Reviews (page 8 of 8)
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