Reviews (page 8 of 8)
I found this to be utterly pointless and annoying.
This one may have ended this project for me. A big fuck you from Robert Dimery to his readers.
nope
I’m not sure what’s happening here. Did someone ask “What if The Cure were upbeat, but still sad”?
I didn't find anything here to really hang my hat on. Soft indie rock? Light ambient noise with a Freddie Mercury adjacent voice? I'll pass, it almost put me to sleep at work. And that was at 9am.
Nope not for me, some strange -- to me -- vocal choices -- falsetto, etc....
More British bias. You have to ask yourself, what makes an album that has sold 55K copies over a decade essential listening before you die. This was not it.
Would be zero starts if I could. Just awful.
Forgettable and generic honestly. Not really bad but just whatever
Nope . Not my thing
Dreamy but boring. The falsetto singing ruined it for me. It reminded me of the Muppets’ Miss Piggy after some singing lessons.
I hated it. One of the worst indie albums i have ever listened to. Nothing good here.
I can't get into these vocals. Sounds like a precursor to Two Door Comments Club but without the fun.
This was awful. The artist thinks their farts smell like roses and wants the world to know.
This album lost me almost immediately then got worse....didnt get thru a single song
Aaaah some of this records are a test of how thin my patience really is...
I hate that wispy, floaty voice so much. And oh dear god... it gets worse with the insane, falsetto shrieking. It actually makes me shiver and cringe at the same time. "Shringe". No... 'Criver'. Some of the music is fine enough in terms of ability, and there's a bit of a groove on some tracks, but it's of that awful noughties period where it's all so safe and delicate and inoffensive. And BORING. I'm getting literally nothing out of this other than great regret at having pressed play in the first place. 1.5 rounded down.
Well. This was original. I did not enjoy it. On any day, there is more inspiring, longing, joyful, cathartic music to listen to than this. I can appreciate the craft and the intention that went into it - these people wrote songs, made art, and were committed enough to share it with the world. That is gutsy and vulnerable and honourable. But these two dancers are not dancing with me.
No. No! Just NO!!!!
If I could give it 0 I would
ludicrously mannered vocals, some ok beats and sounds, but there is nothing here that has not been done before, and done much better, by many others. this is a long way away from being an album that ANYONE needs to hear
# 332 : This album was so ordinary and it blended into the background so much that I actually forgot I was listening to it. Nothing exciting here, and I wonder, if the people that rate something 5 stars actually listened to what they are rating?
I don't like the voice. At all. The whole record is very forgetable. I am okay with anything being repetitive as long as it is also good. This didn't do it for me even though the instrumental is not terrible. The singer ruined it.
"The Fun Powder Plot" was the most listenable song on the entire album.....despite really annoying falsetto. Other than that, this album was a pointless mess. Another addition to this list that was based more on critical acclaim and less on actually being worth listening to.
Jesus wept. Affected singers, trying to be interesting by wailing. Made my ears sad.
I was hopeful when the first song started and then………that voice ruined it all. I listened to every single song hoping the first song was just a joke. Unfortunately, the entire album is filled with it. On All the Kings men there are parts where the voice is tolerable except when he “sings” in that god-awful high pitch screech. Two Dancer (i) and (ii) are tolerable. Such a waste of good music.
Nope
No clue what this is doing anywhere near this list. There's nothing groundbreaking, exceptional, or particularly interesting here. I hate the lead singer's voice so much. Get it away from me. My guess is it's British which is the only reason it's included on this list
Crap
Nope. All very monotonous imo.
oh its one of those post-Coldplay-core bands
Music not bad. Vocals not my cup of tea
If nobody has yet taken this ‘singer’ aside and discussed alternative career options, it’s just cruelty at this point.
No
Hm... I'm not sure how this made the list. Didn't do much for me.
Meh, can’t remember much from jt
Worst one yet.
Pretentious, hipster shit. Hated this album! I wonder who puts these albums on this list? Seriously, if i wanted to listen to a grown man whine like a japanese woman, I'd put this album on. This was just bad. I am now questioning who decides what goes on this list. Probably someone from the Rolling stone magazine.... they come up with the weirdest things.. Please listen to something else... and im not even joking....
This sucks honestly. Lead singer sounds great in lows, but the higher pitch stuff is awful. If pop and opera merged (popera?) this would be it. Too bad because the instrumental sounds/tones had potential if it wasn’t so boring note-wise.
