Reviews (page 7 of 8)
I really thought that I’d enjoy this… I did not.
No. Did not need to hear this before I die. I can hear a little of The Beatles and The Beach Boys in some of the instrumentation and I’m sure Colin Meloy of The Decemberists has this on repeat. But it’s just not enjoyable to listen to. It sounds like an SNL parody of psych folk rock.
This album should absolutely be used as advertisement for "Drugs are bad". My ears are bleeding.
From one 60s album to another. Like I said in the review of the album prior to this one - "I don't get along with much 60s music". Even more so when it's middle age sounding shit like this. Where are the lutes? Sat expecting a jester to come dancing around my room begging for mercy from the king. Lyrics are nonsense. Not sure I will get the lyric "He can't dream well because of his horns" out of my nightmares for a while. Not for me, sorry.
Fuck this literal hippy noise
Pre-listening notes: Wow, I invite a friend to the group and we have a full week of ultra-obscure/ultra-90s bands. Hoping "string band" means we finally get a little bluegrass action. On researching, I guess these guys played at Woodstock. Maybe that sound better stoned? They also were scientologists for some period of time, which, yeah. That checks out. Listening Notes: -Nope not getting bluegrass vibes. This shit is weird. -I like to be open-minded, and I think I try a lot of strange stuff. But this is bizarre in a bad way. This is garbage. And I don't think it's *quite* experimental enough for me to give it credit for that. -If you're gonna be a string band, couldn't you at least tune your violin for -"A very cellular song" -Something that's been nagging at me a little while now: why is there a sitar here? There's great music, including great modern popular music, with sitars, but that seems like an odd thing for these people to adopt. -I typically do two listens, but I think not this time. Review: Feels very "weird guys who met and play at ren faires" (but for some reason have a sitar?). I guess they were influential in their day (again from research: Led Zeppelin apparently said they tried to follow this album in developing their sound? huh), but it's hard me to find much to appreciate here. Typically, I want to give credit for doing something different (as I did for Dagmar Krause), and this is decidedly that. I've been known to convince myself I like things that are "important" albums. But this sucks. And even my pretension can't find something to appreciate. 1 star. I listened to a 2010 remaster. Why would someone take the effort to remaster this?
Ik kon niet wachten tot dit afgelopen was. Vond het echt irritant.
Nope
3/10
OK. This album and I did not agree. I think it wanted to be whimsical and 'true to the people'. It made me feel constantly on edge, yearning for a Monty Python-esque comedic payoff but never getting one. My guess is the vivid, disjointed imagery would go over better with some chemical enhancement.
This was a truly awful experience. Horribly hippy warbling.
Derp
Hmm, pretty non offensive folk here, it’s fine, but not exactly my favorite thing. 1 plus stars I guess.
Ugh, nope. Just because you throw a sitar in one song doesn’t make it psychedelic. A dumb folk music album with no redeeming qualities.
As a fan of psychedelic rock and folk music I was curious about what they'd be like jammed together. They sound pretty silly jammed together, but damned if I wasn't entertained. It was also pretty different than the deluge of classic rock, so that was a welcome change as well. Can't exactly say I think it's good though
Earlier in my life I lived with a music lover with eclectic tastes and an extensive downloaded music collection. Generally I let him choose what to play and only intervened if he played something that didn’t appeal. Usually that was because the music didn’t match my mood or he’d been in a streak of playing the same artist and I’d got bored. Very occasionally it was because he played something that set my teeth on edge. This album was one such example. 15+ years later it popped up as my daily album so I’ve given it a second chance. My opinion has not changed.
Sometimes I question the majority opinion on here when it comes to rating albums. On this occasion, I won’t because the majority is spot on with this one. Hideously awful and one of the absolute worst listens I’ve had the misfortune of hearing. The only list it belongs in is why does this exist.
Odd like the family on the cover
Bit too namby pamby…even for me!
Not very listenable. Lot's of slow signing almost talking
Sounds like a mashup of Monty Python and a chanting monk. If there is a message there I can't see it. Seems like they were trying to make one.
I’m sure there is a time and a place for this music but it is not here with me in the 21st century. Weird and corny. Whimsical medieval psychedelic folk - I can appreciate that it is an influence on British rock n roll, but that’s not enough to make this album good (for me).
DNF. Somewhere around the 11 minute jesus loves you song, I couldn’t take it anymore
Büro, Heidenheim, Deutschland. Voll übel, ich muss brechen.
I understand this album came with rolling papers and a sheet of acid tabs in the liner. Because you need to be really high to enjoy it.
What if Frodo had started a band after a mushroom trip with his Shire buddies? Well, the wild Scottish lads of The “Incredible” String Band have tried to answer that tricky question with the help of happy pills. The result is an amateurish album that sounds like shit, something Castle Old Fart Preservation Society might perform dressed as medieval serfs in front of a handful of puzzled locals to raise funds. Today, my open-mindedness reached its limits. So far, the “worst album” to me, hands down.
This is what happens when a cult leader convinces everyone to make an album rather than murder a celebrity. ....he still makes everyone have sex with him though.
Yah I hated this album. It was torture to sit through. I kept thinking it would get better but it’s so grating to have such overbearing strings that never go away and never get overshadowed by anything else. There’s absolutely no variety in this album. Almost every song on the album sounds exactly like the previous song. I can appreciate how talented these musicians are, but this is the greatest example of having too much of one sound and it waters down and drowns out the rest of the album.
