Bummed

I'm definitely missing something because I didn't find this remarkable in the slightest.

The songs sounded very similar to eachother and I didn’t really like the talk-singing. The overall sound was decent but I got bored very quickly

Was like my ears were being bummed

Not baaaad bad, was just kinda ready for it to end....

if i put a drunk rant to music, i would get this.

Hard one to rate for me as I didn’t enjoy certain parts but others seemed quite intriguing. They seemed to try too much all at once, so the production was sometimes muddy and often overcomplicated (but this also added interest when it did work). The fact that I could only find the collectors edition that was bloated and overlong didn’t help my enjoyment, I feel I need to round down rather than up. Overall 2.5/5

1 great song and lots of Shaun Ryder being wasted trying to hold a tune. I know it was influential but the Mondays always grated on me.

Zmęczyła mnie ta płyta

Definitely not my type of music but i get it!

Bright and bristling but typical of Madchester, so happy with where it's at, it doesn't feel the need to go anywhere

The only interesting aspect about this album is that the producer, Martin Hannet, was also responsible of producing to Joy Division, which makes this album not sound too bad. Yes, that's right, that was the only thing I got out of this record. The music here I found to be incredibly uninteresting, expressionless and not even catchy baggy music from the 80's. The only moment I could 'appreciate' is the song 'Brain Dead' due to the singer stopping singing with the same forced voice and same melodies that he does through almost the whole runtime, and instead, his vocals become raspy, whispered and low. However, doesn't make it more appealable. The worst track here is 'Wrote for Luck', a six minutes piece that repeats the same boring guitar riff over and over again. As much as I dislike it, it is inoffensive enough to me not hating it, although the vocals sometimes push my patience a little bit. In conclusion, an incredibly forgettable baggy project.

I've never understood the fascination with this band. Nothing sticks out to me. Every song vanishes the moment it's done. The sound is all a wash. The singer can't sing. People rave about his lyrics, but I don't get it.

I'm never going to remember having listened to this one. Favorite track: "Mad Cyril," I guess?

The vibey late 80s instrumentals were ruined by the singers annoying, barking vocals for me.

Not for me. I guess I liked the one Beatles song lol

Ikke helt for meg.

Eh mid unntatt rave on

Sloppy, obnoxious, strangely charming. The guys in this band all seem dodgy as hell but they can find a cool and unique groove. If I was 20 and on drugs when this came out it would've blown my mind.

I guess between a 2 and 3, but the shady lyrics made the call. not painful to listen to at all, but also not something i would actively put on, or at least a song that caught my attention in particular.

This is an over-produced mess. Having not heard the album before, I'm "bummed" that Lazyitis (AKA Ticket To Ride) is the best song on it. Either of the first two Black Grape albums would've been a better addition to the list than the first two Happy Mondays albums. Liked Songs Added: Lazyitis

Nothing for me here.

Pretty shit honestly

Ugh disappointed because I liked this for the first half an hour and then... yeah. I hated the stupid ape noises the vocalist kept making, which I think is epitomised in 'do it better'. I genuinely started laughing because it was so awful. For the second half of the album I was seriously struggling to keep going but it wouldn't be a proper rating if I hadn't. 2 hours is way too long for an album anyway...

Madchester. Proto oasis.

Really didn't do it for me.

Pretty uninteresting in almost every way tbh. Never outright bad or anything, though it borders on a few of the vocals and lyrics, but just one of the least memorable albums yet on this list. I sort of liked the 'Lazyitis' psych riff, but that's all I recall standing out in this listen.

didn't find it very interesting

Fun 80s kinda punky but not my style

This was ok, has a great nostalgic vibe but I didn't think the songs were of the quality of some of their better known singles. Worth a listen.

2.5/5 2 Probably won't listen to again.

This album was a cacophony of 80s pop tropes, but in the worst possible way.

Not the greatest thing to come out of the 80s by a long shot.

I read “psychedelic funk” and got excited as those are both genres I like. I did not like this. It felt significantly worse than Pills n Thrills. The vocals are just absolutely buried here. Fat Lady Wrestlers and Lazyitis were good enough to save this from a 1.

This album actively annoyed me while I was listening to it, which is a first. Still not my least favorite album and at one or two points I was kind of tapping my foot, but this psychadelic movement was NOT something that birthed music that I like.

