When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Long and boring. There’s too much British bullshit on this list. It all sounds the same and it’s all fucking boring.

Didn’t realise the Indian connection, cool little surprise

I don't remember when I first heard Brimful of Asha, but I thought it was always a very cool track. Despite that, I had never tried listening to When I was Born for the 7th Time until yesterday when the generator sent it to me. Brimful is still the highlight of the album for me. There are several other tracks that are similar that I also quite liked, but there were some that went on a little too long with too little substance. Overall, it's still fun, but the album won't be in my regular rotation.

Just a bunch a noise

Curious and fun blend between indie rock, pop, hip-hop with indian influences. Fun to listen!

pretty good

This was pretty good. I’d only heard the remix of Brimful of Asha before but enjoyed the original. This album had quite an interesting mix of sounds and influences.

Some of the songs were really great, others I wasn't as into, but I really liked the Indian influence in the album.

Interesting. Only heard on the second track. Some of this reminded me on The Avalanches.

I recognized Brim Full Of Asha, but that was about it, except for the strange Norwegian Wood cover at the end. Not a bad little 90’s album that leans weirdo/stoner. 3.5⭐️

It's not bad....kinda like the mixings of the dub with the Indian instrumentation throughout.

Y'know, I'll give it to them - the indian elements in here do make it stand out a bit more than the umpteenth British band.

I was familiar with the fatboy slim rendition of brimfull of asha but the original is nice too. The rest of the album is a collage of cheery indie rock and droning indian-inspired instrumentals. And unlike those forrays into sitar music by white boys in the sixties, I can appreciate these. It's not just the instrument's genre being imitated but getting fused into the western instruments. An eclectic listen but certainly a worthwhile one.

Didn't hate it, 2.5 stars.

One great songs, several good ones, and a lot of very pleasant filler. I could listen to this all day.

Suprisingly decent.

⭐⭐⭐+ Detta var en överraskning, hade såklart hört Brimful of Ashia sedan tidigare men det var min enda erfarenhet av bandet sedan tidigare. Avfärdade nog bandet när de var som störst just pågrund av sin hit, inte för att jag tyckte den var så dålig utan mer att den inte lockade till mer lyssnande, tyckte inte den var tillräckligt intressant, men det här albumet är intressant. På albumet är nästan Brimful of Asha den udda fågeln. Här finns alla möjliga inslag, hipop, samplingar, orientaliska influenser, psykedelia och elektronia men även rena pop-låtar. Det är väldigt varierat och musikaliskt måste de vara riktiga multitalanger. Det får bli en 3a funderade på en 4a, det enda spåret på albumet jag har lite svårt med är covern av Norwegan wood. Bäst är Sleep on the left side, Butter the soul, We're inte your corner, Good ships, Candyman, State troopers

Son of a bitch I'm in. I wasn't expecting much, I assumed a three star tops when I saw British Indie group, but this is a weird fun album. Is it something I'm putting on and rocking the hell out to? No. It's not that kind of fun. It's like two Indian dude grew up listening to early hip hop. Only they were raised by Muppets in London. So it's quirky has hell, the lyrics are pretty basic, no real flow, and it's covered in weird electronica. It's an album that shouldn't work. Broken down to it's individual parts it fails. I swear I heard a frog in one song. YET when they put everything together it's a fun, charming album. Worth a listen to at least one. Not for everyone but I enjoyed it.

Loved the songs with the sitar. Brimful of Asha brought me back to my childhood.

At the time, the Fatboy Slim remix of Brimful of Asha was ubiquitous- I bought the album on the strength of that version and I remember being disappointed by the version here. Listening now, the original is far superior - Fatboy's over-baked fun-fest seemed great at the time but it seems cartoonish now, and a bit silly. I really enjoyed reconnecting with this record - Sleep on the Left Side, Funky Days Are Back Again and Good to be on the Road...', really stood out as great songs. I'd kind of forgotten about this record, and now feel like I've been reunited with an old friend.

Recognized one song from the radio. All fine but middling.

I was hopeful we had finally gotten to another forgotten classic—it started that intriguing. But it couldn’t sustain it, and certainly not for a full hour.

I rediscovered this album a few years ago, its really a gem. Just great through and through. Easy 5

I really enjoyed that. I only know Cornershop from Brimful of Asha (great song) but there was a lot to like here... Funky Days are here again was probably my favourite new song.

2.5 - ok

Definitely one to return to

Brimful injt

really just not a fan. so much going on and the lack of cohesiveness pushed me away rating: 3.0/10

10/04 An alright summer album

Brimful of asha! And the rest of the album.

One of those albums that grows on you the more you read about the band that made it, plus I really like the sitar.

