A Northern Soul

Not memorable.

clangy and messy

All sounded a bit generic to me.

Overly long, overly shit.

Fucking Wigan pie nonces. if it wasn't for 'this is music' then this album is knocking about in the colplay bin of meh.

Meh. Nothing special, some good songs.

Jaa ne

eh

Just a bit boring really.

This was a sensation back in the day, I recall the stir it caused whilst I were nought but a mere schoolboy. Utterly strange, given just how dull it is. Richard Ashcroft must be one of the most boring people in the music biz, and he's up against Moby and half of Blur for that accolade.

Northern monkey's have northern souls

Manche songs kann man hören, manche nerven mich. Ich bin heute generisch unterwegs. 2

This is a no go from me. So 90's and not in a good way.

Not really my cup of tea.

Meh

Nada especial ATTE: La neta

I have enjoyed The Verve in the past and like many, I've spent hours listening to the great Bittersweet Symphony. Urban Hymns as a whole has a large presence in my music history. This album did not grab me, and none of the songs really stood out for me. It's interesting to hear a stepping stone to a much greater album - but not something I would return to.

Bittersweet Symphony is all I need. This is way more verve than necessary

It's fine.

это ок. просто ок. если все предыдущие альбомы имели существенные элементы, из-за которых их НУЖНО слушать, то тут я таковых не увидел. вдобавок, здесь нет ни одной песни, которую я мог бы выделить себе на прослушивание отдельно. как итог, лучше послушать oasis или blur, у них всего больше.

"Bittersweet Symphony" is a great song, but beyond that I've never truly listened to the Verve. I am very aware that their frontman Richard Ashcroft is as offputting but secretly brilliant as his fellow Brit Pop contemporary, Liam Gallagher, but I have never listened to one of their albums in full, including "Urban Hymn." A Northern Soul feels like a clear line in the sand of what kind of band The Verve were and frankly it's a bit listless. There are many parts of this album that hit a certain appeal to me: fuzzy psychedelic riffs, funk groove bass lines, and Ashcroft's singing and lyrics offer the kind of philosophical crisis I associate with some of my favorite artists. After the first 3 tracks though it becomes painfully obvious that this album is a one note record that might as well be one long form song. That's not a compliment even if I will admit it created the ability for my mind to wander into some ambient like state for a bit. As much as I love my British rock bands this is another case of the Brits making a hyperbolic case for what ultimately doesn't translate to American audiences.

Has some shoegaze notes but feel like this is more a product of something related to Madchester. A little bit long and pretty hazy. Never really been a big fan of The Verve, this isn't really changing anything. Favorite tracks: "A Northern Soul", "Life's an Ocean"

Not for me

p765. 1995. 1 star. Poor man's Oasis without the tunes. This is not their best work, and I have no idea why it is on this list.

Awful. Nothing more to say, just awful.

1. muzic - 1 2. ouun - 0 3. goez - 1 4. zoul - 1 5. brain - 0 6. drive - 0 7. hiztory - 0 8. knock - 0 9. cloudz - 1 10. reprize - 1

Adored by music critics. Full of faux anguish, and Britpop Beatle-isms. Richard Ashcroft has a whiny, hectoring vocal style, which I found very tiresome. Derivative and dreary

Tämä levy oli aika paskaa, laittaisin melkein ”tekotaiteellisen skeidan”-lokeroon, ei jäänyt yksikään biisi mieleen. Liian iisiä poppia. Wikipedia artikkelin luettuani ymmärsin, että levy on tehty ekstaasin voimalla ja sen kuulee. Tämän jälkeen tehty Urban Hymns löytyy omasta hyllystä ja sitä on tullut kuunneltua aikanaan paljonkin.

Overall nothing spectacular. My dad showed me this band many many years ago. I've mentioned it before but he LOVES brit rock/pop bands so that's what I grew up with. The production was nice and his vocals are for sure recognizable. but sadly i found this album just kinda boring.

Did I listen to a different band when I listened to "Urban Hymns"? Because this thing is incredibly boring and tedious. I don't understand, I like their following album, so why I find this so tiring? This album is supposed to be spacey britpop, but neither it is immersive nor has a big atmosphere nor it is catchy nor memorable. The songs go for so long and never deliver anything interesting, making them super dragging. The vocals are incredibly monotone and I felt like I was listening to the same exact melodies on every song, with a lack of emotional expression. The guitars and bass may be bathed in distortion and reverb, as expected from neo-psychedelia, but they don't build any spectacular ambience. It is space rock! It is supposed to be grandiose, not feeling like in a big blank room that is just pure white and boring. Well, maybe there are some moments where they come close to be big, like in the ending track, but in general, it is very flat. And there is not really anything more to talk about because this thing is truly that one-dimensional. I'll add the clarification that I've being feeling extremely tired all day, but even after taking a nap and feeling refreshed, my opinions didn't change when I gave this another try. What a disappointment.

