Reviews (page 6 of 8)
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...
2/5
It's like listening to a garage band that has no potential. You stop by some venue for a free concert, listen for half an hour, and walk away thinking "Oof. Wish the best for them."
2 Stars (5/15)
Cacophony isn't cool, you know?
Like most albums from this time period: some good songs, some rough around the edges songs. This album had more of the latter.
Personally, it was a lengthy album in terms of volume of songs which can be a double-edged blade as it can leave an album with a few winners quite poor overall due to too much "clutter" or "chaos" which happened here. Overall the album would get a 2 which might be bumped up by a half if less songs existed or more winners were present.
First track really set this up then takes a hard left. Didnt enjoy the music when it took that hard left but it did make me smirk. I tend to enjoy sad boy music and those parts were fine. Album is kinda all over the place and I don't see myself returning to it. 2/5.
like this wasn't good but i made it through. says more than some of the other garbage on this list LOL
Some metal. Songs to go anywhere, no beginning, middle, or end. Audio mix is not good
Approached this with a heavy heart as finding the amount of early 90's American alt rock/grunge on the list slightly tiring. Whilst there are some excellent albums within this genre there is a lot of fairly joyless dross. Unfortunately Sebadoh is leaning towards the later. The album clearly shows the 3 separate song writers and amongst the 17 songs there are a handful that I enjoyed - but unfortunately outnumbered by the ones where I wanted to press skip. Didn't hate it - but will not be listening again so its a low 2.
man, I wanted to like this album but it just didn't do it for me. Took forever to get through it because I was so bored with it. Had plenty of elements I thought were cool, but there are others that I feel do the same thing much better.
Not really for me
There are some decent songs here but most of it is really bad. 2 stars or D.
Nah this aint it
Kindof a Beatles approach to songwriting but if 2 of the members totally sucked. First two tracks are good though
No clue why this album is on this list. Built To Spill is better. 2.25/5
I already forgot this and it was this morning.
Jumps back and forth between jangly alt pop rock and crunchy, sort of grunge sound, while occasionally mixing the two. It's not bad but there's nothing that stands out or it memorable either
Nah. This isn't for me.
Some parts were fine and other parts were disorienting
2.95 stars
Inspired but all I heard was wanna be Nirvanas that had too much to drink
Sludgy indie rock. Bit yelpy. Won’t revisit I don’t think.
It's not quite ear bleedingly bad but there's not really anything good here. Yesterday, I had the Pixies' Surfer Rosa which felt very similar to this but, fortunately, included Where is My Mind? which blows any song from Bubble and Scrape out of the water. The day before that, I had Eels' Beautiful Freak, so it's been a bit of a 90s indie/grunge week so far and Sebadoh is the worst of the bunch by far.
2/5
Great. A Dinosaur Jr. adjacent album taking space away from unrepresented bands. This thing licks hard.
i wanted to like this, but I couldn't get through it. too noisy, too annoying.
I kind of got into the vibe of it towards the end, but overall it was a slog despite not even being that long.
Achei chato
Not heard of this before. And now having listened to this glad I gave it a wide berth. Not my thing at all.
Definitely not my thing. Yeowch.
Not my thing
Started as a 1, finished a 3
Pretty meh up until the track Fantastic Disaster, which really couldn't be any more descriptive of a name for that song. Happily Divided, with its acoustic guitar was the first song I actually liked on the album. I hope there's more of this type of thing later Nope. Elixir is Zog makes as much sense in its name as it does musically. Maybe like 12 people know what that means, and maybe half of those enjoyed the song. Emma Get Wild was fun. Tied for 1st place on this album for me Everything else was either meh or not good. This was like listening to the average of all the filler songs on all other grunge band albums at its best, and just plain bad at its worst.
This sounds like a band practice at the parents’ house where the mom already told them to be more quiet 2 times…. I wouldn’t say this is lo-fi it’s just lo-effort
A bunch of punk songlettes. 2 minute ideas. Some are OK. Some are fine.
