Reviews (page 8 of 8)
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?
um.
Dull as fuck
Same old same old. Come on guys. Try and write something musical and interesting otherwise people will think you've got no talent at all. Maybe you haven't?
God awful vocals and sounds like if The Strokes drank too much Cointreau.
1 - holy shit this guys voice. If ever there was a punchable voice, this guy possesses it. Never again.
Being lonely and horny doesn't inherently make you interesting or a good musician
like an american pogues but they took inspiration from the worst dudes they could find and also it sucks
Everything was the same to me. Nothing good.
Aburrido
225. ok
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.
Dated sounding, boring rock
I really hate this album. It was intolerable to get through
Монотонная нудятина
i was expecting to like this... i liked the dreams i had when it sent me to sleep
Lyrics written by a 7th grader, annoying vocals, and basic music do not make for a good album.
Had to turn it off really not a fan. Really not my genre and much of the music was repetitive making it hard to listen to
the TBI Doors
Reminds me of bad punk rock versions of the doors and velvet underground.
Bad songwriting, bad singing, bad playing, boring songs
Everything about this is horrible
This was a little bit dreary. Nothing remarkable about it at all. Also, they got Picasso's height wrong.
Due palle Le alternative manco le ascolto. Non lo ho neanche finito. Noioso,vocals insopportabili. Strumenti generici,il secondo brano è carino. Il resto boh…. Meh Voto reale: 1,5
Sounds like he's singing while sick and high on cold medicine
I can see the Velvet Underground influence, and I can appreciate that this was important in a time where punk was first emerging. That being said, there's really not anything on this album worth revisiting for me.
Saaaaai
Is there a reason for this album to be on here other than the fact that John Cale produced it? Just go listen to VU. Better use of your time and you won't have to listen to the nightmare that is Pablo Picasso.
Wikipedia says this album is Proto-Punk / Garage Rock / Art Rock - it's doesn't really haven't the energy of Punk or Garage. I remember hearing the opening track (and single) "Roadrunner" being played on the radio and thinking that it was amateurish - it still sound slike that today, almost 50 years later. The rest of the tracks aren't any better. And Jonathan Richman sounds so miserable which is how I feel after listening to this.
Didn’t like his voice and overall very very meh
Nope! Couldn't make it through this.
is it over?
nothing to see here
No
irritating and superficial imitation of jim morrison without an ounce of his wit and lyricism. what are we even doing with this album. it’s an album like this that really makes me lose faith in this 1001 list. who was inspired by this album. just because members broke off and started joined good bands and the sex pistols covered a song is that enough to be considered “influential” ?????????? listening more. I like Hospital. more melodic and less stupid Doors stuff. oh as I’m listening it got creepy. “when you were a little girl I get jealous of your old boyfriends” wtfff I thought we were being vulnerable for a sec it’s over who cheered
"Girlfriend" might be one of the worst songs I've ever heard, the rest of the album is better, but not that much better.
I guess the guy who made this list really likes albums with bad singers and mediocre music. This one has the added benefit of bad lyrics too! This is not an album you need to listen to before you die. I listened to it and it added no value to my life whatsoever!
Day 59 - Oct 29, 2024 I hate punk, and I could not finish the album. 1/5
Do you like music? This album is for you. The rhythm of the bass is really catchy. The singer does get a little repetitive. But it's worth it. They sing about love and stuff
Rock bands from the 70s and 80s is really hit or miss with me and this album is a miss. Usually I can find at least a few songs from every album that I like even if they wont be added to any playlists. That wasn't the case here. the songs are just to slow and repetitive.
no
I didn't enjoy this at all, feels like a bad knockoff of a bunch of other things.
Terrible album. I get that it’s trying to be anti establishment but without the energy of punk. The vocals grate. Did not enjoy this
Another one I don’t understand. Someone’s drunk karaoke uncle. 1*
This had ingredients I'm familiar with but an end result that took me from curiosity to indifference to outright hatred. Tempted to give it a 1.
Like if one of the replacement ramones who was super into the doors and velvet underground tried to make the most annoying album they could
This band reminds me a bit of The Doors.
Ich weiss nicht, wieso das überhaupt aufgenommen wurde. Und ich meine dabei nicht nur aufgenommen in die 1001 Alben, sondern vor allem auch aufgenommen auf Tonträger. Es wär nicht besonders interessant, es war zu lange und vor allem war es auch nicht so gut. Die Stimme des Sängers ist extrem eintönig. Ich hörte es mir ohne Erwartungen an und wurde dennoch enttäuscht.
👎
The music is generic at best. The lyrics and singing are terrible. How someone's garage band made it to this list of beyond me.
