Nixon

I do not understand this kind of music

Not crazy about this. There are some nice moments, but his voice is very boring. Also, this album is way longer than is warranted. Probably won't be returning to this anytime soon. Favorite track - Distance From Her to There Least favorite track - The Old Gold Shoe

It was okay. There were some songs I like better than others. Wasn't a fan of the weird squeaky falsetto vocals at times.

Heard it before?: No Enjoy it?: Yes, it’s quite euphoric and powerful to start with and fades out quite wonderfully but wish that powerful feeling stuck out a bit longer Favourite song: Track 1 - The Old Gold Shoe

Pretty Boring Album

I find Nixon is a highly uneven album, with a strange combination of country and soul. Sometimes it really works out, like on the song 'Up With People,' but other times the falsetto and half-hearted soul just really don't do it for me. Gave it a couple of listens, but it never hit anywhere.

Sadly I couldn't really enjoy this one at all. It was just very boring and forgettable. It's one of those albums where I just "heard" it and proceeded to not listen to any of it really. Like a background track. If I wanted that I could have just listened to the fan noise of my PC for 45 minutes. Technically it was fine, seemed well-produced enough. Just really wasn't for me. Favourite: Up With People

Indie rock with symphonic elements. It sounds like Nick Cave joined Arcade Fire. I didn’t super enjoy it. The vocals are a bit of a let down, ESPECIALLY the awful falsetto songs, and they were sometimes too quiet or indecipherable.

Anfangs noch besser, irgendwann geht einem dann doch die Stimme auf die Nerven.

eSseNtIAl LIstEnIng I was so excited at the beginning of this journey but 250+ albums in and the only surprises are how much mediocrity exists out there. Don't get me wrong: I have discovered plenty of good music from this list, but even the new to me 5 star albums are by artists I had already heard of.

It's very well done music, but it's quite boring. Each song is so much alike and most songs drag on a bit longer then they should have. The closing song "Butcher Boy" is my favorite since it's different and more compact.

I don’t see the point of this album.

I expected a rock album but got a blend of country and disco (?), falsetto included. Certainly unique, but boring. I appreciate its quirkiness and the blending of genres but I'd say that's it.

2/5 it was pretty stupid even though I admired the guys confidence

The old gold shoe - boring and meandering Grumps- Has a bit more to it but not a fan of the lyrics personally You Masculine You- hate the extended falsetto throughout the song Favourite songs:Up with people, the books I haven’t read Yeah I found this album quite annoying, especially the falsetto songs. Just because I didn’t listen to this closely I’m giving this 2/5 as I may have missed some depth behind the lyrics?

Beautiful and calming baroque pop, reminding me of Mercury Rev, accompanied by witty lyrics. Love the cool instrumentation reminding me of certain 70s folk acts like Tim Buckley, but with the cool twingles of country. Start off strong but repeated itself too much and got gradually lamer as the album went on. Could have been a 4 if followed the momentum of the first 4 tracks. Favorites: Old Gold Shoe, Grumpus, Up With People, Petrified Florist

Enjoyable. First Listen?: Y Fav. Tracks: - Rating: 2.5/5

Not into alternative country, so this is my first encounter with them. It’s not my style of music, really. The guitar work is often decent, but lots of the songs just don’t really go anywhere interesting. Nothing is off-putting or unlistenable by any means, but nothing is memorable or resonating with me either. So many of the songs have a single reasonably catchy melody and then don’t develop or build off of it in an interesting way. The songs that do have a climax have it come way too late and with way too little interest. Listening to the same chords five minutes straight to have the song finish with the same exact chords but now with brass and choir voices over it just doesn’t do it for me. Lyrics aren’t anything special either. Overall, it’s a reasonably competent record, but nothing I’d see a reason to come back to.

it's fine? weird name for a band.

Boring and monoton.

Felt like it got repetetive fast and i didn't enjoy him going out of his vocal range.

Absolute epitome of meh.

Pleasant but kind of dull

Really not sure what that was but overall did not like it. Not what I was looking for.

Listened Before? N Well, this album definitely has a British vibe to it, despite being American. It's easy to see why they were more popular in England than the US. For me, it's a bit too slow and sleepy. There's some neat sounding disco-style keyboards. It's not awful, just not my cup of tea (no pun intended). Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Grumpus

It's not bad, in an 80s Leonard Cohen on a budget kind of way. I'm not here for not bad though. Really good musicianship, but the songs are somewhat somnambulistic. Definitely couldn't rate it one, but I have no intention of going back to this ever, so I can't give it much more than that.

Far from the worst albums this list made me endure, but still - I fail to see the alleged specialness this album holds over thousands of others that is supposed to be the trait that sent it into this list. This is the definition of "nothing special".

C’est bizarre mais pas mauvais. Ca s’ecoute bien mais il n’y a rien vraiment qui sort du lot. Ca ne m’a rien q’porte et il est temps que je note ces qlbums plus severemnt 2.75

Not exactly my forte, Its somewhere between Ween and Pavement. Kind of chill, maybe too chill. I wanted it to go "off" at some point and it just kind of went. The band was clearly great, really good sound, but you know.

Modern easy listening? A bit beatlesesque as well. Vocals were unique.

Gjesp

I'm not really sure how to classify this music. IDK, it's not for me.

Meh.

Bit weird, not uninteresting.