Great, another crappy British band I’ve never heard of spewing out unlistenable dreck. Love how consistent this list is.

Never got the appeal

No standouts

i don't like how this guy sings

It sounds like a band that is having way more fun than the listener. Pretty cool story, I'll give it that. Spins: 1 Playlist Additions - Wrote for Luck - Lazyitis

There is something just inherently boring about this. Maybe if you are raving on a stimulant it’s ok but it’s not for me.

Indie rock with a psychedelic vibe. I don't mind the music but the whiny, slurred, mumbled singing is very off putting. The rhythms have some funk influences that shine best on the track Performance (which is basically the simple 12 bar blues at its core). Overall not particularly interesting or memorable.

Late 80s - did not enjoy nor finish.

Tedious.

Seems that their most popular songs are the random mixes done after the original album came out.

Aggressively English. This album was like hangover music. Not music that would be good to listen to during a hangover but more it was created while having a hangover. 4/10

This album wasn’t the only thing that was bummed when I opened today’s album selection. How did another album from The Happy Mondays make this list?? On multiple tracks the vocals don’t even seem to follow the beat of the songs and, when you are able to understand them, the lyrics are just a bunch of words thrown together. Like Inigo Montoya said, “Let me esplain…no. There is too much to esplain…lemme sum up.” Got a schizophrenic acquaintances no place to go Stuck with his dick in my window. What the actual f*ck does any of that mean?? It’s either over my head or it’s all trash. Simplest explanation is that it’s trash. 0-fer-2, Mondays.

Mid, 1980s bollocks

Прошло мимо и нигде не зацепилось

I don’t know, I listened to the new De La Soul album. 4 stars. This is probably mid.

5/10

The Good: We’re trying to start the week off positively! The Bad: Try as we may, Monday’s tend to not be too happy… The Ugly: Bummed should have given us a clue… I think that bit by bit this list is turning me into a massive music snob, resulting in my instant disdain for anything that hailed from the British Isles and was, predominantly, only known in said isles… Not that this album was bad, just a little late to the party in my opinion. They are trying to be something that was cool in a previous period, while adding something new… that just sounds old. If I were to start a band that tried to sound like Led Zeppelin, I would fail hard… this is evident with all the new bands being hailed as the new Led Zeppelin, who nobody ever listens to, as there is only 1 Led Zeppelin… On a brighter side, so as not to stay bummed, this is the last album of this band I have to listen to! 2*

Decent, not super interesting

If they were going for a shittier version of The Cure, I guess they kind of nailed it.

parece minha comida (preferia não ter cozinhado e por isso n tem tempero)

на любителя. (не зашло, полностью не слушал, извините)

I know it’s an important album and helped create a scene that gave birth to a tonne if the music I love but this was just not a fun listen

i was pretty bummed when this popped up. it certainly wasnt a happy monday(mostly cause it was a thursday). pretty boring overall, but it was fine.

not for me

Forgot what this sounded like about 30 minutes after I finished listening to it...so blah. Would I listen to again? Nope.

116/1089 not really vibing with this one (track 2), the chicken-lickin’ etc rhymes are very annoying Overall, I don’t have a lot of specifics to say about this album. It was alright, decent britpop with some moments i liked but nothing that felt outstanding or groundbreaking to me faves: Wrote For Luck, Lazyitis, Mad Cyril 2 stars 48/100

Good stuff but a little goes a long way. Repetitive. At first I was like “wow! Why weren’t these guys a big deal?” Five songs into the album I had the answer.

This sound like a bunch of 80s bands combined into one chaotic inescapable fever dream. I am skipping the second hour of remixes for my own sanity. This is the music you license when you can’t afford Duran Duran

Meh. Generic. Boring.

Too much monotone yelling, i know it was the style back then, hard to listen to, I guess I am getting old

It has all the elements of something I would like but instead I just felt meh about it. 5/10

Who is this artist and why?

I couldn't get into this album even a bit from the first song. It's a bit one-note and not interesting. You could've told me I was listening to the same song for an hour, and I would believe it. It drags on for far too long and the vocals/lyrics were just not there for me. 1 star for good musicianship, and that's the only grace I can provide. I didn't enjoy this in the slightest.

This one sent me down a wiki-hole of reading about Madchester. A pretty interesting sound, but sits in between some genres that appeal much more to me.

