Reviews (page 6 of 7)
Yawn. Standout song: Lucille
I really wanted to love this. My grandmother had a sweet spot for The Everly Brothers, she even introduced me to them as a kid. But even as a kid I was like “ what a bunch squares”. No joking aside their biggest problem is their music is so of its time that it holds it back pretty significantly. This music is completely edgeless. It’s as wholesome and “square” as it gets. Not a terrible waste of my time, I liked the song “baby what do you want me to do”. But yah the album is underwhelming, I was impressed that they play their own guitars, that’s cool.
They sure are brothers alright. I actually feel nothing bad about these guys, I quite enjoy Lucille. But it's nothing more than teenage gossip waiting to happen. Someone's blues for when Nancy Stevens doesn't say yes to the Prom (5/10, 2/5 on this scale)
Later rock n roll album from the Everlys
2
Slow and sleepy. Also a wee bit creepy. Why did they seem to think love was so dark and life/death?
A date with the Every brothers shows how much music has moved on from that date. Thankfully. Another review states "so white it hurts" and I couldn't agree more. Thankfully the Beatles (and others) are just around the corner to move music along. The longest song is 2:41 just so the radio can play a few more ads. I feel most of the songs here have not aged well. I am interested that the end of many of the songs just appear to fade away against a definitive conclusion.
An opening song that is so painfully of it's time that it was hard to listen to. It also blows my mind how different rock sounds from this early 60's sound to how it sounded by the end of that decade. Psychadelics really upended the art form. All I got outta this listening experience was a preference to go listen to Dion & The Belmonts. This album is so lacking in anything distinctive that I'm getting suspicious about it's inclusion on this list being "Love Hurts", a song that was famously covered many years later by Nazareth. "Cathy's Clown" is fine, but again, just go listen to Dion or some other doo-woppers, teeny-boppers, or surf-rockers that immediately come to mind - they did it better than these two. 2/5, did not make me feel like I was in The Sandlot enough
Very dated. quick sings and only 27 minutes
Cathy's clown is a standard for the age but the rest of the album is very samey and formulaic. Not much depth but definitely a swinging time was had by all
🥱
Sigh, Cry, Almost Die is what we do on a daily basis living in this capitalist hole of a shit ass world.
The cover doesn’t inspire confidence, but let’s see what it’s about —- For lack of a better word, it’s very “sockhoppy.” I guess that has its own charm, but it’s so twee and same-y that it doesn’t do much for me. Favorite: Love Hurts (heard before) 2.5
Ive never listed to it but this quite feels nostalgic and romantic.
Basically quite disappointed with this. Was expecting better songs. But it just dragged on a bit. Nothing very exciting.
Pretty basic lyrically. Girls girls girls. The singing and harmonies are good, but nothing extraordinary or complex.
Nice harmony but most of the songs were a bit boring.
1,8/5
ehhhh
This looks hella dated. Unfortunately, it is exactly as dated as it looks. The opener greets you with a chorus of "Girls, girls, girls were made to love", which reduces them to an object for the male gaze even before you get to the part about stalking them at the end. The rest of the songs aren't much better, being basic 60s pop with basic love lyrics that can devolve into misogyny at times. It might have been influential in 1960, but this just didn't age well at all. Maybe it's here for "Love Hurts", which was covered many times by various artists(the most well-known is by the Scottish hard rock band Nazareth, who are better than these guys despite being rather run-of-the-mill AOR). In seven years, we went from this to Hendrix and the Beatles, who leave everything here in the dust. It's not really a good record despite clear pop hooks and harmonies, but at least it's nice and short.
Nice date guys :) 59 days left... 2/5
This album is so generic 60s.
Nice harmonies, a few decent tunes, but not something I would listen to anymore
Sounds very dated and some of the lyrics aren’t great for now.
Doesn't do much to get my heart racing. Maybe would be more exciting if I was 14 and living in 1960.
The kids in the day probably loved it. It feels super cheesy.
This is so boring, lyrics and music are predictable from the first seconds of every song. Poor, heartbroken fcukers.
pop-rock de los 60, beach rock, tipo beatles, suave, amor, etc.
All rather samey, no real bangerz and it's all a bit "why won't me bird kiss me". We need something exciting at least once I think x
Forgettable. Cathys clown is a good track
Helt ayt Tregt Bra melodier til tider
Lyrics are outdated but the music is catchy and very remniscent of that era
Album 126. A Date with The Everly Brothers (https://open.spotify.com/album/4Nro0nGcWVybv8cZXmSU4P?si=mp69IjC6SsO4ezc3ThZThw) — The Everly Brothers (1960) Sweet oldie music. I can mark out only Love Hurts, their original song that covered a lot of times. In others, just okay 2/5 Liked songs: — Love Hurts
Didn't really love this one. 2 stars for me
Overall Rating - 2.38/5 (4.75/10). Other than Love Hurts, this album is extremely forgettable.
2.3 2x nothing wrong just a little old timey
Not very interesting or exciting. I see why other acts of this era became bigger household names. Not a bad listen just plain.
Saccharin for the ears
Two part harmony kings. Familiar songs. Classics all.
These guys feel like a staple at every record store I've ever been to. It's nothing exceptional to me but not bad either. Very 50's rock n roll. would fit right in a david lynch movie.
Love a short album. This was fine. Nothing too memorable though.
