Reviews (page 8 of 8)
Meh
like a fun but annoying ska tribute to RATM. 1
Holy fuck
Feels like a fish bone stuck in my throat. 1/5
A rough one. The only word that comes to mind is "cheesy." There have been other albums I haven't liked but could understand why they were included. This is not one of them.
Not my jam
from the name to the cover to the sound: oh no some of the worst music i've ever heard
I wish I had a fishbones wedged in both ear canals during that listen. The fusion of styles simply doesn't sound good. The songs are lousy and the singer is unremarkable. Shame on you curators. A pox on all your houses!
Not my vibe. bad. Cannot imagine listening and thinking, yes this is good.
I don’t want to be mean … but I keep coming back to the thought of “it’s like a drunk driver careening down a packed party street destroying every genre it touches.
p588. 1988. 1 star. Average American band with no tunes, cover versions and an annoying sound. Fuck no. Why is this on the list?
Absolutely not
it was going so well, until they pull a wildcard seemingly out of nowhere and it just doesn’t sit right with my constitution. i do fw ghetto soundwave and change though. those were pretty good.
i'm finding it difficult to explain how much i hate this. this album isn't an important step on the way to anything, it was a distraction in the wrong direction. we kept making good music despite everything fishbone has ever done. every single track on here made me so mad it was amusing, and that was the only reason i made it through it
1. dead - 1 2. pa - 1 3. life - 1 4. rain - 2 5. inzide - 1 6. uuay - 1 7. boneyard - 0 8. day - 0 9. zubliminal - 0 10. buz - 0 11. ghetto - 1 12. change - 1
Their cover of Freddie's Dead is a travesty. This is like a novelty band and it's an essential album? The fire alarm sound over mouth noises is making a bad cover worse. More ska. Something about this reminds me of The Birthday Party. Bonin' In the Boneyard is like a cross of Prince and James Brown and is the best song on the album, very funky. The more funk based tracks are better. Why are there so many socially conscious ska bands?
Funk Rock has such high potential but it’s almost always diluted with the most generic and passive songwriting ever
Nope
It was a rough day and I just couldn't get into it. However, I think this could be a drastic understatement and should revisit this album another time.
some cool bass lines i guess. i can see how this would sound really good to someone who’d never heard any other music before in their life.
horrible. some fine political messaging but it doesn't matter because i can't listen to that
Eh. I didn't manage to connect with this at all.
This was a singles only listen for me. One Day is a non-song and the fact it was released as a single amazes me. TAS is a truly unfortunate exploration of genres. Fun music genres are drained of life by the production choices very much of its time. The heavy guitars are totally misguided and really subtract from the tracks they are featured on. 0.6
Honestly, this is embarrassing. I can't imagine being the type of person who likes this, let alone makes it. It's not fun or funny, it's just cringe.
Quite annoying "Jazz-Rock"
No
I guess I’d say late 80s ska/funk/gross? No thank you.
Not for me. Some nice ideas but not my thing. Did not finish album.
it seemed to lack an inner soul or i guess any i could grab onto to like.
Make up your minds! Music goes in every direction and doesn’t do it well in any. Torture.
Too boring start
Really no
Trumpet Rock n Roll, with a synth organ and south African sounding vocals. Didn't appeal to me at all
Really nothing for me here
Never heard this album before, if I could turn back the clock I would like it to have stayed that way
This may be the yardstick of ‘albums that have aged terribly’, it sounds soooo 80s. Anyway, hair rock, slap bass, oddly fast thrash metal style drums in places, funk, reggae combo really hits the sweet spot of styles I don’t particularly like and even less so in combination it turns out. The obvs result is that I skipped through most songs as I found them incredibly irritating, guess that must be a 1 then. (Bring back the gangsta rap, all is forgiven!)
Nope
I hate Ska. Even the non-Ska songs just annoyed the hell out of me.
Funky fresh
This was a little too ska-adjacent for my tastes. The wide mix of musical styles comes off much more jarring than interesting. Definitely a wanky 80's album.
