Queen Of Denmark

I didn’t like it.

Alternative music in this time period sure was moody and depressing. It's well put together, but not for me.

This album gave me a feeling that I was listening to less outwardly comedic versions of songs from Bo Burnham's "Inside", in a good way. A very interesting album. I expected just a standard folk/downtempo indie album, but I was pleasantly surprised with some less-common instruments than I expected (flute, thumb piano (?), synths, and more). Some very odd lyrics in some tracks that felt like it was trying a bit hard to be *too* abstract or verbose. But overall, a fine time and interesting listen. One or two standouts I'd listen to again.

boff, c'est tellement weirdo, je suis vraiment dansune mauvaise passe d'album et on dirait que cela écope un peu à cause des autres. Il y de la bonne musicalité mais le paroles et les style de chansons... 2.90

Too slow and uninteresting for my tastes.

I don't know, it's not bad but the first couple of songs all sound alike. Rest of the album did not get better so didn't really get into it. 2/5

I like this. It's an enjoyable album. But I'm not sure why it would be in the "1001 Albums" book. It's good, but not great. I like the sound., but it's fairly average really. I doubt that I will remember this artist.

Derivative

There were a few songs on this that I thought were great. Like really really great The rest was a steaming pile of horse don't-don't.

Está bien, no lo escuché todo. Musica bien lograda y tranquila, pero las letras no me gustaron mucho.

Er zijn maar weinig bands die vallen onder de noem 'folk' die mij kunnen bekoren en John Grant is er daar niet één van.

Heel divers. Soms erg goed, maar soms ook echt niet om aan te horen.

Dit lijkt op van alles.

Nice musicality but not for me. Just kind of drags on and on and on and… On

Det här känns definitivt som ett 2010 album Millennial stund Några trevliga melodier dock mellan 1 och 2

Robert har så dålig smak dude... den hä killen verkar ha haft de rätt svårt o ja vill int dumpa på de men de hä va legit så mediokert... musiken va ofta kinda ointressant o lyricsen kändes som tonårsdikt. Helt för långt också. Ändå int så dåligt att det förtjänar en etta

Njae.

Ma cos'è? È ironico?

Not great. Bordering on odd.

Kind of interesting but absolutely no need for it to be on this list. Father John Misty vibe to it.

Awful album. An occasionally interesting hook, but didn't enjoy the vast majority of this album.

Hyvät tekstit, mutta vähän sääli, ettei musan puolesta nappaa.

I'd enjoy it if I was into that kind of music

Eh

Lyrically provocative but musically less interesting

Wasn't listening to the lyrics much and then the song full of slurs really caught me off guard. Nothing really caught my attention on this album, except, again, for the song full of slurs

Boring indie music

Tedious

More meh. Just ok.

Beyond the first couple of songs on the album, I wasn't terribly impressed. This album's strengths begin with its simplicity, but by the middle tracks that same simplicity makes the tracks stand out less. Those first few songs are good though

nah

A very heartfelt album, but the tone wasn't for me. The overall lyrical tone felt adolescent and the music itself felt like a simple vehicle for the lyrics. I like the messaging, but not the musical experience.

not really something that I would remember for a long time, despite proper musicianship

I don't hate this...but I don't love it. The lyrics are ok...the music seems, off...and it took a few songs for me to put my finger on this vibe... Tracks like Sigourney Weaver, Silver Platter, Chicken Bones...and then it hit me, it's like when The Muppets cover a rock song...it's fine...but it's just off, you know? This guy is like a Muppet folk singer and even the spite or anger in some of the songs come off kind off weak. Having said that, still love The Muppets.

Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Pretty meh for me… just an ok sound. Seems like he is trying to hard to be creative with the lyrics. Sounds like a mix between the Beetles (nonsense lyrics) and Ben Folds…but no where near as good.

Only made it 2 songs in. Just not feeling it.

Mid

Liked the music. His voice didn't the music. Tbh pretty mid.

Gimmick

No

Why in the world is this album on this list. With all of the great albums that were released between 2005 and 2010, what even is this entry?? I've never even heard of this guy - I'm not saying that alt music shouldn't be included but c'mon. Nothing interesting, quite bland and broody sounding, perhaps it's included for that "alternative" or "interesting" voice in the new album lineup. Best: Outer Space Worst: JC Hates Faggots

It's not bad, just not my thing at all

Good but why would he drop the slurs

A mix of boring and not bad with the occasional "that's pretty good" sprinkled in. Overall it's just an indie record that isn't terrible. Ho-hum. Why is this here?

