The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

Wow, this was pretty irritating. Whenever I want to give something a 1 though I have to think, is it as bad as Aerosmith pump?

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Cosa ci può essere di meglio di un gruppo folk scozzese che fa psichedelia?!? Non sono arrivata al secondo ascolto 😵‍💫

Not my bag. Just sounds like a day walking around with me saying random words and thought, but now someone put weird music behind it.

Creepy folky. Variety of middle east instruments with vocals

Canciones con aspiración espiritual y experimentales en las que The Incredible String Band utilizan instrumentos como el sitar, la mandolina, el calvicordio o la flauta de pan entre otros. En sus letras incorpora elementos culturales orientales procedente de la India. Podría decirse que todo el disco es un florido ejercicio de "hippismo" orientalizante mezclado con elementos clasicistas que sorprende pero, al menos en mi caso, no apasiona.

Acid folk. Se me ha hecho muy pesado. Un 2.

Un poco rollo este folk.

I see why this Album is included in this list. In '68, it was surely a groundbreaking mix of folk, psych, and world music that inspired many many acts. That said, it sounded dated to me, and I did not enjoy it.

Echt alsof mijn koortsdroom op muziek is gezet

Vast heel leuk met de boys van de cult naast het kampvuur maar nu echt vreselijk

Lijkt wel op die meme muziek. Klinkt een beetje bij elkaar geraapte muziek. Weet niet wie dit in de 1001 albums die je gehoord MOET hebben heeft gegooid, was veel beter af geweest zonder dit gehoord te hebben.

Just want my scene. Whimsical, silly songs set to jaunty tunes.

Rather too earnest and certainly too much kazoo, let alone the other weirdnesses contained within.

Started out surprisingly strong, but gradually became unlistenable. 2⭐️

Didn't do it for me. Too much random 60s psychadelia. There are definitely some highlights, but they don't last anywhere near long enough.

Not great. Should be much better

Jännä tapaus, välillä kiehtovaa ja odottamatonta menoa ja välillä taas menettää otteensa kokonaan. Ehkä näitä jälkimmäisiä hetkiä oli vähän liikaa, että voisin väittää levystä tykkääväni. Mahdollisesti arvostan iän karttuessa enemmän.

go away

I wasn’t really feeling this until the segment from 0:45-2:40 on “A Very Cellular Song.” It’s a 13-minute suite but that little stretch there sounds like something I might hear on a Paul Simon or Vampire Weekend album. The rest of the track is more in line with the other songs — heavy on British folk and old medieval-sounding melodies. (There’s gotta be a better word than medieval for this sound but that’s always what it makes me think of.) “Mercy I Cry City” has a little touch of that Paul Simon sound again. A little Bob Dylan too (especially with the harmonica). Those flashes of modern style drew me in but the emphasis on older styles and structures kept the music at a distance. A lot of songs incorporate psychedelia into the music and I guess that's the modern edge here. But when the base song is still rooted in older, baroque genres, I can find the music grating.

It's kind of experimental and interesting at times but at the core of it's sound is a sound that doesn't really jive with me. I don't love the singer's tone or delivery at all. I'm really finding this to be a pretty annoying record to listen to. I feel like I tend to find most if not all music valuable to some extent and I can find some kind of beauty in it but I just find this to be erratic, directionless, and at times a chore to listen to.

Weird

Sometimes hippies make great music. Not this time. They're just being hippies.

Ok

Acid folk. Se me ha hecho muy pesado. Un 2.

I had heard good things about this album before, but upon listening, I was pretty disappointed. They have some interesting things going on, but overall I found the album to be a bit annoying.

Weird but not bad. Some ok songs or song but some weird trippy medieval folk stuff.

Find this a decent folksy and psychedelic album. Something you would hear at a Renaissance Festival. I think this album would be best served with a few edibles and a glass of mead.

If you ever wondered what Bob Dylan would sound like if he was a bard in the Middle Ages, here’s your chance. I think you have to be a certain kind of high to really enjoy this album. 2/5 Won’t listen again

awdoawd

A long, long time ago, and in a galaxy far far away psychedelic folk may have been a popular genre. This music seems very quaint and very very out there today. Perhaps if I grew up listening to Scottish Folk music it would have given me more reference points to get a toe hold. But when you hear unfamiliar stuff like this you it makes you think and it gives you a bit of discomfort but that’s a healthy reaction and it’s helped me discover many new music genres. Nevertheless, it was very difficult to get into this. In particular Swift as the wind was pretty unsettling.

Wasn’t sure if the band was a parody band or not. I had to look it up on song 2 because it sounded like a joke.

Eh. Very 60's hippy-dippy. Lots of flowing vocals and Indian instrumentals. Couldn't really distinguished from other albums of similar musical styles, but that might just be because it's not my scene.

I can see how this was revolutionary at the time, and how it influenced music, but it sounded dated to me.

Es una especie de folk extraño.

Too campy for me

Celtic folk tunes. It's cool in its own way, but I can't listen to an entire hour of it.

Didn’t really get it. I’m sure from some perspectives it is amazing. I’m just not sure what perspective that is.

yeah no

interesting listen with a lot of irish influence! nothing i listen in the regular but i respect it

Mouth organ playing alongside a sitar to underlying celtric folk tunes makes for a bizarre listening experience. Perhaps an influence on Comus although less demented. The eclectic mix of instruments seems to get in its own way sometimes, with the occasional fife coming in to play what sounds like a different song. Three is A Green Crown is probably my favorite track on the album.

