Life Thru A Lens

Just generic post-boyband slop. I'll give it the benefit of the doubt for having some moments that are fun and somewhat enjoyable, but in terms of originality and interest, this album is nothing.

I like Robbie Williams but not sure if it belongs on this list. Boyband pop rock style from the 90s and it is not even his biggest album.

At least for some of the bad albums I can see how it made the list. This is just generic crap

Really?? Of all the records released since 1954. Whatever ridiculously high number that must be, this? Think the editor needs holding to account. Must hear? Mediocrity, generic over produced pop trying too hard to be edgy rock. Lazy rhythms every line, look/book anyone, the sort a Class of 10 yr olds would come up with, cue up the cheeky bad boy shtick, try so hard to not be in a boy band. Set up the image, the producer does the heavy lifting, naff songwriting so I can be real, that is polished by someone else to make it passable. Most definitely not the target audience for Mr Williams, I hadn’t hear this as an album before and don’t think needed to. Side note angel doesn’t sound like it was written by the same crew, no naff rhythmic line shit, a one off lucky punt?? to save the boy band career. Fluff, 2 Stars.

Never thought I'd see a Robbie Williams album here, especially this one, it's just so painfully dull outside of 1 to 2 ok songs ("Angels" (which doesn't seem as good some 18 years later) and "Let Me Entertain You" which is probably and alright party starter)... Everything else is bottom of the barrel musically and lyrically (outside of his dated line about being clean with Charlie Sheen) Would he get better? Debatable....

I don't know, not really a huge fan of this artist. Too poppy for me.

Didn't really like this one.

Just really joy my think. Not the worst pop record. But to me it just comes off as generic without any hooks that make me want to keep listening. Also, didn’t this guy used to be a monkey? 2.5/5

Rating: 4/10 Very generic Britpop, has a few decent moments though.

Ugh. 1997 had so much better music.

I can't believe a chimpanzee made this album.

Not bad, at least he's a proper singer

I know little of RWs music. I had heard Angel and Rock DJ (or something like that). I had heard of Take That - but can’t tell you a song they sing. I do know he is very funny, but that is from watching clips of him on the Graham Norton show. As for this album, it’s pop. Nothing special and nothing horrible. And nothing memorable. I do miss hidden tracks!

Loses a star for making me listen to dead air for almost ten minutes to hear the hidden track (I was in my car). Back atcha, Bob.

The songs on, "Life Thru A Lens" are catchy and have a pop element that is quite commercially accessible, so it was a decent listen that didn't take up too many brain cells with thoughtful subject matter. with that being said, it's too bad it's so generic and "middle of the road" Brit-Pop that it's hard to take seriously as a potential "essential" record, which it isn't. Over produced and overrated, Williams shouldn't be looking at life thru rose-coloured glasses, but through lens of reality that it's not as good as his fans thinks.

Sounds good but not my taste

Obviously he was/is huge in Ireland, and he’s having a moment now with his monkey movie, but honestly why is this on here?

C'mon let meeeeee'eeeee entertain you Langweilig :)

This album left me with the same question I had after watching a biographical movie about a Pop music Superstar as played by a CGI monkey - 'Who the Fuck is Robbie Williams?' I still don't know, but my familiarity of this list knows that anything from the UK pop music charts is going to work its way onto this list one way or another. Too bad my Oscar Death Race was also dragged down by this oatmeal. 2/5

Is this a mistake? A rare win for America for not falling for this works wide phenomenon. I’ve never heard this album before and I could guess the next rhyming lyric with 90 percent accuracy. His voice is also unremarkable bordering on weak. This sounds like an album of cheap songs you would use on a streaming release of a show that couldn’t afford the original hit songs.

This sounds pretty dated to me. It is catchy, but I don't know if it is that exciting. I love a lot of British things, but this one isn't one of them. 2/5

This album isn't bad. Although I am a bit confused as to why it made the list. I would have place Angels on a "1001 Songs you have to listen to before you die" list, but as a whole, the album is fairly insignificant and conventional. 2.5/5

The album cover is better than the album

Yep that's Robbie Williams. Let me entertain you and angels are good pop songs (plus it's only us from the FIFA 2000 soundtrack was a banger) but I don't know how anyone couldnt be sick of him by this point. Absolutely nothing of note from the album tracks. I can give him his dues that the big songs are classics now but Ive had enough now.

What is this doing here..... Embarrassingly this reminded me that I bought a Robbie Williams single CD when it was released. I think it was rock DJ, which apparently came out in 2000, making me old enough to know better :( Anyway, this had probably more guitars than I was expecting, but after all, Robbie is a bad boy as he desperately wants us to know. Recognised the singles, they were unavoidable at the time. Angels was huge. It's rubbish though. None of the rest really did anything for me, but I will concede that it probably wasn't as bad as I feared

eh

These types of albums happen occasionally. This is a boy band member’s solo record attempting to be the one member who gets to escape the sinking ship of nostalgia tours and “Where are They Now?” episodes. We’ve all agreed that there can be only one and this was this guy’s bid to be it from his boy band. This is just the British “Justified”. I could see including this album on a list of the 1001 albums you must hear before you die if (1) I was British 😬 and (2) was of a certain age where this became a phenomenon in the very small place I was from while I was plugged into that place’s popular culture. Oh sorry, I left off (3) if I was a fucking moron and made no effort whatsoever to make an actual list of important and quality records and was deaf and was the stupidest person alive. That was an important one.

Meh. Too pop for my taste.

➕ego agogo, south of the border ➖angels, old before i die oh my god its the ape. coming back to this several months after i initially received this. i kind of understand why he isn’t popular in america. the lyrics are fun and have substance but the sound is so…. toothless? every song kind of sounds like a montage in one of those late 90s early 00s teen shakespeare adaptations. LOVE this album cover though.

++: Ego a Go Go, Let Me Entertain You, Clean +: Lazy Days, Old Before I Die, Killing Me +-: Life thru a Lens, Angels, South of the Border, Baby Girl Window -: One of God's Better People, Hello Sir 6,0/10

I really wanted to hate this album... so I did. How many 90s music bandwagons need to be jumped to revive the career of an overrated boy band singer? Answer: all of them. At its best, it's an album with some inoffensive advert music. At its worst, it's an album with some offensively inoffensive music that would be considered too vanilla for an advert. It's a no from me.

The reason he is not famous in America is because you lot have terrible taste. Mystery solved. Maybe it would be more interesting if he was a monkey or something

Angels and let me entertain you, one star each. The rest is forgettable background music. My wife asked after more than half of the cd, is it all Robbie Williams you're playing? She didnt register that yes. It was all Robbie Williams

This was not as terrible as I expected it to be. So it passed that low bar. It’s a mishmash of styles - hints of Britpop and Pop Punk and then poor renderings of ballads. Not something I would return to.

