A Date With The Everly Brothers

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

This album just feels a bit insubstantial to me. That said, "Love Hurts" is a pretty good song. The rest isn't bad, but it doesn't speak to me.

Eh

Can't take the Helium voices.

The whole album is super short and there are 3+ songs about chasing girls. I wish I lived in the "fuck around" century and not the "find out" century.

I'm probably too young to enjoy this album

Amazing album! If you are 80 years old, of course, and this was the only record you ever owned when you were young. Otherwise, it's just a piece of history, to look cool in the museum of music, saying "look, this is how music sounded in 1960s! Funny, eh?". Yep, funny.

If I could give it less than 1 star I would.

If I were a swooning teen in the 60s this probably would have meant more to me. Love hurts is familiar, but rest is a little too old

Have heard one of these on the Raising Sand album. Was ok.

23/100 Based on this scale: 1 star - 0 to 19 2 stars - 20 to 39 3 stars - 40 to 59 4 stars - 60 to 79 5 stars - 80 to 100 I had so much fun reading reviews for this. People were really upset by the lyrics. I mean, yeah, they have not stood the test of time at all, but they were written by guys who are now dead. I find it hard to get upset about it. Maybe it's because I'm old. Not old enough to have been alive in 1960 when this cookie-cutter album came out. My problem with it isn't really lyrics, because I mostly ignore lyrics anyway. My problem is how generic this was. It gets "saved" a little bit by the fact that it had some guitar licks that, while also generic, sounded nicer than what one usually hears in pop. Also, hey.. that was the original Love Hurts? It was weird to know the lyrics to one of their songs, but I guess that's Nazareth's fault. I don't know if one needs to hear Nazareth's version before they die, but I know for a fact that they absolutely don't need to hear this version.

Nyt oli avausraidan sanat niin kiusalliset, että vaikea oli enää kääntyä levyn puolelle. Musa ihan jees ja kivat harmoniat.

Tämän listan jälkeen eipä kauheesti tunnu miltään enää tällänen geneerinen 60-luvun brittimeno. Ehkä aiemmin olis antanu kolmosen, nyt tuntuu huonommalta kuin monet muut verrokit.

I used to love listening to the golden oldies, my Oma always had them floating up out of the small white Casio she kept in the kitchen, running all day long while she cooked, baked, and cleaned. And The Everly Brothers were a regular fixture on the AM oldies station. Maybe I've gotten too cynical as I've grown up, or maybe I'm too woke now to listen to these songs and take them at face value. Songs I gave little to no consideration now sound steeped in misogyny and sexism. Girls were made to love, subtext, they were made to be objects of physical pleasure for men and dominated then discarded when no longer "pleasing". Love is a waste on you, subtext, I got the milk for free and now I'll not be buying this cow. Gross. Love Hurts might be the only decently written song because it doesn't expound an expressly male or female viewpoint. This is a tough one to rate. The music is pleasing, and harkens back to a different time, there's a lot of nostalgia rolled up into this music for me. But the whiney "nice guy" lyrics have overshadowed all of that for me. Maybe without ever knowing it, this is why I've always preferred the Beach Boys.

Rather boring

Wow is this dated. The origin of "love hurts" though.

Dull and boring

I remember my mom playing Cathy's Clown for me a kid but I wouldn't opt to listen to this on my own.

It’s a fine example of effortless mid-century American harmonies that makes me wonder if the Everly Brothers spoke in tonic descension with one another. Cathy’s Clown is the highlight for me, but forgive me - this album makes me think of all of the black and Latino music of the time getting zero airplay.

Ok, a bit to dated in how they approach love songs, some if it is creepy and stalkery now.

Was this that influential to include on this list? I can't say for certain, but to me it's just teenage hearththrob music that doesn't make sense for inclusion.

Dated but I can see why it was popular at the time.

These brothers are too old for me to go out on a date with. Will I listen to again: 0%

Exactly what you’d expect from 60s rock and roll

Best Song: Love Hurts. It's a great song, but this still manages to be one of the worst renditions I've heard. Worst Song: Sigh, Cry, Almost Die. Whiny lyrics paired with a nasal delivery. Lovely. Overall: Antiquated and boring. Societally, I think we've aged out of this kind of stuff. Music for funeral homes.

