Leftism

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

1 hour of GarageBand loops.

Same-ism.

not my style at all

boring electronic music from 90s. exactly what it says on the tin. not bad, but i constantly wished i was listening to something at least a bit more exciting NNN

no

Nope!

An album from my teenage years that I've never heard of. As it's on this site that means there's a 90% chance it's British. Let's have a peek and of course it is. Ok, lets have a listen. Oh, oh God NO. Make it stop. This is the sort of music to enjoy when you're off your tits on drugs. Unfortunately I don't think there's enough drugs in the world to get me to like this.

DNF Aggravating Annoying Crap 1 star is generous

Generic background music for a movie scene that takes place in a club. Don’t know why it is included on the list… maybe it invented that sound or something?

Wow bad just bad...

Day71 - so this is terrible. i know everyone has different tastes in music but who’s listening to this at work or in the car ?

Definitely could've went without listening to this. This genre just isn't for me, don't see the appeal whatsoever.

I'm just not a techno dance music kind of guy

Usually the thing that saves these sorts of "choose your car!' 90s albums for me is the vocal performances, as they usually have one or two tracks that save the album from complete monotony, despite all of their insistent needs to be over an hour long. Not this album though, all the vocal performances are so dull, or even straight up suck, and it makes every song suffer when they are there. It doesn't mean the instrumental tracks are much better. They're just as forgettable and robotic as every other house album from the decade. It just all feels so cold, not in the good way, and I fail to have a single thought worth writing here as I listen. Its all just so tedious, and when you've listened to quite a few of these now, it really makes the whole genre look worse.

Poor jumbled tecno

Vorläufer der House und Club Musik, wer es mag... aber für mich gewiss nicht unter den 1000 Alben, die man gehört haben sollte..., für mich Zeitverschwendung

Anstrengender Proggressive House.

Fairly repetitive. I'm sure it would be great in a club, but for me it wasn't great listening.

Wish we cud give it a ZERO!

electr., dance, 1995 -> 1

Nein. Nichts für mich. So gar nicht.

Boring background music

Wasn't anything I could get into. Ended up skipping through several tracks

This isn't as bad as the rating makes it seem. It's a style of music I don't enjoy, and drones on for way too long. A few of the songs I can understand how people might enjoy, even if I don't.

Now I know where video game background music comes from.

Could not finish it. May only be listenable in clubs and if intoxicated.

Too techno for me

I turned it off after 3 songs. Music doesn't need to be weird and annoying to be good.

This sucks

Meh. House music. The genre isn't really for me. one or two stars

Do you know how many great electronica albums have dropped in the past twenty years? Arca, Kelly Lee Owens, Burial, hell even a deadmau5 or Tiesto album have been more impactful and important than whatever this dated dancefloor shit is. Electronic music is one of my absolute fav genres, yet it's one of my lowest-rated in the project because the representative selection is so godawful.

Couldn't bring myself to finish this one. Not my kind is an understatement.

It's a no

Salonkikelpoista reivimusiikkia. Kliiniä/kliinistä. Luiskahtaa vain sormien välistä, ei edes jumita.

Hyvin hankalaa edes antaa mahdollisuutta. Yksitoikkoista, laahaavaa, halvan kuuloista.

I got through one and a half songs.

malazo

Way too long both album and individual songs, boring and uninteresting songs. Might have been good at the time but if so it's aged like milk.

I only liked Melt, everything else is not my jam. Melt reminded me of Fez.

Music like this is the reason you'll never find me in partylocations like Ibiza. To me, that's just background noise.

I just realized that my amazon music was playing this album on random. I didn't notice for an hour.

Yeah, no... I am not into this at all. Electronic music with a reggae undertone. It is just plain awful

Album 55 of 1001 Leftfield - Leftism Favorite Track : NONE Rating : 1 / 5 (Rounded Up) 2 Hours of Electronic Music. This really sucks. Sorry. After listening to some of the greatest music ever made, it is an insult that this is even included.

This album sounds like what you’d get if you asked AI for house music nowadays. I was expecting much more.

