Reviews (page 7 of 8)
meh
I could not stand the single Brimful of Asha back when it came out, so I was prepared to not like this album at all. The album as a whole isn't bad though; was surprised at the variety of styles on it. Even Brimful didn't sound as bad as I remembered, it just reminds me of an overly polished and boring CCR tune. Probably still not one I'm going to return to, but it's off of my "can't stand it" list. 2.4/5
Some corny 90's tropes of the time. That being said, the blend of sunshine pop rock and rap with Indian music is a cool/worthwhile sound overall on a couple tracks. The album just doesn’t nail it as much as I’d like. They have a great compilation called corner shop and the double groove of that I think nails it in comparison
Another first time listen here. I went in not knowing what genre, what to expect, or anything about the artist...and TBH, I'm still not really sure. Is this Bollywood? Rock? Folk? Funk? Whatever genre it was, it didn't really land any of them for me. Felt like background music that just kind of stayed in the background, which is too bad because there's some unique influence in there. There were a few tracks that could have been edited out of the final track list, but I did appreciate the "Norwegian Wood" cover at the end.
There's a lot of undiscovered Britpop out there for Americans in their late 30s to stumble upon and this was an example of one such discovery. By me. There's a funky fusion of sounds in here that I didn't like or d̶i̶s̶l̶i̶k̶e̶. *Edit Upon a second listen I mostly DISLIKE this album. It feels derivative and lacks cohesion. The funky fusion of sounds I mentioned on my first listen feel messy the second go around and I found myself skipping tracks more frequently. I revise my rating to 2 stars!
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1. left - 1 2. azha - 1 3. zoul - 1.5 4. chocolat - 1 5. corner - 1.5 6. funky - 1 7. happening - 1 8. boy - 1.5 9. coming - 1.5 10. zhipz - 1.5 11. good - 1.5 12. indian - 1.5 13. candyman - 1.5 14. ztate - 1.5 15. uuood - 1.5
Brimful of asha var ju en monsterhit men det övriga är ju sådär. Vill man ha inslag av indiskt så hade ju Kula Shaker varit ett mer givet val.
Another group I’ve never heard of so was eager to listen to something completely new. But two tracks in realised that they were not completely new to me as I instantly recognised Brimful of Asha. A track I had heard countless times but never bothered to find out who sung it. Thought at first it was a cover version but read that Fat Boy Slims version was the cover. Whilst this track was well known to me albeit more of an ear worm rather than a likeable song, the fact that it is the best track on the album does nothing for the rest of the music served up here. The version of Norwegian Wood is passable but more of a novelty track. So the music did nothing for me but reading about the origins of the bands name Cornershop did raise a titter. Made me think that if I had been lucky and made a career in music that I would have ended up in Sting’s band. 2/2 8/1/25
A Sublime clone that can’t decide if it wants to go all in on the Indian thing or not. The more it goes into Indian music, the worse it gets. The best track, “Candyman”, is the one that sounds the least like the rest of the album.
Eck. Leck. Tick. Look, I love Robert Christgau and he loves this album. He ranked it third in his 1997 albums of the year. He obviously has a soft spot for SE Asian-fused hip-hop and funk. His love for all things M.I.A. seems to highlight that. But this? I just can’t fully get behind it. It’s nice and boppy and finally gives a well-deserved nod to Asha Bhosle, the most-recorded human voice in history. It also contains probably the last contemporary recordings of Allen Ginsburg. So, for historical purposes, I’ll give it 2.5 stars but for artistic purposes it only scrummages up 2 stars from me.
# Playlist track - Brimful of Asha # Notes - The opening track, followed by "Brimful of Asha" filled me with hope. Could it be one of these treasure albums? Something new and interesting that you have missed somehow and are about to become a new obsession? - NOPE! Most of the tracks are incredibly boring. - I'll give credit for the Indian spice here and there. If it wasn't for that, the entire thing would be awful. - Still, there isn't enough curry in the world to make bland music be good. The overall experience is sluggish and uninteresting, much like Britain itself.
