Reviews (page 8 of 8)
A ne znam
no hate but i am kind of glad that the 90s revival never reached bland 90s alt rock. says the pavement fan. anyways why isn't don't dream it's over a meme yet
very MEH!
Totalmente desconocido, ninguna canción atrajo particularmente mi atención
Hmm, ihan kiva plus. Voisi joskus kuunnella uudelleen taustalla.
None of the singles were that good, but there were other ok songs.
Cheddar
Normal
nice, but not for me
A decent half psychedelic / half alternative new wave hybrid, but certainly nothing I’d go back to. Second half is EONS above the first. STANDOUTS: -Chocolate Cake -Fall At Your Feet -Whispers and Moans -There Goes God -All I Ask -As Sure As I Am -Italian Plastic -She Goes On
It’s scientifically proven that if you listen to this album for 30 days straight it will increase the estrogen levels in your body and you will grow tits:
Not my thing.I liked the Italian Plastic and Weather with You
I don’t know. That album did nothing for me. It was competent but felt completely soulless for some reason.
May need to listen to it again but it did not really catch my interest.
Meh. Bland late 80s/early 90s pop rock.
This album didn't really do it for me. There's nothing wrong with it, and I suspect if I were in a different mood it might've come across as more compelling. As it is, it's somewhere between 2 and 3 stars, and I'm not feeling charitable this a.m.: 2 stars.
2 hit wonder-band men inte värdig en plats i boken.
Was good as an album just not my type of music that's why I rated it low
Boring!
Admittedly I wasn't having a good day, but I'm going to be ruthless. I'm tired of inessential albums on this list. There's so much better music out there. The main thought I had while listening was that it sounds like a tired echo of 80's music
Pretty boring. I'd rather listen to Don't Dream It's Over 14 times in a row.
I'm going to wear a T-Shirt with 'Crowded House' written on the front. Actually, I'm not because this record sucks.
First, their previous album had much better songs on it. Second, even that does not deserve placement on this list. It’s mid music, at best.
You can only imagine my disappointment to hear this album after reading Apple Music’s description of “Woodface follows the lead of The Beatles and Beach Boys at their most psychedelic, expanding pop music’s range with bold sonic and lyrical details.”
Väldigt meningslös musik.
Fuck off with this shit. 1/5
What in the absolute dad rock is this. So banal and bland in its totality, this feels like the most pointless album in existence. And weather with you is STILL horrible.
What if The Eagles were Kiwis from the 80s
Dull
These dudes really couldn’t accept that the 80s were over. Quite insufferable. Sad how this will tank the overall’91 average.
I’ll put them in the one hit wonder category. That was quite long and didn’t get anything out of it. Rating: 1.4
jak coś z taką halloweenową okładką może brzmieć jak słabo
Quite boring and sometimes ridiculous (I mean come on "Fall at Your Feet" really sucks and when the choir comes it's really over the top cringe). It was so lame it successfully disctracted me from work in order to add this to the review. Favorite Songs: Four Seasons in One Day
1. cake - 0 2. natural - 1 3. feet - 2 4. treez - 1 5. uueather - 0 6. moanz - 0 7. Seasons - 2 8. God - 1 9. Fame - 0 10. ask - 2 11. Sure - 1 12. Italian - 1 13. Goes - 2 14. Here - 2
This music drops to new levels of lame.
Some of these lyrics are absolute clunkers and its just so boring.
First album/artist I have never heard on this list and for the life of me I can't quite figure out its inclusion. This music is bland and sounds like many from thos era. Not sure why the editors of this list felt Woodface stood out. Not for me.
I am looking through a jack-o-lantern towards the night sky while asking for another piece of chocolate cake. The safest lite rock with an obvious ripoff Beatles melodies, harmonies, guitar licks and sitar. This album is the very definition milquetoast.
It’s so aggressively and competently mediocre.
I did not like it, did not get it.
Absolut inte
Background music.
