I will probably never play it again, but it's beautiful. Great voice.
I'm glad I heard this. It's not like anything in the book. Would have been a good addition. It was fascinating at first, but even though it's only 30 minutes, it's still too long for me.
Sounds like an American take on brit pop. They do it well. Some of the songs are entrancing. Those are the best. Weird. I usually don't like that at all. Favorite song: the past is a grotesque animal.
They sound like a more energetic version of the Kaiser Chiefs, who are named after a sports team. The irony. The album is alright, but not essential. It falls in between a lot of stuff that's already in the book.
One of my issues with the original list was that there wasn’t enough fun or party music. This album belongs in that category. It made me chuckle a couple of times, but there’s too much room for improvement to give it a high rating.
This album sounds very mid sixties. It is. And it sounds like it. This great at times, cheesy at others. I recognize a few of these tunes from background music on TV. Never knew who it was. Herb Albert apparently. Turns out I do like trumpets. I thought I didn't because I didn't like Miles Davis very much. Turns out I just don't like the way he plays it.
I don't blame people for liking this album. There's not much to hate. It all sounds very safe and unsurprising. It's not for me.
In the early days of mp3 you could only select predefined genres. Primus were the only band who had their own genre named after them. That's how iconic they are. This should have been in the book. One of the biggest mistakes.
First impression: different enough, easy on the ear. But it's about twice as long as it should have been.
Pretty good pop punk. Good singer. The arrangements are not entirely a dime a dozen. The mix is fatiguing. Especially the drums sound too processed, but that was the sound of the 00s.
If entrancing music doesn’t click, it’s just boring. I’m not very susceptible to entrancing music. It's not that I don't like noise. I have a background in death metal and punk. My favorite album is by Sonic Youth. To me this sounds uninteresting and low-effort. A wall of noise with very little going on behind it.
To the people who don't understand the lyrics: they are poetic, but they seem very random to me. He sets the scene for a story by describing lots of unrelated details, but there is no actually story.
I'm from the same area as this guy. Nieuwegein is 20 minutes by bike.
If I recall correctly, this album is in the Dutch edition of the book. It should be. He was one of the main Dutch indie artists of the 00s. Music wise it sounds somewhat like Eels and Beck, but different enough. I think I understand what people like about it, but I don't like it very much myself. It sounds as if he didn't want to wake up the baby sleeping in the next room or he didn't want the neighbors to find out what he was doing.
It's not bad, but I wonder how much staying power this has. I think it's too new for lists like this.
It sounds very cinematic. Perfect for the movie soundtrack that it is, but not as interesting as stand-alone music to me.
Pop punk. Slightly better than the band Simple Plan.
Great. Maybe even better than the blue album. More variety.
Is post-pop-punk a thing? This is like My Chemical Romance's depressed brother. The first half is underwhelming and doesn't sound entirely sincere, but it improves around the midpoint. Moody like The Cure, noisy like Girls vs Boys, you can still hear traces of their pop-punk background (I heard Deja Entendu before). Does it belong in the book? It would make more sense than some albums that made it in, but it doesn't quite feel essential to me.
Some songs are pretty good, some are just OK. It's not really my style, but I know plenty of people who would love this.
It's not bad, but it didn't grab me.
I don't remember this band at all. Nerdy britpop. I like it.
This is classic late-80s teen-pop: catchy and polished. Some songs stick, but a lot are forgettable. Foolish Beat was her only big hit here, and honestly, it’s one of the more forgettable tracks. In Europe, Stock, Aitken & Waterman artists like Kylie Minogue dominated this segment of the market. And of course Madonna, but Madonna was a rebel and Debbie is anything but. She didn't stand a chance.
It would have been better if it was a lot shorter. Some of the songs are pretty good, some aren't, none of them are groundbreaking. His voice is not that special. The album sounds very 80s.
I'm not a dancer. This almost made want to dance.
It sounds like it came from a book and not from the heart. Not terrible, but I will probably never play this again. Kind of reminds me of what Madonna sounded like 5-10 years earlier.
I remember them as a Nirvana type band. This is more Panic At The Disco or My Chemical Romance. These guys did it first, though. It's not bad, but it doesn't really speak to me. I like the album with the frog better.
Not really my style, but I can't think of anything about this record that I dislike.
Some songs sound very traditional and some sound very modern. Somehow it makes sense to put them on an album together. It works. I don't like the singing very much. The baby voice.
I only new them by name. I'm not sure what I expected, but not this. Apparently post-rock, but that's a big umbrella. It's quite intense. I like it.
It's made well, but I can't stand the singing.
I like them. One of their riffs was my ringtone for a while. I went to see them a couple of times. Always great. I like their older records better. This has a more indie rock feel to it. The older records sound more hardcore. This is probably easier to get into for casual listeners, both the sound and the lyrics.
