Reviews (page 7 of 8)
This album was out of LeftField for sure. An early introduction to techno, the genre of this album is considered progressive house. "Release the Pressure" is the first track and is probably the best track. As the album progresses, each new song seems out of place following its predecessor. A strange amalgamation of songs. This was probably a very impressive feat of music for the time but has grown irrelevant. This is a credit to how far EDM music has progressed over the years.
Didn't get it initially but appreciated it more later om, not something i'd normally listen to
Standard electronic house music, nothing special of exciting about it. It was decent background music for working, Space Shanty stood out as being different from the other tracks, overall it was ok
It's another post apocalyptic orgy for me! I didn't think much of this tbh. It didn't quite get me. It wasn't terrible I just didn't get into the groove. Even as a socialist lefthander
Generally just thought it was nonsense. I guess it's not really made for me to be listening to at work sitting at my desk, but that being said, I'm not really interested in being wherever it was made for.
Hard pass! [0098/1001]
Overly long. Not terribly interesting.
Techno things bleah
In a nutshell: prime candidate for a film or game soundtrack. Early 90s house with a song played on chillout radio ad nausea ("Original"). Overall: 3/10
Fun club music, but not very memorable.
Not my style of music but overall, I enjoyed it more than other electronic albums I’ve heard.
Electrónica.
I love that this list shows sometimes a bit range and goes further than America or UK rock but it still doesn't make this project greater to me. For its time revolutionary but for today unnecessary. For me at least.
Lots of four-to-the-floor kinda stuff. The album did have its moments though.
This album, albeit obscenely long, had some interesting tracks. I like the alien kind of sounds, and I think “Melt” is what the Pokémon Diamond’s intro sampled from. (Specifically the shimmer sounds.) Pretty good beats as well. Also, I’m pretty sure that “original” uses the sound of a microwave button being pushed?
It's fine, but why is it on this list? Of all the electronic music in the world?
Loppua kohden parani, mut aika basic-tason edmää
1.5 - Way too long and boring in the modern age. But maybe house just isn't my thing?
Nichtssagend, bisschen nervig
Album #: 310 (issued, #287 rated) first impressions: Oh this might be interesting (& what felt like 40 minutes and 3 songs in -- ok maybe I was wrong.) after listening through: I will not be listening to the extended version. I get it. It's kind of fun for a little bit and I'm sure sounds better when you're on ketamine. But I don't like contemporary EDM much and don't like this prototype for it. post-reading reviews/wiki: *Imagines everyone who loves this album dancing in that cybergoths dancing under a bridge meme video* recommended for: cosplaying club scenes in early seasons of Sex & the City
Not arsed
There's some interesting bits here and there, a few dub infused tracks that I kinda like bit everything is waaaay toooo loooong and in the end it's just generic. I could definitely make through life without ever knowing that this existed.
Electronic
Wow they really threw everything into this EDM album, D&B, trance, dance hall, dub etc, but that's not necessarily a good thing as I found myself getting bored with the long interminable beats so I fast forwarded through most of the tracks. I see that Portishead's Dummy beat this out for the Mercury Prize in 1995, and deservingly so. Hearing Johnny Lydon's voice on Open Up was a bit jarring also. I think if I was on a dance floor this album would have resonated with me better, but as it is, I'm working at my desk so it sounds pretty dated and monotonous.
Wow, another beats album…haven’t heard 50 of those already on this list..
2bstars mainly because of the runtime and the repetitiveness
It was too housey for me, but some of the songs were catchy.
Great to workout to, but Icannot imagine any other time I'd ever want to hear this again.
Me and electronica just dont get on, and thats fine 2/5
Don't we already have like 3 John Lydon albums on this list? Why do we have to be subjected to him on a featured song on an already overly-long album?
There’s clearly something going on here, I just don’t think I’m getting it. Spooky 90s dance with lots of wailing backing vocals and jungle drums. Interesting but not very exciting to me.
It’s pretty long, and I’m not struck by any of it. I’m sure it’d be amazing in the right situation…like rolling in a club.
sounds like a rave in a bad 90's movie. mediocre
Just techno stuff. I imagine it may have been groundbreaking at the time, but nothing special to me.
I don't know what I think about this.
It’s ok but why does every song have to be so long and repetitive? If you could cut each of these songs to like 3 minutes I might sort of enjoy it. 2 stars.
I actually kind of enjoyed Original, but the other songs are so boring and there are too many of them
This is kinda cringey
It's a bit intense for me. Great atmospheric opening that reminds me of the BBC news theme tune. Lots of tracks that have been used on TV and in adverts. I wouldn't choose to listen to this again. Unless I was raving. Or doing a HITT workout. Two to three stars, will decide at the end.
I'm not a huge fan of electronic music so this wasn't really the album for me. I liked it a little bit but after a while I started to get a little bit of a headache. I'm sure someone more used to the sound would prefer it.
1 or 2 Stars max
Mysig musik, dock lite enahanda i längden
I don't really have much to say nor do I know where to begin with this. I do not know electronic music at all nor do I know progressive house music in general. I will say this was a wild thing to listen to for 70 minutes on a lazy Sunday morning. It's not bad by any means, and I get the appeal, but just honestly never something I've ever been interested in.
No
Too long, always stuff like this is so God damn long. And really, the length isn't the problem. It is that the length is combined with repetitive tracks. If you have repetitive tracks, just play them on repeat.
This is just SO not for me. Everyone else can enjoy if they'd like.