Je savais que ce projet me ferait souffrir, je savais qu'en m'attaquant aux "1001 Albums", je n'allais pas tomber que sur des pépites. J'étais préparé, je me suis farci des trucs improbables, des vieilleries poussiéreuses, des expérimentations ratées. Mais ça, "Woodface", c'est une autre forme de supplice. C'est le supplice de l'ennui poli, c'est la torture du beige, la mort par la bienveillance, l'exécution capitale par la "bonne humeur". Ma note ? 1 sur 5, je sais c'est sévère mais elle reflète la réalité. Attention, ce n'est pas une "purge" au sens où on l'entend habituellement. Ce n'est pas fondamentalement un mauvais album car les frères Finn (Neil et Tim, pour cet album) savent écrire et produire une chanson. Tout est à sa place, tout est propre, tout est... calibré. Et c'est précisément ça, le putain de problème. J'ai tenu le coup mais j'avoue que j'ai failli abandonner l'écoute à mi-parcours, mais je me suis fait cette promesse d'aller au bout de chaque disque, même si ma santé mentale doit en payer le prix. Mais putain ce fut long, avec ses 47 minutes de bons sentiments et d'arrangements mignons. C'est "trop humaniste", voilà le mot est lâché. C'est de la musique de gentil, de la musique pour les gens qui pensent que le monde est foncièrement bon et qu'une petite chansonnette pop peut résoudre les conflits. Moi, je sors de la radio indé des années 90, mec. Et quand Woodface est sorti en 1991, on était en pleine montée de Nirvana, on avait le Blue Lines de Massive Attack, le Loveless de My Bloody Valentine. On avait besoin de bruit, de fureur, de chaos, ou au moins d'une putain de tension. Et là, Crowded House débarque avec... "Weather with You". Sérieusement. Le pire, ce qui m'a fait littéralement grincer des dents au point de devoir me lever et faire les cent pas pour ne pas jeter le casque par la fenêtre, ce sont ces harmonies vocales. PUTAIN, ces harmonies vocales, c'est le mal absolu, c'est tellement lisse, tellement parfait, tellement... Beatles-esque dans le mauvais sens du terme. Il n'y a pas un accroc, pas une fausse note, pas une once de dissonance, c'est aseptisé. Et la voix... La voix de Neil Finn, claire, honnête, sans filtre (enfin, sans filtre "sale"). Elle dégouline de sincérité, c'est juste insupportable. J'ai besoin de types qui hurlent leur désespoir, qui marmonnent leurs névroses, ou qui chantent comme s'ils venaient d'enterrer leur chien. Je n'ai pas besoin d'un type qui me chante que "partout où tu vas, tu emportes le beau temps avec toi". Va te faire foutre. Musicalement, c'est calibré pour le grand public. C'est de la pop pour adultes qui veulent un truc "un peu rock mais pas trop". C'est ce que les radios FM adorent. Mais moi, je demande plus à la musique, je demande qu'elle me bouscule, qu'elle me réconforte dans ma noirceur, qu'elle m'ouvre des portes sur l'abîme. Je ne lui demande pas de me taper dans le dos en me disant que tout va bien se passer. Bref, c'est fini, je suis allé au bout. Ma santé auditive s'en remettra, mais ma patience a pris un sacré coup. 1 sur 5 et c'est bien payé, juste parce que "Fall at Your Feet" n'est pas complètement horrible.
Exceptionally boring album. If rock music was formed as a some kind of rebellion against authorities, this was mostly "still living in my parents basement and my dad pays my phone bill" -level of rebellion. Many bands that succeeded in the eighties were pretty hung over in the beginning of the ninities and this band is one of those. Slow pace, kind of irritating sounding singer without personality and songs that you're not sure when they started and ended. There were couple of hit singles, but have admit that those sounded the same blurr as the whole album. The house was crowded with nothingness. The generation who listened to this kind of music was eager to judge late nineties and early 2000's high school/college rock -scene but I think this band was one of the reasons those kind of bands were born at all. And that was horrible music like this is but more honest.
I am only familiar with Crowded House through their absolutely insane Don't Dream It's Over, but when their album Woodface got recommended to myself I really started scratching my head and wondering what exactly was so special about this album that I should hear it before I die. After listening to the whole project I can confidently say there is nothing here worth hearing before you die, this is a pretty average Alt Rock album with not a whole lot going for it. The one song here I really got behind was Whispers and Moans, but even then that track really wasn't all that special. This album went in one ear and out the other without much thought and I don't really know what else to say here. I am disappointed but also not surprised in the least.
Did not need to hear this before I died.
Meh.
Between 1 and 2 and feeling mean.
Terrible band. Weather with you is one of the worst songs ever recorded.
After Sade yesterday it’s back to back blandness. The only song that I had any sort of feeling towards was Weather With You which I truly hate. The shop I used to work in had an in store radio which played it twice a day so I’ve heard it enough for a lifetime. Apart from that there was nothing terrible, nothing special, instantly forgettable.
Too sober to listen to this. 2/10
Почти Ничего нового и приятного я не услышал Как по мне жалкая пародия на нью ве1в от токин хэдзззз
The album feels boring compared to when I listened to it back in the 1990s.
I've definitely found some interesting albums on here. This definitely goes down on one of the more dumber ones..