Too much of this sound is so dragging. Its like they had a homework assignment to write music turn in in and tour off it. No passion or attitude in it at all.

You ever listen to something and it just sounds like it needs the dust knocked off of it? That is certainly this record. A relic of a bygone (and thankfully over) era. The brothers sound fine but lyrically it just isn’t doing it for me or frankly anyone. Bleh 🤷🏻‍♂️

2.5 really

The guitar on this album is way ahead of it’s time. This was a one and done album for me though.

I'm a little surprised by the overwhelming negativity of the other reviews. Sure - dated, but mercifully short and each track is quite distinct. Love Hurts is great. I might be the target market - white bloke, mind of a 60-year-old.

"A Date with The Everly Brothers" by The Everly Brothers may indeed come across as a bit of a "snoozefest" for listeners seeking more energetic and contemporary sounds. Released in 1960, this album is a reflection of the musical landscape of its time, characterized by gentle harmonies and ballad-driven melodies. Tracks like "Cathy's Clown" and "Walk Right Back" are emblematic of The Everly Brothers' signature close harmonies and soft, romantic lyrics. The album's production is classic for its era, with acoustic guitars and sweet vocal interplay. However, it's essential to recognize that this album is a product of a specific time in music history. While it holds nostalgic value for those who appreciate the early days of rock and pop, it may not hold the same appeal for contemporary listeners accustomed to more dynamic and diverse sounds. Thus, for those who find it less engaging, a 2/5 rating may be warranted.

Boy oh boy are love songs creepy in the 50s. "Made to Love" got me off on a real bad foot. Interesting to hear, I guess.

okay, probably instrumental for the era.

Doesn’t offend

Not particularly interesting.

Kind of enjoyed the first track and then snooze

Sounds old, classical, and forgettable.

I fell asleep.

Maybe the most boring album I've come across on this list so far. I'll give it a two, because the singing is great, but nothing else of interest here. Not to mention the lyrics, which are almost entirely about outdated gender roles. Buddy Holly is a much more interesting artist from the same time period.

A very generic oldies pop sounding album. This came out in 60 which I feel was the tail end of this kind of pop music. It wasn’t bad but overall it’s just really dated. There are a few songs I’d revisit but overall it’s a product of its time and doesn’t hold up too well. 5.5/10

😴

pretty resident sleeper. these guys were just tryna get laid in 1960 so they made this album. no original sounding songs.

Snooze fest

Do not enjoy

The album starts off promising enough with a couple good songs, but never builds on that. I don't want to say any of them were bad, but they certainly didn't excite me. The Everly Brothers are a fairly influential group with some pretty popular songs, but never really big albums. That wasn't their focus, or any group's focus at the time. Given that, it gets boring pretty quick and, since the entire project is only 28 minutes long, it doesn't give the album time to redeem itself. Lyrically it's pretty rough, nothing to write home about instrumentally, and the production is simply A OK. The best thing about it, as well as all Everly Brothers projects, are the harmonies. 2/5

Very beach poppy, albeit with very outdated lyrics. It was a fun-ish and short listen.

Nah

classic american sixties

These guys are the original Oasis brothers! I forget the names of those 2 fucktards, but the Everly brothers fought on and off stage. They broke up for many years, got together for one last set of shows. Phil smashed his guitar and walked off stage leaving for brother to finish on his own. I wonder if this is where The Who decided to smash their shit on stage for awhile? I'm sure this was probably good stuff in the 60's, but did not do much for me today. At least the songs were short and to the point. I liked Lucille and Love Hurts. Love Hurts went on to be one of Nazareth's bigger hits off the album Hair of the Dog. And don't sleep on Miss Misery off that same album. Back to the Everly Brothers. They were OK. Oher than being shocked to hear Love Hurts, nothing really stood out and I have no interest in hearing more of their music. I may read into some of their fights though. 2

ANOTHER fourth studio album! I really don't think it's coincidence. The sound is simple, and doesn't really carry the test of time.

Talented lads, but nah.

