Good overall, but would take a few listens to be more familiar with
Brighter than paranoid.
Maybe laid foundations for later Zeppelin?
Yellow is great. Other songs were awful. I love chilled out music, but this is totally unengaging
1 star. Chilled out but not engaging or interesting...just sort of droned on. Was waiting for something more energetic and familiar but it never happened, so that was frustrating
Weird AF, but liked it probably more than I shouldve
Boring
Just reverb and droning voices that I though was never going to end.
not another nick drake
The title track is ridiculous...like holy shit 14 minutes!? Could've condensed that a little bit don't you think?
Had to skip Power of Love, I just couldn't do it.
I'm giving this 2 stars, but the most generous 2 stars I've given so far.
miiiiiiiiid
Boring
Dead-ass dad rock. Meh.
80s fuck sakes
Good lord that was awful! Glad they found their sound with the more disco vibe, but that was hard to listen to.
Would give 10 if I could
Good, and I get it's so many peoples favorite, but can't give it 5 because In Rainbows is better.
Just isn't as well put together as an album, even if it has some of their best songs.
WHO MADE THIS LIST? WHAT A MESS!
This is giving the soundtrack to Michael Scott's Threat Level Midnight. No doubt the guy's talented, and it was mildly amusing but I won't get that hour back....
For someone with a name as cool as Elvis Costello, his music just really falls short. He is the diet pepsi of Joe Strummer, just no piss and vinegar.
I finally thought I heard a song I liked off this album, turns out it was just Spotify playing a deep cut Clash song after this album had finished
80's gated toms and cheesy synths ruin everything, they can go fuck off
Not even worth the time to write a clever scathing review, couldn't even finish this. It just has no place on a list like this.
Have obviously heard some of the hits, and as a whole liked the album better than expected. However, I can't give this one more than 3/5 because Use Somebody has to be the most dead, dry, aimlessly written song that somehow radio stations still think people want to hear right now. I've been waiting a long time to say my piece about that fucking song and am glad I finally got a chance to do it
Painful. And not in a good way. Boring. Sounds like dracula took a bunch of quaaludes. I will never trust that anyone could possibly enjoy this.
They seem to also be responsible for influencing a lot of shoegazey british droning that came after it, and I really don't understand the draw. Anyone that says they like this has to be just feeling pretentious or something.
Really liked half the songs, but the others went something like this:
- Mom, can we listen to Tom Waits?
- We have Tom Waits at home.
The Tom Waits at home:
Fuck this guy, man. What a prick
So forgettable, why is this on the list. It's not even memorably bad, just so mid..
Great mixing and guitar tones, I love the sound, and I want to like this more but if I hear Black Hole Sun ONE.MORE.TIME on the radio I will pull my hair out.
Also, I respect Chris Cornell's vocal talent, I know what he does with his voice is superhuman but does it actually sound....good? Sometimes it seems to be on a spectrum of drunken marblemouth man to screaming banshee. Again, no disrespect but sometimes it kind of reminds me of those awful national anthem renditions where they'll hold the same note for 2 minutes to flex their talent and everyone just eats it up but it's actually really lame and obnoxious.
Idk, just my piece.
1,2,3,4
I wanna listen to this album every day.
I don't wanna give it less than 5 stars.
Total runtime: 2 mins, 1 second.
PERFECTION
Pretty annoying honestly. Was hoping for more punk influence, but unfortunately a lot of it reminded me of noisy-ass My Bloody Valentine shit that feels more pretentious than anything else. Idk, maybe it takes a few listens.
Worst one so far holy shit.
WHO MADE THIS LIST
I like to think I have a diverse and accepting taste in music, but this is just peak trash, I have no words. At least I know what I don't like. I'd rather listen to 49 minutes of nails on a chalkboard because at least it would provoke some sort of artistic response but this?? Dude sounds like he'd rather be dead than continue singing!
This better be the last time I ever have to listen to this fucking band voluntarily. I can't fathom being so pretentious that you can tell yourself you enjoy this.
Was expecting an instant 1 star when seeing synth pop and 80s, but way more funky than expected. Not sure how quickly I'd come back, but I liked it.
Not my tempo 3.5/5
Better than the last heaping pile of garbage from this band, but still just generic, bland, bad 80's music.
Fuck Morrisey. Also this was so boring.
I've had just about enough of this yapping hound, how many times does he have to be on this fucking list.
Influential, I guess, but really I was counting down the songs I had left to listen by the fourth track.
Next one from him that comes up is getting a 1/5 just out of spite. You've been warned.
Great cover album, a little white though...
