Hypnotised

Absolutely not my jam

Ok alters and. No recognizable music.

Come on. This stuff is NOT something anyone needs to listen to

80s British power-pop is boring. Fight me.

Extremely not into this. The songs are structured well but I do not see much value in actually listening to this. The intro riff sounded like the Backyard Baseball OST.

Boring. Repetitive. Way too long. 2/5

Wow this was bad

Nothing really that good.

This just wasn’t it for me. Not a terrible album but I have no desire to listen again.

Not their best album but was a nostalgic listen

The Undertones - Hypnotised Yea... This isn't for me. I get that they were the pioneers of this genre they were doing, but it just sounds the same. Nearly every song here feels the same. I'm not complaining about "some" of the lyrics here, but most of them sound pretty dull by comparison. There are like 3 or even 4 good songs on here, most of them are just the same thing like said, very repetitive with very few ideas to bring on the table. Hell, even The Clash were able to make punk music better than them a year earlier with London Calling... 1.- More Songs About Chocolate and Girls = 5/10 2.- There Goes Norman = 6/10 3.- Hypnotised = 5/10 4.- See That Girl = 6/10 5.- Whizz Kids = 6/10 6.- Under the Boardwalk = 7/10 7.- The Way Girls Talk = 4/10 8.- Hard Luck = 6/10 9.- My Perfect Cousin = 7/10 10.- Boys Will Be Boys = 4/10 11.- Tearproof = 5/10 12.- Wednesday Week = 6/10 13.- Nine Times Out of Ten = 7/10 14.- Girls That Don't Talk = 5/10 15.- What's With Terry? = 6/10 FINAL SCORE: 5.6/10

Dull, boring.

Shut off after My Perfect Cousin

Just Wasn't happening.

feels a little bloated and repetitive. i guess i dont understand why this album made this list because it is just fine with absolutely nothing new to provide. the old material it recycles is not particularly my taste anyway

Boring. Music for boomer men. Didn't mind the one about a guy called Norman though, but only because I have a kitten called Norman.

I wasn't hypnotised by this :(

joo eiköhän ole aika selvää naamalärveistä, kotimaasta ja vuosiluvusta että mitä vitun katastrofaalista ripulia on tulossa... vittu vihaan iso-britanniaa niin vitusti. tämmöset pitää laittaa riviin ja vittu litistää kunnes on kuollut. miten helvetissä porukalla on näin alhaiset standardit... good bass work... mitä vittua selität? musiikki on paskaa!!! 1.00 pitäisi olla average. imekää piliäni kusipäät. seitsemään sataan ja yhteentoista melkein jäi homma siihen.. niin saatanan lähellä että koko touhuun laitetaan nyt stoppi.. mitää VITUUUUUA. ja niillä on jo yksi albumi takana voi hyvä luoja. ette vittu laita ylläpito lisää tätä under the boardwalk

just skipped through, not my thing

Day 26 - June 27, 2024 I fucking hate punk. 1/5

I had come into this record having heard their debut, and having come away from that record wanting more complexity/songcraft, I thought their second effort would be much improved. I'm sad to report that I didn't enjoy this record as much as I thought I would. None of this album's 15 tracks offer much to remember it by, and the production is worse than the debut, in my opinion. It's just not a memorable record, 1 star.

Sounds like a local bar band that kind of has their shit together.

I kinda wonder if maybe I just don't get new wave? I have seen debate on if The Smiths are new wave or not, but I don't get them (at least not the album I got so far on this list). I just barely got the B-52s and I think that is just because I was already just a little familiar with them. Anyway, I feel a little bad giving them a 1 star because I really didn't hate them, but I also just did not get anything from this.

Hard Luck was okay. The rest was the rest.

