When I Was Born For The 7th Time

I don't know why this album is on the list. It is more or less ok. It contains "Brimful of Asha" which is a really great song in the big beat remix by Norman Cook, not so much in the original version. Other songs are not special (or also need a special remix).

i am severely confused. no album ever needs this much sitar. fav songs: chocolat, candyman.

Booooooooooring

To the rim full with fillers. Sorry. 1.7

Ehhhh kinda störande

Not a bad album and I did enjoy the instrumental parts but it just left me feeling unsatisfied

an experimental mixtape fusion of patchouli oil, medium-low energy rock, bleeps and bloops and garam masala. 2.5/5

I'm Never too old to learn something, I'd always thought Cornershop was a one hit wonder with Brimful of asha, which was a great Indie Hip Hop track. But today this album came up for review and I thought... wow... these guys also made an album!! The experience of the album was a big let down though, it wasn't a statement collection of tracks, just a meandering random collection of pointless arrangements that were annoyingly repetitive, in fact the very first trackcwas essentially a slowed down version of Brimful of Asha. I would listen to some of this album if it was already playing, but I wouldn't choose to listen to it, and I really hate the sound of the sitar.

Didn't like this.

Not for me

This was the album on the day of Honor's graduation, and Max was listening to it when he drove Adam and I to the ceremony. But do you know what I was thinking during the whole 4 minute drive from Northeast to Mullins? What if someone who wasn't on the generator--who had never listened to Haunted Dancehall or Rising Above Bedlam--got into my car and was forced to listen to "Butter the Soul" under the impression that this is the type of music I voluntarily listen to. I would be impeached if I put anyone from the volleyball team through that. But in the very off-chance that Max was unironically listening to Cornershop for his own peace of mind, I still wouldn't blink an eye. Also, I strongly considered giving this a 3 because it was so strange and so memorable, but I persevered and refrained from the intrusive thoughts this time.

Shoutout British Imperialism! After centuries of ruling and exploiting what is now India, the only addition it made to modern society was this hybrid Indian-Britpop album. And it sucks!

Good Ships is okay, maybe a 3 and that’s the best and last song I could listen to. I was surprised to hear Brimful of Asha and immediately recognized it. Can’t do this album anymore.

D+ Sleep on the Left Side 3 Brimful of Asha 3 Butter the Soul 2 Chocolat 1 We’re in Yr Corner 1 Funky Days Are Sick Again 2 What is Happening? - 1 When the Light Appears Boy - 1 Coming Up - 1 Good Shi** - 2 Good to Be on the Road Back Home - 2 It’s Indian Tobacco My Friend - 2 Candyman - 2 State Troopers PT 1 - 1 Norwegian Wood - 3, honestly very good Beatles cover This was pretty brutal. Started off pretty good, but just dips so hard. Not a big fan of the Southern Asia sound.

Nah, and the big track is so overplayed it isn't worth mentioning. I was a massive indie fan when this came out, and I couldn't get on board with it - dull as fuck

The first song played and I thought "Hey this kinda sounds like that 'Brimful of Asha' song from a while back." Then the second song played and I thought "Oh." It doesn't get any better after that. 2.5 stars.

This was not great but at least it was kinda weird. 2/5

not exactly my cup of tea, but pretty good there's a lot of I believe Indian influence if I was hearing that correctly but I didn't absolutely hate it and I didn't love it .

Weird and nothing outstanding.

Obviously has the hit song, but not convinced the rest of the album holds up, hence does it really deserve it’s place on the list?

Another album that starts off promising and devolves into senseless trash. Sleep on the Left Side is a jaunty and fun little ditty that made me think we had emerged from this hole of 90s musical wanking. It's still a bit long with an extended outro that someone should really have noticed and cut off. Brimful of Asha as a follow up is boring and monotonous but not awful and makes you feel like you're getting a feel for their sound. But then. The third track feels like a weird departure into some experimental psychedelic stuff. Not much musical content here, just some loops with drums that aren't even interesting. Almost feels like one of those songs the drummer "writes" that you include on the album out of pity. It's only after the third track that you realize in fact the departure was the first couple songs, and in fact we're in for a journey through experimental nonsense for a while, with a couple steps away for proper songs or fragments of songs. They bring it back to songs for We're in Yr Corner and Funky Days, but those songs are both terrible. Then it's back into the mess with 6 minutes straight of various garbage throwaway tracks. Anyways, other than Sleep on the Left Side and Good Shit, this album is composed of a bunch of junk tracks, with a few actual songs that have a mostly monotonous melody and uninteresting instrumentation. Oh and with an abrupt switch in genres for Candyman to little benefit. The Beatles cover at the end sucks as well (though I'm a pretty hard sell on Beatles covers). I don't feel terribly surprised that what I assume is a direct translation of the lyrics doesn't fit rhythmically into the original melody. "Norwegian Luggery (Eh Jery Bahgey)" This album feels like a musician doing a bunch of unstructured jerking off. A handful of songs written, fleshed out by a bunch of filler material and a lackluster cover. Which is why you have a producer who can curtail your impulses and shape your creativity into a cohesive whole. Oh. It's self-produced. Big surprise there. Maybe 8th time's the charm, but I doubt it.

