Kilimanjaro

It was ok for British post punk -I think liked this better than Echo and bunnymen, joy division, or the smiths. Some frantic new wave energy but nothing really stuck with me 2.5 2.5 2.5

Sounds like every other 80s new wave album on this list. The horns on the opening track were fun; the hook on When I Dream was profoundly irritating; the rest of the album was completely indistinguishable

Interesting. I didn't like it at first but it grew on me

Coming in hot with horns. Not really going anywhere. This is a strange a strange synth new wave slight punk feeling going on but I don't feel it lands anywhere. Not my favourite album but glad to have listened to it once.

I like some of the music, but I can't get past the vocal styling. It starts to make me feel like I just keep hearing the same track.

Very generic, not very memorable.

To me, it's just another New Wave sounding album. Nothing special. But, it still has a few decent songs on it.

Quite good, but not mind blowing nor up my street. I was pleasantly surprised given that I found the Wikipedia write up a touch off putting.

I'm only 50 albums in, I was born in England in the early 80's and I'm already sick of all these 80's British bands. This was fine, bit it doesn't warrant making this list.

It’s just not very enjoyable to listen to. Discordant, cacophonous, overproduced. Not a fan.

"When I dream" was unbearable. Everything else was just background noise.

Lame 80s synth pop. Nothing special.

It's another case of every song sounds the same to me. Doesn't sound bad but it is just the same song 17 times.

All the songs sound the same

Not sure what's particularly psychedelic about this album; I actually think it's pretty bland. My many times taking psychedelics have been anything but. Another reviewer described this as poppier Joy Division, which I think sums it up perfectly.

It's always nice to hear early examples of a style of music that later became more widespread. I can also hear what I think are influences from bands that preceded them. And, yes, of course this is how music works and evolves. No fault of this band or album, but because I've heard so many bands that sound like this, it's hard for this album to stand out, but I do hear how strong they are as performers.

Extremely grating at times. I can't say that they weren't absolutely cooking at points. But I did not like it, and I would need to be paid to listen to it again. This was the first album where I was unsure if I could actually make it through.

2/5 naaaah

Lower 80s….ok

Ah ja, wieder Brit-Rock Ab 6.,7. Song guter Lauf 11. Zu lang, würde mit 3/4 Minuten genauso funktionieren, durchgeskippt am Ende 14. Ganz cool Letzter Song hat Frank Zappa Vibes

Meh, not a standout album in my opinion but some decent songs sprinkled in

Same ol same ol.

Started off ok for the first few songs. Was going to give it a 3. Then it slipped away from me. Going to give this one a 2

A little chaotic for my tastes

Just more tedious Brit pop. If only these drummers understood the difference between 'drummer' and 'percussionist'.

Pretty generic late 80s, early 90s synth pop. Meh.

Never heard of this album or band. I at first I was listening to Men At Work, but they fit the author(s) sweet spot of BritPop that he likes to shove down the throats of this lists readers. 2/5.

não eh ruim, mas to fora!

Frankly did nothing for me.

Taas sitä samaa perus 80 tyylistä poppia. Ei tarjonnut mitään uutta

I was hoping for better. I like a lot of new wave and post punk but this just fell flat.

Not for me

Not really my cup of tea. Some of it gave me Sting/Police vibes.

Loppua kohden laulajan ääni alkaa vituttamaan. Soitanta semiletkeetä.

Ei tääkään jäänyt mitenkään erikoisesti mieleen.

Best Song: Reward. Honestly, I'm mostly here for the brass section and the surging baseline. Worst Song: When I Dream. Way too long for what this band seems capable of, and that "scatting" at the end was awful to listen to. Overall: Lively and high energy, but also with a penchant for doing annoying little prog/psychedelic deviations that almost always end up just detracting from the song overall.

Again, bland beige 80s stylings, better than some efforts but not good. Just scrapes a 2 because it's closer to The Jam than it initially appears but a poor imitation of them.

It's pretty listenable for as monotonous as it is. This is pretty ahead of its time for 1980, but was too bland to have any real staying power.

meh, didn't really enjoy it.

2.9 - Another “not suitable for export” British record, this time it’s new wave. I’d enjoy this a lot more if I could make any sense of these pointlessly obscure lyrics. “The poppies are in the field / But don't ask me what that means.” Even the lead singer doesn’t know what the fuck he’s blathering on about.

I guess it's fine? It's another one of those folky psychy albums that just kinda passed me by

This was… ok I guess? Really nothing special honestly. One of the reviewers said this was if Joy Division made poppier songs, which is a great description honestly.

