out voice, I had to stop. So that's the long and short of it. This does not belong here. PS: just like other UK pop bands (this one from Ireland which is honestly shocking), the wiki entry says on their best day they charted at #13. How does that warrant being on this list??????
Fancy-pants prick. Our second from this dry fart of a man (band? don't care), and it's as goofy and pretentious as the previous. Each track that plays, I'm dreading his vocals. If he were doing a bit, it would be an excellent, funny bit making fun of this kind of person. But I'm afraid he just is that kind of person. I thought I enjoyed "Middle-Class Heroes" (oh, the irony), but then it got so boring that I skipped it. Truthfully, I skipped through almost every track of this slog. This guy blows. Favorite track: A Woman of the World. Album art: Fancy-pants prick. 1/5
This was painful and difficult. I have to be honest to say I only made it 2/3 of the way through this album.
... this wasn't it.
Not to my liking
Horrible
Super weird overall and not in a good way. 1 listenable song on the whole album (Songs of Love), which oddly enough, is quite good. 1 - bad 2 - average 3 - good 4 - great 5 - outstanding
Vitsihän tämä on, mutta camoon silti
Saattaa alkuun yllättää (melkein) positiivisesti, mutta asettuessaan omalle melodiselle uralleen osoittaa sointu soinnulta, intonaatio intonaatiolta ja läppä läpältä yhä varmemmin oman hirveytensä.
No thank you. 1/5
Thanks, I hate it!
Lounge music for sociopaths.
Meh. I don’t get it. Below average pop music.
Hated it
Yeah ... no.
ass. quit recommending me this shit
Songs of love was decent, everything else was not my favorite.
I am simply not British enough to deal with the Churchill quotes, Royal anthem references, or Blitz imagery. And furthermore, I cannot stomach Scott Walker so when I heard that he was a major influence on the creation of this album, well that’s what one star ratings are for, I guess. Barf.
Campy, creepy and crappy Casanova music. Way too dramatic and not even a wink to the listener, this dude takes himself far too seriously.
What the hell
1 out 100
Bland Britpop drivel that can't even decide what it wants to be – veers from cheesy 80s balladry to orchestral themes and back without any clear sense of direction (or guiding talent).
1.
crooner stuff, don't like it.
I didn't make it through the album. I don't even dislike the genre, but it didn't work for me. 1/5
had to ask myself 'am i meant to take this seriously? ' throughout the runtime because the lyrics oozed cheese and greasy douchebaggery. surprisingly enough this wasn't an entirely unpleasant experience, just an odd one. but that's what this project is all about so for the sake of broadening my horizons this gets a 1
Something for the weekend - I really hate the socalled 'tittering females'. The old switcheroo at the end Becoming more like Alfie- honestly, I don't know the reference. Pretty catchy but some questionable lyrics👍 Middle class heroes - loves spoken intros. This is boring and cynical In and out in Paris and London - creepy and rapey. Instrustal sounds like Thomas the tank engine music. Charge- obvious and crass metaphor Songs of love- generic The frog princess- hmm.. Not sure how to heel about this one. Definitely better than some tracks but still quite dramatic for no reason A woman of the world- chorus in chorus makes it sound like a musical. Definitely very theatrical👍 Through a long and sleepless night- this is incredibly overblown The theme from Casanova - and now we have boring Muzak for some reason. And it is six minutes long The horses and the dogs- what in the off off broadway is this? Half of this album is unbearably dramatic, and overplayed, the other half is frankly creepy. Also thought his singing was too tryhard. Didn't come out as fun and tongue in cheek as it was meant imo. 1 /5
Too theatrical for my taste
Barf
Sounded like a bad lounge singer, lyrics seemed to be social commentary. The album is called the divine comedy, if it's a joke, I don't get it. If he's trying to make some sarcastic protest, it's poorly executed.
Terrible
"My slap and tickle made her giggle" haahahahaha this list is like "the 100 albums everyone admits are great and then 900 other pieces of shit like this"
Just Nope
Garbage. Hot British-pop trash.
no