Reviews (page 8 of 8)
Oof, no. Struggled through this. Way too esoteric for me.
Didn't like it
The album started off okay. I enjoyed the instruments but then it got worse. This album was hilariously horrible. At least it made me laugh.
I can’t decide if I love this or hate it. Psychedelic folk with entirely too much kazoo. This is an album I most likely will not listen to again, as I don’t do drugs. I’ve decided—I hate it
Sounds primitive, like a bunch of tripping people playing at a village party. The singer's voice is annoying.
Absolutely dreadful
Genuinely diabolical
There is zero chance I ever listen to this again. Every song lasts 45 mins and feels like it lasts 50. Getting through one listen would be a point of pride
eh Will I listen to again: 0%
The people in the reviews rating this 4 or even 5 stars have to be smoking penis and I want the creator of the 1001 list of albums to go to jail for this. This sounds like it's a few guys at a medieval festival throwing a music session for unfortunate kids that were dropped off there by their parents - totally talentless. I've heard some worse garbage on my 700+ album journey so far but near the bottom. And speaking of 700 albums and counting, I can definitively say that the album cover is almost always a tell if the album is going to be decent or not. Turns out you *can* judge an album by its cover. 2/10.
p132. 1968. 1 star. 60s folk addled by too many magic mushrooms. Meandering, tuneless songs, pretentious lyrics, and a vocalist singing flatter than a witch's tit. And it has a random sitar and a kazoo. This is an absolute clusterfuck of an album. Avoid. "Never trust a hippy" - John Lyndon
This is a SNL parody of 60s folk music. Utter garbage and completely unlistenable. I like music less after having listened to it. The Water Song is where I gave up. May God have mercy on my soul.
Tried to listen but only got in three songs and couldn’t take it anymore. “What do you mean incredible?? This is not incredible!” Says Aleena 😂 Listen again: no Purchase for my collection: no Favourite Song: none
Truly horrible.
Scottish Psychedelic Folk.
Way too many different sounds at once. Not my thing.
Were they serious with this one? Not for me.
Not my bag. Not something I will listen to again.
This was painful to listen to. It had all the worst elements of the 60s and jam bands. I am worse for having listened to it.
I can’t sing and I can’t play a music instrument so save my life. However, neither would prevent me from being a member of this band. What on earth were they on?
(gif of that little girl side-eyeing the camera, the one from the video where her older sister finds out she's going to Disneyland)
at any point in this album you may hear: harmonica, a jaw harp, a harpsichord (i think), maracas, a piccolo. at one point, i’m pretty sure i heard a kazoo??? all of this music is played during nonsensical medieval-inspired lyrics. in other words, this sounds like a parody of a band that you would hear during scarborough fair. please, don’t ever make me listen to this again.
1- rerating
DNF
Not feeling this Celtic Hippy Shit
This is odd coming on the heels of King Crimson, because we're back at the shire. It's just that it's a lesser one.. Better than Jethro Tull's shire, but still derivative and weird.
The Hulk is incredible. That lovely animated family of Fantastic Four rip-offs is incredible. Kimmy Schmidt is incredible. Walter Mitty’s life was… kind of incredible. This is not incredible. This is awful British hippie folk worse than Pentangle. And I partly blame the Beatles for bringing Indian and eastern music back to people who abused it.
Renaming them The String Band. There is nothing incredible about this album. There were less than 2 minutes of tolerable music from about 1:00 to almost 3:00 of The Very Cellular Song. The rest of the album is various antonyms for incredible: unspectacular, terrible, bad, and poor.
🥱
If this were playing at a medieval faire, I would not leave.
No
Yikes, this was terrible.
When it first started I thought the very low rating was perhaps too harsh. It didn't take too much time into the record before I really started to hate it. I just want to know how it got on this list? Just awful.
Most listened tab looks as if only 1001-ers try to endure this cacophony and fail right about midway. Peculiar, isn't it? Let go, let it become history. Please.
Padaka
So... the vocalist is just bad. Can't hold a note, just offkey through everything. I wish autorune existed in this era so that at least they could have fixed that. There has to be other albums that are actually good that showcase the techniques found in this album. At least I know that if I see this album on a list of best albums of all time, I should dismiss the list as trash.
