Reviews (page 8 of 8)
Make Oasis more boring than the Verve with a completely nondescript singer and you get this.
It’s like oasis but even worse
Not really deserving of a spot on this list. Indistinguishable from every other band within the continental radius of britpop and alt rock of the 90's. ROUGH vocals that sit in a nasally register for just about every song. The only bit of mercy is that it stopped after 11 songs. No techinically impressive instrumentation to bail it out, no great hooks buried under the shitty presentation of the music. Sometimes the mix even felt off, like the random keys barging in at 1:36 on "How High". Felt dead on arrival 1/5
Save you time, you can never get it back
Didn't do it for me. Just a bit bland
We need to abolish Britpop
If you can’t afford the name brand this basically tastes the same with only a slight chemical after taste
This sucked
If this album was a sandwich it’d be a single slice of dry turkey on white bread with dollar store mayo
Another boring soft rock britpop album. There are at least a dozen other albums on this list that do the same thing better, and most of them earlier, as well. This album has absolutely no reason to be here.
Why is everything on this list from the mid/late nineties Brit pop? Ugh. I can think of plenty of albums from that era that aren’t that are at least listenable. I try not to judge an album by its cover, but I knew exactly what dredge I was in for as soon as I saw this one without even knowing the charlatans. This is nothing more than discount Oasis. Which, given the fact that listening to Oasis makes me want to punch a Gallagher in the face. The only redeemable tracks are the instrumentals because I didn’t have to hear that nasally, whiney vocal that characterizes every Brit pop band.
After two consecutive listens, I don't think I could name a single distinct thing about this album. It's by no means poorly executed, but I just feel like I've heard this exact 80/90s Brit rock album 1,000 times from 100 artists. Hyperbole? Sure, but this is easily the most bored I've been listening to an album on this list. At least albums I straight up didn't like had something for me to chew on, even if it was bitter. This was just the epitome of milquetoast for me, utterly forgettable.
??? "original list was made. I've still only gotten 1 jazz album on this list, but there seems to be an endless supply of late 90s to early 00s British rock bands that I have to slog through to get to good albums." britpop halt...c
idk wasn’t my vibe, a bit too punky
Generic britslip
👎 no
dawno nie sluchalem czegos tak mialkiego jak tellin stories of szarlatanow, krazek z 97, wiec czasy gdzie muzyka czarna zaczynala byc modna dla bialego czlowieka, co slychac rowniez tutaj, bo ciekawego okreslenia na gatunek tego albumu podaje wiki, hip hop soul, pierwszy raz spotykam sie z takim okresleniem, ktore ma nazywac ciagoty do r&b, nie wiem czy samemu bym wpadl na takie okreslenie, bo bardziej pasuje mi tutaj zwyczajny britpop, ale jeszcze dziwniejsze jest, ze nie kojarze w ogole nic zwiazanego z szarlatanami, a to ich piata plyta w dyskografii z trzynastu jakie udalo sie im nagrac od 88 do czasow wspolczesnych, wiec dziwne ze zespol na tyle popularny zeby byl na mainstreamowej liscie albumikowej jakos sie mi nie przewinal, ale nic nie stracilem, przynajmniej po odsluchu tej plyty, bo zadna z historii na niej opowiedzianych nie zaciekawila, byly podane mialko, a wrecz w tak denerwujacej postaci, ze ostatni trak, robs theme, ktory okazal sie instrumentalem byl najlepszym utworem plyty, to troche niezbyt dobrze swiadczy o rokujaco popujacej bandzie, na plejke dodam tylko wspomniany trak
dont know
This album did nothing for me. It was so bland and generic, they might as well have been called wonderwall cause they sound like a mediocre oasis cover band. Honestly I relistened to the album to try and find something to take away from it and was left empty handed.
These guys were openers for Oasis for some time. So imagine going to an Oasis concert, because you hate yourself, and who's their opener? Pretty much Oasis. You die from boredom instantly
I like Britpop and this was completely forgettable, as a record and a band. It’s 10 minutes after I finished listening and it made absolutely no impression at all I don’t remember a thing. Crazy that this would be on a list of albums of must-hears before you die.
it was called "baggy". it is dire.
