Reviews (page 7 of 7)
I thought this might turn out to be a discovery but, no. Feels like half the record is not-too-bad-indie-alternative stuff and the other is someone's idea of the musical equivalent of Lloyd Christmas' "most annoying sound in the world". To quote another movie, "A bunch of jerk-offs making weird sounds". Nope.
Nothing super interesting - I found this album to be bland and generic. Most of them dragged on far too long, as did the entire album.
Bad production ideas, out of tune guitar. Some nice vocals. Generally poor songs with no direction or structure. Why does 'indie' have to be so contrary - jerky, atonal, dischordant etc just to be 'different'. I don't care about 'art', let's have some decent songs, please. Occasionally a normal tune appears, but not often enough. I couldn't listen any more after 8 tracks I'd had enough.
Bit more experimental and electronic than I was expecting, didn't really click with me
One minute I thought yes I like this… the next some awful noise happened or some hideous screeching guitar came out of nowhere…. Could have done without it
Not impressed. Lots of what sounds like songs being played backwards. Some songs were okay when they finally started singing. I enjoyed “I Hang Suspended” and “If You Want It, Take It” but that’s about it. Overrated album imo.
It’s more a 2.5 because I enjoyed some of it but some wasn’t to my taste and again, an insanely long album.
Something of a slog this one. Starts off brightly but falls over itself trying to be… well I don’t quite know what. Shoegaze? Indie? Jangle pop? Too diffuse. Inevitably, the Boo Radleys used their songwriting skills on their next album to go all-in BritPop radio friendly and make a tonne of cash with Wake Up Boo. Fair enough.
Fever dream of an album.
On paper this ticks a lot of boxes for me, shoegaze, britpop noise pop. But just feels a bit of a mess jumping between styles and jsut didn’t click after a few days of trying, better albums for each of these categories so not sure this needs to be on the list.
As far as Im concerned it wanders all over the place and its not a pleasant experience.
Pretty wide range of song genres pcked into one album. A couple songs I really liked and some that were complete misses. Probably averages to a 2.75 based on length. More I didn’t like than liked
Heard it before?: No Enjoy it?: It was ok, not very memorable Favourite song: didn’t have one
Straight garbage. Nonsensical and going on and on. The more I do this 1001 list, the more I think that the person making the list was just throwing darts on the board. Some songs are decent, but most are unlistenable. 4/10.
This definitely sounds like a mashup of many 90s things. I think they could have benefitted from some focus, because this mostly just sounds like messy noise. Again, as someone who enjoys 90s music maybe a little too much, I baseline found this to be listenable. But did it have wow factor? No. Aside from the writer of the 1001 book clearly having a strong affinity for British rock/pop, if I had to guess why this album is on here, I'd guess it's because it slightly predates mega forces like Oasis, who dominated this particular space, and is therefore kind of a progenitor of the sound. But I've had my complaints before about the author glorifying so many albums just because they were prototypal of a certain sound or movement. And the inclusion of this album feels like another instance of that. From a historical perspective, the prototypal sounds and albums are interesting, but it's always debatable whether or not such albums need to be heard "before you die". Anyway, it was okay. But nothing great.
Gisteren gedraaid, maar vandaag weet ik al niet meer wat het was en of het eigenlijk goed was. Dat zegt eigenlijk al genoeg.
Beetje achterhaald inmiddels.
I can see how this might influence shoegaze -- but to be honest, it just sounds like 90s music that I heard back then. Just more experimental -- like trying to be The Beatles but also sounding a little like Oasis. I can see how they may have been more popular in the UK then the US, for sure. The only song I liked was "Wish I Was Skinny". "Run My Way Run" just sounds like something off of Sergent Pepper or Magical Mystery Tour (which are two of my favorite Beatles Album). Sometimes it feels like this album may be trying too hard. I read somewhere that they were trying to market this band as the same musical genius as Brian Wilson -- totally different people and sounds. If anything this sounds like trying to snort 60s Beatles while rewriting an alternative White Album for the 90s. Don't hate. Don't Love it.
I found the tracks too similar and mainly dull. Could just be my mood currently so it might be harsh 2*
It was OK but nothing jumped out at me as remotely interesting either.
There were some interesting moments, but most of this album just really didn’t do anything for me.
One or two alright moments, but a bit of a mess really. Way too long.
A giant step into mediocrity, never settles on a good sound beyond a few solid tracks (the noisier ones towards the start of the record).