Omg, no. My first DNF of this project. Crappy singing, dumb lyrics, and boring music.

Did not like. Very heavy.

I wish I had a picture of the face I made when I opened the generator and saw that this was my 800th album. I could not believe this band had more than one album on this list. I also said “no shot this is over an hour long” when I saw the runtime, but whatever. That’s the way she goes. They are reaching for the loudness and catharsis of Oasis, but the mixing flattens everything into one bleak wall of sound. The songs are underwhelming and arrangements uninspired. Maybe that’s too unkind, but I don’t know how else to communicate how uncompelling this was to me. Apparently most of the band was taking ecstasy and yelling in the studio? I actually wish I could hear that. This is emphatically not ecstasy and yelling music. Happy 800th to me.

I see why I only know one hit from this band.

I like Urban Hymns well enough, but don't see any reason for including this one in the book. It's long, meandering and pretty dull, tbh. I don't care how much ecstasy they took - they need more than that to make a compelling album!

Nop... niet mijn ding

Crappy album. I really hate Britpop. It all just turns into a wall of noise.

Weinerlich, eintönig, langweilig, nervig!

I don’t like the Verve and I heavily dislike shoegaze. Like has there ever been another genre so dull and unappealing? And the Verve are so good at being droning pieces of trash. The entire hour of A Northern Soul was monotonous. I would rather listen to this album instead of nails on a chalkboard, but that’s not enough for a 2.

I hated The Verve’s other album on this list, why would this one be any different?

You can't keep making 6 minutes songs where the singer is hanging out on one note the whole time and nothing happens. No movement, verveless. Stop this madness.

I really hate this band. Whiny voice. Boring. At least we didn't have to suffer through Bittersweet Symphony on this album, but that's not going to save it.

Surprised to learn that these guys not only have more than one song, but at least two whole albums of them? Wow, also, did not know they were psych rock. I liked the songs where they leaned into the heavy psychedelia the most. Disliked the "we have Oasis at home" parts so much that I did not finish the record. Like this just does not belong on this list and I'm starting to get angry with this publication.

First song good, last song good, one part of the 4th song I think, the one with the freak out ending, the other 50 mins were ugh.

I hope they were going for irony with the title. This is soulless generic mid 90s brit pop garbage

Absolute drivel! Some tracks the production is just awful.

Boring

Mkay.

The biases of the list curators is beginning to show. Repulsive.

But why is this here?

Not very interesting. Not my bag.

Kinda boring, kinda lame.

This music feels unfinished

Terrible, sounded like they were all playing in different rooms then just mashed together

Did not like this album. Everything kinda sounds the same, found it dragging and hard to get through. Just a lot of sound and nothing really important.

Awful stuff. No business being on this list. 1/5.

Just a lot of slow, boring noise. The singing is whiny and the songs are just bland, and when you think you have something chill to listen to it pivots into super screechy guitars for no reason

Vibes of local band make overblown attempt at immortality. It's amusing how much the length and tone of the Wikipedia entry match how overblown this is. Their songs are all half an idea stretched clumsily over six minutes.

3 song rule...DNF

Never really got The Verve.

This was incredibly boring.

Seriously, putting one Verve album on this list is inexcusable. But 2? That’s a cry for help.

Dog shit boring.

Man, like a derivative Radiohead and Oasis that drags waaaaaaay too long. Why the hell are these guys on here twice? 1 out of spite.

Boring. Dreadfully boring. I’m astounded they were able to write so many songs that I could forget as they were happening. Once again, this list platforms an uninteresting album because of the UK bias. I hung on for some time, but when my brain had the thought “is this still going on?” I knew there was no hope for this album, nor any reason for it to be on the list.

Well this certainly made my work commute worse

Damn I do not like britpop, certainly hoping I’ve run down the amount that could even be in this list. I’ve realized that when I mock british accents, it’s not really speaking voices I’m mimicking but the way britpop singers sound.

