Fromohio

This album beat my expectations. I expected it to be awful and it was merely meh.

2.17

A: yey någo som e lite annorlunda än dom typ 20 senaste albumen (betoning på lite), kan vara biverkning av att lyssna på musik i sån intensiv takt. Kändes stundvis som dom glömt producera andra halvan av albumet o just called it a day. 3/5 D: Jag tror dom satt denhär med i misstag. Den hade inget skäl att existera. Kändes exakt som sådan musik som en tomat skulle producera, både på grund av färgen och smaken. De som vet vet. Förtjänar inte högre än 2 #justicefortriangle 2/5

5/10 - Not unpleasant, but I found myself zoning out for long stretches of this.

I loved Firehose's first album Raging full on. This one not so much. Lackluster and derivative. Nothing too exceptional here

Initial post listing ranking: 5/10 (2 stars) Type of music: Rock, fast, pap pap type drum Thoughts: Reminds me of Lucas and The Decemberists. Like the sloppy bass, reminds me of Casiopeia Favorite Track: Ah I don’t even know

Creo que lo que más destaco en este disco es su bajo, que en todas las canciones está muy bien. El asunto es que el resto del disco, canciones o instrumentos tampoco me hicieron tan feliz.

This reminds me of the high school band you hear play at the local club one town over and not in a good way.

Ehhhh

Not only did I not need to hear from this band, I did not need to hear this album. It's a decent enough rock album. There are no hooks. You're never going to hear this on the radio. This is not commercially viable. I'll bet this album sold like mad in their hometown. Outside of Ohio (I assume that's where they're from), this is obscure and forgettable. Dimery, you suck. This isn't an essential album in any sense of the word. The Minutemen weren't important for music as a whole, and this album even less so. Quit mythologizing people. If I need a music history lesson to understand why an album of band is essential, then IT'S NOT ESSENTIAL. My Rating: 2/5

un poco mierdón

Firehose seems an apt name for this band, as listening to them feels like being blasted by a neverending, chaotic, stream of random genre chops and changes. It's like an amateur band experimenting, trying to pin down a sound they want to explore, except with professional quality musicianship.

I found this pretty generic to hundreds of similar sounding bands from the time that did not make the list, so I am really not sure what makes this stand out above them. This was entirely forgettable. Standout song was What Gets Heard. 2 stars

2.5

Jangly, folkish, acoustic guitar. Semi talking heads on track 2

Middling alt rock. I liked a few tracks, like "Vastopol" and "Some Things" and "Understanding". Very lo-fi, but not necessarily in a good way. Bits of it just sound like some guys fucking around, like there are two minute-long interludes of the drummer just faffing about like at a garage practice. The guitars are pretty good, but the album is weirdly forgettable.

This is aggressively mid, generic, forgettable music. How is this essential?

Highlights: In My Mind, Wisherin’ While Hollerin’. 2.1

I have never heard of Firehose. So this is all new to me. Thoughts after listening 3 times ... While listening, I checked out wikipedia and noticed that these guys were the successor band to Minutemen after one of their members died. I have 2 liked songs on Spotify by Minutemen but I don't remember when or why I encountered those. When I first saw 14 songs I thought maybe it was a double album but then I realized it was only 32 minutes long. So the average song is just about 2 1/4 minutes long. It all goes by very quickly. Unfortunately a lot of it is fairly forgettable. Also, none of these songs had their lyrics on Spotify so I was having a hard time figuring out what any of these songs are about. I did end up liking 5 songs - "Riddle of the Eighties", "In My Mind", "Vastopol", "Time With You" and "Understanding". The first 2 songs have a pretty good vibe but it sort of drops off from there with a few good ones sprinkled throughout the rest of this. Even these songs that I liked are "good" but not "great". Also - the songs I didn't like aren't necessarily "bad" - but not worth popping up on my playlists in the future. It's all mostly just "ok". Liked songs on Spotify: 5/14 Rating: 2/5

Certainly an album with music

Nice yet unremarkable.

Some nice moments of lo fi charme, but all in all too inaccessible.

I've never heard of these folks! Perfectly serviceable but I don't think I needed to hear it before I died?

This was pretty ok. Glad I listened to it. Some cool background music. When it finished, I was disappointed there wasnt more.

Why must every track start with this chicka-chicka bullshit indicative of these optimistic white boy’s privileged beach-side upbringing complete with too-deep tan and bleached surfer hair? Because otherwise there are some fun rhythms, bass lines, and guitar licks as the tracks go on.

Always worth a shot to listen to a Mike watt project. But honestly this was pretty underwhelming. All the bass lines and tongue in cheekiness of Minutemen without the edge. 0 reason for this to be on the list. But shoutout Mike Watt love his bass playing.

Whatever Gueli said.

pretty forgettable. this feels like more of a jam sesh than a full album so on the whole it didn't do much for me. there are good tracks like "what gets heard" which had a deliciously funky bassline, as did much of the album, although i can't say much of this stood out. the guitar-forward tracks made my eyes glaze over whereas the bass-forward tracks at least had Something going for them. it's kind of odd. nothing about this is actively Bad it just went in one ear and right out the other, even after two listens.

I thought it was ok but nothing stood out

Jagged alternative rock and post-hardcore driven by wiry bass lines, nervy guitar interplay, restless drumming, and earnest vocals moves like a beat-up pickup truck swerving across backroads with the engine barely holding together—messy, stubbornly alive, and more emotionally engaging than technically refined. Overall exhausting to hang on and while doing so not getting sick to my stomach.

I don't believe I've ever heard of this artist before, so I'm going in totally blind. I didn't really enjoy this, though I will say it sounded like it was about 10-15 years ahead of its time. But ultimately this also felt quite forgettable.

