Reviews (page 7 of 8)
I am Straight sounds like Marcy Playground, earlier cuts sound like a hybrid of The Doors and VU, it could've been more influential if it was released in 1972 instead of 76. The group that recorded this album went to greener pastures. How strange is that Mr Cale released a cover of Pablo Picasso before the band had their album out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Nf5aOrL3sc Other than that, it did not move me. Jerry Harrison (Talking Heads) - keys Ernie Brooks (David Johansen) - bass David Robinson (The Cars) - drums Jonathan Richman - vocals, guitar 4/10
Very much a *listens to the The Velvet Underground once* album. I adore it on that level, so clearly hearing the influences and even pushing it forward. Feels like such a labor of love. It also kinda feels a bit proto-emo in a way that tickles my brain with the awkwardness in a lot of the lyrics. I think it's pretty easy to see how this influenced a ton of people and how it sounds ahead of its time. A bit new wave at times and the organ reminded me of Sterolab's Super Falling Star for some reason. I feel I'd fuck with it more if the lyrics didn't feel so aggressively straight that I start yearning for Rivers Cuomo.
70s rock - not horrible, but definitely not my style, and kinda boring.
A slog to get through, some of the tracks sounded unfinished and almost as if they were demos, e.g. Girlfriend which was particularly grating. There are some slightly better songs such as Astral Plane which had a real Doors vibe to it, but on the whole just a confusing album with no real identity. Favourite tracks: Astral Plane & Government Center. Not one to revisit. 2/5
There is nothing particularly good here but it is not the worst album on this list. 2 stars or D.
I typically look up the track listing of each album, and make my judgement based on the original track listing. If it’s good, I might continue onto the bonus tracks, alternative takes, demos, etc. I knew by about the 3rd song I would not be exploring beyond the original 9 tracks.
Nerd Bedroom rock - my mates loved this at the time, but passed me by. I can hear the Velvet Underground influence in parts, but this is not even remotely "cool"
I’d rather eat deep-fried drywall than listen to one more bland British dude try to create original music.
Can’t say I get it. Seems like Suicidal Tendencies covering deep cuts of The Doors.
Liked half the songs easily, great groove and lyrics on some but the singing and repetitiveness is too much and annoying as hell.
Sounds like someone doing karaoke to The Doors.
So here’s the thing, I can hear the influence of this band in about 100 bands that came after it. I think my only problem with this album, is that it seems very unpolished. Plenty of bands around the same time we’re doing similar things, but had a much more polished sound. While I can hear the influences, this album is not for me.
"Roadrunner" was on a compilation album I had as a kid so I had high hopes for this. Sadly, the new wave vibes of that particular track were not evident on the rest of the album which was a unholy mix of The Doors (who I never liked) and Elvis Costello (who I do like, but has been on this list far too often already)
Now I know where Roadrunner is from and that the original was not by the Sex Pistols. Apart from that track nothing here to inspire me.
At the start thought I was going to struggle getting through this, but got used to the downer non vocals, and started hearing those influences on the indie bands i used to listen to.
shoutout massachusetts!!! i had heard Roadrunner before because my cryptography professor in college had the URL encrypted as an answer for a homework assignment. overall the album isn’t great, boring/bad instrumentals with an annoying voice. Hospital was a nice outlier - lower key than the rest of the album and more emotional.
An alright album but not really my style.
Sounds like The Doors with a very slight touch of proto-punk. I like The Doors, and I like Punk. I don't like this. They are basically imitating two interesting expressions, riding them of all that makes those influences brilliant — the charisma of Jim Morrison, the virtuosic playing of Ray Manzarek and the punky energy.
#403. This one is a bit shit. Quite difficult to actually get through the whole thing. 2/5: I want to forget about this.
# 362 : I don't love it, I don't hate it. It does get better with each listen, Kind of bland, and sounds like an amateur band that I could go see in the local pub. Not bad, but not good either.
Underwhelming...the songs started sounding the same after a while.
favourite song - pablo picasso favourite lyric - well we've known each other from other lives / i want to see you today / but i'll prove my knowledge of what's inside / when i intercept you on the astral plane cover - 4/10 overall album - 2/5
There were moments where I was thinking, okay, as a Talking Heads fan, I can get behind some of this. But it’s not Talking Heads and I was over it quickly.
Crap
Not my favorite but you can see how it shaped punk and grunge
Extremely boring.
галимы джаз 3/10
Very very very standard. Idk why it is on the list. Not that it is bad, but is it one of the best albums ever? I can't see it.