Very old, very short, very rubbish. Falls between country, early rock and roll, and the balladeer tradition, without being anywhere near as interesting and engaging as any of them.

Ouin ouin love hurts

Charming, simple lyrics, but interesting what they sang about love in the 60s

A Date with the Everly Brothers is the fourth album by American singing duo the Everly Brothers. Released in 1960, this album peaked at 9 on the Billboard Pop albums chart and its song "Love Hurts" has gone on to be a classic song for covers. This nice, mid-century style of pop music album had themes centered around love and more specifically the dating/fling aspect. I enjoyed this album as a lookback through time to listen to the earlier forms of pop music. The musical style and lyrics hold up to this day, but they lack that "oomph" that modern music can generate.

The sound of peanut butter on wax, this is sickly sweet stuff best enjoyed in small doses.

Like Ed Sheran of its day bit whiney. Still CathyS clown was a stonker.

Welcome to 12-bar blues central, the zeitgeist of the late 50s white collar America, where the women are loose and fade-outs are cheap.

Viihdemusiikkia, aivan pätevää sellaista tansseihin jne. Ei jätä muistijälkeä

Ihan pätevä levy. Love Hurtsin alkuperäisversion kuuleminen on hauskaa, ja esim. Jimmy Reed-cover on mukava lisä. Kolmonen kuitenkin vaatisi, että kuulijalla on yhtyeeseen sellainen henkilökohtainen suhde, joka ei sisällä historiallisesta etäisyydestä johtuvaa, epäreilua taipumusta vähän hymähtää ajatukselle "Everly Brothersista".

Some nice harmonies but generally a pretty lacklustre record

A song about how women come in different sizes because they are "made for loving" is an inauspicious start. Gets better from there.

A pleasant listen with the great harmony but in the grand scheme of music, nothing particularly sticks out. And many of the lyrics really didn't age well

It was fine. Gave me generic 60s vibes. Nothing really stood out but it wasn't bad.

Not for me

Las dos estrellas son sólo por Love Hurts

Agh I really like this kind of sound but I just can't get behind the lyrics... I know they were standard at their time and I'm not going to blame the Everly Brothers but it literally starts with "girls girls girls were made to love" and "that's why some of them are 5 foot 2" and "that's why you watch them walk down the street" I mean COME ON jeesus. It's a bit much to swallow so to say ;) Same feeling throughout the rest of the album. It's a kind of music I really enjoy but I can't get past the dodgy words and misogyny.

Well. Well well well. Welly welly welly. The everly bros sounds like winey little sexist piggies. Maybe, young man the reason none of the girls love you is because you keep telling them that girls were made to love. The music is great though, makes me think of the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance in Back to the Future.

I like many artists who were influenced by the Everley Brothers, but this album doesn't do it for me. Their harmonies would have influenced bands like the Beatles but on this album the harmonies start to drive me nuts after the first couple of songs; they don't have the music writing / instrument playing abilities the Fab Four had. All I end up thinking of is the awful albums that resulted from bands being influenced by their harmonies. Remember Bee Gees' Odessa album that 1001 made us endure before we die?    There is some cover version association that doesn't do this album any favours. For example, Nazareth's painful and overplayed cover of Love Hurts makes the Everley Brothers' version hard to listen to. Also, EB's cover of Lucille should have been left on the cutting room floor. Their doing this song with two part harmony is sacrilege for Little Richard fans and a waste of one of the only good guitar bits on the album.  I like Wake Up Little Susie. If that song was on this album it might have helped my rating.

I remember reading in Keith Richard's biography that around 1964, before the Stones put out their 1st album, they toured with The Everly Brothers and one other band for a summer. The Stones were billed as the number 3 band, but by the end of the summer, they were the headliners. By listening to this album It's easy to see why -Everly Brothers are so squeaky clean and white! The Stones doing their Bo Diddley or Howlin' Wolf covers would have blown them off the stage!

This record really captures the mood and spirit of the 50’s. Whoops this was released in 1960, so you could say it was already getting dated. And boy is it ever an anachronism now. Well although the music isn’t very exciting and the lyrics are pretty lame, I have to admit they had nice voices.