It’s not even close to Pills and Thrills and Bellyaches, but I guess there are some bands that only have one good record in them. Have to agree with others that this sounds like one drawn out “stiff funk psychedelic” episode. Happy Mondays did not make for a wonderful Wednesday… 2⭐️

If you google Bez from Happy Mondays, you will understand why this album sounds the way it does Funny guys but unfortunately the album was shit. Sorry lads 2 ⭐️

There were certainly a few bops here... but, also a few flops.

As coherent as a Shaun Ryder interview

Not my thing.

Yeahhhhh, not my cup of tea. It was decent enough for what it is that I could power through it, but I didn't enjoy it. Fairly monotonous. 1.8

Very mid

An absolute masterclass of ruining perfectly fine songs with needless random crap. Wow this was hard to listen to

Not awful but couldn't be less mandatory.

I expected to hate this more than I did. The compositions are nauseating. The production is mud. Still more interesting than any U2 album.

i really thought i was gonna love this 😔

Appropriate album title. More British waffle. Its just whatever, nothing special here.

If Len Houmous turned up happy on a Monday you could guarantee he’d bummed his wife that morning. 2.0 3/10 Mad Cyril

60

Doesn’t set itself apart from other punk albums, just OK.

I’ve just heard too many albums that sound like this, and sound better than this, that are already on the list. I gave it a fair shot, going through it twice. It’s fine. It’s just not that good.

There are some okay songs on here and there are some awful songs on here (what the hell is do it better). The mix on this album is atrocious it’s the thinnest mix I’ve ever heard. Really struggled through this one.

Not a band I have listened to before. Quite liked some of the tracks eg Lazyitis and Wrote for Luck. However not really impressed..

The title rather summed up my feelings while listening to it. No track comes out of this mess with any credit. It's been said before, and I'll say it again: don't do drugs, kids.

What's Bez? You know Flavor Flav from Public Enemy? No. Well, he's like that, but with maracas.

Weird late 80s snare drum heavy Indie Rock. Like instant coffee. Whether it is worse or better than nothing depends mainly on your current mood.

Didn't really do all that much for me. It was good, but not memorable a couple of hours later.

Yet another super mid alternative album.

Great band name, couldn't really click. Would maybe try again.

I’m Bummed I had to listen to this forgettable album. Just cuz it’s British doesn’t mean it’s good.

meh, new wave junk

I liked the movie 24 Party People WAAAAAAY more than I liked this album.

This felt generic and a little boring.

1. so, manchester. madchester. cigarettes and alcohol, but 80s manchester. 2. dont tell me that they support man united. tomorrow is the manchester derby and i support man city so i ceased stone roses, ceased new order, ceased morrissey even though he don't watch football, and im not sure that i should listen to another yanited supporting band. and its not boring but its just that type of thing i wont listen again unless im doing drugs. 2/5

Very ploddy, crap lyrics, not sure why at the time this seemed like such a great album, not aged well.

bummer man

Not my jam. At all.

Maybe I would get more on repeated listens, but I’m pretty ambivalent about this album on one listen. They kind of remind me of the Mekons.

2/5 - I didn’t need to hear this album because it took the same track being on repeat 3x in a row before I finally noticed something was awry. I could not possibly listen to this as a focused experience, but as background while working on a weekday, it never grabbed my attention once. For that, I’ll give it a 2.

Greit nok, litt U2-ete kanskje

Remember that movie you know you watched but barely remember, and there's the bar scene with music you can't quite place. I bet that's this band.

I was psyched when I saw that this album had a very cool title, but was bummed when the music was kind of repetitive and tuneless.

So they tried to hit all the 70's rock tropes with this album. I have no other explanation for it other than that. It's like they heard all the great bands of that time and went we can do that! They could not. It's background music in a movie that is set in the 80's but doesn't want to pay for the good stuff. It's played in a TV show flashback. I'll bet they toured county fairs, not state fairs.

