Reviews (page 8 of 8)
Slower than I remember, which is Probably why it always rains on him, takes too long to get indoors. And also Scotland. I feel harsh low ranking it cos it's not shite, I just didn't enjoy that trip down memory lane.
Saved Prior: None Off Rip: Writing To Reach You Cutting Edge: Driftwood Overall Notes: This is what Coldplay would sound like if they wrote exclusively wrote songs for mid-2000s 58% Rotten Tomatoes scoring rom-coms. It's mid Keane. "Something Only We Know" and "Everything's Changing" are better versions of anything and everything on this album.
Apart from one catchy song, rather too mundane
ok background listening but that's about it for me
Kind of a boring album tbh, nothing popped out
Als puberteit gepaard gaat met baard in de keel, is Travis de Benjamin Button van de muziekindustrie
I doubt this album would appear on any 1001 list from outside the UK. Post-The Bends. Pre-Coldplay. Peak "Britrock". It's almost as if each song was inspired by a different 5 second clip of High & Dry, and then built up from there. I mean that as a compliment. This album sounds great - the arrangements and production make the simple songs sound fantastic. I loved this stuff 20 years ago. Not for me now. But AER in 1999 doesn't have a drivers license and needs big chorus, big strings, big Yorke-voice to feel like he's feeling whatever he imagines people are feeling when they are having deep feelings. AER in 1999 gives this a A-. AER in 2021 gives this a C+ and recommends Gentle Stream by The Amazing instead.
Travis is possibly my least favorite band name, sounds so whiny. This album is soft and generic. It’s what I imagine Dawes sounds like. A less indy Sun Kill Moon/Coldplay combo, it’s like that band Karen Heath liked that ripped off Elliott Smith, it feels like a ripoff of Bends era Radiohead, it’s U2 and Keen and every other 90s band. They took the vocal crescendos of Radiohead, the backing band of Coldplay and played folk with it. I do have to admit, some good melodies, nice voice, spans a few genres but nothing stands out, it’s flat and generic.
I liked this when it came out but there's not much to it. Nice enough for a watered down Radiohead
3.5
Usually, I like this type of music, but this is just ....nhem
Thoroughly forgettable. Just wanted it to be over.
No. Nomás no.
Aburridoo
1.5 - post britpop elevator music
Some good songs but a bit dull - some weird mixing/production as well
Great representation of the last dying gasp of the 90s
Hentoa poppia joka ei säväyttänyt eikä vituttanut.
Boring. So boring. “Why Does It Always Rain On Me” and “Slide Show” were pretty great though.
A massive commercial success, I don't think I have ever met someone who is a fan of Travis. I know a few of their hits and their reputation of a punching bag one can take a shot when they are bored of trashing Coldplay. I will defend Coldplay to a certain extent, but this sounds like music you would hear being played at a quiet level in a dentist's waiting room. It is offensively inoffensive. You can hear the band take influence from Radiohead on "As You Are" and "The Last Laugh Of The Laughter", with the latter having a bridge section that felt like the band were shamelessly trying to rip off "Paranoid Android". They name drop better artists like Oasis, Manic Street Preachers and Beck in the final track before the hidden track plays, which feels like a nod to their previous rock sound. I would have preferred to hear more of this sound instead of their bland ballads, but I'm in no rush to check them out after hearing this.
Teški očaj, opet. 1/5, 1/10
Not even worth commenting on its that boring.
Ble 1
#423/1001. I did lksten to it, but it went one ear in, a another ear out.
nah
Can't take it.
Very boring. Nothing really stood out as to why I needed to hear this. started hailing when this album was on, fuck you Travis
So bland and boringly derivative that I don't even know what to say about it. Feels like trying to review water - it's wet and you can drink it ?... Even the cover art is insipid. Also dangerously close to straight-up plagiarism. 2/10
I respect Radiohead a lot, but even the best bands can miss the mark. Everything I hate most about them is on full display here: the syrupy, tear-stained side, the emotional obviousness, those whiny crescendos built for easy tears. Travis takes that whole formula and turns it into an entire career. I hated every minute of that album.