Although the Angels song is one of my favourites, I'd say I could give 2/2

Not a classic for this list

First time listening to Robbie's debut album, and it actually took me by surprise from the very start. I was not expecting the opening track (Lazy Days) to incorporate the jangly guitar work that encapsulated Britpop in the 90's. The first few tracks do their best to maintain the vibe that the opening created, but the musical composition eventually shifts into a more pop orientated style in the second half of the album. Life Thru a Lens peaks at track 4 with, what is likely to be one of Robbie's biggest hits of his career, 'Angels'. The next song on the album 'South of the Border' is relatively similar in sound to the albums opener with some more upbeat, jangly, britpop-esque, guitar work that really drives the the track along. It's at this point (track 6, 'Old Before I Die') where the album begins to lose me. The slower and more pop-orientated sound from Robbie's previous work with the 1990 Manchester boyband, Take That, really starts to ramp up. The album then finishes with a slow and, honestly, a pretty forgettable piano ballad which then fades out to a solid 10+ minutes of literally nothing, just silence. In the final minute or so of the 14 minute long song, we are farewelled with a spoken-word poem, which I actually kinda liked. (★ ★ 1⁄2) 🤷‍♂️ 59-50 • Okay // has flaws // unsure

For all the flashiness, it just ends up feeling soulless. And that bonus track is the most cringe thing I’ve ever heard.

Music for people who don't know any better. Plenty power-poppy and polished to a near-blinding sheen, state-of-the-art produced and all that, just not very interesting or artful or anything like timeless; editors say "populist," which reads as mass-produced, cynically marketed and broad (so broad). Any fabulousness is fully faux. "Circus is gone/All that's left are the clowns" feels about right. Just, who cares? (Editors are straining in the extreme to call this glam rock – they do rather extremely overrate that genre's influence, don't they?) People like this sort of thing because they lack taste and refinement and so fall for the most obvious sort of power hooks and mawkish balladry. One supposes this could be called well-made, in the way that bad blockbuster movies, overdone ice cream flavors and gargantuan portions at chain restaurants are well made.

Sounds like one of the guys from Oasis stole Beck's music and put out a solo album. Sorta works for novelty, but would never listen to it again.

Но Шуфутинский же реально пизже 5/10

its a 2 everyone knows this

If you’re a C+ British rocker then you’re probably making the list.

Listened Before? N Meh. Pretty generic pop without the spirit of Take That. His voice is the same, but the heart is gone here. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Let Me Entertain You

Pretty ok, not great. Not sure why this is on here tbh.

Would have been better fronted by a CGI monkey. Then again, what wouldn't?

Eh. Not bad for someone do not know, but will not listen again , and probably, will totally forget once album is over. Yep. Sure did, Who is this?

Some of these lyrics are just downright cringe-inducing. All of the music is well-made but utterly bland. I just can't buy into the faux seriousness in every song.

I'm sure that this record was a big deal in it's time, that being said, there's little to no reason I can see that it would be included in a list like this. Nothing that Robbie Williams does is particularly unique or interesting and there's very little reason to listen to this record. He turned out a record that is boring, and retreats the same well worn ground as most of the records produced during the britpop movement. It's not an insufferable listen, just an uninspired one.

Bubblegum pop artist goes solo and tries to hop on the Oasis/britpop bandwagon. How was this supposed to be good?

It's weird, you know, all this time I've been exploring music, trying to expand my tastes, discover new and challenging artists, I was totally unaware that the vast majority of important albums to listen to before I die were mediocre Britpop records from the 90s. Crazy.

Life appears rather, well, lifeless thru this vapid prescription.

Boring overproduced pop bleh. Struggled to get through this one and come up with something to appreciate about it.

Ehh boring british pop,

Well… I’ve listened to this countless times back when it was released - and I do still like the hits, and songs like “One of God’s Better People” but the album takes forever to really get going. And it’s really dated. You can hear that it’s a pop record from 1997.

Not very interesting.

Angels is a good song. And Let Me Entertain You had my attention, sort of. I just couldn't get past the lyrics throughout this whole album. That's my biggest gripe, like they were so bad. I'm not even going to take the time to type out specific examples because I don't want to remember. That hidden bonus track truly had me cringing the most, though. I wasn't familiar with him before this, but I looked up his band Take That, and I definitely know Back for Good. Though I'm not sure I ever had strong feelings about that song, I do strongly feel I did not enjoy this solo effort.

sometimes popheads ask why robbie williams never landed for americans, and it seems like the answer is some combination of: he's ripping off oasis while they're already on the outs, sonically this album is the most england-in-1997 something can possibly be, and lastly this is pretty generic and kinda sucks. 1.5/5

meh

2 stars

Not so painful from its Oasis influences that the album falls into bottom of the barrel territory, but this album still suffers from being so incredibly dull and stereotypical, not to mention derivative of the rock sound that came from across the pond at the time, that it fails to have any memorable identity of its own. I couldn't tell you anything about the instrumentation, or Robbie Williams' voice. It'll always pick the route you expected melodically, it'll always hit you with the easiest rhymes, which leads to some truly terrible lyrics, and it'll always make you groan with each track, without fail.

He's trying to sound like Oasis and The Verve and others who did this so much better. It literally sounded like a cover album except most cover albums still try to make it sound like their own songs. I'm chalking this one up to "big in the UK when the reviewers were active."

It was okay, not really my thing. There were a couple turns of phrase that I liked and "Let Me Entertain You" was my favorite, especially the line "I'm a burning effigy of everything I used to be".

Whoever chose some of th we songs was not considering the person singing them. A song like "South Of the Border" is fine but Ribbit Williams singing it? I don't care if he's a rampaging coke fiend, it's just not believable. The ballads are fine, the lyrics occasionally come off cheesy. I didn't hate this, but I don't feel lik I needed to hear it at all. Favorite tracks: "Life Thru A Lens"

Nothing I found interesting happening here. Competent work but not groundbreaking or moving in any way.

Did the British government pay the authors of this book?

I wasn't expecting this to be anywhere near a top 1000 albums list. Angels is a drunken karaoke banger but the rest of the album is flat and uninspiring. I wouldn't even say this is Robbie Williams best project.

It's a great pop album, without much substance, and not my cup of tea at all.

1.5

Doofer Pop. Stimme ok.

Listened to this while driving from Escondido to Palm Springs. Meh. I had a friend who adored Robbie Williams. I do not share her enthusiasm. Not bad, not great.

Mediocre album at best. The 2 songs that are worth something in this album are not enough to help it push out of mediocracy.

Is this particularly good? No. Am I completely baffled how so many of you in this group hate this but love Oasis? Absolutely.

at first I was thinking I enjoyed it then I listened to the lyrics even a little bit and oof

wth that last track was a jumpscare. srsly though this wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.. I remember singing 'Let Me Entertain You' on Singstar as a kid :))

I am sitting here laughing my ass off while listening to the godawful spoken word. This album has such an awkward sexual identity.