Noisy and uniteresting, just not for me
Rock chiant 2
Diving into Bubble and Scrape felt like wading into murky waters. Lo-fi indie, experimental rock, and noise—these are the kinds of pools I’m more than happy to swim in. So when I read some blurbs about this album, I was eager to dive in. Unfortunately, what I found was less like a refreshing swim and more like swimming against a current. Let’s start with the good—there are definitely a few bright spots. "Soul and Fire" opens with a driving, distorted guitar riff that immediately grabs your attention, and the raw, almost desperate vocal delivery from Barlow adds a sense of urgency. "Two Years Two Days" follows with a grungy punch, a little more abrasive but still full of the urgency that defines Sebadoh at their best. Tracks like "Happily Divided," "Cliché," and "Homemade" all have their moments, with swirling guitars and introspective lyrics that show flashes of Sebadoh’s brilliance. "Emma Get Wild" stands out as a surprise, with a simple but effective groove and a more confident vibe that makes it feel like a mini anthem. Unfortunately, not every track holds up. "Telecosmic Alchemy," "Fantastic Disaster," and "Elixir Is Zog" feel directionless and lack the spark of the stronger cuts, often feeling more like filler than fully realized ideas. I might get lambasted for saying this, but the lo-fi production, while intended to create intimacy, often muddies the mix, burying the bass and making certain instrumental passages indistinct. Instead of feeling raw and visceral, it sometimes feels like a veil to potentially hide poor musicianship and half-baked songwriting. At its worst, the lo-fi choices feel like a crutch, masking moments that don’t quite gel together. One thing I did appreciate, however, was the clear sense of cohesion across the album. You can easily tell which tracks come from Lou Barlow and which ones come from Eric Gaffney. Barlow’s tracks, like "Two Years Two Days," tend to be more melodic and introspective, with a sense of melancholy. Gaffney’s contributions, like "Happily Divided," are often more experimental and abrasive, leaning into noise and dissonance. The contrast works, but it’s also apparent that the tension between their different styles was too much to sustain—no wonder Gaffney split after this. In the end, Bubble and Scrape feels like a float through murky waters. There are some moments that make you want to dive deeper, but more often than not, you’re left treading water, wishing for clarity. It’s a record with potential but never quite able to rise above its own hazy surface.
this feels like it was revolutionary are being half-assed or something.
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Dreadfully boring music
Indie anos 90. Subpop.2,5.
A nice variety of songs that peak at entirely forgettable or generic and all the way down to awful
2/5
What a headache. Why so much dissonance?? I mean, I get it's part of the style, but when it's constant and you even have instruments out of tune between each other... This sounds like musical and production mistakes rather than stylistic choices. Even on the first song. The start of the album, the drums start playing out of tempo, slower, after the short guitar intro. Like WTF!!. Who was the one in charge that heard that and decided "yeah, that intro sounds good". And it's on the very start of the album. I guess some songs are not so unbearable but the production sucks so bad for a profesional release. And this is certainly not an album I needed to listen before I die. Why the fuck is on the book! 2 stars because the recording itself sounds nice and clean. There was good engineering here. But everything else sounds completely unprofessional.
Para nada fan de este tipo de rock, resalto la armónica (?)
My first thought was the name of the group looks like something Adam Sandler would say. My second thought was I've never heard of this group so another chance to discover some new music. Maybe? Almost...this album is OK. It's lo-fi so it's raw, messy and almost in tune. I wanted to like it more, but it just did not click for me.
This album's lows are way too low, and that's coming from a huge fan of 90's alt and slacker rock. The highs are still there - the edge of the acoustic guitar on Happily Divided perfectly dabbled into a bit of slowcore style drab. But this ranks very low on my list of good alt slacker rock albums from the 90s, especially since it came out at the same time as Pavement's best albums. 2.5 rounded down
this was so boring omg
Den der tidlig-90er indie stil med at pladerne helst lidt skal være noget rod -- det holder ikke særlig godt! Det er en skam for jeg kan ellers godt lide de her bands og de her albums. Det skulle bare have været kortere og mere kohærent
The first track was promising, but then…
Most of the tracks on this album are just meh, but Homemade is probably my favorite
1,5
Meh album, nothing remarkable.
Did not care for this.
I liked the first song until the lyrics. Very depressing. Not what I’d listen to.
Many of the tracks sounded out of tune. Musically not all that great.
Started.off Ok but got tiresome.
