Rejoicing In The Hands

Kill me now…what a pile of shite.

This is really the kind of self-absorbed garbage that makes me question the validity of 1001.

Not to take anything away from anyone else but...Not my thing, not our thing. I've always been shocked to see these albums in the Young God catalog.....

Didn’t care for this one. The music, lyrics didn’t resonate with me

Almost as bad as ZZ Top

vuoden 2004 käsitys taiteesta

So boring

Not gonna lie and not gonna apologize: I couldn't make it through this. Songs about beards are one thing, but that shit where he's basically naming Elvis songs in the lyrics and adding twenty extra V's to the word "viva"? I'm out. Not saying he doesn't follow in a long line of folk singer songwriters whose voices are an acquired taste, but I have no desire to acquire this particular one and I'm just gonna chalk that up to taste.

Yuck. 1.0.

It’s like we got a week of good albums and now I’m being punished for something. I don’t even know what to say about this album except that it was awful. Poughkeepsie especially. Just nothing good about this album except that it was relatively short so I didn’t have to suffer THAT long.

Scene: ...I find myself going out to dinner in summertime in the city and there ends up being a ~45 minute wait for a table and we decide to just sit outside on a bench and pass the time listening to a nice mellow busker across the cobblestone... this sounds quite nice.... I mean, sure, it's the setting - we're all feeling non-committal just sitting here absorbing, he's over there with his acoustic guitar, got some interesting chordal structures, a very unusual voice, hmm not sure where some of the songs are going so I drift a little ..."...man, is our table ready yet?... yeah he's pretty decent although maybe this would sound a little better with a band or some production backing him up I'm getting a little sleepy and maybe grouchy but no no it's fine I have a Snickers bar in my pocket, should be only a few more minutes this is sort of dragging no? is his voice getting worse? ah let's stay here they're probably calling us any second... yeah i heard those lyrics too, the ones that went 'i could take my teeth out and show them a real good time' yeahyeah what...ok you're right let's go wait inside instead good call..." Then after my unexpectedly not great and still unsettling meal I go home to find that my "album of the day" just happens to be this same music which has been placed on an album that sounds like it may have been recorded in an empty refrigerator box in the corner of his tiny kitchen in his grimy 3rd story apartment and consisting of exactly the same set and not only does it just not ring true I really can just reach for a snack in my fridge or better yet the Tums in the medicine cabinet and call it a night and be done already. 2/10 1 star.

This was like someone recording in their bedroom for their Mum’s pleasure. I hope she enjoyed it because I definitely didn’t ! 1*

Possibly because we had two awfully warbly singer-songwriters albums in a row this got short shrift.

Odd. Anyone know why this is in the list?!

This is just shite

Also: ich muss das nicht gehört haben. [gähn]

Not for me. Only made it to track 2

Boring and slow. His voice was also weird...

lovely

Wow, suuuper plate

Weird shit. Not a fan. WIll never willingly listen to that again.

Found it really hard to enjoy this considering half the time all I could think about was how his voice reminded me of Adam Sandler’s while performing the Hanukkah Song. In general, I just found this really boring, and not for me.

This simply bored the ever loving shit out of me in the most annoying way possible. And that's just not something I can admire.

One of the most annoying albums I have ever listened to. The voice of Marc Bolan's irritating brother coupled with twee as hell acoustic guitar. I rejoiced in the end of the album.

AJ: LOUD FART NOISE

Didn't really do anything for me

Not available in Mexico

meh

Some ass

aivan hirveätä indie paskaa. tänään en jaksa,, tänän ei jaksa tällästä ei mitään hyvää löydy tästä kasasta 1-3 minuuttisia vinguntahetkiä. harmi että ei animals päässyt nyt listalle, ei nyt aivan ei IHAN siis niin lähellä mutta ei nyt ehkä 2002 albums listalla mutta nyt ei tähän päässyt....haista vittu the beard is for siobhan

A folk singer that can’t write lyrics or melodies. It’s a novel singer and guitar approach… Christ I’m only on the first song. The only positive is that each dreadful, insight free, song is mercifully short before the next tuneless banality begins. Only 25,000 copies sold and I'll take a punt as to how many ended up in charity shops.

Folky with lots of guitar snd vocals. Meh.

This simply doesn’t belong on this list Cover art: 1/5

Boring, pretentious crap. Was there actually an intentional "outtake" left on Todo Los Dolores???? Perfectly sums up music like this--trying entirely too hard to be artsy and against the grain

Did not like this at all. Like a shitty version of a Damien Rice album. I think the shittiness was further intensified by the fact that there was a whole movement of this sound maybe 5 years later. Nothing exceptional about this sound at all. Also, there's no reason for this album to have 16 tracks. It's a mess.

My god its tedious

I don’t really like his concert. Nice guitar licks and really poignant lyrics. To clarify, some of the lyrics are poignant he said buhbuhbuh maybe 20 times.

I don't like their voice. I really don't like this. Yep, still don't like it even with it being in spanish and 4 and a half songs to go. This folk singer songwriter sound has never appealed to me and its sort of nice to know that it still very much does not.

Fuuuuck hvað þetta er leiðinlegt. Hreimur og fraseringar drepa mig

Loada wank.

Annoying, repetitive riffs and vocals. His voice is not fun to listen to. Bleh.

Don't think I would listen to this again.

No.

Pretty bad. Not musical. Not interesting.

Non mi piace la voce che vuole spiegarmi come vivere la mia vita, almeno non in un album. Oddio, peggiora anche, in 'Poughkeepsie' comincia ad avere qualche problema strano. Ma dai, ma cosa sta dicendo, ma che schifo. Pessimo

Pretentious, hipster, an obvious rich kid slumming it.

Saved Prior: None Off Rip: Will Is My Friend (I too have a friend named Will!) Cutting Edge: None Overall Notes: Seen someone with a four star review whose only complaint was "I only wish it was longer". We gon kill you dog we gon get you gone

Couldn't finish this album

Sounds like the same song over and over

This album was a rough listen. It has the dubious honour of being the first one I haven't remotely enjoyed.

Weird modern folk. Was not a fan

No idea what this might be. Some kind of indie/folk/religious thing? The cover has me stumped. Oh god it's folk rock, and it's someone in 2004 trying to sound retro and 60s. Dude's voice started out annoying and only got worse. Songs were just nothing - same thing repeated over and over. Another fine addition to the list lol. 1/5.

Nope. After 3.5 songs... Just nope.

Wikipedia describes this as "psychedelic folk", which - I guess? A few interesting progressions among the dissonance, like the glimmer of light in a Bartók piece.

Not a good album. I wanted to skip most of the songs.

plain bland mild boring samey. not one redeeming quality. especially dislike his voice and the weird inflections. 44 albums in, this is the one ive disliked the most so far.

no please, folk == not it chief

Sounds like a rough demo rather than a fully realised album. Quite poor.

Some cool guitar lines, but I can't stand the voice, seemingly a large part due to the vibrating style. Some songs want me to give this 2 stars, but I feel this was worse than Murmur.

Awful - managed 3 tracks.