Reviews (page 7 of 7)
DNF’d this (can you say that for an album?). It was just profoundly uninteresting to me.
That was indeed music. But it did indeed piss me off to listen to the whole time.
Eh, not really my jam
It's 46 min 17s I'll never get back. I despised this.
Did not enjoy this at all. Not my kind of music but also it all sounded exactly the same to me.
Oh just fuck right off with this shite.
Really tried with this album but the vocals give me fatigue.
Noisy, edgy, heavy Sounds with atrocious, scratchy and monotone vocals making it Post-Hardcore.
I sound like m grandmother, but this was just noise
Punk/ alternative music. Not great music.
DNF. Couldn’t get into it.
not for me. too hard rock screaming
Fuck that it's cancer to my ears
I did not enjoy this.
What is this noise? Why is this on the list? A couple tracks start off interesting, but devolve into just noise.
Instrumentals are pretty decent, but the vocals just sound so so stupid. I was exhausted of it by track 2.
Minusta kyllä raflaavan nimeensä nähden hyvin mitäänsanomatonta goottimetallihkoa. Onks tää edelläkävijä jotenkin? Sitten ymmärrän, muuten en. Mulle oli jopa yllättävän tuskaa koettaa kuunnella loppuun: olis sitten rehellisesti vain metallia tai rehellisesti vain goottia?!
I dunno - 10 years late on Sonic Youth? Vocals attempt at edgy and miss horribly.
My hometown, Larvik in Norway had about 45000 inhabitants in 1993. Im not exaggerating when I say there must have been at least 25 bands who where better than this whining bunch there, in 1993. This record is neither important, og great in any way, and should never have been included in a list like this.
Grungy and grimy but why??
First listen. Nah
NAH
nie słuchałam. Nie lubię tego rodzaju muzyki. Wyzwala złe emocje. Przy muzyce chcę się odprężyć.
Nope. Deserves 0 stars
I've never heard of Girls Against Boys or this album before. I've reviewed a small handful of early nineties alternative and post hardcore albums already, and for the most part, I've thought they were fine. I don't have particularly high hopes for this album, but here's hoping for a pleasant surprise on this Monday morning! Well, a surprise wasn't in store for me today; I didn't care for this album very much. While the crunchy and distorted guitars were well done, their sound got really repetitive over the course of this album, and I really couldn't pin down anything that made this album unique or noteworthy. I didn't particularly care for the vocals, which is a shame, because the lyrics were fairly interesting, although quite dark. "Bullet Proof Cupid" was easily the best song on the album; in my opinion, it was the only song on the album that crafted a unique atmosphere from the dark sound of the album. This album isn't something I'd return to, and it was a pretty tedious and boring listen in my opinion.
Not a fan 🤷
I could appreciate some of the music but nah, not for me. 1
46 minutes is too long.
moody man-child butt rock dreck. with influence/legacy? sure because it sounds like seether, hinder, (chose your own 00's Divorced Dadcore band maybe influenced by this,) trying to sound like Tool.
2/10. Not enjoyable. Few good song intros but overall bad.
If this album matters this list is going to blow up to 100.001 records
It's like, much worse NIN.
Another album I couldn't finish, it began to feel like a headache that wouldn't go away.
Supposed to be Indie. This is just heavy metal noise
Good grief, these are the albums that try men's souls. Wikipedia identifies them as a "post hardcore" group. I don't know what to say other than this band won't be back in my life.
Meh. Boring
Dude, give me a fucking break here. Does every "post-something" album on this list need to be a depressing piece of shit? There are solid albums out there that fit into the genre way more than this. Maybe this was important to someone at some time, but it's very very much not a necessary listen before death's inevitable arrival. Now I'm just sad and bummed. Gonna put on some Carly Rae Jepsen or something.
Did nothing for me.
Sounds like a fault electrical appliance the whole way through. Painful experience and a complete waste of time. Am 200 albums through so far and this is the current winners for lack of musicianship, inept vocal and all round "shitness".
Outro indie que não deixou recordações.
I didn't like this. Claims to have been influenced by Fugazi, so you can imagine my disappointment when i heard this.
Yep, there's nothing of value here. Stopped listening after one and a half songs. 1/10 (0.5/5)
Why is this on here? I couldn't even hear the singer really maybe that was spotify's fault, but none of these songs did anything for me
Another utterly uninteresting miscellaneous rock album from the 90s
Mince
An exhausting and pointless listen. The main culprit here is the singing: your typical gravelly, undertrained garage/death-metal timbre. Like nails on a chalkboard. Like unsanded brass against unsanded brass. Like Kurt Cobain with a dead squirrel lodged in his throat. It's bad. Even though the instrumentation is your standard rock lineup, it sounds brazenly amateur, and even the players seems to concede this fact through their repetitive and uncohesive sound. If this were written and released as a kind of satirical statement about how low record labels sometimes stoop in order to get something released, I think I could forgive Girls Against Boys for this release. But unfortunately, I think they're serious. The one-two "punch" (really a halfhearted nudge) of Bullet Proof Cupid / 7 Seas is a welcome breath of fresh air towards the album's conclusion, notably having some catchy guitar/bass riffs to drive a slightly more cohesive sound. But overall, I can't see myself ever listening through the album again to reach that point. We aren't getting to Venus Luxure No. 2, baby. 1/5 Key tracks: Bullet Proof Cupid, In Like Flynn
Halfway through and ouch, I am not a fan. 1/5
Wikipedia says this is post hardcore, but it just sounds like nu metal garbage to me
Didn't give it enough time but didn't enjoy what I heard
This is one of the most unpleasant things I've ever listened to. Barely counts as music in my opinion. I can't believe anyone bought this album other than angsty teenagers rebelling by buying music deliberately chosen to make their parents think "how did I raise this piece of shit?" Would give zero stars if it were possible
prolly not for me. Fugazi felt better.
Gear: Abyss DIANA MR (vegan) Artwork: 📟🧭🤢 Mix: 🧏♂️📏💩 Musik: 🦻😵💫🚫 Wertung: 🧭/5
woah okay this was pretty bad!
Pre-listening thoughts: oh come ON random generator like u couldn’t have split up the 90s indie rock by more than a few days??? First that awful Sebadoh album now this??? I have a bad feeling I’m going to hate this Post/during listening thoughts: I CANT DO THIS SOMEBODY SEDATE ME GODDD I can’t do this genre for another full album. Please. Release me from this suffering 1/10 DID I NEED TO HEAR THIS BEFORE I DIE: NOOOOOOOOOOOO STOP SUGGESTING 90s NOISE ROCK I HATE IT Fav tracks: one of these has to go on my playlist? Oh actually shoot my brains out and curb stomp them Least fav tracks: All of them! Can I please get an album next week where this isn’t the case dear god. 3 of these albums within a week is so cruel
Messy, loud and boring
Not for me
I keep thinking 'when will this be over'. It's worsening my headache and I've been telling my spouse it sounds alot like the wood-chipper outside my house right now. I feel like the other listeners in my group are just trolling me and they don't actually like this. kidding. 1 star - this actively grates on me
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.