Too tame for punk, too punk for mainstream
forgettable is the highest praise I have for it
Roadrunner saves this album from middom 2 beeps out of 5
Do you like rock music? Then this album is for you.The only thing I like about this album is just the beats. The lyrics are decent I guess but I do not like the guy voice. I do not recommed this album jest because of the guys voice.
i think that this song is talking about some world where he could talk with with some girl in his dream state?. this could not be it, but anyways, i don't like or hate this song, but i see how people would like this album because it could be relatable.
1st song-its pretty good I like it cus it is cool and very clam to 2nd song- its so clam to I really like it so much 3rd song-
Ok, this album is okay. In my opinion, I don't like this album, but I feel like it's okay. I don't like the lead singer's voice. But I do like the instruments in the background. I feel like his voice is too monotone or something; maybe it's because I can't understand what he's saying. But I absolutely LOVE the guitar and the drums in the background. I recommend that you listen to this album, but the instrumental version, and not with the lyrics.
Loved a few.
bleh
..
ok
Big nope to this one, just a less interesting version of other things we have done.
This man was not singing; he was speaking. I was not a fan of his voice, and the songs were just OK.
Yeah you know how sometimes when you like a genre of thing except for a couple of fairly notable examples? It's not like anyone has ever said "oh like The Modern Lovers?" when I'm describing my music taste, but it would be reasonable if they did, and I really hated this album. I don't think it's a one but it's a 1.5 hanging on to a 2 by the skin of its teeth. The production is so sparse that I actually noticed words, and the words were like "ugh I miss the 1950s" and "Pablo Picasso got all the chicks because women can't say no to hot men with hot cars" and if they weren't cringe they were rhymey.
Sadly I found little redeeming qualities. The vocal style ruins the album for me.
I didn't hear what others are finding in this one. None of it grabbed me in a positive or negative way. After it was finished I put it back on since I had no attachment and didn't know what to review it. After the second listen I'm in the same place.
4/10. Nothing particularly memorable.
That sounds like a bored Franz ferdinand. There is no point listening to that.
Man was that ever a boring slog to get through. Not quite 1 star bad but I considered it
Really torn on to what to rate this album. Everyone regards it very highly. I do not find it terrible, but do not find it terribly engaging. There seems to be no uniqueness in the songs themselves. If one is not paying close attention to this album they seem to blend in to one song. A couple songs not longer sound "edgy", and instead come across as dated. Worth a listen, but there is no spot reserved in my library for this album.
Sometimes boundaries can only be pushed by someone with unfettered confidence and a complete absence of introspective tendencies, so for that we must be grateful for teenage rockstars. But it doesn't make me want to listen to this guy drone-sing the same 4 notes as if it's the most brilliant poetry ever written.
p356. 1976. 2 stars. The bastard new wave children of The Velvet Underground. At the time this was revolutionary - a whole generation realised that if these guys could pick up a guitar and make a record, so could they. Having said that, this hasn't aged well, and it has too much filler - one classic track does not make for an album of essential listening. Additional points deducted for Jonathan Richman's nasal whine.
Whatever you call this genre is what I just dont care for. Flat vocals with serviceable instrumentals with no charm. I got annoyed by this one pretty quickly, Old World made me take a break. Just too much droning nonsense, although it sounds like they had fun making it.
Pretty generic 70s stuff to be honest
this just isn't interesting.
Sounds like a garage band's version of the Doors recorded in their garage - although there is definitely no Jim Morrison here... A couple of entertaining tracks on the disc - my favorite was "Pablo Picasso" - something about that track pulled me in to their vibe.
Interesting mix of The Stooges and Talking Heads to my ears at first, then gets a bit annoying and instrumentally didn't grab me
nothing special
Budget version of stuff I like. Man some songs this dude really makes you want to hit skip.
# Playlist Track - Roadrunner. # Notes - Vocals are really poorly held on this one. Really struggled to get to the end. - The ballad "Hospital" is especially atrocious.
What if Bob Dylan couldn't write songs and secretly wished to be the rolling Stones that's what you get out of the modern lovers
Bit repetitive
Why not
Sikkert originalt nok, men ikke for mig
1. roadrunner - 1.5 2. aztral - 1 3. old uuorld - 1 4. picazzo - 1 5. cracked - 1.5 6. hozpital - 2 7. care about - 1.5 8. girlfriend - 1 9. modern - 1.5 10. old - 1 11. ztraight - 0 12. government - 0 13. zleep - 1 14. dance - 1 15. care about - 1.5
Ok, but not something I would listen to again 2/5
I keep hearing how great these guys are. I’ll take your word for it. I suppose it should be on this list as he’s deeply regarded. But there’s no craft here. There’s no emotion. There’s no art. Maybe you had to be there. Interested to see Jerry harrison was a part of it.