Ça manque trop de personnalité pour être marquant
Post-Britpop might be slightly less painful to listen to than post-grunge, but it's not really any more worth your time.
Sometimes the page refreshes and you just have to LOL at the sheer absurdity of considering the album that has just appeared essential in any way. There was never any reason to listen to this bland, paint-by-numbers MOR, and there never will be.
If beige and vanilla gave birth to an inoffensive, mundane baby that grew up and decided to create an inoffensive, mundane album full of plodding tracks that made me look up why Spotify don’t have a feature to play songs at 1.5x or 2x the speed (I think at least have the songs would have benefited from having an actual tempo, and the other half would have benefited from me halving the amount of time I wasted on them). This was on course for a dreary 2 star review, until I discovered that they had the temerity to hide an actual song, one with an actual tempo, an actual beat, and using instruments not stolen from an outdated school music room, as a hidden track at the end. A barely deserved one star.
Astonishingly bland music. (The last track contains a spark; but it fails to light, and comes waaaaaaay too late to save the album.) Sounds like the guy that stops getting invited to parties, not because he always brings his guitar, but because what he plays immediately kills the vibe. I actually feel like I’ve become a less interesting person simply for having listened.
Uggghhh so lame! Even the one hit wonder song sucks on this album.
You winsome? You lose, son. You can't come at Oasis only to reveal yourself as even less culturally literate. Wonderwall is a late 60s British art film with a score by George Harrison. Both Gallaghers know that. Healy completely embarrasses himself here and all across the record. 1 I haven’t listened to this album in several years but I remember it well enough that I expected to find very little pleasure in visiting again. I did not expect, however, to have quite as miserable an experience as I had today. What a wretched little album this is. What a wretched little band. What a watershed year in musical wretchedness was 1999. What a wretched world we live in; this vale of tears and mediocrity. Nigel Godrich produces. A poor fit for Travis, in my humble opinion, notwithstanding the millions of copies that this album went on to sell. Godrich‘s neat, beautifully spaced soundstage leaves Travis - competent, unstylish players - cruelly exposed. A few years later The Strokes, to their credit, would dump Godrich after a few sessions; the problem was surely that he let them hear what they really were. Not so Travis. “Nigel Godrich! Aw man, OK Computer was claassSsss!!“ they almost certainly said. Dickheads. Before Travis even met Nigel Godrich Radiohead had already written and recorded ‘I Promise‘ - easily the best Travis song - and left it off OK Computer, not even bothering at the time to toss it out on a b-side. I dare say it is absurdly unfair to compare any band with Radiohead in their pomp and in truth there is more of (lobotomised) Paul McCartney about Healy‘s approach to structure and harmony than of Radiohead - all cute diminished sevenths and chord substitutions. But compare them to Radiohead we must, because Travis’ asking for it did not end with choosing to work with Nigel Godrich. The scooping static noise at the end of The Fear obviously recalls the end of Karma Police. The bouncing delay of the solo guitar that kicks off Driftwood recalls exactly the same idea on Subterranean Homesick Alien. Fran‘s vocals constantly recall Thom Yorke‘s penchant for eliding lyrics in tongue-idle falsetto moans (the opening lines of ‚The Last Laugh..‘ frankly feel like parody). But while Radiohead have the vision (and boldness) to paint melancholy on a grand, operatic scale, Travis’ version feels smaller even than the bedsit. This is barrel organ melancholy, empty of all conviction and drama. The lyrics are a jumble of merry nonsense and harmless cliche - there is never any sense of confession; never any sense that Fran feels alienated or has really lost the girl. Ostensibly it’s a work of introspection; Fran Healy begins two different songs by waking up sad and another by going to bed sad. There’s a song about the death of laughter. It’s always raining on him. But Fran is always busy winking at you to let you know he’s not really sad. The album begins with Fran waking up under the oppression of the perpetual seeming-Sunday - a believable and potent enough conceit when Morrissey does it - but within a couple of lines it has turned into a wee gag about Oasis being on the radio too much. Bollocks. What has Fran to say about the sky - that shows nothing and is nowhere for Larkin, empty of God for Plath, birdless and swollen black for the Manics? Oh where did the blue sky go?/ Oh why is it raining so? Even if there was poetry worthy of a six-year old in that, no Scot ever asked these questions in earnest. It’s all obvious bollocks. Fran Healy is a cheerful, personable wee character. Travis are probably all mates. Grotesque. 1.5/5
No thank you. Why does it always rain on you? Even when the sun is shining? Maybe because you're a chronic complainer who could whine through the happiest days of your life. Seek help for depression folks.
