Reviews (page 6 of 8)
Instrumentals sind größtenteils ok aber der sänger ist absolut unterirdisch
So, I like the music on this album, but damn, the vocals are tough to listen to. But not on every track, though. "Another Girl, Another Planet", they sound fine. The opening track, "The Whole of the Law", they sound atrocious. I'm not someone that needs the singer to be great, but they just happen to be in the small range that just annoys me. Music is a 3.5, vocals are a 1. Overall, album is a 2.
It’s sometimes endearing seeing what the indie rock heroes of the 90s looked back on as hidden gems, maybe even pivotal in inspiring them to start making music. I know about this album entirely because Yo La Tengo covered The Whole of the Law on Painful. They are a much better band. It’s all fine and Perrett’s vocals in particular stand out - little bit from Verlaine, a whole lot Reed, and various late 70s punk vocalists - just, like a lot of new wave, the songs themselves are so indebted to Rock n Roll it often feels like a rote nostalgia exercise.
Another Girl Another Planet is good but the rest isn't
how drunk was he on the first track I didn't really care for this, it was a bit of a slog
Cool band with pretty terrible singer
Loved the songs and music but hated the singer.
Warbly voice from the get go, some songs were OKish. I liked a lot of the English pop albums on the list but this one missed for me.
Medio lope
weird unsupported half-speaking vocals. some of the solo playing is pretty good but the basic instrumentals are mostly nothing.
Did not finish because I didn't really enjoy it for the first 5 songs
made my ears bleed why would u do my blink 182 like that possibly worst cover in the world
Power Pop: the genre recreates that labelesque hit-chasing nihilism ethos of the 50s and 60s from first principles. Power Pop: the genre that foregos artistic transcendence for the sake of pursuing something equally abstract and meaningless. Catchiness at the cost of unbroken confines. WRT The Genre of Discussion, this typically worthy trade-off oftentimes tends to sacrifice _content_ instead of structural creativity. Power Pop: the genre that 70% of the time does fuck all to earn two thirds of its name’s syllabic composition Power Pop: perpetually winking at the listener with the subtlety of the singer’s cragley british accent drawling "and yooaaaarrr gahnnna get the jooooaaake evenchallleeeeyy" Power Pop: I Love You But You’Re Bringing Me Down. Power Pop, I Love You But You’re BriNging Me Down Power Pop: pretention wrapped in a ruffled pink bow + Chris Bell’s obituary with his dashing little face on the flimsy page and underneath a block quote saying "we just want to write hits, maaaaaaan" ad finito blowjob stereophonic Power Pop: like Icarus 150 times over the span of an entire career, but in the one two twenty times they actually touch tips with that bright perpetual kablooey, they’re horrified as they find the end product’s basically the same as the traditional asphalt-birdshit-style consummation. Whether pecker-scorched or pigeon-splattered, the work is spiritually dead. Power Pop: best enjoyed when the blokes writing the songs have SOMETHING TO FUCKING SAY 2.4
I knew exactly what this album was going to sound like from the cover art. Its rock with some tracks dabbling a bit on the jazzier side, and it's just kind of meh, I'd say. The lead vocalist bothered me, definitely not my favorite. The whole thing was just kinda boring, outside of a few guitar parts that has some flair. Standout track was "The Beast." There were probably one or two other decent ones but I don't know the titles and won't be going back in to figure it out. It's a 2 for me, The Only Ones were not the ones for me. Liars.
Ok 2/5
Bar background music
Good melodies, was so ready to give a 4, but the vocals brought it down dreadfully. Maybe they've got the name because they're the only ones who could have fumbled it like that.
I don't know about this one. Maybe it was my mood, but this didn't do it for me. I tried to listen but I got bored fast.
The wasn’t a good album. It wanted to be something it wasn’t.
Its okay. Can't rememeber anything about it but it was't bad.
I like the first song, but it went all downhill from there.
“Hmm, I’ve never heard of these guys, I wonder why? Oh, they’re not very good, that’s why””
Another Girl Another Planet is an absolute power pop gem. Unfortunately, I don't know if it was the vocals but the rest of the album didnt grab my attention like that song.
I can see some innovative things for that time but I don't think this ripened with age.
Good, not great. 2.5/5
Just an ok listen. There’s clearly some musical ability here, but outside of just occasional moments here and there where things align, the songs overall are pretty forgettable. Except for Another Girl, Another Planet which The Replacements covered nicely in the 80s.
Do you think they were as bored making this as I was listening? I don’t know what it was. Some decent solos and the horns were a nice touch. But it just felt very superficial. 2.25
It’s pretty meh album for me, nothing I would revisit. Two stars. I enjoyed another girl another planet though.
