Calenture

Not a bad album, easy listening

80,s synth

281125 16:51 3 / highlights: bury me deep in love, blinder by the hour, hometown farewell kiss

Very jangle-pop uk 80s, some of the songs sound like Echo & the Bunnymen, or The Smiths, or Deaon Blue, or The Associates, or even Inxs. Wasn't expecting much, but really enjoyed it, and will listen to it again. One thing though - Spotify has the (very) extended version, with more than twice as many songs, some of them demos/outtakes.

slow

Remarkably boring

Okay sound. Kind of like the cure

"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.

47. Calenture - The Triffids 29 tracks. Never heard of them. Just a shit, softer, more melancholy INXS seems a tad harsh, but it's what I keep coming back to. It's not rubbish at all, far from it. It just lacks..... something. Something significant. 3/5

This didn't really mesh with my tastes. But a distinctive voice and lyrically interesting.

Had not heard of this band or heard their music (not that I recall, but as they had a hit or two in the late 80s, I probably heard those on the radio and just don't recall). The lead vocalist's voice is strong and clear, and they play well. The sound is very familiar to me as a lot of pop bands in the mid to late 80s sounded like this. It's a good representation of that sound. Nothing wrong with the album, just didn't engage me. Everything kind of blurred together as one long song with different sections rather than distinct tracks.

Another one that wasn't really for me. Sounded almost like a tears for fears but without many of the redeeming qualities. Moving on!

Quite liked this album. Tone was somewhat dark but very melodic. Singer has a great vocal tone. Reminded me of a more bluesy Bowie.

Very good album with a couple of outstanding tracks.

The first song on this album was truly one of the worst songs I’ve ever heard. There were one or two of these songs that I found tolerable, but overall this was a painful listen. There was also an inconsistency in tone that made the album feel very non-cohesive. The lyrics felt very simplistic, with a weird number of references to facial features. Also, a good amount of Christian messages, which I was not in the mood for. Boo.

Was there a typo that resulted in this album getting on the list? I fail to see any aspect of this one that merits it being in a list of 1001 albums I must hear. The whole thing feels over thought and way over produced. Given the pay counts (or lack thereof) on Spotify, I get the feeling that I'm not the only one this hasn't connected with. I wonder how many of those plays are purely generated from this site recommending the album. The worst part was that track had so much reverb and chorus on it that I was effectively forced to listen to every song multiple times at once. It was like each track was actually multiple instances of the song being played; each instance's timing slightly offset from the next. I could only get through track 6 (Open for You) before I had to call it.

From British mediocrity to Australian mediocrity this book has it all

Most of the songs felt familiar even though it's my first time listening to this album.

This book sucks man

My theory is that all of Australia mistakenly believed that the Cult was banned from the country and that all of the critics responsible for this list mistakenly believed that the Triffids were British, meeting the book's criteria by default. There are times where the lyricism pulls the band from the brink of generic, largely thanks to the album's loose themes of illusion and isolation giving a slightly different complexion to the same old rote love songs, but I still can't shake the feeling that I've heard this all plenty of times before. I'm thinking I might be a little too harsh on this one, but cut me a break: a fucking bug flew into my mouth during the first track and probably colored some of my score here. Key Tracks: Trick of the Light, Vagabond Holes, Jerdacuttup Man

I learned too late in life that there was actually a really cool music scene in australia in the 80s so I was pretty excited to hear a band I hadn't heard before. So that didn't work out.

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?

I could barely finish this one. Not for me.

I’m a huge 80s music fan. But I have no use for this album.

2.75. There are better ways to scratch this itch. It’s fun to think about which 3 bands you’d mash together for this sound. Simple Minds/ABC/Deep Blue Something

Oh lord... Tasapaksua huttua ja vitutti kuunnella loppuun asti.

Ei oikeestaan mitään ihmeellistä sanottavaa, peruskakkonen

I’m intrigued by this album. It combines 80s elements of power pop, folk music, country music, and new wave. It is more conventional than most new wave artists and can be quite symphonic.

De bänga ja gjorde annat medans ja lyssna dock så de ble automatisk trea. Ja lyssna btw gårdagens album men ja klicka imisstag did not listen. Ganska friged up

Occaisonally poignant tunes with an apreciable sonic variety

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

I listened to this a week or two ago and I can't remember a damn thing to say. Must have been memorable....