Nothing memorable from this album for me.

This is perfectly fine but really not for me and I'm feeling kinda mean today. Very American folk but in a way that I'm not really sure why it's on this list.

Yeah, didn’t really get to into this one.

Meh

Not feeling this album or band but it's the first of this project and it's not my usual genre. Guitar is great though! It's the vocals that I'm not digging. Average white man talk/singing. Might be better of Spotify had the lyrics.

Some 90s rock with not much flavor to it. I’m not too fond of this type of stuff, but it’s not the worst.

never let them know ur next move... im not sure how to feel. i didn't think it was bad but i didn't really enjoy much of it - maybe except vastopol? even then i wasn't obsessed. and the yapping pissed me off. maybe im being harsh because ive run out of listening stamina but it's like a 2.5 just not as interesting as things ive given three...

I will get through this album (one day, probably soon - it’s playing right now). But I don’t need to finish it before I rate it because it just so perfectly fits the mold of a mediocre 1001 albums album. It’s okay, and it’s different - but it really goes through one of my ears and out the other.

Some albums make it really difficult to remember this process is based around the premise these are 1001 albums to listen to before you die. This is one of those, not because it’s horrendous (as to some degree the fact they solicit an extreme reaction means they serve a purpose), but because it’s just so mediocre. It just sounds slightly dated and on some tracks like the sound engineer has failed to balance things, so songs like In My Mind sound like the instruments are too high in the mix. Given the mediocrity of what comes before i also take issue with ‘nuf’ That Shit George’, i do not need a 30 second drum solo. Neither did i want a closing track that sounds as if its looped back to the start several times.

This was odd. Like they were trying to sound like multiple other bands but doing it badly and coming out just slightly wrong. Parts were a bit Red Hot Chilli Peppers, parts a bit REM, at one point he sounded a bit spoken-word Shatner. The drummer was frequently cymbal-obsessed (or it was just the really poor mix - sometimes you could barely hear the vocals over the instrumentation). I had never heard of the band before and have no intention of listening again. I'm not angry at it, just bemused it ended up on this list. 2/5

They’re fun! Strange album however, the great thing about Minutemen, X, Husker Du, Butthole Surfers, etc. is they took the intuitions of the 60s and injected it with the punk fury of their day, initiating the rich pinnacle of Punk’s second wave. This stuff, (done much better by say, The Replacements, who blended both intuitions to reach a blissful new high) sort of completes the circuit back to peaceful 60s folk and roots rock (sounds very much like a slightly more edgy Jackson Browne), and by even stepping over into progressive intuitions of the early 70s (Yes, King Crimson). The result is a bit bland, their earlier album Ragin’ Full On is much better, an intuition of pop punk/emo to come.

4/10

Kind of a nothing burger album... Nothing really struck me... The first concert I ever went to had Mike Watt open for Primus, TIL Mike Watt is in fIREHOSE.

12 April 2026 10pm 6/10

“Frum-MO-he-OH?” Is that some kind of variation of bohemia? fIREHOSE is tight, for sure. It’s easy to imagine the best way to capture them, live in a small club. A lot of this would work there. Sounds like what you might get if you threw Guided by Voices, Living Colour, Little Feat and crisp production into a blender. The standout track (and the only one I’d heard before, which got a good amount of airplay on alternative rock and college radio) is “Time With You.” Like many GbV songs, a lot of these feel unfinished, only getting started towards something interesting and then they’re over. And there’s too many throwaways, in particular the (mercifully) brief drum fill tracks “Let The Drummer Have Some” and “’nuf That Shit, George.” Mostly it all seems ephemeral, nothing you’d remember to come back to once it’s over. 2-1/4 stars

listened to 3 songs

This was forgettable. It felt like listening to your friend's garage band.

Forgettable

More folky than rock

Not for me. And honestly I've heard so many better albums from the 80s

Paso mucho

there's something good here, but not good enough to warrant a higher rating,

The music is not bad, though it’s pretty forgettable.

2.5/5

I don’t really know why I didn’t connect with this. Nothing struck me as very memorable, but the sound wasn’t ever too bad?

Cool ideas, just not my bag

Only in Ohio,

80’s Alternative Rock ⭐️Time With You

Lite varken eller, aldrig dåligt men heller aldrig särskilt bra. Betydligt mer sympatiskt än samtida attitydstyrd gaprock (läs Pixies) och Seinfeldbas blir man ju alltid på gott humör av. Saknar en hel del punkenergi för att det skulle bli bra på riktigt men finns ett gäng hyfsade låtidéer. Trumsolon sänker den förstås men klarar tvåan med marginal

The way I read this as "from-oh-hee-oh" instead of "from ohio." Sounds like a lot of stuff at warped tour. It's ok, not sure it should be on here.

This was just fine but entirely forgettable.

gets better as it goes on.

Kind of rolled over me and don't remember anything about it.

Oh great, another obscure indie rock band. At least they're American and from the 80s rather than 2000s British crap. It honestly sounds like a worse version of Husker Du to me; while they can clearly play, they just don't have the songs that the Du or REM had. I don't find myself particularly moved by anything these guys made; the vocals aren't that great and there's no real hooks that stick with you. The songs are all very short, which compounds their lack of staying power. This isn't really a genre where you can cast songs aside to showcase instrumental virtuosity, and that's exactly what this album does. And it's not even virtuosity; it's just mildly impressive playing. No college rock record should have drum solos, but this has two. Leave the drum solos to 70s hard rock bands, people! I've heard better playing from bands, especially metal bands, that have better songs(at least in my humble opinion). With that in mind, while this is far from a terrible record, it just isn't good or distinctive enough to be worth my while. Given the band's obscurity, I wouldn't call them essential at all. So why are they here?

