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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.
Not grunge levels bad, but not good either.
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
"Soul and Fire" grew on me over a couple listens ("When I lose control, I need a kind, forgiving friend / But I think our love is coming to an end"). But most of the album, I wouldn't recommend.
indie meh, zamula
You know, it makes me feel sad to give 90s music bad scores because I love 90s music, it's the best decade for music. But I didn't like ALL 90s music in the 90s, and some of it hasn't aged well so I'm certainly not going to like all of it now.
Some ok moments, some not so much. Another indie/alt album that doesn't seem worthy of this list.
Raczej nudne i nic szczególnego. Nie wiem czemu się to tutaj znalazło. 2
1.5 stars I like fuzzy guitar loud distorty 90s music. But I also dislike a lot of lofi music in the same genre because it sounds more like a bumbling mess than an expression of emotion through use of said noise. This album felt like an opening act that was going for something but I wasn’t vibing with. Maybe others would but I couldn’t. I won’t listen to this again.
Ok 2-5
I get that this is early grunge and was likely influential, but it's not very good. I don't think I missed out on the story of 90s rock, of which there are many trailblazers and amazing albums, by never having heard this before. "Homemade" is a good song, but everything else is boring and forgettable.
Jesus this is boring. Has the personality of slightly to soggy cereal, saccharine and dull instrumentation, rip off from grunge sound but has the life drained out of it via pop fusion. Does absolutely nothing for me apart from annoy quite seriously. It has immense ability to annoy across its range. Fuck this
The first track was solid, but it was all downhill after that
Man, what the hell is this? I've never heard of this band or album before, though these scuffed, abstract album covers are very much a 90s alt-rock thing, so I think I've more or less got this in the bag as far as a prediction is concerned. It's indie rock, though I was close enough in my prediction. Can't say I was too big on this one, truth be told. The first half is peaceful and quaint as far as lo-fi indie rock goes, though the second half of this album completely shits the bed with the more aggressive instrumentation and vocals. I do understand and appreciate the concept, however. The sombre, self-pitying first half gives way to a more reckless and self-destructive second half, capturing the full range of emotions and experiences which come with heartbreak. There couldn't be a better pairing of that concept with this sound, as lo-fi has an impressive range between soft and harsh. My problem is that it doesn't do it well. Heartbreak songs are already kind of amateurish and sappy as is, and this album does absolutely nothing to differentiate itself. It also doesn't help that this album is incredibly fatiguing. 17 songs is just way too many for one mind to critically engage with. Book time. Well-connected. Influential in the lo-fi movement of the 90s. That's about it - Wikipedia doesn't have much of note on the page for this album. I'm surprised I haven't encountered a lo-fi entry on this list prior to this one. There's gotta be more of these - I'm sure there's a Duster or a Pavement peppered in the list somewhere. Regardless, it's an ever-popular style of music and an interesting footnote in the outsider/bedroom musician era of the 90s. I'm sure there's better showings from this genre, though for the time being I'm content with letting this entry in. I cosign this inclusion.
Some decent bits but singer doesn't do it for me.
Not really feeling this one
Standouts Think (Let Tomorrow Bee)
Nothing fantastic about this disaster. Just kidding, not a disaster per se, it's just that this record did nothing for me. I mean, where are they now? There's a lot of cases where an inclussion in this list signals a cultural failing, evidence that we, as a culture, leave a lot to be desired, letting artists pass us by, completely ignoring pieces of art that, sometimes, where staring right at our face and we just, ou know, get it. I don't think that's the case of Sebadoh, though.
Very indie rockish. But the next morning I don't remember any of it
2 stars - Maybe "the we sing out of tune and play our instruments out of tune" works for some people, I am not one of those people.
Very sleepy sounding, but in a chill way. First few songs in and I'm not hearing a lot of replay value.
Favorite track(s): Sister, Sacred Attention
I was bubbling with excitement and scraping for this to be over
maybe i was just in a bad mood but i really disliked this. i do have a short temper when it comes to 90's music.
*Had some great moments but it was overall very scattered and lacked a focus
First song was good, fell off hard thereafter.
Nope
Los escuché n Radio3 en su momento, creo que nunca tuve un disco de ellos prestado ni nada de eso. Había muchos grupos que sonaban así y creo que tenían más tirón y mejores melodías. La primera canción es la más oída, pero el resto bastante regular. Prefiero este mismo sonido por Weezer, Dinosaur Jr o Pavement.