That corny 80's reverb-for-days drum sound, cheesy keys, emotive vocals with lame lyrics. Gave it a few tracks (then skipped through a bit of the other songs) to see if there was good stuff lurking in there but, alas, there was none to be found. In terms of other bands from that era doing those kind of songs with that kind of instrumentation and that kind of production, they're a dime a dozen. Don't know how this album made the list, but glad to have listened. There are always treasures to be found in bands & songs you haven't heard before. This wasn't one of them.

no, 80's just... no... again, dated, cheesy, unmemorable and all that

Vagabond holes was good but the rest was pretty boring

Nom remarkable in anyway. Not sure why it’s on this list

Pretty unmemorable

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

I have had a very long string of 3-star albums at this point....

this album was a good vibe, like wowowow i did like it!

maybe a good album, but my first and second listen didn't do anything for me.

Hmm, långt. Jag gillar ändå stora delar av albumet, men det var en märklig upplevelse. Jag lyssnade i flera olika vågor vilket kanske inte har gynnat albumet i mina öron. Uppdelat i två diskar, varav den senare är demos men det var inte precis samma låtar som på disk 1 så jag lyssnade ändå igenom det. Men gällande soundet är det ändå mycket som funkar. Sångarens röst är kraftfull på rätt sätt, det blandas in lite roliga instrument som inte hör till det absolut vanligaste, lite fina stråkar som sitter fint exempelvis. Vid andra omständigheter som hade lett till en genomlyssning i ett svep hade kanske kunnat gjort denna till en 3:a men som lyssningen blev nu räcker det inte riktigt till. Bäst: "Blinder by T!he hour"

Rätt standard 80-tals album, inte mycket att hurra över. A Trick of the Light var rätt bra dock

It was okay. Tried to get into but never did. Never heard of this band.

Pretty good lyrically and has a cool feel for a late 80s album, but nothing that’s going to stick with me forever.

4/5 - I had never heard of this guy, but good for him, he's fun.

Interesting mix of classic rock and new wave sounds.

Not my style.

Meh. Not bad but didn't love it. I picked Bury me deep in love as my fave track, seems to be the most popular also.

No está mal, pero casi no me ha llamado la atención.

Hab noch nie von der Band gehört, aber das Album war cool. Irgendwie was besonderes aber auch nicht...

Kommt an mich nicht ran

Some of these songs sounded like, 40% familiar but I'm pretty sure I haven't heard them before.

McComb's explosive rage at the finale of \"Vagabond Holes\" should have been the Triffids' last gasp, an unsettling blast of scarred emotions that isn't easy to shake off.

Had genuinely never heard of them before. First track was super catchy. Reminded me of a “less sad” Cure

I reviewed this already so I'm not going to write a lot. favorite songs are jerdacuttop man and calenture. Good album.

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'm not even sure this album was in the 1001 top albums of 1987.

Melodic tunes, but just a bit boring.

Easy listening. Inoffensive. Just what I needed at the time. Wouldn't listen to it again.

Boring inoffensive middle of the road pop.

If god is real why did he make me listen to this? Come back, Electric Prunes, all is forgiven

Amazing home town music.

Classic 80s rock/pop, so you know I'm gonna love it. A little long, but the songs I saved were very very good, even if I wouldn't come back to the entire album Saved: Bury My Deep in Love, Blinder By T!he Hour, Jerdacuttup Man

Saved Prior: None Off Rip: Bury Me Deep In Love, Hometown Farewell Kiss, Blinder By The Hour, Save What You Can, Baby I Can Walk You Home*, Region Unknown*, Love The Fever*, Bad News Reminds Me Of You*, Everything You Touch Turns To Time* Cutting Edge: None * = bonus track Overall Notes: Never heard of these guys even though they're in my musical wheelhouse. Reminded me of a more guitar driven Go-Betweens. Like this a fair amount, especially the bonus tracks, all of which I saved. If they were on the original album I would've rounded this up to a 4, but as it stands it's a 3.5 rounded down.

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

I don't like this at all. It's soooo boring.

New band for me! Massively produced late 80's Aussie rock. Best Tracks: Bury Me Deep In Love, A Trick of the Light, Save What You Can

why is this 80s wannabe record-store-shitstack album on the list

What a load of shite. It's like they were 6th form students asked to do an impression of an 80s Christian rock band at Eurovision. I started finding it funny though due to how bad it was, like they can't have been serious. I suppose I can't give it 1 star, because I did take some enjoyment from it, but absolutely not in the way they intended.

***to be read in the voice of Harry Redknapp*** The triffic Triffids. They do seem to have sparked some controversy in the Spackers judging panel, do the Triffids. Harry Redknapp also caused controversy by successfully swerving tax evasion charges by claiming he had secret bank accounts in his dog's name because he couldn't read. So there you go.