This is some 1960s hippie flower power shit. I couldn't get past song 3 because it triggered my misophonia (ya girl got angry and wanted to punch something)
Wow. I did not like this at all.
I was wondering whether I should give this 2* just before the vocalizations of "Swift as the Wind" started.
i can't lie, i don't think folk music is for me. that one song that sounded like harmonizing frogs was on and i stopped at the light and the dude driving the car next to me looked at me like i was crazy. i didn't even realize i was bumping it like that. never need to hear this again.
Perplexing.... This is more bizarre and more obscure and odd than I knew music could. A maddening english riddle. Is this Month Python under cover? Or is this the turgor they mock? These are the people who made clockwork orange and a dish called toad in a hole.
I almost thought this was a Monty Python album
Convinced this is a pisstake. Even if it is, it's not a good one. 1.
Lyrics are really sketchy, vocals are even worse, and it's musically passable but nothing more. Is it particularly influential? I can't see that it is, and it is not a pleasant listen. 1/5.
Sounds like a parody of 60’s psychedelic folk. The vocals are so bad. Really hard to listen to. The intonation and playing of violin is so off. Very challenging album. Sounds like they don’t know how to play half of the instruments on this album.
I was absolutely miserable listening to this. Apparently it’s pretty much universally praised as an amazing record but I hated every second of it. They went pretty crazy with instrumentation. Whoever made this list loves jaw harp.
I kept lowering the volume on my phone so I could barely listen to this. I think this is the worst one we’ve had to listen to
One listen of this whining was enough 1*
Awful. Not good music for cycling the Belgian countryside.
What an incredibly hard to listen to album. Felt like this was a group of people just playing instruments at the same time and calling it experimental psychedelic music. The 60a were a weird time and this band encapsulated it. This wasn’t good and actually had to skip some of it. 1.9/10
Actually horrible, lol. How the fuck is this here??
This album is in a lot of ways an exercise in frustration, mainly due to the album’s lack of coherence. The songs are disjointed and seem to meander without any clear direction or purpose. The lyrics are often obscure and hard to understand, which further adds to the confusion. It's as if the band was trying to be deliberately obscure and challenging. The album's production is often muddy and unrefined, making it difficult to appreciate the musicianship of the band members. The vocals are often off-key and grating, which was a major turn-off whilst listening to this. The only reason I considered giving this album 2 stars is due to the unique sound that is produced, it was clearly meant to sound the way it does. Sadly that sound is not very nice to listen to.
Aaaaaaaa the horrror!
Bad, boring, blegh
Why did someone think that a recording of a bunch of off-key drunkards in a country pub is something I should listen to before I die? Wait, this is a real band? Like... for real? With a record deal and all? Huh. Oh, like a parody joke band. Right? Like a band that does Python-esque bits for the lolz? No?! Are you SURE? Ok... ok, give me a moment... (Frantically Googles to find out WTF is the deal here and finds NOTHING compelling). No. I don't believe it. This is a joke. It has to be. It's not a GOOD joke but it's gotta be one...
Yuck. Just yuck
Is this serious music? This can't be serious.
Some dross noises made by children with lyrics like 'Porridge for my Porridge Bowl'
What was 'incredible' about this is that anyone took the time to commit it to record. The singer sounded like Kenneth Williams, and the songs were just silly. Hey Nonny Nonny NO.
It probably meant a lot more back in 1968, but to my contemporary ears this is just pretentious shit. It means fuck all to my world. My world is all the better for this. Never trust a hippy.
Not one song did it for me. Maybe need drugs to make it sound good.
is this the worst album on this entire list? sure seems like it!
Horrific stoner wankery
This really isn’t very good at all.
Is it over yet? Good lord this is bad.
Dreadful - twee folky background tunes with weird noises on top. The sound quality is awful, the singer is terrible and the songs go on forever without mercy. A shame as I probably like much of what this inspired - perhaps this is The Velvet Underground and Nico for folkies, but regardless it's one of the worst things I've ever heard.
boooo
Is this album on this list as a prank? Why the fuck would anyone want to hear this weird hippy shit. Seriously, its REALLY bad. 1/5
Painful to listen to.
