Reviews (page 7 of 8)
I've never heard of them before, but now I know. Really not a fan. It's chaotic and random at times. There was some resemblance of The Violent Femmes, but overall I'll pass.
Initial impression, the band name reminds me of trig function shit (sohcahtoa). Bad start. First few tracks made me want to punch my own ticket. Abysmal start. It got better (it was hard to get worse) but not by much.
Not that exciting to me.
Where to begin. It’s a chaotic album. It’s an interesting blend of lofi, Nirvana, and darkish 80s post punk. Makes sense given that they share band members with Dinosaur Jr. The most fascinating track is Fantastic Disaster where every instrument (including vocals) seems to play on its own key. Maybe the instruments are even out of tune. At least you can save time playing these kind of songs live because you don’t need to tune? But on the acoustic or stripped back numbers you can feel an In Utero vibe. Just the right level of lofi. So clearly these guys know how to play. So I give it a 2/5 for effort. I feel like it’s uncool to like bands like this but I honestly feel no emotional connection.
Album long et difficile à écouter. Pas surpris que seul le premier soit connu
This album was so varied - It started with songs that were fairly ambient and chill, had a couple of interesting ones, and then played a couple of garbage songs that were v abrasive. I wouldn't listen to it through again, but there were a couple of songs in here that were alright.
This was very lo fi 90s alt rock/indie and it was fine
2.5/5
Mediocre '90s rock.
This was very blah 90s rock
Couldn't wait for this to be over.
Meh
There are moments on this album, good songs and fun guitar riffs. Then the next song is a heavily distorted screamo tune. It's fine but it gave me whiplash. Song going on my "1001 Songs" Playlist: Sacred Attention Other Songs Going On My "1001 Albums Savelist" Playlist: Homemade, Soul and Fire
too all over the place, Think was good tho
Super weak 90's alternative
I had only heard Brand New Love (as well as several covers of it) before today. That song is not in this album,but boy do I wish that it was. I really expected this to be better. It's cool that they influenced a lot of cool bands and maybe they have some other good songs and albums elsewhere but this fell flat for me.
1st September 2023 Caught up over the weekend - Cox and Georgia on Saturday in Stroud market and Tess and Ollie on Sunday with a bit of Barnett’s in Cheltenham. Grungy indie with screaming vocals, Jen really not a fan.
Well, I sure listened to that. I can't even give it the coveted honor of a 1, since that would define it as noteworthy.
Noise
Very middling grunge.
есть несколько действительно хороших песен, а так посредственно
I'm having a hard time rating this.
Nah... That's not it. It doesn't hit. It's bland. 2 out of 5 is very generous.
a times a chore to get through. just not my thing. Think (Let Tomorrow Be) was pretty good
First listen Saved 5/17 Top track: Soul and Fire
This album passed me by when it was released and will pass me by now. There are much better examples of this genre
Felt a little wild and unorganized. But not terrible.
This is not an interesting listen for me.
Y tho? 4/10
Soul and Fire on hyvin rakennettu avaus. Fantastic Disaster, Exlisir Is Zog ym. ovat vihoviimeistä paskaa. Kuka olisi uskonut, että epävireisyys ei automaattisesti kuulosta hyvältä?
Could not get into it at all. It sounded bad at times, but I think it was done ironically. Not that it changes much for me, because it still sounds bad even if done ironically.
It's hit and miss. Not essential to me. Favorite song: Homemade
Unohtunut nähköjään arvostella. En tykännyt. 2/5
Very disjointed listen. You can tell this is three artists with three distinct styles and it just never flows from one track to the next.
Une atrocité de plus récoltant 2/5. Robert on t'a déjà dit, quitte à nous mettre de la merde vasy franco qu'on puisse au moins rigoler un peu en mettant des 1/5.
Cat: I enjoyed listening to this. 90s melancholy one minute, 90s punk the next. Some of the lyrics are meh. AJ: singing about emotions without any emotion. Weird vibe. Find myself wanting to like it but I don’t.
Sacred Attention singlehandedly saving this from being an easy 1. Really like the line "I am here to say what's done is done / Serving shark's fin soup for everyone" though lmao
Grungy 90s indie rock. Not terrible, but kind of tuneless and boring despite all the gestures at experimentation. Not a fan of the vocals. Best song: maybe Homemade
This album reinforces a belief I hold where the 1001 author held a list of randomized albums released over the last 70 years on a dart board and threw darts. If it landed on your album, congrats! You're now on the 1001 "greatest" list. That's a long winded way of me saying that this kind of sucked - garage band at best. 4/10.
Snuser faktisk på 1. Makan til kjedelig og uinspirert musikk. Fantastic Disaster fikk meg til å rynke på nesa flere ganger. Æsj.
I can't tell if these guys are trying to be funny or not. A number of the songs sound like the hidden track at the end of a CD. It's funny at first, and then you're like "OK, so what else is there?... oh, the song is the joke. <skip>" There are a few good songs on here, I particularly liked "Homemade." That felt like a conscious decision to make a song with lyrics that made _sense_, unlike "Elixir is Zog." But for the most part it still felt like a couple of guys in a cheap studio trying things out for the first time. I mean, I get the charm of that for lo-fi, indie rock, but you still have to have actual _songs_. I first got the sense they were trying to mash up Nirvana with something like They Might Be Giants, but TMBG are at least _witty_. These guys are just... dumb. And you can be dumb, but your music better be catchy. And aside from a few songs, this is not.