I know this guy's talented, and the songwriting isn't bad, but man I wish 80's production like this could just be wiped from the earth never to be heard again. Honestly takes any existing credibility to a song and just fucks it up once I heard those stupid-ass gated drums and cheesy synths. As other users said, who the fuck thought we'd come back to this and think it was actually well done? Talent like this deserves better, and at this point in this list I've had it with the 80s BS, I'm not playing nice anymore. 1/5.
I like to think I'm really open to different sounds from around the world but that was mostly fuckin annoying, jesus
Hey-yeeeeeaaAH. 5 staaaaaarsAH.
4 stars truly listening back, but it's a classic in my personal catalogue.
Was expecting typical 80s garbage cheese, but this was truly a crime against humanity. Sometimes I think the listmaker is trolling.
I mean sure, maybe the list deserves one of these albums for it to be truly diversified and interesting, but how many more of these 80s albums do we really have to sit through?
Talented singer, sure, but reeks of 80's production cheese. At this point, I'm over anything with a gated tom or chincy synth sound.
Bro sounds like Barney from the Simpsons in the earlier parts of the album. This was pretty annoying and dude seems like a real POS.
Thought for sure I'd like it more after reading about all the influences, but didn't really grab my attention. Even with the cool electronic and psych, there was some 90's Oasis stink that wouldn't go away.
In the words of the other reviewer who said it best....a bit shit.
A star each for the only two good songs on the record. The rest was typical 80s production cheese.
holy fuck
so bad, honestly why are there three of these albums on here, the first was bad enough.
Dry Toast
No reason to be on this list at all
Typical 80's droning, boring trash. No business being on this list, as usual.
This was ass. Fuck right off.
Sums up every downside of both the 80s and this list. Absolutely painful listen, first one in 447 albums that I couldn't bother to finish.
Wondering who I wronged in the world to get two Happy Mondays albums back to back. This has me feeling bummed out and with a bellyache, and I hope I never have to listen to this god-awful band again.
It was....fine for hair metal, but is this really the album that's going to be the considered the "gold standard" for that era? Really? Somedays, I just don't know with this list...
Just a reminder, when you listen on spotify, it merges a second album as part of this one, but the original is only the first 8 tracks. I would recommend you only listen to those 8 and not subject yourself to 1hr 15mins of this one and move on to the next
Honestly, music wasn't too bad but that song written about the 13 year old really fucked it all up, instant 1/5 and should not have even been considered for this list - didn't finish after that one
Spotify calls this an EP, so I thought cool, at least if it sucks it won’t be very long and then I had to sit THROUGH 55 MINUTES WTF LIKE WHY
rrrrrrrrrrreeeeeaaaaaaaggggghhhh
funny af and id be lying if I said I hated it
Not the most enjoyable on a personal level, but undeniably essential to be on this list and surprisingly nostalgic. Love that for me it was sandwiched between two thrash metal albums, really just adds to the contrast, lol
total shit
I made a promise that the next overrated album from this clown that came up on this list would be an immediate 1 star. Absolutely not worthy of more than one album on here, and now we're at what, 4?!?
Endless yapping and whining, not memorable at all. A lot of bands in a similar genre and time are great, but every single Elvis Costello song I've heard, even if it starts interesting, turns beige by the 53 second mark.
Regardless, this is me keeping my promises. 1/5
whats up with all the fucking growling at the beginning, definitely an unwelcome surprise.
This was not good, not as bad as expected though. 2/5.
But, we need to account for the Morrisey Multiplier.
Fuck Morrisey.
1/5
I didn't think I disliked Van Morrison, but that was really annoying to be honest, needless to say unworthy of this list. Listen to the Lion was grinding my gears.
Also, come on man, a fucking live album without Brown Eyed Girl or Moondance, what's the point?
Absolute suffering
This has GOT to be a joke. One'est one out of five I've ever given and I hope the creator of this list has a really shitty day today.
You simply can't seriously justify putting something this shit on a list like this. 522 albums in, it makes me want to stop because its a waste of time. I could have gone my whole life never hearing it.
When my worst enemy goes to hell, I hope this is what they have to listen to on repeat.
Matter of fact, whoever made this list should listen to this album on repeat if they think it's so fucking great. Maybe then they'll think twice about replacing it with something different, preferably not from the 80s
I wanted to like this but good god his voice
fuckin fuck
boring, repetitive and self indulgent. Not sure why i expect more from something that Eric Clapton has had his mits on.
toonerville trolley was stupid af
Holy shit could you be any more fucking obnoxious like lets take the most annoying things from each of these genres and put into any album and if anyone questions it just say you were trying to be funny like fuck off.
Some good individual songs but not nearly as complete and timeless as In Rainbows or Kid A
Atrociously bad, this guy is so annoying...BUT I can't give it a 1 because it gave me a good laugh, and it is somehow still better than so many of the 80s synth pop, British, new wave trash that I've been subjected to with this list.
