Reviews (page 7 of 7)
Theatrical rock with haunting female vocals.
Has the potential to be a good album. On the songs that were a little slower, he has a pretty good voice. Too bad he doesn’t expand on that but I am sure he is doing what he loves. 🤷🏼♀️
A unique album that showed signs of good alternative rock pieces but also some really rough nu metal sound songs too. This album seemed to teeter between two different genres. The female singers were pretty good when they just sang. The instrumentals would be good at times but then some songs would be completely off the rails and not enjoyable. Don’t think there’s a ton to revisit on this one. 4.9/10
Once again I can recognize the skill but not my jam.
Ist mal was anderes, ist aber trotzdem nicht gut. Außerdem viel zu lang. Beim 8. Song gelangweilt ausgemacht.
Låter ba int bra
On My Hotel TV slaps really hard, and seems to have a much better overall guitar and bass tone than the rest (with the exception of And This Is Something That I Thought I Had), maybe because there were going more for funk riffs. Then there's 10 more songs. They all sound like music a rock band would produce in the time they were produced.
instrumental promissor, mas vocal irritante
Meh. Le moi de l'époque de cet album aurait probablement plus trippé que le moi d'aujourd'hui. Fin secondaire/début cégep, ce genre de band techniquement très bon avec un petit côté edgy me parlait. Je dois reconnaître que c'est des bons musiciens, que la chanteuse a une bonne voix et je trouve bien que ce soit un band avec une chanteuse forte. Par contre on est loin d'un chef d'oeuvre ou de quelque chose qui a changé la musique. C'est correct et je suis content d'avoir découvert ce band dans ce cadre, mais sans plus.
This is an album for people who adopted Fight Club as their whole personality. The songs and performances give off the "international band opening for the group you actually came to see" vibe. It's not bad but nothing really sticks on a first shallow listen. I have to give it two stars because -- while I didn't hate it -- I did find myself hoping the set would end soon so they could get their crap off the stage already.
Strange choice being well after the Britpop era they came out of. I think I first saw them in 1994 on an NME tour thing headlined by Verruca Salt. Nothing special or that memorable.
Accomplished but still not my jam.
Anything but chill, and it definitely didn't give me an orgasm.
2.75
Alussa ei iskenyt ollenkaan, mutta pari ihan ok biisiä lopulta. 2.5/5
Alku ihan vakuuttava, mutta sitten alkaa hidastelu. sanotaan 2.5/5
Instrumentals were kinda mehhh, and a lot of people were praising the vocals by the singer. But for me it didn't really click.
The first track was great, the rest less so. Not my cuppa tea.
I liked the first track but it never quite fell into place for me...
Kinda heavy industrial sounding. Not my style
Kan me zo voorstellen dat meetings van deze band erg 'zen' waren: Elke idee werd gebruikt, niemand mocht ooit 'tegen' stemmen en zie hier het resultaat. Meh!
The music itself wasn’t half bad, but I really was not impressed by the vocals. I probably would not listen to this album again. Cheap Honesty was my favorite track. Kind of reminded me of Incubus
After a decidedly thin and uninflammatory opener, these not-especially-radicals at least get more melodic. Enjoyable and occasionally surprising Garbage-lite, but too reliant on automatic gestures and a far cry from the spikiness I was expecting.
21st April 2022 Listened in the morning while packing to leave LA! Dates have gone awry. Super 90s, makes me think of the matrix. They are a very cool band and she is an icon. 2.5 if I could.
Secretly worth a star, rest was worth a star.
Not great to be honest
Cum off it
Do like a number of their tracks but very few on here and the rest ain't great.
Not my jam.
I liked the first song on the album but didn't like the rest.
Doesn´t grab and hard to get into, so i stepped out
I had really high hopes after the first song, but unfortunately every next was similiar but worse. 2,5; it was very tiring to end it
Sounds like paramore
Not to my taste
Not a fan of the vocals. The music isn't very good either, but at least it's not grating. Probably would've been a 1 if I could hear the lyrics more clearly/if I was paying attention to them, based on how people describe them.
I remember the singles from when this was released. They were cool but the album as a whole isn't on the same level.. The album title is great, the cover art is so cool and intriguing but maybe there's too much rock and not enough roll.