Not unlistenable, but it's quite bad. No idea how it made it into this list.
The definition of throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks. A complete mess of 90s genres, musical cliches, and melodic fads messily glued together in an attempt at relevance - there's no sense of coherent personality here whatsoever, and I'm left at a loss as to what genre the Boo Radleys actually are given how poorly they sample across a wide swath of unnecessary genres here.
A bit wanky and dull. Stinks of an overly pretentious band who think they're reinventing the wheel
I'm getting a lot of recommendations for 90s britpop psychadelic-style bands and I'm not liking it. This cleanly falls into the genre and again does nothing for me.
Third time hearing this one. First time, I said "It's Alright", second time, I said "It's Fine"...now I'm listening again and thinking how do I say the same thing again without saying the same thing? It just seems like an ok listen. Not bad, but nothing exciting. Yeah, I think that will be my quote this time, "Not bad, but nothing exciting". 2.5/5
Solid album but awful ending of the songs
Wish I was skinny is good but the rest doesn't really resonate with me
Puzzling how Dimery's list singled out an album whose title was borrowed from a jazz masterpiece by another artist without including said masterpiece in the selection. Add to this the fact that The Boo Radleys are such a *strange* band, and it feels like the "1001 albums..." book got its priorities all wrong, once again... "Strange" is not necessarily a flaw in the case of The Boo Radleys, by the way. You can't blame them for constantly trying to think out of the box so as to offer something truly *original*. There are not many notable records from music history that mix shoegaze, psychedelic rock and britpop with reaggae/dub in any relatively cohesive way, and I imagine that this mix of genres, along with the ambition displayed in *Giant Steps*, is what impressed music critics at the time. Yet this record is far from being *flawless*. First, it's too long. A little self-editing would have probably been welcomed here. At more than an hour of running time, ambition becomes sheer hubris in many parts of this LP. Secondly, Martin Carr sometimes has nice ideas when it comes to pure songwriting shenanigans (at least in terms of concept--see the My Bloody Valentine-inspired "Spun Around", for instance, or closer "The White Noise Revisited"). But unfortunately Carr is no Brian Wilson, contrary to what his PR agents would have you believe when this record came out. As a consequence, memorable hooks, choruses and melodies are not numerous enough, and I can't help shake the feeling that sophisticated arrangements were mostly used to hide such an obvious flaw. And all of this gives the impression that The Boo Radleys were a little pretentious at the time, maybe... Finally, Sice's lead vocals are too timid and understated to seal the deal for me. When your band is bent on making such a grand statement, you need a little more conviction, even if said band is partly self-deluded about the whole thing... Ironically, the vocals would improve a lot on the next album, *Wake Up Boo!*. Too bad the latter reconciled with simpler, more straighforward ideas mostly through a derivative, major-chord and horn-section driven cheesefest. The timing is always wrong with this act. Or is it with me? 🙃 Speaking of other Boo Radleys albums, it seems to me that the band sounded far more "natural" for their debut LP than in anything that followed it. Yes, *Everything's Alright Forever* was more "classic" shoegaze. But at least Carr's reach didn't exceed his grasp there. As a matter of fact, it is a very nice listen, and I'm even tempted to buy it. In a similar genre, that debut album might even beat Ride's *Nowhere* out of the park for me--and yes I know the latter is considered as a "masterpiece". But sometimes, "professional critics" get it all wrong, don't they? Number of albums left to review: 618 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 186 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 86 Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more essential to me): 117 (including this one)
Standard 90s prog-pop-rock. Nothing terrible, nothing noteworthy.
I think I only like shoegaze that's drenched in fuzzy wall of sound guitars, this just wasn't holding my attention.
A funny band name and an album full of 90s sounds that goes on a bit too long. It has a punk alternative sound that’s similar to the smashing pumpkins but it becomes a bit of mess throughout that doesn’t have any direction. I didn’t hate it but it was nothing special or worth revisiting. 4.7/10
This was terrible
decent shoegazey alt rock
Oh look another nineties britpop record! Well that certainly didn't sound like an album I MUST HEAR BEFORE I DIE, like, say "Giant Steps" by John Coltrane (which of course didn't make the list). 2/5: not offensive enough to turn off if it came on & not good enough to voluntarily listen to.
This album felt like a knock off of smashing pumpkins and the cure mixed. Vocally pumpkins and also tonally but some pieces sounded like the cure too. Makes it very hard to enjoy when nothing grabs your attention. You’d think people would have warned them they sounded like other people but oh well.
