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Never listened. Expectations: None - Verdict: Alright - I don't know what I was expecting but not the roaring guitar straight from the start. Looking it up, it's a band led by Bob Mould so maybe I should have expected exactly that. Like other albums I have heard with him involved this is decent but not particularly memorable.
There are some good tunes here, but nothing that stands out, nothing that hasn't been done better by another band. Sort of a distillation of that early indie sound. Nothing wrong with it, but it's not amazing.
Not extremely bad but not great either, just a typical early 90s indie/power pop album. Not sure why it is on the list.
Har lyst til at stå på skateboard
Ikke rigtig noget, der sætter sig fast..
*44 Lige så tyndt som Bud Light. Ikke kæmpe fan.
Det her keder mig helt vildt. Det lyder ikke dårligt, men det er super kedeligt :/ 2**
Jeg synes godt nok, at det er lidt kedeligt. De fleste numre lyder for meget som hinanden og en dårligere udgave af det samtidige musik, der lød sådan her - som Tore siger: en værre udgave af Foo Fighters. 2.0
Et par enkelte gode numre og generelt nogenlunde fin rock, men det føles mest som en Temu version af Nirvana/Foo Fighters/Perl Jam
vel ikke decideret dårligt, bare pænt kedeligt. Heller ikke lige min yndlingsmusikgenre. Lyder lidt som noget der kunne have været en intro sang til Venner
Meh
Didn't like it at all. At first I thought that it sounded like a lost Shrek soundtrack, then I was extremely bored with the repetitive lines over and over again. The sound is typical, the music itself is not unique in any way, template alt rock of it's time. Almost like a parody of the genre.
Boring
Neither liked nor disliked 2.5
sounds like all of the 90's music I never listened to because I didn't care for it. Technically it's very good, but I don't like the singers voice very much and I didn't find the album very compelling.
With such a diverse amount of cool and quirky music that came out at this time. It baffles my mind that something so generic was added to the list. Swapping this out to Enigma would be appropriate.
I've never heard of this band or album, so this will be a fun one at least. My first thought after like 1 minute - wow this sounds like shit. Very much like a harder REM. Halfway through and it's pretty much the same. Super bright and shiny, mediocre vocals, terrible sound. I feel like there could have been any number of albums on the list in place of this one. I mean I can see why some people would like this but it's nothing novel or innovative. It's just...music. A few interesting spots here and there, synths in Hoover Dam that come out of nowhere were cool, but it's pretty bland for the most part. I can't imagine I will remember any of this tomorrow. Edit from tomorrow - yeah I don't really remember any of those songs. 2/5
It was aight. Probably wont ever come back to it. Kinda sounded like foo fighters at times and other times like some 90's washed out grunge shite. But full album and end product was lackluster.
Typischer, amerikanischer Einheitsbrei
5/10
In theory this is everything I should love solid beat, sweet riffs. Sort of trite poppy lyrics. But I just can't stand his voice also I can hear the start of my least favourite phase of music 'post-grunge-guitar-rock' in this. Oh god it just start to sound the same
The 90s called, they want their mediocre alternative music album back. Never heard of this, for a reason. It is.... Fine.
I can imagine that there is a podcast episode or series out there with this man telling some story about his life and his fame and how he now works selling mobile phones
Much like Paul Weller, I never really got on with the Bob Mould projects. Grateful dead are also one of those bands that seem a bit too far away from what I like. Mind you, there are some good moments on here, Hoover Dam has some nice moments, but the muddy production has always been a let down for me. Sometimes they sound like pixies, sometimes they sound like what Foo Fighters are sounding like for the last 30 years. But it is not very interesting to me.
First I’ve heard of them and not sure what to expect. Feels a kind of Seattle grunge sound. Maybe more standard alt rock, actually and good comment from someone saying it would be an AI representation of 90’s alt-rock. Songs feel pretty repetitive and often feel like they could have finished much sooner. It’s okay, but it’s not particularly great or inspiring. Just kinda standard. Not really sure why it’s in the list. Pretty stereotypical and epitome of all the cliches with this genre. Add an annoying voice and hey presto. Yeh, done with this quite early on. A constant 4/4 standard fest. Thought it might scrape a 3* but it’s actually got to the point of annoying me now (2.5)
I mean I did find moments to enjoy with this album but overall not my favorite genre in general which limits its appeal to me.
4/10
It's kinda like someone mashed up Nirvana and The Barenaked Ladies.
Not my passion ngl
No matching with me
Just kind of milquetoast grunge. Nothing stood out, and honestly the singers voice was a little annoying. Never heard of the band and I don’t think I need to listen to it again.
The first song sounds like Full Metal Jackoff by DOA and then Michael Stipe comes singing along a ruine it. Oh well. Let’s keep going. I think these guys are going to fall in the Collective Soul category. Hold on to that and we will circle back. This is pure 90’s music. Rock I guess. Play it safe type of music. No one gets offended. It just plods along. Choice cut: Helpless
Pretty meh
Eh another on the list of 90s grunge Nirvana adjacent rock. Blah
i agree with the top take that this sounds like an AI output to generic 90s alternative rock
I really liked the guitar, but didn’t really like the lyrics as much/concept of the songs. But I like Slick and The Slim. Cool rock album
Seems influential on Foo Fighters and other 90s music.
Not my thing. Listened to my fill of this style in the 90s.
