Electric

This is so mediocre, blant, stale, boring hard-rock. They just copied stuff from other bands. Bad.

Generic and bland

1 bu ne ya. ilk sarki guzel devami zzzfest

herhangi bi rock albümü ama daha çok dinlesem severim bence

Awful. Sounds like a fake band that would be playing in a bar scene in a new Wayne’s World movie made for Netflix.

My Ears: MAKE IT STOP! THE HUMANITY

This sounded like royalty free 80s rock and then it went to absolute hell with a born to be wild cover kill me before subjecting me to that again please

Electric The musical growth rate of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry. This album feels like a joke, as if Spinal Tap never happened. Surely this is not real, released in earnest by a real band? And if it is a real album, how has it been remembered? It’s so poor in every aspect - intention, ambition, music, lyrics - that it feels entirely pointless. I’m not averse to this sort of music at all, but why would you listen to this when you could just listen to Guns’n’Roses or AC/DC, who do this a million times better, with a million times more charm? She Sells Sanctuary is undoubtedly an absolute classic, and I was hoping there would be similar on here but, without knowing anything else of their catalogue, that seems like a massive fluke. It’s not worth going song by song, just think of any utterly generic hard rock riff from the middle of 1987, add some echoey drum fills and some pub singer shouting yeah-ah in three slightly different ways, and mix it up in the most basic of configurations and you have any track on this album. I’m reluctant to give out 1s, but I will this time. This is utter wank. 🧤 Playlist submission: I’ll go for my least favourite, a choice between Bad Fun or the cover of Born to be Wild. I’ll go Born to be Wild as it’s one of the most laughable covers I’ve ever heard

”Be my little angel” -tyyppiset sanoitukset toi vähän läähtätystunnelmaa, mikä varjosti kuuntelemista. En samastu, en viihdy. Toisaalta ihan jees rekalla-ajelumeno. En tosin saanut siitäkään reteetä fiilistä itselleni.

This album is just the same song over and over again. The version of Born To Be Wild is execrable.

What a crap album. How a band takes the already shitty Born to Be Wild and makes it worse is beyond me.

Jesus Christ

Boring for me

Initial thoughts would be... Decent but very basic. Don't really understand why this would make the list, as its not doing anything particularly interesting. Just very standard Finding out about the cynicalness of changing styles to this generic rock sound from their gothic style makes me like this less. Soulless

STOP WITH THESE 80S GLAM HARD ROCK ALBUMS I SWEAR TO GOD!!!

First album that I've listened in the project till now that didn't do anything for me. Just trying to emulate other more interesting bands.

Forgettable af

trash trash hair metal trash

I hate it so much.

The vocalist is a major joke. Just like rappers and their overuse of “niggah” and “motherfucker” this guy abuses “yeah” and his two-syllable version “yea-ah”. Add to that his “baby” and Billy Idol “ow” - also both used to extreme. Now pile on the fast vibrato at the end of his words, along with his making one syllable words into two by adding an “h” in the middle. And the cherry on top? The lyrics are ridiculous! Forced rhymes, absurd combinations without any cleverness to make them palatable, ie; “Peace Dog,” “Aphrodisiac Jacket,” “Electric Ocean,” etc. It’s ALL laughable. The music, though some of it is not too bad, is so derivative that there’s no point in listening to this band when you can hear the same style done so much better by REAL rock bands. This group is a hard “pass”!

Everything I hate about this godforsaken hobby that I have unfortunately gotten myself into.

I'll add this to the pile of 80s rock albums I heard once and will never think about again. Thanks to this list, I finally understand all the people who find classic rock bland. These songs are indistinguishable from each other. Highlights: YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH

This is the story of how a second-rate gothic-rock, "postpunk" band became a *third-rate* hair-metal band. Which, obviously, is anything but an upgrade. Yes, of course, *Electric* sold a lot of unit shifters in 1987. But it only took three or four years for this hackneyed and heavy-handed album to become irremediably outdated. And thank goodness for that: it's good that general audiences did not linger in such bland and/or ridiculous territories for years on end, at least. Producer Rick Rubin has been a rather positive force for many acts of all stripes (from Beastie Boys to Johnny Cash). But here, one wishes he had abstained from taking part in such a wreck. Opener "Wild Flower" is still a *listenable* hard rock cut, admittedly. Yet everything after depends on your own personal mileage on "cornball, retro-moronic" stuff, to use the words of fanzine *Trouser Press*... Was about to give a quite benevolent 2/5 grade to this *thing*, if only because I didn't want to judge something *willingly* designed to be shallow and *mind-numbing-fun* (a-hem) in unneccesary harsh terms. But then I heard that cover of Steppenwolf's "Born To Be Wild"... Turns out that it's so BAD that its mere inclusion in the tracklisting took out a whole point from my initial grade for this LP. It's one thing to play corny or vulgar stuff in a somewhat competent fashion, just because it's supposedly "funny" or unpretentious to do so. But it's another thing to be insulting to large parts of your intended audience just by playing particularly unmusical arrangements, or pretending that your dumb groans and rattles could be considered as "singing" by anyone having a shred of good taste left in their soul. 1/5 for the purposes of this list of "essential albums". Which, quite frankly, translates to a 3/10 or 4/10 grade for more general purposes (5 *minus* 1 or 2). Next, please.... Number of albums left to review: 296 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 310 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 169 Albums from the list I won't include in mine (many other records are more important to me): 228 (including this one)

What is this middling no-hit unwonder?

Never been a big fan.

Ugh, another 80s hard rock band. Just samey on every song. Not terrible, just incredibly boring and repetitive. The same song 11 times over. Even within a song the structure is so vanilla and uninteresting. 2*. Isn't Love removal machine straight out of the Rolling Stones? The born to be wild cover was mid at best. YOOOWWW

This album is trash. Derivative, sell out trash. They were much better when they were goth...

Dumb butt rock...other older Cult much better. Couldn't wait for it to finish. 1.5/5

The late 80s hard rock is not for me. I get it, I just think it's boring and overplayed. Not interested in this stuff.

“Are you in here listening to d-tier butt rock” —craig 1.5/5

These guys are a Brit AC/DC if you will. This is slightly better than their hair band peers, but not by much. I was close to giving this a 2 but then I thought better of it.

Unbelievably dull rawk, which managed to bore me even as I ended up using it as background music. YAWN. I realise I have given Zep and AC/DC high scores before. The difference is 1) They do it with passion 2) They remembered to include tunes, not just constipated wailing and 3) They did it first.

Trash

Infumables. Volvemos al bodrio musical.

Love Removal Machine //

Not my cup of tea

Wow, this does not hold up. Very generic rock.

I only know She Sells Sanctuary, which is a banger, and not here. Straight ahead rock, pretty forgettable. The book said it had outstanding singles but I completely tuned out the first one so I disagree. Love Removal Machine sounds like about 3 different ACDC songs mixed with She Sells Sanctuary. Why the shite Steppenwolf cover? Pass.

Not good.