Basket of Light

oh HELL no. seriously whose genre is this..these have to be belle&sebastian's parents LOLLL sorry but that was sonically awful - actually irritating at times so I am gonna be cruel and chuck a 1.5 out there... but hey what do I know

I feel like I'm in church, and we will be rounded up and asked to walk off a cliff together later this afternoon.

Nope.

Felt like fairy music

This album is why I don't go to ren fairs.

"Folk jazz" is not something that should exist.

1.5

Fuck no fuck you fuck this I feel like I’m back in fucking church! this is giving me fucking flashbacks to kneeling on a fucking pew and singing psalms with creepy Catholic men! why the fuck IS THIS ON HERE FUCK NO Like someone said, the musicianship and instrumentation can be commended while the whole album is still unlistenable.

Ugh

Not for me.

I'm sure this was serious music at one point in time but currently hard to take it seriously. The folkiest folk band that every folked??

Female singer has a beautiful voice I’ll be fine if I don’t hear this again😬

i felt like ia accidently walked in into a cult meeting

This was really bad. Hated the sitar, the music, the singing. 1/5

springtime promises

What the hell was that? Music like this is exactly why I avoid medieval markets. After just two songs, I couldn't take it anymore and turned that crap off. 1/5

This is a project I knew nothing about going in other than that this has an absolutely stunning album cover, and after completing this project from front to back I am left a bit underwhelmed but also satisfied with its' quality. Don't get me wrong I enjoy Folk music, especially Folk Rock, but when it came to The Pentangle's Basket of Light it just felt like it ran out of ideas very early on and became very plain and dry by the end of the 40 minute runtime. Even with the nice harmonies, simple instrumentals, and slightly lengthy track times, this album still felt like it hit a brick wall after the first 2 tracks and never really recovered. I wish I was more into this but I left very empty-handed and slightly frustrated here. Don't know what else to say so I guess nuff said?...

Too folky for me but musicianship was interesting.

Liked parts of it but couldn’t get past the vocals. The singers sounded off-key and took me out of the music. I didn’t finish the album

By Azura, by Azura, by Azura! It's the Grand Champion! I can't believe it's you! Standing here! Next to me!

British folk and very meh.

Feel like I’m in a catholic mass.

Gear: Moondrop Variations Artwork: 🏟️🌜🪔 Production: 👂🩺🧈 Music: 🪕⚔️😂 Rating: 🗡️(🛡️)/5

Absolutely excruciating

Primeiro álbum que penso "puta merda, não acaba nunca". Fiquei entediada o tempo todo que pegava pra escutar, e mesmo assim, não conseguindo mesmo fragmentando em cada hora do meu dia. Não tive nenhum interesse na banda e nem no álbum em si, pra mim, o conceito todo é sem graça. A música mais próxima de "finalmente, vem ai algo bom?" foi "Train Song". Escutei picado, e foi uma das experiências mais chatas com um álbum que tive.

Mierda, caca, heces, excremento, sorete, y por que no, diarrea.

Not a top 5,000 album chanting that really not good at all.

Very weird, medieval style folk music. Not a fan

q falopa es esto. demasiado psicodélico y experimental. quizás le de otra oportunidad algún dia

Some hippie bullshit

God no. I couldn’t get past the first few songs.

This is a renaissance festival of an album.

Not for me

nah

I just don't have the patience for this.

No, thank you

The Good: Who doesn’t like a basket of light? The Bad: Finding out that the basket has a hole in it… The Ugly: Ever tried cleaning up spilled light? Sure, I could just start this review off with a What The Actual Fuck!??!!?!??!!??! but why bother. I am realizing that I should be thankful that my parents had to sit through this shit instead of me… Maybe they love it… I don’t. Pentangle, 5? really? Oh, wait… read the wiki… Some of the guitar playing is pretty damn solid though. So they have that going for them… but that’s about it. I fear that I will blow a gasket if I see another “folk rock” album present itself… unless it is aqualung… which I will play now just to rinse the bad taste out of my mouth. Sorry for all those who love this.. 1*

A lot of sounds mashing together that do not agree with each other.

Ugh... Late 60s British Hippie Folk is not my jam. I kind of knew this from a podcast that I listen to but this confirms it. Definitely not a fan of Jacqui McShee's nor Bert Jansch. 1/5

l’impression d’être dans une forêt médiévale irlandaise soundtrack parfaite pour une partie de loups garous interminable je crois qu’on m’a jeté un sort au cours de cette écoute help me

There is no reason for this album to be on this list either. Could not finish it.

