Reviews (page 5 of 6)
The singing at some parts sounded like if bobs burgers was trying to make fun of this type of singing. Idk how else to describe it. It was pretty mid tho. I like stuff in this genre usually but it didn’t jump out as really good even though I liked some of the songs/riffs. Also it’s only on YouTube so probably never gonna listen again
Fairly mid album, not much to write home about. Never heard of them and it seems like we got an album of not even their best stuff. soooooo...b sides from a b list band is a bit silly. still like it tho
This was by far the hardest album to find on this list. Nowhere at all on Spotify or Apple Music so I had to look up each song individually on YouTube. I did enjoy the album but what a pain.
Nice sound. Some fun songs, some angsty lyrics. I could hang with this band.
It's fine
This was a weird one - Sleater Kinney + Bikini Kill + early Hole vibes I've never heard of them before but I'm going to go out on a limb and say this is an underrated/underappreciated group. I didn't dig deep on any of the lyrics Definitely this has piqued my interest and I would like to hear more. All that being said, I didn't /love/ love it, though I didn't have trouble listening to the whole thing.
I like a fair amount of what's going on here musically, especially considering it came out in 86, but vocally/lyrically I'm not as big of a fan. They definitely have their own sound, but the different elements kind of cancel each other out. Respect for being pioneers in the "college rock" era. Ahead of their time to be sure, but not something I find pleasurable.
Kinda fun and high energy. I appreciate the vocal strength and the punk energy but it didn't quite coalesce into something I was really into.
Yeah, that was pretty alright. It was fun and unique in a lot of good ways. Strong energy, good production, solid performances. Pretty dang alright, indeed. I don't see myself revisiting it, mind you. But I'm glad to have experienced it.
I quite like the wackadoodle song construction. Not hugely, but enough.
Not bad. I can really hear a bunch of influence from this on something like Guerilla Talk's new album.
Strong: I'm shocked at how low these ratings are bc I didn't think it was half bad. Yeah there is better punk out there with a more memorable selection of songs but the strong female vocal is rare to see in this genre and I'm thankful for this album for switching it up. Would I listen again? probably not but I still feel it deserves more credit.
80s US indie that does that doesn't do that much for me. Angular guitar rock with female vocals. Not terrible but doesn't move me
An up and down listen. Think I’ll enjoy revisiting specific songs but doubt I’ll check out the whole album again.
This is a very ambitious debut. No album should be one hour and 41 minutes though. In its favour are the melodies. I thought I would bail after half an hour. I'm pleased that I persisted. I was rewarded with some of the more hoe down tunes towards the final third. It's the bass that holds this album together.
Un album correct bien que le concept consistant à jeter les membres du groupe Muse dans des niches de clébards est un peu léger à mon sens.
Bien loin du groupe Muse premier du nom.
It was ok overall. I’d listen again.
punkzinho legal, vocalista mulher, mas nada além do corriqueiro
Idk deechent
Decent post-punk of the less polished variety
J'adore le punk j'avais un cédérom de green day dans ma voiture
This feels very riot-grrrrl/pop punk in texture with Save Ferris vibes. Not bad, but not great.
Rock alternativo. Ni fu ni fa.
Kind of LCD SS vibes but didn't do that much for me
fun girl rock
SHACK runs now
I listened to the wrong Throwing Muses album but it was still pretty good
pretty deece? very interesting vocals
Good riot grrrl energy from it with some catchy hooks. 5/10
Punky rock
This album was just a little too difficult to find and should be marked incomplete if anything. But to give them their due, I enjoyed what was available.
The album was okay. Not something that I really connected with, but a couple of the tracks sounded kind of kool.
Yea it's fine
Definitely like the post-punk sound, but not a big fan of Hersh’s vocals.
Seems like this should've shown up on my radar at some time in the past, but it never did. I really liked it to start, but by the end the vocals started to grate on me a bit.
Un bon album rock d'un groupe qui m'était inconnu et que je suis curieuse de découvrir plus avant. Peut-être un peu trop «monotone», dans le sens qu'on n'observait pas beaucoup de variations de ton.
Sonne quand même en avance sur son temps, un peu à la alternatif des années 90s. Lees compositions sont originales, mais il manque un petit quelque chose pour vraiment m'accrocher. 7/10
Interesting, but I can't see myself going back to it. There are just so many bands that have done this style of music way better.
Okay, very interesting album. You can only find it on YouTube, and the band’s works itself seems hard to find. I don’t see why it should be— the album is really good. I loved the singer’s performance in the album… so fun, and unthinking, and pretty unique. Some combination of what feels like psychadelic, maybe folk chord ideas, and alt punk. I mean it was super cool! After the second half my ear started to get a little tired of the tonality of it… it does feel a little long. But I had a good time, 3/5
Never beard this but quite good - some incredible drumming on some tracks
Ok, reasonably catchy and edgy. Quite 4AD. Low three
Surprisingly little listens on this one, considering it's on this list. Captures something specific that I can't put my finger on, not sure if I caught anything that I loved from this one, loads of tracks which blend into eachother pretty well.