An early offering of what was to come with the New Wave era, this album was an enjoyable listen but didn’t have any songs that popped out from the rest. It had elements of ska and maybe punk, all set to a fairly uptempo beat…but this isn’t an album that I feel I would have missed out on had I not heard it.

2.5

ehhhh nothing really stood out to me. Reminded me of just better artists

Not my cup of tea

Pretty meh on this. Another mediocre and inconsequential entry to this list. It's fine, but one of the top albums to listen to before I die? I think not.

Made me sigh a lot

I really disliked Julian Copes solo album, but this was some decent generic 80s fun. The first half of the album had some great bass lines. The second half did fall flat so it’s a 2.5/5 for me

I listened to this yesterday and I don't really remember a single standout moment on it. That pretty much tells me everything I need to know. 4/10

Very mediocre. There wasn't a single song that catched my attention.

Likes: Drums sound good from a production standpoint, bass is always moving and doing something interesting Dislikes: They seem to think that repeating bad lyrics will make them less bad. Guitarist is often offbeat, and not in a good way. Mike Campbell needs to have a talk with the synth player about serving the song, and tell him he’d do the band a favor by fucking off instead of playing about 85% of the time This one was rough. Gave it a few chances, and that made me like it less. It’s like a mix of The Police, The Cure, and The Killers that is somehow barely listenable.

Mostly good apart from the silly, over indulgent live track at the end which was utter rubbish!

Listened Before? N This was a weird one. It was really close... really, really close to being very good. But it's not. Others did it better - *cough cough Echo and the Bunnymen* but they made a good effort. Also- why is "When I Dream" 7 minutes long? If you're going to make a song that long it needs lots of content. This one just repeats itself for about 5 minutes. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Reward

it's a wonder the world continued to take an interest in music after the british got their hands on it. i would have considered it a lost cause.

Dreadful stuff. Goofy tuneless singer, and corny songs one after the other. Fuck no.

Meh, pretty boring, just kind of 80s rock blah background.

I don’t remember anything about this album and I just listened yesterday.

pretty much the same song but as an album

psychedelic indie. Shades of echo and the bunny men.

Don't love his singing style. Haven't heard anything too interesting in this album yet. It sounds so familiar for a band I've never heard with such a weird name. Some interesting instrumentation and lyrics. But I don't like listening to it.

I’m between 2 and 3 but leaning 2. Idk I was kinda bored by this

didn't finish, too 80s

Better then expected new wave pop. Went Crazy was the best song. Now where is my keytar?

I swear I've heard this exact album a few times now.

Sprak me niet aan

Salright

Would’ve been just ok in the 80s to me

Generic, and bad. Especially that title track...

bit shit

Just not the right direction for music to have taken

Maybe some people like this album, but I genuinely did not enjoy a single track. Lackluster vocals and subpar instrumentation. 2/5

I mean… This had some fun songs on it, but as a whole I didn’t really care much for it. I don’t remember a single chorus or hook just hours after listening. It’s not a bad record, but I don’t actually see the point of it being on here. Maybe I would’ve been blown back in 1980? Or maybe it’s an album that needs some time to grow on you? But as of right now it didn’t do much for me.

Meh

Well what do you know, UK new wave. Nothing standout, sounds exactly like the fucking kazillion other UK new wave albums on the list, no reason for it to be here. 2/5.

While I love some '80s English synth-laden pop (Duran Duran, Psychedelic Furs, A Flock Of Seagulls), there's a flavor of this genre that does not connect at all. This falls into that latter category, along with groups like Roxy Music, Depeche Mode, and a host of other bands that I sidestepped in my most active era of musical discovery. I had never heard of this band — the name alone would have made me avoid them back in the day — but I went into this hoping to love the album. Alas, not so much. "Second Hand" had a promising bassline, and there were plenty of musical moments that I was enjoying, as immersed in an early-'80s production sound and writing aesthetic as they were. Ultimately, it's the vocalist that made this a one-star rating for me. I was going to give it two, but I was repeatedly turned off by the lyrics, melodies, and choices, and then when "Use Me" came on, that sealed this as a one-star listen for me. Another album I'm glad I listened to, but not one I particularly enjoyed.

Well played performances , but just not a lot of substance.

2.5 / 5. Good album, easy to enjoy. Need to hear more of this one.

It is what it is. I think they inadvertently invented the 80s Stock Aitken Waterman sound. So much synthetic horn I thought of Prince Andrew, in a playground, necking Viagra. The lyrics are surprisingly great when you cut through the hideous, compressed, none more 80s production. There's a version of this band that didn't try to be huge that could have recorded an amazing album.