I feel like this album has an identity crisis it can't really save itself from: on one hand it's made up of cute but ultimately non descript indie pop whose biggest interesting part is maybe that it sometimes uses electronics or indian influences. On the other hand there's an electronic fusion of raga rock, trip hop, sampling and even guests (did you know that the She Wants Revenge guy is on this album and can rap? Well now you do!) which make the album all the more interesting and even unique among 90s british electronica. This bipolarity of sounds, coupled with the fact that this album is too long really doesn't do the album many favors, which sucks because there's legit great ideas here
It is amazing how many awesome bands were around during this time and Cornershop wasn't one of them.
I went into this having never heard of Cornershop. Then I realized I've heard Brimfull Of Asha and never liked it. Sadly that is the highppint of this album.
I had this on CD pre Fatboy remix and remember being underwhelmed. Sleep on Left Side/ Brimful of Asha are good tunes - but there is an awful lot of filler on the album that's not very good. I guess its due to repeated exposure but now much prefer the fatboy remix of Brimful of Asha. Fun fact lizzie is friends with Tjinders wife. Small world.
Something about this album makes me want to describe it as “cute”: it’s kind of charming in a way, especially the songs that have a strong Asian influence.
Just totally whatever
The song that's famous is good or I know it. The rest meh
Cheerful in vain, some feet tapping happend but end up being nothing unusual. And their drum is really not my favorite, both sounds and arrangments. maybe a 2.5...Butter The Soul is fun because of the scratching and sitar (is it sitar? i don't really know) sounds. Honestly, the only good thing in this album is the sitar and dholki and those indian features, but the singing and electronic arrangments kind of ruined them. I didn't enjoy it for the most of time so screw it, let's give it a 2.
eh. doesnt do that much. was probably more fun in the 90s
Weird
eh, its like Beck and I don't like Beck. Will I listen to again: 0%
Since the day I first heard it, Brimful of Asha still ends up stuck in my head for hours on end. It's a catchy song. The rest of the album however will not get stuck in my head the same way. It seems to go between multiple genres, with two of the more obvious ones being Beatles post-India visit and general late 90s Britpop/rock. The post-India Beatles is super obvious on the closing track of them covering Norwegian Wood. I wish I liked the rest of the album as much as the one song from it that will forever be stuck in my head.
Boy, this is a roller coaster, but, like only the first hill. Starts off on a high note (I’m being generous. The first two tracks are fine) and continuously descends into more and more boring folktronica or whatever. Here is yet another example of a one hit wonder that doesn’t deserve an entire album on the list.
Cada canción de su padre y de su madre. Le iba a poner un tres, porque alguna canción no sonaba mal, pero después de oir la versión de Norwegian Wood ...
Not very notable. Not bad, but not interesting. 2/5 Probably won’t listen again
Can’t say I liked it at all. Brimful of Asha is a good tune but apart from that it was pretty dull. Indian influence was obviously interesting but the constant hip hop beat was boring and the interlude songs didn’t add much to the narrative. Lyricism was poor too. 2/5
It was okay, interesting vibe
This is quite an interesting mixture of genres. It's something that I think could and maybe should work better than it does here, but somehow Cornershop manages to make it quite boring for a lot of the time. The three song run of 'Coming Up', 'Good Ships' and' Good To Be On The Road Back Home Again' are the best tracks. 'Coming Up' is an instrumental which combines Indian music with a cool slow funky beat. It goes straight into 'Good Ships' which is decent enough and the third is my favourite track on the album. It is definitely helped by the guest artist Paula Frazer who sounded really great, but it made me wish the whole album had her on vocals. It's quite a bittersweet sounding song and she adds a lot more emotion in six minutes than the actual singer does for the whole album. Listen to those and the original of 'Brimful of Asha' and the rest you can skip. Could maybe have been three stars if it was cut down by 15 minutes and wasn't as inconsistent.
