Reviews (page 8 of 8)
boring, expected more from a group with sprouts in the title
That was a bit too boring for me. I fell asleep. So I give them 2 Stars in case someone has a hard time falling asleep.
Some of the tracks feature a particular brand of generic 80s production that depresses the hell out of me and I instantly thought we were in 1 star territory. But I listened again and realised that was a bit harsh. The songwriting seems pretty strong and there's more going on than I gave it credit for at first. Faron Young and Goodbye Lucille #1 are good choons. 2.5 stars.
Bored. Acoustic sides better than album ones.
Never heard of this band before listening here. not great
I don't hate this album, but this is pretty antithetical to my musical tastes. I guess I would call this album... inconsequential? Odd inclusion.
Gente que es aún más mamadora que yo musicalmente hablando ponen muy en alto este disco y a mí se me hizo bastante malón. Me gustaron 3 rolas.
Good background rock
Nunca había ni escuchado su música ni siquiera el nombre. Cuando empecé a escuchar el álbum pensé "nada de lo que esperaba... esa portada no indicaba que fuera a ser pop 80s... interesante". Casi la primera mitad del disco una cosa muy buena, pop que se oye sofisticado con algo de post punk. Esa primera canción excelente con sus toques de cowboy y hasta con algunos puntos de sonidos industriales y me empiezo a emocionar y me pregunto qué más vendrá... Bonny y Appetite elementos un poco similares más atenuado pero buenas canciones... Sigue así de manera bien, ya no levanta tanto pero está escuchable y entonces pasa la desgracia... A partir de entre la canción 5-6 por Hallelujah y Goodbye Lucille se pierde todo lo interesante y el sonido se convierte en pop jazzeado suavecito de estación del metro sin ningún punto de interés y a nivel que parece da vergüenza lo trillado y soso que suena. Es una de las decepciones de mayor grado que me ha dado esta lista en cuanto a la disparidad dentro del mismo disco. Inició con la tentadora promesa de ser algo único e interesante, continuó estancándose un poco pero sonando decente y terminó en el caño. Al menos saqué una canción muy buena del disco pero no es como si valiera la pena suficiente para estarlo buscando.
I don't think I liked this one. I have never heard of the band, nor any of the tracks. The album started out with a sound that hinted at the Squeeze. By the end the album had settled in closer sounding like Talk-Talk or Spandau Ballet -- just not what I'm interested in. I don't think I'm far enough from the 80s to enjoy this one.
Irgendwie unorigineller 80er Pop
fine
meh. A bit emo-pop for my taste, but track 1 is okay.
Very uneventful 80s pop. Doesn’t stand up to the work of contemporaries at all. Poor lyrics and forgettable melodies. Surprised it made the list.
"when love breaks down" is actually a pretty good song but I don't like the music otherwise
nah not 4 me
X jajajajajaja, no estorba
It's not as bad as the really atrocious albums we've had, but I really can't say anything good about this album beyond that. It's mostly just really boring with the occasional hint of pretty annoying.
Veryyyyyy interesting. First track sounded like Arctin Monkeys modelled some of their middle/later years stuff on it. Decent, enjoyable, to start with, feels like a 3. Dropped off a bit as its progressed, feels a bit more like a 2 by the mid-point. Yeh, 2/5
Passable pop
One good track before it runs out of steam with pseudo jazz vibes.
Very average 80s fare - one strong song in the middle with Thomas Dolby but I struggle to understand who would have been a prefab sprout fan back then - they offer nothing really, albeit it’s not terrible
Sekoitus takkatuli- ja nyyhkypoppia, eikä kovin kummoista sellaista. Jos koko levy olisi ollut avausbiisi Faron Youngin tyylistä, niin olisin ollut kiinnostunut. Nyt jäi kovin kalpeaksi ja harmittomaksi poppikseksi.
Weird... Started off sounding like crowded house mixed with the Smiths then took an even stranger turn...
Peruspoppia, ei herättänyt suuria tunteita puolesta eikä vastaan.
Not good or bad. Don't really get the significance. 5/10
Passed me by. Wasn't bad, but nothing that I really wanted to listen to again.
Had some decent enough sounding tunes but I didn’t enjoy that much. A low 2
*Shrugs*
Pop ochentero.
Not good but not terrible
Pop / New wave Overall an okay album - slightly uninteresting but not bland. Each track showcases a new style, such as contemporary R&B and ska, as is expected with new wave music. 3/10
eh
I had to check my spotify history to see if I actually listened to this yesterday. So, pretty forgettable.
So so. Quite 80's.