My predispositions are pulling at me, but despite a few flourishes, Kilimanjaro isn't carrying very much with its sound. More than listenable once, but confusing: Typicality is not canonicity.

New Wave Emo. tbf, the presence of Julian Cope ought to be warning enough of this...

Neo-psicodelia. Un tostón. Un 2.

Pas pire. Ils ont une bonne énergie et quelque belle surprises.

Whew. Last time I had an experience like this was at the dentist’s office. Parts of it weren’t unpleasant, but most of it was, in particular the concluding bit, ‘When I Dream,’ which played away far too long (7:14) including a prominent shrill keyboard descant that sounded and kinda felt like a dentist’s drill. And that keyboardist worked on some of my other teeth too throughout this LP, often introducing mildly irritating discordant notes to the melody. I’m generally a fan of this in rock music, so that’s not really the issue. I think it was more keyboardist David Balfe’s tone- whiny, tedious? The ‘horn’ effect on his keyboard on ‘Went Crazy,’ for example, almost got me committed too when my neighbors witnessed me running around the cul de sac howling and gripping my tortured ears. And he returned to the scene of the crime on the very next number, ‘Brave Boys Keep Their Promises,’ which is a song title that is must exist on a recording of a band with the name The Teardrop Explodes, right? But the blame cannot be placed solely on the fingers of Balfe. It’s all for one and one for all on the last three songs. ‘The Thief of Baghdad,’ in particular, sounded like a cellphone recording of any new wave Karaoke night hosted weekly (probably Wednesdays) by your local pub. The band’s occasional forays into a disco/punk territory were… different. The arrangement on the first song, ‘Ha Ha I’m Drowning,’ seemed awkward somehow; however, I did enjoy the second one, ‘Sleeping Gas,’ but for the life of me I’m not sure why. And yes, this is yet another one of those British bands (although not Britpop) that substitutes guitar and keyboard chord progressions for singular note solos. I think bands generally do themselves a disservice when they go in this direction. That said, The Teardrops Explode did play well together. Maybe it’s just that no one in the band has the ability to pull off an instrumental solo? Hey, there’s certainly plenty of other good punk bands who share the same challenge. Vocally, Julian Cope is probably right where he should be, a bit of a mess, often falling flat, but doggedly sneering his way through, one victim at a time. On the aforementioned disco/punk number ‘Went Crazy’ I believe he’s satirizing something or someone. I just don’t know what or who. Oof, then there’s those awful keyboard ‘horns’ again, too. ‘Bouncing Babies’ was the standout, for me, and for some mysterious reason, Balfe’s mostly off putting keyboards worked this time, in part, because of their work alongside these clever vocals: ‘I was a bouncing baby. Now I’m a bouncing bomb. So won’t you come and diffuse me before I kill someone.’ A striking and clever image. As was the one on ‘Second Heart’ when Cope asks ‘How’s your second head? Is it the first one you started off with?’ Unfortunately, most of the rest of the lyrics and music never quite made it to the summit of 'Kilimanjaro.' Not that it wasn’t a brave climb. (Has anyone identified what that lad in the background second from the left is clutching?)

Didn't get much from it. I think it was very 80s and maybe I didn't give it the time it deserved.

Not a bad album, just really not my jam.

Commits the cardinal sin of being boring. 4/10

Lots of 80s shlock. Anything interesting is just about ruined by the voice of Julian Cope. Oh no, I guess I won't be welcome in England now. What a pity. Best track: Poppies in the Field

ouff, les albums sont difficiles ces temps-ci. Un de bon ( pas celui-ci malheurrusemrnr) parmis des dizaines de vraiment moyen. Commence à être un peu difficile. 2.75

I can usually find something enjoyable, interesting, or at the very least noteworthy about any album. I'm struggling with this one. It has all the elements I would generally quite like, but here I found it all very boring. I'm sure at the time of its release it was quite a new sound and therefore less tedious.

I find Julian Cope a lot more interesting than many of his records actually play out. Given his interest in krautrock (he literally wrote the book), this si much less krautrock-y than I would expect. Not very motorik,. Not very interesting, or psychedelic. This album made very little impression on me.

Really can’t figure out why this is supposed to be any good. Most songs are two chords with no direction, followed by two semi-related chords with no direction. Nearly zero variety in sound, instrumentation, or drumming approach. “Reward” is actually pretty good, if you can make it that far. Honestly enjoyed it and added it to my rotation. But it’s not enough to save the album a spot here.

so 80s boo. 2?