Not for me. Renaissance faire nonsense that wasn’t enjoyable to listen to. I tried to listen as long as I possibly could but found no enjoyment in it at all.

Reminds me of Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones, very folk-thematic, which makes sense, as it is a folk-rock band. Not my cup of tea, as while the music is beautiful, it is quite chaotic and monotone. Not a big fan of the tone of the voice of the female singer, as it is quite high all the time and just seems as she's not singing fully from her chest. Hunting Song and Sally Go Round the Roses were the highlights of the album.

Sounded like a group of music teachers and their "cool" music.

Oof tried to be open minded but couldn’t do it. Kinda liked some parts of Train song, though.

Jefferson Airplane crashed into Joan Baez and whatever this is emerged from the wreckage. I can almost imagine being really into it when it came out -- it combines really influential elements of music culture at the time -- but it also feels a little too much like a parlor trick, like the videos where someone plays a dozen songs using the same the chords. Okay, now what? I didn't feel a deeper connection to anything going on.

Speaking of not loving Ren-Faire-core… I eventually made it halfway through this. I can say without hesitation that 200 albums into this project, this was the album I hated the most.

Sadly another example of an album that did nothing for me. I don’t know whether this style of folk doesn’t connect with me, or whether it’s something else. I find this type of lyricism sometimes to be rather tedious, and I can’t explain why. The instrumentals were all nice enough, although I can’t say I was a massive fan of the vocals. Yeah this just kinda passed through me, nothing really drew me in.

This album felt like eating a kebab at midday, you know you won’t really appreciate it unless it’s 3am and you’ve had a gazillion beers. I felt the same way listening to this album sober, maybe if I had three tabs of LSD I’d appreciate it more. In saying that, night train made me think of a cut scene in a surf movie, where they’re driving around barren roads somewhere between get shacked off their melons

Exceptionally dull

Made me feel like I was at a ren fair and that’s not a compliment. I swear I could smell the BO and Mountain Dew.

Corny

Crap. Might have been listenable but for the vocals. I made it through once song fully (sally go round). All others were utterly unlistenable.

Not a fan of this churchy hippie music

Ugh

Interesting. A 3 perhaps? At most. Might only be a 2. A one

0.4

I did not enjoy a moment of listening to this. The vocalists, both male and female, sounded like they were trying way too hard to sound ancient and folksy and whimsical, and it just doesn’t work at all.

The woman singing reminds me of the Yoko Ono clip with Chuck Berry and the man singing is like Morrissey singing but in lowercase. Absolute cacophony of sounds that just do not make anything pleasing or worth revisiting. Album #3 that I refuse to believe provided any real influence.

You cannot find me a more discouraging feeling than listening to this for 25 minutes and then finding out that you’ve been on shuffle and having to start over.

Typical British 60’s Folk Rock. Pretentious & boring.

Gorgeous virtuosic album. I really didn't like it.

Not a huge fan of this genre of folk music

Sally go round the roses was alright. Otherwise hard pass for this entire album for me. Boring and annoying if you ask me. I hope it’s not the last album I listen to before I die.

no

I’m kind of a dork, so I would think that I would like this kind of thing, but it’s unbearable.

Soundtrack to a Renaissance Faire? Why is this on the list?

No me ha gustado nada.

Right away I’m wondering if they influenced Radiohead in any way. Musically at least. Vocally it sounds like Nico from her tenure with the Velvet Underground. That’s not a good thing. Ok, the Radiohead thing died with the ending of Light flight. Musically I can get behind this but man, the vocals are terrible. Like Nico and Joni Mitchell terrible. Yep, that’s all I have to say. Choice cut: Train Song

Not for me. 1/5

Guitars were great. Would be much improved with no horrendous singing

Look, I love weird experimental music. But this is weird and annoying, and ultimately just felt completely pointless. I was rather pleased about the fact that after it ended I don't have to listen to this again.

Couldn't wait for it to end

Let’s say I did listen to it because I only heard two songs and then turned it off.

Fuck, what a mixed bag. I actually really like the instrumentation here...but I just can't stand the vocals. I know they're genuine, but they sound to me like Maya Rudolph or Kristen Wiig is trying to perform the most annoying song in the world. Had to stop halfway through to save my sanity. Sticking to my rule that anything I can't force myself to get through gets a 1, even though I might rate an instrumental version of this as a 4. 1.4

kind of un memorable

Even in the time of '69's peace, love, and harmony, I feel like these folks would have booed off the Woodstock stage.