A disappointing listen, this one. There's some quality in here but the consistency of the songs isn't there. The band sounds fine, but I'm not really into the vocals. And maybe it's all because the terrible day I had Anyway... a 2
++: Another Girl, Another Planet, City of Fun, Language Problem, The Immortal Story +: The Whole of the Law, The Beast +-: Creature of Doom, It's the Truth, No Peace for the Wicked -: Breaking Down 5,2/10
I wanted to like this, i really did. AGAP is an absolutely classic in my eyes. Unfortunately maybe that was a fluke. The rest of it grates, his voice grates and i couldn't really indentify any song structure in most of the songs. Sounded a bit like Violent Femmes which isn't bad either. Will stick to the one song.
Other reviews mention how annoying the lead singers voice is. I really enjoyed the music but surprisingly I couldn't get over the voice. Makes Bob Dylan sound like Pavarotti. If the lyrics compared to Bob's I might be able to see past it but after listening to the whole album (and half way through again) I just can't get into it. It sounds like he's whinging the entire album. Pass sorry.
It’s OK but not one I’d listen to again
This left almost no impression on me, I forgot every song the instant it finished. The only thing I can say with any certainty was that I didn't like the flat singing.
I just feel like this list is a lot of the same stuff and it’s starting to feel uninspired
only liked one song
I wasn't a fan of this album. The vocals really caught me off guard and didn't really fit in well with the feel of the tracks; it took a while to get used to. There were one or two songs that stood out slightly more, but I genuinely cannot get over how much I didn't like 'No Peace For The Wicked'... It seemed like a jumbled mess, to be totally honest. I enjoyed the instrumentation, but that was about it. Stand-outs: Another Girl, Another Planet Breaking Down It's The Truth
A full album of this was just too much. Aside for the first track I didn’t mind a lot of the tracks here (especially ‘another girl, another planet). However, i’m not sure i would go as far as saying i enjoyed this, i just didn't hate it. It feels like potential unfulfilled.
I definitely thought I'd never heard of this band until track 2 started. This is another case of really quite liking the instrumental and backing vocals but despising the lead vocalist's voice. He sounds like he's trying to combine Mick Jagger and Lou Reed while sounding like he'd rather be doing literally anything other than singing these songs. 4/5 for the music. 0/5 for the lead vocals. 2/5 will have to do
Was reading the Spotify summary for this band and was enraptured by "raffish and slightly scuzzy romance-obsessed" as a collection of adjectives to describe someone. Scuzzy is such an evocative word! Said Spotify summary also refers to the Cure as "politically indulgent" and Peter Perrett's voice as a "semi-tuneful whine". I gotta say I'm obsessed with this writer. John Dougan, I hope your career is long and illustrious! Oh, the actual album? Uh--well--it's cute! I like "Another Girl, Another Planet" and "Breaking Down" is very chill. Like if punk was elevator music. "Creature of Doom" is also pretty good. I'm gonna say "unobtrusive". I could put this on in the background and forget to listen to it quite easily. Mr. Dougan says this is an influential punk influence but I dunno. It's just...kinda chill.
Mid tempo rock with low tempo vocals. This band sounds uninspired and aimless. The vocalist sounds like he was bored and is just blithering a stream of continuous. Not tge worst thing I have ever listened to, but I won't be listening again.
i just don’t wanna keep listening but i think it’s cute for the time. it feels like something i’d hear in an 80s movie.
not very likeable. vocals dont sound particularly great. it wasnt very boring but it isnt enough to leave me with a feeling. songwriting was that of a childrens book. thats all i have to say
Good music and nice guitar solos are getting ruined by shit singing and lyrics by an edgy kid.
2/5 The only saving grace of this album is that the music itself was nice, but god the singing is awful, the lyrics are corny and I couldn't listen to this again if I wanted to.
The vocals ruined it. Although, they got less annoying after the first few songs. Not great but less annoying.
Had potential, also a really bad singer.
There were a couple of catchy’ish song otherwise forgettable and I don’t care for the vocal style. 2.5
like i think that it couldnt be this bad but like its actually quite bad. go take my 2/5 and never come back to me.
The band is pretty good but the singer just seems like no one will tell him he doesn’t belong in a band
Bad brit pop, why is he trying to sound like bob dylan?
2nd day in a row of a band with a horrid singer. The first track of this album almost made me hit stop, the singer was that bad. He does get more palatable, which is just enough to keep listening. The rest of the band is actually really good, as if you removed the singer and just had the music, I could see myself rating this a 4 to 4.5. Sucks they allowed the singer to ruin it.
Seems like they had some decent ideas, but nowhere near enough talent to pull them off
The singer sounds like he's about to throw up and he desperately tries to stop himself. That was very off-putting. Aside from that, the instrumentals were just ok. Nothing special. But that singing made everything worse. There are songs that work with his voice though, but not all of them.
I can see this as a precursor to so much music from the ‘80s and ‘90s. But I wasn’t wowed by it.
