Let's Get Killed

Fun album!

The list's enthusiast for drum and bass is baffling. The James bond cover was okay, but all the gritty NYC street samples were tiresome.

This sounds like the soundtrack to an impossibly cool blaxploitation flick or a 70s James Bond spy thriller set in New York, complete with breakbeats and sampled speech snippets. Looking at David Holmes’ discography shows that he has indeed made a respectable career in recording film soundtracks, so maybe this was an audition piece. Anyhoo, it’s strong enough to stand on its own and is a fun listening experience

This one hasn’t aged super well, but there are still some solid ideas here. The first half I found a little boring but starting from Radio 7 I started to really dig some of the grooves he chews creating. 6/10 Favorite tracks- “Slasher’s Revenge” “Freaknik” “Don’t Die Just Yet”

I would love to hear the author of this list justify why he put this album on the list.

Bad

Very cinematic, even if you ignore the 007 one. Lots of street recordings. Interesting.

It was immediately obvious that this guy had composed the score for Ocean’s 11. The music is good, but it’s a little bit too ambient that I can’t imagine anyone absolutely loving it. It just fades into the background (as you plan a heist with the boys).

It's been 64 days since the generator gave me an album by an artist I've never heard of before. The last time that happened it was The Divine Comedy and I ended up really liking it a lot. I was hoping today would be the same. Looking at the reviews for Let's Get Killed, I was not feeling hopeful. While I like some electronic music, I can also find it very boring if it all ends up sounding the same. It helped to read a bit about this record ahead of time too, so I better understood what the vocal samples were all about. Thanks to that awareness, this felt more like a concept album than I would've understood without this information. With all of that being said, I really liked the album. All of the songs sounded different and evoked a variety of emotions from me. The song that sold me was Rodney Yates, with a very cool jazz sound I was not expecting at all. The use of the James Bond theme in Radio 7 was quite nicely done. Once again, another album that makes me very happy I'm doing this project.

Better than Coldplay

Some people should follow their own advice before they make music

it was cool background music, neat samples ig 2.5/5

I enjoyed it sometimes tbh. My uncle makes music like this

The samples on this are wild! Loved them!

Fine. Not my favourite genre of music but I liked the James bond reference I suppose

3/5

?? erstes mal verpasst...electronica triphop drumbase elevator...c

Was fine. Beats and background noise. Nothing stood out especially good or bad.

Don’t know much about the genre, thought it was decent, but it didn’t rise above background noise.

I read all these negative comments about this album, and dance/DJ is really not my thing, so I started with low expectations. It's not quite so bad! I liked the overall sound of the album (for the genre). He often gets (well uses a sample of) a nice groove but just sticks too long with it, and many songs get a bit monotonous after 2' or so. They sound cinematic, which I like, and I'm not surprised he has made lots of soundtracks. The NY street recordings, don't know, as a British DJ I would have found it more interesting if he stuck to his home turf. A generous 3.

There really have to be better electronic albums from the UK un 1997 to include on this list. This was like a surface-level survey of all the popular music styles of the era without being deeply good at any of them. 1.5

This was great music to not listen to and barely enjoy. 3 stars.

This started out really fun but then around the 007/Bond song I started to get bored. I'm not sure if I personally lost steam or the album lost steam but I just don't think it was fun enough to sit and listen to as a whole album.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=waGN1kBVh9Y&si=j_2lf00Mt23BXT-B&t=2m12s

“James Bond was Hispanic, fuck that shit!” - Radio 7. Not my usual listening, but I enjoyed the vibes and the skits pulled it together and made the record feel cohesive and thematic, what that theme was, narcotics most likely. Highlights - My Mate Paul, Radio 7, Lets get Killed ⭐️⭐️⭐️

lol ok

This is quite possibly the most boring album I have ever listened to. I suppose it makes sense that he went into soundtrack work, the music disappears into the background and I guess it creates a mood (?) but it's not a particularly powerful one. Repetitive and dull.

Listened Before? N Very interesting concept here. The snippets of recorded dialogue kept me interested enough to listen to the whole thing, and it was pretty enjoyable. Some songs drag a bit but that's normal with this genre. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: My Mate Paul

Quite nice

Each song felt like a knock-off video game soundtrack looping every 30 seconds.

