Reviews (page 5 of 8)
Light grungy rock from slackers. I liked it
very generic 90's
Indie rock. Ni fu ni fa.
Pavement comparison is apt
a few good slow chill songs
Not bad, sorta reminded me of Ween.
Sebadoh, jedan od prvih bendova koje sam slušao kad sam se 2020-te navukao na taj lo-fi, slacker rock. Jedan od najboljih perioda ikad što se tiče žanra koji me privukao do kraja. 3.5, ipak fali do četvorke, maknuo bih sigurno 3-4 pjesme, ovo ostalo je il dost dobro ili treba growat da mi se više svidi. Homemade mi je najdraža. Nadam se da će biti nekakav koncert njihov u Zagrebu.
Never heard of Sebadoh and expected less than what I got. For an early 90s album, Bubble and Scrape harkens back to some mid-80s punk rock, and that's not a bad thing. The 90s idea of punk rock became pop for the sake of punk and really ruined what was a great genre, had Sebadoh been the flag bearer for the genre, I'd be curious to see how much better it would become. My only critiques of this album are that for a punk-ish album it runs long at 47 minutes and some of the songs sound repetitive. 3/5.
A classic.
why is this an album i have to hear before i die?! i prefer dinosaur jr, this shounds bleh
очень вдохновилась словами инди, сабпоп и первой песней, но дальше не пошло)
Oddball and very Pavement-esque, some moments of pop brilliance - but in general trying to hard to be alternative - a fault of many albums of the era I guess. Also a bit tinny on the production side. A good listen though.
Oke
Sounds like it was recorded in a bedroom by a bunch of friends (though it’s actually studio-produced), which gives it a charming lo-fi air. However, several songs don’t stick around long enough to impact the listener in any meaningful way.
Slackerishly ragged and full-on stoner vibey, the best cuts come early and the willful and sloppy discordance of the rest wears itself out. Lacking the pathos (perhaps accidental) of Pavement or the elevating ennui of Dinosaur, Jr. or the depth and ambition of Sonic Youth. In other words, the overall effect is rather more of scrape than bubble. Some fun lines, (“Here I am, on my knees / With nothing to blame but my curiosity” and “I see something we should do / If you need one, then you need two / I won't hold back, so why should you?”) keep it just the right side of average but not quite all the way to excellence.
Good
If 'Gen-X Slacker' had a soundtrack, I think this would be it.
Good grungy stuff, fairly anonymous, but that works for me sometimes...liked the lack of commitment to being in key
Het is niet slecht. Las dat het shoegaze postrock was en was al heel verheugd dat er wat meer pit in zat. Bleek dan dat het om eigenlijk halfslachtige metal ging en daarvoor is het dan wel minder verrassend.
I liked a couple of songs, but a lot of it grated
A solid indie album that holds up in todays world. There is something in it's soundscape that screams 90s but it's a little hard to put my finger on what it is - perhaps it's the countless 90s teen shows that had soundtracks that were similar sounding. Best: Soul & Fire Worst: Fantastic Disaster
meh - didn't love it, didn't hate it.
Listened to bits and pieces. Sounds like it ramps up a lot to the point where the last track is kinda screamo? Don’t quite know what I think
One day my wife asked me if I knew who Lou Barlow was. She said she works with a woman who's his sister. Of course I knew who he was. I grew up a huge fan of Dinosaur Jr. and J. Mascis. But, it was a long time after Sebadoh formed before I started listening to them. And when I did this album had already come and gone. Harmacy was the first Sebadoh album I ever purchased, but it never grew on me and I'm pretty sure I sold it to Amoeba. Listening to this now, it still doesn't grow on me but it's way better than Harmacy. This is quintessential 90's alt-art-crap, hard to listen to today but cutting edge in the world it existed. This and other albums like it, proved anyone with something to say could be a musician, grow a following and build an album in their basement. "Corporate Rock Sucks!" was the rally cry This is the stuff at the other end. I suppose Indy Art Rock showed Corporate rock, but what it really did is prove that there's a market for lo-fi songs expressive songs like 'Fantastic Disaster' because what else are people going to do? Surf Insta and create Tik Toks? I'll never completely understand whatever happened between J. Mascis and Lou Barlow. Someone said JM threw a cymball at LBs head during a performance and walked out. I couldn't find any of that online, but I didn't search much 'cause I'm consumed with infinite Tik Tok scrolling.
I had a couple Sebadoh albums (Bakesale and Harmacy) and I have literally never met anyone else who has even heard of them, let alone liked them, so I was surprised as hell to see them pop up on 1001 albums. I also was surprised as hell with some of the sonic chaos on the album. I get that they were all “look at us we are so lo-fi and cool” but why make so many sounds that don’t sound good? Turns out there is a good reason why this album sounds like two different bands, all the songs I like are written by Lou Barlow and all the songs I don’t were by Eric Gaffney who left the band after this album and didn’t appear on Bakesale of Harmacy (if you like the first couple songs, give those other albums a listen). I wish I could give this album a higher rating because the songs I like, I really like, but overall it’s a mess.
All over the place in terms of quality. Had some really well made stand out tracks that I really enjoyed. The low points were pretty uninteresting for me. Would like to listen to it again sometime in the future when I'm not driving.
Heard before: no… …which is weird because I like similar bands as well as Dinosaur Jr. Good album, some great songs but overall didn’t feel very cohesive.
Hm. To compare them to Nirvana is to say nothing. Really liked the second to last song
Pulls from both Folk Implosion and Dinosaur Jr, but I prefer them separately. Opening track "Soul and Fire" is the stronghold of the album.
Fun simple lo-fi indie rock. You can definitely hear the Dinosaur Jr. influence but it does enough to separate itself as its own thing.
This guy definitely played in dinosaur jr
This grew on me, and need to give it another couple of listens. Some real songwriting charm, and the variety is great.