Shit, Shit, Shit. Shame on anyone that gave this atrocity anything over a one, come on, you can't be serious.
One of the best
Literally just asexual seafaring dracula talking about shit over depressing music
enough is enough with this 80s trash. This should only be on this list as a cautionary tale to never make music this bad again.
Kinda annoying TBH
Too long
Absolute lifeless 80s trash. Suffered as anticipated from start to finish. How can anyone think this is remotely remarkable at all
very bland
Everyones complaining about the American Pie cover and sure it's a bad cover but at least it's a good song? Couldn't say the same about a lot of others on this one.
Not good at all. This whole "faux-french" bs is asinine - it gives the idea that this should sound something like Soulwax or Daft Punk, but really it just sounds like a shitty tribute to shitty 80s music.
Mostly unremarkable, although disco II disco was completely enraging. But for only having one enraging song it gets 2 instead of 1
way too long, and if I know anything about this list it can't be his best work either
Total fucking cacophony: Check
80's, but non-shitty production: Check
Isn't New Wave: Check
Isn't Britpop: Check
Isn't Random 1967 Hippy Music: Check
Isn't Boring: Check
You can all hate, but this is a sigh of relief after most of the duds on this list.
Fuck morrisey, little whiny-ass racist overdramatic perrier drinking bigoted pretentious islamophobic squeaky jangly BITCH.
Also, this album was ass.
Another 80s album ruined and beyond boring due to horrible, lame production. I couldnt bear to sit through the acoustic sessions by the time the original part was done, but noticed that the first few seconds of that version was notably better.
The musical equivalent of an hour-long, British, yawn. Never understood the hype. I think this is the second of theirs on this list, but clearly that wasn't memorable either.
Not awful but too long
Thank god this guy started Gorillaz and turned this all around...
If peeing your pants is cool, then consider me Miles Davis
Bro looks like he crawled out of a garbage can after a long winter's nap.
Sad but interesting backstory, unfortunately the music didn't live up to the album's acclaim for me.
"tHiS iSnT eVeN mUsIc!" You know what Dave? After the 350th fucking 80s new wave British pop, you should be grateful.
Not short enough. Did we really have to hear from this clown TWICE?!
If I had to listen to this at a witch trial, I'd be on my hands and knees begging to be burnt alive even and I'm not even a witch.
Absolutely awful! Like a shitty medival party with some twat that needs to be shot in the ass with an arrow. ENOUGH
One particularly awful song was playing on this one and I thought to myself "fuck, I'm never listening to this album again". Funny enough, that song was called Never Again
After the 3000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000th album by this clown, I don't even have the energy to talk about how much i hate him anymore. Fuck this guy, fuck the guy that put all of his mediocre obnoxious albums on this list, and fuck you dear reader
so bad. Shame on the person trying to liken this to LCD
I wanted to like this, I like a lot of the other stuff from this time and place. But holy shit this was absolute agony. I get it’s punk, and DIY whatever you want attitude but that doesn’t mean it has to be so obnoxious. 1/5 never again
No, it's a 1 for sure, but I'm giving it 2 because you can't say it wasn't interesting. The classic car wreck you can't not look at.
Offensively boring, and when it wasn't boring it was annoying.
Blander and more irrelevant than dry toast. Really fed up with how biased this list is.
ok but too long
YOU are the quarry, you piece of shit
Something tells me these guys are from the Southern US. My sharp perception also senses some subtle Skynyrd influences.
Disappointing with the shitty 80s producion
bugs bunny type shi
Really getting sick of this clown after a third appearance. Come on, make room for someone else. Also didn't help that the album sucked
Putting "Sally Go Round the Roses" three times in an hour is diabolical. This was so lame
Like eating dry toast while watching a powerpoint presentation on paperclip sales
boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooring
It takes a lot for me to not be able to finish an album, but I absolutely rage quit this one during Jig of Life. So, so, so bad and cheesy and honestly annoys me that people enjoy it.
I suppose if I can say anything good about this, I admire some more recent artists that claim to have taken influence from this. To see any kind of beauty and enjoyment in an album like this takes incredible talent.
1/5, now time to move on to the next 4 trash 80s albums
What’s with this list having repeat entries of mediocre bands? The 2010s are a great era of music but this does not summarize it well. Why didn’t you include of monsters and men instead? It sounds similar, but was much more prominent during the time and was less boring.
