Veckatimest

This is a mostly low key album with few high excitable moments.

I don't really get on with American indie. It's always a bit to high pitched and wet. Couple of good tracks but I hope the name grizzly bear is ironic as there is no grizzly going on.

At first I thought it was going to be a burning wreck of folk indie, copy and pasted from other bands from the same era. Imagine my surprise to discover that I was completely fuckin' right. Eat my shorts.

Another blink-and-you'll-miss-it addition that was removed from the current edition. I have vague memories of disliking the slow, twee single Two Weeks, but upon revisiting it, I kind of like the song now. Unfortunately, the rest of the album is a bland, meandering, dull mess. 2000s indie rock was a really tepid genre of music overall.

nae, detta höll inte för mig.

Was ok. Not my favorite album. Bit mathy, bit folky, bit whispery. Not going to rush back to it.

I'd heard a lot about these guys but this album was a real slog to get through. Some nice wee harmonies and that but overall quite dull

Slow so called Indie, boring

First time I ever heard of Grizzly Bear. Songs I liked: All We Ask. For now a 2/5, but I think it is better than that.

Tym razem wylosowalo cos calkiem nie tak starego, bo album z 2k09, bedacy trzecim krazkiem w dyskografii girzzly bearsow, czyli czteroosobowej bandy z nowojorskiego brooklynu, sama plyta to 52 minuty ciezkiego do zgatunkowania materialu na dwunastu kawalkach, bo jak tu doszukiwac sie stylow w indyjskim rokowaniu, ktore laczy w sobie akustyczne brzmienia dziwnych instrumentow, z dorobkiem wspolczesnej techniki produkcji muzyki w celu uzyskania orginalnych brzmien z srednio jakosciowych dzwiekow instrumentali, czy lejerowania wokali ktore jest tak przeruchane na tym krazku jak nigdzie, pierwsze skojarzenia gdzie juz slyszalem podobna muzyke nasuwa sie deerhunter od strony instruemntalnej, natomiast wokalnie bardziej foxygen, zwlaszcza traki pana Drosta, plyta jest podzielona pomiedzy dwoch wokalistow, ktorzy spiewaja roznie, ale na tak samo o niczym, bo jednak najslabszym aspektem plyty sa tak oklepane liryki, niczym z generatora indyjskich tekstow dla ambitnych sluchaczy, nie wiem czemu ale dodatkowo videosy promujace plyte rowniez podtrzymuja wizerunek pseudo artystycznosci zespolu, teraz pasuje zadac pytanie, czy to muzyka uformowala panow w takie artystyczne persony, czy raczej oni uformowali sie zeby pasowac do nurtu indyjskich grajkow wczesnych lat 2k, pytanie bez odpowiedzi, bo raczej nie rzuce sie na zglebianie reszty dyskografii zespolu, pomino tego, ze ta plyta rowniez ma swoje mocniejsze momenty, jak two weeks, ktory zdecydowanie wyroznia sie pod wzgledem instrumentalnym od reszty albumu, co przelozylo sie na ilosc odtworzen, bo jest to hicior nie tylko plyty jak i calej dyskografii zespolu wedlug statystyk spotifaja, a moze to przez wykorzystanie tego instrumentala jako brutalnego sampla u pana gambino, wiec rowniez dodam go na swoja plejke, no i jeszcze takim momentem byl utwor while you wait for the others, ktory natomiast wyroznia sie jakosciowym, jak nigdzie na krazku wokalu, polaczonym z chytrze wykorzystanym wspierajacy wokalem, ktory przez caly czas trwania traka jest gdzies z tylu i czai sie na swoja kolej, polaczone z zaglerka kanalowa moze sie to podobac, w moj gust akurat trafilo

Just passed by without really touching the sides, there are occasional flashes of something more interesting but it's Fleet Foxes style stuff all the way really.

Okay

Another one of those albums that question how it sits on an essential list. Again it is musically good even if it does meander but nothing stands out. I didn't even realise the album had finished when Spotify decided to autoplay random songs after it had finished.

This album is no longer in the book.

Two weeks is good, the rest don't give me enough melody or feeling. Dory gives me feels but in the way it sounds like the vocals are at odds with the instrumentals. It took work not to turn it off.