Pretty generic. I was expecting with a name like the Boo Radleys that we'd at least get something interesting, if not some crazy punk or political group. But no, it's a British rock band. Leave it to the Brits to co-opt the Boo Radley name in the most boring of fashions. One of those classic "not bad, but not good either" type of albums for me. Favorite tracks: Butterfly McQueen, Best Lose the Fear. Album art: The most interesting thing about this album. A cool multicolored drawing of...I don't even know, a giant ball sitting in a track? It's ornate, it's mysterious, and it's better than the music. 2.5/5
I really dig all the guitar pedal use. But I don't hear this genre crossing band that people are talking about. This album is standard shoegaze. Acoustic guitars followed by fuzz. Sure there's a little horn here and there or the odd piano. But that was also normal at the time. Something else super normal at the time? Limp wispy vocals. Which this album has a LOT of. And I hate it.
Too much. No cohesion, nothing to grab but noise and repetition.
I don't get on with Shoegaze but this was OK.
Album was basically background noise for me. Favorite track: Lazarus
There were some highs and lows on this album but ultimately nothing stuck with me between listenings and it was WAY too long for what it was
This was way too boring and way too long. There is no reason for this to be on this list and the listen counts agree with me.
Original but not enough interesting
p721. 1993. 2 stars. Average early 90s Brit rock wannabees, stuck between the Stone Roses and The Lightning Seeds but without the tunes or the talent. Strays into "just noise" far too often and outstays its welcome big time. Not essential listening.
Not bad, but not all that good. the song order could have been better, lots of disjointed transition from track to track. Some interesting stuff but nothing that especially stood out.
Didn’t like very much of this at all. 4/10
Não funcionou corretamente para explorar mais o som relacionado ao shoegazing.
3/17, 18%
Meni vähän ohi eikä jääny erityisesti mieleen. Ei kuitenkaan missään vaiheessa ärsyttänyt
can't be bothered
Meh. Finns bättre band för samtliga låtkategorier.
Meh not my thing
Barney (... and Me)-introen e jo reint plagiat av Just Like Heaven. Ut over da e eg ikkje så shoegazete av meg, og vokalen va kje heilt for meg
It’s alright. 2.5/5
This album is painstakingly long. They are a good band, but seems like they are trying too hard to be unique
Who? What is this? Meh...
Barely noticed at the time. Long forgotten
It had its moments, but it sure did go on. It would've been a 3 but the run time was way too indulgent.
Je sais pas trop quoi en penser, j'étais peut-être vraiment pas dans le mood mais j'Avais hâte que ca finisse....Un peu all over the place 2.25
This turned out better than I expected it to be. There is a lot of quite interesting stuff going on musically. It rocks more than I thought the band were capable. I am big on voices though, if a voice isn't right then I find it difficult to enjoy the music at all. This guy's voice is really quite irritating. A shame, it could have been so much better.
Giant Steps goes on for far too long and makes the likeable moments forgettable. The opening two or three tracks have an energy that doesn't last much beyond it, and it fades into generic 90s alt-pop-rock beigeness. 2/5.
I think I liked this more than most of you, but it's got some pretty big flaws. It's far too long (both some of the tracks on their own and definitely the album as a whole). Lazarus is great, and if you skip the first minute then so is the opening track. The rest of it is fine, but nothing else really stands out. 2/5.
Helt ok grunge, men mjee, inte min musikstil riktigt
A really challenging listen. It is sonically unusual and interesting... different layers and instruments for an alt rock album. However, it never gels for me and the lead singer's voice/style is irritating to me. It is muted, boring and at some point the whisper unmelodic comatose singing starts to become unpleasant. Disappointed here.
Complex, a little bizarre. Warrants a second listen.
Kinda unmemorable.
15th March 2022 Listened on a quiet day in the office then went to flight club with Douggie in Shoreditch. Some super 90s stuff in here but overall felt a bit disjointed and not really for me.
1993: Wish I Was Skinny, I Hang Suspended
The stench of early 90's Britpop is all over this album. Cooing vocals, guitars that either jangle or buzzsaw and the need of a couple of tracks to be dumped. Best Tracks: Wish I Was Skinny; Barney (...and Me); Lazarus
Couldn't make it the whole way through this one - the shoegaze and noise pop vibe isn't for me (and I'm not a Britpop fan on the best of days). 'Wish I was Skinny" was my fave track.
