Reviews (page 8 of 8)
All songs sound the same Typical 80s new wave sound. Feel free to skip it
Yeah, that was NOT needed to be listened to by anyone, anywhere, at anytime. Another band that could be named the Hoovers. Because they really suck. 1
Stuck in eternal 80s hell. Bad hair. Bad shoes terrible music awful blues.
How is something this lame so long?
It's weird. These guys are about 85% of the way to being Squeeze, who I really like. But I didn't enjoy this at all. Hits some kind of stylistic allergy I have but will not bother trying to describe.
I didn’t think I had heard of this band before, but then I remembered I had heard Love Plus One years ago on a Billboard top hits album. This album seems a bit long with 17 songs. Most of the songs sounded the same. This album did not keep my interest.
Nope. Stop the Britpop. This is album #980 for me, and I can not do more British pop. This isn't even different Britpop. This is just more of the same, but less popular.
Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)
Yeah, pass on this one I'm afraid.
It was indeed not a fantastic day because the generator gave me this abomination to listen to today.
Some music captivates you; some music holds you captive. My rating will let you know what this album did to me. Also, was it mandatory to sing like *that* in the 80s?
Dorlig
p494. 1982. 1 star. The epitome of bland, crap UK early 80's pop. It's like punk never happened. Every track sounds the same, the lyrics are shite, and that chittering guitar gets annoying REALLL soon. WTF is this doing on the list? "Is it down to the lake I fear". What's so fucking scary about the lake, eh?
Haircut 100’s Pelican West has some postpunk DNA, but it’s ultimately drowned in unbearable production and bad songs. Garbage.
Perhaps it is not something that is targeted towards me but listening to the album made it seem like one song played for 70 minutes. A single break from the funk came with Surprise Me Again, which took things a little lower which would have been an appreciated thing more often.
When someone says 80s music this is exactly the sound I think of, even though I don’t think I’ve ever heard them before. It is definitely not a genre I gravitate towards, couldn’t even finish the album to be honest.
I was expecting to hate this just by the album cover alone. There were a few songs that I thought were interesting or otherwise of note, but in general it sounded like a weird cross of Kenny G / Gloria Estefan and Flock of Seagulls or Duran Duran......
What a great opportunity to listen to ‘Favourite Shirts’ again, and the rest of their poppy-jazzy-bongo-loveliness. Edit: 5 songs in. Enough already.
Why do these songs all sound the same? And why do they all suck? How did they stretch this album out to an entire hour? I only made it to Fantastic Day and that song sucked fantastically so I gave up
Mietin sitä aitoa heittäytymisen, jopa vakavoitumisen tunnetta, jota tämän tason hupsuttelu ja höpsöttely edellyttää. Hytisen.(Ekassa biisissä on muuten ideaa.) 1+
I question why this would have made the 1001 cut. There's no way this is an important album. I'm about the biggest 80s music fan around and this is just really awful, bland, boring. They never even had a single hit here.
Garbage.
why the hell is this on this list
Initial thought: wtf is this? This sounds like someone set out to make the most cookie cutter, fluffy haired, clean cut, white boy 80s pop template and succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. I hate 80s pop. Also, it’s over an hour. Very few albums should be over an hour long and this is not one of them.
10 seconds into first song, PASS, sorry guys
A cocktail with no alc / Talking with no heads / Kid Creole without coconuts / NO
Grupo con éxito fulminante que apenas duró un disco, lo que tardó su cantante en abandonar el barco en pos de una carrera solista (que tampoco cosechó el éxito de su anterior banda). El álbum no está mal, a pesar de la mella que la producción y estilo han sufrido con el paso de los años. Recuerdan más a Heaven 17, ABC o Jo Boxers que a fenómenos como Duran Duran o Spandau Ballet (aunque Favourite shirts tiene el sonido que estas bandas usaron repetidamente), pero esto no es una crítica. Es una influencia obvia en maravillas posteriores como los discos de Aztec Camera e incluso Prefab Sprout (salvando las distancias). Buena instrumentación (esos vientos marca de los 80´s reconocibles en Phill Cllins, Spandau Ballet, Bananaram o casi cualquier éxito), buenas melodías (Lemon firebrigade es muy buena), imagen... lo tenían todo para tirunfar y aunque efímeramente así lo hicieron. Hubo discos mejores en 1982 como Thriller, Pornogaphy de the Cure, 1999 de Prince y Avalon de Roxy Music, o Nebraska de Bruce Springsteen. También los debuts de Felt, Coucteau Twins, Laurie Anderson o Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. Otros realmente buenos también fueron Juju de Siouxsie and the Banshees, New gold dream de Simple Minds, Glassworks de Phillip Glass, The days of wine and roses de , Too Rye Ay de Dexy´s Midnight Runners, The lexicon of love de ABC, The Dreaming de Kate Bush, Rit it up de Orange Juice, ..