It was fine. The opening track didn't age super well, though...
This style of early ’60s pop just doesn’t do it for me. The sound feels repetitive and exhausting, and I don’t find much here that’s genuinely enjoyable. I can appreciate its place in music history, but as a listening experience, it’s not something I connect with at all.
I think the Everly Bros. writ large have made some good, interesting music in their prime but as a standalone album I don't think this one is particularly notable. I'd give the artist a 4/5 but this sample not so much.
Opening track is giving... rape culture. I was reading some of the other reviews and someone said these 60s sockhop albums have simp energy, and that resonates with me. Oh, Cathy's Clown is a banger, I know this one. (Again with the simp energy) So Love Hurts covered by Nazareth later becomes famous... and hate to say it but they did it better. Lucille is a little Richard cover. Went back and listened to it, and as Frankie said, "theres no way they did that better." Absolutely not. I will say it has more emotion and spice than any of their other songs, but thats not saying much. The only thing this album accomplished was making me a Little Richard fan. Probably wouldnt listen again, but Cathy's Clown is a standout.
I liked a couple of their songs, however I was struggling by the end of it to get through it. Little doses would be fine. I guess they must have been heart throbs back in the day.
Cute but not much too it
it was ok
Ouch. So glad the Brits rescued us from this.
Music for my Mom.
classic 60's american music. not that bad but not my type. I would definitely love it 5 years ago. but now its just meh.
I always had a soft spot for The Everly Brothers - or at least some songs of them like "Walk Right Back". This album, in its whole length, doesn't really move me. It's ok, but underwhelming for such an album list.
2.3 God if I was on a date with them I'd be falling asleep in seconds. Harmonies are nice but my god make it interesting. So glad Beatles took that and within 4 years evolved it so much the world was forever changed. This is why the Beatles get the credit they deserve.
12 song 27 minutes instant 5. This is the most let’s meet up at the milkshake shop in our convertibles I love you girl album we’ve gotten so far. Girls were made to love is so garbage rhetoric but like obviously it’s dated. I get so tired of this type of music so quickly at least this was only 27 minutes long. For that it gets a rating bump. Thank god they stopped making music like this.
Doof
I know it was 1960 and all, but surely there were better, less schmaltzy albums from that time?
This was pretty much what I expected. Nice tunes, nice voices, pretty dated.
Well Kathy's clown was the only song I recognized so wondering again why this is on the list...???
This is alright, nice harmonies and pretty simple rock 'n' roll / pop songs about girls. Feels a bit basic listening to it in 2026, though I love the fact that the cover recommends they are songs 'for listening or dancing'. Good inspiration for someone who doesn't know what music is, really.
De har en självklar plats i pophistorien och förstår att de inspirerade många, men här har tiden sprungit i kapp. Orättvist omdöme 2026 kanske, men störande tidstypiskt och generiskt. Om man tänker att kind of blue släpptes året innan och att Little Richard härjade samtidigt fattar man att det inte riktigt var hos vita slätstrukna sånggrupper de mest intressanta grejerna hände just det här året. Bra att de skrev love hurts så nazareth kunde göra en odödlig powerballad 15 år senare.
Det var fint (förutom de flesta texter) men inte så mycket mer än så, kommer inte lyssna igen och vet inte om det berikade mig att höra detta. Sen ser de rätt sliskiga ut på omslaget också
Trodde faktiskt det var nazareth som gjort love hurts så där är det ju pluspoäng, men annars är det här för ancient för Dino!
Vad heter det här riffet (säger man så?) som är med i alla låtar? Det som gör att man kan sjunga vilken låt som helst till det. Det är det enda Munken lirade (kunde lira?) på gura när jag växte upp. Hör bara det - ”Ah-bi-pa-pe-lula, she’s my baby”. Nåväl, lagom album att göra comeback i cirkeln till. Tack Bert3000 och alla deltagare för festen, jag vaknade först igår. Stark tvåa. Albumet asså, festen var en femma.
tråkigt men gulligt. fint omslag
Songs your great grandpa listened to while wooing your great grandmother.
Most, if not all, of these songs are less than 3 minutes and I despise that. Short songs can be good but all of these kinda mesh together into a big glob of love songs. The vocals are nice and the tunes are catchy but thats it. Favorite Tracks: Stick With Me Baby, Donna, Donna
Not a fan
I feel like some Boomer is sitting in his basement bar or garage with his MAGA hat on listening to this and thinking about the "good old days" when pinching women's butts and copping feels wasn't considered sexual assault. This music reminds me of being in the car with my parents with the "oldies" station on. It does harken back to a simpler time, but I don't think the people who "remember" the '50's realized how dark it actually was for a lot of people. This music just acts as cover for that. Otherwise, musically early rock is a relic of it's time and other than it being a piece of the chain that led to more interesting music, it's pretty simple and boring.
Didn't enjoy it
Very pleased that this lasted shorter than a sitcom.
The only positive was “Love Hurts”which Nazareth later covered much better
Kinda silly
Sounds like the last record of the 50s in alot of ways. Original version of “Love Hurts” was a nice surprise. 1.9/5.0
#811. Its fine, I guess, but this not something I could ever get into. 2/5: meh
It's like listening to Back to the Future.
Out of date?
Fun but just not my thing
Very dated with some questionable lyrics as others have mentioned. Musically inoffensive and nice harmonies but probably won’t return to this.