Seeing the name of the band hit me with a jolt of nostalgia. I never actually got familiar with the music so here we go. OK. It is fine. Perfect for background music. One song sounded familiar but when I looked it was on a different album, spotify had helpfully found for me.

Meh. Old sad bastard music.

Got a bit sick of it

For some reason, I liked, but didn't love this album. I appreciated the thick musical orchestrations, but they left me wanting something more. I think I'm going to plan a trip to Cape Cod this summer and try to listen to it there.

weird.

Meh

I can see the effort to stand out and to make a statement, but it feels super bland, and the singer’s voice is annoying.

Twee

Lasted three songs

Background music

Ganz nett aber bleibt nicht hängen

too much british pop

Eh, starts off hot. Snoozy After 4/10

This music just doesn't make me feel anything. No favorite track

2/5 booooo

Leiðigjörn plata. Örfá góð lög.

I lost patience with this album pretty quickly. just required too much effort to elbow my way past the noodling to find a melody.

-Everythinf is mad boring except "I Live With You." That's the only song that actually has any sort of pickup in intensity -The rest are just the same vibe across the entire album, and the singer's style/the mixing make the singing not stand out at all

weird noises

The album is fine but considering all the contemporary albums that didn't make the revised list I think I could've gone without listening to it before I depart. Two Weeks brings me back to the Childish Gambino remix he did

Nope

26. Vinte. E depois seis. MotA: Two Weeks "Our haven on / The southern point is calling us"

Got about half way through. It's not that it was bad, it's just really not my thing

Not my thing.

That one song tho...the rest just went by me.

Could be better if a gave it a couple more listens. 2.8/5

sounds nice

It isn't quite like anything I have heard before. Sighing vocals, very airy and echo-y. Very unconventional song structures. Have to admit, I guess my ear is too unsophisticated for this. It is just too weird.

Ok. Bit boring

not for me

Got bored like Becky but could be my mood today

3

Coneixia un parell de temes del disc, entre ells la seva cançó més coneguda, "Two weeks". Àlbum lisèrgic, amb un punt de psicodèlia i una barreja de influències que van des de Beach boys fins a Radiohead. Massa calmat pel meu gust, acaba esgotant una mica i la segona meitat resulta més feixuga. Tot i així, un disc agradable i amb una producció notable.

Folk-rock bastante moñas...

Ga meg veldig lite

Pasable pero sin mucho que ofrecer

Weird, first song nice piano

Meh, kinda weird vampire weekend vibes

eh, not for me

No me gustó mucho pero tampoco me disgustó tanto. De esos discos que si no existen no pasa na.

Me gustó leve.

Alternatief

Really expected to like this, but it's like the boring parts of Steely Dan and Fleet Foxes had a baby.

Not really my genre.

Ultimately just too long and not interesting and innovative enough

Ehkä pössyissä pääsis tähän maailmaan sisään, mutta konttorirotan taustamusana ei kummoista kokemusta tuottanut.

didnt like didnt sound interesting

Jäi perjantaina kesken enkä muista mihin jäin eikä kyllä kiinnostakaan

No. Self indulgent crap

What a rough weekend, three one-star albums in a row. The songs were completely uninspired and dull. I wouldn’t even rate this album as decent background music.

#58 - Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest ⭐️ I’ve never heard to Grizzly Bear before. My initial reaction is that their sound doesn’t match their name at all. Heavy metal or country, either one would have made sense. But this is just some boring indie rock that I have truly no interest in.

That's one I'll never listen to again. The second track was OK. Other than that I just wanted it to end

Rubbish

Ba Or Ing!

Nothing interesting here. Just background music

medio aburrido

Not for me

No roars, only snores.

Boring - meh.

55 minutes of nothingness

Nope

No country for me

Definitely not for me. Didn’t get it.

not my thing, doesn't interest me more than background music that I ignore

1.42

Twee and whiny

I bought this way back when. Wasn't really my thing back then either

SMALL FUZZY BAND ROCK OF CUM IN TOILET SLOPPY DRUMS PERFORMING REPEAT FLEE AT FIRST SIGN OF PLAYING

Hey Two Weeks is that prime advert song. This is a very 2009 album, gives me a bit of an Alt-J vibe somehow. Other than that one song, a bit of a slog. Folk-y/alternative rock.