House music. I don't need 70 minutes of this.
2.5 Easy to listen to, but not really outstanding in any major way
Background music
Th kind of elctronic music I can't take sriously. Inspection is ok, but some tracks are just a nightmare.
Open Up is so good! Love it! Couldn’t spare another 2 hours to finish listening to all the other songs.
I know and like Open Up. I don’t really care about the rest of this album though.
Mixed. Some of the tracks are quite good musically, but are marred by the presence of vocals bordering on Hip-Hop, where just the music would have made it a much better track. Case in Point: Release the Pressure. But also musically, there is too much standard dance music here to be truly groundbreaking. 2/5
Good beat for some power walking. Made me want to bump my booty right there in the middle of the Eastport. Felt like it took me to Jamaica to Star Wars and some weird places in between. Wouldn’t go out of my way to listen again.
Sort of chill club music. I liked the first couple of tracks but the more I listened the less I was enjoying it and by the end I was pretty bored. Not something I’d ever listen to again.
Nope.
Je l'ai trouvé un peu long et monotonne. Les pièces étaient un peu longues considérant comment certaines étaient lentes et douces, plusieurs sonnaient comme des longs interludes.
I don’t know that I needed two hours of this. Good for: attending raves, getting your chakras balanced at a new age spa, or playing Need for Speed at an arcade.
Absolutely built to live in my background and to potentially get me to call the police if it plays too late into the night because, seriously, teenagers. But also - extended editions strike again. I was halfway into 'Afro Ride' and was like "I can't listen to this whole album. This is starting to hurt." So now because of a terrible expanded streaming album, my first impression of this group is 'did not finish'.
Some interesting moments and sounds, but when I played little league I got stuck in RIGHT field. So maybe this just wasn't meant to be.
I don’t get it. C
This was alright, not my thing
A bit mindless. Not my scene.
Doesn't really do anything for me. Good grooves, but too samey. Obviously not meant for a first thing Wednesday morning listen while you sip coffee and catch up on emails so maybe I'm not in the right headspace for it. Maybe I'll put it on the headphones this weekend when I go to Costco and see if it improves. 2/5
I flip-flopped on this one a few times, but mainly on whether to round up or down from a 2.5. Because while it didn’t offend me much at all, there’s nothing on here I think I could ever love (unless, perhaps, I was in a field full of people at a very specific time of night). Maybe the genre just isn’t quite for me, and that’s ok. The John Lydon track is a belter though.
Not even the worst one, but continuing to strike down the multitude of 90s electronic on this list.
This album gave me a headache and had no words - 2.5/5
LSD Music
It wasn't interesting. It felt like the same beat was playing over and over again and I would not have been able to differentiate between songs if you asked me to.
Un disc interessant i original de house 90s, barrejat amb sonoritats reconeixibles i amb temes tan punyents com l''Open Up' amb John Lydon, que va servir de carta de presentació de la banda. El temps l'ha deixat una mica desfassat però temes com l'anomenat o 'Afro-Left' continuen tenint la seva força
Too long. Pacing is a bit slow. Pretty unfamiliar with this kind of electronic music not sure exactly what I should be listening for. Most interesting things are the sounds and textures I guess. Sounds like it’s missing something to me. I couldn’t really get into it
2 hours?!?! That is really too much. I'm not sure I would even appreciate a two-hour Paramore album (actually, I probably would). House music just isn't for me. I listened in the background while I did a bunch of activities but if I was walking around the street or hearing this at a bar., I'd get sick of it quick. I guess I'd rather listen to this than some of the other English punk rock shit we have been listening to.
its aight kinda similar to the chemical brothers but uses international beats and singers rather than rap 2.5
Leftism? Biden's America eh Nolan? Nolan: Yuh
1 save. I will soon join the left
Just a meh electronica piece. Nothing special. 2/5
EDM...blerrgg
Chill dance tracks, nothing too crazy
27th September 2022 Listened mainly on the train home from London and while legging it to Paddington. Out for dinner at the Japanese restaurant in Stroud with mum and dad. Not really my bag, too young for the 90s dance scene but definitely vibey. 2.5 if I could.
Never heard of this group before. I'm not a huge electronic music fan. I wish I could get into it more but I didn't enjoy this album. Its just not for me and unfortunately I couldn't finish listening to it.
gotta dance to this album
I find this kind music is only ok in short time frames kind of in the background. So to intently listen to this entire album where every song is like 7 minutes was quite a chore. I don't know how some people can just listen to these 7+ minute songs of like looping beats and patterns without being extremely bored. This would be a 1.5 if I could give it that.
Good house music is barely tolerable if you're not on the dance floor. This is not really good house music.
I probably made it through half of the record. I do not like (or understand the appeal) of EDM. Just pounding for the sake of pounding. No heart or soul here.
Get's very repetitive and boring after a while
Becomes boring after like the 3rd track or so
Not for me.
Dinner party house. I was surprised how much of this I actually remember, it must have been playing in shops constantly in the late 90s. Mostly, the album sleeve reminds me of the Columbia Record Club ads in Select Magazine. For me 'Open Up' is the only track with much value here. Everything else just happens. Just sounds like generic video game music now.
Not my thing
More sampling and dance music. It's fun, but unless I'm at the club, idk if I needed to hear this before I die
I'm not usually into electronic dance music. I might have enjoyed it better if I was younger in a night club hearing this very loud. I like how they incorporated different types of music in the songs. Like Dubstep and hip hop.
eh
2/5 nope
Could have been worse.