First impression: it sounds like if John Lennon grew up in a small town. Yeah, I can understand why this was really popular in the late 60s. Unfortunately, I'm not sure I love the combination of psychedelic and folk. Kind of wish the singer wouldn't push the bottom of his range so much. He sounds much better in the mid and upper ranges of his voice. The low stuff ends up losing a lot of his nice tonality. And as soon as I typed that out, he hit that really beautiful low note on Nightfall.

I wanted to like this, but all the pitchy tones and excessive jangle just wore on me

Nope

Psychedelic folk is not my thing. Listened once and didn't enjoy it. Mythological trippy folk just wasn't what my ear was looking for.

This was a struggle to get through for 49 minutes. At times felt like a joke.

I was distracted a lot while listening but mostly I was like “this is a lot” and was okay being distracted

Stop trying to kill me!

Mad. Mixtures of prog folk and psych.

I appreciate the sentiment of experimentation and psychedelia, although it did not pan out so pleasingly here. I liked more tracks, but they felt a little stale. Better luck next time. 2/5

L'acid folk és un d'aquells géneres necessàriament minoritaris. No he pogut penetrar ni en un sol dels discos etiquetats sota aquest paraigües. No només són imprenetrables, sinó que a més et deixen amb un maldecap intens, per més breu que sigui la seva escolta. Conglomerat d'influencies que abarquen rock, psicodèlia, jazz i, obviament, el folk més tradicional, la suma de tot plegat és un batiburret que sona a tot i a la vegada no sona a res. El disc que ens ocupa és un perfecte exemple de tot l'anterior. Hippie en tota la seva extensió, rural i pretesament bucòlic, deu ser un fill molt propi del seu lloc i moment, perquè escoltat en ple 2023, no pot sonar més desfasat i obviable

Es un embole. Musica antigua con sitares y eso. Tiene alguna safadita.

Ikkje for meg. Kan setta pris på de psykedeliske elementene, men blir for masse erketypisk britisk sånn ellers

I think when you put the word Incredible in your band name, you’d better bring it. And I don’t think “use a lot of sitar” really gets you there. Also this is our second day of use of flute and let me just say, as a former flute player, no thank you.

60s hippies playing weird, but not always bad, folksy/medieval/psych music

Couldn't listen this one to the end. Pretty boring for me and nothing especial

Not for me

Each song is in an 'ok' world of its own. But as a collective on an album devoid of talent and creativity.

Not a fan of this one.

Bit too hippy for me.

You know, it's rare that I encounter an album that I instantly dislike as much as this album. I'm generally not a folk person, and I'm especially not a this-kind-of-folk person. A lot of these songs sound like Monty Python songs that were cut when they realized they forgot to put jokes in. I will say that the album starts to pick up around A Very Cellular Song, though that only lasts for a few tracks, and then we're back in the doldrums Reading about it, I guess I can understand why this album is significant, but listening to it, I just don't understand at all. Looking at the other reviews of this album, it seems like lots of other people felt the same. It's either 5 stars or 1. 2/5 There were moments that I thought this was okay, but otherwise this is the type of album that we should probably destroy every copy of for the advancement of the human species

The most psychedelic album so far on this list, for better or worse. Erratic sounds, every instrument you could have think of was used, many types of vocal. It wasn't really something that I was enjoying, or I would be enjoying in the future. Let's just forget about this album and move on.

I owned this on vinyl back in the day. They were supposed to be part of the new English folk movement. But where Fairport Convention, Sandy Denny, Pentangle and others were doing great memorable music, these guys were doing hippy wanking. Embarrassing - I could only stand to listen to the first 6 or 7 tracks.

conceptually interesting, but mostly annoying

Wow, full-on folk psychedelia! I wouldn’t have made it past the first couple of tracks, except that I was preparing a D&D encounter with pixies & faeries so now I have a complete soundtrack and extracts of lyrics…for a band of pixies who have been exiled for their lack of tunefulness!

Not as bad as the review make it out to be but also just not that interesting or remarkable

Some songs were pretty good

dude....

Uh, some shrooms and D&D going on while this was written.

It's not nearly as tight as Beefheart, and the choice of instruments is based on earl-blind admiration, but the album has to be received in the same way. Technically, it is just performance art after all. Never really pleasant or funny or beautiful, but there are those ghosts and more flying around. The mind deserves a fair shot at this, or else will be damaged beyond repair. Too late now.

Imagine if Pete Seeger had taken acid and decided to emulate Renaissance music with sitars instead of being an activist.

I've never encountered music in which the sound is in such tight alignment with what the band members look like. If Chat GPT had to come up with hippy music, I think it would be this. It's folksy and light-hearted - I'm not sure I could see myself ever voluntarily listening to this album again. HOWEVER, during summer mornings and afternoons, my family sometimes sits out on our porch and we let the kids run amok for about an hour while my wife and I try to relax. I feel like this music would reflect that vibe perfectly. 2.5 stars.

Disco un tanto conceptual con reminiscencias étnicas, que no me ha aportado nada y que considero muy experimental

I'm sure this was probably influential on future artists, but it honestly sounds like a bunch of hippies with string instruments got super high in the 60s because that was exactly what it was. That being said, props for the experimentalism.

Rating: 5/10

lol

A Cellular Song is good... Everything else is either ignorable or of it's own time and place.

Psychedelic folk music just doesn’t work for me. It’s not bad but I don’t want these genres combined.