Not great, not terrible.

That was a weird collection of songs put together on an album. Didn't enjoy it that much.

Cornershop didn’t have what I wanted.

The drummer, whoever they are, needs a better job than this. Brimful of Asha is great, the rest is meh.

92 / 1069 One too many genres, not sure what this is trying to be. Brimful of Asha I know from somewhere, and quite like it, but that’s about it.

Not really my thing.

Blah. Nothing really substainstial

At times Cornershop sounds like Eels and I'd rather listen to them. Also prefer the Norman Cook remix of Brimful of Asha more than the original

Hmm. Well, I don't really listen to Indian music, and I don't get this album. Catchy at times but not enough substance.

cool idea cool vibes but the short instrumentals are too short and the longer sung bits j don’t have good lyrics and it j kinda feels whack overall, but still enjoyable

Hittibiisi kova ja muu materiaali vaihtelevaa skeidasta outoon sekoiluun.

Tää oli kyl vähän joka paikassa. Ihan ku jokainen bändin jäsen ideoinu muutaman biisin ja kaikki tuotokset lyöty samalle levylle. Ei välttämättä huono asia, mut nyt ei toiminu hirveesti

Its an odd album. The first side is incredibly boring but it ends with some sweet trance like dance

Positively surprised to find Brimful of Asha, negativen surprised by everything else.

Weird but in an uninteresting way. Some Indian influences which spices it up a bit. I Guess the Beatles cover at the end was okay...

Not my taste, too fluffy

I went into this with high hopes, since the description made it sound like it'd be an unusual mix of genres. But it ended up being mostly a bore, it seemed like 90% slightly unoriginal pop

Some interesting South Asian influence. I liked their version of Norwegian Wood.

Outside the big hit it's fairly ordinary, not an album you need to listen too.

4/10

Very eclectic

This album really doesn't know what it wants to be. Some decent songs but mostly a mess.

Fun, interesting and distinct sound. Not super catchy but still a vibe

never been high but now i seem to know how that sounds like

Brimful of Asha is fine but the singers voice is very monotone and snoozeworthy

Seems like an odd and experimental album that doesn't really work for me.

Never heard of this band before and I really don't feel like I missed out on anything. Parts of the album are fine and chill but unspectacular and other parts are unpleasantly weird and annoying. The instrumental parts in particular are unbearable.

Startet som generisk rock av middels spennende art. Etterhvert mye hare krishna-inspirert. Ubesluttsom gjeng. Var innom tungetale, froskelyder, rap og et overflødig Beatles-cover. Til tross for dette var den noen meget kule sekvenser som de får poeng for. Jeg kommer nok ikke til å ta dette videre, men er likevel en opplevelse rikere av å ha hørt det.

jeg likte sleep on the left side og (selvsagt) Brimful of Asha. Jeg hang ikke med på alt det indiske.

I didn't think much of it, it sounds so dated now just putting Indian bits in for the sake of it

This albums okay but to be fair there’s so many albums not on the original list that deserve to be on here more: Sleep on the left side is one of the better ones on the album it might not hit of first listen… but it will. This version of brimful of Asha is definitely the better one not that the Norman cook one is bad this one’s just better y know. The punjabi singing on we’re in your corner works really well and is a decent song and then ending with “ Ibm the coca cola motherfucker”. I’am not too huge on the beat for funky days are back again but it’s alright. When the light appears boy is strange but it’s entertaining in the context of this album. Other than brimful of Asha, good shit is the best here its just a really enjoyable song not much to say. Good to be on the road back home again is also good but i much prefer the female voice on here then the usual singers. I’am not much of a fan of rapping but so candyman isn’t really for me and the bits that aren’t rapping are just repetitive. There’s also a handful instrumental tracks some being really dull (chocolat, coming up and state troopers) and some are decent (like butter the soul (which reminds me of an Indian inspired version of linkin parks cure for an itch), what is happening And it’s Indian tobacco my friend). The album ends on a punjabi sung cover of the beatles Norwegian wood I think it’s great because Norwegian wood is a good song though and not that the band make it any better, anyway good closer!