Couldn't get into it. Very scattered. 1/5
I couldn’t finish the album because I never liked this band
Woof. Reminded me of Tom Waits if he made ska, everything is trying to be cool and whimsical at the same time. Can't seem to land on any one genre, so they're doing a handful of genres pretty poorly. Opening track is a Curtis Mayfield cover, that's neat I guess. I struggled to find a favorite on here, this was a tough one. Nothing on wikipedia to suggest it has a legacy worth including here either. Axe it. Favorite tracks: Ghetto Soundwave. Album art: Well, it's a set of fish bones. A very faint cartoon fish skeleton, surrounded by a lot of blank black space, and the album/band titles are in bold bright colors. It's a bold cover, memorable. 1/5
GOD AWFUL
Yuck, ska punk.
This feels like a college group project, where everybody had their own uncompromising, differing opinion on what the assignment actually was. I have no idea who nominated this for the list, but I kind of never want to meet them. This was awful.
Eclectic rubbish
The members of Fishbone are obviously talented musicians. And there might be a great ska, rock or funk album hidden somewhere here - but definitely not a combination of those. I was physically angry at the album from start to finish. Apparently certain members were concerned with their image being to cartoonish prior to the release of this… And then they decided to release this?!
I'm genuinely surprised by how much I disliked this. Fishbone tries their hand at so many different genres and holy shit do they butcher them all. I might have liked this if it was more banal, but they somehow manage to fuck up like seven different genres, it's almost impressive. Almost. .5/5
Not for me. There were bits and pieces on some tracks that sounded pretty unique and inventive, but for the most part it was dreadful. I was leaning 2 but have to knock it down for the inclusion of a track called “Bonin’ In The Boneyard”
I hate this style of music.
Fishbone were always considered a bit of a laughing stock, at least in the UK. Can now understand why. 1*
Not a good album. Is Ma and Pa supposed to be serious or goofy? And this is one of this band's best songs? The production on this album yields a thin, trebly, and tinny sound. Of course, this is exactly what great funk bands go for - no bass, all snare. This doesn't work as funk or ska and the hard rock flourishes which were praised back in the day really don't amount to much.
Bloody racket mostly
Kinda white for a black band. Not my thing.
feels like Bosstones without the soul
This album is stupid. Funk and ska are stupid. I'm starting to question whether any of the 1000 albums are good.
Was toch altijd een 'naam', dat Fishbone, maar ik kan er niet eens 2 sterren van maken.
Zusammenhanglose Grütze. Nach dem völlig überflüssigen Tapping-Solo im ersten Song ausgemacht.
A very convincing case for why the mishmash of genres demonstrated by this album doesn't work.
It was so hard to make it through this album. Every song grates on my ears
Didn't enjoy this one
awful grunge
Dreadful. A mish-mash of styles, all done badly and not put together with any musical intelligence.
Terrible. Just terrible.
The musical equivalent of a TV advert for a happy meal toy. Change is ok. But it would be hypocritical of me to try to list things I like about this album while maintaining the stance that it is *possible* to have a preference for certain kinds of music over others, and that you actually don't *have* to like everything just because someone spent precious time and money making it and possibly poured a bit of their soul into it. I mean, if I can accept the fact that not everyone loves pineapple and banana on pizza, I must be able to accept the fact that I'm not super into this album without feeling like I'm offending people.
Didnt really click with me 1/5
This is pretty awful
Pumppumpumpumpum pumpumpumpumpödödötööödöö waiting for the one day. Odotan seuraavaa päivää.
Not sure how this made the list
Terrible. Is it a joke album and submission?
I really like funk and to a lesser extent ska, but the production on this is just off putting. The heavy metal guitar tone that keeps popping up just sucks and the horns sound processed and weird all over. Has some moments, but just not for me.
Melkoista sekamelskaa josta ei tunnu saavan mitään otetta. Ma and Pa oli ihan hyvä biisi.