Reviews (page 8 of 8)
Todd has done better
Not as good as his other work. A lot more noise and less music.
nothing special
Eigenartig…
Worst album so far 😬
I will admit to leaving this on while I went round the house doing jobs. This is because it’s fairly tedious.
Reeks terribly arty farty
Made myself get through this. Wow. I've learned I'm really not into psychedelic rock.
idk. might need to come back to it, but not feeling it too much.
An over blown theatre student project. Not my thing. At all.
01) International Feel - 6,0 02) Never Never Land - 5,5 03) Tic Tic Tic It Wears Off - 5,0 04) You Need Your Head - 4,0 05) Rock and Roll Pussy - 3,0 06) Dogfight Giggle - 1,0 07) You Don't Have to Camp Around - 5,5 08) Flamingo - 5,0 09) Zen Archer - 5,5 10) Just Another Onionhead/Da Da Dali - 4,0 11) When the Shit Hits the Fan/Sunset Blvd. - 5,0 12) Le Feel Internacionale - 5,0 13) Sometimes I Don't Know What to Feel - 6,5 14) Does Anybody Love You? - 6,0 15) Medley (I'm So Proud/Ooh Baby Baby/La La Means I Love You/Cool Jerk - 6,0 16) Hungry for Love - 5,0 17) I Don't Want to Tie You Down - 5,5 18) Is It My Name? - 5,0 19) Just One Victory - 6,0 TOTAL: 4,97 (50/100) Current ranking: 408/434 So, the album was a commercial failure, he canceled the promotional tour after two weeks (probably due to the huge interest) and he himself says that he lost half of his fans with this album. But the album is still on this list as very influential... I guess it influenced the people who listened to it to pursue a different kind of music...
2.5/10
Not my cup of tea
Shite
It's just noise. A couple of the songs start out promising, but then halfway through they just devolve into noise again. A couple songs towards the end are somewhat better, but not enough to redeem this album. Best song: Just Another Onionhead
If this were made today, in 2024, you might say that it was AI generated. Its so random and disjointed and the cover looks like it was made by someone/something that doesnt understand the human form. Thats not a deal breaker, necessarily, but this album also happens to be boring and not good. 1/5
Weird. Not for me. Almost unlistenable.
Let’s be honest, it was pretty much unlistenable the whole way through.
Dogfight Giggle eh? But surely nobody else is laughing. Some of this was kind of just about ok (Sometimes I don’t Know… ), but 95% or so made my ears bleed, or at least made me want them to bleed so I can get a doctors note off the rest of it. One plus was that albums like this make me feel as if I could perhaps do it better, with my absolutely no musical talent. Maybe I could make the list?
Bloody hell, that was absolute torture in double album format (the worst kind of torture). The first half of the album was just pissing around with stock spacey noises but unfortunately he’d forgotten to write any actual songs/melodies etc to accompany that. Then realising his mistake, he backtracks and pulls out some really basic piano based songs and adds some more spacey noises on top while whooping occasionally. That part was also really shit. I think it got heavier at the end but every song was, did I mention tortuous, so I lost the will to live. I’m not even sure what that was supposed to be if I’m honest. I generally like an experimental album but there was nothing original in here, it seemed proggy but it had none of the nuance or style one can sometimes associate. So it just felt like a half rate song writer given far too much studio time to try some proggy/psych things he’s heard other people do better and just end up murdering the whole thing in the process. 170 albums in and that’s on a par with the Ubu as the worst album so far.
This is a poor advertisement for psychedelic drugs, gone from Yacht Rock master to unlistenable twaddle.
Wtf is this?
Nah man
No. To all over the place.
Started off promising and fell off hard
Not for me. 1/5
What did I just?
I didn’t like this one bit.
This album sounds like you're listening to a classic rock/synth rock album via vinyl that is actively melting in the blazing hot sun. I didn't really enjoy much of anything, I do appreciate the experimenting and odd sound palette here.
What the fuck did I just listen to?
I quite liked the vocals on "international feel". Some of the music was a bit all over mind you. Honestly, it stopped right there. what the fuck was the next 4-5 songs. Mindless shit from a bloke off his face. Absolutely unbelievable drivel. Finally, zen archer. An attempt at a song rather than jamming off your face. Wasnt too bad. Just got further in and thought this isnt too bad. Then realised its international feel again. The first track i semi liked on the album. Sometimes i dont know what to feel. Thank god, another attempt at a proper song. Not bad. Just hit the long arse 10 minute medley. Quite surprised. Wasnt expecting it. Quite good actually. Some good vocals and melody. This album is a real mind bender. Some decent tracks ruined by several other experimental.
This is weird and not good. The "theremin?" in some of the songs sounds like the opera singing in FF6.
Like a velvet painting of dogs playing poker, this does not age well. At all.
Pretentious shit.
Alternative noise, horrible experience, stopped after the 4th song, which luckily was quite quick, as his songs are only 1 minute.
just too weird
it was bad.