Uinspirerande
They're good but it's not quite my taste.
I don't recall this album from '86, but did listen a bit to this band in the 90s. I always enjoyed their style, which is jagged and grungy, but still has surprise melodic elements as well. For when it came out, the album would have been pretty edgy. It's actually quite prescient of how music would sound 5-7 years down the line. In the grand scheme, it gets lost in the shuffle of a lot of the music that came after it. But it's a really interesting listen. Album isn't available on Spotify. With a little digging on YouTube, you can find most of the album tracks and live versions of others. Fave Songs: Fear, Vicky's Box, Rabbits Dying, Green, Call Me
Maybe it was the mood I was in while listening to this, but I didn't think of it much more than a relatively OK 80s indie album.
major Sleater-Kinney vibes but weirder songs and lyrics and a decade ahead of time
после первого раза понравилось чуть больше, можно потом ещё проверить
The book had a rave review for this album. I might have liked it on a different day, or maybe 10 years ago, but right now it's not having a major impact for me. Good on these two young artists though, there's a lot of variety and emotion on display here.
Based on only one song available on Spotify.
I could not find the compilation album that was listed, but it seems to be a re-issue of the self-titled first album - which I have on vinyl - and some demos and other stuff. I think the debut is a fine album, great punkish energy and interesting melodies. And Kirsten Hirsch's vocals are menacing and aggressive. 3.5 stars
Throwing muses
Not available on Spotify, had to put together on YouTube.
notes - debut album by post punk alt rock band throwing muses - contemporaries of the pixies - strange angulr guitar parts that often loop small ideas over and over - vocals are sort of talk-sang, reminds me of sonic youth a bit - feel like interpol are fans - these songs always feel like theyre on the edge of emotional payoff but never quite get there fav - fear - best combination of her specific vocal style and instrumentation least fav - rabbits dying - wasnt a fan of the change up halfway through 3.5/5 super unconventional and interesting but not something i would listen to regularly
OK, so this album is apparently discontinued and not available on any streaming service. I was able to hear a few of the isolated tracks, but I cant properly judge the entire album. 3/5
Powerful raw energy, yet melodic and meaningful lyrics
Kudos to YouTube for providing the scraps I could assemble into an (almost) intact “Throwing Muses” album. Trying to ignore that everything sounded muddy & compressed from existing on YT for 11 years, the album’s not bad; my favourite song is the new wave-y “Call Me”, but I was probably more taken with the changes in tempo/dances with genre, than the lyrics & vocals. HL: “Call Me”, “Hate My Way”, “Delicate Cutters”, “Rabbits Dying” December 9, 2022
Some interesting parts
Pop-rock sin muchas estridencias. Voz femenina aceptable. Ningún tema remarcable. No sería un disco que escuchase muy a menudo
Eh
Definitely worth tracking down all of the tracks on YouTube. 3.5/5
Not available on Spotify, only one song
Decent album, nothing mindblowing.
Very difficult to find, no trace of it on YT Music, I gather it’s not on Spotify either, possibly on Pandora if search results are to be believed, but you know, not going to get back into that relic over one album. Not available to buy anywhere I could find except as a pricey used disc or LP. Honestly find that kind of inexcusable in this age of essentially free and instant publishing: some rights holder is being an idiot. Upshot is I listened to a half assed playlist on YouTube that kind of approximated 80% of the album. Which was fine, distinctive, but another one of these highly affected vocalists who’s style gets on my nerves after about three songs.
This is the sort of album that thankfully has the grace to know it's a half-hour jobbie. The singer has generic punk chick voice and that's fine for a few songs, but it wears thin quickly. The music is just basic 3-chord alterna-punk, albeit with a bit more dynamic range than the words "basic 3 chord punk" allow. It showed potential in places but whenever it had the option of leaning into something that sounded nice or inserting loud strummed chords... it chose wrong. But at 37min, once in my life, there was enough of that "let's give this a go" energy that it kept me entertained for its brief runtime. 3/5.
Could not find it to listen to, but later albums are great.
This album was incredibly difficult to find-- I'm not even certain that I listened to the right one. I liked it but I won't seek it out again
Ok album. Singing was sometimes enjoyable, sometimes not. Good riffs, would give it another try. Hard to find to listen to on streaming platforms.
Avançades al seu temps, el disc de debut sona com el rock alternatiu sonaria una década més tard de l'edició del disc. Comença a un nivell molt alt als prmers temes, però es va apagant a poc a poc. Tot i així, molt de mèrit tenir aquest so i valentia al 1986
Every song sounds the same, just a bit boring
ehh
Very forgettable and mid.