Not for me, very Linkin Park-y, and I like Linkin Park xD This is just too raw for my liking, and I'm not a huge fan of yelling-singing.
meh
some big riffs, some try-outs at ballads, lots of emoting, but nothing that resonates with me. 2 stars
An odd sound in the middle of the night. The IRS tax code. 'Trout Mask Replica.' Sometimes, you don’t necessarily have to immediately or even completely understand what you’re listening to in order to enjoy it. The free Jazz of Ornette Coleman, for example. But sometimes you do, and if you don’t, then… well… I didn’t understand this LP at all. I liked the opening three tracks and the second to last well enough. The band is rocking and the vocalist has a unique voice (which frankly sounds better when she’s scream/singing rather than singing/singing). The lyrics lent themselves to a little pondering. The arrangements and production had some nice moments- I particularly liked the strings and chord progression of ‘Secretly.’ However, things took a downturn beginning with ‘Tracy’s Flaw,’ and never really recovered. Even the final track, following an ill-fitting Lynyrd Skynyrd-sounding guitar solo, just kinda petered out. The main issue for me is: either Skunk Anansie doesn’t know exactly who they are, or want to be, musically; or, I don’t. Either way it left me scratching my noggin. Still, I don’t think I’d go as far as to say that this Skunk stunk. Maybe more like a wet Dog?
its like punk and actually kinda better than expected but the group's look grosses me out
Sounds very dated now.
The opening to The Skank Heads is quite nice. The rest of the album…whatever. Some of the music is OK. I do not like the lead singer’s voice, and I can’t get past it.
Oh Skunk Anansie? Yeah this might be alright, they had a few decent tunes. None of them on this album though.
werd wohl kein Fan mehr
nah 2/5
disgusting. very close to 1, I'm just feeling generous tonight.
Could only stomach 3-4 songs.
If I could give a zero I would give less
I did not enjoy this very much. It sounds like every other late 90s early 00s band trying to do rock and roll. 2.5/10 Top song Secretly
This sounded like total shit to me. Idk, this may just not be my type of genre
A waste of time. 1
I feel like the "here's another boring British band" complaints are somewhat overdone on this site, but I'll make an exception here. Not even in the 3rd tier of late-90s Britpop adjacent bands.
This has got to be a joke, right?
No. Gross.
Die Liste des Grauens geht weiter. Warum quäle ich mich damit ab? Dieses Geheule geht mir dermaßen auf die Ketten!
I didn’t really get this
Idk, I don't see the appeal. DEFINITELY not for me.
These people must have some chaotic and angry sex if that is their version of chill. I’ll pass.
i can see what they were going for, but the combination of rock opera/industrial/whatever this is doesn't really do it for me, sorry.
(18/100)
En CD jeg er glad for at jeg aldri har eid
not for me
Feels out of place on this list
Couldnt egt through it
My God jong, ik kon het niet eens uitluisteren. Letterlijk zero chill en al helemaal niet post orgasmic!
Ugh this I never need to hear again
Ok
No real thoughts one way or another. No real hit songs.
I don't think I like a single thing about this
brutal
Oof, hated this. Awful band name, awful album name, super dated sound. Started rough and got worse from there.
This list is so fucking dumb
Skunk is right! This stinks
Not for me. Trying to be edgy indie, but its just another boring message vehicle which has been done to death by most rappers. On the plus side. It ended.
Late 90s "alternative metal" at its absolute worst. A nails on a chalkboard cultural wasteland.
Unlistenable shit.
Yikes this is annoying. Incessantly soaring vocals, overwrought and joyless. I think there’s a good reason why most people have never heard of this album, it’s bland, vanilla and unmemorable. Oh and I didn't like it.
No
The name and album cover are a bit misleading. I really expected some good 'chill' music, but noooooooooo. We get hard/alternative rock/metal. And her voice. Come on, man.
Actually 0 stars quite awful
I really liked Skunk Anasie’s first two albums and saw them live quite a bit in the mid-late 90’s. I sort of moved away by the time this album came out though. I know I owned it, but can’t remember much about it so kind of listening to this afresh. I am now reminded why I may have moved away from them at the time and also why I don’t remember this album. Shame.
Nope
ARGH IM SO ANGSTY AND OPPRESSED. IT MAKES ME WANT TO WEAR A LEATHER JACKET, EYELINER AND SKULL JEWELLERY AND SHOUT ABOUT IT ON THE JOOLS HOLLAND SHOW.
“what if Tool had a female vocalist?” They’d still make miserable shit.
Not good at all.
There are many other versions of this by other artists that are better. At its best, it is bland grunge rock
Well this is god awful
This is really bad and annoying
More like skunk butt amirite?
Trash. Some interesting beats on a few tracks, but overall not worth listening to.
First 30 seconds of this album slay. But then, what the actual fuck? Why does the “I’m going under” chick keep saying the N-word? This is a no. Not even close. How did this get on vinyl, much less on this list? Hard pass.