Definitely one of the albums I've heard
Started strong then a dying cat in heat started to wail
I did not like most of these songs
Ni se mi dal poslušat do konca
Reminds me of 2021
Meh
2.5.
I couldn't tell what fucking decade this was for the longest time. Also the dude's voice sucked. Not terrible but damn this project is starting to burn me out cause this was just so bleh. Like 3 in a row now. 4/10
Ordinary to the point of being unlikable.
It's like Lou Reed joined the Violent Femmes and the resulting band had the charms of neither of them.
Odd album. Like listening to the child of Lou Reed and Frank Spencer. The second song should be familiar to anyone in the UK as it’s been used in adverts and because of this the band and the vocalists voice seemed more familiar than they were. However, the album was mostly miss. Some higher tempo tracks, where the weakness in the vocalists voice could be hidden, and some low tempo tracks where it could not. Would I listen to it again? No.
I could have gone the rest of my life without hearing this album. In fairness, it wasn't "bad," just ho-hum and uninteresting. The guy's voice is pretty awful on top of that. I'm not even interested in finishing now that track 8 has started. ⭐⭐
Was a little go slow and somber for my liking, was not particularly unique in my eyes and thus deserves a 2 stars
Too much punk
#834. There was one song at the beginning that was pretty good (Another Girl, Another Planet) but the rest of the album did not seem to maintain that interest for me. 2/5: meh
Unimpressive, punky stuff. A 2.
List-padder that could barely grab my attention, sounds decent enough for what it is though
had a few great songs but overall didn’t win me over.
Man, what the hell is this. Another English wank band that I've rightfully never heard of, I presume. Anyways, enough with the cynicism. I really have no clue what to gleam from this album cover. Is it gonna be a psychedelic album? Dead wrong, as usual. These vocals are something else, huh? The instrumentation is solid across the board, but I just cannot get into the vocal delivery. It's simultaneously nasally and vocal fried to hell. There isn't much in the way of a charisma or presence on these tracks, which is disappointing. The runtime is pretty great, however. I salute you, thirty minute duration. Overall, I was pretty disengaged by this. Book time. Good songwriting. Well-regarded by influential artists. Wikipedia says that this album has somewhat of an enduring appeal with Britics and they also appear to have had an influence on a number of indie bands. Yeah, nah. We're snubbing this puppy. In place of this album, I humbly submit the Ridge Racer Type 4 soundtrack for inclusion on the list.
This is like the Violent Femmes but worse
Late 70s power indie pop in a nutshell, with a sprinkle of early punk. No more, no less. If you're into that, you'll enjoy this one. For me: Boring. Uninspiring. Forgettable.
Reminds me of the Jam's album "All Mod Cons". However I am not a fan of the whiny singing voice and the songs aren't that memorable. The exceptions are the first song "The Whole of the Law" a nice slower number that sounds like something off the self titled Velvet Underground album and last song "The Immortal Story" which has a great energetic jam at the end. 2.5/5
Previously unknown. I almost didn't stick with it after the first two songs, but it kinda grew on me.
Dnf
5/10 - Favorite song: Language problem
failed to resonate with me - they sound mediocre at best
I enjoyed the instrumental parts: the guitar solos and the way the punk sound is shaped. But the vocals, the melodies… argh.
Never heard of this band, don’t understand how this album is on this list. Never even heard their hit song (Another Girl, Another Planet) before… maybe they were a one hit wonder before my time? At any rate, some of the songs were ok, kind of a punk rock vibe, but the vocals were a bit grating and so bad it made me skip several songs. (2)
A really strange blend of space rock, pop rock, and punk that didn't really work for me. A few decent bright spots, but the vocalsnin particular are some of the most grating I've ever heard. The album is at its strongest when the instrumentals take the foreground. Top tracks: Breaking Down, The Beast
Досить цікавий альбом, але мені дуже не сподобався вокал.
2/5
4.5/10
I think I would really like this album with a different singer. The guitarist is really good and there are some sick solos spread around. But the singer, oh man he is not good.
2.3
I don't like a whiney singing voice. Or really any whining voice.
Lovers of Today is a great track. Nothing on the album really stood out until that song came on. Not bad but nothing enticing to me for the most part.
Overall not terrible but there was something I didn't like that I can't quite put my finger on.
Sounded pretty cool aside from the vocalist’s voice. Honestly, this would be probably 4 stars if this band had a singer that could actually sing.
Nope.
No
I'd enjoy this like 50% more if the lead singers voice were less annoying and whiny
Pretty anonymous New Wave. Not idea why it's here. I'm sure the members of the band themselves don't know either. Key tracks: Another Girl, Another Planet
It was marginal.