ärsyttävä vokalisti, täysin mitäänsanomattomat lyriikat. jep, tämä on brittein indie. vittu voin kuvailla kun laulaa silimät kiinni nenä mutrussa niin agressiivisesti mutta hiljaa lähellä mikkiä HYI SAATANA!!!! vuosi sitten olisi kakkonen moiselle mutta ei enää. päivät ovat lyhyempiä ja tälläiselle ei ole tilaa. anna albumeja.. anna kulttuuria.. mitä pitää kuunnella? tätä ei tarvitse, mitä tarvitsee?? ei tarvitse olla keskiarvo 3... ei tarvitse two facncer
lyrics & vocals not4me
Why is this on the list... The singer's voice grates my ears, the lyrics are terrible, the music's fine but doesn't make up for the other problems.
Shite
Sucked literal dick!
My favorite member of this band was the Eventide H9 delay and reverb unit. I was also in retrospect too harsh on Guided by Voices
This is like listening to a year 11’s final BTEC music piece that him and his mate put together on the earliest version of GarageBand. I thought the point of these albums were that they’re meant to be some of the greatest music ever produced.
This was just awful. My children are often present when I listen to these albums and they generally have no strong opinions. My 3 year old begged me to stop playing this one. Throw it into the goddamn trash, burn it, then cover it with concrete.
Started of strong felt like a solid 4... then the singer started schrieking and was a instant -3. Band and music is a 4 But due to the horrible vocals i have to say no. Hope they moved on and made something great without him.
1/5. This was just boring man, and not because it was slow but because there was just no energy in it. No feeling in these songs, just empty holes. Like it's rock without the roll, ya know? Just a whatever album.
This kinda sucks
thanks, it's awful
Wow. I hate this shit. I don’t know if I can listen to the whole album. These people’s voices are infuriating. So around song 4 it became bearable but I would never choose to listen to this. Not sure how I made it to the end. I could have died happy without ever hearing this. Finally found a 1
The music sounds interesting, but I can‘t stand the vocals
I didn't enjoy this album at all
I was not a fan of this one. I did not like the singers voice at all. It was very wishy washy. That is a good word to describe this album. Wishy washy. Overall did not enjoy
The first minute or so of the first track had me thinking, “Oh, I’m going to like this!” And then the vocals began.
Meh. One of the vocalists really bothered me.
I did not enjoy this. Some of the instruments were sort of nice dream-pop-y but the vocals are so bad that they pulled me out the entire time. Terrible. Not sure why I had to hear this one.
I just couldn’t get around the lead singer’s falsetto. Did. Not. Like.
No
Hot garbage, out of tune. Have we reached the point in the list where everything worthwhile is covered?
Really stupid, pretentious lyrics delivered in a really stupid, pretentious voice.
Thoughts before listening: another surprising entry for a 00s/10s era indie rock band. I was listening to this type of music back then but barely remember these guys. I'm sure it'll be fine. Review: yeah I'm not really sure what to think. The falsetto vocals are annoying and the lyrics are dumb. The music is fine I guess but not really my thing. Indie pop with dancey beats and chiming guitar. Definitely feels like something that made this list because the editors felt they needed to add some recent albums.
Didn't think much of this jumble.
Terrible. Dislike the lyrics, melodies, instrumentation, and the voices of the vocalists. No redeeming qualities at all.
terrible so far. don't know if i'm going to finish this one. Did not like
Not really my jam.
Sounds were great, but I could not get into the vocals.
Ugh! No.
Nope.
Not an enjoyable experience. High pitch shrieking vocals over very repetitive, camp, bad pop "rock".
What the actual fuck is this garbage. The lead singer sounds like an Oompa Loompa who wanted to cut a record deal. That or a Tiny Tim (of Tip Toe Thru' The Tulips With Me fame) impersonator. That irritatingly high voice coupled with computer generated beats and musical backing that lacks substance, and you're left with this dumpster fire of a band. Add to that a stupid fucking band name, and an even shittier album cover, and you get the monumental disappointment of a listening day I had today. Why the fuck was this even created? And more than that, what brain trauma victim thought it belonged on a list of 1001 essential albums?!? 1001 steaming piles of garbage maybe. I couldn't maintain focus when attempting to listen to this forgettable trash heap, and it even sucked as background music. The album summary should tell you all you need to know about this record. 50,000 copies sold in the UK in the 14 years that it has been out. Could that be because this is horrible?!? Absolutely no redeeming qualities to any of this horseshit. Fuck this band. Favourite songs: All the King's Men... I guess Least favourite songs: When I'm Sleepy..., Hooting & Howling...and the rest of this garbage. I zoned out... 1/5
Could not finish the album.