Some good tracks, a bit too instrumental and experimental for the most part

Album was not amazing. Felt like there was no consistent vibe to it and it switched from eastern type experimental music to songs that sounded like they were trying to sound like Beatles tracks to some just pure 90's tracks. Songs like Candyman and State Trooper I enjoyed but did not feel like they fit onto the album. My favorites on the record were: Brimful of Asha, Candyman, State Trooper, and Chocolat. Least favorites included Butter the Soul, When the Light Appears Boy, and Good Sh**. Overall a Strong 1 to Weak 2 out of 5.

Not the best

Interesting album, only know one song from these guys (Brimfull of Asha). Didn't really hook me though.

nice to listen to, a little boring

weird mix of white people indie and Indian music

Unsure how critics called this "cohesive" when it came out; to me it feels like multiple bands pushing songs of theirs into a playlist, sometimes during the same song. I enjoy a good few of these songs on their own, but as an album... I dunno.

Mehr.

this one gets really umbearable as the album goes on, not really my cup of tea

I remember “everybody needs a bosom for a pillow!” That silly chant got Cornershop a one-hit wonder and a spot on the 1001. Maybe they were bigger in England (who are we kidding, of course that's the case). If Cornershop (or just the Singh brothers?) were born seven times, did they reincarnate into a different style of music each time? Because this album is a bit of a mess of styles in which nothing really gels or stands out.

Decent raga trip hop tracks with some catchy Britpop tunes. My favorite parts of these songs are how they incorporate raga using modern production methods. Funky, unique, and reminds me of vaporwave, but otherwise I'm not sure they really hold up well. The first track is alright. The second track, "Brimful of Asha," is dangerously catchy and will haunt me for the rest of my life. The rest of the more Britpop tracks are not very good. Overall, a good display of raga trip hop tunes and a catchy Britpop song or two but otherwise nothing spectacular.

Nah. Generic and nothing entertaining about it.

пхххх, смешно, конечно, но идите нахуй

Alors que mes yeux s'attardaient sur le nom de cet album, je me mis à effectuer quelques recherches sur mon navigateur internet preferentiel: "est-il possible, et ce même avec toute la bonne volonté du monde, de naître plusieurs fois dans la même vie?" Ce à quoi Google me répondit "non c'est formellement impossible". Vous l'aurez compris cet album était un véritable supplice.

Kann ich nix mit anfangen. Einzelne Lichtblicke

i just don’t really see how this was all that influential, and it was a rather obnoxious sound

Some cool spots but pretty boring overall. Kept checking to see if it was over.

Not really my thing but if you like laid back rock with Indian influences then these guys are it.

This indie rock album was interesting to listen to. The music was a fun mix of rock, hip hop, and pop, and the lyrics were politically inspired by cultural events of the time. I probably wouldn't listen to this album again.

Mediocre in every way.

Meh

Mja, teveel van van alles en dan vaak net niet. Behalve dat hitje dan.

Ok

muy repetitivas las canciones

Some good songs, but definitely sounds dated with all the scratching in the pop tunes.

Ist halt kein Wutang - 2

never heard of ‘em.

Underwhelming

It’s ok.

5

Can't say I was really feeling this.

Before listening: ok, I'm gonna say this is electronic of some kind, UK sound-esque thing like Fatboy slim. Not too far off, has that dirty UK sound but it's more of an indie rock take on it. Not really my thing but we'll see how it goes. Ok, one of these songs was a huge hit, forgot it even existed though lol. aaaand it goes super Indian about halfway through, ugh. Doesn't really go anywhere, just exists. 2/5.

indian and indie lol 1,5/5

i hated this so fucking much

This album spans multiple genres and none pf them are done well. The beatles cover was fine, not enough for an extra point

Seriously? This is crap! Brimful of Asha is fun for five minutes. It is definitely not fun for 55 minutes.

I didn’t like this album, but there’s something to the instrumental playing itself.

Me gustó sólo la canción good to be on the road back home. lo demás me pareció una mezcla de género y estilo muy rara que no daba solo para un álbum.

Someone should've told them to stop, you'd have to be stoned out of your mind to think this was worth your time

Yeah this was ass

I didn’t get this one at all. It was fine for what it was. It had some ok ideas, and a lot of bad ones. This leans between a one and a two for me. I kept waiting for this album to turn into something interesting, but was left rather bored.

Es distinto a todo lo que escuché hasta ahora. Se puede ver la influencia del trap y lo que pronto desembocará en los 2000. Sin embargo, no es un disco compacto ni coherente. Tiene elementos árabes interesantes.

Too weird

I really struggled with this. The second half of the album was slightly better but I found it frustrating to listen too and can't really say why. It was almost like they were trying to modernise the Beatles and I don't like the Beatles.