I was a little disappointed by this. I was expecting so much more. It sounds wholesome - you can almost hear the sound of the songs being crafted. It's a little rough around the edges. UK Vs US indie is quite a leap of understanding and aesthetic
A really cool alternative rock album :) very interesting prog undertones
First song rips but the rest of the album is really average to miss.
Music is meh, but it looks like someone had fun with arts and crafts at least.
lou really needs j mascis unfortunately
I liked a couple of tracks but that’s it
I can appreciate a few of the songs. But there are also a handful that are just “too much”. But a song like Telescopic Alchemy is pretty good
This was just a bad album I did not like it
Confused band. I like some of their grunge, almost none of the punk.
Like the guitar work, but hate the vocals. A couple of good songs. 2.5 stars
Very crumbly and lame slowcore/grunge/slacker/crud rock whatever. They stumble upon a cool supercharged guitar riff every once in a while but most of the time this is aimless dossy noise. Generally it sounds like a dull handicapped Nirvana, at its shrieking worst like an even crapper Meat Puppets and at its best like a slightly cooler than normal early Snow Patrol. So a mixed bag that’s still mainly crap.
I definitely don’t like this: it’s pretty unpleasant throughout, but it is interesting and unpredictable.
This mostly swings between mopey and uninteresting and chaotic and grating. Often feels like a second-rate Nirvana I appreciate that they seemed to try doing a few different things, but largely it feels poorly put together. The songwriting is mostly uninteresting to bad. Fantastic Disaster is an absolute mess, which I suppose may be the point given the name, but wow I don't want to listen to it again. I also got so tired of the vocals by the end, just your pretty standard bland 90s alt rock voice The guitar and bass tones can be good, the drumming shows some strong flashes too. No idea why this is on the list though Highlights: Telecosmic Alchemy
4/10 Ideas are betrayed by the execution and poor singing. Some stuff is cool, but mostly it’s atonal or inharmonious just to grate on the ears. They might be cool live, but this record does a terrible job capturing it.
A bit like many of its contemporaries - Dinosaur Jr, Neil Young, Nirvana, Sonic Youth - but doesn't quite hit the same heights. Very lo-fi, with some weird tuning that gets a bit much after a while. Has it's ups and downs, but overall it's a mid. Standouts: Emma Get Wild, Homemade
Half awful, on many songs they’re not even trying to sing properly. Sophomoric lyrics 2.4
Meh
Never thought I’d feel second hand embarrassment listening to an album but here we are!
This is not my style but the ways it's driving me nuts are more style related vs them being inept.
Not my favorite Sebadoh album, but I was a fan of Bakesale and Harmacy. I wanted more Sebadoh so I purchased this, so the money was spent and needed to put in the time. I would have listened a lot on my walk home from highschool using my Panasonic Shockwave Portable CD Player. I was into indie rock with a dash of emo. I was a teenager. I was wearing vintage zip up cardigans. Lou Barlow can be a good lyricist. Being much older now, there are a lot of cringey moments. I think tracks 1,2,5 are fine and among the limited tracks that I can remember. Which makes me believe I would often skip quite a few tracks. Emma Get Wild has some cool bits. The melodies in Homeade are good, but I remember skipping the track most listens and I still feel no one needs this. Think was the track I would have put on some mixtapes. Overall I think this album is un focused and and shoots it's self in the foot too many times.
The opening song Soul &Fire, grabbed attention, and I actually really enjoyed it on this early morning, though the tempo change in the first 12 secs was weird. As the album continued forward, I started losing interest. By the third song Telecosmic Alchemy, the bad harmonica threw me for a loop. It bounced back a little bit with Happily Divided. Sacred Attention was a strong contribution that I’m surprised didn’t make it bigger in the 1990’s, but then Emma Get Wild felt misplaced. This album collectively felt like a grabbag of genres, some well executed and some not ready to leave the garage just yet.
Couple interesting songs otherwise pretty horrible. 1.76
There are too many songs on this and they are all over the place
Never been quite as conflicted, there is mostly utter dross on here. Music that sounds like it was made by 15 year olds starting out. But there were one or two gems in the ocean of crap.