4.3/10
If Nirvana made an album with the objective of being dropped by their record label. The maddening thing is every 4th track is great. The rest sounds like band practice at 6th form college
Starts out promising but then pulls in too many directions
I like the opening tracks, but can’t make sense of the long stretches of discordant, messy bits - which must be where the real joy for this record lies. There are unconventional tuning changes between each song, which make the band members sound out of tune and out of harmony with each other - I’m definitely missing the point! I thought I’d like the sound of a more professional “The Shaggs” but with all the energy and raging pulse, Sebadoh lacks their charm.
it's a clusterfuck of musical stuff that sometimes sounds good but most of the time weird
Listening to Bubble And Scrape, it felt like Sebadoh had some dirt on Dimery. Why am I listening to these mostly shambolic compositions from a guy that got kicked out of Dinosaur Jr.? I asked the internet what bands have cited Sebadoh as an influence, expecting to find none. But the internet said that a handful of bands claimed Sebadoh's lo-fi indie was influential. Including, oddly enough, Dinosaur Jr.--probably sometime after Lou Barlow rejoined. Bubble And Scrape is probably two and a half stars for me, but I will round down out of pettiness.
I realize that this is a very influential album by an influential."grunge"band. Despite its bonafides, this album doesn't do anything for me. I enjoy some of the songs but feel like the more commercially viable grunge bands did a better job of crafting songs as opposed to Sebadoh's skill at creating a vibe.
No pude terminarlo, cada vez se me hacía más pesado. Me suena a a angustia adolescente sin querer indagar más en ello. Tampoco le beneficia que sean de nuevo hombres y en inglés. Qué pesadez.
No pude terminarlo, cada vez se me hacía más pesado. Me suena a a angustia adolescente sin querer indagar más en ello. Tampoco le beneficia que sean de nuevo hombres y en inglés. Qué pesadez.
layered confetti encased in wax, sweat, and cigarette smoke - this cover tells me that sedaboh is a low-fi diy operation that isn't concerned with playing OR singing in any sort of semblence of tune. its messy. take it or leave it. I’m gonna leave it. Oscillates between on the verge of anything to slacking so hard that it just sounds bad. Too long.
Couple of good tunes mostly forgettable.
I can see why I’d forgotten about Sebadoh.
It's a bit much for my taste. It sounds a lot like a basement band with crazy, abstract ideas. Elixer Is Zog is insane, not necessarily in a good way.
eh, okay
Fine if you like Beck and shoegaze-y stuff. I don't.
Pretty awful jangly guitar and not impressed by the vocals
А вот и обратный случай: лет десять назад Apple Music считал, что я номер один фанат группы Sebadoh, и скорее всего в этом была как минимум доля правды, ибо это самая сэдбойская музыка в истории музыки. И я был таким несчастным брошенным мальчиком, который совершенно не понимал, что же со мной не так. Я страдал от одиночества и прятался в Лиг оф Лежендз, и слушал нытье Лу Барлоу каждый день. Я помню, как я убежал с какой-то вечеринки, на которой чувствовал себя совершенном одним, шел по Кунцевщине под дождем в пять утра, и пел Soul and Fire. О господи, какая драма! Альбом - просто пиздец. Это просто невозможно воспринимать серьезно, с каким надрывом он поет про очередной брейкап. Драма - это отлично. Но всему есть предел. Лучшая песня - Soul And Fire.
Not a huge indie rock fan. A couple of notable moments, but not more.
Kinda all over the place and hard to pin down. Felt at a pivot point in music
No.
Otro grupo que parece que está tocando en la habitación de un colega. ¿Cuesta mucho que cante el que sepa hacerlo y no los demás?
I can see how this toes the line of grunge, but it just comes across as more postpunk than anything else to me and that’s not my favorite genre. I can tell how it would be influential to a lot of of those grunge bands from the 90s, but this is just annoying.
Meh
Some good tracks, some bad ones. They all combine to sound like something I feel like I've heard before. Not sure how to take it other than 2 stars.
5/10
White noise for art students
a cowgirl is getting drunk tonight
Pretty good hate that high pitch ring but soul fire and happily divided were good. If the ringing wasn’t there 4/5 but with it 2/5
By the third song, what the hell happened?
Bland alt rock. Not interested.
Owww poor little lad. He has a case of the "cookie at me I'm all sad because I'm useless". Hope he finds something he is good at, singing isn't it.
This was a very odd album. There would be 3 bad songs then a really good song. I cant even tell the tone or type of music this is.
It’s for the background of Gossip Girl or similar American TV teen dramas. Hard for me to treat it as music in its own right.
Downright awful in places, with echoes of that nonsense George Barnwell played us in first year (Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip?), but with sufficient redeeming qualities to settle at a 2.
Not a massive fan of lo fi
Mid
I’m not a huge fan of the lo-fi thing AND they suck. I don’t know how revolutionary they were - they sound like Primus only way worse. Not quite a 1 since I didn’t hate some tracks. 2 stars.
