Reviews (page 8 of 8)
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