Absolutely not!! This is awful. I haven't skipped an album yet through 98 albums, and I said I would listen to every track on every album for all 1001 albums, well this one broke me. This is an amalgamation of tripped out Scottish hippies who only ever heard The Beatles and never learned how to make music but within their commune and small circle who live in a cave, they are talented. I listened to somewhere between the first 30 and 60 seconds of every song and literally felt like torture on every single song. What a fucking joke. There is literally bath water as an instrument in one song (about water) which isn't in and of itself a terrible idea but mixed with jingle bells and singing through their nose and the flute from Zelda just makes it more insane. I can't forgot to mention the horribly played sitar aimlessly placed throughout the record. What the fuck was this? This has to be a joke that it is on this list. The last song you can literally hear the spit in the person singing's mouth stick on his tongue. .2/10 (credit for putting themselves and there art out in the world) 99/1001
Terrible. Awful
If only this was a self parody, it would be genius! Either way, I’ll never subject my ears to this again. Not my jam.
Yeah, pass. Thanks for the effort
Interestingly, The Incredible String Band is not incredible.
Have you ever known you're going to hate an album within the first 10 seconds? No? Try this one. I feel further vindicated in my opinion after listening to the whole thing. I regret electricity was wasted to play this in my home.
If it turns out that this band a part of cult, that was surprised me not.
This is just terrible and I hope to never hear it again
tree hugging hippy crap
I love Bob Dylan and think I hate folk music. There's borrowing from older musical styles, and there's copying a type of music that died out half a millennium ago to appear "creative" or "authentic". This is like the music Hobbits listen to except they aren't real. Wes Anderson loves these dorks. The lead singer sounds like Nico. This is like a gag album. I hope Dynamite Hack or Right Said Fred made the list too. Robert Wyatt probably loves these goofballs too. I bet you could play this over the video for Safety Dance and it would feel like it made sense. Have to love the random water sounds behind all the wizard lyrics on The Water Song. It definitely feels like Led Zeppelin liked this band. The Indian influenced songs are much better than the English ballads. This is insufferable. I spoke too soon on the sitar music.
Amusing? Definitely bizarre. Made it through. This to me is awful. Still better than Oasis.
I could handle the sitar. I could not handle the singing. Jesus Christ himself could not handle the singing. 2/10
make it stop
Unlistenable noise.
# Album Name: The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter # Artist: The Incredible String Band # Rating: 1/5 # Comments: Woah, you gotta be trippin dude. not for me this one. # Top Tunes: none # Would I listen to it again? no
Putting a sitar on the record doesn't make a record good. It's unlistenable
It's upsetting to know that Woodstock festival goers we're subjected to a 20 minute set from this group.
Genuinely a terrible experience for my ears. I couldn't wait for this album to be over. It sounded like a bunch of people were handed instruments they've played for 1 hour and were told to make an album.
Bad. Sounds like hippies at the rental Faire in 1968, because it probably was
It's not as bad as a metal album, but it's fucking close. This is some annoying, wack ass shit. Take that sitar and go back into the woods, man.
Yuck! Far from incredible! I persevered through it but couldn’t wait for the album to end. Might have sounded better in the 60-70s if you were on drugs??!
mierdón.
I hate this
Psychedelic Folk from the late 1960s. I suspect that drugs were involved taken during the production of this album - and you probably need to be under the influence of something when you listen to this album. More Psychedelic Dirge than Folk.
I was kind of looking forward to this, looks weird. But unfortunately it wasn’t interesting/cool weird it was just … uncomfortable weird. • sitar • harmonica • harpsichord • recorder • tin whistle • kazoo • possibly box with rubber bands (?) • hurdy gurdy (?) • rambling lyrics that are possibly being made up on the spot • bad singing Normally some of these CAN be acceptable in a recording (with the exception of the kazoo), but all at once? Intolerable. The fact that this made it onto any best of all time list is puzzling to say the least.
No good
I don't have the words to describe this shit.
My god, this is what they play at those religious indoctrination camps in the south isn’t it. Unique but get this out of my ears.
I'm not averse to late 60s psychedelic folk and rock. Pentangle were incredible, Fairport Convention were cool. But this is dreadful! There's a religious element to some of the lyrics which turns me off, and the rest are nonsense, I suspect magic mushrooms were consumed!🍄
These guys swear that fairies are real, but that you have to take their special mushrooms to see them 🍄 Definitely think some people misinterpreted doing drugs as being artistic in this era of rock.
The biggest compliment I can give this album is that it came from the same era as the Beatles, who produced some groundbreaking psychedelic music. This is not it. Really quite terrible. Few redeeming qualities besides being amusingly whimsical, and credit for experimenting with lots of different instruments and sounds - even if most of them don’t work in the slightest. Albert Hoffman should be named in the credits.
Jeg prøver at være positiv overfor de mere avantgarde albums, for jeg ved godt de ofte er indflydelsesrige selvom jeg måske ikke altid elsker lyden, men jeg kæmpede virkelig med den her. God produktion? Måske? Stadig en 1’er
Som fremtidig englænder vil jeg lige sige at det her sgu er en tand FOR engelsk. Kan ikke regne ud om det er seriøst eller for sjov, men synes ikke det lød godt.
This was a really hard listen for me. The flutes didn't sound very nice and the songs just didn't catch my attention.
This sounds like a parody of late 60s music. If it's not, then it's the greatest argument for a renewed criminalization of drugs.
This is some extremely hippy stuff right here. Like, if you took a bunch of drugs and wrote down some nonsense, you could probably write this album. But here's my take after a listen: I didn't love it. My first issue is that the singing is not particularly great and got on my nerves after a couple songs. The attempts at chanting and droning were almost physically painful at times. The lyrics are all nonsensical and I don't think it's worth trying to interpret anything for any deeper meaning other than "I saw this in a drug induced haze and wrote it down." It's like, about nature and life and religion, man. Guitars, sitars, organs, and sounds effects abound, it for sure sounds like the 60s, but in the worst way. The guitar is generally fine enough, but a lot of this album sounds very amateurish. I dont really have any standout songs on this album. If I had to pick something, the opening part of "A Very Cellular Song" was okay - they should have ended it there. "Nightfall" was ok too. I didn't think I'd have such a strong reaction to this album but it's left me almost irrationally angry. There's just too much hippy bullshit and forced symbolism in every single song that i didnt enjoy it. I can't in good faith give this any more that 1 star & would actively avoid in the future.