Pretty uninspiring. Just normal 60s pop rock.
156 La música suena piola, hasta que escuchas las letras que envejecieron como la leche. Saludos cordiales (?) desde el 2026
From doing this list, I’ve learned that when an album has a short runtime and has a dozen songs, it feels like it takes 3 hours to listen to because it’s agonizing to get through. Also, I’d like to hear The Everly Brothers cover Master Of Puppets.
Mid album
The objectification of women put me in a bad mood to start with.
Nah, not for me. Not a fan of thin, pop from any generation. Yes, they have nice voices and there are a few (a few!) musical touches here. But, I can't abide the syrup-py love junk. And of course, as many have mentioned, the stalker-y or "women exist for men's pleasure" lyrics. I guess it's Ok for the list because some people do like the pop stuff and it is representative of music of that era. It's just too bland for me. I'm generously giving it a 2 because it's not like it's annoying or poorly done.
As a small kid, I grew up listening to The Everly Brothers as my dad was a fan. So I was surprised that I don’t know any of the songs on this release. No Bye, Bye Love, no All I Have To Do Is Dream and no Wake Up Little Suzie. Had there been any of those, I might have looked upon this more favorably but as it is, this is very of its time and not particularly exciting. It’s less than 30 minute runtime is a bonus!
I grew up listening to this style of music in the 80s... But I preferred The Beach Boys. The album is fine, I'm just not in the mood for it, so 2 Stars.
vit musik
Reminded me of my nana who loved the Everly Brothers
This album was a little too... simple for me? The lyrics weren't carrying much weight, the vocals were alright I guess, nothing about the composition stood out at all, and the themes were pretty flat with a good amount of spite that didn't really feel justified. Also, the obvious objectification of women present throughout pretty much every song in the album is very problematic as well- women were not just "made to love" and it seems The Everly Brothers weren't able to understand them beyond their ability to kiss and have sex with a man "Girls, girls, girls were made to love That's why some have eyes of blue That's why some stand five feet two" WOOOOOOOOO EUGENICS WOOOOOOOOOOO
Music has moved on, and despite the misogynistic undertones, it's just too lightweight for me. I can hear the influence they had on the early Beatles, so they get marks for that
They packed in so much incel energy in just a few songs, lololol. Also, I was a little surprised that it was recorded in 1960, it feels much older in style than that. They're like the transition point from crooners to rock and roll.
To me it's too boring, it's an old black and white film that's pleasant but dull, admittedly didn't finish
Not a date I agreed to.
Every time I think pop music now is generic I listen to shit like this and realize it could be worse.
Charming at first, but falls off when each and every song is about girls, girls, girls. I guess I should credit the album title and cover for zero nuance. There are much, much better albums that came out of this era of music.
Their fourth album. Rock n Roll / Pop. Hmmm, pretty bland. The lyrics are awful. I know this was 1960 but even so the lyrics are so dumb and the music flat. They even make Lucille sound shitty. Thank fuck society exploded into all directions and people had things to get wild about other than 'girls' to put into songs.
Think I would rate this higher if I didn't understand English to hear how cringe some of these lyrics are. Music sounds great, harmonies impressive. Cathy's Clown maybe doesn't deserve to be burried as the last track. But my first feeling on seeing this album in the future will be cringe.
A date with The falling asleep halfway through the album even though it's only 27 minutes long. 6/10.
I'm usually not interested in this kind of music, but it was still fun to listen. It's a pure slice of American history, so dated and typical of its time that it almost sounds like a parody. It also made me wonder how the music we love today will be perceived in 60-70 years. Probably just as cheesy and dated, for the most part... Musically speaking, they sound like a competent act, if you're into this very specific genre. I liked the old-school blues and doo-wop vibes. The vocals are all right, and a couple of tracks (like Sigh, Cry...) remain surprisingly catchy. They kind of grew on me after a while, and I enjoyed it more than I expected - even though it was probably more out of curiosity than for its musical value. Certainly not something I'd come back to, but I can understand their appeal back in the days. This kind of band was already an endangered species in 1960, though. The rock'n'roll tsunami would soon make them irrelevant. 4/10
In a single word: Boring.
I'll give that all of this watered-down-rock-n-roll of the 50s and early 60s (like the watered down blues to come) was an important historical bridge between young white people and the promised land of the real artists of the day. The need for a bridge was a product of a racist culture, to be sure. But that culture was a reality so I think that bridge served a very important role. Standing sixty/seventy years out, however, we now have full access to the promised land. Why should every music fan go back out and stand on the bridge? Put another way, WHY IN HEAVEN'S NAME DO WE KEEP RECOGNIZING AND CELEBRATING THE IMITATORS AND IGNORING THE GREAT WORKS PRODUCED BY THE ORIGINAL JUMP AND ELECTRIC BLUES BANDS AND ROCK AND ROLLERS OF THIS PERIOD?? From this perspective, these recordings are limp pop; well recorded, but really bland and boring.
