Calenture by The Triffids

Calenture

The Triffids

2.55
Rating
21784
Votes
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14%
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35%
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37%
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12%
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3%
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Reviews (page 8 of 8)

Irrelevantes Gedudel, das mich in keinster Weise tangiert. Bitte weniger davon.

Horrendo

They’re the mayonnaise of 80s music

Shit was ass. Nothing more to add to that.

Can't beat the sagacious verdict of a earlier reviewer: Shit is ass

This was poorly disguised Christian music, wasn't it?

This album was so boring and I really did not enjoy it.

AJ: 🚮 Just doesn’t sound good.

The Day of the Triffids is also boring.

Aburrido

Not great, skipped around and stopped listening.

As harmlessly stupid as astonishingly boring. Who put this on the List?

Landfill 80s jangly guitars. Couldn't finish it.

I had never heard of this band and it turns out they’re from Perth lol. I am not sure why but I found this really, really cringe. Especially the opening track and Open For You. I think it’s the delivery coupled with the lyrics. Something about it turns me off it. It’s like some of these songs sound like religious Christian rock?

Really bland. Pretty terrible sound too - I thought I was listening though my phone speaker, not my nice fancy headphones.

miksi tämä pitää kuunnella? onhan nämä biisejä, mutta oikeaa kokoaan suurempia. eka biisi oli vielä jees

Harvinaisen mitäänsanomatonta kasaristereotypiaa.

Sometimes you can judge an album by its cover. Saw the band name, album title, font choice, and awkwardly stylized image of the lead man's face, and I had a bad feeling. I tried to remain cautiously optimistic but boy was I ever right. Speaking of album covers, I think simply using the lead singer's face, no matter how stylized, is always the absolute weakest creative choice possible. It's like you have this opportunity to express something visually you're just like "nah." As to the music, this might be the most baffling 1001 choice I've run across yet. Just painfully, embarrassingly bad. Doesn't stand the test of time to say the least. It's almost as if they deliberately wrote songs to emphasize the cringiest cliches of late 80s studio production techniques. I'm still listening to it as I type and considering how much further I should go... I give like 99% of things on this list a fair shake but after the first song I knew I'd heard all I needed to hear. Okay I'm pressing on here... It doesn't necessarily get better or worse, but simply maintains a constant state of melodramatic shittiness. Well, I hereby nominate this album to be the first in line for the chopping block to make room for something more worthwhile in the next edition of the book.

I really did not enjoy this one.

Just awful

Meh. Keep waiting for John Cusack to appear behind my shoulder and mope about his lost girlfriend or something.

I’d have given zero if allowed

I couldn'teven get through the entire record. Not good at all. A snoozefest.

Väldigt intetsägande, ointressant album

Already forgot how that sounds

"The title refers to a fever suffered by sailors during long hot voyages". Seems to me the album has the same effect on me. Is an album of the 1001 you SHOULD NOT hear added to the MUST hear list? We will never know, but this is a 1980s rock album and production you can certainly live and die without.

Not only are these songs trite and poorly written (musically and lyrically), this album contains the worst aspects of mid-1980's production quality. To top it off, the Wikipedia article about this album quoted a NME critic (regarding a 2007 reissue of this sonic nightmare) who compared the Triffids to U2 and R.E.M. based on this album alone. I don't know the Triffids. But how does THIS album prompt that comment?

Eh. For some reason this really bored me, the mixes felt hollow and the singer was trash. It also lacked any interesting ideas.

same as echo and the bunnymen, just so boring I quit after a few songs

fuck this. the best insult i can give this is that it must be the 80s version of snow patrol. if snow patrol turns up on this list it can fuck right off to the bottom of the chart.

I was hopeful because it was folk rock, but its badly dated and generic at the same time. Wasn't my favorite experience

1 estrela pra não dar 0.

Estragou a semana. é isso o que tenho a dizer deste álbum. Esquecível

not good

Noteworthy songs were Kelly’s Blues, Jerdacuttup Man, and Calenture

really bad. really really bad. nothing enjoyable

Not for me