Maybe enjoyable for fans of British tabloids, but for the rest of us, this is like half rate Brit Pop. Watered down for your mum and your nan.

There were some great tunes and I like his voice for the most part but the lyrics stuck out like a sore thumb.

No thank you

This takes Oasis' singalong Britpop and infuses it with megabudget production and pop sensibilities. It's completely inauthentic, utterly shallow, and wholly unadventurous (especially "Angels"), but it just about gets by on charm alone, and it's totally evocative of its time.

we got oasis at home

Gay

Triiiiiiiite

This is butt. Generic 90s pop garbage. Why is this here?

I don't really understand the appeal of Robbie Williams. Apart from giving us the karaoke banger "Angel," this album is pretty mediocre.

There were two songs in the beginning that kind of reminded me of Green Day and the Gin Blossoms?? 👍👍 but then it got bad 👎👎

Oh ok maybe British people don’t know how to make music

Well, now, I never would have thought, that I'd listen to a Robbie Williams album from the beginning to the end. But it confirmed what I expected. Sing-a-song-along but nothing special. Ok for the radio when you're driving but nothing more.

A reluctant second star for Let Me Entertain You

52 minutes long and absolutely nothing of substance.

Angels is like a memory from a distant land like Narnia or Wizard of Oz…

the good, the bad and the boring would be a more fitting title for this album

Below-average Britpop from a bloke who can't really sing. Boosted to 2 stars because of the presence of a couple of classics from my childhood.

Everything on this album sounds like a rip-off of a different British artist, with one of the weirdest tracklists I've ever listened to. It's obvious he's been listening to a lot of Oasis, Beatles, Queen and Elton John while recording this, and the result is a compilation of mediocrity. Sometimes it's very obvious he's still mentally in a boyband, but weirdly enough, there were also songs where he was trying to go more rock and even punk (?!). Anyway, it's not that I hate generic pop or former boyband members (I like some stuff Justin Timberlake and Harry Styles have put out) but this guy just never appealed to me. He's got some decent radio hits, but his voice has always annoyed me. I will say that Angels is a decent song, though. Everything else on this album is either meh or borderline unlistenable. 2 stars

Bland pop. Didn’t like.

Formulated 90's brit pop. Nothing really new or exciting per se but not irritating enough to turn off either.

Trite, derivative, over polished pop.

Generic pop. Less fun then i was hoping for.

wait what did he say about golden showers

Really like Angels but that's about it. As a Robbie Williams fan, I didn't really enjoy this, prefer his later work. This album is trying too hard to be Oasis and he doesn't seem to have found his uniqueness yet.

This does not sound like music made by someone who has something to say. It's fine and well made but it's not emotionally compelling to me. I almost feel like I am missing something but it is a bit formulaic to me. I might like it if a tune randomly came in top 40 radio, or maybe not.

The Oasis influence is very apparent. It's declawed enough that its lukewarm Oasis sounds like really insipid Beatles. This is not for me.

Oof, looking back this sounds too much like a guy trying to distance himself from his boyband past. Also, how the hell was 'Angels' not the lead single from this album???

I a frenzied pursuit to distance himself from his boy band past, Robbie Williams’ debut is a mediocre britpop album that just happens to also contain one banger rock anthem and a legendary ballad.

All over the place

Harmless, bland bubblegum pop posing as sophisticated alt-rock.

Dude has a decent voice but the album was so impossibly boring to listen to.

Bland and inoffensive. I'm tempted to bump this down to a 1 because of Angels but nothing else here is that awful

Það er frekar ómögulegt að skilja af hverju þessi platar ratar inn á listann. Í besta falli eru þarna 2 lög sem skilja eitthvað eftir sig.

I don't really see why this was an album I had to listen to before I died. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't anything amazing. It felt like a lot of pop albums and could be played on Bob FM. I wouldn't change it, but I am also not seeking it out.

He sounds like the Pet Shop Boys singer if he went into generic rock instead of cool synthpop

Not my cup of tea. Sorry

I actually enjoyed a lot more than I thought I would. It's really good. But I've given so many amazing albums a 3, because classic albums are a 4, so this can not be a 3. But it's a very good fucking 2.

I didn't like the album then and have not gained greater appreciation for it now.

It's really nothing special. Not particularly good, but also not particularly bad. I can listen to it, but there really isn't anything there to really reach out to me to bring me back in after this initial listen.

Perfectly fine 90s britpop album, doesn't really offer anything interesting or even creative for that matter, last track on the album is called 'clean' has a line "I'm clean, yeah / friends with Charlie sheen, yeah" which has aged about as well as this record has

Not as bad as I expected, but not great. I knew the 2 biggest hits from the album. They were everywhere at the time. The rest of the album sounds more like a less miserable version of Oasis. I expected a more danceable album. Favorite song: Ego Agogo.

Besides from Angels this is not that interesting. In fact that song gets the record it’s two stars.

Painfully generic. Let me entertain you is a banger. But I can't understand why this below average album is on this list.

Felt like I was late for my bus in a DCOM montage

Unremarkable if unoffensive album. Took me a few minutes to realize it was even over after it ended. 2/5

It is a no!

OH BROTHER, THIS GUY STINKS!

Very similar to Oasis

I don't understand how this made the list. Less than mediocre.

Well, it doesn't seem that bad, but that may be because I generally like the artists he's primarily borrowing from, from the Beatles to Elton John to Oasis and Blur. If I wasn't so critical about music, it would be fine. But I am, and it's not.

Very average.

A lot of these songs are offensively bad: Life Thru a Lens, Ego Agogo, Killing Me, Clean. The lyrics are mostly embarrassing, and Robbie's voice has never been a strength. Angels is ok, else I don't have much anything nice to say about this. 1.8/5

This is just a bland pop album. Not sure why it's on this list.

It's got that one song everybody knows, and another that's not bad, but the rest of the album? Meh.

A couple of catchy songs but not convinced it belongs on the list.

Like two fun songs and the rest are meh. Weird lyrics but it didn't make me actively sad to listen to.

Shitty Brit-pop. Yucky.

This is awful. Robbie Williams is the British Meatloaf.

I thought Robbie Williams was some kind of superstar. I hear nothing close to that characterization.

unfamiliar Lazy Days-ok Robbie, I see you... Life Thru A Lens-Won't be a favorite The rest sounded pretty much the same. Was background noise, unfortunately, and I'm not invested enough to replay.

Wasn’t expecting a Robbie album to be on the list, everyone’s mum in the UK in the 90’s probably bought this album. So it probably has some merit. To be fair the singles from the album are strong, old before I die, angels, let me entertain you. But the rest of the album is generic pop/rock filler. So I can’t agree with the statement that you should listen to this album before you die, so 2 out of 5.

