Juju

Nothing stuck with me

not for me

2.5/5. Uptempo punk rock with stringy electric guitar and epic vocals with lots of tension. You can imagine every band member with their eyes closed *feeling* all of their hooks + solos. I'd happily participate in this gothy moshpit if I find myself in 1981, but too stressful a listen otherwise.

Really boring :/

5/10, Seinfeld effect, ahead of its time, but done better by it's progenitors. Some standout tracks, but not enough to save it

Fun, loud, but not really my style. I liked the oldies sound to it, but the album kind of blurred together.

Her vocal quality wasn’t my favorite and she put too many effects on it. I also thought the chords were clashy.

I had never heard of Siouxsie and The Banshees before, and so coming into this I was excited for this to be something new and interesting, perhaps opening me up to new musical avenues not yet gone down. This album was a pain to sit through. Its the only album that I've felt a real pull to just turn it off halfway through, and upon finishing I have very little good things to say about it. Instrumental wise, they are obviously very talented, and their was some cool ideas being conveyed in each song, but I felt no effort was made to expand on any of these concepts past the first stage. It felt similar to Zombie by Fela Kuti, except that the monotony in that project is at least broken up by interesting solo pieces, soaring backup vocals, and Fela own unique and fun vocals that kept me interested. This album has none of that. But if this album were all instrumental, I wouldn't feel nearly as strongly as I do about my dislike for this. but sadly it is not. Siouxie's vocal performances on this record are downright god awful in my opinion. The lyrics are stale, uninteresting, and evoke no sense of emotional resonance from me. Her lack of interesting melodic timbre does nothing to justify her incessant wailing throughout every single song, which evokes the feeling of babies crying. Ugly babies. 1/5.

Not my cup of tea Didn't like the singer or instrumental

Not my vibe at all

Não curti. Não sou chegado a post punk britânico, com essa sonoridade meio reverberada da guitarra, sei lá. Não me apetece tanto.

Not even close to being their best and should not be considered for this list

They can’t keep getting away with this

Never heard. That's OK and I'll keep this.

3/10 - not the worst punk music I've heard but definitely not first choice on the record player

Spellbound, spellbound, spellbound, spellbound, spellbound… Spellbound! Yuck. I didn’t enjoy a minute of this.

no es para nada mi estilo, spellbound me gustó un poco y solo por eso va 1 estrella

no me gusto pero porque no es para nada mi onda, es muy dark. No dudo que en ese mundo sea de calidad igual, pero la escuche haciendo matemática y muy meh.

Hasn't aged well.

Got worse the further I got.

Ugh. Couldn’t stand most of this.

meh

Could not get into it at all.

Boring.

Just weird

no hear

Très rythmé, très rock, avec une batterie assez rapide, une voix insupportable, type gothique, post punk. Je n’ai pas du tout apprécié cet album. Groupe post punk, percussions saccadées.

A band I have no familiarity with whatsoever. This album didn't really do much to convince me to change that. Couldn't really find anything worth latching onto here.

Didn’t really like

Couldn't get into it. Each song sounded the same, and at least twice per song I debated if I should just turn it off. Not my cup of tea

Boring drivel not worth listening to

DNF Really not a goth rock fan. Had a hard time finding any connection to this one TOP 3: N/A

Ur kidding me

Painful to listen!

i cant listen to it

Lowkey might be a bad opinion after another but I didn’t like this album either. I don’t love this genre of music like the cure. This album was annoying

Nicht mein Genre

Not for me

admito que não é mt o meu estilo, mas até me impressionou com o começo de spellbound. dps disso achei meio monótono, a cantora n fez mt a minha vibe. ia dar um 2, mas as ultimas 2 musicas até me incomodaram.

Didn't like

I'm starting to think that someone is messing with me. Somebody thinks this is a great album? I bet even Siouxsie doesn't think this is a good album.

Bad

This album gives me hope for the future - I don’t think even AI would make this music and think it should go out to the world.

1/5

hella mid. monotone and every song sounds like a generic '80s song.

1. zpell -1.5 2. light - 1 3. nightz - 1.5 4. Halloween -1.5 5. Monitor - 1 6. Shift - 1 7. Sin - 1 8. Cut - 1.5 9. Voodoo - 1.5

rubbish

Awful

Niet mijn ding

dogshit

Absolute garbage. Every song sounded the same, and not in a good way.