When I was a kid I somehow attached to warehouse songs and stories but otherwise husker du and bob I never listen to - but holy shit I thank them for that album.
soundtrack to a really forgettable early 2000s coming of age movie
Lots making Nirvana and Pixies comparisons but I don't really feel it. It wasn't really my thing and I didn't get caught by any of the tracks except 'Hoover Dam', although the album passed without too much of a dislike, it didn't pass with much 'wow' either.
Decent enough if you're a fan of the genre but idk just kinda forgettable to me
early 90’s sound, hugh school cringe era personally did not care for it
Not memorable
I feel like I've heard this before even though I've never heard of the artist or album. The songs are bland and forgetting and feel like the sort of dross you'd get if you blended all the early 90s bands into one.
Sounds generic
Rock alternativo de los 90s, uno más. Género el cual, si no escuchaste una banda en su época y sientes alguna nostalgia por su música, te parecerá una más del montón; más aún si no es de los top del rock alternativo noventero. Esta vez me tocó una que no había escuchado nunca. Aburrida, acordes básicos, canciones sin diferencia marcada... Daré 2 porque tampoco suena horrible, solo básico.
seemed like not super interesting pop rock. i guess it may be foundational for the genre. not sure
למה הוא שר כאילו אין לו בעיות בחיים אה וזה נשמע כמו שיר של בעיות עולם ראשון/תחתון זה פשוט רוק פאנקי מוזר מאוד לא אהבתי גם מאוד משעמם הכל נשמע אותו דבר
I've heard of Sugar, but I'm not super familiar with any of their songs, so listening to this album was all new to me. Interesting that I just had Nirvana's "Nevermind" album the other day and according to what I read, that album was a big inspiration for the album and the band in general. I liked the album. Nothing super memorable for me, so not sure it belongs on a list of greatest albums from my personal perspective, but a solid album.
langweilig, musik zu laut sodass man den text nicht versteht, alles klingt gleich
high energy, but not for me
Not the worst but given the shear quantity of albums like this from the same period it just seems very bland by comparison 2*
Spotify has the 2012 remaster only which needs to be remastered cause I can't hear the lead singer. Flyover album for me. Forgot it was even playing for a while. "The Slim" (or slime?) was the only track that caught my attention and held it briefly. As with the leads original band Husker Du, Sugar is just not sweet enough...too bland. Copper's green isn't it? 1.68 stars.
Less good than Husker Du.
Sugar? Pfff I’m more of a Big Sugar guy. Absolutely baffling addition to this list as it’s the most generic 90s alt rock I’ve ever heard.
Not a fan.
Generic alt-rock. Adequate, but not good. The songs are boring. You'll be better rewarded by just listening to Husker Du. And there's backmasking, how edgy... not. My Rating: 2/5
Generic 90s alt-rock
Do we need a Husker Du album on this list? Absolutely (the correct answer is Zen Arcade). Do we need albums from solo projects/spin-offs of commercially unsuccessful bands that were culturally or musically influential? Hell no. With all due respect to Bob Mould (and there is a great deal of respect due to the man), this album has no business here, isn't very good, and no one needs to listen to it before they die. Influence 2. Quality (this is surprisingly poorly produced) 1. Hits 1. Intangibles 2. I used to really like this kind of grunge-adjacent rock 2.
Never heard of this group or album. Numerous songs on the verge of being good tunes, and 2-3 that are good. Sounds like the lead singer of Collective Soul.
2.5 generic 90s alt rock
Songs are a bit long for the style of music and not that interesting to me.
This felt like a letdown. Generic 90s alt-rock and I genuinely expected better from Bob Mould.
Eh... just not very memorable
I really did not like this album. just so plain and lame.
Wanted to be like foo fighters and gin blossoms? Was fine but will not listen again. Also, why were the vocals so low?
Meh album from 93 that sounds like 2003
Good indie/grunge/ rock
Scrubs ass music
Redundant, derivative, etc., etc.
Rock so soft I could eat it without teeth. 2/5
Lo mismo, parece lo mismo, lo mismo, mismo, ismo
# 600 : Sugar Copper Blue – A Three-Course Meal of Dry Toast This album tries so hard to sound like the greats of the era, which only makes you wonder: why waste time on this when you could listen to those bands instead? Copper Blue is completely pointless—like a three-course meal of nothing but dry white toast. The mix is bad, the sound is bad, and nothing is interesting for the entire runtime. The vocals? Weak, when you can even hear them. The drums? Godawful. The lyrics? Vapid and lazy to the point of comedy. By the end, I was actively annoyed at how inane and repetitive it all was. There are thousands of better albums from the ’90s. Normally, I’d go for this kind of record, but this one let me down hard. Best Track (if you must): Helpless – which is exactly how you’ll feel trying to finish this album. Verdict: ★★ for existing. File under “albums that make you appreciate the bands they’re imitating.”
Doesn't matter how big the word SUGAR is on the cover, this was not very sweet.
Feel I should have liked this more, but it was loud and boring. 2.5
One of the lesser alt bands of the 90s I guess. There’s a reason Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden etc have stood the test of time and Sugar haven’t. Pretty average.
This might be the most stereotypical 90s album. It's fine, even good at parts, but it does admittedly sound like everything you already know about the 90s even if the album is fully new, like it was to me. Hoover Dam, Slick, and Clownmaster were my favorites.
To był tak generic amerykański indyk, że czułem się, jakbym siedział na obiedzie z okazji święta dziękczynienia gdzieś na amerykańskich przedmieściach (miasto dowolne, wszystkie wyglądają tak samo). Nie mam pojęcia, co to tutaj robi.