I'm really starting to run out of things to say about all these forgettable albums. I listened to it, didn't enjoy it that much, (although it didn't repulse me) and immediately forgot about it because there was nothing remotely interesting about it.
Snore
For the first time in 119 albums in, I can't figure out why this is here. I wouldn't consider any of it offensive, but it felt like an album full of what I would consider the filler tracks on better albums. Aggressively fine, which would be a 3 if it wasn't 17 tracks and over an hour long.
Maybe a 3
Started off pretty decently, but then things became really bad whenever every single song sounded pretty much the exact same way - music in the background and just shouting (or talking) and overall wasn't a great experience. Normally I would rate this 1 star but because I had really low expectations in the beginning, the first 20 seconds didn't seem too disappointing.
It has a Velvet Underground feel, which makes sense. Clearly ahead of it's time, if recorded in early 70s, and quite influential. Still isn't good though. I like how pitch and tone are merely suggestions for the singer. I guess he didn't hit his stride until "There's Something About Mary". 2.7
Hospital // Girlfriend //
Just sounds like droll, proto-punk to me. Kept waiting for things to pick up or get interesting and they never did. I think the vocal delivery played a large part in making me feel that way.
3.77 per track.
I thought Neil Young couldn't sing
the yap album 2.3/5
Easier to listen to than the French album from yesterday.
Punk British Rock, similar to Talking Heads. Not for me.
Flashes of greatness surrounded by British mediocrity. Kinda went back and forth between somewhat interesting and annoying.
Mediocre music with mediocre vocals. I don't really think I needed to listen to this before I died.
Nice demo tape? This seems to include a skilled singer and instrumentalists, but the production quality and songwriting are not of interest to me. I'll pass. Better luck down the street, I hope you do well. As they say, “You've got potential, kid.”
This album sounds like if Bob Dylan tried to make early indie/punk rock. The upbeat tracks sound okay musically but the vocals are strung out and meandering. For “Roadrunner,” why count to 6? A lot of these song lyrics did not age well, especially “I’m Straight.” For this eponymous album, the rule applies.
An odd one. I was thinking it’s a bit like The Velvet Underground or The Doors, with a bit of Ziggy and Iggy in the mix, but, all this stuff was happening in the late 60s early 70s, why would this be “good” for 1976? Then read up to find out it was recorded in 72 and released later. Fair enough. But does that make it very out of date? Yeah, maybe? Do I like the songs (should probably be a more important question)? Kind of, although I did find the spelling of Girlfriend and the repetition of Picasso/Asshole pretty annoying. So vaguely annoying music, 4 years past its peers, have to go low I think. 2 stars.
Boh sì si può ascoltare, ma non mi pare nulla di particolare.
I gave it several listens but just didn’t connect with this one.
Whole load of meh from me. Sounds like the singer is a bit drunk the entire time.
Quite forgettable, it was nice enough but I couldn't point out any stand out tracks
Jonathan Richman's ability to distill complex emotions into simple, relatable narratives, combined with the band's raw sound, cements this album as an essential and influential work in the evolution of alternative and punk rock, but sonically, it’s just not for me. it’s a wonderfully curated album and a lot of thought was put into it, but it’s just not for me. it’s getting a 3/10 from me. sorry :’(
Some fun party music here.
Had never of this band or any of its music. I found it curious how or why they made Rolling Stones top 500 list. There’s nothing remarkable here and the monotone voice of the lead vocalist kills what little enjoyment there is as ever song sounds pretty much like the last one. The 3 alternative versions of 3 of the album tracks are by far the best music on the disc, more up tempo and the vocals are forced to keep pace a little more. At least I know why I’ve never heard of them.
Compliqué, ce disque. Les mélodies sont souvent quelconques, les musiciens pas forcément en place, et le chanteur est approximatif. Peuvent être sauvés “She Cracked” et éventuellement lur tube “Roadrunner”. Chaque morceau contient son moment décevant, un solo d’harmonium inutile, un pont à la guitare naze, comme celui de “Old World”, incroyablement foireux. Et que dire de “Girlfriend” où le chanteur sonnant comme un vieil alcoolo essaie d’épeler “G-I-R-L-F-R-I-E-N-D” mais foire deux lettres sur la fin. Cela rend l’ensemble parfois assez rigolo, presque attachant, ou peut être pathétique. Sans doute que ce disque est vu comme un précurseur du punk, mais difficile d’en faire un incontournable.