Probably too ambitious for its own good. Unless so little thought was put into this that it became a sound collage. I can't tell which scenario is more likely. I like the section with "And We Bid You Goodnight" because the Grateful Dead do this song too and it was nice to latch on to something familiar while listening to this album. Would not listen again.

Weird… but not in a good way. Some songs were ok, but overall pretty bad.

Uuuuh

Well, this is annoying as hell. Some parts here and there are interesting, like some parts of "A Very Cellular Song" or the song "Witches Hat". Most of it sound like hippie minstrels that took too much drugs and decided to play multiple instruments that they don't really master. It reminded me a little bit of the annoying pirate that nobody likes at the beginning of Spongebob Squarepants. bling bling bling 3/10

Not very good at all.It’s all just bad or mediocre tbh.Not a single good riff,vocals range from mediocre to bad.Nothings super interesting.Just boring “world music” which I guess means bad folk.the only reason I’m not giving it a 1 is because it was never horrible to my ears.Just really boring and bad.there was an 11 minute song but I didn’t notice when it ended or began because the album is so monotonous.Not good.Dull.

Drone folk music with unusual instrumental choices - sitars and harpsichord with pan flutes. It really wasn’t my jam. It reminded me of torturous open mics I’ve sat through in the past

I can see this album has received a lot of shade. I went into listening to it with an open mind, and it's not terrible. But equally it begins to get a bit nauseating and is not really my thing.

Grappige folk muziek. Klinkt wel echt beetje als die ierse dronken bar nummer gemixt met elven muziek. Klonk ook wel wijs met zinnen als ‘water is the wizard of change’. Ga dit alleen nooit meer luisteren

Het is slecht… maar niet slecht slecht. Dit album klinkt als een parodie op jaren 60 psych. Ik kan niet beoordelen of het serieus of, of oprecht een grap. Bij A very cellular song kreeg ik toch een glimlach op m’n gezicht omdat het zo absurd is, maar ik moet zeggen dat ik het niet af geluisterd heb

Lots of great music came out of the late 60s British psychedelic/folk scene (notably Fairport Convention that gave us Richard Thompson, Sandy Denny and Ian Matthews, as well as Pentangle and others). Sadly, this band doesn't fit into that description. Terrible stuff - just because you're following an older folk tradition doesn't make your music interesting.

Not really.

Trippy, hippie, all the way. Somewhere between a nice tab of orange sunshine and the brown acid from Woodstock. Some of the songs were pleasantly minstrelesque and others made me think that voracious worms were crawling under my skin. Ultimately, I think the worms won.

Jeetje. Dus zo klinkt psychedelische folk.

1.5 if I could. Seriously considered a 1.

"Hogwash" - Boomer "Dogwater" - Zoomer

Kind of rough as individual tracks, if they were seperate, they would almost all be 1s. As a unit, the overall experience becomes more enjoyable, closer to 3. So let's meet in the middle.

Like a very very bad Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd. They must’ve been smoking some strong heather in the highlands whilst they record this…!

Some parts were enjoyable - some parts completely unlistenable. 'Incredible' might be over-egging it somewhat

1.5/5 weird psychedelic folk. interesting concept but not enjoyable to listen to

Hippie nonsense.

You can tell that there is some good musicianship here, but this album is basically psychedelic nonsense - and there are other works contemporary to this that are more musical/convincing. I think this has its place, but it is mostly going to be a 60s novelty.

lol

Absolutely bonkers, sounds a bit like when kids make up words to annoying songs they have to sing. But it is so gloriously ridiculous I'm glad it exists

Parece fortemente ser importante e bem desenvolvido.

4/10. This is like alternate universe Bob Dylan where he kinda sucks

Hahaha fuck this. 3/10

Not incredible. I don’t recall hearing a many strings, either.

I’ve seen too many horror cult movies where someone ends up as the sacrifice, burnt or slaughtered with this type of folk music gently playing over the top…..so as you can imagine not an easy listen for me.

6/20/2022 - ALBUM #144 https://open.spotify.com/album/168tPkaBJZKYxSrWDo4n1h?si=kUR1gj6pSEyS-6XqmlrZNg&utm_source=copy-link Today's Album: "The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter" by The Incredible String Band - At first, this album seems very bad. The way each idea is presented makes it have this really disjointed feel to it, despite the pretty consistent medieval tone the whole project has. I think however, there are a few things to like about this album. The vocals to start, have a really nice and down-to-earth tone to them that give the whole thing a really solid folky foundation. The strings, like I said, usually stick to this sound that makes me feel like I'm in some sort of Renaissance stage show and although it can be pretty obnoxious at times with a twangy sitar and deep chorus vocals, there are a lot of moments per track that start to sound fairly decent before things are switched up. These kinds of switch up are very abrupt, with not only the instrumentals, but also the vocasl taking almost 180 degree turns from one tempo or feel to another and it has to be one of the weakest aspect to this record. The tracks that have a decent tune at first are usually ruined pretty quickly by a burst of random experimentation and it just makes this very difficult to have as a casual listen. However, this album isn't much better on a closer inspection as it is very difficult to follow to overall flow of each song. I think this album can kind of be summed up as a collection of string-oriented tracks that were constructed and most likely performed under a heavy dose of psychedelics. I'm all for acts that take inspiration from drug usage, but wow this really just gets too in the weeds and masturbatory for me to ever really find it enjoyable for more than a few minutes. Overall, this is a pretty impressive psychedelic renaissance-folk album, but it's flaws make it pretty difficult to enjoy in any capacity. Give this one a listen if you want to hear something unlike anything you've heard before and I'm sure you'll come out of the experience either hating this album or loving it. Highlights: A Very Cellular Song Score: 5/10 Very compelling, but pretty unlistenable, psychedelic-folk