There are quite a lot medicore albums on this list but this is like some final boss of being mid. No puns, no nothing. My creativity was lost in a vacuum of generic blandness.
Mediocrity: The Album Słabe 2
Algunos discos, entre los cuales se encuentra este mismo, exponen aún más el conflicto inherente a esta lista: evalúo en su contexto histórico o con todo el paso del tiempo. Argumentos hay para ambos criterios. Por ejemplo, un disco como este, premiado y elogiado en su lanzamiento, hoy casi no tiene una huella cultural, porque todos quienes beben de la música alternativa de principios de los 90 acusan otras influencias y Sugar no aparece por ninguna parte. Por otro lado, como cápsula temporal, Copper Blue es un ejemplo perfecto de la música alternativa de 1992 y como tal, como poste en un trayecto histórico musical, tal vez merece un lugar en esta lista. Ese tal vez es el problema. Lo escucho y no logra convencerme de que pueda sugerirselo a alguien como un testigo incontestable de la música de 1992. Hay muchos y mejores ejemplos, tanto en esta lista como fuera. Entonces, ¿por qué su inclusión? PS: de Mould me gusta un disco que sacó en 2012 (Silver Age) y ni siquiera puedo escucharlo por completo porque ya se torna repetitivo en la sexta o séptima canción. Y la verdad es que suena igual a este.
inoffensive 90's rock. I don't have much more to say.
this is not a very good album.
What can I say? It’s sounds like a 90s pop-rock album that I’ve never heard of should sound. They had some big plays here for 90s radio hits (“if I can’t change your mind” for example) but it just wasn’t enough. Not much here to take with me.
I really liked some of the tracks on this one. Other tracks were just mid. Not a really great album but I enjoyed it. Sounded like an American Stone Roses with the production, idk.
There is absolutely nothing special about this album. The music is decent……but nothing to write home about.
Just very generic
Unremarkable. Unsure why its on the list.
A couple of good tracks - typical 90s rock sound.
Oh good. Another non descript alternative/post-punk album from the late 80s-early 90's. Just what this list needed. Why is this here, when there's so many better options? It's laughable that this is here, when another album from the same year, Angel Dust by Faith No More, which is a far, far better and more interesting album, isnt.
A decent but relatively nondescript piece of 90s grungy pop rock. There’s nothing wrong with it but there’s nothing here I recognize (1992 was just entering a long peak music discovery for me - I was buying anything vaguely interesting to me) so the result is somewhat generic for me. If you told me this was a collection of b-sides or outtakes from Collective Soul, Cool for August, or Tonic, I would have believed it. Probably more interesting if you’re a Husker Du or Bob Mould fan, but it isn’t something you need to hear before you die.
War ok, aber hat mich jetzt nicht so gejuckt
Sounds like if you smushed a bunch of 90s rock albums together. A copycat album. Where is the originality?
This is pretty samey across the album. Wasn’t for me.
Generic 90s rock!
Por momentos parecia Foo Fighters. Tenia potencial pero terminó aburriendo
At least it rocks a bit harder than the Green Day album I suppose. It has some nice dissonant grungey bits but it also has some really listless vocals and uninspired solos. Kind of like Sonic Youth but with no commitment. If I didn't know better I'd accuse it of being AI slop - its got that blurry kind of thing where you can't really make out the words (just because I used an em dash there doesn't mean I'm using chatgpt for these reviews). Quality really falls off the cliff at If I Can't Change Your Mind, Sub-REM jangle pop without the jangle. Being the album most often compared to the Foo Fighters is not a compliment.
Who cares honestly
Surprisingly dull effort from former Husker Du front man Bob Mound, like generic alt rock made for college radio...
Lots of repetitive lyrics, and the songs had a sameness. Boring
If someone said, "Hey, do you want to come hear my friend's band, they're playing at a free festival this weekend," I would go along, hear this band, and not be mad. But I would never ever think that I had to hear them again through headphones. A nasally singer, fuzzy, noisy, mushy-sounding garage rock-punk. Not actually bad but definitely nothing to write home about. I enjoyed the last two tracks, Slick and Man on the Moon, the best of all of them.
Generic early 90s Alternative Rock - probably called Grunge at that time - without the edginess of the better known acts (Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains - you name it). The kind of music we would have played at school and no-one would care. OK-ish but Petty. Probably a good starting point for "1001 albums you can ignore without missing anything"
Nothing to grab me in the least
Yet another early 90s alt album that is competent but uninspiring
Not my cup of tea
OK, on first listen this seems like pretty standard Indie pop fare. But you look at the date and you realise at the time it wasn't standard indie pop, it helped define that standard. So not a bad record and historically important, to my jaded ears though it sounded a bit generic, but then you realise that Foo Fighters and Weezer etc, may have used this help define their styles it pay's to have a real listen. Lyrically it's what you would expect, The arrangements are all competent. "A Good Idea" and "Slick" stand out though and "Man the Moon" has been added to my playlist as I believe it deserves multiple listens.
It's not my genre of preference, but it's totally fine. I don't feel it had anything groundbreaking on the album, and the vocals felt flat. Overall, totally acceptable grunge punk album.
He sings with his inside voice. Kind of unremarkable and the lyrics are really repetitive each song. Backing music is nothing to write home about either. 4/10
2.5 cringy but didn't damage my ears.
Didn't do anything for me. Slick and the Slim were pretty enjoyable but with the rest I couldn't shake the impression I was listening to a polished version of Nirvana.