I could have seen enjoying this but it didn't quite do it for me. It was too long and didn't have enough variety to my ears.

Outside of Moby, I've never really gotten the DJ thing, at least not as an album that would be the center of attention. I thought I could get into this at first, but about 1/3 of the way thru it was losing me.

I liked this well enough in the late 90s/early 00s when it would get mixed in with likeminded (and better) stuff from Ninja Tune and Mo Wax, and I'm not shocked that this is on a British-leaning list. But it's just okay. I do appreciate Holmes's many contributions to Steven Soderbergh movies, and he's an object of James Murphy's scorn in Meet Me in the Bathroom, which is fun to have in the back of your head as you listen to this. But there's just so many better versions of this. These songs all have solid funky heist film hooks, but they just don't go anywhere. Which means they work perfectly fine as a jolt of energy in an Oceans Eleven scene. But there's nothing to sustain attentive listening. If you like this, pull up Propellerheads or DJ Shadow or The Herbalist or DJ Krush or Kid Koala or Prefuse 73 or anyone on Xen Cuts or three dozen other likeminded artists. Almost none of those guys are going to pop up on this list, but they all deserve far more attention than David Holmes (especially Prefuse 73. He made some crazy stuff for a minute there.)

I wouldn't listen to this again but it's a very interesting style/concept nonetheless

Fine

Pretty dull throughout, lacks energy and just comes across as a bit stale.

Essencialmente um album instrumental... já foram 4 até agora

Kinda weird (the 007 remix?), pretty listenable, kinda forgettable... thank god he went on to score Analyze That otherwise I might not know who this bloke was!

weird ? kinda cool... mostly weird

Thats was pretty damn cool. Gonna keep that on the phone for long rides.

I like the sampling and jazz style but it feels more like a museum piece than an album. I'm going to put in and listen to

If this was all instrumental I'd quite like it. The format with recorded clips of people in NY soon becomes boring.

Interesting 90s electronic album. I enjoyed the more jungle influenced bits - would’ve liked more of that. Not so sure about the James Bond song or some of the samples.

I was expecting to be more disappointed with this one but it wasn’t bad. Monotonous at times, kinda like the Fatboy Slim album I had, but there’s great samples throughout and I like that there’s these snippets of conversations with the people of New York spliced in there too. I think the penultimate track really shines and the James Bond track sounded cool. Not usually my cup of tea and I wasn’t too big on it, but it still surprised me.

Solid. It's an album I could see coming back to, and that says something. But once again, as is common in this project, this is an artist that was only big in the UK, so that also says something. 7 out of 10, rounding down.

Sometimes the beat went interesting places but a lot of times it didn't

This album kind of felt like a time capsule or snippets of sounds from a documentary, which I found pretty cool. It's an interesting listen, looking at this album like a storyboard of electronic fusion pieced together.

Pretty cool. Some funny quotes in there too.

it was good he made the oceans 11 soundtrack as well

140626 21:29 3.5

That was a fun album. Very 90's electronica.

Jet Set Radio without the japanese weirdness

Listen n/a My Mate Paul 2.8 Let's Get Killed 2.4 Gritty Shaker 2.7 Head Rush on Lafayette 2.8 Rodney Yates 3 Radio 7 3.2 The Parcus & Madder Show n/a Slashers Revenge 2.8 Freaknik 2.4 Caddell Returns 3 Don't Die Just Yet 3 For You n/a Score: 2.81

Trip hop/breakbeat album som blev lavet udelukkende på samples i New York. Så alt tekst og lignende er optaget af New yorkere. Ydermere er DAvid holmes en mand som er kendt for at lave movie soundtracks, og det her er også et "movie soundtrack" men bare uden en film. Hovedkarakteren er lidt en selv som går igennem new york og oplever stemningen. Det er ikke dit typiske breakbeat/trip hop album, for det har en del mere fokus på DJ/techno scenen og dance. Men det er meget fedt. Jeg fatter slet ikke hvorfor folk synes det er så dårligt, jeg synes det er virkelig godt udover sådan et nummer jeg bare synes lød lidt mere som larm. Det fik mig til at gå tilbage til Portishead og Massive attack.

Boring penis music

Really enjoyed it. Loved all the samples, they give it this timeless like feeling. Felt a bit in the same style as Entroducing by DJ Shadow.