Again, why is this here? Just some rather drab indie rock?

Forgettable.

Meh, it didn’t interest me. Next

Its not bad, it just is. I cant imagine someone going home specifically to put on this album because it speaks to them on some deep level. The good news is this is better than about 70% of the absolute ass on this list. So theres that.

Well, yeah, I guess??

Very forgettable album, albeit fine to listen to. Nothing to hate and nothing to love.

More bullshit

I was wondering why I didn't listen to the album whole and it was forever left in a limbo, but now I remember. It is just that boring.

hows this ended up on here then. a little interesting i guess but mostly just bad

Incredicly genric punk not trying to do anything with their sound... At least it was short mid 2

very short, very forgettable. the only thing this album has going for them well is the instrumentation, the vocals and lyrics are whatever. the album feels fast but not really energetic.

it's alright if not slightly irritating at times. no idea why this is here and not any of their way better albums but ok i guess. "what gets heard" made me want to blow my head off.

Extremely boring album. Only two or three salvageable songs and the rest are some.of the boring and forgettable songs ever.

Dit lijkt me typisch van die artiestenmuziek. Dus zo'n bandje dat door andere artiesten heel tof wordt gevonden, maar niet echt doorgebroken is bij het grote publiek. Het klinkt wel geinig en er zitten wat nummers in die iets herkenbaars hebben, maar het had ook gewoon door het lokale puberbandje gemaakt kunnen zijn. De bassist schijnt dan wel weer een inspiratie voor Flea te zijn geweest, dus ik ga daar dan wel weer extra op letten. Wat vaak meer opvalt is het catchy gitaargeluidje. Ze spelen graag met tempowisselingen, waardoor het soms wat chaotisch en rommelig wordt. Ze houden dat gelukkig nog enigszins beperkt, maar het is denk ik wel muziek die even nodig heeft om te groeien. Misschien als ik dit vaker zou luisteren, dat ik het plots heel vet ga vinden. Voor de eerste keer luisteren zit het tussen de 2 en de 3 in denk ik. Ik zal morgen nog eens een poging wagen, scheelt dat het maar een half uurtje duurt. Bij het horen van de tweede keer, vind ik het eigenlijk nog meer een rariteitenkabinet dan de eerste keer. Namen als Zappa en Capt Beefheart komen in me op, en dat is niet best. Dus het worden 2 sterren.

fIREHOSE formed after D. Boon's accidental death brought an end to Minutemen. The remaining members brought in a new guitarist and started fIREHOSE. Their music was good but not great. Not on par with Minutemen. It's not bad music, but it has no place on this list. As such, I'm giving it 5 out of 10 and rounding down. Sorry fIREHOSE, I actually like you, but you're simply "good not great". (I saw these guys my freshman year at UNC at the Student Union of all places (not a normal place for concerts), while The Cat's Cradle was temporarily closed. I believe they performed with the Screaming Trees.)

Mid imo

It was okay but not up my lane.

I know people love it. But I didn't

This is a weird one. The songs range from pretty fun and creative (In My Mind, Time With You, If’n) to honestly pretty stupid (Liberty For Our Friend, Mas Cojones, the two completely unnecessary drum interludes). I appreciate the tight grooves and awesome basslines that backline most of these songs, but there just isn’t really that much keeping me engaged apart from a few standouts. Every song has like an awesome part or two, but kind of lags in the other sections. Like Understanding: if the songs was all like the groovy melodic part then I would be totally on board—but it’s momentum just dies when all the instrumentation cuts out for long portions.

M’oui

Meh. Didn't finish. It started off OK but I got annoyed about halfway through. It felt whiny/need or something like that.

Okay I guess. It was pretty unfocused, switching between post-punk and 70s era rock. Didn't love it.

This music happened while I was away from listening and raising children. Probably why I don’t like it.

- kieltämäti vähä kiinnostaa että millä meriiteillä tää on päässy listalle - tästä kuuluu semmosta 80-luvun grungehenkisyyttä mutta hyvin kesy lähestymistapa kyllä siihen ajatusmaailmaan - ihan kivaa kikkailua mutta ei tätä ehkä koko levyllistä jaksa kuunnella

only okay

A case study in just because an album contains a lot of great elements, doesn't mean it's enjoyable

It wasn’t bad at all but made basically no impact on me. Nothing too engaging.

If it were 10-20 years earlier it might be notable, but as it is…

Bit of a shrug of an album, really. There’s some genuinely tidy guitar work—bright, nimble, and occasionally surprising—but it’s paired with vocals that feel slightly off‑kilter in a way that doesn’t always land. Nothing here is bad, but not much sticks, either. The saving grace is the runtime: it breezes by quickly enough that the quirks never get time to turn irritating. Pleasant in patches, forgettable overall.

More like a 2.5 I did like this

Nieko nepamenu, bet nebuvo blogai.

Half funky 80s college rock, half...Eagles? An easier comparison would be the Meat Puppets due to the acoustic guitar and alt rock combo, but there's a distinct classic rock feel on songs like "Time With You" that's key to this album's sound. The acoustic guitar is an interesting companion to the funky bass that's prominent on tracks like "Whisperin While Hollerin." It's a cool combo, but the album mostly leaves me thinking about what could have been. Much like the Minutemen's songs, the tracks here feel more like sketches than songs, playing around with cool sounds and creative playing but lacking memorable or exciting moments. The desire to experiment also comes through on the drum solo and instrumental folk interludes, though those also don't add much and kind of disrupt the flow. A lot of interesting ideas here, but not all that much substance.