Groupe totalement inconnu. L'instrumentation est originale et inattendue (+1), par contre le premier morceau ouvre assez mal l'album (trop répétitif). Les morceaux suivants ne sont pas beaucoup mieux, le résultat est assez ennuyeux. Je n'y revendrais pas. =>2/5
That was pretty terrible
another OK album, nothing (apart from Brimful of Asha) really grabs me
There’s a famous quote from Thomas Edison about not failing 10,000 times, but instead finding 10,000 ways of not making a lightbulb. In that light, I’d like to thank Cornershop for adding to the very long list of ways to not make an album. Brimful of Asha and the Norwegian Wood cover are ok, but not worth slogging through the rest of the album
Wow, slog really is the word for getting through this album. How is it under an hour? Seemed to go on forever.
It was a bit of a slogger. There is nothing on here worth coming back for. also, it had a couple of instrumental tracks that don't go anywhere. when I read that there was a ' lot of smoking going on ' whilst the album was recorded it all made sense. I'm not sure if it would be better or worse if there was no smoking whilst they made it.
Meh
this felt like if jar ferrar made british indian more rock inspired music. Should be up my alley, but isn’t as much. remix of brimful of asha is better than anything actually on here
It’s just not very interesting. I didn’t dislike this, but I probably won’t ever listen to it again.
Cada canción de su padre y de su madre. Le iba a poner un tres, porque alguna canción no sonaba mal, pero después de oir la versión de Norwegian Wood ...
Mediocre compared with its ambition and reputation
This is curiously interesting... A bit weird but not enough weird to totally hook me. I'll share 2 stars
Meh.
mi sono sentita colta alla sprovvista con queste vibes orientali, ma non so se in bene o in male. all'inizio era tutto molto interessante, nonostante la seconda canzone parta con uno che sembra stia facendo un annuncio radiofonico e prosegua dicendo che tutti hanno bisogno di un seno (per essere PG-13) su cui poggiare la testa. poi però purtroppo per me perde tutto ciò che è interessante e diventa un'accozzaglia di elementi che non mi sembra funzionino così bene insieme. peccato, perchè l'idea di fondo era carina.
Another that made me think there might not actually be 1000 albums I need to hear before I die.
Interesting 90s fare especially when the eastern music influences permeate.
It’s like one half good song and a lot of filler. I don’t get it.
you limeys really lost all sense of taste the moment they put a sitar over a breakbeat, huh
Started off OK to be fair. But seemed to be struggling for ideas after that. Seemed to be a case of, "What shall we do now? Well can't think of anything to say so.... let's do an instrumental" or "let's chuck a rap in". Not very inspiring.
I bought this back in the day, I always preferred The Fatboy Slim remix of 'Brimful of Asha' at the time, but revisiting it, I did enjoy the original more now. Some of the rest was pretty good, some awful. 2 stars.
Got half way through and didn’t want to listen anymore.
What is with this list and these British 90s one hit wonders getting whole ass albums on the list? Why is this band here? They have one popular song and it's not even the version from the album that got popular! It was the remix by Fatboy Slim, an artist that I have gone on record saying that I don't give a crap about, that got popular! So that did not make me excited for this album at all. So, after listening to the album, how do I feel about it? I mean, it's fine, I guess. I don't really care about it that much. I'll give it this, it was different than what I expected, and by extension, different from the rest of the obscure 90s British indie albums on the list. This album's big song, "Brimful of Asha" is alright. It's not my favorite "one-hit" to show up on this list, but it's probably not the worst. The rest of the songs are whatever. Some are okay, but others are kind of interlude type things that just pad out the runtime. This album kind of dragged a bit. At least it ended on somewhat of a high note, but I don't think the final song is good because of what Cornershop did. I think it's good because it's Norwegian Wood. It's kind of hard to make a song like that sound bad. The sound is fine. It's got elements of Indian music to make things a bit interesting. But then again, speaking of the Beatles, that was something George Harrison had done 30 years prior to this album's release. Whatever, it's at least something I can respect about this album. The writing is fine, I guess. I just don't really see why this needs to be on the list. There's better albums with this kind of vibe that do it better. High 2/5.