Beeeeeeeeeem mais ou menos, not my cup of cachaça pqp aquela música com "got six things on my mind, you're no longer one of them" foi muito aluguel, não acabava nunca essa porra algumas partes das letras achei que beirou o cringe/piegas horsin around me fez querer assistir bojack... horseman, óbviamente
ok, i guess
No
did not connect to me
best wel slap pop album, niks bijzonders. Dit was wel een week met matige platen :(
Tylsää musiikkia joka ei herättänyt yhtään mielenkiintoa kunnolliseen keskittymiseen. Taustametelinä ajoi asiansa.
Not the worst thing, but is this REALLY an album I needed to hear before I die?
Not without any merit but not for me.
cool smooth pop but not my genre
Dosadno dosta, baš ništa mi nije napravilo. 1/5, 1/10
Twee rubbish
You'd like a nice cup of tea. The only teabag you have is a dried up old thing stuck to the bottom of a cup from yesterday that has already been steeped twice. You add warm water and savor...nothing but vaguely tea-flavored water. This was just like that.
Very forgettable. Nothing else to add.
Awful
1.4/5 Not for me. I would have rather died not hearing this.
Cool band name. Shitty music!
favs: bonny desire as rating 0.8/5
Awful
Not for me.
The tempo on the songs is ragebaiting me
At first I read this too fast and mistakenly thought that Steve McQueen had put out an album, joining other actors turned musicians like Leonard Nemoy and William Shatner. I thought the king of cool might put out something weird and interesting. After some confused wiki pages research, I finally understood that was a band called Prefab Sprout had put out a pop album called Steve McQueen. I should have realized based on the publish date. This anecdote was the best part of listening to this album.
Ummm. I kept saying to my self who sat in the studio and thought heck ya we have an album here.
i lowkey hated this and i don't really know why
Nope...
Cack
Most definitively thos should not be a top anything. Outdated and cheesy Nothing special at all
Why is this album here? It's not great...
I struggled making it through this, it's so annoyingly inoffensive. This is for people who paint their walls magnolia, it's perfectly serviceable but you might as well choose nothing. They probably eat plain toast and drink only water, they tried a dash of lemon in it once but that felt too fancy. I can imagine hearing this in a department store as I browse completely mediocre housewares... ooh that's a useful dustpan and brush.
Not for me
Not for me. 1/5
Pas fan … rock pop années 1980 … manque de caractère
Not really my vibe tbh. Fav song is ‘When the Angels’.
A victim of the 80s sound rather than a pioneer. Really not my style. I went in hoping to like it but it lost me more and more so I'm feelin' mean.
So bad
Boring
dit hoort thuis in deze lijst als een pinguin in een verzekeringskantoor
Lounge pop and mind junk lyrics that are the kind of internal monologue the majority of us manage not to burden everyone else with...
Parts of this work but 80% of it is kinda insufferable. I had relatively high hopes during the first track but that faded very quickly. I think my opinion of the album got progressively worse with every track. A lot of the lyrics, especially in Moving the River and Desire As, are too clever in the way where you can tell the writer is really proud of the turns of phrase. It's perfectly fine music but the too-earnest vocals, too-clever lyrics, and cheesy music all add up to even less than the sum of their parts. I've probably given worse albums higher ratings but this one just really annoys me.
So it’s new wave? No it’s adult contemporary soft rock/pop? It’s neither? Who wrote these lyrics? This should have been buried with Maggie Thatcher and Regan.
1. young - 1 2. bonny - 1.5 3. apettite - 1 4. douun -1 5. lucille - 1 6. hallelujah - 1.5 7. River - 1 8. Around - 0 9. Desire - 0 10. Pies - 1 11. Angels -0
Nice. Somthing for elevators or restrooms. Nice to come down. Missing to hear befrore I die - certainly NOT.
I must be missing something here. Ok, it is in the 1001 book, but that’s true of lots of albums I don’t like, but specifically it is on Vulture and Mojo’s lists of the top 100 greatest albums ever. Why? I don’t think it’s interesting or innovative and, in order to bring a bit of joy back into my morning, I will give it a rare 1, my sweet vengeance-highlighting how irritated I am-for this album to sit with all the noise rock albums at the bottom of my list.
I'm going to start giving 1s to stuff like this. The fact that they had to release the single multiple times before it got picked up should tell you something about this album. There's nothing WRONG with it, but it is so bland and undistinctive I forgot I had music on a few times.
Not for me
Yeah I don’t get this album. Thought it was going to start out as an Irish band then ended as slow pop crap.