Hadde sikkert likt dette om jeg hadde hørt det på 90-tallet. Rett og slett kjedelig i dag.
okay, not really my vibe
So this is alternative 90s rock, but the subset of alternative that was kind of lame. It doesn’t have any edge or grit to make it interesting, but instead is highly polished and produced. I suppose that is a good thing for a lot of people, but I find it gets to be a bit boring. My teenage daughter thought it was from a tv show, and she’s right, it sounds just like something some 90s comedy would’ve used. It’s not awful, but overproduced to the point of being inoffensive and uninteresting. After a while I forgot it was on.
This sounds like the genesis of lots of music I like but I do not understand how this is even on this list. It’s flat and uninteresting and so much more so than REM or Nirvana which I hear in here
this was okay there were some songs i didn’t mind but i can see why i’ve never heard of it before
It didn't feel like it was an inventing anything or pushing any boundaries. It felt safe and something that someone made as a job. So the cashier at the counter has always wanted to be a cashier and they are mostly thrilled to be serving almost everyone then there is the person who does it for money, these songs were the latter nothing wrong but nothing exciting.
Not really me Genure
Starter faktisk virkelig stærkt med nogle gode numre, men begynder hurtigt at lyde som alt andet 90'er alternative. Stor 2'er
Tung grunge, synes ikke sangene var særlig memorable
This all sounds the same. The drums are mixed as the loudest component of the band. I know it's the style of this genre but it's hard to listen to the track when all I can hear is high-hat and snare. In all I don't care for this type of music, 2/5 I won't be back
A band I had never heard of before so was intrigued to hear something new. Disappointed I’m afraid. Just a pale imitation of those around at the time 2/5 29/7/25
This sounds very much the same as a lot of other bands in the same era. A lot of repetitive lyrics within the sounds, song 2 sounded like a rip off from “Breed”, with repeats of “she said”. Overall, not very impressed with this band despite really liking Husker Du.
I've been meaning to listen to this as David Barbe, the bassist, is a legendary music figure in the Athens music scene. Didn't get anything out of this though. Agree with other reviewers that there wasn't much to set this one apart from others of the era Rating: 1.8
This was okay. Pretty stock 90's alt-rock offering. On some tracks they almost sound like a proto-Foo Fighters. Nothing exciting but nothing terrible.
petah the horse is here
Bob Mould is most well known for creating some of the most daring, unique punk of the '80s, so I have to say I'm pretty disappointed with Sugar. Despite being very commercially successful (relative to his previous releases) Sugar is just kind of a largely toothless alt rock band on Copper Blue. While I like a lot of early '90s rock, informed by grunge and punk and '80s alternative, alt rock was admittedly kind of oversaturated at this time. The success of Nirvana, Pixies, Smashing Pumpkins, and many many more gave us a resultant B-cast of similar underground bands. Some are interesting and worth excavating today, but many are just not worth it. Sugar is definitely the latter for me, they just lack the intensity, slick songwriting, personality, and uniqueness of the bands who pulled it off. The first song here, The Act We Act is the only song here I really like. The riff is crunchy, there's a good solo, and the melodies and chorus are pretty good. But even here, this song isn't giving me anything I can't get better from someone else, there's just nothing setting it apart. After this, Copper Blue just can't get its footing. Changes and Man On The Moon try their best, and end up alright, but similarly, I can get this in better form elsewhere. A Good Life kind of sounds like a Pixies song, but the chorus is pretty grating. Hoover Dam goes for something a little psyche-y at first, but I just don't like the melodies. Fortune Teller goes for something punk-y but doesn't sell it (to me at least). And there doesn't seem to be much else here that feels like I have a ton to talk about. We just have some more alt rock songs I don't really like. After some consideration, I think I may be tempted to give this a 1. It isn't awful, but I just don't really enjoy much here. I don't like the songs, the performances feel kind of non-descript. And perhaps most damningly, I feel that Mould is capable of better. Maybe this would have been fine in a world where this was just the zeitgeist, but as a member of Hüsker Dü, Mould made music that stands today (and I would like to urge you to check this music out), and Sugar is so trapped in its time that I really don't get anything from it as a modern listener. Besides, if you dig, there are *tons* of more interesting underground alt rock bands from this time: Lungfish, Silkworm, Arcwelder, Love Battery and Morphine to name a few. If you don't mind a little grunge: Paw, Skinyard, Mad Season, and Tad are also worth checking out. Point is that it isn't exactly a scene I am in want of. For how little I get out of this and how much talent went into it, I feel that I may give Copper Blue the 1: sorry Bob Mould, it isn't anything personal. Edit: Okay, after calibrating my sensors on a couple of *real* 1/5s recently, I gave this another listen and I feel a little more positively about it. I still don't love this, and I think my original points still stand (just to a lesser degree of intensity) but even if I don't love most of these songs, there is enough personality to the performances and these songs have just enough positives to their writing that I have decided to give Sugar an additional star. Sorry Bob Mould!!
Not a fan. Insipid lyrics and sophomoric writing in general. It's like Fastball and The Rembrandts had a baby named Good Charlotte who started a band named after something on a table in a Waffle House.
