Reviews (page 8 of 8)
How in the world did this even make it on this list? It's barely music, more like spoken word poetry. And bad poetry at that.
I could have recorded this with my 3 guitar chords I can play and reading some words.
BM Bella Merda
I usually enjoy this genre of music but.... this was something else. Boring and slow. Their first album is much better if you wanna give these guys a second try
Meu deus q desgosto
I feel like I wanna die after listening to this scuffed music
Det här var faktiskt ganska dåligt.
bro ts ahh
Not my favorite I'm sorry...
nope
Not for me
Imagine the Velvet Underground's schtick of 'we sold a thousand records but everyone who bought one started a band' without any actual songs. Not buying its slacker cool in any way. Just tiresome.
This was noise layered on noise, I did not enjoy it
Like 2 girls 1 cup for your ears
Not sure why anyone thinks that what I just listened was something I need to hear before I die. It was 30 minutes of pretty annoying minimalist emo bullshit. This felt like a band that would play in the background of an edgy teen coffee house in a small east coast venue. Fifteen minutes in minutes in any actual customers would wonder why this coffee house allowed some angsty teenagers to plug in instruments so they would finish up their cups and disperse. Never heard of Slint and I wish that were still the case. I would actually like my 40 minutes back on this one. 0.51 stars
Tentando entender onde essa banda queria chegar.
This shit sucks. They remind me of one of those pretentious local groups that always gets angry when they lose their small town battle of the bands and then get mad because nobody listens to “good music” around here 😒
Oof this might be my least favourite vocally that I’ve heard so far. I didn’t mind the spoken word stuff but the singing parts are not my cup of tea.
Listening to the first song I thought “Damn I hope it gets better than this” -it didn’t. I’m not even sure how this would be categorized as to genre. But if there is a category called “Sucks” this definitely belongs.
There is absolutely no reason his album is on the list. 1.5
kann ich nix mit anfangen
Why is this on the list?
Not my scene.
That went from interesting to boring to torture in 3 songs.
Total waste of my time
Wow. Never again
Well this was a bit of a challenge. The vocals were difficult to enjoy, engage with or understand. If this had been instrumental it may have managed a 3. I think I'm going for a 1.
I couldn't even get through two songs
Yeah, I'll pass on listening to this ever again.
I hear the influences on modern music but I also didn't enjoy listening to this.
Painful, quite frankly
Bit of harsher American underground rock music for once. Still not good on my ears
What an indulgent unmelodic and nearly unlistenable mess.
nope
Pre-listening thoughts: poetry and yelling???? Screw this bro Post/during listening thoughts: some artistic visions shouldn’t be brought to life. I felt like I was on some bad trip this entire album. Like nauseous and everything. The ASMR bits make me feel like I’m about to get assaulted. Jesus Christ this was so terrible. Thank god this was their last album. 0.5/10 DID I NEED TO HEAR THIS BEFORE I DIE: is there any way I can warn people they need to NOT hear this before they die? Fav tracks: ????? Least fav tracks: yes
Seems like you either love it or you don't. I'm in the latter category - what a load of boring, dreary, plain nonsense. Every song is the same tempo, and contains mostly the same riffs/progression. Quite enjoyed the screaming at the end of the final song - perhaps frustration at the song being over 7 minutes long? I'm not really sure what this is either - math rock, but I didn't really hear it. Approaching shoegaze - a genre I do not like at all. Not for me at all this. Potentially the worst album we've had for a while.
Sounds like some local kids set up a make-shift recording studio in their basement and after getting drunk recorded this album. I don’t get it. I don’t like it.
Not good, cool cover tho
Through this 1001 Album regime, perhaps I am discovering that I am not much of a music aficionado. Once again I find myself listening to an unimaginative, uninspiring album. Thankfully, these Lou Reed wannabes ended their musical sojourn after this album.