Somehow, I was expecting more, but got less. It's not bad, but not really good either. 2/5

Got the idea after a couple of songs.

Kind of a slog. Repetitive and not very interesting, the lyrics are droll. That's unfortunately all I really have to say or even can say about this album.

This genre isn't really my bad, but I kinda dug this album. It's nothing special in my book, but it was good background music while I worked on some pretty boring shit.

They sound like Oingo Boingo, but without Danny Elfman's awesome voice. Not a fan. Couldn't even finish.

Kinda weird 80s new wave stuff

Jar jar meesa s8 stoooopid!!!

Another 80s pop album, which is definitely not my genre.

Started interrsting, but it didn't hook me up. I finished listening out of obligation basically.

80's muso nonsense, with that one banger. The rest of it just doesn't have the funk of ABC or the melody of Tears for Fears. Won't be listening again

Eigenlijk nog best een aardige mix van de 70s en 80s, maar gaande weg werd het steeds meer 80: het was blijkbaar moeilijk om jezelf muzikaal te onderscheiden toen want we hebben al zoveel bands gehoord die op elkaar beginnen te lijken. Wellicht zeggen anderen dat ook van de jaren 90, maar die kunnen dan een draai om de oren krijgen. Hopelijk kunnen ze daarna mijn geliefde jaren wat meer op waarde schatten. 2,5 ster!

Hmja.....

Niet zoveel mis mee hoor, ze hebben de pecht dat ze al de zoveelste zijn van dit soort in deze lijst.

Medianón.

Not the most exciting album, but decent. A lot of the songs sound the same so it was difficult to have anything stand out to me. I was surprised to see that this came out in 1980 as it feels more like it would come from the mid-to-late 80's based on its progressive sounds (maybe they were ahead of their time?). The vocalist gives me Clash-vibes, but that might just be because this fits in perfectly with the "post-punk" era of music that was coming up at the time. It's definitely listenable, but I don't have any really desire to come back to this one or explore the rest of their catalog. 2.5/5.

Europop sound

Some okay songs, very 80's, but the title track and afterwards were really bad.

I feel bad for pissing on something from the 80s, but I just don’t get how this is iconic.

This started tolerable and ended up becoming torture as the album drug on. Some individual tracks are okay like "When I Dream" for example but as an album I find it irritating.

This album seems to be made of your standard 80s too-much-synth tracks but it was surprisingly more pleasant than I expected. Still not to my taste though...

Sounds like Oingo Boingo. Struggled to get through the first few songs and wasn't excited about listening to Clash-y brit ska from the 80s. Overall, this was a big 'meh' who cares. Not sure this belongs on the list anymore...

There’s that early 80s British post-punk vocal style I can’t stand popping up again. The only tracks I really found tolerable or repeatable on The Teardrop Explodes’ “Kilimanjaro” were “Second Head” and “Poppies in the Field,” which have some good drums and bass lines that could be great in the hands of a different singer. “Use Me,” a stripped down acoustic guitar piece by Julian Cope solo, was decent too despite some intrusive yalping and excessive length. But “Use Me” it turns out wasn’t even on the original album - it’s from a 2000 reissue that I unwittingly listened to. That subjected me to the songs “Kilimanjaro” (weirdly not on the original album “Kilimanjaro”) and “Strange House in the Snow,” both of which made me want to explode. But I guess I can’t count that against the album? Regardless, The Teardrop Explodes exploded, repeatedly, over the next couple years. It all ended with one of the band members chasing another through the hillside with a shotgun, and Cope walking out of the recording sessions before the 3rd album was done and having to still go on tour with the band sulking and moping the whole way. He would go off to launch a solo career, which took 7 meandering albums to get him on the list again with “Peggy Suicide,” barely more listenable than “Kilimanjaro.”

Largely unremarkable. I enjoyed the title track.

This is a generic 80s album for me. I just don’t get it being something I have to listen to. Forget the music. What is going on with this album cover? The guy on the right is washed out with the bright light. The guy in front of him is leaning forward. Why? And is he grinning? I can’t tell because he is in dark shadows. The guy on the left is staring at us like he’s thinking, “yes you should be scared.” Why? Because he knows what the dude in the back is caressing. Is that a bag of some sort that he is caressing? What is in the bag? I don’t know, but it should scare all of us. The above analysis was much more interesting than the music.

Not my cup of tea exactly.