Kinda boring
Generic and bland. I kept forgetting I was listening to an album. 2.5/5
2.5
Pretty good album. Some catchy tunes and good instrumentation. Really great mix, everything sounds great. 2.5 / 5
I thought I liked the 90s. Guess not. This left no impression on me and I just found it boring. Sorry Sugar, this one's not so sweet!
not for me
Again, I was unaware of this band and this album. I was aware of Husker Du, but not actually heard much. So, with anticipation.... Oh. I couldn't wait for it to end. Bland, repetitive, uninspired, derivative. Nope from me.
The vocals are inaudible due to the excessive noise. Pretty chaotic!
As we continue to get more albums from the 90s, I am starting to feel that the 90s are a decade of music I want to forget. There are maybe a dozen 90s albums I can think of off the top of my head that I love from that entire decade. But the rest of it just has that 90s sound, and that sound is very dated. I was hoping that this project would help me re-discover some of that lost love from the 90s. I enjoyed the decade of music as it was all coming out. But a good 90% of it I have not gone back to revisit. On first listen of this Sugar album, it just sounds like another forgettable 90s album with that signature sound. Granted it came out just after the big three albums that kicked off the alternative craze of the early 90s (Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden), and maybe this album was part of that early movement, but it was never something that was on my radar. As per usual with this project, we get an album, very late in an artists career, particularly an artist that I am not well versed in. So I am going to go back to the early days of Husker Du and the two Bob Mould solo albums leading up to this album, to see if it changes my opinion of this record. 10 Hours Later ... I think after listening to a ton of Husker Du, a few songs from Bob Mould's solo era, and this album for a second time ... I have come to the conclusion, I am just not a fan of Bob Mould. Assuming Bob Mould was the main orchestrator on all of these projects, I am not knocking the other musicians, I just can't get into his style of songwriting. So far my average rating of the 90s is 2.6.
Not for me, pretty noisy.
Meh
Generic and unmemorable. Sounds like knock off music written for a movie that couldn't afford the rights for real music.
Not a huge fan of this one. Definitely wasn’t terrible or anything, but I couldn’t shake the kind of Disney channel original music vibe that was pretty persistent throughout. Felt a little boring as well, nothing that I heard really grabbed me or had any sort of stand-out quality. Fun background music though! Fav Track: Slick
Some decent stuff but nothing to write home about
This album has the textbook sound of 90s pop rock, in the vein of Collective Soul and Dave Matthew’s Band. However, unlike those bands, this album was unremarkable and forgettable.
I didn’t hate it, I suppose.
There is no WAY this deserves to be on this list.
Medio generico la verdad
This album doesnt feel in the slightest way unique or really outstanding to my ears. Pretty much a skippable album which i still listened to the fullest. It didnt trigger any emotions. It was not even bad enough to piss me off.
eh its ok but kinda forgettable
It’s a step up from Neil young. Is it a Must listen? I’d accept husker du on this. . This seems less essential and more ‘hey check my cred’ from a hipster critic. 2 stars. Just.
Standard boring 90's rock.
The soundtrack to a C-list coming of age movie in the early 2000’s.
Top 3 Songs: 1 - Changes (3) 2 - If I Can't Change Your Mind (7) 3 - Man on the Moon (10)
Not too memorable
This album just has so much working against it, from the title track coming off as a bad REM attempt to the next track coming off as a bad Pixies attempt, to the underwhelming and milk toast production. I can appreciate the attempt to not sound like some of the “leftover 80s arena rock” counterparts, but nothing here really bites. Every song works as its own, okay sounding entity, but none quite add up to make a cohesive album.
In one ear and out the other, but not without wreaking displeasure between those ears in the process.
Never heard of, Easy listened, forgettable. It's not bad but it's not an iconic album or band exactly, so Why is it on a list of 1001 albums i need to hear? did it have any long lasting impressions on the world? well, no... don't seems like it. it mostly sound like other bands. I guess there really aren't 1001 albums that are "Must listens" and half of this list is just the authors picks.
pop punk grunge feeling with some melodic elements. Not bad and different in some aspects but ultimately blends in too much for my taste with other albums of its genre and doesnt have enough single standouts to get to a 3
Fringe 90’s punk rock that’s lacking in quality, snore and why is this on the list…
This was okay - I don’t remember them at the time. There was one track I’d heard before. Overall an ok album
Not bad but very generic and boring Standout songs If I Cant Change your Mind
American alternative rock. Vocals sound a little bit like Phil Collins. - The Act We Act: sounds pretty uniform with some decent "up" parts. Lyrics kind of hard to understand. - A Good Idea: I don't think I like this very much...
Album was okay. Nothing really stood out but nothing was explicitly bad either. 2.5/5 Probably won’t listen again
Yeah, well it was what it was.
It was fine. Certainly not an album I need to listen to
4/10
Tää meno ihan ohi kuunnellessa, ei saanut mua keskittymään… mutta koko ajan tykkäsin äänen sävystä, se oli just kannen mukainen sinisenkultainen megaysäri.
Harmlöst och lite intetsägande.
Grunge er bara ekki skemmtilegt, krakkar, og þá skiptir engu hvort að þið hafið sungið í hardcore pönk bandi áratuginn á undan eða ekki.
ALright 90s rock but nothing really special. Maybe worth 3 stars, but I dont remember even one song after a day...
Bland and unremarkable '90s rock.
Painfully generic, and some of the choruses go for soooo long, specially the bad ones.
Hey it's grunge from the 90s! Alas more Bush and less Pavement. (6 know/12 new)
Screams of summer youth
Day382 - bob mound is super cool but i wasn’t crazy about this album
listenable as background music but every time i focused in on it, it was ass
Didn’t seem so remarkable on the first listen, but it might grow on me.
