Central Reservation

Some albums are just nice and nothing more. For me this is one of them. My second time having this one come up in my daily listen. 2/5

This album started off so well.......then it went to crap!!

You have to be in the right mood to appreciate this album. A slow kind of mood where you want nothing to do with productivity. I wasn't in this mood 2.4

When was this list made? I can't imagine if it was updated now, this record making the cut. Don't get me wrong, its a very solid record. But it also seems unremarkable in the grand picture of all recorded music. White privilege? Haha. The production is great and I like when singer/songwriters are ok with weird sounds and instrumental interludes. I also really like the honesty of her voice. It sounds sweet but she also isn't over-trying.

Meh

very boring

I couldn't get through it. Didn't hate it. Just not my style.

She has a really beautiful voice, but I have never liked this genre of music because it reminds me of being one of the last kids to be dropped off by the afterschool bus everyday - something that I always hated. It was always dark and quiet with this type of music playing.

I need to throw a [citation needed] on the Wikipedia page - \"folktronica\" this is not, with only one song really having a beat. Fine but not my favorite.

Muy largo para mi gusto. Disco medianón pero tiene unas 4 rolas muy cabronas. Luego suena muy Cat Power, ¿no? Si Cat Power quisiera cantar "bonito", cantaría así.

It sounds to me just like some generic Alanis Morissette cover band. I'm not sure who came first, but this does not matter, it is just very boring.

boring

Meh.

Not bad, just a bit boring. 6.7/10

Couldn't finish it. Dross.

Nur in der richtigen Stimmung.

Meh

Gorgeous voice but all a little dull really

All the same pace throughout, rather uninteresting.

These "singer-songwriter" albums always seem to be very hit or miss for me, and this was a bit of a miss. Enjoyed Stolen Car, and that was about it - everything else was much too slow and frankly a bit boring. Not the best album to come back to after a bit of a hiatus Saved: Stolen Car

Saved Prior: None Off Rip: Central Reservation - The Then Again Version Cutting Edge: None Overall Notes: This is alternate reality Tracy Chapman, down to the biggest song being Adjective + "Car", except it's boring

While I like Orton, I find the album too ordinary.

Hardest album to rate until now. For background music it might be an option (but not too loud), but a few songs felt like someone was nagging all the time. I might be too harsh for this one

Ik zat op het puntje van mijn stoel, deze zangeres kende ik niet. Helaas vond ik het al vrij snel afzwakken en was mijn aandacht verdwenen. Jammer

ehhhhhhh... Forgot each tune by the next bar. Think its music for your first period

Klinkt best goed, maar ik was er niet helemaal voor in de stemming.

Not bad, but not interesting at all

Boring.

Bit warbly.

Kinda boring to me

Ok but not really my thing

I like the general feel of the music, but I get distracted by some of the things she does with her voice. Dragged on a bit for me.

Das ist ein überflüssiges Album

So little instrumentation and effort can make my shoulders go up to my ears from how awful the songs make me feel inside, but it's also not bad, it's just drivel with a droning voice

Not a big fan.

completely unremarkable.

Folky, I get why it's on the list but not for me.

pretty good recent folk album with electronic backing. Not sure if this one will stand the test of time.

meh

It's OK but it's a little too alternative for me. I need trippy-er music.

Lepposaa taustamusaa

She reminds me a bit of Joni Mitchell, but not in a “oh wow I really like her” kind of way. Some of her vocals are straight grating. Other times, quite beautiful. The style is equally as inconsistent. Most of it is female folk singer blah. But then there are some techno-y sounds songs here too? I mean… it’s ok I guess. But ok won’t keep me coming back.

There are two versions of the same song on this album. Like all songs, it was so forgettable that I forgot anything about how it sounded when it came around the second time. Just awful.

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Not for me Tried a couple of songs, found it extremely boring. Turned it off and put on Spilt Milk by Jellyfish instead. Favourite track: New Mistake (by Jellyfish)

Yeesh...

Boring

Musically, it's a tepid bowl of oatmeal. But the music is an afterthought, right? It isn't the point. She's in a class with Nick Drake, Jackson Browne, Carole King, James Taylor, Sarah McLachlan. . . : lyricists heralded for their emotional depth and sensitivity for whom music seems like a vehicle; a logistic to be attended to rather than a magical universe to be explored. What really bugs me about this lot, though, is that their lyrics always come across as humorless and overly-earnest self-absorption; like the worst people to get stuck sitting next to at a dinner party.