My high school music teacher said anyone can sing as long as they stay in pitch. This guy can’t sing, it’s unbearable. I was like a dog covering its ears with his paws. The music itself was decent, but that voice! Pick a note and stick with it. Like a dog covering his ears
Saa hymyn hyytymään. Myönnän että pariin otteeseen.
miksi emme yhtä suosittuja kuin beatles? kysyy incredible string band... teimme uskomaton exprerinmental pysychedelidc musiikkia ja miten emme ole KAKSI kertaa suositumpia kuin blearles?? biden emme odle hyhd räiggaita guin bleabkesls? mutta mekiin teimme ekxperimentality yhyyyyy yhyyyyyyyy yhyyyyyyy... ei ihme että pehmein generaatio.. soft... osattu mitäään tehdä ilman vinkumisia. oooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaooooooooo tulee vaan suusta kun pienin mahdollinen ongelma ooooo aooooooao ooooooao witches hat
It is actually incredible that this people are a string band.
Where in the heck did you find this???
this shi so ahh sounds like they incorporated south asian instrumentals and vocals (or as they say, “oriental”) not my cup of tea
Simply terrible.
Yikes! I want whatever they were smoking when this was recorded.
pass
Some of the people on this album knew how to play their instruments and had rehearsed. But not all of them.
1001 Albums for that annoying hippie couple from art school that’s always doing acid Horrid! At one point I was sick of a song, looked down to see how close it was to being done, only to find it had over TEN MORE MINUTES TO GO, and I audibly said “Oh my GAWD” bc I simply could not believe the gall they had to do that.
In a nutshell: medieval fair vibes. As soon as I heard the jaw harp I knew this would be a difficult listen. And it was. I think this is in the book due to the high profile artists it influenced, such as Robert Plant. Not much else. Overall: 2/10
More infuriating olde-worlde psych-folk, eh? I've been meaning to listen to this album for ages, as I hear people rave about it. But it's the same kind of formula. Overwrought warbling vocals. "LOL so random" surrealist lyrics ("I wish for a fish on a dish"). Grating first-draft pseudo-folk twiddling. This record has a bit of a lo-fi experimental feel to the instrumentation, which I don't mind. But it seems like much of the experimentation is picking up some exotic instruments and seeing what kinds of grating sounds they make. There are some moments of enjoyable melody and song across the album (normally when they get closer to regular folk style), but these are few and far between. 1* unlistenable.
Hippie wank.
I feel like I was forced to take acid via my ears. Trippy. There is a video of Leonard Nimoy singing a song about Bilbo Baggins of The Hobbit fame. Look it up. I’m pretty sure these cult members produced that for Spock. HARD pass.
This felt like a form of punishment. Went to Wikipedia and "Scottish psychedlic folk" felt like a threat. I want to fight everyone on this album cover, including the small children and the dog.
If you'd like to hear how copious amounts of drug abuse, out of tune instruments, and kazoos all sound like together, this album is for you! These idiots couldn't carry a tune in a bucket. As soon as I saw they were Scottish, I knew I was in for a treat. This is absolutely horrendous. Favorite songs: The Minotaur's Song Least favorite songs: A Very Cellular Song, Witches Hat, Swift as the Wind, Mercy I Cry City, Three Is a Green Crown, Nightfall.....and the rest of this dumpster fire..... 1/5
A hundred monkeys with a hundred instruments worked for about 5 minutes on this.
J'avais beaucoup d'appréhension concernant cet album, vu les commentaires meurtriers et sa neuvième position dans les pires albums notés de la liste. J'ai donc été surpris par les premières tounes, qui sont pas SI pire que ça, c'est juste du folk rough sur les bords avec un chanteur très approximatif. Rendu à la quatrième chanson, je me suis rendu compte que mon énergie vitale et mon attitude positiviste initiale commençaient à s'effriter de manière exponentiel. Puis les kazzos sont embarqués à la cinquième track, et le chanteur est devenu d'un coup beaucoup plus insupportable. À la sixième, le violon gay est embarqué, pis tout les instrument sont partie dans une immense dissonance VRAIMENT gossante, garder les paupières ouvertes était devenu un défi. À la septième, messieurs les flutios de Sainte-Agate sont apparus et le chanteur s'est OSMOSIS en quatre clone qui chante zéro en harmonie. Faque jme suis tanné pis j'vais été voir où ont était dans l'album: CRISSE DEPUIS TANTÔT ONT EST SUR LA TRACK 4, ÇA FAIT 13 MINUTES TABARNAK. À ce moment là, je me suis heureusement évanoui, m'échappant de ce supplice auditif
You’re in a cult, call your dad.
listening to this album felt like stepping into an alternate universe where i got perma-fried by a bad trip and could only listen to gentrified sitar music for the rest of my life
This wannabe Tolkien shit is one of the major food groups of British 60s rock and good gravy it’s terrible
This is legit, without a doubt, one of the worst albums I have ever listened to. I really hate 60's hippie music, and this is the epitome of it. This sounds like, "We love the Beatles and hate showering, let's make a band and make some of the worst music anyone has ever heard in their entire lives. I don't know why this album was included or why I "had" to hear this before I died, but this sucks. This is really a zero out of five.
Meh
Just did not connect with this album. The lyrics were too obscure and melodies/harmonies just did not resonate. It was a nice break from the pop albums that consistently show up in this list.