Totally inoffensive.
I do not like this at all.
This album screams 90s alt rock, but there's nothing that stands out here. It sounds like it's a mix mosh of every major 90s alt rock band, which makes it sound like nothing. Maybe this was first and every other band that I'm thinking about from the later 90s derived themselves from some aspect of this sound, but it makes this album non-memorable to me. It sounds cool, but I'd rather listen to every other band that does something memorable. Plus, the lyrics are always repeated. Why?
Not sure about this one, could of been better if it didn’t sound like it was recorded under a duvet! None of the songs really grab the attention or get you wanting more, I kind of just endured it really.
It’s alright!
I'm being nice here when I'm saying that maybe it was influential? I've never heard such repetitive garbage in my life
Dit is 1 van de meest vergetelijke albums die ik ooit heb gehoord. Hoe is dit een album dat je echt gehoord moet hebben voor je doodgaat? If I can't change your mind is het enige nummer dat ik misschien nog een keer er uit zou kunnen pikken. Verder is dit misschien wel de meest gezapige rock die ik ooit heb gehoord zeg. De mix klinkt ook niet helemaal goed, waardoor de drums VEEEEEEEL te hard zijn op alle nummers. De zang is ook echt niet te verstaan, maar heel eerlijk? Ik heb toch niet het idee dat ik er veel aan mis. FAVO: If I can't change your mind
I couldn't imagine listening to this outside of a 90s rock (maybe grunge) playlist. There's nothing that would grip me it just sounds a bit worse than some of the time's greats. and HOW was it voted best album of 1992? Hello? Chronic, Dirty (Sonic Youth), the Cure album, but Pavement and Alice in chains would've all deserved it more
This is someone trying to make 90's grunge rock commercial. It works about as well as you expect. I like it's inclusion on this list because it's a good reminder that people do in fact sell out.
Man, tough for this album to come out in 1992, given what was released that year or the year before it. I don't think it even makes the top 20 most significant albums of 1992, in my book anyway.
Well, it wasn't very remarkable in either direction. Sugary 90s rock. Not going into my typical rotation, but not horrible.
This felt generic. It's possible I'm missing something but I'll forget I heard this and don't see why it's critical listening.
Needs a half rating. Not a 2 but not quite a 3. Trim the fat on this and it might have been a 3. Stop letting the tape run and end the damn song!
very reminiscent of the times. evokes a sense of nostalgia but not enough to want a relisten, everything sounds the same. favs: changes, if i can't change your mind
Sounds like R.E.M., which is not a good thing in my case… though I probably actually prefer this - which is far more energetic/less self-serious - to R.E.M.
Listened to first few tracks. Shite so far. Friends soundtrack on repeat.
Ok
"Husker Don't."
Like a one hit wonder band from the 90’s only without anything that sounded like a hit.
#400. Never heard of them before. Now I know why. A bit bland and generic. Nothing stands out. 2/5: meh
That sucked. I don’t want to think about it no more :( 2/5
+: A Good Idea, Changes, Hoover Dam, Slick +-: The Act We Act, Helpless, The Slim, Man on the Moon -: If I Can't Change Your Mind, Fortune Teller 4,5/10
I have listened, and I have forgotten. Next!
Strange album. Repeatedly takes awkward turns to force a pop sound.
30/10/24 When I first heard the guitars, I had high hopes for this album, it just ended up being weak.
A very generic form of 90s alternative rock. Nothing captivating or moving, just the same chords over different rhythms with the same generic vocals layered on top, singing uninspiring lyrics.
Interesting rock, more hard rock than I like
Feels more like the vibe of a album more so than an album itself if that makes any sense. Like very the song that’s playing in the background of moving closing season of a 90210 cali high school drama kinda show, where you can only half hear it. It may just be me but I often couldn’t understand what they were saying even when listening intently. Not bad though but background music for sure. Would give 2.5
Meh
Generic, tepid, dated
How incredibly generic
Pretty middle of the road.
Forgettable
Very Rocky, Quote vocals
Sounds like many things I've heard, but not as good (probably new in 92...)
Good guitar. Great lyrics. All songs too similar
Reminds me of Foo Fighters
I might be in the minority in loving Bob Mould’s solo work more than band work.
She said She said This is a bad song The 90s garage alt-rock vibes are strong here, but I don't think this particularly stands out. There's a few cool guitar or drum moments, but nothing ever really comes together completely. Favorite Song(s): If I Can't Change Your Mind, Man on the Moon
I feel like this was very basic to me, but it was nice and short and spunky. I didn’t really learn anything from it however it was nice and kept me awake. Some points I wasn’t obsessed with how it sounded but it went by relatively fast.
not bad but not worthy of this list
Feels very reminiscent of what the Seattle "Grunge Scene" devolved into, just a couple of years ahead of the curve.
Das Album Copper Blue hinterlässt einen zwiespältigen Eindruck. Die Mischung aus Nirvana- und R.E.M.-Einflüssen wirkt skurril und überlang, ähnlich wie ein Single Malt Whiskey, der mit einem Primitivo vermischt wurde. Beide Komponenten sind für sich genommen köstlich, aber zusammen ergeben sie eine ungenießbare Mischung. Die Aussteuerung der Aufnahme ist unschön, und viele der Songs klingen gleich und experimentell. Ein Lichtblick ist der Song “If I Can’t Change Your Mind”, der zu gefallen weiß, aber leider nicht ausreicht, um das Album auf ein akzeptables Niveau zu heben.