Dated and uninteresting. On the one hand the tracks are so short they feel under developed but on the other that meant I only had to listen to a half hour of this overly saccharine music.

Pablum.

Some situational potential but overall very grating.

Not my style. I find the lyrics in a lot of this kind of music to be pretty inane. While a song here and there is charming, as a cohesive listening experience it's a bit of a samey chore. Fave track: Love Hurts

this is too straight for me chile 😭

Ehkä aika ajanut jo ohi eikä ihan nouse sinne klassikko-materiaaliin. Kerran kuunteli ilman ongelmia ja helppo painaa unholaan.

Great voices and the music isn't bad, but it lacks character. Also women were not made to love that is so misogynistic and anti-based. If either of them asked me on a date, I would vehemently reject them and throw cantelope chunks at their balls.

A date with either of the Everly brothers starts off with some gentle misogyny and ends with some very short but oddly ok pity sex.

eh

BOOOOOOOOORING. We’re on quite a cold streak right now.

It's so dated but science be praised that rock got more interesting than this later in the 60s. This is a typical 50s diner music, which is pleasant in it's own way, but nothing that I would choose to play. Love Hurts is instantly recognizable but mainly from Nazareth's version.

I grew up listening to fair amount of oldies on FM radio, so I know a couple of Everly Brothers songs: 'Wake Up Little Susie' and 'Bye Bye Love' (which is a really solid jam). This was my first time listening to this album, and I don't think I've ever heard any of the songs on it (unless you count Nazareth's version of 'Love Hurts'). I'd say this album is what I would expect for the time: songs about love with simple and catchy instrumentation, topped with a few sprinkles of casual misogyny. But for what it is, I think it's really good. The harmonies are great, and even though the instrumentation certainly isn't lighting the world on fire, it really works well with the lyrics. 'Love Hurts' is probably the best song on the album, and in a way, I'm glad that I had only heard the Nazareth version up until now. Alternative title for this album: Aw, Shucks: White People Problems

notes - classic sugary sweet pop rockabilly from the 60s - guys and gals, love songs - quite cookie cutter sounding to modern ears but the vocals have a quality to them that feels a bit more genuine (but not a ton) - they actually wrote most of their own music which was unusual for the time fav that’s just too much - love the tremolo guitar and chorus melody least fav - sigh cry almost die - seems like the whole song is filling time to get to the part where they say the name pf the song 2.5/5

Can't get past the sickly sweetness of pre 60s white person rock

Meh

Bit of a bore.

Meh

Plain country, not my thing hut aight

Lovely harmonies but dated and flat

The good thing about these early rock and roll records is that there isn’t a song over 3 minutes long on most of them. This record’s even better. Every song gets faded out indiscriminately, regardless of wether the song is actually over. It’s like the engineer went “Ok, we’re at 2 minutes 23 seconds…fade that shit”. As an added bonus, “A Date With…” is only 27 minutes long, which, turns out, is exactly how long I can tolerate pre-1965 rock music. What a coincidence.

I got excited when I saw this album generated, but then I realized I got the Everly Brothers mixed up with the Righteous Brothers, and then my excitement faded.

Humanity has moved on since this album, and we're better for that.

The best thing about this album is that it was only 27 minutes long. Outside of that it was not that good of an album. It still has that 50s sound. Sure there are harmonies but they still annoying. It may have been good to listen to at the regular sock hop, but I do not need to revisit it.

2/5. I wanted to be excited for this after the first song but there was a lot of empty feeling in this album compared to early Beatles and beach boys. Didn’t have the same passion.

Óeftirminnilegt. Fínar raddir en einfaldar útsetningar, hrikalega dated textar. Eiga þeir ekki betri plötu en þessa? Ef svo er, þá er best að ná sér bara í einhverja best of plötu.

Rock viejito y bonito pero nada extraordinario o revolucionario. Canciones cortas, rock de la época estándar. 2.5 estrellas, justo en el medio. Iba a subir porque está agradable pero termina bajando a 2 porque no creo volver a escuchar el disco ni recordar el nombre de la banda.

Eh. Just don't care for this style.