Psychedelic ... folk?!? I gues this must have been quite the rage in the late 60s, and I have to admit I was strangely fascinated upon hearing it. Still, I'm probably not going to listen to this again, it doesn't speak to me as much as to the generation it was intended for. 2/5

First listen made me want to tear my ears off. Folk is not my favorite genre of music from the 60s. Second listen... Didn't get any better. It isnt' bad, but not anything I'd probably ever enjoy. 2/5

the album as a whole minus A very cellular song isn't very good 2.5

Another wild one. I feel like I’m at a medieval musical theater show. Some of the songs were alright, some were barely listenable due to the vocals being kind of awful. Interrelating to say the least, but overall wasn’t really feeling it. 4/10

Didn't enjoy it that much

well boring

That was a tough listen. Seems like they went out of their way trying to incorporate new instruments and timing throughout each of the songs.

I used to think our cultural distaste for the hippie movement was an overreaction. Then I listened to this album.

Strewth. Kill me now.

A bit downtempo and acoustic for my tastes - there are several interesting vocal touches on choruses, but not enough to keep things from getting stale across the 40-minute runtime. That being said, this hardly deserves to be one of the lowest globally rated albums in the project given some other LPs I’ve heard…

The individual components of vocals and instruments I enjoy, but the collective was so unorganized and sounded very annoying. It was hard to listen to despite being in its components all the things I enjoy.

I’m starting to question the individual who has decided so many albums must’ve heard before I die 😂

This album came out right around when Genesis was forming. You can tell there are storytelling elements in here shared by both bands, but this band is a little more eclectic. Did I think there'd be an album in here with jawbone? Nope.

Not sure about this at all. Not quite awful but pretty fucking close. Mad as a bag of fridges.

Wow, initially listening I thought I could get on board with this album the first couple of tracks were a little kooky but manageable. Then came "A Very Cellular Song" - all 13 mins of it and it was just about as much as my mind could handle. The trippy lyrics and use of sitars and finger cymbals was way too much for me and I was definitely not high enough to appreciate much else. Some of the vocals (not sure who was responsible for them) reminded me of Italian folk music (similar era so maybe it was a thing) where the singing gets all whiny sounding like having a stomach ache. Which is what it gave me to be honest, not very pleasant. Best: The Minotaur's Song Worst: A Very Cellular Song

This album made me feel like a little lad.

Not offensive sonically, but without value for me. At times I couldn't tell if it was a theme/comedy/genre album. Commune vibes.

It was a little too folksy for me. I don't know if I would combine psychedelia and folk for a full album like that. I mean, one song is refreshing, but geez. By the end, it was just too much. I enjoy folk music a good deal, but I always get a sense of variety within the songs. These just feel very flat with not a lot of energy to them. I guess you had to be there? And then there's "A Very Cellular Song." It's an ode to mitosis? REALLY? Okay... Sorry, I just can't take this seriously.

Too weird. I did some reading and this was part of the psychedelia movement? Yeah, but took an acid trip and landed in the Middle Ages. I have to give them credit for the sheer variety of instruments they bring to bear. One or two songs I can handle, but the whole thing got old fast. Unless of course I was at Medieval Times for the day.

I'm glad these guys are doing their thing, but jesus christ

I did not know that psychedelic folk existed. Now that I have heard it, I'm not in love with it. It was fun to hear once. Some of the time, the conglomerated layers of instruments sounded less composed and more randomly thrown together.

Liked much of the instrumentation, heavily put off by the vocals. Songs meandered and stretched on and on at times

Halfway through and this album is NOT working for me at all. Just not something I can latch on to at all. Nope not really 😕 2 🌟

Boring acoustic

Experimental psychedelic folk... much of it sounds like a bunch of stoned hippies noodling around with instruments but there are some harmonious parts where I can understand how this type of music influenced bands like Led Zeppelin.

Rubbish

Ja, natürlich gibt es diese psychedelisch verspuktten Momente auch schon direkt im ersten Song, Koeeoaddi Theme, aber direkt danach im Minotaurenthema singt er wieder, der Gauklerchor und ich sehe die Angestellten des Ministry of Silly Walks vorbeischlendern. Witches Hat: ja nun, hallo Catweazle. Später dann auch mal Blaupausen für zB die Fleet Foxes (Waltz of the New Moon) und so, mehr Psychedelik (Three is a Green Crown), die icu aber von George Harrison schon besser gehört haben will. Lässt mich etwas ratlos zurück, ich will das doofer finden als ich es tatsächlich tue. Vergebe salomonische 2,6 und tue trotzdem nur 2 Sterne drauf. So.

