Kings Of The Wild Frontier

just ruined my fucking day Fav song: Feed Me to the Lions

Another album that makes me question this list. Not only absolutely nothing remarkable on for me but especially on the b-side sometimes really annoying. 1,5

Cool

What a lot of filler

I haven’t been this annoyed and skip-happy with an album in a while. Everything about this album was irritating. Every second I listened to this is a precious second of my life I won’t get back.

don't like it

not for me

Just too snooze tunes-wise? Lasted three songs.

This album sucks

Not a fan. I actually did like a lot of songs at the very beginning, and then ol' Adam came along and ruined the whole vibe Killer in the Home probably the best song, but still gets pretty grating by the end

WTF new wave pirate rock? no thanks

Awful 1/10

New wave is not my thing. They kind of found an original twist with the percussions... 1982 best British album : without the historical context , it is difficult to comprehend...I can cknowledge the socio-political impact of this genre...but it does not please my ears.

Didn’t have the time to go all the way, and honestly, no motivation either. I tried to get a better grip on the impact of the “Burundi beat” on the post-punk scene, but even that wasn’t that interesting. Really not my cup of tea, it just goes all over the place with sometimes chaotic instrumentation that doesn’t click with me. A few good vibes here and there, but not enough to make me want to dig deeper, even though there were some promising punk roots

This is the 80's that I don't miss not even a bit of it :-( It could be something back in the day but it certainly didn't aged well. Total waste of my time

Seriøst uhyggeligt album. Især ants invasion. Lyttede ikke mere

feels very repetitive.

This shit sucks. Especially coming off of Dark Side of the Moon. I know comparison is the their of joy but so is this album…

Uhhh

Not my jam, it was ok.

I’m not sure how this made the top 1,001 but I would not put it in the top 10,001. Where is the zero star rating?

Couldn't get past the first three songs. Cheeky and self-indulgent without talent or skill.

1/5. Absolute drivvle Could not latch on to any of the songs. Nothing grabbed me whatsoever except for a dirty guitar sound in one of the later songs.

Ahhhh I said I didn't want to listen to any more bad British music from the 80s ahhhhhh stop stop stop ahhhhh. Sex Music for Ant People? Any Music for Sex People?

I didn't connect with it, nor the singer, lyrics, music,..

This album doesn't work for me. The eclectic influences on display here never gel into a pleasing sound and I found myself skipping through songs at a startling speed

One of the worst albums I've ever heard. So bad it's almost good. Each track is a unique flavor of something I never expected to hear. Being hit with a sea shanty knocked the wind out of me.

Not my cup of tea by any means

Not my jam, but I can appreciate it.

This sure was

Kinda hated it tbh

No. On every level, this is music in ever have and never will like. I fully do not get the appeal.

Feels like a lot of shitty wailing. Just another brit album included despite not being anything special. 1*

In het begin denk je: okee, ik zit deze jarentachtigmeuk nog wel uit. Maar gaandeweg gaat het echt op de zenuwen werken. Die knullige ritmes, die zeikzang, die aanstellerij. Waar is Frans Bauer als je hem nodig hebt?

I hated everything about this with every shred of my being.

Christ almighty. 1/5. I have been on a terrible run lately.

Feels like a flaccid pop punk rock attempt in my opinion

Absolutely pointless

Guys what the heck. I'm pretty sure everyone in this band collectively shares a single brain cell. I mean to start off with this dude decides to take a stage name and chooses Adam Ant. Like what?! Why is that what you go with? Secondly, he names the band after himself, Adam and the Ants, which makes no sense as a name either. Then the cover art is just weird and I do not like him staring at me like that from the cover. Then we get to the music. It was bad. Nobody on the band has good vocals, the backup vocals are whack, the main vocals are whack, the lyrics are whack and repeated a thousand times, the instruments are whack. The drums were literally the only thing on this album I liked. Everything else was a hard pass and should've stayed and died in the U.K. Why'd you guys let this come over here? Why?

