Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

1. time - 1 2. freedom - 2 3. go - 1 4. zave - 1 5. angelz - 2 6. day - 1 7. pride - 1 8. heal - 1 9. zoul - 1 10. uuaiting - 1

Ugh… this was painful. It took me three tries to finally get through. 80s is bad enough but schmaltzy 80s is a whole new level of bad.

Not good to me

It’s not my style of pop. He’s a good singer and musician, and some of the songs are ok, but for the most part I feel like this falls into the “90’s adult contemporary” category which is just not my jam.

Boring

favs: waiting for that day soul free rating 1/5

Huh. Oh, hey. Yeah, I'm awake. I think. What track is it? Oh. That's it? Yeah. Sorry, I guess I haven't had enough caffeine today to make this one work. Oh, I just don't appreciate the wonderful vocals? Or get the slow ballads? Yeah, guilty I guess. Mind if I go listen Weezer's Blue Album? Because that didn't make the list. No? Good. Maybe after that I'll listen to Judas Priest's Painkiller. That didn't make the list. Neither did Massive Attack's Mezzanine. Maybe some Bad Religion, I mean one of the most influential punk bands ever didn't land a single album here. Or even In an Aeroplane Over the Sea. Anything other than this. See, when you wake me up from my George Michael slumber I get grouchy.

As pop goes, it's ok. He had a decent voice and he tried with the lyrics but it just can't rid itself of superficiality and bland is the word that I can't can't shake off while listening to each track. For the blowdried sharply manicured sunglasses crew, this might feature but otherwise I can't see myself ever returning to any of these tracks.

Nah

I rememeber buying this at the time as it was such a

Boring

Just no.

Listen without prejudice is exactly what I did. I still didn't like it. Wet, tedious, presumptuous bullshit in the main. I did get a laugh out of the fact that "Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 2" wasn't ever officially released because of contractual disputes with the record label.

I listened without prejudice, and the whisper singing filled me with prejudice. Someone told George he was seductive, they were wrong.

Did not enjoy

did not change my life in the slightest, even after removing all prejudices

Lord, help me with this one.

Sorry, still prejudiced

If Freedom! '90 is the best song on this record this might end up getting 1 star.

Came in without Prejudice, left with a fair amount

Slightly more interesting soft rock than Michael Bolton. But only slightly.

No

Not for me at all. Recording sounds awful with far too much reverb. Most of the songs here aren’t even good pop songs with the exception of Freedom. The rest is very difficult to get through and I honestly couldn’t wait for it to be over

Just no.

Artiste connu, pas apprécié à l'époque. Cet album ne présente rien d'original Aucun intérêt pour moi, en plus il est vraiment très ennuyeux. Il m'a paru long dès le second morceau ... Je ne suis pas allé au bout. =>1/5

After listening to this turd of an album, I listened to a punk playlist so I could cleanse myself from the stench of this turgid affair. Just awful.

Not really for me, but I also don't like 80's/90's pop, so that completely tracks.

There's maybe one okay song on here. Trying to hard to be late stage Queen. Pass.

Awful in the 80s worse mow

Freedom's a banger, the rest is poo

No

Did not enjoy 1/10

I’d rather listen to this without ears

I don’t think I’ve ever listened to a George Michael album before.. and after this, I can confidently say I won’t be making that mistake again. Maybe it was my mood, or maybe it was the endless parade of beige ballads, but this felt less like an album and more like a test of endurance.

I liked Freedom. I wish more of the album was like it instead of soft ballads.

Never been a fan, some of the Wham! era stuff was ok, but that's as far as it goes. This was just mind numbingly boring. Can only give it a 1.

I think I deserve a medal for sitting through all of that torturous crooning.

Da bleibt einfach nichts hängen.

1.0 I couldn't get through anything except freedom

This was one of my least favourite listens since I stared. I presume some people like this, but there's a lot of ballads and not enough pop for a pop album. (23 known/42 new)

aburrido

shite

This is peak era for padding a record with one hit. Honestly this should just be a cassingle.

Nothing remarkable here at all.

I really had to get through this

Sadly, this was a case of Prejudice Without Listening. I don't buy into the theory that George was some kind of pop genius. Faith was fun pop record, but I find his work generally quite bland and over-polished. Especially the 'serious' stuff. So gave this a swerve.

Freedom is one of the better George Michael songs and Soul Free was alright too. What an absolute slog to get through the rest of it though. The songs are way too boring, way too long and completely uninteresting to me. More than any other album I was waiting for this to be over.