I am not normally a fan of the willfully obtuse lo-fi of the 90s. It often fails to rock. But this record I enjoyed (much more than, say, Pavement, who I tend to think of as the emperor's new music). It fairly often rocks, the tunes are memorable, and the album overall is muscular and thought out. Sometimes it embraces 'weirdness' in a way that reminds me a little of Primus. I am OK with the use of dissonance and/or a failure to tune the guitars. That's OK, that can rock. A pleasant surprise. Would listen again.
Quite liked this, not really sure why I never got big into them way back when. Oh yes, yes I do - remember reading about them in Melody Maker and hearing tracks hither and thither but never actually seeing a single Sebadoh anything in any record shops.
As SUBPOP as SUBPOP will get. There’s a clear sense of the Seattle sound that wasn’t quite grunge. I liked it but I didn’t love it.
Soul and Fire is a great track. Easy 90s rock to listen to. Oh the rest of this album is not great.
Early indie, like a Nada Surf predecessor
Man, I really liked the vibe of this when it started, all schlubby singing and discordant chording. Everything was mismatched in a really compelling way. And seeing that this one is the first they did in a real studio also makes it endearing - I like these albums where a group stretches their muscles and gets a little money behind them. But for some reason this seemed to go on twice as long as I thought it would. It lost me, is what I'm saying.
After two tracks I was ready to write this off as Teenage Fanclub on percocets, but I was wrong. This morphed into a weird, ugly and intriguing beast, spackled with moments of rage and white noise. Awkward, angular and unsettling, it's not a comfortable listen, but it is rewarding.
I've never heard this band but based on the name, I assumed they were some kind of junk hardcore band. HAHA. Nope. Feeling pretty emo and I'm good with that. The distorted power chords remind me of early Weezer, Pedro the Lion, and Elliot. All bands that I love. But, here's the thing with emo. If it didn't hit me when I was an emo teenager, can I still really immerse myself in it? Not really. So I missed the boat, and as a result this is [perhaps unfairly] getting a 3/5.
More enjoyable as the album went along. Surprisingly melodic, and some interesting chord and tempo changes kept me interested. I don’t think I’ll revisit frequently, but it’s a good mid-tier album with a few solid tracks I could see wanting to check out regularly for some listening variety.
Sebadoh are one of those bands that have been sprinkled throughout my play history but never really captured my attention enought o dig into. This album is ok but nothing really stood out.
5/10. They did an excellent job of putting their most palatable song first.
I liked the first song a lot. The rest were hit/miss for me
Not listened to these chaps before but fair play, it sounds like the 90s alright. I guess the manic, discordant tracks are more ‘interesting’ but the tracks with a bit of melody, like Homemade, are more enjoyable. 2.5
Grungy, jangly, noisy, ramshackle collection of songs. The album starts out strong and has some moments of real creativity and fun, but a little dissonance goes a long way. On the whole I enjoyed it, but it really is a lot. Fave Songs: Soul and Fire, Two Years Two Days, Cliche, Happily Divided, Think (Let Tomorrow Bee)
Listened Before? N Pretty good indie record. I'd never heard of these guys before but it seems it's a member of Dinosaur Jr.'s side project. You can't get much more hipster than that lol. I didn't hate it at all. Some parts are abrasive but you have to understand they probably weren't taking it all that seriously. Parts sound like Nirvana without distortion, which shouldn't be a surprise for 1993. Added to Library? N Songs added to Playlist: Soul and Fire
Sebadoh is een van mijn favoriete bands. Dit is een van hun eerdere platen, toen ze nog een bandlid aan boord hadden die het voor mij eigenlijk wel verpest om van dit album te kunnen genieten. 2/3e van de nummers vind ik geweldig, de andere 1/3e (van dat specifieke bandlid) zijn niet om aan te horen. Die worden door mij altijd structureel geskipt. Toch heb ik wel weer genoten van de Lou Barlow nummers op deze plat. Dat blijft een held :-)
decent
Those nerds know their way around a song, yep.
Cheap-sounding short songs that might be your thing, if you like the scrappy-ness of bands like Pavement and Sonic Youth. I'd imagine opinions on this range from "sounds bad" to "sounds good because it's subversive" to "sounds boring despite being subversive" - I'm somewhere between the second and the third I think.
Feels like I’m in early 90s Seattle listening to a cross between Sonic Youth and Nirvana B-sides
ja amk eitt sampl þarna i interludei
Hressilegt indí, smá gröndsj og pönk!
I’m usually a fan of diy indie music but this album just fell a bit flat for me. Maybe I just need to give it a few more listens. I enjoyed the first few songs which seemed to have a haziness to them that I found interesting. The entire middle of the album ran together for me but I did enjoy the last couple of songs.
This seems like a jekyll & hyde album. They switch between a pretty mainstream approachable alternative vibe and then through doses of Sonic Youth across the tracks. Definitely enjoyed Soul and Fire.
Insuportável
Started off really good with with song and then fizzled out
3, abrasive but not bad
Was ok, nothing special, but had some stuff I didn’t expect. Should come back to 5/10
3.6 - These Massachusetts boys were playing near home so I decided to check them out knowing next to nothing about their catalog, except that they were connected to the 90s grunge zeitgeist that I grew up on. But they were unexpectedly cerebral, utilizing non-standard guitar tunings, math-rocky time signatures and strange chord progressions. Towards the end of their set, I had a mild panic attack and had to exit the venue in a hurry because I just couldn't make sense of the music and it was putting me on edge. I'd say this album displays many similar characteristics as I experienced that evening. For me this album is hit-or-miss. On one hand, I love heartfelt ballads like "Soul and Fire", "Homemade" and "Think (Let Tomorrow Bee). But these sweet moments are spiked with cacophony, like on "Fantastic Disaster" and "Elixir Is Zog." I've read that this is a breakup album, and I think the decision to incorporate equal doses of attraction and repulsion, feels true.
alright y'know
I liked half of this, but then it would go a little too far... I can see they were trying to push boundaries but it went from interesting ideas to just unpleasant listening. You can hear where this has influenced a lot of other acts though.
First time I’ve listened to this album and can really hear the influence it has had on a number of subsequent albums. For example the first Snow Patrol record. A little bit patchy and maybe too many songs but has its moments
I don't normally enjoy Grunge. But maybe it's the lofi angle that makes it more palatable than the others.
