Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby

This sounds like a headache

p724. 1994. 1 star. Average garage band with average songs. WTF is this doing on the list? On the plus side, it's short.

This list continues to make itself seem less credible each time an album like this appears. Just absolutely sub par quality of a punk alt rock album. There’s nothing on this that is must hear. It’s more like must avoid. 3.6/10

are you mad but don’t know what at? did you quit piano lessons to pick up the guitar, but you also didn’t learn to play that either?

Usually I just don't care for some albums, but this one I hated. Boring and unpleasant and long (seeming) will always lose.

Grunge was mostly a mistake, there were only like two or three bands that could pull it off

This sadly didn’t appeal to me at all

If you didn't have a headache before listening to this album , you definitely will afterwards. It was just multiple noises banded together in a blender. Did not enjoy

Grabs interest then rapidly loses it. Same sound over and over. Pass

When this popped up I wondered how I had missed this first time round. After a listen I knew.

Nothing too standout for me. A little heavy but dull sounding album

Nope.

90s grunge/indie stuff. Couldn't get into it at all

Couldn’t bear it

Good lord this was awful. I have literally nothing positive to say and I have no idea how anyone could like this. The music was genuinely deafening and the vocals were the cherry on top of sounds from hell.

Boys against music. 2/10 1 star

Didn’t enjoy

Nothing to write home about. Some ok sounding songs but otherwise pretty bland

Made it just short of halfway through before I had to turn it off. It just felt like anti-music to me, it's probably the sound the artist is going for but I'd rather shit in my hands and clap then listen to this sort of music.

Switched it off after a few tracks. Enough said

Band pitch idea: A less talented Alice in Chains This band is like the Terminator. I can only assume this band by a major label from the future to kill indie rock so it never fully takes off and musical tastes do not divert away from the mainstream. Kill indie rock before it grows, but unfortunately this isn't indie rock and is like the lead singer of Collective Soul fronting a post-hardcore band. I wanted to like this because so many others did not like the album and I thought it can't be all that bad. There is just nothing special about this album and I'm attempting to think about how its placement on this list is justified.

This album being on the list has to be a joke. It's fuck boy wanna be metal. I sounds like an incels high-school band, it quality and content.

Screamy Rob Zombie/Radiohead vibe. Nope.

Really not bothered by all this shouting and guitars. Not particularly coherent, funky or witty.

I'm sure hard rock fans like this, but I don't see how this is any more groundbreaking than the other hard rock albums before it.

I was raised a hardcore girl during the peak of the "post-hardcore" scene. I read Alternative Press' back pages, where they highlighted "influential albums in the scene" and I then sought those albums out at Newbury Comics like a fiend. I was a "memorize every band on a label" girl. And sure, I don't listen to this music much anymore, but it is part of my DNA. I know my shit. I loved this shit. And that's why I was confused...why had I never heard of this album? Sure, it's well before my time, but that never stopped me. I know my shit, or at least I thought I did. And the answer is simple – this is not "post-hardcore." This isn't even in the scene. Sure, I get that these are retired Dischord boiz, but this music has more in common with post-grunge than post-hardcore. It's chain-smoked and wrapped in pleather, it's wrap-around sunglasses and buzz cuts and 90s Cool, the soundtrack to Need for Speed. It's not part of the scene, it doesn't know anyone who's edge, there's no box hairdye in its medicine cabinet, and this is not being included in the Tony Hawk soundtrack, because it's too aggro. Is it bad? Not for what it is, no. But I'd argue it's bad for what it *aspires to be*, and that's somehow worse. It also isn't my jam. It's not my scene. I find this strain of rock-in-the-wake-of-grunge to be boring, muddled, and macho without reason, which is why I gravitated towards the post-hardcore scene, because at least those boiz were attempting to process their emotions. And this album is not processing anything, certainly not sonically. It just runs together into a single dull slog. There's moments where I see a glimpse of promise, and also understand how they were mislabeled, and I know sometimes it's "once a punk, always a punk," but this has more in common with Shinedown than Fugazi. My question is why this album? Why not Quicksand, or Jawbreaker, or At the Drive-In, or Refused? Fuck, the 1-to-1 replacement for this is Jawbox's "For Your Own Special Sweetheart" (although I'd say Jawbreaker's "Dear You" is maybe a better representation of the scene etre). Who cares if I don't love this – its inclusion is a purposeful exclusion of actually important punk/hardcore albums from the era, and also a deep misinterpretation of what "post-hardcore" looked like and would look like. It's a blatant misinterpretation of a subgenre, and a bad representation. That makes me even more upset. The fact that it's boring made me want to turn it off, which warrants a low rating anyway, but the fact that it has a seat at the table over anyone actually important to the history of post-hardcore warrants my angry rant.

meh

So bad, only made it through 3 songs and had to turn it off. SKIIIIP.