Ugh!

Just not for me.

Mr. Ant, what you have just played is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent album were you even close to anything that could be considered music. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you one star, and may God have mercy on your soul.

Not a fan.

I saw the album cover and heard the first 10 seconds and thought it was just some gen X bullshit. After hearing the whole album, I actually think it’s just some gen X bullshit. However, I did enjoy it despite its temporal disability. I guess this is the point of the project; I got to enjoy a superb example of a genre I would never explore on my own. Five stars for the project. One star for whatever the fuck this is.

Cool drum sound in most of the songs, but repetitive track-to-track. Nice and swaggery, though it seems like that was the end of the inspiration. Unless you’re The Cars, New Wave singing is always the WORST. I could have been happy hearing “Dog Eat Dog” or “Feed Me to the Lions” in a playlist without ever listening to the whole record. Ugh. After reading the Wikipedia page I see that the drum sound is ripped uncredited from African musicians and the Native American fetishization stands out even more. Yuck.

Woof. This is bad art rock that seems like a bad copy of the B-52s without the camp. This should have stayed in the 80s where it belongs.

No good. Default music

A truly disappointing album. Completely derivative of Here Come the Warm Jets era Brian Eno, but to the point of sounding like a bad cover band. Tribal drums cannot make this album more interesting, and only acted as silver lining to an otherwise repetitive and uninteresting mess. 1.4/5 -> 1/5

I think New Wave was a very forward-thinking music movement for it's time but this one didn't do it for me. I couldn't get past the pirate theme, a lot of the songs were just too juvenile and silly. However, I can see how someone would like a few songs on here, I just don't like the lyrics enough to ever get into them. It was more interesting than expected and I give them credit for doing something different but there's a fine line between odd and just plain wacky. "Feed Me to the Lions" so I don't have to hear this again, 1.45.

wieder einmal schwierig, weil eintönig und ein gemisch aus geschrei und heulen. sorry!

this is what you'd write to be the in-universe music of the main character's band in a crappy 80s movie

Utter toenail clippings. No wonder he went mad.

Bro wants to be David Bowie so bad.

Brought some memories back but now don't like because he's been caught yes another pedo

Random noises

Albumi #45, 11.09.2024 Adam and the Ants on 80-luvun new waven tylsimmästä päästä. Ehkä tämä enemmän kuuntelemalla aukeaisi paremmin, mutta ensikuuntelemalla jaksoin juuri ja juuri sinnitellä koko levyn loppuun saakka.

Ok

When I was a kid, I had a nasty boil on my leg that got infected. I couldn’t walk without severe pain for weeks and the thing kept oozing down into my socks. I would rather relive that experience than have to listen to this album again.

Not enjoyable. These nerds need to lay off the drugs.

Pish

Annoying ass shite album. 1/5

Got about 4 songs in and realized, this isn't for me.

Didnt listen

Not good, I swear Im getting so many 1/5 albums algo be nice to me pls.

i can sexy cure ant cancer

No

Another example of this list/book/editor favoring british albums that have no place on this list. Wanted to give it 2 stars but after consideration, it only deserves 1. 1/5

Ik neem Youri’s puntentelling over - 1 ster is een onvoldoende tot een 6. 2 sterren is een 7, etc. Adam and the Ants roept theatraliteit over zich af, al is het alleen al door de cover. Het album is early post punk, maar de echte kwaliteit en diepgang is soms ver te zoeken. Dat gezegd hebbende, is Antmusic best een powerhouse. De song red de plaat voor mij richting een mager 6je. Highlight: Antmusic Rating: 5,5/10

