Reviews (page 8 of 8)
Van een aantal nummers zoals Milk en Pigtail krijg ik echt de kriebels, een paar leuke instrumentale nummers maar over het algemeen vond ik het maar matig.
Not a massive fan of instrumental albums but there were some sweet melodies in this one Highlights: - Giles Farnaby’s Dream - Charted Flight - From The Colonies
Bad, just bad!
Best thing about this album was the cover art. Had a very hard time getting through it, had to skip some parts and got actively annoyed. Felt more like doing a bit than experimental at times
Jede Katzte wimmert musikalischer.
Shite
didn’t like it that much, so psychedelic for my taste
No no no
What the actual fuck.
this is sick
I sensed it early on in track 1, the stench of Eno. Track 2 confirmed it. I didn't get any further. There are very brief periods of real music, but the rest of the time it was horrific, like my ears were being raped!
What a snooze-fest. Boring.
Not for me 1/5
It was ok background music, but I didn't find anything that stuck out. Not really an album I'd go back to or recommend to anyone after hearing it.
Meh. Not my thing too soothing and relaxing. Not bad but not my type of music
I didn't like this album because there are barely words and I think it is very boring and all the songs sound the same to me I do not recommend this song because it is boring
Maybe if you have a master's in music or something, this is great to listen too. But since I'm a basic bitch when it comes to music, this was a good to get through.
God awful.
I don't mind the instrumental track here and there, but a whole album of it is going to be a bit much. Even if it were really good, I don't think I could rate a mostly instrumental album more than a 4, and this one isn't even that good. It's dull and weird. Just like ambient sounds with a little strangeness thrown in. A couple tracks have some good parts, but then go back to the weirdness. Best song: From The Colonies
Not an album I’ll ever go back to. I have some “challenging” music in my collection, but this was too much for me.
For a chunk of this album I was waiting for a delayed bus, and it made me feel like I was in the sad bit of a Richard Curtis movie. Fuck this album.
This was a tough listen, basically just music you'd expect to play in snippets in a lift. Either koffis finger slipped and he added this by accident, or koffi isn't anything to do with this and it's really the penguin cafe orchestra behind it all. I'm not sure which one of those 2 I'm least happy with.
I’d heard the first track previously and enjoyed it this time. The rest of it wasn’t my cup of tea. It went off piste far too often for it to be an enjoyable listen. Struggling to think of a situation where you’d want to listen to it.
Kun tämä alkoi, ajattelin: kuulostaa ihan "kivalta". Ja tällä tavalla piru houkuttelee syntisiä. Onneksi vajosin omiin ajatuksiini ja ihan vain unohdin houkutuksen - lukuun ottamatta paria hienoista mielenkiinnon/ärtymyksen hetkeä.
A friend who'd already had this on their list told me to listen to it again to give it a proper appraisal. So I did. And now that's 90 minutes of my life I'm not getting back.
# 348 : Boring as f@ck. When your only claim to fame is you are on this list, it is no surprise I haven't heard of these guys before.
Describing this as “music” feels generous. Imagine an entire album composed by a couple of penguins hitting random keys and you’re 90% there. Repetitive and directionless, listener satisfaction fell from 30% to 10% over the album’s duration.
Weird classical-ish album. I didn't get it.
This was a weird one. I don't know if I would ever listen to this again. Sorry guys but 1 star.
I'm guessing that the Penguin Cafe is not very busy? What a load of musical nonsense!
45mins of my life I won't get back
Interesting - but not my thing
I wanted to get past the weird before forming an opinion. But damn, it is weird. Not enjoying it at all, even in a curious way.
An album of all time
70’s
Boring. I gave up listening after 4 tracks. 1/5
is this some kind of high-art shit about subverting the expectations of a listener? i dont know if i just didnt get it, but it felt really boring and repetitive there are a definitely more significant albums than this NNN
not for me - 1.5
I would have preferred listing to an actual orchestra. I liked the last minute of "Zopf: Giles Farnaby's Dream". That's about it.
WUT
A bit dull
Stones. Beatles. Zeppelin. Penguin Cafe Orchestra. Not necessarily in that order
The 70's were wild, man.
I don't understand how some of these albums make it into the top 1001.
Interesting music, but just feels like ambiance. Not really for me
Dan laten ze iets op de toetsen vallen, dan vinden ze de meest neurotische manier om een ukelele te introduceren en dan laten ze horen dat je met snaarinstrumenten ook kan krassen. Alles ter onderscheid. Alsof Brian Eno zich ermee bemoeid heeft...O, wacht....
With a name like Penguin Cafe Orchestra and song titles like Hugebaby, I thought this would be some weird avant garde stuff. It wasn't. It was just boring. Unfortunately, there was really nothing here for me to enjoy.
Did I really have to listen to that before I die? It couldn’t have waited till after? Boring pretentious shite.
Strange, Brian Eno production, why is it on this list?
I hate this.