This band is Radiohead lite. They lack both melody and an interesting lyric. The music drones on sounding very much like a Tibetan monk on a Himalayan mountainside.
less made in a lab than Coldplay, good representation of alt rock transitioning to car commercial music. it's like listening to a slightly less smooth Everly Brothers contemporary. you don't go 'oh, that's not quite as bad', the function is to make you more annoyed with the whole era. 1 star, Travis!!!! music: hated. (⌐■_■)
Too slow & depressing
radiohead leftovers. I think this is the first album we've done where I both don't understand its inclusion and it felt like a waste of time
More whiney hipster indy rock schlock. I guess this is on this list because it came out in 99, and every indie rock band for the next 10 years sounds like this. Not sure we should celebrate that though. 1/5
This sounds like Radiohead lite. I really disliked it for the same reasons I dislike Radiohead.
Its like.. worse Oasis.
Just…no.
Didn't enjoy it first time and no better now. Not even saved by the Ealing connections
A lesser version of Coldplay
radiohead-lite. for when the bleeps and blips are just too much for the MOR inclined. it's fine. it’s for high schoolers.
Weak-ass shit made me angry.
Travis is not resonating with me 1/10 songs added
Feels like this 😿
This album could survive a nuclear bomb, that's how safe it is. Musical equivalent of sorting your colours and your whites. -100 points for giving "people whose favourite game is FIFA" plenty of ammo to sing at karaoke.
After yesterday I thought I would have to start reconsidering my 90s music dislike. No I'm still correct. GOD I'm so bored. (Why Does It Always Rain On Me slaps, and I quite liked Slide Show)
A one star rating, for me, means that I actively could not wait for the album to be over, and I'm honestly surprised an album this boring and seemingly harmless can even rise to that level. This one exists in the same uncanny valley as would a bad AI attempt to create a song out of the worst, most quintessentially 90's qualities of Radiohead, U2, Coldplay, Oasis, and the like; the elements are there, but without even a modicum of human creativity. Instead of fading into the background, the beigeness of it all somehow managed to make me increasingly anxious and irritated as it dragged on. We get it already—the author listened to a lot of albums in Britain in the 90s/2000s, and apparently enjoyed the experience.
I can’t believe this album is one I have to listen to before I die. Dull and soporific, I almost drove the car into a ditch.
Painfully inoffensive. This can only be on this list as an example of the worst aspects of the brit pop hype.
I really don't understand the appeal of putting minutes of dead air in the middle of your song. Who gets to that point and goes "ah thank you, I needed an intermission from this song". Was gonna rate this a 2 just based on the sad, boring, and whiny music itself, but I guess the "addition" of random pure silence gives me a good reason to go all the way to a 1.
Yawn.. like a less interesting Coldplay or yellow card
Is it really that hard to not make rock boring as hell? Jesus fuck this album is pissing me off Oh wow now they're trying to be lolrandom just run me a bath man (in a nemzian sense) Oh? A Wonderwall reference? Shit begets shit I guess
This is like when you get in an Uber and try to orient yourself with the bad music that’s playing and you realize it’s weird Jesus Christian music. But actually this is worse because it sounds like that and it isn’t weird Jesus Christian music.