Started strong and then went downhill
Sounds like a group of guys who went to India on a college trip and decided to start a band
I had never heard of Cornerstone before, but from the beginning of the first track, I instantly knew what hit song they had released. Almost as if they had written the same song twice. Lo and behold: second is indeed 'Brimful of Asha'. Perhaps there's a reason why that's the only song that broke the mainstream barrier. And a reason why this Indian-blend of big beat indie rock was never copied by any other artists.
No idea why this album is on the list. It's nice to listen to, but not more than that.
++: Brimful of Asha, Good Shit +: Sleep on the Left Side, Butter the Soul, We're in Your Corner, We're in Yr Corner, Funky Days Are Back Again, What is Happening?, When the Light Appears Boy, It's Indian Tobacco My Friend, Coming Up, Candyman, Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) +-: Chocolate, Good to Be on the Road Back Home, State Troopers 6,7/10
I could not enjoy this album. Nothing about it grabbed me, the songs felt way too repetitive, the vocals aren't impressive, the instrumentals were just fine. I can't give it a 1 because it didn't assault my ears but it wasn't enjoyable.
nah
2.5
Lots of skips. One or two good songs
Nothing special
It could have been good, but something was a little off.
If the album had continued in the same vein as the first three tracks, it could’ve easily been a five star venture. As it was, it did not continue that way. It meandered into odd instrumental tracks and middling filler that became repetitive and boring after a while. At nearly an hour long, they could’ve easily cut this album down to maybe 45 minutes. Disappointing, as it had such potential early on. The good stuff isn’t enough to elevate it to 3 stars. 2 stars. Standout tracks: Sleep on the Left Side, Brim Full of Asha, Butter the Soul, Good Shit
Sleep on the Left Side is awesome and left me really excited for more. What the hell happened to the rest of the album.
2.5 maybe, OK - very 90s. I lived through peak "Brimful of Asha" times where the Norman Cook remix was played everywhere constantly and I'd happily never hear it again
Few good songs
There are some interesting sounds on here, but no instrumentation of note, writing or interest, and a great deal of repetitive nonsense punctuated with sudden bright spots.
sorry to say, i didn't really care for this one. i thought the sound they crafter here was interesting and on track for something i could see myself liking, but i think the songwriting here and particularly the vocal performances here were lackluster in an amateurish way. sounds like i'm listening to a local bar band at points, and not in a good way.
Some songs are really awesome, but this album has WAY TOO MUCH fillers
How is this one of the best 1001 albums ? "Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow" is a great line but other than that I dont see any appeal on this.
A couple bangers but most of it didn't really do anything for me, respect the more experimental side of it but it didn't result in many bangers
India vibes by way of a Brit pop band that just went on way too long
Wanted to be a chicken korma, ended up more like custard mixed with curry sauce.
Kinda odd. Electronica, indian music, rock, folk. Idk. 2.5/5.
I like the fusion of western and Indian music. But I think with a little bit more editing and mixing this could've been something more special. A little long for the psychedelic era.
The remix of Brimful of Asha really made me have high hopes for this, but ultimately it was a bit of a snooze fest.