I'm a hater 2/5
The opening track legit felt like I was getting "the talk" from dad, interesting start to the album. The entire album felt like a Leave it to Beaver episode. This isn't nostalgic for me, this is so old you can hear the inspiration for the bands that inspired the bands that I listened to. Not for me, antiquated and uninteresting.
good but like when would i ever listen to this? kinda creepy
Love the vocal harmonies and the overall vibe. It's really short though. Favorite track: Made to Love
467/1001 🌕🌕🌑🌑🌑
It’s not aged well at all but they do have a great sound together Just had no desire to listen to an albums worth of their songs, even one this short
What a deeply uncomfortable album title. Rock and roll albums were so boring musically, thank goodness we had Black music to phase this era out
Whatever
A fine listen, but pretty repetitive and stereotypical early 60s poppy rock music.
The lyrics for sure don't hold up anymore, and the music is fine. I've always enjoyed Cathy's Clown and didn't know that the Nazereth song Love Hurts was actually a cover of the Everly Brothers.
Gear: 64 Audio Duo Artwork: 👦🏻👦🏼☎️ Production (2003/2007 Remaster): 🕰️📏🤨 Music: 👼🕊️💫 Ratinng: 🤍🤍/5
I can see that it's influential, but listening back it doesn't feel essential at all. You can listen to a song or two, understand the influence it had on The Beatles, Beach Boys, etc. and then move on to when the music got better. 2/5.
Im sure it was great in the 50s, but I can't get into it.
Fairly harmless, not that exciting
Good pop harmonies, and I guess even the acoustic guitar combined with other rock instruments was quite influential back in the day. Also, though I get it was 1960, I'm glad for the album experience in general that song endings have come a long way from "just fade out and call it a day". I can't really say I enjoyed any of the songs by modern standards, or even with a retrospective into what their contemporaries were already creating. The lyrics are your generic pop band trash (this transcends decades), and this duo were in the charts in place of monumental artists like Ray Charles, Muddy Waters, and Dave Brubeck. There's an electric guitar in that studio but it's barely being used. The most dynamic song on the album might be "Lucille", which is a cover along with "Baby What You Want Me To Do". It seems their writer/producer asked the duo to sing some blues hits but they met the ceiling of their vocal and artistic range — far away beneath the originals. Listen to Jimmy Reed hit the soul and groove of that track in the same year, through the vocals and guitar, then give credit for the influence his work had on every musician who followed. I'm shocked to discover none of his albums, not even "I'm Jimmy Reed", found a place in the 1001 albums... yet it's got room for watered down pop and a lot of other random junk. 2.5/5
Generic rock and roll with really dated lyrics, it’s fun at times and some of the songs were quite good but for the most part it’s boring and a bit repetitive despite its short length, it’s got too many slow, dreamy lover songs rather than the fun rock and roll ones which they are actually good at. Although I can see how it might be influential for groups like the beach boys (with the vocal harmonies) and the beatles so there’s that. Favourites: Donna, Donna and Cathy’s clown. Overall, 4/10.
Before I even listen to this I know it’s gonna be twee pop mostly about girls. The sort of album that Andy Dufresne would have been given for his Shawshank library. I’m not saying getting away from this album is the reason he decided to crawl through half a mile of shit but who knows. Baby What You Want Me To Do is a decent blues track in fairness.
Short. Not awful. That’s about it.
First or second wave ska? Where’s Ghost Town?
2/5
I'll take "Music That Hasn't Aged Well" for $500, Ken.
Thanking the 1001 Algo for today's exercise in musical education being a mere 27 minutes at least. Another band which my Mum grew up hearing at home; I'm familiar with a few of these tracks through her playing them over the years, and the album was a pleasant enough listen. Ultimately it's just not really my thing though, despite understanding, to a degree, why it's on here.
I saw these at the Ajax stadium as support for Simon & Garfunkel. They played a selection of their greatest hits, none of which appear to be on this album! Dated and underwhelming if I’m honest.
Dated vanilla.
This has a nice oldies vibe but it didn’t really stick with me. I did not like the lyrics of the first song. I didn’t know Love Hurts was originally by them.
This was fine. I just think there was much better music coming out in 1960 than this. Elvis is way better than this. Buddy Holly is way better than this. This was fine. The songs I recognized, were ok... but there are way better versions of them done by other artists, like Love Hurts. The songs I didn't recognize didn't stick with me. I really don't understand why the final song on this album has such a massive stream count. According to Spotify, Cathy's clown is there top song and it doesn't stick with me at all. I can feel the influence of this record on other artists. I definitely think Ray Orbison ripped off Lucille for Pretty Woman. I know these brothers were a big deal at the time... they just don't do much for me now. Anddd this album doesn't even have their best song on it, All I have to do is dream. Now that's a great song. If it was on here, it woulda brought my score up. Anyways, this gets a 2.
Had a lovely classic sound and cadence, was fun.
Background music
I won't be able to listen to this. My father loved The Everly Brothers and it's just too painful even though it isn't very good.
so why does every song end early with a fadeout????
This does sound very dated. It isn't the worst thing I've heard, but I have a hard time even putting it in the context of the time it was made. I'll give it 2/5.
Kinda boring. Feels like the One Direction of its time.
Я уважаю и слышу винтажный звук 50-ых, но люблю ли я его в данном случае?
It's Mel's diner music, not really for me
такой стерильной музыки я кажется еще не слышала (ну не считая советских артистов). а еще вот эти фэйды после припевов практически взбесили уже.. ну короче немного прикольно, но неинтересно и скучнооо
What a surprise to find 'Love Hurts' here. The rest sounded ok, but so very much outdated in a way that the Beatles, Rolling Stones and the Beach Boys don't sound old like this.
