Waited Up Til It Was Light by Johnny Foreigner

TockTockTock · 07-05-2011, 08:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Charlemagne

I will nominate...
Waited Up Til It Was Light By Johnny Foreigner

It's a really high energy album in the vein of Los Campesinos! It does the female-male interchange vocals really well and their songs are really fun to sing along too.

Alright... well, it's about time we reviewed this album. It's been up there for a long time... What did you guys think?

Not going to have a poll this time because I feel it sort of kills the discussion.

Paedantic Basterd · 07-06-2011, 08:14 AM

I'd known of this album for years, all because of the album artwork, which I think is fantastic. I went to Birmingham this spring, and saw the bullring myself, and when I remembered this album, I became very excited to listen to it, because I jump at trivial references to familiar locations like that.

It wasn't really what I thought. I felt like the music let the artwork down, but it makes perfect sense to me now how I heard about this album on a pop punk website. It's a juvenile album of pop punk and British yelping. I found it best through the middle three tracks (rather enjoyable) and ultimately, while it's good for what it is, it succeeds in a genre I'd long ago grown away from.

Zer0 · 07-06-2011, 10:40 AM

I wasn't too impressed with this to be honest. I admire it's fun, youthful energy but the vocals just sound a bit messy and irritating at times and there's no songs that really stand out for me. Los Campesinos! and Sky Larkin do this type of thing far better.

TockTockTock · 07-11-2011, 04:51 PM

Sorry to be a bit late... I'll go ahead and agree with the two posts before me and say that it was just a mediocre album. It's mostly comprised of indie rock/pop punk with cliche vocals that are typically found in this genre. Kind of fun, but it got old as I began to listen to the rest of the album.

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Zer0 ∞ Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Ireland Posts: 3,792	I wasn't too impressed with this to be honest. I admire it's fun, youthful energy but the vocals just sound a bit messy and irritating at times and there's no songs that really stand out for me. Los Campesinos! and Sky Larkin do this type of thing far better. __________________ Last FM \| RYM \| The Final Sound

07-06-2011, 08:14 AM	#2 (permalink)
Paedantic Basterd Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 5,184	I'd known of this album for years, all because of the album artwork, which I think is fantastic. I went to Birmingham this spring, and saw the bullring myself, and when I remembered this album, I became very excited to listen to it, because I jump at trivial references to familiar locations like that. It wasn't really what I thought. I felt like the music let the artwork down, but it makes perfect sense to me now how I heard about this album on a pop punk website. It's a juvenile album of pop punk and British yelping. I found it best through the middle three tracks (rather enjoyable) and ultimately, while it's good for what it is, it succeeds in a genre I'd long ago grown away from.

07-11-2011, 04:51 PM	#4 (permalink)
TockTockTock They/Them Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 1,914	Sorry to be a bit late... I'll go ahead and agree with the two posts before me and say that it was just a mediocre album. It's mostly comprised of indie rock/pop punk with cliche vocals that are typically found in this genre. Kind of fun, but it got old as I began to listen to the rest of the album.