Too much screaming in a few songs and hard to understand what is said in the lyrics.
boooriiiing
Spiderland! Spiderland! Does whatever a Spider cand. Is it good? Not a bit. It's just tedious mumble shit. Look out! Here comes the Spiderland.
Ever been to a concert and had a dude next to you that wouldn’t shut up? He just kept talking about mundane random shit the entire time the band was playing? That experience is this album. Some dude spouting pointless stories over a band for 40 minutes.
Really didn't like it, especially not the horrible ASMR at the end
What is this doing on the list
Sounds like being trapped in a hot car
That was crap.
This album is boring and obnoxious. These guys have some good moments and interesting musical ideas that build but ultimately fizzle into nothing. Would like to hear them use their novel rhythmic ideas to create something with more impact, but instead they seem to just revel in their depression and mumble about their sense of listlessness. I'm all for sad music but your band can't be both sad AND boring otherwise what are we doing here but comparing notes on our bullshit lives?
Dreadful
Ugh, it was really hard to get through this. I truly hated it.
Awful
I can’t believe this is considered as influential as it is. It’s not good. There’s no soul. It’s just disaffected dudes doing their best “we’re cool because we’re in a band” schtick but they lack the charisma or talent needed to really sell this. It sucks.
I remember the 90s fondly. I don't remember the 90s being this BORRRRING
Shocking that the band was already done before this album dropped.
2/10 - this album just made me so uncomfortable the whole time. Parts of it were boring but most of it was just so strange and off putting. It is also uncomfortable in a different way than the Eminem albums were. I never plan on listening to any of these songs ever again
I mean, I can see the influence and have been known to like groups in this genre but this was utterly tedious
Left this on the background and after 20 minutes or so I realized there was still music playing. Completely unengaging experience, musically speaking.
Not a fan. It felt boring most of the time. I could tell where sometimes their sound felt like it might have been an influence for future musicians, but overall didn’t enjoy listening.
I'm a fan of ambient music, and I know well enough that a good amount of music requires a lot of listening for it to really click. But it seems like no matter how many times I've heard this record, nothing sticks.
Slint’s Spiderland is low-key trash. It feels like a cheap imitation of a movie, except there is no visuals, just some ass music. No part of this album was remotely good. It got boring the first song in, as. Every track is 5+ minutes, and extremely repetitive. All in all, Spiderland is a horrible album. Best Song: Nosferatu Man Worst Song: Washer
To me, this was boring. I'm starting to wonder who made this list?!
Awful. Lethally boring.
One night in 2016 shortly after a bad breakup, I got really drunk, taught myself a couple chords on my guitar, and recorded what I called “automusic,” where I just made up the lyrics as I strummed over a couple notes. I didn’t care about tone, or wrong notes, or the song composition. Just raw emotion on the tracks. That is what this album sounds like, but this was professionally recorded.
Not sure what they were trying, but it didn't work out.
Don’t like this
I’m sorry but I really didn’t ask for white noise. This felt like their first studio session and they’re doing checks on instruments. This did not appeal to me at all. I believe I don’t have amazing authority over what should be considered great music and not, but I just don’t see how this is. I’m not sure how it was revolutionary or influential and I don’t think it was even good.
Absolute piss
Deeply boring spoken word indie rock.
I don't get it. heavy rock and whispering. Huh
Wow. That was a truly unpleasant listen. Atonal spoken/screaming word, nothing interesting musically. This is supposed to be an "influential" album -- like the old saying about White Light/White Heat spawning countless bands even without commercial success. This spawns feelings of contemplating suicide, wishing for it to be over. At least King Missile has a sense of humor. Unexpected bangers: none.
No no no. Whiny screaming emo guys no thanks
Well, that was underwhelming, boring, meandering, and pretty lame, overall. I'd never heard of Slint before, and now I see why.
Hideous. Nonsensical lyrics. No singing, just grunting, screaming and nastiness. Don't know how they were able to get this album produced.
