S.F. Sorrow

Honestly couldn’t finish it very boring. It’s not bad music just sounds like Beatles but worse.

Honestly. Stop it. This would only be included on a top album list by that pretentious guy who doesn't like "popular music" and thinks being obscure makes it somehow better.

Listened in the car and while walking in the mall. Imagine The Beatles making a rock opera record. Now imagine it much worse, with much less talented musicians, cringe lyrics, with the worst production you've ever heard (even for the time), and worst of all, it's boring. I don't know what it was with British rock bands at the time but for some reason they thought they were at the pinnacle of musical expression enough to start claiming they've made rock "operas" when they've just boring, forgettable slop. Terrible.

Not for me

It’s ok

The person who thought that pans between left and right ear will sound cool was fucking deaf or smth. There are some good songs, but they aren't memorable.

Nope.

1. born - 1.5 2. fingerz -0 3. morning - 0 4. Sorrow - 1 5. Balloon - 1 6. Death - 0 7. Baron - 0 8. Journey -1 9. See -0 10.destiny - 1 11. Trust - 1 12. Man -1.5 13.person - 1.5 14. Grey -0 15. Evasion - 0 16. Good - 1 17. Dreams - 1

i already don't remember this

First glance - the religious motif in the album art is interesting but the constant changing of tempo and style within each song was a headache.

The first track had me really excited but that excitement went away as the album got more and more psychedelic in a way I don’t find particularly appealing 58 years later.

Wanna be early beatles

If you like the Beatles, you won't like this album. If you don't like the Beatles, you really won't like this album

Ugggghhh, stop it with the obscure, boring old basic British bands. There is so much better music beyond the borders of that island. This sounds like a dime store Pink Floyd

The shittiest Shitty Beatles I have encountered so far.

Didn't really care for this. Silly, goofy, unserious.

Not for me

It’s like the best of the worst of the Beatles after Revolver. Apart from a few rare good vibes and riffs (quickly drowned in hippie nonsense with bloody sitars, boring vocal harmonies, and LSD inspired structures) It’s tough for me. Really tough. And the mix is absolutely terrible, making the whole experience being a bit painful. Do we have listen to every single British band just because they started a thing?

No

Gorsh, this sucked. Completely lacking in any ambition or urgency. There wasn’t a single interesting bit. 1/5

Trash. 1001 albums fails yet again.

Not for me at all

Not for me. All the worst bits about British 60s music including the Beatles. Jumps around from idea to idea with no consistency. No soul to it at all. As a stand alone song I didn't mind balloon burning so was tempted to give it 2 stars, but nah 1 you get

was every band just kinda The Beatles for several years?

Reminded me of the Beatles but not as good. Never heard of them and prob won't listen again.

The first thing I thought was how they sounded a bit like the Who and Queen to me. Later I read that the Who denies any influence. Hmmm Anyway, not something I can to listen to a second time but interesting.

Ponavljam se kao pokvarena ploča, kao i ovaj projekt. Nepodnošljivo dosadno. Ako mi dođe još jedan ispod prosječan britanski rock bend na rateanje samo će pasti 1 bez komentara.

More proggy psych story rubbish

Oh, damn it. I listened to the album while I was cleaning the bathroom and kept thinking, you're lucky, you're close to the toilet. Now I have to recover because that wasn't a 'nice' experience at all. And the band really is called "Pretty Things" - what was pretty about that? The Indian community will definitely agree with me. Now I'm lying flat with my head resting on a rainbow and wondering who I can throw eiderdowns at? If I've understood correctly, the "Pretty Things" are the co-inventors of the rock opera with 'S.F. Sorrow', for that, 'hats off', they get one star. Unfortunately, I have to say, I find the execution awful. So one last word, I knew the line "Sitting alone on a bench with you" from somewhere and I hope I'll quickly forget everything else. But now, as promised, the one star for the rock opera, I don't even want to rate the rest.

This is #day128 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and... kudos for being known as one of the first rock operas ever released, but I find it utterly unlistenable. I had to stop in the middle of Balloon Burning. This is a 1 out of 5. Thank you. Next. Looking forward to #day129.

Ok

First track was actually OK. Became mildly to extremely irritating soon after that.