About as exciting as doing laundry, and sadly now spotify thinks I want more milquetoast with my breakfast
wow this one was absolutely ass. whoever even added this album to this list needs to be checked out. this feels like some kind of radiohead fan album but with way more embarrassing songwriting and worse production. if i absolutely was forced to give them credit for a single thing, i'd say that the actual production of the album can be pretty okay in some small bits, but that enjoyment is almost instantly sapped away the moment i hear any lyrics. standout tracks: 💀
i genuinely wonder how some of these albums are chosen. like are we fr ts is such a nothingburger slop snore bore fest. just listen to radiohead or coldplay or literally any other post-britpop band and theyll be more interesting. these dudes cant write a melody thats catchy or interesting for the life of them. the singer is doing his best thom yorke impression and failing. and there isnt even a single riff on this entire album?!!! whats the point of this, at least coldplay and radiohead know how to write smthn that sticks. this is slop!!!!!!!1 1.5/5
Brit pop was really big when I was a kid. Every band took a different aspect of British life close to heart. With Oasis it was British Invasion rock and roll and Madchester drugs. For Blur it was sophisticated rock with pop sensibilities like Queen or Pink Floyd. Pulp sang danceable working class hymns and Suede went for androgynous repressed sexuality. Travis, I guess, decided to play out the grey boredom of English life. This is so dull. Even when they try and reach some emotional crescendo it’s done in the dullest of ways. Throw it in the bin.
This sounds like about 200 of the other albums that are on this list.
Boring ripoff Coldplay, who are already ripoff Radiohead. Sounds like elevator music but with bad whiny pop punk vocals, but it it had heard ok computer once 3 years ago and is trying to describe it within that context
Poo
STOP IT
Is the man who...Travis? And if so, Travis who? That mystery is more interesting than this album. Favorite Track: "Luv".
I never heard of this band before but honestly made me a little angry listening to this, and hard not to skip most tracks - It seems like very safe music, designed to be inoffensive in all aspects which pisses me off because it feels safe, I am not even sure if it deserves "ok" 2 stars, possibly my 2nd 1 star here.
I didn't know there was something I could dislike more than Coldplay
In this period there was an insatiable demand for Radiohead, and there just wasn’t enough Radiohead. The market responds by producing ersatz Radiohead to fill the gap. This is fine, it’s how fads work, time passes and the ersatz is forgotten. Except by our curator! Who apparently thinks the ersatz Radiohead era was significant actually. 200 records in I’m starting to suspect we’re not in good hands.
If the guy who always drags his acoustic guitar to a party made an album where he combined the worst elements of Oasis with Mazzy Star it would be more interesting than this
Fucking woof.
A staggering lack of sauce
I don’t like Travis.sorry
eh, i really don't like their band name so i'm not gonna listen
Im convinced that this album is on this list because he thought you needed to know what the middle of the road sounds like. Like Radiohead if they had no guts. This probably had heavy rotation on Adult Contemporary Radio. (Station just above the Lite Radio station they play in dentists waiting rooms) The fact that this is so inoffensive makes it so damn offensive.
Album was ok but not really my type of music. I wouldn’t buy this album
I don't have much to say about this except that it's competent but boring. I'm pretty sure I don't need to hear grocery store music like this before I die. I absolutely hated listening to this, in fact.
I might've liked this album when I was 14. But you know who I hadn't listened to yet at 14? Radiohead! This band sounds exactly like they're trying to be Radiohead. But not just any iteration of Radiohead - like a milquetoast, bland, sometimes irritating version of Radiohead. I have no songs to highlight from this project, I wish it wasn't on this list that Radiohead is already on multiple times. Something between a total snoozer and a tragic attempt to sound vogue at its time. I have to give this album a 1/5 on principle. Please remove this from the list if we are so lucky to get another series of amendments.