An interesting album that felt like it was a mixture of songwriting styles. Lyrically it was diverse and different than most albums. Felt like it was like a father John misty album mixed with bo Burnham. I listened to it multiple times and as much as I enjoyed the instrumentals it got somewhat annoying as the album progressed. 4.4/10

not for me

The sound of this album is amazing. Lyrically I didn't really care for it that much.

If you think Billy Joel is just way too talented, then "shitty Billy Joel" here might be just your style!

meh

They're really pretty and honest songs, and Grant has a lovely voice. Silly at times. Some songs sound Beatlesesque (their more playful songs)... "Where Dreams Go to Die" kinda ripped from "Across the Universe." "Silver Platter Club" is another example. He uses his resources well, but I can't deny he's really limited in what he's trying to achieve and tends to revisit the same styles in his songs, too afraid to branch out. There are some ethereal sounds complimenting the sci-fi and dreamlike imagery. Few songs stand out, but even those don't impress me too much.

This is really great for curing insomnia. 3/10.

Not bad but not great

I'm not in love with this album

I personally did not find this album to be as quirky, charming, or unique as it finds itself to be. Really didn’t enjoy it and it just droned on with a pretentious self-importance that really put me off of it. Not really my speed and lyrically annoying

Songs from this album keep showing up in my Spotify Discover Playlist and I'm not sure why. I guess it's because I generally like the kind of 70s singer-songwriter albums he's trying emulate (or lampoon - I'm not exactly sure). But I don't like his take at all. I can't stand his constant stream of cleverness. This album is like one big ironic joke that's lost on me.

Oh boy this is too earnest for me. Just way too soft of delivery. The track Marz is better but the lyrics are so cheesy for me. I can hear some of the Midlake influences in the instrumentals and some arrangements, I am a fan of Midlake (Tim Smith era) but this is a situation where the execution isn't good for me. I really can't finish it, not a big fan. Totally not my thing.

Hmmmm… Quite liked the choons and musical arrangements, some great solos and well put together but I felt like he was constantly singing using auto-choon which spoiled it for me. Like a male version of Cher

Levyn kansikuvasta olisin voinut vannoa, että on jo ollut kerran tällä listalla. Eipä tuosta oikeastaan muuta muistaisikaan...

Meh, probably not coming back to this one ever again... Parts of it come off as a parody album somehow. I'm very confused.

above average

I had high hopes for this album after 'TC and Honeybear' - hopes that were soon lost after a few tracks and forgotten by the album's end. There's a few highlights here and there, but overall, Queen of Denmark fell short for me and offered no feeling of significance. It was a pleasant enough experience to hear it once, but I won't be keeping this album in rotation.

Everything here was just really boring. Songs all sounded the same and none of it was good. I guess I liked "Sigourney Weaver" on the first listen - the lyrics were pretty funny. Other than that it was mostly meh.

This is kind of a "meh" album for me. There's nothing spectacular about it. The song writing is fine and I may delve deeper into John Grant's catalog, but there's nothing really pulling me.

meh

ну чот по началу скучно, а потом ваще битлов напомнило, а потом чот более менее современное. Отрезочек один засемплировать всё таки нашёл для себя

Listened once. The lyrics are interesting, the actual music didn’t move me much at all. Not sure i would give it a second chance.

Ok, nothing too horrible or too great about it for me.

It's ok. I found it a little boring and hard to listen to at some points.

Queen of Denmark is the sort of album that I thought was completely extinct in 2010, an MOR album with actual melodies that might have been featured on adult contemporary radio station back in the late 70s, made with consummate craft and featuring the rich baritone of John Grant. The only thing that would be out of the place back in the 70s are the lyrics, which are often absurdist and/or profane. Now, MOR is far from my favorite type of music, and if there was ever a genre that was irrelevant in this day and age, it's MOR. It's almost as if John Grant was daring the cultural gatekeepers to throw a fit when he made this album. But damn if he doesn't do a good job of it. To be honest, I didn't really enjoy Queen of Denmark much, but it's hard to imagine how Grant could have improved on it, considering what he was going for. Okay, now that I've listened to this all the way through, I'm going to dock it a star for a couple of pretty awful songs, Silver Platter Club and Jesus Hates Faggots. Actually, I have nothing against the lyrics. It's the music, which gives away the joke. If you're going to subvert MOR with cynical, outrageous lyrics, you've got to play it straight, no pun intended.