Not a big punk fan, but I liked the singer

You never know if you're going to get godlike or crap when you see weird album covers like this. But something made my spider sense tingle, and this time it was definitely the latter. There wasn't anything technically wrong with the album really, but more that it was 0% musically interesting to me. I initially thought I had found originators of 'Under the Boardwalk', but nope. This was just a sucky version. After finishing it felt like a 2 star, but the more I thought about it I realized I didn't like anything with it, so 1 star felt more fitting.

Holy.... this album was so long that I could barely go through the whole thing, it took 45 minutes to go through the whole thing (well, I took break, so it took me a few hours). It's not bad but the whole thing sounded like a very generic album, which could've been fine for its time but it was too much for me. It started off alright but by the end, I had already understood their whole thing. The most exciting feeling that I felt today was when I realised that the album had ended.

I'm going to make a point in saying that a 1 on this website in particular is not bad every time, but sometimes its just me saying "This album is just alright and I don't think it belongs in the 1001". Hypnotised is a good listen for someone who follows the history of The Undertones sonic development but anyone looking for a cultural touchstone may find it more difficult to latch onto than their self-titled. Songs are less poppy, lyrics are sardonic but still a bit cutesy. The melodies don't land as well here.

I've never enjoyed this type of music.

Favorites: none Not my thing

Late 70's British Pop, no thanks.

Feo feo

Not for me. The voice is too warbly and the music doesnt excite me. Sorry

I do not like this album. Let me explain why. The sound of the album is just kind of okay. It is passable early 80s punk rock. The bass is good at times. The singing is fine. It does nothing for me, but it's not inherently bad. Those are the positives. I don't like anything else. This might just be the most repetitive album I've ever listened to. Why does there need to be 15 songs if they all sound the same? All of these songs are practically the same thing, both in terms of sound and lyrics. Three of songs (20%) have the phrase "Boys will be boys", including a song of the name "Boys Will Be Boys". That should tell you what this album is like. Most of the songs are just about girls. That's it. I couldn't discern anything else! This album has absolutely no lasting impression; not just on me, but on culture as a whole. This album does not deserve to be on this list. I. Don't. Like. It. 1/5.

Not my fave, I can tell that it’s creative but honestly it just sounds like a couple of high school boys coming up with noise in the basement for me

…What are we even doing here, man. I'm on an educational journey here when it comes to punk and punk-adjacent, but you can't show me groups up to actually interesting stuff (X-ray Spex, for example) and then expect me to be interested in something that's this tepid.

🤷‍♂️

Why do you do this to me 1001 albums

What the f@&$ is this?

Not my thing

Didn’t wow me and I’m kind of over all the punk on this list. Good bass though.

This was so annoying I didn’t finish it lmao

i get it it’s 1980 but can you stop singing about how you hate women for like 2 seconds.

If I ever have to listen to this album again, I will turn the volume up so high in hopes that I go deaf before too long Although I was quite upset when I listened to this so maybe it deserves another one day

Uninspired, sounds like every other 80s punk album in existence.

09/07/2022 Here’s the deal: I’m super picky about music that sounds like this. For the most part, I hate all this weird 80s pop punky shit. The dead kennedys are probably the only exception that I can immediately think of. But yeah, this album was severely lacking in just about everything for me. Felt no compulsion to listen to it all the way through bc the songs all sounded the same to me. — Today was fine. I looked cute today and studio was sooo long. We got assigned our first project, which I’m not nervous about, but am worried about how I’m going to navigate my other classes while doing work for this class. It begins….

boring album...

I'm not a fan 1 "Wednesday Week" was good

Du punk pas punk, avec un cover pas bon.

1980. Hypnotised

Didn't finish this one. It's bland, uninteresting British punk without a lot of energy to it. Not my taste.

Not sure how this made it on the list.

So bad

Really don't like his voice, the sound or the songs

Catchy toxic masculinity. I made it to the song boys will be boys.

No

could not get through the whole album

Well, can you name one song by the Undertones? Maybe "Teenage Kicks?" This album has 2 songs that some people listen to. This is pedestrian power-chord rock with an unusual vocalist. Generally forgetful.

Meh