Música un tanto electrónica, con algo de voces en alguna canción, sin nada especial que aportar. Un poco anodino. No me ha llamado la atención en absoluto
I actually liked a few tracks, especially first couple but then it sort of fell apart for me and became a bit of a slog.
Classic nineties' electronic music, so identifiable by its decade that it's also quite dated by now. Which brings me to ask: In this day and age, would I choose to listen to this album? And the immediate answer is "probably no".
Not sure about this one. A bit left field for me (ayyy), but it was great background music to code to. A 2 or 3 for me... Also, is that the macarena!!?!?
I just don't think I'm ever going to love a house album. It just gets too repetitive for me and, despite the clear technogical breakthroughs and interesting textures going on throughout, it just leaves me a bit cold
Dance. Meh.
If you want your drive to feel like a PSX game, then this is your album.
Not really my thing
All very samey. High points are very decent but overall it bored me a tad.
Not right
Samen met mijn dochter geluisterd. helaas waren we er na een paar liedjes wel klaar mee. Soms zeiden we: "dit is best wel aardig/lekker..."
Ik begon vol goede moed, maar het was toch niet echt heel lang boeiend.
Dance is nooi helemaal mijn ding geweest. En zo tijdens het werk luisteren voelt toch iets te onrustig.
Deze had ik nog op mijn to-do lijstje staan, en ik snap wel dat ik 'm destijds heb overgeslagen. Wat een enorm gedateerde synth chaos. Op een festival met 10 bier in je mik is dit vast leuk maar ik kan geen moment vinden waarop ik dit thuis zou willen luisteren.
Not a big fan of electronic.
Not bad but a bit too long and nothing amazing IMO
Started off alright. Very long and repetitive songs. Really dragged along.
This is what neo from the matrix would listen to. Kinda cool though
1.5 | Me extraña, estando incluso de ánimo para música electrónica simplemente no cuajó. Se siente como que la música del disco se divide en tres clases... 1.Música electrónica que ponen en club para bailar, 2.Música que tiene un poquito de ambición y trata de hacer una canción o de ser algo más tipo ambiental cercano a Brian Eno o 3.Música de promo de MTV de finales de los 90s con unos gráficos abstractos de cubitos por computadora. La verdad es que el tipo 2 no es terrible, aunque tampoco se acerca a algo brillante, el tipo 1 no se me hizo tan bien hecho y el tipo 3 simplemente suena a eso, música utilitaria que debería de estar de fondo sin ser el centro de atención. Decía por ahí que este era "el primer disco de música electrónica que se consideraba un álbum completo" o algo a ese efecto, lo cual aparte de que se me hace una exageración y algo bastante erróneo por el lado histórico (creo que hay muchos discos de música electrónica con mucho más valor y peso como obras completas de muchos años antes de este), tampoco se me hace tan cierto del lado artístico. No siento cohesión, no siento línea, siento algunas canciones decentes y otras que se quedan a la mitad. Lo subo al 2 solo porque en serio andaba hasta de humor para música electrónica pero no, simplemente no me hizo nada de clic.
This may be the most meh album I've ever listened to. I have no opinion of it. Like no part of it was good or bad. It just was. It's like something that would be playing quietly in the background for the sole purpose of making sure people weren't sitting in silence, handcuffed to their thoughts.
House album so tracks are long. And its house music from the mid 90s, so it all feels like the backing tracks to the club scene from blade. The best parts of the album are when it leans into its afro inspired samples, but these beats just sound dated and stale. I am sure at the time this shit was ground breaking but now its just dull. very dull
EDM falls under the umbrella of functional music, along with movie soundtracks and Muzak, music meant to accompany an experience, like dancing in a club, watching a movie, or going to the airport. Nothing wrong with that, but by it's very nature, functional music is not usually meant for close listening. There are exceptions of course. Mouse on Mars or We come to mind in the realm of EDM, the works of Ennio Morricone or Jerry Goldsmith in film music, or Brian Eno's Music for Airports in ambient, the latter which has since blossomed into a full-blown genre divorced from its original function. Come to think of it, Mouse on Mars or We are categorized as IDM (Intelligent Dance Music), which can be read as an acknowledgement of the brainlessness of most dance music. Which leads us to Leftism. As usual, simplistic jackhammer beats overwhelm the music, although there is a patina of style and atmosphere laid over the tracks. I appreciate the eclecticism of including dub, reggae, and Johnny Rotten on these tracks, and there is some taste in the production (few cringe-inducing synth patches), but not enough to overcome the inherent limitations of the material, as explained above. I can imagine half paying attention to the musical content while dancing in a club with hundreds of other people and being okay with it, which is kind of a half-hearted endorsement. There's nothing here which is truly offensive, but as a standalone musical experience? Get me outta here!
2.9
I've never heard of this before but my gut instinct tells me it's electro, probably UK, probably goes for way too long. lol nailed it, got all 3. This shit is boring. Just sounds exactly like you'd expect, for OVER AN HOUR. fuck off. Did listen to the whole thing, though. I think it actively lowered my blood pressure, so it gets a point or two for that. 2/5.
It feels like I stepped into a sci-fi movie. And I'm not quite sure if I like it. 2/5 stars.
Meh, wasn't into it.