I'll admit to writing this review three weeks after actually listening to this album, so my perspective has likely shifted since then. That being said, the fact that I don't really remember this album three weeks later, even after listening to samples on Spotify again, is telling. Listening back, I find that a lot of the songs, at least at a glance, sound similar in tone. None of them come back to me as familiar, and I assume that's because of the similarities between them. To me, this comes across as a largely generic late 80's rock album by a band that probably had a much larger impact in the UK than they had here in the States. Sorry to all the Happy Mondays fans out there, but I just didn't get this one. Two stars. Standout Tracks: Country Song, Wrote for Luck, Lazyitis

Not my favorite but fun to dance and vibe to

Danceable, interesting sound, but not exactly my cup of tea. Maybe in a different context I’d enjoy it more, but for now it feels fairly forgettable based on my taste.

Dad- 3 Mom- 4 Mike- NA Lori- 4 Michael- 2.5 Miles- NA Cole- NA Avg- 3.38

Vaguely eighties general mishmash with nothing really standing out - not my thing.

Enjoyable enough. Songs do tend to blur into each other. Prefer their next two albums.

Disappointingly samey.

Real mixed bag - some interesting tracks but most of it I found either not that enjoyable or unpleasant

Not for me. Fine for a bit but all started to sound the same very quickly.

These guys gave me the ick.

Meh - 2/5

Neat but forgettable ?

Greit nok, litt U2-ete kanskje

bummer

This is the best they could come up with fueled by ecstasy? Dang. A lot of others do it better. Anywho there were some tracks it’d probably be fun to roll to but mostly not.

Didn't like and didn't finish.

Sympathique à découvrir, pas un style que j'écoute, mais pas mon style, je ne réécouterai pas.

Meh.

Just meh

This felt very wasteful

listened to it on multiple occasions and walked away feeling nothing. not even bummed.

2.5

Was not a fan.

I’ve never heard of this band and don’t care if I never hear of them again

Okay

PSychedelic Funk nade of cheesy keys, gated drums, a dreadful moaning vocalist, all saturated in reverb and thinned out.

I was Bummed this wasn’t better.

meh

There were much more interesting albums in the 1980s that should have been chosen over this one. This album doesn't offer anything that anyone really needs to hear. A more interesting selection would have been Pop Will Eat Itself's THIS IS THE DAY...THIS IS THE HOUR...THIS IS THIS!

Bring a Friend //

I dropped a star for being not good AND too long. Pick a struggle.

The shoegazy elements of this album were OK, but the "funk" was nonexistent other than some bass passages - mostly sounded like badly sung punk/post punk other than a few moments. 2/5

not swag

Turkey Lurkey, Tricky Licky, Ducky Lucky Why are we yelling?

Most of the songs sounded the same, too many things happening at the same time so you couldn't make out the words. Sometimes the start of the song would sound really good and then they kept adding more sounds until it sounded messy.

If you looked up mediocre in Webster's dictionary, there would be a picture of this album as the perfect description.

Another rather uninspiring 80's British album. Hard to pay attention to it. Everything sounded the same. 2/5 Won't listen again

Eh, it’s fine. Some of the lyricism is pretty dumb, and while the music is decent enough, it feels like you have to be immersed in the drug culture of 1980s England to get the most out of this album, which I am not.

Mostly uninspired, progressively repetitive throughout. At least the remastered version is mixed better than some reviews have said.

Why? Cheer up!

I don’t always like music where the vocals are hard to hear I feel nothing when listening to this

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80’er rock på ecstasy - bogstaveligt talt

Wherever I was listening to the album on had like 6 versions of hallelujah, dunno if that’s how it was supposed to be but rough. Seems like some weird stoner Christian spoof.

I don't hate everything about it but it was really long and I got pretty bored

This is so bad.

This one had potential, but I think its a little too disjointed. Good ideas but bad implementation, probably from the overuse of drugs. Some of these really jam and I can see how they are capturing the essence of a rave, but as a band it isn't very coherent at times. 2.5, I round down 1=Crap that shouldn't be here 2=I didn't like it but get why it's here 3=I thought it was ok or even like it, get why it's here, but won't revisit 4=I like it, will revisit 5=This is some of the best music I've ever heard and will continue listening to it

I struggled to score this one. While there were a few tracks I really liked, there were also more than it’s fair share of duds and I really started to lose interest during them. Top Track - …Mad Cyril

I don't think I listened to this album. It happened to play while I tried to listen to it.

Why is this a pre-mortem listen exactly?

