Tellin’ Stories

Generic pop. The last few choices haven't left me with a lot of confidence in this person's album choices

Aww yeah pour that BritPop on me!

It's alright, but I've never really rated The Charlatans - I guess the clue's in the name. They sound like an inferior version of a lot of their contemporaries (Stone Roses, Oasis etc). It's only the piano/organ sounds that really distinguishes them. 2.5

A delightfully nostalgic listen. My brother used to hammer this album and it took me straight back to the 90s. Don't think I've ever actively sought out Tellin' Stories before, but i loved it!

Not really feeling the overseas brit-alt-rock

Album has that 90s British swagger to it. At least 2 of the members has a cig precariously hanging out of their mouth most of the time. They put more effort into looking like they don't care than you would realize. Only problem is, you realize. It's pretty fuckin obvious. This album has more hooks than other bands of that scene, I feel like. Still a very forgettable album...

Wish.com version of oasis/blur. Very good though

Great band. Great album. 💚 The Charlatans

Not my thing

Cool and edgy still

Sunny slice of 90s indie... nice

Wow that was a 90s band for sure. I thought it was good but not terribly distinguishable from other core 90s bands. I felt I was hearing a sound like Foo Fighters and Filter when I was listening to them. Solid and well done but not 5/5.

Interesting sound, good vibe, but I think there were other albums that came out that year that I would class as more memorable.

שוב לא שמעתי כמעט כלום

very listenable pop music

This album was a little too "jam bandy" for my taste, though I did appreciate the way they used the electronic piano to put in some funkiness and the harmonica to lighten up the guitar riffs. I did like the first half of the last song, but mostly because, after a bunch of songs on the record, it more closely fit my musical sensibilities.

An album from my university days! I loved listening to this again! It seemed so familiar, yet it is old. I can’t help but think it is timeless in its melodies and smart lyrics.

Loved.

pretty good. not as weird as a expected, nor as pure 90s as I expected. A nice mix of the two. 3.5

So much drive in this album quite rocky in parts

Sounds like Oasis on an off-day.

Proper britpop

Not a fan. Didnt do anything for me.

Terrible Rubbish

meh... the singers voice is too whiny (at least for my current mood).

Hom

Lotta Brits on this list.

Feels like I'm 15 again, loved this album then and listened the hell out of it, so it's great to hear again. Loads of musical layers, brilliant lyrics, it's a big noise. What a band.

Sounds like a compact disc from a '90's cover band that they sold during their gigs for 5 bucks.

Madchester, Unfortunately I was a bit too old for the Anoraks and Fred Perry's of the '90's to busy bringing up the family so missed this whole vibe. Liked the Roses and Happy Monday's (From a distance) but didn't really get into the Charlatans. Listening to this for the first time then! Not really impressed not one for me but I suppose you had to be there in '97!

Some solid 90s era Britpop/alternative tunes. A tad on the generic side but overall quality album. Favorite Track: Area 51 Relisten: Yes

They is some potential, but it's hidden very deeply.

3.75

3.25

Britpop-rock. Ni fu ni fa.

Great album, brought back memories of growing up in the 90s.

“One of the band's earliest known live performances was supporting The Stone Roses at the London School of Economics on 2 December 1988.” Well I never.

I was unable to detect anything particularly special about this album to merit its inclusion to this list

I think this list is oversaturated with Brit Pop but this was pretty good. Especially liked the Area 51 instrumental

what is it about brit pop where you just know it's brit? idk but this was fun drivey soundtrack music

somewhat generic at times. it is not bad per se, just doesn't spark joy. 3.5/5

It has a nice oasis vibe to it. Will definitely listen to more

Britpop meets Madchester grooves.

