Gentlemen

Meh. Found the vocals to be annoying and there was too much twang

Classic early-mid 90s angst and edge. Finally glad to have listened to a complete album from The Afghan Whigs, but I don't think I'll listen again.

2/5 Not really exceptional, kind of dull

Expected to love it but just lacked any sort of connection.

Cincinnati representing... wish it was a decent album

I don't know if I'll be able to get through this lol.

Joah, viel Kraft, mal gebrochen mal brünstig. Insgesamt nicht ganz meine Sorte Grunge.

It was such a slog to get through this album. All the songs sound the same; the vocals are extremely off-putting, not to mention how plainly "dark" the lyrics are. Although most of the time the backing track felt like they were just going for the generic gloomy theme, there were certain times the instruments felt like they came together in harmony. Favorite track: Brother Woodrow

Sad end to the week. Was not terrible but not as interesting as previous albums this week

Meh

Buen disco, bien indie y sad medio grunge si se me permite

62. Faça favor, passe passe, não ora essa, o senhor primeiro, por quem sois. MotA: Debonair "What should I tell her? She's going to ask"

Kinda boring 90s alternative

Not a fan of the lead singer AT ALL. Not for me.

Not really my thing. Be Sweet is the only track that really stood out to me. The instrumentals are pretty good but the man cannot carry a tune to save his life

Eh. This one didn't do anything for me. Just fast and slow versions of the same song. Pretty indistinguishable and forgettable. I liked the last track, which was an instrumental though.

I remember hearing their name, probably heard some of their music on "alternative radio" (I listened to WFNX in Boston and college stations in the mid-and-late-80s), but I don't know for sure. I can see why they are grouped with the early-90s grunge movement. It's a bit screamy for my tastes, which I know is often a trademark of the grunge era (scream at least part of the song, usually the chorus after a quieter verse or two), and the guitars get real thrashy (nothing wrong with it, and I admire the skill it takes to play that in time, just doesn't appeal to me except in small doses).

The Afghan Whigs continue to explore the darker side of Rock as they oscillate from moody to a touch of angst. This album has a broad appeal, but no major single or remembrance.

Eh

Good alt rock but HORRENDOUS vocal melodies

Not for me maybe right now

Ihan kelpo vaikkakin vähän piippuun jäi. Erityisesti Fountain and Fairfax oli mielenkiintoinen ja ärsyttävän tutun kuuloinen. Muitakin hyviä hetkiä levyllä oli, mutta kokonaisuudelle en kuitenkaan lämmennyt.

Lukewarm alt rock that never really grabbed me. First time hearing this band it's not a great first impression. Vocalist is probably the weakest point here, but the production is too clean so it always sounded like the band was pulling their punches. Coulda been way better, there's potential.

Kaks ja puoli pyöristyy kahteen. Ei oikein mun mielestä esittänyt mitään erikoista mikä puolustaa paikkaa listalla.

Ei sytyttänyt. Oli sellainen fiilis, että haluaisin tykätä tästä ja että kohta tää lähtee lentoon, mutta sitä ei vaan koskaan tapahtanut. Nostatukset päättyi toistuvasti mahalaskuun.

Instrumentation was kind of nice, but mostly just kind of boring and never did anything that interesting. Vocals were really grating to me.

Mellow grunge. Pass.

Meh,

Forgettable

Really, really not a fan of this guy’s voice. The other elements don’t elevate the material beyond my distaste for the vocalist, either. 2/5 at best.

This felt all over the place and I didn’t enjoy it.

mé

A frustrated group makes a grunge album. That being said would listen to a couple songs again.

Bland

More of that 90s style music I just can't differentiate. Not bad, just bland.

Not into it.

So boring and far too many songs all sounding the same . 🥱

I lasted 3 songs.

Crap

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyuck

хз

Matt: noise ordinance. Rose: I’m starting to question the quality of recommendations given by this list

Trash

No. Please. Make it stop.

Herrasmiesten musiikki oli vähä mid (teinislangilla). Laulu oli paikoin ärsyttävää, paikoin hyvin ärsyttävää. Muuta en oikeastaan levystä muista.

crap.

Sounded too much like that generic rock white noise unfortunately

I feel like each album needs the reason why it was included when it generates because I once again find myself wondering why I needed to listen to this before I died.