Sólo un tema rescatable para mi gusto, el resto para olvidar
all over the place sonically and consistency-wise. some good songs on here, but none of them are long enough to leave any lasting impression on me.
Too noisy. Not my thing.
4.5/10
Just couldn’t connect with this album. Maybe I wasn’t in the right mood, but then again, isn’t this kind of shoegazing, grungy indie rock exactly what one listens to in such moments? (Apparently, it even made NME’s Top 30 Heartbreak Albums list.)
Best Song: Think (Let Tomorrow Bee). By forcing themselves to do something understated, they've actually made something listenable. Worst Song: Fantastic Disaster. Just because you give your train wreck of a song a tongue-in-cheek name doesn't absolve you of having made the disaster in the first place. Overall: Greasy jam music that never should have left the garage it was written in. Not all music need be distributed for mass consumption.
Listened to this record several times. I typically love early 90s grunge and indie rock, and some tracks were great, but overall it seemed too random, too punky with poor singing and random harmonicas. No top 1000 record for me.
You think it will be an okay listen, but then it isn't.
3/10 Pretty awful Favourite Song=Soul and Fire Least Favourite Song=Fantastic Disaster
I HATE DISSONANCE Standout track: - Think (let tomorrow bee) 4/5
越听越难听
Starts off alright but soon descends into a mix of slow grunge and grating noise. A bit below average overall.
Big meh on this one.
Perfectly serviceable album and if you're into this then great, I'm pleased for you, but it's just not my kind of thing in all honesty. Some tracks have a great energy about them. I think 'Emma Get Wild' is the best offering. It has a cool groove to it. It's a bit different from the rest. I find the vocals to be very all over the place, I don't think he's very good and I'm not a fan. It does all blend together in my opinion, rather indistinguishable. Decent enough to just stick on in the background though if you fancy listening to the genre.
los primeros dos temas estaban bien. A partir de ahí todo fue un gran "queseyo".
This is mostly pretty irritating to me. I'll be sure to never listen to this again.
There were some fine songs, but very unfocused and I wouldn’t glance twice at the stage of these guys were playing at a local bar. I’m not sure what about it earns its place on the list.
the first 2 tracks were a bit of me and then it just turned into awful whiny crap
Crap
I am sorry to all my dear friends in their Sebadoh tees; I have tried, but I don't get it. The lyrics on Spotify have comments from the person transcribing despairing at trying to understand what's going on. It's just some arty discordant noise: fun basement homemade stuff, which is probably more enjoyable to make than to listen to. If Sebadoh were a mate's band, or if it were cheap and local, I'd go to the gigs, but honestly, I'm sighing and eye-rolling my way through this one.
Fairly standard alternative 4/10
I really didn't like this album. I don't know what's so good about it. I had to look up why it was a good album and even then couldnt get many answers. I will say that the songs were different from one to the next which can be hard to find on this list. But I didn't enjoy my experience.
Decent sound but not my style
Some type of American indie.Not for me at all
who made elliot smith do awful emo rock bruh 😭 no but fr this album is a let down, i could do see this being something i liked if the singer was different and if the production was different on every song and if some of the songs on here didn’t exist at all and if it was a completely different album strong 2
The first couple songs are pretty good but I didn't like the next couple after that. Somewhat bizarre change of dynamic, much more dissonant and harsh sound with an off key harmonica in Fantastic Disaster. No. It's certainly an eclectic mix of styles. I generally don't like most of it, whether it's lo-fi, garage rock, punk, alt rock or indie or whatever. Sacred Attention is a bright spot, I like the riffing. The acoustic Think as well. Overall, too many songs too, felt incredibly long for only 46 minutes. Not for me.
A little too experimental for my taste. But unlike Captain Beefheart, they know where the business end of their instrument is...
Although I can appreciate how seminal this album might be, in 2024 it sounds like every single grunge band from the 90s.
Menee nopeesti huutamiseksi kuulemma oo mitäön sanottavaa... Vähän saa tunnetta peliin.. Noh Noh..
“Homemade” saved this messy garage band album for me, but there’s still the rest to deal with.
Indie rock med en massa punk och heavy drag. Gillar dom mera lugna, melodiska låtarna bättre.
