Rings Around The World

Blegh. There are too many weird British bands in this list. That electronic garbage in the middle was probably the worst cacophony from this list yet.

slightly werid , wont listen again

This was fun, but nothing memorable

Are the songs bad? No. Is the album cohesive in any way at all? Also no.

This music was annoying.

Not for me. 1/5

My second album by Super Furry Animals…..why? This one is not as unpleasant as the last but absolutely nothing stands out or is appealing.

this just felt messy and all over the place. if it was shorter it would probably have been more palatable but it’s not so…….. one star

I'm mystified as to why such a basic ass band that sounds like fifty other bands on this list gets TWO albums but Tool has zero. Giving it a one star since the end No Sympathy annoyed the shit out of me.

Really dull. No idea how this made it into the 1001 list. This is the first album here that I couldn't be bothered to listen to.

A combo of sleepy mellow sounds and aggressive loud sounds seemingly invented to piss me off. There is a clear Oasis (and by transference, Beatles) influence to much of it. Is this innovative? All I can hear are the influences.

Garbage

This is #day730 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and… I don't think an early-'00s take on '60s psychedelia, peppered with modern pop and electronic sensibilities and whatnot, is something I must hear before I die. If I feel like listening to some acidic stuff, I know where to go, and this record wouldn't be the place. The growl on "Respectacle for Respectable" was a real WTF moment, though. I'm going with a 1 out of 5 eventually. Looking forward to #day731.

With my first Super Furry Animals album, I had more patience for it than I should have. I'm not making that mistake again.

With all due respect, this album does not belong in this list.

To obscure for me

Fuck Blur for making this genre popular

I liked maybe one song here. They sound like they're trying way too hard to sound whimsical.

Whatever good will this album earned throughout its long run time (there’s a handful of songs I thought were okay to good at best)…totally wiped away by what I think are three of my least favorite songs in the entire 400+ albums so far. It was like a literal poison

Probably the worst part of 2001 was this album’s release. Nothing else comes to mind.

I think there's a reason I've never heard these guys before; I wish it could have stayed that way.

This album cover is terrible oh my god. Yk what? Whats forcing me To listen to an album by a band called the fucking super furry animals ? This shit is obviously gona suck and I dont want to listen to it. Anyway, I listened to it, was bad. Its trying so hard to be weird. I feel like they really thought they were making something really cool,epic and experimetal but its really not the case. Its more annoying than anything really... sometime even laughably terible. Worst song? yes /5

Muzak that makes you laugh.

Was surprised to find an album I didn't even hear about here. Well, it didn't turn out to be a hidden gem for me.

Eclectic neo-psychedelic pop and space-rock built on layered synths, programmed beats, and melodic, soft vocals drifts with polished but predictable patterns. Listening feels like walking through a futuristic city where every building looks the same—bright, colorful, and technically neat, yet uninspiring. The album sounds competent and accessible, but ultimately feels unimaginative and formulaic

Whenever a band like this says that their new album is “ambitious”, you know it means that they want to justify recording wannabe epic, faux grandiose, ego feeding guff, in order to satisfy their need for attention. This is no exception. The album title supports my theory. It’s not special, it’s not even interesting. It’s just blah.

Meh

i have to stop giving things i went through painfully a two or three. this is a one. it just isn’t good. it probably actually is a 1.5 but that isn’t an option so instead it’s the first one (it shouldn’t be other stuff has been just as bad). i think some of the underlying beats are quite strong. the lyrics are bad. i don’t understand them and they seem to be a joke idk. there’s just also a somewhat annoying vibe to the songs just like pulling teeth to get through this. anyways i feel bad im sure these are lovely people with lots of fans. but what business it has on a best albums of all time list i have nooo idea. this part goes without saying, but obviously i did not download anything.

awful.

No

Hmm, primorana bom na žalost poslušat youtube verzijo albuma. Ok, prvi komad ("Alternate Route to Vulcan Street") je bil kul (violine, mal psihadeličen), drugi ("Sidewalk Serfer Girl") mi ni neki všeč. Hmmm, mal mi variira med tem, da mi je čist kul, mi gre aktivno na živce, mi je dolgočasno, mi je bedno, ... Uuuu, ja, ta že tko brezvezn komad ("No Sympathy") je ful rabil še the worst sounds od early noughties elektronike. Đizs fakin krajst. "Run! Christian, Run!" mi je pa, surprisingly, ful všeč?! Grem potrpet še skozi zadnjega... Glas od pevca me iritira. In ja, dalj, ko razmišljam, bolj se mi zdi, da tud unedva komada, k sta mi bla čist kul, ne rešita tega albuma.