Edgy 14 jährige nach dem ersten breakup sind die einzigen die die scheiße hören sollten 1/5

Disgusting.

We dont encounter too many albums where I dislike the lead vocals so hard

I remember this band from before, but can’t find a song I liked on the album.

Music for scumbags

Gonna be hard to give this a 2. Terrible vocals over paint by number instrumentals. At least the second song had a cool burying of the time signature thing going on and my curse sorta had that too. Outro was fine I guess. This album is almost completely void of value. Should absolutely be removed from the list.

The singer is insufferable and the good ideas are softened by '90 pop grunge and stupid lyrics. I liked the guitar sometimes, especially in "Be sweet". 1.75 / 5

Ik denk dat ik nog liever naar huilende baby’s luister.

I had never heard of this band before now, definitely not what I expected. Some of these songs are really good, really catchy and nice basslines! Fav song is ‘Gentlemen’.

Unpleasant.

Ehh, one star

Should rename this band the Hoovers. Because they really SUCK

Canta pero bien culei ese bro jsjajaj, neta ni pude escucharlo completo por eso

Mopey white not music from the 90’s. A less charming or melodic (and commercial) Third Eye Blind. Struggling to understand its place on this list!

I remember these guys were indie darlings in the early 90s and this was THE album, some people compared it to DooLittle in its potential impact. I got it expecting something life changing and got the most mediocre music imaginable and felt insulted that it was ever mentioned in the same breath as DooLittle. Listening to it again it has aged poorly with incelish lyrics

Might have got into it, but the singer's voice is annoying after two songs.

Nuobodus balsas ir tekstas. Nebaigiau.

I was OK with a few songs but most were rather annoying with scratchy screaming vocals.

40

Afghan Whigs has been on the uninteresting side of the grunge movement for me. While they have moments here and there, they invariably manage to ruin that moment just a little bit later, which is incredibly frustrating. On this one I dislike the dragging, off-beat vocals and especially the off-key parts, along with the overall artsy-fartsy take on the music, where it is simultaneously beautiful and really fucked up because they decided to play or sing sloppily. This album is consistent in it's uninterestiness for me.

Pretty boring. Some ok lyrics but nope.

1.5/5. The first album I’ve heard in this project where I question why it’s even really part of the list of “1,001 albums to hear before you die.” It doesn’t really do anything that tons of other albums from the 90’s already did significantly better. And it doesn’t really seem to have left much of a cultural impact, I never hear it talked about. An album for me that’s just in one ear and out the other.

this shit sounds like horny man slop 😭

1.5. Maybe 1. Really not doing it for me. I actively despise the vocals

Generic grunge-ish alt rock that puts all of its chips on the over-the-top vocal performance of singer Greg Dulli. Unfortunately his hyper-emoting comes across as ridiculous and does little to compensate for the dull melodies and unimaginative music on this record. (Seriously, if dude wrote better songs he wouldn't need to try to act them out in order to get them to work.)

Boring is the word that comes to mind… Would not listen again

Grim. Don’t listen to this if you’re depressed.

When to listen: I wouldn't listen to this album again. It just... wasn't an experience that added anything to my life.

A lot of moaning about a girl who still loves him after an affair. Followed by moaning about how she no longer loves him after an affair. He is unhappy with both

Not for me. Not sure this should be on the list

Overall, didn’t love it. My Curse is pretty good in my opinion, but the rest wasn’t particularly engaging for me. As someone who normally digs indie rock, this was a bit of a letdown.

- This guy definitely can’t sing. So. off. key. - The incelcore lyrics are so embarrassing. - The instrumentation is better than the vocals, but is pretty forgettable and one-note - this band seems allergic to an interesting chorus. - Yeah, I hate this album and am absolutely not surprised this band is from Ohio.

Didn’t listen

Alternative/rock band from the 90’s. Nothing great about them.

The mediocre, cliched 90's backing tracks and embarrassingly affected hipster vocal slouch were immediately off-putting. Then I heard the "Narcissist; unafraid of sexual violence. Looking for female companion to fulfill my desires" lyrics. And the whole thing became so off-putting that I directly put it off. 480 albums in and post-punk, anti-musicality has become as overrepresented on the list as Woodstock hippie nonsense and British white-blues. It's getting to where I feel overjoyed if one album a week is worth listening to.