Cornershop’s When I was Born For The First Time is really just a boring listen. I didn’t enjoy every track, although some were better than the rest. It was mostly jumbled, I thought the Indian influence was kinda cool, but thats pretty much it. All in all, When I Was Born For The 7th Time is a bad album. best Song: State Troopers, Pt. 1 Worst Song: Funky Days Are Back Again
Unieke blend stijlen, waarvan ik best kan genieten. De eerste twee songs zijn echt lekker, maar alles wat er na komt doet me te weinig. Ik hou het lekker kort: voldoende, maar niet 54 minuten mijn aandacht waard. Highlights: Sleep On The Left Side, Brimful of Asha Rating: 6/10
Een fusie van Indian tribal music, britpop en house, waarvan we niet wisten dat we het absoluut níét nodig hadden. De eerste twee nummers zijn niet weg te denken uit 90s UK indie lijstjes, en zijn goed te vertoeven. Daarna is het één lange kwellende delier, een fever dream in een dorpje ergens tussen Leicester en Bangalore. Bollywoodmuziek in beats van Madlib - bijvoorbeeld - zijn tot in de perfectie uitgevoerd, maar bij dit album voelt het na een nummer of 2 al afgezaagd. Een aantal keer pakt het wél lekker uit, vooral doordat producer Dan the Automator (bekend van zijn wek met Del The Funky Homosapien en producent van het eerste Gorillaz album) zich met een aantal songs bemoeide. Het tempo ligt er constant uit door de weinig intrigerende instrumentals, en ik hoopte op wat meer van die verrassende momenten waarin we opeens een Amerikaanse country zangeres de microfoon zagen grijpen zoals in 'Good to Be on the Road Back Home Again'. Een saaie Britse Beck is het resultaat. Ik begrijp dat de zanger/creator van Cornershop van Indiase komaf is, maar hou het lekker voor jezelf. Zo kon hij het niet laten om het toch al Indiaas getinte 'Norwegian Wood' nog Indiaser te maken, wat op zich wel geinig is om te horen. Tuurlijk, dit album presenteert een unieke mix aan genres, en daarvoor wel props, maar ik laat hem voortaan links liggen. 5/10 Highlights: Brimful of Asha
2.5
Hated it. Sorry.
Nope
Though the big hits failed to garner my attention, there was a lot of unique eastern influence heard especially through some of the odd instrumental songs that I really enjoyed. Helped bring diversity to the scene and influence other UK artists. Seems a good precursor to Noah and the Whale 2.5/5
This is so 90s it hurts
I made it like 3 songs in, saw the length, ahd dipped. Aint no way bruh
Cada canción de su padre y de su madre. Le iba a poner un tres, porque alguna canción no sonaba mal, pero después de oir la versión de Norwegian Wood ...
What a weird mixed bag. I liked the first 3 songs, then it veered into skit territory, straight Indian music, and some droning bullshit, then a woman took over, thank God for that, and then they started rapping. Wrap it up with a cover of Norwegian Wood. 4/10
Konstigt på ett dåligt sätt. Kan dock va jag som inte fattar grejen. Låtarna med fler streams tenderar ändå att va rätt bra. Däremot lite för mycket filler på plattan.
I didn’t need to listen to the whole album to know it wasn’t going to get a high score. Quite samey sound and I can’t stand A Brimful of Asher ( overplayed at the time) so a lowly 2*
1996-97 were good years for pretentious British-Indian one hit wonders from the Midlands. You had Babylon Zoo, White Town, and these guys. Mind you the credit goes to Norman Cook for, ironically, spicing up Brimful Of Asha and making it popular. As for the album, pretty boring, sitars weren't enough to make it interesting.
it's kind of an album, doesn't really come together for me. reminds me of the talvin singh album from a month or so ago, except not as fully fleshed out a concept.
Bit rough for my liking but fun to listen to
Had high expectations when going in but was let down, too many odd choices when it came to the music
This is okay, but honestly, what is up with all this Brit pop and electronic stuff. Some is fine, but it feels like I am getting this everyday. And, this was not one of the 1001 best albums I have ever heard or anything that interesting. It would be nice to get some context on why these albums are included because a link to a Wikipedia entry is not that informative.
Todella outo kuuntelukokemus? En tiedä, sopiko kaikki palat oikeesti yhteen. Kai. Nuo interludet olivat aika tylsiä, olisivat lisänneet mieluummin itse biiseihin tuota Intia-meininkiä lisää, koska nyt ne olivat isoksi osaksi vain reggaehkoa (?!) keskitason brittipoppia. Melko mielenkiintoista kyllä.
Onnessaan keksimästään sekoituksesta bändi ei ole kokenut tarpeelliseksi säveltää biiseihin B-osia. Harmi - musiikki on vetävän kuuloista, mutta sen pitäisi tehdä enemmän.
"Brimful of Ashsa" is a three-chord earworm. The rest of it was pretty forgettable.