Not sure what it was, not for me
Ho ascoltato le 11 tracce presenti nella release originale. Perché poi nelle successive sono state aggiunte altre tracce e b-sides per un totale di due ore d'ascolto (album su Spotify), e io vi voglio bene ma.. no. Comunque è stato un bel tuffo negli anni '90, ho pensato alle sale giochi, a Mortal Kombat e alle macchine a scontro. Musicalmente non lo so. Non capisco, ci sono anche idee carine e moderne, ma la maggior parte delle volte vengono offuscate da questo sound anni '90.. per carità quello è il periodo suo. Concludendo, non mi ha fatto schifo ma non penso che lo riascolterò.
Better than I was expecting for electronica. Enjoyed Space Shanty.
Original: La tipa che canta su questo pezzo non so perché mi ricorda la cantante dei Broadcast. In Conclusione: L'house non è un genere che mediamente apprezzo poco (anche un po' perché mi è rimasto il pregiudizio dalle superiori). In ogni caso questo album ha anche qualche trovata interessante a livello di suono tipo i synth con le formanti e in generale, anche se non mi piacciono i pattern di batteria che usa la house, certe cose ritmiche sopra sono carine. Detto questo però l'ho trovato comunque abbastanza vuoto di contenuti, come sottofondo è piacevole e magari pure da ballare se sei millenial ma non lo risentirò.
Questa è musica che invecchia malissimo, ad oggi sembra quella che mettono di sottofondo nei plugin crackati. Gli do 2 perché tornando da una cena dopo una bottiglia di vino alcuni pezzi mi cullavano.
Zu elektronisch.
Kinda boring and repetitive. Sounded like spy techno music you hear at laser tag places.
Fine metody without emotional value. I Canon absolutely listen the music, it just doesn't hit me by my heart.
Saved Prior: None Off Rip: Afro Left, Inspection (Check One), Open Up Cutting Edge: Space Shanty, Storm 3000 Overall Notes: Super influential electronic that gives off Fatboy Slim vibes but with the world music meter turned up. It's fine, but nothing earth shattering for me personally.
Nao eh ruim, eh soh eletronicazera que deve ter bombado na epoca mas que eh commonplace hoje em dia.
I’ve said before that I’m not super into EDM. Maybe this is good, I don’t know, but it’s not for me.
Not for me
90's UK dance/electronic. The back end of the record is so much stronger than the front. BT: Space Shanty, Inspection (Check One), Open Up
Good background music, probably wouldn’t listen to listen though
4.5
respect to their work, but not good in our age, i can imagine some hippies banging to it
yuck, blech
Another house/electro whatever album... I find myself nodding along to this. Saved a few songs. Not as much of a fan when the vocals come in, but I get why people like this. Didn't do it for me as much as the Fatboy Slim album... feels less cohesive and a little more like a 90s movie. But still kind of pumped I'm getting exposed to this kind of music. 2.5
This was ok, didn't much for me. A bit turned off by the house music aspects of it.
false
Kind of sounds like video game music, some of it is great ambient beats, other stuff is very clubby. Would be good workout music!
Meh
4.5/10 Atmospheric but a bit passive for my taste, impressive sounding but yeah, left something missing for me
Interesting, but not my type
Underwhelmed!
I had an overwhelming urge to listen to this at 2.0x speed like a bad work training. Not because it's unlistenable; it's just inconsequential and loooooooong. I was most readily reminded of the "Funkytown" remix from Shrek 2 and "Macarena" :/
Heismusikkens versjon av bakgrunnsstøy. Hvordan er det mulig å danse til dette???
You know you're in for a tough listen when a guest musician from Public Image Ltd. gets a shoutout in sentence 3 of the album's Wikipedia article. That said, the production is solid, and the duo submits some pretty intriguing textures throughout the album. The trouble is, the songs are just far too long and repetitive to have any kind of staying power. In that sense, Leftism is sort of the inverse of carefully crafted jazz/rock or singer-songwriter music, where at times *too much* effort is put into the songwriting and/or arrangements instead of too little. I have to say, I love the ambient intro to Release the Pressure. Though admittedly the vocal sounds like it belongs in a reggae-soul piece, it works pretty well here too. Pink Floyd-esque (the instruments, not the singing). I also enjoy the progressive aspect, the dynamism and smoothness with which it slides between different textures while still sounding like a cohesive song. Not really any hooks present – unless you count the dude yelling (somewhat in disregard of the song's key) towards the end – but still a project I'd return to. Afro Left, on the other hand (the left hand), is substantially worse. I could tell you differences between the two songs all day, but in the end, I couldn't put my finger on what exactly is "worse". The beat/percussion is much heavier, you're more likely to tap your foot or get up and dance, and the vocals are extremely unexpressive (barely deviating from the same monotone drone that unfortunately draws some easy comparisons to rap/hip-hop – which was not in a good way in the 90s). The song Melt returns us to a more electronic, ambient atmosphere, one that wouldn't be terribly out of place in Terraria or the like. Having no vocals helps a lot with the experience. I love all the subtle inclusions of cool new instruments and textures over time, like the soft trumpet line at around 4:00, the gradually changing melodies of that main synth... Song of Life is perhaps a little surprising in its role as the initial single from the album – or indeed a single in any respect, given its lack of radio friendliness. An artifact of the time, I guess. It's alright, but falls prey to what brings an enormous proportion of electronic music down: the looping. Seven minutes of the same one-bar repeated synth line can definitely get under one's skin. Now some synth improv, on the other hand? I could get behind that. (But it doesn't happen.) The deadpan vocal delivery in Original reminds me of late-70s Bowie, and it's a big improvement on the earlier song Afro Left since it contributes something, musically, to the song. Very slow, deliberate singing, so much so that you almost miss the fact that the lyrics are kind of great. Launching off side 2, Black Flute sports the same negative quality as a good few of these songs: repetition. It isn't like repetition is particularly hard to