Demasiado abajo y parecidas

Bad

post-apocalyptic folk, maybe? at the end of side 1 and every song has blended together into an indistinguishable blur of [___] vocals, strummed guitar and mild string backups. the only reason i know it's halfway is that i happened to check spotify. oohhhh this track has a *drum machine beat* i can't this is too boring 1/5

Den här jävla sångfraseringen ”HEEE HEEE HEEEE” i slutet på varje mening, ibland varje ord, ibland MITT I ETT ORD?! ”Ange-hee-heel”. Blir galen. Vet att hon vill att jag ska känna känslor, men är död inombords. Så satans daterat brittiskt piss, återigen. Så kommer lite everything but a girl-electronica där i mitten. Vem fan pallar det en längre stund? Har skittråkigt.

Eh

Like walking through quicksand.

Скучная шняга

I keep trying to find redeeming qualities in this album but this was just not for me at all. Voice was grating, folky style did not hit today, just everything worked against Beth Orton for me today. Hard to finish, rare 1 star

Not a fan of it

Eh

I tried but this was a very boring album, her vocals are actually really nice and remind me a bit of dido, but all that does is annoy me because it lets me know that I can listen to a more exciting album with just as good vocals and not have to skip through songs.

2.5, rounded down. Stealing cars was good but the rest was not. Just too much of the same and the production just hurts my ears

wack.

Don't know which is worse, this or Suzanne Vega's debut album. As bland as boiled chicken.

Un álbum insípido, monótono, aburrido, sin gracia, denso, repetitivo, sin chispa y olvidable. Se mantiene en una misma linea que no despega..

Easy listening, fine but nothing special 1 - doesn't deserve to be on this list

Snooooooooooore

boring as hell

o álbum mais peito de frango sem sal e sem tempero que já veio pra mim no app

Couldn’t get past the voice

Whiny

No

vid fjärde låten trodde jag att jag redan hade lyssnat om albumet.. men nej det var bara så generiskt att det lät likadant..

Literally nothing in this album even registered my attention until Stars Seem to Weep. And that was solely due to the change in backing track

Pretty dull

Pretty bland a flavorless.

Mellow

I tried to get a sense of purpose from this. Who is it for? What's the motivation? Massively overblown. My opinion is that you really need to earn a symphony on your album, you can't just toss off... whatever, and create drama with the string section. This album checks a box on some record company's list in the late 90's: Post-grunge 4 piece heavy rock act (like Bush)? CHECK Spicy girl group? CHECK Whiny angst-addled indie rock act that forgot to tune up and the singer sounds drunk? CHECK R&B group, R&B female singer, R&B male singer, dance music, rap, and or all of the above at the same time: CHECK, CHECK, CHECK Female pop vocalist... " Hey, Bill, we don't have a female pop vocalist anywhere do we, I need to check a box on this Corporate Music Form™?" "Yeah, Bob, lemme look... hm, best I can do is that sort of monotone trip-hop act called Beth Orton." "I haven't heard it, have you?" "No, Bob I sure haven't!" "Works for me, Bill!" Both laugh hysterically and drive off in Bill's Porsche to golf.

Ik voelde m niet

Not for me.

Ewwwwwww snoozefest

did not enjoy. DNF

Trodde ikke jeg skulle mislike denne, men.....

Really bad.

I don't hate it but this did nothing to me.

Nothing new or exciting

Not for me. Load of ballads.

Boring zzzzzzzzzz

11/1001 I was looking forward to this, as Beth Orton was an artist that mostly passed me by in the 90s - I remember its predecessor, Trailer Park, being a half-decent album at the time. Sadly, this collection doesn't do anything for me. Well-worn chord progressions with less ambitious arrangements than Beth's previous effort, it runs out of steam by the second track and never really picks up momentum again, save for the trip-hop treatment of Stars All Seem To Weep just after the halfway point, by which time it is too late to lift the mid-paced, wistful mood. A mood which, of course, may have been precisely the one Beth Orton was aiming for, but it was not one which I felt I could really engage with. Beth's lyrics are poetic and mature, but there is nothing memorably melodic to hang them on, and I soon found myself zoning out. I'm sure this album has an audience, although I am equally sure I'm not it.