Grating voice - gave up
Mediocre garage band to my ears
I am so sick of these drunk, congested, nonsense albums. Why are there so many of these. Anyone who gives this more than two stars is lying and my least favorite kind of person.
É muito disco, né não? Mais um que já não deixou nada de recordação.
It just seems really bland/flat to me. I don't think I will ever go back to these guys. Lyrics/singing seems low effort and not in a good way at all.
Niet de spannendste Britse post-punk Pablo Picasso is cringe Z'n stem is ambetant Chords zijn ook wat ambetant? Zeker in She Cracked. Progression is onaangenaam 1 ster
The singer's voice is so annoying.
Pablo Picasso is a fun song. The rest all sound alike in a very annoying monotone voice with little care about the music.
just felt like they were jamming and didn't care
Not fun at all.
Nope. Didn't like the voice and the lyrics, the music was nothing remarkable.
Not familiar with any of these songs… not my style either.
not my cup of tea
Nah
Didn't like a single song on this album. Frontman can't sing either.
1. Roadrunner - 2 2. Astral plane - 1 3. 1 4. 1 5. 1 6. 1 7. 1 8. 1 9. 1 10. 1 11. 1 12. 1 13. 1 14. 3 Terrible 1.21
What a piece of shite.
The music reminds me a little of The Doors, but without the same sense of the music taking over.
I don't understand this at all. Trash. How is this popular/hailed as great? Boring, dull, uninspired, stupid. Fav tracks: N/A
meh
Stuck on a plane for three hours and I still felt like I was wasting my time listening to this album. He never stops sounding like he’s five drinks down trying to tell a story no one cares about 1/5. i fell asleep through the last couple songs just to get to the end.
Really tried to give this a chance and yet only made it through 2 songs. I can normally stomach most albums but the lyrics were garbage and honestly the overall album felt like some teenager wrote it.
If you were doing drugs in the 70s maybe you could vibe with this…
Stupid uninspired album with horrible vocals and dumb lyrics. I couldn’t even finish it. Terrible, they were a paraplegic that “crawled” so the sex pistols could run. And the sex pistols run was more of a crawl compared to most “indie” rock bands in this era. Worthless garbage
Not my type of music
I hope I never have to hear this album again.
It feels like an album that can't decide if it's punk or rock, and ends up sounding like "we have Jim Morrison at home" meme. Very dull.
Well that was dull. Maybe it makes more sense to include it if you know the context, as sometimes early versions of something sound uninspired but that's because later artists riffed on the concepts and often improved on them. No idea if that is the case here, but I hope so otherwise I really can't see how you would include it as a top 1000 album.
I hated this one. The voice was like nails on a chalkboard. Some of the songs physically hurt to listen to and I never want to think about this one again
Gott nee
Me parecía raro no conocer este disco, dado que es de un género que me gusta mucho. Menos mal que no lo había conocido.
D Roadrunner - 2 Astral Plane - 2 Old World - 1 Pablo Picasso - 1 She Cracked - 2 Hospital - 1 Someone I Care About - 1 Girlfriend - 1 Modern World -2 Dignified and Old - 1 I’m Straight - 1 Government Center -2 I Wanna Sleep in Your Arms -2 Dance With Me - 1 This is one of the worst albums I’ve heard in recent memory. I couldn’t believe the sh** I was hearing. Boring, bad vocals, laughably simple lyrics. You could give a fifth grader a tambourine and a recorder and he’d concoct a better album for you.
Terrible crap
Oof. Those lyrics were laughably terrible.
1000lbs of respect for John Cale. But I really didn't get anything out of this. It's the debut, so maybe they needed time to grow or something. But there is nothing here.
Nope
Not a fan of the lyrics
M: 1 creepy and sad O: 1 not creative
it's just worse Ramones...
The music was not terrible, but I couldn't stand the vocals.
Not my cup of tea
This was not good.
This is a solid 1 not. I’m just happy I won’t have to listen to it again. cover art: 3 /5
Not a fan. No reason to ever listen to that album or and if the songs on it.
Getting some cheap Doors vibes, but I mean way, way, way cheaper. I was going to give this a 2. However, when I saw the average rating was somehow above 3, I knew I had a job to do...
i cannot say one positive thing about this album. first of all congratulations you made a song about you being straight that’s so weird but okay. also it sounds like they put a bunch of words on paper and read off of it in no special way or anything. just really bad.
Not for me.
freakin punk music sucks
Awful. Slurred lyrics come across as extremely shallow too.
Didn't really get this. I only liked the song "Government Center" and the rest went from active dislike to extreme indifference. I was on a streak of a bunch of good albums in a row and this really ended that streak abruptly.
Garbage doors ripoff
Really didn't vibe with this one.
meh, didn't enjoy it.