I've heard local teen garage bands with better lyrics. This might be the worst album so far for me.

What number is appropriate for "This band seems good but I hope this dude gets a particularly painful form of cancer?" Credit to this album for making me re-evaluate what's important to me about music, at least. I often like my music written by emotional disasters, and I don't think we should evaluate every lyric as being autobiographical, so... why did I hate this *so* much? I feel like normally I don't have such a hard time giving terrible POV characters some grace. I considered several possibilities: * I just don't like the genre, so I'm giving it a shorter leash - This is probably true to a degree, but honestly, the instrumentation on this album kind of made me feel differently about grunge, so I don't think that's it. * Everyone has certain lyrical triggers they just have less patience for than others, and angry bro manbaby misogyny is one for me - This is true to a degree, but I usually have more patience than *this*, so it's not quite it either. * You can be a disaster, but you have to know it - I'll forgive a lot of sins if you're self reflective about it. You don't even have to be *apologetic* about it, you just have to examine it a *little*. The closest this album comes is the song where he's like 'fuck you for being angry at me that I slept around'. * You can be shitty, but you have to be shitty *and good* - and here is why I think I truly hate this album. The lyrics are trash from a "they're problematic and this dude seems incredibly shitty" standpoint, but they're also just *really bad*. Like *really really bad*. For me to get over what a dick you seem like you have to be, idk, insightful or poetic or clever or funny or even just really mean. This is none of that. You will benefit none from a further examination of any of these lyrics. This album is also really hurt by its unwavering consistency. A concept album about the bad breakup of a toxic relationship is timeless, so, sure, but you have a whole album to examine every facet of that relationship, and, like, it's 10 songs of "fuck you" and then one song of "fuck you but the sex was pretty good i guess" and, uh, i guess that's really all you had to say, my dude?

So far a little heavier than I prefer these days. Not my style.

I’d never heard of The Afghan Whigs before, so I was curious to give Gentlemen a listen. Unfortunately, I really didn’t enjoy this album. It’s very much generic 90s indie/grunge with nothing that particularly stands out. The vocals grated on me, and the overall sound felt dull, depressing, and uninspired. This was a tough listen to get through from start to finish. Favourite track: Fountain and Fairfax – it was okay and had a decent guitar riff. Least favourite track: Honestly, the entire album. Album artwork: Quite a creepy cover that fits the mood, but that’s about it.

Just your typical 90s angst. Blech.

Geniunley awful

Awful alvum

Began to wonder if I even liked music while listening to this. Had a headache and thought it was just annoying me but listened to something else after and no it just sucked. It kinda has the ingredients of a slowcore/emo record but instead it's like grungy and super angsty in a way that felt like the opposite of that style. Really almost felt uncanny how it just didn't work for me despite it seeming right up my alley...

When i started the album, my first impression was that it was that it was an easy 3, no big complaints, no big praises just some 90s butt rock, then really quickly the cringey gen x edgelord lyrics started to come out and the music started getting worse every song til i couldn't believe how bad it was. They didn't have to make "it doesn't bleed, it doesn't breed" a repeating motif through the album but l, by God they did and it sucked

GRADE A STINKER.

I feel like I was overly harsh on the Beau Brummels yesterday, because although I disliked it, I can see the difference between mere dislike and the reaction this instills in me. I gave it a solid try but had to bail just past the halfway mark.

hate the vocal style here

Meh

The Afghan Yikes

Abgebrochen vor dem Erbrechen!

Trying too hard to be an edgier Goo Goo Dolls.

I didn’t like much about this. The breathy singing, the irreverent sexual lyrics. All sort of rubbed me the wrong way. One song switched up the lead singer and I liked that moderately better.

The singing makes the music worse. Boring.

Big yuck for this one. The music is very well put together, if depressing. Like, time to end it depressing. There is nothing wrong with that though (the world needs sad) and there is a lot of beauty here. I just didn't need a ticket to bummer town today. The lyrics are fucking terrible. I guess the point for Greg Dulli was to illustrate himself as one big, toxic, red flag. He succeeds and wallows in it, track after track. Congrats, I guess? He has stated that the idea of these lyrics is to paint himself as the bad guy, but the portrayal of the female counterpoint does not come off any any kind of positive way. I feel music journalism has tried to steer this away from misogynistic waters, but if it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck...... 3/5 if this was instrumental.....