If they didn't sing it would have rated higher for instrumental.
There is no way that Julian Barrett and Noel Fielding are not familiar with this album.
Leave this album in the middle ages where it belongs. Leave the peasants some acid, too. Maybe they'll enjoy it.
Hard to listen to early psych, lord of the rings feel, mouth harps and prancing in the forest 1.5
fiddly dee nonsense, nothing incredible about this. right down there with the worst this list have produced, this shit is bad folk off
Just terrible
Just terrible whiny and terrible
What in the Hippie Medieval Fair is goin on here? A Kazoo, a Sitar, and a Digeridoo? I don't know what is happening, I just know I don't like it!
I can’t believe someone with ears let the singers near a microphone.
I do not like this band, I do not like their music, I do not like them
Serious “medieval bard” vibe from these hippies
#504. What the fuck? 1/5: atrocious
Hippie garbage
This wasn't an enjoyable listen.
Man, I just couldn't really find anything redeemable about this album to warrant a 2. I barely finished it, but fervently wanted it to end the entire time. No situation really calls for this type of music, unless you're like some magical swamp creature.
Gave it a go, how much did they pay the A&R man?
Meh
Not for me
I rarely give a 1. Searching for something to up that score, I usually land on musical ability or lyricism. For the Hangman's beautiful daughter I can't do that. Honestly, I thought some players held their instruments for the first time on this recording. As for lyricism, I can't see the poetry in this. Feels like it's for a 70's-80's children's program. No surprise but I had flashbacks to Pentangle's Basket Of Light which also received a negative score from me.
This was a rough listen. If you want an experimental 60 album where they just got a sitar, this is for you.
I didn't enjoy this at all. I'm not sure how so many bands I like can cite it as an influence.
You would think the string in their band name would imply they can play stringed instruments…
I listened to this while sick with Influenza A. I know the strength of my soul.
Too whimsical? for me. I just don't find it interesting.
Dreadful. I can't rightly imagine what the label must have thought as they pressed this. When John Peel arrived at the pearly gates, St Peter probably had this second on his list, after all the Yewtree stuff he was involved in.
Ew. Just ew. For whatever reason none of these songs sounded good to me. Just lots of wacky sounds. I can see why this might be musically interesting but sandpaper to my ears.
Scottish folk/psychedelic band. Could be relevant at that time. Howadays irrelevant, i could be, without the doubd, die after listen this. never again. i lost my time.
Not incredible.
Why isn't zero stars an option?
Bad hippie music
Saved Prior: :| Off Rip: :| Cutting Edge: :| Overall Notes: Much closer to IBS than ISB. I guess it is incredible to tune a string instrument so horrendously that it sounds like a bagpipe
Spot-on album title in terms of piper vibes—and incredibly average strings. Cut it off in the middle of track 3.
There’s kazoo in this. I can’t take it seriously lol. Also it’s awful.
This.was.bad.Really.bad.
what the hell. this can't be real
Is this the soundtrack to complete insanity?
uma merda
I now know what being subjected to torture feels like
I try to be more lenient with older albums but this was just insufferable
Tudo tem limite. O movimento produziu coisas incríveis. Essa definitivamente não foi uma delas!
What the hell did I just listen to?
This album is so unbearable, that my Spotify actually cut off during it.
Made me want to throw the rope up 😵
Yuk
# 364 : Can't Listen, don't like it, I'm not sure it inspired anyone, but if the music isn't good, I'm not sure I need to hear it before I die. I can't imagine getting hit by a bus and my last thought being, "shit I never got to that album from those Scottish hicks playing that shit Sitar". Does anyone actually listen to this album, or only us twits doing "this list"?
Pain. It's like a stoner group of Renaissance Fair attendees took a light dose of mushrooms at the fair and tried to "jam" with whatever instruments were handy
Ass ⭐️⭐️ maybe ⭐️
Sjeeeeeemig dit gaaaaaat maar door. Een soort mislukte Kelly Family die hun kampvuurgejengel ten onrechte vinylwaardig achtte. Wat een gedreutel, en veel te lang. Een half zo lange plaat had nog net boven de Frans Bauer-grens uitgekomen.
Dit moet iedereen volgens mij horen vanwege de therapeutische werking. Zit er iets tegen: het kan altijd erger. Dit album voert dat concept tot in de puntjes uit. In het geheel is het een dieptepunt. Maar binnen het album wordt ook elke keer gedemonstreerd dat het erger kan. Van een mislukte Dylan-poging naar een nummer waarvan de uitvoering mij doet denken aan nummers in Monthy Python, naar een pijnigende snaar, naar mislukte Aziatische klanken en zang, naar....naar....naar....Tot een nummer ergens aan het einde dat nog valser is dan alle voorgangers. Dieptepunt in de lijst? Nee dus. Het kan altijd erger!
My second straight day of hearing 60's hippie music that feels very thin in substance to me. It's fine to make music when you are tripping on acid. It doesn't mean everyone has to hear it and it certainly doesn't mean the music has to be in this book. I had some difficulty differentiating each song as well. Based on the other reviews in this book, it feels a bit cliched to make fun of this album. Just because it feels cliched doesn't mean it is not true. The song titles could be part of a parody album and I'm not sure anyone would know. Mentions of Minotaurs, witches, three songs that end in "song," and 13 minutes of the band just dicking around on their instruments. The band can't even say why they named the album "The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter," as it didn't mean anything. The quote from Mike Heron on the wikipedia page was a word salad that basically amounted to "I was on acid and I knew my idiotic fans would delve into the title to find deeper meaning that isn't there." I can see how the Incredible (false advertising) String Band would influence other artists like Bob Dylan and Robert Plant. I can only assume it influenced them to create music that sounded nothing like the Incredible String Band. There is just so much sitar on here and rambling lyrics. I can't explain why this album must be heard, as I never wanted to hear it again. Swift as the Wind is the most unbearable song for me. There is nothing redeeming about the grating, annoying lead vocal and obnoxious background vocals. The good news it is difficult to focus on the thin instrumentation when focusing so much on the vocals. Swift as the Wind is a misnomer because the song felt like it was 28 minutes long. The (Not) Incredible String Band have a song called "The Hedgehog's Song" and I am just thankful this song was not on this album.