Weird and Strange, rather than good music
Background music at best. Heard it for the first time today but will not live long in the memory.
felt like a soundtrack to a period piece movie but there is no movie so I’m left confused
koja bomba od albuma zopf: milk il kak vec se zove pjesma - jako uznemirujuce
the fuck is this shit?
Just a bunch of dudes dicking around on instruments with no clear direction
I'm going to have to get back with the Pumpkins and knock some of these others out while out work. I did listen to this entire album. Just because I committed to giving every album a listen from beginning to end and I have to admit, I am blown away at what people put out there and make lists, like this one. I'm not sure what I just listened to today. I'll make it a point to go back and read some reviews. I'm sure there a few people who probably think this is great music. I guess more power to them. Love what you love, I suppose. I know I'm rambling here so I'll get to the point. Did not like. Won't revisit. But Power to Music! 1 Because I cannot give a zero
Everything about this could be a Wes Anderson movie soundtrack. It's quirky and fanciful and sometimes a little shocking. I was originally going to compare it to like, Blue's Clues' music but that felt harsh. Idk too much for elevator music but not enough to keep my attention. Sick Scooby Doo reference, Luke. 1
1.5 “Ok gang, let’s see who’s really under this penguin mask” *gasps* “Brian Eno???” “Grrr, and I would have gotten away with it too if it weren’t for you meddling kids” Look, I’m not going to deny Eno is a talented musician and producer - he was a major contributor to Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy after all - but man I don’t get this ambient stuff. I guess this was slightly less repetitive than his Airport album, but overall I still didn’t find it that enjoyable. It has moments where it feels like it’s about to hit a point of cozy background music, only to then be interrupted by some weird tangent or piercing violin. At one point I had to check Spotify to see how far I had made it and was pretty relieved to see I was eight songs in, only to then learn the last three songs are actually the longest and take up over half of the album’s runtime. I was pretty checked out from there. It’s a shame, because I feel like there are some decent moments as far as ambient music goes, but it’s almost always ruined by some bullshit. Don’t see myself re-visiting.
Dog shit.
Why why why?
Not my cup of tea.
Boring
Did not like this at all, was almost a mess of incoherent sounds. Perhaps this album did something revolutionary when it came out in the 70s but it just doesn't hold up.
I did not like this album. I can barely call some of the tracks on this album music, and those I do call music are weird and off putting. Definitely not my cup of tea. Favorite song: The sound of someone you love who's going away and it doesn't matter Worst song: Milk or Pigtail
A group of penguins on land is called a colony, a rookery, or a waddle. A group of penguins floating in the water is called a raft. As far as I can tell, there is nowhere in which a group of penguins is called an orchestra. Even ones whose anthropomorphized depiction includes pubic hair. For superior penguin music, check out the soundtracks of classic films "Happy Feet" and "Surf's Up." The penguins in those pieces of cinema history also haunt my dreams less than the ones on the cover of this album.
To have to hear this once in your life is plenty enough, maybe even to much. Whenever it started to sound decent it took some weird ass direction that made it sound like a cat stuck inside a washingmachine
20 minutes of my life I’ll never get back. Don’t understand what’s groundbreaking about this one. Sounds like 60s hippie music with the occasional avant-garde noise track. I want music to take me in a journey, I just can’t figure out what direction this is going in.
Trying to figure out how this landed in the top 1001. Completely washed over me
More like avant- garde classical. Dislike.
instrumental, lent, pas super interresant
Hated it
Don’t get it at all
Grow up
Y 1001 albums faut bien qu'il y ait des merdes
I’m only Interested in songs about sausage rolls at this time of year. Who gives a shit about pingu these days anyway?
Blijkbaar is je leven niet compleet als je nooit een vage Pinguïn hebt beluisterd! Of je 't waardeert doet er weinig toe.
Ik heb het afgeluisterd omdat ik toch niets beters te doen had, maar wat een vage toestand is dit joh. Kan hier helemaal niets mee.
Really?
Kei gezellig, zo'n Pinguin cafe. Geen QR code en zo en alles gemoedelijk. De muziek is er een beetje neppig, alsof het goedkope covers zijn op een illegale CD. Daarnaast zijn de gebruikte instrumenten niet mijn favorieten. *
Did not listen. I have heard enough before to know I don’t want to. I don’t get the hype.
meh
1 1/2
Like bbc2 have used this for programs for years. Soundtracky, does nothing for me. A muso thing
Apparently I had to hear this album once before I die, so I did. That was plenty...1 🌟
Thats kinda odd.
weird
Some songs were okay, but the experimental numbers were awful. 5.9/10
This sounds like all the left overs from a recording session. Starts off very shit get marginally better.
Nothing much to this. Trying to be highbrow but ends up being dull. 1/5
Ummm... of course this would be in here. Why wouldn't it? Someone is trying to show how diverse their musical tastes are. Why wouldn't they?
meditativ - 1
not for me
Uh