Found this quite hard work. Vocals pretty annoying. One song where the volume fades up/down gave me a headache
very meh
Even for a ~38-minute album, this felt like it dragged. The shaky singing that the lead singer used throughout the album was very annoying.
# Album Name: Merriweather Post Pavilion # Artist: Animal Collective # Rating: 2/5 # Comments: Honestly, literally one good song and thats it. Did not enjoy this album. # Top Tunes: My girls # Would I listen to it again? Just my girls
My attention glanced off this album a half dozen times before I gave up on trying to listen to it. I don’t know why, but it just doesn’t connect with me on any level. I know this band is well regarded. I feel like I have enjoyed a song or two of theirs in the past, but I’m unable to remember what those songs were nor are they in evidence here. One star bump because in my heart I feel like it’s me who’s failing them.
Totally forgettable,
Didn't really hear anything special. Not bad, just boring (part 2). Probably a 2.5 :)
I could see liking one song. But they didn't differentiate themselves enough for me to want to listen to a whole album of this.
Eh… I really don’t know what else to say. I like hole more than this band. Hard pass. 1.8
picks: portia, pretty or not
I have heard better No Doubt cover bands
I'm not really a massive fan of this album's sound; the raw indie sound doesn't work for my ears. The vocalist does well in her role, but yeah, nah
I’m torn. It was different and interesting, and there were some enjoyable moments. But I can’t say that overall it was a great experience for me.
Very average alternative band, not much to offer but songs that are kinda similar to each other. I didn’t receive much from the messages in the songs too. Definitely won’t be listening to it again. Overall Score: Decent 4
I couldn't say that I hated it, but I really could not say I enjoyed it. I liked the idea of the album but all the songs seemed to mesh into one and the singer's voice was not really for me. Another point was that any guitar solos usually fell quite flat for me which made it even worse. It is a shame since they are an interesting British band but I won't be listening to the album again unfortunately.
I can hear the influence on PJ Harvey and Hole. I can also hear the influence on 4 Non Blondes and Counting Crows. So you win some, you lose some. It's all a bit bright and manic for me. I think I'm more of a shoegazer. I wanna feel it in my gut not buzzing around my head.
Not a fan and surprised to see this on here. They play well together, but their sound and songs are not particularly interesting to me.
Not a fan of the vocals, album cover is cool
What a bore
I like the lead vocalist but the whole affair was just so so
2/5
2 at best
No private session used for Spotify. I was listening to this album and I thought "how unremarkable". I seem to be in the doldrums of this list where I am hearing a stretch of unremarkable albums so I wasn't that surprised. Digging into it I realize I was listening to the 2003 album, not the 1986 album. Some helpful reviewer had a youtube playlist for the correct album, so I listened to that(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1Xd2jY3zWQ). These songs were more interesting, but I didn't care for the singer's voice and the mediocre musicians weren't doing enough to carry her or cover up for her caterwauling. It's a sad state of affairs when a band wants to be punk but they can't even pull that off, stay in the doghouse.
I haven't found this album thrilling at all. Instead, what I've found is a pretty post punk-indie scene album. And, to be honest, I've found it very boring at many moments. It has not much to talk about, and the songs feel very insipid and uninspired. Also, uninteresting. The indie influence here is exactly that, a kind of bland music that does not transmit anything. This is also found on the vocals, which are very lazy and make the listening a very slow and weary one. Added to the fact that the songs do not have any kind of interesting instrumental parts. They accompany the vocals, and that is remarkable in the moments in which there is no voice at all... they feel very bland and tedious to listen to. I understand the background of those kinds of albums, but they are not very interesting musically talking. They all sound the same. And, if it were the first album that I had ever heard like that, well, then I may have been at least impressed, at least for a bit, but it's not the case, and I can't say I've enjoyed listening to it at all.
Fairly uninspired meandering rock 2*
I was somewhat interested at the start of the album but it lost me pretty quick. Not a huge fan of some of the mixing choices.
Why was this included?
Yet another proof that post-punk is not my thing. It’s like a low effort punk without the energy, but with annoying choises in melody and singing. It could have been so much better with a few different choices. Btw: They have better songs/albums than this one…
Strong start. But all downhill from there mostly. The pairing of the music and the vocals just doesn’t work for me on every track except the first.
Je connais pas le groupe Je ressors aucun son, globalement je me suis fait iech Half blast est pas mal Après c’est pas cata non plus, c’est jamais désagréable à écouter
Little weird.
Throwing hands with anyone who likes this album
Making sure that Aaron Botts doesn’t punch me
This was OK. I’ve always found Throwing Muses a bit hit and miss. A whole album is a lot.