Nie porywa, flat mnie brzmi jak soundtrack z romansidła. 2.5/5

The album started off not bad, musically it was good. Only the songs in falsetto I disliked and there were to many of them.

Here's the thing: during the early naughts, a bunch of British critics on the lookout for the next Mercury Rev gave raving reviews on this album made by an American alt-country/indie-rock act from Nashville, leaving other critics from the other side of the pond a little nonplussed as to what their honorable colleagues from the U.K. really saw in that band. Here's what one of those more skeptical American critics wrote at the time ; "*Nixon* serves as a reminder that expertly executed stylistic hybrids and ironic juxtapositions-- great though they may be-- don't replace memorable songwriting. Sure, it's a novel concept, but while some of us may still be patient enough to "get it" five albums into the band's career, Wagner's talent and unique vision should demand a more challenging album." This somewhat skeptical reception, here taken from a Pitchfork review, perfectly trancribes my own feelings about *Nixon*. In spite of the lush arrangements drawing on Philly soul, nothing much special happens in terms of melody, discernable intensities or sense of dynamics in the course of this long record. When Kurt Wagner goes into that strange falsetto mode, conveniently buried in the mix, it just feels cringeworthy instead of fragile or graceful or charming. The whole thing sounds so... remote, like generic background music droning in some hipsters'café. Even "Up With People", the supposed centerpiece of the album, would actually be a very minor cut in most of the records from the nineties and early naughts that made Dimery's list. If only for this, I'm also deeply confused at what some people really see in *Nixon*, just like most American critics at the time. Maybe it's that incredible artwork setting them into some sort of mood beforehand. Such cover is indeed incredible, and it made me want to love this record so much. Except that I didn't... Should I continue here? Does this foppish thing deserve so many words to describe it ? Some people think it does, apparently. Pitchfork made amends later on for instance, probably still under the lasting influence of those slightly deluded British critics we've mentioned earlier. Just in case that first honest reviewer of theirs might have missed out on something truly earth-shattering, they called a true fan to write a second review about the album's reissue. And here's what this new reviewer wrote in passing: "Even as a fan, I understand the ways in which Lambchop can seem standoffish and cold." It seems that second reviewer was as honest as the first at least. However, the *real* problem with Lambchop might not be about *temperature* or so-called "sophistication". I actually don't feel as if Lambchop are looking down upon us poor mortals. I feel like they're looking at nowhere in particular, that their stare are totally blank. This is not shoegaze here. This is *nothinggaze*. And this empty feeling can even be explained in purely *musical* terms. To this listener, the real problem is indeed that Kurt Wagner never tried hard to write proper hooks, or choruses, or even simple endearing moments, anything substantial that could make you relate to the proceedings. It seems that what *Nixon* is really all about is style. And style is sometimes not conducive to good writing. So, is this an album you must *absolutely* listen to? Not to me. Lambchop are excellent musicians and arrangers, no doubt about that. But the spark is missing here--that sort of spark you can find in acts that are not so far away from the territory supposedly explored here: stuff like Deerhunter, Vic Chesnutt or even Kevin Morby. In all those examples, you can often find two pivotal ingredients that seal the deal for most listeners of likewise genres: memorable melodies and recognizable emotions. And sadly, *Nixon* only very rarely uses those two pivotal ingredients. Of course, in a list a 5001 albums instead of 1001, such album would be noteworthy, if only for its overall stylistic intent (and artwork). But fans got to understand *some* acquired tastes are often harder to acquire than others... Number of albums left to review or just listen to: 947 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 24 (including this one) Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 14. Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more important to me): 16

Weird…

What a potpourri of genres and sounds. But they're all centered around a voice that isn't very interesting to me. Why is this record on the list. Would be a 3/5 in the normal world. But it's a 2/5 on this list - not as egregious as the worst here. But nothing special.

Not that it was a bad album its just not for me. Kept thinking "the next song" but in the end it was a solid shoulder shrug.

Strange crooning, falsetto ballads. It’s like some of the slower Ween stuff, but not as well written

It was alright for background music with dinner. Nothing special though.

Not what I was expecting, and not all that memorable

I got all excited when that one song dropped, and thought this was going to be a barnstormer, but then nothing else dropped. I looked up some of the lyrics and was fairly unimpressed.

It was innocuous enough, but I wouldn't seek it out. Probably would not have listened through to the end if I weren't doing something else at the same time

Initially interesting, but quickly fell off for me. Two stars for good instrumentation.

Jos Leonard Cohen olis syntynyt myöhemmin ja kiinnitetty jollekki hipsuhtavalle pienlevylafkalle niin tää olis tulos. Mulla ei oo mitään tätä vastaan, mutta aika taustamusaksi tää jää. Yksikään levyn koukku ei aiheuttaa mitään fiilistä että wau! Sanat myös aika nonsensea, mikä saa mut lyyrikkona kyl aina vähä nihkeännahkeaksi. Kansi on tosi tyylikäs. Siit mä diggailen. 2/5

Eipä juuri säväyttänyt, tuntuu aika random levyltä ollakseen tällä listalla.

Instrujutut paikoin kivoja ja Grumpus oli hyvä biisi. Mutta laulutyyli rasautti ja loppua kohti aika keskinkertaista muutenkin. Indie rockin ystävänä pieni pettymys, kun oli jo pidempään pitänyt Lambchopia kuunnella.