Very weird, ’60s hippie revivalist psychedelic pop-rock with electronic and sci-fi influences. It’s an ambitious combination that shouldn’t work, and unsurprisingly, it doesn’t. The instrumentation is incohesive and disjointed, the songwriting overly complex and pompous, and the lyrics just dreadful. Reading the wiki, I was surprised to see Paul McCartney is credited on one track. For eating celery... Come on, McCartney, didn't you already do that in ’67 with Brian Wilson?

My god this is awful. Listening to this might have hastened my death if I hadn't turned it off at track 10.

Ooof, I would rather have NOT listened to this. Blegh. When they started singing about tolerating people that you hate I wondered if they were talking about my feelings towards this album.

Fine but forgettable. Not seminal nor important nor "must hear before you die" in any way. Actually the more I think about it. The more lacklustre it is and I will never willingly listen to this ever again.

2/10

Hrrm, det här passade inte min smak. Men jag är ju lite led på mig själv som delar ut en massa ettor till höger och vänster. Och till och med antyder att medlemmar ur det skalliga brödraskapet förtjänar dom. Kanske istället borde välja glädjen framöver. Vi får se.

Hated the voice and the songs , just properly grated on me

Not a fan

The best part of this album was the part where the music stopped and it was over. The final minute of No Sympathy was pretty interesting, full of weird noises and almost turned into an EDM track. Nothing else on this album came remotely close to being as interesting as that part. A lot of boring joyless and soulless drab, with uninteresting songs. This band didn't need an album on the list, let alone two of them.

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Not my vibe

Not my jam. Weird.

Feels a little slow and boring to me.

Einfach nur Mist!

I'm not sure I understand what great music is after listening to this album. It was an assault to my ears.

Just not my thing, sorry.

This just feels like a mashup of far too many genres. I think that genre fusion is a really cool thing when pulled of well, but this album pulls it off badly, and I mean really badly. Each song feels completely incoherent, since there are just too many things going on in each moment that I don't even know what I'm meant to be focusing on, and the project as a whole ends up feeling so disjointed because of it.

The last album was bad and so was this one.

Wish I could give it less than 1 star.

I did not like this album. The first song felt like 10mins long

Boring

Different

Absolutely DNF. Confounded by a lot of the “Brit” rock on this list.

Plays like a studio rat’s demo tape. Thousands of well conceived and recorded sonic clips haphazardly tossed together without the slightest consideration for song writing or arranging. Listening was about as emotionally engaging as leafing through an office supply catalogue.

Too much synthesizer. Not really something I would listen too again.

Too psychedelic for me…

Somewhere between 1-2 stars. Only thing making this cohesive is the annoying ness. Not a fan of the vocals, lyrics, or instrumentation. Particularly confused with the constant alien noises in the background. Not enjoyable.

Bof

nope

Didn't resonate to me in any level.

It was difficult to put into words how to describe my experience listening to this album. It was partly Indie Brit Pop, mixed with a heavy helping of Brit Rock, along with some psychedelic gibberish, electronica, lounge singing, and noise. It was all over the place. It was hot garbage.

Did not like it

Just awful music

Not good at all. Long and voice sucks.

Niet geluisterd, te lang

That was so boring that I was falling asleep while walking

They certainly marshalled every available synth and sampler to create an album rich with musical flourishes. But alas it didn’t really connect with me.

Mighty weird that the best rated song on this album (“Tradewinds”) isn’t on this album. I found the majority of the songs on this album to be dense and symphonically psychedelic - full of skill but just not hitting an audio mark that I would denote as ‘excellent’, much less ‘must listen to before I die’. I’m noting the classic and influential albums not yet on this list and judging this one severely as a result. Shoot me.

An album with an identity crisis Not sure what I was expecting, but this definitely wasn't this. This album is a disjointed illogical mess. This is an album with an identity crisis with sounds of emo, rock opera, prog rock, the ass end of the surfer band music (think 80s Beach Boys not 60s Beach Boys). There were a few good songs on the album, but there is more flow in a dry creek bed than there is in this album.

Seriously, all this UK late-90's/early-00's crap sounds the same. Lots of reverb, whiny vocals... it's boring. Fine. Put one or two on the 1001 list to fill it out, but there's no need for so many. None of them are different; none of them are historically significant. I don't need to hear another one. 1 star because I'm sick of the same bloody sound day-in and day-out.

Awful.

Another suck-fest.

In one word: lackluster or incoherent

elcectic and unique.....yes. really didn't care for it. discordant sounds, weird attempts at harmonizing falsettos, and tinny vocals. not sure why this is taking up a spot on this list..... 1.5 stars

nope. I can hear how this band COULD be good but they aren't .

Nope.