When I Was Born for the 7th Time by Cornershop is not my style at all. While it has a generally pleasant sound, I found it a bit difficult to get through. Many of the songs felt too similar to each other, and I didn’t notice much variety throughout the album. Still, I listened to it with an open mind, trying to find something to connect with. It works as background music while doing other activities, but it didn’t really stand out to me. Overall, I didn’t enjoy it that much and I don’t see myself coming back to it.

honestly just baffling from start to end. what the hell is going on man.

Sound was a little too experimental and lyrics a little too repetitive for my taste. A couple tracks were ok, but not really my thing.

I do not understand the overwhelming amount of hate this project seems to be getting as it really isn't all that bad, it just doesn't know what to do sometimes and defaults to some very repetitive pieces every once and a while. When I Was Born for the 7th Time is an odd project that really wants to come off as experimental but instead feels quite novice in nature. I respect when Cornershop goes hard and delivers some actually meaningful tracks like Sleep on the Left Side and Brimful of Asha, but for a majority of the tracklist this honestly feels like rough demos for a more concise project later down the band's career. It is hard to excuse 54 minutes of this project when maybe 12 are actually worth your time. Not really too sure what else to say here that hasn't already been said, this project is quite the misfire all around and should be nowhere near an "essential, must hear before you die kind of list."

No lo pude NI terminar

Brimful of Asha could be my least favourite song of all time. Its good to know the rest of the album is just as ass

No. 123 Nah. Liked the first two, then it just fell off for me.

Це вже бритнаська квота + minority. Є окремі непогані пісні. Підійшли досить креативно до поєднання семплінгу, індийських мотивів і нудної електронної музики. Як альбом це слухати мені було важко і під кінець сильно набридло

One hit wonders for a reason. 1.5

Sounds like a Beck cheap knock-off. Some good beats, but I'm not sure why I had to listen to this album before dying

Just… ugh. What is this

I don’t know where to start. This album was a mess and the middle was a slog to get through. There were 4 takeaway songs and the 2 and other 2 were the start and endings. All the middle stuff was just boring. I don’t think it was a total lost cause again some songs were good but it’s really close to a 1.

Sounds like some musically-curious kids wrote three mediocre songs and then decided that writing songs was too hard. So, in order to fill out an album, they spent a couple of stoned weeks just fucking around with the studio’s samplers. Meh with a capital E.

This was one of the most poorly sequenced and inconsistent albums I've heard in this list. There was no rhyme nor reason for the song lengths, some songs were >5mins and far too long for the limited content/repetition, and some were 2 mins and not flushed out. The album had numerous moments where multiple interludes were in a row that only detracted. The most "exciting" descriptions of the band "Indian music" and "danceble-pop" were either rarely used (the former) or totally absent (the latter). Overall this sounds like a bad debut album, but sadly it was their 3rd. The moments of Indian style music were the most interesting though barely present. 1.4/5 -> 1/5.

Please remove this album from the next iteration of this list.

Sure, why not another 90's British indie pop band? I mean this list surely does not have enough of them, right? OK, but let's put some scratching and Indian-influenced music in there! You surely like that right??!?!?!? Nope. Let's cover The Beatles in Hindi! Wooot! We're so original. Nope. Go away. 1/5 because this album made me angry the whole time I listened to it.

No reason for this dogshit to be almost an hour long. Very boring and lame

Brimful of Asha - fuck off. Hated it when it came out and turns out I still do.

Heard Before: No Fav Tracks: Candyman Listen again: No Not for me. Rating: 1

Shite

#19 Never heard of this band before, and now I know why 🫢

If you played this album on vinyl and then played actual literal dog shit on vinyl after this, I would not be able to tell the difference.

horrible crap

This slow version of Brimful of Asher made me want to end things. the rest of the album was a lot of nothing. Why is this here? This funky days song is tragic.

Hate it

I hate this album and always have.

Most of this album isn’t even music, it’s just random noises, occasionally you pick up a rhythm but then they beat that death. Pure crap.

Un disc estrany. Melodies variades, sense gaire estil propi. I bastant facilones

Utter crap. Imagine buying the album based off the single released in the 90s, then ending up with a) the wrong version of the single b) an album full of drivel.

Why

Sleep On The Left Side - 6/10 Brimful of Asha - 8/10 Butter The Soul - 5/10 Chocolat - 5/10 We’re In You’re Corner - 6/10 Funky Days Are Back Again - 5.5/10 What Is Happening? - 6/10 When the Light Appears Boy - 4.5/10 Coming Up - 6/10 Good Ships - 5.5/10 Good to Be on the Road Back Home Again - 6.5/10 It’s Indian Tobacco My Friend - 5/10 Candyman - 5.5/10 State Troopers - 5/10 Norwegian Wind - 5.5/10 56/100

Was soll ich zu einem Album sagen, dessen bester Song ein schlecht gecoverter Beatles-Song ist?