Look at these serious lookin' fellas. This has a VERY U2 circa POP vibe. I enjoy that vibe, so that's cool. the songs are not as good as any of those, but not bad. Really like the production in Area 51

Non mi sono piaciuti molto. Li ho trovati più interessanti degli Oasis, ma comunque banalotti. La voce nasale del cantante, migliore di quella di Liam Gallagher, ma comunque stucchevole. Non li riascolterò, mai più.. "Maiiii piuuù!" Cit. A. Zequila

Anche in questo caso è la prima volta che sento i The Charlatans. Questo disco è stato un ascolto davvero divertente! Nonostante fossi distratto mi sono fermato più volte a sentire o a guardare quale pezzo fosse. In questo gruppo si sente la parte che mi piace dello stile inglese, quell'influenza punk vera che unita al rock un po' alternativo crea un mix davvero sfizioso e non autoreferenziale. La produzione mi è sembrata un po' amatoriale ma sto sentendo anche con delle cuffie di merda quindi lascio passare. Bravi The Charlatans, non vi dimenticherò. 4 abbastanza giusto.

So wait...is this Oasis? No? This is not Oasis? This is Oasis, right? Ok, with that out of the way, it's actually really good. I love the guitar riffs. These are really great pop/rock songs. I mean if it was Oasis...and I'm still not sure it's not...this would be one of the good Oasis records.

Rock maar niet mijn favoriet. al kan ik wel de kwaliteit erin herkennen

Honestly, I think I just don't care for Britpop. It was... okay.

I don't know why, but this album actually struck me quite well. Beginning at a high acceleration, the songs sort of lose energy, but in a way that feels almost cathartic. The best way I can express it is the feeling at the tail end of a party, where there is almost too much going on, so then you leave with a van full of people and begin dropping them off, and by the end of the ride it is just you and one other person talking about life together. Really nice.

A fun listen. If not for these guys, there's no MGMT, Kasabian....

Tedious baggy. Distinctly average.

Good for background music, but I much as a more critical listening experience

Underwhelming to me

Rock

24th August 2021 Listened on the living room speaker while working. Quiet day. Enjoyed this bit of alternative brit pop, slots right in to the time and sound.

Typical 90s rock vibe!

Again, nothing spoke to me, not dreadful, listenable, but nothing stood out. Maybe I need to listen to these albums with a little more concentration, less I risk never revisiting them

Loved it! Great songwriting and overall vibe. Favorite track is number 10: Get it on. Can’t wait to play this one on high rotation.

boring brit pop, seemed a bit droney. dont think its iconic enough to be something i enjoy for the iconic factor.

very mediocre and boring.

“Tellin’ Stories” by The Charlatans (1997) Here we have more eye-rolling British pop from the last millennium. With super safe lyrics that studiously avoid controversy or offense, these Charlatans give us words around which to wrap music. Sometimes it’s an ill fit. It’s as if they really don’t have anything to say, but they want to say it with style. Tunes are composed with pleasant enough melodies, and the chord structures sometimes go beyond the ordinary, but without a mood to match. It seems random. Even the jazzy experimental compositions “Area 51” and “Rob’s Theme” fall flat. And the Dylanesque “Get On It” is thirty years too late. Are these guys coasting on previous success? The unrelated collection of songs on this album are conventional enough to guarantee popular airplay. They’ve got the fundamentals down. And it’s well produced, but with little dynamic variation. The biggest weakness here is lack of groove or dominant riffs—nothing to grab the listener. Hoping for something special, one comes to the fadeout of the last track asking, “Is that it?” 2/5

Liked the bass line (piano / keyboard) of One to Another a lot. Liked 'Get On It' quite a bit too, great buildup. Didn't love the vocals

Didn’t really stand out for me

Un bon album dans le genre, mais sonne un peu generique de la pop rock uk de ces annees la. Style Oasis. J’aime quand meme . 3.75

Poor man's Oasis. It was ok

Good stuff. I had never heard of The Charlatans, but they immediately reminded me of Oasis (or maybe it's Oasis that sounds like them... not sure because these guys never made it big in the US).