The singing is sooo bad
Can't cope with the singer's voice
2/5
Лайк за шубу и свежий звук для тех лет
Good
Didn’t care for it
This album starts off okay, but it gets rougher the longer it goes. The singer’s voice is downright brutal to sit through, and by the end I couldn’t imagine voluntarily listening to him again. The songs themselves aren't bad, but that voice makes the whole thing a slog.
Not punk or new wave. A middling English rock album from 1978. Engineering, production, and most of the performances are good to great, but the vocalist is quite dreadful. I never did acclimate to his special kind of auditory hell. Song structures are acceptable. I'm not convinced this is an all timer that anyone needs to hear.
Kemur mér ekki á óvart að ég hafi aldrei heyrt um þessa hljómsveit fyrr. Hljómar samt eins og miðlungs 90s/00s hljómsveit.
Not terrible. Not good.
Meh
Average album, but gets an extra star for Another Girl, Another Planet.
Never heard of these guys. Can't stand the vocalist, and it brings down some otherwise pretty decent rock. Almost like a polished garage rock sound, kinda reminds me of Think Lizzy a bit, but ultimately pretty forgettable.
i genuinely can't wrap my head around how boring this is
Vaikea nähdä muuta mitään syytä albumin listaukselle kuin brittibias. Unohtui heti loputtuaan. 2/5
ok but i just dont care 2/5
Wasn't a fan of his voice. Found most of the record boring.
There's been like 50 albums on this list that sound exactly like this I think
Average.
It’s good. No reason to go back but glad I heard it.
There was nothing special about this. 2/5
Badbadnotgood id rather be listening to
Painfully British Best Song: Another Girl, Another Planet Rating: 4/10 Stars: 2
hm i get what they’re doing very early alternative vibes kinda giving the talking heads but def not my fav or go to. just okay i guess but i appreciate the value in this early stuff - 4/10
Lagasmíðin var mjög fín en samt herregud hvað söngvarinn er leiðinlegur. Hann dregur alla plötuna niður í "langar ekki til að hlusta aftur" flokkinn. Hefði fengið fleiri stjörnur ef þetta hefði verið instrúmental.
This was a very boring, bordering at times annoying, punk album, a genre I will rarely enjoy. Some of the lead guitar was cool I guess, and I like Peter and the Pets. Next
An album that doesn't quite know where it sits. Its like a proto-punk, pre-brit-pop, pop-rock album that sounds like something your mate recorded in his garage. There is one good track "Another girl, Another planet" which stands out as a diamond in the rough. The majority of the album is fairly weak lyrically. I guess you could argue that it is impressively prescient, but it doesn't convincingly excel in any of the sounds that it foreshadows and I didn't particularly enjoy listening to it.
Why did he sound like a corpse 2 ⭐️
01) The Whole of the Law - 6,5 02) Another Girl, Another Planet - 6,5 03) Breaking Down - 6,0 04) City of Fun - 6,0 05) The Beast - 6,0 06) Creature of Doom - 5,5 07) It's the Truth - 5,0 08) Language Problem - 5,0 09) No Peace for the Wicked - 5,5 10) The Immortal Story - 6,0 TOTAL: 5,80 (58/100) Current ranking: 566/686
Something very charming about these guys. I’d like to think this album is a bit ahead of its time, it’s got a 90’s rock pulse to it! …is what I thought for the first two songs. Everything after that devolved and nose-dived into protopunk nothingness that all blurred together.
Good thing the band name is misleading.
How was this the best option for lead singer? The music is mostly fine, but kindda generic. The vocals strip this album of any other merits. Is this a joke inclusion on the list?
I would have liked this album more if the singing was better. Look, it doesn't have to be a virtuoso, but he sounded WAY too much like Lou Reed to me, although at least he was in tune. Somewhat. The music was good, punky, and even had some brighter moments with the horn in it. But the singing just... brought me out of it. NEXT.
Okay.
Yeah this guy couldn't sing, pretty average
The Only Ones are often mentioned alongside the Sex Pistols and the Clash, except, the Only Ones are feel mediocre by comparison.
I echo the sentiment of the current top review. I was SO excited hearing the first few chords of this album. And theeeenn, the singing started. The music all across this album is excellent. Just ruined by some shitty British vocals.
Nothing too great, nothing too special. Fairly good rock 🤷🏽♂️
Had a nasally Violent Femmes vocal. Not awful. But not great.
This is bad singing done right, I guess. His voice is awful, but the song structures (and a pleasant surprise of a saxophone) and general upbeat-ness help a bit. I listened twice. Not good but not bad.
When you want to hear the band but the singer keeps getting in the way.