Bland. Didn't really get the point of this - 'sounded like a budget Aztec Camera in places' is about the best thing I can say about it.
I do not like this at all.
Another that I didn't need to hear before I died.
1/5
Pop shite. Sonic pablum. Milquetoast synth garbage. God, I hated this. I had to turn the music off 4 different times before re-engaging. I made it to the end, and celebrated with another listen to Pantera as a palate cleanser. But then, jk pointed out that there's an acoustic version of the album, as well. I gave that a listen and turns out, it's much better. If the medium is the message, then please talk to me via unplugged guitar than Casio noise box. If we were listening to the acoustic album, I'd give it three stars, but we're not.
Fuck rating albums. Just let me listen.
i really did not like this!
First song reminds me of Django Django but... created by aliens that haven't quite learned what music is. This album is so strange. It's like the singer, instrumentalists, and producer are all making different songs. Song structures are weird, the instrumentation gets verses and choruses and bridges mixed up, chord progressions are completely random, the lyrics don't match the rhythm, and the lead vocalist gives an oddly subdued performance. It's a collage of unrelated songs put together to make a new song if you squint, but the details are all wrong. Making something that's so perfectly the uncanny valley of music might deserve an award, but as an album, this is a 1.
Not good. And so many of them! I actually hate it
Drivel
Mid-80s crap
Hot garbage
Even allowing for the 80s-ness, this isn’t a good album. Sort of feels like pop-jazz.. like a free form pile of shite
This is shit
Somewhere between early ‘80s Elvis Castillo and early 2000s Sting is this album. Unfortunately neither kept my attention, nor does this. Songs like Horsin’ Around felt like lounge act that got kicked out of Vegas and some fairy godmother experimented to see if they could make them beautiful. Instead, we discovered that Cinderella was still a lounge act. Someone loves this album, and I am grateful for them, because I will forget about this album in….done!
Utterly boring. I remember this type of music in the charts at the time. Found it boring then and it remains the same
Awful 1985 music.
Bad.
Ahhhh not great.
Why this is even here? I have no idea
First track was quite cool. Unfortunately it was pretty much downhill from there.
I just can't find anything I liked about this record. It's boring and uninspiring. There's nothing here that hasn't been done better somewhere else.
fookin shite
I never wondered to myself what it would sound like if someone decided to bite from the smiths, billy idol, and wham all on one album while throwing in a lounge tune bc fuck it, why not? But now I have the answer. After the first two smiths-light sounding tracks, I thought I might be in for a pleasant surprise but by the end, I wanted to punch this singer in the face as often as he repeated the same three unclever lines in “Desire As.”
Started strong and quickly went to shit.
The first 10 seconds was ok but it went downhill, and fast. Something I never want to listen to again in my life. I'm often bewildered at how we took the amazing rock of the 70s and went so far backwards in the 80s. But we did. And luckily the 90s turned up to save the day. This is dull, terribly produced and totally unmemorable. I guess we could blame The Keyboard but plenty of people figured out how to use it without creating soulless cheesy pap. Prefab Sprout did not.
Utter crap
You know this is my first time hearing of and listening to a lot of these band's music, this band included. Truthfully dont know much about Prefab Sprout, strange band name by the way, looking into them a little bit more, theres not much to see lol, they never seemed to pick up in popularity much, even in their time. Looking at the bands discography is just kinda sad, after 2003 the band really just seems to be the main singer left, being blinded by serious medical conditions, sad. Welp, with that out of the way, their sound seems to be very influenced by early 80s funk, possibly even leaning more on the side of j-funk from that era, their beats sounding very similar to that of the likes of Miki Matsubara. But the way that it is executed comes off as amateur, I feel that the lead singer has a great voice, but just doesn't do enough with it to really pull me into any particular song. Would not listen to another song off this album again unfortunately. Fav Song: Bonny 1.5
p534. 1985. 1 star. Weedy, pretentious, soulless 80s UK hipster pop. Wants to be The Style Council but lacks any edge and tunes. Extra point deducted for the stupid band name.
Você pode deixar esse álbum tocando de fundo, em looping, sem incomodar ou despertar o interesse de qualquer pessoa. Inclusive, eu estou na metade dele e não reparei até agora nenhum momento que uma música acabou e outra começou, não consigo dizer se já se passaram 2 ou 20 músicas. Uma dos álbuns menos memoráveis que já ouvi.
Começa insosso para cada vez ficar mais chato.
Synthesizer-Pop with whiny lead vocals, sappy backup vocals and piano rhythms.
Ymmärrystä ei ollut TARPEEKSI.. siinä se... ei riittänyt..