Not my jam

Tuesday haiku: I liked “Chicken Bones” The rest of the album is lame Two point Five round down

Didn’t really enjoy it. Maybe 1-2 songs I didn’t mind.

Hi everyone, I'm Mark.

A decent piece of wholesome, "daydreamy" folk music. It's atmosphere is quite compelling and John Grant's voice certainly sounds terrific, but it borders a tad too much on the sappy side with dumbed down lyric, weird alien-esque effects and conflicting messages to warrant a future listen. 2/5.

Bizarrely entertaining as an occasional listening experience.

Ehhh didn't do anything for me. Vocals are actually very good, music is ok, lyrics are odd and I guess this just isn't a mood I'm feeling.

Woke, some good songs but meh overall

The self-title song was good but rest of album was meh

Talk about depressing

Tried but couldn't get into this album. Don't know why it's on this list. It's not awful but it's not for me.

weird

it's fine

It was okay. I enjoyed the instrumentals. The lyrics were interesting, but didn’t really connect with the album that much.

Easy listening but not a favorite

2/5 I'd say somewhat dry album

¿Me querían aburrir? Lo lograron. La de Jesus Hate Faggots está bien chida, eso sí.

sucks

I should have known by the album cover but it took me hearing him say Sigourney Weaver and then the next song being Chicken Bones for me to shut this off. I'm all for the Queen of Denmark, I'm sure this guy is good friends with her, but I do not need to listen to this album before I die.

Never heard of John Grant before. The album sounds interesting, but is not necessarily my taste.

A little too jammy but good overall

Meh. After the white album I've had enough of this stuff. Lyrics kind of cool but music boring.

Bland

Depressing

This was a rough listen because I didn’t really enjoy the music but I could feel his pain.

Marz pretty cool track , rest of the album kind of slow vibe but nothing stand out cool

Niet echt mijn ding, maar niet verkeerd. Heeft wel wat unieks

Não evocou fortes sensações

Decent music, chill almost folksy. The lyrics are pretty dumb.

this is... boring.

simple boring melodies, uninteresting lyrics and music

This is the worst album I've had in a long time. I thought it started ok, but when it dawned on me how juvinile and awful the lyrics are, occasionally dropping into Family Guy tier cringe (Sigourney Weaver), I took a really hard turn. Set that against a backdrop of the most bland, stock folk with some synths thrown in to make it seem more interesting, and you get a remarkably poor album that should not be in this list at all. I don't want to seem like a "le wrong generation" type but most of the post 2000 choices I've had have been so bad I didn't mind It's Easier because of the nice vocal harmonies and I thought the synth part towards the end of that one was actually decent 1.5 Highlights: It's Easier

It just wasn't my cup of tea.

What in the depressing acid trips was that?!

I don't dislike this as much as Bob, but it's close.

What a seemingly sad guy. No excuse for these lyrics, though.

Terrible, “Sigourney Weaver” sealed 1-star status

No that’s okay thank you!

this makes me gag update: omg why do we need to use the n word?? we dont!

This was terrible. Feels like there is a joke here that I was not in on. Some of the melodies feel like direct ripoffs (Beatles, Nickelback). Not much positive to say here. I think this is my first 1 that I didn’t shut off.

It was written with the express purpose of one of the songs being used in a car commercial.

Listened to a random 5 second section of a randomly chosen song and I never want to hear this guy again. I will listen at some point today but NOT looking forward to it. Update: hot garbage. Will not finish.

terrible

Holy moly, these lyrics are terrible.