Apparently every album that has a song used for football chants is notable to Mr. Dimery

Not bad. I’ve never listens to his music before. I guess it skims a little deeper than pop, but still to saccharine for me

Parempi kun muistin mutta kyl tää on tällänen madonreikä karaokebaariin. Angels vitun bängeri, mut mun mielestä levy roikkuu hittiensä varassa. 2/5

No johan on valinta listalle. Britti toki. Hitit ihan jees, mutta eipä juuri muuta.

Plääh tulee mieleen autokyydit ja radio nova. Vaikeaa jotenkin ottaa omana taideteoksenaan. 2/5

2.5

Meh

Lousy music. No substance. Why is the album on the list?

It was fine for playing in the background. I wouldn’t play this again. Most of the songs sounded the same.

I turned this album on expecting to hate it - for no reason other than the stupid cover - and was pleasantly surprised by the first song. But the rest of the album is decidedly mediocre.

riff after riff. Often imitated, never duplicated.

👼👼

Wow this is really not great. Super dated, and not easy to listen to. I will say some of the songs on here are fine. Others are not good.

Competent but meh. Feels like market research corporate middle of the road coattail riding photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy pop. Although I will confess to his song Millenium being a guilty pleasure of mine.

I’ve been doling out 4s and 5s all over the place lately, it was only a matter of time before the algorithm threw me a dud. So meh, I feel like there was a ton of this stuff in the late 90s. Some very good but most not interesting. This is a solid chunk o’ boredom.

I liked the first few songs alright. The quality dropped off after that, and this just drug on. Not my cup of tea.

2.5

This is a little too much on the generic pop side for me to really stand out and feel meaningful. There’s some good tracks, but it’s not for me.

Mediocre at best.

Some are really bad. A couple are just ok. I do love Angels.

Not the kind of music I would generally listen too, but not unplesent

After The Man Who the second chazza shop classic on this list. Angels would be pretty near the top of 1001 Songs You Never Need to Hear Again. Apart from that and other inescapable single Let Me Entertain You it's still a breeezy if featherlight pop listen. And the most childish F U teachers every committed to tape at the end. 2.5 but rounded down for that.

Boring Oasis

Gear: Sony WF-1000XM4 Mische: belanglos Musik: belanglos (okay "Angels" ist ne geile Nummer) Wertung: 2/5

Very nice sound. The lyrics are pretty stupid and predictable but it sounds nice. Definitely makes me wonder who the hell Robbie William's is because his profile looks like he smells his own shit for fun. Sounds like it would steal the show on a Shrek soundtrack. It also sounds like whoever made these sounds was never told no and I feel like he would label himself a self-titled genius, I get that vibe because the songs sound like they were made for a certain emotion in mind it was absolutely INTENDED, but it was done through very on the nose spoon-fed lyrics. It reeks of look at my songwriting skill yet falls short to prove it, but still pretty listenable.

Hey i never knew the Oasis brothers did a Smash Mouth album! “I know a freaky lady named Cocaine Katie” is apparently my sleeper-assassin activation phrase.

If Robbie Williams tried to be Oasis. It's exaclty what you would expect from his first solo album. Very clean and very Britpop. Its not boring but ultimatly forgettable.

After all a undeniable good pop album, offering a refreshing take on the genre. While I acknowledge its quality and the appealing ambiance, it's not entirely my style. Some high-pitched parts don't resonate with my taste, but overall, it's a solid pop album.

felt like i was watching the opening credits of a 90s movie about teenagers but with an intended audience of 11 year olds. goofy but whatever,

First track is middle of the road bland. Power-pop is a good description. This was his debut solo album after Take That ‘influenced by Brit pop’. I can hear Supergrass Alright & Boo Radleys & Oasis in here but I really do not like his voice, it’s weak and nasally. The first few tracks are just so predictable nothing to them, they try to excite but there’s no soul. Then along comes ‘Angels’ and it’s one of those moments when everything falls into place - simply one of the greatest songs ever written & Robbie’s voice is perfect on this. I discovered this song in the best way - I’d been away abroad & had completely missed it then came back home to the UK to watch singer after singer attempt this at pub karaokes. For a long time I thought it was an old 60s or 70s song, it feels like it’s always been around. This song has reached the very heart & soul of Britain, almost like a national anthem and I think still the most selected at funerals, a demonstration of how powerful, emotive & transformative music can be. But then the next track starts and the magic is gone and it never comes back, this LP is a one hit wonder. I actually thought ‘Let Me Entertain You’ was a cover, I’ve always thought that but I’ve always hated it. As I said earlier it’s like someone trying to generate energy & excitement & it falls down flat as a pancake, nothing worse than that. This LP should not be on this list. Robbie is an amazing loveable personality & this was a huge news story at the time but this is not an album anyone needs to listen to, it’s so derivative & predictable. Angels as a track 100% but not all this. Shaking my head at ‘Clean’ it’s terrible. The slower songs / ballads on this are the better ones, the attempts at britpop fall flat and are cringe. Should be a 1 star but the magnificent Angels drags it just up to 2

Immature ramblings of an entitled and obnoxious 90's fuckboy. You get the point after one 3-minute long idiotic chest-beating song, and yet he continued on for a full 52 minutes and 46 seconds. The only redeeming moment is Angels. A moment when the douchebag veneer is cracked, and a human person shines through all the other shit on this album. I will give him credit for doing the work of actually writing these songs, not a lot of pop acts contribute anything to their "work". And you know, he was hot. Pop superstardom has been achieved by uglier ducks than him, so the ego is par for the course. Sidenote: ugggh, I hate "hidden" tracks. What a waste of time and space. I hate that this became such a popular thing to do in the CD era.

not good. 90s uk music was weird. sounds like blur and oasis and austin powers and all of the rest of them. id give it a 3 but the more of these albums i come across i realize i have to get more drastic with ratings, this isn't a 2 as in the garbage that was the cure/REM but its not as good as some i've given 3s. His voice is actually pretty good. The music is just formulaic and mostly uninteresting, and the songs themselves feel very time and place and trying to be what was popular at the time. angels is the corniest fucking song. all of these songs are fucking corny.

This just sounds like standard 90s pop rock. 2/5

For a top pop artist there are just a lot of unmemorable tunes. Even Angels feels a bit unengaging listening on your own.

Gaudy and gleaming, this rocks a bit more than one would have expected from a boy band alum and a tabloid-y star, but anything remotely approaching soulful is buried under an excess of dubious effects pointed squarely at the mass market (and probably quite well researched, too). The mawkish "God's Better People" gives the game away. The world would be a better place if fewer people cared about such mass-produced/mass-marketed outputs as this or needy-reaching mediocrities as RW, who seems to want to be a celeb more than anything else. One pities those young people who might have been captivated however briefly (and one cetainly hopes it was brief) by all the soaring and reaching or thought it coudln't get any better or more meaningful. Really, who cares? Speaking as. a Yank, one's glad this was mainly an Anglo phenomenon, a British invasion that would have been pretty easily resisted. Mostly forgettable and totally disposable pop. Points off for ever being in an boy band.