Good start but then it was kind of generic.
This was simultaneously a weird and completely standard indie rock album. Most of the tracks sound like stereotypical indie rock from the 1990s but every once in a while there's like a screamo song or something which threw me off. Either way, it wasn't bad but not super notable either. Favs: soul and fire, fantastic disaster
Some okay moments
There are some real gems on this grunge alt rock album but it lacks consistency. I get that throw away snippets of ideas is part of the aesthetic - and maybe there is an honesty to that which has merit - but it isn’t as satisfying a listen as other records of the era. This could grow on me.
Ah the lo-fi grunge era. This doesn’t pack the pop sensibility of most of what made the Seattle scene so cool , and certainly lacks the punch that Mudhoney and The Melvins had. Still not a terrible listen. Some of the songs are great. Fav tracks : “Sister”
6/10
Some really cool stuff. And some really meh stuff. It's pretty good. 6/10
Never heard of them before
I don’t like every song on here but I do love enough of them to like this as an album
Angry, punk rock early 90’s. Didn’t grab me.
Different listen
Not so bad
seemed average sound for the era.
I’m not a fan of grunge but their jangly, discordant sound appealed to me. After a first listen I liked it better than their peers eg Pavement, Dinosaur Jr. Very similar to the Eels too in their softer songs. I also like how they slow down/ speed up the tempo for some songs.
I listened to a fair bit of early Sebadoh but didn’t really get much past III. I Think the earlier material is stronger.
I enjoyed the album, there were some strange and interesting sounds created. I would listen again.
Good album. Interesting band.
An excessively experimental grunge album. Sometimes heavy experimentalization can lead to something amazing (Tom Waits) or something pointlessly tiresome (69 Love Songs). This falls in between. No great tracks, but you could tell they're having fun, taking influences from punk and grunge bands to create pieces that strike as peculiar. Not bad or annoying, but I wouldn't be eager to replay this album or recommend it to anyone anytime soon.
5.5
I was introduced to Sebadoh through III whichbI like a lot and Bakesale which I think is brilliant. So I was happy to see them included here and happy the album wasn't either of the two that I already know. Gives me a good excuse to delve deeper into their catalog. Well, Bubble & Scrape is nowhere near the brilliance of Bakesale and not as good as III either. There are some good songs here maybe one great one but too much Jason Lowenstein on this album and not enough Lou Barlow. I'll listen more but first impressions are that this is a 3 🌟 album
Enjoyed listening through. But no real memorable song.
A new band for me, and none of the music sounded familiar. The album squeaks in at an "okay" (3 stars). "Soul and Fire" and "Think (Let Tomorrow Bee)" might be worth a second list, while my least favorite was "Elixir is Zog"
Solid little album. Never heard of this band so pleasantly surprised.
Decent lo-fi rock album. Flows pretty well, nice vibe, few good songs. Nothing outstanding tho, imo
idk. eh.
Quite enjoyed this. Reminded me of several other brands such as Eels and Pixies.
Vähän sekavaa meininkiä, välillä ihan hyvää pop-rockia, mutta sitten taas hetken kuluttua jotain sekoilua ja huutamista. Sekoiluista tuli mieleen Primus.
Good album with the influences it's had on bands that came after clear to hear.
No es mi disco preferido de ellos, sorprende un poco que este aqui. Pero es un buen disco con algunas canciones muy rompedoras. Otras bueno...son demasiada ida de olla.
Bubble and Scrape was a great album. I have been looking to find a good indie rock album recently and this fit the bill perfectly. The instruments here were top-notch. The guitar in Sacred Attention was fantastic. I really enjoyed how different Elixir Is Zog was from the previous songs on the album. The softer tracks like Forced Love and Homemade are great and some of my favourites.
Indy chungo
enjoyable but drags after a while, sounds like a made up band lol
Decent indie
I think I've listened to some other Sebadoh album previously that gave me the impression they were intolerably twee potheads, but this sounded like more straight ahead indie rock. Didn't leave much of an impression on me at first listen, so went back for a second listen to pick out a fave track ("Sacred Attention", I reckon) and perhaps it is actually pretty above average indie rock? Gonna give it 3 stars for now, but I suspect more listens would get me to bump it to 4...
Never heard of this band before but I don’t mind grudge. This album is decent so far
Fun Sub Pop sound. A little yelly for me. A little Elliott Smithy, though.
Uusi tuttavuus, ja levyn alku olikin lupauksia herättävää, Pearl Jam -tyyppistä grungefiilistelyä. Eteenpäin mennessä meno muuttui raskaammaksi ja sekavammaksi. Osa biiseistä oli oikein kelvollisia, osa vähemmän. Peruskolmonen.
homemade och emma get wild gillade jag. Vissa låtar är helt usla. Svårt mellan en tvåa och en trea. Men generellt så har dom ett gött sound som gör att det får bli en trea.
There's no reason why this is here. It's like a bootleg Collective Soul. Are they only here because they were on SubPop in the early 90s? I don't see where these guys were influential.
It sounds like a garage band that needed more time to work on their sound. There's some decent riffs here and there, but overall it wasn't very good. The best moment was the intro of Emma Get Wild. The biggest mess was No Way Out.
First song on this gave me such high hopes, but it falls off a fucking cliff.
No wonder Sub Pop ended up selling merch at Seattle Airport.
Listened to a third of it. Painful stuff.
Wasn’t really into this. Like a few of the songs though.
Fine, slightly worse Pavement without the hooks. 2.5
I wanted to like it - I really did - but ultimately I couldn't. Too much half finished Ideas.
Until today, I thought Sebadoh was a Lou Barlow solo project. I had no idea that this one is pretty evenly distributed. It just so happens that Barlow’s songs are the only ones here that don’t suck. That being said, Barlow’s songs are consistently the weakest parts of every Dinosaur Jr. album. There’s a good reason J. Mascis only gives him two.
They are doing their own thing and that's neat for them. I don't ever want to hear anything they make again though.