It’s was ok
Out of tune rubbish
Sounds ahead of its time, I thought this was released in 1998 not 1986. Though that doesn't mean it is good! 2/5
This is awesome
I wanted to like this more than I did because I can get down with some female angst. There was something that felt kind of suffocating about this though, and I just wanted it to be over.
Yeah, this is not for me.
un álbum muy complicado de escuchar, muchos cambios en medio de las canciones, sonidos poco convencionales en momentos que siento inoportunos que te quitan todo el felling del tema, rescato 2 o 3 canciones nomas
Not really notable in any way.
fav song: green chaotic, fragmented 30/100
Couldn't really hear it all but what I heard said is fine
Struggling to find a single nice thing to say about this. It’s not like there’s a lot of horrible things to say, there just isn’t much good either.
A bit too punkish for me in some senses, e.g. overdriven guitars and repetitive percussion started to give me a headache. Vocals didn't redeem it much either.
Meh
Seemed like an okay punk album, but ultimately it wasn't for me.
I have never heard of Throwing Muses before, but they seem to be somewhat of an influential band on the author of the 1001 albums to hear before you die list as they are included not once, but twice on the list. This band's discography for the most part is very easy to find with the exception of their self titled debut album which I had to do some digging for, but once it was uncovered again I was pleasantly surprised with what it had to offer in full. I found their Folk Punk sound a bit strange and not always hitting for me as hard as I would have liked, much like Violent Femmes, but it was once again a very eye opening and interesting take on a genre I adore so much. Kristin Hersh's vocals are also a very cool touch as not many Punk bands, especially back in the 80s, had a female vocalist. As much as I wanted to love Kristin's vocals, they did become a bit much for myself during the whole runtime as her shakiness really was throwing me off quite a bit towards the back end of the album. I just don't think this project was very much up my alley but I think if this is your kind of music then you will definitely find it a staple of the genre. I just can't seem to get down with Throwing Muses' debut album, but maybe their other pick for this list will be more my style.
Couldn’t even find the album on Spotify , but what I heard was just ok
Hole if they sucked
2.5 stars
Nicht meins
The music was pretty good, but the goofy vocals kept the music from ever soaring. Yet another album on the 1001 list whose inclusion makes absolutely no sense. After a year of participating on this project, I'm starting to dread seeing what my album of the day is going to be as I can't help but feel like I'm cheating myself by wasting endless hours hearing music that the best that can be said about it is that it's forgettable.
Man we are on an all time cold streak with this list. This is the most forgettable album I’ve ever heard. You could tell me three 8th grade girls made this and I’d believe you.
Other than the girl punk concept, this doesn’t seem all that unique or cool. Since we’ve intersected with that a few times, this seems less interesting. I looked around at the bands other stuff and liked the University album more
Genre wise this should have been something I liked but it really grated on me
mm, no. c'è di peggio ma no
5/10
A very 90s alternative album. Reminds me of a less polished Garbage. Highlights: "Pandora's box"
Not on Spotify? Sad. Being subjected to even more alt rock? Double sad.
This is crap. I dislike the voice and this type of music had its time
Had to listen on YouTube. Meh
Didn’t like. Nothing interesting. The album wasn’t on Spotify and I couldn’t even find all the songs on YouTube.
Too many crap punk albums right now
[Only listened to the self-titled 1996 album because that's the part that's on the list] I didn't really like this, and it's not really representative of what Throwing Muses did later in their career. Appreciated hearing a 40-year-old Tanya Donnelly song I never knew existed, though! (It's the best song on the record by a lot)
This feels a little too much like a bad PJ Harvey imitation. Just couldn't get into it.
Couldn’t find album to listen to but some of their songs sounded promising
Good for background listening whilst working but I don't think it's something I would revisit.
Ok but just couldn’t get past the sound of her voice.
This was fine but not one of the 1001 albums I had to listen to before I died.
Just too messy for me
I consider myself a big post-punk, alt-rock lover of music, and I accept a lot of different types of those genres. But to call this group post-punk is shameful. I think this sounds like what I would hear at my local coffee shop at 10pm on a Wednesday open-mic. The lead singer's voice is very grating, the lyrics, nothing special.. Throwing the Muses into the trash bin. Empty trash. Done.
It's alright, nothing really grabbed me. Maybe I was expecting something else, I'm not sure. I didn't hate it but I don't see myself listening again. Hard to say exactly what it is, maybe it just seemed generic to me.
vocals were unique, but sound was similar throughout
It's not riot grrl it's not nu metal. And yet they are trying to be both? Their pop harmonies are nice but it just feels a bit dated for 2003. Breeders came on right after this album and it was so much better I knew instantly the album was over. Not great.
Angry album that I feel a little too old for.
Odd one, Quote liked it but it's a compilation of early stuff? not really my thing .