Britisk shoegaze, pskykedelisk rock, 90’er
This album was shoegaze. its was lame and boring.
Made no impression on me at all
Pretty meh
It's Brit pop but has a few other interesting influences. Not enough good songs ultimately
meh
Son como una mezcla de Pavement y Dinosaur Jr., ¿no? No sé, no me parece que estén haciendo algo súper innovador. Tal vez no esté en el momento correcto para escuchar esta música. Me está sonando muy normalito, no sé muy bien qué hace en el libro este disco. Molan algunos detalles, los vientos que meten a veces. Personal: 4. Con muy baja prioridad me lo volveré a escuchar, pero no está en mi lista de mejores discos definitivamente. Trascendencia: 2? Una banda de culto en UK que por eso aparece en este libro? Género: 5. Me parece que hay mejores discos en Shoegaze / Rock alternativo de esos años
Bit of a weird one
This started off with so much promise, first song was great and I thought I had found a new band to listen to.But this rest was rubbish!!!
I’m not sure you could find an album that has more of that “early 90s” sound. I also like that this music is all over the place. Tons of secondary styles. None of which particularly move me, but it was fine.
This album really took me on a journey - in the beginning I thought it was just another early 90’s alternative/indie record that at best I liked, at worst I was indifferent to, but by the end it had gone to so many weird and abstract places that I actively disliked it.
Too long for an album that has nothing standing out. I found it actually dragged on and got quite boring.
Wish I Was Skinny Barney (...and Me)
Yeah. Not bad. Some cool tunes. Not likely to come back to this one.
Not for me. Found like one song. They do a few cool sounds, almost like Real Estate and then the occasional reggae sound
Funky, psyedelic. Not great.
Este álbum são imensas merdas ao mesmo tempo que individualmente dava um álbum de 4. Mas como está, mama com 2 que já é bom.
This turned out better than I expected it to be. There is a lot of quite interesting stuff going on musically. It rocks more than I thought the band were capable. I am big on voices though, if a voice isn't right then I find it difficult to enjoy the music at all. This guy's voice is really quite irritating. A shame, it could have been so much better.
If you got rid of half the songs you might have a mediocre album. 6.4/10
absolute meh, do not like the noises that guitar makes in their songs.
Este álbum é muito semelhante, nada de novo e interessante. Contudo, é tão longo e tão chato que tenho de dar um 4. Existe uma versão estendida, está já não é comprida de mais. Nota:4/10
Not quite as bad as other albums I don't finish, but I didn't listen to more than 3.5 songs because it was too distracting during work. Seems like a mix of standard brit-pop and annoying noise.
Kind of liked only one song from it
Probably didn't give it enough run throughs, but didn't excite me
Nao fede nem cheira.
It was ok, nothing really stood out to me and although there were parts that I enjoyed somewhat it was short lived for the majority of the album. 2*
I actually thought I would like this more. Was fine but nothing stood out. Think the singer didn't really connect.
Was made in the 90s but sounds like the 70s? Nope.
Very distracting
I mean, it sort of sounds like most any other alternative rock band of the 90s. It’s alright, but not really anything to write home about.
There were moments of this that I found compelling - the end of I've Lost the Reason, for example, when the distorted vocals kick in. Overall I found it dull. I liked the last couple songs. My mind could be changed about this album, but not a great first listen for me.
Iets te experimenteel voor mij, al zitten er wel wat lekkere deuntjes in
Thought it was decent, but not much jumped out at me. "Rodney King (Song for Lenny Bruce" was a stand-out
Ein generisches Rockalbum, das durch seine experimentellen Anklänge wenig aufgewertet wird. Im Gedächtnis bleibt davon- nichts. Wenn dies DAS Album des Jahres gewesen sein soll, wie einige Kritiker und Magazine schrieben, spricht das insgesamt gegen den Geschmack und Zeitgeist von 1993.
Quite bland. Nothing that really stood out to me.
Grunge-y, mostly okay
Upbeat shoegazey 90s alt-rock, not too bad but also not too good. It sounded like a band that had a lot of playing talent and access to decent recording gear... but went into a studio with two songs, determined to record an hour and 15's worth of music. In the end I turned it off halfway, which I don't do often (but was still like 40min into the album). This is the very definition of a 2.5/5.
Why
Hard pass, this was awful awful awful.