I do not like this.

not for me

When we get to flower children cult music I completely check out. Didn’t like this at all. 1/5

Discount Fairport Convemtion led by Dollar Store Judy Collins, piggybacking on the faux RenFaire fad of the late 60s. Not an original note is struck, nor a single original idea expressed. No wonder I never heard of 'em.

This was a tough listen. Many of the songs felt like church songs or some medieval band. Train Song was the only track that wasn’t completely annoying.

The kind of music that makes you miss the Black Death.

An hour of this was too much. My favorite track was I saw an angel. It was the least reminiscent of catholic hymns and also the last track.

I don't think I can give this a fair review. It's not my bag, and the genre has been taken too lightly by most.

Probably the most boring album on this list so far. I dont have a lot to say about this. 3/10 Favourite: None Least Favourite: The Cuckoo

If patchouli was an album...

Unlistenable

lets play the same song thrice just for the fun of it

If I could have given 0 I would. Maybe with the right drugs it would have been amazing.

existe um limite pra tudo, pelo amor de deus

This album sucked

Renaissance inspired hippie folk music

Just when I thought this album couldn’t get worse, another song would start. Hard pass.

Not my thing. Too old school minstrelly for me.

Dull, boring, boring, boring, dull, crap. 2 listens of this is going to be a struggle One listen is bad enough. Imagine sticking this on for pleasure. Imagine someone walking in when you were listening to this I think this might be my least favourite genre BAMO

I stopped caring pretty fast. Not for me. Lost steam after track one, truthfully.

Boring!!!!

Before this listen, I had never heard of Pentangle, their album Basket of Light, or any of its tracks—so I went in completely blind. What followed was unexpected and, at times, fascinating but not in a good way. I definitely wasn’t anticipating psychedelic, medieval folk music—but that’s exactly what I got. To be honest, it wasn’t really for me. While the album has a few nice moments, much of it is steeped in mystical, whimsical sounds that just didn’t resonate with me. It felt like I was listening to the soundtrack of a Renaissance fair rather than an album I’d want to revisit. Favourite track: Springtime Promises really stood out—beautifully arranged and easy to connect with. I also enjoyed the remix of Sally Go Round the Roses; it had a more contemporary, accessible vibe. Least favourite: Lyke-Wake Dirge was the low point for me. It felt more like a scene-setter for a medieval film than a standalone song. I just couldn’t get into it. Album artwork: I actually loved the cover art. It has a cool, retro charm that perfectly captures the era and aesthetic of the album.

Dikke nerd muziek en ook nog eens tergend saai. Enige niet middeleeuwse nummer Sally Go Round the Roses is nog het best.

Fail to see what the rush is to hear this before you die

'But when I awakened I found it not so.' When this record began I found it was not so. As it kept up, I found it was still not so. And as it came to its conclusion I found it was wholly not so. 'To purgatory fire thou com'st at last / And Christ receive thy saule.' Edmund Spenser was ridiculed for his employment of antiquated language in The Faerie Queene. If Spenser is old-school, Pentangle is grotesquely prehistoric. 'I have here a magic horn to deliver.' What's worse, you know exactly the influence an album like this had on subsequent groups stuck in the bullshit of Britishness: Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, Queen, Uriah Heep, Gryphon.

Hippie, whiny shite.

C'est dur là !

Maybe I am too square, but I could not find any good side in this basket. I was not enlightened by either the music or the peculiar vocals.

1- Stars (1/15)

Terrible rock

yeah no...1 star.

No

If you're into Renaissance festivals and shit, this might be your jam.

What is this? Is this renaissance faire music? Hard pass. You could change it to 1000 albums to listen to before you die and kill me before I listen to this again. This sounds like the music the guy was playing in Animal House before Bluto smashes his guitar .

Nope.