One of the lamest grunge albums I have ever heard. Compltely ripping off all the bands that do it 100 times better, and the attempts at sounding theatrical just end up coming across as annoying more than anything.

Vraiment pas mon truc

J'ai écouté quelques chansons j'ai pas franchement vu l'intérêt de l'album. À mon avis assez fade sans être mauvais. J'imagine que ça avait sa place en son temps.

Dull.

Boggy and unfriendly.

i have no prior experience, but this band is the favorite of one of the worst people i know so i had to discard some preconceived notions. i then quickly conceived of them again. yawn on its own merits, bottom of the barrel considering the context of music available around it in that time frame. and scene.

A de-aged cover of a failing relationship. This kid is pre-auditioning to be a male lead in an indie film. Chewing the scenery, and at such a young age. Just think. This kid is minimum 40 now. Time does indeed pass. Cutting edge reporting from your intrepid reviewer. Unless this is about the poorly received Whig party mission to Kabul, I don’t know what this is and have never heard of it. Spin me a yarn. I wish to not think about work for 48 minutes. If I Were Going - I don’t know what to think about this. Just an intro, so it could go either way. There are flashes of technical oddity, and more worryingly, flashes of sappy, melancholic grunge-lite. Where will we go from here? Gentlemen - Ladies and Gentlemen by Saliva. Strange that we haven’t seen any Saliva yet?? Do you think they’re just being coy with the WWE PPV theme songs? Probably. I’ll be patient and I’ll tell my therapist that I still believe. I don’t hate this, but I’m not choosing it. Be Sweet - What? I really have to hand it to straight women and gay men for that matter. Male humans are the most disgusting and pathetic sexual creatures on the planet. To put up with any of this deserves only the highest of praise. Listen up, singer guy. If you have a problem with commitment, maybe write some sort of metaphor. Don’t use your sensitive voice to say “I just want to fuck.” I’m going to be sick. Debonair - Great word AND it reminds me of donair, which has me pining for that sweet mystery meat delicacy of my ancestral homeland. Well. At least a few hundred years back. Colonialism and all that. With that, I listen to another mid mid-90’s alt rock song. The Pixies this ain’t. When We Two Parted - How dare you try to get poetic now? Two songs ago you were saying you had a “dick for a brain,” and now you’re giving me a whispery alt country ballad with a Shakespearean song title? In theory, I shouldn’t hate this, but in execution, I certainly don't like it. The singer is so unlikeable. This sounds like a drunken voicemail you’d get from a heartbroken Bryan Adams. Fountain and Fairfax - What happens on this street corner? Bruce Springsteen impersonation contest? Oh no, he’s waiting for his “angel.” What Jail is Like - Overly bombastic, piano led radio rock that would actually get radio play if not for the world’s stinkiest singer. All around awful. Like a poorly executed execution, I am twitching and begging for the end of this. My Curse - I can’t wait to hear about what the singer’s curse is. NEW SINGER?? Oh my god. It’s so much better. It’s still a boring song, but I’m feeling less gross, and that is a refreshing sensation. Like a shower and warm bed after accidentally walking by the gathering of the juggalos. Now You Know - We’re so back. I think when you create art in groups, there can be magical collaborations that produce ideas that would’ve been impossible without said collaboration. I also think that in some cases, there has to be compromise. You may be the guitar player for this band and wince as that singer does that dumb vocal divebomb, or the pianists insistence on playing these old-timey casino runs over this boring song. I feel for anybody who was forced to attach their name to this. I Keep Coming Back - listen. I am no writer. I’ve tried, and I continue to fail. At least I have the respect for the art form to know I’m a hack. How can you write these words and show up to a studio (which costs money) and presumably request multiple takes to perform this basic ass high school blues trash? How can you recover from this without a public apology? Brother Woodrow/Closing Prayer - Wow. What a meaningful closer. Absolutely virtuosic piano playing over incredibly lush soundscapes which were absolutely not grating at all. I love high pitched pangs repeated every 4 bars for 6 minutes. I can’t believe this is the last song. I’m in music listener heaven. It’s been awhile since I was so heavily confronted with the fact that a bad singer can ruin any musical output. I found myself not hating much of this at the outset, but I grew so angry with the vocalist that I now despise this album. It’s not as if this thing was a five star classic without the singer anyway, but hearing his juvenile caterwauling reminded me of reading incel-coded instagram content or listening to the grown-up high school bully talk about his “baby mama” who he is currently cheating on. This album was listenable in small doses, but quickly wore out its welcome like a down on his luck friend who was supposed to be back on his feet in a couple of weeks, and now there is a him-shaped dent in your living room sofa and he scares your children. Remind me to cancel my pilgrimage to the mountain ranges of Afghanistan. I think there’s still time to get a refund. 1.5 HIGHLIGHTS: My Curse

