Warehouse: Songs and Stories

You can tell this band influenced Pixies and in turn the whole grunge explosion, but as much as i love those bands, this was a hard listen... Super long, very disorganised, and the good stuff is few and far between

This is REM, right?
A bad REM.
Jangle balls

Був період коли я дуже багато слухав Zen Arcade і взагалі цей гурт, а також їхніх кентів з мінетмен. Що сказати такий панк рок я люблю, потім весь оргкор з цього виріс.

I'm torn. This is probably a 4.5 album for me, it's really good, I like it a lot. Zen Arcade should be on this list, though, and I'm not sure if it is or not. If it's not, that's an oversight. I'll round this one up just in case.

Inoffensive alternate rock/"dad rock". Comes off as wallpaper but was never horrible to listen to throughout. 2.5/5 -> 3/5

Es hört sich ein wenig so an, als wird bei REM der Hardrockknopf angestellt. Es ist ein temporeiches Album mit guten rockigen Songs z. B. „This important Years“, meinem Favoriten „Ice Cold Ice“, „Could You be The One“ oder „She Floated Away“ oder „Turn It Around“ Gerne mal wieder zurück zum Collage Rock.

Warehouse: Songs And Stories is a pretty alright album. Musically, i do quite like what it does. It does mostly go for an alt rock sound with punk sounding guitars with the energy of indie music and it even does have a few diversions here and there so that's also nice. The vocals, however, leave something to be desired. They feel so weak and while i did get used to them as the album went on (partly thanks to the album's fairly long length), I still do not believe they are all that well recorded and the music does often have a tendency to drown them out. This album is pretty flawed but i have heard worse.
Best Song: Bed of Nails
Worst Song: You Can Live at Home

The mix is soo bad

Wasn't really feeling this one. Probably a good opening band for REM, but this album doesn't belong on this list. My impression is that indie rock really struggled in the early to mid-80s, until bands like U2 and REM really found their footing.

It's pretty OK. It doesn't sound heavily 80s, but it definitely has some 80s rock flavor to it. One thing that knocks its rating down a bit is that its quality is fairly inconsistent. Some songs I feel like I can hear bits of R.E.M. or The Lemonheads. Other songs just sound like basic album filler that is just kinda there. Overall, not a bad album, but too goddamned long. 20 songs is too many songs.

Wow this sucks. Some of the instrumentation is OK but overall just bland and annoying. 1.5

Great fun, love the genre, don't think it quite rises to the level of REM or Depeche Mode, but glad it exists

Estos grupos que fueron la base del momento grunge al final quedaron en un segundo plano, bien por llegar pronto o por no conectar con el público general. Este grupo lo escuché de refilón ya que la voz del cantante que tuvo también sus discos en solitario es bastante inconfundible. Viendo su historia y su comparación con R.E.M. es cierto que hay similitudes y que por ese lado de la música alternativa tampoco hubo éxito. No está mal merece ser escuchado en retrospectiva de lo que pudo ser y no fue.

The rare double album that gets better as it goes on. Interested to revisit this down the line, especially after refamiliarizing myself with their early records.

3.5/5

whoever said this sounds like a knockoff REM album was not kidding

Im sure this will ruffle some feathers but here we go... Sounds very in the same vein as early REM, in fact if you told me this was REM with a different singer I would believe it. Also much like early REM this is incredibly overrated. 1 decent tune out of a sea of 20 so so songs doesnt make for a must listen. Jesus, there were 20 songs on this. Granted they are very short songs, thankfully.

Not for me

I really want to love Husker Du, but each time I listen it just doesn't speak to me the same way The Replacements or other contemporaries do. This one is even below average for what I have heard. 2.5/5

Doesn't make my type (but good, anyway) :-)

Another "advent of punk" album? Ice cold ice kind of reminds me of Green Day, lots of it reminds me of REM. Meh overall, why is this here, 2*.