This is not good. I don't understand American music sometimes.
blegh
Didn't love this.
Roadrunner's great, and I actually like Jonathan Richman in small doses. This was a tough listen.
Nothing really stood out here. A couple tracks with some vibes but nothing I’d really want to come back to. Lead singer is mopey sounding
Um, but why was this album on the list?
Soso proto-punk/psych-rock with one of the whiniest singers I've ever heard. Roadrunner is good, the rest, totally forgettable, and Girlfriend is one of the worst songs I've ever heard.
That was certainly something I'd not heard before.
This has moments that I really like, and then the guy just starts talking about random weird things. The bad definitely outweighs the good.
I dont have too much to say about this one. The music wasn't bad but it wasn't particularly memorable. Road Runner was the highlight of the album. The singer has an interesting voice but I would rather listen to the Cars if I wanted something that had this feel. Not an album I plan to return to but decent enough music.
A few good songs but overall did not enjoy much
Pretty generic, but the lyrics were distractingly bad so I'm doxking a point. Usually I don't care about lyrics but holy shit I don't give a shit how stoned hippie Johnny is or that you want a girlfriend instead of cocaine.
Okay
I see The Modern Lovers were a band of all-stars who went on to form the likes of Talking Heads and The Cars, and this collection of numbers was very well critically acclaimed at the time, but it sounded bland and forgettable to me. Not sure why such hype.
Very mid. I’m not really a fan of the vocalist’s style.
4/10 - In a word boring, in a few words not very exciting. The songs all kinda blended together and I do not want to hear any more about hippie johnny.
4.5/10 pretty boring, music and vocals didn’t mesh well and the dudes voice wasn’t great
Good but not entirely my type of coffee
Brit stuff
Roadrunner - 3 Astral Plane - 2 Old World - 2.5 Pablo Picasso - 2 She Cracked - 2 Hospital - 2 Someone I Care About - 2 Girlfriend - that's a O.N.E. baby Modern World - 3
05/06/24 S Tier—————————5 A Tier—————————4 B Tier—————————3 She Cracked Roadrunner Hospital Someone I care About C Tier—————————2 Old World Pablo Picasso Astral Plane D Tier—————————1 Girlfriend
Mwa
Not for me
Not a big fan of this one
I’m sure there was something here but I really wasn’t a fan
I’ll listen to the Doors or Velvet Underground and get the same situation
I'm trying to figure out why this album is on this list. I listened through twice and never got it.
I’ve completely forgotten this Album After listening
Pretty entertaining to listen to, but a little more comical than I think they were going for. Felt like they’re reading from a teenager diary and just happen to be playing a little bit of guitar, keyboard, and drums for fun. Some songs had good instrumentals and bad lyrics, some had funny lyrics and bland backing. Think I would like it most of it less and less the more I’d listen. 5/10
Grand, some of the songs were good but wasn't blown away by any of them really sometimes found the album a little boring.
When your frontman shows up in a raging drunk to the session waving papers around covered in scribbles of “asshole” and “girlfriend” but you really gotta use the studio time
Not my usual type of music but quite enjoyed this
Pretty banal - not much to commend it.
downloaded hospital but definition of white people music
Not great, it's got some hints of the good 70s stuff but it strays too close to early new romantics stuff at times and I can't abide it.
Not much that got me involved in this. I'm not sure why. Maybe his voice? Maybe the music just feels calm somehow?
this album kinda um sucked. all the reviews saying it sounds like knock off the doors are right at that point just listen to the doors they’re way better than this anyways
Too proto-punk for me.
Alright but didn't do much for me
Generic post rock. Didn’t care for this much at all.
Listening to the lyrics is like listening to a drunk/high person trying to tell you a story. Some of the tracks gave me mild B-52s vibes
Ass 2 Didnt physically hurt to listen to so thats not too bad
yawn
Not abhorrentlly bad, but pointless and banal. I heard 'Cars' coming from the beginning, and then to my "suprise"... lol. Catchy commercial jingles don't earn many stars though
An exceptionally okay record that made me feel completely no emotions, positive or negative. This is the second album I've had this week that claims to be "the origin of punk", and I definitely enjoyed "Black Monk Time" way more than this. Plus it was released 10 years before this, so I think it has the tighter alibi.