Wannabe Joni Mitchell whines her way into the same discount bargain box as Dido

Her voice isn't bad and fits the music well, but I can't stand how she seems to keep adding syllables into words. It's very distracting to me and make me want to stop listening by the end of the first song. I made it halfway through before I had to listen to something else for a while. Not something I'd willingly listen to again. 1.5/5

This reminds me of Natalie Merchant. I hate Natalie Merchant.

just too boring for me (bought a cd copy of it at the time so certainly gave it a try)

Ouch, that voice was not good. Unpleasant tone, irritating style, and simply out of tune in several places.

Just can't get on with Berg Orton's voice. My fault, not hers. That said, Joan Armatrading had better be on this list somewhere...

1/5. After many instances, I have to believe that if an album is at all associated with the Mercury Awards, there is a 90% chance it is pretentious and or not good at all. Unfortunately, this one was one of the 90%. I wanted to remain interested but it just kept dragging on for what seemed like the same 4 chords through the whole album. I wanted to like it because she has a very nice voice but it is not enough to save this one. Just so boring honestly and hard to imagine anyone can sit through the whole thing without wanting to change it or just walking away. There some okay takeaways but listening to these all the way through is not the vibe. Best Song: Feel To Believe, Stars All Seem To Weep, Stolen Car

I really hate folk. This one slipped past the censors because its genre is officially "folktronica" but really only a handful of these falls under that umbrella. I liked maybe 3 of the songs and the rest were just not my thing at all.

Dull

Boring

# Playlist Track - Stolen Car # Notes - Bad britpop. Annoying, uninspired, bland. - The only decent track is the first one, that is kind of discount Alanis Morrisette. - One of the worst I've listened to, so far.

Had a hard time finishing this. So long and aimless. Maybe I just wasn’t in the mood but hearing one limo song after another for an hour really got to me.

1. car - 1 2. decline - 1 3. harm - 1 4. more - 1 5. time - 1 6. central - 1 7. ztarz - 1.5 8. laughter - 1 9. river - 1.5 10. devil - 1 11. believe - 1 12. rezervation - 0

The most blandest shit I’ve heard. I could eat plain white bread with nothing on it & it’ll still be less bland than listening to this album

Die Achterbahnfahrt geht weiter. Nach einem absoluten Klassiker (The WHO) folgt ein Album, welches sich nach interessant klingendem Start zunehmend als Langweiler entpuppt. Schade!

Not my cuppa tea, at all

Boring

Every other song was fine. Nothing grabbed me. Florence and Alanis do this better

If Andersonville had a soundtrack. Boooooooooooring.

slumber

First listen Saved 1/12 Top track: Stolen Car

Toen ik de hoes zag, wist ik eigenlijk al voldoende. Vrouwelijke singer-songwriter uit de 90s. Dat betekent zielenroerselen van een twintiger met Dr Martens en een slobbertrui, die op haar slaapkamer teveel naar Joni Mitchell heeft geluisterd. En dat is ook precies wat we voorgeschoteld krijgen. Het is allemaal veel te traag en ze jankt echt als een soort Joni over haar pianootje, gitaar of viool heen. En dan nog een uur lang ook nondeju. Joni had tenminste aan een halfuurtje genoeg. Halverwege komt er nog een halvegare krolse kater meekrijsen. Man man man, haar stem is echt verschrikkelijk. Ik hoop dat we nu de periodieke portie Joni weer hebben gehad en we er nu weer voor even van af zijn. Anders moet ik elke keer weer zo'n rant over haar afsteken, maar dat betekent ook elke keer weer opnieuw dat alle energie aan me onttrokken wordt en ik weer opnieuw moet opladen. Gelukkig weet ik al dat ik straks een plaatje van the Eagles krijg om weer bij te komen.

Ajan kliseistämää laulelua + tasaisen keskitempoinen ysäribiitti (tai ei). Pettymyksenä jostain syystä erityisen harmittava.

