Sunshine Hit Me

Failed to do much to win me over - didn't feel all that compelling and sometimes a bit too sweet for my tastes. There can be times where white guys infusing reggae or ska into their rock band can produce an interesting or good sound, but this just seemed cringey to me. Fave track: Zia

Es un 2.5. Los temas que más me gustaron son los menos experimentales. Me guardé This Town.

Not sure when I would listen to this album. Mostly gave me a headache. I couldn't connect to the music or the singing.

This 39 minute album felt like it was 90 minutes long. It was so boring and just devoid of anything I need to hear ever again

estaria aqui se não fosse em inglês? não vai tomar no cu

a banda influente THE BEES e seu album de estreia INOVADOR vai tomar no cu dessa lista papo reto e aí do nada tem um cover dos mutantes com esse sotaque ingles filha da puta. vai tomar no CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU estragou meu dia de milhão.

Just found it all quite dull.

I very much like the music….the pace…..instrumentation…..rhythm… ..beat. I very much dislike everything about the vocals. They ruin the songs. I’m sure these guys thought they were very cool in 2002. They weren’t. And still aren’t.

Another block of time I'll never get back. I've gotta go with those reviews that gave it a thumbs down. Isle of Wright previous music events didn't rub off on this group.

Shit.

Sunshine Gir Me welcome to the it's okay but I certainly didn't need to hear this before I die clube

Listened during a really lousy Friday at work. Then during a kind of stressful Sunday morning. Found it annoying. Learned that these songs were used in car commercials shortly after the album came out. Traces of tropicália and reggae muddled into some indie pop or whatever. Not catchy. Sounds like AI-generated music, so I guess it was really quite ahead of its time. The only song on here with any substance or structure was an Os Mutantes cover.

Who picks this shit?!!

OMG NO STOP THIS MUSIC TO COMMIT SUICIDE TO

Holy shit, how does this take up a slot on this list? This was bad, and some of those first few tracks is just straight up appropriation, and done poorly. Ended my listen at around track 5 or 6. Eesh

really enjoyed and excited by the first song, but a bit downhill from there

Couldn’t find a hook. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Essential: One of the greatest albums ever made. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent: A great album I’d happily revisit and recommend. ⭐⭐⭐ Good: Worth hearing. Glad I listened, but not something I’ll return to often. ⭐⭐ Weak: More misses than hits. Probably won’t listen again. ⭐ Bad: A chore to finish. I regret spending the time.

I have no idea what genre they're trying to be but they're failing at all of them.

I have not heard this before. I recognize a few songs from around when it was released, though if you played them for me again right now I wouldn’t know who it was by. There’s some stylistic variety in a few songs here but most stick to the same electro pop template that isn’t very interesting. The Os Mutantes cover is good, but it’s basically a note-for-note remake and is completely out of place with the rest of the tracks. It’s a little sad when the only song with any depth on an album is a xerox copy of the original, and only makes the rest of the record seem more dull in comparison.

musica loffi de un café porteño, una pija

Норм інді з дещицею даунтемпо. Яких-небудь причин бути в цьому списку не було знайдено. Головний хіт аля дженерік пісня під вінтажни

Boooooo

definitely an album.

Meh

The only song I even remotely enjoyed was Minha Menina. The rest was just pointless.

You’re the plus one at her cousin’s wedding, in one of those woodsy New England towns that only Noah Kahan knows about. At the reception, the band was instructed to play only originals because the couple want to ‘support local artists’. While the idea was thoughtful, you’re now suffering through the third hour of ‘creative’ offerings from “The Bees”, who have been very faithful to the happy couples’ request for authenticity (although I’m pretty sure a stripped down version of 311’s Come Original was thrown in there at some point). It sounds like there’s not much left in them, but the Shelburne Lounge and Ballroom at the Ramada Inn North only rents in 4 hour blocks, so this party’s gonna keep rolling. Now, if you put your iPhone on the table, cue up a voice recording and let it run, the result would be this album.

A new level of dull.

Utterly forgettable.

Lo fi shite.

Writing process for every song: start with lo-fi beats, add Hammond organ, send it. This album fucking blows.

See honestly I just find this so dull. Good elevator music I guess. Fuck knows why it's an album I should listen to before I die. Dont necessarily dislike it as much as some other albums but I truly find it just...meh

Chill Cover Interesting Pleasant Vibe Fun Background Vibes Cool Reggae Eclectic Boring Fine British Mutantes Decent Influences Mellow Genres Guys Summer Styles Forgettable Instrumental Production these are the tags for the album. I'll take: - Forgettable - Boring

sloppy

Don’t like it

Cringe: The Album. It's tasteless early-2000s commercialised indie boy stuff. "You smell like a punching bag" is one of the highlights of the humourless songwriting. They do a bizarre pastiche of rub-a-dub reggae that honestly makes me want to cry. They have a go at downtempo. They've absorbed some 1960s psych-rock whimsy. Their mummies told them they could be everything all at once. I'm sure there's lots of talent here, but I don't care - this is irredeemable, unabashed mediocrity. 1*

Not a fan

Yeah - this was trash. First track I'm like...its really irritating that its called Punchbag and not Punching bag...but maybe thats a British thing so I'll forgive it...second track sounded like what happens when white people play funk...its fine but theres something missing haha if that had been the whole album Id probably give this a 3...but the vast majority of the album is some weird amalgamation of funk, folk, and uh piano bar...no one asked for that.