Fuck you! Straight fucking garbage.

Hot garbage with glow sticks.

When you leave a game on pause for an hour while you do something else, and the repetitive background music keeps going.

eh

Spore creature creation music

nope

Massive Attack / Faithless, but not as good vibes immediately. Or as good as The Shamen. Terrible, just terrible. Ooh, I recognize this drum beat... (Song of Life) Nah, had enough. 1 / 5 stars. Being generous.

mostly unlistenable

I said I would give every album a listen all the way through. I did and that was difficult to do..... Loved the lyrics to Open up. Too funny. Otherwise, this album was difficult to get through. I'll score a 1 just for the "Burn Hollywood down" part. hahaha 1

This is like a electronic club dance album. I do like some of the sounds but it also sounds like very generic dance music. It’s not innovative or different enough to cause me to like it or anything. So has to be a 1/5 for me.

House music is a little torturous to me. In my personal level of hell there would be house music playing constantly. 1.4because it’s marginally more interesting than some house music I’ve heard, but there’s no way I’m gonna make it through two hours of this album

A lot of house type instrumental music and super repetitive. Wasn't a fan

I write almost the same for all electronic albums because it is not my favorite kind of music, with 1 or 2 exceptions until now. This one is not an exception.

Nope. Shouldn't be here.

this legit hurt my ears

Braucht kein Mensch. Das war auch damals schon nix besonderes. Unfassbar, wie dieses Album für würdig befunden werden konnte, in dieses Buch aufgenommen zu werden.

Just kind of annoying

Nope

Another electronic music album that I couldn't stand. I knew I wasn't a huge fan of the genre before I started this and that is really becoming quite apparent. Maybe it's because I only like some EDM, mostly synthwave, but I have no idea what makes this good or important.

No

There are a couple of enjoyable more melodic tracks on the album, which aren't a slog to sit through. But, unfortunately it felt like there were more repetitive tracks that overstayed their welcome, than there were real enjoyable pieces of music. After an hour of this, I'm not sure I ever want to hear it again!

Nope.

I didn’t know until today that there was a 90s Frankie Goes To Hollywood. Some interesting sounds at the start, devolved into dance cliches quickly.

This is not my vibe and was not a good lunchtime coffee break quiet reflection before a meeting album. This is not to say it’s not good just that it was not for me.

Songs go nowhere and the basic building beats are pretty uninteresting to start with.

personally not for me.

No impression

De plano no me gusta la mezcla del dance techno más electronicoso del mundo con cosas africanas. No logré darle una segunda pasada y aunque hubo pequeños momentos en los que me ponía a "mover el pie" no basta para que pueda aguantar voluntariamente ni una rola.

Monotonista rumpukoneen jytkyttelyä, ei innosta. Muutenkin ylipitkä levy. Ilmeisesti tämä on joku Housen pioneerilevy, mutta kun ei paljoa kiinnosta koko tyylisuuntaus, niin ei anna juurikaan lisäarvoa. Pitäisi varmaan vetää jotain nappeja joilla näkisi musiikin väreinä, että tällaisesta voisi nauttia.

Another electronic album. Still pretty bored. Although it was somewhat better than the others. 2.9/10

Really long songs. Kind of edm. Didn’t like it.

Too techno like. Not enjoyable. Hurt my ears

WHAT THE FUCK

Wasn’t a fan of this at all.

Hmmm

More electronic garbage. 1/10.

He escuchado mil veces este nombre de grupo como referencia de música electrónica pero creo que nunca los había escuchado. A pesar de gustarme el IDM o el Ambient esto no termina de interesarme mucho. En mi opinión este disco no es imprescindible y creo que ha envejecido muy mal.

The only album so far I could not get through, not coz it tested my patience but I know this is so not my jam very tropical and bouncy electronic music. Sure some people will love and I do appreciate the array of sounds they use in the songs I heard but this is my personal rating and I have tried but I cannot open up to this sound 1.5/5

I was losing my mind in 1996, but not to this.