Sorry Robbie, but listening to this album in this context really highlights how two dimensional cut and paste pop it is.

Robbie has his place and it is not on a list of essential albums Not a 1 because Angels is a classic and LMEY is fun (and should be the first track) Outside of those two this is pretty dull stuff

From the lead singer of the boy band Take That, he sings the most stereotypical British pop music out there. Songs like "South of the Boarder" and "Old Before I Die" prove he's trying hard to mimic Oasis but not having any idea how to craft a good song. At least there's creative effort put into the production effects, but there's nothing of value in his voice or instruments, and the song structures are just so predictable and boring. Most of it is trash but at least the weird synths and samples make it a bit intriguing.

Boy band bad boy does Britpop plus 'Angels'. Definition of inessential. 'Let Me Entertain You' owes Bon Jovi a writing credit.

And here I thought Robbie Williams just made music for FIFA game menu screens. There is a fun energy to some songs here and some funny lyrics. Many of the lyrics are trite, though, and the ballads completely lost me. I found this fairly juvenile and inconsequential.

De flesta britpopiga låtarna här låter som något som inte skulle kommit med på ett Blur- eller Oasisalbum. Därför förstår jag inte riktigt varför jag ska lyssna på det här. Ibland är det bra, när albumet viker av från 90-talets britpopvåg och gör något eget. Som i fina 'One of God's Better People', 'Angels', som får mig att känna som jag är med i en film, eller extremt underhållande 'Let Me Entertain You'. Tyvärr är dessa avvikelser, och det blir oftast bara slätstruket och ointressant. Har ändå tänk att det finns guilty pleasure-potential i Robbie Williams, så blev lite besviken. Bästa låt: Let Me Entertain You.

Partly heard before Saved 3/11 Top track: Let Me Entertain You

quite banal as he is

Definitely not my kind of music. It’s overproduced and doesn’t feel genuine.

The classic “boy-band-member-goes-solo-and-releases-a-slightly-less-pop-album” trope that’s been around since, idk, forever? Most of this record is super poppy britpop. Not bad but nothing special either. The kind of CD that constantly clutters thrift shops.

I am only familiar with one Robbie Williams song and that is his cover of Beyond the Sea on Finding Nemo. Disappointingly this cover was not on the album and the music was nothing like that all. The album is best described as Brit Pop. It was not particularly good and I do not plan on listening to it again or other Robbie Williams music.

Robbie Williams is clearly trying to shake off his boy band roots here. He attempts pop punk early in the album and settles mostly on a weak Britpop like sound. He is a great singer, but the songwriting is nothing special and the music is derivative. The last spoken word track is excruciating.

Angels is a banger of course the rest is decent enough pop delivered with a wink which stood him out at the time but doesn't stand up years later. 2

Not for me

Maybe you had to be there?

This was some Brit pop rubbish if I’ve ever heard it. The songs were so jumbled in sound and lacked cohesion. This sounded like a boy band trying to be oasis. It wasn’t very good however in comparison to many albums on this list it’s still okay but would not revisit it. 4.0/10

Not sure about this one Robbie tries his best Liam Gallagher impression on a lot of these songs Angels is decent, as is Let Me Entertain You (even though it shamelessly rips off Sympathy For The Devil)

Trying to keep in mind things that ‘sell well’ are generally worth considering for a list like this for sure I didn’t hate it as much as I thought I would. The music is seriously dated sonically, but I actually think he’s a good vocalist. For real he sounds good. I also dig the move away from whatever-the-fuck genre of Take That to this ‘britpop’ feel (yes it’s overproduced, yes it’s maybe a thin-ish facade over multi-writer/multi-producer/label-engineered ‘standard’ pop a la Britney Spears, but it’s coming close to fooling me haha) Angels is a legit radio monster and almost enough to push this to 3 stars... but not quite.

I had not heard of the artist or heard any of his music that I can recall. Always great to hear something new. I listened to it and it was...okay. I have to admit that although I can hear the skill in the performances, I just never felt that pulled into it or all that interested. I can see why this album appeals to some listeners, but not so much to me.

Harry Styles of the 90s

A very “safe” (read: vanilla) blend of Britpop, Madchester, Elton John, and Williams’ own pop roots. Makes Oasis seem like Motörhead.

Couple of absolute snorters on this one Angels, Old Before I Die and Lazy Days. Rest is bang average. However, I’m removing a star as the fat fucker is one reprehensible human being.

I'm not British so I've not listened to Robbie Williams before. I was vaguely aware of his existence being generally interested in music as a teenager in the late 90s. I probably saw reviews of his records in magazines and the like, but never took the time to investigate any further. Now, all these years later, I now know I made the right choice.

Wowza, boring as 90s pop as it gets. Completely forgettable radio-friendly disposable music.

Listened Before? No Never heard of this guy before, but there are two songs on the album with oodles of listens. As a general sentiment, Brit pop rock is not among my favorite genres. Lazy Days is fine for what it is, but doesn't get me going. The title track adopts a bit more alt flavor that parallels post-Dookie Green Day or some Offspring songs. Ego Agogo is a boppy pop-rock song; kind of fun tbh. Most listened to single "Angles" sounds like a Christian rock song in the worst of ways. Not a fan. Alright, this really hasn't gotten any better the longer it has gone on. I could see how this would appeal to someone. There isn't anything outright offensive, and the production is fine, if at times pretty flat. For me, this isn't it -- I have no interest in finishing the last two songs on the record after pausing. Solid 2 / 5 for me. Added to Library? NO

I really thought this would be better. Fav track: Angels

Robbie's never really been my flavour of pop rock aside from a few undeniable bangers. This didn't really change things for me - I found it to be mostly duds, with cheesy production and lyrics even on the big tracks, and I don't think Robbie has the persona to carry them over the top. Fave track: Hello Sir

A couple good tracks washed out by a lot of crap ones. The boring production on this makes it a slog at times, and the key change at the end of Old Before I Die nearly made my brain pop like a balloon. Not great pop here for the most part. Fave track: Let Me Entertain You

HL: "Let Me Entertain You", "Old Before I Die", "Angels" Very much middle-of-the road stuff overall. It can be energetic, and catchy, but there's something I'm craving that wasn't there. Using my surface-level research, I've concluded that it's a safe bet from an already established singer-songwriter in the UK that borrowed sounds from the hitmakers of '97, and sold a load of copies. It doesn't do a lot for me now, but I have nothing against it

Boy, I sure have learned that I don’t like britpop. It sounds like what 90’s tv movies for kids look like. I didn’t hate the whole album, but every time I came close to liking a song I’d hear the dumbest imaginable rhyme and lose interest. Ego Agogo in particular sounds like a cut track from an Austin Powers soundtrack.

