Reviews (page 8 of 8)
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.
This sounds very much of it's time. It's like shoegaze Elliott Smith. An hour of distorted guitars...awesome. I think I'm starting to hate 90s music too. This album goes on forever. This is not the most awful album I've ever heard, maybe I don't hate shoegaze as much as Cocteau Twins would have me believe. Run My Way Runway is just noise. I just want this to be over. 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.
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.