Meh
juuei suoraa ensimmäisen kappaleen ekoista sanoista. Pitää tietysti loppuun kuunnella, mut ei kyllä tämä ei sitten lähde ollenkaan. En ole mikään suurin country fani muutenkaan, ja tää on sit aivan täyttä countryä. Liian hidastas, laulutyyli ärsyttää ja muutenkin vaan huonoa musiikkia. Tässä nyt vaan kärsitään albumi loppuun saakka. 1/5
Niet voor mij. Teveel gitaar / alternatief.
Terrible production. Boring songs
Experimental Poop
Very trite 90s ho hum although rock. Nothing that really caught my ear so I stopped
Meh
I have to admit I would have preferred to listen to an album by "white noise," but that's not how things work here. I'd never heard of Boo Radleys before. After listening, I know exactly why. The album "Giants Steps" simply isn't worth listening to. For over an hour, the album is just boring and rather irritating. Again, I'm left wondering what's special about Boo Radleys' music, where is the outstanding or innovative element? What makes it beautiful? I'm sorry, I didn't hear anything. And I will never listen to this album again.
Lack of sleep was the main factor for me not making it through this album. I was not in the mood for it and I really didn't want to try the next day (again, lack of sleep is the culprit). I could tell this style of music is not for me. A quick note, I found the about page on Spotify to be oddly written. It was written by the band, or a band member, and not very well. Anyways...
Did not enjoy this. Didnt feel special at all.
No real cohesion to this album. Felt like they'd heard other successful bands and songs in the 90s and tried to copy what they were doing instead of making a name for themselves. Nothing really stood out, well not in a positive way. Just really boring, was glad when the album finished.
niet mijn ding
Shite
Over an hour of really bad noise pop, almost every song physically hurt to listen to
Ei
I hated this. I don't know if it was partially bad timing for me to get this album, because I did have a headache the day that it was my album to listen to. Upon 9th And Fairchild was hell to get through because of that. That being said I also don't enjoy this type of music in general, so the headache factor probably only played a very small part in my dislike of this album, but it's still something to keep in mind. Wish I Was Skinny was a highlight for me, at least it was until I got to the last couple of seconds of it. A similar thing can be said for Thinking of Ways. For a lot of the songs there's a good song in there somewhere, but then a guitar screech will come in (and I do mean screech) or some weird effect and it just ruins the whole thing.
Knowing the Boos exclusively from the insufferable 'Wake Up', I was surprised by some of the more Britrock style numbers here. The (horribly) distorted guitars on 'Take the Time Around' or 'I Hang Suspended'. 'If You Want It, Take It' is similar, and there is a certain level of b-side quality here. The problem is, it all sounds a bit of a pale imitation of Bandwagonesque which is much the better album. Crucially, TFC smothered the vocal (which is fine but not the strongest) in lush warm arrangements, jangling guitars, great harmonies and twin-tracking. With 'Giant Steps' the vocal is at best feeble and often left exposed (unless they mask it with pointless noise such as on the annoying 'Run My Way Runway', or the grating vox via Leslie speaker in 'The White Noise Revisted'). Being of 90s UK scene, a time of lo-fi folk, a time of burgeoning Britpop, a time of acid-house indie, a time of ambient electronica, I find this hard to justifiably fit into the canon. lt's aimless, trying a range of styles in the hope it'll hit on something, which it rarely does. I spent a lot of time thinking this sounds like a shit Beatles. Or a shit Oasis. Or a shit Bluetones. Or a shit Jah Wobble. Or a shit Supergrass. Or a shit Lightning Seeds. Most of whom have produced enough of their own shit without this being added to the pile. A torpid, unoriginal, oft grating affair, that completely misses the mark.
Typical British Oasis-adjacent pop-rock slop.
This fell flat for me. It was like a 90s buzz band decided to make a psychedelia record without ever actually getting psychedelic! I imagine the members of this band to be a bunch of white dudes that dress like George Clinton.
The first time I listened to this, I fell asleep. The second time, I longed for the days when the only thing I knew about The Boo Radleys was “Wake Up Boo!”
Another boring shoegaze album. I don't think I'll ever understand shoegaze.
Unfortunately this record made literally no impact on me at all. I’m writing this an hour after it finished and I can’t even remember what it sounded like
Unausgegorener Mix, deswegen kein Album zum Durchhören!