I didn't like this.

Boring pop-rock. It’s not particularly bad, but one could also say that it’s not entirely ground breaking or creative, either. It’s like you take the powerful electric guitar away from Lenny Kravitz and you’re left with this.

Mediocre.

This isn't really it for me. I can hear some Oasis in this, but with too much of a poppiness to it. Not something I'll revisit but not the worst thing I've heard in my life.

Il y a quelque chose dans la voix de Robbie Williams qui ne me revient pas. Les thèmes me semblent plus anecdotiques. Il faudrait qu'on m'explique pourquoi cet album s'est classé au palmarès dans son genre

Angel is still a beautiful song and the rest is better then expected. But it’s still sometimes so cringe that it’s hard to listen to.

OK, I was thinking "maybe I've heard the name 'Robbie William' but not totally sure." Definitely have never heard of his original band, Take That. Chalk it up to the hard-on for UK bands, maybe it'll be good.... Yeah, no. I saw that Angels had 420M plays on spotify so I figured I'd surely heard this guy. Nope. And god damn, the poppy stuff was so boring and derivative and then Angels was his slow ballad that just sounded like a really poor Elton John impression.

This album felt like something I had heard before, no particular reason beyond maybe just radio music when we were kids in the car. Not sure why this is on the list as it just felt like basic late 90's pop. Oh, surprise surprise he is from the UK.

Life Thru A Lens, Angels, Old Before I Die, Let Me Entertain You and Clean. I didn’t have to listen to this. 5/10

Not sure if I primed myself unfairly for Robbie, but his lyrics take the fore unfortunately. Nothing but the poem is particularly objectionable; I'm just happy not to have waited a hidden-track silence for it.

Would I characterize this album as "bad?" I would not. Does it sound like Robbie Williams doesn't have his own personality and essentially tries to do karaoke versions of songs that sound like Oasis but were not written by Oasis? Yes, it does. Nothing bad here and there are 2-3 really great tracks that can be found on this album. I don't see anything different or a compelling reason to listen to this album, no matter whether you were a Take That fan or a fan of music. Comparing this album to Harry Styles debut album is like night and day, as Styles challenges himself and doesn't feel like he's creating hits that sound like other hits. Not a bad album, but in no way deserves a spot in this book.

Si soy sincero, sí se siente algo genérico. A pesar de esto, no creo que sea malo, solo, eso, le falta tomar riesgos. Aún así, prefiero esto a algo tan arriesgado que se nota a leguas que solo se hizo para ser aclamado por pretensiosos y ser puesto en un pedestal cuando ni si quiera suena bien como varios de los álbumes que eh escuchado hasta ahora (que no son muchos). Finalmente, le doy 2 no por que sea malo en sí, si no por que, realmente, no creo que pertenezca a esta lista

Robbie what on Earth are you doing here??

wow, dette var dårlig. Let me entertain you, på den andre siden, er sinnsykt fengende.

When a mainstream pop artist (and former member of a cheesy boys band) takes a page out of the book of Britpop to sing his way to a more respected position. The thing is, the overall result is patchy, with some good moments in it and others that are, well, not so good. You can't be Oasis or Blur if it's not in your blood from the get-go. The two first tracks slap, I'm not gonna lie. Indeed, "Lazy Days" and "Life Through A Lens" display effective songwriting, epic melodic lines, and smart chord changes. After them, "Ego Agogo" is catchy, I guess, even if it's also a little annoying. The next track, "Angels", is a saccharine cut that left quite a huge impression in the UK (I know, I lived there for a while not too long after this record came out). And as far as reenactments of Elton John-styled ballads go, you could find far worse out there. So, the first four tracks are solid. Too bad that everything after soon peters out into indistinctive tunes following the same template of those early songs without having their strength. Oh, "Let Me Entertain You" is another catchy one for sure (that's another track that was huge in Britain at the time). But just like "Ego Agogo", it can turn into an annoying gimmicky showcase about William's mischievous public persona. Which means "all surface, no substance", a critique that can actually be addressed to the album itself. And I'd even say that listening to such a shallow record decades after its release mostly emphasizes this major flaw here. I hesitate between 2/5 and 3/5 here (2.5?). But even with this hesitation still in mind, you don't need a dozen photographers to get the picture, I guess... Number of albums left to review or just listen to: a little more than 600, I've temporarily lost count here Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens:  approximately a half so far  Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: a quarter Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more important): the last quarter (including this one)

Är väl ok om det spelas nån låt på radio. Annars rätt ointressant.

Fairly forgettable pop. It was a pleasant enough listen but no songs really stood out to me and I can’t see myself revisiting this album.

I can see how people might be into this genre. Not for me. I’ll pass.

Robbie Wiliams is a mediocre, boy-band dropout, brit-pop tough guy with a neck tattoo. Don't get me wrong, I like pop music. Good pop music. Good music needs to be authentic. It needs to feel authentic. I got the feeling that an authentic spoiled rich kid doesn't think it's fair to be famous. Is it unfair for a wealthy, successful, handsome man to be famous? If you took Mathew Sweet and stripped away creativity, earnestness, and great hooks and replaced it with predictability, stale songs, and great looks, you would have this fucking moose knuckle. I hope he goes bald before he dies. I think I will listen to some Mathew Sweet and forget all about lil' Rob. 2 out of 5 stars (because the title track is listenable if you ignore the subject matter).

PREFS : Life Thru a Lens, Let Me Entertain You MOINS PREF : Kiss My Ass/Hello, Sir

Het voelt totaal niet als een album als geheel, maar meer als een verzameling losse flodders bij elkaar. Er staan dan natuurlijk wel 2 kneiters van hits op en die maken het nog wel enigszins de moeite waard. Maar ondanks dat ik in een week vol 3en zit, kan ik hier zelfs geen magere 3 voor geven. Totaal nietszeggend album.

Not a fan, vocals are not great and seem to be tuned. It’s something that could play in the back ground but can’t see spending time with this album.

Niets spannends, wel een paar goede nummers. Luistert ok weg. Niet erg vernieuwend, soort van logisch uitvloeisel van Britpop.

Very British, very 90s, very boring.

Un album moyen qui a probablemrnt fait de gros hits. 2.90

After listening to this album I understand why I only heard Angels and Let Me Entertain You. The rest is mediocre and can be skipped. Not really an album you have to listen to.

I'm imagining a record producer in the 90's, totally gakked on cocaine, screaming at the top of his longs in a studio control room "MAKE IT MOOOOORE BRI' 'IISSHHHHHH!!!!" Seriously, this is hilarious in how just how Brit-pop it is. He literally sings "jolly good" in the first damn song. Too pop-y and polished for my liking.

I follow a decent amount of music groups that are meant to be UK based, so sometimes artists who are big there but never crossed over to the states come up. Robbie Williams isn’t quite to the taste of those particular groups, but he’s a good example of one. Huge in Europe, practically unknown here. And yeah, not my thing. D… +?