I might find myself laughing at an album for any number of reasons. Some records – Thou’s Umbilical, Carcass’ Symphonie’s of Sickness – I’ll laugh at because they’re so confoundingly heavy that it feels like I’ll get the bends when it’s done with me. Others will merit a laugh for their ability to so quickly transport me back in time – AM by Arctic Monkeys, Owls’ first record; time machines to 2013. Some albums are just actually funny: Nighthawks at the Diner and its surprising one liners. Then there’s this. A record I’m laughing at maybe once every three minutes. It’s a multifaceted mirth, and I can’t say I’m particularly grateful for the laugh; I sort of think it reflects quite poorly on me. I’ll try to break it down… I find many of the songs either endless, aimless, or – as with the case of “A Very Cellular Song” – both. I find a couple of the songs – “Waltz of the New Moon,”, “The Water Song” – so ridiculously daft and ostentatious that I think they must be taking the piss (“The Minotaur Song” absolutely is, fair play). And then there’s “Swift as the Wind”, a song with a strong, powerful melody which could have cultivated an atmosphere of charming melancholy were it not for all the battle-wounded shouting going on in the background (there’s almost a full minute of just “oh oh, ohhhh” and “ahhhhh” duelling for attention). It’s a weird, individual record and I find it funny that these guys could ever have pointed to Sergeant Peppers with an accusatory, insinuating finger. Funny because yeah, I guess they have a point. I guess what I’m laughing at, either rightly or wrongly, is that special aspect of hippy culture that took itself so extremely seriously. And with all that, there’s a paradox at play: what’s laughable here is only funny so long as The Incredible String band is not joking. And if they are … well, as it is with so much more and that generation: the last laugh is theirs.

I like folk, but this was just too folkey for me

Acoustic with flutes and sitars. What starts off as good lyrics, quickly loses any luster and becomes a drone. Add it to the list of early psychedelic rock that wasn't good enough to transcend a brief trend.

Started off strong but became pretty annoying as it went on. Neat concepts but not executed well.

Not my thing

Hippy music.

Not my thing.

Innnnteresting.

Didn’t finish this album. So freaking bored. I get it. Gonna give it 2 stars because I didn’t finish it.

Labeled Psychedelic. I appreciate it, but will not listen to again.

Wir zu weltmusiklich

Uma Schitar, um gajo que parece que desafinar junto com uma espécie de vibe medieval dá um álbum relativamente desagradável de se ouvir. Nota :3/10

What is this even supposed to be? Definitely not for me.

Iets te zweverig en nonsens lyrics voor mij

Production: 6/20 Songwriting: 8/20 Innovation: 14/20 Bangers: 0/20 Emotional response: 7/20 =35 Bit too weird for me petal. Lots of wailing and references to Christian mythology.

I was expecting to like it but didn't. Too far out there even for me.

a rambling, folksy, psychedelic experience. Feels like a bunch of folk musicians slowly falling down a flight of stairs. I'm shocked I didn't like this, given everything else I gravitate towards. Trout Mask Replica except I don't get the joke.

Very eclectic folk tunes. Sometimes sounds like Monty Python!

Ihan kivaa vaihtelua tällainen musisointi, mutta ei ihan minun kuppini teetä. Oliko tämä nyt sitten jotain keskiaikaista folkia vai mitä. Ei mitenkään häiritsevää, mutta ei tästä oikein sen suurempaa irti saanut. Elämysosastolle. Minotaurilaulun liian suuret sarvet jäivät mieleen.

lol these people are so high.

sorry, not for me

Psychodelic rock, my ass...

Brings me back. Haven't listened to this record in awhile. Not their strongest, but a good listen.

Very psychedelic funk. Typical 60s stuff.

Not for me

No nyt on taas huumeet maistunut pojille. Akustista progeilua ja sekoilua, joka ei iske omaan makuhermoon yhtään. Jopa kahteen kertaan kuuntelin läpi mutta ei tämä oikein auennut.

not bad, could be good on LSD?

Jesus would NOT approve this album.

Not for me. Too folky, airy fairy.

Cool hippy music with a lot of pjoing poijgn, that went on for way too long, also the singing was sometimes good, but mostly awful

dåligt men har hört sämre album hittills.

Blaaah. Ei pullamössösukupolven edustaja ymmärrä näin hienoa musiikkia....

What the heck is this

2

Ya, I couldn't stand most of the songs

Woof! Unlistenable. 1 out of 5.

I don't know what renaissance bong inspired melody I just experienced but I dont want to do it again

What the ever loving fuck?

Another weirdo 60’s psych/folk album that’s probably way better if you’re high as shit, but alas, I was not 😔 1.5⭐️

2/10

The incredible waste of time

pésimo

ever since the toonerville trolley incident, seeing "psychedelic" anywhere in an album's genres immediately gets my hackles up. thankfully it's been entirely unwarranted. all the psych rock albums we've rolled since have been at least listenable, even if they've mostly been woefully mid. ...until now. straight up, what the fuck is this album?? dread set in within 10 seconds of hitting play on the opening track and within minutes i'm being beaten round the ears with a combination of totally flat mixing and dogshit recording quality that is physically painful to listen to, and that's before i even get into the music itself being a bunch of scottish folks fucking around with a sitar they found. and god does the sitar feel razor sharp in my ears! if i'd had headphones on this album could've posed a genuine threat to my hearing. my new piercings flaring up may have saved me from a terrible fate today. good lord. i really don't think i have it in me to go back in for a second listen. even for previous 1 star ratings i've handed out, i've at least skimmed thru the tracks a little to make sure i'm not just on some bullshit, that it really is that bad. but this one genuinely fucking hurts to hear. maybe there's another version out there somewhere that's been hammered into a new, listenable form, and maybe if i ever come across it i'll give it another shot. but it's just as likely that the sight of this garden gnome catalogue lookin ass album cover will just make me flinch and avoid further contact. you really don't need to listen to this album before you die. if anything, your life would be better for avoiding it. what the fuck man.....

holy shit guys, no

Qué cosa más rara, criatura... Y mira que me gusta la psicodelia

I would normally like Scottish folk music but this was terrible. Too much acid?