WTF
Sufficiently weird enough for me to like and everything about this album I like except one thing... that terrible sound coming out of someone's throat. Some people may call it a voice or it could be a hoarse tea kettle stuffed with helium and working a Swedish penis massager. Whatever it is, it totally kills anything this album had going for it. Supremely disappointed.
Un álbum sumamente olvidable y poco rescatable del catálogo de los 1001 álbumes que debes escuchar antes de morir. No hay ninguna pista que destaque sobre la otra, y en general, se siente demasiado como un producto de su época. Pretencioso sin lograr nada trascendente, Wild Beasts no lograron nada que otras no hubieran hecho décadas antes.
This is musical mogadon. An album you listen to So you die. When I think of post 2000 albums that are great and this comes up. Awful. I might have to do my own list
In the classic Australian indie movie Dogs in Space there's a hippy guy who lives in the house and he's always scoring with the opposite sex and one of his weapons of mass dysfunction is to play the same Brian Eno album, it might be the album Cluster and Eno. I'm not a big fan of Eno, so my badly damaged sub conscious was in effect screaming at me to take this shit off. I think they have three singers all of whom are equally shithouse. One of them sounds like Kate Bush getting an enema. And the "music"? Spare me. Maybe there is some form of an afterlife and I'm in it now. DJ Dante is in the house at the Level 7 Disco Inferno and he's playing this "music" on a perpetual loop to those of us stuck forever in purgatory.
It's trying to sound like other bands but is failing massive. This album is just very boring, not much is being said in the lyrics. Just a dead album in general.
deurmelivre, gostei não.
Dull
Nope. Just nope. Nada. Nope.
Horrid... Nightmare joutuu JUST tän kuulosta indietä vetämänä... Paskaa Paskaa Paskaa..
the sound of this is what i imagine the taste of dish water to be. actually i take that back, drinking dishwater would probably be quite memorable so this is probably more akin to drinking tepid water that was left in a bottle in the car for a week.
Maaaan get outta here, this sucked lol. This one was not for me. This guy thing singing higher makes it better? Negative ghost rider. What a drag
Wow. Never have I heard music that started so good be so thoroughly ruined by a terrible singer. Unlistenable.
Horrific falsetto ruins decent melodies
Absolute drivel.
A wholly unremarkable album in every possible way. In fact, the only thing that is remarkable about this album is that it is on this list.
The Fun Powder Plot- 2 Hooting and Howling- 3 All The King's Men- 1 ... Can't listen to it
I’m not sure how some of these albums made the cut.
Trash. Nothing good. Can I give 0??
Sort of a hodgepodge exploration of the singers admittedly great vocal range but imo a tough listen. Lots of innuendo and cheeky lyrics.
Almost laughed out loud when the singer started singing for the first time. His warbling sounds like an affected joke. I can't take it seriously. Musically I'm basically on board I guess, but the singer breaks the mood every single time.
Did not enjoy the sounds
not my cup of tea
Perfect distillation of "the kind of shit that will make the optimal amount of music critics fawn over it"
Bloody hell this was hard work. Some thing too strained about its reach for otherness. I’m quite partial to some varieties of vocal noodling but not, it would appear, to Wild Beasts’ approach. Set my teeth on edge. Maybe they’d take that as a compliment?
I stopped after 2 songs. The singer’s voice was annoying.
Icky vocals.
Freaking great music. Freaking horrendous vocals. Look mate, you might think that sliding into every note is a cool stylistic choice but we all know it's just because you can't find the damn note. You're not fooling anyone and the falsetto bit wears very thin very fast. Listening to this album, I was mostly overwhelmed by anger that such good music was getting utterly shat on by such terrible vocals. At the end of the day, as much as I wanted to give this a better score for the band's sake, the vocals are so bad that I just can't give it anything more than a single star. I just hate those damn vocal so much. SO MUCH.
This album gets lost in the sound of that era, late 2000s to early 2010s. Monotonous and unexciting. Not really sure why this album makes this list – almost as if an editor has some personal, nostalgic connection...
I tried to give this album a fair shake, but this was rough. They should let Fleming handle the lead vocals alone, because yikes, Thorpe's vocals are awful. His falsetto is this album in microcosm: affected and cringey. The hardest of hard passes for me.
Time I will never get back.
Una m
Now I know what Tiny Tim would sound like if he was dug up and given a record contract.
That was really hard work. The voice hurts my ears, my brain, and my sense of decency. It's awful! Musically the album isn't horrible, but damn that voice is all over the place, off key, out of tune, trying to be all unique and just ending up as a big pile of nastiness. Someone should be locked up for making me listen to this!