Nyt ei kyl ihan iske, jotenkin todella kädenlämpöistä tämmöstä menneiden vuosikymmenten hipsu-indiefiilistelyä. Teksteissä on jotain herkkyyttä mut musapuolen herttainen sävy ei toimi. Butcher Boy ehkä levyn paras biisi mutta on liian vähän, liian myöhään. 2/5.

It's mostly okay? I have an issue with albums that don't feel memorable, either lyrically or musically and this one just feels merely okay. It's not offensive, but I don't think I'll ever go back and actually seek it out.

Meh

Lambchop? Never heard of them. But, you know what? I really like it. It is an interesting sound. I don't think it feels country or even alternative country at all. I think the songs seemed a big on the dull side the first time I heard it but they really started growing on me. The tone and feeling of the album is quite nice. Lyrically, it sounds like a hodgepodge of nonsense at times, but if you read between the lines you can get of gist of what they are saying (sometimes). Interesting none-the-less. I'm giving it only a 2/5 for now, but I am sure that will go up with further listens.

My first thoughts whilst listening to this record were that it's very easy to forget it's playing. Like when you're just sat at home on a Tuesday evening and you pop a bit of hardcore porn on, just for company. Isn't it sweet that Bang Bros is a family run company?

listenable, but not something i'd come back to

This is the soundtrack of white people Twitter.

“After rejecting the names REN, Pinnacles of Cream, and Turd Goes Back, the band settled on Lambchop…”

2.5

Had to bail out. No tempo - wasn’t doing it for me

Musikjournalisten, die dies, wie der Schreiber vom NME, für "sheer sonorous delight" halten, sollten sich dringend einen anderen Job suchen, da es ihnen an der dafür essenziellen Urteilsfähigkeit mangelt - und vielleicht als Kinderbuchautor reüssieren. Das Songwriting auf diesem Album ist so nichtssagend, dass es schon wieder ärgerlich ist. Die ungekonnte Kopfstimme macht es auch nicht besser.

I have no opinion on this other than it doesn't really trip my trigger.

this is weird but also somehow pleasant? this is basically room music for me. its more just boring and strange.

It's ok, not as country as I thought it might be which is good.. 'Up with People' is a nice one, otherwise a bit bland in places

Relaxing but still upbeat alt-country. I think Lambchop got more interesting later on but there's no denying that that started here.

Great for insomniacs

An interesting sound. Light rock with a bit of mushy tempo.

I don't like this very much

Ok

It started off strong, but it wasn't that great. It's not that it was bad, but it wasn't really my thing. I hear a lot of Bowie in the singer's voice, but it still didn't interest me. Highlights: 1, and 2.

Few good songs. Ok album

I like the overall sound, but honestly, nothing strikes me. Good to find other stuff from, because it was close to scratching an itch.

Anther huge meh by this list...

me at the beginning: oh, this is interesting me 3 tracks in: this fuckin' guy i did like the final track, though - butcher boy. that was alright

This is ok, it’s just sort of bland. It’s like the Carpenters without strong vocals. I did enjoy some of the horns and strings. Ironically it reminds me of an artist I really love, Spottiswoode and His Enemies. Similar style, similar instrumentation, but Spottiswoode is so much more interesting. 2 stars.

Kinda stinky

Right off the bat I can tell that the vocal style isn't gonna work for me. Maybe with a different singer I could get down with this but I just can't take it seriously. In fact I find it positively annoying.

This album has already faded from my memory and I listened to it yesterday

It was impossible to tell what this was by the cover. And it's like a modern version of folk rock, hurrah. What a hilariously over-represented genre in this list. I'd be outright laughing if this album wasn't such a snoozefest. 2/5

Never heard of this before, better not be related to that irritating puppet. Oh, good, it isn't. This albums is well crafted, but boring. Might go back to puppetry. Oh and the lyrics are painful. Why is this here, exactly? It was already about 50 years past it's sell by date.on release.

I was wondering why I’d never heard of Lambchop. After listening to this boredom-inducing album, I know why. Some of the arrangements and melodies are nice, but they’re not enough to overpower the vocals. The lead singer’s voice is not enjoyable in either talk-sing mode or fledgling falsetto. I’m unsure why this was necessary listening, but I am glad it’s over.

Unfortunately the opener:The Old Gold Shoe reminded me of the Rainbow song by Kermit and that kinda killed the album for me. Whilst he does switch up the vocals to some whispering or a crappy falsetto amongst other styles the album did not improve. Everything felt very pedestrian. The songs are 6 mins plus as they all start with 2 mins of repetitive chord progressions which kinda exhausted my patience.

I missed this at the time because I was embedded in the nu metal scene. -------------- Glad I missed it. Absolutely turgid on hold to the GP surgery music. So laid back it's horizontal. Zero interest. Zero hooks. Zero stars (if I could). Worst so far by a long shot.

WHY was this album included on this list? I should click on the wiki to find out... "breakthrough release in the United Kingdom" ohhh okay. got it. it's another "author listened to this album a lot when they were younger." album. there is nothing remarkable or revolutionary about this. It felt like listening to a boring Sufjan Stevens.

D'un ennui. Ultra monotone.