Dated, and dull.
Sounded like something someone you kinda know would tell you they made and you’d say it’s good not to be rude.
Not a lot I enjoyed about this one. The vocals are flat and boring. There are some good riffs here and there but the music rarely comes together and becomes a good song. I also didn't buy the moments that get scream-y and tip into hardcore. Those moments should feel cathartic. Here they felt grating. “Think (Let Tomorrow Bee)” was a sweet song — a pleasant surprise near the end.
Wow what an interesting start. I don't think I've ever heard a record start with a song that begins with a specific BPM and then starts to slow down within the first 5 seconds. It's really perplexing from a musical/production viewpoint but also intriguing from an artistic viewpoint. So this being an early 1990's band this of course has that edgy grungy energy but it's a little more muted than the bigger acts of that time. I dig the experimentation / exploration in "Fantastic Disaster" but it's actually a little boring to me. Something just seems missing in the execution. The mix doesn't help it- there's parts that I imagine should feel more "in your face" but they aren't. Yea this was just alright to me. I think it won't really be a release that sticks with me.
Pierwsze 3-4 utwory to chyba jakiś żart, nie da się tego słuchać. Na koniec trochę lepiej ale już byłem zniesmaczony
This is painful to get through, well off key and off beat the whole way through, and sometimes I can see the artistic intent with that sort of thing (like I could even see it with Bjork) but ilthere didn't seem to be any rhyme or reason for it here. There were a couple of bright spots which rescued this album from a one but the inconsistency really kills this one
It vacillates from juvenile white boy breakup musings poorly masquerading as poignant indie lyricism to juvenile white boy wannabe Beck manufactured weirdness that tries way too hard. I already dated this loser in college, I don't need to hear his crappy album now years later.
This is sure a Sub Pop release. Which I say with a reasonable amount of love, at least for a listen or two. There are several songs on Bubble & Scrape which invite that second listen. But Sebadoh doesn't capture the 30-years-later ear in any particular way, the looseness cliché and dialed down to calculated acceptable levels.
This is an unknown, but with an album cover like that, from 1993, it's gonna be alternative. Ok yep alternative, one of those deliberately bad and dissonant affairs. Like if the Presidents of the USA hadn't added hooks to their nonsense. There's a couple of reasonable tracks but you know what? The intent is there to make noisy shit. So I'm giving it the 2/5 it deserves.
I can't get past the terrible whiny vocals and dissonant grating chords. Totally makes sense that this band formed out of a falling out with Dinosaur Jr.
Boring emo drama
Rating: 5/10
Bummed out because it is so close to be a really good band/album. The vibe is great, but the song writing is garbage and the song album flow is weak.
Apparently it's supposed to sound bad, that doesn't mean I'll enjoy it because it still sounds bad. Had a good moment here and there.
Bauble and scrap.
There was a lot of stuff that sounded like this round at that time Not sure there was much about this that deserves elevation
What starts off calm, turns into a storm. The album is so difficult to listen to. It has the vocals and general sound of Nirvana but lacks any of the talent in songwriting that made Nirvana unique. Couldn’t get through it.
Never heard of this band/album before and it makes sense why. In the height of grunge and alternative music this band continued the trend but falls mostly flat. The aggressiveness is there but it sounds poorly done. The instrumentals sound generic and don’t excite. Overall this isn’t worth revisiting. 4.4/10
Sigh. Yet another bizarrely uninspiring album to pop up over here. Can't say I appreciate the "in your face" low-fi sound, either.
Yes
First time listening. Found myself enjoying a handful of the tracklist, but LOATHING much of it. Stronger lyrically than instrumentally. Yes, the wildly frenetic guitars and rhythm section can fluctuate on a dime, but it sounds very unpolished; the intentional lo-fi production is a turnoff. A no for me.
this is extremely not my jam
meh/
Just give me Dinosaur Jr, or Nirvana, or Pavement, or Pixies. This just is nowhere near as enjoyable as those examples, with a bare few tracks that I actually liked. Another one where its presence on the list is in question for me. 08/02/23
У меня осталось ощущение что это саундтрек к невышедшему подростковому фильму, только последовательность реверснули (первая песня должна в конце фильма стоять типо и так далее) Полуспокойный альбом с легкой подростковой бунтарностью и кучей меланхолии У fantastic disaster прикольное начало и интересная ритмика и в конце чел уснул на синте)))
Uninspiring. Sebadull would be a better band name.
Not all bad but certainly plenty. Decent start with Soul and Fire but fell off a cliff after that with a few redemption songs sprinkled in. Grunge punk angst without much form with a few exceptions 2.2
Not my favourite genre, but OK. 2/5
Everything on this album just sounds a little bit off. That's probably on purpose because I never got the feeling that they didn't know what they were doing but that said this was definitely not for me.
indie tedium
Interesting to hear. Liked some bits and pieces. But patchy.
Opening track is great, but the rest of the album is random, mostly tuneless and rough as guts.