This album feels like it doesn't really knows whether it wants to be proper punk, or just some whiny indie rock, and then fails at both.
Trust me. You can die without listening to this. You're not missing out.
Dinosaur Jr. stuff I guess. Not really necessary. Also it’s kinda bad. Indulgent, annoying, noisy but not experimental, playful almost, but nowhere near actually fun. It would be cooler if Pavement hadn’t done this exact shtick a billion times better on Slanted and Enchanted, but when that album exists, as better, shorter, and more pivotal than this album ever will be, there’s no real reason to listen to this. Not much more to say. 4.9/10 DOES IT BELONG ON THE LIST: NO REASON: not relevant and not really that good
Almost good enough to be a demo tape. Almost.
Não me agradou tanto, apesar da primeira faixa ter me surpreendido ao fazer uma queda de tom no drop.
Aggressively meh. I don’t know why this album is notable over any other obscure indie band from the 90s. I didn’t hate listening to it, I was just bored and frustrated with the whole list.
Heard of them but didn’t hear them before. Just so-so for me.
Another day another underwhelming indie album...
God this was boring
A commendable effort at a post-punk sound, but if you're gonna do that you better nail it or it'll sound awful. It was listenable but they're still out of their league
01) Soul and Fire - 6,0 02) Two Years Two Days - 6,0 03) Telecosmic Alchemy - 5,5 04) Fantastic Disaster - 5,0 05) Happily Divided - 5,0 06) Sister - 5,5 07) Cliche - 5,0 08) Sacred Attention - 5,5 09) Elixir Is Zog - 5,0 10) Emma Get Wild - 5,0 11) Sixteen - 5,5 12) Homemade - 5,0 13) Forced Love - 5,0 14) No Way Out - 5,0 15) Bouquet for a Siren - 5,0 16) Think (Let Tomorrow Bee) - 6,0 17) Flood - 5,0 TOTAL: 5,29 (53/100) Current ranking: 914/1016
I liked the more mellow side of these songs, but overall this felt very uneven. The rougher songs had a punk feel to them, which was probably intentional, but I found a few of them borderline unlistenable. But, on the nicer side, the more mellow ones are reminiscent of the indie rock that was to come, so seeing that influence was cool. Overall though, 2.5/5
(3/7) I liked the first few but the rest of this is noisy, reminds me of Sonic Youth
At the outset, this struck me as something I could imagine listening to in a college bar. The quirkiness of the time change that begins with the first tune is interesting, but the lack of polish that accompanies the experimentation through the remainder of the album gets to be a bit too much.
2,4 Highlights: Soul and Fire, Think (Let Tomorrow Be)
Lite för tråkigt och konstigt, och jag var i fel mode
Bubbles and crap would match better. Crap for the first songs and quite pleasant grunge style songs after. Globally 2.5
Mostly ok, with some annoying sections.
No, not for me.
A couple decent songs that are surrounded by over an hour of subpar music.
boooooooring Best Song: Soul and Fire Rating: 3.0/10 Stars: 2
Как будто просто студенты у кого-то на хате решили побренчать.
Some songs on the album weren’t bad, but overall I never want to hear it again.
1.5/5 Favorite Song: Soul And Fire
neat
Started off fine, but got a little more dissonant and harder to listen to as it went on. Just alright lo-fi indie/alternative at its best, but doesn't quite stack up to similar acts such as Guided By Voices or Pavement in my eyes.
Pas dingue
*1993. *First song is great and I really thought I'd stumbled on a hidden gem. *There are 3 distinct styles throughout - Pearl Jam style early 90s rock (yay!), indie (yay!), bizarre wannabe hard core type sound (ack!). *I like about 1/2 of the songs here but had to quickly skip a number of tracks because just... no. RATING - 6/10
Indicative of its time, but doesn't really resonate with me.
Very much early 90s low fi rock and I know it's probably influential and all, but it feels like a movie cut from mostly bloopers. I liked some dissonance to spice things up, but this just seems amatourish.
Some okay slacker and indie rock here, about as solid and consistent as anyone could want in its best moments. But it certainly wasn't bringing anything very unique to the genre in the '90s. At least nothing worthwhile; when the band goes out of its comfort zone, it doesn't sound great, like with the ballsiness and facetiousness of 'Telecosmic Alchemy' and the nearly unlistenable "Fantastic Disaster' - these cuts just don't work in the context of this album, or as standalone experimental noise interludes. 'Sister' was the best of the noisier cuts; I just really liked the squealing lead, and the whole thing gave a sort of "Big Black" feel. The band is at their peak when they're on the softer side of things. The album starts strong enough with 'Soul and Fire', a pretty expansive and tone-setting track, with these booming overdriven guitar hits that reminded me of a group like 'Built To Spill'. 'Sacred Attention' had some really neat guitar work; despite its simplicity, it also managed to capture that larger-than-life feel of the opener. And the funky scratchy guitar and bass groove opening up 'Emma Get Wild' was great; the rest of the song is pretty good as well, instrumentally at least, pretty punky. An album that has its charms and some genuinely solid moments, but is unbelievably bogged down by the awful atonal cuts laced throughout. I'm all for noisy, unconventional cuts, but they're just not executed well at all here - especially on the vocal front. I can enjoy a good amateurish vocal delivery (especially in this kind of music), to bring up Build to Spill and Modest Mouse again, but it feels too forced here and doesn't add any sort of character to the thing - it's just annoying. And the worst part is, when it's not being loud and brash, it's middling and generic a good chunk of the time, with just a few solid moments throughout.
Boring then just bad.
Klingen wie Dinosaur Jr., sofern mal alles subtrahiert, was an Dinosaur Jr. interessant ist.
The journey felt inconsistent and jarring
Yesterday I praised Alice Cooper for showcasing a diversity of styles on "School's Out," but this is an album which toils in the same space to an effect which I would describe as "uneven." There's some good here - quite a bit, in fact, but it's stretched too thin across the runtime of the album. And that's without listening to the extended tracklist of the reissue! I don't see how this album could be described as essential listening, and I may revisit a few songs in the future but not the whole of it. Favorite track: "Homemade"
I can't say I enjoyed this a lot. It wasn't thaaat bad compared to other shit on this list, but it wasn't good either. It sounded like a garage band practicing their really easy songs. Not bad, but easy.