Knew very little about this band except Mike watt was in it. No tracks really stood out to me though.

Hmm… this is hard to really love. There are moments on here, but they are few

извините, но очередной ноунейм, безвкусно

Enjoyable if not entirely memorable. This really felt like Minutemen, lo-fi and short songs, but just not as good.

Some irrelevant Rock.

Had to drop this down one as it's a bit of a slog despite its short length and disappointing considering this kind of angular indie rock (a-side) and jangly power pop (b-side) is completely up my street

mouaif

So many new wave post punk albums in this list that feel like they cover similar ground. This one didn’t resonate with me at all.

What this lacks in interest it makes up for in brevity. Hints of Primus, Tom Waits, but the most positive thing I can say about this is that it was a fairly painless 31 minutes.

I don’t understand this one, really not sure how it made the list. Pretty boring with some good riffs. Doesn’t even really feel before it’s time.

Given that this 2/3 of the Minutemen this felt like a letdown when it was released and I'm still not a fan of it

Struggled to get through it and listen fully. I'll come back to it one day.

Notes of early REM, Violent Femmes. Great musicianship. Songs ok. My rating 2.3

So, whatever one-hit-wonder came from this album, I don’t believe justifies its place on this list. Or maybe the band is related to one of tue book editors, and they were like “you know, Jeff and Bill have been out in the garage practicing those songs so much. They deserve to have everyone listen to this album before they die.” It wasn’t very good, it wasn’t very exciting, and it wasn’t very unique.

3/10

Outside of "In My Mind" this was forgettable. When the final few tracks started I thought this was making a turn for the better, but ultimately those songs also we're forgettable.

😰😰😰no bops?... No feels no badump badump??... Don't waste my goddamn time

It's okay. Good 2.

2 - some cool guitar but nothing memorable

Baffling as to why this is here

weird in a bad way

Not bad, but nothing remarkable.

Not sure about that folky twangy sound.

Eh, not my favorite.

most tracks in this album sound good at first... then when I hear words, i'm immediately taken out of it. i appreciate the midwest math rock instrumentation a lot.

I love the Minutemen. I love Mike Watt. I really liked Ragin' Full On (even though it was quite clearly NOT the Minutemen). I really wanted to like this just as much, but I just... don't. It's not bad, it just doesn't have anything that sticks to my ear. Some interesting parts here and there but mostly forgettable. Maybe it's a multiple listens type of album before it gets you?

Different to anything I've listened to so far on the list. Very experimental, garage-band style with a variety of sounds. Most of it wasn't for me, but a couple of cool tracks enough to give it a rating of 2.

Interesting, not compelling.

Interesting. Kind of good college or maybe even high school rock band stuff. But not amazing.

Synes det er godt. Det har post-hardcore lyd som er rå energi med komplekse riffs. Der er også nogle akustiske elementer indenover så det bliver folk-rock/americana. Kan godt lide punkens energi med de korte numre som er sådan lidt ustrukturelle. Band som mistede et band medlem og skulle reinvent sig selv, så jeg tror lige jeg sætter noget minutemen på. Angiveligt skulle navnet fIREHOUSE komme fra en spydig kommentar om at det tidligere bandmedlem ikke kunne erstattes og det var ligesom et slukke ild i et hus med et eller andet urealistisk. Så blev de til fIREHOUSE. Det føles meget håndlavet og det kan jeg godt lide, men jeg synes ikke nødvendigvis det skiller sig ud for mig. så jeg giver det en 2'er fordi jeg tror jeg måske ville værdsætte det en anden gang. så GENBESØG/TILBAGEVEND

Nice and short thankfully.

Hey, some contributor snuck their college band's album in here.

Started out with more jangly pop than I expected at first. And then it became something else. I remember a bass-playing friend in the 90s was a fan of Minuteman/Firehose. I can see why - a lot of "cool" bass riffs (that impresses aspiring bass players)( and pounding drums, but lacking in songwriting. The influences ... could come from anywhere – Fela Kuti, funk, new wave, Television. Maybe that's the point but to me it sounds disparate and not cohesive. It's quite hard to see a red thread - a taste and a vision. Just three people making sound, bassplayer and drummer a little too keen to show their abilities. 2/5

This was not what I was expecting. Half of it was good, half of it was not. One of the singers had a good voice, the other did not.

It's definitely early indie rock! My least favorite part was when they got one of the band-mate's dad to record some weird ass vocal to mix into the track like five times. "Fetchin' beats retchin' like scratchin' cures itchin'" ????? That being said, the album did make me feel like I was in Ohio! Unfortunately, Ohio fuckin sucks.

01) Riddle of the Eighties - 6,0 02) In My Mind - 6,0 03) Whisperin' While Hollerin' - 5,5 04) Vastopol - 5,5 05) Más Cojones - 5,0 06) What Gets Heard - 6,0 07) Let the Drummer Have Some - / 08) Liberty for Our Friend - 6,5 09) Time With You - 5,5 10) If’n - 5,5 11) Some Things - 5,5 12) Understanding - 6,0 13) 'Nuf That Shit, George - / 14) The Softest Hammer - 6,0 TOTAL: 5,75 (58/100) Current ranking: 588/709

This was fine. Not great. Not bad. Just fine. Won’t likely ever listen again. So I’m going just below the line at 2.95

I could tell this musically was a good album but just wasn’t my thing. I did enjoy the guitar, tho!

