First Band On The Moon

Meh. Knew their big hit wasn’t crazy about it, and this album didn’t change my mind…

This sounds like music for people who are happy. I hate it. Nails on a chalkboard. Too twee by three quarters.

Nothing much here. A decent catchy single is not a album I need to hear before ( or after) I die.

A middling effort across the board. Not a classic album worth revisiting. Wasn't a relevant band or album in the 1990s and definitely is not one now. Some of the worst ideas from the 1990s on display. "Lovefool" is clearly the only peak on this album. "Iron Man" is an abomination. Her vocal range cloys pretty quickly. I suppose the irony is supposed to be a feature, but it strikes me as a bug. While the varied instrumentation is fantastic, the song arrangements are pretty boring, and with the exception of "Lovefool" lack any real momentum or vigor.

There's that single which is a great song - the rest of the album seemed to me to be a filler for the one song. We get it, she's got a voice like a delicate flower and it suits certain songs but not all whatsoever. It was irritating after an album's worth of songs. It was going to be a 2 but after all these songs, this last one has managed to demote the album to a 1. Please never again, except for that one song.

Good lord. Still no Seger.

Not a fan

idc how viral that one song is, the whole album is literally unbearable to me im sorry

Listening to this album felt like Betty Boop joined a space-age jazz band and tried to do Indie pop. I have heard "Lovepool" plenty of times, but it does not carry the album. Not for me.

Not a fan

Hated this. Viscerally. Lovefool is catchy, but -by far- the best of the album. Iron Man is a crime and charges should be filed.

Good grief!!

So much of this album just seems annoying

🎧This really is not doing it for me. In fact it’s actively irritating me, almost angering me. I used to not mind Lovefool but now I think I hate it.

No thanks. Not really into the music.

Mega schwach und langweilig

Meh

Don't care much for this band. Don't like the vocals.

Only one decent song in this whole album, and I heard it so many times in the 90s that I never want to hear it again.

I tried. Was about to quit and found the one song worth anything (Lovefool) before giving up and moving on.

Lovefool

Meh

Another listener described this as Saccharin and that's exactly what it is. Gross. 1.45

When you talk to people who grew up with iTunes and Spotify and talk about what things were like back when we bought albums, this is one of the albums I think about. You hear one song on the radio or MTV, you like it, then you have to decide, do I want to spend $15 for the album with a chance the rest of the album is no good. Like this one! Luckily I never bought it. However, when I was in college the Cardigans came through town and I went to see them. I was thoroughly unimpressed. Luckily for me, then we opening for Beck, who was amazing.

I’ve never called a 1-900 sex line before but the baby talk vocals of this album are what I imagine it would sound like.

Nope.

This is the kind of record that if you don't care for the lead vocalist, you're really not going to like it - the vocals are mixed really up front. I don't care for the singer at all. The whole thing smacks of easy listening that you might hear in an old film, or maybe the Swingle Singers. The only redeeming feature is that that they (rather bizarrely) cover the Sab's Iron Man in the same style. Sorry but this is not for me at all, and I played it through twice.

Never heard this album before. I like Lovefool well enough, so I expected to like this album. Where to start? Lovefool was clearly a high-water mark for this band. Listening to the album gave me a migraine. The singer's voice is consistently annoying and the music is insipid. By the time Lovefool rolled around, I didn't care. It didn't stop the annoyance. PLEASE MAKE IT STOP. "You know, the ABBA makes more money each year than the Volvo corporation" - Not a lyric, just a quote from a Swedish friend while we were in high school. That odd brag still makes me laugh to this day. Famous Swedish Bands: ABBA The Cardigans Europe Hmmm...I guess I'll take ABBA?

Not the biggest fan of the pop alt music of the 90's. I mean, lets be fair, I wasn't a fan of any alt music that was "popular" post-Nirvana. Not sure if it was just hipster elitism and the "underground" was still way cooler, but this particular music in not interesting to me. Feels like a bunch of high school choir kids saw how the music winds were going and they wanted to make it. Wimpy, boring, stuff.

Terrible horse shit.

What's funny is that the Spotify description for The Cardigans under this album is "... the Cardigans specialized in sugary confection that would grow annoying very quickly if they weren't backed by solid musianship and clever arrangements". And I whole-heartedly disagree. I found that the singing and the overwhelming saccharine vocals and production left this so grating. Sure the songs were arranged decently, but that doesn't make it enjoyable to listen to - You can arrange a gaggle of James Corden clones in a straight line and just because they are organized decently doesn't make it any less obnoxious.

olha...é bom mas é ruim. Digo, o som é agradável, a voz dela é boa, mas a guitarra é péssima e a banda, de uma maneira geral, é fraca, desperdiçando a magia que é a voz da vocalista. Não há inovação, nada de mais. É QUASE um one hit wonder, por conta de Lovefool... Ouvi essa vez, e agora deixo no armário.

Trash.

Never heard this album before. I like Lovefool well enough, so I expected to like this album. Where to start? Lovefool was clearly a high-water mark for this band. Listening to the album gave me a migraine. The singer's voice is consistently annoying and the music is insipid. By the time Lovefool rolled around, I didn't care. It didn't stop the annoyance. PLEASE MAKE IT STOP. "You know, the ABBA makes more money each year than the Volvo corporation" - Not a lyric, just a quote from a Swedish friend while we were in high school. That odd brag still makes me laugh to this day. Famous Swedish Bands: ABBA The Cardigans Europe Hmmm...I guess I'll take ABBA?