Started off really well with some amazing songs, but funky days are back again is cringe-tastic, and after that I've got some highs and some very dated Lows. Still, very good album, stands out from much of the britpop stuff at the time apart from maybe kula shaker. I have a feeling I'm going to come back to this one again and again

cant remember a goddamn thing

Meh. It was OK, but the monotonous noise and drawling voice got to me in the end and had to stop it.

I’m getting British 311 vibes

Brimful of Asha is obv a banger right at the start of the album, lost me soon after that, then brought it back near the end. Just about scraped a 3.

How much electro crap can they cram into this list? Enough. 1.0

Dit vind ik wel een tof album. Ik weet niet of het allemaal even goed is, maar het is tenminste weer eens een keer wat anders. Een soort mix van hiphop, kunstzinnige pop en sfeerbeelden uit India. Brimfull of Asha ken ik uiteraard, maar dan de remix ervan. Daarna duurt het album uiteindelijk wel een beetje lang, maar ik ben al lang blij dat het een keer een nieuwe ervaring is. 3,5 naar 4 sterren.

Never understood Brimfull of Asha. Now I know why.

Actualy great album! Very diverse with diferent genres of music! Love the album cover aswell!

I wanted to like this as fusing traditional Indian music with the sounds of Britpop sounded intriguing. The sound of Britpop was very white-centric and I thought it would be interesting to hear a different perspective, but the music just wasn't engaging enough and some tracks felt like half-baked sketches rather than complete songs. "Brimful Of Asha" is the big single that most people know, but I thought it wasn't very good outside of the nostalgia of hearing that track on the radio growing up. Closing the album with a great cover of "Norwegian Wood" feels like a full circle moment seeing as the Beatles are responsible for bringing Indian music to western music, but there is not enough here to warrant a recommendation.

Wow!

Понятно индусы британцы

This was like a combination of sublime Sugar Ray and the dust Brothers. It was just a mishmash of nonsense. I didn’t like this, but it’s fine. I guess I guess it’s supposed to be on this list because everybody should listen to this but what did this really do for anything did anybody become inspired by this? I don’t know. It feels like a bunch of ripoffs to me or maybe I’m knowing the products that this influenced maybe this influenced the dust Brothers and Sugar Ray and sublime even though they’re not the most influential people in the world well, I guess the dust Brothers were pretty influential. I don’t know innovators maybe anyway I’m not typing that’s why this is so long. I’m actually speaking into the phone free stars. Oh I see they’re British Indians makes sense for this list it’s so heavy independent British.

Um pouco excêntrico demais pra mim

Why do I remember Brimful of Asha being way better than it actually is? This album was a turd.

Decent album, quite enjoyed it. 4/5

Some of the songs on here were real misses for me, but there were enough hits to compensate

Some really nice stuff in here, but the tracks with all the generic Indian inspired fluff is nigh-unlistenable.

1.5

Overall really enjoyed this album. There were moments where my rating was fluctuating but I’ll try to be fair as possible. More I enjoyed than disliked 3.5 but so close to a light 4

I listened to half of this thing while falling in and out of an afternoon nap, and I quite enjoyed it in that context. Because the whole thing feels like a fever dream, and I'm not entirely sure what to make of it, even after finishing it while being fully conscious. On the surface, it's sort of trip-hop, with a heavy emphasis on snappy drum-kit loops and sound collages with songs like 'What is Happening?', 'Butter The Soul', and 'Funky Days Are Back Again'. Also, with the really raunchy and unsettling 'When the Light Appears Boy'... this album has its fair share of weird moments. But also there's a Britpop feel to the more traditional tracks on here; 'Brimful of Asha', for instance, was pretty catchy and maybe the most easily enjoyable cut here, with bright instrumentation and a goofy but catchy chorus. 'Good Shit' was pretty good too, another one of the better funky drum rhythms here. The vocals on the record are generally solid, but I honestly really enjoyed the female vocals on 'Good to Be on the Road Back Home', which felt like country-rock through this band's really odd lens. You also get a couple of odd Indian-inspired cuts as well; they weren't my favourites here, but I did enjoy the shorter interlude-y 'Coming Up'. Their inclusion makes sense, given the heritage of some of the members, but whether they worked or not, I'm not sure. Again, really weird album; it feels like it's mostly composed of strange one-off interludes, and it's largely unfocused. But I didn't hate it, and I felt strangely fulfilled by the end of it. It was neat, at least.

It opened strong, but then it went on a bit with a lot of...I just don't really care that much. A shame, because "what if punjabi britpop" is a fantastic premise

Did not like it, Indie's vibe that were not particularly pleasant.

Expected an album of brimful of asha but got an eclectic mix of songs. Pretty cool

Great album, liked the inclusion of wide range of motifs and inspirations, which luckily doesn’t make it redundant or feel unoriginal.