Very, very patchy. There are a couple of songs that are more than half way decent (Soul & Fire the obvious one), but a lot that is less good, alongside some really tuneless crap. 2/5 on the strength of the better songs, there are a lot of tracks on here that barely deserve a 1 though.
You can tell that this band suffered from the fate of having three songwriters working separately. Their styles clashed. And some songs seem half-baked, more like vague ideas than fully articulated pieces. That said, some of these songs are worth a listen: "Soul And Fire", "Two Years Two Days", and "Think".
This album is a mixed bag. Some songs are great, but some are just horrendous. Unfortunately it leans more in the bad category...
I actually think this is bland to the point of almost being offensive. The first song is okay, but it deteriorates quickly into background noise.
a couple of OK tracks, quite a few bad tracks - 2 stars
Noteworthy songs - 808080808 Magical Dream - Kinda catchy synth, but the rest is bland. Ancodia - Good background noise. Cobra Bora - Actually kind of cool, reminds me of Bomberman Hero. Pacific 202 - N64 vibes, but melody isn't great. Donkey Doctor - Nothing too special, weird ending. 808080808 - Really cool beginning. A little slow in the middle but stays interesting enough. Sunrise - Nothing remarkable. The Fat Shadow - Eerie. Very short.
No lo terminé, no me gustó
Don’t have a lot to say about this album. Felt very mediocre to me.
indie rock boys take even a single vocal lesson challenge, I promise you can continue to sing with grit and you can choose to be off key if you want to but you can do it without all of those warbles and unplanned cracks baby!!!!!!! the instrument/music part was good
I guess they were highly influential but this album unfortunately lacks proper recording
A very conflicting album. I didn’t mind the dreary emo style songs, but I wasn’t a fan of the messy punk/ska/metal influenced ones.
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The first song was so good. And then it just went a bit off the rails. Some parts were enjoyable but overall too experimental for me.
This really did not do it for me. In fact it kind of annoyed me. So much so that I am not in the mood to say anything more. It nearly went down to a 1 at one point
I was really hoping that I would enjoy this one. Was a band I hadn't heard before signed to a label that I like. Seemed like the perfect recipe for me to find a hidden gem. Pretty disappointed overall. Nothing really stood out for me here.
A little too long on the indie video. Bakesale is better
Loved the start, went off it a bit
Experimentele indierock uit de vroege jaren '90. Sommige nummers zijn gewoon heel prima, bij sommige nummers gaan ze een stap te ver met experimenteren en gaan ze een beetje lelijk op hun bek wat mij betreft. Ik weet niet of het gepast is om huismerk Nirvana te zeggen, maar een klein beetje huismerk Nirvana is het wel. En dan net wat meer verlegen om aandacht. Door die mislukte experimenten gaat dit niet hoog scoren, want dit album wil je door bepaalde tracks niet nog een keer aanzetten. Ik noem een 'Fantastic Disaster', maar zo zijn er meer tracks met terecht amper streams. Een grap die ik niet begrijp en die te lang duurt. Vanaf ongeveer track 4 drijf je als een veerpont op en neer tussen verveling en irritatie. Ik ga voor 2 sterren, ondanks een paar aardige tracks.
It started boring, then got my interest a bit. Then the last half was just boring.
A bit too noisy for my tastes.
This album stinks and it boring.
This album stinks and is boring
Did not enjoy listening to this...not cohesive at all.
Music for ADHD?
Pareceu-me um roquito com algumas intenções em ter algum peso nas guitarras. Só que o vocal é muito típico desse rock inofensivo.
Really don’t understand the appeal, nothing really drew me in, just seemed like generic at best, boring indie rock
I've got to admit that this was a tough listen to begin with. It is not exactly top of the list for harmonious, pleasant-sounding music. It did kinda grow on me, but I have to say that having heard it once was probably enough.
In parts 90s grunge, in other parts channelling their inner Captain Beefheart and taking the piss. That’s when ‘Bubble & Scrape’ is probably at its most interesting and genuinely good in my opinion. It’s kind of bog standard and forgettable alt rock the rest of the time.
Dull, when it isn't being actively unpleasant. Second time through was marginally less grating but that will be my last listen ever, thank you very much.
