Bummed

Man, MDMA-fuelled Madchester is manure.

Every song is drowning in filters, effects, and reverb. All this work was put in to making an album where every track sounds the same as the last. Not being able discern the lyrics I looked them up and discovered further disappointment. When there's a narrative it's juvenile at best. Most of the lyrics are nonsensical. I can look past that when an artist creates imagery, but there was none to be found. The rhyme scheme, when one is even attempted, is banal. To make up for a lack in the writing the songs are a collage of repeated phrases and words in one line followed by a lyric so crammed with syllables that the words mush together in the next. I was pleasantly surprised when halfway through the album I checked on the track listing and realized I'd already made it through the original album release and could put this one away.

I didn't have enough drugs to get through this album.

I quit this challenge for a few days bcs it actually pisses me off a bit. Sometimes it feels repetive. I knew it wasnt going to be all enjoyable the full time but rn it feels like such an annoying task to finish my album of the day. Anyway I didnt like this album what is it funk? Techno? Funky techno? Nah leave me be I didnt like it Pray to the lord I continue the challenge anyway Now pls no more repetetive jazz and techno its enough

No redeeming qualities

I did not like this record at all.

Here I was thinking my distaste for English electronic music was 80% Genre, 20% Ecstasy. I’m wondering now if maybe those numbers should be flipped. Nothing good can come from giving English guys drugs.

Trash

Booooo

Incredibly bad. Unbelievably bad

More Brit pop, more Happy Mondays. More 1 star ratings.

There was some great music in the 80s. This is not it.

Just bad

Bummed

1.32/5

The band sounds like they might be decent if you could hear them through the huge swathes of muffling reverb. The vocals are annoyingly atonal. All in all, it's an indistinguishable mass of noise to me. I actively dislike this and have no desire to listen to it again.

1. country - 0 2. moving -0 3. mad -1 4. lady - 0 5. performance - 1 6. brain - 1 7. luck - 1 8. Friend - 0 9. Better -0 10. Lazy - 0 11. Hallelujah -0 12. Ghost - 1 13. Clap - 1 14. rave - 0 15. boom- 0

I was tired of this album by track two, and there were 25 sh*tty tracks still to go.

Bummed indeed. This is just some nothing with instruments and vocals.

ugh

This was terrible. We reviewed their third album a while back - they definitely improved from this one that was released 2 years previous. I actually liked the other album over all, gave it a 3. This one though had nothing interesting or original. It all sounds the same - droning on and on with the same stupid beat behind it - for the whole album. I stopped listening when they went into all the remixes on the “bonus edition”. No one needs two hours of that mess.

And this, kids, is the real reason why you should say no to drugs …. you’ll end up making a fucking terrible album. Unconscionably bad.

I shake my head everytime I see a ridiculously long album. Why?? Just divide the album into two parts. Though this album was comically bad. I developed a headache and had to pause before I could finish it.

I too was bummed that this didn’t make my Monday happy.

Today is Wednesday and this album definitely did not help with rendering it a "happy" one. Failed on many levels then. Music is pretty annoying. The singer does not even try

Terrible

Never fell for all the hype surrounding Happy Mondays then, since and I’m not going to do it now. In other words was never bummed then and no chance now. 1/5 19/11/25

La quintessence des années 80.

Not for me

Off the cuff remark: I was already to go with my prejudice and bin this album with vitriol. But being older, if not wiser, I listened to the whole album. It wasn't as bad as I thought, but it's just so mediocre. Standout track: Wrote For Luck, because it's irritating. Better contemporary Manchester bands: New Fast Automatic Daffodils, King of the Slums, Dub Sex etc etc

I have nothing good to say. This is slop pumped out during drug trip. This is as artistic as me grabbing a paint bucket and tossing it at a canvas. Nothing at all redeemable about this and should absolutely not be on this list.

Boringgg. At this point I can’t tell if I’m being too harsh or if I’m just on a bad streak.

Truly dumb...

Rubbish.

2/10

I'm three songs in and wondering if this album isn't one they put in to verify that people are really listening to each entry. I'm seriously considering skipping to "the famous tracks" because this is not my thing. Holy crap this is bad. This is time I will never get back. Instead of music, package contained bobcat. Would not order again.

Lol boring

Once upon a Time Happy Mondays were raucous, wild, but still joyful. This album is none of that.

Eh, i think i could get into the instrumentals but the vocals are just so bloody annoying. Don't really like how he ennuciate words so needlessly like the world "hallelujah". He's so off key for a lot of it and it's so annoying. 1/5 stars. Don't think I'll really ever get into it really

Soooooooooooo boring

More proof that doing drugs doesn't always inspire good music.