Temu version of Radiohead and Coldplay's offspring.
I was bored. I found myself wanting to skip multiple songs, it was like I had heard it all before but done better by other bands.
Travis? Really?? If you’re looking for an example of a desperately uninteresting, ‘vanilla’, background record, look no further. Utterly nondescript songs by a band whose only vague contribution to popular culture is a haircut. Up there with Dido in terms of lowest common denominator, coffee shop, blandness. It’s hard to listen to Travis without thinking that maybe pop is dead after all. If not dead, certainly pale, sickly and very, very tired.
Desperate sappy Post-Britpop.
freaking boring
if kidsbop covered radiohead
This was the most boring, limp-wristed, derivative, and uneventful pile of crap I've had to sit through. It should be renamed "The Man Who Died of Boredom" in my honor. Driftwood is ok but nowhere near enough to make up for the constantly annoying whiny British vocals. Seriously, why was this ever big, England? Please explain.
Someone here described this as "young adult series music" and they couldn't be anymore spot on Absolute shit lmfao
Aggressively boring
skipped around after it hit song 4, a lot of run on and on and on songs. downloaded for she’s so strange and why does it always rain on me for shits and giggles.
Too mellow for me. Some tracks felt like knock off Radiohead
A snooze fest.
Came into this with an open mind, found it incredibly dull. Forced my way through it and occasionally caught a brief bright spark, but even then it just felt like a cheap imitation of radio head. 2/10
Coldplay meets Radiohead
I’ve been very lucky with the list so far, but this album just felt so contrived, so offensively limp and devoid of life. By far the worst listen so far.
Bag o shite
Boring
Google “Top Albums 1999”. This one is not even in the top 100 of the YEAR, much less 1001 albums I “need to hear”. More UK-centric bullshit from Dimtry. Did everyone in the whole wide-ass world miss this “masterpiece”. No, they didn’t. Hard Pass. This one truly makes me wonder why the hell I’m doing this project. Although probably better than a 1, I’m giving this a 1⭐️ to represent all the better albums that didn’t make this list.
Wow these all sound like the same boring song. If this is post-britpop, that means britpop just transitioned into this schmoopsy poopsy Coldplay sound that also lasted way longer than it should have. They seem to be trying to ape Radiohead, but no one can seem to pull that off and not sound overly earnest. There’s so much emotion forced into this over-produced schlock that it has no feeling.
mistook his life for this pap
Cheesy, cloying: a cold fondue—curious what’s not working, as an enduringly proud fan of the 2000’s angst rock era popularized by Puddle of Mudd, Fuel etc.
Why would we need to listen to this? Juvenile and bad?
I’m insulted
So, if I've got this right, they thought to themselves "What if Radiohead but boring" and as a result we have a world with Coldplay in it?
Not what I expected. Did not hear one hit on this album. Would probably never listen to it again.
.eh
Bad Radiohead rip off. Didn't like it then, don't like it now.
This was pretty “meh” throughout. Sounds like watered down Coldplay, with all the songs being their throwaways. And all sound similar, creating a boring listen.
'The man who' damn I wish he wouldnt
Shit
Whiny, high pitched voice. Slow, monotonous, and boring music accompanying that whiny voice = not my kind of music
On a positive note listening to this can give you a little more understanding of the quality that Coldplay and Radiohead bring. If you've only eaten cheap American chocolate you might be perfectly happy, but when you finally have some good chocolate you learn how ignorant you have been. Oh I've heard, "Why Does It Always Rain on Me?". It is kind of catchy, but I'd be fine forgetting it.
radiohead for morons
Mostly boring as hell. No clue why it's on this list. Turn is a nice song, though.
If I told AI to create music based on all the styles, sounds and production that I hate in music then it would create this album. 1.0
Soft pop. Lethargic, boring and uninspired.