Never heard this one, but I have heard some of their next album Bakesale and I prefer that one
Another in one ear and out the other
Meh. Its not bad, but its pretty boring. 2/5
Qui dit grunge ne nécessite pas forcément que le son soit super dissonant pour faire rageux ! Je comprends qu'on s'amuse avec les sonorités et la "justesse" mais certaines chansons ont été presque pénibles à écouter (Fantastic disaster, Elixir is Zog). Selon moi un album inégal même si certaines chansons sont très cool. Je ne mets que 2 parce que pas pleinement transportée, même si j'emmène néanmoins quelques chansons avec moi (Soul and Fire, Happily Divided, Sacred Attention).
This thing is noisy and a bit all over the place. My favorite moments on this tended to be the softer and more melodic tracks which is not the point of this record. I like some noise rock punk type music but this was a bit too dysfunctional for me to get into. I can totally see people really enjoying this but it isn't something I'm enjoying right now.
The only thing consistent in this album is inconsistency. Sad acoustic, fast electric, this song needs a harmonica!!! I thought I was really going to like this but ended up mediocre. Best points are like bad Weezer or Bad REM.
I was a young man back in the 90s and I remember this band and a slew of other "indie" bands that were almost universally loved by music "hipsters." Pavement is the king of these bands. None of them were that good? I should be nostalgic for this stuff, but I'm not.
Boring... Yawn
Sounds like a highschool band except soul and fire which sounds like a sophomore college band
Nice sound, but it feels like I've heard that sound a hundred times before. And after, seeing this is from '93.
Angry American kids. 3/10
Not really my cuppa. I like the harder punk songs like Sister and Flood. Soul and Fire was good too. Not too sure why it's on the list 2.5
Absolutely nothing catchy about this.
This album was so confusing every song was completely different there was no cohesiveness.
Some good stuff but mostly not.
The songs that I liked seemed to be on some kind of slow mo speed. Most of the vocals are just not good. Only a few songs made this album worthy of a listen.
The first song is the best. Everything else just feels a bit empty. Crazy how this grunge rock just took over. Some of it has glimpses of indie rock and what’s to come but it just doesn’t quite hit like nirvana or the strokes. Ya I keep skipping songs and just wanna listen to nirvana Sacred attention is alright. That’s what the album is coming off as. It’s alright. It’s not amazing it’s not bad but it’s background. I appreciate the challenge of listening to all these albums I was just waiting for it to get bad. And ya this is just meh. It’s like stereotypical rock music for “guy who does action movie”. And the vocals don’t punch he sounds a bit lazy. Maybe that’s the style. Idk it just isn’t hitting. Oh nevermind there’s some songs where they go crazy vocal wise. It’s like a weird mish mash of genres they want to try out but it doesn’t go in any direction. Emma get wild is fun. But vocals mehhh Again best song is Soul and Fire the first song on the album First mehh album of the 1001
A few good songs but too much simple punk.
It wasn't bad, but none of it caught my attention. I feel a little bad because this is becoming a very common review for me but I guess with 1001 albums it's inevitable to get a lot of samey stuff that doesn't do it for me.
Favourite: Happily Divided
An interesting listen but no real standouts.
This doesn't do it for me. The highs aren't very high (2/3 decent songs), and if I'm not in the mood it grates.
Started okay but became a bit too much for me
Some catchy song titles for some standard issue grunge.
Why
кто вообще эту хуету слушает
Started and stopped this album several times. It turned out ok though as the repeat listens kinda got me into Soul and Fire had become familiar
First song was good, plus a couple others, but the atonal songs annoyed me. It also seemed the songs were all over the place in terms of style
It leans dangerously close to wimp-rock, but the short sharp bursts of Dinosaur Jr-esque energy save it from damnation. I hear a lot of Violent Femmes influence here. I wish I heard more.
Ordinary and forgettable.
Beetje te wacky, maar niet perse slecht
a forgettable indie album. makes me wonder why sebadoh was even included. there's so little to be remarked upon. i suppose it is early for that indie sound, so it is a predecessor, but ehh.