This sounds like something you would find in the 90s clearance bin.
Sounded a lot like Nirvana so you'd know this was a B-tier grunge band from the early 90s. It wasn't particularly strong but it was lo-fi so idk.
3/10
Yeh,... no, this is really boring, with some presumably deliberately really out of tune harmonica that I just don't get. Don't get it.
Not grunge levels bad, but not good either.
‘..reasonably well-crafted Indie rock’ Totally agree. But why did I have to listen to it before I die?
I just wrote a review a few days ago about how good the music was in the 90s. This album just made me eat my words.
Enjoyed the first track but then it became clear that this was just their loss leader to lull unwary punters into a false sense of security.
Poor man's Nirvana. Boring and forgettable.
Not my thing
Only listened for half of it but wasn’t the biggest fan
Mix of good and bad 90s rock, sometimes they want to be Primus and are not
I didn't particularly love this one ngl
Definitely 90s sounding. Sits a bit between punk, grunge and skate punk for me. Compared to all alternatives in these genres it fell pretty flat honestly, and definitely doesn’t feel like anything I’ve missed. Too abrasive and overall bad sounding with not that interesting riffs. Just feels like we’ve had loads of these unknown punk-like albums on the list that sounds very boring and same .Strong 2.
Glimpse of music I enjoy. Teased and disappointed.
1.17???? это полный пиздец. невозможно скучно, то, что может быть меня заставил послушать заумный мозг в 15, но сейчас? может в лайве это и работает, но в наушниках я умираю со скуки от этого рока Под середину альбома чето разыгрывается наконец, но мне не хочется это слушать больше часа. Ради чего?
A poor example of its genre. Clueless as to why it’s here.
This is fairly shitty at times, innit? It occasionally veers into passable territory, which kinda makes it even more disjointed as they can't decide whether they want to be an OK indie/alt/garage band or if they want to be a half-ass punk/noise rock band. I was glad when this one was over. My dog had to leave the room while it was on. 1.9
A mix of lame indie rock and annoying punk. The only decent track was "Think (Let Tomorrow Bee)".
Listen out of order since Spotify licensing shenanigans
Sounds like if Matthew Sweet decided to be dour and atonal. So very early 90s.
This is a bit much,.
I liked some of this (the grungier bits) but really DIDN’T like the rest. Not my cuppa.
Not sure what to think about this. A high percentage of bands I like are Sub Pop. But this one is Hard to categorize. Varied and scattered. Not overly enjoyable. Initial reaction is downward but then feel terrible constantly criticizing new and unfamiliar things. Oh well. 2/5
I’m not really enjoying this one, I’ll be honest. There’s definite moments, but lots of it is just really meandering and kind of tedious. Not to mention the moments where it’s all out of tune. I know it’s deliberate, but it doesn’t sound good.
3/10
Good memories
This was not great. I found some of this to be unlistenable, and a few songs were ok.
Er zitten coole ideeën in en af en toe zelfs lekker rock songs, maar het wordt te verstopt onder teveel noise en valse noten. Toen ik 17 was vond ik dit al een rommelige, pretentieuze plaat. Dat is er niet op gebeterd.
Dit is exact het soort muziek dat je verwacht van tieners in een garageband die nog niet helemaal weten hoe hun instrumenten werken. Er zitten echt goeie nummers tussen, en dan echt heel heel slechte.
Mostly forgettable. There were a couple of songs in the middle that got me leaning towards a 3, but it lost me again after that. I see it's classed by some as a classic breakup album. Maybe I didn't pay enough attention to the lyrics.
Es un rock alternativo, grunge, algo core que no logra destacar demasiado. Not gonna lie me da mucha risa el vaivén del tempo.
Utterly miserable. Drony, depressing vocals. Some of the most boring songs I've heard to date. What a waste of time. 1.5/5.
Uselt producerad. Men bitvis några låtar som har något.
Ett dåligt Pavement, stark tvåa.
Did I even listen to this yesterday? Zero recollection at all.
Review - Sebadoh just aren't that good. There was too much indie rock going on at the time and some of it was mid and didn't need to be heard. Score - 3/10 Need to listen? NO
Сара 2 Марко 2,5
Never heard of this artist. As I started to listen to this one, I read about the band to learn more. Then I understood why this type of sound is just uninteresting for me - the singer/songwriter is from Dinosaur Jr.; another band I think is uninteresting. It has acoustic elements I enjoy - fuzzy, warm, noisy, dingy. The composition and sequencing of the music, paired with the vocals, just doesn’t do it for me. At least I learned something new about music.
Almost skater punk but mostly poser music.
Not something I'd listen to again
It was alright, a bit too loose at times
Wow… how this made the list is beyond me. The little bit that’s good here isn’t even that good, and the bad is really bad. It hits its absolute low point on track four, “Fantastic Disaster,” which I can confidently say is anything but fantastic.
Incoherent and musically just noise. Not for me.
Ahh the opening act for the early 90's! It's emo before emo was a thing. Only weirder. Not in the fun weird like Meat Puppets or Primus. More like the annoying kind. I'll bet they are some late 90's band favorite band though.
The first song was great and I was very intruiged to hear more. Then the album devolved into a bunch of mumbo jumbo
5/10 Generic punk music
I once saw a quote that said something along the lines of "Punk is the only type of music that doesn't require you to know how to play your instrument", and I don't think I've ever listened to an album where that is more true (and that is coming from someone that actually really enjoys punk). There were a couple songs I genuinely liked, but there were more songs that were genuinely hard to listen to. Interestingly enough, looking at the Wikipedia page, all 3 members of the band wrote songs on the album and all the songs I liked were written by the same person. I think he should leave and start a new band.
Nothing album
🎧Bubble AND scrape? In this economy?? In all seriousness, this album is lousy.