Na enig vooronderzoek had ik een onderbuikgevoel dat deze plaat all over de place zou zijn. En dat was het. Je merkt dat dit album een product is van de early period van new wave die Engeland, en later de rest van de wereld, zou overspoelen. Het was een natuurlijke tegenhanger van de serieuze punk/post-punk die de trend van de dag bepaalde. New wave bracht wat meer plezier in de charts, niet alleen door de gekscherende thema's en uplifting rhytmes en synths, maar ook zeker door de kledingstijl. Indianenschmink in combinatie met piratenkostuums bijvoorbeeld, waarom niet. Maar de moedergenres waren in de eerste periode van deze nieuwe golf nooit ver weg, zoals je ook hoort op dit album. Het is een eclectische mix van post-punk, glam rock, pop, en Burundese volksmuziek. Die laatste is niet te missen. Op 'Killer in the Home' hoor je zelfs nog even de legendarische rockabilly riff van Link Wray's 'Rumble'. Maar ondanks dat het een geinig voorbeeld is van de onvolwassen vorm van New Wave, vind ik het over het algemeen iets té onbesuisd. Ik vind de meeste stijlen waar dit album zijn inspiraties uithaalt op zich best nice, maar deze hyperactieve cocktail zet de verkeerde zintuigen op scherp. Het is een soort kinderdisco voor volwassenen, en toen het piratenlied 'Jolly Roger' langskwam knapte er iets in mijn prefrontale cortex. Adam and the Zeven Dwergen fluiten me echt een coma in bij dit nummer waardoor ik de laatste twee nummers gemist heb, for the better good. De moody Bauhaus-esque post-punk van 'Ants Invasion' en vooral de bouncy art rock van 'Antmusic' zijn de enige echt vermakelijke momenten. Ik waardeer de insteek wel, en de extravagante en uitbundige kleerdij en muziek hebben vast z'n rol gehad in het grotere plaatje van een genre wat de 80s uiteindelijk zou gaan definiëren. Daar is ook alles mee gezegd, ik blijf vooral achter met een hyper van het te hoge gehalte serotonine in m'n bloedbaan. 5/10 Highlights: Antmusic Ants Invasion

Too punk !

Oh great I thought finally something decent to listen to. 2 mins in remembered I never liked adam and the ants beyond a couple of singles for a reason, they were light weight pop crap masquerading as something edgy. Yeah this was considered edgy in 1980, men wearing make up!!!! What will the neighbours think. God no wonder my generation are shit.

Not a single redeeming quality about this album, seems I've been cursed to listen to some garbage albums.

Yes we get it author. You were so cool and unique growing up you weren't like other boys

Crock of shit

Twat Music

I was kind of excited about this album. Was looking forward to it when I saw it drop. Check the star rating. Unlistenable.

Sorry, I think I'm just too old to appreciate 80s weird.

Just as good as their women

What genre was this even supposed to be? I hated it.

Sounds like ayayayayayaya and oyoyoyoyo

I can’t in good conscience support these guys. I started listening and kind of liked it so I read up on them a bit. They use “Burundi beat” which itself was taken without ever compensating the original artists. Looks like they also used some Native American styling as a costume.

Any attempt at charismatic music making was a huge swing and a miss. The whole thing comes across as entirely arrogant for some reason. This was a goddamn pain to listen to. Sometimes people express regrets before they die and maybe I will have some when my time comes, but at the very least, I’ll be able to confidently and proudly declare that I didn’t make this. Nor did I have any positive feelings towards it. 1/5

people want belonging. they want to paint their faces silly and join the ant club. i get it, but im here to tell ur silly little club is shit!1!1!1 all of the songs remind me of a better song like ant music sounds like crash by the primitives but shit. all the parts are there bar the tunes or chord changes that feel ant mysic is also ooh la la by the faces but not good killer in the home is rumble by link wray los rancheros sounds like something too idk i never want to hear this album again

Not my cup of tea

3/10 kinda repetitive, not for me

Originell daher kommender New Wave ohne mein Interesse in den Songs geschweige denn über das Album hinweg zu halten, eher war ich froh als es endlich zu Ende war.