No me gustó este disco, y no entiendo muy bien cual es el atractivo como estar en esta lista. Entiendo que se basaron en la música electrónica, y por ende la repetición y el beat sostenido. Un sonido muy ochentero, que me llama la atención porque ya eran fines de la década. No me pareció un mal álbum, pero para nada de mi interés

Too much going on here and I definitely didn’t need the collectors edition

This was OK but it’s still just a second or third rate band for England. Meanwhile no Louis Armstrong. Pretty ridiculous.

interesting background noise at times but maybe too generic/nothing stood out to me

I do like 80's sound in general but there isn't anything crazy crazy special on 1st listen. I would need more listens to appreciate certain songs. I liked recognizing the Beatle-ness of the Lennon-McCartney song (last track)

ok, didnt really connect to this one very much

It was like 35 minutes of the same crappy song over and over again.

The mixing on this sounds like the singer and the rest of the band never talked to each other. They're on completely different pages with this. A great example of some of the worst elements 80's Brit-rock had to offer.

Wrote for Luck Lazyitis

Gave me Jesus Jones vibes.

Virkilega leiðinlegt dæmi. Mér var meira að segja vísað á safnaraútgáfu af plötunni og ég hugsaði hver myndi vilja eiga þessa plötu. Allt er eins og síendurtekið. Vík brott.

The album title tells it all about how enthused I am to have to listen to it. It's just more generic Madchester shit that doesn't really translate on this side of the pond. It's not bad, it's just.....lame..... Favourite songs: Mad Cyril, Rave On, Fat Lady Wrestlers Least favorite songs: Wrote for Luck, Do It Better, Hallelujah, Bring a Friend, Holy Ghost, Boom, Brain Dead 2/5

Uninspiring

This really doesn't do anything for me at all. It kind of low-key sucks and doesn't do anything interesting. The singing is really hard for me to listen to. I guess the production quality is really good, but that's really all that is interesting to me in this album. Favorite Song(s): Wrote for Luck?

Just sounded like bad Duran Duran

Ended up listening to this with my 15yo in the car, and I got to warn her about the perils of recording an entire album under the influence of ecstasy.

yeah im bummed alright

Wasn’t too impressed but it was kinda cool. Not my thing

Kinda nothing sorry

not for me

Honestly... meh. I wanted to be happily surprised and I appreciate the guitar and production, but it feels... hollow and like someone trying so hard to be cool

Very 80’s sounding

Slightly annoying at times, but mainly in one ear and out the other. I don't really like any of the songs.

Well, Bummed sure is a fitting title — because that’s exactly how I felt after sitting through it. It’s like someone mashed up a bunch of half-baked ideas, added some chaotic energy, and said, “Good enough.” Most of the album sounds like a group of people arguing over what genre they're trying to be while tripping on something questionable. “Lazyitis” was the one moment I actually thought, Hey, maybe they know what they’re doing. But then it was right back to the mess.

4/10 - It was kind of weird not that enjoyable. Not horrible tho so 4/10 feels right

Listening to this did not make for a very happy Monday, that’s for sure. Maybe you need to take ecstasy to find this stuff enjoyable?

This was ok, but there is nothing here that is making me want to come back to it at any point in the future.

It’s Friday, and I’m bummed. Because it’s another Happy Mondays album. This is supposed to be “psychedelic funk?” It is not very psychedelic, and there’s barely an ounce of funk. Definitely bummed to spend a Friday in Madchester. That whole scene deserves maybe one entry, not three.

Bummed is an apt name. Why do English bands of the 80s sound so similarly moan-y?

I’m bummed I wasn’t happier listening to this album.

Very tinny sound! Very strange because that was not the sound of 1988. Not sure if they just had a crap production team. Very generic, monotone vocalist, lack of range makes for very little musical movement. It was a huge relief to know that the original album is only 37 minutes long, so I could ignore the rest of the 2 hour collectors addition on Spotify. Many of the songs feel like an eternity on their own. Was inclined to give it three stars at first but as the album went on, and the tingly jangly guitar went in and on, it worked its way lower.

I liked the other Happy Mondays album on this list, so was excited to listen to this one. Definitely didn't like this one anywhere near as much.

Ok

Good stuff

Forgettable.

Very British and very boring. I like the album art though.

Какая же фигня.