Why is this even on here
Album all over the place. Some songs were good Standout songs: Two years two days Homemade No way out
idk 2
Feels like wannabe grunge, with jangly indie guitars and off key garage vocals. It’s like shitty Lemonheads. Seven songs in and I just can’t find anything compelling. Add this to the pile of “totally not necessary to hear before you die”.
Not my favorite
It's ok - but I felt like all the songs ran together and they sound similar to Pavement. Doesn't really make me want to check out anything else in their catalogue.
I hate to admit this about my hometown heroes, but I had trouble getting through this one. There were some tracks I enjoyed, like “Cliché” and “Homemade,” but for the most part, the band’s disdain for tonal resolution took its toll on me.
Meh.
The only thing this album has going for it is that it came early enough in the alternative rock sphere to be considered a noteworthy - but not essential - album to its development. That's really where the positives end for this profoundly unmemorable, in-one-ear-out-the-other slacker rock album. Hardly any of the songs even get past the 3 minute mark, and while I can never fault a song for being concise, having a full album of 2 and 1/2 minute mid-tempo indie rockers makes them all blend into each other. At least punk songs have some energy to them: this whole album feels like it was recorded late at night and the band didn't want to wake anyone up. It also suffers from the early alt rock trope of doing everything at once, which makes the whole thing feel very catch-all and like it's just trying to see what will stick. The only song that really stuck out to me "Elixir Is Zog," which has a genuine wiry energy that would have easily kicked the album up a notch or 2 if the band stuck with it (that's some pretty cool Dax Riggs style screaming; I was not expecting that on this album!) At one point the instruments sound like they ran out of batteries. Honestly, all the high-energy songs like "Elixir," "Sister" "Telescopic Alchemy" and "Bouquet for a Siren" are the best songs here, but it still only gives about an EP worth of material, and the songs would still need to be cleaned up afterward. The ramshackle performances recall Pavement, but they don't quite have the snarky pop songwriting down pat, so it ultimately ends up sounding messy for no real reason. It's an ordinary, forgettable album that combines a lot of influences in an academic sort of way: there's nothing here that Dinosaur Jr., R.E.M., or Pavement didn't do better.
This was the least interesting band that came out of the lo-fi era. This is Pavement without the personality, Dinosaur Jr without virtuosity, GBV without the mad genius of Robert Pollard. I didn't like it
inte min grej
Didn’t need to hear this before I died.
Feel like this started with a lot of promise but got quite bland relatively quickly. Is it trying to be grunge, is it garage? Not sure it even knows itself.
Bubble And Scrape is a great name for a harsh album buried with treasure. Over its runtime, it felt at times like I was being punished for desperately seeking out the more touching moments promised by the record's opening track "Soul and Fire." This is truly one of the greatest breakup songs ever written, and what follows seems like Sebadoh immediately lashing out at me in response to their own vulnerability. What starts as a very earnest balance of sweetness and atonal jerkoff sessions quickly slides into favor of the latter. Side A summoned new and inventive ways to torture and annoy me from a time before I was born. The wanky guitar, fried harmonica parts, I was just trying to explain it all away in my head to pass the time. I don't even want to think about most of those songs again if I'm being honest. Side B softens and mellows appreciably, and even doubles back towards that aforementioned balance of acridity and sweetness conjured so naturally by the slacker rock greats. Just when I thought I had paid my dues, the outro to "Bouquet for a Siren" suddenly points a Side A shaped pistol at my temple - a stark threat in case I get fidgety and try to engage seriously with the material again. I don't want to go back and check, but I think it was that song: There was the opening notes of a delay-soaked free horn part over a tangle of guitar noise I had already sat through scowling. However, right as I was going to get super angry, the song abruptly ended. It was as if the track had the Side A gun, turned it on itself, smiled knowingly, and pulled the trigger. If the collection of songs is meant to corroborate an experience of the songwriters, that can be beautiful. It can also be total BS, even if it's totally honest. This album, much like life, had both. Also much like life, I had no say in it other than ending it prematurely, which I did not do. Maybe this is the point -- there is joy and pain and loss and hope, and you must bear all of it if you decide to participate, come what may. It could also be that the record's just not as good as I remember and that other one is better. It pains me to say that my favorite part of the listen-through might have been at the end, when a song's intro perked my ears up but when I checked for the title it was a Teenage Fanclub track on autoplay - That would have been my favorite if not for "Soul and Fire," which was the cotton candy so naively washed clean by the raccoon in the stream, only to disintegrate in his little hands.
Intro had my hopes up high but this is like a friends band I have to ignore invites to. They sound like they were really into the slower nirvana songs. I’m a big sub pop fan and idk why this is on this list compared to other records of that year even. It’s fine, will never return to this.
esse aí não me prendeu nem por 3 minutos peço perdão
Not really sure on this one. Some songs were straight awful and some were lacking kick. I feel as though this album was simply not my favourite.
I did not listen to all of this. Looking at the number of streams on Spotify, I'm sure I didn't miss some epic tracks on the last half. It's alright, but looking at RateYourMusic, this is the group's 4th best album there, and it gets a mere 3.39. It's not bad, but I have better things to listen to, and it doesn't belong in this project, so I'm giving it 5 out of 10 and rounding down. Two stars.
Sometimes experiments just don't work. We can see it was an experiment, respect the experimenters for their attempt to explore new things, record it as an experiment, then move on to better things.
Low fi indie rock who's lyrics made me think the writer was a prick.
Meaningless. music of zero consequence.
En suuri fani lyhyille biiseille -> paljon biisejä levyllä konsptista. Ihan ok settiä osa biiseistä.
Too dissonant for me. This is really "landfill indie" in a unique way - you could tell me the instruments Sebadoh used were made with recycled materials and I would believe you.
Nah.