Remember liking big single from this album Another Girl, Another Planet. As a result looked at buying this album but as everything else on the album was rubbish never bothered. 47 years (how can that be?) later it hasn’t improved. It’s the vocals which spoil it. Trying to hard to achieve that mean Pete Shelley of The Buzzcocks sound. Still one good single drags the album up a bit. 2/5 27/8/25
Short lived, definitely got the same vocal style as the clash and the sex pistols - you can hear the drawl of the London accent, but more melodic in some ways! Definitely transports you to this era.
would be cool if i liked the guys voice
Kinda liked the music but the voice isn't tickling me in a right way
Maybe in 1978 this was something special, but it just doesn't hold up.
Other bands have created a similar sound much better than this.
It wasn't terrible ...
This is just mediocre and boring when the "singer" keeps his gob shut. Unfortunately he doesn't so then it becomes annoying.
Decent instrumentals; terrible lead singer
A little bit new wave, a little bit punk. Not a bad mix. But I found the singer's vocals to be a bit...droney and draggy, for a lack of a better way to put it. I had a hard time moving past that. It was okay, but nothing to write home about.
Okay album. Band is better than the singer.
I feel like giving this a 1 star, but Another Girl, Another Planet is such a good song that I think I have to bump it to 2. The rest of it is nothing worth remembering though: bad singing, uninteresting lyrics, ordinary music.
The tunes were ok. The singing was annoying, kind of reminded me of the Velvet Underground but not as good.
It's a pretty average record, a light punk-ish vibe, very UK. It left a pretty fleeting memory for me though, I forgot it very quickly as I didn't find it quite remarkable. Not bad, not great. I liked the record the most when they find a pocket that lives in a sort of moody rock/blues space. But several times in the album they land in a sort of generic pop/rock sound that could've been made by 100 other UK bands. My favourite track was "Breaking Down", I liked the blues-y middle part, the vocals weren't that good but it worked pretty good. Everything else was pretty average.
Track one is just awful. His vocals don't work for these slower tracks. The album does get better, but there isn't much here to recommend overall. Just because it's a British punk album from 1978 means it's worthy of inclusion on the list.
Before I die?! Naaaahhhhh. This is one that shows the UK lean this list has. A bit of British waffle.
This had all the trappings of something I would like--British band I never heard of from he late 70s/80s, punk, new wave, indie-ish... but it missed the mark for me.
This was ok. Whatever.
Easy listen but not for me.
Cool instrumentals! But annoying, whiny vocals that I can’t get past lol.
This album actually bummed me out because it'd be an easy 4/5 if it wasn't for the fact the singer's voice is absolutely god awful, he sounds like if Mandark from Dexter's Laboratory joined a band.
I would do a better job than the vocalist and I do not know how to sing. At least the other instruments were good.
Couldn’t really make this one work….!
Cool until he starts singing and he sings a lot.
Another album which isn’t inherently bad, but shouldn’t be anywhere near this list because it is neither great nor influential, but is included solely because they are from the UK. If you listen to this album, it sounds like something straight from the late 60s with some later punk elements. Unfortunately, it’s the late 70s by the time they released it. Yes, an album that came a decade too late and the results, or lack thereof, shows. Sure, there are some highlights, such as the guitar work in the middle of Another Girl Another Planet, the construction of City of Fun (very interesting throughout). Sadly, the singer’s voice is very below average, like one of those 80s new wave bands, but without the interesting moments. And the lyrics are substandard too, eg the beginning of The Beast, which ruins what could have been an excellent song. It just isn’t, because everything about the signing is bad. When this happens, I openly wonder if this band knew that they were being held back by their front man? Then it occurs to me obviously not, as otherwise some of us might have heard of these guys before.
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not bad… the lead singer’s voice took some getting used to but there was a save!
2.5 stars. I was impressed by their sound at first, but then the vocals kicked in and they just don't work for me. Lots of singers can get away with a whiny, nasally voice that is clearly untrained - sometimes that's half the charm of a band (Felt, for example). Here, however, the instrumentation is tight and carefully arranged, making Perrett's voice sound jarring and out of place in comparison. Many songs started with great sounds that made me excited to listen until the vocals inevitably kicked back in - pretty disappointing. The album as a whole was listenable but probably isn't one I'll go back to.
Didn’t connect with Peter Perrett’s voice. It made the songs feel a bit dull to me. Some nice guitar work in places, but overall the album didn’t land.
The vocals on this are truly obnoxious. Musically tolerable though.
Certainly not a terrible record, but often invokes the ghosts of other, better albums. The vocalist in particular sounds like he's aping Tom Verlaine on some songs and Howard Devoto on others. The tracks have lots o' rock & roll swagger but aren't particularly groundbreaking.