Ass

Lmao

This one I really did not like. None of these songs felt compelling to me. I was mostly just bored. Every song felt like it had the same dull pace. 1/5

Blah

nah

Hmmm - the cover, a painting by Wayne White, is the only thing of value here; the comparisons to Ed Ruscha, just because they both use type, are lazy. Worth looking at Wayne White's other paintings too; even though they are numerous versions of the same idea, they are well executed. Much more interesting than the music.

Beautiful-sounding and well-orchestrated album with solid musicianship...and an annoying, smarmy, and utterly terrible lead vocalist whose unconvincing singing renders the whole thing unlistenable.

If this singer had any real friends they would have stopped him from publishing this as soon as they heard his bad Miss Piggy impression

I listened to the first song and thought this couldn't be that bad I wasn't prepared for the breathy, grating falsetto

I’ve never really been that bothered by Lambchop. Going into Nixon today, my view of them was pretty much the same as it has always been a bit dull, a bit samey and ultimately not that memorable. I was curious to see if this listen would change my mind. Unfortunately, it didn’t. Nixon pretty much confirmed my previous feelings about the band. It’s perfectly pleasant in the background and never actively unpleasant, but nothing really stands out. No track truly grabs your attention or pulls you in, and I kept waiting for a moment that never really arrived. That’s probably my biggest issue with the album: there’s nothing bad here, but there’s also very little that feels genuinely great. It just drifts along in a fairly understated, mellow way without leaving much of an impression. I can appreciate the subtle musicianship and laid-back atmosphere, but I honestly struggle to understand how this made the 1001 list. Favourite tracks: “Up With People” was okay and probably the closest thing to a standout Least favourite tracks: Nothing specifically bad, just very little that felt memorable Album artwork: Cool album cover

Strongly disliked this one. It gets off on the wrong foot with me immediately with "The Old Gold Shoe" (almost six and a half minutes!). Won't be back here.

Unfortunately the opener:The Old Gold Shoe reminded me of the Rainbow song by Kermit and that kinda killed the album for me. Whilst he does switch up the vocals to some whispering or a crappy falsetto amongst other styles the album did not improve. Everything felt very pedestrian. The songs are 6 mins plus as they all start with 2 mins of repetitive chord progressions which kinda exhausted my patience.

I liked, then I really liked, then I didn't like it, then I hated it, then I liked the last song. We need to be able to give half stars, it's a 1.5 but I might round up for the horns alone. Imma sleep on it.

This is becoming comedic. Not my writing, that stuff has always remained as bereft of comedy as the entirety of "reddit.com," or an episode of "Friends." No, the levity can, nay, HAS to be found in the continued accrual of musically mediocre projects that clutter my mind like curios at an unimpressive roadside museum. The admission may be free, but the cost is everything you were. Lambchop has been described by Spotify's soulless and un-shut-offable AI bot as an "unclassifiable hybrid of country, soul, jazz, electronics and avant-garde noise." Never to be one that is constrained by labels, I have conquered indecision and easily classified Lambchop and "Nixon" as stomach churning tripe. tripe that is manufactured and affixed with fedora, before being ladled into the troughs of the dumbest smart guys you've ever met. This is like the Barenaked Ladies for Libertarians. The transphobic gay man you wish you didn't start talking to at DragCon just discovered this and is playing it out of his phone in the smoke pit aswirl with clove fumes. If either of those two examples don't do it for you, how about sleep-deprived parent poorly imitates Elmo while rocking newborn to sleep at 4am? Cut to print. This sucks. Jason Molina, you are not. Next time, I think I'll have the mutton. 0.5 GENRE: Can we get a wellness check on Mr. Noodle?

How did this album make the list?Very below average and I will not listen to this again. 2/10 Top song Up with people

Eh. It was okay.

I was looking forward to this as from the artist name and album name I thought I was gonna get some death metal but that couldn’t be further from the truth. I found this deathly dull but I did enjoy the song titles especially as ‘grumpus’ is part of my everyday vocabulary; which has evolved from the Sabrina episode where she doesn’t want to be labelled a ‘rumpist’ which led to me and my pal Richy saying we didn’t want to be a rumpus - and now I regularly apologise for being a grumpus, usually I’m just hungry. TLDR: not worth the squeeze

This feels like lounge revival. Are we channeling Tom Jones into a country/pop album? The vocalist swings wildly from lounge crooner to an affected falsetto and back. It feels like a parody album, but doesn't commit enough to the bit to actually be funny. This is a weird Nashville art‑lounge experiment that got lucky with UK critics. Go away, this is annoying. My Rating: 1/5

I have questions. Why are the songs so long? How can anyone listen to this and not fall asleep? Why did it take so many people to make music this boring? Did the video for "Up With People" give anyone else nightmares?

What the hell is this album doing here? It's worse than bad: it's boring. The only memorable thing here is the singer's god-awful falsetto on a few songs. Just a waste of a listening experience.

Phew, that was boring. Yesterday it was innovative stuff from the '60s, today it's just meaningless drivel. The shifts in focus in this project are sometimes extreme. This, too, is a sign that an anthology or canon like this project is, in part, arbitrary and meaningless. 1/5

Absolutely not. His fucking voice, dude. He does this like talk-singing in a low voice after drinking a gallon of milk, then goes to a very bad falsetto. There’s an orchestra behind him which is pretty good but they aren’t making anything memorable. I was wondering how an album from 2000 made it to the list without me ever hearing anything about it, but now I know why. It's just shit.

