Crossing the Red Sea with The Adverts

Never heard of this band before and 3 songs in I'm just not feeling it, its like it wants to be punk, with a hint of new wave... But doesn't really succeed at either.

2.08

Pretty fun one. Simplistic, energetic and catchy one that I can't really dislike all too much

Probably wouldn't be disappointed if I'd missed out on this, it's very generic as a 70s Punk album

Ok

This project is obsessed with 70s punk and most of it is not that interesting. 2*

Kovaa alkuvaiheen brittipunk-ajoa!

Thought this would be dreadful like all punk but it was just quite boring

This was a real jam, with solid tracks throughout, good grooves, melodies and solid production.

3.5 rounded up.

I'd never heard of this band, but they are a great early punk band.

Great punk album. Listened to it several times through and would happily listen to it again.

Probably the least annoying British punk rock album I've had to listen to. It falls short of bring an officially great album because just about every song sounds the same, and there's not a whole lot of substance, but they're decent musicians. They can actually play instruments really well and create musical harmony, which I realize sounds like a bare minimum for music, but most punk rockers don't even get this far. The average punk band is too concerned with rebellion that they don't even bother to make something that resembles music, but the Adverts are able to balance their rebellious spirit with actual music. It's fun to listen to, and it's not something I have to force myself to find positives with.

I’m at a 3.5 that I’ll bump up to a 4.

I don’t think this album does anything super special, but it certainly doesn’t do anything wrong; this is a pretty quick 31 minutes that’s full of pretty quality tracks, but as an album experience, I feel like there’s not much of a sense of direction for the band to firmly plant itself on as a debut album.

Individually, I don’t think there’s a bad track here – a few mediocre ones, sure, but nothing ever reaches outright bad. The instrumentation is pretty entertaining, and the vocals know when to switch between calm, angry, and forceful. The lyrics are sort of where this album falls flat; not that they’re bad, but there’s never really a super catchy hook here to really hang your hat on as a signature song.

However, in terms of the album, it just sort of felt like going track to track without a direction, and while Odessey & Oracle was sort of the same way, it worked because of the consistency in the stylings of each track – this album can’t really decide if it wants to be super heavy, a little light, or somewhere right in the middle. It jumps between each tone, and it makes the album experience feel just a little bit too dissonant at times.

Regardless, what’s here is super fun, and most of the little nitpicks I had don’t take away from the overall quality of each track or the album; it’s got a lot of great energy, and when everything is clicking, it feels a little unstoppable in a charismatic way. It just doesn’t click as often as I’d like, but it clicks often enough to bump this up to a 4.

A vital and important punk cornerstone that I had never listened to in full before - pretty much the point of doing this! It doesn't need all the flummery of the 1hr 9min expanded edition; the original was less than half that and better for it.
Up there with the best UK punk, and the best work John Leckie has produced - both of which are impressive company to keep.

A delightful 70's UK Punk album, that captures the period so well, I would have people listen to this as their introduction to the style.

Es ist ein Album, das die rohe Energie und den ungestümen Geist des Punkrock einfängt. Es ist ein solides Werk, das die Hörer mit seiner Direktheit und Energie auflädt. Die Band liefert eine Performance, die sowohl roh als auch raffiniert ist, was eine gute bis durchschnittliche Bewertung rechtfertigt.
Die Highlights des Albums sind zweifellos die Tracks “Bored Teenagers”, “Gary Gilmore’s Eyes” und “On Wheels”. “Bored Teenagers” verkörpert die jugendliche Unruhe und den Drang nach Veränderung, der für Punk so charakteristisch ist. “Gary Gilmore’s Eyes” ist ein kultureller Kommentar, verpackt in einem eingängigen Rhythmus, der zum Nachdenken anregt. “On Wheels” hingegen ist ein energetischer Track, der die Freiheit und das Aufbegehren der Punk-Bewegung symbolisiert.
Insgesamt ist es ein Album, das die Essenz des Punk einfängt und dabei eine Palette von Themen behandelt, die sowohl persönlich als auch politisch sind. Es ist ein Album, das man hören sollte, um die Anfänge des Punkrock zu verstehen und die Energie dieser Ära zu erleben.

Not a bad UK punk record. I don’t know if I’ve knowingly heard the Adverts before. Better than the Sex Pistols not as interesting as the Clash.

I crossed the sea and was grateful to get to the other side...

Punk with a slightly experimental edge.

Yep this is a good British punk album agree it deserves to be on the list, but nothing really stand out vs the clash of sex pistols that I’m likely to come back to it.

Today's album is some late 70's British punk similar to The Clash, The Damned, or The Buzzcocks. Overall, pretty solid.

Favourite songs: Newboys, Safety in Numbers, On the Roof, Gary Gilmore's Eyes, No Time to Be 21, One Chord Wonders, New Church, Bored Teenagers, Great British Mistake

Least favourite songs: Bombsite Boy

4/5