This album is ok at best. Average grunge, pop and indie, you can’t tell it wants to be an Foos or Nirvana type album but it just isn’t. If I can’t change your mind and hoover dam are ok. The rest of the album is just so bland and average. I have no idea how this album can make a list like this. Favourite song, Hoover Dam Least favourite: most of the album Artwork: ok
Groupe inconnu. Le morceau d'ouverture commence bien, avec une rythmique guitare massive où se glissent quelques arpèges. Par contre le traitement du chant n'est pas terrible (trop d'effets). Et inconvénient majeur : les morceaux sont longs (majorité au dessus de 4 mn) et vraiment très peu variés, et sont donc plutôt ennuyeux. Ceci dit "A Good Idea" (--) est heureusement plus court, mais d'une monotonie affligeante avec une sa ligne de basse simpliste et répétitive. Seuls "Hoover Dam" et "Slick" introduisent un peu de variété. Je n'y reviendrait pas. =>2/5
Not really my thing
My high school best friend *loved* this album (hi Charlie!). I never really got into it then, and I don't feel inclined to now. It's fine - "If I Can't Change Your Mind" is a good track - but seems a bit generic to me: nothing is making it stand out from a lot of similar stuff. 2/5
Stinklangweiliger Rock.
Fine album, good grooves, nothing too special
I'm inspired by the album art to just phone in this review. Please imagine I damned this album with very faint praise in some pithy 90's way.
This is so bland! I'm glad there's some lesser known stuff on here but it seems like I've listened to several bland rock albums by bands I've never heard of. I've said it before, but it's just taking up a spot something else could've taken. Especially all the non-western music this list is ignoring. I would prefer to listen to something weird or a different genre than stuff like this.
meh doet me beetje denken aan counting crows hoor het gezang nauwelijks door het geluid
Rating: 4/10 Some generic alt rock shit.
You know what, I’m in a bad mood and feel like taking it out on this album. Fuck this album, fuck all of its generic mediocrity. This is worse than the worst rated albums on this site, at least those are interesting. This is just run of the mill 90s alt without any heart. 1.7
A guy on vocals & guitar with a hired rhythm section. It’s not a band. It's not really bad but neither good. Won't relisten to this Power Pop.
This is average, run of the mill, mid-90s popish rock. If I had caught this act in a bar or as an opening act it would have been great. I do not understand why this would be on the list of 1001 albums you must listen to. You do not need to listen to this.
Generic 90s alternative rock
2 or 3 nice songs, but mostly generic and pointless. At least, it isn't a second Kid Rock album.
Bob Mould, it is fine 90's alt rock, can see how it influenced some of the scene, just not an overall great album.
fine garage rock sound, didn't know my socks off.
Did not like the mix 90 percent of the time. Vocalist was too quiet but "The Slim" was fire though.
Nothing new standard 90s alt rock
After two listens, I failed to see how the album was ""The last word in love songs," enthused NME, "and the full stop after heartbreak."" The lyrics were interesting and sometimes poignant, but I felt no emotional connection to the music to feel like I would reach for this in sadness. I'll leave that to others who did it better, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains. 2/5
A couple decent tracks but nothing too special imo
It wasn't bad, but too generic. No variation at all.
Pretty mid and boring
Meh. Fine songwriting here and there but such a long album.
Hard 90’s rock
Couple of tracks in the middle very much annoying 90s pop rock sounding, which I guess makes sense since this is.. a 90s rock album.
Pretty generic, feeling like if Michael Stipe of R.E.M. decided to have a slightly harder sound for an album. In-turn, sacrificing anything unique about R.E.M. I realize the singer here, Bob Mould, was in a band that was a relative inspiration for Stipe, Hüsker Dü. But quite frankly both R.E.M. and even this album are far more interesting to me than their output, but I digress, this isn't really about them. Basically, this album is dull. You have a lot of generic power chords, repetitive vocals and lyrics, and just a general 90s vibe that leaves a lot to be desired. It isn't bad, but you won't find anything here that most other bands from the time don't do better. Considering the album gets softer as it goes on, one has to wonder if they front-loaded the album with the more forward bass riffs and rougher guitar effects because the rise of grunge spooked them. I mean, it was all happening while this album was being recorded, so it would make a bit of sense. It was financially successful, but assuredly you won't be getting anyone saying this is their favorite album out of the alternative 90s scene. As I said, it's just dull, and just kind of… exists.
From that genre of pretty good but also pretty meh American Rock
Seems not all that great. I put off reviewing this and for the most part forgot about the album now. Will I listen to again: 1%
Just more generic, non-distinct 90s rock. This album isn't bad, but there is absolutely nothing even remotely interesting about it, which one could argue is even worse than being bad, because at least most bad albums are still interesting, even if it's in a bad way. This is just like an AI generated 90s album to make the most typical album of that decade as possible.
Helpless was good. The rest was like Dollarstore Collective Soul
Full of 90’s flavor, a product of the time more than anything else
Seems kind of like angsty adult garage rock. Nothing in this one for me personally.