Trick or treat baby. This was not pleasant to listen to.

Hiç beğenmedim amk yeni nesil kabile şarkısı gibi 0 verebiliyosam vericem

This was quite a boring album sorry

So annoying

Terrible

The Cure vibes bare mere kedeligt. Er ikke imponeret, synes ikke der er noget specielt/originalt over det tbh.

Not for me at all.

I wasn't a fan of the lead singer's voice and was disappointed with the instrumentals. A lot of bands during this time sounded similar and Siouxsie and The Banshees failed to stand out or really differentiate themselves (at least in this album.) Very reminiscent of Kate Bush.

meh

Previous review of the Banshees still applies: atonal and screech noise.

unnerving

Fuck this shit

Not. a. fan.

Ich mag die Stimme nicht.

ts lwk ass.

Annoyingly noisy and screamy Post Punk with dissonant, double-tracked vocals and weird chittering instrumentals.

Not for me. 1/5

Meh

I know I'm going to be the outlier here, but this album has cemented for me that I just really really don't like 80's vocals. I had the same issues with Kate Bush's Hounds of Love when I did this album-a-day trial last time. Loved the instrumentals for the most part. There are certain tracks where I can get behind it, too. For Kate Bush it was Running Up That Hill, here it's Monitor. But on the whole? I will just have to be glad you all liked it more. Fav Track: Monitor Least Fav Track (by a mile): Voodoo Dolly

Not that great

Das 50ste Punk/Gothik blabla Album das nix taugt…

No so great for me today

Terrible. I can't imagine why someone would purposefully listen to this.

Quite annoying singing with distorted guitars in the background (nothing against the latter though).

Nada especial para mi, no deja de ser una especie de Pop de los 80. Canciones sin alma, con títulos que parecían prometer mucho pero finalmente para mi gusto ninguna cosa a destacar. Lo he oído de seguido sin sentir apego en ningún momento en especial. No son malas canciones tampoco, pero no tienen una personalidad concreta ni nada que haga que merezca la pena tener en cuenta para volver a escucharlo.

Not my cup of tea

Just didn't hit right with me on many levels.

I listened to as much as I could stand. You couldn’t tell when one song ended and the next began (except for the pause). Five or six songs in it changed tempo, but still sounded the same….bad. It’s all the same and that’s not a good thing - this is terrible music. Hope I never hear another song by them.

well... it was alright but nothing really happened throughout the whole album, it was more like just music to fill up a whole album. I thought that it was a bit meh

Hmmm... Infelizmente não é pra mim.

Blech. Not my cup of tea.

Meh 1/5

Heavy twang-distorted electric guitar. All songs fit together with a consistent sound and feel. , reminiscient of a nameless bar band on a Friday night.

Liked Spellbound and Halloween (but I am biased bc Halloween is my favorite holiday!) wasn’t a huge fan of the vocals over all, but the lyrics were fun!

Meh

Possibly the worst album I ever heard

Didn’t like this band when I was younger. It was all a bit weird. But I thought I might have more appreciation as an older man. I was wrong. It’s still just as weird as ever. A bit of a dirge to be honest.

An experiment in sounds that somehow got produced into an album. Whenever a melody threatens to appear, it’s interrupted by distortion, a random percussion instrument, or a hiss/yodel. It attempts to be exotic without actually having anything interesting to convey. Its inclusion has me questioning this entire project.

I kind of like some of the instruments on some songs but mostly hated the overall sound

Just not for me. Too sloppy.

men, too warbly

No.

I liked the first song spellbound. Didnt do it for me after that.

WACK I didn't listen to it

Really didn’t like this. Too dark and evil.

Unattractive loud women’s punk/80s group

awful and emo

Balls

garbanzo

1 I hate Susans voice

Meh

I didn't have any love for this album. Found it kind of boring.

Really didn’t enjoy this.

for starters, I hate the singer, and outside of that, it's just corny and bad. I'm trying to find something that I like about it, but It's really got nothing going for It, just typical 80's music. If I gave deep purple a 2 this gets a like a -3, but that's not an option so it gets my first 1 star.

Sounded like a sound track from a B horror movie 🎥 Didn’t like the movie either.

i dont no how tu spel