Largely forgettable, largely mid.
another girl another planet is a fun tune. otherwise, could do without.
aye abbroche ih de hälfti sorry lads, de bachelor macht chli stress und die mukke hilft nöd trotzdem tueni bewerte und gib 2 gstressti viertel woni gloset han da
Man, what is this singer trying to do with his voice? Otherwise, a pretty average effort. Not sure why this album is included on this list.
why am i listening to this fucking shit album fuck my life
ehhh i had a pretty hard time getting into this one
this was so blah to me. ‘the whole of the law’ is such an incredible song—i dearly love [yo la tengo’s cover](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5GtdQEWdYY) of it—so i guess my expectations were too high for the rest of the songs on the record, especially with that as the first track. it can only be downhill from there…his voice was just annoying. like gordon gano but british and without any personal sentimentality and therefore almost impossible to tolerate. fav tracks: the whole of the law
When Television toured the UK in 77, only 4 people heard them, but they all started a band... Okay, I made that up, but still.
cool guitar, shockingly annoying vocals
Please god, don't let this be another completely forgettable 80's British pop band.... Oh and the vocals on this one are terrible? Awesome, thanks.
As it has happened often with albums on this list, a perfectly good record was ruined by a guy that can’t sing. Two stars.
Pretty boring proto new wave album. I haven't come back to this album at all. I will give it extra points because it's a genre I like but definitely not a staple of it. 4/10 Favourite: Another Girl, Another Planet Least Favourite: The Whole of the Law
Mediocre
I guess they're a one hit wonder for a reason.
Another album that benefits from the British bias of the author. Wasn't that good and didn't seem special in unique in any way. Not sure why it needed to be included on this list.
Mediocrity Minus. Boring songs, vocal and music. Not on par woth some average albums on this list, it stands out with its universe of dullness. Soon to be forgotten (at least by me).
Those vocals brought this down to 2/5
soft Pop, alter. Rock, 1978 -> 2
I always get excited when my album of the day is from a band I’ve never heard of; a true mystery. Will it be a hidden gem that slipped my radar? More often than not, however, there are one or two good songs that were super popular in their day but are now forgotten. Today’s is not even that - a fairly talented group of musicians that are let down by very off-putting vocals. Unfortunate. 2⭐️
His voice grated on me a tad too much. Music was pretty good though.
One day fly Oh why oh why Are you on this list Standing betwixt All the greats And their mates Maybe I can't relate To a simple twist of fate A mediocre find But I can leave it behind
Exactly what you will expect. Not terrible and the sound grew on me a bit the longer I listened. Still, not for me.
Das war seltsam und irgendwie hat es mich genervt, aber nicht so schlimm dass es nur einen Stern kriegen würde.
Fnope
Not really my type...
Voegt niet zoveel toe. Beetje nietszeggend, en er staan betere bands in deze stijl in de lijst. Af en toe leuk.
Don’t know how some of these albums are cracking the all timers list, but it’s getting pretty disappointing.
Kind of bland and samey
nah 2/5
1.8
Fun music but vocals by someone who can at least sing would be highly welcome.
Some good moments, but mostly boring.
Had some horns every now and then but no track or anything really grabbed my attention. 2.5 but gotta go one way or the other.
According to my lastfm stats I've heard one song from this album before but I genuinely don't remember it and was dead sure I don't know them. Well, after listening to the album I can say I didn't miss out on much. Not awful but also there was nothing truly interesting on the album either. 2/5
I'm getting sick of British rock.
What a voice! Very British. If this is "power pop" I'll eat my hat. (Update: The wiki list of power pop artists is making me have to eat a lot of hats...) At first I thought I might like this, but it turns out I really don't. Too muddled. Highlights: 'Creature of Doom', the absurd line "I love my mother but I wouldn't want to have sex with her", 'No Peace for the Wicked', rhyming "calm" with "harm"
It's okay. Some decent songs but not my thing.
I'm in love with extreme mental torture.
Apart from their hit single "Another Girl, Another Planet", I wasn't really familiar with this band. Musically the album is all over the place: Power Pop, New Wave, and Punk Rock. The depressing whining nasal vocals, particularly on "The Beast", make me want to shake the lead singer and tell him that life's not that bad.
Didn’t really care for this and would not listen again - city of fun was kind of ok? Rounding up from a 1.5 here.
I don't understand how this might be labeled Punk. Musically, it was mediocre British (Power?) Pop, but the voice was the showstopper.
Whiny English drek
This has got to be one of the most uninteresting albums I've ever listened to. It is yet another late 70s British rock album. HOW MANY OF THESE FUCKING THINGS ARE THERE ON THIS LIST?? I genuinely don't know what to say here because nothing about it is special to me, yet it also doesn't really piss me off. The sound is decent. The singing is kind of annoying for some songs but not that bad for others. The writing exists. Even this album's one decently popular song "Another Girl, Another Planet" doesn't really interest me that much. Despite the band name, these guys are certainly not the only ones to make an album with this style. This album doesn't need to be here. Objectively speaking, I know that this album isn't bad. I just couldn't give a crap about it myself. High 2/5.
It sounds like if David Bowie wrote and recorded an album while drunk.