Love it

*1997. Northern Ireland - electronica, house, some hip hop elements. *Basically an hour of house music. *Not the worst thing ever, but not for me. *Long songs, and you can fast forward to the end and it still sounds the same. RATING - 4/10

Perfect working music, feels similar to Endtroducing. Good hip hopy feel and actually also reminds me of Oceans 11 for some reason. All in all I enjoyed.

Experimental not nice

There are moments when I really vibed to this. Moments.

I don't know why I, or anyone else, would have to listen to this before they die. Not awful...not anything really, felt like I was just waiting for it to be over.

The fucking french pedophile Serge Gainsbourg strikes again! For real though, I feel like the bot is fucking with me, I hope I never have to think of this fucker again. You know what was terrible? I saw that one video of him a few years ago and I thought it was hilarious, the one where a chorus of like 50 kids comes out on stage dressed as him to sing one of his songs? Without context that video is AWESOME, but with context of who this guy was it's insane. Like "hey guys remember that fucking incestuous pedophile we love for some reason? Let's surprise him with a bunch of kids singing to him!" Like LOL. Who thought this was a good idea? French people are fucking weird man, I don't know Oh yeah the David Holmes record sucked.

#711. These repetitive club dj albums are simply not great to listen to in their entirety out of the context of a club 2/5: meh

Some decent dance grooves but nothing that really stood out to me. Not much to say here haha

Not a huge fan of this generation of DJs. I understand the impact for later generations of electronic music, but this never really lands with me. I do think there were some cool elements to each song. I really like the Radio 7 and the 007 mix up. I also really enjoyed Gritty Shaker. But.. most songs went on a bit long for me.

Ok for background

Seems like the kind of music I'd make if I was trying to figure out how to use the drum machine.

Each track contains at most one interesting and/or unique concept (beat, sample, rhythm, etc.) and repeats it ad nauseum. The songs are too long and repetitive. Another feature on the list that makes for "decent background music" but isn't worth listening to. In this case, the artist is a professional soundtrack artist, probably adding another collection to their portfolio, but the author of this book mistook it for exceptional music on its own.

3.5

The album has its moments, there are some nuggets of really good stuff there (My Mate Paul for example is interesting to me), and it's mostly a pleasure to listen to. Yet, some of it sounds quite dated and not experimental enough to truly be fascinating. As an album it goes the route of "collection of sounds" rather than a truly great album meaning where the songs really synergies with each other. With this process, it covers a lot of ground in terms of genre and sound, and that makes it worth a listen just for the historical factor, but it lacks coherence to truly be a standout in my opinion.

Late 90s dance, electronics, house, soundtrack stuff. Would have fit right in on the oceans eleven soundtrack. Was it on there?? Ultimately, not a bad listen for cleaning the house or something.

Not impressive.

Just background music

EDM, techno, electronica... whatever you want to call this crap. It's just disco with a new name. It's cheesy, it's overproduced, and it all sounds like menu selection music from fifth gen video games. AND THERE'S SO MUCH OF IT ON THIS LIST! 1 star.

unimpressive, run of the mill electronic.

Meh.

Yay

If I have learned anything from going through albums on this list, it is that I really enjoy a good trip hop record. This one nails the vibe with that mix of laid-back grooves and gritty atmosphere that keeps you hooked without trying too hard. The tracks flow together in a way that feels like a nighttime soundtrack, something you put on when the world is quiet and you just want to sink into the mood. Bonus points for slipping in that James Bond theme sample on “Radio 7,” which was such a slick touch and one of the highlights of the whole album. Overall, Let’s Get Killed turned out to be a cool surprise. It might not have the fame of bigger trip hop names, but it holds its own and gave me exactly what I want out of the genre. Favorite song: Radio 7"

This type of music makes me feel nothing.

This is really good l

Как фон изредка пойдёт. 4 из 10.

1/10. No le pongo el 0 porque imagino que tiene que haber gente que escuche esto por gusto. Si te gustan los ruidos de palos que chocan, las canciones de menú de pausa del Tekken y la gente que habla en lugar de cantar, este es tu disco.