2.5
I should like it more, but would need another listen
I sorta want to like this since the start isn’t bad, but it gets way too sloppy and discordant for me by the end. Kind of reminds me of Patti Smith if you took away the musicianship and the hooks.
Not for me. It's relatively pointless female-led rock music without the interesting touch.
Kirsten Hersh’s book, Paradoxical Undressing, is likely the best-written rock autobiography I’ve read. Lucid and poetical, evocative and eviscerating, it outlines some of the time running up to this first Throwing Muses collection. Her, a gifted child in a college town, running amok with arists, becoming a mother at nineteen, pinballing between ideas and in control of nothing. Her songs, at that point, were, she explained, channelled. She followed whatever what came and found some peace with them. Her strange guitar parts and strange melodies only making sense considered as a whole. She was later diagnosed with bipolar disorder. It would be pat psychology to recognise two polarities in her songs, but there are two very different styles that compete. Or coexist. You have the dreaminess of R.E.M. and the surrealist film intensity of Pixies Yet, from her, the transitions seem to fall naturally. Moreso, the band make them sound natural, like the sort of thing any band from that time would due. But neither R.E.M. nor Pixies could do so without sound willful or contrived. Much credit must be given here to David Narcizo’s marching band snarework, which keeps Hersh’s marching thoughts in line. Notoriously, on tour in the UK with Pixies in 1987 or so, Throwing Muses were demoted to opener, when Pixies proved too intense and exciting for the audience. That can be explained many ways, but plainly, I think, Pixies went full pelt down one path, while the Muses waves of awe and rage didn’t quite land. Meandering is the word. 2.5 There are so many good ideas here about how a band might make themselves sound interesting but Throwing Muses are less than the sum of their parts. I was never quite able to suspend disbelief and digest the songs themselves. Throughout I only heard the moving cogs of a band keen to be different - keen to be thought eccentric or inscrutable. There isn’t a bar of music in this album that didn’t smack of that kind of insincerity. 2/5
Couldn’t get this album, so listened to a couple other early ‘Muses, and they’re of a time for sure. Definitely could have died without hearing.
Meh
Ok, who put dollar store Sleater Kinney fronted by a dolphin on here, and why? Someone has to answer for this
It’s okay. It’s good for what it is. But it runs too MTV pop for me.
Really not for me.
Someone's read The Bell Jar. Post-punk which was probably loved by students in the 80s. Best Tracks: Call Me; Hate My Way; Vicky's Box
Ništa me na ovom albumu nije zainteresovalo jer je sve tako nabacano i razbacano.
I'm all for confessional, lo-fi rock music but the vocals, especially on the last song, sound like a bag of cats being mangled. Yes, punk is about doing it whether you can or not, but this is not pleasant to listen to. The second song, perhaps with a different singer, is much nicer.
Obscure punk music, tough to find and the music wasn’t really worth the search for and listening to on a different platform than my usual. There were some catchy parts, but the rest was just ok.
Robert Dimery wasted my time once more
The 1986 self-titled debut is classic 4AD post-punk/alt-rock—jagged structures and volatile moods over hooks; not really my thing today, though “Green” is the most approachable cut.
I don't really have anything to say about this. It was hard to find and very clearly the work of people very early in those musical careers. It's punk, I can dig the vib but most of the music is bad. There is no official cover for this one.
This didn’t quiye hit the spot for me, it wasn’t bad or terrible, I didn’t lose interest, but it didn’t fully grip me. I like the sounds and the riffs, and the singers voice is unique. 2.8/3.0 Best Song: America (She Can’t Say No) Best Song: Living In Denial
eh
Disappointing
Some okay stuff but a bit frenetic in the wrong ways for me. I thought that it sounded a bit loose but as the album progressed, I agree that the musicians knew what they were doing. Maybe a 2.5 for only being available via cassette tape from 1998
Boring
Yay, finally a female voice on here again. Unfortunately i cannot get into the sound of this band. Dont know how to describe this blend of new wave, punk and other rock elements - alternative i guess? Anyway, not an easy enjoyable listen for me.
Not bad, but nothing super memorable here for me.
I'm going to put aside the fact that this album was a challenge to find (not on Spotify, not on Apple Music, and not on YouTube in an official capacity). It happens, and I get it. It's just annoying. This felt like a cool post-punk album with just the right amount of weird. Plenty of attitude. Some grit. Some angst. There was a certain element of being above it all, which was a little off-putting. Like they knew something I didn't, or knew more than I do, and that I was kind of an idiot for not knowing what they do. Maybe that was just perceived, I dunno. This entire album is just kind of there. Interesting at times, forgettable at most. I feel like it could've been so much more exciting than it was. Oh well. Two stars. Standout Tracks: Call Me, Hate My Way, Fear
The original 1986 album is not that great, it's also not the album linked in the most popular review. I was only able to find it as a playlist on YouTube. Also, I'm not sure how many people have dug deep enough to see that they have released 2 self titled albums. I listened to both and personally found the 2003 album to be better.
im so sick of this list
Meh
goh
This was hard to find to listen to, and then I didn’t really like it
I was going to maybe go with a one star, but the fact this was out in 1985 or whatever is worth a star I guess... Again, like other albums so far, its the vocals that kill it for me, just straight up annoying. I started wondering if it's all female led punk groups that I dont vibe with. So I went to listen to Bikini Kill to see, and I really liked their punk vocal style! So I guess its just the singer from Throwing Muses... the instrumentation was fine.
seems like early alt rock stuff, was a demo on a cassette, pretty neat to listen to once, probs not again
Did not care got this.