Songs with such varying topics (like City of Fun, The Beast, Language Problems) shouldn't sound exactly the same.
I have never heard of this group before today. Some of the songs sound very contemporary, while others are very much of their time. I can also hear how this music showed up in the decade following its release. This album was a nice surprise!
More British punk from the 70s… it’s fine
I've heard better music come out of my asshole
Seems like Diet Britpunk. Bit monotonous, and didn't really pull me in, but certainly well-executed.
Almost turned this off during the first song due to the dreadful vocals. Can't really say it got better, but it was less cumbersome. Some of the songs would have really shined with better vocals. Also seemed like the recording and sound drifted vastly apart on different songs.
The band is great but the singer sounds like an extremely inebriated Bob Dylan. It’s too bad they didn’t kick ol’ slurry voice to the curb, this album could have been good.
Fing gut an und hat dann stark nachgelassen :-/ Werde mit diesem Brit-Pop/Punk nicht grün
Komische Stimme
not a fan of the vocals
Middling at best. Seemingly uncertain whether they are punk, pop, rock or emo (which hadn’t been invented yet), the sum of their uncertainty is blandness.
I agree with Mike- firmly in the not a fan camp. His voice grates on me.
it was fine
These guys sound like a mediocre high school band where no member is able to sing.
2.5
Another album, another random inconsequential British inclusion. Unsure why this album is here and who it's for. Another gloomy British vocalist mumbling through each song. 3.5/10 (1.75/5)
No... I don't get this ones inclusion in the list. Makes no sense to me.
Ehhhh
Hmm this ain't for me.
It's an alright new wave punk album that has a few standout tracks. C
I listened to today's album and yesterday's album back to back and didn't even notice when one ended and the other began. Too generic
Overall: 3/10 So uninteresting that it's already left my brain. I enjoyed only one song and it seems to be the band's biggest hit. Big pass on this one. Fav Song: Another Girl, Another Planet Least Fav Song: The Whole of the Law
Not for me
No, no their not!
Wow. Scraping the bottom of the barrel for essential albums again? Someone clearly likes, "Another Girl, Another Planet" enough to nominate the whole album Nothing offensively bad here, but really only that one track to revisit.
Another Girl, Another Planet... the "only one" we care about.
One hit wonder
Nothing overly bad, just not for me
This was bad. A couple of redeeming things I can say about this: they seemed ahead of their time - really sound like a generic 90s band in the 70s. And Lilywhite is one of the first producers I ever knew by name, cool to hear his early work, before he went on to make more listenable music. Some nice moments in the instrumentals. I have a very high tolerance for bad/unconventional vocals, if the melodies are there and the lyrics seem worthwhile - this misses the mark.
A bit whiny for me. It sounds much more modern than 1978, so the date was surprising. Some decent songs but it's not really doing it for me.
Solid less than spectacular background rock.
Was fine - nothing really stood out
Meh didn’t really like this.
Oh boy! More mid-quality UK music on this list! :|
Considering the line up of the band, this should be so much better.
This just isn't for me.
Never heard of this before. Eh.
Couldn’t get through it. The lead just hits bad. The “hit,” Another Girl, Another Planet has great music, but even that is wrecked by the lead.
The music is okay, lead singer is below average, so 2 stars or D+ seems fair.
I wondered why they didn't open the album with Another girl, another planet. It's because there's nothing else of note on here.
The lyrics on this thing feel like a run on sentence.
2 -just felt bland
The Only Ones’ self-titled album, presents a mixed bag of musical highs and lows. While the record features some compelling tracks, including the standout Another Girl, Another Planet, it ultimately struggles to maintain consistency throughout its duration. The band’s signature blend of punk and pop is evident, but many songs fail to match the energy and charm of their best work. The album’s overall cohesion suffers, as it feels uneven, with some tracks falling flat and lacking the impact of the standout hits. Although the standout song demonstrates the band’s talent and potential, it’s clear that one strong track alone doesn’t sustain the album’s momentum. The Only Ones has moments of brilliance but ultimately serves as a reminder that even great songs need a solid supporting cast to make a lasting impression. NUMBER OF BANGERS - 1 STAND OUT TRACK - Another Girl, Another Planet
could have been a nice forgettable 3 star album but the singer's voice is bad - it would fit better if they leaned more on the punkier sound
Punkig, poppig.
Noteworthy songs - 808080808 Magical Dream - Kinda catchy synth, but the rest is bland. Ancodia - Good background noise. Cobra Bora - Actually kind of cool, reminds me of Bomberman Hero. Pacific 202 - N64 vibes, but melody isn't great. Donkey Doctor - Nothing too special, weird ending. 808080808 - Really cool beginning. A little slow in the middle but stays interesting enough. Sunrise - Nothing remarkable. The Fat Shadow - Eerie. Very short.