Awful.

"Get your hockey bag out of my face, Sebastian".

Utter failure. Cover looks no better than a 10 year painting. I mean, who picks this shit.

This made no impact on me at all, apart from the Os Mutantes cover. I'd rather just listen to the original. No need for this in the book

Pleasant enough and I guess an example of something but not something I needed to hear before I die. This one took me over a week to get through and made me pause my feed. Two stars as it's ok but docking one star for length. Shut up. You don't need an hour. FFS!

Wie kommt so ein einfallsloses Supermarktgedudel in so eine Liste?

Not a fan

Drivel

Really should be in this list.

Not for me. 1/5

not my cup of tea

They letting anyone on this shit but ornette coleman man wtf. Random 2000s indie flops and a whole cover album of his work but they somehow couldn't fit the shape of jazz to come. You got 1001 albums but woops! We can't fit one of the most influential jazz albums ever! That would cut into the indie no names budget! Somehow we fit JOHN ZORN though! I'm talking about this instead of the album because this is so nothing it hurts. PUT ORNETTE COLEMAN ON THIS LIST FOR REAL YOU COWARDS 20/100

2/10 Well this is a dull little meander through the musical interests of The Bees. It very much feels like a band who have worked out a whole load of different ways to say what they want to say, but haven’t actually worked out what they’re trying to tell us yet. While the musicianship is nice and tight, the production is, on the whole, excellent, they seem completely incapable of writing any good hooks, choruses or melodies. It’s banality incarnate. Nice but uninteresting. And there’s no grit or edge to it at all. Instead of a smoky jazz bar with nice wine, we get a room full of people vaping and drinking alcohol-free rose. Instead of the weed-soaked swagger of a reggae festival, we get a white-boy dreadlock filled drumming circle in the park. Instead of prog-rock psychedelia on mushrooms, we get nitrous oxide balloons in the back of a limo. It’s all a pale imitation of what inspired it, made worse by the fact that most of the tracks just give us one fairly uninspired idea and just roll with it for three minutes. I kept waiting for something to happen, and nothing did. In fact, the second time around it just went from being almost intensely Mundine to downright irritating. It gets an extra point for the production and musical abilities on display, but this is really fighting out out with some of the clunkers on this list. Punchbag - This is a nice, breezy summers day intro. But then it just… carries on. There’s no hook. The vocals are a bit of a dirge and it’s just not that interesting. It’s well produced, but would it hurt to throw in something catchy? Angryman - This is a more promising start. The vocals are a bit annoying, but if it kicks into something, it’ll be forgivable. But no, all evidence so far suggests that these guys don’t know how to write a chorus. The solo section at 3 minutes is cool, but it’s fleeting. It’s just another song idea that’s underdeveloped and doesn’t really lead anywhere. No Trophy - Another one that feels like a great vibe, but doesn’t go anywhere. It’s like they’ve understood the technicality of a lot of the genres they’re trying to ape, but just don’t understand the soul of it. This is the best song so far, but there’s just no character to it. Binnel Boy - They’ve found their toy box. Again, this one starts out nicely enough. But it goes nowhere at all. No hook, no chorus, just vibe. And vibe alone does not make a satisfying track. Sunshine - Another “oh, this is nice” moment until I realise the track is halfway done before anything has happened. And what happens is just a slight development of the initial idea, nothing fresh. Meh. A Minha Menina - Newsflash, I think they’ve tried to write a chorus. It’s not a very memorable one, but it’s something. Sonically, this is probably one of the least interesting on the album so far, but it’s an actual song. Seems to be one or the other with these boys. Feels like an unfinished demo outline of a song and the production is at its weakest so far here. This Town - Another meandering slice of niceness that never goes anywhere. It’s just the same idea for 3 minutes. There is a very slight variation between sections, but there’s no dynamic change or any significant structural change, it’s just bumbling along being nice until they fade out when even they’ve got bored. Sweet Like a Champion - This doesn’t even have any of the pep of previous tracks. It might work quite well as a tonal shift if the rest of the album had more hooks or connected better, but amongst this album, it just feels like a bit of a dirge. But it is more of a structurally sound song than the rest of the album, which is something. Lying in the Snow - So they’re doing a Pink Floyd now. But they haven’t earned it. It doesn’t fit with the rest of the album, at all. But it does at least have some motion to it, some variation and dynamic change. This is probably the most competent song of the album, but it’s still a bit boring and doesn’t build up to the grandiosity that it hints at. Zia - This seems like a nice little interlude. But what’s that? It’s the second longest track on the album? Nice, but meandering and, amidst the banality of the rest of the album, it’s just another nice slice of nothingness. Sky Holds the Sun - Give me a bloody melody already, Jesus. This whole track is a three and a half minute intro to nothing. The vocals just feel like scratch vocals that they meant to replace but never got round to it. The music is nice, but it’s just boring and goes nowhere.