pettymykseni ilmeessäni kun tajusin ja ymmärsin että tämän bändin jäsenet ovat amerikkalaisia, eikä afganistanilaisia. sen sijaan että kuuntelisin hyper-uskonnollisten afgaaninaisten itkuvirsiä kuuntelin yhdysvaltain itäisen pohjois-keskustan 90-luvun alternatiivista poppirokkia.... taas... mitä vittua? tämä ei ole hyvää musiikkia. omaperäisyyttä lakkaavaa intrumentointia ja hengetöntä laulamista, mikään tässä ei erota bändiä massiivisesta indieklöntistä joka ilmeisesti vittu kirosi länsimaalaisen musiikin ikuiseen keskinkertaisuuteen. haista vittu. clickbait motherfuckers. my curse

Why is he singing so far from the mic?

53/1001 Funny this should come up, because I was trying to remember who did that song Debonair a couple of days ago, and here it is. Forgive me if this sounds a little harsh (Afghan Whigs were, of course, active before the whole grunge thing exploded) but this is the downside of Nirvana's legacy: Bands pounding away at their guitars like they are trying to kill them and singers shouting as loud and as raw as they possibly can because, you know, angst and all that. Cobain had killer melodies, he wasn't JUST SHOUTING. Nirvana had proper pop hooks, and a unique, off-kilter musicality and melodic sense which underpinned everything. Not many people seemed to latch on to that - so many copycats just settled for the cranked overdrive pedal and the shouting and left it at that. This album reeks of 1993, and I might have been more kind to it back then. Not sure the passage of 32 years has done Gentlemen any favours though, and I'm not sure why it has ended up on this list. The sound of 1001 local acts opening your nearest pub music festival.

Бе

Didn’t like them at the time, and time has not tempered that view. Just dreadful misery indie rock. No melodies, guitars a mess, production tinny. Just a big fat no from me.

This album did nothing for me. Completely forgettable

Super bounced out of this one! Often groan whenever 1001 gives me esoteric rock, especially from the 90s. As an artist, I do feel bad poo-pooing genuine works of art. The Afghan Whigs put some top notch creative energy into this, but it was very contextual, and listening now is better left to specific or historical interest. This is not an album to listen to before you die. Die without listening. Or if you do listen, try not to die.

Generic American rock shite

I don’t know why this album was made let alone on this list. Lyrics are atrocious and the music isn’t anything special.

Generic early 90’s alt-rock. Nothing at all novel or exciting about this one. It’s not musically bad, but the vocals certainly don’t do anything for me. It’s like if U2 and the Smashing Pumpkins had a baby. Not an album I enjoyed nor will I listen to it again.

Not my style.

awful. I heard better bands in college at the local dive bar.

1/5. Maybe just not for me, but wasn't feeling the hype this album was getting according to critics. It's in a similar vein of smashing pumpkins which are also a little more difficult to get into for me. There just seems to many songs with similar guitar riffs and walls of sound. I also found it kind it hard to hear the R&B in it, just felt like badly sung ballads. I want to say I'll come back to this but I don't think I will. Oh well, can't all be bangers. Best Song: Gentlemen, If I Were Going, My Curse

I didn't even make it through the whole album, this was pretty bad. Lead vocals were terrible.

Not the biggest fan. but still enojoyed a bit.

No va Aburrido

Hard to listen to

1.5

Life is too short to listen to this album. This sucks hard.

Hope I never have to listen to this album again.

