Reviews (page 8 of 8)
STANDOUTS: Faster, I guess?? maybe? OVERALL: 1/5 sick of all these shitty rock albums.
No comment. It's not worthy of one.
Clean arrangements, competent vocals, but non-memorable top line melodies and divisive lyrics. Not for me.
No
Woof. No. For some reason, I thought I liked MSP but I must have been confusing them with another band because I couldn't stand this.
Not my cup of tea. Could not finish the album
one of the biggest bands to never stir the remotest urge of interest - just seems to plod along and have never got into it
Awful
Not for me.
It's fine. They have stuff to say and place decent guitar rock. It's just not particularly creative or memorable.
1.5/5
I have never understood why people sneer at Status Quo and yet laud this lot as some kind of punk super-beings. Apart from the pose of being political, this sounds like slightly louder plodding Stadium Rock in a similar vein. I like music with something to say, but to me this is the musical equivalent of Banksy: generic obvious statements set to generic obvious guitar music. Style over substance. Lighten up fellas.
Horrible singer. Still.
Nah
Odd but not in a really good way. Did not enjoy
Nope.
I absolutely hate the Manics. They join the small group of bands who are inexplicably overrated - U2, Coldplay, Oasis. I just don't get them. I have tried to force myself to listen to this bilge, and I just can't get why some Welsh boyos are so revered.
No thanks
Garage rock with pretentious overtones. Wanky and not worth a second listen.
Blasphemous. 1/5
yeladey senter :0 1/10
I remember being aware of Manic Street Preachers in the early 90's. I did not expect what I heard tonight. Messy, muddy, nothing to really latch on to. It's all attitude and I'm not really fond of it. I feel like this would have been something I liked when I was 13 or 14. I was 21 when this came out and I know now why exactly I never bothered with it. Another thing about 90's albums... they're too damn long! Even the good ones could use a trim.
Not for me
Eh, bored the entire time.
Too harsh for me
Critically over rated IMHO
First couple songs I was like ok, this is fine -- got more annoyed at it as it went. Very aggressively 90's and want a little more mania from "Manic Street Preachers"
I think this may be the first album on the list that I genuinely hate. It's such a strange combination of venomous bile and cheesy melodramatic musical techniques - the combination of which just makes me nauseous. The spoken interludes are overused to the point of being eye rolling. I can see what they're trying to do, to reinforce their bleak worldview with the words of others, but maybe just focus on one or two? The whole album is trying to do too much, trying too hard. They also can't seem to make up their mind on what they want to do. They don't even seem to have their own musical identity - they just sound like a loose amalgamation of so many other early 90s guitar based alt rock bands. I thought I actually liked the last song but Spotify had simply gone and auto played a track by The Verve right after the album was over. Not that I'm a huge fan of The Verve or anything, but it was like a breathe of fresh air after being locked in Richey Edwards' dingey apartment for 56 minutes and 25 seconds. Will not be listening again.
Got better as it went on. Foo fighters type music. No need to listen again
Can understand so little of the singers mumbling voice I imagine it feels like I’m having a stroke while also getting a political lecture
I’d never heard any of the tracks on this album before. I really enjoyed the opening track - it had what sounded like a Cure riff happening in the background and the lyric content was interesting. But, for me it was downhill after that. Except for This Is Yesterday, which slowed the tempo down somewhat, the band were going hell for leather and I got bored. They might be good at what they do. The sounds & samples used were often interesting (hear The Intense Humming Of Evil). But I found the majority of the tracks to be repetitive & very samey. A bit boring, really.
First time hearing this band, it's another British alternative band 🙄 First track is upbeat, no backing vocals and fuzzy guitar tones, I dig it. Lead singer doing his best Freddy Mercury impression. Of Walking Abortions sounds like Twisted Sister. Imagine being at a live show and yelling "we are walking abortions" nah. Overall I didn't hate this.
Couldn’t get past the first 30 seconds
Ah, no.
I've never understood this band, and another listen to this album hasn't changed that.
1.3 - just awful. I wish I could get that hour of my life back. All of the musical excellence of shitty 90s rock, with none of the nostalgia of actually listening to it before.
That was not enjoyable. I would probably like the music with other subject matter, but in this case the lyrics are the songs.
I did not like it. I did not like it at the beginning. I didn't like it in the middle. I didn't reach the end. This album probably did something for someone, but it sounded like utterly indistinguishable 90's grunge/alt mashed together.
Boring.
Bailed halfway through. Nice timing though, given that Nevermind turned 30 last week. Can’t celebrate that without bemoaning all the bullshit grunge that trailed in its wake.
No ty
bland AF and I am disappointed as I thought this was a reggae/ska band
This record was not for me. It wasn't any of the things I like in early nineties guitar music (shoegaze, jangle pop, whatever genre the stone roses are) and everything I don't like.
complete shit
not a fan
Interesting alternative punk rock album… How songs start out with news clips made it very interesting
Okay who took photos of me before my Peleton days? Weird album cover and about the same comment on the 🎼 Not my cup of tea
No thank you, gov'na.
No thank you
Eh, the singer was mostly incoherent. Tunes weren’t that great either.
This one didn't stand out, kind of sucked actually.
christian music
Ruim