Found this really bland and forgettable. It's diet Lennon-McCartney pop songs. Unless I'm missing something, I'm not sure why this is innovative or deserves to be something I need to hear before I die. It's not offensively bad or anything, it's just too "safe". The production is dated, the lyrics are not clever, and the album cover is ugly.
This album is a cross between Billy Joel and R.E.M. abomination. So bland.
Meh
Talking Heads for NIMBYs
Offensively mid. Depressingly insipid. I think I rated yesterday’s Tears for Fears record too low because I did not enjoy this at all. When I saw a Crowded House album without Don’t Dream It’s Over come up, I was pretty skeptical, and I was right to be.
Sigh. Why the hell is this album on this list? I don't get it. It's dog shit. At least Tommy was the first at something. It's hard for me to understand how this thing was ever culturally significant. It essentially sounds like a record executive saw the college rock radio scene making the jump to the mainstream (see R.E.M.) and thought "hmmm can we pull together a soulless, cheesy, pop rip off of that and sell it to boring people? I dunno, but we're gonna try." And that's essentially this album. It's R.E.M. but worse.... and i really don't like R.E.M., but at least I can respect them. This album is disrespectful to my ears. Sigh. I also hear shades of Big Star but filtered through 90s adult contemporary and that makes me feel very sad. The sound is soooo lame and the lyrics are just awful. Weather with you? Dumb. Four Seasons In One Day? Also dumb. Italian Plastic? Very dumb. The only song i recognized is Fall At Your Feet. I remember hearing it on the radio while channeling surfing and quickly moving on because it sounded deeply uncool, and as a teen it was important to not be caught listening to deeply uncool music. And sure, in hindsight some of the music i avoided as a teen is actually good and i was letting this idea of "coolness" get in the way of my own happiness, but in this case teenage Terrence was spot on. The only redeemable song on this whole thing is "I'm Still Here", the secret bonus track at the end of the album. It's rowdy and weird and a little punk? This one minute track has more personality than the rest of the album combined. I burst out laughing when it came on. I was imagining the U.S. government using this album to torture POWs in Guantanamo (probably people who don't deserve to be there) and then the silence of the last song hits and the poor POW thinks "thank god that album is over, i couldn't take one more second of it, I'm never going to tell these Americans anything"... but then the singer comes barreling back through the speakers with the refrain "i'm still here" like a poltergeist with unfinished business left on earth and then the POW just starts screaming "i'll tell you whatever you want, just make it stop." Sigh. I always thought that Crowded House were a one hit wonder and I fucking love that hit. Don't Dream It's Over is a beautiful song. I could listen to it every damn day. It is a hundred times better than everything on this fucking album. I wish they had just quit after their debut. Woulda saved me from wasting 48 minutes of my life this dog shit album. That is time that i'll never get back.
There’s one Crowded House album on this list. Instead of the one with the only Crowded House song anyone can name, why the fuck would that one album be this cheesy, generic garbage?! Terrible album that just drags.
I’m not sure I have heard an album where I didn’t feel anything listening to it. I’m not talking about a numbness that takes me on an out of body experience. I’m talking about nothing. I hear the songs start and finish. I hear the different sounding songs. I hear the lyrics and each individual instrument. I feel nothing. This is probably one of the worst albums that probably shouldn’t have been a worst album that I have ever heard. It’s not Grimes or FKA Twigs terrible but it’s not good. I shake my head at whoever thought this album should be included in this list. I’m off to listen to Blind Melon so my ears can get ear boners
I was forgetting every track as it played. Completely disposable and unserious. It's not hard to picture someone liking this. It's definitely a band, who wrote some songs, and played them, which is a thing people do, and then people might listen to it. What is impossible to picture is the person who likes this being remotely interested in an exploration project like this list. It's music for people who aren't that into music. I think the band isn't that into music!
the band sounds alright at first, then the kinda neutered vocal harmony pipes up over it. woof. it's only natural is the best bad song in a bad bunch. made me think of big star for a second. yearn for big star. why would i listen to this when there's big star? instrumental as backing track for vocals. ladies and gentlemen, the house band for television's "seventh heaven." orchestra. crooning white man singing sentimental lyrics. bad. i'll listen to some pop rock. i'll put on a 10cc record. but this is dreck. this is worse than supertramp. this is a 1.