I actually kind of liked the opening track (Soul and Fire), but things tapered off quite a bit after this. Another album where I didn't hate it, but it also didn't really do anything for me. When I am not familiar with a band and am hearing their work for the first time, I often associate them with something I know. In this case, these guys gave me Nirvana vibes for days. That said, they lacked the Nirvana gravitas; the vocals and music both didn't have quite the same catch as Kurt Cobain and the rest of the Nirvana band, respectively.
Style of punk rock
Yeah, no. First song sounded promising but, although I might have missed something in a somewhat distracted listening, I didn’t like the rest of this much at all.
Nope
Vieles unhörbar. Bei Einigen wippte ich mit.
The wiki article and the 1001 albums book blurb make a big deal of this album being a collective effort and I can see why - the quality difference of the contributors is massive. Pretty much all of the Barlow tracks are quite good, solid 4 stars. On the other hand, Gaffney's stuff is absolutely unlistenable, unredeemably 1 star. Loewenstein's tracks are somewhere inbetween, but mostly not bad. In conclusion, this could have been a good album if they hadn't let Gaffney meddle with it.
More indie than rock for me. Just a couple appealing tunes for me.
Forgettable album but wasn’t bad
It reminds me of the alternative music that the artsy kids would listen to in the early 90's. It's not bad but probably not for me. It's kind of experimental.
It started okay, then dipped straight to the bottom, with few terrible songs I couldn't stand, and then finally it recovered a bit with few generic alt rock songs, whatever that really entails. The band sounds very 90s, quality straight from garage, but in my opinion not in a good way, more like St. Anger kind of way. Few redeeming songs, but honestly, I just want to forget everything about this album.
Got a bit cloying after a while... ok but not my cup of tea
Not my normal listen
I genuinely have no idea what I think about this album. Bubble and Scrape is all over the place. At times it hits something really special. There are moments of scrappy, lo fi brilliance where the melodies shine through the fuzz and the emotion feels raw and honest. Then, almost without warning, it veers into something that feels half formed or deliberately messy to the point of frustration. That unpredictability is probably part of its charm. It feels unfiltered and personal, like you are hearing ideas as they spill out rather than neatly packaged songs. But it also makes for a stop start listening experience. Just as I was getting pulled in, a track would come along that completely lost me. There is definitely something here though. Enough strong moments to make me think it deserves another listen. This feels like one of those records that might click properly with time rather than on first listen
Garage/niche 90s rock for sure. Little punk but not great.
Started off promising but turned middle of the road pretty quickly
I’ve heard this comment recently, so I may have even stolen it from this chat…but this sounds exactly like the kind of forgettable rock that would be playing in The Bronze in Buffy the Vampire Slayer to a group of bored extras.
Kinda generic 90's alt grunge kinda sound. Didn't catch my ear much but wasn't bad. 2.5
It was just alright. Good songs here and there, not the biggest fan
I was enjoying this album, but then they started doing this weird screamy little bit. Eh? It sounds weird. I HATED the song "Fantastic Disaster" because of the clashing instruments.
First song was great and then it was all over the place from alt to grunge to hardcoreish? Bad 2/5
Scraping the barrel in terms of albums that could be considered great.
At its best, on par with other grungy fare from this time. But overall less polished than many of their contemporaries. Feels like music folks cling to because it makes them different...
Good lord, some of those songs were bad. I normally like harmonica, but ideally the player would know how to play the harmonica. I had to take a few breaks during this album. High highs and low lows. I do appreciate some chaos, but when I actively don't like what I'm hearing, I just can't rate it highly.
Not the best. Bleh.
Just not feeling it
Rock indie
Listened to this a few times and nothing really stuck, just found it very middle if the road. Surprising, because I really like Dinosaur Jr and a lot of 90s slacker rock.
I've always liked the idea of Sebadoh more than the actual music they produce. I definitely prefer their more melodic stuff. Happily Divided is nice.
I've never been keen on screaming in music, but otherwise this was ok.
First song is great and sets it up to be a lofi album. Rest is mid
Who on earth are this bunch
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Nope
Woah. This is not good. These songs are just a mess of weird. And not in a good way.
Didn’t like it. I had a flashback when every school friend of mine played this kind of music back in the day with similar songwriting skill and level. Maybe it’s cool but after Stevie Wonder album I feel like I should give it a 1 , but I’m a good person and will give it a 2
1.5/5
not for me