Not my jam

2.5/5

"sigh, cry, almost die" is my morning alarm anthem

Early 60's "rock & roll". Hard to hate it because it's so bland and boring. But definitely nothing to love here. A whole bunch of sappy 2 min songs about girls and their pathetic love lives.

This is what my mom used to tell me she listened to when she was younger to try to sound cool because it was the only thing she ever listened to that wasn't a recording of a Presbyterian choir singing from the hymnal. She probably on listened to it once and wasn't offended so rolled with it.

For a fifties album, initial tastes of surf, country, blues were satisfying: all distinct and intense enough. A necessary listen for the list, perhaps, but lite through-and-through.

СКУЧНО.

Cathy’s Clown is classic, but this album all kinda sounds the same. It’s a too-clean, watered-down attempt at blues by two white dudes. They have a unique sound, but I’m not really keen on the two-part harmony vibe. There’s a reason only them, Hall and Oates, and Wham have tried it. I guess it’s is what’s sock hop would have sounded like? No thanks.

A Date With The Everly Brothers is...dated. It has that late 50s/early 60s charm, or at least the veneer of it, but thematically it's a little problematic and musically it's not a patch on many others who were doing similar in the same era. 2/5, at least it was over inside half an hour.

It's a bit twee, isn't it... At least it would be if the lyrics weren't so casually chauvinistic. You can miss that quite easily given the nature of the music, but it feels so dated because of that. It's well sung and performed (and nice and short), but can't give it any more than a 2.

For when the ol' man lets you borrow the Cadillac to take your sweetheart out to the malt shop for a cherry cola, then the local dance (as the cover states, this is suitable for listening AND dancing) and maybe she'll let you get to second base, cause girls were made to love after all.

It was fine. Nothing stood out and I could easily never listen to another track from this album.

Not gonna listen again but root of beach boys and beatles

Ja det här var ju... tråkigt

There are a lot of 60s albums that hold up very well even today. Unfortunately this is not one of them.

Didn't hate it but also never listening to it again.

It was boring

absolutely not my style

Usually the kind of album that I love, but it's not too good. Some outdated somg lyrics. 2

It’s kinda nice but it got boring very quickly

Pretty bad. Dated both culturally and sonically. Not sure what value this album brings to the list. To me it’s very clearly made for commercial purposes.

dated pop, doesn't stand out enough

If I was a teenage girl in the 60s maybe I'd listen to this, but unfortunately I'm not

Nice enough. Can see how the vocal harmonising on songs like Love Hurts would've influenced The Beatles. Though I get the impression that even when this album was released it wasn't particularly groundbreaking.

I thought this was nice, what did you guys think?

5/10

Boy oh boy are love songs creepy in the 50s. "Made to Love" got me off on a real bad foot. Interesting to hear, I guess.

12 songs in 27 minutes. This date with the Everly Brothers gets straight to the point and doesn't mess around with any foreplay. "Girls were made to love" within the first 30 seconds. 50s and early 60s objectification of women may have been a different flavor, but it's still there. Did they date one woman simultaneously? Or is this a double date? Either way, I don't think this date went very well. Things get pretty sad a few songs in. Gosh, Everly Brothers, who hurt you? They both sound equally sad. Either both ladies from the double date double ditched, or Phil or Don are dragging their brother down into a pity hole with them. I got excited by the pace of "Lucille" at the start, hoping they found a new lady to love. But nope, they're begging her to return. These guys are getting a little desperate. Should we be concerned? (Retroactively?) Ugh, then Donna ditches you for Johnny!? You can't catch a break! Although, the common element here seems to be the Everlys. Maybe they're the problem in these relationships. Don eventually found fleeting happiness, married twice in the 60s and 70s, but single from 1970-1997. Phil was also married three times, and single for most of the 80s and 90s. It must've been hard being a dreamy-voiced country rock superstar.

Not a whole lot of excitement here. It’s OK. I would write more, but I defer to JKav’s review.

Nothing overly exciting even for the time. Not much going on here. Listenable.

It was ok. Nothing special, but no doubt great at the time.

It's kind of whatever 60s rock? Not too offensive but not really great either

Just flowed over me not making a huge impression

I'll pass on this date.