I mean at least it was unique, but still…painful
I swear I've already listened to this one
well deserved 1
There was a lot of good music that came out in 2009. So why the FUCK am I listening to this? Simply could not finish it.
come on seriously
Im giiiVIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIAAAAANNNNNNah, Im givimgivimgivimgivimgivin a 2 star, a 2 star, a 2 star a TWO STAR OUT OF FIVE
oh perfect, another album from nineteen sixty-fucking eight. And it's even more shit than the other ones
So much of this type of fucking garbage on this list
im so sick of this list
Seriously. There's two albums on here from these nobodies. I'm sick and fucking tired of listening to wish.com version of the Smiths, let alone the smiths themselves. So fucking bad
jesus that was awful
Three albums from these fucking guys are you kidding me? Such bullshit I cant believe i haven't given up on this 928 albums in what am i doing.
so, so bad
Well that's 0/4, I think i got the point after the first one. Honestly, might as well just be a fucking author at this point. Dude wants to always tell his weird little stories but he just sings them so horribly and the music just seems like a second thought. Also, I can't shake the vibe that he would be the least fun person at parties. Like wearing a trench coat to a theme park, the antithesis of fun and sucking the life out of everything. Maybe there's a musical theatre somewhere that would entertain this nonsense but it wont be the theatre of my earbuds ever again. 1/5
The snare drum on this album sounds exactly like In Utero, I suppose makes sense with Steve Albini and all, and I thought that was cool.
But that's about all I thought was cool about this. It's that lethal mix on the linear scale of boring and annoying. I want to like PJ Harvey for the vibe, but everything about this album was simply awful
Well I couldnt find this full album anywhere but did listen to the title track to see what I was in for. Considering all the additional endless Nick Cave shit this list has forced me to listen to, I'm gonna do the right thing and not bother listening to this one. Prejudice? Yeah, maybe, but after 953 albums with more being like this than less, I dont give a fuck
This sucked. I got a lot of nick cave the past month which has been awful and it seems like this guy kinda inspired him. Total garbage
I never want to listen to this again, that was deeply unsettling. But given that's probably what they were after, they did a hell of a job with it. I mean, if Elvis Costello and Nick Cave purposely made albums to bore the hell out of you, I'd give those higher scores too.
annoying as fuck
The best U2 has to offer, but still U2
As my 978th album, I'm just really hoping that this may be the last cheesy electronic gated reverb snare and whiny ass new wave 80s voice I ever have to voluntarily listen to again, but given the biased hard on this list has for that type of shit, the outlook is grim overall. I really don't like talking shit about other peoples taste in music and there's a lot of good arguments of why this doesn't suck, but it's my rating, my rules, and I think this sucks. How could anyone think this aged well?
1/5, I HATE this genre
so bland
I thought this was decent until about halfway through....then the drums started to sound worse and it just took a typical shitty 80s production nosedive. Did anyone tell them they didn't need to make their drums sound like that?
bit of a snooze fest
Biggest pile of shit I’ve ever heard in my life
Of all the LDR albums….this one?
Can't find it, but don't care enough to go looking. Based on this lists track record, other user reviews, and subgenre I know exactly how this would sound
Anyone that says they enjoyed this was pretending, I love some of their other stuff but this was just endless noisy blues purgatory
wish.com David Bowie, boring af
shove it up YOUR arsenal
Absolutely awful. Painful, grating, cheesy, overdone. That help cover isn't getting nearly enough hate.
On album 1084 of 1089 it’s been a long ride. Lots of really bad albums tbh. And as I approach my final 5 I hope I have the privilege for the LAST or what feels like 10 times saying this:
FUCK MORRISEY
Album 1089 of 1089, decent one to end off on. What an experience, total nightmare at times if im being honest. My takeaways:
- I wouldn't do this again.
- This list, at least for my taste is too cluttered with a) underwhelming late 60s psych rock. Some of this is good, but too much is too much, I would call most of these defining or essential at all. b) Wayyyyyyyy too much bad 80s. I hate the 80s, but the amount of British post-punk and glammy cheesy poppy stuff is way too little for my liking. I think less UK and more of the rest of the world's music would be more interesting and varied.
- Some serious misses that im surprised aren't on here.
- I really dont think anything should be addedd to this list until at least 10-15 years after release. So many examples, especially in the 2010s, that shouldnt have been here where other should be in its place.
- fuck morrissey
- I really enjoyed some of the lowest rated because they were so bad and different that they were kinda fun and served more purpose than the 15000th Elvis Costello album.
- Most of the albums I gave 5 stars to I had already heard and knew I enjoyed. There were very few discoveries that I immediately fell in love with (~10).
-On that note, I started doing this to expand my taste in music. I know youre not supposed to like and agree with everything, but if youre doing this for that purpose I might suggest a shorter list (100-250 albums) and find other ways to expand your taste, really this list helped me find what I dont link more than what I do. But hey, thats just my opinion, and maybe some of these will grow on me???
-This Janis Joplin album was pretty good! Cant complain for a good way to end it.
- and lastly, fuck morrissey
