Peggy Suicide

No thanks

I've heard of Julian Cope but I haven't ever listened to his music.

I'm just not feeling this one. A lot of it just feels very amateurish.

If you can't be arsed to write more than 8 lines of lyrics pr. track, maybe don't extend each one of them to go on for this long.

I honestly think this got better around track 15, but that's really too late. Balancing between fine and annoying while it goes on, and absolutely forgettable the instant it ends.

Listening to this album, I'm downright shocked this thing is rated less than a 3. I can generally get a vibe of what the rating will be for an album while listening to it. Absolutely floored at it being 2.77, was not expecting that. It should honestly be up around 3.2 minimum. Maybe it's trying to do too much, and that's why people are bouncing off it, yet it feels cohesive anyway, and I'm not seeing complaints about that specifically. Mostly just people accusing it of being too long and pretentious.

Every song on this album (or almost everything, Pristeen kinda sucks) has something awesome going on. Sure, its long, but it's class. From the Bowie/Pink Floyd vibes of Safesurfer to the 90's as hell groove of If You Loved Me At All to the very REM sounding Drive, She Said to the Chili Peppers-esque East Easy Rider to [Insert the next sound Julien tackles on every song on this album], with a somewhat Nick Cave/Depeche Mode singing type voice.

It's just a fantastic, varied, something-for-everyone album. Probably not something I'm gonna go back to, but still a great record.

I made it to track 13. To quote Chunk from The Goonies, "That's all I can stand... and I can't stand no more!"

This fucking SUCKED

⭐.5

Quite interesting. Every song was quite different. Julian has a cool voice. There were one or two songs that really caught my ear but even without the bonus disc, this is very long!

This is actually great. Despite it's length, it grew on me more and more as it played, and I found myself admiring the scope and talent behind it as it went on.

There's lots of range in here, with different styles and approaches. Lots of different instruments. Running through the whole thing you get a great tempo, tons of personality, and the sense of real quality and commitment. Musically it's really on-point. There's lots of surprises in there, with little notes of difference, a choir at one point, brass, synths, talked-over bits. It's so vibrant.

I just think it's really accomplished, and you get a sense of a true artist at work. I hadn't heard of this guy at all, or his previous band, so it's nice to have access and knowledge of this whole other scene that I was completely unaware of.

Political psych rock with post-punk vibes and Madchester grooves. Obviously that's a 5.

The opening track Pristine reminded me of the Velvet Underground, and there were a few other songs where I found myself wondering “who does this sound like?” It's not bad, and I really liked a couple of tracks, but I'm not sure it's quite good enough to justify the length (or maybe it's place on this list).

I like this. Music with an odd quality. A good old-fashioned English eccentric.

REM for incels.

Meh. Nothing awful about it, it just seems to go on for quite a while

This was alright. Maybe a little on the long side, but some of the guitar work was really good and the variations in style kept it interesting. Sometimes reminded me of Nick Cave. Favorite songs were Double Vegetation, Safesurfer, and If You Loved Me At All.

A very cool album with an interesting feeling to it - it didn't set my brain on fire but was very good music! Hope to go back and love it on another listen or two

2.5 hours... Every time I see this I think that the artist is some kind of experimental person that could not limit themself to fewer songs.
This album aligns with that theory.

It's too much for me... Some songs I could not finish as they got too annoying, others were okay again. But letting me go through 2.5h of that is borderline torture.

First few songs I wasn’t feeling this at all and was starting to tune out a bit. Then Hanging Out And Hung Up On The Line came on and I really enjoyed it. After that the album clicked with me and I ended up really liking it.

Gave it a second listen later on and it clicked with me from the start.

Top Track - Leperskin

This just isn't my jam. It's like a poor man's Nick Cave

Щось дуже дивне. Я слухав слухав і не зрозумів взагалі що це.

Good god what a boring slog. Literally felt time slow down and my life force drain away

YABA (Yet Another British Album)
"Turning point as a maturing artist" WTF is this amateur hour shit where the moment it's mildly ok, it deserves to be on this list?
Meh, it was fine, not bad, 3*