I’ve done just over 100 reviews so far and this is one of the few that I really struggled with in terms of actually getting through and listening to it… No interest at all, and thought it was really boring and sleepy

So boring!

Thoroughly uninteresting album I couldn't wait to reach the end of

Sinceramente este álbum es un somnifero, apenas lo comienzo a escuchar y quiero dormir. Un disco sin encanto, aburrido, repetitivo.

I feel bad rating this without actively trying to finish it, but the first few songs were so hard for me to get through that I just couldn't listen to it anymore.

DNF

You’ll never be tom waits, lambchop

Here is the thing with this album……….. Sorry fell asleep even trying to write it. Some cool sounds with odd annoying vocals. Honestly, it’d be a 2 without that dumb falsetto.

Meh

This was pretty bad.

wtf?

Oh god this is dross. Self indulgent. Directionless. I’ve pooed better music. 1 star rounded up from -500

I gave it a couple of listens. I just could not get what they are trying to do, found myself trying to place them in a context of some sort, which meant by the second listen I just had to accept I was not enjoying it. A strange listening experience, one of the strangest in this strange process as I've not really clocked what I'm listening to.

Quite honestly, I'm very confused how this is so acclaimed. I don't understand at all how anyone could like this. I do not care for it all all. (1)

dziwny to byl odsluch, na pewno nie zapamietany bedzie na dlugo, bo jakos nijako sie tego sluchalo przez fakt, ze polaczenie muzyki popowej z influencjami country, czy tam moze jakies rokowania okolo countrowego, ale bita godzina odsluchu a nic z tego nie zapamietal czlowiek, wiki fajne gatunki podrzuca w opisie alternative country, chamber pop, countrypolitan pierwsze slysze i pewnie ostatni, bo czegos tak mialkiego dawno nie slyszalem, dodatkowo ten nixon jak to plyta z roku 2000, jak country lubie tak tego albumu nie trawie i nawet nie potrafie powiedziec dlaczego, bo caloksztalt jest nijaki, ale najbardziej dokuczal wokal, ktory chce brzmiec jak ktos, tylko nie umiem nazwiska skojarzyc, a nie za dobrze mu to wychodzi i czuc tylko nienaturalnosc w nim, na plejke dodam zamykajacego butcher boya, ktory jedyny nie jest orginalnym utworem na plycie tylko tradycyjna piesnia ludowa

Another ~2000s american pop rock album from this list. Almost nothing really bad, just not memorable. 1.75 / 5

What started as being largely inoffensive slowly made me irrationally aggravated. I probably disliked it more than it deserved but I was thrilled when it was over.

Nah

this sounds like some shit my mom would listen to i cant stand the singers voice and it sounds like yatch rock

Not for me. It just kinda went by

misschien zou ik dit luisteren als ik op een paardenranch woonde in de zomer maar dat doe ik niet dus ik geef het een 1, sorry het was zo saai ik wou elk lied skippen toen ik nog maar in de helft zat

Nope.

Oooof if I hadn't turned this off four tracks in, this might have been the last album I would have heard before I died cuz I would have thrown myself into traffic just to make it stop.

dnf- i do not get it. song after song i wondered to myself if it was going anywhere, if it was going to get better, and it never did. felt like i was on hold the whole time. the only way i can describe it is "liminal"

2/10 Nothing really works here. A sleepy, uninspired bunch of songs with a weird kind of Bowie imitation on top with the vocals.

Ei toimi

Yeah... this was really forgettable album for me. There were some ok instrumentation but that is all. Not my thing.

Not seeing the attraction here.

1+ Stars (3/15)

Spotify says . . . a hybrid of contry, soul, jazz . . . That sounds you hear is me running for the door ;-(

Lame alt music. 😴 "Thick of It" reference on the track "Distance From Her to There".

No. I did not enjoy this. I do not understand how this is on a "best albums" list that is notorious for some glaring omissions of artists/genres. There's nothing special about this album from the year 2000, nor is there anything offensive. If it had been the latter, I might have at least respected the uniqueness. A previous review noted that one of the vocalists sounded like Miss Piggy and I can't unhear it, especially on "What Else Could It Be?" What a dreadful falsetto. Briefly considered giving Nixon a single star out of sheer annoyance, but it's honestly not terrible overall. The final two tracks, "The Petrified Florist" and "The Butcher Boy" were both okish. EDIT: I've been stuck on how much I hated this album over 50 albums later. Even for other albums I gave 2 stars, I had to think "well, at least it wasn't Nixon by Lambchop." For that, I'm bumping it down to 1 star. Fuck you, Nixon, the man and the album.

I was going give a 2, but I'm taking off 1 star for the weakest falsetto I have ever heard.

Is this the moment when music ran out of ideas? This is just a guy whispering indecipherable words over what seems to be the background music from an erectile dysfunction tv commercial. Unfortunately, nothing at all rose from this generic.

Am I in the wrong for thinking this is bad?

Worse than bad - inoffensive.

Blah. I am with The Scat-Man liked their album Floatus. Stumbled on it by accident. This album not for me

Песни в никуда, но очень крутая обложка. Лучшая песня - What Else Could It Be.

This sucked and the singer’s voice creeps me out. The whole production has been muted just so that one could hear him and it’s not a pleasant one. I can’t even tell you a single thing I liked about it. That’s how terrible this was. Baffled it’s on this list.

Nahhh.

Wtf is this? I really don't get it.