01) Listen - / 02) My Mate Paul - 8,5 03) Let's Get Killed - 6,5 04) Gritty Shaker - 7,0 05) Head Rush on Lafayette - 6,0 06) Rodney Yates - 7,0 07) Radio 7 - 7,5 08) The Parcus & Madder Show - / 09) Slashers Revenge - 7,0 10) Freaknik - 6,0 11) Caddell Returns - 6,5 12) Don't Die Just Yet - 8,5 13) For You - 7,0 TOTAL: 7,05 (71/100) Current ranking: 380/666

An album by a UK-based techno artist, a shitty over-hyped late-90’s Madonna album, then another album by a UK-based techno artist. Is this a joke? Is this a reboot of Punk’d? Where’s Ashton? Or wait, no. I’ve died and this is hell. Worse than I imagined it’d be, if I’m being honest.

Highlight Song/s: Let's Get Killed, Rodney Yates and Slashers Revenge Really cool album, especially the concept. One of those cool things is him recording dialogue and city ambience of New York and incorporating it into his album. Sometimes reading the Wikipedia page really helps me get into the album and understand it a lot more. Solid album all around. It did get a bit repetitive, especially near the end. Also pretty eclectic album so hats off to him, some electronic musicians just don't care about diversity and have the entire album sound like the same one song; at least the ones I've gotten on this list so far.

If you're going into this album expecting an album experience, you're probably going about this all wrong. Now, I wouldn't blame you for going into this album like that. I would've, too, if I hadn't learned what I'd learned. In fact, I probably woulda... Well, I don't think I would've **hated** it, but I don't think I woulda been too kind to this album. Y'know, as time goes on, I'm realizing more and more that only a specific kind of electronica really gels with me... Daft Punk, Moog music... Stuff like that. But then I was made privy to an important piece of information that really changed the way I'd view this album. Y'see, the guy who made this, David Holmes, isn't any random electronica producer; not some no name who just happened to worm his way on this list. No, David Holmes — pause for impact — is also a film composer. You might have heard his work, if you've seen the 2001 OCEAN'S ELEVEN remake or either of its two sequels. Yeah, the whole trilogy — and I just saw all of those movies pretty recently to when my group got this album. Go figure. So, allow me to propose something, then. Instead of taking this album as you would any random electronica — or, more specifically I suppose, breakbeat album, try this: view it as a soundtrack. This is a film score to a movie that doesn't exist called LET'S GET KILLED. Given where I know Holmes from, it's probably a heist movie. About a **really** dangerous heist! Where one character looks at all the preliminary details and remarks, "Y'know, this all seems a little suicide. They're gonna slaughter us if we try this." And the guy they're talking to, probably the lead, just smirks and remarks, "Well, let's all get killed, then." In short: use this album as a means by which to imagine your own movie. It can be really fun if you do it right and the music really lends itself to it! And when viewed under this light, it **does** work pretty well. I can picture the lead characters meeting (one of 'em is probably named Pete), them discussing the plan in a cafe, scoping the target, recruiting the team, going into action... Everything. I even came up with a thing where the lead character has a thing for people watching and eavesdropping, which explains all of the spoken word soundbites. Again, it's fun stuff, I'm telling you. But if there's any reason why I'm not "over the moon" crazy for this thing... Well, it really comes down to the fact that I'm not much one for film scores. There's a couple lately I've come to dig (mostly notably Alexadre Desplat's work on THE FRENCH DISPATCH and ASTEROID CITY), but for the most part... I'unno, I just don't tend to seek this stuff out on my own time. Like, if I wanna hear this music, I'm probably gonna watch the movie more, so... I'll probably just do that! As a matter of fact, I can't even remember what Holmes's score for **any** of the OCEAN'S movies sounds like. The only one I can recall off the top of my head is, funny enough, OCEAN'S EIGHT — which was scored by Alexandre Desplat. Go figure. So while I got a kick out of imagining my own movie, and while I did enjoy the reworking of the James Bond theme that's on here... And, actually, I gotta agree with a fellow group member; while this album doesn't start badly, it gets way better following the song before the Bond track, "Radio 7"... Yeah, I'unno. It's very good background music, though it's hardly the first stuff I'd reach for. Just how it is. (Also, apparently "Don't Die Just Yet" is a remake of two songs from Serge Gainsbourg's HISTORIE DE MELODY NELSON? What a bizarre way for that album to come back after it was the first one my group got this year. Goodness.)

Might just be 'cause I listened to this while in the middle of a 9-12 hour car ride, but I really dug these tracks. 4.5 bumped up to 5.