Really not a classic
if i just ignore the lyrics its alright i got tired of their voices (harmony) its too plain for me idk
Girls were made to be loved?????? Yo that's problematic The absolute state of the West. It's literally the best song on the album ?>.<?
Not for me
- Goeie kerstmuziek - 0 nummer toegevoegd aan de MMMM
It just seems like in the late ‘50s the ideal thing for an adult to want to be like was a little white child who has a lot of sex.
Proof that the sixties didn't start in 1960. This isn't _bad_ and I didn't hate it, but it's decidedly not my kind of thing.
★★½
Too much harmony. Where IS the rock and the roll??
Fun, twas alright, nothing particularly special.
Is a total running time with less then half an hour already an album? And even the original version of the well-known "Love Hurts" does not convince me at all. Over all just 60's sound. 2,5
Just bland and boring and formulaic. I'm glad music quickly progressed on from this stage of songwriting and really makes me appreciate someone like my homie Bob Dylan. 3/10
Reminds me of working in the aged care home (positive). Look, I totally understand the importance of this era of music and some of the songs are obviously still sweet and singable, plus the more 12-bar-bluesy stuff is cooler, but overall it’s too whiny and patheticky for my taste (negative). And puts me to sleep.
This era of music sounds so generic to me that the album had almost entirely replayed before I realized.
Did not realize a date with the Everly brothers was a threat until the first song. I mean one of the Nick Cave albums had a song that was explicitly about sexual assault but at least he didn’t present it was love life advice. The rest of it was pretty whiny, which is a weird thing for me to say as an elder emo!
teen heartthrob music for an era that feels so wildly distant. real goofus and gallant vibe. kind of cloyingly saccharine, but more cringe than bad. 2.5
What did they do to Lucille!?!
Bit of an awkward date, what with both brothers being dead. But overall, this is a gentle, tender, inoffensive, unremarkable album.
"Love hurts" is a song that even I recognize. The rest is a lot of folk, rock, country. Not really my thing.
Classic 50s/early 60s cover art in Kodachrome or Colorvision or Technicolor. Young bucks discovered a kind of harmony that just hit different. Made the girls swoon, made the guys jealous, and is cited by countless next generation of Rock including, among many others, The Beatles. This is a 27-minute album, so no skips. Highlights: Always It's You, TIL that Love Hurts by Nazareth is a cover of an Everly Brothers song, of course Cathy's Clown was a defining song for them, and Lucille is great. Game changing sound in simpler times.
Gee, Betty, I sure hope you'll be my date to the sock hop on Saturday! Hearing this it's suddenly clear why rock and roll and the Beatles were such a revelation. It's hard to believe this was recorded as late as 1960.
Average 60’s pop
Unfortunately very dated, if you like that.
i cant believe i went on a date with the evenly brothers
Very standard 60's pop in positive news it is short.
2.5 or something. nothing special.
I can hear how this might've been popular and even influential back in the early 60s, but unfortunately, this did little to dispel my notion that early 60s music was mostly just waiting out the gap between the Golden Age of Rock 'n' Roll and Beatlemania. Nothing particularly caught my ear about it, and at just 27 minutes it still sounded like it was wearing out its welcome. Sorry Everly Brothers, I think we should just be friends.
47/100. Feels like a fairly generic release. While a few tracks come off as sweet and charming. It doesn’t push any boundaries and sounds very similar to many records from the same era. Overall, it made for a pretty dull listen.
Ok 2/5
I have a soft spot for oldies, but god this shit is grating.
60-tals tonårspop. Vit appropriering av svart blues och r 'n' b. Inte brödernas bästa album.
The music isn't terrible, and the harmonies are kind of nice, but this album is terribly dated. I guess it is possibly to be sappy and misogynistic at the same time. It's short at least, and it feels like every song cuts off early. I guess I can hear some of what influenced music later in the 60s here. It doesn't keep this from being boring, though.
Some good songs, i think the second side was better
2.5
Feels harsh to say but so boring. 2.3/5
Sounds exactly how it looks.
Listens: 2 Standout tracks: None Yea no. Sorry, not interested. Not even remotely. Its not a 1; I don't hate it, its not offensive, but I definitely do not want to listen to it every again.
Kuulostaa juuri siltä, että on julkaistu vuonna 1960. Ei omaan makuun toimi lainkaan.
MEH!
Great harmonies obviously but this felt like a surprisingly long 28 minutes.
Half an hour is perfect for this. 50s/60s pop rock before anyone got cool. There’s nothing wrong with it, and it shows that there’s always been sort of bland but pleasant radio fodder, but I wouldn’t have it on the list.
These nerds. Not good, I assume this is a Buddy Holly rip off and not the other way around?
I think I will turn down a date with the Everly Brothers. Dated, country, and painful to listen to. Rating: 2
Great harmonies. Not sure lyrics stand the test of time
Yawn - so glad I was not around when these songs were THE TOPS of the day. Cute and warm.
Hard to not feel the sexism throughout after the opening track, feels weird man
Just whatever. Not very interesting.
Sweet young lads i suppose. This is the time period where if the song was not about love or a woman (usually both) it did not get recorded. Bit too lovey-dovey and mating songs kind of vibe for me. These are the kind of songs that teenagers and young adults of that time would play at every single event where two genders of that time would meet in hopes of trying to get laid. Decent singing voices i guess. Does not hit too many strings with me. Maybe im too young for this kind of whatever this is.