Vähän alko kyseenalastamaan tätä koko haastetta. Eikös tää levy oo tehty moneen kertaan jo 60-luvulla

Oli kyllä taas sellasta kuraa, että menee usko, että tuleeko täältä vielä jotain oikeesti hyvää. Grizzly Bear? Pikemminkin laiskiainen, jolla on ripulit housuissa.

its nicethat theres music for everyone and anyone

I listened to 3 songs on this and got bored. Not my thing really.

i desperately wanted to appreciate an album that at least came out after i was born. alas, it’s boring as as hell. nothing Foreground about it. background noise ass shit

this is a very important album to me. it marked my exit from being scene-ish about music as a hobby instead of just enjoying music. a real turning point, in that when someone put it on in the late 00s i thought "being a soft indie boy isn't enough anymore, you need to make good music too." this sucks and i'm grateful that it does.

I get so annoyed with this project when it offers up something like this. I just don’t understand what it’s doing here as I can think of plenty of better albums that haven’t made it. This one sees to have fallen into the general disappointment that seems to be music made by bands post-1990s. So it’s a mystery. As there isn’t really anything redeeming here. The lyrics, the arrangements, the sound, the giving a shit about trying to make a decent album. It’s just….lacking. Everything.

Meh, pretty much wallpaper indie rock that has about as much impact as ...well drab wallpaper

Soulless indie rock for the kind of people who buy the record to put on their wall, not to listen to it.

Album #952 So dreamy and soothing it will put you to sleep. Aggressively boring.

Baroque indie pop was always such a fraught genre. For every masterpiece, there were ten insufferably self-important, navel-gaving, interminable slog-fests. For me, Grizzly Bear always fit into that latter category. I didn’t get the hype. I still don’t. Two Weeks still shimmers with that late-2000s gleam. You can almost hear the first year of the Obama Presidency in its notes. Before ‘stomp clap hey’ became the crossover sound that soundtracked a thousand credit card and automobile commercials, we had this clogging the airwaves.

1. point - 0 2. uueekz -0 3. azk - 1 4. Fine - 1.5 5. Cheer - 0 6. Dory - 0 7. Ready - 0 8. Face - 0 9. Still - 0 10. Others - 0 11. Live - 1 12. Ground - 1.5

Nicht mein Fall. Zu unruhig

I'm not really sure why, but this one is not working for me

Did not listen

I lost almost 1 hour listen to this guy moaning at the mic...

Th is is NOT a top 1001 album. Its just meh

I’m so bored

This shit is not interesting

Baffling that this would be on a list of albums I Must Listen To Before I Die. Completely forgettable.

Oh no. Hipster music...

Dull and one paced.

absolutely no sense of purpose while being overtly pretentious, I will continue searching far and wide to find an album as uninspiring. Every tone is dragged, every harmony is half-assed and I guess I just don't get the point.

Having nearly every song be about 5 minutes gets tiring. I was over this album by the third song.

Struggling to understand why this album is included in this project. Felt unremarkably boring at best, and doesn't have anything else going on to distinguish it from every other generic 2010s indie album. Very surface-level and shallow

What was that? It made literally no impression on me beyond mild irritation.

Rating: 1.5 Notable songs: Two Weeks? Couldn't finish the album it was just super boring. The whiny mumbling really not for me, not a fan of this 2010 ish indie folk.

Not a bad alternative band.

I found this nothing other than boring

Skip this album... Boring isn't the right word.. I can't belive there are no better albums than this stinking pile of garbage....

Not a fan. 1/5

Every single song is boring and repetitive, and waaay too long. Garbage. Very hard to pick a best song because they all suck. Best song: Fine For Now

Big snooze-fest here. Who is this music made for? It just feels so vapid. I recently read an article about the dumbing down of music and this album really feels like a perfect reference for that.

er bestaan dus blijkbaar bands wie gemeend radiohead als helden hebben en ze dan ook imiteren... deze mensen worden dringend verzocht hun hoofd na te laten kijken

I feel like I've heard this a thousand times, and it has been rubbish every time.

To light and weird for me didn't finish it.

Nicht mein Fall.