Alguma pessoa aleatória ouviu fake plastic trees e achou que poderia fazer uma música igual. Frustrada que não conseguiu fazer algo exatamente igual, fez um disco com todas as tentativas de imitar essa música, onde falha miseravelmente em todas.
no início dava pra tankar mas passou 14 minutos e lentamente se tornou uma goteira desacelerada na minha testa e eu não tinha boca para gritar e pedir socorro
In a nutshell: purveyors of Scottish sad bastard music Bland and boring. I wouldn't be surprised if this album influenced Coldplay when recording Parachutes. Overall: 1/10
It is not that it's bad, it's just bland. 3/10
Meh
Sounds like a blatant rip off of The Bends. Boring and bland..
The man who.... bored us to tears.
The very definition of beige, bland or inconsequential. On an artistic level, Travis are too sweet for their own good in this LP filled with ballads so demure and safe they quickly become sickening for anyone looking for interesting chord sequences, inspiring harmonies, genuine thrills or even *true* subtlety. At best, those songs sound like the b-sides of Radiohead singles circa-*The Bends*, here rather laughably released two years after *OK Computer* came out--showing how Travis were surfing on the most boring post-Britpop wave at the tail end of the nineties, instead of offering something that would feel a tad bit more exciting in 1999 (just like Radiohead did in 1997). The thing is, even if you pretend this album was released in 1995, you can't really forgive how dull it is overall. That lead singer tries as hard as he can to go to Thom Yorke's turf for his vocal performance, but what he does falls flat compared to the manifold emotions routinely expressed by the Radiohead frontman. First because the music writing is predictable and devoid of any real spark or dynamics. But also because his vocals often lack a clear sense of attack or punch. The performance might be technically spotless at times (there are some weak moments, actually), its artistic flatness only underlines how linear Travis' music feels. The 'professional critics' sensed all this at the time. It's the target audience which made this LP a commercial success, and retrospectively, I can't help feeling said audience was so complacent and reluctant to be challenged that they were *objectively* wrong to enjoy this band so much. Sort of, obviously--music appreciation is always subjective, after all. But this sort of commercial success didn't bode well for the noughts, a very 'conservative' decade in my ears. And I could almost see myself going to a tantrum because someone thought of including this LP in the 1001 Albums list whereas it's a very questionable choice in my own book. When public taste is godawful to my demanding ears, I feel like I'm the one who is looking down upon them whereas I don't want to. I can't really blame Travis' fans, though. I blame part of the subsequent 'critics' who looked at the sales numbers to then profess this album was worthy to be in a list such as this one. Because I feel they're a little hypocritical. Pretty sure that if *The Man Who* had not sold so many units, it would have been quickly forgotten, plain and simple. I'm not the one to often complain about the British perspective regularly churned out by the 1001 Albums book. But here I sense one of its unwanted and undesirable consequences. When so many genres and subgenres are so badly represented in the book (post-rock, post-hardcore/emo, some recent strands of noise-rock, metal and pop, or some not-so recent strands of jazz...), you can't waste a slot for frigging Travis! It's a slap in the face of all the fans of those music genres! I've compared Travis to Radiohead earlier, and I have to admit I feel bad for doing so. Some might say I should have compared them to Coldplay instead. But even that would be unfair to a degree, leaving aside the fact that Travis' frontman is a Chris Martin lookalike, lol. Coldplay sound like Nine Inch Nails, King Crimson and Black Midi jamming together compared to Travis circa-*The Man Who*. And even if they didn't, Chris Martin has sung loads of more memorable songs compared to Travis, so that doesn't even work out. Anyway, I'm pretty sure that the world--and most specifically this list--doesn't need a second-rate version of Coldplay, which is itself a second-rate version of quite a few other important acts from the turn of the century. Gives this slot to artists who offered something truly vital, for chrissake! 1/5 for the purposes of this list of essential albums. 6/10 for more general purposes (5 for the 'professional' musical and technical abilities + 1 for the actual artistry) Number of albums left to review: 10 (plus the 80-ish extra LPs listed on this app, included because different past versions of the book have mentioned albums that have since been dropped in subsequent editions) Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 426 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 254 Albums from the list I won't include in mine: 314 (including this one)
Gets more beige with each song. Driftwood decent though
Songs i like: 4 Songs i like: 0 Absolute waffle, would love to hear what the bands thoughts are of this years later. I reckon they'd probably deny it was them that recorded it
im over the alternative shit. give me something different man
"The Man Who initially received mixed reviews and sold slowly. Boosted by the success of "Why Does It Always Rain on Me?" and the band's appearance at the 1999 Glastonbury Festival, it eventually spent a total of 11 weeks at number one on the UK Albums Chart and brought the band international recognition. As of 2018, according to Concord Music, The Man Who has sold over 3.5 million copies worldwide. It was among ten albums nominated for the best British album of the previous 30 years by the Brit Awards in 2010, losing to (What's the Story) Morning Glory? by Oasis." - John Wikipedia This statement is probably the biggest indictment of Britpop and its consequences I have seen from this list so far.