The 1960s were really a trip…literally! So many drugs. Really allowed for experimentation, but also this godawful nonsense to pass as innovation. Psychedelic folk may be worse than regular folk. 1⭐️

Just put more Fairport Convention records on this list if you’re going to put this on.

I don't recognize this artist, and don't recognize any of these tracks by title. So I'm going into this blind. Okay, let's talk about band names for a moment. This band calls themselves "The Incredible String Band." They're not a string band. And certainly not "incredible," at least not in the figurative sense of them being "amazing." But maybe they mean "incredible" in the more literal sense of them _not_ being a credible string band. If that's the case, then my review of this album is that it's an incredible album. The musicianship and vocal work: incredible. Songwriting: incredible. I'm even willing to infer that the titular Hangman's Daughter's Beauty is also likely incredible.

The hippy movement was one of the most violent and contemptible cultural phenomena inflicted on humanity. Listening to this felt like being drawn and quartered by the Haight-Ashbury acid freaks. It’s made all the worse by being from the UK. This is an album that only could have been produced in the rancid, malicious corpse of an empire that murdered countless people on every continent. I’m convinced it is a psychological weapon designed by MI5 to punish all the uppity former colonies that thought they deserved independence.

Is this a put on?

Sounds like an annoying dude at a campfire. I'd rather go to bed. As the album continued I hated it more and more. 1/5

Go fuck yourself Dimery.

ruim pra caralho filho puta merda

até que usa vários instrumentos interessantes, mas num dá pra salvar nao. sabia que ia ser ruim, mas conseguiu me surpreender: é péssimo!

nothing incredible about this band.

I did not do enough drugs to enjoy this album. It was just random noise and wailing with the semblance of "music". God I hate this experimental, psychedelic folk

Cats meowing out of tune. 3 songs in was as far as I got.

I have to stop listening before my face sticks like this...

Wow. I really hated this. I mostly just found it annoying ... like being stuck inside of a tavern in the movie Willow.

I really hope the hangman’s daughter likes terrible music. Otherwise this band is in for a rude awakening

Not for me 1/5

Hørtes mer ut som en parodi av en Monty Python-parodi.

Due to external factors that I won’t be explaining to the internet, I woke up in a bad mood. As I woke I said “please don’t give me a bs album today, not today”…and lo and behold this is what I get, and boy was it a struggle. I’m sorry string band, if you caught me on a better day I might’ve given this 2 stars and said something along the lines of “I see the artistic value behind this but it’s just not for me.” But today isn’t that day.

You could tell me this was monty python and I'd believe you. Shocking

OK when I was growing up we had three channels on the TV. No cable just an antenna. If your dad was serious he would put a larger antenna on the roof so you could find channels from farther away and the low band weird ones. Some nights if the weather was right you could get a really weird station that was like public access but on ALL the drugs. They would play things like this. You watched it because there was nothing else, it was different and new. Almost exciting until you actually paid attention to it. Then you realized it was shit. That is this album. I never heard of them saw the hippies and assumed they were the predecessor to The Polyphonic Spree. This album made me think they were a traveling group that would entertain the king and when the king realized they were shit ran them out of the kingdom. So they travelled from kingdom to kingdom, never getting better or changing their act, always doubling down. Never understanding why they were hated. The kids on the cover deserved better. We all deserve better. I can only assume this was popular because they had nothing else to listen to and it was different. Still shit, but different.

Where did they learn to sing?

This is what happens when you go to Ren Faire on acid, kids. We’re being punked with this album on the list, right?

The opening track gives a hint at what this album could be. It's loose and free-flowing, with beautiful natural imagery. It feels a little like a song you'd play around campfire, but it's grounded in nice melodies. The band approaches the rest of the songs in the same way, but with much worse results. The songs meander instead of flow, and the lyrics become cryptic. It's hard to take things seriously when kazoos and jaw harps show up and the band is singing about minotaurs. The band eschews pretty melodies or any kind of predictable playing, making it sound like everyone is improvising different songs as they go. "A Very Cellular Song" opens nicely with some group singing that brings back the communal vibe, but it descends into an aimless mess not long after. I love some of the ideas here, but the execution is painful to listen to for even half of the album's length.

Waaaay to folky for me.

It’s unbelievable that some of the worst music I’ve heard is coming from a list titled 1001 albums to listen to before you die. A Scottish psychedelic rock band playing the sitar relied seemed like the epitome of music? Really? Really? I hate this album so much. It belongs in the trash with any and all britpop that I know is coming

I made it four songs

Bad

I can't tell if this exists because of drugs, or if only enjoyable with drugs. Or perhaps both. Psychedelic folk is not a hybrid genre I would have considered to exist, but I guess it's kind of right there in the atmosphere of the 60s. For the time, I'm sure the introduction of instruments not frequently heard in western music and the production value made it a bit of a novelty, but Pet Sounds had already shown heavily produced music and doing it much better. I really have no explanation for this album. It's a novelty that's somehow not really worth experiencing even for its novelty.

fuckin wank hippy nonsense. some of the worst lyrics ever commited to record

man fuck this, this would be the most insufferable group of people you could run into. I dont care about your enchanted forest bullshit. The flute that never stops and droning vocals makes my blood boil, I cant imagine this being someones preferred music.

Sounds like a medieval band playing improv. Terrible.

Not feeling it.

Robert Dimery is a beneficiary of the estate of this band. He gets royalties from every additional stream. That is the only reason this album could be included. Holy fuck I want that 50 minutes of my life back.