Kind of a one-trick pony, really grates on you after a few songs.
Apparently an influential group...glad this genre of music died.
Look, it's good at what it is, but it really ain't my thing. Musically fun, but the lyrics are so incessantly inane.
Had a pretty good time with this but that may just be because I watched Wild at Heart recently
this isn’t what i expected - I half expected more frank sinatra, and this is more if the early beatles were american. So it’s not great per se but it’s also not awful. some of the guitar solos on this are so boring it’s hilarious - the same 2 notes played about 20 times. I think literally every song ends by fading out which is hilarious.
They're not getting a second date, that's for sure
Ovo nikako nije moja šolja čaja
I want to hear the modern versions of these same songs. Like what is the 2025 version of "Donna, Donna" where someone is singing about a tease and him being pissed even though it's really just entitlement. There's such an old sound to these guys considering how much music changed over the next 10 years. Good sound but of its time.
I get why this is here. It's a fine album, with some fine compositions and a fine example of early1960s music. I would rather listen to Sam Cooke, or Elvis or Roy Orbison.
Not a bad oldie album. Some songs I had heard before thanks to my parents playing stuff from this era. Didn't know Love Hurts was originally by them. But I still like Nazareths cover better. Joan Jett has a good cover of it too.
Defenetly not the killer level.
2.5
Early 60s pop is very.. ugh. Schmaltzy. Not my jam. Thankfully a very short album.
Very outdated bubble gum pop from the early 60s. Thank goodness the Beatles came along and changed the trajectory of American pop.
Just go listen to La Luz
Listening to music like this and it being called "rock and roll" is pretty funny to me these days, knowing what has come of this genre with time. As I listen to this, I keep thinking to myself - this is is a bit too sappy. I wonder what it must have felt like listening to this when it was contemporary. Did it blow people's heads off? Love Hurts was pretty interesting though, was fun realising what it is I am listening to, having gotten used to another rock band's apparent cover of it (I never knew it wasn't an original!)
Not too bad, didn't listen to the whole thing yet, Cathy's clown elliott smith reference?
This has dated so badly in so many ways. Was this really important (or good)? 2.5
I wasn’t big on this one.
Meh
A date with the Everly Brothers doesn't sound very fun. It's the same shit over, and over with a few high points every now, and then. Favorite Song: "Baby What You Want Me To Do".
I think this record has dated rather a lot - it is likely to have been pretty influential. The Everly brothers seem to have been up there with the movers and shakers of the late 50s music world. It's an album that in its lyrical content brings out the broader sophistication of rock and pop music after the mid-60s. Not an album I'm likely to play in the future.
Sounds like a band trying really hard to make the best of constraints put on it: terrible vocals stuck in an extremely square sense of time. The thing it reminds me of most is the AI slop you see on YouTube, "X in the style of Y". It doesn't have the human touch. There's something not quite right about it. (the thing that's not quite right is that it sucks) Worse backing band and this would be a 1 star music: hated. (⌐■_■)
Boy thank god pop music took another turn after this eh? Imagine this is still what we were listening to.
I like the one song
2.0
Lol! Im sure If I was born in the 30/40s this would be romantic and id love it :)
Zzzzzzzz
This is #day143 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and... it's been a while since I messed up the numbers. It was supposed to be #day142 yesterday, and I wrote 143 in my review. Anyway. Unlike most of the rock and roll releases I've heard on the list, this one has some fine tunes. But this isn't the record I'll revisit soon, if ever. There's Love Hurts, which I didn't remember, was first recorded by The Everly Brothers... Anyway, this is a 2 out of 5, not a 3. Looking forward to #day 144, and I do mean 144 now.
Mercifully short...Nazareth or Roy or Joan or really anyone's cover of Love Hurts is superior...
Is this album just here for Love Hurts? I'm betting this is one of the albums that got cut in later editions.
So whiny. But hey, thanks for inspiring the Beatles!
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Never heard this before. I can see how this might have worked as an introduction to a broader range of musical styles to suburban America while keeping it palatable by having clean-cut white boys performing. But looking at it now, there's nothing palatable about it. Any emotion or energy in the underling music is diluted through the production and results in an unlistenable album for me. For example, comparing it to Please Please Me (which came out 3 years later and bears surface similarities), there is so much more energy and inventiveness to the music. I'm also surprised at how often the harmonies seem to be off and how often they seem to slip in and out of tune. There are some exceptions (Always It's You, Cathy's Clown), but having only paid attention to the Everlys from afar, I thought their quality pipes and harmonies would be rock solid. It's interesting to hear the first recorded version of Love Hurts. Even considering it as a historical document, I can't give this album more than 2 stars.
Boring.
This is the G-rated, Disney music of the 50's. I know: the album came out in 1960, but I would classify it as the springboard for much of the changes that better represent the 60's: launching the Beatles, the punk rock movement, and the general shift of music to more "life" and less an idealized aesthetic. I'm glad this is on the list, as it is a good representation of that base point from which a lot of styles were carved out over the subsequent three or four decades. Like a G-rated Disney movie, it's cute, inoffensive, but feels a little light and sweet. In other words, it's fine, but not something I'll listen to much, so it's a 2.8.
Too syrupy sweet for my tastes.
Outdated and unoriginal. The covers are better.