Better than I remembered. I'd definitely heard 1 or 2 other albums by them that were piss weak

There's some proper Gallagher pronunciation here innit. What a mess.

Perfectly decent, if unexciting British Indie.

Nice

me gustó, pero me resulto medio monotono, lo anoté para escuchar en agosto, no se si lo dejaré

What is the point of this. I can tell this book was edited by an English music reviewer. There's a reason I've never heard of this band. Generic garbage

mais um indie conhecido sem incomodar ou empolgar.

Sounds like Oasis or maybe Oasis sounds like them. Good sound anyways.

One of these stars is due to nostalgia. I like the Charlatans but they don't exactly excite me.

blur pero en zzzzz

Ok pop I guess

It's fine. Solid 90s alt rock. It doesn't seem that anything about this album is super special.

Not sure i'm going to listen to this one again. Nice rock, but a little repetetive for my tastes. maybe a lot of people have copied their style which is why I tire of the music so fast.

Ok, not as good as I remember, couple of decent tracks but that's it.

Some blasts from the past fleshed out with some decent tracks I'd never heard. I wish I was more into this stuff first time round.

Pretty good! Favourite tracks were With No Shoes and Tellin' Stories.

Very reminiscent of Kasabian.

Boring

i really like the sound

pretty average 90's altpop

This is some really good Brit-pop -> in an alternate universe most of these tracks would replace the same timeless status as Oasis' big hits. This is a better band with better songwriting (melodies, dynamics, whocaresaboutlyrics :).....) - the single "One To Another" was immediately recognizable and got some radio play way back in the day - deservedly so. Even though this may not be anything super-complex or groundbreaking, this is a great melodic guitar album that is easy-entry and eminently catchy with fantastic songs. And I was going to give it a solid 3 but as I've found myself listening to it on repeat and am already on my 4th listen - this is a 4 star keeper for me. 7/10 4 stars (One small nitpick is that I'd love to hear a remix; this sounds a little ... cloudy... for my liking.)

Decent. Polished in places and rugged in others. Not very memorable for my taste though.

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.

Reminds me of Oasis, but without the catchy songs.

kind of background music to me that didnt speak to me

This album is pretty average, to be honest. The only songs I sort of liked were You're A Big Girl Now, Only Teething and Get On It.

on dirait un coming of age movie des 2000's de la campagne écossaise. DERRY GIRLS enjoyable oooh nice guitar solo tbh idk if i see myself returning back to it ok one to another is a bop how can you leave us also great how high = <3 so far, it's a 4. un peu funky les solos get on it est très bien ça me semblait ne pas casser trois pâtes à un canard au début mais la fin de l'album est vraiment bien quant à la voix du mec, pas transcendante mais délivre bien les lignes ok c'est quoi cet amour des 90's pour les interludes vous êtes pas Bach, alors on se calme. ouais les 2 interludes sont sympas mais je ne les écouterai pas de moi-même one of them looks like he's got a frog in his mouth yeah a 4. = 80/100 great qualities, not exactly always my style

Really quite boring. Nothing of substance outside of some neat guitar stuff

Is this not Oasis in (slight) disguise? Same wall of guitar sound and production, vocal intonation and phrasing, guitar style - all that's missing is an obnoxious twat freeloading as a singer. I quite liked it but clearly the two bands are interchangeable. Occasionally detected a Rolling Stones influence.

Interesting

Liked it

solid sound, didn't sound too distinctive to me.

Seems very good. Definitely worth another listen.

Always enjoyed listening to and watching The Charlatans. Fairly consistent Stones-style rock n roll (appropriate for Beggars Banquet label!). Maybe not as good as The Charlatans eponymous album or New Order-sounding You Cross My Path.

First thought was that Oasis ripped these guys off 😂 Not really my bag though, never been mad for this era of British indie rock. Was gonna give it a 2 but I've gone for 3 cos you can tell it inspired oasis etc

They told an alright story.