A pubescent incarnation of a later 1980s americana garage band with wannabe desires to be another Velvet Underground. I really really dislike the vocals on every track, so nasally it just crawls beneath tour skin. Best track, probably She Cracked.... immediately followed by the worst track Hospital. I'm really searching for something positive to say about these guys, and this alleged album that was released years after the band actually split up... but there's absolutely nothing special here, nothing to rave about, they were just a group of guys who got together in the 70s, threw a few tracks together and then disappeared again.
Like a crap Jim Morrison tribute. Some instrumentals were OK but the album is not for me.
genuinely cannot tell if this just went over my head or if I put more thought into this than the Modern Lovers did
Got excited at first. Sounded very stooges-esque. Quickly descended into boring rambling nonsense. By the end of Pablo Picasso I'd already written them off.
Det här var ganska dåligt tbh
Lyrics are shit, vocals make me visibly cringe, and was just really weird. It really does sound like a bunch of emo, misfit dudes from Natick got together in someone's garage, made this album, then nodded at each other afterwards and said "yeah this is really good". It's a 2, but a high one, because it hit at certain times. Does that mean anything though?
While I am in love with Massachusetts and often drive past the Stop 'n' Shop with my radio on, that doesn't mean I connect with these songs in any way.
Sometimes music scratches in itch, but other times it makes me itchy.
I can't stand the singer he's some buns
Do not love the vocals, but the organ is pretty cool. Not a huge fan of this punk adjacent type of music.
It has its moments, but it's definitely too long. I got tireeeed. I don't like the vocals.
wasn't fussed
Decent, nothing special. Doors lite.
Super frustrating. You can hear really promising things but it's under a pile of crap.
Some pretty decent music in here but overall just felt like the same ol stuff we have heard before. There really should be a group that goes through this list and puts all these bands into groups to say "Oops we have 76 titles on this list that all sound the same, lets remove some and get other groups or people in here that have different sounds."
Sometimes Jonathan Richman’s voice works with the sludgy garage rock. But then there’s stuff like “Girl Friend,” which is terrible.
Guy’s voice sucks.
Poor man’s velvet underground
Alright
Much like the Velvet Underground, not a lot of people listened to or bought The Modern Lovers, but nearly all that did formed a band and the influence of Jonathan Richman and friends looms large. I don't find listening to this particularly repeatable, but admire the influence it had.
sorry, jonathan richman's choice to sing flat and whiny doesn't work for me
A couple really good songs; the rest – meh.
nothing really stood out
I thought this was a parody album after listening to the first few songs - it's that bad. Specifically, the vocals and lyrics are horrible. I stopped listening when I reached the track "Hospital," when the "singer" delivers the following line in a half-assed, drunken muttering voice: "I go to bakeries all day long. There's a lack of sweetness in my life." Besides the singer's god-awful voice and delivery, the guitars and keys/synths are all over the place and NOT good. The only reason I gave this two stars instead of one is because: 1.) The bass and drums are surprisingly very tight, and... 2.) Pablo Picasso is so hilariously, terribly bad that I laughed the entire time
Nothing very interesting here
A few tracks that caught my ear, but nothing spectacular. 2/5
Punk Rock Jim Morrison? Who's that other band, hmm, Velvet Underground? This is pretty uninspired proto-punk with someone trying to be Ray Manzarek in the background so far. The bass playing is very good. Some of these lyrics are sounding very sixth-form college deep poetry-esque. This wasn't terrible, but I didn't really like it that much. 2 / 5 stars.
Decent start to the album. Mega sag in the middle, became a bit of a drag. At the time of release, likely much more original and impactful.
I was waiting for this album to finish faster. I really disliked the vocals
not my thing
attempt at old british sad rock
Not great
Forgettable
pablo picasso was not called an asshole
This is some garage band punk. It's way to raw for my liking, and it's punk.
Yeah not a fan.
Comment il m'a pris la tête avec sa voix de lépreux lui
erratum: Pablo Picasso est un gros trou du cul
Thought I would like this but as the opener Roadrunner faded out the rest became a bit dreary and half arsed. Not impressed.
sounds like a shitty local pub band that you hear once and then never think about ever again
I really want to like the Modern Lovers...I love the concept. But every time I listen to them I just get a little bored. It does seem pretty influential, but I think the Stooges are far for formative for the punk sound and are of the same era. 2.5/5
meh
Proto-punk is not a genre I like, it turns out. I enjoyed the vocalist, but overall I didn’t like the songs.
Yeah pretty good. Not mad about it
No es muy cautivante.