Do I want to listen to a whole album by the Mondays? Not especially it turns out

this is not for me and especially not for me because its so long 2/5 could not make it through the whole thing, especially when it started to replay songs

This band very badly wants to be The Cure. Sadly for my ears, they are not The Cure. Sidenote: the version that pops up in Apple Music is some extended version that's 2.5 hours long and, well, no. I looked on Wikipedia and the original release was ten songs, so that's what I listened to, and that's what's getting reviewed. I don't need to listen to a bunch of remixes and B-sides.

I wasn't particularly interested in the album. The music is a bit flat and clattery. The singer's voice, which reminded me a bit of a young Mick Jagger, is a little too shrill and is emphasized too much by the instruments. 2 hours playing time is far too long for me. 2/5

Never really loved Happy Mondays. Does Shawn Ryder have the worst singing voice in pop? Pills and Bellyaches deserves a place on the list but not x2. This one didn’t really hold my interest at all.

I still don't know exactly what to make of the Mondays. There are moments when I think that the mesh of sounds they created is like nothing else I've heard, and that they might just have been touched by genius. More often, though, this sounds like incoherent ranting over a muddy, messy sludge, made by a bunch of pilled-up chancers.

Yup, they were on drugs alright.

80s English rock - a little flat with vocals being more of a forced shout than actually singing. It was okay.

Don't really get the Mondays (or Baggy, if that is what this is). Consider me a Stone Roses guy. 2.5/5

Some good, not great funkiness in spots but the atonal singing is a turn off.

a fun little album that had some interesting elements from different styles - felt almost like a dancier Talking Heads.

Eh. They sound like a bad version of Pavement if Pavement played slightly ore poppy but play through a tube

2.5

Etwas abgedrehter Rock mit Funk-Anleihen 2/5

Disappointing. Too same-y throughout.

Wow, another unremarkable British alt/punk album. Incredible. I hope this list has a few dozen more albums that sound the exact same and are entirely forgettable.

Like talking head

This makes me want to skip forward and not listen to all 9 songs, but the latest track wasnt too bad. Although it was a total ripoff of the Ticket to ride melody/chorus. Jumbled up trainwreck right here y'all. More metal please! We need a good Judas Priest album for shits sake!

Sounds like a Duran Duran cover band on The Cure night at a local dive bar.

It's basic 80's pop I guess. It's not that offensive, but it sounds like so many other albums on this list.

Like this genre of music, but I wasn’t really feeling this album and lost interest halfway through.

Bummed this wasn’t better.

Nothing special. Can't say I liked it all that much. Wouldn't protest to it on the radio but nothing at all stood out as good.

never really been a happy mondays bunny, always sounds like it's been badly mixed

Fav song: Hallelujah (club mix) “I first saw Happy Monday at the battle of the bands at the Hacienda. They came in last place. I signed them anyway.” This is a band that make great singles but fill their albums with slop. It’s probably great on a dancefloor in the 90’s when you’re all pilled up though, can’t den that. Shaun Ryder is just absolutely dreadful but suits the music perfectly in his weird way. The production isn’t great, lots of washed out reverb without a lot of changes to the dimensions of it between songs makes the whole album sound like it was recorded in a disabled toilets one song after another. All this in mind, I HEAVILY respect Happy Mondays. They never try to be anything other than what they are and they don’t ever pretend to be anything else.

2.75 Best songs were the ones without vocals. Singer sounded like he was on a different song than the band most of the time.

If someone deemed this album an essential listen, they must not have very high standards.... Boring, monotonous, uninspiring.

I didn't really care for this one. Would not seek it out again.

This isn't a bad album. It just isn't a great one. I didn't not like it, but most of the songs blended together for me and I struggle to pick out particular parts that I may have enjoyed. 2.25

Cheesy 80s

I know of Happy Mondays from the film 24 Hour Party people. Great movie, but just because the film says they re geniuses doesn't make it so. Okay sure I suppose it is a good example of Madchester sound, but I could never get into them. This album is very same sounding throughout and not a fan of the singer (Maybe Shaun?) It's of the moment for sure but the moment has passed.

Never heard this before. What a fucking ugly cover. Apparently this is the result when you record an album while taking ecstasy constantly for the sessions. Meandering, sloppy, an unremarkable.

I just couldn't find any redeeming qualities with this album.

Not my kinda music.