Not my thing. One extra star for influencing the Beatles.

according to the label, this is 12 great songs for listening and dancing. I didn't particularly want to do the former and the latter is right out the window. who is the geezer who heard this and thought "aw yeah, this is a mandatory listen?"

I’m sure it was all the rage in 1961, but doesn’t seem that significant or interesting in hindsight. A stepping stone on the road to making blues whiter. 2 stars because regardless, they wrote few timeless songs.

I find very little to listen to the Everly Brothers when we have the Beatles, because they do everything better on their first two records that the Everly Brothers do here. 2/5.

12 songs in 28 minutes. I liked this. But it’s still a conundrum.. i feel that it’s too long of an album. The brothers’ harmonizing is great. The music itself is very signature sound from the time. Some really rad piano in Baby What You Want Me To Do. But I can only take so much of it. But I didn’t hate it. The 2 is a very strong 2… definitely 2.5

First off, 12 songs in 27 mins? Love me a short album. Won't revisit it but the reverberations of this sound can be heard in countless other bands so that's gotta be worth something. 🌟🌟

An album your grandmother would probably like. It's rock n' rock without the balls.

Could have been influential to other bluesy folk duos. Not very impressed

bit sexist (understandable for their generation) and plain, still a fun listen though liked lucille, donna donna, a change of heart and cathy's clown

Gets a tad boring after a few songs

I like the album cover, you can tell he's on a promise, whilst his brother looks on grinning. The pair of them are seemingly obsessed with girls. If you want to find the source of the objectification of women within the 20th century, you would do well to start here.

So so, couple of good songs but mainly peters into dull for me. Decent harms though

Mooie liedjes, maar mijn aandacht kon ik er niet bij houden

Beetje slappe hap, maar wel aardig om een keer gehoord te hebben.

Eerste liedje super leuk, daarna zijig.

Like baseline ok. Dated, and had a few sexist and "forever alone" shots that rubbed me wrong.

12 canciones y menos de 28 minutos. Sonido de los 60 un poco ñoño. Me ha gustado "Made to Love" y sobre todo "Lucille", una versión de una canción de Little Richard que es una clara inspiración de la base de "Oh, Pretty Woman". Imprescindible para mí no es.

Not my daily cup of tea. I'll give it a two just because I know it's a good album in its style.

Semibängeri Helt ok classic rock, men nog semitråkigt

It's not bad for what it is. It's 50's love/pop music. It's kind of comical to listen to this (listed as released in 1961) and then listen to some of the music that would come on like a tidal wave later on in the psychedelic 60's. It's not hard to understand how music evolved from those two decades. Regardless for what it is this is fine, just not for me.

Not my kind of music but serviceable.

too rinky dinky doo for me

Short, enjoyable, with some hits like "Cathy's Clown" and "Made to Love" that I can see myself replaying! "Love Hurts" was pretty great, but I'm more used to the Nazareth cover so I think I'm biased. Felt like it had a bit of a surf-rock influence at times.

Old school country western. Not my cup of tea, to be honest.

Thank god the Beatles saved us from this bullshit. I wanted to give these guys the benefit of the doubt but I just can’t stand the saccharine lyrics and voices. Also, “girls were made for loving” is the nicest way to endorse sexual assault possible.

This is such a category of music that I sometimes forget was real and not just in old movies that already seemed old when I was a kid. I guess that tracks, with this coming out 30 years before I was born but still. I’m reading about how influential they were for the bands like the Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel etc. I just can’t stop picturing them like… idk on stage Dirty Dancing but only Baby’s sister and parents are there whereas Baby is carrying a watermelon where the fun music is. It’s cute? Mellow af in a way that feels oddly threatening HA sorry guys. // Bumped down for the fucking catastrophic lyrics

Pretty mellow, so 50s, I only recognized Cathy's Clown

Cathy's clown was on AM radio when I was 6 -- I remember it. The rest of the album, not so much. I appreciate the harmonies, though.

I always admired the harmonies these guys made, because it sounds great, but the lyrical content and the music never appealed to me. Everybody loves sex, get over it, write about something more interesting.