I hear the Ramones, Lou Reed, hints of The Doors. I don't know who influenced who. Nothing here really grabbed me.
Halfway through this I wished it was Modern Romance, and their best song was "Ay Ay Ay Ay Moosey", so that's saying something
Better than I though, wouldn’t go back
For a rock album I thought this was one of the lesser enjoyed ones I’ve had. Their songs are pretty stupid and feel like they were written by a 16 year old. The instrumentals are pretty generic but the dainger has an average voice and overall it was lame. 4.3/10
Tässä on hetkensä ja tutut biisinsä, mutta silti menee toisesta korvasta sisään, toisesta ulos. Vaikka kuuntelin kahdesti!
Tyylillisesti lupaavaa, joskin muodollisesti liian venyväistä. Vaatisi lisää kuuntelua - en osaa vielä sanoa, kolahtaako vai ei.
Didn't hate it, but it's not very memorable.
Meh
This started out really strong, but tried very hard to lose my attention. By the time "dance with me" finally came around, I just wanted it to be over. For 1976 I can see how it has influenced others, however it's pretty clear that it is derived from Velvet Underground, Kraftwerk and Neu! so I guess swings and roundabouts? Will be difficult to go higher than 2 for this simply because it lost me so quickly after such a good start.
God that was dull
Another band I've never ever fucking heard of, but the second it starts it sets the tone for a whole lot of suck. Thanks Dimery, it didn't need to be here but I'm stuck listening to it for the next hour. 2/5.
Sometimes I get the chorus of “Pablo Picasso” in my head and can’t get it out. I just have to wait until it goes away. The album was fine, lots of speak-singing. Don’t know what’s so special about it.
I love my indie rock and I‘m sure a lot of modern bands were probably influenced by this artist. But that was hard to listen to. Not for me.
не сильно выдающийся альбом скучненько однообразно на мой взгляд
It started off alright but then it became repetitive and not in a good way. Wasn't a fan of the vocals, a bit like a worse version of the Doors. It's interesting to hear Jerry Harrison before Talking Heads, although his organ got annoying after a while.
Not good.
Wasn't my favourite
Bit shit. vocalist sounds like he is taking the piss.
Kun tajuu tän albumin idean, joka on awkwardness.. ei se tee tästä yhtään parempaa.. prömpötystä.. mutta eriliasta musiikia.. nothing special but relisten worthy..
Old punk still sucks
Between 2-3. Kinda nice but also kinda annoying.
boy don't you just love all this influential pre-punk
Something between punk and new wave. It's ok, nothing memorable
Välillä ihan potentiaalisen menevää, mit en välitä vähän liian mattamaisesta soundista ja aneemisesta laulajasta.
Found it just ok. I liked the vibe at the start but it got a bit old. Not enough energy to keep me hooked even though the melodies were alright.
Apart from Roadrunner, I hadn't heard anything from this band before. It's a bit too repetitive and basic for me. I don't think I'll intentionally listen to it again, but I can see how it's an important piece of rock history and would have influenced the likes of The Replacements, Pavement, The Strokes, etc.
The biggest problems are that the lead singer’s voice and the organ tones aren’t at all to my taste. Singer constantly sounds like he's drunk and organ tone is just grating to the ears. Other than that, it’s decent quality 70’s rock with a bit of variety. I didn’t actually wind up making it all the way through, just because I really wasn't feeling it. Nothing was truly appalling, it's just that the downsides consistently outweighed the upsides. There’s bits and pieces of real quality, even excellence, sprinkled in a few of the tracks but it never comes together in a way that’s satisfying.
Mid
Refreshingly ahead of it's time, but not really a great listen. I knew Roadrunner. Interesting to read the strong friendship with Gram Parsons and that Jerry Talking Heads is the keyboard player.
Not my style, just a knock off psychedelic rock album, but there are better from the same genre.
Not bad a bit boring though
The album wasn't great. I was not familiar with any of the songs nor of the band. It is best described as punk music. It was totally forgettable. Probably a little lower than a 2, but I will round up.
pas fan, du rock avec une voix traînante pénible. mou du gland
Its what I imagine Post punk mixed with the Ramones and a little bit of Goth rock would sound like. Certainly not for me
A massive slog to listen to. Nothing really grabbed me at all. 2
It's fine, very old style music, it's nice and chill tho
Released in 1976 but recorded in 1972, I guess this was modern for the time. You can hear the roots of punk. Not very memorable though and the vocals are grating. Rating: 2/5 Playlist track: Roadrunner Date listened: 18/07/22
really bad
A little annoying…
Interesting punk/rock Boston based album. Didn’t really grab me
I don't get it
Don't know what to make of this. I don't hate it. But it's not my thing. 2/5
Didn't inspire anything in me, except a couple big eye-rolls for the Pablo Picasso song. Hannah Gadsby has ruined Pablo Picasso for me, and for good reason!