Yeah. You know how the Americans are always whingeing about Britpop on here? Well there an awful lot of unmemorable underwhelming American ‘alternative rock’ offerings Just saying

A couple of good tracks. The vocals are a bit meh

Entertaining but insufficient

Not unpleasant but on the other hand nothing tha made me want to listen again

As someone who is from Ohio, this album is about as exciting as visiting, and living in Ohio. At least it's creative. Favorite Track: "In My Mind"(unfortunately, Ohio is stuck in my mind now).

Perfectly fine, but I fail to see how this would be essential in any way or why I should listen to this again instead of something really interesting

Inventive alt punk but it feels like it doesn't belong in this.

Weird and inconsistent

Я не очень люблю Minutemen в первую очередь, и как бы был изначально настроен на "э". И вот как бы да, яркие гитары, все такое, чувствуется какое-то влияние Talking Heads, вроде бы всё как я люблю, а песни просто мимо. Лучшая песня - Liberty for Our Friend.

There are several funky moments on this record - has the vibe of a bunch of dudes jamming in their garage on a Saturday afternoon. There’s some decent guitar work and great bass lines, but overall ends up largely forgettable. 2/5

So this is the definition of college radio. Having growing up in the 90's this music always felt so dated to me. The Primus the ween etc played this trope to death. The stoner dick joke music. I will say these guys have a bit more diversity in music, but it's just nothing I can listen to.

It’s an easy listen but forgettable.

4/10 - nothing memorable, just ok, but not hardcore punk as I expected

Indie Garage-Band rock. Reminds me a bit of a less polished version of Vampire Weekend.

Garage band - at best.

Meh?

This is all over the place.

Could barely remember what I'd listened to

Rather boring. The funky bassline on some songs save it a little bit.

Completely unknown to me, and not sure what I think of it. The songs on this all have an aspect that i quite like, whether that is a riff, the bass line, the drums; but the other parts of the songs are just a bit pants. I do enjoy that the Wikipedia summary for the album seems to have been written by a ten year old: "It's called that because it's from Ohio".

Kind of chilled out rock that sounds like it should have come out earlier than 1989. I have never heard of them but it isn't bad, some variety in the music and lyrics. Nothing really stands out, it might be nice for a party mix so it doesn't distract. Probably wouldn't be high on my list to listen to but I enjoyed it.

3/10 - repetitive - hard to hear lyrics - good bass

FromOhio from fiREHOSE makes the 1001 Must Hear List because of the stylized band name, Liberty For Our Friend, and the drum work on the album. It’s a decent album, nothing great. Listened to it twice, second time (which is usually a score raiser) was just OK. (2,3*s)

It's ok, but it didn't blow me away.

It wasn't bad, but I didn't enjoy it. Entirely forgettable even a couple hours after listening to it.

definitely makes sense these are guys from minutemen. A little more pop appeal in the songwriting for better or worse

Not a clue mate. Okay its less noisy than I was expecting from the cover and indeed their stylisation Idk man its very stripped back uhhh. I can tell theres some good musicians here but it just didn't hold my attention at all

There was nothing technically wrong with the album. The musicianship was fine. The singing was okay. But I found the songs to be boring. I kept waiting to hear a great hook or riff, but nothing happened.

So far on this project, even if I don't vibe with the particular genre of an album, I've at least understood why it's on the list. Not with this one though. It's not bad, but there's nothing at all that stands out about it - just a pretty standard post-punk album. Fav tracks - Some Things

Had some decent guitar riffs but this was pretty indistinguishable for me and I don’t think there’s much chance I ever go back to anything here.

Just a compilation of guitar, drums and nonsensical lyrics that don't really amount to an interesting project or memorable songs. Wouldn't say there's anything horrific, but it does become really hard to listen to after like 4 songs. 2.5/5 ⭐⭐1/2

Couldn’t get into this as much as I thought I would like it from reading up on these guys. Some nice bass playing but nothing memorable tracks wise.

not bad, some rly fun guitar in this, but didn’t do anything for me, kinda forgettable

Sounds like a less-polished version of the alternative bands I loved in the 90s.

Not for me

Not a fan

Not for me

Not a vital album.

There are dozens of worthy albums, from Modest Mouse, Tool, Ween, Neutral Milk Hotel, Ryo Fukui, and more that didn't make this list, yet this one did?

Well… at least it was only 30 minutes

Is it a mix of random studio recordings? "Hey John, I've got an idea for a riff!" "Yeah? Show it!" And that's how it goes

Tough to really explain my thoughts on this one, but fIREHOSE feels like one of those "Your favorite band's favorite band" bands. Like, they are hitting on a lot of good ideas in this record, but none of them really coalesce into good music? And your favorite band was able to take what they heard from fIREHOSE and repackage it into good music. Like I don't know if they were influenced by fIREHOSE, but some of Fromohio reminds me of Sunny Day Real Estate, just without the emo? A touch southern rock or country meets late 80's indie rock. It's tough to describe though, but I always went up to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan as a kid for vacation, and this music reminds me of the feeling of crossing the Mackinac Bridge on the way home from vacation and you get into the lower peninsula where the grass is just more brown, its hotter, and you don't see the lakes anymore. Just a vibe of returning back to life after having a great time. Weird analogy, but that's what popped into my head. Dry, hot music that while isn't sad, just makes me sad.

This album feels like a jam session in the basement of the drummer's mom. Casual and a bit rough around the edges. They’re not that bad, but it didn’t really hit me in the feels.

Nothing special here - they should work on their capitalization and spacing.

It was ok. It grew on me as the album went on. Probably not something I'll return to, but if it was playing on the radio, I'm not gonna change the station.