Absolute bullshit album, there are brief moments of interest surrounded and drowned by atonal, a rhythmic drivel, i couldn't wait for it to finish

Cult music without the requisite magnetism? Pass.

So not my style of music. Folk, flute and fantasy are no bueno

Whelp, there was a moment I really thought I could like this and then it was gone. Was hoping for some bluegrass and I was thoroughly disappointed

Absolutely nothing incredible about this.

Worst album I’ve ever had the displeasure of listening to

Nope literally didn’t finish it. Burning pile of garbage not music. Hurt my ears

I wanted so badly to not finish this album, yet I mustered through the pain. Genuinely should get zero stars. It's a nothing album. I do not need to be hearing Kazoo in 2026. Music so bad I got angry. Swift as the wind maybe just maybe just maybeeeee was fine.

Please do NOT have this playing when the girls get here. Reminds me of mip from smiling friends and all the fantasy games and u get it. If u like this ur lying

Quite horrible. Maybe it would be good at a ren faire or some other joking event

The most challenging listen for me so far. Cellular Song about killed me. One highlight is The Minotaur. Cool vibe, gimmick and story telling on that one alone. Gotta go with a strong 3/10...

oof. There's a lot here.

Makes me wish I was back in my shroom era the world is one to fully enjoy it more. I can see why it's important and of its time and the impact it's had on a lot of other work I like. Jingle jangle give me a five more minute pan flute water driping break about the cellular world and how we are all one. Enjoyed as a whole don't think I would go back to listen to individual songs though it grew on me after multiple listens. Just feels a bit trite in 2026 maybe or I'm not in the mood to hear the message, I've spent enough time with hippies nicknamed moonstone who hold celestial powers to feel a bit exhausted by it. Update: I see a glaswegian nicknamed Licorice in the wikipedia page and links to scientology which all things considered makes a lot of sense. Can you believe they didn't even record them for the Woodstock film? Is this band somehow too hippie for Woodstock who would have funk it. You get the feeling these are some of the worse people you would meet at a houseparty that would try to get you to join their polyamorous commune. I've met glaswegian fire breathers I imagine it's the same feeling.

Go away, hippies

This was hard to get through. I didn't like the folk psychedelic mash-up.

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter was an absolutely painful listen. This is one of those bands that just are incapable of writing melody to save their life. Initially i thought it sounded tolerable, a bit messy sure, but still tolerable but as it kept going, it just kept getting worse. This one just gives me a lot of Deja vu to Shivkumar Sharma's Call Of The Valley seeing as the two use similar instruments and they both get annoying really fast. I however, think that this album is worse than Call Of The Valley since at least it felt like that album had better melodies. This album was just an agonizing one to get through and i am so happy that it's over. Best Song: Koeeoaddi There Worst Song: Swift as the Wind

Well, that was weirder than anticipated.

Did not enjoy this at all. Horrific vocals (did they even listen to ‘Swift as the Wind’ before publishing it?) , and too much 60’s. Probably would have sounded awesome in medieval times… some of the instrumentals were cool, but can’t get past the singing! Rating: 2/10 Favorite Song: three is a green crown (I guess?)

There were points that I didn’t think I would get through the album.

Whowee, what a desaster...

corny 60s folky/sitar

Someone in 1968 bought this album because they thought it would help them get laid when they brought the man or woman they were interested in back to their place. I gotta admit, I'm not sure if that worked out for that person.

Вибачте, але я не буду це слухати до кінця. Для супер поціновувачів британського фолку з психоделікою на межі карикатури.

Хіпанський гуфі психоделік фолк з 60х. Я одразу уявляю погано постарівшу пародійну комедію нульових, де показують хіпанську комуну, в якій всі курять траву, приймають ЛСД і обімаються, а частина людей навколо вогня співає щось під гітару і флейту - саме так і звучить цей альбом. Жах

Started thinking it was just a couple of lads being silly, ended up being extremely annoyed by it all. Truely a torurous 49 minutes of what only a few would describe as 'music'.

gave me a headache

Thank you 1001 Album Generator, I finally found an album to torture prisoners with should I ever need it! Sounds like a randomly cobbled together pile of nonesense. Whatever enchanted forest they're trying to channel I want nothing of it. Unlistenable 1/5

Holy pretentiousness

While I appreciate the diverse instrumentation utilized on this album, the final product has to have some level of listenability for the diversity to mean anything. A very unpleasant and overall muddy listen

cacota

Irish folk psychedelic folk. Appropriately off the wall. Silly. Monty Pythonesque at times. A song about a minotaur that can't sleep. Good for what it is but not always pleasant. Interesting but not interested in ever listening to again.

se for deg The Gnome men i stedet for å være en koselig 3-minutters LSD throwaway, så er det nesten 50 minutter med påtatt wyrd folk. vi må forandre verden med middelalder-cosplay? ta heller og stikk den fløyta langt opp i rasstappen; en langt mer revolusjonær handling.

Trash

Folk, 81 eme album =>1/5 Rien d’intéressant dans cet album ennuyeux à mourir. Impossible d'aller au bout.

Awful

Only enjoyable if brain damaged, high or both

By the third song, I was ready to dropkick leprechauns and start chucking potatoes at a wall.

Reminds me of the The Holy Modal Rounders with a dash of Monty Python at times. Can't say it's an album I'll listen to again.

This was very very very bad.

I can only visualize cheesy costumes and a bad stage play.