I really wanted this to be a better album. I tried listening to it 3 times and each time it was wholly unmemorable. When I would go "Ooh, I like this", the album had ended and Spotify had rolled over to another artist. This happened more than once. I really try to give all albums a fair shot. This one just isn't going to be on my likes list. Sorry. :(
1992 huh, just after the fall of the Soviet union huh, CIAs quality control starting to dgaf huh
Please stop with these sad boy rock bands, it ain't it chief. Low 2
It was okay. I liked tracks from their later albums. Where the fuck do they get these albums from and what made them go oh yeah people need to listen to this before they die. Did they just go with 1001 albums and think oh shit now we have to actually list 1001. Hopefully that’s the only 2 Lo fi rock albums. Tough few days but we persist.
There are many -- many -- one-star songs on this album, Just enough three-star mediocrity to get out of the cellar.
I am fairly certain this came from “Bizarro Nirvana” from an alternate universe
Not really sure what this album is doing here.
Not for me.
I was really bored by this one. Sadly, too much indie shit on this list as it is.
some parts i hated and then at times i learnt to love those parts
This album has a strong, STRONG discordant sound. Which I'm sure is done on purpose, but it does make the songs a bit harder to listen to. I have a hard time seeing how this is supposed to be influential as well. That being said, Sister is a very strong song, more punk-like, that I vibe with a lot more. It reminds me of PUP a lot, a band that I love.
Nope. Nothing really to listen to here. Singing not that great and musically it kinda feels like paint thrown at wall.
2/5
Generic and boring
Bubble & Scrape were Len Houmous’ 4th and 8th children. Over time they’ve narrowed their mom down to one of 5 potential women. 2.1 1/17 Soul & Fire
The American whine strikes again. Sounds like Elliot Smith trying to make a Guided By Voices album. Could have maybe got into this at 15, but no real time to put the effort in at 39.
Some songs were very good, but some songs were also very bad! 17 songs on an album is a lot of songs. My brain can't cope.
Hearing the first song I thought I was going to like this. Then the rest of the songs happened. They alternated between ok and not so good.
Aika tasapaksu levy. Ei oikeastaan jäänyt mitään erityistä mieleen.
This is so odd to me, they win me over one track just to immediately lose me. It does a few things well, then follows up by doing those things poorly. The net effect is... meh... Track 1 is fire though. 2.5/5
picks: soul and fire, think
I kept waiting for something to click, but it never did. I hear a lot of influence from other bands. Its almost like background Nirvana.
A little too rough around the edges for me.
I found this one pretty inconsistent listening. At times I was thinking ‘this is pretty good’ only to be thinking ‘what the hell is this crap’ a few minutes later, sometimes within the same song. The style seemed all over the place. 2.5 rounded down
First good song and there's nothing more to it.
This is one of those rare joyful mornings where I know absolutely nothing about what I’m pressing play on except that it came out in 1993; one of the most monumental years in my music lifetime. Still, the fact that I’ve never heard (of) this record might be some ‘Chekhov’s obscurity’ type of foreshadowing. And sure enough, “Fantastic Disaster” (track 4) takes a turn into some strange territory. But the next track, “Happily Divided” pulls us firmly back into the ‘grunge band owns acoustic guitars’ wheelhouse of 1993; I wish it had any kind of hook I could latch onto. Actually, now that I think about it, I could say that about every track so far. It’s wild to think of bands like Nirvana as pop or mainstream, but compared to this, they did manage to pump out a bunch of hooky, chartable songs. Part of me appreciates that avant-punk aspect of this Sebadoh record, but part of me is disappointed to not uncover a hidden gem here. I think the real strength of this album may be its contrast to everything else happening in the early 90s. There are SO MANY moments here where you could be listening to a Nirvana record, but a moment later it's very clear you are not. Much like my feelings about Pixies and Fugazi, I want to like this more than I do. And I can't say I even like it as much as offerings from either of those bands. "Soul And Fire" "Happily Divided" "Homemade"
I can respect when post-60s albums (that, importantly, are not punk-affiliated) are long but consist entirely of very short tracks. It pays homage to the origins of album-based pop music without that era's stylistic and technological developments tying it down. Bubble And Scrape peaks at the very beginning with Soul And Fire, which is better-produced than any later tracks. From then on, everything sounds messier and sort of thrown together, a series of half-thought bagatelles imitating other music of the time. The music is not explicitly bad for most of its runtime, but it pales in comparison to other rock releases from the early 90s. Two Years Two Days sobers you up after the laid-back, reasonably catchy opening track, being kind of soft-rock-apocalyptic. A bit of a mismatch. And from there, we get a deliberately odd, slightly off-kilter mood for the next several songs. Telescopic Alchemy, Fantastic Disaster (the out-of-tune vocals make this a complete miss for me), Happily Divided (heavily mumbled)... After this point, some songs qualify as highlights, but most are neutral-to-"meh" or worse. Sacred Attention qualifies as a highlight. Feels like an early Talking Heads (or adjacent) tune – great thick texture, multiple contrasting sections, and a punky guitar line+tone. Bouquet For A Siren, amidst various other fairly bad tracks, at least tries to sound like a good existing song (Lake of Fire, by the Meat Puppets). The average quality of the album's final few tracks skyrockets with the excellent acoustic track Think (Let Tomorrow Bee) which, despite the spelling mistake, is so darn perfect. Sebadoh hits their absolute peak in song composition here. But it doesn't salvage the album from a low rating, courtesy of the numerous poor tracks (including the subsequent/final track Flood, which is like the Dizzy Miss Lizzy to this album's Yesterday. Shameful). Somewhere between a 2 and a 3. I'll bump it up to a 3 because the album art is cool and confusing. 3/5 Key tracks: Soul And Fire, Sister, Sacred Attention, Think (Let Tomorrow Bee)
It's one of those albums I don't know why they are on the list. Early 90s American indie/lo fi but none of the songs stuck in my mind or were enjoyable enough.
Nirvana + radiohead + lo-fi
Boring
I have no words. Garage rock I guess
Sebadoh’s always a bit of an odd prospect for me as a Massachusetts indie rocker. I can hear the magic and wonder of being off on your own in West Mass making your own version of Rock Music and not hewing to conventions. It’s an intoxicating experience, even if you can barely write a note. But Barlow and Loewenstein's songwriting hadn’t matched the aesthetic and vice versa in these early days. Which would change within a year.