Nice indie/pop-rock album. Good for a first listen. Did not make me a fan, but I wouldn't mind listening to it again. I liked "Vastopol", because it was purely acoustic with a nice fingerpicking pattern, but I later found out it was a cover. The original song is from Elizabeth Cotten. I liked some of the bass lines of the album, but nothing really stuck to me. Surprisingly, the song I liked the most was "Understanding" (nice drums, bass and voice) and not "Riddle of the Eighties" nor "In My Mind", which were the most streamed. Overall, a good 2/5. Not too shabby, but not the best album I've heard.

Ничего примечательного

Definitely merit here, but not my thing.

I listened to the whole thing, but can't really remember too much about what I heard...as Shania always says: it don't impress me much.

It was like Red Hot Chili Peppers meets Dispatch

Bait and switched me with the intro. It was interesting and then became cliche and boring :(. Listened whole way through was not impressed.

Why? Completely uninteresting in both sound and message. I went to grad school in a small, dusty farm town in Ohio at about the time this was released. I could’ve heard something like this at the college bar on Main Street. No thanks. If I had to recommend a song? Maybe “Liberty for Our Friend.” But, again, why?

interesting pick for this list, not a big fan from the start but still an entertaining listen. highlight was In My Mind

Meh

bland and empty for now

Not sure this album knows what it wants to be. Feels like it keeps trying different things in each song and is never really cohesive. Multiple filler tracks on a 30 minute album is also very embarrassing. Some of the songs do work, but they feel more like accidents than a cohesive musical vision. Top tracks: Some Things, Understanding

É ruim? Não. É bom? Também não. Podia ser muito pior, na real.

Not bad just not memorable in the slightest

Man, I love opening up this site and being hit with a tangible feeling of "what the fuck?" whenever I see these kinds of albums grace my screen. This is yet another album I would not listen to in a million, billion years were it not for this site. Far be it from me to complain. There's a beauty in the sheer unlikelihood of these melodies ever gracing my ears. I'll cherish them. Liberty For Our Friend is the best song on the album. It's the only time where the vocals and songwriting really work. There isn't much else to say about the album, really. I think this may be the first time in the history of this site where I'm at a loss of words for what to say. The vocals and instruments never amount to anything beyond mildly pleasing. It's fortunate that this album is only half an hour as it would seriously overstay it's welcome were it any longer. That being said, for what it is it's listenable enough. As alluded to previously, I consider this a "nowhere album" - a term I have not busted out in a very, very long time. I usually have a clear image of the kind of "nowhere" that these albums occupy, though I'm not so sure with this one. I guess this album captures the feeling of walking barefoot along a paved road in the midwest, following the power lines as I wander through nature reserves and vast open plains. In any case, this album is not popular, acclaimed, influential or experimental as far as I can gleam. I'll do what I always do and consult the entry for this album, though it's not looking promising for this one. A precursor to grunge without being an influence of it. Uhhh, yeah. I'll skimp on this album. Adios, fROMOHIO. Into the record shredder you go. For your replacement I would like to humbly induct The Moon and Antarctica by Modest Mouse into the list.

Es war nicht schlecht aber kam mir vor wie ein Demo Tape und nicht wie ein Album.

It's not unpleasant, and the drummer had some chops... Otherwise, boring, sloppy, uninteresting. Why is this on the list?

Not horrible but nothing really grabbed my attention. Luckily it's a short album.

Snappy guitar playing, bland everything else.

I expected worse from the cover and names. Never heard of this band. Stealing another user's review. "not bad at all yet completely forgettable at the same time."

Another new band and record for me. Found it quite tinny and jangley. Production felt messy and badly mixed without much skill or pleasure. Pretty simple, uninspiring and not too pleasurable to listen to at all. Kind of like a bad mix between raw punk, deep blue something and knock off Primus. I do value that they seemed to give themselves some creative freedom with surprises and unconventional elements throughout but mostly just sounds like some kids jamming or trying out instruments in a soundcheck. Nice to have some drum solos featured (although probably to just lengthen the shortness of the album!) Everything feels like it could have potential and is just done so poorly. Vocals painful at times. Turn that guitar down! Urgh. Relief when is got through the offensive listening experience.

Very forgettable

not for me...

Hmm nei

Track 1: "We've got R.E.M. at home!" From there it felt like this was a band that still hadn't figured out its own style, and should have spent more time in the garage before going to the studio.

Meh

Hmm... There are some splashes of interesting flavor here, but nothing ever gels... Unsatisfying... Like having a few bites at a buffet and leaving hungry... Disappointing... A taste of honey is worse than none at all...

This was ok. There is nothing here that I would consider noteworthy, or repeatable. I will probably forget about this album in about a week.

какие-то концептуальные коротыши вперемешку с хуй пойми чем

One of those seminal bands that I don't mind at all. High 2s.

Jag trodde här har jag ett fynd vid första låten. Tyvärr klarade jag inte av det mer än en kvart

Who? The fact that the band stylized their name as "fIREHOSE" rang alarm bells for me, as did the stylized name of the album "fROMOHIO". The longest track is 3m 16s, and the album sounds like a collection of unfinished demo tracks. Musically, they're all over the place, and nothing really stands out or grabs my attention.

Pretty bland and inoffensive. Not "bad bad", but nothing particularly interesting or stimulating. Don't really get how it's on this list, to be honest.