Not entirely sure what this album is. Bossonova, RnB, jazz? Lots of 80s textures throughout. The lyricism is pretty basic as well. Not sure I needed this and I will probably not be coming back for more.
This reminds me of Steely Dan, in that it is very shit. Bland, boring, over-produced uninspired and uninspiring pop pap. A limp dick of an album.
This was amazingly generic. It was like everyone iin the 80’s gave this band their worst songs.
Quite nice pop but vocally and musically nothing inspiring and little individuality of the group. Sounds partly like The Style Council
Good this is pure shit!! It’s all what a nightmare album could be: long, cheesy, dumb, and with awful lyrics. Glad to see that the overall rate confirms all of these despite that clownish first review.
I like the cover picture of the Album. Nice motorcycle
This could not be less appealing to me. I found it to be really, hilariously sappy smooth. I don’t get this album’s significance at all.
Cheesemongers gather For your pure stinky cheddar It’s all you can eat
I had never heard of this band before today. I would like it if I never hear of them after today. I used to work at a gaudy woman's clothing store when I was a teenager in the 80's. Bands like this and Shakespeare's Sister and poor man's versions of Richard Marx and Howard Jones would play in the background. It drove me crazy day after day. There was a lot of this background, one step away from MUZAK, easy listening garbage in the 80s. The world is better now that people don't make it anymore.
I will never get that time back from listening to that album.
Cheesy eighties schmaltz. The first song sounded a bit cowpunky right at the end and I got excited it might improve, but that was the high point of the album.
Really didn't care for this one. Seems too aligned with blue eyed soul and brit pop-ish. I don't care at all for either. 1.49.5
OMG - hated this album, just so wank!
It’s not offensive - it’s just bland. Why is it on this list.
Why. Why? Why?! WHY?! Why is this album on the list. So wack. I love George Gershwin too but if I referred to him as Georgie Gershwin, I hope someone is there to slap me.
This is horrible. It's bad loungey electro music and this should not be on this list. One definitely can go without hearing this album.
80s Pop. Not quite for me.
Awful!
Worst album I have listened to so far, starts off dull and somehow gets worse. Elevator music for the lift to hell
This was boring as hell.
Early Brit Pop doesn't do it for me
Sounded like the soundtrack to a musical. Not for me.
Well now I know for sure that I hate "sophisto-pop". I'm sure that there's lots of people out there who like jazzy pop music about relationships, but I hated every minute of this. Even the half-hit that I vaguely remembered was just a further reminder that I hated that single when it was released in the 1980s, that single was what I based my opinion of Prefab Sprout on, and my opinion was right. There was nothing here to change my mind, just dull and entirely redundant music that I could have happily lived without. This was a waste of almost an hour (for once Spotify adverts were a blessed relief from the chore of this album). Since starting my journey through 1001 albums, I've listened to many albums and musicians I hadn't heard of before. I've found music I now love, but I've also found music I just don't get - this is clearly in that latter camp. I really can't understand why anyone would like this at all, it's just worthless pap.
Easy listening bollocks.
Load of pish
So tired of British rock
First listen Saved 1/11 Top track: Bonny
With the notable exception of the opening track, this is just like everything else I've heard by the Sprouts; tweely irritating.
The first song was kinda cool, but I didn't finish the album.
Poor kinda biring 80s vibe man
Best left in the 80's bargain bin. Where it pretty much started started.
Not for me
1.75
Slick production. There are interesting elements but it's way too sugary for my tastes. Definitely a pop band. Not sure the "jazz" elements help with me either. Some kind of ick factor with this band. Feels like Patrick Bateman would discuss them in detail. Couldn't wait to get through this. Almost a 2 for some of the interesting parts... but the more I listened to the album the worse it got.
Meh. Sounds almost exactly like a hundred other bands. Completely uninspiring.
Not my jam. A bit too poppy
Really didnt like. Made me think of cheap elevator music
No ty
Really not my case, except maybe for "Appetite"
I have no idea why this album of Prefab Sprout is on the list. Uninteresting jazz pop from the 1980s and very very boring.
This album is what they play at the parties no one actually wanted to attend.
-New band to me -First track rips! Love how the punchy post-punk guitar-work mixes with the twangy banjo(?) and country drummin'. Some more weird effects + harmonica are added and turn this thing into an acid drenched western tune..I'm about it -The album then sadly "breaks down" into some standard 80s pop fare and fails to rebound 🌟
Aburrido
The album had very somewhat nice and decent beats but that's about it. I only somewhat liked one song from this album but barely.
Gash
dated
More dull than a spoon