Pretty good, some early grrl punk sounds in there. And then some countrybilly at the end? High 2s
In a nutshell: a strange and unusual mix. NOTE: The album cover you see here (titled "In A Doghouse") is for the 1998 reissue, which is technically a compilation. Tracks 1 through to 10 appear on both releases. See Wikipedia for more information. I consider this to be another "nineties sounding album that was recorded in the 80s". It is a scramble of so much stuff: alt rock, folk punk, The Go Gos, Siouxsie Sioux, a jangly R.E.M, The B-52's, loud-quiet-loud music... all with surreal and honest lyrics. It must be said that Throwing Muses contributed to alt rock history. As others have said here, it kinda foreshadows the music that came out of Olympia in the 90s (Bikini Kill, Sleater Kinney, etc). We have Throwing Muses to thank for the popularity of label mates the Pixies. They toured together in 1988. Also, Tanya (guitar, backing vocals) later co-formed the Breeders with Kim Deal. Personally I'd listen to Breeders or Pixies over this, but I can't deny the influence of Throwing Muses. Overall: 4/10
started great but then half way through it becomes the same 3 songs over and over. I get staying on brand but maybe not use the same progressions to a fault
Theres a lot here and its all pretty simolar
It’s not bad. Is it must listen to? I’m not sure. 2.5 rounded down.
Day611 - first of all it’s too hard to find and second it sounds like kate bush and that’s not a good thing
It’s a bad sign already when the album doesn’t exist on Apple Music. So I had to go listen to it on some random playlist someone made on YouTube. I even fell asleep listening halfway through. Probably at the fault my exhaustion over anything else, but it just wasn’t very good. I don’t know how many times I’m gonna have to keep saying this but I’m not a big post punk fan, of which there is a lot of on this list unfortunately.
Buen descubrimiento...aunque se me hace un poco largo. Pero también hay que decir que últimamente escucho discos más cortos y este dura casi dos horas. Me gusta la mezcla de estilos, sobretodo el rollito punk y el folk/country
This singer's voice is so whiny and grating it overshadows some decent instrumentals.
No Standouts - Can't add anyways
Bit noisy
i like the harmonies going on with the singers, the lyrics are hard to make out. interesting singing, don't know if it's my thing. can acknowledge people would like it. i like the instrumentals, seems quite reminiscent of the era, i like that it changes up as well.
The voice dragged it down from mediocre to annoying
Too long. I really struggle with super long albums. Maybe I have ADHD. Her voice sounds like she’s too nervous when she recorded the album. Arrangement is fine. It appears to have some diversity but actually it’s just too long!!!
Not sure if we all managed to listen to the same thing yesterday, but this album was not my cup of tea. One version of the album I listened to felt raw and underproduced, which was fine. But the full album YouTube video I listened to had a pretty polished sound and really pronounced the lead singers vocals, which I didn’t enjoy.
Not for me.
didnt speak to me
Couple ok parts but this album is also really hard to find. And honestly probably not worth the trouble considering there’s a lot better than this out there.
This is a just okay slab of 80's Indie Rock. For some reason, that early era of indie never really appealed to me, despite loving the genre's 00's run. I'd never heard of this band before but I guess they might have influenced something I enjoy? Who knows...
Some of the music wasn't too bad, but I can't get past a 2 with that voice.
So I confused this with a 2003 version...I guess there's a 1986 version which is the correct one (also the 2003 version is a self-titled band album, which is so strange). Anyway, once I got to the right album I was disappointed to hear yet another female-led punk group. Either we are getting all those bands lately or this list is just overpopulated. I'd put this with the rest of the punk groups. Sounds pretty much like the same. 2.5 stars but skew closer to a 2.
Not for me.
In a word - agitated. This is obviously of historic significance, in terms of opening doors to less conventional singers, blending folk influences into skiffly punk, raw emotion, but I didn't really enjoy the listen
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Deeply uninteresting with no respect for your time - the album equivalent of a modern Ubisoft game. Not even interesting enough to be cast aside as 1 star.
Some bits were strangely good. I say strangely because the rest of the bits were bloody awful!