For some reason, I can handle the mysticism and Lord of the Rings-type songs when it comes to Led Zeppelin. That could be because they are a good band. One of the lyrics to "This Party Sucks" by the Wonder Years popped up in my head as I listened to this album: "I can't believe I ended up here again Watching this terrible band play songs I hate in the basement I can't believe that I got stuck here again While the kid with the dreads tells me he's smarter on acid" This is a "supergroup" of sorts. I have heard of only one of the members in this supergroup and that would be Bert Jansch. I listened to the deluxe edition and could not help but laugh when I saw there are three versions of Sally Go Round the Roses. I feel like it is a microcosm of this album and how this band seems very proud of themselves for doing nothing different of note. There is the regular version that is track 7, a re-recording in 2001 (most likely taking advantage of all the new technology 32 years later that will allow the band to add nothing new to the song) and a version that is a re-recording BUT...it's a longer version! "How much longer," is the question I asked myself. 2 seconds. It is 2 seconds longer than the re-recorded version. If the production engineer sneezed at the end of the song and forgot to stop recording, that could qualify a song as a longer track. The cover of the album is a picture of the band on a stage that looks like it could be lowered into lights that look a bit like the stereotypical view of what Hell would look like. It's a quality metaphor. Listening to this album makes a person wonder if simply lowering oneself into Hell would not be a less painful experience. Perhaps I'm being hard on this album but it is essentially everything I hate about the folk-rock era of the 60's. Trite band name, songs about like wizards and warlocks and shit and a feeling like I'm being forced to listen to someone's acid trip.

What a slog to get through. Vocals are very dull, and musically nothing to look out for. *Comic book guy voice* worst renaissance fair ever!

2/10 Thought it would be ok but i was mistaken. Vocals sound like tinnitus Favourite Song= Least Favourite Song=

Nope

Highlight: Springtime Promises In a nutshell: medieval sounding psychedelic folk. I could see this band opening for Donovan or The Mamas and The Papas in the 60’s. The band members are talented, no doubt about it. Too much falsetto, glockenspiel mixed too far forward, sitar was an odd inclusion. Overall: 2/10

I don't go to Renaissance Fairs, I don't believe in fairies, I don't read Tolkien and I don't listen to this shit. There is no way anyone could actually believe that you absolutely HAD TO hear this before you died.

Awful

60’s

I loathe this thin, reedy, vibratoed, technically accomplished but soulless and powerless woman's vocal style so much I can't listen long enough to form an opinion.

Absolutely awful. Some kind of Human Rights violation. That children as young as 2 can boot up YouTube and stumble across this deprivation is shocking.

Not for me.

Can't stand this style of singing. Music is cliche hippie tunes

Schade, dass ich 1969 noch zu jung war. Was zu der Zeit unter dem Einfluss von Produkten der Hanfpflanze so gespielt und gehört wurde ist schon spannend. Bei den Partys der Truppe wäre ich gerne dabei gewesen.

Hippy shit. And like, not the good stuff, either...

Her voice is just irritating for me personally I don't know what you call this high tone, but it's a real kick in the ear.

Rhymes with "Basket Of Light".

Can't think of much good stuff to say about this

Wow, da versagt mir einfach die Vorstellungskraft. Die Stimmen sind schrecklich, kann man, Frau da wirklich zuhören wollen. Absolut gruselig. Das musikalische Grundgerüst dagegen ist gefällig, mehr Jazz als Folk, OK. Leider verliert das ganze für mich deutlich an 'Strahlkraft' Die Stimmen dominieren die meisten Songs. Weg mit Schaden!

Put me to sleep!

borderline insufferable at times but there isnt a lack of talent here. most borderline 2 ive given so far. nvm they said "im going back to east virginia" but are from London. when will these brits learn.

Renaissance fest. 1/5

Unfavourable

Was ist noch schlimmer als 70er? Folk-Rock der 60er! Bah, ich finde daran nichts was mir gefàlllt ..

Her voice is generally awful

Oh god, I hate this.

Basket Of Light is crap, has no business being on here, isn't offensive but has no redeeming qualities. 1.

Completely silly

Why is this on the list??

Late 60s folk was wild

Reminded me of a medieval carnival with people dancing in flowing garments chanting to the gods. Perhaps it I was high and had dropped some acid or mushrooms I would have appreciated it more.

It's like the worst parts of the Renaissance Festival in audio form.

Pentangle - Basket of lights Wasn't sure what I was going to hear when this album popped up for today. But I feel like this would have been one of those artists you listen to at the Renaissance faire. Super folksy and reminiscent to early Simon & Garfunkel (Scarborough Fair). While I enjoy this music some of the time, I don't know if I was missing anything by never hearing it before now.  I recommend that y'all just skip over this one as it's not anything mind blowing. 1/5

uno de los 1 más fáciles de esta lista. Entiendo que hay que escuchar de todo en esta lista, al menos una vez por cada género, pero eso obliga a escuchar todo TODO. Y no estoy obligado a que me gusta.