4/10… grunge / 90s indie / *1993
Had its moments. Most of which were bad.
Holy 90s indie rock sounding guitars. The slow tempo and beat is already a huge part of the genre from this time period but that distorted guitar brings me back really hard. That being said I feel like I have heard bands like this many times before and maybe its my nostalgia talking but others have done it better.
Started our kind of strong and was really reminiscent of the alt rock to follow it 10 years later, but as they album continued you could tell there was a lot of "fucking around" to make the songs. Really lost me as I was digging into it and the worst outcome (seeing when the album will finish) occurred.
In the very short times where he actually sings and doesn’t just moan and gran and complain it’s actually not too bad, but the lead vocals completely derail all musicality that this project could have
Indie rock, pretty hit or miss though. This "shitty-on-purpose" approach just doesn't work well for me. Guitars are the highlight, but everything else is subpar.
This is just a piss take, right? I’m starting to wonder who keeps putting these mediocre albums on this list. The Black Album wins again.
Felt weird for the sake of being weird.
Never heard of the band before, but this album was a Jekyll and Hyde experience for me. The first couple of songs were kind of a grungy mellow sound which I really liked…it seemed that about half of the songs on the album had this kind of sound. But the rest of the songs? Ugh. Dissonant melodies infused with screamfests…I hated these songs. If edited down, this could have been a four star album for me, but the junk on the album drags it down to a two.
An ordeal. Why on earth is it in this list?
Album felt like an unfinished thought- like they couldn't quite nail down their sound and what their vision was. I liked some of the early songs and then lost the thread as it went on. Maybe needed to be split into multiple albums?
Considering how much I love Indie Rock from the 00's and the 2010's, I am always surprise by how much I DON'T love that from the 90's. Bands like Pavement, Built to Spill, or Guided by Voices. They're all fine but not really my taste, probably too slacker-ish or whatever. These guys, Sebadoh, are just like those bands, but even less interesting. Key tracks: Soul and Fire
I really had a lot of faith going into Bubble and Scrape that it would impress me as a sleeper Slacker Rock hit of the 90s, but unfortunately it gets a bit ahead of itself and does a lot more self sabotaging to its' own sound than I think most are willing to admit. This album has moments of some really solid Slacker Rock like with Soul and Fire, Two Years Two Days, Sister, Cliche, and Homemade but everything else here really gets lost in the sauce much akin to Sonic Youth. I appreciate what the band tries to do here especially with their soundscape here but this album really doesn't know what to do with itself half the time and it shows throughout a majority of this album's runtime. Hopefully any further releases from Sebadoh feel much more organized, but Bubble and Scrape is a pretty messy project.
Bad singing
I dug the first tune, but got bored pretty quickly after that. I was never into these guys, though I dig their overall vibe.
I'd completely forgotten about this band - they were right there along with Pavement and Dinosaur Jr as the mellower end of grunge evolved.
2.5
2.5
Wasn't overly for me, felt disjointed throughout. Love a lo-fi album but struggled to latch onto anything here. Personally I'd omit for a number of Primus albums
It started out promising then went downhill quickly
Priem
Punk for sure, not exactly my kinda style.
2,4/5
Op basis van het genre en tijdperk zou dit mijn ding moeten zijn, maar de nummers blijven niet hangen en heb niet de behoefte gevoeld het nog een keer te proberen.
It’s trying to be edgy but misses the mark. The songs are cookie-cutter 90’s grunge/indie rock and I couldn’t connect to any of them.
not bad listening just not my vibe
It’s certainly abrasive, but in a way that actually feels purposeful. I could see this being pretty enjoyable to someone who’s more punk-inclined than I am. Standout: Cliché
Another album that unfortunately had md looking at the clock despite one or two songs I really enjoyed. Did not see the vision for this one and a lot of it felt very unfocused and random which was probably at least partially deliberate.
01/02/2026 As much as I like guitars, rock and noise, this definitely wasn't the one. Spotify listeners: 135.1k
Curates egg
Scraping the barrel 1001.
Don't know how this got in ahead of Bakesale, but you have to play the team in front of you. Occasionally great but a lot of filler. And gets more difficult as it goes on. 2*
Sebadoh gets recommended to me from different internet algorithms all the time, so I guess I dig enough related stuff that I should enjoy them. And to that I say…SebaNO! This album has brief ideas that I like or find interesting (particularly the noisier and more chaotic bits), but not full songs I feel the same about. Just little parts here and there catch my ear. As a full album, I just didn’t really have much interest.
I can see the attraction of this album for fans of lo fi grunge. However not for me. Too many songs/running time. Enjoyed hapoily divided, cliche and think.
Það eru góð móment hérna, en líka mjög mikið af leiðinlegum grungelátum. Og tempóbreytingin í fyrsta laginu þegar trommurnar komu inn fór algjörlega öfugt í mig. Læt eitt rennsli nægja til tvists.
Pretty forgettable replacement level indie rock. Too thrashy for my taste.
Eh
it's aight
Mediocre does not need to be on this list
This genre is very yawn. Nothing offensive about this album... but nothing grabbing either.
This sounds like about 1/3 of albums on this project.
This is a hard one for me to rate. I did enjoy some of it. It was just very inconsistent and clearly had too many drivers. It was trying to be too many things. 2.5/5
4.5
I honestly didn't really like Bubble And Scrape and i hate the fact that i didn't because this album definitely seems like something right up my alley. There are some moments of really solid musicianship with cool guitars, crunchy basslines, energetic drumming and quite a bit of other things that should make me like this album. But the issue is, this album just has a severe laziness factor to it. Every element of this album has this lazy, sleazy feel. Everything from the vocals, the lyrics (probably the worst offender of this) and even the music all are guilty of this. I can't in good faith give this a one (due to the aforementioned solid instrumentation) but even at 46 minutes, it felt like it was dragging along. Best Song: Sacred Attention Worst Song: Sister
It's not bad, but it's also not really that good either. I wouldn't ask someone to turn it off, but you'll never find me asking someone to turn it on either.