Two hours of 80s garbage.

Uh, yeah . . . No, thank you

I'm bummed that this will be my fourth 1-star rating in a row. The mix on this album is horrible. Just when I'd hear a song that was somewhat tolerable, the terrible lyrics dragged it down. I'm flushing this turd.

This was quite an awful experience, no redeeming qualities to earn a single star

Second sentence of the Wikipedia article: "During 1987 and early 1988, the band discovered house music and the rave drug ecstasy." Oh fun. If I didn't already know the author of this book/project is British, the selection of this band/album would have convinced me. I don't care for this. I guess the music is OK - I probably would have loved this in 1989 if John Lydon were screeching over it.

Terrible sound

Bummed with the albums so far

Someone listened to Public Image Ltd and decided "You know what? We should make more of this." Bummed is definitely a step up from the likes of Metal Box et al., but not by terribly much. The singing has that sort of lazy, drunken, British drawl that you'll find on most punk and post-punk records. Happy Mondays tries to spice it up with vocal doubling in some tracks and complex, layered instrumentation. (The latter detail reminds me distinctly of the Smiths.) It works on some tracks and *definitely* not on others. Country Song, as the name suggests, is a jaunty piano-based rock track with a decent enough melody – so it gets a pass. Mad Cyril, with its terrible gated drumming (Low did it better) and jungle of clashing harmonic elements, does not get a pass. Nor does Fat Lady Wrestlers for its horrific attempt at a melody. Nor does Do It Better (Good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good / Double double good). Do one, do one, do oneThe band is throwing stones into a sea of British 80s clichés and sprinkling various stimulant drugs onto whatever gets fished up. The music is also generally boring, particularly in the run of tracks from Mad Cyril through to (aptly named) Brain Dead. I found my mind constantly wandering away from the music and to doing my taxes and reading Crime and Punishment. Hence Happy Mondays have broken the absolute most critical rule of music: don't bore the listener. ...But that doesn't mean the listener is off the hook. One reviewer wrote that they dropped out before the first song finished. To that I say: why are you completing this project? To broaden your musical horizons? Or to reaffirm existing ones? I sat through The Modern Dance, 36 Chambers, Spy vs Spy, Lam Toro... and now Bummed. If I can do it, so can you. Another reviewer wrote that the album is "a complete mess from start to finish and sounds like it was recorded in a club toilet", then gave it 5 stars. I agree with the sentiment. Must've been a mouse-slip. 1/5 Key tracks: Country Song, Lazyitis

1,5

The second one star album in a row. Growing up in North of England while the Madchester scene was happening, I have tried very hard to like the Happy Mondays but have never been able to understand their appeal. This was not an easy listen.

Not for me. I was in fact bummed

"Henny Penny, Cocky Locky, Goosey Loosey Turkey Lurky, Ducky Lucky, Chicky Licky" Wow so bold and inventive thank you sir.

I didn't care for the vocals, lyrics, or music on this album. Nothing about this stood out to me at all, and it was a chore to get through.

Can't sing, can't play - somehow they went a long way. I guess the remixes are what pushed this lot over the top, as the first half of this is monotonous and the 'singer' tone deaf. I really don't get this, although it probably made more sense at the time to those under the right influences.

Bummed by name, bummed by nature

I feel brain dead listening to this. Songs are just extended for no reason.

Sometimes I stare at the “Did Not Listen” button with lust. I long for a timeline in which I had decided not to listen to this one album. Who would know? Who would care? I imagine in that timeline we brought out the guillotine for lousy politicians, enacted universal healthcare and other socialist policies that truly benefit us, the people. But I just know in my heart of hearts that listening to “Happy Monday’s” is what took that future utopia from me. From us. Anyways, congrats Ariana on Sweetener.

Don’t believe the hype! A few good bands does not make a scene. The Happy Mondays are not even a band you should listen to on an average day where there is nothing left to do let alone listen to before you die.

Where’s the happy? Ugg. It started with a country song that threw me for loop, not a good one. The production is annoyingly loud, confused and random. There’s lots of noise. I don’t like Joy Division either so there’s that.

I gave it a try, I made it about an hour in but it’s really a slog and didn’t grab me at all. Just not my style.

Pretty poor

Terrible. Annoying. Poor quality. So bad it made me angry. Had to listen to something else to calm me down.

I'm bummed because I listened to this on a Tuesday(just missed the mark), and I'm bummed that I listened to this album before I've died. Non-bummiest track: "Lazy Itis".

This album has potential but is lacking something. Maybe a better producer? Just can’t get into it.