Interessant / abwechslungsreich

Pretty cool, enjoyable, though I found it surprisingly unremarkable. The eastern flair mixed with the indie rock is an interesting choice.

Bold and different ttpe of album.

What a wonderful, fun and funky album. Loved it!

I don't mind the vocals too much, but a lot of the songs themselves feel a bit gimmicky, and the instrumental tracks (of which there are many) bring down the album a lot. There isn't much in the way of mood variation, either. The lyrics range from warmly goofy to distractingly goofy. Sleep on the Left Side, vocals-wise, is essentially a stream of consciousness, akin to something the Talking Heads might've released a decade or two earlier. The instrumentation, though, is substantially simpler. To its credit, the instruments, where they do appear, are played well and consistently: open, uplifting, driving. I would've liked to have heard more than the I and IV chord, or at least have the bass do some more interesting stuff with those chords. Brimful of Asha is just Oasis, but a little less whelming, you get me? The lyric "everybody needs a bosom for a pillow / everybody needs a bosom" really resonates with me. And that's better articulated than anything on (What's the Story) Morning Glory?. Nice strings, too, mirroring the lyrics in that point of the song. Not particularly impressed with Butter the Soul, an Indian-inspired instrumental with a stupid, annoying, high-pitched synth thing constituting the main melodic hook. It's just barely passable overall because it does have indescribable novelty. In fact, many of the subsequent tracks are just instrumentals, which is either a blessing or a curse depending on how much you liked Tjinder Singh's vocal. I quite liked it, and so tracks like Chocolat, What Is Happening?, When The Light Appears Boy, Coming Up, and State Troopers just fade into the ether of silly inconsequentialness. We're in Your Corner... a solid example of Eastern-Western fusion. Those drums work excellently with the various Indian classical instruments (tanpura and sitar are the ones I can name). The gradual switch in moods between bright and self-assured to dark and introspective is pretty cool, too. After a slew of offensively unmemorable instrumentals, we get a relative return to form in Good Ships, consisting of a groovy little rhythm where the highlights are, as per usual, the vocals and drums. Pretty good chorus. Bizarre veer off into country territory with Good to Be on the Road Back Home Again, but I kind of dig it. Especially that female vocalist. Interesting choice of time signature (7/8) in It's Indian Tobacco My Friend; definitely adds to the trippiness factor, but at the expense of being a little annoying to really groove with. It could use some bass or guitar or something. Speaking of which: great bass (and mirrored guitar) riff in Candyman. The rest of the song is completely unremarkable, but that riff sells it. Can you really get away with releasing a song as a cover if it's identical (on paper) to the original, aside from translating the lyrics? I guess Cornershop have just shown that you can. 2/5 Key tracks: Brimful of Asha, Good Ships, Candyman

Gar nicht schlecht

The blending of 1970s popular music, British indie sounds, turntablism and hip hop production, along with Indian music really hit me as the epitome of cool. There are endless catchy moments in When I Was Born for the 7th Time.

Brimful of Asha!

I got De La Soul hints in the first few songs, then Butter the Soul solidified it with some Eastern raga soupçon. Their single Brimful of Asha is a good tune. I am usually in favour of bands doing a metric fuck ton of drugs and recording an album. This would be an exception. Cover of the Beatles also consumers of vast quantities of drugs to finish us off. Some tunes were good head nods, other filler, some jarring, the latter half of album seemed to flow better. Decent. 3.

Super random find! Love the Indian roots of the musicians and have a lot of respect for them having the guts to put something like this out there. At times the album can be a bit much but I found myself still wanting to listen through to the end!

I remember when this beat OK Computer for Spin magazine’s album of the year in ‘97 which I found baffling because I hadn’t ever heard of it. I’m not sure if I ever got around to listening to it in any of the intervening years, besides hearing “Brimful of Asha” a handful of times, but I suspected it would turn up here. All in all it’s pretty cool. Like a Desi-infused British Beck. But it’s no OK Computer, that’s for sure.

The second song makes this a 2 but this album is not good.

boring

I try not to give these out lightly but I didn't enjoy this. Started off like an impression of Paul Simon, dipped into some bad beats, and then stayed there. Funky days are not back again

I guess I just don’t smoke enough dope

This was terrible

Did very little for me

The only good part was when the slagged off London

This is such a well-written and utterly intriguing album with so many intriguing twists & turns throughout that keep you on your toes. It keeps you engaged from start to finish with solid instrumentation, experimental elements and catchy grooves - all of which combine for a fantastic listen. For an indie / pop-rock record like this to have passed me by over the years is a surprise, but a very pleasant one.