Inoffensive, but outdated and bland.
Okay
Phil & Don. Really early for me, FIRST grade. Early Rock- n- Roll
Really nothing to say here. Didn't enjoy it at all and I won't listen ever listen or think about it again. But it wasn't the bottom of the barrel of albums on here, so it has that going for it at least.
Meh. Cheesy and dull. Not for me.
If you ever got into a fight with one of the Everly Brothers, they'd roll up their sleeves, buckle their pants, and say "No more Mr. Nice Guy! Lemme at him, lemme at him!", while the other one holds them back, as steam comes out of their ears. These white boys lack the sauce.
not going back for a 2nd date
Meh, just kinda 50s-60s nothingness
If I was in my 80s I'm sure this would slap, but I'm not, so it doesn't.
I like the Everly Brothers sound, and this has some good songs on it. Overall the album is just ok as this is does have some songs that are a little forgettable as well.
Just a collection of songs
Bruh
That classic garbage radio safe pop
This album and its lyrics and themes have dated quite badly. It made for a rather distracted listening experience
That didn’t age well.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla
The best part about this album is that it was only 27 minutes.
Country, Blues and Jazz had a lot more interesting stuff going on in 1960, even though the seeds of something big are sown in albums like this, it's like the throat clearing before rock really got started. It's influential and important and all that, but 64 years later it's just so familiar (even never hearing this album before) that it makes very little impression. There's blues rhythms and country twang and pop harmonies and it all sounds good, but it's basically bubblegum that's been polished by hindsight.
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My wife walked in and asked why I was having a high school sockhop in 1959. Some nice harmonies but let's be honest, I'm never consciously listening to this again.
Dated
not my vibe but not bad
Did they have somewhere to be when recording this? Baffling that a 12 song album is just short of 28 minutes long. Reminds me of The Beach Boys. These guys really loved getting bitches didn't they? Not really bad just very boring and repetitive. I don't have much to say about this one unfortunately due to the duration and simplicity of a lot of it. Highlights Love Hurts: ***1/2 Lucille: *** A Change of Heart:***
Love hurts, Lucille and Cathy's Clown stood out a bit better than the others. Rest of the album was pretty dull and a chore to get through. Donna, Donna ends very awkwardly, like the fadeout didn't work properly. Maybe this is an issue with the remaster idk. I'm sure they were rock and roll trailblazers but it hasn't aged as well as acts and albums that would come out only a few years later. At least 'A Date R@pe With The Everly Brothers' was only 27 minutes long
Look if I had to pick an album that covered that 50s safe music, the kind where you would go to the dance with your mom from the past or whatever happened in back to the future. Anyway just kinda mid, might have gone hard at the time but given this came out in 1960, better music was on the way in anyway so would have sounded old by then too. 2/5.
Painfully mediocre. This shit probably went crazy at the milk bar in 1960 but it’s just shallow, competently performed music. Very glad this was only 27 minutes long. Love Hurts is the standout and Nazareths cover is way better than this. If this album came out today and I had to hear it all the time I would pray to be drafted into Vietnam. I would much rather have listened to anything by the Beach Boys than an album that was clearly put on here because one of its songs became bigger when covered by another band. Not entirely unlistenable but extremely boring.
Bien
This must be the whitest album ever made.
She's cute but doesn't have a lot goin for her
It’s not bad, but it doesn’t seem like anything special, either.
A bit boring indeed
Bit boring innit?
Congrats to Randy Newman for taking whatever these dudes are doing and finding a way to make it memorable. Favourite track: That's Just Too Much.
Serviceable if not unremarkable. Not bad, just nothing special High 2
i said in the group chat it was a 5/10 put i really thought about it y esta madre es un 4/10. Es escuchable al menos.
These charming crooners managed to cram 12 songs into 27 minutes. Some of the songs were catchy but most just seemed corny.
Ok, but pretty vanilla and boring, with a little hint of 60s charm. Cover art looks like they don't have 2 cents to rub together - cheap.
Yup, that's early 60's music alright. Half the songs just abruptly faded out
Early 60’s crooners
Like the Beach Boys, its creepy thirstiness and patriarchal adherence hasnt aged well
This has to be one of the most poorly aged albums on the list. Lyricism so bland it made me completely zone out. There was some actually interesting instrumentation on Sigh, Cry, Almost Die, and Love Hurts was pretty well written, but the rest was just bad. I think the general style of this one is good, instrumentation was alright throughout, so I'll give it some credit for that. Favorites were Always it's You and Love Hurts.
This one really has that classic feel. I just didn’t like it like some of the others I’ve listened to from this era. Also the cover of Lucille takes absolutely all the sauce out of the song.
Good. But I like other albums better
Feels quite reminiscent of early Beatles and Beach Boys, and it's a fun romp musically - about as 60s as you can get - but lyrically it's quite outdated. The album represents the 'good old days' the MAGA movement opines for, and I wouldn't call that a good thing..
Not really my fave
Pleasant enough, but man, a lot was about to happen in the 60s...
Ideale plaat om mijn dochter van bijna 2 maanden in slaap te krijgen. Helaas heeft de plaat bij papa hetzelfde effect. Ik ga een lijstje maken. 101 albums die te gedateerd zijn om nog op te zetten...