Am I missing something?

the most i can say about this album is that the track "marz" has a remarkably similar piano progression to keygen church's "tenebre rosso sangue" which is what i thought about for the rest of the record. this was incredibly middling musically with very juvenile lyrics. i also think "jesus hates f*ggots" is a baffling song because like. No. No You Should Not Be Saying Those Slurs Man. who in their right mind even remotely thought to themselves this is a notable album worth listening to? exhausting beyond belief.

hmmmmmm. this is 2010?! first song i immediately assumed was 80s again. Marz? (this mothafucka singing about a damn marz candy bar?!?!) It sounds cool but I actually hate these lyrics on this song I really fucking hate these lyrics. Like its actually insulting that this is very musically talented and the vocals are good but then the lyrics itself is DOGSHIT. I'm put it as a 1 because this offends me. And it is really upsetting because Chicken Bones and Silver Platter Club are fuckin BOPS to me ;-; ...... Jesus hates faggots, get the fuck out of here you silly fuckin butt crusty

Uh oh... it says 2010 on the tin. Hang on to your butts, folks. ------ How beautiful, delicate, effeminate, and utterly forgettable This has not, and will not, endure the test of time, and thus has no business appearing here. Please, for the love, fuck off.

bad didn’t make it far

Not for me. 1*

Dull

Why is such an album even on this list? I don't see this having an influence on someone who has ever heard and/or understood 1 Bob Dylan song.

I hated this so much and had to force myself to listen to more than just a few seconds of each track. His voice is grating, the lyrics sound like a 13 year old wrote them, and the music is basic and forgettable. Why is this album on this list?!? (1)

Ei

Extremely boring

I’d call this unlistenable if I hadn’t somehow made it through.

It was really the vocals that were the reason I didn't like this album and made it really hard to get into. But I was fond of some of the instrumental elements like some of the synths and keyboards and hornlines but overall still not enjoyable to listen to. 2/10 Favorite Song: Leopard and Lamb

Puerile nonsense.

Hella depressing. Not my type of music. Enjoyed "Silver platter club".

Not my vibe, lyrics were too weird and the music and style was to slow/melancholy. Hard Pass

What is this? It feels like a weird combination of thoughtful, trite, and juvenile. 1/5 "Did Frederica ever mention a man named Jamie Gumb or a Jame Gumb? How about John Grant?"

Nope.

Unlistenable garbage, kind of like an eighth grader's diary read over shitty music

Langweilig und eintönig

Didn’t really grab me at all

👎🏻

Boring. Really, really boring. Not sure what the allure was supposed to be here.

Never heard of John Grant (or his previous band The Czars) but reading his Spotify bio gives me hope that I might like this - or some of his subsequent - albums. Looking forward to giving this a listen… Well, so far this is pretty tame/medicore. Only half way through so far though. Yeah, wasn’t keen on this. Have cleared my listening queue of the other albums of his I had initially lined up. Not someone I’d listen to again.

Yawn

Title track is great, along with Sigourney Weaver.

Garbage

at first i thought, this was better than i thought it was going to be but i was rapidly proved wrong

Really pretty music with weird-ass lyrics. "I feel just like Sigourney Weaver when she had to kill that alien guy." "Bittersweet, strawberry, marshmallow, butterscotch, polar bear, cashew, Dixieland, phosphate, chocolate..." "Baby, you are where dreams go to die and I regret the day your lovely carcass caught my eye."

Sorry. Not for me. 1/5

Some would say this guy is a lyrical genius. I say this guy is a twat.

Despite being released in 2010, what we have here is a '70s singer-songwriter pop-folk self-indulgent depressive episode that is indistinguishable from roughly 4.2 million other albums. I may get the 1,001 book just to see if it explains its selection criteria because I'm increasingly feeling like it's about 50% albums everyone should listen to and 50% the editor's God-awful personal taste. Influence 1. Quality 2. Hits 1. I hate depressing music 1.

Goofy nonsense. Not for me, thanks.

Hope I don't get AIDS.

Musically good. Lyrically no good. Not down with the nonsensical songs. Definitely down with the pro gay songs. Just not enough to like here.

Cringe. Som en poppig nickelback blandad med kid rock 0/5

Dreary.

I only made it through 2/3 of 2 different songs. This is not my time of music.

This was painful.

The first few tracks did nothing for me at all. I was pretty bored and thought this would be an easy one star. They were pretty basic sounding, pretty forgettable and pretty nursery rhyme-esque. I didn't like his voice, and the tempo didn't change at all, it just maintained this slow, plodding speed. To his credit though, the songs became slightly better as the album went on. Don't get me wrong, they were still slow and plodding with his monotonous vocals, but the tracks were definitely better than in the first half. I don't usually care about other reviews, but I'm actually annoyed that so many other people on this site have given it five stars. I clearly am missing something. If I had to pick out a highlight, I'd say 'Outer Space' is the best track here. Also as a side note, the album cover really creeps me out for some reason.