I get tired of it quite fast. It might be the lyrics that are almost obnoxious - same with the vocals

shite

I honestly don't know if I've ever heard a more annoying and whiny album. The music is utterly predictable, throwing every well-worn post-punk trick at the wall. The guitars, bass, and drums do exactly what you expect (slow-builds, 2-note riffs, etc.) and never surprise or create interesting melodies. On top of this, the vocals are horrendous. The vocalist spends the whole album accidentally drifting out of key, which would seem to be almost impossible given that the vocal melodies are also incredibly unimaginative. Every note is the most predictable (and whiny) note available to choose – and he still struggles to belt it out correctly. Definitely an album to skip.

Leaving the music to one side for a moment because it’s not worth talking about at all, The Afghan Whigs is a very interesting name for a band. The Whigs were a political party from the 1600’s who were the forerunners to the UK Conservative (Tory) party. If I were to think of a more polar opposite to pair Whig with I doubt I would come up with Afghan. If this was the intention of the band then I applaud them come coming up with such a dichotomous name. The last time I checked Afghanistan was ruled by the Taliban and were even a thing in the 1990’s when this album was released. The Whigs and Taliban are very strange bedfellows which brings me to my second point. Are those images on the album cover young children in bed? In this day and age I’m a little surprised the album cover still appears in its original form. Might be me but this was the first thing I thought of when I saw the cover. I gather the cover is based on a photo entitled Nan and Brian in bed which does have sexual connotation’s. That in itself is enough for me to boycott this album and I have no interest whatsoever in the music. 1/5 31/10/24

i guess this must have been cool at the time and i do like some of the sounds here but like who couldn't make this album? snooze fest lyrically

First of all, I really dislike the album art. That's got nothing to do with the music, but I'm just throwing that criticism out there, because it looks like... well, you know what it looks like. Don't play dumb. As far as the music goes, I guess it's good? It sounds just like a million other acts, so I guess that's acceptable? I'm glad a lot of people like this, though; just keep it away from me. Especially that cringe-ass off-key ballad singing they do.

Straight up did not enjoy. What is this whiny bullshit?

Never heard of this band before, my life is now worse because of it. Terrible noise. Someone wrote "this is music for guys that yell at their girlfriends in public" and I could not have put it better. I liked the first 4 seconds of the first track and then the guy started "singing". Only downhill from there.

meh

Bring me some better music.

Sounded like a shit pub band. Poorly recorded alt rock wank. Sorry but that was fucking shit. 1001 albums to make you hate Robert Dimery

Pretty boring and formulaic. Maybe it didn't connect with me because I haven't gone through a breakup in a very long time, but I just found myself waiting for each song to be over. I think it's particularly damning when the songs I enjoyed the most were the songs that did not feature the lead singer, because his grating and whiny voice really drags down what is otherwise a generic alternative album. Top tracks: My Curse

Did nothing for me. Flat start to finish

Reaaaaally not special. I think they're shoving in these post-2000 American bands that are not original in any way shape or form to bolster up the numbers. It's sad if you consider this one of the greatest albums ever made.

Første observation: Top 10 irriterende stemmer.. Musikken er god! Teksterne er fandme dumme. Jeg brækkede mig næsten over hans stemme i "balladen" - I Keep Coming Back.. 😫

No no no no no

I truly believe that the singer ruined any chance of this album being good. I couldn’t focus on anything other than his awful vocals and it was disappointing because I would have liked to determine how much I liked the rest of it but it was too hard.

Rock vocalists suck. Didn't take me long to remember why I hated these guys at the time; to say I'm not a big fan of this singer - Greg Dulli - is an understatement. The music was worthy of better. Even instrumental would have been better (which the final song is, thankfully) since we wouldn't have to listen to these lyrics either, which were written by Greg Dulli. Annnd it got progressively worse as it went on - by the time I got to track 5 "When We Two Parted" I was ready to rage listening to these vocals - by Greg Dulli - which sounded like he was being disemboweled. For a minute I felt bad thinking of giving this a 1 considering some of the music is really not bad but all I can unfortunately focus on while listening to this is Greg Dulli. The vocalist's name is Greg Dulli, to spare you from looking that up. Pass. Due to Greg Dulli of course. 3/10 1 star.

Nah.

Meh. Didn't vibe with this.

poison

Absolutely unhinged lyrics. I cut it off after Be Sweet.

Yuck

Yuck

I started to listen to this album as background music when doing household chores. As, at first, it sounded more like a background album type. After a couple of songs, I had to turn it off. Couldn't listen more...