As expected this was horrible

Hmmmm. Not quite sure why this made the list. Compared to the other Mondays stuff, or even Black Grape, it’s unremarkable. It funks along nicely in parts but really doesn’t hit any highs where you just want to turn it up and/or dance (even in a 54 y/o dad dance head nod kind of way). As a foot note, how on earth has Shaun Ryder carved out his own mini National Treasure status these days? Ah, look, it’s Mad Uncle Shaun with his lovely new teeth on the telly again.

some good ones but too long

Hard to explain, kinda dancey, but also kinda laggy/slackery. Vocals are very British with a declamatory style similar to David Byrne. Highlights: "Mad Cyril" (some interesting guitar parts), "Performance" (good groove)

I wanted to like this. It's ok, his voice is frequently pitchy and annoying.

Ik begin die 80s sound nu wel eventjes beu te worden. 2.4

Ok

Not bad, for the most part. But the best tracks were pretty much the same as Echo & the Bunnymen or any other of a number of bands from that era. Really nothing new or interesting enough to warrant a “must hear.”

A couple songs were okay but for the most part this was a bummer and way too long. Favorite songs were: 7. Wrote For Luck 10. Lazyitis 3/10

This felt like like a more one note, less interesting version of The Cure circa Head on the Door. Didn't do much for me. Album cover: (C+) I do not like it, but it I can't accuse it of being boring.

This one kinda passed me by. I do not have too much to say, I didn't really like it. 4/10

I expected to enjoy this a lot more than I actually did. It was too much of the same thing, really. And there is only so much Shaun Ryder’s caterwauling that I can deal with. I’ll keep this review short because I’m sleepy. The general message here is that it isn’t awful, but it’s closer to bad than good to my ears.

This one was alright, sounded very 80's and kept a good vibe throughout.

Decent production, but standard commercial 80's pop-rock.

Генерично, нещо не ме грабнаха. може да е от настроението

No

Whatever this genre is, I could do without.

2.4.

Not for me

Any time I’ve tried to listen to the Happy Mondays I end up thinking the same thing: 1) Hey this isn’t so bad, 2) No, why did you add those synth sounds and why do they sound so terrible?!

Man this album left me BUMMED. It's like all of the 80s music stereotypes rolled into one album. 3/10

This album is just pretty damn boring. Enough said.

I sort of get why the Happy Mondays are a thing. It's sort of indie, but it's taken a bag of Ecstacy and went to a house night. Once. But Shaun sounds off his cake even when sober ... so a really long, one paced album of him singing while actually of his cake isn't high on my list of things to listen to.

Another boring, basic and British album that doesn't need to be on the list. One or two songs stood out a little but not enough for me to even check the song titles. Except Rave On, that one has some nice sample potential

Kind of boring

This is the second album by the Happy Mondays on this list. My review on the first (Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches) included the words "boring, uninterresting and mediocre" and a rating of 3 stars. Unfortunately all those words are applicable to this album too, with the additional word "irritating" so this only gets 2 stars.

Not for me at all, I didn't think the Happy Mondays were this boring?

Tooo reverby, tooo jangly, not direct enough to be catchy and not particularly groovy either. Fave track: Clap Your Hands

I don't believe it took that many drugs to do this.

Well I can tell you one thing, I was definitely bummed after listening to this album. Another Brit bias pick that is underwhelming and made my Thursday morning unhappy. I don’t even know what to say about this album. It was so middling, that it just kind of formed one long track. Nothing stood out, it just felt like an album that happened and I’ll never think of again.

This was okay at first but felt like a lot of the same. Like I'm at a rave or something.

Almost a 3, but never quite gets there.

Happy Mondays have always basically been Drugs: the band. Bummed is just another example of that. Absolutely fantastic shaking of the maracas though.

Firmly middle of the road. 2.5 stars

I liked their other album more. This was fine.

Meh, not my thing today apparently.

Didn't like that. Am I crazy or did this sound like The Cure minus everything that makes The Cure great? Anyway, this was bland.

I wouldn't say that I particularly enjoyed this one, it was a bit weird, but in the boring way. I'm really not much for the "drug" genres, acid-house, psychedelia, stoner rock etc. This music seems to fall in multiple of those kinds of categories and I just don't enjoy that very much Standouts - 2/5

Not the happy Mondays best by any mark but a solid trot through their usual sort of sound. Absolute standout from Hallelujah but there’s your Oakenfold/Weatherall influence. I’d rather listen to PTaB or Black Grape tbh.