The sort of album that people say they like because its experimental while secretly hating it.

I have a better voice and I'm a professional shower singer

I don't think this was supposed to be in the book ... are we sure this list didn't get hacked? This sounds like my grandpa singing some poetry he found in readers digest, with a Casio keyboard demo beat, in Walmart ... How is this on the list? Explain to me why!

I simply just don't enjoy these kinds of vocals. I think a Tom Jones type would serve these arrangements more.

Not sure how this is labeled as a rock band, it's adult contemporary/easy listening at best. After the first 3 songs I started skipping songs after a minute if it didn't catch me, so I listened to a minute of the rest of the album. Hefty no thank you.

Cover Art Review - great! surreal Americana scene broken up by NIXON whatever that means to you. 8/10 Musically, can't figure out what is going on here. Not for me, but to each his own.

Coma-inducing

What the precise hell am I listening to? Bailed after track 3 or 4. Not for me.

Not for me.

Just not for me

3 tracks in and couldn't do it anymore. No bangers on this one.

Sort of thing you'd watch on the Glastonbury coverage if there was nothing else on.

Nope.

1* mędzenie

Some weird country/pop/soul mishmash that is just not for me. I appreciate the music here and there, but it's slow and the vocals are boring at best, bizarre at worst (but never in a way that works for me). Just nothing about it that makes me want to come back to this album or listen to the band any more. There are maybe a couple moments of promise but they don't quite get there for me.

Me la pelaa

I'm too old for this shit. 1/5

Another dud. I admit it isn’t my preferred genre, but this guy was like watered down milk. The instrumentals weren’t bad, but there was no energy and the delivery felt really flat. For the first time 40 albums in I tapped out after 3 songs, and that was after dragging through Californication yesterday.

It started relatively well... until the horrible fake high pitch began in "Masculine You". At first it sounded like Farinelli with the flu. Then they did it again. And again. And again... Like nails on a chalkboard. Stop. Please stop. STOP THIS OH MY GOD I WANT TO CLAW MY EARDRUMS OUT. I’d rather listen to cats in heat for 60 minutes than submit myself to that again. It didn't help that the whole band seemed to be asleep through most of the album. "Nixon" managed to lull me to sleep AND make my skin crawl at the same time. I guess it's a feat in itself ?...

1. gold - 1.5 2. grumpuz - 1.5 3. mazculine - 0 4. people - 1 5. parent - 1.5 6. elze - 1 7. diztance - 0 8. book - 1 9. florizt - 1 10. boy - 0

I couldn’t get past the Randy Newman-esque vocals enough to listen to the actual music.

Painfully boring

Didn't like this at all. Never got used to the singer's voice. Found the whole thing bland.

I hated everything about this.

Bad singing, good instrumentation, uninteresting lyrics. Only song that stood out in any way was Up With People. Everything else just washed over me. No idea why this is on the list.

Never got better

In a nutshell: an acquired taste The only way I can describe this album is part Wilco, part Elbow. Combining these sounds was catnip to the UK press. For me, I like these artists separately. Nixon isn’t my thing, but I give the band some praise for ingenuity. Overall: 2/10

boring as f*ck. 1 good song. big miss

When I saw “alternative country,” I freaked out a bit. Luckily, the band seems to have moved on from that. Some tracks like « Grumpus » or « Up with People » are actually really cool and have real soul. That said, the singer doesn’t really have a voice even though he’s trying unsuccessfully high pitched singing, and I find it hard to believe this is considered top-tier music as this is quite unoriginal. To me, it sounds like one of those albums by aging stars who have lost their spark and, in a desperate search for credibility, end up making bland music that’s easier to pull off on tour.

Eh really not for me. 2.1/10

This album was pleasant enough to listen to. Imagine if Jamiroquai and John Mayer got together to make a Radiohead album. But then that album was covered by a wedding band that played during the cocktail hour before the reception.

Not a great start to this album with the trite "The Old Gold Shoe" which I was bored with after the first minute. The music is low energy and uninteresting and I was just thinking the vocals couldn't get more bland when the awful falsetto started and took it from bland to irritating. This is beige music for beige people.

Somewhere between Flaming Lips and Weird Al, I guess. Not for me.

i'm sure somewhere in my collection (2002) there is a group and album (The Sound Of Urchin, You Are The Best) that is weird in a non-complimentary way that I still think everyone should hear. that's what this album felt like. it's someone's weird group and weird album.

lovely instrumental album. shame the recording caught someone talking over it

Offensively boring, and when it wasn't boring it was annoying.

The musical equivalent of white noise. I have no idea why this album made this list. To my mind, it was totally nondescript.

*yawn*

Day482 - it sounds like it’s there’s an inside joke and i don’t get it

This is not my style of music. It is very "background" music and reminds me of bad slow jams. I am really not enjoying this, especially when the singer randomly breaks into falsetto. I was glad when this was over.

Never heard of Lambchop and I'm perfectly content to never hear them or of them ever again. This is boring, unlistenable crap.

did nothing for me, couldn't even finish it

This might be the most boring album I've attempted to listen to.

Not good at all

Utterly tedious.

What am I missing here? I've heard similar music waiting on hold.