I'm sure someone likes this, and I'm sure the musicians had a good time. They worked hard, have a vision, and are skilled. And boy I don't like it at all.
No, just no!
oh my god
Really very terrible
Just not my thing
Interminable - can well and truly folk off!
The moment I dreaded in this project has finally come - the point when I receive an album that I really don't like, but dogged as I am, will hear it through to the bitter end. This was a painful listen. I appreciate that the \"artists\" were probably off their faces on Acid, but surely there must have come a point when their sensibilities returned and they realised what a godawful cacophony they had created, although, apparently not. My first one-star album. There you go!
It’s like they found a sitar and slide whistle at a pawn and decided to make an album. Unlistenable to modern era.
The Shitty Beatles? Are they any good? No, they suck.
There’s only two possible explanations as to why this album is on this list: Someone in this band has naked pictures of the author & blackmailed him Or a warning as to why too much acid is a bad thing
This is not very good. It it, however, very, very weird
I hate hippies
What creatively void hippy nonsense was this. Irritating AF. I feel like they were taking the piss. Not good
More power to the people that enjoy this, but I am not one of those people.
This was horrible. Diddling and unstructured nonsense with weak vocals and uninteresting songs. To top it off it was much longer than it deserved to be. One of the worst albums I've heard on here. 1/5
If Monty Python needed a backup band, these guys would have gleefully obliged with their harpsichord cringe goof songs.
Superlatives in a band name have proven to be a sign that they are the opposite of whatever they claim to be, at least in this list so far. I guess I just need to stop torturing myself and forget trying to making to 1001. Out of the 600+ albums I've heard so far, I've only come across of maybe 10 that were amazing that I hadn't heard before.
The drugs that created this no longer exist to make it palpable to the ear in this century.
This was atrocious and horrific in so many confusing and bizarre ways. The kind of album that makes other people hearing me hear it think "what's wrong with him?"
A psychedelic mess
Well that was obnoxious. It’s like a group of strangers was given a bunch of random instruments and drugs and told to write an album. They made an album I guess, but it was a meandering mess. Like were they dared to cram as many random instruments onto this as possible? I’m worse for having heard this.
This felt like it was actively trying to get me angry. And worst of all, it succeeded. It’s only 49 minutes long but it felt twice as long. And it just keeps going. It just turns into noise after a while
I’m not even halfway through this album and I can already tell you what I think: dreadful, absolutely dreadful. Do yourself a favor and seek out some of the folk music from this period that’s actually worth listening to.
If this were instrumental I may have like it more but the singing killed it for me. When I started to listen to it the first time, I reacted negatively and turned it off. I came back to it and stuck it out, but only barely. Really unlistenable for me.
Crappy hippie renaissance fair music with some sitar mixed in, and lots of off-key singing made for a very unpleasant 49 minutes.
I was reading Robert Plant was influenced by this album. Let's just say it's a good job jimmy page played the guitar and not the harpsichord
Worst one so far.
Not sure how this list is compiled but if it’s by votes then this feels like a ‘Boaty McBoatface’ style troll. Absolute tosh.
Again, not my style of music. This doesn’t do anything for me.
If you're going to listen to stoned idiots bang on instruments like toddlers, put some punk on. At least they're done sooner.
Fucking sucks
Awful
Kill me now
Dancing around the Maypole to piccolos is not my thing.
How did this make the list? This is just horrible.
Like a poor imitation of Monty Python
Der findes ikke nok flydende LSD, i denne verden til at jeg skal høre denne plade igen!
I can see a place for it in Monty Python movies.
Folk No! Such 60’s era nonsense. Pretentious, acid fueled sleep sounds. Hangman missed the mark here.
Christ it's awful
Lots of 1 star reviews on this, can't say I disagree. You must be extremely stoned to find this in anyway acceptable. Not being stoned I too can't give more than 1 star.
I lasted 1 1/2 songs
Kind of stinks. Couldn't finish it
Not my cuppa tea, but I could see the Hobbits singing these ditties as they begrudgingly go on their adventures.
I looked at the reviews and thought that they were exaggerating. well, they were not
Couldn't finish. The cover art is quite representative of what to expect.
I really don't like the lead vocals, singing style.. or lyrical content. Too folky for me. I'm trying! ...Nah. I'm tapping out. not fair to rate it though as I didn't listen properly. or is that a 0? Not sure I can really give anything a 0
What is this? It's garbage, that's what it is! Look, I was not looking forward to this. It's another album on the "worst albums" section of the global stats page on this website, and I can see why. The most enjoyment I got from this album was when the first song mentioned the name Bridget, which made think of Guilty Gear, leading to me playing Guilty Gear. I really like Guilty Gear, but I do not like this album. The sound is unpleasant to listen to. Not quite in the same way as an album like Kollaps or the Throbbing Gristle one, but enough to say that I didn't enjoy listening to the album. The singing is a part of that. It's kind of annoying. The writing is just there. The whole album feels like an acid trip at a really shitty renaissance fair. However, I wasn't sure that this deserved a 1/5 for a bit. I mean, it's bad, but my disdain for it isn't nearly as high as it is for an album like Haunted Dancehall or Hypnotised. I really had to ask myself the question of "Am I upset that I had to listen to this?" When I think about it, I hate the album, but every reason that I don't like it is just a lesser version of a reason for albums that I hate more. As stated earlier, it's not fun to listen to, but not as painful as some of those noise albums I got. It certainly drags, but not as much as an album like Haunted Dancehall. I don't respect the band for getting into Scientology, but they're still not as evil as someone like Jerry Lee Lewis or Marilyn Manson. But honestly, I think it's the fact that all of these things are in combination with each other that makes me answer that rhetorical question with a yes. I am upset that I listened to this album, just not as upset as some of the other albums. High 1/5 (that means closer to a two).