It feels as if the drummer is just plodding along waiting for the end of each song to happen. It sounds like the Flaming Lips but done badly. Quite a boring first listen. Maybe I need to try again.

I couldn't figure out what this is supposed to be long enough to enjoy any of it. I just kept thinking of Donny and Marie Osmond wearing Daft Punk helmets while trying to sing Elvis Costello songs. That image is worth a half-star, bringing their total to one and one-half stars.

1. vulcan ztreet - 1 2. zerfer girl - 1 3. ringz - 0 4. uuorld - 1 5. rezpectable - 1 6. touch - 0 7. doriz - 0 8. miniature - 0 9. zympathy - 0 10. juztapozed - 1 11. prezidential - 1.5 12. chriztian - 1 13. happinezz - 1

i don’t mess with the furries

Wow, that album art is not promising. I was totally expecting another shitty British drum n bass album, but it's just a bland early aughts Welsh alt-rock band. This reminds me of someone who pretends to have taken acid before but they're just going off what they think it would feel like based on having heard Flaming Lips and the one time they got way too high on weed. Best thing I can say about this is that there are some interesting things going on hidden among the layers, the problem is that they're covered by so many other layers that it just turns to shit. I probably would've loved this back when it came out when I was 15. The fact that the 20th Anniversary Edition is two volumes on Apple Music and comprises of almost 7 hours of tracks kind of just sums up how annoying this is. It's not even all that terrible, but it is incredibly tiresome. Could've been a solid 2, but as I write this, I'm only halfway through the original 13 tracks and I'm not sure how much more of this I can listen to. The UK bias wins again, but it's not a win for me.

Gear: Hifiman Arya Artwork: Nope. Mix: Nope. Musik: Nope. Wertung: 🙅/5

Nooo i furry nooo

Absolute rubbish, just felt like a waste of time, like someone told them 'just make an album, doesn't matter what it's like'

Ok

whack

No

I missed this album back in the day. I guess I didn’t miss much.

Really odd and eclectic. 1/5

not my cup o tea

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Ew. It's so disjointed. There's a fine line between deep and pretentious and this is on the wrong side of it.

you know i think could've died without hearing this one actually, and there were even a few points deep into the album that death almost seemed more appealing than sitting through more of this bland "made for supermarket adverts" type rock. would give it a 2 because most of it wasn't completely intolerable, but I did give it up completely before the end, so 1 it is.

Not for me!

Woo hoo! My first one star album! Why is this on the list?! I can list a bunch of stuff I'd prefer to listen to rather than this album: jackhammering next door, cats in heat yeowling in the night, the high-pitched shrieking of a toddler. Pretty much from the first song I wanted it to be over. There were maybe one or two redeemable moments in some of the songs that were quickly turned back into grating bleurghhhh.

This was soooo boring.

I think this could’ve squeaked out a 2/5 if it stayed in its boring little singer-songwriter lane, treading water in 2000s easy-listening territory. Instead, it veers wildly into art-rock territory with electronic squawks and unjustified genre change-ups that feel less avant-garde than desperate. A fat load of trite nonsense to sit through on the plane, would’ve preferred the dude’s monotone vocals over soft guitar for an hour instead so I could’ve gone to sleep.

I was expecting this to be better.

Dull, dull, dull. No idea why this album finds its way onto the list. I suspect this is another instance of the author's personal listening bias, so often seen for albums of this time period.

Are you really trying to tell me that there werent 1001 other albums that were better than this one? I feel like all you have to do to be on this list is be from the UK. Its not even a requirement that you be halfway decent or have any talent whatsoever. 1/5

Not my kind

This is one of the first albums on this list that I just couldn't listen through. It reminds me of another artist I really don't like, and I just couldn't resonate with any of these songs. Not a fan

uma bosta

This band sucks. Hated it

doesn’t incorporate any of its wide array of musical elements in an interesting way at all. pretty underwhelming. feels like it would be the soundtrack to a movie called Mr. Gaborium’s Cannaborium Emporium

I did not like this album at all. The songs were bad. The lyrics were forgettable, the music wasn’t great, the sound of the singers voice wasn’t good and there were alot of straight up annoying noises in the songs.

I was bored throughout the whole thing. It was ok background music, but I dont think I'd search for it.

Rings Around The World All over the place. Starts with a piano melody morphing into space soundtrack, then track 2 is a jarring rock alarm. Smacks of annoying concept album of monumental importance to musicologists but not me. I look them up. Welsh brit pop electronica. Ok. I hear a bit fo “AIR” in track 3 But them I got bored.

I didn’t know this band before. They’re like if The Flaming Lips were not good.