Before today, I had never heard of Sebadoh. They are a 90's lo-fi indie rock band. Their co-founder and one of their vocalists, Lou Barlow, also co-founded the band Dinosaur Jr, which explains why those two bands sound similar. By times, Sebadoh sounds like a shittier Nirvana. In other songs, their sludgy guitars and slow beat makes them sound like Smashing Pumpkins. And still other times, their high energy songs have them sounding like the Vines or Primus. In certain songs, the instruments are horribly out of tune. Perhaps this is by design, but I personally find it painful to listen to. The lyrics are largely nonsensical, especially in their weird psychadelic songs included on this album such as Elixir is Zog. Overall, a standard indie rock record from the 90's. It blends in with the mass amount of other music from this genre and time period though. Nothing really jumped out at me. It wasn't bad, just not spectacular. Favourite songs: Flood, Soul and Fire, Two Years Two Days, Sacred Attention, Homemade (I think this song is about beating off, idk?) Least favourite songs: Elixir is Zog, Fantastic Disaster, Telescopic Alchemy, No Way Out (the last minute of the song sounds like someone channel surfing through random noise.... Why?!?) 2/5
2/17, 12%
Songs are kinda short, decent grunge, or just sounds normal I guess
Starts ok, but after that it´s just not what i like, all those short "idea´s"
Not for me.
Denna grupp har inte gjort särskilt mycket väsen av sig. Undrar vad det beror på......?
abit too disorganised, one second feels like metal, one second feels like the opposite
I was curious about this initially, since I generally like this sort of music and have heard of this band before. It started off alright, but as it continued the songs just kept sounding the same. I’ve never heard of this album before and don’t understand why it’s on the list.
I feel like I should like Sebadoh but just never really have. Not sure what I’m missing because there are tons of similar bands from the era I really enjoy. I even got to see a reunion show of theirs back in the 00s. Not a bad album, just not what I’m looking for really. I’m sure there were some but I was super busy and listening to this on the go, so I didn’t get a chance to write down standout tracks while I listened.
This sucks. This is exactly what I think of when I think of boring, overrated indie rock.
I guess Sebadoh was to grunge and 90s indie what bands like Country Joe and the Fish were to psychedelic rock? Which means to say that they were one of the first influential names to come up in the scene, but ultimately became overshadowed by the artists that came after them. Bubble and Scrape is essentially a record of demos, or at least that's what it sounds like. The lo-fi, somewhat minimally produced sound adds character to the music, but the end result pales in comparison to the rest of the genre. Like a beta version of something soon to be perfected. Well, at least they helped kickstart something new. Standout tracks were Homemade, Cliché, and Happily Divided.
I'd be lying if I didn't say I didn't want to listen to the album a second time. It is a bizarre record, but I think it has its place. Definitely the kind of album that probably has a very strong cult following. The opening track 'Soul And Fire' is a really damn good song. For some reason, I love the chaotic nature of 'Fantastic Disaster'. But overall, the album is not for me right now, though I can see it becoming an acquired taste. 2/5
I feel like I should have enjoyed this more. It's listed as indie music and although it's 90s (my least enjoyed decade) I do like indie stuff from every era. Yet this felt very disorienting. It couldn't really decide what it wanted to be and as a result didn't feel cohesive. Also the lofi quality just didn't work.
Bonsoir non
improbable: les fans aiment aussi Guided By Voices
Might have to give a second listen. The bassist, Lou Barlow, is also part of Dinosaur Jr., Folk Implosion, and New Folk Implosion, which are all great bands. 2.5/5
Was it just me or did the production quality degrade as the album progressed?
It sounded like pre-grunge, punk at times. Guitars sounded out of tune, likely in purpose. There was a lot of screaming on some songs. I can hear a lot on this album that many bands may have been influenced by. I didn't particularly enjoy it
what’s this one fall under, grunge? post-punk? Grating.
"Look, we're so alternative and so edgy!!!" .... Why on earth is this particular album one of the 1001 album I have to listen to before I die?!? 1.5/5
Sebadoh is kind of like Pavement. I know they are out there, I know people love to listen to it, but mostly it doesn't do it for me. I always feel like I must be missing something, and indeed sometimes a band will suddenly contextualize for me, so I'll just say, I'm not quite ready for Sebadoh if this album is representative.
I first heard Sebadoh through "On Fire," probably around 2005. At the time, I didn't know that the song was nearly 10 years old. At the time, I didn't seek out more Sebadoh. But I don't know why. Because "On Fire" is an outstanding song. But I never would have guessed that they had been around since 1986. I never knew about their connection to Dinosaur Jr. or their place in the late 80s lo-fi scene. I also never would have expected them to make the 1001 list, and I never would have expected said album to be so disappointing. Nothing on "Bubble and Scrape" rises to the heights of "On Fire." After two solid songs to start the album, "Telecosmic Alchemy" was excessively dissonant and obnoxious. Was that the point? If it wasn't the point, the point was lost on me. If it was the point, the point was lost on me. The alchemical disaster that was tracks 3 and 4 luckily didn't last, and they got back to some fuzzed out excellence. But the album continued to be way too uneven. Did they just record everything they came up with? And always go with the first take? Maybe that raw DIY sound is a hallmark of lo-fi, but there was just too much mess on "Bubble and Scrape" for me. After I finished the album, and went back for second tries on a few parts, I sought out "On Fire," and it was every bit as good as I remembered. And this album's follow-ups "Bakesale" and "Harmacy" are both pretty terrific. I think they still maintain their core sound, but it's cleaner and more polished and feels like there was someone there helping edit their include-everything impulses. They both still have a crazy number of tracks and include some short weirder ones, but they're not as jarring as on "Bubble and Scrape." Apparently "B & S" started a shift for Sebadoh away from their original acoustic, home-recorded sound. Maybe they were just figuring out a new style. What came later was much better. I'll have to check out their early acoustic work. But I won't be coming back to "Bubble and Scrape."