Rough synth parts and drowned out vocals harm most tracks on Kilimanjaro, which results in an annoying listening experience. Blending psychedelic elements with playful and energetic melodies is something that was tried here, but not to great succes. It sounds sloppy, unengaging and uninspired, but nothing here is downright awful or insulting. 2/5.

2.0

49. Dragões gritam para as baterias de carros presas em bolhas de sabão. Para onde correr no piquenique do Windows? Os pinheiros são altos e as minhas mãos derretem ao sol. Tudo vihihihihihihibra e eu deixo-me escorregar pelas janelas térreas. São 1500 casas habitadas por um semi-careca. Viva a Azambuja caralho!!!! Os putos dormem nos estores a banheira está cheia deslizo e bolhas bolhas bolhas bolhas MotA: Treason "Oh, use your common sense"

that was well 80s wasn't it.

Just like talking heads but much much worse

I can't really explain why I don't like this. I find it just a bit irritating. Maybe too many trumpets.

basic 80s sound

Yikes, another reminder that I’m getting old and certain things just don’t age well. New Gold Dream is of similar vintage but it sounds way fresher and more innovative than this. I really liked Poppies in the field back in the day, but the driving beat that I recalled now sounds muffled and uninspired. The synth keyboard also sounds lame. It was a struggle to get thru the 17 songs on this album

Nothing special to see here.

Iniciadores

1.5 | Siempre me emociona cuando sale un disco de alguien que jamás había escuchado. Por verlos y al empezar a escucharlo pensé que quizá era un grupo muy bueno de New Wave que no conocía. Sí es una banda de New Wave, con mucho sonido de Post-Punk y Psicodelia pegados, pero la verdad es que no fueron muy buenos. La influencia de psicodelia al inicio creí iba a ser buena y darle un giro interesante, pero terminó escuchándose como New Wave indistinto al que le pusieron un organito Hammond encima. Terminé sintiendo que se escuchaba demasiado a Interpol. Habrá a quien eso se le haga bueno pero para mí fue se quedo en el arranque. Creí que me iba a enganchar y solo se quedó flotando de fondo (y no de la forma correcta como Eno). Lo más triste es quizá no tengo mucho que decir realmente... Las primeras tres canciones muy bien... Y ya... No le veo necesidad de estar en la lista.

I'm not hearing anything mind blowing on this first listen. Not doing it for me.

1.5| Comenzó todo muy bien hasta que la rola 3 ya era igual a las otras 2, una psicodelia limpia pero no da para mas

Otro de esos aburridos grupos de los ochenta en los que todo suena a que eran muy buenos músicos y podían haber dominado al mundo pero su música se vuelve casi monótona y cuesta trabajo ver cuál es el mérito para estar en la lista. Gana la segunda estrella nada más porque el bajista sí suena impresionante, pero casi la pierde porque la voz siento que imita a Sting. ¿Qué rayos está abrazando el tipo de la portada?

Die ersten Takte ließen bereits wieder Schlimmes befürchten, aber dann wurde es stellenweise mitunter so kreativ-verspielt, dass es fast anfing, mir zu gefallen. Für 3 Sterne waren die Songs aber doch nicht interessant genug komponiert, gute 2 Sterne.

I say jajajjajaja bubububub

Boring. Didn't make it to the end. 'Reward' is the one notable track. 2.3/5.

Could've done a bit more with the chord progressions, would had been better if it was a bit fast paced

We have Duran Duran at home...

Wiki say they are a "post-punk/neo-psychedelic band". Today, I learned how the English say "garbage".

MI6 you win again. Another shit English band added to the Psy-op to see how long we will keep listening.

Did not like

This is terrible. Sounds like really bad 80’s rock

One song, not that good Repeated and repeated Different names (sometimes)

Too much of this on the list. Very okay music, from an alright band I've never heard of. Wish there was more that appealed to me other than the bass.

I had gotten to the 4th song before I realized it was the 4th song. I thought i was listening to a single long song. Their music all sounds the same.

Sounds like all the radio stations who claim to have the greatest variety of hits yet refuse to play anything other than 80s crap. These radio stations get a lot of airplay in my dad’s car so I consider myself an expert and a certified hater of the crappy 80s genre. Not my favourite album if you couldn’t tell.

allt låter likadant och generiskt

It's not that hard to make a passable new wave record, so it's surprising someone could make one that's this annoying. Same tempo, same volume, same everything throughout the whole thing

Pas du tout aimé

It’s a tired trope to criticize albums on this list just for being obscure British albums. So I’m gonna do something different. I’m gonna criticize it because it sucks and I don’t like it.