This shit sucked in the 90s. It didn't age any better. Probably one of the most overrated and over blown bands in the last 30 years. (I can think of a few more, but this is a Verve review). If you love this band, you are lying to yourself

Whiny, dreary, a slog and a half, abysmal

Shite, turgid Gallagher-lite dross. It's chock full of meandering dirges. Pedestrian sound of British decline. Feels like going 3mph bus tour of Bolton in a clapped out British Leyland. Sixty four minutes of watching magnolia emulsion soak into a white wall.

Never liked them

This list looks more and more like "1001 Albums British People Need to Listen Before They Die"... I’m sorry, but the giganormous Brit-centric (and more generally Anglo-centric) bias is starting to show, and it's depressing. Do I really need to listen to every band that had some small degree of passing fame in the UK in the last 50 years ?... Verve is not a terrible band, and this album is not terrible either. But I really fail to see what it brings to the table in terms of creativity. With about as much punch as a glass of water, it’s rehashed, vanilla pop-rock tailored for radio stations. There are a few dreamy / psychedelic moments that could have been interesting, but they pale in comparison with what Radiohead was doing at the same time. Tolerable as background music, but also entirely forgettable. Certainly not my idea of an essential album. I tried to find reasons to rate it a 2*, but not one song stood out, not one moment surprised me – so no. 2/10

I didn’t like their next album when it first came out, so I gave this one some extra attention to see if age or … maturity might soften my initial impression of the band. It just came off again like some generic Brit shoegaze / pop with absolutely nothing standing out. Not that I really dislike it, it just leaves me completely numb. Every time Ashcroft sounds a bit off-key, I remember this is supposed to be a “must hear before you die” album, but honestly, it feels more like another dodgy Brit thing that might finish me off before I make it to the end of the list.

nope

An album full of filler tracks. This one is just bland, fucking bland.

Tiresome

Couldn't get into it. 1/5

Boring Radiohead and Oasis inspired 90's Britpop.

dosadno, pičkasto i, što je najbitnije, predugo, repetitivno. stvarno je naporno slušat krindž stihove i po sto puta. da su pjesme duplo kraće bile bi znatno bolje. uz sve to omot je urnebesno krindž, koji je problem ovom liku šta se mršti, baš mi dođe da ga išamaram ko majmuna

this was always terrible

meh

Ok

Dated

Verve - best know for their next album and its smash and Rolling Stones ripoff - Bitter Sweet Symphony. This album sounds great, but it's another case of reviewing the 'precursor to greatness album'. Definitely establishes the band's 'sound'. Lots of reverb and delay - kind of U2 sounding, although I'm not sure neither band would like that comparison - it's undeniable, though. Not bad, not that memorable of an album either, it was the 90s

Not even top three selling albums from a one hit wonder.

Meh, not painful but nothing interesting here.

Horrible. Really disliked this.

hahaha hans echli vor mich hergschobe aber here we are this is music isch na cool? het mich chli ah wolfmother erinnered iwie de rest hani ener langwilig gfunde und natürlich hani chli en bias will how the fuck het die band meh als 1 album uf dere liste brainstorm interlude döffmer mache, nöd crazy cool aber chli abwechslig DAS GAHT ÜBER E STUND life's an ocean findi cool, chli moody und s schlagzüg het en geile ton! stormy clouds isch echt es snoozefest repise isch voll ok? rein musikalisch isches es 2, vlt gits es protest 1. mussmer na überlege

Mæææ. Oppskrytt og gørrkjedelig.

1 hour of mid ambient noise

I would take another 9/11 over another Verve album

Gear: Abyss DIANA MR Artwork: 😐😐😐😡 Production: 🤔😐👍 Music: 🎸😞🔄 Rating: 🌧️(🌧️)/5

First album that made me mad that it’s on this list. What was the UK’s obsession with The Verve? Sounds like Radiohead from that era with everything interesting sucked out.

Spacy, pretentious and silly.

als hintergrundmusig no nice, aber wenn me anelost isches sehr unspektakulär, repetitiv, lärmig und nöd spannend. und mit de zit au als hintergrundmusig nervig.

This was incredibly boring.

I found this pretty bland. The story of the production of this album is far more interesting that any tracks found within in it.

Right this is either gonna pleasantly surprise me or it's gonna be the most interminable basic britpop dross I've ever endured.

I didn't know this band and I listened to about half of the album before giving up. I just didn't connect.

I expected to hate this and I was correct to. Boring music made by boring people to be played by Mondeo men.

The guitars are so fuzzy they just become static at certain points and his voice can peel paint. If I want a mid tier 90s brit band I'd just listen to pulp. No thanks

IKKE behov for 2 The Verve albums på den her liste!!!!!! Hvorfor er den over en time lang!!!!!!!!!!!