I can imagine a medieval peasant from France bumping this shit crazy in the tavern with his mate Pierre after a hard days labor on his liege lord's land. Unfortunately my dopamine addicted brain does not yearn for the lute.
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter by The Incredible String Band felt like a journey into a fantastical realm, similar to Lord of the Rings, but with a twist that didn't quite resonate with me. The album's use of a droning sitar became a bit nauseating towards the end, and I found myself questioning why it was considered a must-listen on the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die list. While I appreciate the band's experimental spirit and unique blend of folk-rock and Eastern influences, the meandering compositions and niche sound left me feeling disconnected. NUMBER OF BANGERS - 0 STAND OUT TRACK - None
Damn. Rough.
ekki fyrir mig
You don’t have to hate music to like this album but it helps.
At first I thought the album was really going for something unique, but as I listened to more I found repetitive, bland, and uninspired. Would not listen again.
you know I wanted to give it a 2 but putting this in the same category as Gorillaz would be an insult to fucking gorillas
Tem um dos reviews mais votados que disse que para esse álbum ele é 1 ou 5 estrelas, e não pode ser nada entre isso. E eu escolhi 1 estrela.
Dreadful
I concur with the majority of other reviewers here. This is dreadful hippy shite. What is going on with those vocals on "Three is a Green Crown"?
Rating: 1/10 A truly heinous album, it sounds like a bunch of people that are beginners and are playing whatever they want without rhyme or reason with folk instruments. And because it's so bad and different this album is seen as experimental, but really it's some utter bullshit. There are some good ideas on here like in The Minotaur's Song and the first few minutes of A Very Cellular Song, but this gets overshadowed a thousandfold by how horrendous and unlistenable the rest of the album is.
Mi spiace ma non mi è piaciuto tanto, ascolto veramente difficile e pesante. Sarebbe 1,5
Talmente brutto da essere meraviglioso.
How does someone come up with music like that? And instead of hiding the fact that listening to this crap was a waste of time, it ends up on the list of "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" so that others will also waste their time listening to this.
While amusing at first, by the end of the album and the beginning of a second listen, I felt all that was missing was electric shock therapy and some official insisting that this is what good music sounds like.
My phone now smells of patchouli and has offered me psychedelics, thanks a lot.
This is fuckin' abysmal. I mean, it's not instantly terrible like Bob Dylan is, but insidiously terrible. You'll start listening to it, thinking that it's uninspiring or perhaps even boring, but before long you'll start to get this uncomfortable feeling grow, where you realise that you've had your earballs filled with utter shite. The really awful thing is that every so often you'll hear something that you think "maybe this isn't do bad" - but it genuinely is. This is the worst "not country", "not Bob Dylan" record on the list. The low rating is entirely justified.
Incredibly shit, lots of (as I found out) North African AND Indian instruments like the sitar (too present I think) and gimbri. Trying to hard to be psychedelic/different.
Hmm not as bad as I was expecting, not to say I will be listening again though! I would say 1.5
Nope. I tried to give it a chance, but no thanks.
shockingly shite
This was a truly terrible listen.
Those negative reviews sum up the experience of listening to this album very well, it's just really bad psychedelic folk with ridiculous pretentious lyrics
The Minotaur’s Song
Scotish folk with a touch of magic mushrooms - not my taste
This sounds like a parody record. Are we sure this isn’t a joke? It’s such a random combination of sounds. First song has a banjo, sitar, rubber band and spoons. Oh no, second song is worse. This is not good. If this was recorded by Monty Python it would make more sense. But as a collection of music intended to be listened to and enjoyed, no.
This is what being forced to go to church sounds like
Further proof that hippies are bad people.
Hilariously bad, need to be on the same amount of acid as these guys when making this shit
I gave it a crack and I like some folk bullsheet. But this one hurt my brain.
Fucking hippies
ASS
Nope.
I briefly found this amusing and charmingly eccentric until I realised it was a load of tuneless self-indulgent tosh. The drugs are no excuse.
All I can say about this is that it sounded like a Monty Python spoof album and I wish it had been.
For heavy drug users, by heavy drug users. Kind of agony to listen to sober. Will try again next time I trip
67/1001 🌕🌗🌑🌑🌑
The Unlistenable String Band.
truly incredible
Just hippie bullshit. I can’t stand this kind of stuff. Like kids pretending to be a rock band. 1/5
Comus eri luokkaa.. Mutta ei komeile comus listalla.. Vaan komeilee protoversiot..Leikitään eri genreillä ja viisastellaan.. Ei sentään ole chilling and wibing heh
Well. I think I get it, but I find myself skipping the songs after about 30 seconds each.
Not my cup of tea at all, rather yucky end to end.
Folkmusik goes psykadeliskt. Är det bra? Är det på skoj? Jag förstår inte. Det kanske är ironi. Fast det borde jag förstå. En 1a. Och då är jag snäll.