Proper hippy music, no rhythm to get behind, not for me
Fucking hell, this was dreadful. Long, meandering, chaotic, lyrically self-indulgent and deeply stupid. At the same time, however, it's a really interesting window into a the hippie mentality. The problem is, I think I truly hate hippies. Can't quite shake the feeling this album is unremitting garbage
Not for me. Hard pass.
Shite. Zero stars. Damn the idiot who put this on the list.
wtf was that!
Ik vond dit echt een soort koortsdroom??? Werkte zo onwijs op m’n zenuwen en de teksten vond ik echt bizar. Kreeg een beetje ruinerwold vibes dat mag ik wel zeggen toch binnen deze veilige muren????
Lol, I can't take this band seriously, it just makes me think of Spinal Tap. This was just the first few songs; the album goes downhill after that for me. Very much not by bag, baby.
Dit is gewoon niet door te komen...
Mijn hemel! Is dit een registratie van een bonte avond in de jaren zeventig?
Wat moeten ze een plezier hebben gehad toen ze dit album opnamen. Lekker gek doen! Hoezeeee!
I came into this knowing it was one of the worst reviewed albums on the list, but I gave this a legitimate try. I briefly considered the possibility that they were some kind of Ren Faire Tenacious D, doing bits that everybody, including the reviewers, were in on. I'm still not convinced that's not what's happening here, but they seem too earnest for that to be true. Ultimately, it's an album full of out-of-tune singing (and moaning), bad sitar playing, really dumb lyrics that occasional drift into an ill-advised pseudo-intellectual space, and a goddamn jaw harp. I tried. I really, really did. I don't get it. Best track: The Minotaur's Song. This is the one that makes me think it's an elaborate joke
I thought the first track was really interesting, and I was quite excited to see how this record blended different genres, but my god it meandered after a little while. The overall sound worked and some moments had fantastic group vocals that added so much depth, but it mainly just all felt exactly the same throughout, with the lead vocal lines often being very weak and honestly just annoying to listen to
No.
I struggled to finish this album. It was so bad I looked up the author of the 1001 albums to listen to before your die, and found out he was from the UK so he probably has an affinity for these scottish buffoons.
Very slow, almost all vocals. Not sure I can pay enough attention to keep track of the lyrics.
harpsichord, pan flute, kazoo *chef's kiss*
Woeful waste of time and unworthy of this list
Folksie shite
This was awful. I think "Waltz of the New Moon" was the only song that I wasn't actively angry about. It was like they decided to just vocalize whatever uninteresting thought they had in their head and throw a sitar in there as an afterthought. Just terrible.
Is this a joke?
I made it 4 songs in, even that was too much
a mash of random instruments, was very dead
Terrible
Well this is dreadful self indulgent rubbish. I’m sure may have had some sort of influence at the time for those under the influence. Thank God that’s over.
Une balade en forêt qui vire au drame après l'apparition de différents elfes et lutins venus nous flûter les oreilles. La situation ne s'arrangera pas d'un poil avec l'arrivée des gnomes et de leurs chants dépourvus d'une quelconque justesse.
Possibly the worst thing I've heard so far (in my life).
I hate folk music
Ot gave me a headache
Did not age well
Shite
I did not like this album. Not. At. All.
bullshit
Haha this was 100p not for me. Kinda had a funny moment when I realized how common it is for white artists just to borrow music from other cultures. This album definitely sounds like them trying to do that
Not for me.
Absolute solid gold guff
Holy mary mother of God. Pyschedelic folk. Flutes, hurdy gurdies and lyrics about wizards and green crowns. Not incredible and surely indigestible without smoking a load of weed.
Tough listen. Like felt almost like a cruel joke to me... I couldn't listen to this and not think of the movie the Mighty Wind (which may have better music!)
This album should be in the other book: 1001 albums you should avoid at all costs. I've never listened to an album so quickly. It went like this - Track 1: Listen for 20 seconds, scream in horror, skip to Track 2: listen for 15 seconds, vomit, skip to Track 3: listen for 10 seconds, feel a part of my soul die, no more skipping. This is worse than Crazy Frog, Brotherhood of Man, and Nyaan Cat, all on permanent loop. No amount of drugs accounts for this abomination being written, let alone recorded, let alone getting released!
Terrible
Not for me
What in the name of Timothy Leary is this? This is the kind of stuff that Monty Python would mock incessantly. Not a big fan.