Teilweise nur Instrumentals & kein Gesang Klingt wie Volkstanz Mir hat kein Lied davon gefallen

Reminded me of some high school hippy shit

Not for me

This album is like a Chicken Tikka Masala; which takes the worst parts of Indian and British cuisine and meshes them together to make a disgusting slop that only a British person could enjoy. This is worse than Britpop normally is holy shit. I think this was almost unlistenable.

54 Minutes of this. You truly have to admire the cultural exchange at play here, as the exotic instrumentation of the Tamboura plucking away from India attempts to breath life into the musical equivalent of stale bread that is Britpop. Another painfully boring album really exacerbated by its runtime. Would have been a lot funnier if this was just a bunch of white dudes who got really into India

For a brief moment upon seeing the artist photo on Spotify I thought one of the fellas in this band actually had Down’s syndrome. Yet another inclusion of dogshit britslop on the merit of a single hit. Absolutely damning that the first result searching for this band was a playlist titled “one hit wonders”. A painfully long 54 minutes. The authors of this list should be publicly executed.

What a fucking joke. The biggest hit on this album (and of Cornershop's entire career) is Brimful of Asha. This honestly felt like torture. There have been a few albums in this project that have been painful to listen to and this is one of them. A repetitive chorus of nonsense. Music is supposed to make you feel something? I feel like setting myself on fire. Chocolat is is arguably the most evil song on here as it represents that the band are capable of making decent music, but it's sandwiched between awful fucking music. The rest of this album can be described as repetitive riffs, hamfisted sitars and bongos, dogshit vocals and a guest appearance from king of the hacks Allen Ginsberg. It's Indian Tobacco My Friend is a genuinely good song and you have to wade through chest-high toxic sludge to get to it. It doesn't belong on this album and is the only thing here that comes close to being a reason that this album is on here. It's been a long time since an album pissed me off in this project but by golly it's happened again. 54 minutes of dogshit. The most notable thing on this album's Wikipedia page is that the song Candy was in a nike commercial. The Norwegian Wood cover is fine but really who gives a shit this album is boring as fuck. I can appreciate the artistic merit in an Indian guy singing this song of all songs but really this album lost all its appeal to me around What Is Happening? (what a great question) this shit blows. "The band also toured Europe with Beck, Stereolab and Oasis." I reacted to this sentence the same way as Ethan Hawke' character in First Reformed. Highlights: It's Indian Tobacco My Friend

Just dreadful really. The lack of coherence in this album is so jarring. There are songs that sound like run on the mill late 90s/early 00s pop/soft rock, others with heavy Bhangra/south Asian influence then others that are relatively benign electronic sounds. None of which are particularly enjoyable. On multiple songs I got transported to some sort of purgatory and I truly feared for the wellbeing of my soul. I’ve only ever heard the sped up remix of Brimful of Asha and assumed it was the actual track, how wrong I was. It’s telling the remix has 12 to 13x the plays compared to the original. I imagine for some people this was an important album but I just found it dire.

This was quite bad. I did not enjoy this.

Gives me smokeshop music vibes.

Weird but not enjoyable

I didn't even like Brimful of Asha that much, so what hope did the rest of this have. Proof that weed produces bad albums. 1 star.

Not able to really get into the music.

can't find it

Might need to be born again to iterate on this one.

Eclectic album combining britpop guitar, trip hop drumming and EDM chill beats, Punjabi melodies and instruments, light shoegaze atmospheres, funky soul grooves, Beck-style slacker rapping, and a magpie approach to sampling aesthetics, styles and sounds. Can't say I feel the mid 90s hype on this one - they're one hit wonders buoyed by a remix of the overly long 'Brimful of Asha' and a few ad placements. It's not obnoxious to have on, but leaves little impression and is pretty forgettable.

The entire record feels so unstructured, like it's on shuffle

No… this is just not very good

that accordion at the beginning of the first track sounds cheesy and disgusting. or maybe it's a harmonium. but wtf cares. and i always don't like indian sounding thing except for the beatles' works. well... it seems that they actually covered Norwegian Wood. And it's a faithful rendition, apart from the fact that they sang it in Hindi. it sucks. 1/5

Фу

Awful. Would have given this a 0 if I could.

ei päätä ja håntää ei auta että cool juttuja välillä! Kun albumi on uncool enkä tule kokonaisuuttaa kaipaamaan!