No conocía este grupo pero sí a su líder. Rock básico a medio camino del punk o new wave, interesante por el año en que se hizo, debió ser inspirador para mucha gente. Está bien pero sin ser una obra a destacar.
Bwoah. Tylsä kuin Vermon hevosmiehen mora...
Tylsä
Instrumentally the group are good and they make some nifty grooves. The problem for me is the vocals are not that interesting, semi spoken but no passion.
Roadrunner is a decent song. All the others are weighed down with trying to be The Velvet Underground. They do a good job, but it's just not that great.
One of those bands I feel like you needed to be around at the time to appreciate, maybe see in a dance hall on the old cough syrup. To me they mean nothing, I've never heard of em and so its a meh
Good fun- I didn’t connect with the lyrics but I saw it’s potential
Not bad but a little boring.
This started off strong, but very quickly dropped in quality.
This dude's voice is annoying and I didn't enjoy this album very much at all. It's typical early punk music I suppose but not a fan
Not feeling the 70s
Resolved the norm of this genre, not a lot in it for me
Omg - this lead singer sounds like Fred Armisen... or maybe Fred is impersonating this lead singer lol. Either way it was very hard to take seriously. Shoot I feel uncultured, but I don't really like this.
I feel like I understand better now what The Strokes are pulling from.
2.5 | De ese new wave de finales de los setenta, que si uno no pone mucha atención todo empieza a sonar igual. Sí, es la inspiración de muchas cosas que se oyen hoy, pero no es mi era favorita. De este disco, siento que poco o casi nada destaca. Le di tres vueltas y no notaba el avance ni me motivó nunca a voltear y ver el título de una canción o menos aún a agregarla a mi librería.
It's interesting to see where Jerry Harrison came from before Talking Heads. But the singing here (or lack thereof) was dreadful. The lyrics didn't bother me, although it's interesting that the songs had lyrics that were more risque. I mean, it was 1972. "Saturday In The Park" kind of lyrics and here we have someone saying the word "a**hole" in a song. Quite a wide range. But Richman's vocals were so terrible they just pulled me out of enjoying the songs. Maybe a 1.6 so rounding up...
Snoozer
A few good songs (Roadrunner, Modern World) but mostly fairly boring. Apparently hugely influential and I can hear the roots of styles other bands used to make better music.
Meh
Felt a bit amateuristic
Tja, wat moet je hiervan zeggen? Hij beklijft niet? Het inspireert niet? Ook niet heel slecht overigens, maar soms is dat het ergste wat er is: oninteressante muziek.
Mja, kon er weinig mee.
Wel aardig maar die zanger gaat me op een gegeven moment wel tegen staan met z'n gejammer.
Ik had dit prima kunnen missen.
Ramon’s vibes
I kinda want to like this record, but then I hear a song like "Hospital" that sounds like the musings of a whiney, heartbroken teen from New Jersey and I just can't. they've definitely got an interesting sound and I can see how their proto-punk, post-bebop thing is something some people like, but I am not one of them.
Igual a todos os álbuns dos anos 70.
Droney Droney, not my bag 2*
Not really my thang
Not sure what's so special about this one.
Bluesy punk music. Not really my thing. 4/10.
Was not gone on it, not really into that proto punk stripped down sound
I should love this because I love that dude Jonathan but just no.
Why is this here?
511/1089 - I'm glad that the Talking Heads and the Cars took off instead of this. All the Velvet Underground>Branca>Sonic Youth>Pavement>Swans type of music should be dis-invented. This album included.
i can’t stand whiny men doing classic rock sorry i don’t care if it’s from 1976 it pisses me off
fav songs: none akward, irritating, quirky 10/100
Sounds like the same song for the whole album except for the overdriven guitar of "She Cracked" and the tempo changes of "Hospital". I guess "Dance With Me" is different too, but it's also one of the worst pieces of music I've heard. "Your face says 'sex' " might be a contender for worst lyric OAT. In fairness, one of these songs within a playlist at the pub would not be egregious, but a whole album is just insulting.