1.4/5 - Lyrics: yikes. Vibes: not there for me. The sounds of Rock and Roll & Country: ever droning on, whether I like it or not. Such is the magic of this album, there was a point at which I became so immersed, that my brain thought I was forty years older than I actually was. Magical.

Olihan kädenlämpöistä ja löysää paskaa. Ei kyllä toimitellut itselleni yhtään.

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Target audience: teenage boomer girls. Me: was once a teenage not boomer boy. This does nothing for me.

Sound is very generic and outdated. Not very interesting at all. Seeing how this was already into the 60s at this point this sound was basic formulaic pop slop.

Sounds dated at this point. Couldn’t make it through the entire thing.

Ass

I don’t know why I hate this

1.5/5

Goofy chipmunk singers, hate the 60s sound

Dated and lame

Ole' rapey toons from the 60's with a great side of misogyny! These songs are so lame. Everyone from this time sounds like this. Nothing worth noting.

Two adult men whining about how women don't want to sleep with them. At its best this album is a boring, generic 60s album. At its worst it comes across as judgemental and sexist

Jesus Christ ..

Dull

This is the future conservatives want you to have.

Let's hark back to the days of women were in their rightful place yeah? This shit plays well to the current manosphere vibe in the world. Trad wife values and all. No I don't want to go on a date with you and hopefully nobody else does either. Get over yourselves fellas and give women some respect. Going to go cleanse my palate with some Little Simz and Wet Leg now.

Sucks.

Boring

“clean” rock. this shit is boring. made in a lab to appeal to a certain demographic

Oh god no. I just can’t get along with this stuff.

It didn't take long before this was shut down. Misogynistic, idealistic nonsense. Heard before ❌️ Listened this time ✅️ a bit, it's terrible Revisit ❌️ ★☆☆☆☆ (1/10) Total reviewed : 224 Already owned : 51 Purchased : 12 To buy list : 2 Nope : 159

Not for me.

Cannot stand listening to this it’s boring and drab, and lowkey a little misogynistic. At least Trout Mask Replica was interesting on an intellectual level and had different subjects.

So dated that the lyrics are almost worse than the idiocracy that incels throw around in their circles. Tried to like some harmonies and songs, but the lyrics made me want to turn off every song the first chance I got

do-wop, ain't it for me

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Music you leave room for Jesus to dance with.

Boring 60s white boy misogynistic slop that I did NOT needed to be recommended.

Pop from another era that anyone under 80 probably wouldn’t know. Claude François, the early Beatles, even Dorothée, that’s what this record reminds me of. After two songs, I was already bored.

This album is like the quintessential example of something being of its time. Like I get that at the time, this kind of music had an audience, but I absolutely refuse to believe that there is a single person alive today who would ever seek listening to this album in full or anything like it. This list is meant to be essential listening, but instead we are stuck with poorly aged crap like this, get in the bin.

Supermarket Home Brand boring!

Old cheese

One-dimensional, kinda misogynistic garbage.

To bad these boys couldn't say what they really wanted...

Ekstremt utdatert metoo-incel-album. Positivt at det er under 30 minutter.

For only having the run time of 28 minutes, it feels like a drag. The vocal performance is good but uninspired and tired for the modern ear. For a better cover of Baby What Do You Want Me To Do, listen to Elvis Presley for some real vocal prowess that injects an animalistic appeal into the song that is simply missing in the Everly version. The songs in here tend to fade out, and this album will surely fade from my memory too.

Built on bright guitars, steady rhythms, and tender, close-knit harmonies this Rock'n Roll album creates something florid and boring.

Only Cathy's Clown is worthy of note and I might be saying that only because I knew it already.