So dull - couldn't last past Binnel Bay.

Hodgepodge of genres with no through line.

Eh?

Pluss: Under 40 minutter. Minus: WTAF???? Et gjennomført elendig album på alle måter!

Snooze fest...ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Absolutely terrible, sounds like primary school music lesson.

Sh*t

sunshine did not hit me. I am imagining a bunch of pasty Brits making the music of Angryman, and it makes me angry, man. so they have some limited success? Then they cover Os Mutantes so the song could be used in a car commercial! "well come on what ISN'T cultural appropriation??" - The Bees, after playing the reggae song their latest ayahuasca experience inspired music: hated. (⌐■_■)

I try not to let my Hater Friend influence me too much but he got me on this one. Call it a rounded down 1.5. The Bees?? More like the Dee Plusses!

Seems unfinished. This is the sort if album id expect from a kid with a 4 track in his bedroom.

What a load of disjointed crap. Sometimes one part of the "groove" sounds good, but it is badly mixed, the vocals are consistently shithouse, while they emphasise percussion performed by the trainees. Avoid.

Filler. Sounds like it’s written for retail shopping background. No thanks.

Two dudes wrote and recorded this but there are six dudes in this band? What the fuck is this? Hipster Slipknot? Additionally, this album is some weird soft indie shit. Like, you have to actually write songs to be good. Did they know that?

boring

Not my type of music. Quite "jammy".

No.

New album for me. The album felt like another hyped-up UK album just like the previous 1001 albums from Ash, Django Django, the Thrills, Doves, the Coral, Coldplay, the Icarus Line, Hookworms, Travis and the list goes on and on (and on).

Super slight, super inessential, not very cohesive. The fact that the big single is a toothless cover of a Brazilian song is points against the album.

1. punch - 1 2. angry - 1 3. trophy - 1.5 4. bay - 1 5. zun - 1.5 6. menina - 1 7. touun - 1 8. champion - 1 9. znouu - 0 10. zia - 1.5 11. zky - 1

Not good. This is a bit like if Ween recorded in someone's garage and had no money. How on earth did this make it onto the list? Feels like one of those that was released shortly before the book came out. Might have seemed cool at the time, but it stinks now.

It was good. Very talented. But still a 1. Not a bad 1. Not a strong 1. Just a 1.

Not in my edition of the book! 2002. 1 star. Redundant bland pop songs from a bland pop group, with one song used for a car advert. Utterly forgettable. WTF is this doing on the list?

Where does 60 homage end and outsider art begin?

The opening track is kinda promising and then the second track hits you with that horrible blindingly white kid indie falsetto in a shit attempt to grab some sort of "I listened to my parents cocaine music and now I'm cool" cred. It's the audio manifestation of the mustache on 40 year old guy riding a fixie and wearing a flat cap. It goes extremely predictably on from there. Given this came out in 2002, this is music for ipod commercials. Maybe that's why it's on the list given the amount of stuff that sounded like this that came out in the following decade. “A minha menina” is not a butchering of the original mostly because they abandon most of the Portuguese in favor of new English lyrics. After that everything is fairly boring, though I wouldn’t be terribly irritated if I heard the beginning of “lying in the snow” if I was five beers in on a sunny Friday. I’m mad about how bad this is.

Didn’t really enjoy it. This went nowhere fast

Nice of the album cover to give away exactly what to expect from this album. Which, hey, points for lowering expectations I guess. That's something.

Seichter, sphärischer Indie Rock.

Jesus, what a drag

Not for me

Boring and painful portuguese pronunciation.

Its indie music. It was not great. I tolerated it but thankfully it was a short album. I did need to listen to any of it. Certainly there are worst albums to listen to but no need to consider this one. I will round down.

it’s 2002 and he’s found psychedelica again

Hmmm. Yet again an album, where I wonder why it is on the list.

Fucking Awful!!!!

If I were to make a list of one million and one albums to hear before you die, this album would fall about 450 short of the cut line.

UK indie shit, like no plays on Spotify, did not need to hear before I die

I'm totally unfair and the Bees are totally forgettable. The discovered-here and still mysterious anti-British bias doubtless rears its head: I'd be fine with this as a contemporary discovery on Bandcamp, say.

1/11