The lead singer of this group sounds like a British version of Lou Reed while he's backed by Springsteen's E Street Band. The further into this album I listen, the less it sounds like the E Street Band, but this was just OK.
The music was just fine. The vocals were hot garbage. I don't know where they found this Lou Reed wannabe, but they should have just left them there
Meh. The music was fine. Couldn’t really get on board with the lead singer’s voice. It was unique. But not a good unique. Like an “I’m surprised this guy got a record deal unique”
Why another album that sounds exactly like 20 other ones I've listened to on this list. Boring music that doesn't sound good shouldn't be on a list of 1,001 albums to listen to. Would not listen again, yuck.
The instruments were fine in this album, but this guy’s voice was rough. Another one of those albums of why is this on the list.
After two songs, it just became random noise that I just blocked out which was probably for the better
As soon as this fool started yodelling I knew it was gonna be a long 42 minutes. His voice is 🤮🤮🤮. I mean it’s not quite Bob Dylan bad but boy is it close. Everything else was great. The guitar, the bass, the drums, even the occasional horns were okay. But his voice was just awful. The lyrics were meh. The instruments saved this from being a 1 for me.
they're trying to play like the Clash, or Violent Femmes.....but the vocals are so out of tune. at least most of the tracks are pretty short so that is a positive.
eh
Not good. Especially do not like the vocals.
Track 1 is perfect, want die klinkt zo kut dat de rest van het album daarna best wel meevalt. Een beetje punk-achtig, tegelijk af en toe ook best wel muzikaal. De zanger is het zwakste punt. Hij klinkt als Craig van Southpark met een vleugje Downsyndroom. Zingen kan hij eigenlijk niet echt. Best een aardig album, maar de zanger trekt het naar beneden. Het is geen lang album, maar Peter Perrett begint er toch in te hakken na een paar nummers. Ik moet het op 2 sterren houden vanwege irritatie, maar de muziek is echt wel leuk.
I rather like some of the music on here and the instrumentation is good, but the vocals are mostly awful.
Singing was awful, instrumentals were nice.
Definition of a one song album Another girl another planet is fantastic. The rest is filler
Another girl, another planet. The only good tune.
Meh didn’t hate but probably won’t revisit
Not very exciting or interesting
unmemorable. can't even remember where in sicily we listened to it
drums on this are pretty sick, but i hate the singer’s voice
Feels a bit ahead of it's time but still that mumble brit pop groove.
Not working for me.
Almost, but not quite, entirely dull
A couple pretty catchy songs, but overall felt this was just another relatively forgettable "new wave" album.
Was pretty meh about this - everything sounded same-y and just didn’t catch me.
Tediously obnoxious and obnoxiously tedious, along with some disenchantingly mediocre vocals that bring the already stumbling flow down several notches.
I don't know why but I really did not like this
So so. I do like the voices, tho.
This band does themselves no favors by kicking things off with The Whole of the Law which bears both of the serious marks against the songs on the album. Some songs are marred by annoyingly poor vocal delivery (think a more nasal, often flat, less pleasant Gordon Gano) and others lack anything significantly compelling in the music itself to be memorable. Thankfully it is a rare few that suffer from both, but the opener is certainly one of them — at least it is mercifully short. And yet the second song is a certifiable classic. Like many other listeners of a certain cultural niche I've heard and enjoyed: "Another Girl, Another Planet" before. It is a great song that has a bar band gone post-punk vibe going for it that elevates the music paired with a catchy and oft repeated lyric. The rest of the album oscillates between the good and the mediocre summing up to a just below average experience.
For the time this feels fairly unique but man do some of these choices not really mesh. Not a trainwreck and there's some talent but this doesn't do it for me.
Not really my thing
Favorite track: Breaking down other pick: Language problem, Creature of Doom
Some British pop. Not really my thing.
Not much for me to note on this album. Kind of boring. 2.5 stars
i thoroughly dislike "english experimental blah blah blah"
Sounds like generic 90s pop rock, so definitely ahead of its time for coming out in the late 70s.
kende enkel 'another girl another planet' vanop de STiFF compilatie... ik zette me al schrap voor een verwennerijtje... bleek het toch een sof te zijn... laatste nummers probeerden nog wat, maar het kalf was al verdronken, geslacht en opgegeten tegen dan
I've liked some punk-era music enough to look into more of it, esp. PIL and The Fall, but this isn't on par with them.
Lower than average....I don't mind the rock/punk taste.... so it's a 2.5/5
It was okay. I didn't really like the lead singer's voice...
Meh this had a lot of potential after hearing that first track. They came out with some serious jazz pop sounds and then abandoned it completely. It didn’t feel very 70s but it did feel pretty easy to listen to. I never felt like skipping a song but I also didn’t want to go back and hear another again. This is just another album. 5.6/10