This album is erratic and unorganized as evidenced by the subdued Think (Let Tomorrow Bee) followed immediately by the screamy Flood.
a couple of good tunes but not a good album
It was alright
So boring.
Unoriginal 90s grunge
Wow that was not a good album. It had one or two good songs, but by the end I just had bad listening fatigue. I didn't hate it enough to give it a 1 so 2 it is.
punk/grunge bleh
I didn't know these artists. But it's not the kind of music I like, sorry.
Not great.
Massively bland.
Hmmm Lo-Fi at it's finest? I can see some credit in this but a little to downside for me, I need to be invigorated by music and at times this makes me go "Yeah you're right, Life is shit" I liked the opener "Soul and Fire" and "Sisteen" But can't really understand why this one is on the list.
Ibland undrar man vem dom sjuke fan är som tillåter att sånt här kommer på den här listan. OK en del är behagligt långsam ful 90-tals grungeaktiga visor. Men en del är också några personer som gått in i studion och plingar och plonkar. Fattar inte den konststilen som bara låter som högstadiekillar i en musiksal.
I'm not real sure about this one. I don't mind the "sloppy" indie-punk vibe when it's done well, but I can't tell if this is sloppy on purpose or if they really just aren't good musicians. The album seemed disconnected as well. It's like they couldn't decide if they wanted to be Nirvana, or the Cure, or Radiohead. Still, there were some bright spots. I really enjoyed "Happily Divided" and "Think" - so it wasn't a horrible experience.
Kind of good at times but not really.
This was definitely a major meh for me. I didn't find it memorably great or terrible. It wasn't unlistenable, but generally I didn't enjoy it. Exceptions are my fave tracks: "Two Years Two Days" and "Elixir is Zog". Some fun sounds in there, but I just don't really get the appeal of this one. Decent guitar, okay vocals, but not my style. At least mercifully short.
Nothing new for me. A little boring ...
90’er punk rock, garage, svingende
Dit album laat zich omschrijven als manisch-depressief; van geweldige tracks tot verschrikkelijke 'experimenten'. Ergens tussen 2 en 3 sterren, maar omdat ik me toch flink heb zitten ergeren, dan maar 2!
Nee, dit was te onsamenhangend voor mij.
Leuke stem. Daar wil ik het maar bij houden.
Quite alright
OK. I thought Sebadoh was somebody different, not punk rock. Haven't listened to too much of this before. Some of it works, but most of it seems very dissonant and tough to digest. Like shoe leather, I assume.
When it's not boring, it's irritating. A few decent tracks hidden in a bloated tracklist full of filler.
Eh
It was alright but I don't think it really clicked for me. It seems like it lost it's way somewhere in the middle.
generic american indie
There were tracks that I could listen to and enjoy and then there others that I had to just skip through. There were some tracks that had a snow patrol sound to them, about 10 years before snow patrol were known of. Not one I would listen to again, didn’t enjoy it
Boring
thought I'd like it more
Not a band or album I have heard of. Wasn’t sure to begin with on this album. But by the end it did grow on me, a few more listens and I might give a higher score but doubt I’ll get time to go back to this one. I think that will be the case with a lot of these earlier American indie rock records.
Demonstrates a great use of guitar. I personally did not enjoy this album.
Listened to it once - was mitigated. Listened to it twice - confirmed it's a bit garbage.
2/5 in the end, it wasn't particularly good.
Blech. Not my favorite.
The first song shows some promise but soon the acoustic, more melodic numbers end and more-aggressive in-your-face Black Flag style shouty and irritating post-punk begins, only to return to acoustic numbers a few songs later. Turns out they have three song-writers, who don't collaborate, and spread their material throughout the album equally. Anyway I'm not sure what this 93 release adds to the arc of the last 60 years of music. I guess "low-fi" is one of the 1001 genres and it has to be represented.
So the first couple of tracks i'm like "wow this is the kind of lo-fi grunge I could have gone for when I was 14" but then it rapidly descends like they've run out of idea, money and hope with 'Fantastic Disaster' an absolute disaster.
I like some later Sebadoh but I find much of this album annoying (and it seems intentionally so). Says it was their first album recorded entirely in a professional studio. Sure doesn't sound like it to my ear.
Each song started okay and then I didn't like it, about 1 minute mark on average.
meh.
Lofi 90s guitar, sloppy vocals. I could see being into this as a young teen when it was new. Doesn't offer anything now.
Eh. Is okay.
There were a couple of tracks that I really liked, but I can't get over the rest of the noise and intentional discord.
1 1/2
Not really my jam. Some stuff was alright, but most of it was weird.
This is very bland in its composition. A long album of all the same song really.
Meh
terrible
Not into it
Some of the American angst type songs were half decent but still too whiny for my taste. The heavier ones were a din.
The lo-fi indie moments are really good the shouty moments are not.
Not for me.
Angsty, American, Teen Rock. Like a cross between Nirvana and Green Day but nowhere near as good as either. Reminds me of every kooky, offbeat, coming of age movie of the late 90s/early 00s.