Meh
This list has too many 90s Britpop acts. British bands love ska. There's nothing like some annoying noises at the end of a song to improve an album. This isn't terrible, but it sounds like 100 other albums that came out in the mid 90s. Oasis, Pulp, Blur...a bunch of bands that came out around that time or immediately after just sound the same and so much of it is just "meh". British bands love to weigh in on American politics. This album sounds like 1993. In the 90s, America gave us grunge and gangsta rap...great Britain gave us Britpop and it apparently won based on the albums on this list. Ridiculous. It doesn't help that this album is over an hour long. It just keeps spiraling down. This is too much music for an album for anyone except the really great artists. You don't have 17 good ideas for an album. I bet Ludwig Goransson listened to Spun Around before he started writing the music for the Mandalorian. Some backwards talking, sweet. The album swings between generic 90s British pop-rock and terrible 90s British pop-rock. This is one of the least interesting albums on the list so far. God, this album drags. Run My Way Runway is just a jumble of stupid sounds and stupid lyrics. The repetitiveness of The White Noise Revisited is grating.
Ok
★½
I like the band name but it didn't take long for me to realize I wasn't going to like this album. I feel like they're trying hard to make something beautiful but it just didn't land.
This album is pretty boring. It flirts with interesting chord progressions and melodies and then either gets predictable or too disjointed to be enjoyable. First song was the best.
Misophonia inducing. Almost worse than that one beatles song
Thank you, next.
How The Boo Radleys are in here is beyond me, and the audacity to name your album after a John Coltrane album is frankly astounding. Rubbish.
God. I hated this. Soooo boring and lame. I remember no part of it. Pass.
Besmislena buka. Grijeh je nazvati ovakav album istim imenom kao jedan od najvećih albuma ikad. 1/5, 1/10
This album fails to deliver anything worthwhile, with uninspired music and lackluster lyrics. There are no positive notes to mention, making it a disappointing and forgettable experience.
I really appreciate the attempt at making an album here, and it pains me to give this such a low rating, with there being so much potential here with the amazing range of influences and good musicianship. But the extremely sloppy production as well as the complete lack of structure and pacing just make this album completely unlistenable.
I'm so done of all that rock albums that sounds all the same. In this one, i felt like "ok, i already know you're a rock band, but bring me something new" but they failed on it. If that is the type of album i have to heard before i die, i rather die suddenly.
Meine Fresse das ist so Tod langweilig
This was disappointing. Half of the tracks sounded muffled, as if I were listening to them with my head underwater, and it didn't need to be this long. I'm just relieved that I never have to listen to it again.
Very boring
I'm....not sure why this album was on this list. It was entirely forgettable. It's not like it was bad, but there was nothing outstanding there. Maybe two songs were worth listening again, besides vibing out? Dunno about this one. Do love the band name though, 10/10.
Take mediocre lyrics and add meh vocals then combine them with cacophony and you get this. Hard pass.
Oh boy, this was an endurance test. Started off as bland Britpop, but then the experimental genre-mashup songs began, each more irritating than the last. I do hear different genres and artists in here, but unfortunately I hate them all. This was riding the edge of a 2-star rating, but as I was actively waiting for this to be over it has to be 1 star. A real shame, I keep hoping that one of the albums which I have never heard of will be the hidden gem that makes it all worthwhile. Until then, there's Giant Steps.
Right album, wrong artist.
A lot of nothing. A much worse Weezer.
I was in awe from the third track and the last track was pretty good but this is NOT an essential in any way. Very tedious to get through all the BandLab production for an hour. Spend your hour on LYSFLAtH or even Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, or anything else.
I realised halfway through this album that I’d lost track of how long I’d been listening - and not in a good way.
Didn’t mind it, at times the “alternative” side of things felt forced, unnatural and unnecessary. This sounded a lot like a band that had been pigeon holed into one genre that they were unable to move away from, because that’s what people came to expect. There were a couple of songs I quite liked, but overall the album felt a bit tacky, and as though the lead singer in particular was trying too hard. Not the first and not the last album I’m sure that I’ll hear doing this project that feels like someone is trying to be smart, clever and mysterious but just sounds a bit dumb. Not saying I could do it, cause I certainly could not.
Grating, janky, and very unappealing. Strikes such an awkward tone and sound that is very hard to enjoy. Unfortunately not much nice to say
I dont know why they just didnt add in enough distortion so you couldnt make out anything else instead of some things. This sounds more like people experimenting with their new instruments and recording equipment than anything else.
What we need to do is create a powerful sense of dread. See, the longer the album, the more dread.
just sounds like some generic 90's rock.