Love Hurts Cathy's Clown

narzekalem na milosne spiewanie na przyjemnych brzmieniach, to dostalem z jeszcze grubszego kalibru, duet i to bratni duet everleysow, krazek z roku 60, wiec prehistoria rock and rolla, 28 minut brzdakania i spiewania harmonicznego o dupie maryny w akompaniamencie gitarkowym, glownie, bo chyba bracia na tym brzdakami, a reszta to sesyjni muzycy, jedynie dwa pierwsze i zamykajacy trak to ich kompozycje natomiast pozostala czesc to covery jeszcze bardziej prehistorycznych nagran czarnego rokowania, no i panstwa bryantow, duetu malzenskiego spiewajacego i grajcego w latach 50, duzo wiecej nie da sie powiedziec o tej plycie, bo wszystko brzmi tak na jedno kopyto i po przeszluchu czuje jakby jednym uchem wpadlo, a drugim wypadlo

nothing i care for

not my style

Like The Beach Boys without anything appealing

No. 3/10

Rating (1-5): ✩ Will I be listening to this again: Nope What do I like about it: Nah What I dislike about it: If women were "made" to love, I don't think they were made to love this album. Soooooo boring Higlighted songs: None babyyyyy

satme nogle corny drenge! Kedelige originale numre og covers, der er værre end andre versioner jeg har hørt af samme sange. Forestiller mig at gutterne fik meget tid til at gå med at stå på gadekæret og lade som om de snakker i telefonboks og catcalle alle kvinder, der går forbi dem.

Snooze. Kan ikke lade være med at tænke på om det er en date med....dem begge to? White Lotus vibes.

Didn’t listen looked too white

Church boy shit

It’s a too cute for me - and very dated

I guess every generation has emo boy bands. Why would you choose to make whiny loser your brand? But clearly it resonates with people?

So dull... 1

1.5 - whiny chipmunks singing songs about girls. Totally white-washed rock n roll. The only thing that was ok was love hurts

To far back for me and not the Beatles or the Stones.

Super Generic sounding and it all sounds the same. The singing is also grating.

Classic 60‘s vibe. Old school Rock‘n‘Roll

Ok, this is so melodramatic it’s hilarious. I can’t take this seriously. Maybe I could have if I were a tween girl, but even then…

Bad then, bad now.

This was short, to the point where most of the tracks seem to be faded out halfway through, which actually isn't a bad thing. It's not bad because literally every track on this album is appalling. We have incredibly creepy lyrics, sickly-sweet vocal delivery, and awful rock and roll music. This is a nasty album from start to finish, but hits a low point in the cover of Lucille; wow, that is such an awful, sanitised version of Little Richard's classic. I read a little about the Everly Brothers, already sure that their tale would involve drug abuse, and indeed it does. Seems that their drug of choice was speed, which figures; they even managed to find a seedy drug to be addicted to. This is a clear one star album, painful to listen to, no talent to display. Instead, I felt slightly unclean at the end of my listen. If I walked into a bar and I heard this music being played, I would do an immediate U-turn and exit.

No. 1/10

bad beach boys

no

Probably was great back in the day. Not something I can enjoy today tho.

They sound like the chipmunks just hit puberty. I got through 3 songs and had to stop b/c my ears were starting to bleed.

If Music sounded like this still I might have already killed myself 2/10

Boat club

Boring

Miserable

sad. low energy, a body beaten and bruised. a body disfigured when seen in the mirror. a person broken when seeing herself. a teardrop. two teardrops. walking with naked feet. broken highway. big ideas. a cold staircase. lips twisted and frozen. lips with the skin chewed off. low energy. burning scars. a mind to never wake up again. this body isnt mine.

Something about this feels icky.

tried to listen to it while reading and fell asleep two tracks in. tried to listen to it again before bed and fell asleep one track in. tried to listen to it in traffic, fell asleep at the wheel and caused a sixteen car pileup. boring bland and painfully uninspired, but its a 5 if you're talking about sleep aid

Dated in every way. Horrible album, even if it is refreshingly short

#35 - if there's one thing I'm learning from this list is I really hate 60s country male duos

Just an absolute cringe fest.

The nadir of generic 50s music.

I love the harmonies & the song choices. It’s just too saccharine for my taste.

This gives me a headache

goofy

puh - not really mine. It sounds “so old”.. By the way: each song “faded out” -> that’s not my way of story telling

I pretty much hated this whole thing. Not my style, way too old, blah.

To be honest with you, this album was so forgettable that literally a day after listening to it three times, I can’t list a single thing about it