1 out of 5 Like Oasis but with no talent and much worse.
This alt-rock album feels like riding a bus through drizzly suburbs—muted, reliable, a bit washed-out, steady boredom.
This is fucking boring.
Oh great, generic Britpop! Just what this list needed! On another note, take a look at the overall rating of this album. If you saw an average of 2.5, you would consider it firmly in the middle of the road, right? Wrong. Because of the absence of the zero-star option, ratings get inflated. Look at the bar graphs, and you'll see that this record has more ratings on the left than the right. It's a sub-mediocre album, and yet its average hovers around 2.95. With a 1-5 system, the total is 15 and the average is 3. It's like saying the lowest grade you could give a student is 20%, even if they had done zero work, or skipped the course entirely. We need a zero-star option!!!
Another boring fucking album. This is just any generic pop rock band. Goo goo dolls. Kings of Leon. Etc. 3/10.
Britpop: I would prefer to listen to the sum of the Charlatans' parts; surprise, it's hyper-derivative Britpop.
if you've exhausted oasis's discography and also hate yourself, then boy do i have an album for you! thrice reheated britpop slop and just insulting that anybody could try to argue this is one of the 1001 most important albums ever
Not for me.
Legit hate it. Noisy. Loud. And largely uninspired. Layers of instruments and sounds tripping over each other.
Rating: 1.0 What if we made Oasis suck ass… and put one of the worst songs I’ve ever heard (You’re A Big Girl Now) on there too… and for good measure be so irrelevant in the US as a result of our impenetrable Britishness that when we tour there we have to be “The Charlatans UK…”
Brit Pop strikes again. This album is completely forgettable, wannabe Oasis. I did not need to hear it in this (or any) lifetime.
Not trending up lately - another blase choice
Not good
They should rename this band the Hoovers. Because they really suck.
This is fine but you can’t tell me it’s an album I must listen to before I die. The Brit influence on this list strikes again with this being at least the 100th album of my 428 so far that sounds exactly like this.
I am not a fan of this. It's like stone roses but without that grove and musicianship and songwriting and spark. Kind of like oasis but at least they provide a pale imitation of the Beatles at the same time. That just leaves charmless yowling mancunians.
Ei oikein tiedä mitä se on. Alkuun Oasista, sitten jotain instrumentaalia. Ei siinä ihan menevää paikoittain.
Man ved listen er ret britisk orienteret når der også er 90er-britpop albums med kunstnere man aldrig har hørt om
A generic britpop style album. (Except for that one big-beat style track that I kinda liked.)
Another basic, boring British album that was so forgettable that I forgot I was listening to it. I was going to give it a 2 but then it got so much worse in the back half that I actively started hating it and How High grated my nerves
Meh
The Britpop bias in this list strikes again. This just doesn't do anything for me, and it doesn't even have the critical relevance of bands like Blur to make up for it.
Ass
Noise
meh
Some okay jams but britpop as a whole flies over my head, sounds so bland.
P785. 1996. 1 star. Poor man's Oasis without the tunes or the talent. Not much to like here.
There were three British invasions. Beatlemania lasting till say 1965. Then that early to mid 70s stuff. Deep purple, Bowie (kind of), Zeppelin, Uriah Heap, Jethro Tull, Queen. Etc. There’s what I’d call more of an incursion in the 80s with the smiths and the cure etc. Britpop is the third. And the weakest. All sound the same. Not many strong songs. All more reflective of a declining power than a strengthening one. And while I can listen to some oasis or blur and think yep this is pretty good, there was nothing in this album that grabbed me. Oh the lead singer died. That’s genuinely awful. And tragic. But it doesn’t make this a good album. 1 star.
Terrible 90s English crap no one will remember
Generic. Just had to be there I guess
Blander and more irrelevant than dry toast. Really fed up with how biased this list is.