😬
i really like the title and album art. I felt ready and willing for something completely bizarre. I'm ready to be impressed. These are the same cats that did DONT DREAM IT'S OVER (heyyy now heeeeyyy noowwwww) - which is a solid song. Early take-aways....yawn. CHOCOLATE CAKE has me running for the hills. Imagine seeing them live and being super excited they played this song. When I hear this song I think of zak for some reason. Vocals on first few tracks are offputting. It's dadc0re. i'm trying to put myself in the headspace of someone in 1981 and turning this on, but I keep just switching to talking heads. Crowded house sounds like so much of the safe early alt Rock. Train, matchbox 20 that isn't catchy. I actually like the guitar tone and little lick in IT'S ONLY NATURAL. It sounds like realestate to me. I wish they jammed more in that space, the lyrics and the singing makes it feel so formulaic. FALL AT YOUR FEET sucks but I understand why it was popular on the radio. Imagine loving this song. lmao TALL TREES I actually kind of like. the cool guitar tone is back. Lil guitar solo, like super little. Cmon just jam out a little you nerds. diggin the instrumentation on WEATHER WITH YOU, but i'm a sucker for that sitar sound. Chorus is super lame. they jump the shark on every song. its actually incredible FOUR SEASONS IN ONE DAY fuckin sucks. okay I'm just skipping songs now. I'm dreaming it's over. I wonder if it's called ITALIAN PLASTIC because they are using crappy melodica. nerds i really hated this whole listening experience. firm 1.
meh
The most boring middle of the road bland album I have ever heard. Hated it.
i don’t care
No
Een saai album. De nummers leken te veel op elkaar en het was vrij eentonig, weinig variatie.
Dull
Imagine listening to all the great albums released in 1991 and genuinely thinking that this mediocre nothing of an album deserved to be remembered. Crowded House had one song that everyone likes, and it's not even on here either. Some critics' opinions aren't worth paying attention to.
Hey is this the band that made the theme song to "Friends"?
I went to high school with Tammy Baker. No idea what she has to do with any of this. Maybe she moved to Australia? It was a long time ago.
I thought I liked Crowded House. Until I heard this album
Treacly jangly pop on the threshold between 80s new wave and 90s alt-rock with 60s psych throwbacks. Some nice melodies but really the only interesting this is the variety of instrumentation. It is sickeningly sweet stuff with vacuous lyrics, uninspired performances, and bland songwriting. Cloying 90s filler.
Trash
yeah my face was sad during this album
100% at det her var affirmative action for at få flere albums fra Oceanien på listen TIL at Crowded House ikke er et one hit wonder, det er faktisk et two hit wonder! For jeg har helt sikkert hørt Weather With You før. Mega kedeligt 90'er adult alternative, ca på niveau med det Sheryl Crow album vi havde for lidt siden
This is so boring, I can't imagine anyone finding this essential. Generic rock, reminds me of a worse version of REM than REM.
Soft rock, easy listening
This album has BIG 'recently divorced dad' vibes
Bro wtf...no
I’ve listened to two songs and I can’t take any more.
Seichter Psychedelic Rock.
Middling generic pop rock.
I'll be honest, I am not in the mood for this album what soever, I'd probably enjoy it another time but its a type of soft rock thats almost offensive to my early zoomer mind. im not sad enough for this album to enjoy it. If i were learning the piano or guitar id play their songs and sing along and no one would know who they are
I don't require that every band be dour and depressing. But this is like this emotionless, not fun Wiggles. Maybe? I don't know. It's not good or engaging. Sometimes the vocal wants to be John Lennon. THat also sucks...
Boring
It is a very generic album. Totally unremarkable. It was a struggle. I skipped through songs. I have no idea why this album made the list. I am going to round down.
Not my favorite. The music sounds fiiiiiine I guess, but contained nothing to make me pay attention other than the ridiculous lyrics. I kept thinking I was listening to the song with the most ridiculous lyrics, only for two songs later to be stranger. Nothing makes me pay attention like "But there goes God/ In his sexy pants and his sausage dog/ And he can't stand Beelzebub/ 'Cause he looks so good in black, in black."
bland and offputting in a way i'm not sure how to explain
I don't think I would have liked this regardless but I super didn't like it while exercising or walking
Uuden Seelannin Dingo ei vakuuta
Got about halfway through but couldnt do anymore. Really grated on me. I hate this type of pop music, I’d rather it was just full on pop rather than every so often luring me in with a soft pop version of REM just to whip it back to GMTVesque TV advert fodder
I ALREADY RATED THIS YOU IDIOTS
Nope. Not for me
Ei harmittanut.. siitäkö 2 tähteä.. noh ei anneta tällä kertaa.. annetaan 1.. katotaa jos saadaa 3 streak 1... Sen haluaisin..
