Reviews (page 7 of 7)
I listen to this in the background and more often than not I felt like turning it off, then turning it up.
The Beta Band fuero una banda poco conocida fuera del circuito alternativo a caballo entre los 90 y 00. Sin embargo sus discos y EPs tiene calidad de sobra para un mayor reconocimiento. Este segundo álbum, no está a la altura del siguiente, su mejor disco, pero tiene canciones exquisitas desde Squares (conocida por usar Daydream) hasta Alleged. 2001 también fué el año del revival garagero con Is this it de los Strokes y White blood cells de los White Stripes como punta de lanza, así como otros discos estupendos: el canto del cisne de Bjork con Vespertine, Things We Lost in the Fire de Low, Rock action de Mogway, el album verde de Weezer, Origin of symmetry de Muse, Morning view de Incubus, Gold de Ryan Adams, The Invisible Band de Travis, Rings Around The World de Super Furry Animals, debuts de Gillian Welch o Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions, It's a Wonderful Life de Sparklehorse.... (otros discos notabes también fueron Love and theft, Hallelujah! de La Buena Vida, Pleased to Meet You de James, Free All Angels de Ash, Souljacker de Eels, Can Our Love... de Tindersticks o el segundo de Manu Chao) y con la electrónica a pleno rendimiento ya fuera por vía experimental (Amnesiac), estética (Discovery de Daft Punk, los debuts de Gorillaz, Röyksopp, Zero 7) o simplemente lúdica (Fever de Kilye, Survivor de las Destiny´s Child...) ese mismo año publican Madredeus el sugerente Movimento y Gotan Project La revancha del tango....
There’s something particularly annoying about how thoroughly mediocre this album was
This is what happens when you listen to white boy critics. Another 0 stars.
It feels late in the game, at album 1060, to be handing out one-star ratings. I had received the other Beta Band album (Heroes to Zeros) earlier and thought it inoffensive and dull. I find this one more of the same, but with a renewed question: why does this band have two records on here? Is it because Radiohead said a positive thing about them at one point (as noted by Wikipedia)? My one-star graveyard seems to be reserved, at the moment, for things I can't imagine being in this book at any point, and I can't think of a better example than the band that brought us the lyrics: "I don't want to be the type of guy / who lives alone, reading books, and never eats a pizza pie". Just really world-changing stuff, lads.
not into it.
Ugh.
Experimental nonsense. That's this album in a nutshell. I could've been fine without hearing this before I die. s
Urhgg sorry not for me
Who a pile of crap
huonoin ensimmäiset 10 sekuntia albumiin ehkä koskaan. sentään vähän parantui meno, kakassa lojuttiin kuitenkin koko ajan... huoh... ei jaksa nousta... siksi kolme pistettä... väsyttäää... jäädään kakkaan...makaamaan... jaksa hyvää musiikkia tehdä heh... porspunk funk ancient breakbeat madness.. alleged
Tykkäävät 60-luvun musiikista; leikkivät 2000-luvun alun elektronisilla taustoilla. Tämä ei putoa: soundissa on jonkinlaista "pompsahtelua", johon liitän Paul McCartneyn hupsun puolen. Viimeinen biisi varmistaa epäonnistumisen. Hirveä kappale.
There's a reason they're not the alpha band or the sigma band
Listened to the entire album and found absolutely nothing I liked. Not a single track I wanted to listen to a second time. A definite 1
Not one point in this albums where I noticed I was listening to music 1
Did not like this at all.
Too dull, too esoteric, not my thing at all.
It’s not for me
I like some of the production but most of the execution is not good.
Boring mushy gibberish
Not for me.
Hot shits
Umm…nope not for me
Who cares dude. This was such an unremarkable album from a band that I've never heard of. I guess there was a bit of a point of interest when the music veered into an electronica version of '60s rock (specifically, parts of Alleged and Eclipse), but neither of those were interesting enough to elevate this beyond a 1 star effort.