Parts of this I liked, other parts were really not for me.
Never heard of them or this album. Nothing remarkable. US 1001’s are constantly having a go at the high number of mediocre UK Indie bands on the list. Tables turned on this one cos I’m likewise getting sick of these US wannabes who all they want to do is sound like Nivana or Pavement. 2/5 15/9/25
it started out nice then got a little crazy at the end
I quite liked Sacred Attention , but then really disliked Elixir is Zog. Overall there were moments I liked here, but also plenty that was just ok. High two.
Familiar 90s light grunge inde rock. Not completely terrible but surely not one of the greatest albums.
Just think about everything that you like about the 90s but done worse and by the most annoying people from your high school. This is an absolute regurgitation of everything going on in the 90s topped with a heap of shit. Nothing original or of note on this one. Mostly whiny bullshit.
Ugh! Just a mess -All over the place. Nope
I’ve attempted many times to listen to Sabadou with little success. The first four songs are almost unlistenable, chaotic, and tuneless. I don’t know if there are better albums by this band, but if this is them at their best, no thanks. To get a better example of this style of music listen to Pavement.
Started decent and then slowly but surely went straight to Hell. 2/5
This was all over the place, and not always in a good way. 2/5
I could barely finish listening to this album. Sounds messy and unstructured. The first song is on a different level than other songs, the only reason why I gave this album 2 stars instead of 1.
Some of this I quite liked, some not at all. 2.5 rounded down.
Rock, 1993 -> 2
This started off pretty cool and melodic but by the time it got to the meat and potatoes in the middle, it lost me. There are some decent tunes but then some far out bad sections. Like real bad sections. Enough to turn me off from the whole album
Woof
Ah, the 90s. This one takes me back to that time where we kept telling ourselves it was cool to not give a shit, and proving it with indie labels showing how much talented artists can put on a shitty sounding record. Don't get me wrong, were it not for these types of albums we may never have escaped the MTV era of overproduced hair bands on our rock radio airwaves. There's moments in here that, I suppose, warrant it's inclusion on this list, but acts like this were a dime a dozen in the 90s
Pretty noisy. Had some good moments, but lacked cohesion over all
A not very influential series of songs
Not my cup of weak alt tea
2 or 3 out of 5
I feel like this should have been better. The sound was great; I'm here for the low-fi guitars playing Nirvana-like chords; I'm even here for the discordant harmonica and general cacophony of track 4. Not uninteresting. But the songs are, ultimately, not very good. Overall, it sounded like someone not good enough to get into REM made an album with someone not good enough to get into the Pixies and someone not good enough to get into Nirvana. Perhaps. I didn't like the vocals at all, or I might have awarded a third star, especially since I unexpectedly heard the odd echo of early Roxy Music now and again. I suppose I'm sort of glad to know of its existence, but I didn't find many songs I could engage with.
my sister came in to turn it off, so...
meh
Sans intérêt. Ça ressemble à plein de chose déjà entendu mais ça manque d'énergie.
трагедия
While this is an album that could grow on me because of some good songs like "Emma Get Wild", there are lot of other songs that don't catch me emotionally. Especially the first tracks are rather annoying. I nearly turned the album off. I heard better stuff. This album is ok, but I don't need to have it on this list.
I don’t like Indie Rock. Getting tired of all these bad albums on this list.
I liked a couple tracks but a lot is cacophanous and dissonant - didn't like the vocalist much.
Decepcionado, llegué al tercer tema y ¡Kaput!
Ga meg ingenting
Interesting only when the melody is allowed to move alongside the vocals. Gets tiresome when they "rock" out. Lot of samey songs too. A band that could have been great. This is a slog of an album though.
Not for me
Heard it before. Not my favourite from Sebadoh but it's still pretty cool albeit a bit too long 2/5
Sounds like alternative rock. Started out good and had a few pretty good songs but then balanced them out with some really terrible ones. Sounded sloppy and had some of the worst harmonica I’ve heard on one of the early tracks.
Mmm, and ouch.
Kp hat mir garnet abgeholt
"Soul and Fire" was nice, and I liked "Homemade" and "Bouquet for a Siren". The rest was discordant and not all that enjoyable, kind of an odd grunge/shoegaze crossover.
3 o 4 canciones buenas, nada más.
Not really my vibe. Some of the songs I enjoyed the music but some of them were a bit too screamo for me and I was not the biggest fan of. 5/10
Enjoyed parts of this but very odd to be on this list
Not my thing.
I don’t know why this album is on this list. It’s dull, thick and drowsy.
Meh. Honestly pretty boring rock, which does not seem technically adept. Still, I didn't hate it.
Not sure how to describe this one. It's got a grunge wanna-be sound, and it's up and down, from slow to garage rock. Inconsistent and, overall, unimpressive.