Never again

Poor man’s Nirvana or Foo Fighters. Didn’t enjoy it

This wasn't the worst thing we've gotten but it was bad. Loud and annoying. Really not sure there were any redeeming qualities here.

Bro what.

I never need to hear that again lol

Grungey, boring, kind of dissonant. guy's delivery sounded a bit like nine inch nails?

This has not aged well. Musically fine, but the lyrics were rough

Musically and melodically this album may be worth 3 stars, its pretty solid in that regard. But the singer is HORRIBLE. Just an annoying tone, shitty lyrics, pretty much everything about the singer is like a caricature of shitty 90's alt rock. It seems unfair to rate this 1 star when the band is decent, but I just can't get over the front-man being so shit.

Nope.

I just could not stand this one. The vocals were not good at all, and the music was very blah

It’s not really my style

Definitely not a "must-listen" album by any definition. A few okay guitar hooks, but awful, nails-on-chalkboard vocals.

I hate my girlfriend

Didn't do anything for me, not bad necessarily

Typical whiny '90s shite

Some tunes ok, not keen on the vocals.

This is not for me. Songs I’ve listened to were samey and kind of boring. Not memorable at all.

Not my style.

Not a fan. Couldn’t even finish this album.

Echt een bagger stem na twee nummers kon ik het niet meer aan

I don't completely trust anyone who likes The Afghan Whigs. This band just does absolutely nothing for me. And this isn't for a lack of effort either. I was sold on them for being "the new Replacements", or Replacement influenced or some such shit. But I never get very far, and I believe I've finally figure out why: Lead Vocalist Greg Dulli. It's never a good sign when your lead singer's vocals get in the way, but that's always what they do. No wonder that woman he wrote this album about dumped him. He sounds like the type who would be stalking her for years after breaking up. This band was perpetrated as "the next big thing" as I was coming of age. It never really happened like it did for other similar bands, proving once again that I'm not the problem here. I knew better.

Sad bastard music meets whiny rage music. Overall: 1/10

Still waiting for them to change chords and tempo. Songs are thankfully short. Cheap tunes for bad poetry. Nothing revelatory.

Blocked

Dumpf klingender Alternative Rock.

There are many memorable albums from 1993. This isn't one of them.

Shockingly bad.

I didn’t like this record (or band) then, and I don’t like it (them) now. Plodding self-important misery. “Debonair” starts off promisingly enough, but then falls into the same typical crap.

Just the worst sounding voice

Meh.

I tried liking this album, I think I did a bit at the beginning but as I got further in I just really hated it. It got annoying after a couple songs and getting to the end was a new kind of hell for me.

This is boring. The angst can't save this. It's just boring. Everything sounds the same.

I tried, but the singing ruins what would otherwise be an ok album.

Sad. Breakup music. Angst. All of it.

Too Nerdy-Alt-Dad-Rock for me

Another band I've heard of and never gotten around to checking them out. Well if this is the best they have then I'm glad I didn't waste my time before. What a forgettable album that does absolutely nothing new and seems to even do that worse than others.

Way too irritating for me.

No

Wow oh wow was I bored by this.

1.5

Great moments buried in shit.

he's no GG Allin

y'know if i were at a show at a smaller venue and these guys were playing a show with a band i wanted to see, i'd prolly be having a good time. but i wouldn't be going out of my way to listen to them

SO BORING

Absolute shite!

Cringy lyrics, annoying vocals, not worth your time.

Plodding 90s rock songs about the break-up of a toxic relationship (apparently). With more of those sub-metal vocals that were so popular at the time. Not my thing at all.

I've listened to this like 3 times now after never getting around to it in high school and I still don't like it. I hated his voice less than previous listens but this album just makes me feel shitty. It's like the House of Cards of albums---interesting at times but ultimately gross and not worth it.

not loving so far but it could surprise. nah im gonna quit 2 songs in. not for me.

I was giving this a pass, because this is how this type of music sounded in the 90s. And then I got to 'Be Sweet' - the lyrics had me cracking up. It’s a break up album that I didn’t feel.

Some good guitar moments, but the vocals drone on too much for me. I wanted to like this record, but never felt the spark. The riffs on Fountain and Fairfax are decent.

Deprimierend

The dongy doodies on this song are enrapturing.