A Walk Across The Rooftops

It remains unclear to me why someone would choose to listen to this.

Pretty much unlistenable

What is this broke-ass man's Peter Gabriel?* *No disrespect to Peter Gabriel

God I'm so bored with this album, which is a bummer because I actually thought it started out really interesting. I'm begging for this to be over at this point though. Might be a second 1-star.

Maybe this list should have only had 1000 albums on it.

Complete rubbish

Yeah, no thanks. This is definitely not my cup of cheese.

A depressing ambient ephemeral album of whining vocals and the same chord playing on repeat with the sounds of wind and water as back tracks. This album probably gets played on repeat in massage parlors and hospital waiting rooms. I hated it. 1/10

Not a fan

I don’t get it. Nothing appealing about anything on this album.

Very forgettable. Didn't even realize the album was over until I heard a song playing that I recognized

Like a sandwich without any filling, a pop album with perfectly formed slabs of early 80s new wave synth, containing precisely zero catchy hooks or memorable melodies. Utterly pointless in its meticulous craft. Stay is probably the best of a completely inoffensive but frustratingly dull bunch.

Meh

Absolutely mystifying. Why is this here?

Sounds like a musical. What's this guy talking about? Ugh this 80's BS sucks outta 5

Pretentious, offensively boring.

Boring

can these books stop glazing anything a random british man does

I found this extremely boring....

ja jongens... hoe wil je dat er iemand zin heeft in jullie album, als jullie er zelf geen zin in hebben... precies alsof het van moeten was...

There was one glorious moment when it sounded like they were going to give up on whatever plodding dirge they were recording and break into Baba O'Riley. That was the best moment of an otherwise forgettable 38 minutes.

the first song is quite nice, then the rest got really slooow

Worse than Coldplay

How is this album on this list, the only reason anybody would rate this album well is because they’re trying to convince someone that there’s a deeper meaning underneath the dreariness.

Irksome

The complete silence at the beginning of the album is annoying. The instrumentals are weird and don't fit the vocals. I don't like the singing. The song "Easter Parade" sounds like bad Billy Joel. There are no good songs.

12th album with group. I don’t understand why this very boring album was picked, but there wasn’t enough room for any pop-punk representation. Good Songs - A Walk Across the Rooftops. Bad Songs - Tinseltown in the Rain, From Rags to Riches, Stay, Easter Parade, Heatwave, and Automobile Nation.

Strange group/music

Das klingt ein wenig wie eine schlechte, langsame Version von the Police. 1 1/2 aber für zwei reicht es nicht.

Offensively bland and just plain awful

Sooooooo slooooooooooow. There is potential there but its so slow that I'm struggling to actively listen.

A solid no

This was not over soon enough.

Another album I can’t believe is on the list! One minute in I new I was wasting my time!

Who would tell anyone you really need this to this guy cry for 45mins?

It is so short, but it is the first album I couldn't even force myself to get through. I don't have anything good to say about it at all. 1/5

WHY is this here??? It's obviously not anything original or influential for its time. Just painfully boring.

'Easter Parade' works OK with simple piano and vocal. Elsewhere its notable by its dated 80s instrumentation and production. Horrible.

This makes me embarrassed to be Scottish.

What an absolute garbage album. How did they ever land a record deal with this trash? I hope I never hear them again.

This was boring tbh. It’s a bit like U2, Nick Cave, Peter Gabriel stuff like that but just nowhere near as interesting. The wiki article for this basically says this album got little to know attention when it released and it’s not hard to see why, it’s just not that interesting.

# Playlist Track - Tinseltown In The Rain # Notes - Incredibly pretentious and boring. Of the few albums in this entire collection that I didn't manage to listen in it's entirety. - Might have been more interesting at the time, surely. Trying some new stuff maybe? I don't know. But it aged super poorly. - Not recommended.

Ei ei ei....

Typical 80s nonsense. The lyrics are asinine, the singer is inept. They probably play this music in the elevators of Hell. I’ll grant them a couple of interesting attempts at experimenting with synth sounds, like in From Rags To Riches. But that’s not enough to save this disaster of an album. Why is it even on this list ?

Someone in another review called this Temu David Byrne. That is pretty accurate. Experimental 80's synth pop with a atmospheric quality. Not really my thing.

Sometimes I wonder why I'm doing this stupid game. It's true that most of the days it's just 40-ish minutes of stupid background music, in the worst scenario. In the best scenario, some nice discovery or some really nice album. But lately I've been having 0 job motivation, and this could impact how I perceive the experience. This album set my day off yesterday. And I hated it. It made me feel sad. I didn't understand what I was doing with my life by engaging to this daily routine. But today I see everything different. I hope when I click the rating button for this album, I get some classic rock / punk or something noise. Please pray for me.