Девочки сделали грязь
mucho ruido y pocas nueces
Did not enjoy but wouldn't say it was BAD perse
This list sometimes feel like the editor combined 500 albums you actually should listen to before you die with 501 albums in hus personal collection… Never heard of this band and i'm not surprised i haven't and i will probably forget that i heard them after this.
I couldn’t find this on n the streaming services so I listened to “University” instead, which was good but pretty standard 90s indie rock. 2.7
cool but too weird
It's ok!
pretty sure the people who made this album were insane.
#583. This wasn't on Spotify, so i skimmed through a little bit of it on YouTube. I didn't listen to much, but what I did listen to sounded like shit. 2/5: no thanks.
I cannot find the Throwing Muses or In a Doghouse albums anywhere to stream, cannot find them anywhere to buy, cannot find them anywhere to even preview the songs, even using VPN. I assume this is one of the greatest albums ever made. A pinnacle of musical genius, creativity, and human achievement in the arts, but I will never know. Indeed, this day will be marked as one of tragedy in the book of my life. Seriously though, Throwing Muses, it's 2025, get your shit together.
Average
p555. 1986. 2 stars. Primeval Voice of The Beehive, but without the tunes. Not essential listening.
Rock. 1986 -> 2
Sounded very muddy, to the point where it was hard to tell if this was intentional, or just bad production. Not bad, but not great. I felt that I should like this more than I did, but I'm going with a meagre 2 stars.
The album listed is throwing muses but the picture is for a hard to find album called in a doghouse. In a doghouse sounds pretty rough overall and the singer makes a lot of dolphin like noises while singing making it an even tougher listen. The album, throwing muses, was a bit better than in a doghouse but it still isn’t my thing.
A couple of the songs felt like two ideas mashed up together, when they could have made them separate ideas. There was no transition, or bridge. It just seemed... odd. The chord progressions are one thing, but just mashing up two songs into one doesn't mean "creative," it just means you couldn't find a way to go from A to B. The vocals got on my nerves a bit, too. NEXT.
Started off really good then quickly devolved into mid. Shittier version of Siouxsie + Yoko Ono noises = Throwing Muses Debut Album Top 3: Call Me, Stand Up, and Hate My Way (Best) Bottom 2: Fear and Delicate Cutters 2.55/5
Needs a /10 rating this app
i get how this woulda been cool in the 80s
This one required a lot of work without much payoff... I hated the first listen, but I decided to try again (for some unknown reason) and surprisingly only kinda hated it the second time... I skimmed through it a third time, and the noise got less noisy, but my hate stain remained... There might be something of value here, but I don't want to risk injuring myself any further digging for it, lest I becoming as damaged as the vibe this album gives off... I'd like to give this a 1, but its being released in 1986 is pretty pioneer-y, so that's worth an extra star...
Not really my thing but not awful, a bit samey
Music was better than I expected. Vocals were not. Nothing memorable. 1001 album worthy: No - 52/99
I feel like on paper I should like this... somehow it just didn't work for me though. Struggled to find any connection with it.
It's not for me. There wasn't really enough to grab a hold of. No solid enough melodies or rhythms. A fair few reviews mentioning the grittiness and energy - I don't know, it feels pretty tame to me. And it's way too long, or felt it. 2.5 rounded down.
First time listening. No thank you.
This wasn't horrible but it didn't do anything for me.
... Yeah... no...
Not quite
Mwah, wel heel somber
Some of the musical textures were great. But man those lyrics are both bleak and often not good. 2.5/5
- so richtig klick hat es irgendwie nicht gemacht, war aber stellenweise auch kein totales Desaster 1,75/5
Postpunk, britisk, ok vokal
Found enough of this to listen a know it’s not my thing.
Some nice guitars in there but the female voice makes it sound like 90's low cost music.
I did not enjoy this album.
**An ok album, not my cup of tea, but someone else might enjoy
I thought these tracks all sounded a bit samey and just a bit average :-(
I thought it was ok...seems mediocre in spots
If this album had been made 20 years earlier it would have been very exciting but I suffered from deja vu...
These guys were just ten years too late to have had a minor hit. If this had come out in 1993 people might be like “Oh yeah, Throwing Muses, they had that one song right?” But alas, this came out in 2003 and is destined to be forgotten outside of this list.
meh
I made it all the way through. When listening to an album or artist for the first time one of the ways I grade it is by whether it makes me stop what I'm doing and listen again, or do some research online etc. None of these things happened while listening to this album. Total blandness to me.
Didn’t really enjoy this at all
Every song sounds so similar that the album started to annoy me.
Not great, not terrible. Listened to this album once and that's all.
Semi-punk, Lena Lovich vocal style. Nothing to recommend itself.