Ooof its not offensive just boring. Other days I'd want to listen to it through to be competitionistic but i don't like it. i guess for me it's like the worst of the beach boys meets 80s pop. 1 star.
Important because it was a mediocre 82 New Wave album or it launched Nick Haywards haircut onto us? Either way...
The chuds try lounge jazz... The only thing significant about this album is that they are British. Time and time again the brits sing about the most mundane garbage.
Every single musical element that makes me hate (most) every album from the 1980s. What the hell happened??
No. So many others made music in the genre. This is just annoying.
I hated this.
Not for me, painful
instantly forgettable crap.
During the first track, I thought this would be alright, but then the soprano sax kicked in and the album annoyed me more and more as it went on until I couldn’t wait for it it to be over. Just more new wave white boy funk garbage. Get this the hell out of my ears.
i kind of dig their sweaters
Jazz-influenced pop. No. I can't describe how good it felt putting on some nice music after listening to this album.
Upbeat
Pish. Absolutely pish. Too much saxophone by about 100%, all jangle and no soul, even the songs I had heard before sound so much worse in the smug-yuppie-wanker context of the full album. Offensively bad, to the point where I wasn't sure I'd manage to listen to it all. I did, but I'm not sure how! Probably the worst album (not involving nico or morisey) I have endured. 0 🌟
You cant make it in a top 1001 albums of all time with a band name like that, simply not on
got about halfway through, bored
Kitschy smooth jazz for kids? Idk what this is but it's not really my vibe
Eh
1. favorite zhirtz - 1 2. love pluz one - 1 3. lemon - 1.5 4. marine fireboy - 0 5. milk film - 1 6. kingzize - 1.5 7. fantaztic day - 1 8. baked beanz - 0 9. znouu girl - 0 10. trianglez - 1 11. zurprize me again - 1 12. captain autumn - 0 13. boat party - 2 14. zki club - 0 15. nobodyz fool - 1.5 16. october iz orange - 1
The first couple of songs had me intrigued with the upbeat brass and percussion arrangements - but I found the entire album too much of the same thing. And that was even before the songs 13-17 that were bonus songs for the CD version…
Did not like this, not my style of music at all.
Couldn’t get into it
Dated trash.
A couple of hits. Rest forgettable
Sounds like the soundtrack to most 70s/80s sitcoms that I watched
A very badly aged nothing burger
A forgettable example from a forgotten genre. Not being an Englishman, I am aware this album is rubbish.
I’ve tried to be objective with all of these records but this is garbage. Sounds like he’d discovered a new guitar technique and drilled it to fuck. This is Not For Me™️
Another 1980s new wave band that sounds very unnecessary. I don't need to hear it, be reminded of it or see it on any list. It's so boring, middle of the road, without urgence, overly smoothed. This is the kind of music you put on in a situation that your main purpose is not to offend anyone in anyway. Music for people that do not like music (and want only some sound to fill the void)
Derivative
Hated this when it came out and certainly don't need to listen to it today! Everything about it was horrible - especially the jumpers! So horribly clean and preppy. Ugh!
Not for me.
Pish.
It has lots of ingredients I love elsewhere. Chic guitars, Specials horns, Talking Heads wonk, Duran Duran vocals. It all adds up to a lot less than the sum of its parts. I tapped my feet to a few songs, but remember next to nothing of it. Pretty crap
Kind of shit
This is very repetitive and uninspired, one of the worst new wave albums i've ever listened to.
Inne på låt 3 och jag vill skjuta mig själv. Låt fem och det skulle kunna vara EN låt hittils, för det låter likadant. 100% ointressant och olyssningsbart. Stängde av.
Prehistoric eurotrash from the 80s. Saxaphone, funk, reggae and preppy white kids in sweaters. There's a reason this never made it stateside.
All a bit new wave for me, hopping between styles and sax overload. I can see why people would be impressed with the album without potentially actually liking it. Lemon Firebrigade grabbed me for a bit.
What the hell is this?? UPDATE 1: V Talking Heads inspired. Not a bad thing, it grooves. UPDATE 2: Eh, this was okay. Nothing I'd ever return to but not upset to listen to it once.
That sucked
I couldn’t listen to this whole album, the 80s repetitive beats just got too annoying for me.
Poo
Wow. I got halfway through this and have no interest to finish it. The 80s are so bad.
I was glad when this album was over. Not that the music was bad, but it was so much saxophone.
80s crap with horns. did not like.
Nope