3/10 - this album is bad it’s screamy and weird and sounds similar to the other songs on this album
I half love this and half hate this. 50/50 split. The first 2 tracks are nothing who cares alt rock. Then it gets aggressive and weird for a while. It just switches back and forth a couple times between speedy growls and the most boring crap of all time. Im gonna have to give it a negative for the whiplash
Soul and Fire is just OK... and nothing else on here is as good as it.
Bubble and Scraping the barrel - how does shit like this end up on the list. I doubt this would feature in the best 1001 albums of 1993
Eh, I generally thought it was OK at best at times.
I listened to the original release (17 songs). The album title and song titles were good, and the lyrics were ok. The band seems to have tried to make each track different. Some of the songs were fun, but overall the music did not interest me very much.
I don't know about that.
Didn't really care for it. It wasn't terribly interesting.
Like a try hard no talent mash up of 90's generic slacker rock.
Weird, in a frankly quite shit way. It’s a bit like Nirvana / Pixies, but not quite committed to it fully - it isn’t quiet-loud, more quiet-not quite as quiet. A bit rubbish.
I've heard too many of these now, I feel I am rating them lower as a result, but if I'm going down I'm taking you all with me.
I liked the first song and then I don’t know what happened
I liked the first track all right but it got me singing the Roches’ “Married Men,” which has the same chord changes. otherwise unmoved..
The sort of thing that would make your dad yell “Turn that racket off” if he heard it. And you know what? He’d be right to.
There were some parts where I thought it was good, and then others that were just out of tune and sounded horrible.
I really wanted to enjoy this, but I just couldn't get into it.
Make your mind up mate, are you angry or not? It's not bad enough to elicit an emotional response from me but it's pretty bad. Does that make it worse? Who knows. Get out of here Sebadoh and think about what you've done.
A couple of good songs, and a bunch of screaming terribleness.
Such a shame that at midnight on December 31st 1989 the entire music industry got hit by a train and forgot how to make music that sounds good for a whole decade. Just 10 years of the most hideous garbage you've ever heard. I hate the 90s.
2.5
meh
This album has some pretty decent songs, but there's also a lot of chaff that got included. Pretty comfortable giving this one a 2 because some songs are just awful and the ones that are good aren't great. I don't listen to much Primus, but this had shades of Primus.
All I could hear during that album was "meh meh meh meh we're an edgy indie band"
Ehhhh off time a whole lot and I’m guessing that’s on purpose. There were some random parts of songs I liked and that’s enough to bump it up to a 2
lo-fi, garage rock from members of Dinosaur Jr. If you dig that scene, it's a decent album. I struggle with it.
2/5, half the songs I liked, but the others - yuck
I've never heard of Sebadoh before, but I'm getting Dinosaur Jr. Vibes from this album cover, especially the font of the band name. Alternative and indie rock from this period can be such a mixed bag with me; Sonic Youth? Love 'em. The aforementioned Dinosaur Jr.? I know I should love them, but they're just fine. The Auteurs and Guided by Voices? Throw them on the trash heap. I have no idea which of those categories Sebadoh will fall into, but I'm excited to find out! Bubble and Scrape started off on decent footing with me; "Soul And Fire" had some decent guitar playing to start off, but it piqued my interest when the guitar sound got really fuzzy about a minute into it. It didn't wow me, but I was still left with a fair amount of promise for this album. The second track didn't wow me either, but I started to dislike this album on "Telecosmic Alchemy." I didn't care for the vocals or discordant guitar playing, and the song never really went anywhere that I thought was interesting. I started to hate this album when the harmonica kicked on "Fantastic Disaster." The vocals started to get really grating, and the out of tune sound felt like Sebadoh just wanted to be a weirder Dinosaur Jr. Thankfully, there weren't any other songs that I didn't care for as much as "Telecosmic Alchemy" or "Fantastic Disaster," but Bubble & Scrape just couldn't fully pull me out of the distaste I had developed. Most of this album wasn't bad, but it was just bland and uninteresting to me. Every now and then, a song like "Sacred Attention" would come along and lull me into a false sense of security that this album would turn the corner, but then I'd be let down again on the next song. On "Sacred Attention," the band made great use of the multi-track guitars, and I did like the multiple vocal tracks too. The guitars and vocals came together really well to give this album a deep and rich atmosphere. "Cliche" also featured a lot of what I liked about "Sacred Attention." "Think" was very good too. I enjoyed the acoustic guitar and stripped down vocals. The sound was really haunting, and it was a very well written song. Other than those few songs though, this album was a chore to get through for me. I feel like Sebadoh was on the cusp of something good, but they didn't make the best use of their talents on this album.
That album wás a disaster...