I’m at a 4. It took a bit for this album to get going, but once the modus operandi of the album becomes clear as a soundtrack album of sorts, the intent of these songs & the imagery they evoke becomes a lot more clear in the brain. This is intentional background music, in a way that’s extremely compelling in its finest moments & just sort of really drab at its worst, though I might need to relisten to it to see if that truly holds up. Granted, the only reason I was able to eventually make that connection for “soundtrack album” is from a sense of curiosity that popped in during “Rodney Yates”. I’m listening to it again right now as I’m writing this. To my ears, it felt sort of flat, without a sense of progression, and a general surprise that it had gone 6 minutes. It had 8 million plays on Spotify, and I just couldn’t figure out why, so I dug a little deeper into David Holmes, and discovered he did a lot of the incidental music for the Ocean’s Eleven series in the 2000s. To that point, I had already gotten a sort of Metal Gear Solid vibe that I fucked with out of “Let’s Get Killed”, but the album hadn’t really given me a reason to evoke any imagery past that point. With that framing in mind, the rest of the album after Rodney Yates clicked really nicely. I do think they’re all better tracks than the first 6, since they do a much better job at establishing an atmosphere for the brain to vividly work itself around. Obviously, it’s hard to fuck up the Bond theme, so “Radio 7” is an easy success, but both “Slasher’s Revenge” & “Freaknik” subsequently felt like songs that could fit into the Brosnan-era James Bond movies as background music. “Caddell Returns”, with its shifting energy, jumping from point to point gave the sort of Ocean’s Eleven heist vibe that I’m aware of in pop culture, but have never actually watched. I guess I owe it to myself to see the movies. “Don’t Die Just Yet” does a great job with the swirling orchestral work, and it ends up feeling like a credits theme throughout its outro. This is far from a 1 or a 2, and I think framing it as an electronica album undermines what it’s trying to do. It’s an atmospheric album with electronica elements, and to my mind, it does a much better job of evoking a movie mood than “Oedipus Schmoedipus” did last year, and I think it uses its electronica elements to a more fulfilling degree than Moby did on “Play”. Perhaps with a full relisten under the framing of “this is a soundtrack that you’re meant to do things to”, I’d be more inclined to bump it all the way up to a 5, given the sort of spy / heist-y nature of the album (underlined really nicely by the eavesdropped NYC conversations sampled throughout the album) but for now, off of a first impression, I feel pretty safe with a 4.

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Starts off great, but then turns into somewhat of a mid background music for a cyberpunk/hacker video game

Interesting array of sounds with the expected grooves and monologues but a bit monotonous, repetitive and ultimately I was bored. It's not terrible and I do appreciate what it tries to achieve (plus it's not really my bag).

Yeah loved this album and its still great after all these years the subliminal and divine jostle for power in this disused waterway.

Irritatingly half-arsed and full. Too irritating even for background sounds. There's way better alternatives to choose from

Lovely noises. Ambient electro full of samples and dirt and grit. But with a real range of styles from dub to techno. I loved the street recordings from the disaffected New York underclass.

The soundtrack to the movie you want to see before you die, but it only exists inside your head.

This has a lot of potential—and it’s clearly an inspiration for a lot of indie artists like Tame Impala and Bleachers—but it’s not good alone

Boring

This album wasn't for me at all. It has to much unexpected sounds and random talking and/or sounds throughout. I couldn't get in to it at all.

90s. Kind of fun for one listen.

Smooth, evocative dance music

Too out there for me

There were a few songs that were pretty decent, but generally this is not my style. 2.5

Meh - sounded like a movie of a 90’s lounge. Like a scene on sex and the city or something.

This is kinda bland and boring. I feel like it's not doing anything, like it's directionless. I'm not sure why this is an album one would have to hear before the die. While I tried to listen to this, I couldn't help but keep skipping songs. Maybe this is good but my untrained electronic ears just couldn't parse it out. But that's fine. Not gonna spin this one again.

This was boring, like listening to an hour of the "You wouldn't steal a car" anti piracy ads

A couple very OK songs but most is bad beats and boring.

Mwha

Look, if it's good enough for Steven Soderbergh, then it's good enough for me.

9/10… trip hop / break beat / lounge 👂 Take your time to listen - its fantastic

Wanted to like this one but it’s pretty irrelevant

Pretty good soundtrack music.