Sounds like shitty karaoke Fave track: Roadrunner
Bad
I really hated this. It was too long, the I didn’t like any of the songs and I found the vocals grating. 1/5
Oof... No. Straight up music critic bait. If this were released today just as it is, the writers at Pitchfork would be pissing themselves with excitement to write a review extolling some bullshit. All the while ultimately telling the readers that if they don't like it, they just don't understand good music. I typically don't mind a bit of pretentiousness, but this is just crap.
Not a fan
Not my side of the woods
Whack
I'd like to take a moment to thank the God of the universe for watching over me, and for his unending and unfailing love. What I experienced today was a genuine miracle - an act of the divine God to protect me from harm. Specifically, I was given a moment of divine inspiration. Something made me stop and check, and I realised before pressing play on this album that the version on Spotify has 8 additional tracks that aren't on the original record. Had I not realised, I might have had to sit through an extra 25 minutes of this garbage. To quote Monty Python and the Holy Grail: A blessing! A blessing from the Lord! God be praised!
uu roduchelig und keine wirklichen hits
beliebig
Não foi muito bom
Ziemlich lahmer Punkrock
Nope no never
It's one of those pub bands that when they first start playing you say to your mates, "they're a bit naff" and they then fade to background noise. That was until they went to the slower songs, like Hospital or Girlfriend, then they immediately grabbed your attention with Richman's atrocious vocals - which were atrocious before, but made more evident with the lack of instruments around them. I physically winced when he tried hitting those higher notes.
Not particularly a fan of this one, the music feels simple and kind of boring and the vocalist sounds like he’s singing with a mouth full of marshmallows.
Wow. This feels like a compilation of rejected Doors songs with a tone-deaf Frank Zappa impersonator filling in on vocals for a passed-out Jim Morrison. The music is simple and repetitive, the vocals are somehow both atonal and off-key, the tempo is wildly inconsistent within any given song, and the whole thing has a very "we're too cool to care if this sounds like shit" vibe. There are clear echoes of the Velvet Underground (which makes sense because John Cale produced most of these tracks), and you can definitely also hear early traces of the Cars and the Talking Heads (both of which bands members of the Modern Lovers went on to found/join later). Modern Lovers doesn't have anywhere near the polish of those bands, but I sense that they didn't really want that, so...well done? It's apparently a very important and influential proto-punk album. It's not for me, though.
Ik lees dat dit in 1971 al is opgenomen, en pas vijf jaar later is uitgebracht. Ik vraag me af waarom, want de heren hebben zo ontzettend goed hun best gedaan op tekst en compositie, hebben hard geoefend op perfect spel met virtuoze vingervlugheid, hebben avond aan avond tot laat zitten pielen om geniale arrangementen voort te brengen en het kraakhelder op te nemen en superieur te produceren. (...lachpauze...) Niet dus. Een stel halvezolen ragt lusteloos wat bagger op de plaat. Hoogstens kun je zeggen dat ze begin jaren zeventig hun tijd vooruit waren met dit soort zeikpunk. Gelukkig is het ook alweer heel erg lang uit de tijd.
Not every influential band needs to be on this list. This is long, boring, and uninteresting. It's like punk bands listened to this and said "What if we made the same thing, but good?" Anyways, important album, but also just terrible.
Sounds extremely amateur, surprised they got signed nevermind got included in this.
This might have the worst vocals I've ever heard in my life, my ears are bleeding and I couldn't finish the album, it was so difficult to listen to
I hated this album
Nope. Nope. Nope.
He needs sex addiction therapy.
Jonathan Richman makes bread ovens now. I think I'd rather listen to bread ovens than this. Would I listen to again? Nope.
Niet mijn stijl
Yeah nah...
I like the music, but I hate the vocals and lyrics. Listened before? N Saved to library? N Favorite track(s): N/A ⭐: Hated it.
Kind of proto punk in a bad way. It has the sloppiness and the bad singing, but not the energy. Some songs have a part that isn’t terrible, most don’t. I can imagine this album influenced bands like Television, the Replacements and maybe even the Pixies and the Strokes. Still don’t like it.
Baaaaaad
It’s was like being forced to listen to really bad slam poetry.
Ass. The singer is ass and ruins all of it.
Not that good.
Nope,
Another day, another punk album that doesn't fit any vibe ever
Un ersatz à chier des Doors
The first album I quit after a couple of songs. Hos did this album even get here??
idk if this is ironic or what but the lyrics are uninspired and the instrumentation is mid at best. misogyny doesn’t fly around here. i only fw the verse of hospital
I found this abysmal and couldn't finish it. Like just could not get through it and found the whole thing grating.