Generic 80's New Wave that reeeeealy doesn't deserve to be here. Already forget quite literally everything about it's sound. 2/10

Hard, hard pass

Pretentious nonsense from a bunch of people who were — clearly & admittedly — untrained musicians. I do not understand how this was on a Top 1000 list. It’s truly baffling.

I lived through this time, was into ‘80s New Wave, and I don’t know this band. Sounds like a demo by some no-talent high school kid that got a Casio keyboard for Christmas. Sparse with both music and true singing - more like a breathy, word salad set to the occasional, repeated synth note and sporadic drum machine. 1⭐️

Horrendous and boring. Lethal combo

p508. Bland background music for expensive hi-fi systems. Once heard, immediately forgotten.

The opening from the singer decided this for me. His vocals are TERRIBLE and the music couldn’t save him.

Couldn't get into that at all

Sounds like David Bowie at times, found it incredibly uninteresting and very dull, not sure how it is on the list??

Not my style

Maybe I have no idea. I have the faint feeling that this is supposed to be great art and that unique snowflakes are floating around. In short, I don't understand the music. Strange vocals that don't match the rhythm of the instruments. Atonality. Overall, my impression when listening to this album fluctuates between boredom and being annoyed. 1/5

Boring as shit.

Not good at all absolute crappy 80s movie love scene background music. Cheesy and simply not enjoably for me at all. Songs too long

Are we in the top 10000000000 ? So boring!

No sensation, not even rejection. This thing only worked in England. Total emptiness to me

Chris de Burgh clone

this one really didn't hit for me.

This albums sucks. It's bad.

Boring a bit annoying

Sucks

Not a fan. Too melancholy. Too slow. Too whiney.

Not at all for me. The smiths without Johnny Marr or any creativity.

Kinda like if Bjork was utter dogshit.

probably more interesting than I'm giving it credit for but just not catching

Forgettable music.

I hope they had fun recording this because I didn’t have any fun listening to it.

Bass was OK I guess

Oh boy, well, we're back to Scotland again with this album. This album kind of sucks, not because its Scottish or pseudo-intellectual pop shit, but because its got nothing to say and no way to say it. 1/5

Boring 80s pop. Neither catchy nor experimental.Bland. Pretentious. Forgettable.

When I read "Sophisti-pop" on the wiki I really was expecting to hate this, but I think those bottom-of-the-barrel expectations allowed me to somehow hate this even more. I want someone to throw me in The Blue Nile.

This is pretty bland and boring. The lyrics don’t match the music. And I get the overall feel of elevator music or department store shopping music. I could have lived without ever listening to the band. 1

didn't give this a fair shot - I just don't dig that sound. I stopped after track 4

I could accept this more if it had just focussed on the soundscapes. But the droning, over-long vocals makes this hard to endure.

Absolute tripe.

Another one of those albums that I have no idea how they made this list. A real nothing album!

Honestly not sure why this is on the list…. the album is loaded with samples to make other, much better music. However, not great on its own

I’m losing sanity

not the best, shallow sounding and generic. 3/10

Muito anos 80 pro meu gosto

In a word? tedious. In a few more words... boring and pretentious.

nope

"Do I love you? Yes I love you. But it's easy come, easy go." That about sums up the quality of the lyrics here. Decent bass player and keyboard player, stuck with a drum machine and a talker/singer stuck in the 80s. That's what I experienced.

The blurb in the book for this entry was written by a journo called Bruno Macdonald. Now suspect that the guys in this band are Bruno’s mates and he just wanted to get them in there for a laugh. I can hear no justifiable reason for this album to be on this list. It’s not that it’s bad, it just doesn’t stand out in any way.

Terrible. Had to turn off half way thru

This is so boring. The strained voice going for high notes. The uninteresting tracks. I’m unimpressed

The 80s at their worst. I would jump of those fooftops instead of walking across them if I ever have to listen again to this album.

Repetitive and boring

Meh.

thanks i hated it

No thanks.

not really for me, musically was p good, but didnt care for voice

Ever say to yourself, "Gee.. I want to listen to music that sounds like David Bowie, but only less... good"? Me neither, hence why I've never heard of The Blue Nile, and if there's a god, never will again. 1 lethargic llama out of 5 🦙

Unfortunately forgettable and generic. Nothing else really to say. Reading that this band was endorsed by others like Peter Gabriel really set higher expectations, which this didn't come close to meeting

An example of bad 80s music.

Has a few nice musical moments, but I absolutely hate the singers voice.