A pleasantly voiced musical version of narcolepsy.

Had to do a double-check to see if this was another entry snuck in by our fearless random site host, but nope, this is in the book. The story behind its creation is interesting enough, as is Grant’s life story, but this is not my thing.

Don’t like this one. Very buttrock but trying too hard. Boring, doesn’t make me feel anything except that I’d rather be listening to something else. The lyrics are cringy. Poor performances, poor production, poor writing

A list of 1001 albums to hear before you die, and yet here’s more of the same bland, forgettable drivel. ABBA with folk and electronic fluff—perfect for when I’m gasping for my last breath. Great timing.

Ass

I think this one is... kinda bad. Every song sounds exactly the same, the lyrics often come off as pretentious, and it's overall bland. The social commentary bits don't land at all. That being said, there were two tracks I kind of liked: "Sigourney Weaver" (I didn't care for it too much, but it's funny) and "Outer Space"

I'm not good at naming sub genres of music so I had to look up what this album is considered. In doing so I learned that this is considered to be indie folk/soft rock and now I know what one of my least favorite sub-genres of music is. I imagine this is a divisive album. I can see someone thinking the lyrics are deep and meaningful but I found them to be pretentiously simplistic--a giant swing and a miss in an attempt to capture Leonard Cohen's magic of making lyrics seem spontaneous yet extremely profound at the same time. Lowlights were "Sigourney Weaver," "JC Hates F*****ts," and "Leopard and Lamb."

Not my cup of tea at all

"Tein tämmöisenkin biisin." Tulkintatapa: postmodernin humoristinen lakonisuus.

What in the hell was this. It started off excruciating, I was dreading having to keep this going for close to an hour. Didn't get much better, but at least it wasn't as bad as the first track. Then there was the part with all the slurs. Like what? Why? Almost an hour of my life I can't get back.

I don’t understand frankly. Like a lot of reviews on here, there’s no subtlety and it’s written like it’s done by some high schooler who discovered poetry… Some songs are good, caramel for instance has good substance and sound but is massively disrupted by the previous song “JC hates faggots.” The kind of album edgy people listen and ‘like’ for its derogatory usage, I understand why it’s on this list but can’t understand its average rating. 2/10 (saving grace is some of the other songs giving it a 2).

So bad

This guys got it all wrong Jesus Christ doesn't hate faggots he WAS a fag The Gospel of John repeatedly refers to an unnamed "disciple whom Jesus loved" (John 13:23, 19:26). Some could argue this phrase implies a deeper, more intimate relationship. A "newly discovered" scroll from a Roman centurion claims Jesus had a close relationship with certain male followers and was known for showing particular favoritism toward young men. lost fragment of Mark's Gospel (sometimes referenced in real academic circles) describes Jesus spending a night alone with a young man in a linen cloth Anyway album was shit, supernatural defibrillator and that's the good news were particularly bad. The type of album where the shit songs are so shit that it almost convinces you the mid tracks are good. (they're not) 2/10

He should have stayed on hiatus

Good reason to depresion and anxiety. For my taste very lullaby songs.

I honestly could not determine whether this was genius parody material, or just incredibly bad poetry addressing sophomoric themes. I ultimately settled on the latter.

Is this a troll entry? Nah, gave up during track 3

I put John Grant in the same box as artists like Rufus Wainwright and Father John Misty. It's a box that never gets opened. All these grandiose, sermon-like, epic songs fall short of the mark for me. The songs aren’t as poignant or powerful as they’d probably hoped. The common denominator comes across as a smug self importance. Whereas I think someone like BC Camplight does a great job of having genuine gravitas, humility and funny bones.

I think this is an interesting artist. But it stops at that. I'm not sure why he's a must listen.

Adult cartoon music mixed in with melancholy depressing music.

What hot garbage is this? How did it even make it on this list? What in sweet fuck is this even supposed to be?

2/10. Not my thing

Dreary

2/10 The production value on Queen of Denmark is awful. Most instruments sound like they've been played from a midi keyboard with free sound pack in garageband. Furthermore, to me John Grant tried hard to write deep and meaningful lyrics. However they sound bland and forced most of the time. Is there a good song on the album? Yeah I kinda digged "Chicken Bones" for the funky vibe. Not an album which should be listened to before you die.