Bien
Wtf was this boomer shit
Carried heavily by it's earworm hit Brimful of Asha, When I Was Born For The 7th Time is an album that does little to establish itself beyond a few quaint ideas. Turntablism trip hop, spacey raga rock, beat poetry with some sort of south Asian percussion, all explored within the hour. Nothing truly feels consistent with Cornershop and it likely stems from an urge to experiment. Nothing wrong with experimentation, but execution can come off as half-baked.
I don’t know. I actually liked the first song and thought I was discovering a hidden gem. But the more it went in the more I wanted it to stop. 2/5
I'm lost for words. And not because this is any good. 1.5/5
Radio Nova meets Oasis meets India
необычненько, но вряд ли кому-то посоветую
We’re in yr corner prolly my fave. It’s not bad it’s just not something I’d prolly go back to except a couple song I saved. 2.5
Good.
I didn’t like this. Some of the songs were OK but several were in a foreign language and I didn’t like that. 2 stars.
Reading the "Reception" section of the Wikipedia page for this album, my jaw went all the way down to the floor. It's not that this album is utterly bad, apart from one truly awful cut (more on that later)--it's just that it's so... innocuous overall. The heaps and heaps of praise given to it sound unwarranted today, very honestly. The record starts with a lethargic 'British indie" cut, whose name I have already forgotten. Hit "Brimful Of Asha" follows, but likewise, its overall energy pales to the Fat Boy Slim remix made out of it, as other reviewers suggested. Two uninteresting dated hip hop instrumentals with pointless DJ scratches are then delivered--not '"dated" in 2024, I mean, but already far beyond their peremption date in *1997*, the year *When I Was Born The 7th Time* was actually released. Dan The Automator produced far more enticing and effective tracks in the same genre. Why the hell did he help produce this thing? So it's a very inauspicious beginning for this album, to say the least. Sitar-enhanced "We're In Your Corner" fares far better than any of the four first tracks, fortunately--the instrumental bridge is even incredibly pretty, a piece of evidence that if Cornershop had given a little more thought to their plans when writing this album, they could have pulled off more interesting compositions like this, at least. Too bad that the track after, "Funky Days Are Back Again" sounds like a parody and nothing else. I know a lot of pot was smoked during the making of this LP (one sound engineer even ended up at the hospital because of it!). But for chrissake, the pile of turd that this "song" is is so self-indulgent, and its lyrics are so horrible, that normally, even the most potheaded freak out there should more or less quickly realize on the next day that this track was better off being erased for the dignity of all concerned parties. Alas, it was not erased. More pointless scratches ensue, and then comes a spoken-word interlude over field recordings of oriental traditional music. By the way, the guy talking to us on that interlude is... Allen Ginsberg. Er... OK. Doesn't save the track from being a footnote written in tiny-ass letters on both the books of music AND poetry. Bummer. Tablas and sitars are sampled for the next one-minute instrumental cut. Uh-huh. What's the point, once again? Some sort of big-beat-meets-indie-rock follows thanks to "Big Ships". Thanks but no thanks. I like most styles from the nineties, but here is simply the *worst* example of what this decade offered from time to time. All style no substance. At that point, you pretty much know this record is either a one-star or a two-star album. "Good to Be on the Road Back Home", featuring alt-country singer Paula Frazer, gives you a little hope this is at gonna be a two-star album, given that it's a *proper song* at last (and quite a good one at that)... Except that everything after is, for the most part, minor or rather banal hip hop doodles, once again. Plus a grating cover of a once great Beatles song. If really I had to follow the initial requirements of Dimery's original list, I would give a rare 1.5/5 grade to this thing (rounded up to 2). Which translates to a 6.5/10 grade for more general purposes. There are only *three* tracks on this thing that are worth listening to (one famous hit, plus two good tunes). Clearly, an "essential album", this doesn't have the makings of. Number of albums left to review: 284 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 317 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 175 Albums from the list I won't include in mine (many other records are more important to me): 232 (including this one)
You’d never know this was a British list.
Funny album. Sounds strange, I liked some songs. In the end, it was too strange
Dull as dishwater.