Wack UK shit

Actively annoying to listen to. Awful

Un disco de new-wave un tanto confuso. La temática es sumamente dispersa y el sonido bastante poco pulcro. A pesar de haber sido un gran éxito comercial en la época, el trabajo envejeció sumamente mal, transformándose en uno de los peores discos que he escuchado en esta lista hasta la fecha. Realmente un desastre de álbum que, si bien, tiene chispas de grandeza, no me logró satisfacer con ninguna de sus canciones.

Definitely not an album i needed to hear before i died. It sucked.

Awful. It's difficult to work out how this was ever popular. Rating: 1/5 Playlist track: Antmusic Date listened: 05/10/23

Easy to listen to and even easier to dislike.

Gay

I didn't listen to this album

Not a fun time.

This didn’t age well.

Did not L(ike)

Kings Of The Wild Frontier is bad 80s stuff, nothing here I liked, lots I actively disliked. 1/5.

This was horrendous. Feed Adam to The Ants.

Alex Benson has a great article on the Ants, Bow Wow Wow, Malcolm McLaren and the thievery of the Burundi Beat. The cynicism which suffuses this band - the look, the sound, the style - all a major money grab, designed to create faux controversy and fill column inches - all of it comes through in this irritating mess of styles nicked from others and lyrics saying nothing. Opportunist and crass. Are they pirates, glam rockers, Mohicans or just w@nkers? In Benson’s words: ‘culture is up for grabs, theft is subjective, people are clay and commerce is king.’

Pretty awful,

In appricate the playfulness and stuff but no this was annoying

This album is soooo long (39 songs)

Blast from my past. I was 11 when this came out. I think I tried to record from TOTP with a tape deck. How sad. Happy memories. Apart from the singles is doesn’t stand the test of time.

Julianne told me to give this a one

nah tanks bruh

Ook hier kan ik weer geen chocolade van maken. Wat een theatrale zichzelf herhalende prut.

No.

I just thought it was really shit all the way through basically

To be fair - I really wasn't in the mood for this genre today.

This is just forgettable and bad. 3/10.

Proof that not all songs are Stand and Deliver. Truly boring and shrill sounding.

I don't like whatever this is. They never should have made music videos, seeing them made it so much worse. The audio only songs on Youtube are more tolerable but still just...bad.

Well that explains what started all the head bangin,body slamming dancing. Adam looks like a David Bowie wannabe but sounds like a Duran Duran groupie. Very wild beat but the words failed to move me. Even with an amazing high intensity beat. Kept losing interest a few minutes into each song. I can image Pee Wee Herman doing his high intensity workouts to this album. But am going to go with “heard it once and won’t repeat that mistake again”.I I will leave saying Adam’s most famous words “Don’t drink Don’Smoke” That is a fun dance song that the ants can go marching 1 by 1.

Did not like this album that much, reminded me of the Culture Club but if they were called the tryhard club! (lol, they're trying too hard in my opinion). I don't have anything else to say, disappointed that an album would waste my time like that.

Desconeixia completament aquest grup i aquest àlbum. Els primers dos temes m'han semblat interessants però després se m'ha començat a fer pesat, i això que no es tracta pas d'un àlbum gaire extens, poc més de 40 minuts. Té un regust de new wave i post punk que no m'ha acabat d'entrar. Les cançons m'han semblat poc inspirades, no m'han cridat l'atenció. Mira que l'he agafat amb ganes de descobrir un grup nou, però el regust final ha estat més aviat decebedor.

Meh

Kauheeta paskaa ja teki mieli luovuttaa jo tokan biisin aikana

Siis hetkinen... Vuonna 2016 tehty albumi ja pitäisi kuulla ennen kuin kuolee? En ymmärrä. Ärsytti kuunnella. Teen poikkeuksen ja annan yhden tähden, vaikka kuuntelinkin kokonaan.