Woefully generic. Generic in sound, generic in lyrics, even generic in album art. Generic, generic, generic. In the most woeful way. Nothing about this was remarkable except how boring it was. I say it’s woefully generic because there definitely could’ve been something here. The sound isn’t captivating or interesting. Nearly every song, especially near the end, sounded the same. But there’s a foundation here, ideas that could’ve been built upon. Shorten some of the songs (seriously - why the hell were there songs longer than 5 minutes on this album?? They really thought they were THAT good??), work on the lyrics, and add some energy. There could easily be something here. As it is, there isn’t. Honestly, the lyrics might’ve been the most generic thing about this. They’re all so vague and rely on cliches. They don’t say anything profound, despite being sung with the confidence and conviction of someone who truly believes that they do. It really felt like they believed they’d created something truly meaningful and insightful. Which is sad because they truly didn’t. It was just forgettable. Which is almost worse than just being outright bad. I suspect this album’s inclusion is yet another example of the sheer, unabashed, blatant UK bias of the editors of the book. Based on this album, the Verve probably don’t deserve one album on this list but I believe they have at least two. I shudder to think of all the great bands and artists that lost a spot to The fucking Verve. One star. I never need to listen to this again. I don’t want to listen to this again. Standout Track: This is Music

Listened: 13/02/2025 Album no: 20 % rating: 23% Fave Song: BRITPOP RLLY NOT MAH FING BRO. GOT 3 TRACKS INTO DIS AND TURNED IT OFF. Maybe I’ll try again down the line but yeah, really not for me even if they are from Wigan.

I like the Verve. This is bland and uninspired. Absolutely could die without it.

Oh nooooooo. I’m officially sick of the mid 1990s britpop acts. This one is particularly bad. The lyrics suck. Generic and basic and nothing about this album works. None of it will be remembered. It’s too dull to hate which makes it one of the worst albums on here

2 Verve records on this list!?!?!?!?!? What a shit band.

Repetitive and dull

Not into this. It’s one note and fades into the background. Very similar to The Thrills.

I was hoping to at least like this, but found it messy and unfocused.

Highlight: Brainstorm Interlude Part Britpop, part psych rock. Occasional great guitar work, mediocre and long-winded as a whole compared to the glut of Britpop albums by other artists. And this is coming from someone who likes Britpop. Overall: 1/10

It really is a Bittersweet Symphony that that song is not on this album. This is entirely forgettable and boring.

1/5. I love jam albums because the band can just vibe and show off their talents. This feels like structured jams and that feels bad. Plus it's Britpop and this was a miss overall. It had high hopes from the get go since the first few songs were good but they basically took the same song structure and slowed it down or sped it up. It's a verse, chorus, and then constant repeating of the same line until the song ends. I wanted a good Britpop album but the chances are usually low. There are like 5 good ones total of the 30+ on this list. Oh well, maybe next time. I wanted to give it at least a 2 but I'm not coming back to this one ever. Best Song: This is Music, A New Decade

These guys had one halfway decent album. This isn’t it. Pffft. 0 stars.

Gee, that was awful. Now I need cheering up. IN A NUTSHELL: Just because the English are too inhibited/embarrassed to share their true feelings doesn't mean we deserve to find out. Here some “Northerners” spend a disinhibited week vomiting up self pity and push whiney sounds into bloated undisciplined ‘scatalogue’ of their existential disquiet. Put all the saddest Oasis, Coldplay and The Verve songs in a blender to homogenise and drink it on a rainy Tuesday hungover rainy morning = the sound. Or “Music as emotional contagion - weaponised as a gently nauseating depressant.” A kind of bored exaltation LIKELY AUDIENCE: Then: Young brits unhappy in their jobs dissociating and self-medicating with lager, nicotine and shit Mediterranea holidays (rather than meaningful connection). Now: old white men wondering what went wrong with their life. And Britain. LISTEN to it IF: You don't have time to read "Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class" by Owen Jones, or Notes from a Small Island.- by Bill Byrson You want a succinct explanation of British emigration ANTIDOTES: "Tu vuò fà l'americano" - Lou Bega David Lee Roth - “Just a Gigolo / I Ain't Got Nobody” Imelda May “Johnny Got A Boom Boom” CONCLUSION / OUTCOMES More effective than placebo when used as a depressant. Not to be used when operating heavy machinery or when “cleaning a gun”.