Sh*te

In one word - corny. In another - artificial. This album feels like it was made for the sole purpose of being as generic and marketable as possible, without really saying anything. It feels sappy and disingenuous as an album, and only exists to make money off catchy pop tunes. Not at all a fan

I enjoy this genre of music and this production style, these songs are just boring. There are a few standout tracks, the singles, but everything else is just wispy nonsense. "Doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo" over and over. Shallow. D

Nope, not buying this.

Hard to Listen Without Prejudice when one can't the fucker.

Is NOT listening WITH prejudice the same as listening without prejudice? Like a double negative? Well that's all George is going to get. If Freedom is the best song on this album, then I'm clearly not the target audience. Really. Increasingly disillusioned with this book.

Yuck

How in the world does this have an average over 3?

Freedom is echt een topnummer, de rest is dikke bagger.

This is clearly a top-drawer pop album, the quality of the sogn writing is indisputible - the clarity and precision, the performance by GM, its solid. Just not to my taste. Even 'Freedom '90', that I was anticipating to enjoy, fell flat and I found the piano to sound so 'MIDI', the whole album - for me - suffered from a rather synthetic sound, that is, the instrumentation all sounded so processed and pristine. GM has a geat pop voice, I've heard him in so many contexts and thought "wow, this guy has got it' - just not htis album for me.

Langweilig, zu viele Balladen. Mehr "Soul Free" hätte mir besser gefallen.

Not a fan.

I have listened and this has not altered my prejudices.

I can't help but like wham and George's big hits, club Tropicana, careless whisper etc. A bit like Duran Duran, the style is ridiculous but the songs are good enough to make it work. When the songs aren't good enough, you end up with the overproduced schmaltzy dross of this album. Can't recall any redeeming qualities, the preachy theme annoyed me and stopped it from being remotely funny for being so bad. Avoid.

On the dreary and monotonous side. He does have a decent enough voice though. I prefer Freedom! '90 to Freedom, but only marginally, and only the radio edit. I think Wham! are better, but still not quite my thing. Think Ridgeley's influence helped knock the self-indulgent nonsense on the head.

Why does George Michael sound so far away in nearly every song. I wish I was far enough away so I didn't have to hear this. Highlights: Freedom

Was fully expecting not to enjoy this, to be fair it was completely different to what I was expecting. However, what it was, was still terrible Just not really my thing. He has got a decent voice though I guess, but this all felt quite serious and preachy Would never choose to listen to any of this

This ain't it.

Really not a fan

I’m sorry but this wasn’t for me

I'm sure that making this might've been cathartic for George Michael, but for me it was just dreary to listen to.

make some cuts, get this down below 35 minutes, and you'll have a solid 2/5 album

Bof

I read somewhere George sued Sony for not promoting this album enough. Blaming it’s piss poor sales on that fact. But, and I say this without prejudice, it just sucks.

Some albums age gracefully over time. Shockingly this isn’t one of them. Truly awful.

Extremely corny and melodramatic and way too smooth jazz at times but you can tell he really put a lot of heart into it 🥲 1.7/5

Not my style

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzz.... 1/5

Not a fan

Freedom is a really good song but besides that the album isn't great. Lots of slow and uninteresting songs, and not much diversity.

Was not feeling this not standing out

So, I was actually somewhat looking forward to listening to this and well, yeah, that didn’t happen. I do like Freedom but that’s about it.

Not good

lets get the good bits out of the way first. george michael is a bit of a ledge and did being a rich ramous person right. freedom is a massive song that everyone knows because its decent. the bad bits are, the rest of this album is terribly turd. like as bad as it gets turd.

As a wise turnip once said, do I not like that.

Didn’t get around it- felt pretty basic

I tried to George, I really did but it sounds like music for middle aged women to gurn over and pout about how good looking you were and how they would only need a couple of minutes with you. Frankly, it feels a bit like a pub singer plying his tunes down the local. Best Tracks: Freedom! '90; Something To Save; Heal the Pain

Didn’t like this one…. Like GM’s work… this was not his best

He was a teeny bop hit guy that did better as he worked at it . This one wasn’t a great show of his talents

This was a waste of time.

These songs are too slow and not very interesting, they seem a bit pretentious in some ways. I preferred Faith when George first went solo. And there is too much echo on his voice in most of these songs

not gonna listen to this

I mean, it's pretty dreadful. And made me sad - thinking of little Kieran trying to get into this. Not music for kids!!

No, just no

The best thing I can say is that it wasn't as bad as I was bracing myself for.

I hope the choices improve soon

No. I don't think I will. Hard pass because the music sucks.

Very pop in bad mining of this word

Just not my thing. 1

So boring. Slow pianos and acoustic guitar with George just singing away isn't interesting to me.

Great Album