"We have Oasis at home" Oasis at home;
Why did every band want to sound like and even look like Oasis? I don't understand the writers of this book. This is so bland. You are definitely English.
OOF! No thanks. Generic, bland. Tries to do everything popular ends up sounding like nothing.
SHEIN version of Oasis. Dollar General Stone Roses. Sucked. O stars 1001 album worthy: no - 79/144
The whole genre of "Britpop" is something that I remember with certain amount of distaste (bordering on nausea) - images of Oasis toadying-up to Tony Blair and his "New Labor" cronies, who went in to instigate the deaths of 100,000 Iraqi civilians. This was , musically, a grim time for Britain and should forgotten about as much as possible. I heard nothing about it that remotely interested me, and the false cockney accent of the lead singer of Blur still haunts my worst nightmares! "Cool Britannia", indeed.
Generic, whining and boring. In other words: BritPop.
If Aerosmith grew up listening to Oasis and weren't as dedicated to their craft, this might be the junk they recorded. I swear a few of the songs were literally the same song.
Gear: Hifiman Arya Artwork: 🔳📸💩💩💩💩 Production: 👂🔪🩸 Music: 🎸🇬🇧💩 Rating: 👞/5
This album would fit much better in a book titled 1001 albums to make you wish you could die
Soitto rullaa (klikkiin); biisit syntyvät (etukäteen omaksuttuina). En kuule erottelevia tekijöitä melkein missään. He olisivat pystyneet parempaan. 1,5
Oasis at home:
Even worse than Oasis.
Мне так понравилось, что я перестал слушать 1001, ибо это совершенно невозможно классифицировать. Я пытался выбрать хоть одну песню, которая мне запомнилась хотя бы чуть-чуть, используя все доступные мне методы, включая фол последней надежды против персонального мьюзик-крикетства - рейтинги rym. I feel so depressed I don't know what I am doing. Лучшая песня - One To Another.
Holy shit, noch so ein zu recht längst vergessenes Alternative-Brit-Pop-Band-Album aus den 90ern. Oasis und Blur reichen wohl nicht. Ist ja ok wenn der Ersteller dieser Liste seinen eigenen Musikgeschmack einfließen lässt. Aber so penetrant die Brit-Pop Bands hier breitzutreten nervt auch mal.
Somehow missed them back in the 90's and it was probably a good thing.
1. zhoez - 1.5 2. boy - 1 3. ztoriez - 1 4. another - 1 5. girl - 1 6. leave - 1 7. area 51 - 1 8. high - 1 9. teething - 1 10. get - 1 11. robz theme - 1
In a nutshell: it's a British thing. The Charlatans are one of those bands that were big in the UK but had limited success elsewhere. Think Oasis meets Blur meets Dexy's. It's different from Britpop but for me it is inessential when we have the aforementioned, Pulp and Suede. Overall: 2/10
Yep, that's some interchangeable britpop right there. Better than Oasis, but for me that's not a high bar.
I’m not surprised there’s a more talented Oasis out there, however I am surprised that there’s a more boring one.
Its not possible for me to like this album any less. 1/5
Soulless generic trash
I've listened to this album before, and I'm listening to it again, and I'll probably listen to this album again before I did for some God forsaken reason, and I don't know why. This is the kind of music that makes you think you'll never find a song you like again, an album that lacks a soul so much that you question if the forty-five minutes you sat there listening were even real. The music here is so generic, so void of life, that it has affected my very being for the worse. It isn't even necessarily bad! It is just such a homogenized glob of an album that I fail to see how this does anything for anyone. Vocals are like a dull blade, the guitars are just power chords for forty minutes, and if this album dares try anything "new," it does it in such a way where it just sounds like they took a genre and baked it into their own bland sound. There is nothing here worth listening to, and its complete lack of identity makes it more offensive to the ears than most terrible albums, because at least I have something to say about those. A waste of time, at least they had the decency to keep it under an hour.