This cover of Jerry St Clair's 'Brimfull od Asha' isn't a patch on the original. More authentic than Kula Shaker. Not as good as Kula Shaker.
Meh
It’s ok. Extra star for 90s nostalgia. Sub-Lightning Seeds ditties enlivened by interesting instrumentation
A couple of OK songs but the rest are quite poor
I considered giving this a 1, but I’ll say 2 because these some innovation here in terms of blending styles. A lot of this is repetitive and maybe even slightly annoying to listen to, but the mix of Indian music, English pop, and hip hop is a big swing.
It feels like they don't know what they wanted to make. Indie rock, triphop, hiphop, world music. An incoherent and too long result that drags on.
Nop...
Some nice work but a bit dull in parts
Do you know, it wasn’t bad. Would have got an extra star had it not been for the utter murdering of Norwegian Wood at the end… Unforgivable.
I know this is classified as britpop/indie because I read the wiki but, as far as I'm concerned, it sounds just like every other jam band from the 90s and naughts. Aside from the odd Indian instrumentals, there's nothing standout here. One star for unexpected the Indian twists, though.
I have never heard of this band or this album before. I only recognized the Beatles' at the end. It was a bad album and it was kind of long. No need to relisten. I do not even know how to describe the music. I will round up to a two, but do not listen to it.
Interesting fusion of Indian instruments and vocal style, but fused with 1990s British Alternative Rock, which I'm not a fan of.
Not a whole lot going on here, but I did enjoy a few tracks. I like the variety, but not the whole picture. Norwegian Wood was a nice surprise.
Brimful was a major hit and is a great song but not quite sure if the other tracks qualify the whole album for inclusion in the 1001?
A real uneven record. A Brimful of Rasha brought me back to the mid-90s. But most of this felt disconnected and trying to do too much.
some good, some bad, but overall there were more songs i disliked than liked
I’m not sure why this one is on the list. I liked the songs Brimful of Asha and Candyman, but was about it. Felt like a lot of filler.
Bad
We own this album (Marianne's contribution when we merged our CD collection — a BIG moment in the relationship), and I remember giving it a spin all those many years ago and not relating. So color me intrigued when it appeared as the day's album. I couldn't remember anything about it, so this would be a test to see if I've evolved in my acceptance of music. First tune... sounded like Eels with a little more energy. OK. Then, song by song, I was getting ever more agitated. Whatever the combination of genres and influences, the sonic aesthetic actively grates on me. The repetitive melodies agitate. The whole package makes me antsy. I was not able to make it through the last few songs without skipping through. So, no evolution here. I do not relate. Sorry, my love.
I was looking forward to this one. I knew Brimful of Asha but had never heard anything else by them. Overall: I kept waiting for the album to kick in. This is one of the most disjointed records I've ever heard. Seems like a bunch of outtakes and backing tracks. The few "actual songs" were OK, I guess, though I found his singing more distracting than charming. Bummer.
Nothing great here. The instrumentals were good, decent beats. Then the singing, talking whatever started.
This started very 90s and fine, but got worse as it went on. Nothing really jumped out at me; well... except for the part where I had to skip over all the Indian music. 4/10.
ok
Tried really hard to find something good to say about this album, but it seems like they just discovered the concept of sampling other music. Any kid in the 80's/90's with a MPC does this in a more complex manner though. 2 stars for the choice of the samples, but thats about it
So this won a Mercury Prize? Hey, we all make mistakes.
2.8. Some love brim full of asha but the rest felt a little bland
Kind of enjoyable, interesting enough to start with Prefer the Norman Cook version of Brimful Lost interest with the cover songs at the end which took the album from a 3 to a 2/5
I can picture some of these songs being on the soundtracks for early 2000s romcoms. But this album is not for me.