Men kom igen... 1001 bästa skivorna.. Någonsin. Inte ens chans att denna platsar. Det suger. Sången är fruktansvärd. Texterna är lite lattjo, bitvis. Men det är ju för att de är "konstiga" (knarkiga). Men som musik, helhet. Nope. Oseriöst. "cellular" är en 13 min lång sång och det är en plåga. Som att sitta vid en brasa när några idioter plötsligt ska förstör stämningen med att försöka spela musik. Men de kan inte spela, sjunga eller skapa en skön stämning (själva tycker de att det är svinnajs). Man vill bara att de ska sluta spela så man kan njuta av brasans sprakande. Eller helst, slukas av eldens lågor så ljudet tar slut!
Jag har gillat mycket av det är psykadeliska på listan så här långt, men här blev det är en rätt otäck överdos. Deras exempellösa talanglöshet gjorde förvisso att lyssningen hade ett visst underhållningsvärde, men ettan är förstås ändå solid.
LSD
Uniquely terrible
was isch ihm??? es isch sehr folk time ich check nöd ganz the minotaurs song. mythologie time?? sie singed em immer alles noh nervten da nöd? witches hat checki scho ehner? aber isch uuuultra nöd mis hooly shit. a very cellular song. jesus time au no? er seit walk in the valley of shadow of doubts oder so. gangstas paradiiise. de shit isch mega laang. bi chli am kämpfe. etz macheds auno de dooioioi frosch grüsch type mundharmonika. s mittelalter isch verbi jungs. wiso rededs vo komische sache? wiso isch d giige irgendwie ungnau? water song au nurscho wies afangt hassis afoch. nocher muni no so bitz ufs wc und s plätscheret afoch so vor sich hii. nai mann höred uf. there is a green crown goht 7:30. kill me now thank you. denn ischs au no mit sitar. wenn mer öpis vode beatles nöd mues überneh ischs d sitar. boah ich hasses
bro s het d review glöscht aber ja s erinneret mich an seeeny todd oder wie au immer das musical gheisse het hans gar nöd gfühlt MIN ERSTE 1ER
I hear a lot of interesting instruments here but this is a perfect example of "just because you can, doesn't mean you should".
Hot ASS
This is just a whole jumble of crap. These poor people in these tragically ugly clothes forced into the woods for this horrible photo. I hate this.
Redefines self-aggrandizing horseshit for the Boomer generation. I lost an hour off my life so you don’t have to.
Not the worst thing I’ve ever listened to, but it is close.
What in the caucasian fuck is this nightmare? Valuable lesson from this album: if you use the word "Incredible" in your band name, you aren't. Is this Wiccan music? No Wiccans I know would listen to this. I enjoy a good Minotaur song as much as the next person. Their Minotaur song sounds like a showtoon. Just wait till I play this for my Minotaur friend. He's gonna laugh his ass off. I wish Black Sabbath or NIN would've written a fucking Minotaur song. If you are into intangible melodies, erratic song structures, and love music with no rhythm, you'll be totally entranced by this album recorded live from Jim Morrison's bad trip. Jaw harp is one of my favorite string instruments. Cool sitar. Hare Krishna.
Is this a joke?
The pavement of their day
jesus….
I usually like to listen at least 2 or 3 times all the way through just to give it a fair chance but I just couldn't do it with this one
Don't know anything about this going into it, but I'm into the cover and title. Well. This is interesting. Yeah, I kind of hate this. I can appreciate that it was made, but like, the world needs fewer white people making folk music "influenced by world music". No, I don't kind of hate this I hate this so much. I keep checking to see how many tracks I have left to suffer through.
Well, they formed in my home city but I feel no bias or loyalty here. At times I felt I was listening to a minstrel from Monty Python’s Holy Grail. Except that would have been a spoof and mildly amusing. The best thing about this album is the title. Very much of it’s time and place
Normally I enjoy a little psychedelia. If I was a 15th century Irish stoner this might appeal. Otherwise, I’ll pass…
I did NOT like this one. I did listen all the way through because I'm a masochist. I'm not sure there are enough drugs to ever make me listen to this again. This was like a bad D&D soundtrack gone wrong. I might accept this at the renaissance fair but even then I'd prefer just a dude with lute and some jaunty rhymes. While listening, I mostly debated whether I'm a guy who will give only 1 star. I've decided if I never want to hear it again, it will get a 1-star rating. Congrats to The Incredible String Band for earning my first ever 1-star review.
There was nothing incredible about the Incredible String Band. I cannot get back the time spent listening to this album. Not sure why it is considered an album you must hear before you die. It might cause some to want to die. My personal hell would involve being required to listen to this album on repeat in perpetuity.
Ging mir gehörig auf den Sack, auch wenn ich sagen muss, dass teilweise coole Ideen drinstecken. Allerdings hat es mich einfach gar nicht abgeholt.
Dour, medieval gallows vibe
Зочэм
Dour, medieval gallows vibe
Just awful. Painful to listen to. Waited for it to get better…it didn’t.
One of the globally lowest rated albums on the list. Pretty weird, experimental psychadelic folk. A lot of drugs must have been consumed. A challenging listen. Rating: 1.5/5 Playlist track: Witches Hat Date listened: 09/02/24
I wish I could give zero stars.
What the fuck
Honestly, first time I’ve awarded a 1. Just cannot find anything positive about this album.
Hard to get through
Weird
Strange and cult like! Didn’t enjoy
Pish.
Why was this created, and why the fuck is it on this list? I didn't make it through the whole album, or even half the album if I can be honest but I cant imagine the second half offered anything different
No thankyouu did not understand this one at all, lame compositions, lyrics oscillating between twee sincerity and forced strangeness. Happy to never hear this again. Fave track: Waltz of the New Moon
I lasted until the line ‘A fish on your dish - is that what you wish?’ That’s just great great stuff. Like a Monty Python spoof of an early Genesis album. Need to lie down after that. Half star
So this psychedelic folk apparently? It sounds something was would be considered cutting edge in 1469, not 1969. The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughther, even the title comes from the Middle Ages. At times it was something you’d hear eating a giant turkey leg after a war, sometimes monks chanting in a 1600s church and then sometimes a guy doing a baaaadddd George Harrison impression. 2.3/10
Very eccentric and religious. Worst album I’ve come across yet
NO!!