Kort og intenst, post punk, alternativ rock, masser af hurtig tromme

This immediately looks like it came out last year and it is making the rounds through the “theneedledrop” subreddit. May whichever deity is in charge this week wash me of the sin of saying any of the words in the previous sentence. Darn my eyes. Uh yeah this really does look like a moody millennial playing even moodier music targeted towards the Gen Z. BUT, it’s none of those things. It’s from 1989 and I have never ever heard of it. This could be anything from chamber music to torture chamber field recordings. Let’s go to Ohio. Ohhhh it’s members of the Minutemen. This could be cool. Well. It’s not really. This track is country tinged, and ultimately? Kinda boring. Noooo. Why have you forsaken me? This sounds like the cassette note that a director made when brainstorming ideas for a movie montage. “Yeah it should sound kind of like this. Better but you get the picture.” The bass is very good here. Massive groove. The singing is whatever but this one was the kind of fun I would expect from a project involving members of the band that wrote “Viet Nam.” Oh boy. A real field recording. I know this isn’t a field recording. I’m just a cool fuckin ALPHA with a punisher tattoo in my FACE who loves to TRIGGER the music community. I mean this is pretty cool. What can I say? We’re improving here. YES. Now this is cool. I’m going to jam a few song reviews together here, making this already unreadable format even less readable. What Gets Heard and the drum solo are excellent. Liberty for Our Friend however? Stinkpile. Add it to the dumpster barge headed up the Great Lakes. Hopefully to meet the same fate as the uh *burp* Ella Fitzgerald. I’m a young guy moving to the big city. I sure as sugar miss all my friends back home. But! I’ve got faith on my side and by golly somehow we’re gonna make it!! This sucked. If’n you might speed this thing up. It’s been like 15 minutes and I want it to go away forever. This should be so much better than it is. Does that even make sense? Yeah this is really putting the emphasis on IRE that I believe it intended. I am not “understanding” most of this album so far. This song is fine. I guess. The vocals still aren’t my thing, but this feels slightly better during the quietude. No, George. Keep going. This is the good stuff. Ugh. This sucks. A boring anthemic closer. This poses the question of why? Why close the album this way? Were there enough ideas here for an album? That’s what I found myself thinking throughout most of this. There were cool Minutemen style jams surrounded by weird, lame, out of date 80’s pop rock. I wanted way more of the former and way less of the latter, but to no mercy was granted by the boys of fIREHOSE. I don’t hate what came off here but I don’t like it either. This album felt stretched to its limit, even at a 31 minute run time and it’s messy in an unlikable way. The flourishes of musical brilliance are almost insults, considering what the rest of the album forced me to endure. Not enough going on here and yet way too much. This album could’ve stayed as a vague idea in the heads of its creators, because that’s really all it ended up being. Whisk me across the Erie back to the kinder shores of Canada, far away “FROMOHIO.” 1.5-2 HIGHLIGHTS: Whisperin’ While Hollerin’, What Gets Heard

I didn't understand this. It wasn't bad. It wasn't anything really.

Pretty annoying on first listen. Slightly less annoying on subsequent listens but didn't get a lot out of it.

I enjoyed a few songs. Many of them sounded the same and ran together if it weren’t for the pauses in between.

twas ok

Not my cup of tea - some songs had good parts.

I mean, it’s pretty, but it’s not like I feel like I need to own it. It’s an interesting stepping stone from The Minutemen and the vocals are lovely and soaring but blah blah blah. Yeah I didn’t need it.

Listened to this while playing Endless Winter solo. I lost. Super meh. Both the loss and this album.

This has to one of those albums you had to be there for. As far as indie rock goes, I found it to be woefully unremarkable and also have never heard of this band outside the context of this book, so I'm assuming their importance must have been quite limited. Given the title, I'm actually surprised this didn't become popular with the zoomer brainrot crowd.

Boring

Kind of sounds like a cross between Primus, Minutemen, Talking Heads and Brainiac. I would rather just listen to any of those bands instead. This doesn't belong on the list and I would have preferred to not listen to this

This project is called Albums you Need to Hear before you die. Well, I could have died very peacfully Even if I had Never Heard this „thing“. Not because the music is especially bad but it is one of the Most generic, boring and uninspired sounding Albums i have ever heard. Mans more exciting Albums could have taken its Place

If you'd discover this band by randomly walking into a pub with the occasional amateur band night, and they happened to be playing, it would have been a nice discovery and a decent experience. A decent amateur band is however not what I would call a "must listen to before you die".

The same sloppy bass line gets old fast. Very redundant and not enjoyable.

I could see why Mike Watt is an influential bass player but this wasn't really my jam.

Not terrible but would never listen to them on purpose again.

Ermm it's OK Best track is Liberty for our Friend its quite catchy

Okay

Bored me a little.

not offensive or anything but *shrug*

I liked quite a lot of this, but think they tried to do too much, instead of 14 short tracks the should have focused on 7 or 8. Put their creative talents to the test and made them 4-5 minutes long instead of 2-3, and it could have been an excellent album. Instead what you get is basically a sampler. Which became disappointing. Even so part of me wants to give it a 3, but can't really justify it when compared to others that have only received a 2. It is a high 2 though, about 2.8 I'd say.

I listened to it twice and still don’t know what to write. I can’t even work out if I like it. I guess that means I don’t really like it that much, otherwise I’d be saying I like it.

This is another band who I should have heard of but probably haven't, although, i have listened to MINUTEMEN back in the day. It could have been a review in the NME that may have put me off them in the first place. On first listen, it fell somewhere between Math Rock and the Eagles. Maybe that is why I didn't bother first time round. But on the whole it was ok with just enough of an edge to keep me happy.

#491. This album is boring, from start to finish. Probably shouldn't have expected much, as everything from Ohio is awful. 2/5: yawn

But if a non-event really

2 sterne

a little on the punk side

So so

Another introduction to me. Nice riffs ("In My Mind"...), nice basslines ("Whisperin While Hollerin"...), nice short tracks. But overall for me is something missing especially more remarkable vocals?! Strong two stars for this album. 2,5

Never heard of them before this, and I probably won’t hear of them in the future again

I didn't really understand most of this. At its peak there were some Les Claypool-esque moments I enjoyed but they were pretty few and far between.