So "Brimful of Asha" wasn't the fruit of a one hit wonder Cornershop? Who knew! Much of "Butter the Soul" sounds like when the battery started to die in your Walkman, so the cassette would play at varying speeds, generating noises that sound like something melting. "Chocolat" had potential but it kind of died on the boring, repetitive vine. I would like to have heard more like "We're in Yr Corner", "Coming up", "Candy Man" and "Good Shit". These were fun. In sum, a little over half of this record was throwaway noise, so for that reason, I'd like to give it 2.5 stars but since we need to round to the nearest star, 2 it is.
It’s a fun spin on the indie scene of the time, but too many songs are just underdeveloped and it makes it a quite unfulfilling listen
I remember this. It’s catchy and somewhat silly. I don’t know if it belongs on a list like this but I enjoy it as a novelty compared to some of the more serious options we’ve had over time. 2/5
I'm sad to say this one didn't really work for me. I liked a few of the early tracks that sounded like classic 90s pop-rock, but for whatever reason I didn't dig most of the rest of the album.
I expected a little more electronica by judging Cornershop's When I Was Born For The 7th Time's album cover. And this is why they say not to judge. But I was quite happy to be taken on the journey of this album from pseudo Indian with electronic sitar sounds to hip-hop/trip-hop vibes and a whole lot more inbetween. Didn't really enjoy the sitar style sounds, but it was interesting to hear once and likely never again. Best: Candyman Worst: Norwegian Wood
Ziemlich langweilig. Was zwischen 2 und 3. Eher 2
Lots of two chord stoner jams. The FBS remix of 'Brim Full of Asha' obliterates the album version. I like the singer's voice, but the whole album just isn't adventurous enough to hold my interest.
Only one famous song but the original is dirge like. The good version is down to fat boy slim.
To be honest, other than recognizing "Brimful of Asha", this album did nothing for me. Was that "Norwegian Wood" in Gaelic? I'll pass.
Pretty bad. Kind of like a UK Sugar Ray with no hits. Every song feels like it’s stretching 30s of good ideas into 5/6min. And all those boring instrumental cuts? Half this thing is like Britpop elevator music, what a snooze!
Ok so this is a perfect 2 star. It doesn’t make me want to listen to it, but I don’t want to give myself a lobotomy to put me out of my misery. I can turn this on and ignore it. Will never be something I actively choose to listen to but not the most offensive thing I’ve heard.
Not for me
So the hit, "Brimful of Asha", was just flat out annoying to listen to. "Sleep On the Left Side" was a good start to the album. The rest of the songs were pleasant to listen to, but nothing memorable.
Typical one hit wonder with the pretty solid song and a lot of other bland songs.
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.
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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.
cant remember a goddamn thing
How much electro crap can they cram into this list? Enough. 1.0
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
This was terrible
Will anders sein! OK! Ist anders! Gefällt mir? Nö! Gar nicht!
Когда я родился в седьмой раз - это не перестало быть хуйней
Meh
soooooooooooooo unbelievably painfully boring. at first i didn't mind it that much, but then as it just kept going and didn't do anything interesting at all and i just started to hate it. i respect the art and the fusion of traditional indian and more contemporary forms of music, it's just a shame it happened to be done in some of the worst "music" i've ever heard, if you could even call it that from just how nothing it is. also the first album here i've actually stopped, because i really could not bear another 20 minutes of this after i had already suffered through 30. 1/5, and should go without saying that this isn't even close to being among the most important 1001 albums of all time.
checks bis etz null. sinds afoch bekiffti brite? okay sie sind indischer abstammig und sie lönds id musig iflüsse und seb isch kinda cool aber sie sind au afoch am umeblödele. funky days are back again isch huuuuere doof. nöd gern. es uhuere gedudel und dennn hends s gfühl sie holed mi wieder mit norwegian wood. im ernst? jo ich lieb norwegian wood. rieeese song. ok sie singeds uf hindi(?) funny. okay i am nöd sorry das isch wiedermol es 1 für es album us de UK ide 90er woni null check wases do macht.
Cornershop Is this sugar ray? This sucks. Sounds very much of the time but I mean that as an insult.
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
This is like a 90s sitcom clip show. A bunch of undeveloped ideas that could have been cool in other contexts. The one difference: clip shows are much shorter.
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