I don’t know why but I straight up hate it so far (3 tracks in). I hate the vocals, and the whole repeating the same fucking line thing in a very unimpressive way. Can’t fair for it to be over at this point

It's groundhogs day for shit music... each song equally as terrible as the last to the point where I was unsure if it was a new song or a stroke.

Music for guys who 'aren't like the other guys' and whose favourite novel is Tender is the Night. Give me strength.

Slushy ear garbage

Really pretentious early 80s euro new wave. I am certainly not impressed with this album. This album was certainly not impressed with me even before we met. The title track never feels like it gets into a grove. It painfully works up to a more disappointing crescendo than my first time. I liken this album to what the great Peter Griffin once said about the Godfather, "it insists upon itself".

Too slow

the same song ten times. . . just the tempo changed

Wow, how did this make it on too any list other than " albums that's were ignored on release for good reason"

Fome

bleh

Not at all good.

1. a uualk acrozz the rooftopz - 0 2. tinzeltouun in the rain - 0 3. from ragz to richez - 1 4. ztay - 0 5. eazter parade - 0 6. heatuuave - 0 7. auto noize - 0

Short stack of meh

Couldn’t finish

This was an absolute waste of time. Whiny, whingy, soft, pseudo-pop that needs to be forgotten.

Why?

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Honestly was so disinterested I don't recall listening to this album. I know for a fact that I did, and the only thought I recall is "this is a lame Bowie knock off".

Samalla lailla unettavaa kuin Suede, mutta tuplasti ja tylsempi. Mitä nää oikeastaan haluaa sanoa? Haluavat koskettaa rouhealla laululla ja "kauniilla" taustoilla?

Huh, olenkohan koskaan kuullut hirveämpää instrumentaatiota? Kakkosbiisissä oli haudattuna pientä potkua, mutta syvältä sai kaivaa.

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Ronduit kut

Dull generic 80s pop with a lead vocalist that struggles to generate anything that compels me to continue listening. Dire 🥱

Might've appealed to someone in the 80's. But not me. And definitely not now.

Insipid. Ennui. Boredom. Why is this on the list?

No thanks

Mmh?

fucking hell this was bland.

I mean, c’mon. What are we doing here? I really hope this band only has one album on the list.

Everything that was awful about 80s music.

The instrumentation on the title/opening track is quite jarring, it jangled my nerves, and not in a good way. It didn't get any better from there, unfortunately. There was something unsettling and disconcerting throughout the entire listening experience, something about this combination of music, lyrics, and content that irritated and grated on me. It honestly felt like it might be better suited as background music in a movie rather than focused, intent listening. There just seemed to be too much missing context for this dreary lovelorn sad sack music.

Hopefully walking across rooftops with a view to chucking themselves off. Shite.

It’s not unpleasant but man I was just so bored

Deathly dull, hideously 80s tech demo with all the soul of a Conservative peer. Mercifully short.

84 / 1069 I have a view on the 80’s that many people don’t like. I’ll direct them to this album when they ask me in the future. Trash - first album I’ve nearly stopped playing in 2023.

terrible

terrible all sounded the same

Nothing I was familiar with beforehand, parts of it reminded me of David Byrne, Tom Waits, but nothing really stuck with me or made a lasting impression.

Not an album for me. I can see how it influenced the sound in the 80's but I won't return to it

Made me long for death. Old man droning on. Music was repetitive

Their songs are "okay", but lacking something that would make them memorable. Also, their sound/style is such that each song is indistinguishable from the others.

Nope

Boring and whiney

nope!

This sucks. Horrible boring singing, unimaginative music. 2/10.

WOW. Can’t believe I actually hated one. This was nearly insufferably boring.

Didn't stand the test of time, too eighties for my taste

Total snoozefest.

Super boring. Sounds like a whole album of the most boring Police song ever.

It’s not even that I had a bad time listening to that. I love me some synth and bass heavy 80s sounds. It’s just WHY should I have listened to this before I die? Literally what am I discovering by listening to this? What impossible sound did they bring into existence? Why?

ruim

If their aim was to keep their artistic identity anonymous for the duration, this is a masterpiece.

Ei jatkoon. Ensimmäisestä biisistä vois antaa toisen tähden päälle, mutta pysytään kuitenkin 1/5 arvostelussa.

Veel te kabbelend. Kwam niet over.

Kasarimenoa... Tää on vähän niinku Depeche mode, paitsi että ei ole hyviä biisejä. Laahaavaa menoa ja onko tää laulaja nyt ihan varmasti vireessä?

Lo intenté, me gusta mucho ese acento escocés como el de mis queridos The Twilight Sad, pero el disco es insoportable.

this is boring to me :shrug emoji:

Not my favourite. Stay is the standout for me. Feels like this album would have been well suited as music in The Wire

Nope.

click-clack-boom

Not bad