So 70's core. Is it a screen play? Soundtrack to a musical? A frightening look at what the future holds? Sign me up for the interplanetary deals if it means getting away from this album.
This one wasn't that interesting. I'd rather bang on the drum all day.
That was annoying. Where was the wizard? Can we get one to help make this disappear? But there was no wizard, I fear. Just like there was no true star. Unsurprisingly, this album killed Todd Rundgren’s career. Surprisingly, this career-killing album made the 1001. ⭐️ But we need a wizard. Not just any wizard, I think. How about a Lizard Wizard? Accompanied by a King Gizzard? I’ve actually been meaning to check out some of the prolific output of Australian band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard for some time, daunted by the sheer volume of it. But none of it can be any worse than false wizard Todd Rundgren. It turns out I don’t think KGLW is a five-star replacement. But I would still argue for a place on the list, if just for completely unrivaled prolific productivity, consistently pushing the envelope of genre boundaries. They are prog and hard rock, but at a pace of two albums a year for more than a decade it's no surprise that their sound is a bit all over the place, dabbling into funk, heavy metal, and psychedelic rock. Some of the bands of the 1960s and 70s were putting out an album a year for a while, but that breakneck pace has since become incredibly rare, with 2-3 years between albums becoming the norm. Maybe it’s better that way for the artists. But somehow KGLW makes it work. Still, it would be fascinating to see if they could make a five-star album if they spent the time to refine their plethora of ideas down to one honed and concise statement of their sound. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I gave it a try. Didn't click in for me. Felt too self-indulgent psychedelic-sounding. I was bored, honestly.
Zero stars
Wow. Clunker. So odd. Not a fan
Nope
Not for me 1/5
Not gonna lie the first few seconds of International Feel just sounded like one, long fart and set the tone for the rest of the album for me. This is extremely psychedelic, to a fault and I really struggled to get through it, even when it transitioned to more rock/Rush style music towards the end. Very much did not enjoy this.
Complete bollocks
La plupart des titres m'ont plus angoissée qu'autre chose malheureusement
Definitely bottom 5 so far. Just a terrible experience sonically.
Clairement pas pour moi.
As if Ross Gellar from friends made an album with his key-tar.
Probably would have enjoyed it more if I was tripping on shrooms
Not for me :(
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I"ll give it another try when i'm high
I hated this.
I turned it off halfway through a song called Rock and Roll Pussy.
Fully powered up, intergalactic tripfest 1970s style. Liek the cover art, its a bit 'busy'...
The struggle is real. Most of the album, i was simply flip flopping between whether this was detestable or simply unlistenable. Though the start isn't too bad, it quickly devolves into psychedelic experimental mumbo jumbo with rough and uneven vocalizations. Though there's a glimmer of hope on the second side that we're stabilizing, there's enough that slides back into eclectic experimentation that it feels like PTSD from the first side. This grates on me more quickly than it normally would.
Te trippy
This is not a real album. This is a demo tape that you get from the 30-year-old guy who sells LSD to college kids in the dorms at a small Midwestern public university.
It starts with fart sounds then it gets worse.
Yeah. I couldn’t finish this. I didn’t like it at all.
Sounds like baby’s first synth
What a 'Jackie Brambles'
A random, rambling procession of noises. No thanks.
Pass. Boring rock.
ew hate it
Oh… no… this is not for me…
There are definitely benefits to LSD, but this album isn't one of them.
I just didn't really enjoy this at all. One or two moments, but it felt like the audio equivalent of a car boot sale, just not a good one.
Todd moet eens ophouden met blowen!
An album recorded partly on talent, partly on very bad drugs. It sounds like it was more fun to make than it was to listen to. I'm afraid I bailed after seven songs. It made no sense to me. The early 70's were batshit crazy.
It's absolute rubbish
Not a wizard, not a star...not good
drug music. which seems to be designed for a bad trip. would not recommend to listen to this on drugs. or sober. - did not finish -
Nonsense.
God knows. What they made of it in the 70’s I have even less idea.
just weirrrrd man
I really wanted to like this because the album title is excellent but unfortunately the songs contained on the album are the absolute antithesis of that.
Bonkers. One song was just dogs growling followed by laughter. Did not enjoy
Truly awful.
Странное и непонятное
Not feelin this. Sorry Todd.
I made it halfway then skimmed the rest. Found it irritating. Needed editing. Too many different ideas in there so it all sounded like a mess. Not for me.
Just bad. cluttered, no flow in the way the album is presented and half the songs sound like bad intros to a song we will never hear.
Horrific
Like a bad pastiche of Elton John
horrible
#1
Too much even for me.
I tried to have an open mind but this is just getting worse and worse every note I hear.
wtf con dogfight gligle...
I hated almost every second of this album. Its psychedelic rock at the worst and threw my anxiety into overdrive. The only time I didn’t want to gouge my ears out was during the medley of covers.
Good christ. This is the worst list of albums ever
Ew
esta wea si q es buena ctm