Calenture is a misleading album. It opens with a pillowy, power pop ballad that belongs more in the opening montage of a Disney movie about some orphaned animal adopted into an interspecial family than it does the opener of a post-punk Australian outfit's LP. However, as the album progresses, cracks appear in the facade of this simple, straightforward, sickeningly sweet pop. “Kelly’s Blues” is peppered with indecipherable lyrics that sound like the scrawlings of a maniac in love with his hostage; “A Trick of the Light” reinforces this image of mania by recounting the story of a man who sees some lost love, perhaps, but it also hints at something much darker (with lyrics like “I was beating on her Iike an anvil…With that same old panic caught on her face”); “Unmade Love” seems to narrate scorned love gone wrong; and on and on. Suddenly, “Bury Me Deep in Love” sounds more like a warning covered over by its pillowy instrumentals. It isn’t just the story being narrated by the band that chips away at the album’s first impression. The sudden shift to the dark, uneasy instrumentation in “Unmade Love”; the strings that linger off-kilter in the background of “Blinder By the Hour” are almost anxious-making; the pulsing percussion of “Vagabond Holes” paired with the McComb’s vocal performance produces a song that feels desperate (although I wish both the vocals and the instrumentals in the chorus were less polished, rougher like they are in the verses of the song); the title track is an incredible punctuation of the album. My biggest complaint is the closer. The album overstays its welcome with “Save What You Can”. Not that it is a bad song (although I don’t think it is a particularly good song), but it ruins what would have been an amazing closer with the title track. The album can also drag in some places. I find my attention begins to wander when I listen to songs like “Hometown Farewell Kiss”, “Open For You”, and “Holy Water”. I also think “Jerdacuttup Man” lasts a beat longer than I wish it did (although I really love most of the song). I would give it a 7/10. It would almost certainly be a higher rating if the album ended with Calenture, but it probably wouldn’t be too much higher of a rating.

just all my least favorite conventions of 80s music. sounds very cheesy, lyrics are so over the top and the vocal style is a bit annoying. a couple of them bang though if you don't listen too hard.

A little weird, the songs almost felt too disjoint to be an album? It was good and groovy if a bit aggressively 80s, and they had nice voices. A solid 4 stars.

Didn't find anything special about this tbh, standard 80s soft rock as far as I can tell

Always hard to judge exactly how good an album is while I'm doing homework, but this one seemed quite good

This is clearly a band built around the singer, David McComb. He has has an interesting voice, a bit like Lloyd Cole on the mellower songs and like fellow-Aussie Nick Cave when he gets wound up. The melodies do grow on you, but overall, the song-writing isn't that strong and the arrangements are pretty straight forward.

Not bad, but a bit boring and one-note for me.

Pretty corny and pretty 80s which means I like it.

Too sugary for me. Not a fan.

Good 80s album. I truly enjoyed it. Not sure why but I did!

Sounded like a poor mans version of Morrissey

Nope. Just not for me.

yawn

Favs - Vagabond Holes - Rehersal Demo, Jerdacuttup Man - Rehersal Demo. Okay - Baby Can I Walk You Home, Region Unknown. Wouldn’t listen to the rest again.

Wow, a band I've never heard of! this album was pretty good, not great, but I enjoyed it, as it kinda felt like a mix of New Order, The Smiths, and every 80's rock band music. I don't know if i'll ever add these songs to my go-to playlists, i'd have to listen to it again a few times, but this was very enjoyable!

Hmmm. Not really impressed.

Soft 80s heartbreak

Good enough. Pleasant

I really enjoyed this.

Dated, boring, way too long. Did not finish.

Really like this. Part Cult, Alarm, Prefab, Hot house all together. My 80' in a nutshell - simpler times and music.

This is a band that hasn't quite determined their sound. Could be Pop or rock or, what I'm going to call, Australian country.

Is alright.

Listened once, album length was daunting, NEED TO RELISTEN!

Actually a pretty good album, no song stands out but overall very enjoyable

chato

1 estrela pra não dar 0.

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

This is a fine record and everything, but almost everything else I've heard by then has been better.

Australsk folk-pop, tematisk, violin

not good

Blinder by the Hour is the standout for me

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

really bad. really really bad. nothing enjoyable

Not for me

Vagabond Holes was a great song, everything else just kind of blends together. not bad , just down the middle rock

Some potential here, but didn’t catch me on the first listen. Might be worth a revisit!