1 star
Gear: Abyss DIANA MR Artwork: 🌈🎱🟦 Production: 🎧😐🆗 Music: 🌌🥱🙄 Rating: 🌈(🌈)/5
Accidentally turned it off halfway through and didn’t notice for about 40 minutes.
Half the tracks and a tuned guitar could have scraped two stars.
noo
Shoegaze slacker singer, noisy guitars - these are some of my least favorite things. Singer doesn't put an ounce of effort into singing. Every time I started to think I liked a song, they ruined it with feedback and noisy, often sloppy guitar playing. Big no from me on this one. Least annoying tracks: Best Lose the Fear, Lazarus.
Just dull.
duas estrelinhas bem mirradas
Couldn't finish. Too weird!
I hated every part of this. That last song was like the band was punishing you for having been so foolish as to waste your time on their album.
more like The Boo Sucks
You get one chance to name a band. First failure. The recommended stuff looks good but there is already a mountain to climb after experiencing U2 yesterday. Yeah. Very much shoegaze. This song is too saccharine. NO REGGAE. This fucking blows. Why is the vocalist so bad? This could’ve been cool. Good music is really hard to make. The vocalist doesn’t fit and I prefer this kind of music to be sad or at least weird and introspective. The vocalist is genuinely really bad. I feel like I need to like this. Ok, I do like this part. No vocals, driving instrumentation, insane saxophones. Back to garbage. Stop singing please. The Rodney King song goes HARD. I don’t even hate the vocals with this stupid beat. It’s fun. Ooh we’re back to shite. I can hear the singer’s saliva man. This is bad. The music. I can’t keep up the song by song review for this one. From here on out, I will just give a summary of what has been a boring, overdramatic mess thus far. Small update: this thing is ROUGH. More reggae guitars at one point ( the worst genre ever conceived) and just overall nothing memorable. Nothing sweet. Nothing interesting. Nothing dark. Just nothing. A trudge to the finish line. The final song has cool ideas and constitutes a highlight as it finally grabbed me. Not enough to make up for this thing, but a final enjoyable moment. Although TWO MINUTES of repeating the refrain. Way to ruin the only good idea this thing has produced. I wanted to like this, I really did. There was just nothing to grab onto. It’s not good. There were glimmers of brilliance but they were so elusive and often immediately faded into something dumb or a sequence of abhorrent vocalizations. Not in a cool way either. There are far better 90’s alt albums. It feels like most of them would be. 1-1.5 HIGHLIGHTS: Rodney King - Song for Lenny Bruce (part of it anyway), The White Noise Revisited (first half)
Sounds like an influence of Oasis
Way too experimental for my tastes. Not only did many parts feel extremely harsh, but the mixing is some of the worst I've seen so far. Incredibly big jumps from quiet music to deafening
Saddled up and riding to any direction. 1993 with Giant Steps as well as 2023 with "Eight". No idea, why's on the 1001 list. Clear 0 Points.
# 304 : sigh! Just reading the 3 line bio put me off… this was pretty awful, I feel like sometimes this list mistakes "you must listen to this ALBUM before you die" with "Hey this was popular once, or had a couple hits on it" with importance. If You Want It, Take It was an alright track.
Nope.
Really? The Boo Radleys? Who had one good song in the early 90s? Okaaaay. ..... And their one good song isn't even on this album! Actually listening to this. It's a mixed bag. Some of their tracks are actively unpleasant (leaves and sand, thinking of ways, spun around, run my way runway) and others are nice upbeaty pop tracks (Barney (...and me)) - but saying that, even the nice upbeat ones have way too much screeching guitar and would have been better being a minute or so shorter. Overall, I think this is far more unpleasant than pleasant. And as such, it can do one.
It took giant steps to get through this album
I didn't like this at all
this was bearable for 6 or 7 songs and then I just couldn't keep on listening. sorry
Yuck
Another reason the music of the 90s was soooo boring. There was nothing original here.
The singer is Okay but in combination with the instruments it's somehow not a good match for me. It's also kinda boring album.
Two songs in and I’m painfully bored. This is the kind of band I wouldn’t listen to back in the 90s. There’s nothing going on here. It’s copies of other artists. A lot of trying and not succeeding. The guitar on Barney and Me is a rip off of The Cure’s Close to Me. And then they piled a bunch of shit on top of it. Can’t get through a full song. This is very boring.