Is there a version of this album without the singer? Because he is killing this record, like in the stamping on way, not the good way. I pity the other musicians. This banded existed from 2002 to 2017. Imagine hearing this regularly for 15 years.
Vocally... wow is this all over the place. I wasn't a fan of the lead singer's voice from the first song, but as the album progressed and he did other, weird things with his voice, I was shocked that my opinion of his singing got worse. Honestly, the backup vocalist who took over in 'All The King's Men' was so much better than the lead. Give me more from him. The lyrics didn't do anything for me. I don't know, were they supposed to evoke any emotion at all? 'Hooting and Howling' was just... bland. I got it. He's hooting and howling. The instrumentals are the only saving grace to this, frankly, mess of an album. Still not enough to save it from a 1 star.
What. A. Bore. Fest. A lot of things from the naughts won't age gracefully, you can bet your boots on it. And this very minor band (who happened to be at the right place in the right time, Mercury Prize or not) perfectly exemplify why this period was so far up its own ass that a lot of folks couldn't even *get* how good music actually worked. Fortunately, things have gotten far better now (and it's exactly *why* this list of 1001 albums needs to be updated a.s.a.p.) As many other reviewers here, I found the falsetto voice quite annoying or grating, but it's not even the main issue I'm having with Wild Beast. The real problem with this very pretentious band--whose intended sound should supposedly draw a little on "pop music" formulas to make any sort of sense--is that they can't write choruses. CHORUSES, guys! Something human, energetic or simply a little inviting to grab your attention, so as to bear with your all-too-precious cabaret-like dirges and over-the-top theatrical bullshit in between. Even blokes like Morrissey from The Smiths, or Matthew Bellamy from Muse (whose comparatively "wimpy" melodic lines could somehow be linked to what Wild Beasts' singer is attempting to do here) understood the sheer importance of that pivotal ingredient. C.H.O.R.U.S.E.S. Bear in mind that I mentioned Bellamy and Morrissey, and not Bowie, whose memory shouldn't even be associated with such a lame band, contrary to what I've read somewhere here. And please, oh please, don't tell me Wild Beasts avoided good choruses so as to not compromise their "artistic vision" or something. No, clearly, they couldn't write anything catchy melody-wise, it's so obvious when you're listening to this terrible, terrible album. The rhythm section is telling a different story, though. Drums and bass interactions are quite brilliant throughout this album, helped by decent guitar licks. But unless you're in certain genres (electronic music, jazz, really *experimental* rock or post-rock), you can't build good songs when only *this* is decent in your compositions. And you certainly can't build any good albums. This here is a lesson in *bad songwriting*. May it be a cautionary tale in the foreseeable future for any young band wishing to play in that late-naughts genre of dreampop/indie pop, if ever it comes back in style. But to be honest, I'm just hoping this day actually never ever happens. It's always a good idea to err on the safe side, kiddos. You've been warned! Number of albums left to review or just listen to: 969 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 12 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 7 Albums from the list I will *not* include in mine (as I think many others are more important): 10 (including this one, especially this one!!!!!) Albums I might not be able to judge (some might end up on my final list but it's because I recognize how culturally important they are): 2
Æ, sérstakt en ekkert sérstakt.
Some interesting instrumentals but the vocals were too harsh and too much.
nope
Kind of happy So tightly produced to the point of falling apart All The Kings Men is good Hurts my head
Nah.
another pile of hipster crap
This was mildly interesting before the vocals kicked in, but good lord they are terrible. I can't even listen to this whole album. Dreadful.
Ono što sam čuo od albuma, nisam baš nešta bio zadovoljan.
Мимо. Не нравится такое, ни жанр, ни музыкальная составляющая. Не знаю чем этот альбом крут.
Tjee, dit gaat echt alle kanten in, iets te experimenteel voor mij. Zang is met vlagen wel oké, maar als ie de kopstem gebruikt vind ik het niet om aan te horen, vals kerkelijke invloeden… Deuntjes bij vlagen wel interessant, maar wanneer de kopstem weer naar voren komt haak ik af. Enige nummers die ik luisterbaar vond waren 6 en 10, waar ik enige invloed van Editors en White Lies in kan terugvinden. Duidelijk zoekende naar eigen sound…
Why is something like this in this list and Stevie Ray Vaughan not? Absolutely not my tatse
Hier kan ik heel weinig mee. Voor mij te weinig samenhang. Een samenraapsel van diverse invloeden.
Goede compositie, jammer van de zang.
Good