On behalf of the British people I apologise for the fact that this exists .
Flower children under the influence of Gilbert and Sullivan. Awful. My ears hurt before the end, literally, their microphones picked up a horrible whistle/buzz from the sitar, I think.
I assume when I'm done with this list I will be able to make my own list of 10001 albums I'd rather listen to than that.
Awful
This will be the first album since I started 1001AG that I will unfortunately not finish. Actually irritating to listen to. Hard pass.
Some hippies on acid with their unlistenable shit. Easy 1/5
I like folk music, I like Bach, and I like Gilbert and Sullivan. But I don’t like them all mushed up together.
Nope.
Ugh. Hippy bullshit. Awful whiny folky rambling wannabe psychedellic nonsense. It sounds like Rubber Soul if the Beatles had not been very good songwriters and had smoked way too many joints, never stopping for breath. Ugh. Terrible.
Wtf man. I can definitely find 5000 albums better than this. Painful to sit through.
What the fuck is this shit? They gave these Scottish people a bunch of instruments they didn't know how to play and they banged on them and chanted shit
Kind of weak. Way less exciting Simon or Crosby. Want to turn off after track 1. Track 2. Track 3. Track 4. Not sure I’m making it much further. Obviously very repetitive but song is called circular song so forgiven. Overtones of religion make me dislike it even more. Track 5. Can’t do much more. I cover up my emptiness with rush because they’re a much better band.
This is the shittiest shit I have ever heard
Psychedelic is becoming a red flag.
it was like medieval themed
A bunch of hippies that can’t sing
Pure hippie tripe. The abstract hilarity behind lyrics such as “he can't dream well because of his horns” followed by a choir of moos was not enough to redeem itself from a single star. Awful.
I was tempted to give this a 5 just for excelling at being bad, but I can't. It's terrible. "Incredible String Band" -- yeah, incredibly BAD.
Beim Blick aufs Cover: oh weh, The Kelly Family is back. Beim Hören: oh weh, die Kelly Family auf Drogen. Ich musste das erste Mal mehrfach auf >| klicken.
Like from an old movie. Chaotic.
Þetta leit svo vel út. Hljómsveit frá tímabili í tónlistarsögunni sem ég held sérstaklega upp á, ég hafði aldrei heyrt um þetta band svo ég var spenntur. Svo var þetta bara eitthvað hipparöfl sem var hundleiðinlegt.
Total crap.
I listened before Christmas, gave it a few days and listened again today. Nothing changed. This is a very unusual album that was more annoying than intriguing. The more it played, the more I was annoyed. Crazy sounds and even the singer sounded a bit like the munchkins from Wizard of Oz at times. Add the flute and you have an album I am anxious to forget about. Did the water song incorporate the audio of someone taking a leak? I know it made me want to pee. This was a very tough listen to complete, let alone twice. I only have myself to blame. 1
1.5 So, this started off kind of weird, but bearable… then Jesus Christ, about halfway through A Very Cellular Song I contemplated if I would have more fun drinking bleach. Clearly these guys weren’t tripping on the same quality acid that The Doors and Pink Floyd were - if all psychedelic bands sounded like this, then I could be convinced that the war on drugs was a good idea. Or, maybe this is just a reminder that psychedelic drugs don’t automatically make you a good musician, there needs to be a base level of talent there. After giving this thing a few subsequent listens, I’ll admit there are some moderately enjoyable aspects buried in here, especially with some of the more sitar-driven stuff (which I imagine could be fun on psychedelics), so I’ll bump up a half star, but that kind of stuff is few and far between a lot of crap. And I mean A LOT of crap. If I never hear The Water Song again, that would still be too soon. Supposedly this album was a big influence on Robert Plant for Led Zeppelin’s debut, and while I’m glad he saw something in here that led to the creation of that album, I’m even more now appreciative that Jimmy Page was the one in charge of producing it.
The sitar is giving me George Harrison vibes. Not sure what to make of this genre, very much of its time but I'm not sure it has held up over time. But the singing could be straight out of 2000-2010s alternative. The more I listened the worse it got. 1*. Feels like a random array of words. Why is this on this list?? Fuck was it hard to tolerate the longer it went on. That weird dual-channel sax album was better than this. It's white people trying to emulate Indian music in the worst way possible. No dawg, you can't sing in quarter tones, you're just a terrible singer.
The Incredible String Band is Scottish psychedelic folk... The highly irregular instrumentation, vocables, harmonies and dissonances... This album is absolutely atrocious.
That was a painful struggle to endure. I think their name got me a little too excited and it all came crashing down immediately and I was pining the whole time for The String Cheese Incident for some reason.
this was terrible and I could not get through it
I was surprised to see this on the lowest-rated list at first because it was a band that played Woodstock and probably had a big cultural impact or something but in reality it makes total sense that everyone hates it because it's the embodiment of the worst stereotypes of psychedelic/hippie music. From shittily recorded shitty vocals singing shitty nonsense lyrics to grating instrumentals made from whatever the band had lying around in the shed they were recording in, I just couldn't make it to the end. There's about 2 minutes at the start of A Very Cellular Song that I liked (goodnight) but I couldn't take any more when i got to the water song and saw there was another 5+ minute song queued up. The only other positive??? is that it really does give off the vibe of being recorded in a dirty commune somewhere in southern California while everyone was on mindblowing amounts of LSD.