Meh 2 No 1
Naw
Not for me, what a depressing way to start my day. "Washer" reminds me of the first Twilight movie - I'm not sure if it's a similar song on the soundtrack or the actual film score, but listen to 2:55 - 3:20. Can't you just picture Bella walking into the woods? I'm starting to think it might actually have been sampled... it's so similar. I looked it up, couldn't find any connection :(
Might come to regret this in the future but it was hard listening… the 1st time
Listened to it in Madison, over two days. Very weird kinda unsettling album
Barely listenable
Dios santo bendito, lo que me ha costado terminar esto. No me ha gustado nada de nada.
What is this garbs. A thousand and one bands in their garage sounded like this or better in the early 90s. Why is this here?
Trash.
Depressing. Atypical. Long chord progressions that provide the backdrop for Slint's storytelling. They go back and forth from slowly talking to singing. It's borderline creepy.
Terrible
Notes written on partial listen. I’m not sure I quite understand the approach of what the band was trying to achieve with this. The instrumentation quickly becomes quite monotonous. I wanted to say it is repetitive, but things change very very slightly throughout. Though if you were only half-listening it would all sound the same. Some of it isn’t all that bad, but every part of each song so far (I’m on 4 out of 6) is repeated too many times. The vocals, though, I truly don’t understand at all what is happening. As mentioned, I’m at song 4, and every song up to this point has just been a guy talking? Like not trying to sing at all, just talking like he’s telling a story. Track 4 is the first attempt I’ve heard at actual singing, if you can call it that. On top of all of that, there’s an excessive amount of sounds of fingers sliding up and down fretboards on guitar and bass tracks. There’s points where you can hear huge volume changes when an effects pedal is engaged/disengaged. There’s something to be said for the fact that much modern music is compressed to all hell and has almost 0 dynamic range. But holy shit, someone get this band some compressors. Things drop out and it’s so quiet I can’t hear it and turn it up and then suddenly the distorted guitars come back and it’s deafeningly loud. There’s such a thing as too much dynamic range. And if that’s what this band/producer/mixer was going for, they sure nailed it. On top of all of that, the songs are quite depressingly slow. This one is a big thumbs down for me. Into track 5/6 now. I’m feeling rather depressed now. I almost listened to this earlier in the day and I’m glad I didn’t because I had shit to do and listening to this would have made me less motivated to do any of it.
Was not a fan, I can see why people would like it just not for me.
I like the vibe, but there wasn't a whole lot of memorable content in there. I'll probably miss a question on Jeopardy about Slint even though I listened to this album.
Rock poetry and not in a good way. It didn't speak to me on any level and just sounded like an experiment rather than a finished album. Roll on tomorrow's offering...
Absolutely awful
knives in ears, slowly.
Got through two songs . It’s a nope from me
Definitely not for me either
Album 120 of 1001 Slint - Spiderland Rating : 1 / 5 From the album summary : "Spiderland is the second and final studio album by the American rock band Slint.". The key word in that quote is 'final'. That doesn't surprise me, at all. This simply sucked. I apologize to the ether for exposing it to this, again.
ASMR Post Punk sounds like a cool YouTube channel, but it makes for a pretty unlistenable album. The sad part is, the instrumentation is fantastic at times and the atypical time signatures/feels can be very welcome. But I am going to hear the vocals in every nightmare I have for the rest of my life.
Onko väkinäinen yritys muuttaa rakenteita mitään muuta kuin skeptisyyttää sen suhteen, että rakenteet voisivat muuttua?
This is not good. I don't know what they are trying to accomplish but the music is all over the place and the lyrics or just speaking parts are garbage. It was just there. It is probably better than a one but it is not a two.
rubbish self indulgent
That….was not pleasant to listen to.
Ugh
Spiderland is crap, it has loads of odd high-pitched guitar breaks that annoy the fuck out of me, the rest is a grungey mess punctuated by bad vocals. 1.