British people can't really do Asian music most of the time (besides the new Gorillaz album which has alright middle-eastern stuff) and this is the same, mostly pretty boring with a couple highlight songs, like the trip-hoppy stuff

I've only ever heard that song that everyone knows, it's on this album - reasonably pleasant pop album with eastern flavours, not too terrible.

Its a (sometimes) fun and interesting album that overstays its welcome. I did not need to hear that beatles cover or more than 50 minute of this. I did not cared a lot abouth some of the instrumental tracks too. They sounded a bit unfinished too me. It reminds me of some instrumental hip hop records. Like DJ shafows. Idk if hes on the book. Its really not my style of music but its not too hawfull.

Indie rock, electronica, raga rock, Britpop, avant-pop.

Too much of the weird noises to be enjoyable. There were a few tracks that sounded ok but the vocals stopped them from being good. 2.5

There were good bits, but too much record scratching for me. The Norwegian Wood cover is pretty cool

Jokseenkin pidin itämaisista vaikutteista, muuten aika tylsä levy. Menettelee taustahälynä. Viimeisenä biisinä kuultiin tulkinta Beatlesin Norwegian Woodista.

O álbum traz uma sonoridade pop acessível e agradável, mas perde-se na falta de identidade e inconsistência.

It's... fine. It's also wild how much better the Fatboy Slim remix of Brimful of Asha is. 2.5 stars, giving it a 2 here.

A bit of a mixed feeling on this. Thwir big hit i know and always found it a bit repetitive and lacking development, it doeant shift gears. There are a few more like this on this album. That said i appreciate the mix if Indian music and brit alt pop/rock. I imagine this album spoke to a lot of british indian kids and thats a great thing but for me, so removed, not enough in it to learn or hold my fascination.

When I Was Born For The 7th Time is an album that i don't think is great but i still think it had a decent bit going for it. I have never heard of this band prior to listening to this album so i thought that this was gonna be another britpop album. But what i got was a fairly interesting mix of indie rock, trip hop and traditional Indian music. However, despite the genre being fairly interesting, the songs weren't really that interesting as they didn't do anything with the idea of their genre for the most part. The songs definitely weren't bad though and were certainly pleasant listens but i don't think i can justify giving this album any higher than a 3. Best Song: Candyman Worst Song: We're in Yr Corner

Fun. I find parallels with fresh album of Gorillaz - the Mountain.

I have never heard this album before but once "Brimful of Asha" came on I was instantly teleported back to a young me watching MTV when they used to have music videos. The video for this song was a girl playing 45's on a record player and bobbing her head to the beat. Not that the music video was that great or anything I just remembered it for some reason and it came back to me, kind of cool. It was probably a time of my life where I would have been smoking a lot of cannabis with my friends and watching MTV non stop. Good times. The album is not bad, probably not something that I would listen to often but it's really unique and has some good beats.

Will anders sein! OK! Ist anders! Gefällt mir? Nö! Gar nicht!

Weird and funky sound. The asiatic/indian influence is very welcome.

Brimful Of Asha unlocked some ancient song memories that I hadn’t heard in over a decade, listening to the original version was a welcome surprise. The rest of the album isn’t all too interesting in my opinion. Had some nice moments but overall there was a lot of seemingly meaningless noodling and instrumentals on here that ruined the flow a bit. It’s not a bad album otherwise, but nothing too special.

Когда я родился в седьмой раз - это не перестало быть хуйней

Really liked the Indian influences. Better than most white Bri'ish garbage spewed out by the cookie-cutter pop bands.

Hey, I know this song! Hey, I also know this song! … … I guess I know why I only knew the two tracks.

What the Beck was this?

This was good! It has that 90's slacker, too cool for school thing which I dig but not too simple to be boring. I feel like so much of their music was familiar but didn't know the name Cornershop at all. Fun and lighthearted good time music.

I had absolutely no context going into this album, but it was a fun mix of genres. Felt a bit like Beck from the UK with some Indian music roots. I had a great time with it.

This one is a bit of a heartbreaker, because it starts out SO promising, and then sort of peters out. The first two tracks are excellent, and then there’s a big lull. I can hear the interesting blend of Indian music and western music, it just looses steam. I do appreciate their ambitions. It just can’t quite get myself to give it four stars, which is a shame because at first I thought I had found a surprise five star album by a band I didn’t know. It is interesting enough that I am going to listen to as few of their more recent albums to see how they evolved.

I really enjoyed coming across this Indian fusion album. I’m not sure I would listen to it as frequently as other albums, but on the strength of the track “Brimful of Asha” it is at least a 3 in my book, or maybe a light 4

Nice indian/asian fusion rock songs. "IBM the coca-cola motherfucker" was a great line from We're In Your Corner.