Dull
How is this something we must listen before we die? It’s generic AF and boring
It’s wasn’t terrible. Nothing really stood out to me. No song grabbed me and this album didn’t reveal why it’s on this list…
Uninteresting.
Glad I don't have to listen to*that* again. Yuck.
Meh. Not a fan.
En ihan tajuu tätä. Australian U2 mut "raflaavat" sanoitukset? Kun ysäri kuuluu (välillä jopa 2000-lukua enteillen, vaik on 1991), se on kivaa, muuten jättää kylmäksi ja snadisti ärsyttää.
Yllättävän rootsia/poppia - ei edo. Mutta onhan tämä saatanan tylsä.
Beige
Bad dental music
Boo
Well, there's a small boat made of china It's going nowhere on the mantlepiece Well, do I lie like a lounge-room lizard Or do I sing like a bird released? I have no idea how this middle of the road, frankly just not good, album ended up on this list. 1/5
Man, this album is bland.
I hated this album. Hate hate hated it. 1/5
Nothing stuck out to me as good or relevant
It’s a no from me. Didn’t really get through all of it. Tried the songs out. Was a struggle. Nothing about the lyrics or the music struck a note with me. IMO very bland.
Not my jam. Not. a big fan of 90s coffee house rock.
Not for us.
Byl album dziwny i niecodzienny, to dzisiaj calkowite przeciwienstwo, czyli latwy i osluchany material z 91 od wyspiarskiej bandy, crowded house, tym razem wyspami sa australia i nowa zelandia, ale nie zmienia to duzo w tym, ze jest po angielsku, grane jest popowo rokowo, sklad tak typowy jak tylko moze byc czterech chlopow w bandzie i 10 muzykow sesyjnych dla wzbogacenia kompoyzcji, duet braci Finnow zadbal o strone liryczna plyty, a wokalnie udziela sie chyba cala banda, bo czesto slychac to typowe dla popu lat 80/90 chorkowanie w tle, na 48 minutach zmiescilo sie 14 trakow wybitnie przechodzace i wychodzace bez pozostawienia sladu w pamieci, po zakonczeniu odsluchu nie pamietam juz nawet jak sie on rozpoczal, na plejke dodam four season in one day, ktory jest jednym z najbardziej minimalistycznych utworow plyty, wiec kolejny raz sprawdza sie zasada, ze im mniej tym lepiej, ale taki juz urok muzyki popowej, ze im wiecej sie wymiesza na albumie, tym wieksza szansa na sukces jednego utworu i zloty strzal
About as exciting as an empty storage unit
Nope
Their enduring popularity is pretty inexplicable. Is it throwback to the 60s whimsy of Small Faces? Cause if so, someone should've told them Small Faces' forced whimsy was ingratiating. All I hear is commercial calculation, everything designed to prevent them being taken seriously--presumably because they also know their schtick doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
Given my recent Talk Talk revelation, I thought I might like this a bit more. But I didn't. Bland, unchallenging, meaningless music.
Fuck this album and anyone that likes it
Suena como R.E.M pero en pitero
Trying to find a way to care about this. Hmmm... I should know what this band's famous song(s) is/are. I don't think any of them are on this record. Ok, yeah. "Don't Dream its over" is a great song. Not on this record.
¿Es una broma? Le pondría cero estrellas pero no deja.
so this is what the police would sound like if sting wasn't a geordie. classic one hit wonder album. at least i now know if someone recommended crowded house to me i could return the compliment by recommending they fuck off.
c'est très chiant On peut pas mettre 0
Crowded House? That's because the government has let so many immigrants into Britain. They've not only taken the weather with them, but our jobs, our women, our country. Go home. Brexit means Brexit.
Constant-cringe seit opener, der glücklicher Weise die Latte so tief hängt, dass alles andere locker drüber hüpft. Dagegen kommt der Weather Hit vor wie von einer anderen Band .
Very boring. There is nothing gained here after listening. I do not want to hear them again.
the weather can take this one back to the studio
Este disco se debería llamar Zero Risks, Zero Chances. Logran con música segura y letra 'introspectiva' hacer un one night stand aburrido. El solo de armónica en There Goes God es el mejor del disco, porque los demás son terribles, los que logran calificar como tales, claro. Todavía se atreven a criticar a la gente new age 'There's no rebellion, just a chance to be lazy'. En general las letras me parecen malas, por decir lo menos. No conformes con todo esto, 14 canciones y 48 minutos que culminan con el hidden track donde se ponen "locos". Songs: It's only natural, Four Seasons In One Day.
trök. något som funkar i bakgrunden men inget jag vill lyssna på igen
Yes. . .