Cornershop - When I Was Born For The 7th Time This is one of the most confusing albums i ever heard. It's not that the music's necessarily bad, it's just that the genres are all over the place. From bland british rock, to indian music, to hip hop, to suddenly invent vaporwave, to make a punjabi cover of a beatles song? When I saw the album cover, I expected it to sound like a normal punk-rock or an r&b record because of the vibes it gave (this album has two different covers for some reason). I was wrong. There's a lot of weird songs on it, mostly all of them having an indian vibe to it, which is a theme that's recurring throughout the album. There's just no better way to put it. Probably one of the more interesting listens I did from this website, but I'm not going back to listen to this again. 1.- Sleep on the Left Side = 6/10 2.- Brimful of Asha = 8/10 3.- Butter the Soul = 6/10 4.- Chocolat = 6/10 5.- We're in Yr Corner = 6/10 6.- Funky Days Are Back Again = 4/10 7.- What Is Happening? = 1/10 8.- When The Light Appears Boy = 2/10 9.- Coming Up = 6/10 10.- Good Shit = 7/10 11.- Good to Be on the Road Back Home Again = 8/10 12.- It's Indian Tobacco My Friend = 8/10 13.- Candyman = 5/10 14.- State Troopers = 4/10 15.- Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) = 6/10 FINAL SCORE: 5.5/10

Self indulgence at its best. Nothing here for me.

Overall: 1/10 Half porno music Half George Harrison Fav Song: N/A Least Fav Song: Sleep on the Left Side

This is bad. I don't like this. It's annoying. 1.49/5

I don't care if the candyman is back, this shit is corny and wack

Very late 90's vibe. First two songs seem to be their most popular and I don't see anything too special. This is followed up by a bunch of meandering songs which range from unremarkable to bad. Like, good grief what the fuck is "Funky days are back again"??? - I want to rip my ears off.

What a terrible album. The only reason this ever got coverage was for the Fatboy Slim remix of Brimful of Asha. 1 star.

Not fun at all. In fact, this album was excruciatingly boring. It’s like they wanted to make indie rock music, but decided to replace any edge with the dull twanging of a sitar throughout.

I’m glad smellphones don’t exist yet because this album stinks!

Couldn't go through the whole thing...

When I Was Born For The 7th Time is a weak effort, it has one song of note and even that wasn't nearly as good as the Fatboy Slim remix of it that made it famous. The rest of it seems a half-arsed effort to reflect Punjabi culture and music through a British lens, it doesn't work, it's not remotely memorable and some of it is so boring that you skip along to the next track to see if it's any better. Rarely is, gonna get a 1, it has few redeeming features.

This was really, really bad. There's next to no energy to it (Brimful of Asha is the only track that brings something, but it doesn't pack much of a punch without Fatboy Slim behind it). Only 54 minutes long but felt like it went on forever. Rubbish. 1/5.

One hit song does not make a good album. Lots of noise here. No thanks.

No fui nada fan de los Cornershop. El disco me pareció irritante, la música cansada y forzada, y en general tuve una experiencia poco placentera. Para nada el tipo de rock que me gusta. Y el tema famosísimo siempre me ha fastidiado un tanto, así que no había ni por donde lograrlo por aquí.

1 - this was absolutely horrible. British bias otherwise it wouldn't ever be in here (I also just hate when experimentation goes wrong) half of this would be more "noise" than music imo

Don't think that this band knew what they were and what their musical direction was. It seemed like they were trying too hard to come up with something different. Each track was individual but that made it disjointed to listen to. Overall didn't get into this

Real bad

I hate this record with a passion. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. I would officially like to retract every one star review I’ve given to other records and award them at least a two. There are absolutely no redeeming qualities on this record. The instrumentals lead to nowhere, apparently the good version of “Brimful Of Asha” is a remix so we have to listen to this sleep inducing original - and Cornershop never seem to be able to come up with an idea that works. If the title is to be trusted, I would like to thank the person that ended Cornershop the first 6 times.

One of the least worthwhile albums I’ve listened to all year. Compositionally very weak, very lazily and thoughtlessly put together. I was already tired after the first two songs, which were such drawn-out, repetitive trifles

Thought this might be interesting at first. But no, got annoying.

Take the British pop rock away just leave the Bollywood please

Did not like it

HOLY SHIT THIS SUCKS

Monotonous drums, boring, baseline, stupid lyrics. Obviously didn’t enjoy this one at all.

Some variety is good, but the songs still have to not suck. This album did absolutely nothing for me

I did not find this particularly enjoyable. Many of the songs were weird, even the catchy ones were just okay

Pop/folk rock with indian influences. I can compare it to some extent with Oasis. I feel like indian music is hard to combine with other genres, and I didn't like it at all in this context.

They should have got mr fat boy too do something with the whole album because it's not good.