If I could give zero stars I would

Ex...cruc...iat.....ing. "Let's Get Killed"? This album drained my will to live by track two

This is basically the ocean's 11 soundtrack. That is a compliment. Also this guy did use some of these songs for that film soundtrack.

I like it

This was a cool album, conceptually. It just doesn't do anything for me personally. That electronic DJ music is not my style.

Some of the beats are really cool, but the spoken word and sound effects were just too annoying and distracting.

- I like the sound clips from the NYC residents before the tracks, captures NYC charm/personalities - Music is groovy, reminds me of Radiohead but without words - Has that 90s electronica club feel but somehow manages to stay interesting despite being repetitive - Would listen to as background music while doing a task or just relaxing

Wild listen in a high stress state.

Never heard of him or this album, never seen this album cover in a record store, this came out in my music junkie heyday so there must be a reason I overlooked it. Apparently, based on listen counts, I wasn't the only one to miss it. Not a solid start with "Listen" & "My Mate Paul" back to back, both basic and boring. The title track sounds like background music from a B-Movie. The rest sounds like rough drafts or throwaway tracks from a real artist. "Rodney Yates" has 8M listens? For what?! Was it featured somewhere else? It's boring with no payoff. The filler 1 minute tracks in between songs offer zero value and don't tell a story from what I gather. Hodge podge of nonsensical beats. I cannot imagine who voted this album onto the list. It's crap. I'm struggling to give it 2 stars, I really can't, best I can do is 1.5.

Not the most bothersome or boring of its genre, but not the most compelling either. It’s breakbeat that didn’t bother me at work, so I’ll take it. I’d give it a 2.5 if I could, but there was enough that I enjoyed to round up.

Another album and artist that completely passed me by. I've listened to it twice now, the first time ...nothing stuck in my brain from it. No emotion, no high points, no low points just bland generic electronic nothingness. The second time was to see if was as bland as I (sort of ) remembered. Yes. it's just featureless.

not really into this style. Not bad but not for me 3.0

Very cool, fast rythm, cool mixed in vocals, very fun to listen to on the go

Honestly, just not good

For what it is, I guess it’s good.

I like this. Cool monologues at the start of songs.

No thank you

Well what sort of UK specific bullshit is it this time? Ahh, the Ocean’s soundtrack guy. I remember this sound feeling played out by 1994 after US3 had their moment, even more so once Soderbergh set scenes to his work. It’s not bad, his technical skills and sourcing are impressive, but the end result is, well, hotel lobby music.

1.72

Biggest load of crap I've ever heard. If this is what some people call music, then either their hearing is shot to shit. Or they're family and friends of David Holmes. It deserves a zero!

This gives me the vibes of the Propeller Heads and Daft Punk. I liked "My Mate Paul", "Rodney Yates", and "Don't just die yet". I could do without the audio clips though.

Hmmm, I guess it's ok. Nice groove but nothing stands out.

Really bad

Muy monótono. Buena fusión de trip-house con algo de jazz. Pero cansa.

It's fine. I tend to rate electronic music higher than most on this project, but the inclusion of this album is confusing. So much electronic music during this time period that are classics, genre-bending, and influential, whereas this one just kind of exists. I'll give it a 3, but I feel like 3 stars is turning into a "meh, whatever" rating.

A unique, mostly instrumental mix of hip hop and mild club beats. I especially liked "Don't Die Yet". I am shocked to find that this was created by an Irish DJ. Quite good. 4/5

Fav song: Don't Die Just Yet

5/10

Ok

Absolutely fine. Not sure it'll join the rotation though.

2.5

2.5

Decent electronic effort. I would prefer a little more up-tempo

Nope. Triphop.

I liked it.

This is very dull and dated. A chore to get through.

*REPLAYABLE* I really like this sound, but I wish there was more variety in the music and sound design in the first half of the album. The second half really picked up and introduced a lot of variety. The Bond theme track is really interesting. I feel like there needs to be something more for the album as a whole.

Bah

This sucked

Is it too much to ask that these albums contain music?

Not my thing

Not that bad, but too repetitive and kinda boring.

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not bad, not as catchy as fat boy, but ok

Good songs but irregular

2.5/5. I like David Holmes.