I hated this. Maybe the lyrics are interesting (from what other reviews say), but the music is so DOA that setting interesting words to them would be like putting a corpse in a tuxedo. Still dead. The chord changes feel obvious, the rhythms are rote, every melody goes exactly where you'd expect it to go. The horns and backing vocals are nice, but for the most part these arrangements feel like they should be scoring the end of a sitcom where the main character learns a very special lesson. i can't understand what would compel an artist to make something so bland and uninspired.

trash

boring british sludge like too much stuff on here

Groupe inconnu. Le premier morceau est ... long, trop long, sans aucune variation digne d’intérêt. La partie rythmique est aussi très monotone, sur un morceau de plus de 6 mn c'est très ennuyeux. Le second morceau est un tout petit plus dynamique et travaillé côté rythmique, et est plus court. Le chant est surprenant, avec une vois de fausset de temps en temps. Dans le 3eme morceau cette voix est utilisée tout le temps ; ce qui était surprenant devient carrément désagréable. A ce stade je ne suis pas sur d'aller au bout ... le 1/5 guette. Le fausset disparait sur les 3 morceaux qui suivent, mais pas l'ennui. Et malheureusement revient sur "What Else Could It Be?", horreur vocale complète. Et les morceau suivant repart en fausset, j'ai arrêté au milieu. => le 1/5 est confirmé.

I'm sure the people behind this thought they had created an avant garde masterpiece but , to me , it's just a mishmash of random sounds. The singer tries numerous styles over the album and doesn't do any of them well. Some folk probably love this but not me.

Not a fan.

dull

I'm confused. Wikipedia says this is the fifth studio album by American rock band Lambchop, but says the music genre as Alternative Country / Chamber Pop / Countrypolitan / Soul - so not a rock band then! Boring, depressing, and so laid back it's in a coma.

This was hovering at a 2 but then that falsetto came in and good God whoever thought this album was worth listening to needs to rethink their life choices

I honestly kind of liked it until those weird high notes hit.

Total shit.

It's a little boring. Music is good in places but the falsetto voice is terrible. I would not listen again.

I hated this and wish it would be removed from the list.

Turned it off because it was so boring

This album was an absolute mess, mostly a snoozefest, but the falsetto songs were cringeworthy enough to earn 1-star

P1sh

Zzzzz! What? It's finished? Sorry, I fell asleep! Zzzzz

Dull Dull Dull

Really don't like this, sorry. 1 Star

Quite awful and I wish could’ve skipped it

nope

one of the most boring albums i've ever listened to

If Rufus Wainwright and Stufjan Stevens had a love child in the U.S. state of Tennessee but forgot to give him singing lessons

Sólo completé el 70% del álbum, no fue de mi agrado, no es mi estilo y no puedo encontrar algo que me haga valorarlo o querer escucharlo de nuevo.

listened to the first song and hated it

+4 for band/arrangement. -4 for vocals.

This is #day61 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and... how about some pedestrian chamber pop country with occasional ball-squeezing falsetto vocals? For music of this kind, this album is too goddamn long... Again, what's the peculiarity of this one to have made its way to the list? Sorry, this is yet another 1 out of 5. Looking forward to #day62.

Why is this?

Three tracks in and this is one of the most boring albums I have played in a very long time. Turgid, plodding and dull. I played this album three times and if I never hear Lambchop again I will be delighted.

Not very country

Another too cool selection; feels like a sound experiment gone awry. Wagner's falsetto is reminiscent of Tiny Tim's Tiptoe through the Tulips but more grating, maybe because of the steel guitar. Either I was being lulled to sleep by the mellow grooves or it was bad.

liked the most popular song

This should be interesting but the performances are forgetful. Yes album was better 4/5

I'm starting to think that the generator is trying to torture me this week by giving me crappy albums. This is the third albums in a row that was absolutely awful. Beyond boring with no soul, no energy, no heart. Just a whole lot of nothingness.

Very boring an unremarkable. The production quality from song to song is also very uneven. Reminds me more of muzak or a b-movie soundtrack

Really really hate his falsetto. 1.3

This was okay but then immediately went to a one when he started singing in his baby voice

Not much stood out to me here. It didn't strike me as very provocative or interesting, nor was it compelling as background music

The singer and lyrics are incredibly annoying, and the instrumentals are fairly uninteresting. "Up with people" is decent.

Who is this music for? Operatic Alt fusion soul with William shatner Style country lyrics. I literally don't get it.

It feels like there are too many unnecessary sounds and songs behind them you can’t hear. 1/5

I remember actually buying this album on the strength of one song, and then never really listened to it again, so I'm happy to give it another chance as I've grown older. Oh I know why I didn’t listen to it, it sucks. It sounds incredibly old fashioned in a bad way, it’s full of 70s cheese that’s long since gone bad. The songs are slow boring burns. Even the occasional witty lyrics get drowned in uninteresting schmaltz. This album sucks

It's ok but not much to write home about. I guess if you had to be there at the time for it to gain a foothold. It's too blah to me i'm afraid.

Could not get through this album.

Boring.

What a bunch of lame navel gazing crap this was. Cramming words into a song because they rhyme is not song writing and a dead man could elicit more life from a guitar.

Songs ranged from boring to actively unpleasant

Felt like coffee shop music but the lyrics were kind of hard to discern even though that’s supposedly what the singer is famous for.

It was a hodgepodge of genres - not all that bad but I just couldn’t get on board.

meh

Not a top 1,001. Not a top 10,001.