I do not get the high ratings. Sounds like bad 60s soundtrack music. Hard pass.

Did not enjoy.

Einfach nur langweilig!

The music is uninteresting; very basic and shoe-gazey, even carnival-ish at times. I read that Grant's talent is in his lyricism and storytelling, but it comes across like Buddy the Elf delivering a singing telegram.

This is everything I don't like in music. It sounds like it was made in the 70s and not in a good way. Unlistenable.

Kind of over it

like someone put boring music to someone’s high school poetry notebook could i write poetry to this? n

No way

Sorry, bro, pass. Why is this a must hear... ??

This sucks so bad. Not an ounce of musical originality in the whole thing. Lyrics are cringeworthy. Nah, actually lyrics are infantile. Dude, it wasn't ok when John Lennon did it in the 70s, it wasn't ok when bob Dylan did it in the 70s, feel free to keep ripping off their music but leave the tone-deaf racism in the past. Trying to pull that shit in 2010 is disgusting, so dumb it defeats the attempted message of the song. The rest is varying degrees of garbage. Truly, truly awful. 1/10

Didn’t like the album and it gave me weird straight dude vibes, like in the way I could totally imagine him having mannequins and pallets of human hair in his basement. So color me shocked to find out this guy actually isn’t straight at all! The album just has that very particular 2010s hipster dude sound where they think they’re so clever and funny and deep, but in reality it’s just tryhard and cringe. Dude’s voice is not good either. Also, I don’t care if you’re trying to be ironic or subversive or whatever, but it’s not okay for white people to say racial slurs. I don’t care what point you’re trying to make. It was just one song but soured me even more on the album. This was really a struggle to get through. I started watching Instagram reels near the end because one caught my eye and I completely forgot I was listening to an album until like 30 minutes later. I’m not sure why this deserves to be on the list and why it received so much critical praise. It is nothing special. I’d say almost every album I’ve rated 1 star so far should be on this list over this. I’ve heard albums from American Idol rejects that are better and more culturally significant than this.

What the hell is this 💩

Insanely bad. Nothing redeeming about it whatsoever. 1/5

Pretty fucking boring. Debo decir que el comienzo del disco auguraba mejores cosas. Las melodías me hicieron pensar que tal vez estaba frente a una mejor versión de David Gray o algo así, pero si bien hay un cuidado en las armonías y los ganchos, nada de eso resulta en canciones memorables.

He was singing why don’t you take this out on someone else. He did and it wasn’t good. This album could have been salvaged if it was like the first couple songs but no that didn’t happen. Therapy is what he needed and he briefly mentioned someone else going to it but not him which was the problem. This album was a mistake. Lastly, I don’t understand the love for him. I could continue on that but I don’t want to because of the pitiful attempt at music this was. As you can tell in my comments, I am making an attempt at how the album progressed.

Oh wow that random n-word drop. Was actually liking it, shame.

Wow. How depressing.

Too personal. Don't think I needed to be involved in his therapy session. And a bit show tuney at times.

1/5. It's like Father John Misty, but bad.

Life’s too short for this vanilla tripe

The music is fine, but sounds very close to tracks released decades before. I really had a feeling that entire riffs had been lifted, but I can’t really place any concrete examples. Then there are the lyrics. Surely the dude can do metaphors that don’t involve fruit loops, or caramel, or chocolate. Why is everything candy or movies? Congratulations on finding the edge to say "shit", and "fuck" a lot though. We even get some racial slurs. All of the edgy 12 year old tropes, and the he's even bad at swearing convincingly. There's just nothing worth listening to, or reading here. Edgy teenager stuff even if he was technically older when he wrote it. 3 for the music, minus 2 for the lyrics.

This album sucks. Terrible lyrics, complete cheese ball. You feel like sigourney weaver in Alien bro? Dude this shit is unlistenable. Instrumentals are okay I guess.

Bad poetry with mediocre music

He's got a good voice and the music is played well by talented musicians. But I listen to these as I'm getting ready to go to work early in the morning. And although I don't expect to be feeling like the King of the world when I leave, what I really, really don't want is to be feeling SUI(FUCKING)CIDAL. And I'm only 2 tracks into it. It's gone.

Just terrible. Lyrics are just silly and put to random generic background music.