Another band that disappeared without trace - for good reason. Mediocre music with no content of any interest and vocals that are below standard for your average garage band made up of high schoolers.
Didn’t really catch my attention.
There were i in o redeeming qualities
Not it
So, as Jane was saying... "The music is so bland that it drowns out the monotony of itself. In addition, how pretentious of a band to think anyone would want to listen to something so dull". (0.5/5) Kind of reminded Shannah of Smashing Pumpkins. Enjoyed aspects though probably wouldn't listen to again. (1/5) Self-indulgent and boysy. (1.5/5) Conor thought it was ok... (2.25/5) (1.05/5)
No
Oef. Ik kende dit tot nu toe alleen van een T-shirt van Arjan (zwart met een wit spinnetje erop), maar ik vond het echt zwaar deprimerend.
Nope
Forstår ikke hvordan dette er på 1001
couldn't listen to that all the way to the end... What a boring crap. Why is that a top 1000 Album?
Unlistenable
Ljudet är platt och dåligt balanserat,, sången är för låg på hälften av alla låtar. Inte jättespännande, känns som de finns bättre band om gör den här lite storytelling-punk-grejjen. Pluspoäng för viss punkkänsla. Väldigt oinspirerande, låter som ens polares 'Fryshuset band' istället för en av artisterna bakom ett av 1001 världens bästa album? Kommer ha glömt att dessa existerar om 2h. Dock inte direkt dåligt? bara väldigt tråkigt
Only made it a few songs into the album and decided to stop - It's a very grungy kind of rock album with a great feeling of moodiness but just a bit too depressing and monotonous for my taste. Not too fond of the vocal style in the songs either but that's just my taste.
mumbleing nonsense.
Some of the instrumentals were pretty cool, but this album was not for me.
Edgy spoken word and whispering over droning, monotonous, and lazy riffs. Tracks are six to eight minutes long. Way too long. Garbage.
October 13, 2021 Just a lot of grungy background noise. The vocals are too quiet. I get this would be influential but I just think what came after is less fucking boring.
False
Spiderland is the second and final studio album by the American rock band Slint. Formed in 1986 in Louisville, Kentucky, having met as teenagers playing in the Midwestern punk scene, they soon diverged from their hardcore roots. By the time they recorded Spiderland in late 1990, the band had developed a complex, idiosyncratic sound characterized by atypical rhythmic meters, harmonic dissonance and irregular song structures. McMahan's vocal delivery alternates between spoken word, singing and shouting. The lyrics are presented in a narrative style, covering themes and feelings of unease, social anxiety, loneliness, and despair.
Weird. This album is weird. And it's also weird how a weird album is categorically considered great. Lots of spoken lyrics, mostly mumbled, alternating with screechy screaming. Mixed rhythms, dissonant chord structures... Sorry, this gets a solid 1 star from me.
Not a good album. Sounds like they’re drunk and sloppy when playing. No songwriting present, and the spoken word vocals are terrible. Not for me.
Spiderland is zoals een combo proberen tussen disneyland en spiderman gebouwd Het resultaat is echter plopsaland met mega Toby. It's a no for me
Meh
Boring. Not my style of music at all.
Only liked the song Washer. This style had no appeal to me whatsoever. Maybe if I was 40 years younger. Could barely hear the lyrics.
Nah bro.
I think they're trying to torture us now
Shit
I hate it. Makes me feel sick and sad inside.
Nope
Torture
Not a huge fan. I get it and I understand why it was influential to some genres that followed but overall I couldn’t get through the entire album.
Nej, lyssnar hellre på creepypodden än så här skum musik.
Not my thing
Garbage. Almost no vocals, just grunge strumming a guitar. Waste of time listening.
Shocker. The talking bits were very cringe
1.75
guitar #2 sucks.
Every last human is dead
For something experimental it is quite monotone. Like all the six songs resemble each other. And the music in general is not to my taste. I like rock, this is just garbage