A bit like root canal fillings, you want rock operas to be handled by experts. This wasn't. I found it uninteresting. And a bit shit really.

If S.F. Sorrow had a baby with the Beatles, it would be Oasis.

Dreadful.

Dull

This project has revealed to me just how little patience I have for psychedelic rock. It’s at a zero. Didn’t really enjoy this at all. 1/5

No

I don't care much for rock operas

The Beatles didn't influence everyone artistically. This group missed the mark. Pretty awful.

60’s

What a load of shit that was, thank God it's over.

First two tracks got me curious and smiling a little. It's like they just discovered the LR function and took full advantage. It quickly became self absorbed, repetitive and fucking annoying. If I could go back in a time machine I'd go to their concert only to take his guitar and hit him over the head with it.

For no one

Back at the dawn of L.S.D. when the "electric" guitar was young, this was novel and exciting. Burroughs was busy creating at the shredder and Waterman had yet to perform a rock opera. Heady days that anyone who was REALLY there cannot remember.

Painfully awful. The music was okayish but the vocals and lyrics were just so so SO damn bad.

Terrible

Nö

I can appreciate it for what it is, but it's not my thing.

Muck.

Not my thing 💩

If ' Tommy' took any influence from this it would have been ‘well that’s not what to do’. ‘Tommy’ (which wasn’t Townshend's first attempt at a rock opera btw) has catchy tunes and a sense of humour. This has neither. Not worth listening to. 1.5 rounded down

O.O scuffed

Constant odd audio coming in and out. Maybe they thought it was cutting edge at the time? Shit though.

I’m with Lester Bangs on this one. Over-produced (for the time) and under-cooked. I can see how LSD was the fulcrum on which this album was balanced.

Yeah this was a no from me. I liked some of the beginning songs in a vague sort of way, but it quickly begun feeling like an interminable slog of rote 60s psychedelia that I, as a non-drug user, will never be able to understand or enjoy. Some of the songs were dreadful, notably Defecting Grey, which made me want to drown myself rather than finish listening to. It was followed by three similarly bad songs which I truly HATED listening to. Concept albums are cool and all… but I need the music to be enjoyable to care about the concept. A 1 might be harsh but it’s how I felt by the end so I think it’s deserved.

I guess I’m just not a psychedelic rock fan. It wasn’t “bad”, but it isn’t something I would ever choose to put on. The beginning half seemed to drag on for a long time and blend into one really dull song. Favorite is Track 15: Mr. Evasion.

The album primarily suffers from things that are present from the 60’s. For one, the songs feel oddly slow-paced, making them a slog to get through. They just drag on and on. The songs also are plagued by terrible, weird, and confusing mixing. The songs are just so annoying to listen to due to these issues. There is a semblance of a good rock album underneath the problems, but every song feels papery and without substance, mainly due to the horrible mixing. I would’ve rated it higher because it’s on the edge of being good. Alas, here we are.

This is just a lamer Piper at The Gates of Dawn. It might be sacrilege to compare the two, but this is just really lame compared to that album. The mix is pretty bad, and it's all around not for me. A lot of this is just annoying. Very disappointing.

No

Interesting art work on cover. Felt like I was listening to a Beatles 💿 Wonder what patents were infringed upon when putting this together

Bland, late sixties "concept" album in which a myriad of excuses seem to be made about why it didn't sell well. I'll tell you why it didn't sell - it's shit; it's boring; it's like being stuck in the corner of a party with some numpty who wants to tell you about the fucking awful quasi-philosophical novel they're writing as they've glanced at Pynchon and Foster-Wallace. Best Tracks: She Says Good Morning; Baron Saturday; Trust

Couldn't finish it. Got half way, and it started to grate on my nerves. Might be among the first rock operas but I still didn't enjoy it. Didn't add, obviously.

As a long-time fan of what some categorize as "hippie music," I find it interesting that quite consistently I dislike this kind of music, which I understand is often labelled "psychedelic rock." Nothing wrong with it, and the musicians on this album are great, but I just never seem to enjoy this style of rock. It grates on me.

More perfectly adequate mush for the white man mill.

1.5

Nope, nope, nope.

who doesnt love dire straights

Pretty decent for chilling and listening to while working.