The album cover looks like some Robin Hood themed larpers? Yesterday I had Jimi Hendrix and I'm thinking this will be similarly trippy though much less familiar and probably not as good but this list has surprised me before. Oof. These songs are simply pretentious foolishness. Three Is a Green Crown almost broke me. Maybe the album was groundbreaking in its day, I don't know, but not for me, no thank you.
0/5 Ahh now. Up there with the worst. Whoever put this on the list needs to get out more. This kind of rubbish undermines the entire list. It doesn't even deserve a 1. Folk is far from my favourite genre, but this would not rank in any list of important folk albums. "I cant dream well because of my horns." Cover art 1/5 hippy commune family photo
all i'm going to say is that if u feel the need to include the word 'incredible' in your band name, you should think twice. definitely of the time period, considering all of the instruments (i do love hearing a sitar!). a lot of yikes going on here.
This album was...distracting. There was a point where I literally had to pause this so I could concentrate on something I was trying to do. "Acid folk" is the perfect genre description for this, because this bunch was definitely taking lots of hits in order to develop this messy album. At its best, I would find some songs on this album tolerable, if only the vocals were not present. At worst, the album was a cacophony of dissonant, competing sounds among the instruments and vocals, and the cadence of the song. Honestly, they probably had to try really hard in order to make all of their music sound THIS noisy and THIS busy. I like folk music, and wanted to like this, but all of the dissonance honestly just ended up stressing me out. Overall, a big miss for me.
Sorry I'm not an addicted
I’ve yet to describe an album as irritating. But here we go...... Fave tracks: The Michael Jackson song that came up on shuffle at the end of this travesty.
Is this a joke? Absolute shite, a real chore to get to the end.
Track 01 - 1.25/5 Track 02 - 1.5/5 Track 03 - 1.25/5 Track 04 - 1.5/5 Track 05 - 1.25/5 Track 06 - 1.25/5 Track 07 - 1.25/5 Track 08 - 1.25/5 Track 09 - 1.25/5 Track 10 - 1.25/5 Overall - 1.25/5 Album Art - 2.25/5
Makes you want to kill hippies. 1
Did not enjoy.
Schulaufführung in der Aula zieht sich in die Länge; pfeiff mir aufm Klo lieber den dritten ‚Kleinen Feigling‘ rein, ehe ich wieder zu den Mittelaltermarkt Pfeifen reingehe. Vonnöten mindesten 1.1 Promille
i like the dark as dark as can be. metal lyrics on the least metal music ever. that said listening this was so much more stressful than listening to metal music. so much out of tune singing.
Bad. Comically bad.
Madre mía, que disco más insufrible. Mira que me gusta la psicodelia, el folk y muchas parecidas. Al ver el disco y leer quienes son en wikipedia y la época del disco pensé que me gustaría. No os molestéis en escucharlo, de verdad.
OK at first I didn’t think it was absolutely terrible but as it went on I wanted to barf he started awkwardly making all these not yelling noises but just a voice raises and I very much did not like it
God, what is this. So out there 😂 weird as hell. Don't know if it's so weird it's good, or if it's just too weird 😂. Psychedelic, a bit medieval and then also a bit Eastern sounding. bless them, not good. I think maybe a solid 1/5 😂
Complete trash, I didn't enjoy any of this, it was unbelievably obnoxious
if this were to be released today it would fail miserably
Weird. I do not really like that this type of music.
Is it over yet? Twee going nowhere folk music. The kind of thing people who don't like folk imagine what folk is. Worse than every Fairport Convention album, even the ones before they were folk or after Denny and Thompson left.
Is this a joke? This is why the 60s have a bad reputation. This is also why we won the Revolutionary War.
listened to 2 songs and dipped
No
1st July 2021 Listened on my phone in bed the morning of ben Barkham's wedding trying to squeeze it in before going all weekend not being able to listen to anything! Sounds like a monty python album. Very psychedelic, folk 60s. Very strange. I guess you had to be there. Smacked off your tits.
Ich hatte mich auf guten Folk gefeit und dann war es ein indischer Wanderzirkus
The most one star of all the one stars. Possibly, nae probably the worst thing I’ve ever heard.
Hang me.
Couldn't finish. Too weird for me 😕
File under "what the"
What the fuck is this.
Trash
No mamar...
shit
Ei