This album is a hodgepodge of everything. There’s Indian music sampled and used in a lot of songs, Spanish lyrics, other weird lyrics. One song is just an ambient vapor wave type of song. Each song is different and there are quite a few interludes with kinda bizarre references. I don’t think you’re supposed to be able to pinpoint a single theme or message out of the album, but my issue with it is that it doesn’t do so in an overtly intriguing way. The way sounds are thrown together are to their detriment, but not in an egregious way. A very confusing listen, not quite a fan. Tried to listen to it later. Damn this thing is ass. Standouts: Brimful of Asha and Candyman.

It’s been a really weird listen, at time I had to check that another album wasn’t playing. There doesn’t seem to be one cohesive sound, it oscillates from English, to another language to musical interludes. I have enjoyed the south East Asian influence. Truely weird.

unbearable

No direction, no attitude, no points .....

One sort of an OK song does not merit an otherwise very bland album’s inclusion here.

Nei detta blir ein fæl time

Uk indie trash

Terrible

When I was bored for the 7th time

Was this a nightmare?

Liked only the first two songs.

1.5 but rounding down for "I think the funky days are here again"

I don’t really know what was going on. This was just really unpleasant to listen to.

Total snoozer. I’m sure in 1990 whatever this blew people’s nips off that an Indian guy could make loops, but MAN this shit is boring. Also, way too many filler tracks. Just 4 and a half minutes of drum loops and sitar. No bueno.

Regretting giving the Black Crowes one star yesterday because THIS is a one star album. I had to tap out, repetitive and grating, fusions of uninspired takes of varying genres, saw this was applauded at the time for its progressive lyrics but now they just seem very juvenile and basic. Not a fan at all, it’s been a rough week for albums in this group.

I could have died without listening to this

I ALREADY RATED THIS YOU IDIOTS

Þetta var eiginlega bara drepleiðinlegt. Það er ekkert hægt að hlusta á Brimful of Asha á 17 snúningum þegar man er vant Fatboy Slim útgáfunni.

Oooh so these were the people responsible for that stupid "pussy for a pillow" song. It was "hilarious" in middle school to sing that part aloud but I never really liked the song. All these years later I still don't like it and I certainly didn't like anything else on this slog of an album. Yet another album to file under "why the hell is this here? Seriously"

Kinda boring and that norwegian wood cover brought it from 2 to 1 stars

really weird album. like 1/3 english, 1/3, instrumental, and 1/3 hindi. not really my thing

Oof

meh

ss

Totally different from what I was expecting and absolutely boring.

Tiresome. Some of the Indian flavored instrumental is ok to listen to, but otherwise a nothing of a record.

Was this friday then? Weird day at work, on the way to cabin, good vibes, metal cot, cook out, uh

Seeing this in the list gave me a visceral, audible "Oh fuck" reaction that is based solely on the fact that Brimful of a shite is one of my most hated songs in history. Cornershop. A literal cold shake, along side Toploader's "Dancing in the moonshite" and absolutely anything by Bob Dylan or Elbow. Listening to the first track did not start well, filtering in with an accordion - a musical instrument with zero redeeming qualities - and continuing with overly repetitive licks that make me want to stab myself. Brimful of course gets skipped - I'm not a masochist - and we're taken into more repeating scratches before a delightful tabla/sitar bit, marred at the end by yet more identical scratch loops. I love the idea of British Asian mixup music, but Cornershop don't possess the ability to do it. It's gimmicky, amateurish and unrefined. Are we wanting to be catchy Britpop fusion, trip-hop fusion, psychedelic fusion or something in between all of them? God, I find it difficult to express how much Brimful has tainted this whole album because nothing I've listened to is anywhere close to as bad. But yet my head is unable to dissociate between abject torture of that track and everything else on the album.

I originally knew Cornershop from Fatboy Slim's remix of "Brimful of Asha", and man was that all I ever needed of Cornershop. Every song here was just boring, with a weird mix of folky sound and dance music not meshing together really at all. It got to the point where every song I was just waiting for it to be over after like thirty seconds. Best song was Brimful of Asha, but as I said, no reason to listen to it when a better version is right there.

A chore to get through

Total 90s time capsule album. Faux-eastern spiritualism, sampled hip hop beats and half-hearted blokey pop melodies sung over the top. Not one i'd recommend.

This is going to make me impatient I think. It's a certain type of catchy loop-based 90s pop, which I can remember (You couldn't escape Brimful of Asha). Earworm territory, but the songs are pretty monotonous and thin. Perhaps they were thinking of De La Soul? In places Air. In any event there were much better examples around. I had to flick most of the songs after 50% as you get the idea pretty quick. More interesting where they make use of genuine Asian sounds e.g., We're in Your Corner. I feel life is too short to listen to the whole album. Sorry.

disappointed but not surprised

The singer sounded like a wiggle

It's interesting and textured. Each song is kind of its own mess and that's neat. So it flows from like Folk to electronic to like actual record scratching. I think it's alright, but I don't think it's for me at all.