Sorry, I just can’t abide her voice

Until today, I had no idea who Beth Orton is. Her 1999 album 'Central Reservation' seems to me, to be a mixed bag of sentiments. The track 'Sweetest Decline' carries an evocative quality, reminding me of the kind of song Nigella Lawson might choose to underscore one of her Christmas shows when everyone is turning up to the feast at the end. However, the overall tone of the album, marked by its mellow and laid-back vibe, positions it as pure background music. It's the kind of record that, for some, could seamlessly fade into the sonic backdrop of daily life without leaving a lasting impact. Personally, I found the album to be outside my musical preferences, and I must admit that I didn't even complete the entire listening experience. While tastes in music vary, 'Central Reservation' didn't resonate with me, prompting the realisation that not every album is destined to strike a chord with every listener.

I really didn't like this album. Her voice is so annoying. She sang a song called couldn't cause me harm, well she did a lot of harm to my ears. The songs were all dreary and miles to long. I would rather get tortured by the devil then have to listen to his album again.

I just found it mildly irritating at the beginning, by the end I wanted it so badly to be over. Super freaking dull.

Managed about 15 seconds. He voice and annoying affliction did my tits in.

Nej tack

Boring. Did not finish.

Boring, just like every other singer-songwriter album in this experiment

Hard Pa$$

tweedious

boring as fuck

Totally not my thing and probably the least listenable album so far. Might have to go back and revise my Zeppelin rating for this one.

Do not know...

My gaawwwd c'est plate!! Je suis fan de trucs downtempo mais ça c'était une torture! Ennuyant comme les pierres. Le pitch bend sur le vibraphone synthétique c'est non... Une toune à 2 accords qui a pour highlight l'entrée de bongos passé 5 minutes...ouf... La toune avec un beat trip hop est moins pire mais en général c'est long, c'est loooong pis il se passe pas grand choses. Occasion manquée de dynamiser le tout avec les strings, les arrangements sont très simplistes, trop. Tant qu'à leur faire jouer des roots à l'unisson mets en pas... Bref: pas pour moi visiblement. Peut-être l'intérêt est dans les paroles, j'écoute pas beaucoup ça, mais les bouts que je pognait sont pas transcendant...

Je ne vois pas l’intérêt. Elle chante à reculons. Pu capable.

Une voix intéressante. L’album démarre bien avec la pièce Stolen Car où le jeu de guitare est très intéressant, mais par la suite, ça devient un folk générique un peu ennuyeux pour moi et sans grande nouveauté. Quand on lis sur elle, on la reconnaît pour le son folktronica et on n’a pas ça ici. Son premier album aurait été plus approprié.

Zegnajcie halcyonowe dni, witaj kolejny wyspiarski picku, tym razem z gatunku babskiego grania, wylosowalo Central Reservation pani Beth Orton z rocznika 99, czyli muzyka folkowo popowa, z naciskiem na pop ze wzgledu na nature babskich problemow, bo jest to kolejna plyta na ktorym artystka wylewa z siebie jak to jej w zyciu zle i ciezko, bo przeciez milosc smutki i niesprawiedliwosci, instruemntalnie jest to dziwne polaczenie typowych dla folka akustycznych instrumentali z czyms nowym, elektrykiem, ale nie instrumentalnym, a muzyka elektroniczna, wiec beaty elektrykowe do ktorych brzdaka jakas gitara sa tutaj na porzadku dziennym, wsrod licznych producentow tego krazka pojawia sie takze nazwisko pana Watta z everything but the girl, ktorzy sie juz przewineli na liscie, a u ktorych jakos naturalniej pasowalo takie polaczenie elektrycznych synthow i akustykow, no ale nie mozna miec wszystkiego, albo czegokolwiek jak w tym wypadku, bo cale 58 minut central reservation najlatwiej okreslic jako bylejakie, niezapadajace w pamiec i sklaniajace do przemyslen nad tym czemu tylko kobiety potrafia wylewac z siebie smutki nad soba przez bita godzine, a ktos moze sie pod tym podpisac i jakos nawiazywac kupujac lub sluchajac tego krazka z wlasnej nieprzymuszonej woli

No ty

Very repetitive tracks.

Prepare yourself for a come down. Middle of the road folk, Beth’s voice has a slightly discordant resonance that to my ears clashed in places. Once the album was done I had to funk up the place to get me back on happy street. Cheer up Beth, it might have already happened but you don’t have to keep reliving it.

Eh

Veel van het zelfde, erg "anoukig"

1.5

Awful.

relaxing, soothing, nocturnal, mellow, melancholic