Weak indie. Like jets to brazil but with no energy
pretty rough 1.5
Nothing very compelling. Liked the first song and that was it, even after two listens
Saved Prior: None Off Rip: Soul And Fire, Two Years Two Days, Emma Get Wild, Homemade Cutting Edge: Cliche, Forced Love, Bouquet For A Siren Overall Notes: This album had little bits that were really good, whether that be the lyrics, guitar, or melody, but could never keep the momentum going for more than a song or two, let alone the full album. Felt like they took the DIY aesthetics of the Violent Femmes and took it too far. I'm sure there are tons of people who love this, but I'm not one of them.
idk lofi pop grunge doesnt do it for me. little too whiny
Fine. Might listen again but didn’t feel particularly seminal. Minus one point for the shouty numbers
I listened to a bit of the album. Enough to give it a 2
Dull indie that doesn't really go anywhere. A couple of decent tracks save it from a 1 but pretty forgettable. 2/5
After the first track I thought I would enjoy this, however, the off-key vocals and discordant music did not make for a pleasant listen.
Visceral energy mixed with lo fi angst. A sign of those times. It is just that the band did better than this, and also lotta bands did better that year
Very noisy and discordant for the most part.
That album cover is definitely a butthole. Some of these melodies were enjoyable. Let Tomorrow Bee is a standout. Otherwise I found a lot of this to be mildly unpleasant. I think if you're in the right mood you could love this album.
Seems like basically every generic indie band from that era.
Punk. Randomness
Eh. Interesting listen to see the evolution of post-punk to emo but not my cup of tea
Folk Jam, but not at it's finest.
Nah
Not really my style.
no thoughts head empty on this one
Closer to a 2.5. Some songs were pretty good, and its definitley not borring, but it seems like a generally worse version of Slanted and Enchanted (which Im already not a huge fan of).
Like the lemonheads without the tunes, like sonic youth without the nuance... rubbish guitar riffs played on practice amps. Not for me Jeff!
white trash, only really enjoyed the 1 min snippets in the middle of the album, nevermind also shite Shame because the album cover is cool but you aren't mean to say that are you
Meh
Both loud and noisy, But never good or pleasing. This album sucks balls.
I want to change the name of this challenge to “1001 Album You May Want To Check Out If You Are Completely Bored and May Possibly Waste Your Time Listening To.”
Это было ужасно. Несколько песен даже не смог дослушать до конца. Все время ждал скорейшего завершения альбома
This was a rough listen. There are a few calmer songs which are pretty good such as Think (Let Tomorrow Bee) or Happily Divided, but the majority of the album is unlistenable. The absolute nadir of the album is track four which is not Fantastic but certainly a Disaster. 2/10
Sounds like they're trying to be Sonic Youth and I fucking hate Sonic Youth.
I spent time previewing this one, and I honestly think listening to cats howling/yeowling while scratching their claws on chalkboards would have been more pleasant.
Started off meh and then went downhill fast. I quit on the 4th song.
Nope. Very generic and forgettable 90s indie rock. I could have lived without this one.
This did not appeal to me.
this feels like im drinking a warm beer at some garage show for a band of high schoolers
Sitt müra. Tüübid said garaažis kokku ja otsustasid kõik oma pilli erinevas tempos ja helistikus mängida. Vahepeal mõni "laulab" ka. Ma ei tea, siin ei ole minu jaoks midagi kuulatavat. Kohutav pask ja ma ei tea, miks see siin nimekirjas on. 1.4/5
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What an absolute slog of an album. It started off bad and then just got worse. I didn’t like the off-key singing, the mixing of the songs or just the songs in general. Sounded like a bad meandering demo. Grungy, pretentious and just not good. 1 star.
This album started as a lazy uninspired rip off of a 90s band playing in a frat basement on a cold January night. Then after a few songs, it got worse. The vocals were well below average, the chord progressions were obvious and dull, and then there were the lyrics. I hope these guys find stable relationships soon so that they can stop whining to us about it song after song. And the final slap in the face? They impose 32 songs on us in this album. You almost have to admire their blind unearned confidence. 32…
This started off with a couple of alright songs and then descended into a discordant collection of noise and mumbles lyrics.
This is really really terrible.
Why is this album SO LONG. Fav song is ‘Elixir is Zog’.
Loved some songs and skipped others. I like the general vibe when it doesn’t get super discordant. I liked songs like “Soul And Fire” and “Happily Divided”—these gave me a little Weezer/Modest Mouse energy and that general more chill vibe that I can tell is a father of surfer/punk rock that came after.
dissonantie is zoals zout op een maaltijd, als alles perfect in tune is dan proeft het wat saai, en een klein beetje een ruw kantje kan een nummer gigantisch ver op weg helpen Dit is wat er gebeurt als je per ongeluk de hele pot zout in uw eten laat vallen.
Schrott.
Fantastic Disaster - horrible - yelling. Sister - same Elixir is Zog - garbage Album is pretty much a pile of dogtrot
Pendlade mellan 1 och 2 under lyssningen, men sen var sista låten så kass att min känsla efter är 1. Inte bra helt enkelt
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# Album Name: Bubble And Scrape # Artist: Sebadoh # Rating: 1/5 # Comments: First song is decent. The rest is a bag of shit. Was this really the same label nirvana was signed to? # Top Tunes: # Would I listen to it again? No
This album doesn’t belong in the list either! It sounded like they were trying to sound like the violent femmes or the B52s and doing a bad job. I was thinking how I’d rather be listening to those bands instead lol.