Stupid lyrics with boring music. Perfect combo

Brits love trash

Alright this was just miserable. I don't know what is going on. I tried but the first song was like 10 minutes about some honey bear, I don't know, not fo rme.

What da hell

Kind of boring

Deargod this was boring and terrible

Trash. Boring, unoriginal,

Bittersweet strawberry marshmallow bullshit

Wow I just don’t get it. Nonsensical lyrics. Though there is a decent melody sense here it isn’t made special by mundane arrangements. Voice is pleasant enough. So far, out of all the albums I’ve heard on this 1001 list, this one’s critical acclaim is the most surprising. Again, I just don’t get this one.

This is just sad white man with guitar music. A lot of it is so bland, I have to concentrate hard so it doesn't just go in one ear and out the other. Some of these tracks are outright obnoxious, like the self-pitying and whiny Silver Platter Club or the "lol twee movie references" of Sigourney Weaver (not to mention the series of ethnic slurs on Jesus Hates F******). The B side tracks add some synths with nice tones I guess? At least The Sensational Alex Harvey Band was bad in an interesting way.

It's a no from me, dawg. Stinky poo poo.

20 y.o. Tom would have liked this more. Holy shit the song about Jesus really fucking hits the ear hard.

Seriously, what the fuck was this? Trash. I have quite a broad spectrum of music I will listen to. I didn't finish one song. My ears are bleeding from the torture!

If i wanted something bland id rather eat my moms tomato soup

•Not owned: Streaming •Smacks of way too much whimsy for me to forgive that its best parts are (kind of) Nilsson rip offs. •1.5/5

Nope.

not my tempo

Sometimes I wonder how some of these albums make this list.

Pretty bland Gen X adult contemporary. Had it on as background music in the morning. Wasn’t good, wasn’t bad. Then “JC Hates Faggots” came on…

Hate

What. The. Actual. Fuck.

Boooooring

No

The album was indie music. It was not particularly good and I do not find myself revisiting the album at all. Some of the lyrics were humorous but then there was a song that was just full of slurs which made no sense.

Christ, I really hated this. Sounds like Billy Joel doing a Bowie impression. Derivative crap that was forgotten for a reason. “Marz” is one of the worst songs I’ve heard in a long time. Imagine being influenced by Savoy Truffle but ending up with a song that sounds like a slowed down Porcupine Pie… “Golden champagne, juicy grapefruit, lucky monday High school, football, hot fudge, buffalo, tulip Sunday” 🤮

I found this quite bland and monotonous. In the strict sense of the word: once you hear one Grant melody, I feel like I've heard them all. And the weird vocal treatments emphasise rather than distract from this. Chuck in that I don't generally like ballads, and there wasn't much here to pique my interest. MOR for millennials.

Christ, this was bloody awful. It meant absolutely nothing to me. I came close to bailing after the female warbling over the top of the first track. It's a whimsical album, bed wetting itself over 70's slush pop. Is this really one of the top 1,001 albums to listen to? I finally lost the will after the third track and departed. Bloody awful shit.

Indie inofensivo. Próximo, por favor.

Didnt listen to this tbh

That sucked

This album was so bland and empty. The music wasn’t terrible, but I couldn’t wait for last song to finish. It never evoked any emotion from me. Felt lifeless. 1.

dont know what to make of this. nice dark melodies, but plays like a medieval larping soundtrack. did not like his singing.

aika vitun paska pillu kyrpä albumi vihaan tätä no egkä se vähän paramtui loppua lähennellessä mutta 2010 luku ei ne musiikkia osaa tehdä... ei ne osaa kun ei voi ei ole saman lainen meno päällä kuin vanhoina hyvinä aikoina ei vaan oo ei ps se sano neeker sana(artistinen valinta)(ehkä hyvät ajat ei olekaan poisssa)(edgy lyriikka rohkea äijä...rohkelikko.... tThis has to be one of the greatest and most underrated songs of all time (en usko että on)täyttä paskaahan tää on siis hyi vittu) its easier

1.5. Weird songs and bad lyrics. Didn't like the album cover either

I had never heard of John Grant before today. After doing some reading of his Wikipedia page, I am sympathetic to his difficult life. However, I hate his music. The goofy lyrics were a huge turnoff and every song sounded the same to me. I got to the last track and had to shut it off. It’s a miracle I even made it that far.