Bob Mould is an artist I always meant to explore more, but I am surprised that his representation on the 1001 is through Sugar. Hüsker Dü, Mould’s 80s post-hardcore band, seems like the one with a bigger impact and influence, with Sugar only putting out two albums in the 90s. Meanwhile, Hüsker Dü’s “Zen Arcade” made some best of the 80s lists, including placing #33 on Rolling Stone’s top 100 albums of the decade. But Sugar doesn’t leave much of an impression. Sugar should be addictive. Sugar should result in a jolt of energy. It starts off decent enough, enough that on a second listen I thought after the first few tracks that my initial judgment had been too harsh. But the further in you get, the more it feels like there is a direct line from Sugar to Goo Goo Dolls and other bland late 90s rock. While “Copper Blue” may not have made much of an impression on me, it has at least prodded me to try out some Hüsker Dü (which I definitely like better than Sugar) and helped me discover down the Wikipedia rabbit hole that Bob Mould wrote the Daily Show’s theme song and even had a short-lived stint as a pro wrestling writer for WCW.
I'd never heard of this band or any of their songs really, though it sounded so 90's familiar. The songs felt polished but they didn't pop for me. Good music, but none of the songs stuck with me. I never got that interested.
Very average, monotonous, boring and just too common. I'm not sure what is this album doing on the list, there is nothing good or original about Copper Blue. Just waste of time.
Why grunge died. This being compared to Nevermind is an abomination. No intensity, lighthearted, low IQ horseshit. NO TALENT! no offense.
Idc
Unmemorable
Taki słaby rock 2/5
The most awful mixing I've ever encountered so far I think. I think it might be good, but I can barely conceive anything over the overblown drums and guitars.
I didn’t dislike it but I wouldn’t go listen again! Had some cool drums but overall just didn’t peak my interest or vibe with me
Never heard of them and not my kind of music but didn’t mind it that much overall.
Not horrible, but not really enjoyable either. Loud, although not as distorted as it could have been.
Cookie cutter early 90s “alt-rock.” It sounds like it could be the Friends soundtrack.
ну это альтрок приятно ли это слушать? приятно запомню ли я этот альбом? нет запомню ли я как звучит группа? тоже нет
гречка с сосиской
I liked some of this and other parts not so much. This isn't the type of stuff I'd generally seek out and couldn't quite give it a 3 but I get the appeal.
Run to the mill 90s alternative music
Not my thing
Radio friendly,safe 90s music. Sweet guitars.
Cool for a couple songs
It was listenable but it seemed like a product of its time (early 90s alternative, post hair metal grungey stuff). Not sure if it was trendsetting in any facet but I did like some of the driving guitar. The songwriting and lyrics/vocals left a lot to be desired. Its not bad i just think other bands did it better.
Ugh, like the bastard love child of REM and Nirvana. But they are related, so there the wrong number of chromosomes and teeth.
Rock alternativo genérico
Everything here sounded the same, and the base level wasn't good enough to make it enjoyable. Better than Husker Dü, but not by much. A weak ⭐⭐
Same old ,same old.... over and over and over
i did not like the vocals being mixed so in the back. and the tone/inflection got kind of annoying after the second song because it felt like the voice was just hanging around in the corner and bzz-ing at me and never coming in the front. apart from that the instrumentation is decent, the guitars get kinda samey after a while. the end of the album got more poppy and singy and i liked that a bit more. slick and man on the moon being the highlights for me. apart from that i liked a good idea as well. overall though it's not a standout album and i couldn't get through most of it without getting frustrated. it's a decent to strong 4.
Wunder mich nicht, dass ich noch nie von der Band gehört habe. Nicht schlecht, aber recht uninspiriert und langweilig
Langweilig und nichtssagend.
Not so much bad... just I think I fail to understand *why* this is on the list. Just feels really unexceptional.
There weren't better early grunge albums to pick from? Even the knock offs of knock offs did this better.
I'm not sure I cared that much about this one. Another generic rock album for me that left little impression...
Nothing special on this one.
Husker Du was already pushing the limit of how much 90s rock schmaltz I could be nostalgic for, but this project goes over the limit and still (even twenty years later) feels dated rather than a sentimental relic. Damn shame since some tracks approach a wild mix of R.E.M. melodies with Hum-like wall of sound instrumentation. Could've been an amazing combo if the songwriting wasn't so bland and the tracks didn't ramble on for so long.
It's probably not their fault that the 3-chord guitar-bath became an aggressively generic sound for so much of the 90's. Maybe it's like when I showed my wife the Matrix and her reaction was a kind of shrug, which then led me to explain to her how mind-blowing that movie was at the time. I liked the song about murdering your girlfriend in a river. Murder songs have fallen out of fashion and that's a shame.
brought me back to 90s rock radio
Lots of guitar I guess
Not for me 2/5
forgettable alt rock
Could nickleback exist without this album
One hitter
album rempli de tous les clichés du alt rock des années 90. probably deserve a better score, mais pour le manque d'originalité 3/10
first half: some alright stuff second half: mostly corny stuff
Formulaic 90s teen rock. Nothing wrong with that but it doesn't deserve to be on this list.
Pretty run-of-the-mill 90s alt rock. Not something I enjoy or care for.
started out not very interesting, got better after first track, but still 1.9/5. listened 2x and it grew on me a little but still <2.4
Finally, some melodic rock. However, every song sounds the same.
This was difficult to rate. The mixing was really bad at times completely drowning out the vocals with distortion. At time I couldn’t tell if lyrics were actually being sang! However the tracks either go from okay/passable to really good which makes the mixing a bit of a shame. I thought I’d get bored of this but I kept listening. I would give a 3/5 but because of the mixing I have to give 2.
Surprisingly ok since I'd never heard of them before. still not great.
It was okay. It wasn't particularly interesting. By the album cover I thought it'd be jazz or something