1/5. I don't know what it is about shoegaze but it just isn't for me. The mix of quiet vocals and sudden bursts of sound feels so jarring, and the high pitched feedback doesn't help either. This honestly just hurt to listen to. Even the slow songs without loud sounds was just boring. Maybe I'm getting old but this was not enjoyable, I don't even remember most of the songs, I was just annoyed and waiting for it to be over.
Some good songs. Not impressed.
I just don't get Shoegaze, and I don't remember the early 1990s being that depressing.
Nicht meine Richtung
So bad.
Should I expect to see Treble Charger on this list?
well. I don't really know what this was.
whoever mixed this should be shot
Couldn’t make it through two tracks
Jostain syystä ajattelin, että tässä saattaisi olla kivoja nuoria kavereita, jotka tekevät iskeviä biisejä hyvällä biitillä. Olivatkin nuoria kavereita, joille kokeilevuus on itseisarvo.
2 Eh 1
oh this is garbage! nothing about this was interesting or revolutionary. i even kind of find it offensive that a band of mostly white guys called themselves the boo radleys and created a song named "rodney king." i'm honestly confused on how anyone can call this music. some of it wasn't terrible, but a good chunk was made up of random sounds that don't sound good together. what? also, 64 minutes of this nonsense was 64 minutes too long, yes, but for real this album dragged!
Trash. How do albums get on this list?
Este disco lo escuché es su época y no recuerdo nada ya que solo conozco su hit "Wake up" y no está aquí. Con el tiempo descubrí de dónde venía el nombre del grupo. Por cierto, no recordaba nada de este disco porque no hay nada que recordar. Lo voy a poner como malo porque directamente no debería estar en esta lista, aunque malo, malo no es.
Strong one should be better than it is
17 songs of just loud noise??? How was this album selected in this list is beyond me.
Well, somebody was trying to sound like Stereolab, weren't they? This album just meandered aimlessly. Sometimes that works for me, sometimes it doesn't. There were some interesting, but fleeting, moments here. This definitely wasn't a boring listen: that's not necessarily a compliment.
The sounds were not pleasant
UGH
Great... More fucking obscure British shoegaze garbage..... Ffs.... Never heard of the Boo Radleys before, and hope to forget them quickly. They are, as my first comment suggests, a shoegaze/brit pop band who has no reason to be on this list. Sounds like they are trying to be like Smashing Pumpkins but are too shitty of artists to come close. If the band didn't canoodle and play random shitty intros/outros, the album could have been done in half the time. Album production is garbage. Music is loud as hell, then when the vocals come in, you can barely hear them. Horns?!? Why?!? They have no place in your depressing shoegaze garbage. And random distorted electrical feedback noises.... An attempt to add psychadelica to this crock pot of horseshit.... Why? Why did they have to do poor Boo Radley dirty like this? Probably to make people think they were artsy and deep, but in actuality they are depressing emo trash. Favourite songs: Take the Time Around, Lazarus, Wish I Was Skinny Least favourite songs: Butterfly McQueen, Run My Way Runway, as well as the rest of this garbage album. Absolutely no redeeming qualities: 1/5
a little to soft for my taste
Far too discordant for my liking.
A truly awful mess of an album. Pick a lane!
Hey what’s that noise?! I remember, It’s terrible music.
An indie album that was uninspiring. Some of the songs needed to end a little earlier than they did. I also had to skip some songs. I was perfectly fine not knowing this album existed let alone listening to it.
Some of the tracks were okay, but overall it just didn't grab me in any meaningful way. It was too disjointed and jarring at times for me.
* Probably give it 1.5 if I could. Dreary, unmemorable.
Mjeh... ekkert spes.
Sounded like Adam Buxton’s songs without the entertainment.
Terrible. Sounded like a piss-take album
Boring music
Don't really get it. Pretty boring stuff.
Unfortunately, the sound goes from too soft to hear to blazingly loud at the drop of a hat. The vocals are often too quiet. At times the sound can just be grating on the ears.
Garbage
Not good
25% decent music, 75% noise.
I’m kind of annoyed to have listened to this in this context. I MUST have listened to this album before I died? Why?! It’s... fine. Actually, to be more specific, it’s completely unremarkable. I can’t remember a single song. Is this really the standard for albums I MUST listen to before I die? An album I LITERALLY do not remember a detail of the following day?
Like early ish indie rock. Tries to be a bit psychedelic at times. Not a fan. Thinking Of Ways was so so bad 😂. Just shite. 1/5
The auditory equivalent of dog shite.
This is my least favorite album yet.
Didn't even finish it.