Every time I get an album and artist I have never heard of, I get excited. And invariably it is something like this, some forgotten and forgettable new wave junk from the 80s. It sounds like a bunch of other stuff and like it's been picked out of the bargain bin to make up the numbers on the list. It's far from the first time I or anyone has had this thought, but in a list with so many obvious omissions, it is literally incredible that this album has been included. You know, I was going to give this two stars, but I am just so sick of this shit, one star.

New Wave makes me want to fucking die! No more no more no more!!!

Ich war bei 2, weil irgendwie okay, aber der fucking französische Song hat dem Kamél den Rückén gebrochén, 1,4 wird abgerundet zu

Ich kann keine 80er Post-Punk-Dudlei mehr hören. Und es ist erst mein 90. Album. Wie viel kommt da noch? Ich kann nicht mehr.

Nu mi-o placut

I didn’t like this album. It seemed like bad early new wave by a band who couldn’t agree on their sound. Echo and the Bunnymen did it better.

Didn’t care for it too much

more new wave shit

la misma cancion solo que cambia las letras

i ended up skipping through this one - unironically sounds like elevator music

I feel like this album doesn't know what it is. Or maybe it exists only to be an unexpected concoction of sounds, but if that is the case I don't really respect it. Many of the parts just feel like they weren't well thought out, not arranged intelligently, and not written with a lot of intent. The tones aren't impressive, the singer is fine at best, and the instrumental often seems kind of random. The organ/keyboard doesn't do any favors to any of the songs it's used on. On top of that, the production is extremely lack luster. There is but one song on this record I can stomach hearing again, Use Me. The least like the rest of the album, the most stripped back. This album is experimental, and the experiment failed. Use Me doesn't experiment - and it works. It isn't amazing, but I hear that song and I hear the potential of what this album might have been able to be. Very unfortunate. They hit in a few moments and I have it give it points for that, but there is way, way too much miss on this record. I struggle to imagine why this is an album I must hear before I die. Maybe just for some perspective so I can really appreciate the good albums. 1.2/5

This album is mixed strangely. It accentuates the singer's annoying warbling and incoherent ramblings that have no meaning or connection. Another sound in the foreground are the cheap sounding synths which play melodies that I can only describe as profoundly lame. The album drags with an intolerable listening time. There's even an atrocious assault on on the French language to round out the awefulness. The spotify version has a live rendition of one of these songs and the singer sounds every bit as arrogantly, own-fart-sniffingly annoying as I had feared a live rendition of this material to sound like. The worst the 80's had to offer.

Not my cup of tea The music sucks too

That's why I feel 80's new wave (and in general) as a very boring genre. The songs are... meh! And the album is... too long for being too short! This is bland, insipid, uninteresting, generic... What else? Oh, yes, bad too. All the songs sound the same and it starts to get even annoying.

So this album started as mediocre 80s music, and it really went down from there. Definitely not my favorite decade, and the 2nd half of this album was truly ass.

Chirpy. Tiresome.

Didn't care for this at all.

Not for me. 1/5

Imagine every 80’s post-punk trope wrapped into a single band and throw it in a bag, toss it around, and then dump it in a lukewarm bag of tea. That’s what this posh wankery sounds like, a total mish mash of angular rock, new wave and funk that makes a pretty flavorless gruel. It’s not the worst thing I’ve ever heard but it is pretty insufferable.

Almost made it all the way through, but gave up on the last track. It’s another nothing burger if an album, places on this list for no reason that can easily be discerned. Most of the crap that came out of the UK post 1980 was garbage and this is no different.

Well I am not sure what about this project and app has become worse. The disposable white male musicians that either the creator or algorithm keeps throwing at us (this is literally a band of Julian Cope who we were just subjected to earlier in the week.) Or the equally insufferable and disposable white male opinions lauding this horseshit, while bemoaning actual jazz and period staples because they listen with their snowflake 2025 ears. Gangsta rap from the '90s offensive? Oh no. American songbook selections from the '40s don't hold up? You don't say. If I wanted asinine takes I could just head over to Pitchfork where at least those asshats get paid to be pretentious douchebags. This project needs to become a lot more random in its musical selections. Because at this rate 750 of the 1001 albums are going to be akin to this drivel.

Q magazine placed Kilimanjaro at number 95 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. Really? Did Q listen to it? It's a big NO for me.

Well that was forgettable

Nope

Don’t understand why this is I’m the 1000 albums collection.

"Kinda bollocks mate innit" Previous listener summed it perfectly.