This album made me laugh. I don’t think this was the artist had in mind.

Really not good.

Renaissance fair ass music

Some hippie cult shit. Not my jam.

This may have been good for people on acid fucking each other in the mud 55 years ago, but I had to listen to punk for 3 hours after this album to get the taste of patchouli out of my mouth. No thanks.

the worst kind of village-fete renaissance fair folk shit.

I think I like Fairport Convention better. Far better, actually. What else do you want me to say? It's skillfully played and sounds decent at first, generally speaking. But when that humourless mimicry of a medieval/gregorian chant turned up by track four, I couldn't help rolling my eyes up to the back of my head. Same with the overaffected tones of that lead singer. Who can listen to that shit seriously in 2023??? At least with Fairport Convention / Sandy Denny, you had many moments filled with genuine, tangible emotions. Likewise, the much-maligned The Incredible String Band (much-maligned on this app, at least) could display off-kilter psychedelic moods going beyond the occasional mandatory late-sixties sitar--giving some of their tunes a potential fresh flavor today. In comparison, most of *Basket Of Light* sounds like aimless noodling and empty exercises in style. It's biteless, tasteless, and harmless. Utterly boring record. Nice glockenspiel arrangements, though. I wish I could erase everything else, and only keep those. :D So, just like that other reviewer's wife, I roll my eyes and turn away. I'm aware that Bert Jansch is supposed to be a legendary British folk artist, but I'll try my luck with him on a solo album, I guess... 1/5 for the purposes of this list, which translates to a 6/10 grade for more general purposes. Next, please. Number of albums left to review: 383 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 280 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 146 Albums from the list I won't include in mine (many others are more essential to me): 197 (including this one)

This album has absolutely no business being on this list, or any list, unless it’s a list of absolutely overwrought, poorly written and mind-bogglingly boring albums. I find this so much more offensive than hardcore pornography.

Too far out of my wheelhouse to enjoy at all. The vocals are what Truly takes me out of the music....the instrumentation itself is enjoyable.

Nothing stood out other than a few minor guitar moments but not my jam

Meh, totally not my style.

Wtf is this? Is this what the knights of the round table were jamming to?

Woof. This was rough. I ended up skipping through tracks, and that was more than enough.

I tried but I just couldn't

Not for me, that's for sure.

Hm

Hippy bullshit

folk nonces

Back to psychedelic folk

Way too folky for me

This is music for a renaissance fair.

Nah dawg 1

Just some folk

For folk's sake.

English folk from the late sixies - I suppose it is a solid album but it is hard to see justification for having this included in the list as even within its genre there are much better albums around from the same time period.

This was unlistenable drivel. I felt like I was trapped in folk concert hell and the only way out was through a patchouli hurricane.

Not good psychedelic rock. Funeral dirge song about cremation and talk of Christ completely turned me off.

This is a band from the 60s? The sound is almost from medieval times... Am I listing to some satanic verses?

The dirge was an interesting change of pace and it was interesting to see a broader world music flair, but there wasn't much i enjoyed here. I wasn't a particular fan of the vocal work (both male and female)... and the sound is definitely stuck in the 60's.

Absolute shite

Big (1988), Directed By Penny Marshall: JOSH BASKIN (RAISES HAND) PAUL: (looking at Josh) Yes, Josh? JOSH BASKIN: I don't get it.

Not for me

For someone like me who used to groove heavy on the hippie side of things, this kind of music just doesn't groove for me. I'm sure at the time it stood out quite well, but listening to it today it almost sounds like it's from a music mockumentary, kind of like Spinal Tap when they were The Thamesmen singing "listen to what the flower people say." Just how I'm hearing it, folks.

Sloppy, airy, fairy tosh.

Terrible nonsense

Basket of Shite. The worst yet.

Hippy drug addled nonsense.

Nich für mich.

Beim letzten Song „I saw an Angel“ erinnere ich mich an die Titelmelodie von „Der Fahnder“ mit Klaus Wennemann. Ganz Großer, viel zu früh von uns gegangen. Ansonsten: nein, du, kein Interesse an deiner Taizé-Gruppe jeden Dienstag um 19 Uhr in der Teestube. Nein, auch nicht mit mondsteinbetanzter Demeter-Kamille, lauwarm in belebtem Wasser aufgebrüht. Hey, aber klar geht duzen, du.

no way...

Me sentía en Zelda

Eh

Nope

man-- I did not enjoy this.

Listened to about 3 songs from this. Fuck this Jesus music.