This album is all of the worst parts of Brit-pop combined. Awful.
The unbearable blandness of weltschmerz-oozing, guitar-strumming songs, all condensed in one album. And a mostly white cover, to boot. Completely unmemorable songs, sung with a voice that makes me wonder why nobody gives the guy some painkillers... What's it doing in this list? P.S.: the "hidden track" at the end just shows what they would have been capable of... alas...
This would go perfect, listened to over a bowl of cold porridge. This is mushy peas you forgot in the fridge. Even the singer couldn’t muster up a single shit to give to this album. “Why does it always rain on me? Is it because I lied when I was seventeen?” No, it’s because you live in Scotland, ya moppy git! My advice- don’t go at other artists in such a milquetoast way. Say it with your chest if you’re gonna say it at all. All the complaining about Wonderwall just made me realize I hadn’t gotten What’s The Story, Morning Glory? on this project. Looking forward to that. Odelay was also good. This album was not.
Sounds like the background music to some teen drama where the main character stops by to check on the state of the school project and talk to the supporting character (future love interest crush). This is playing at a low volume in the room.
This was actually unenjoyable. I wasn’t expecting big things. I know who Travis are but I tried to put any prejudice away and played it in the background. Only time it caught my attention was when the whininess became unbearable. It’s odd I generally like whininess… (Love to my man Thom) Soft rock with entle meandering chords, a strings section and vocal ‘whailing’. I guess it might mean something to someone. Just didn’t grasp it. I don’t remember hating “why does it always rain” when it was big but, man, was the bile rising today. First album on here that has me genuinely wondering how it made the cut. I guess someone’s gotta be #1001.
Boring songs. One star
Radiohead. Wannabe
I had to wash out my ears after listening to this album - offensively mediocre.
Radiohead as some cool and stuff but they're totally to blame for brit pop emo bullshit of the late 90's. They all sound the same and they all sound like a car commercial or something. Fuck Radiohead, it was not worth it.
Absolutely not.
The only interesting thing on this record happened in the secret song. And by interesting I only mean that it wasn't as white bread as the rest of this record. This isn't bad. It's just the most bland record I've heard in years.
I found this dull. No edge to it
Music like this is so depressing, almost an aide to suicide.
Did not like
Oh look another crappy 90s Brit pop record. This felt like it was smack dab in the shit between Oasis and Coldplay.
Nice
Sounds like a bad rip-off of 90s Radiohead. Also music to fall asleep to. Real snoozefest.
Did not listen
Really did not like.
Generic
Jesus. Really testing my resolve to give every single album this app generates for me a fair listen. What in the ever living fuck is this record doing here. Never mind Travis, this is a travesty
Radiohead and Coldplay had a baby and that baby was annoying.