A musical run on sentence. This is bad and redundant

1.5, I do not like this vibe or type of person

Well, I am bummed

I couldn't finish this album. It wasn't good

Good title.

Not interested in this music

Bummed some wanker thought this deserved to be on the list

When I tell people I don't really like 80's music... This is what I mean. 2/10

No. Couldn't make it past the second song.

What? I already had a Happy Mondays album. I get having one for historical significance but do we really need two? I have the other one three stars for significance but the music is crap. This one is even worse.

I'm pretty bummed about having to listen to this today.

I should like the Happy Mondays, but u just can't. I'm British and of that generation and am intimately familiar with their hits, but never got it. They seem like such a vibes band only really famous because they caught the culture of the time. In this case it was taking drugs and being dick heads. This album offers nothing to change my mind and shaun ryders voice is fucking awful

Мне очень нравится название группы. Мне ОЧЕНЬ нравится обложка. Мне совсем не нравится музыка (при том, что это мои жанры). Я бы сказал, что по итогу я очень даже bummed. Лучшая песня - Bring a Friend.

Sooo boring

This is absolutely the type of album I would expect British dudes on ecstasy to make, and for British people on ecstasy to enjoy.

Tasting notes include The Clash, INXS, Peter Gabriel/Genesis, and do i detect a whiff of LCD Soundsystem? But this doesn’t hold a candle to any of those artists. I could not get through this album, but that might be partially due to my current setting — if i was dancing at a party, club, concert, I’d might appreciate this sound. But, listening to it closely for musical entertainment, as a whole album, straight through — no thanks. (1). [note — this listening experience stuck with me in a bad way, so i had to come back to downgrade.it to a 1).

This is what new wave sounds like to people who don't like new wave

Bummed I had to listen to this Best Song: N/A Rating: 2/10 1 Stars

Apparently you have to take a lot of drugs to enjoy this. Nasty looking cover, nasty sounding singer, nasty lyrics. They wanted to put more reverb on this recording, but had already used the entire UK supply for this record.

Not quite

Impressed that the band managed to record this at all given their reported drug-addled state during recording. On the plus side, recording and production quality was pretty good. Other than that, not sure what all the hullabaloo surrounding this band is all about. 37 minutes later, I found myself relieved it was over.

Bummed is exactly what I am after listening to this. What a depressing voice.

This is surely not one of the 1001 best albums.

Sounds like the Smiths

Fucking awful

Not impressed, though I am usually unimpressed by 80s rock. Quite boring , except ‘rave on’ 1.5

I'm old and I'm gonna make it everyone else's problem -Author of the list, probably

Blind album and artist. I was not happy to hear this album. It sounded awful and sounded like bogged down 80s with an awful singer. I spent more timing questioning whether I should actually skip a song than enjoying it

It went from very good to very bad. Bottom line is this is good rave or dance party music, but hard to listen otherwise.

Did not enjoy this. Annoying vocals.

Boy, Manchester really sends their best don't they? With all due respect to all you Mancs out there reading this, but fuck this, fuck Morrissey, fuck the Smiths, and fuck City.

Never again

Right away, I'm bummed. Why is this on here? 1* I will go by the wikipedia tracklist and refuse to sit through 2 hours of this crap. Was lazyitis trying to replicate the Beatles?

Meh. I've heard some of these songs in clubs, but honestly, it's not my thing. There was better Brit alterative at the time.

Interesting..

I really wasn't looking forward to this album, as the Wikipedia uses what is becoming my least favorite descriptors: "English rock." Oh, and they discovered house music and ecstasy before recording? At this point you don't really need to listen to the album, you can already hear the goofy, self-indulgent-yet-utterly-milquetoast songs. "Bummed" is a great title, because you will feel this way listening to it.

Yeah this is junk, not even halfway through and I know this is gonna be a 1/5. Album cover isn't even good. Way too repetitive and uninteresting, worst of England.

Kinda ok. Kinda forgettable. Actually, now I've listened and thought back, quite forgettable. What was it I listened to again? 1 star

I deserve a rating of 5 myself for listening to this for as long as I did. I made it halfway through before my brain screamed that it was no longer bearable. I cannot stand Ryder's voice. Whoever originally let him get in front of a mic and make sound should be slapped about the face. Whoever told him it sounded good and he should definitely be a frontman should also be slapped about the face. The man sounds like he's in pain. My ears have been assaulted.

This album sucked. Not sure what I was supposed to get out if it, but it was too long, had redundant, annoying 80s background sounds and lyrics that were just boring/inaudible. Will not listen again.

Pure shite, as I always suspected.

Wow more mediocre UK shit

Чувак просто кричит слова под музыку. Херня какая-то.