Twee posterboys die zoetsappige liedjes zingen op een soort hawaiiaanse strandmuziek. Goeie genade wat is dit gedateerd. Je bent gelijk terug in de jaren '50, waarin platenbazen de dienst uitmaakten en hun songwriters bepaalden wat voor muziek ze moesten zingen. Al kunnen ze wel zingen op zich. En het gitaartje is ook wel lollig. Op een gegeven moment gooien ze er zowaar zelfs een bluesnummer tegenaan. Leuk om een keertje gehoord te hebben, maar dit is absoluut geen muziek die je tegenwoordig op zou durven zetten. Zelfs de boomers vinden dit te oud. Al is deze originele versie van Love Hurts eigenlijk wel beter dan de tranentrekkende, overdreven ballad van Nazareth. Ik hoor het liever dan Frans Bauer, dus we houden het op 2 sterretjes.
50s style "get back in the kitchen" white boy blues
A quick listen. It's good for what it is but so half-baked. Nothing really feels special except as an artifact of what music used to be.
Meh
I guess this is alright? Hard not to lump a lot of these early 60s bands together. Is this really that different from Buddy Holly or really early Beatles? Not sure.
Not my fave but it’s ok
Not bad, but kinda painfully 60s sounding
Boah, die Texte... Aber jetzt ahne ich, wer die Beatles bei ihrem mehrstimmigen, harmonischen Gesang in ihrer Please Please Me Phase beeinflusst hat. Dafür nen Extrapunkt.
1. made to love - 1.5 2. too much - 1.5 3. baby - 1 4. to do - 1 5. almozt die - 1.5 6. itz you - 1 7. love hurtz - 1 8. lucille - 1 9. houu come - 1.5 10. donna - 1 11. heart - 1.5 12. clouun - 0
To Sweet for my taste, but surley seminal
Not a very good date
Not for me.
Können gute Laune. Historisch vielleicht interessant aber heute!?
I dunno about this one man. If not for my mom and her love of these guys, I might ask to speak to the manager about this decision.
Solid old stuff. Makes you wonder what the world of music was really like in 1960!? Must’ve been pretty bland overall
- Ich wusste, dass die Everly Brothers zu ihrer Zeit ziemlich einflussreich waren, habe aber nie was von denen gehört - Tatsächlich sind ein paar Parallelen zu den anfänglichen Beatles-Platten zu hören, aber ohne die gewisse Beatles Magie - kurzweilig - Aber gefühlt nach einem Song schon das ganze Album gehört - An sich alles gut gemacht und die zweitstimmigkeit war zu der Zeit sicherlich auch revolutionär, aber ich würda mir jetzt nocht nochmal anmachen Rating: 2,25-2,5
- Habe diese Album nach kürzester Zeit wirklich mehr als Zeitgenössisch Stück Geschichte konsumiert und nicht mehr als konsumorientierte Musik. Einfach, weil ich musikalisch damit wirklich wenig bis gar nichts anfangen kann - Bin gespannt, ob diese Art der Musik irgendwann nochmal, meintwegen auch neuinterpretiert, populär wird und/oder ein Revival erfährt und wie ich dann damit umgehe. - Es ist offensichtlich gefühlvoll (so gefühlvoll diese Musik damals sein konnte) und es geht mal wieder viel um Liebe - Es sind ein paar markante und "kultige" Riffs dabei. Alles aber natürlich total unaufgeregt. 2,25/5
- entspanntes, sehr kurzweiliges Album - allerdings nichts, was ich groß wieder hören würde
The lyrics make me think this dude is a creep but it was ok I guess
It was 'nice'. Very old-fashioned and a bit dull. I'll take the Nazareth version of Love Hurts as well please.
Does not hold up at all, both musically and <super cringe> lyrically. Trying to weigh in my head the obvious fame and influence these guys had...I suppose it's the vocal harmonies - yeah, definitely the harmonies, there's your influence. I'm not much of a vocal listener but that's pretty impressive and I can definitely see how that would have carried thru into the next decade and influencing pop/rock acts. Music overall is simplistic - probably to be expected given how old it is, and I'm sure I'd have felt totally differently had I been alive at the time, but for now it's just an influence/historical document that I don't get much out of listening to. Thankfully it was over quickly. 4/10 2 stars.
Como assim, Love Hurts da Nazareth é uma versão da composição deles?
Not even sure what to say about this really. It's super dated. Absolutely nothing about it is relevant. Cathy's Clown is the only breakaway from the syrupy sweet pop, but barely. Bonus point for being referenced by Elliott Smith.
Perfectly listenable Habe seitdem keine sekunde daran gedacht
This is one of those albums that makes me shake my head and wonder how it made the list. First of all, it barely has a pulse. Second of all, its claim to fame is that it made it all the way to number 9 on Billboard's charts. Wow.....that's impressive.
Sounds clean, but album was putting me to sleep. I'm sure this was iconic in its time, but not sure now. 2*
Old school dreamy rock Beachy romantic summer Sounds like times gone past
I don't want to hear Boomers complain about how vapid modern music is ever again.
I’m sure a set of elderly brothers are out there listening to the Everly Brothers fondly, but for anyone not in their 80s, this one just doesn’t connect too well. That’s harsh, I just wanted a reason to say “elderly,” but this album is an easy breeze that, given the right mood, I wouldn’t mind popping on once in a blue moon. Man, women were just so much easier when they were made to love, huh?
Might once be nice and sweet and appealing, but is really too outdated now