If you thought Keane was too 'out-there', if Coldplay gets you too excited, if you love listening to people whinge about the weather, if you can't get enough of that OK Computer thing where Radiohead combined acoustic guitars and ethereal electric ones and electronic textures but for some reason don't have access to the real thing, if you'd like to hear a band beside Oasis explore the idea of a wonderwall, if you wish the Verve had more harmonica, or if you're running a hospice experimenting with new techniques for lulling people to a soft lovely boredom-induced death, then boy, is this is the album for you. Otherwise, stay well clear. Awful.
Great Value Radiohead
Painful. I tried. I just couldn’t.
Not For Me™️
This is the kind of album you put on at a party when you want your friends to leave. I really wish to never hear that album again. 47 minutes of my life wasted and no one's giving them back to me.
Did not like - disappointment!
Middle of the road at best. Not something that I will listen to again any time soon
flacid pop rock. who cares? albums like this are going to be the reason if i eventually stop doing this list Significant 36/114 Liked 17/114 Added 4/114 NNN
This was the humdrum of the dole-drums. I thought there may be a spark of some weird alt 90s feelings but I was left with was a sour third eye blind taste written for a hearing impaired historian.
Didn't like this at all. Undoubtedly a bit harsh but Travis were very lucky that Coldplay became the butt of the jokes...
This was fine, but I’m not sure how it ended up in this list?
Zzzzzzz
I feel like I just listened to 5 soundtracks from mediocre rom coms and a couple songs by a radiohead cover band... and I hate rom coms AND radiohead so there's that.
Man, I really hate this album for a multitude of reasons: first one being, Travis is not a good name. Second being this album wasnt even impressive enough for Spotify to list any lyrics for. Has me starting to wonder who even curated this list of 1001 albums.
It's very rare for music of any kind to render no reaction in me at all. Congrats, Travis.
Soft British suicide rock. It says a lot when ‘Why Does It Always Rain On Me’ is your most upbeat song. Great song though
Why is this here?
I thought that we'd consigned Travis to annals of dreary-pop history when the new millennium rolled around. Why on Earth this deserves a place on the list is beyond me. Even something like Elbow would've been acceptable, but not this dross.
I’m not a fan of wimp-rock.
Utterly forgettable
I initially said "Meh" and gave it three stars, but after listening to this album all the way through to the end, I can now say that it's actually bad and give it 1 star. It's got nothing redeemable in lyrics or melody throughout. It's essentially late-90s UK elevator music, just pointless and bad. 1/5
So boring it makes Coldplay sound exciting.
It was like knockoff coldplay
es literalmente la definición de un álbum aburrido y monótono
Bland bland bland
Boring ass indie rock
I could only make it two songs into this shoegaze drudgery.
Radiohead if they were really annoying
Wow, this is a bland album...like the definition of bland
Why is this non-album on the list. How does this compare with the average 1001 album? It seems randomly picked and moreover: the list already contains White Ladder.
Good shit to get moving
Unforgivably boring elevator rock. Nothing noteworthy about anything on this album besides Travis’ clear admiration for lumbering Radiohead tracks, and I continue to be mystified by the success of its single. A really sub-par representation of Scotland’s contribution to popular music.
Pas mal dans mes écoutes les plus difficiles et inintéressantes. La basse après 2:15 est bien dans The Last Laugh Of The Laughter, mais c’est pas mal tout. Ça a beau être produit par Nigel Godrich, je n’ai aucunement envie de revenir à cet album.
Highlights: - Artwork: 3,5 / 10 Rating: 2 / 10
no!
Well I wasn't depressed but I am now .Thanks for nothing Travis!
Travis are shit
Favs: I guess "She's So Strange"? It has a kind of Blur vibe to it, lyrics-wise. Blur, if the music was crappy. Mehs: Annnd the rest. I hate Why Does It Always Rain On Me. Hate. It makes me feel like Mrs. White in Clue with the flames on the side of my face. I hate that my brain heard it again.
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