Not my bag. Too mellow for my liking. When he tries to be edgy it falls flat.

Lame, sad, like that other guy

Das habe ich vorher schon mal gehört, nur meist besser und mit mehr songschreiberischer Finesse. Ich habe nach zehn Minuten genug gehabt, leider ist das Album eine Stunde und 10 Minuten lang.

naw

This is difficult to write, not wanting to be insensitive to another’s pain, and clearly John Grant has had his share- growing up in a household disapproving of his sexuality, succumbing to substance abuse and its destructive consequences, diagnosed with HIV. That’s a hard row to plow. That said, I believe Queen’s late lead singer, Freddie Mercury, had similar experiences, yet wrote great songs and sang them with searing passion. Would that 'Queen Of Denmark' have shared either of those two qualities. But it didn’t. Not even close. It may be one of the drabbest LPs I’ve ever heard. Near one dimensional, musically, save for a couple of songs in which Grant attempts a bit of a respite, inserting a modicum of humor, albeit unsuccessfully. And lyrically… oh, dear. ‘I feel just like Sigourney Weaver (the song’s title) when she had to kill those aliens and one guy tried to get them back to earth and she couldn’t believe her ears.’ Incredibly, it gets worse. On the final and title track, Grant recalls an incident in which ‘I had it all the way up to my hairline which keeps receding like my self-confidence.’ And that pretty much sums up both Grant’s artistic and, I can only guess, behavioral response to his life situations. One of my all-time favorite bands, Sonic Youth, on ‘Skip Tracer,’ off the 'Washing Machine' LP, describe the live performance of a band they once witnessed where the lead singer, a ‘girl started out in red patent leather, very I’m in a band with knee pads. We watch her fall over and lay down, shouting the poetic truths of high school journal keepers.’ John Grant doesn’t seem to even have the energy to shout his own poetic truths that never matured past the journals he surely kept in high school, and further insults the listener with his lackadaisical delivery. Classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven commented that ‘To sing a wrong note is insignificant, but to sing without passion is unforgivable.’ The only value I can find in this LP is if I heard it while walking around JCP for exercise, it would at least motivate me to move faster out into the main mall where their sound system might be playing any other kind of music.

Who?

Just no.

Dawno mnie tak nie rozezlil albumowy piczek jak Queen Of Denmark od pana Granta, album z szeroko pojetego gatunku muzyki popularnej, zarowno muzycznie, jak i lirycznie fagoterka pelna geba, o ile pierwsza czesc przydlugiego 51 minutowego albumu to cos ala folkowego, tak druga czesc romansuje z synthami co daje iscie niesluchalne polaczenie, jest to kolejna plyta z ery nowozytnej, bo rok 2k10, a jednoczescie debiutancki numer granta, oczywiscie pierwsze slysze o takim albumie badz artyscie, ktory przed tym albumem byl liderem takze popowej bandy the czars, orginalna nazwa jak na hamerykanska bande, brzmienie plyty kreci sie wokol klawiszy w ktore klika pan john, reszta instrumentow jest grana przez bande Midlake i innych artystow studyjnych, ciezko mi zdecydowac co najbardziej mi przeszkadza w odsluchu, czy to wokale ktore brzmia jak kazde inne wokale rokowopopowe, bogate w fagoty tresci liryczne, bo jesli motywem przewodnim ma byc to jak czterdziestoletniemu chlopowi jest ciezko w zyciu ze wzgledu na swoja orjetacje w terenie, to podziekuje, jeden z tych pickow po ktorych przesluchaniu wiem, ze na drugi dzien nie bede juz kojarzyl ani jednego traka tak urzekajaco nijakie jest brzmienie tej plyty

Marz seems to be a collection of words... that don't go anywhere? And is Marz a place? I guess so.

To be honest, I found this album rather boring

Not my speed

i wanted to like this album then the slurs he as a white man used in jesus hates f*ggots

Disco agradable, novedoso, a primera impresión nada muy espectacular

Trash

Ridiculous Background Choir. Nonsense lyrics without any deeper meaning. Annoying vocals. I would nominate this album for most boring ever. Stopped hearing at Chicken Bones.

Not arsed.

Just words set to the same fairly monotonous background. *

Nope.....First album I couldn't make it through.

So en kackmist

Woof x 3.14

Super funny and quirky. Kind of a show tunes vibe with a lot of piano