Reviews (page 9 of 9)
Story of Isaac sucks ass. I really don't see the appeal of this guy. He is continually flat, has the intonation of a dead goldfish and is just not interesting to listen to. Tonight Will Be Fine adds insult to injury with a goddamn recorder and whistle solo.
Awful. I can't stand his voice - it's just boring boring boring to listen to. The lyrics might be good but his voice grates too much for me to try and appreciate whatever he is droning on about. My mother in law will be disappointed as he is (was) one of her favorite singers. Sorry mum!
No, sorry, I'm not even going to listen to this. I've heard enough already.
Boring!
This one is a pretty hard listen. The production is pretty bare, the songs are simple. The vocals are pitchy but emotional. I get the feel of the album, and honestly would have like it a lot more if it wasn't for that stupid jaw harp through the whole damn album. If you're not familiar with a jaw harp, also called a jew harp for some reason, you fucking are now after getting through this album. Everyone who actually listened to this knows what I'm talking about too. It's the weird thing that sounds like the spring door stop in the bathroom that for some reason gets a 35 minute solo over the course of this record.
Generalnie to lubię piosenki Cohena, przeważnie w wykonaniu innych artystów, ale ten album jest bardzo monotonny ze względu na bardzo nieciekawy wokal samego Cohena. Pomimo tego, że lubię takie sobie posłuchać takich spokojniejszych, gitarkowych utworów, znacznie lepiej się bawiłem czytając teksty, które uważam, że są całkiem dobre, niż słuchając albumu, a chyba nie o to chodzi w muzyce. W tle nie dzieje się za wiele, ale za to w wokalu nie dzieje się nic, jedyny moment w którym jakkolwiek zainteresowałem się brzmieniem to "The Partisan", gdzie sam Cohen jest absolutnie zagłuszony przez znacznie ciekawiej brzmiącą wokalistkę, ale trwało to za krótko, żeby jakkolwiek zmienić moją opinię. Pomimo bardzo krótkiego czasu album mi się dłużył, co dodatkowo skłania mnie żeby wstawić mu taką ocenę.
oh my god. i felt like this album was genuinely five years long. it sounds like he grabbed a bunch of sentences from his behind and scrambled them together then added a strum of a guitar. no offence :) but he is literally awful
Songs From A Panic Room. ... Ok I was gonna try - honest - but literally from the first note ("note") I hated this. His terrible up-front vocals drenched in reverb upon more reverb over slow slice-your-wrist songs are not my bag. Which begs the question: whose bag are they? Yeah yeah poetry genius whatever. David Lee Roth wasn't a poet (or was he...) and/but used humour dammit and had Eddie by his side making some entertainment. This is not entertaining. I've had two LC albums thus far. I can think of ... a hundred? 200? artists I *hate*...that I'd rather have two albums from. Easily. Bring me Liz Phair's Greatest Monotone Middle School Naughty Words! Bring me Bon Jovi's Worst Ballads! Sigh. (...actually don't...) ...now i'm scared. Are there more Leonards?? Please say there won't be any more. [brain: ...say something nice... say something nice...] He's Canadian! [brain: invalid. ...where are the Rheostatics?...there should be at least 4 of their albums... try again; Canadian alone is worthless] Um, he's like a slightly less smacked out Lou Reed? [brain: ...what is wrong with you ... this is your base-level bar? we cannot stand anything about Lou Reed, remember? that's not a bar - that's a concrete floor. Again.] well. um...it's only 36 minutes so it'll be over soon.... [brain: ...GAK...send help - there is no way this is only 36 minutes it feels like days...brain dying...] 1/10 1 burned out dim star.
The first song was good, but the rest of it was so boring.
You are shitting me. Exceptionally dull backing music and head up his arse poet talking over the top. Dreadful.
Not a fan
The legend. Lennon said to Dylan, he doesn't listen to the lyrics, just the energy of the song. That's me too.
Ik vind rustige muziek niet erg, maar dit is echt slaapverwekkend. Zzzzzz..... *
hell fucking no opa ich hör dir nicht ne stunde beim rumheulen zu :mittelfinger:
Saved Prior: None Off Rip: A Bunch of Lonesome Heroes, The Partisan Cutting Edge: None Overall Notes: Nothing more than a wannabe Bob Dylan on this album. I don't care if the lyrics are beautiful, there has to be at least something musically accomplished to merit putting them on a musical best-of list, and this album is missing it. Songwriter's hall of fame, sure. But we did not NEED to hear yet another album from this guy just because he writes nice poetry. Just print me a booklet of his lyrics and be on your way. 1.5 that I'm gonna round down to make a point about this kind of music. Am I overreacting? Probably. But I am banging my head against the wall listening to these kind of albums over and over again spread about this list and this was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Sorry, but he didn't do it for me.
1.25
Not a fan of Leonard Cohen
Brutal
I can’t finish it. Got 3 tracks in and holy shit it’s boring. Think if Bob Dylan was more verbose and less talented.
Wasn’t he a nirvana lyric?
I could be forgiven for thinking I’ve already listened to this album as a result of rating such a high percentage of folk/acoustic lp’s since the start of my musical ranking journey. My point being, this genre all sounds the the same to me. I mean what is there sonically that differs Cohen to Dylan to Neil Young for example, except for alternate decades? Nothing differentiates their sound enough to keep me interested when I wasn’t interested to begin with. 1 Star!
Folk is just so very boring. Senseless talking over guitars 1/10.
Struggled with this one.
RIP. Just not a fan
super slow and uninteresting
Meh