When I Was Born For The 7th Time

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