Honestly, why is this on this list?
what BORING fucking shit. another dogshit uninspired uninteresting bland unengaging uncreative un-fucking-anything nothing dogshit braindead waste of fucking time album. its a singles album and the singles arent even fucking standout. this is like if guy ritchie went 'lets make the stinger tracks from my movies boring and fucking interesting' kill yourself british people
The entire time I was listening to this I had two major distractions. The first is the ridiculous way the keyboard player died, which I kept thinking of throughout, the second is the guy on the left of the album cover. He is menacing. He looks like he is about to mug me at a train station. Has the FASD stare. I didn’t like this. I don’t like Britpop. I gave up halfway through the album midway through the chore of a track that was you’re a big girl now. I was going to just mark this as did not listen, but I went back and listened to the tail end of the album. I’m sure you can consider this technically competent music but I do not like it. It is boring. I do not like the vocals. It is discount oasis. I am baffled why this is a MUST LISTEN. Please just let the next album be something I’m surprised by. I don’t even have to like it just make it interesting. So many random nothingburger slogs.
I found this boring, but I'm not a big fan of 90s britpop.
Starting to realize this list of 1001 albums is the reflection of some Oasis Superfan who likes shitty Brit-pop.
Nah
Sounds like Oasis. Just as boring. I don't like this at all. I would be stoked if there were no more britpop, sophisti-pop, or blue-eyed soul left on the list, but I don't think the odds are with me on this. 1.49/5
Largely forgettable vintage 90s rock band. Wont give it another listen
can't stand his whiny voice
I am not sure why I needed to listen to this. For every uninspired Oasis copycat band with a bored sounding singer, there has to be something more interesting and adventurous elsewhere. I don't know. 1001 records isn't that much when you look in the entire world of music. I had a great day listening to Mulatu Astatke instead of the Charlatans.
What. Is. The. Point.
No fresh water at this oasis
Mid ass UK garbage
MIttelmäßiger Britpop ohne irgendetwas...
Never thought I'd get listen to everyone in England that could play a guitar. But here we are with this lost. Mid range at best. A song by stone roses came on after this and it was like a breath of fresh air. I hate stone roses.
Corny album
Generic britpop. I think there was a recency bias from when the original book was published that allowed this album to make the cut.
Not a big fan of this band or album. For fans of Oasis it might be somewhat of an enjoyable album (although not quite reaching Oasis levels) but not being a fan of Oasis would make it less of a chance i would enjoy the listening experience at all. The songs are average at best as is the delivery. The album was a somewhat long and difficult listen for me. Not sure how it made the list. Best songs of the bunch: North Country Boy, One to Another.
Poor man’s Oasis. Felt like I was listening to a bunch of b-sides of better Britpop bands.
charlatans, great name nnn
This is sooo unremarkable. What justifies putting it on the list?
Woaw c'est insignifiant
Nooh 97... Sanoin että jos 2001 alle niin voi jotain tähtösiä antaa.. jahas 97.. poppia jee jee pop pop jee jee pop populäärimusiikki jes Paskat lyriikat jee jee mutta heöppo kuunella tradeoff ei mo i ymmärrä se ln art jls heöppo kuunnella.. Nih emt yklöstä öaskaahan tämä
I'm so-so on this. Kind of like a bad Oasis album.
You fucking kidding me with this?
I knew just by seeing the cover that I wouldn't like this album. Just had a feeling.
didn’t listen to all of them
Te zeurderig
Nope
A few nice riffs, some decent production. Singer's voice barely tolerable. Managed to make it to the end only by tuning out most of the songs.
Langweilig..
Ikkje ein grunnlovsdag verdig
Not really feeling the overseas brit-alt-rock
שוב לא שמעתי כמעט כלום
Sounds like a compact disc from a '90's cover band that they sold during their gigs for 5 bucks.
Oh boy, looks like some Oasis wannabe ripoff band... UPDATE: I can't finish this, this album has no ability to hold my interest. Zero stars.
kind of background music to me that didnt speak to me
Haha wat run