..

I'm not cool enough to like this

Slightly shonky home recorded college-rock.

Extremely mediocre.

The whole album sounds like they were testing out a bunch of potentially good songs, but instead of finishing the work, they decided to release the half-baked, incomplete versions of the songs on an album. 2 stars

I'm sure it's fine, just not my kind of fine.

Not for me. Kind of twee (derogatory), I guess?

Its fatal flaw: this is very boring. And there's two separate drum solos! At least the runtime is short. Listened a second time and am a bit more positive on this, but still not convinced it's essential listening. Favourite song: Time With You

As a Michigander, I am naturally opposed to anything from Ohio. I don’t like generic rock anyway so blegh.

It's fine. Didn't like it a whole lot.

Do not understand this pick...

This is the type of shit that starts playing when you accidentally leave Youtube autoplay on throughout the night. Not even bad or anything, just astronomically uninteresting in every possible way.

Sounds like a bunch of unfinished unpolished songs made on a rush and was put together in an album.

I can't say I have heard of fIREHOSE before but they have a familiar sound. It's one of those albums you don't dislike but neither do you like well for me anyway. Stand out tracks: - Vastopol - If'n - some things - The softest hammer

OK.

It feels like an album full of ideas that just weren't fleshed out. The mix feels muddy at times. The bass player absolutely carries the album, but that only goes so far. I thought this was going to be a promising one when the 1st song was playing, but there's a lot of nothing going on in this album.

Meh, not for me

A great bass player can only get a band so far. Most of these songs were a diddling, scratching, low-fidelity mess. 2/5

Nothing special.

This was vaguely like Primus but less listenable

Easy to listen to but really forgettable. I´m unsure about what kind of impact this album made to make it so important and on this list?

Not really that interesting to me, it's a boring listen and it feels repetetive. Best song: Time With You Worst song: Some Things

Never heard of them and I’m pretty sure I kept mispronouncing their name in my head (think rhymes with Pinocchio). They were ‘fine’ although I’ve completely forgotten every word/riff/melody. Okay but underwhelming.

I’m not bad, but I have never heard of them before. They don’t add anything to my life at this point.

There wasn't anything I particularly enjoyed about this, and the guitar work (and vocals) actively bothered me in places. The production, unfortunately, threw everything under a microscope — there was nothing there to smooth out the edges. Perhaps by design, perhaps a matter of budget and resources, I don't know. But it added up to an album I where my anticipation of when it would end was foremost in my mind.

Vacillated between liking this and then finding it bland. Was forcing myself to enjoy and came to the conclusion, this doesn't merit list inclusion.

A bit too all over the place with few redeeming qualities

❤️❤️/5

I haven't listened to much of this before, and it just doesn't hook me. I like its elements but not the net package. I even attempted to listen to if several times and it would just fade into the background.

This is #day33 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and... when I first looked at the artwork, I thought it would be some post-hardcore, but then... Yes, somebody can play the guitar. But this isn't an album I'd be willing to put on before I die. For this reason, I'm giving it a 2 out of 5. Looking forward to #day34.

Ihan ok, peruskakkonen

2.5 I guess

Fairly innocuous stuff. Nothing really stood out. Kind of bland rock that u forgot I was listening to something. 2.5/5

Parts of this are totally fine. The instrumentals are really interesting, and sometimes very good. I really don't like the low singer at all. His voice is very unclear and uninteresting. There's honestly some really good things in this album! And some very not good things. All-in-all, it's a fine album. I would probably leave it off my top 1001 albums, but I can understand it sneaking in at the bottom of other people's lists. Favorite Song(s): Vastopol, The Softest Hammer

How about writing a song

I expected more as I like Minute Men, but this was sadly forgettable.

This Album was just “ok”.. couldn’t get into it. Not my type of music

Listened through twice, nothing stood out as good or bad, all I can say confidently is that this album definitely exists.

Album was ok

first 10 seconds of the album gave me real excitement - i thought i was going to be listening to my next 'london' and that got ripped away from me so i listened to the album with mostly disappointment and it drags my score down and i dont care

Not for me

137/100 🌕🌕🌑🌑🌑

This was compelling and weird and thoroughly ruined every time the guy started talking

Meh

Noh ei yhtä anneta.. kun 30 min ja ihan ok tavaraaa..

it's music alright

I listened to this one twice through because I couldn't understand why I wasn't into it. I think what it all comes down to is that there are elements here that just don't gel. A bunch of interesting ingredients that never quite come together for me.

Too alternative

Enjoyable 90s (well 89 technically) indie rock. As a big indie rock fan I definitely enjoy it. I don't think it's particularly notable in the context of this list though which dings it for me. Also, the cover art is awful.

At the first sight of the artist's name and the album cover, I thought this was going to be some weird ass, experimental post-punk stuff. It wasn't bad, but I'll probably never listen to this album again. 2.4*

Not my thang.

As far as firehose goes I’m only a fan of “Ragin’ Full On”

Jag kan respektera det, och det fanns absolut fina stunder på albumet. Men som helhet känns det både som att det försöker så mycket, men också samtidigt som att det ger upp hela tiden. Når aldrig riktigt fram. Inte för mig. Också druckit för lite idag så mådde illa under trumspåren hell nah Bästa spår: time with you (VÄLDIGT mysig faktiskt!!)

Hmm asså vissa låtar var bra men det var så många korta låtar som inte var minnesvärda Bästa låt: In my mind

Correcto.

Dull, no idea why it's on this list