Ich dachte es geht nicht schlimmer als Oasis und Blur. Falsch gedacht. Larmoyante Langeweile in Musik gepresst. Schlimm.

Alternative rock. I didn’t like this album. It was almost too busy in most tracks, which made it difficult to actually listen to any particular part. It was also repetitive. My favorite song was the last one, a spacey instrumental, but even this lasted 2 minutes longer than it should have.

I do not like shoegaze music. It's long, overly distorted, and meandering. It doesn't have any of the charm or creativity of prog rock, and it sounds like what you would play in a dive bar when you dont want anyone to actually realize there is music playing. I think this was slightly better than my bloody valentine and definitely better than Jesus and the Mary Chain, but by the track Brainstorm Interlude, I remembered I just don't care for it. So It Goes was an ok song.

The whine is like nails on a chalkboard.

don't like this band overrated

Not any good tbh. Can see why people like it, but not for me

This particular brand of semi-whining, meandering 90's music has not aged well for me and man, this is "The 90's" the album as far as that kind of music goes. 1.5 stars

There were a few moments in the whole 90s Britpop thing that made it across the pond and even fewer of those songs that I actually like, but overall I consider The Verve, Pulp, Oasis, and all those other sentient haircuts to be churning out the same dreck that was emblematic of the Volume Wars of the 1990s. As though anyone really gives a shit what a white guy in 200-quid sunglasses has to complain about. Shut up already.

No more britpop, please. It's so boring. This one at least has some psychedelia influences that provide a BIT of interest, but not enough to make me excited about it. It's also far too long and plodding.

You would think in an hour+ long album they would make at least one interesting song, even by accident

Good band from the 2000s. Some good music.

Nicht meine Richtung

3 albums’ worth of droning and distorted angst from ecstasy-laced dysfunctional BritPop lads? No recognisable hits? My cup runneth over. With sand.

Not good.

sometimes i feel like the creators of this list must regret not picking a smaller number of albums. this is one of those times. why is this here.

Boring. Favorite track: So It Goes

More meh...

Just couldn’t finish it. I have never liked this band.

Please be serious. One of the most dated albums I've heard in a very long time.

Nuoret miehet viehättyvät äänistä, joita he tajuavat voivansa tuottaa suullaan ja soittimillaan. Samalla he laannuttavat arvostelijoiden huolia arviointiensa pehmentymisestä.

Saknar passion, energi, bra låtar, originalitet, intressant/spännande lyrik. Sångaren suger. Bandet låter halvsovande. Allt kryper på i maka takt. Ifall de valt att inte dra ut albumet över en timme skulle de kanske ha fått en tvåa, men bara kanske.

Zu viel E-Gitarre und nerviges Durcheinander. Leidender Brit-Pop-Sound.

Nope

really did not enjoy. not my thing at all and all the songs sound the same.

what the hell was that, monotonous droning drivel - 'best 1001 albums'?!

Tedious shite.

Liked one song.

Listened to half and got bored

I sincerely doubt I needed to hear TWO Verve albums before dying.

Gefällt mir nicht.

Nothing special. Sounds unorganized

Richard Ashcroft's voice takes fairly average alternative rock and turns it into ear-grating, unlistenable noise. I'm not surprised that Liam Gallagher is a big fan.

Þessi plata gerir nákvæmlega ekkert fyrir mig.

Zero

Bitter sweet symphony guys roll lamest album ever, asked to leave list of 1001 albums you must listen to before you die

I got a little excited cos I thought I would hear bittersweet symphony in this album, but it wasn't this one. I kinda expected something great, but was let down

That was junk

Awful

Inaudible et insupportable

3 tunnin ripuli jos haluaa koko deluxe vittuilun kuunnella heh, EN KUUNNELUT...RockIndieShoegazeBritpop PERFECT COMBINATION....LOVE IT... LOVE IT TO BITS.... heh globaali maybe global ratigns are ok... youre alright kid...semmosta history

Blah 1.2/5

How is the fucking backing vocals in On Your Own hahaha wtf, first time I've ever laughed out loud at something terrible sounding in over 700 albums. What were they thinking. The whole thing is a big boring, way too long, overindulgent, swing and a miss attempt at some kind of rock ballad rip off that one hundred and fifty percent missed the mark. And the fucking delux version is 3 HOURS LONG. Absolute dog shit. PS. The closing track sounds exactly like the Boosh episode where they try and find the New Sound in the desert (not in a good way).