Lots of different styles here. But each attempt at creativity fails, for me. Sounds like a generic local band where the members each like different musical styles but agree to play their bandmates’ music so that everyone will agree to play in their style one time. For example, there’s the short Death Metal piece to upset any groove that was being created. A 1.
Not really sure what this is supposed to be - it really didn’t speak to me. A bit of an uninspiring mess.
Just another album in the continued trend of everything post 1990 being mediocre at best. Except OutKast… that album slapped
I was confused the whole time. It felt like scanning radio channels. I have no idea what they were going for. The have decent skill, but I didn’t get it at all.
sigh, did not pull a memorable or commendable album today
Too messy, don’t have any rhythm.
What a load of rubbish: I had to stop the album mid-play, for the first time in the challenge. Wrong notes, out-of-tune chords, inconsistent timing on top of the already poor drumming: someone’s deliberately trying to sound wrong and ugly here, perhaps in some sort of belated punk attitude. A sound straight out of the rehearsal room, completely amateurish, but lacking in charm and originality. I’m too old for this kind of rubbish.
There are a few tracks that somewhat resemble actual songs but most of this is just half baked ideas of musical expression over repetitive guitar notes and barely competent drumming. Just the kind of weird shit Pitchfork gives a 9+ review to but this is not for me
Another album which shouldn't have made the cut.
It started off kind of boring but not horrible, then it switched to horrible. I have an alternative listening suggestion if we're exploring bands that emerged in the early 90s. Tool is not on this list. I have to ask why Sebadoh and not Tool? Musicality and influence vs. whatever grunge ripoff this album was.
Would rather listen to white noise.
dull, dull, dull, about as interesting as a dishcloth, gave up after track 4
mmm no
Not for me
Meh
Jesus wept. That was shit.
I didn't enjoy anything about this, except maybe it ending. It wasn't even interesting enough to rant about really. Boring and tedious, it tried hard and failed.
No
Willingly making your album sound like crap as an artistic statement still makes your album sound like crap.
This is up there with the worst so far. A tough listen. The first track promised inoffensive but dull grungy rock but it went downhill and subsequently lost all tunefulness and what little charm it started with. The main issues are threefold: firstly, the songs just aren't good - it sounds like a distinctly average college band who make noise for the sake of it. Second, his voice. It's two-dimensional and very boring. Third, the lyrics of 'Homemade' gave me the biggest ick. Hard no
++: Telecosmic Alchemy, Fantastic Disaster +: Soul and Fire, Emma Get Wild, No Way Out, Bouquet for a Siren, Flood +-: Two Years Two Days, Sacred Attention, Elixir Is Zog, Sixteen -: Happily Divided, Sister, Cliche, Homemade, Forced Love --: Think (Let Tomorrow Bee) 2,8/10
Interesting sound but found it hard to listen too. Bland vocals sometimes but cool instrumentals. Not for me.
streng of een slechte dag?
Did not interest me at all
Really stretching the term of "influential"
1- Me gustaron las guitarras, pero la letra no es lo mejor. Es buena igual 2- No es un tema que escucharia otra vez la verdad 3- Ya es un no desde el primer minuto, no conecto 4- La verdad que es de lo peor que escuche en mi vida me quiero cortar los oidos, cumple la idea en llamarse Fantastic Disaster pq es una bosta 5- Cualquier cosa MINIMAMENTE escuchable es mejor que la mierda anterior, es escuchable 6- Si el 4to tema fue malo, esto seria lo anterior 7- Es escuchable, increible para lo que venia siendo 8- meh 9- no. 10- Creo que a este punto ya lo que parecia ser el primer tema se cayó a pedazos 11- mejor, no tanto 12- mmmm 13- mmmEH 14- No quiero escuchar mas BASTA 15- ni me acuerdo, por favor que ya termine 16- De todo lo que no esperaba de este album es al menos un tema asi que puedas escuchar sin drama 17- Con todo el amor y cariño del mundo es la 10ma vez que me fijo si es el ultimo tema. No lo escucho ni en pedo de vuelta, no me iba a perder nada si no lo escuchaba.
There’s one decent song, which is the first, and that’s it. I was waiting to get his mind-numbing album over with.
annoying
- I really don't want to hear about this guy's failing relationship(s)... at all. So boring and whiny and just makes me feel like he's clearly the problem. I wouldn't want to have to try to keep a conversation going with him. Here's my psychoanalysis - dude, you don't really like women, you just want women to make you feel good about yourself. Go figure your shit out. Imagine having dated this guy and then having to hear this album and knowing it exists forever... The lyrics just made me feel a whole lot of secondhand embarrassment. - The music is a slog - too much dissonance and angst to wade through. I hate the out of tune vocals from whiny singing voices. Ugh. - I barely noticed the instrumentation - it all just kind of blended together in either boring plodding or yelling over everything at once fuzz. Nothing memorable in this music, and definitely no catchy melodies. - Cliche and Sacred Attention were okay, I guess. - Despite the short songs, this went on forever (like that relationship probably felt like it did).
This just… wasn’t good. Were they purposefully out of tune?
Ein guter Song ist kein Grund, ein Album komplett und immer wieder zu hören.
Too many reminders of Snow Patrol in here
A hard listen.
Sometimes I just have to say, nah man, I'm good.
So disorganised and chaotic, poorly performed whilst still being boring. Its like what Nirvanna/Cobain were criticised as being.
Way too long. This album didn’t hit my ears right at all, instruments were so discordant that it became unbearable to listen to at points. I got as far as “happily divided”, checked where I was and almost cried. I then stopped listening so if it happened to get way better after this point then I am sorry.