Very dreary

p468. 1980. 2 star. This has not aged well. Average songs and dreadful lyrics. One great song ("Reward") but that's it.

1. ha - 1.5 2. gaz - 1 3. treazon - 1.5 4. head - 1.5 5. poppiez - 2 6. crazy - 1 7. brave - 1 8. babiez - 0 9. bookz - 1 10. thief - 1.5 11. dream - 1 12. reuuard - 1.5 13. jaro - 1 14. znouu - 0 15. uze - 1 16. traizon - 2 17. zleeping - 1.5

Not for me.

- irgendwie eher nichts sagend bzw hat mich einfach nicht gecatcht

Why have I never heard of this before?! I'll tell you why. I really like post punk/new wave, and could just fancy a bi' o' Bri'ish music, but this was quite dull most of the time. Started to get a little more interesting at the end of the album, can't tell if that was the case or I was just looking forward to it ending. Sounds like it looks. Two stars knocked down to one for their influence on Morrissey. Fuck him. One star.

you wait around, look around and wander around. yes we get it - Unfortunately this album is a little tooooo consistent for me, as in I'd struggle to pick them apart in a line up. I did like the music but the lyrics just did nothing for me.

Every track sounds identical. Why would you do this.

Rough listen. It was kind of generic and didn’t feel like they knew what kind of music they wanted to make, nor did it feel like they really cared.

Early 80s music, did not enjoy.

Man, no way this belongs on the list. Post punk with occasional spacey keyboards. Extremely boring. One star. Another case of a band that’s only on the list because it’s from the UK.

I don’t know how else to describe it, but the overt “British innit” thick British accent singing is terrible to my ears.

Well this fucking sucked

Terrible, innit. Boring and repetitive riffs, nonsensical lyrics, just couldn't listen to it. I found myself skipping a majority of the songs.

0/10. Shit.

dull 80's music

No thank you

Meh. Over all these British rock bands not named The Beatles

It was alright I guess, just clearly not my style of music.

Pass - failed new wave?

Like an echo and the bunny men like sounding band? Not as good? I guess Treason is fine?

80s new wave garbage. All the songs sound the same and the singers voice bothers me. 👎🏻

Mediocre post-punk. Feels like one continuous average track. Least creative basslines I've heard in a while.

A perfect example of the music I hated in the 80's. 1 star or F.

80's Brit pop. Turned off during the 2nd song (Sleeping Gas) when it sounded like the record was skipping. It was not, it was intentional and unnecessary. Not a fan

In a nutshell: surreal The lyrics are woefully written. The combination of post-punk and psychedelic synthpop doesn't work. It is something I'd expect to hear in the background of a shitty 80s soap who couldn't get the rights to an ABC or Simple Minds track. Overall: 1/10

Genre-ly speaking, this is the kind of stuff I love. Unfortunately, this album misses the mark, and the one thing I can absolutely point to is how most of these tracks ultimately devolve beyond mere refrain into an endless loop that feels downright burdensome. I hated when "Message In A Bottle" did it, and I hate it here, too. Shame - because there are some elements on this album that could have been used for greatness. It hurts me, but I have to fail this.

I want to kilimanjaro this album. It's just generic 1980s British Pop, and it gets boring quickly. What a disappointing way to close out 2024. Favorite Song: "When I Dream".

This album is awful. Not a single song I enjoyed. Extremely repetitive and just honestly terrible. I also find it funny that the most played song from this album wasn't even on the original release of the album and was released in 2000 as a bonus track...

O pouco que ouvi devido às restrições do Spotify conseguiu ser totalmente descartável.

Terrible stuff

This sounds like junior varsity police and I hated every dreadful second of it

So irritating

Nothing psychodelic about it

Relentless 80s pop that was very repetitive. Didn't finish the album. Or did I??

This is so forgettable! I don't see how I needed to hear this before I died.

It sucked

Blech. Seriously, just…blech. Tough to get through.

There’s a lot here that I wanted to like. New wave, punk, reggae influence and a cool sound and aesthetic, but the bones of these songs are not good.

TF was this

Terrible

Nicht meine Richtung

Very goofy and dated. Also frustratingly borderline discordant at times. Not a very appealing listen, and a lot of the songs overstay their welcome far too long. Nothing really positive to say, and largely forgettable.

So much 80s indistinguishable british pop albums on this list that I'm starting to think that the project was started just to give some wanker the material to justify making his mates listen to crap music that only he likes. 1/5

Just awful. Some attempts at post-punk/pre New Romantics sounds but shitty vocals and unreproducible melodies. Listening to this a waste of whatever time you have left on Earth.