Really? Really really? OK, so obviously Williams comes from the background of Take That. He's got some talent, we can't deny that, but what he has in spades is ego. This comes through more than anything else on this album. He went to great lengths to ride the post-Britpop, post-boyband wave and collected songs that complimented his style. Can't fault him - he plugged in with exactly the right people at the right time. Is his style enduring? No. Clearly not. Was he of his time? Yes. This album is almost painfully 1990s. As someone who was there, "Angels" cannot help but bring back images of the penultimate song in the nightclub, when all the girls had sensibly gone off to find taxis home, this song would come on and a load of beery-teary blokes would stand in geet big circles, arms draped companionably over each other's shoulders, singing this at the top of their lungs to demonstrate to any straggling women that they were decent blokes and not beer-swilling monsters. This album is OK. It's not great. It's certainly not something I'd include in list of must-listens, but it's OK. One thing I will suggest though, is to go off and find the video of Robbie Williams on stage with Tom Jones at the 1998 Brit Awards. Williams is trying so very hard, bless him. He's doing well. The crowd are enjoying him. It's good. And then he introduces Tom Jones and the crowd goes FUCKING NUTS. Jones outclasses him effortlessly in every possible way. It's so cute to watch Williams strut around trying to get himself noticed while Jones has the crowd eating from the palm of his hand. Can't recommend it enough!

Wholly generic and uninteresting, but also inoffensive. Not one single piece of this album was memorable with the exception of the "secret track" which I actually quite enjoyed, where was that pithy delivery and irreverent tone for the rest of the album?? Best tracks: 'Hello Sir' and I guess Killing Me

I paused listening to these albums for a few weeks and on Monday of this week I got an email saying "you will get top rated albums this whole week if you reactivate your project today" so I reactivated. Then today (Saturday) I get this shit. WTF.

A couple semi-catchy songs here, but yeah... Mostly just bland Brit-pop type stuff. Probably not worth revisiting.

As a fellow Valiant and Stokie I should like him, but his music's not for me. A couple of well written sings

Came in to this determined to overturn my long held contempt for Robbie Williams and this album. Couldn't. It's a mixture of dullness, and shit rhymes.

Shallow pop produced with an obviously large budget is still shallow pop music.

Not horrible just uninspiring

I don't feel like this has earned a place on the list.

1996: ex-member of boy band Take That is seen partying with Oasis 1997: he releases Life Thru A Lens, a pop rock britpop album that sounds a lot like Oasis' hit album (What's the Story) Morning Glory? from just two years ago. I am not bold enough to claim that Robbie Williams ripped off Oasis, but it would be no coincidence that he was likely recording these songs as he was rubbing shoulders with the UK's biggest band after their biggest album broke records. If we are to include Robbie Williams in the britpop picture, he is an afterthought. Maybe there's something to be said about the single Angels, but I would hesitate to give him credit based off that song alone. For the record, I don't think Life Thru A Lens is a bad album. It's just so uninteresting and reminds me other music I would prefer to listen to. Robbie Williams is not a great songwriter. Producer Guy Chambers works with what he's given and does a pretty good job making them sound fit for general audiences. I don't think it deserves much more praise beyond that. That album art rules though.

Kind of superficial I think? Didn't resonate with me

Nah, mate. The songwriting is boring and the performances are lazy. I can only imagine this dude is even a thing because the ladies think he's right fit. There are too many great bands from the UK for me to believe that the Brits like their music as boring as their food. And this is bland as hell. Hard pass.

Meh.

Alright. Some decent tunes and one very good. Just heavily produced with little end product.

didnt resonate with me a ton very British, very oasis inspired 2.5

Maybe this had appeal in 1997, but for the life of me, I cannot see it. It's pretty shallow pop. I don't know much about Williams and I've never heard of Take That, but this album (what I could actually hear of it given that half of it isn't actually on Spotify) mostly seemed like a guy trying to find his voice on his own with mixed results. Stylistically, it's literally all over the place, and none of it feels genuine. Angels has almost 400 million plays on Spotify, but I've literally never heard that song in my life. Maybe he just didn't make the jump across the pond? Standouts: Old Before I Die, I guess

This was fine pop music, nothing special to me.

Minus two for making milquetoast whisper pop. Minus one for being an insufferable douchebag. Best track: Baby Girl Window

Absolutely destroyed the indie sound at the 90s with his cod psycho babble. I hated this them I hate it now. Interestingly though the only thing I could engage with and that felt as if it meant something was a hidden track where he has a go at hos old teacher. Enjoyed that so saved it from a 1 still arse crumpets though.

4/10. Not only was this album rather mediocre, it wasn't on Spotify so now YouTube will think I like this crap

Crap. 4/10

Feels so vapid and flat. Sure the production and performances are fine, but these songs are about nothing.

sin más

It's not a bad album, but I just don't see why I needed to listen to this before I die.

Pffft okay.

Is it just me or is he trying to emulate Liam Gallagher’s nasal voice sometimes through the record? Tbh, I don’t see anything special in the song Angels. 😅 I agree with most people saying that this album is some kind of weird, vague mixture between Oasis and Blur.

Heard before: no I don’t know. I’ll probably still sing along to Angels or Let Me Entertain You if they come on in a social setting, but the album is lowest common denominator pop-rock. Robbie has some charisma, true, but isn’t so great a singer that he can carry this whole project by himself.

Mixed bag. It started solid, but ranged from boring to okay after that. I did enjoy the closer. Overall, not bad but nothing I'd go out of my way to really hear again.

Pretty vanilla.

mehhhh

Great stuff and Robbie's a mensch but entirely pop which is not my bag.

Britpop saído de boy band, ou seja, não é pra mim.

I can think of 1001 albums that should be on this list instead of this one. Saved from one star due to memories of belting out Angels in karaoke 20 years ago.

not for me

Ok. Couple of good songs, but it's background stuff at best. I was debating two or three stars, but Baby Girl's Window added an extra layer of wedding band blandness.

Too polished, shiny and manufactured. There are some tunes here, but unfortunately the slick production does the LP no favours. The vocals sound straight out of fame school. Not offensive, but not great!

Couple good songs. Mostly inoffensive dross

oh no. the robster.

My first two-star album here. Generic brit-pop with cheesy lyrics based on dopey rhymes.

Nothing special, and certainly no Escapology.

Mid-

Good album

I do not like the 90s.