Quite crap to be honest
This is really fucking stupid.
😒
afgrijsloos
Warm, lightly scrappy indie-folk/lo-fi grooves built from gently picked or fuzz-scuffed guitars, wobbling bass, uneven percussion, and muttered, homespun vocals, which feels charming in its handmade roughness but so meandering and faint that you’re fast to lose interest as it drifts out of focus.
Nope. Fucking awful.
Not my cup of tea.
Rubbish
I found this mostly unpleasant to sit through. Had to take breaks because I wasn’t enjoying it at all. 1/5
It's like a Guided By Voices album without the charm or great songs. So you're just left with mediocrity. I'm giving this a 1. 90's indie rock trash.
I hadn’t heard of Sebadoh, now I know why. My two year old grandson could do better. I’ve consigned this album to my try to forget file, absolute garbage.
God, this is annoying. Why do people put it on this list? Sounds like some kids got their parents instruments and recorded this is in their basement
First two songs weren't bad, but what the hell happened after? Hard listen
Why do we need to listen to this?
Least said.....
No - I didn't need to hear that before ... anything!
It puzzles me how much American indie bands sound alike.
I remember a couple of tracks off this album - dreary and depressing - the others too angry to finish listening to
Weder mol so es typisches Noise Rock albom, wie In Utero vo nirvana scho gse esch. Scho das esch e ned so positivi Predestination för mini Bewärtig. Wies halt e so esch habi au do rächt e Reizöberfluetig gha ond das onabhängig vo de Tagesziit. Das chond halt, wemmer probiert möglechst luut z si ond eintersiits alli mögleche Intromänt eifach of einisch spelt, sondern die au so komplett öberstüret (siehe Rockgitarre), dass es au rächt schräg tönt. Eigentlech cha so e öberstüüreti Rockgitarre jo au no cool töne, de mues sie aber gezielt gsetzt si, wasi do öberhaupt ned de Idrock gha ha. Ech ha so au die ruhigere Songs fascht am beschte gfonde. Das ganze dörenand werd i dem Albom de no met rächte Dissonanze kombiniert. Eigentlech ewärs jo fascht ruhiger als In Utero, aber deför halt dissonanter. Au die dissonanz cha t Musig eigentlech mega spannend mache, do hani aber weder de idrock, dass es onzielt ond somet au onpassend esch. So tönts de eifach e chli chrom. Wels de halt ned so spannend esch, fods sech au rächt afo zieh. Dass es 1 Stond lang esch, helft debi au ned bsonders. Es hed sech halt eifach wie es stöndigs Chaos agfühlt woni jetzt fascht froh be dasses döre esch. Aber jetzt gnue negativs! Mer mues jo scho au zuegä dass sie au gueti Riffs do enne hend wo aber halt fascht e chli ondergönd i dem Chaos. Au chonds doch mol vor, dass t Intromänt plötzlech metenand fonktioniered ond so ofne art kommuniziered. Mer cha also säge s potenzial wär do met de riffs ond de abgstommeheit, wärs ned so luut ond so dissonant dass alles weder im Chaos wörd ertrenke.
Me parecen mezclas caóticas que no me despiertan nada positivo
Did not care for this in the least.
I’d rather listen to a rabid raccoon slowly dying in a clothes dryer than that album ever again.
Typical alternative/rock band. All songs sound alike. Kinda boring.
Uhh. Early grunge and industrial. Hard listen. Not for me and unplugged electric guitar is a difficult sound to pull off. NMH did it so much better.
Fine wouldn't listen again. 1.6/10
Mhe ni fu ni fa
The first track was okay. Everything else after that was awful.
Not for me
Not a fan
Unlistenable.
Boring for me, not my style Favourite song: Soul and Fire
I love Dinosaur Jr. I like other Sebadoh albums. I hate this. 1/5
No
Nah.
Bland and poor. Limp indie guitar rock. Puny production. Forgettable songs and base level musicality. I have no idea why this record made this list.
Who is this for lol. The instrumentals are decent, everything else is just too pitchy and noisy for my taste.
I really didn't like this one. There was metal elements I don't enjoy and I felt it sounded too chaotic and discordant at times.
Sigh. Mediocrity wrapped in pretension. Sounds like Frank Zappa if Zappa had a brain injury and forgot how to compose and arrange. Or it can sound like slayer on Xanax. That sounds much better than this relentless tripe. And I’ve nothing against stupid lyrics. But Jesus. ‘Don’t bite me on the arm/ Capricorn rising. ‘ it’s hardly Dylan. Or Jimmy Webb. Or Bernie Taupin. This is brain damaged stupidity. It needs help. Maybe an operation. It’s Boston without the sense of joy. (And Boston is the most joyless band I’ve heard). It’s Zappa without talent. It’s a random selection of nothing hiding behind ‘art’. But we can see the F that belongs on the front of 'Art’ and we can smell it too. 1.5 stars. It gets .5 for the audacity of it. But Minus 1 for the execution. So it’s .5.
This album kinda sucked. Some half-decent songs. Drumming was the best part, but nothing special.