Good music, decent voice, meh songs. Nothing too bad, just kinda ok. Pandora's Box, Epiphany, and Flying were the highlights. Flying had really fun music. Best song: Flying
Not my kind of music. I did like the song “Portia”
Overall it was fine, very close to being my thing but not quite. I generally liked the vibe, but it all dragged on and blended in a bit much for me. It doesn't seem particularly influential or groundbreaking like many albums on this list are.
Not bad but didn’t get far… at least that is what I rmemeber
A pretty meh listen. No real standouts other than the last few mins of Flying (the last song). Not really deserving of a spot on this list. 2/5
Absence of cymbals gives it a distinctive vibe, vocals are a bit meh, overall too disjointed as an album.
It was okay
a mix of cool, kinda pre-riot grrrl songs and okay, annoying vocal songs. very eh overall. i wonder why it’s not on Spotify??
for as hard as i had to work to find a copy of this to download, it was not worth the listen
Je m’en fiche un peu de cet album, ca sonne tout pareil ces albums de proto-punk
It does go on a bit, does it not.
I was throwing my mind out the window...
Hmmm, didn't really do it for me I'm afraid
Started ok then went downhill. Way downhill! Just enough good sounds to avoid 1- star, but that lead vocal becomes irritating by song 3.
Didn't blow me away tbh
This was not really my jam either.
I can see why this is relevant and important in music history, and there are definitely also some good songs on here, but I did not enjoy it as much as other post punk/pre grunge albums.
Some reviewer on this website described this as "1001 albums the authors listened to" and I'm never going to forget that. This falls into that bucket. Nothing new or interesting here, it's ok. Also super hard to track down the album as a whole but I really don't want to. 2*
I quite like some of the music here, it's reminiscent of the early 90s grunge I'm fond of. I don't like the vocal sound at all though. This isn't a direct insult to the singer, it's probably more of a 'me' thing. I'm not a fan of female vocalists at all, and in this case her voice doesn't seem to coalesce with the music at all.
Grew on me a little
not a fan of any songs on this album 2/5 not completely unbearable so can't really give it a 1.
Nja, tycker det mesta låter likadant.
So there's nothing really bad about this, I even like the singer's kind of wild voice, adds a little flavour to it. But it's just the songwriting has to be the most bland thing i've heard in a while, not a single interesting moment across the entire album. Felt my attention constantly floating in and out.
Just more jamming style stuff.
Guitar was decent in places but the lyrics and vocal style didn’t do it for me.
I didn't like this album. It's just ordinary punk without anything new. There were a very few decent tracks. You'll always get a dodgy album after a while. To those looking for this album on YouTube, it's called "In a Doghouse", not "Throwing Muses". 2 stars for "Self Titled".
Not my thing at all.
I'm on board with the music, and after the first track I expected this would probably be a 3/5, but the lead vocals are tough to get past, and the melodies or the lyrics aren't strong enough to help offset it.
Reminds me of Siouxsie and the Banshees and Kate Bush. Not something I'd ever realistically listen to again.
Iv given this one a few tries but yeah just can’t see why this should be on the list, didn’t seem to click with me at all.
This was just fine. Instrumentals sound find but I find her voice to be kind of grating, almost witchy. I wanted to enjoy this more but part of me just wanted it to be over. 4/10.
Watch out for the Andrew Tate review on YouTube
I really didn't like that the link to spotify didn't work, so it made me not like the music quite as much.
Awful vocals
Not on Apple Music, so I listened on youtube, and while it's certainly better than that Dagmar Krause album, this might be the second on the list where I won't be saving any songs. Well, I mean I would, but the one song I liked isn't streaming, and I don't think I like it enough to justify the time and energy to download and add it to my library. If we weren't 950+ albums in I probably would, but we're in the eleventh hour here, give us the good shit please. This one's exactly what that Nation's Saving Grace album wasn't - punk that devolves into fuzz and background noise. Moving on. Favorite tracks: Rabbits Dying. Album art: This doesn't seem like the correct album cover, it says "In a Doghouse." That said, the actual cover for this album kinda sucks, it's this weird, blocky wall of text. This "doghouse" cover is kind of neat though, it's like a kindergartener's drawing of an alien dog or something. 2/5
Throwing Muses continues a really meh run. It's neither good nor remarkable nor memorable, it's too indie and too pitchy, I've maybe been spoiled by much better female-fronted punk and/or rock, this doesn't do it for me. 2.
Another underwhelming album, we've had miles better female-fronted punky rock or rocky punk, will never deliberately listen to this again. Inoffensive enough for a 2.
Unremarkable. Nothing terrible,but nothing stood out.
Might be good but man that voice is annoying
Slightly darker than usual leaning for 90s grunge-pop sound, and overall enjoyable. Must listen before you die? Nah.
Whiny female 90s alternative just ain't my bag baby
Twas okay
Not as good as I was expecting.