The question about British singer/songwriter Robbie Williams is: which is larger, his talent or his ego? Clearly, he’s got a strong and beautiful voice. And clearly, he’s in love with himself. On ‘Let Me Entertain You’ when he deigns to ‘entertain’ the young girl of that evening, lifting her up and away from her dreary, boring existence and her clueless parents, he probably thinks of himself as providing a public service. I bet he strikes various poses in the mirror, admiring his good looks, while she’s giving him head. Tell me you can’t see that on the album cover. Look, the songs are well composed and arranged (although the lyrics are aimed exclusively to his fan base- young women), the LP is magnificently produced, the band polished; but Robbie’s unrestrained ego just spoils the whole thing. In fact, it’s so large that it literally crowds out any instrumental solos among a band that’s very good. No, I take it back, there was one brief guitar solo on ‘Clean’ (his self-congratulation for sobering up), but he was actually talking in the background over it. On ‘Old Before I Die,’ a chance for him to share significant insights into the human condition that he’s learning, he offers this bit of sagaciousness: ‘I hope to live to see the day the Pope get’s high.’ I mean, c’mon. 'Life Thru A Lens' starts off promising, with a high energy, positive vibe. ‘The world can change (quickly)…’ so enjoy every day, every moment; and, together, ‘let’s have a jolly good time.’ The only trouble is Robbie doesn’t really need you or me or even the sun to enjoy it with. We’re all, including the sun, revolving around him, and lucky just to be basking in his rays. And to end the LP with a spoken word ‘Fuck You, look at how great I became,’ to some teacher who, allegedly, didn’t see his gloriousness, is just in bad taste; and betrays his gross lack of humility. A real waste of a real talent.

This feels like a mediocre britpop album. This was a pleasant listen, but no ne of the songs stand out here as more than generic. There was a sprinkling of nice instrumentation here. I think I heard some mellotron on 'one of God's better people' which was a pleasant surprise on an otherwise mediocre track. On ‘clean’ Robbie tries to be sgt pepper with a middle of the road guitar solo. The hits are far too overplayed for me to take seriously, but there are some solid (read:three stars) songs on here most notably 'ego agogo' Overall I think this deserves a 2 star. It’s a pleasant but unremarkable listen.

Teilweise besser als gedacht, aber insgesamt schon recht ekliger Pop.

Not a wordsmith. Harmless and unmemorable. Couple decent pop songs (Angels and Let Me Entertain You), but the rest is nothing. 2.5/5.

We have arrived at yet another Brit Pop album from the 90s/00s that seems to have no other purpose on this list than the author's familiarity and affection for the genre. I always find these inclusions particularly galling because I've encountered so many incredible lesser-known albums through this list, yet I'm also being forced to listen to innocuous bullshit like this. It's not bad, but it's certainly not ground-breaking, genre-defining, finely-crafted, or, for that matter, enjoyable to listen to. But at least I know that Robbie Williams is loving angels instead now. I can't think where my life would be without that bit of eternal wisdom, whatever the fuck it means 2/5

Saved Prior: None Off Rip: Killing Me Cutting Edge: None Overall Notes: This is what I imagine Blur trying to do an adult contemporary album would sound like. So not for me it's crazy. 1.5 that I'll round up cus I think this is a target audience issue.

Very strong 2, while I like angels and entertain you, as a project I was a bit underwhelmed

Too poppy for me, Didn’t quite entertain me, So sorry Robbie. 3/10

Angel and Let Me Entertain You are iconic songs but the whole album is just a mediocre example of 90’s Brit pop. A lot of Robbie William songs are total misses.

I will sing unrelatable songs about being rich and famous as a form of therapy and you will listen and I will sell more records that will make me more rich and more famous but I’ll still be miserable so I’ll just keep making more of these and because it’s got a big expansive BritPop influenced sound and I contributed the odd lyric or two I’m now an artist allbeit one with a fairly grating and unsubtle voice lacking in nuance and subtlety (sing big!) and Angels will be played at countless funerals and weddings and montages for charity appeals and let me show you my Mick or Freddy tribute act on Let Me Entertain You (this will open every gig I ever do henceforth - easy!) and the money’s nice but not the fame but what choice do I have?

Kinda tacky to me

It was nice bland pop.

First Listen (in a long time). I love the song Angels. A couple of the songs I remember from long ago but barely. I loved some of the later Robbie Williams albums, I don't know why I never got into this one. I need to hear it more to judge it properly. 2/5 for now.

Not my cup of tea.

This isn't my cup of tea.

5/10

Like aldous snow but winier. FUCKING ROBBIE WILLIAMS

Sounds like something someone else is sentimental for

A fine style of music that is enjoyable enough but didn't really do anything for me. Wasn't able to find this specific album so had to listen to another of gis

Sono partito con talmente tanto pregiudizio che alla fine la mia esperienza non è stata brutta come aspettavo. In generale, a volte la voce di Robbie mi ha infastidito (soprattutto quando fa la voce nasale graffiante, che un po' mi ricorda Liam), alcune canzoni non sarebbero male, ma le trovo denaturalizzate da arrangiamenti troppo pop e strumenti suonati in maniera super pulita. Avvolte, sembra tutto finto e sterile, spesso a discapito anche della voce di Robbie. Alla fine comunque, ripeto, non è stata un'esperienza pessima. 2

Un po' ero curioso e speravo di rimanere sorpreso: non a questo giro. Forse la cosa che mi ha sorpreso di più è la voce di Robbie che comunque non è male e c'ha i suoi momenti anche interpretativi. Il resto è un mazzo di canzoni palesemente modaiole che spunta un po' tutte le caselle per vendere (pure il punk rock commerciale alla Green Day). L'ho odiato un po' ma non tantissimo, e mediamente ho avuto l'impressione che si sia voluto comunque fare un po' più del minimo sindacale. I musicisti chiaramente so tutti bravi, il batterista fa pure un po' lo splendido su qualche pezzo, ma col budget che avrà avuto sto disco mi pare il minimo. Non mi sento di dare 1 per il fatto di aver percepito un minimo di sforzo, però per me è tipo un 1.5.

Ik vind het niet zo bijzonder en veel normale rock

Meh, Not my thing.

A curiosity here, trying to work out whether he wants to be the lead singer in a band or a solo artist. The band bits work week. The singles are overblown.

Let MEEeeee ENTERTAIN YOU!!!

К Робби Уильямсу негатива не имею. Знал о нём годами до того, как узнал о существовании Робина Уильямса. По ящику его клип на трек Sin крутили. Я ещё предполагал, что у него сын родился, вот он и радуется. Даже то, что сольную карьеру он начал после участия в группе Take That, я тоже знал благодаря мобильной версии "Кто хочет стать миллионером?" Но альбом никакой, если честно. В плохом смысле попсовый, коммерческий, праздный звук. И при этом за пару прослушиваний ухо не выцепило ни одного трека, ни одного мотива. Заглавная композиция на это претендует, но всё равно звучит слишком genreric. Будто написана для вымышленного персонажа художественного фильма про восходящую поп-звезду. Конечно, слушабельно, даже негатива не вызывает. Хотя пустоту можно вполне расценивать за форму негатива в отношении произведений культуры. Поэтому даже не "норм".