What the shit. I guess maybe you need some random shit like this that someone gets into and inspired to make something better. But I did not like this. Was that a harpsichord? A sitar? A flute? Maybe a kazoo? All the instruments I don’t like. Also, how is this remaster? Did no one think people would listen to this on headphones and pumping certain sounds (like a sitar) loudly into my right ear might not be enjoyable. 1.25

I like renaissance fairs as much as the next guy, but I’m not out here releasing soundtracks for that shit. Christ. 1/5

Are you trolling?

I know a lot of great music is made by people smoking pot, but these guys way overshot

I am not even a little bit a fan of folk music

You used to just be able to release any old shit

Nope, I tried. I really did. My rule is listen through minimum 2/3, and skim through last songs if I'm not vibing. And this just irritated me to no end.

I skipped through this hippy, Renaissance fair, drug-influenced mess in record time. I wanted to escape this as quickly as the poor dog on the album cover did longingly looking like he wishes he was somewhere else.

Fuck these dorks

1.4 They totally lost me at the line "next week a monkey is coming to stay"

Did not enjoy at all

Awful. Like some sort of nursery class music for kids

Almost painful to listen to.

Started the first song and immediately knew it wasn’t for me.

Genuinely the worst sounds imaginable, let alone music. It's a good day for deaf people

I couldn't finish it. I really tried, even when the first song made me thing this just wouldn't be something I enjoyed. The lyrics are too whimsical and day nothing at all. The music and song structure are simply throw whatever sounds woodsy-mystical at the recording booth and see what sticks. Straight dogshit music.

Absolute pish

Won't these dorks please shut up

pissed me off. "Nightfall" is pretty enough that I can imagine the sort of delight people might have gotten from hearing this the first time. But it largely plays as hindustani cosplay (DEROGATORY in all caps)

ABSOLUTELY not

Absolutely dreadful. This album lured me until a false sense of security with the first few songs. I quite liked The Minotaur Song, the lyrics are quirky and it's a bit of fun. After Witches Hat the album completely falls to pieces. Some of the most mind-numbingly annoying music I've heard, repetitive and grating. The vocals in Swift as a Wind make me want to headbutt a wall repeatedly, I can't believe how shit this is. 1.5/5 (.5 for the Minotaur Song)

Wtf was this psychedelic folk fever dream? Was that a kazoo? Why am I supposed to listen to this? Maybe I'm being harsh because I had to listen in spurts, and dreaded turning it back on, but was not a fan

Ugh.. the content exactly matched what I feared from the album cover. Psychedelic meandering hippie bs. You can literally smell the weed fumes through the record. The album serves as interesting historic piece to show where the music was at in '68, but I didn't really enjoy much of it. It just feels hastily thrown together and all over the place. Would work wonders at a 70s party reenactment in the woods, but not for much else.

This sounded like a piss-take of folk and psychedelia, but it seems they were serious. How this was ever popular is beyond me since it mostly sounded like a joke-record with some bad kareoke thrown in there. Maybe it was just a counter movement to the very polished 60s sound, I guess I’m more square than hippie.

Terrible music :-( One star...

I just wanted for this hippy shit to be over.

Yeah, it's awful. I can't believe someone thought this was a good idea. Must of been the drugs.

couldn't listen to it... Hurt my ears too much

This is ass

Listens: 2 Standout Tracks: No, not really. I recognized the name of this album as being bottom 20 (I've really gotta stop looking at the top/bottom 20), and I'm thinking to myself, man, I really hope this isn't that bad (when are reviews going to support italics??). I've listened to 7 out of 20 of the bottom albums on the List so far; Most have been deserving, but maybe one or two weren't absolutely soul-crushingly bad. 60's Scottish psychedelic-folk by definitely wasn't on my bingo card today, so I was not mentally prepared for this. It started off okay enough I guess (no, not really), but things quickly went down hill. These guys tried to speedrun how to do everything wrong making music: out of tune vocals, the chorus singing over the lead and vice versa, particularly terrible and out-of-tune flute, congratulating yourselves on a particularly ordinary and not impressive at all song, and including it on the record... and saying "Huzzah!", referring to a Minotaur as a "buffalo man", something about slithering and squelching on a 13 minute long song about who the hell knows what. All of that was just in the first three or four songs. Suffice to say, this was comically bad. I have no desire to listen to this ever again. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

Geht für mich gar nicht! Langweiliges. Gedudel!

I'm known among my friends as a guy who listens to all kinds of music, from all genres and all eras. Then a friend of mine came up to me and said, "You should listen to this. It's totally your style!" And it was this album... Today I see that episode as an insult.

I've been rather forgiving for a lot of the bottom 20 here, but this is just bad. It's not folksy enough and the psychedelia leaves you checking the runtime. It's not offensive nor accessible and thus commits the worst musical sin, it's boring.

Off-key choir does improv on acid.

2/10

scary

I’m too sober to enjoy this.

tiene sonidos interesantes, me sentí en outlander y en heidi. tiene una canción de 13 minutos??? y otra que habla del agua??? la mitad de las letras no entendí ni el idioma

If leprechauns were real and they made shit music this would be it!

Uh

"Acid Folk" would be a better genre if I had some actual acid. But I don't

This is some wierd hippy dippy crap.

nic mi sie nie podoba poza okladka, praktycznie asluchane dla mnie, niektore fragmenty piosenek byly ok

Arghhhhhh! Poke out my ears please! These past two days have killed my motivation to continue this project!

Not for me, too pirate-y or Ren Fair-ish.

i knew after a few seconds that this is going to be hard to get through

Eh. It started off interesting and then they interweaved lyrics with Christian undertones.