Queen Of Denmark

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