I gave it a shot. Sounds like he was singing through a tin can and the instruments were played in a garage and recorded on a tape recorder but guess that probably the style of the genre. I’m not sure if I understood one sentence on the whole album so it must not have been that important of a message.

Could maybe get into a couple songs, but can't do the whole album. 1/5

Despite a few sporadic promising bars of innovative music, I quickly got sick & tired of his voice.

Not my style. Never did appreciate the whole hardcore/grunge/sludge thing. Could never participate in the existential anger/angst the music offered. Just was never that disaffected. Made it through 2.5 songs.

inget behov av att hata detta men inget speciellt. det finns ingen populärmusik, det finns ingen inflytelserik musik, det finns ingen intressant musik. helt intetsägande album. det finns ingen anledning att vara med på listan men jag hatar inte, jag hatar inte det här men det sjunker till botten av nummer ett. ingen anledning att ge mer. dagens värdelösa album. 7 seas

Post -hardcore. Maybe not "post" enough for me. I won't say there weren't pieces of tracks here and there that caught my attention, but I was never entertained. The sound is mostly industrial drone. And angry.

i don’t care for this and didn’t really listen as so much as have it on in the background just because it’s on the list, some interesting bits but overall i didn’t like it.

My first DNF! Highlights - nothing really. Didn’t like - pretty much everything but especially satin down. Overall - first album that I got that I really didn’t know anything about at all, never heard of the band, but looking at the brief wiki entry I had high hopes - I love a lot of indie & diy, but this falls on the side of post hardcore that I really don’t like which is kind of “unpleasant noises for the sake of unpleasant noises” which I can only ever tolerate in small doses, not a whole album. I can understand why people would like this, but it’s not for me. Didn’t finish the album, I was having a bad time.

Zzzzzzzz all these songs just drone on and oooonnnnn. First album that I truly don't understand why it's on this list. Didn't need to hear this at all. Wish I could give it no stars.

Generic blah. Absolutely uninteresting grungy amateur garage noise.

Just nope

meh

Had low expectations from the album cover. It was still a little too goth like type music but it was alright. All the songs also kinda sounded similar, it was hard to differentiate when a new song was playing. The 1 rating is more so because there's other albums that I would still much prefer to listen to. I still didn't hate it completely though.

More garbage

18/100 Based on this scale: 1 star - 0 to 19 2 stars - 20 to 39 3 stars - 40 to 59 4 stars - 60 to 79 5 stars - 80 to 100 Entirely unremarkable. Also, I tend to cringe at any genre name with the word "post" in it.

Pínulítið feginn að ég sé búinn að hlusta á þessa plötu. Þá þarf ég ekki að hlusta á hana aftur. Þetta þykir mér leiðinlegt rokk.

Not sure what purpose this album serves in the grand scheme. Plenty of better examples of this post hardcore early 90s scene. Would rather never listen to again. 1.5

Meh...

Meh. Nothing special or new. Why?

I couldn't make it through this album. I found it painful to listen to and irredeemable.

A very bad mix of QOTSA, Rage Against The Machine, P.O.D. and Papa Roach. A VERY bad mix.

OK, so here it is, the exact moment I realize that this isn't 1001 albums you need to hear before you die but instead some tasteless basement dweller's wet dream of a project. A chance to finally show the world what they're missing. A chance to dust off those CDs you've been carrying around in milk crates from one shitty failed relationship to another. fuck you. this album is another garbage album that someone bought in junior high back in the day when you spent $12 on a CD and of course you're going to listen to it until you like it, you just wasted $12, how could it not be good? it isn't.

Nope!

If you want to be both bored and annoyed…

Stupid name for a band, terrible album cover and album name, lyrics are nonsense, music is very boring for this type of music…a few decent driving riffs other than that just very irritating and boring. First album on this list I found absolutely zero value.

Not a fan of post-hardcore. Maybe someday I’ll hear an album that turns me around but today is not that day

Wat een stuk verdriet, deze plaat.