🤦🏻
Irritating when they try to be heavy, boring when they try to be emotional.
Putting this album in the challenge is what I call a "strong wrong".
I thought "Hedonism" was okay, but I had a hard time getting through the rest of the album.
I knew of Skunk Anansie's work before I started listening. I'm not a fan of Skin's yelling singing style. Track one started and I was pleasantly surprised. Then came the inevitable screaming and I'm out. I made it three tracks in, but I doubt I'm going to find anything I like on this album, and even if there is, I'm not wading through the unlistenable to get to it. I'm usually happy to sit through many an album to find one or two tracks I'd like. The only comparison I can think of is that I'd happily rifle through a bucket of soil to find a fiver, but not a bucket of dog shit.
Nope
"Are we almost done yet?" No, 48 minutes left...
A little too edgy for me. I didn’t enjoy this. At all. And I wonder how this was selected to be included in such a list.
So bad
Hard no
When the singer yelled “turn it off” in the 2nd track, I wish I’d taken her advice.
i rate this a 1; it not a genre i listen to much of and the album just did not resonate with me
alternative rock is not my thing
Not my genre at all. Nothing to appeal from this, except how great it was when Skunk called out the Stormzy Glasto headlines for saying he was the first black artist to play the pyramid stage
I did not need to hear this
1/5 not for me
"Post Orgasmic chill" it's just for girls. For the boys is "Post Jerk Off Depression"
I wanted to like this because of the album name, but I can't get there.
I couldn't take it anymore. The singing is god awful and shrieky. The music is annoying. I don't know why I needed to hear this at all before I die. 1/5
lol cmon man
Couldn’t finish. REALLY not my cup of tea
ouf
Pourrait certainement être sélectionné pour le livre "1001 Albums That Might Prove Life Is Not Worth Living."
Not for me
Dislike..... I had high hopes going into it, but immediately was disappointed. Instead of the lyrics "Get off me" it should say "turn this off".
This album was making me angry, like I couldn’t even finish it. God I hated this
I had never heard of this band/album before, and surprise surprise, they are British. This is uninteresting and inessential. I will never think of this band again.
This was horrible. I'm sure someone likes them, but it's not me.
it sounds corporate. idk how to explain it.
A big no no for me
Meh
💩
I don’t know who this is for
Well given the album name I knew it would be…. interesting to say the least. And it wasn’t even that. It was lacking in all areas other that weirdness and provided no good oomph as to why it made it on this list.
UK Nü Metal. Really not my cup of tea. I liked how political the singer was but that’s about it.
No, I tried, I can't get through. Less than 30 albums on my "catch-up list"and they're all ones I've avoided. Hopefully there will be a few surprises /sigh. Not this album though.
Like if Yoko Ono fronted a nu metal band
I came into this album with pretty low expectations and it still underachieved. Right off the bat, it just seemed like a tamer version of screamcore and I don’t even like that genre. Then there are ballads. I expect to have forgotten this band’s name by tomorrow.
Not good
It wasn't unlistenable...it was just the most boring, AI generic sounding rock I have ever heard. Just terrible. 1/5
Pop nu metal?? Ikke for mig. Overhovedet.
This started out ok.. Felt a bit inspired by RATM and .. Tina Turner? There were several times where her voice sent shakes down my spine because it sounded so false.... The best parts were the ballads, the rest was bland and pretty uninspiring.
Not for me
1/5 not my style at all
Horrendous. Bravo 👏
Massive vocals raging over heavy & tightly played staccato mid tempo riffs with some electronica adornment. A combination of trip hop and nu metal. This sounds like when Serbia or somewhere enters a hard rock song for Eurovision. In other words it's overblown, ear-piercing and somehow both irritating and dull.
No thanks
I didn’t like it.
This is quite bad. It's like ska meets Avril Lavigne. There's no fluidity and the harmonics are very abrasive. The lead singer is like nails on a chalkboard and without much rhythm or cadence. I'm trying to push through the entire record, but it is very difficult.
Yeah, that’s gonna be a nope from me. Maybe I am not the target audience. A chore to make it through; somehow irritating but still bland.
With all due respect to some of the lyrics' social aspects, this is just about the opposite of what I want rock music to sound like. 0.5/5
Auditory violation. I admire the female vocals for a moment, am reminded of Evanescence, and the repulsion and nausea set in. Not in the least bit sexy, or enjoyable. File under N for Noxious.
I’m glad this band exists for their fans.
I didn't enjoy this at all.
Just weird
Racist, violent, misogynistic…why is even being listened to?