Is this a test? Why is this album on this list? Who is the target audience? This album left me with lots of questions, and probably in the worst way possible. I am confused as to what this record is supposed to represent. It has no flow, no real direction, the lyrics are extremely basic and meaningless. It kind of sounds like their influenced by a combination of groups such as the Beastie Boys or Fatboy Slim. There are some additional sprinklings of eastern/Indian-inspired beats, but my god, they are not well implemented at all. This album was released too late to be considered groundbreaking in terms of any production styles or techniques. Every time a new track plays, I feel like I've switched to a completely new record, it's very jarring. Summed up, this album feels kitschy and avant-garde, and does not have the cohesiveness or flow that I can tell it is intended to have. Fave tracks: N/A

Oh boy... This record might have been hip in 1997 (although not even sure about that) but it has definitely not aged well. It seems like it was an experiment in mixing traditional south-east Asian music with indie rock and hip-hop, but it simply results in jarring genre shifts like some stitched together Frankenstein monster as opposed to a cohesive mix of musical styles. The record-scratch interludes combined with random vocal samples do not fit in here at all, and they get tiresome very quickly. And there's like an alt-country song in here?? What is happening Fav songs: Norwegian Wood

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Langweilige Kacka

Chill record. This feels like it has the exact same influences as yesterdays album, "Beyond Skin" by Nitin Sawhney, but it's just not as good. Too stoney and boring. After the first two songs I thought it was very poppy, and imagined an indian version of the Verve, but it gets a bit more interesting as it moves on. Just not good. It has no vibe at all. Obviously I like "Norwegian Wood", but it's not their song so it doesen't count. 1

Had to turn it off after a couple of songs as I found it very irritating.

bullshit

In the early 2000s, you'd hear the term 'Eurotrash' a lot. I kinda liked that term, kind of like a badge of honor because most of the people using it had bad taste. It was similar to being called a Texan. Which, depending on your social circles was either an extreme insult, or badge of honor. [Though, Texans are the only people that would consider this a badge of honor]. Anyhow, after listening to this album, I'd like to introduce another term. 'Brit shit'. I don't use this term like, 'Yeah! That's the shit!,' but more of a 'Oh man, you stepped in shit ... and it's got bad teeth.' The music coming out of Cornershop is what happens when you create by committee. This music has no backbone, it's absolutely flaccid and that tambourine isn't helping. There's no coherence here. There are seven members in this band and the music presents like everyone is leading it. The abundance of samples and inclusion of unique noises gives me anxiety. Candyman, for example has some guy rapping against a sampled ukele, some gospel chorus and a muffled man talking gibberish in the background with some errant clapping. This cluttered instrumentation is all over this album. To come full circle I would categorize this album as Brit shit, and for reference here's what that means: Texans Cornershop Eurotrash

Not my cup of tea.

Bad. Random noise.

Pretty awful. Not sure why it is in this list.

Awful stuff, dull, forgettable and even their “best” song needed fatboy slim to remix it into something worth listening to

Nope

I'd never heard of this band - missed them first time around apparently - which is kind of fun to have zero preconceived notions... Upon first (and only, to be fair) play it has sort of an immediate lo-fi reggae type beat which is definitely not my cup of tea.  "Brimful of Asha" was apparently the big hit and it is boring me to tears with its standard I-IV-V progression over and over and over and... etc etc.  It sounds like they wrote it in literal real-time. ...hmm...after careful analysis, i think what the singer is trying to tell us is that the funky days are back again and that everybody needs a bosom for a pillow.... /s ok I don't love to criticize acts that I either don't know much about or don't like the sub-genre but I gotta be honest with myself I was really really annoyed by this entire album; either with the mis-timed loops ("Butter the Soul") or in general - it sounds like guys got high and just giggled their way through assembling this album with loops, simple chord progressions, and repetitive lyrics. Just throwing in random samples of voices and scratches/beats isn't clever or remotely interesting for me, and it only sounds like pandering...like "aren't we cool? We're so modern and hip!" I'm not (necessarily) looking for a freaking Yes tune or even complexity. Technology is vital and co-opting it is important. But. You still have to write a damn song. At best boring boring boring and at worst annoying as shit. Hated it. 1/10 1 star

Really didn't enjoy apart from brimful of asha.

All single paced and completely forgettable

Awful stuff, dull, forgettable and even their “best” song needed fatboy slim to remix it into something worth listening to

15 Songs. What are butter the soul and chocolat about? But then there's it's Indian tobacco my friend...

Not into this one