Ganz nett! Der Hit "the only one I know" ist leider nicht dabei. Oasis lässt grüßen. Macht Lust auf Indiefilme aus UK mit Musikboys in Skinnyjeans.

false

ok. reminds me of the early 90s, not particularly unique or captivating

false

Britpop delontón donde no hay que destacar nada. Suenan como unos Oasis descafeinados. Interesante cuando copian a Dylan, debieran haber tirado por ahí mejor. De fondo.

Britpop hangover. Best Tracks: North Country Boy, One To Another, How Can You Leave Us

awesome 90s britpop - love it

in one ear and out the other. perfectly fine lite alt rock.

Kinda emo

McDowells

Good stuff

3/5

Didn't vibe at all

Cool brit pop record with beautiful melodies and some Madchester vibes. Not amazing though

More British alternative. Its basically a harder and heavier Oasis. One To Another is a good track. Yea this is like listening to a lost Oasis album, which means I'm pretty bored with the sound.

Catchy/poppy alt rock with a 90s sound. Some decent guitar moments and riffs. None of it is life changing great, but overall it's pretty cool. Some electronic sounds too.

More gerneric British alt rock. 4/10.

I'm so glad this forced me to revisit this. It's been a long time and I never really spend much time with them. After listening, it's probably because they have a similar sound to Oasis, who I was never a big fan of. That said, they both write catchy tunes. Decent album. YouTube gave me the Stone Roses right after, which reminded me why I'm giving this a 3.

didnt like

Buen pop noventero

Not bat but also quite forgettable

Not on Apple music

I really don't get BritPop. It's fine?

Not bad. Not bad at all.

not too shabs

oasis like.. bah

I liked this, but it wasn’t particularly memorable.

2nd tier Oasis sound

Solid, enjoyable Britpop album.

I don't get why this is good

Sounds like we’ll executed mid-90s Britpop.

bland, boring, and dull

Fine record. I didn't want to turn it off, so at least there's that.

started listening and it was pretty boring. didn't finish

Pues sí me gustó. Suena muy a muchas cosas de las que sobaban en ese entonces en eso lares, pero tienen su marca personal. Escucharlo es como meterte en Lock Stock and Two smoking barrels.

No me latió tanto, suena como Oasis pero sin el odio hermanal.

generic brit pop

Blah blah blah, drone drone drone.

6

Glad I didn’t skip this one.

It was pretty okay

Haha wat run

There was that one Rolling Stones record review that said all of Led Zeppelin's blues covers other than When the Levee Breaks sound bizarre parodies... The vocals on some of these tracks sound like bizarre parodies of Pop. The rest of it just sounds like big standard pop to my ears. What's alternative about it, other than the haircuts? Decent music.

Actually a really nice sound-like a clean Levellers. I like a lot of these songs, might add to library, but not very memorable past the first listen.

sounds like Oasis!

Fun album. First time listebjbg

Still good

Same thing over and over again but ok

This sounds like a cheerier version of Oasis. This just feels like another random British band that made it because they were relatively popular when the 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. 2/5

Set the basis for much of the brit punk revival

Ok but nothing special, similar to other UK stuff at the time.

2,5/5

good but spotify only had like 3 songs

The Oasis comparison hit me from the first chord. It's not bad, I just couldn't really escape that initial impression. Favorite tracks: "Get On It", "One to Another"

Tempted to give 4 stars, but I think I have to deduct at least half a star because this band is a fairly blatant copycat of Oasis. The music isn't awful though.

3.5/5. Not the worst alt-rock I've been thrown, but by no means is it amazing. Overall it sounded better than other alt-rock albums I've listened to.

Love this

Bof not my style

Well this was funny as i just finished his book, named the same as this album. While this album is not my favourite Charlatans album - thats probably the debut Some Friendly or the follow up Between 10th and 11th - its still a great album and i cannot give it anything but a 5. The book? You should read it! Some great anecdotes in there. And yeah, Tim Burgess has great music taste and there's a lot of name dropping in there.