avoid, unless you're pressed for time, but these songs were released over at least a three-year period, so Leftfield has little excuse here. I can appreciate the smooth transition into Space Shanty, though, which itself features an Indian-instrument-sounding synth that sets it apart from the crowd. Still far too loopy, though. A simple enough listen, but I'm glad to leave it behind. Inspection (Check One) comes close to a passing grade, for its too-cool-for-school vocals and classy "hip-hop golden era" beats. Ultimately, though, it's so goddamn forgettable that I could only ever see it being played in some kid's car in GTA while they scream into their XBOX headset. I think the bass in Storm 3000 really takes the cake, which is impressive as it's mostly the same note on repeat. I reckon I'm just a bass guy. The percussion, though, feels kind of... dated, I guess? At this point on the album, it would take a miracle pair of final tracks to shift my rating past one star. And though Open Up is exciting and catchy, easily moving it past most of its album-mates, it still doesn't particularly wow me. The singer still sounds like an unholy crossbreed of Bob Marley, Geddy Lee, and probably a few others – but certainly nobody in the house scene that I know of. 21st Century Poem ends the album on a weird experimental note. Comparable to A Saucerful of Secrets or other noodly prog track, but without the noodling or the prog. Weird ultra-low synths to send us off, sort of like the bass you hear while standing outside a nightclub. 1/5 Key tracks: Release the Pressure, Melt, Open Up
Tedious, headache-inducing computer music exercise, overlaid with guest vocalists occasionally chanting incomprehensible nonsense. This album didn't engage me in any way whatsoever and actually actively annoyed the living daylights out of me. Perhaps this was innovative back in the day, but I didn't like this kind of stuff then, and I still don't. An appallingly boring and overlong album to suffer through.
Honestly sounded more pretentious than it's smart enough to be.
Hippie bullshit but techno music
I’m over 1001 albums in. I’ve decided I’m not going to listen to anymore shit UK EDM.
Ass I would rather die then listen to this again
o my god no
Who wants a 2 hour club music album?! Not this person.
No
I got excited thinking this was Fogerty, but that was Centerfield 😔
I like Dance music, but this was not it. Very confused as to what was trying to be achieved here.
Not my thing at all
More forgettable, generic electronic music that sounds like it belongs in the menus of a forgettable, generic PS2 racing game.
Don't get it AT ALL
Absolute trash. 0.0
Oh goodie, another boring electronica album... I really don't know what qualifies an electronic album for this list and I don't see that changing. I was going to make some comment about how at least this one has vocals instead of just throbbing beats, but those were just painful to listen to.
Still a no on EDM, but keep trying, list.
Another album that could have been made by Jeremy Usbourne in his room in his shared flat in Croydon.
I like proper house, and I like proper Techno. What I don't like is this inoffensive, middle-of-the-road electronica coffeeshop background music.
Disappointed with this. Expected more. Could have made a similar album on my PS1. 😂
Безвыходное афтерпати. Совершенно непонятный для меня альбом. Слушать целенаправленно и вдумчиво нереально. Альбом заднего плана при нудной и однобокой работе. Вокал очень трудно переносить. Пока из всего что я прослушал, это худший альбом. 2,5/10 исключительно за реально неплохие переходы.
Not for me. Too much dance music repetitiveness and thumping
Leftism starts off OK but overstays its welcome. I find this to be a common flaw of many of the electronic albums featured on this list. For many of unknown house/techno/electronica bands a couple songs are good to check out, but its hard to stay interested for an 70 minutes. The goes double for electronic albums that often feature 6-7 minute songs that are often built on repetitive beats. Once you hear a couple you are ready to move along but still have to sit through 5 more long length redundant songs. Leftism does a little bit to quell this by applying some mixed vocals throughout the album but it still adds up to a lackluster affair. Album length issues are an issue on electronic genres but I'm also seeing it be a pretty common problem on a lot 90's album releases. As the industry moved from records to compact discs it seems like album length trended toward more than an hour. I assume this was partially due to the extra length allowed on the medium as well as some artists trying to justify the premium price that CD's carried. Regardless, so many of these albums have a decent 30+ minutes but are seemingly stretched to include a handful of tracks that shouldn't have made the cut. As an industry trend I don't want to hold this against the artists but it's hard not to recognize so many examples where an album should have tightened it up. Leftism unfortunately fell into both of these traps so unfortunately it finished up to marginal results. I didn't outright dislike the music but there needed to be quite a bit of trimming on this one. 1.49 stars
Overall: 2/10 This type of music needs to leave me and future generations of my family alone for the rest of eternity. Fav Song: Melt
Not sure why I would need to listen to this.
Je dois m'ouvrir l'esprit et apprendre à ne pas détester le techno. Je dois m'ouvrir l'esprit et apprendre à ne pas détester le techno. Je dois m'ouvrir l'esprit et apprendre à ne pas détester le techno. okok je sais je me répète c'est le même créneau que Prodigy, mais ça peut faire la job mettons comme background pour faire quelque chose de productif. J'ai de la difficulté à trouver d'autres qualités artistiques. Mais l'Art a la propriété intéressante de très mal se définir.
q carajos es esto. siento q completamente drogado se disfrutaría más. no es mí género, no me gusta
The list is 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before you Die. To me, this implies that these albums have interesting musical or cultural significance that will be important for the listener to dissect and absorb from listening. This is yet another slickly produced album which contains none of that. It’s all droll, uninspired electronic music that most people have never heard of and even fewer will remember. It’s not a required listening experience by any means.