Oh god, why do they keep going on... This album sucks

Gewoon heel saai, compenseren voor de 5 van net

This is lame as fuck. Like a super shitty Fleet Foxes or Boy & Bear. That weird indie folk movement that was huge in the 00's. I'm having a hard time keeping focus on it. I just don't give a fuck about this super white granola hipster shit. This album was awful. Favourite songs: While You Wait for the Others, Two Weeks Least favourite songs: Dory.... And most of the rest of this try-hard piece of shit record 1/5

I did not get into this one at all

I tried to like this album years ago but I don't. I think its the dude's voice

What is it with all the trash im getting at the moment!??

Packt mich nicht!

скучная хипстер-какашка

Noperz

Don't know what this is, like if they made smooth rock even more boring

Oh get lost. 0 stars. Not only not a must hear, it’s mediocrity is such that I’m a worse person for listening to it. Predictably unpredictable. Cliches. Cliches so cliched that other cliches roll their eyes. Music so dull you could play it in lifts without having to rearrange it. Music so dull you could use it in your end of life procedure. I wish they would take this list seriously. Seriously, Get lost.

They ripped off Still DRE and no one talks about it. If I had a time machine I would go back and stop Grizzly Bear from forming, because had they not released this album, humanity may have been spared from the onslaught of, "Stomp, clap, HEY" bands that followed. I threw up in my mouth just writing that. No stars.

This was almost the first I couldn't finish, how bloody bland. At points it felt like people plinking random strings on a guitar and hoping, like jazz but worse. Just plain boring. Nothing going on at all.

How does Tim Walz say it? Oh yeah, "Weird"

Makes Radiohead seem absolutely exuberant by comparison. 1 sedative outta fi....

Struggling to think of anything positive to put here.

Rating: 2/10 A complete dud of an album, not a single song was enjoyable. Some instrumental ideas were decent, but this is an album that is way too long and boring.

Uhhh, not my kind of weird.

From start to finish this album deserves 1 star or less. F-

Ci od muzyki z reklam, jeden hit, tak to gunwo bez ladu i skladu

perfect album, but only if you want to show someone why this era of music was so fucking lame

Heavy multi-layered alt-indie sound.

Not my cup of tea. I could not relate to this record on any level.

to nobody's surprise, a 9/10 on pitchfork

If paint drying had theme music, this album would be it

This album made me wish that at every corner I turned there might be an actual grizzly bear waiting to eat me and put me out of my misery. Alas, I live in the South London 'burbs so it wasn't to be. There were several foxes but they were of no use. This album actually drained me of any pep I had in my step when I left the house. So boring, so boring.

Meh

In a nutshell: generic indie folk. I was only familiar with the first single (Two Weeks) before listening to this album. The swirling blend of chamber pop, baroque pop and indie rock on Two Weeks was a delight. Disappointed to learn that the experimental sound didn’t carry through to the rest of the album. Instead, I heard bland songs I would expect from Fleet Foxes. Overall: 2/10

Not good

This album felt SIGNIFICANTLY longer than 52 minutes. And not in a good way.

Not my cup of tea

This is another one that smacks of ‘I’ve got 978 locked in but I’m spent, just add this bunch - who cares’

Uninspiring Indie Rock.

the only way a group of lads, who had spent hours/days slaving away in a studio, would be happy with this outcome would be if they were complete up themselves cunts

Det her album var ikke på min Streamingtjenesten, og derfor har jeg lyttet til den og skal vende tilbage til den senere. Jeg har nu lyttet på YouTube og må sige det slet ikke har min kop te. Det sagde mig intet.

"Southern Point" was okay and had me thinking that this album good be a nice discovery. "Two Weeks" was also promising. But then the rest of the album was a meandering, pointless, hipster mess. At some point I realized that there was sound coming out of my speakers, and saw that five tracks had played and I hadn't registered a single note from any of them. Bland.

boring

I started out thinking that this is going to be a very interesting listen, but soon found out that it was actually really hard work staying with it. Quirky and awkward. There’s obviously a lot of creativity and production gone into this, but it just feels like arty pretentiousness to me. Clever for clever’s sake.

I'm not far into the album, and not sure why it's included in the list. Nothing special or original here. Some of the instrumentals are quite relaxing (pity when they start singing though.) Ok, I got most of the way through then scrubbed over the last few. It's the same formula, relaxed instrumental strumming then mopey, unenthusiastic vocals join in. Again, no idea why it would rank in the top 1000, let alone rank before a Queen album, let alone the Queen album that contained Bohemian Rhapsody. Let's hope that it is randomised and the rest of this thing isn't facetious trash.