Generic Smiths. Enough with the English wanker music.

Wow, I did not like this. I found it to be extremely repetitive and unenjoyable.

We've gotta do better as a group. This ain't it

Pure shit. Who actually likes this nonsense?

"I want the Smiths" "We have the Smiths at home" (puts on these clowns)

"I just wander around/I just wander around/I just wander around/I j--" No kidding. As soon as I heard the corny, plastic horns at the beginning I knew I was in trouble. Just another subpar 80s British pop record. "Neo-psychedelic"? Get out of my face. Nadir: Brave Boys Keep Their Promises

Føler at jeg lytter til den CD med baggrundsmusik, som pan-fløjte gøgleren på Strøget bruger... Jeg er ved at være lidt træt af "essentielt" britisk musik fra 80'erne...

Very hard listen to me. It started as bearable, but as long as the tracks passed by, it slowly got in my nerves.

Another day, another brit pop album, nearly at 150 albums and I don't think I've gotten a good one yet

Oh man. I got on this elevator and the music put me into such a stupor I was barely able to press the button and stumble off and out on the fourth floor. If I'd kept going It would have left me comatose.

pass

This is what it would sound like if the Talking Heads sucked.

Jeg hader alt ved det her lort.

Did not like

Was intrigued by neo-psychedelic, pretty disappointed by the fairly generic 80s Brit pop rock sound. Should have Zevon on the list instead of this.

Very repetitive.

VERY DATED NOT FOR ME. KINDA BLAH

(regarding 1001 journey: Lately I've been on a down streak and I've come to realize it is not the 1001 best albums, just ones you should hear for better or worse) This album almost had me going, ready to really take it over the coals, until I eventually picked up that it is a joke album, or satire. I should have expected it when the for track literally has "Ha Ha" in the title, but it wasn't until track 5, "Poppies" before I figured it out. Unfortunately every track seems to be making the same joke over and over which eventually got dull, then it kept going on and on to where I had to wonder if maybe it really was just a terrible album and not actually a joke. Now I don't know what is worse. Favorite track: "Poppies in the Field"---because it made me realize it was a joke. 1/5

I don’t know man. This one was hard to get through

Didn’t finish the album. Did not enjoy.

So much did not like this

Feel like I would need to use Quaaludes to fully appreciate this album

Ok, not the worst album I've hear on this list, but it's close LOL. Seriously these lyrics are laughable! Maybe this was impressive in 1980, but now it sounds like something you could generate with Ai. Not good.

Passive Listening Notes: IM SO TIRED OF THIS HIPPY SHIT FUCKKKKK Most of the songs blend together, Ha Ha I'm Drowning \ Sleeping Gas > Tuned out this drivel. 2.5/5 Treason / Second Head - Decent, liked the chorus. 2.7/5 Poppies - This guy never gets tired of waiting. Didn't like chorus, sound, or vibes. Not through any fault of its own, just tired of the sameness. 2/5 Went Crazy - Some shit about boys vs girls and he is pain? 2/5 Brave Boys Keep Their Promises - I actually don't care 2/5 Bouncing Babies - God's bounciest baby, was a bit better than previous shit, 2.5/5 Books - Stopped listening by this point Thief of Baghdad - Stopped listening by this point When I Dream - Stopped listening by this point Reward - Stopped listening by this point Extra Tracks: Not reviewing any other shit except for "Use Me" because it sounds like it goes hard Use Me - A couple of the YEAAAHHWOWOAOOAs were cool, rest of the song was 6 different lines repeated over and over with shit ass strings in the background. 0/5 for not living up to the name Overall: 1/5

Awful

Æj. Þetta fannst mér leiðinlegt. Beið bara eftir að platan kláraðist.

Nicht mein Geschmack

Meh

I ALREADY RATED THIS YOU IDIOTS

Meh.

Could not get through this one

Painful

When I first encountered the name "Kilimanjaro" (it is the tallest mountain in Africa for those who don't know), I thought it was a kickass name. One of the names that I would consider when I form a band or something. It's a shame that the name is given to a terrible trumpet-infused '80s psych-rock parody.

classico album dos anos 80. todas musicas soam iguais, so o tempo que muda. da pra dançar pelo menos. talvez eu gostasse se eu tivesse ouvindo numa pista de dança a 40 anos atras.

Overstylized & boring

Couldn’t get through this one.

Niks an

Not a fan

Not my style nor impressed with this album. The only thing I will compliment is the album’s cover. Love the beauty in all animals and this safari setting

Yuck