Que disco para volado, no es mi tipo de música pero tal vez con una quemada de trompa quedaría bien
Аутизм
Langweilig Elektronische Musik
Que remil poronga de música. 0/10.
Black Flute opens with a beat. Gee, what an innovation. Every other stinking miserable track of so called music starts with a long slow fad in...until....here it comes...it suddenly drops into the same dance beat with a slightly different mix of warbling over the top. Is the slow fade in a time out so that you can go and grab another E, or to go and do a wee cause you've been drinking so much water while gyrating off the first E you took? Fuck off!
This is like background music from a dancing compilation on YouTube in 2011
...surely they could have included Weezer's debut over this. 1.5/5
Oh look, annoying noises. Occasionally with a few words, sometimes in English, sometimes in some foreign gibberish. More crap that didn’t need to be heard before expiring.
Background music to a weird space game from 20 years ago thats not very good. Sounds like it would go hard if I drank Mountain Dew. 2/10
Como toda la música electrónica de este tipo, carece de sentido sin estar intoxicado por alguna droga sintética.
O.5
1.5
This album is a slog and a half. The songs are too long, the album is too long, the only thing that wasn't too long was my patience for this album. I never knew that dance albums can be measured in WLPM ⌚👀 (3.2) ★½
😐 nah
It LEFT me cold 😒
On more than one of these tracks, I thought my smoke alarm was beeping. Funny thing is, I didn't remember cooking. 1 star.
holy boring batman
This album just went by.... I didn't noticed that it ended.
Highlights: Release the Pressure, Afro-Left I read on Wikipedia that the artists themselves thought this record was a mess and I have to agree with them. It's a collection of passable dance music, but not a good record on its own. I feel like it's an overall trend with 90s experimental music that it never really works too well as a record even though the material might not be bad on its own, so I am putting a bit of the blame on the format itself. However, the approach of this record isn't that good either. I've heard better dance and electronic music from this period so the music itself has to take the blame as well. Interesting to know that the sample they used in Song of Life is very famous and also used by the Beastie Boys and Massive Attack. But apart from the cool sample, that song was ruined by the beat switch. It's really a thing of taste though, and I really don't like this kind of dance music - it's very braindead and loopy. The usual 7 minute runtime of tracks didn't help much either. You really have to be under the influence of some shit to think this is wonderful. There are elements of greatness but they aren't arranged well at all.
I can’t listen to this I hate technology music
Liberals 😭😭😭
Fanns väl intressanta element men definitivt inte min smak
I can see the attraction for people who like this music, just not for me
Album de merde comme dab, je deteste la techno j'en ai marre de tous me les bouffer, y a aucune originalité c'est inaudible
I don't know if this was revolutionary in the 90's, but it certainly hasn't aged well. A boring two hour slog of generica electronica sounding of an amateur's 24 hour FL Studio session.
musique de fond des fois c'est un peu cool mais je réécouterai pas
weird
au ravi ra shemeshvit
The chances of anything named leftism being good is incredibly slim
If I wanted to get a headache while listening to incessant beeping, I wouldn't keep replacing the batteries in my carbon monoxide detector
Yeah, I'm not listening to two hours of this...
No thank you…
Its just not for me
Another reviewer called this background music for a PS2 racing game …. I feel like that was too generous. Think theme music for a pandemic shutdown. It’s awful
Jeg hadde store forhåpninger til dette albumet. Men desverre låter det altfor dated. Dette er virkelig et album som ikke tåler tidens tann, og nå høres det egentlig bare billig ut. Skuffende!
Borinnnggg
I figured this would be a struggle as I dont find it easy to engage with club / house music. It does appear well crafted and the chosen electronic effects do inspire a level of passion and emotion. The rub for me is its a layer cake of slightly unusuall sounds kept on in loop and built up and tweaked. Its clever but it just leaves me bored out of my brain. Its occassional propgressive drum beats bring back a kind of youth PTSD like that first dodgy blue drink you threw up when 15. Unless I have some mind bending substances in my system not sure I would ever enjoy this. I had to assign this the lowest order of my musical appreciation as it was just so hard to get through it. Odd 2 star song got drowned out in this epic. By the time I got to Black Flute the oppressive drum smashing nearly did me in and that was only half way through.
‘Leftfield? These no hopers should have been left IN a field’ - Sir Len Houmous 1999! 1.1 12/18 Afro Ride
is it some kind of a game soundtrack or wtf??
Can’t do it. “Peace and uuunnityyyy…” over a shitty backdrop of electro blah bullshit. No thanks. 1/5
We are all dumber for having listened to this. May god have mercy on our souls.
Just not my thing
No me ha gustado nada
*1995. English electronic. *This is so not my genre, but I guess this is better than most for what it is. Maybe? *Would be fitting for a video game soundtrack, but otherwise no good application for this. *The vocals were like a non-English rap (couldn't really tell what language). RATING - 3/10
Not really my thing. This falls in the category of electronic/dance music I just don't enjoy very much.
i kept zoning out and when id zone back in, the same repetitive song was going on - this was unnecessarily long
Incredibly boring, lack of anything exciting and is pure shitty background music. I could have lived my life without learning about the existence of this album. Truly a tough listen.