Classic album for sure, but I was never a Who guy.

This mostly just irritated me. When Iron Man came on, I gagged. Kinda how I felt about Lovefool back in the 90's.

Day41 - one good song doesn’t make an album worth listening to.

Boring

Warmed over disco. Big pass.

I was hoping to like this one. But baby voices are annoying and the music isn’t good enough to compensate. Boring, uninspired pop crap. Men love that sexy baby sound.

Zzzzzz

Don’t like it

The album is kind of boring. Lovefool is the obvious standout but it seems to me that this song is overplayed everywhere and I am pretty sure I would be happy if I never heard it again. Iron Man cover is sort if interesting but nothing to write home about. One star.

One okay song and the rest is a bland soup.

Head bangingly dull.

should have stayed there

Hard no. The 90s gave us some great albums. Just not in 96. It was a spectacularly crappy year for music. If it wasn't for The Fugees it would almost be a complete wash. "First Band on the Moon" is a great example of mid-90s garbage rock. No, that's not a typo. It's not garage rock. It's garbage not because of technical or monetary reasons. One can only assume it's garbage on purpose. Like, that was their aesthetic. Utterly pretentious trash... with an ever-so-slight rock tinge. It's a collection of parse, poorly-mixed songs lead by whispery, too-twee, fairy-garden vocals and stuffed full of pseudo-intellectual lyrics. It's just garbage. I'm not even going to give it credit for "Lovefool" because there are a dozen covers of it that are 100x better than this garbage original. Did I mention that this is garbage? Because it is. Utter garbage.

Could’ve easily gone my whole life without listening to this album. The vocals are lovely but the music is so dull. Was interesting to read that The Cardigans are Swedish tho - so much famous music from Sweden !

🤮

Didn't care for it. Her voice was nice.

No didn't like this one. Too warbly...

This album is shitu

Boring.

Dump

Weird, unique sound but songs quickly got fluid in that they sounded like one another. I think the album could be in any order and would still work

Twee beyond twee. Each song seems to include a break down ending over spaghetti mixed guitars, pretending punk chaos after frankophile bile. The teo highlights are the bizarre malicious cover of Black Sabaths Iron man and that the album mercifully is only 39 minutes long.

No

Insipid

Boring.

Not for me. Lovefool is decent I guess.

Chiant mais lovefool sympa

Didn’t like

Wholly unremarkable. Can't imagine a time when this is what I'd want to listen to

Un disco poppy aburridillo. Me sorprendió el homenaje a Black Sabbath, pero para mal.

Wreszcie jakis reality check, ze jednak jest to lista mocno popowa, bo po ostatnich pikach wydawala sie zbyt spersonalizowana pod moje gusta, wiec obudziny zostalem pierwsza szwedzka banda, o dziwo to nie ABBA, ale the cardigans, jak to bywa z tak niszowymi zespolami ktore swoj sukces zrobily na popularnej muzyce lat 90, czyli rokowaniu dla szerokiego grona sluchaczy, wiec typowy pop, spiewany jak przystalo na szwedzka bande po anglinsku, bo popularnosc zyskali glownie za wielka woda, czyli hameryka i o dziwo w japonii, gdzie podwojna platyne plyta wyrobila, troche rozumiem dlaczego, plastikowosc i mialkosc tego albumu przypominaja troche japonski city pop lat 80tych, na wokalu zenski pierwiastek bandy, czyli pani nina persson, traki pisane w duecie wokalistka i gitarka prowadzaca svenssona, o ktorej za duzo dobrego nie moge powiedziec. jak o reszcie granej tutaj muzyki, do drugiej strony sadzilem, ze to pierwszy raz gdy slysze ich muzyke, a potem pojawil sie on, lovefool, czyli koncentrat popowosci tego krazka zamkniety 3 minutowym 21 sekundowym traku, ktory zrzuca okowy rokowej otoczki na rzecz prawdziwie popowo diskowego brzmienia, musialo mi sie to obic o uszy za dzieciaka w radioodbiorniku lub w jakiejs kiczowatej komedii romantycznej, idealnie tam pasujac, plyta zawiera takze gwalt na czornym sabacie i ich iron manie, ktory zostal tutaj poskromiony i zapakowany w sluchable szaty, cale szczescie, ze plyta nie jest zbyt dluga, bo ponad 40 minutowej dawki popowania szwedzkiego raczej bym nie wytrzymal, zastanawiajac sie nad trakiem ktory moglbym dodac na plejke, zeby jakis slad pozostal po tym piku, to chyba najlepszym lub mniej najgorszym kandydatem wydaje sie byc drugi numer krazka, czyli been it, opowiadajacy historie milosci, jak wiekszosc trakow, wiec czym to nie byla pani nina w tym zwiazku matkomlojcem, dziwkom, szoferkom, jest to takze kawalek na ktorym drumsy robia robote, jesli chodzi o czesc instrumentalna, bo niestety gitarka nie ma dobrego traka na tej plycie, moze koles byl lepszym teksciarzem niz grajkiem, skoro tak popularne traki udalo mu sie tworzyc, nie rozumiem nazwy bandy, ani okladki ktora przedstawia scene z koncertu, ale czy to jest nawet ta banda, nie mam pojecia i tak jak w nazwe wnikac nie bede, bo jednak nie zainteresowala mnie strona muzyczna wystarczajaco mocno

Swedish elevator music, don't care for it

90’s pop album Typical Not exciting 5/10