Terribly boring, every song sounded the same and the only hooks I remember are the ones that were markedly worse/annoying.

not even as good as that happy mondays record that isn’t very good

Didn't know them. Wish it stayed that way.

Groupe totalement inconnu. Mixage pas terrible, la guitare semble très loin. Les morceaux sont terriblement répétitifs et ennuyeux. =>1/5

poor

honestly hated it. Couldn't wait to stop listening. Just a cacophony of uninteresting noise.

Sums up every downside of both the 80s and this list. Absolutely painful listen, first one in 447 albums that I couldn't bother to finish.

I was "bummed" to have to listen to this, and turned it off by "Lazyitis" which just sounded like incoherent mumbling to me.

Some indy rock in the sound of the 80ies. should be #1900 (of the 1001 list)

Some catchy moments, but really hard to get past the loud brashness of the music. Chaotic in a bad way unfortunately. The singer has an awful nasally inflection as well. Overall not a very enjoyable listen

* I hated this. Deeply unimpressed. Zero stars if I could Don’t know this one. Let’s go! Ok so first ‘ecstasy’ fueled album. Not necessarily a draw for me Not listening to the deluxe album. Sticking with the original 10 tracks. Dumb Spotify not offering older versions Two songs in, this isn’t doing much for me yet This is shit. 1 star. Drugs are bad m’kay Brain Dead - this is Rick’s Schwifty voice, shit on the floor ‘Wrote for luck’ best song on album. Actually listenable. Do it better is repetitive garbage Best part of the last song is this is now over. This was absolute shit. Maybe influenced later bands. I don’t care to look into this further. I really cannot appreciate this. This was bad enough that I am not putting on more music. I’m just annoyed by sound now. Good riddance

0.5 just awful. Horrible mix, awful vocals

Reinhören, mehr aber auch nicht. Passt schon wieder nicht!

Messy, monotonous, atonal, and mixed as if to sound like it's playing on a cheap laptop in another room.

I’ve still listened to Kid Rock during this project. So this isn’t the worst thing. But it is fucking awful.

I like laidback groovy music, but Shaun Ryder makes the Happy Mondays hell on earth. There is nothing wrong with singing a bit off-key and off-rhythm, but this is a mess. The instrumentation is also messy. This record sounds like the recording of some drunk guys from a local pub rehearsing.

Eh not bad but nothing hitting. Can't say i'll even revisit

Nicht gekannt, nichts verpasst!

This strikes me as extremely run of the mill and uninspired music. Not one enjoyable song.

Didn't care for it.

I’m glad I listened to this LP but it didn’t do much for me. I found the vocals to be pretty bland and not great melodies throughout. Not sure why this is included in 1001 Albums to listen to before you die!

I've never heard of this band and now I know why. Pretty BUMMED this album even made this list. It sounded like they recorded this underwater. Very mediocre and forgettable. Dare I say some of the tunes/cadence/riffs sound like they were "borrowed" from other songs by other artists (who incidentally do it much better). I will never listen to this band again.

no thank you

I did not enjoy a single thing from here in the slightest

Too long

1.5

Wouldn’t revisit it.

Este hubiera venido bien ayer, que era lunes.

Really really really really a lot of nothing. Boring and nondescript. I will never listen to this again.

This is the first time in awhile that I actively disliked an album. No real interesting hooks at all, the singer's voice is annoying and mumbly, and he has this distinctively 80s sound that I don't like. I guess this was a big album for some sub-sub-genre or another, but I'm not getting it. I'll be passing on listening to the full 2 hour collector's edition on Spotify. Lazyitis (the last song) is somewhat decent, and I like the cover art. That's the pros. Favorite song: Lazyitis

Meh.

I could do without this album.

Madchester. I think you have to be stoned to enjoy this. Very much of it's time.... can see why people enjoy it but I cannot relate to or connect with it on any level. Boring

Bad 80s, don't care that it's a deep cut from an influential act, it's crap.

You had to be there, I guess.

Drunken hooting over lumpy funk workouts. It should be noticed that the most famous member of the band neither played or sung on any of the records. He had the right idea. Dreadful.

I’ve rarely seen a more fitting album title. It seems like no one in Happy Mondays is able to write even decent song. Luckily they are all, at best, mediocre instrumentalists, so even if they had written a good song it would probably go to waste. I’m just glad they didn’t decide to butcher any Beatles-songs. *cue closing track*

Makes me bummed

Excesso de teclados, vocal irritante, o tecno dos anos 80 numa forma bastante irritante.