HATED THIS ! HAD to Stop listening!
Listened Before: N Annoying. Not sure why this is here. I think they think they're punk rockers or something? No idea. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Secretly
Ok
Yuck
Guess I’m not a fan of clit-rock
Nope! Don't like that!
not for us
not my bag
Skunk is right. I'm pretty sure this is what they used for music torture at Abu Ghraib. I can smell this shit through my headphones. Completely unlistenable.
Barely listenable. A couple of passable tracks... Secretly... Mostly screaming and shock value
Annoying
With all due respect to the people who wrote this book…what the fuck?
Nope
Lordy lord British metal is not for me.
Not for me
This was insufferable. I guess I could understand why others would like it but this was like a near hour of nails on a chalkboard for me.
The singles I knew from this band were melodic and absolutely focussed around the personality of lead singer, Skin. Now listening to this album for the first time it is way heavier than I recalled this band being. It starts Prodigy-esque before moving into Rage Against the Machine territory. It’s got a real nineties feel and isn’t quite either grunge or metal. It’s all a bit shouty for me and not something I’d particularly listen to again. It feels quite dated.
If I wanted to listen to a woman screaming at me for 40 minutes, I'd stay home. Pass.
No, thank you. The aggresive approach is too much imo
not actual music but a statement
The first two SA albums were pretty good; this one just sounds like every other alt-rock soft-metal band from the late 90s/early aughts - frankly not very interesting
Irritating vocals. I could only make it through 3 minutes.
All bleeds together. I didn’t care about any of it.
not for me. no screaming
i liked the dialogue to set up some of the songs. not what i’d typically listen to/ a style of music i enjoy but a well put together album.
Didn't do anything for me.
Terrible.
So edgy, so angry, so 90's. Struggled to get through this one
Ei musiikillisesti täyttä paskaa (eikä varsinkaan laulaja), mutta äänimaailmaltaan ja estetiikaltaan mahdotonta sulattaa. Siinä missä voisin laittaa jonkun Hybrid Theoryn soimaan "läpällä ja kännissä", en voisi kuvitella edes muistavani tämän levyn olemassaoloa.
Mental bit of music, no idea what this was, not my slice of pie that’s for sure. Lately was my fav song 2.5/10
i don't remember skunk anansie having a nu-metal phase and if you got a list of their albums and said that is definitely the one you have to listen to, it gives you the best representation of the band and what they offer that is unique, it aint this album. i'm not surprised they went on hiatus after this album as it is clearly a band that has lost its way.
A post orgasmic chill unlike no other I've ever experienced. Usually I'm flying through the clouds, feeling like just about the best bloke in Britain, but this post-coital bliss is kind of different. It makes me feel dirty, grubby, like an unwashed toothbrush being gently guided down the back of a hippy and into their undergrowth as a form of entertainment for a gang of posh youths trying to up their street cred in front of the prettiest transexual this side of the Mississippi.
Not my thing
Matko wyspiarskiej muzyki, znowu to zrobilas, post orgasmic chill to trzeci studyjny album bandy skund anansie, ktora sklada sie z czterech czlonkow i frontuje jej pani, chyba, Skin, ktora poza wokalami jeszcze gra na jakis elektro lub wibrofonach, traki podpisane jako wspolna praca grupy, ale i tak czuc z nich pania wokalistke, bo duzo jest gadania z pierwszej osoby, oczywiscie tematy najwyzszej wagi, problemy zycia, swiata, kolorow, co pasuje idealnie do rokowania wczesnych lat 2k, bo plyta wydana w 99, alternatywne rokowanie z tej bardziej metalowej czesci spectrum alternatywy, nie tylko przez w wiekszosci wykrzyczane wokale, ale przez granie glownie na elektrykach, ktore idealnie pasuja do zagluszania bajduzenia lirycznego, nie potrafilem znalezc jednego traka, ktory by czyms przyciagnal, wiec jedyna zaleta tego 50 minutowego krazka bylo to, ze zdradza kiedy sie zakonczy, nie wiem czy to juz jakies osluchanie wsrod sredniej muzyki popowej, ale wrzucenie takiego utworu jak tutaj im not afraid praktycznie zawsze zwiastuje zamkniete plyty, wiec po kilku nutkach juz wiedzialem, ze koniec tego wymeczonego seansu nadchodzi, po przesluchaniu czegos tak nijako brzmiacego czlowiek nie jest nawet ciekawy jak kto z kim i dlaczego tworzyl plyte, a to naprawde rzadkosc nijakosci
honestly? I only made it to the opening of the second song