Man, I usually like electronic music, but this did nothing for me. There's a lot more interesting music in the genre. Wouldn't revisit this one. Probably need drugs to enjoy. I was initially going to give this two stars, then I saw I was only halfway through the album. Yikes!
Not for me
Não sou de julgar o livro (ou o álbum) pela capa, mas quando vi essa horrorosa, já sabia que não ia gostar, o que foi confirmado depois de algumas músicas.
My techno eays are long behind me!
point0.
Hooooooly crapfest man. Jesus Christ. I always really reeeeeeeally try to give each album a chance. Give them their due. And I was seriously close to liking this at times. When you eventually settle into the groove, and you see some girl strutting exactly with the beat outside the window of the bus, like, hell yeah man. But damn those moments are rare. I am not a raver. I do not like listening to 2+ hours of the Apple Logic Rave Preset Starter Pack. Fave songs: - Song of Life - Open Up But also all of this sounds the same man, let’s be real
mi primer 1/5
While I did not mind the music and mix, I did not care for the vocals or lyrics. No group/person in this genre of music sticks out to me. I like an occasional song and then I move on. This was nothing that I had not already heard from The Art of Noise or Tangerine Dream or Vangelis.
I don’t know why this is on this list. Club/electronica in decent form for sure, but I don’t see how this could be influential to anyone
Honestly worst album by far, hated it.
I wasn't really in the mood for this today, so I may come back and revisit it again later.
something you just have to be in the mood for.
This is the soundtrack to that little café you just slide into for a coffee to go when you’re on vacation. Volume is a little loud and you just want to leave as quickly as possible.
sorry i wasnt in the mood for this kind of music
Nope
This was quite a boring album sorry
Repetative
"Hello! This is Mega Company, Inc. Your call is important to us. All of our agents are busy assisting other customers. Your call will be answered in the order it was received. Thank you for your patience." And then this music starts playing. Maybe I could relate to it if I enjoyed dancing. But, I don't. This is just bad elevator music to me. Insipid, boring, uninspired, repetitive, mind-numbing...I could go on. This is the first album I couldn't make it through. Life is too short!
All these electronic albums from the 90s are so dated. More dated than anything else this list keeps churning out. Please stop.
Not my style and not much to grab onto here
Honestly, not sure why this album was on this list. I thought it was fine, and enjoyable enough listen in the background, but definitely not anything. I’m coming back to anytime soon. I’m guessing maybe it was revolutionary back when it came out, influenced people? But there’s nothing that stood out for this album that made me want to go back and give it another shot, I’d say one out of five.
1.5?
If you wanted to encapsulate this entire mediocre list into one album, this is it. British, 90s, not actually relevant. Awful cover art to boot. WTF
Just not my thing
No
This would be really good for 1992
Som ett spinningpass utan någon skön känsla efteråt
If I was in a field and off my bin on cider I’d probably love this…but I’m in my house doing dishes, so I don’t.
Video game menu music from the early 2000s. Please no more electronic music.
Not a fan 😢
Hate it. 1/5
I was excited seeing this described as "progressive" house, thinking "progressive meant it would be for me. It is not for me. As someone who does not listen to house music, this was exceedingly boring.
3 words: Terr A Bull. This synthesized garbage is not music,
In my last 17 albums I have had 7 albums rated as a 1 and then I get this, ugh, make them stop.
Unclear reason
bad day to have ears.
👎🏻
i fully expect this list to completely ignore innovative black electronic artists in favor of whatever this is. vocal samples were lame & none of the songs justified their runtime
This was hardly even good as working music... Very minimal, very much the same all the time.
2 hours too long. 1/10 for the effort of making something that no one wants to listen to
I just can’t listen to a full edm album
This first song makes me want to hurt myself and small animals. ...I was tempted to leave it at that, but there actually is some merit in here. For example track 3 "Melt" is nice - that's the kind of background chill techno I could put on. It's just too rare on this collection. Also it feels like cheating writing so little about something so I'll say this -> I do like to look back and try to remember albums that I listened to that I don't remember...reasons I gave scores I did -> I'm just not interested at all in this - it doesn't feel creative or even fun. There are definitely times where there's a nice groove (e.g. "Inspection") but this album feels like a shiny and shitty toy. Obviously different genres/tastes for different people - or the same people at different times - but this just feels like (is) a pastiche of loops copied and pasted together to occasionally make me nod my head, but I feel like I'm being played. And none of these are really songs which again, fine, but I don't like it. And I truly hate the vocals (John Lydon esp good god). 2/10 1 star
Who the hell did this album influence? Utter crap is what it was.
hade kunnat få en tvåa om det inte var för långt
# 402 : Can't Listen, don't like it, I'm not sure it inspired anyone, but if the music isn't good, I'm not sure I need to hear it before I die. I can't imagine getting hit by a bus and my last thought being, "But I never got to that album about Leftfield"!".
I've never been a big electronic fan. I've listened to dozens of electronic albums at this point in my Albums Generator journey, and have been able to moderately enjoy some of them. I have a rule that I can't skip tracks while going through this project...but I had to break it for this one. I'm sure it's very influential to somebody, but I couldn't stand this album.
1/5
Kinda bad
Oh....
Progressive and electronic and Brit. 3 of my dislikes. Soulless.
Terrible
Too much electronica lately. I'm not listening to all of this.