Hyvin tylsä levy, tasapaksua massaa, en pidä vaikka teoriassa voisin olla ihanneyleisöä

Kuulin aluksi puolella korvalla olkkarin kajarista, ja ihan piruuttani kokeilin uudelleen, oliko tämä näin käsittämättömän tylsää. Ekan biisin puolikas oli.

The singer’s voice is grating

Bummed I had to hear this.

unhappy. English industrial . the cover looks like they just want to poss you off. the music does the same.

Made by people on drugs for people on drugs. Shaun can't sing, period. Lazy Itis is only interesting for the Fab lift. Brain dead indeed, unbelievably boring. Can I be serious for a moment and point out this is what drugs can do to people's critical faculties.

Never really got this band, determined to give them a good chance and this is just awful. music for "Mad lads"

I don't understand how this was ever popular.

Maybe this is good if you’re pilled up and insensible? I’m not though, I’m processing study abroad applications.

There’s nothing good about this.

This album has very little going for it. It's pretty simple stuff, the singer has a grating voice (and isn't a great singer), the songs are weird for the sake of being weird without doing anything interesting musically, and none of them are all that catchy. And it's slow to boot. "Lazyitis" is the closer and one of the singles, but it's the same damn 2 chords repeated over and over in a sleepy trance for 3 minutes. None of the others are much better ("Wrote for Luck" is a little catchy, but no less simple). I could see how this might be considered the seminal influence for the 90s Britpop wave, but the most important fact is that all those other guys made way better music.

Couldn't make it through it, really not for me.

It's basically a parody of 80's music. Every cliché in one album. I'm glad I'll never have to listen to it again. 1/5

Not sure what it was about this album, but it annoyed me. Could be the annoying vocalist, could be the annoyingly loud mixing of the instruments, could just be that the album was far too long. I sat through it, but it left me wishing I was listening to anything else.

The Wikipedia article states that this album was made under the influence of lots and lots of drugs. The thing about drugs is that they make things seem better than they are. This was not good. Not good. There is a genre of British rock in which the lead singer just shouts/moans in place of singing. It sometimes works, but here it just filled me with rage and resentment. Although it is usually my practice, I was unable to bring myself to listen to this more than once, and mind you I stopped immediately at the end of track 10 on the super-extended Apple Music version available to me. Maybe I missed out. If I did, please let me know.

I've never been able to "get" The Happy Mondays. The vocals are painful, whiny like shoegaze but with added Mancunian sly arrogance tinting it. The beats are poppy, but honestly I can't pick through it to reach any value. Weirdly, I quite enjoy some of Black Grape's stuff, however Shaun Ryder very much ditched the whininess for that. Bez is Bez, and his contribution to the actual recorded work is so close to non-existent that it might as well be called non-existent.

Ugh, I’m Not a fan of this type of Britpop

Classic British lower middle class 80´s rock. Not my cup of coffee.

Meh.. boring plata. Alls ekki þeirra besta verk.

Gaaahh… vittu taas tätä brittipaskaa jolla ei koko maailman mittakaavassa oo mitään todellista merkitystä. Saatanan puuduttavaa. Ei lähe yhtään, en saa mitään otetta. Pitäs kuunnella ehkä eri aikana eri paikassa. 1/5

Olipas pettymys. Odotin psykempää versiota Stone Rosesista, mut tää olikin vaan ihan paska.

Eh, I'm not harsh enough. This probably deserves a two but I had too many moments where I wanted to be listening to ANYTHING ELSE, so fuck it.

spacey 80s brit pop. Noooope.

Not a fan.

Not a fan

couldn't finish

Not my cup of tea

Uninteresting, unheard of crap. I'm going to be pissed off if shit like this made the list but something truly remarkable like Flood by They Might Be Giants or Soul Mining by The The didn't.

Very dated.

bag o shite!

Repetitive. There's like two out of the 27 songs that are decent.

Didn’t make it right through - not for me

No surprise that this is the end result from a band & production team wasted 24/7 on drugs & booze. 1 star feels too generous!

Didn't like this at all. Rough return to the list after a little break

Tää oli aika tyhjänpäiväistä renkutusta. Samaa sarjaa Talking Headsin kanssa. Wikipediasta selvisi, että tämäkin oli huumepöllyissä tehty levy. Jännä, että sellaisella meriitillä pääsee listalle.

Bummed indeed.

If Rolling Stones were less popular and came out two decades later... Not my favorite

Brittien versio Talking Headsista. Ihan yhtä huonoa ja sekavaa menoa kuin Amerikan serkuillaan. Pari kertaa taistelin läpi mutta ei tämä auennut. Wrote for Luck on ilmeisesti jonkinlainen klassikkobiisi mutta ihan yhtä huonolta se kuulosti kuin muutkin.