Boring.

Imagine being the guys in this band. Do you think they listen to what they created and think “yeah, this is really good.” There’s no way. This is an elaborate prank and they laugh at all the indie rock snobs who pretend to like this. My God this is awful. Fuck. So bad.

Must have produced this in the woods 💩 👍🏾

Did not finish the album. Sounds like the Community soundtrack - this is not a compliment. Sucks.

First album I didn't finish, it absolutely reeked of nepotism and boy was i not shocked after a bit of googling How do you make music this depressing when your grandad is an oscar winner

Ugh. Indie music. It went on for way too long. No need revisit and shouldn't have visited in the first place

Didn't like it. Rock should be exciting - this is boring.

Couple interesting moments but overall did not find much of anything to enjoy.

Like slowly being dragged to death.

1/5. Yeah sure, indie rock. Woo. Idk, instrumentation is cool but it’s not engaging. I gave it three listens too just in case. Like, I just don’t care what they’re singing about.

I did not like that album. Absolutely nothing going on except self indulgent pontificating masquerading as music.

God damn boring

For me anyway, this deteriorated from somewhat interesting to utterly tedious very quickly

didnt care

At the start of this album I felt that each track was at least 2 minutes too long, but as the album continued I felt that they could all fuck off entirely.

Nice enough but it is absolutely baffling that this made any list of anything of note.

Pff

Two Weeks

Come on! This is garbage - don’t recycle it

Er det meg eller plata det er noe gærent med? Kaotisk skrangleorkester. Dette orker jeg bare ikke etter en natt med baby som ikke sover.

Boring and extremely forgettable music. The beginning started off ok but as the album plodded along it lost my attention frequently. I hate the singers voice/vocal style. This music just is not for me.

Bland det tråkigaste skitet jag någonsin hört.... liksom allt i låtarna känns stelt och obekvämt för de ville göra musiken komplex, men det gör bara att det står stilla och (bortsett från bangern 2 weeks) suger. Liksom de e störande för på papper gillar ja hur instrumenten låter, gitarrerna, pianot och trummorna har härliga sounds, men denna lyckas på något sätt vara en bråkdel av summan av sina delar....

Sucks

totally forgettable

Got three songs in and had to give up. Like a budget Pet Sounds without the tunes or lush harmonies. Generic soporific indie rock. Do not recommend.

Early 2000's indie hipster bs.

No

Absolutely boring. It was nearly an hour of my life that I will never get back. Aside from some nice vocal harmonies I do not understand the appeal of this sleep inducing music could possibly be. 2/10

Was okay

Insipid nonsense.

Dull nurdling

It's just. Just not for me

What boring rubbish! And the videos are utter trash. Never heard of Grizzly Bear before, never want to hear them again

I've heard this before (must have deleted an old mp3 copy), and a lot of other indie folk from the 00s decade. It's not a genre I kept up any interest in. I think I saw this band at a festival, and it was pleasant enough in a field with a beer. However, it hasn't stood up to sober scrutiny now. I find this album extremely boring. The moments of "chamber pop"/"art pop" are occasionally engaging. But most of the album is dreary subdued indie with residual folk flavour. I'm completely happy with quiet and slow music (I love ambient music, for example), but "slow motion indie" is a terrible concept. I started to think maybe I'm just personally turned off by all the genres at work here... but then I consider something Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther (2006), which does quirky indie folk infinitely better and would be more deserving of a place on the list. 1.5, would delete again for a third time.

Zzzzz

Nope

Har aldri skjønt greia med Grizzly Bear, tbh. Opphypa-snorkolini-indie-album :man-shrugging:

I listened to this when I started doing this AOTD thing solo, before the group started, and I hated it. Still hate it. Whining, droning bullshit. Grizzly Bear? More like Grizzly "Spare Me This Fucking Album Sucks."

A little droney and immature. The lyrics feel a little try hard... kind of whiney indie bullshit. Yeah. Fuck this album. I hate it.

So boring

This is horrible. Aside from the nasty voice, I can't really even figure out why it's so bad, but the overall effect just makes me screw my face up in annoyance. Droney, boring, it goes nowhere, nasty.

too chill / slow