Not for me. Didn’t finish - couldn’t do a full hour of this
Off the bat, they sound like a poor man's Soundgarden or Stone Temple Pilots or insert your favorite 90s grunge alt rock band here. 4 songs through and this just sounds terrible. Telecosmic Alchemy has bad singing and disjointed instrumentals. Fantastic Disaster was a too-on-the-nose name for that song. Everything sounds like it was recorded inside a tin can. 8 songs in and finally a normal sounding song in Sacred Attention. Vocals still suck but at least we have coherent music that jams. There were some songs in the 2nd half that were tolerable like Forced Love and Think, but the bar was so low by that point that average songs like those sounded good. This shit sucked. How did this make the cut? 1 star.
Tough listen. No redeeming qualities for me
Average 90s indie shoegaze feel sorry for myself songs. If I saw them at a festival back then it would’ve inspired me to go get a beer. From Sacred Attention onward they at least show a little bit of energy. Detuning your guitar does not make you automatically interesting. This is like if Pavement stopped giving a shit but got a record deal anyway
Kinda boring
I am displeased to say the least. You mean to tell me this no-man’s-land earbomb of an album deserves its day in the sun? This isn’t charming diy indie, this isn’t a challenge to the listener. Songs 2-4 specifically are just messy. “Happily Divided” is at least something, even though it lives under Nirvanas shadow, both for sounding a lot like it’s making an attempt to sound like Kurt Cobain, and for this being a sub pop release. That gives me a solid reason to be a homer and give this album SOME sort of bias. I found no such reason to do so. This album has an idea of what it wants to be, and has moments of completeness. Lots of intros, like on “Emma Get Wild” give me a vague sense of hope, just for some sloppy vocals and quick-to-stale melodies nosedive it all. I can’t really pick a whole song as a highlight for me. Maybe the halfway point of “Homemade”, having some success actually sounding like proper indie/grunge for a moment. Is this a snapshot of a musical time & place? Sure. Is it worthy of taking a spot on this list over [literally insert your missed album of choice here]? Cmooooon.
Ugh. No thanks.
Aggressively amateurish, at times comically bad, at best hopelessly generic.
It was pretty boring. Nothing much to write about.
"Soul and Fire" +1
Not my cup of tea.
Another 90s lo-fi indie rock album that this list seems to love. There's some elements to note - the first few tracks have a few interesting guitar work. Everything else, though, is just banal vocals and experimentation that goes so far as so it is trying too hard. Best Tracks: N/A Worst Tracks: - Fantastic Disaster - Telecosmic Alchemy Rating: 2/10
mega ikke for mig. Jeg ventede på at den blev færdig
This sounded so bad. I really really hated it.
Boring noise
Horrible
Jesus, these guys have 9 albums! I couldn’t get all the way through 3 songs before tapping out - aural arm bar for the submission. The pain…
Make it stop
I have never heard a song worse than Elixer is Zog and I never will. Every second of this was pure torture.
To whomever wrote in their review: "...Intentionally dissonant poverty tier indie rock..." - I love you. Vindicating all my memories of the worst tendencies of the cynicism of my generation and the lack-of-effort 90s SUPER COOL INDIE SCENE! This is dogshit, and intentional dogshit. They're insulting you. Fking slacker rock. I hate this band. 0/10 0 stars.
1/5
I believe that if an album is going to be listed as one of the 1,001 it should meet some minimum standards. It should be a quality recording. It should have excellent production. The musicians should be competent and the song writing should have some aesthetic qualities. Does an album have to have all of these attributes? Not necessarily. Sometimes a recording is done in such a way to try to capture, say, the band live foregoing what we would typically think of uus "quality". Likewise, an album doesn't have to have the production value and perfectionism of, fore example, Steely Dan or Boston. Musicianship can be a tricky one. Was Kurt Cobain a great guitarist in the same echelon as Les Paul, B.B King or Eric Clapton? No, but he knew his limitations and worked within them to produce something unique. He had competency and then some. Lastly while aesthetics are often in the eye of the beholder, there is usually something about a song that draws the listener in and makes a connection with them. It might be a lyric or a theme or an energy. But there has to be something. Almost all the albums that I’ve heard so far meet the standards I listed above. Perhaps the album has all of these qualities. Perhaps it only has some of them. This album, however, has none of those qualities in my opinion. The songs are monotonous and discordant. The vocals are weak. Musically, the album is just cacophonous. It reminds me of a bunch of guys that got together in high school and learned to play their instruments in their garage or basement. They’re not good enough to do cover songs so they wrote their own material and bang their way through it with what barely passes as musicianship. Then they bought an inexpensive recording device off Alibaba and created a overly saturated demo that they sent to the local radio and cable stations in an effort to try to get a record deal. While they did get that deal, it doesn’t mean they are very good or that the material is very good. It’s simply gives the rest of us talentless hacks hope as we dream to someday play in a band.
I tried. Someone said if Beck fell down the stairs. Early grunge, proto punk?
"how hard could harmonizing be?": The Album. Bad, just bad and annoying all around. If a hallmark of the genre is sounding bad on purpose then maybe its just not good?
Whatever this is it ain't for me. REM but bad.
1 star. Didn’t even make it through the album.
1.5
Probably the less said the better. I really gritted to get through this one. The low-fi 90s bands are all overrated in my opinion. Don't you want to have fun when listening to music? I'm either not fooled or I just don't get it. Really could go either way. Anyway, I never really want to hear this again.
Yeah this is bad. Nirvana if they sucked, Mount Erie if he sucked, sounds like they blended all of their instruments together along with some guy's whiny voice and poured it into an album. Yuck Fav Songs: None