Not my thing. Sleepy and folky

claim to fame "peaked at 27 on the Norwegian Albums chart in 2000", but it's a UK group so better throw it on the list I guess??

Not sure how to clasify this one but did not like it at all.

Hated this. This sounds like someone purposefully trying to make music for the backing track to a Frasier episode. Every song was to long for my taste, especially since they don't really go anywhere. The only song I would choose to listen to again is The Butcher Boy

In glad that this only went on for 10 songs. I disliked this album from the start. There was such a whiny voice the entire time that was so displeasing to listen to. His voice sounded like he was on the verge of sneezing the entire time and then the music was the snotty gross aftermath nobody wants to clean up.

Genuinely bad. Couldn't even make it through three songs.

I can't listen to this. The production is beautiful. OK I've said something nice. There is this trend - across genres - that started in the late 90s - wherein certain artists sound like Music By Potheads on Anti-Depressants for Potheads on Anti-Depressants. It creates recordings that are SO boring. This recording is an archetype. And this guy's voice. His cutesy-bear sounds to me like someone too lazy or cowardly to try to learn to sing. It stimulates the same rage I used to get listening to Barney sing I Love You, You Love Me on his insufferable cartoon.

trite boring nothing even slightly interesting. I don't remember if I finished it. 1.5 stars

Unremarkable. It was way too long for what it is. Never heard of the band or any of the songs. They are trying to hard to be clever with their lyrics and the sound. It was boring. The style of songs are all over the place. Better than a one, but not really a two. I will round down.

Ok i'm tapping out of this one too. I have the same issue with some baroque pop as i do with psychedelic pop, where it feels like they're using an aesthetic to mask over the flaws. As though just throwing some strings and piano over the top will make me forget about the bland songwriting and the horrific vocals when he gets into his higher register. Couldn't remember a single song or a single interesting moment after three quarters through. Make it stop.

So so bad

Idk how they picked all these albums, feels like a lot of shit

What a boring album. Very dull, no real excitement in any of the songs.

Too slow and mellow and boring

Deze plaat was een beetje saai en eentonig. Deed me wat denken aan een verveelde Blur

Struggling to find a single redeeming feature.

I found nothing to like about this one, except when it was over, couldn't tell if it was country, folk or jazz but it didn't do any of it well

Really wanted to like it but didn’t , the music beautiful the singing and lyrics not so much

At the end of the first track I thought: is this some kind of joke...? I was expecting some kind of anarcho-punk, but no, they were serious. What an anacronism in 2000. If I could give half a star...

Not my thing

Si la idea és posar a dormir les ovelles, és un bon disc

Awful. Boring and monotonous. Nothing redeeming here.

Nope. Bored. Must be missing something but I feel like I say that a lot when I don't like something so maybe I start saying, didn't like it, didn't finish it, won't be listening again.

awful

None

A song or two were quite nice, but all in all I was better off unaware that this kind of music exsists

Ihan kamalaa lällytystä

Folkmaisesti jazzahtavaa. Karua kuultavaa.

I wish you could leave '0' star reviews.

Simply terrible. The lyrics are trash. The arrangements sound nice but are very generic. I feel like i’ve heard them before on random hallmark shows or movie montages. Each song sounds the same- bland flavorless boring. I could get why some people could like listening to this in the background but this sounds like other generic playlists I have put on in the past while cleaning. I definitely don’t think this one belongs on this list. I struggled to get through this one.

fuck you

Definition of week week 2000's "rock" hated it

I don’t know what to make of this album because the lead singer basically whispered every song. I got through about 6 songs and it felt like I always had to increase the volume. I didn’t really find the instrumentals anything noteworthy either. An overall big pass. 2.5/10

Holy shit this album is boring. The cover gave me the impression that it was gonna rock and it did not rock, not at all

BORING.

Felt fairly bland

Meh

shit

This didn't really do anything for me. A couple of passable tracks but most I would classify as "wishy-washy nonsense".

In the words of Bill Knust, this isn't my jam.

Nope

Tragiczny album. Na początek zaczynał się tylko jak nudny soundtrack z jakiegoś rom-comu. Potem okazało się, że głos wokalisty jeszcze mi bardzo nie odpowiada, a szczególnie jak zaczyna się to wycie. Aranżacje muzyczne na wskroś nudne. Dałbym 2, ale biorąc pod uwagę, że już na początku albumu wypatrywałem kiedy to się skończy, daję po prostu 1

This shit sucked. My god it was boring as hell. Sometimes I think this author has no idea WTF he’s talking about. This in NO way needs to be heard before you die.

No ty

Offensive that it was ever compared to Pet Sounds

The only good thing about this band was that it gave my colleague an idea for tea tonight......

Boring

To be honest don't remember listening it was just like a moment in time that was so unexceptional!

Instrumentals we're decent, vocals and mixing terrible.

The best of this album IMO: - Grumpus - The Butcher Boy Boring... Not my thing at all... I usually love falsetto voices but this one is awful. There better be a Gorillaz album (my favorite band) in this list because I don't understand how Nixon can be in the top 1001. 1.4/5

A load of absolute nothing and I hate his voice.

Didn't enjoy

Just didn’t like it.

Hated it at the time. Hate it now.

Wow that was dreadfully boring and monotonous. The last song was the only redeeming quality.

Escuché una rola y no pude más. No es cierto, pa que vean el nivel de compromiso: me chuté toda esta chingadera completa