Another low quality, low effort Soundcloud level project recorded in some random rural British basement. I'm thinking the same people who did the Teenage Fanclub album cover did this one as well. Makes all my other one star reviews seem almost unfair. One thumbs down is all I can give this. 👎

poopy shit

Did not like

Des de mitjans dels 90s fins meitat dels 00s el rock alternatiu va viure una de les seves millors etapes. Semblava que l'experimentació fos universalment aplaudida i hom es treia el barret davant la búsqueda de diferents sonoritats i de la barreja de sons i estils. Encara que no tinguessin cap interés, ni una espurna de creativitat, ni tan sols un punt d'inspiració. Com és el cas que ens ocupa

The band's name isn't doing them any favors. I kept listening, waiting to be impressed and it just bored the shit out of me. These guys don't know what they're talking about. Apparently the annoying oaf from Notting Hill is in this band, which is just a little too on the nose.

not interesting and weak

Not 1 stand-out track. Some bits were almost ok but they'd get ruined by something or other. Just didn't think much of it.

Ten pik definiuje stwierdzenie, ze zawsze moze byc gorzej, bo nie dosc ze kolejny brytyjski pik, jakze ambitnej bandy, ktora juz miala swoja reprezentacje w generatorze wczesniej, to kolejne 52 minuty meczenia albumu, ktorym chce sie rzygac juz po dwoch kawalkach, dawno nie bylo czegos co tak zniesmaczyloby do dalszego odsluchu jak kawalek sidewalk surfer girl, o tym zeby nie robic ekstremalnych rzeczy, bo jeszcze sie zajebiesz lub nie daj czego zasniesz snem na potezna ilosc lat, jesli hejtowanie deskorolkowania wydaje sie byc orginalne, to reszta plyty juz tak ambitnych pomyslow nie ma, ale standardowo plaku plaku bieda i bogaci sie bogacom, a ziemia w smieci sie obraca, ale pan rhys to taki ambitny i utalentowany czlek, ze potrafi nawet swoim giberiszowym lirykom nadac wyzszy sens, jak przystalo na super furry animals, kolejny dowod na to ze indyjski rok rodzi jedne z najwiekszych rakow tego zestawienia, nie wiem jakich pozytywnych stron szukac na tej plycie, bo slucha sie tego jak parodii, szczegolnie w takich fragmentach jak receptacle for the respectable, gdzie indyjskie eksperymenty zawodza bande nawet do metalowego wyjcowania, jest tutaj takze o wiele wiecej elektroniki niz na fuzzy logic, bo wiadomo eksperymenty i im dziwniej i mniej sensownie tym lepiej, o ile przed odsluchem ani mnie furrasy nie grzaly ani chlodzily, tak po ringsach jestem zadeklarowanym przeciwnikiem uzywania plyt tego rodzaju podczas torturowania wiezniow politycznych, mam nadzieje, ze to moje ostatnie spotkanie z tym zespolem, po ktorym z 13 przesluchanych kawalkow nie jestem w stanie wybrac nawet jednego ktory puscilbym sobie lub komus z wlasnej nieprzymuszonej woli

Hey! I'm back! I didn't not enjoy this one, but, having just finished this I couldn't sing you back a single song or tell you a single defining feature of their style. I could be wrong, but I'm out.

Was 2001 a really bad year for music or something for this to be so criticality praised? For me, this ambitious attempt to blend disparate genres falls pretty flat. The situation isn't helped with the extremely bland subpar vocals. Also, this album art is fucking terrible!

Interesting sound. Not my cup of tea.

I hated almost every second of this - although I can't say every second because I couldn't bear to listen to it all. Appalling, jarring, deliberately mad dynamics, this was everything Milly said about Rush, but in a different genre and played less competently and maybe they actually were trying to be funny. The opening track has the worst percussion I've ever heard. Worse, even, than the White Stripes. I'm losing faith in the list - why is this in any way an important album? I don't expect to like lots of stuff but I can still appreciate why it might be significant - even though I may hate it - but this definitely isn't.

Did not get through a single entire song. Really bad.

Didn't like but I think my expectations were confused with 'Supergrass' so was expecting upbeat pop rather than dirty stuff. Overly harsh rating...

No coneixia el disc i el grup només de nom. Hi ha alguns temes interessants, sobretot a la primera meitat. La seva cadència psicodèlica fa la majoria de temes tan agradables com inofensius. Si aquest és el millor àlbum del grup, no crec que m'apropi a cap altre seu.

Sounds like generic British pop rock. Bland all around. 2/10.

Soooooo boring. I really dont class this as rock no matter what people say. Nil points.

I have always not liked the vocals at all.

not for me.

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Dear lord! Snoooooooze city. What a boring freaking album. I stopped listening after the first few tracks.