Nixon

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 ;-(

Music for people with serious heart conditions where anything remotely exciting might kill them. This isn't alternative-country, it's alternative-easily listening, and for someone like me who values pace, edge, emotional expressiveness and catharsis in my music, it's an absolute slog to get through. For some reason, I kept imagining Kermit the Frog singing these songs, but it didn't really make them any better.

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

Holy shit is this shit. There has to be 100 albums on this list just as boring and derivative as this shit.

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.

Easy Listening final boss

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