Like much of the madchester scene, this band feels like 1) their live show doesn’t fully translate to record and 2) you had to be there. Druggy, dancey, funky, punky, trancey. They cram a lot into these songs, several of which are busy and cluttered which sometimes works, but not always. It grows on you as you fall into the repeating grooves, but it just doesn’t fully translate for a guy on his couch in the US whose ecstasy and ketamine days are 10+ years behind. Shaun Ryder is a legend. Bez is a legend. But legendary performances doesn’t mean all the songs are well-written or memorable, and a good groove and some trippy noises can only take you so far. At the end of the day, I’ve checked out the Happy Mondays several times but never really stuck with en. Cool ideas, legendary live performances, ok albums.

Not as good as "Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches", unfortunately. I understand its cultural importance and what it meant, but it just doesn't mean those things to me.

A pleasant buzz but I kinda zoned out after 45 minutes.

i was interested in the sound but it got redundant. was going to be a 3 but as a whole body of work it was a 2 for me.

It’s not had, definitely some interesting songs, I like the use of some of the non traditional instruments. I was beginning to think it was a little repetitive until I realized there are quite a few remixes or alternate versions of some of the same songs.

This wasn't terrible, but it wasn't great either!

Didn’t convert me into a psychedelic music fan but wasn’t too bad.

I love 80s music, but this album is like many others from the dacade: lots of (sonic) style, but hardly any substance. 2/5

Meh

Yes, I'm definitely bummed that today's entry is yet another mid British '80s synth pop thingy.

I’ve just never really vibed with Happy Mondays. There are some nice grooves here and there but the songs go nowhere, the vocals are just weak and messy, and the mixing on this is god awful. Not bad enough for a 1 but it’s a pretty low 2

He sounds drunk. Some of the songs feel like they go on forever, yet non of h them reach the five minute mark. The whole album feels the same, though it doesn’t reach forty minutes. Not good. Instrumentation is fine, unremarkable. Production doesn’t pique my interest. Very bored by the whole thing. 2/5

Booooooooooored. 2/5

Bummed is the second studio album by Happy Mondays, originally released in November 1988. Apparently the band was off their tits on drugs during the recording sessions for this album. Like so bad that their producer had to hire session musicians to finish the album. Now I know there have been masterpiece albums made while the band was on drugs. This is unfortunately not one of them. The record reflects the band's state at the time - messy. The vocals are often strained and grating at times. It's like they've got one foot in punk and the other in pop. The 80s clichés are strong in the instrumentals. overall a below-average 80s british pop record. Interesting backstory, but nothing to write home about.

Proof that horrible vocals can destroy an okay record. At times the songwriting on this is pretty interesting, and although its usually less than mediocre, the musicianship could have been saved by a sincere singer that actually bothered developing his craft. The 80s were such a brilliant decade for music — how the hell did this make it on here!

Very 80s, some interesting songs. But not really my cup of tea!

Favorite Track: Lazyitis

Su voz me resultó muy molesta.

It's no Pill & Thrills, a far superior album

They sound like they're capable of making good music, just not on this album. The first song was offensive, the rest just not that good, though I appreciate how they can maintain a groove.

It was ok.

This list has been teaching me a lot about Madchester ... I did not care for this album but it was interesting to learn about the place this non-electronic band had within the history of electronic music. Weird album though.

happy mondays on bummed bravely asks the question "what if a mancunian smoker did a bob dylan impression while he was already doing a david byrne impression" and the answer is "it would be annoying most of the time"

This actually ruined my Monday.

Largely boring. Wrote for Luck and Hallelujah are good. The rest of it is shite.

Idc 2.5

Not something that I really like

Better than I thought but…. 2.3

Got bored, started listening to more Hozier instead

Grand, 2.5

This sounded like a bunch of other alternative 80s music that I missed back in the day. Nothing new or exciting here to be found. Solid for sure but I know I won't be back here anytime soon.

-It’s like The Smiths if they were slightly more deranged and went on a party drug bender -Some of these lyrics are genuinely hilarious and baffling to me but I fw them -Not a huge fan of all the music but it gets a lot of points for creativity -Favorites are Moving In With, Bring A Friend, and Lazyitis

Not a fan Didn’t like the singers voice

Just not my kind of music, unappealing vocals and some repetitive music