If I wanted to listen to whining and weird noises I’d listen to my toddler complain.

Bof, c'est pas un rock qui me parle. Intéressant d'entendre ce que le groupe a fait avant Bitter Sweet Symphony, mais c'est à peu près le seul intérêt pour moi. C'est pas un disque que je vais réécouter.

Very boring, very annoying, very undeserving of this list. Why is this here?!

why would you put the verve on this list. Jesus Christ they put every cough and sneeze from every throwaway britpop band from the 90s on this list. It was fine but ffs the britpop thing was kind of like the swing revival that lasted about 6 months in 98. Get over it already.

Meh…

No thoughts

Wenn mir in Bezug auf ein Album die Adjektive ausgehen, bevor ich überhaupt angefangen habe, liegt einiges im Argen. Banal, abscheulich, langweilig: das kam hier alles schon vor bei der Beschreibung von Platten und ist dennoch abwechslungsreicher als diese Aneinanderreihung von Plattitüden (diese Formulierung gab’s hier auch schon). The Nerve…

Turgid dross. No idea how this ever got released tbh

Absolutely not. This is trash. Utter garbage. Pretentious dishwater-grade Britpop. Ashcroft's voice is grating, the guitars are crashy and dissonant. Whiny shite. Probably the progenitors of the ultra-pomp of renting the nearest strings section to play backing while the lead singer grizzles about something of zero consequence, and for that I cannot forgive.

Sorry, I tried. I really, really tried. But The Verve does nothing for me, and this album is no exception. Nothing in *A Northern Soul* is groundbreaking or particularly well written, and the songs are just too linear and predictable to seal the deal for me. This... stuff simply doesn't make me feel anything. "How long will I run for?," Ashcroft complains during the opener. Too long, probably. And this here is only a first self-indulgent, lengthy dirge among many other ones on the album (all of them, actually?). That some people in here dare compare this excruciatingly boring record to Radiohead's *OK Computer* is baffling to me. Are people this tone-deaf??? I get that listeners have different tastes when it comes to harmony, composition and song structures. But c'mon, you gotta be kidding me here, nothing in this album is lively or truly dynamic. Nothing stands out. It's just a big blurry cloud throughout. Chords don't have a shred of originality in them, neither do most of the hackneyed dad-rock arrangements,. Lyrics have no substance, and vocal melodic lines are not interesting at all--they meander without anything catching your ear (and their delivery is a bit ridiculous sometimes, even though I have nothing against Ashcroft's voice per se). "This Is Music", The Verve tells us. Uh, OK. But is this *good* music? No. It's just very lame, pop-wise. And neither is it original production-wise. I'd rather listen to a drone from one of Sunn O)))'s lesser records for the rest of my life instead of having to listen to this again. At least a long guitar drone would provide an interesting atmosphere in the room... I'm pretty sure The Verve were themselves aware of their lack of skills as songwriters from the get-go. It's no surprise they used a sample from an orchestral version of an old Rolling Stones staple song on their next record to pen their only real hit, "Bittersweet Symphony". They *knew* they didn't have enough inspiration in them to create a song that would be both catchy and genuinely moving. So they had to steal a good idea somewhere to make it happen. I very rarely say that a band is overrated, because I know music is first and foremost a subjective thing. Yet here, I'm tempted to say so, to be honest. I always try to keep an open mind, but clearly, I don't see what the fuss is all about with The Verve. What we have with them is more than competent musicianship, of course. As in 'they can play instruments'. But if you want to select a list of 1001 albums you should absolutely listen to, surely there are twice as many albums worthier of your time out there. Life's too short to waste it on stuff you consider bland. [Number of albums left to review or just listen to: 980 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 9 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 6 Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (as I think many others are more important): 5 (including this one) Albums I might not be able to judge (some might end up on my final list if they're culturally important): 1]

Boring shite

What’s the draw for this album? Generic alt-rock. Doesn’t even have Bittersweet Symphony on it. Skip this.

Not my thing.

Nothing special to me. But not bad. Ok the vocals kinda decline during. This album is not very good, could qualify for a 1. For some reason it's the most soulless thing I've heard yet. Brainstorm interlude is kind of interesting. To the extent psychadelia can be interesting. Ugh it's so boring. 1

This one was a slog for me. Every song, I looked at my phone to see how much time was left in the song and it was routinely 2 more minutes. No, thank you.

Niet geluisterd

Miserable northern gits

Shite.

Nope

Nothing enjoyable about this I’m afraid

Oof. Not really my kind of music at all tbh.

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