Not to be controversial, but I think there’s a bit too much 90’s British electronica on this list.
awful
Am I listening to Macarena or is it Terry Crews doing his comidic schtick in an Adam Sandler movie? Am I at a wellness spa or visiting a new age cult? Whatever it is, not for me.
Good electronic band. Decent music.
Leftfiel son un grupo aclamado por su mezcla de tecno-electro-house-rave-world music- ambient etc. Leftism es reconocido como su obra maestra, aunque como disco entero, ha envejecido peor que otros coetáneos. Varios de los temas de este Leftism son versiones de temas ya publicados previamente: Release the Pressure, Song of Life y Open Up (con la voz de John Lydon). Original cuenta con la voz del cantante de Curve, y Afro-left es una buena mezcla de ritmos africanos-brasileños y electrónica. El disco presenta una paleta de estilos muy variada y coherente. Release the Pressure es una buena muestra. Melt es Chill-Out, Song of Life es otro tema rave que mezcla House-chill out étnico y lo que se le ponga por delante, con Black Flute, Space Shanty y Storm 3000 por esa estela que desemboca en Open Up, otro gran clásico. Original es otro de sus mejores temas, encaja en el Trip-hop y en la pista de baile. Inspection (Check One) mete ritmos y voces reggae dancehall. Cierra el disco el dub ambiental de 21st Century Poem. Portishead, Massive Attack, One Dove, Orbital, Underworld, Inner City Stereo MCs o sobre todo KLF ya habían llegado antes (también The Brand New Heavies de donde salió uno de sus componentes). The Prodigy ya habían publicado su Music For The Jilted Generation y este mismo año Tricky: Maximquaye, THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS: Exit Planet Dust y GOLDIE: Timeless. P J HARVEY: To Bring You My Love, TRICKY: Maxinquaye, OASIS (What's The Story) Morning Glory, TINDERSTICKS: The Second Album, BJÖRK: Post, PULP: Different Class, SMASHING PUMPKINS: Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness, SUPERGRASS: I Should Coco, GARBAGE: Garbage, THE JAYHAWKS - Tomorrow the green grass, TEENAGE FANCLUB: Grand Prix, RADIOHEAD: The Bends, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: The Ghost Of Tom Joad, ELASTICA: Elastica, D’ANGELO: Brown Sugar, WILCO: A M, SPIRITUALIZED: Pure Phase, YO LA TENGO: Electr-O-Pura, Slowdive (‘Pygmalion’), GUIDED BY VOICES- Alien lanes También: THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS: Exit Planet Dust, GOLDIE: Timeless, FOO FIGHTERS: Foo Fighters, BLACK GRAPE: It’s Great When You Are Straight Yeah PAVEMENT: Wowee Zowee , SPAIN: The Blue Moods Of Spain THE AMPS: Pacer, THE PRESIDENTS OF U.S.A. - The Presidents of U.S.A., PAUL WELLER - Stanley road, BEN FOLDS FIVE - Ben Folds Five, SONIC YOUTH - Washing machine, NEIL YOUNG & PEARL JAM - Mirror ball, MATTHEW SWEET - 100% Fun, LUNA - Penthouse, CHRIS ISAAK- Forever Blue, Throwing Muses- University, Supersuckers- The Sacrilicious Sounds of the Supersuckers, Superchunk -Here’s Where the Strings Come In, Annie Lennox- Medusa, Jamiroquai-The Return of the Space Cowboy, THE VERVE- A northern soul, THE MAGNETIC FIELDS- Get lost, U2 (Passengers)- Original soundtracks 1, Prince - The Gold Experience, NO DOUBT- Tragic Kingdom. Y el Second coming de Stone Roses, pero eso es otra historia...
Nah
Not for me.
Trash
Gave up after two tracks
Wide left.
I might like this if I was a young club-kid high on X. The music is so mind-numbingly repetitive and predictable that it quickly gets annoying and ultimately, boring. This is music to dance to, not listen to. 1.5/5
Not really for me.
158/1001 🌕🌗🌑🌑🌑
this is shit.
Horrible
Just terrible. If you want to spend an hour listening to random electronic noise, this is the ticket for you. I kept imagining Ross with his Casio working on his "music." Ross's was probably better.
Wow. Big surprise that this lost out to Portishead's Dummy for the 1995 Mercury Prize.
Nope. Generic and dull.
I refuse to listen to anymore dumbass electronica!!! Enough!!!
An hour and nine minutes of generic repetitive elevator music. Again. I don't get how one country could pump out souch of this crap in the 90s. How did any of this turn a profit?
This WAS NOT an album I needed to hear before I die. What a waste of thought.
Not my style of music, I couldn’t finish it.
1001 Albums a Secondary Character in a Club Scene from a Shitty British Movie from 1995 Must Hear Before the Title Card.
I don't know who or what this is. It's layered and frenetic sounding, not elaborate or especially technical tho. I think I admire it's ambition but I'm not enjoying it. 1 stars.
It's house music. Everything gets repeated or looped about 418 times, so the interesting stuff becomes boring and the bad moments become a nuisance. I just don't like this style or genre, and nearly quit listening to it.
Another album cover I'm familiar with from the wracks in Our Price and Virgin Megastore in the 90s. Until now I had no idea what the music it contains would sound like. I wish I could get 69 minutes of my life back and still not know. Incredibly dated, extremely 90s, chilled house/trip hop. Way too long and way too dull. Rating: 1.5/5 Playlist track: Original Date listened: 29/04/24