I don't mind the beats, they are coherent and somewhat build. But they also stay pretty mellow, feels like the soundtrack for the store Express. I think where it really falls apart for me are the weird stories at the beginning. I thought wow this guy is from the streets in Brooklyn and sampling life in a different way. No! He is a white guy from Belfast. Nothing against white guys from Belfast, but for me it just really feels off that you are creating these really stereotypical exaggerated stories of a world you are not a part of. So for me it falls short

This has a good variety of interesting sounds but as a whole, I got bored with it.

I know I said 1997 was a great year for music... but this isn't one of the all time albums. Generic, OG Gran Tourismo style music.

2 star, decent but I only liked the intros tbh

I kept waiting for some kind of drop, for this to get better and cool. I'm still waiting.

let me set the scene: it’s 7am at the airport, and i have a webpage open with the text “Let’s Get Killed” on my phone. hope nobody’s looking over my shoulder! anyway, this was fine. music to zone out and do tasks to. as i work through this project and look at the reviews i realize that the general sentiment surrounding electronic music is not nearly as positive as it is in my own head.

Interesting start, I like it. Give me more of that late-90s British Jungle Beat, please. Overall, really fun. Some good variety of beats still, and different types of grooves. And fun voice samples played through. The track Don't Die Just Yet sounds so much like one song Beck's album Modern Guilt from the violins, the bass line, even some of the hooks. Beck had to know about this! One of the most surprising parts about all of these albums is how many connections and similarities you can hear.

Enjoyed this as something I would never normally listen to (which is the beauty of the random album generator) - don’t think I’d revisit though

I don’t dismiss it. It’s a well-produced album with rich, atmospheric sound and a strong urban vibe. It works well as a kind of soundtrack to a night in the city, and the production is top-notch. It may get a bit trivial in places, but overall it’s a solid and enjoyable listen. 4/5

3.5

# 533 : Let's Get Killed Tried listening to "Let's Get Killed" by David Holmes, but it felt more like "Let's Get Irritated." I kept waiting for it to click, but instead it just clicked off. If this album inspired anyone, I hope they were inspired to make something else. Honestly, if I were hit by a bus tomorrow, my final thought wouldn’t be, “Oh no, I never finished that David Holmes album!” More likely: “At least I didn’t.” Worth a listen : Nothing stood out Date: 28/07/2025

75/1001. This I think I have, but I don't know why. The name keeps popping up and the sounds remind of an era but nothing seems to stand out. After half a day of listening I can't recall anything that was in it and don't want or need to go back.

la de hablar no se la saben

I remember stuff like this playing in clubs I left at 2am in the 90’s

Mislila sam da je zakucana dvica dok nije došla predzadnja pjesma. Ona je sve što tražim od ovakve muzike. Opuštajuća, zvuči svježe, lijepo vozi. Ostatak značajno lošiji, ali ne postoje 2.5 zvjezdice.

yet another monotonous and teeth grinding 90s electronica album that its self indulgent artist decided simply had to be an hour long. what a waste of a very funny album title

I have no idea what I am listening to. It is insanely repetitive. This reminds me of a day I was watching television and there was this abrupt intermission. "We will be back shortly" and played this type of music again for an hour. Not my cup of tea. I really did not get the concept. 1

I loved this album

Boring and uninspired. Terrible samples and awful loops. The “skits” are the diarrhea icing on top of this shit cake.

Not good at all

Feels like it would be better as a movie or a video game soundtrack than as an album. 5/10

Decent for getting high and letting it play in the background. That’s about it.

I dig the kind of dark and stormy vibe he creates in many of the songs. The street busker/ crate drumming sample on Head Rush on Lafayette was a nice change of pace. I quite like the take on the 007 theme track. Most of the songs feel like they could be the music for levels in a retro spy game. Some of the songs feel like they should have an MC tapping over them. Almost like he made beats without finding anyone to use them.

This album was a fine resource for finding music to edit commercials and videos to in the mid 2000s, but as something to listen to from start to finish, it didn't move the needle for me.

Decent music. A bit repetitive, but I can dig it. 3/5

A few songs in I started to think "I'd rather listen to an Ocean's movie soundtrack" and then Rodney Yates came on. This is a pretty bleak album. All of these songs sound like the good foundations of songs but they never really go anywhere. It's just endless drum loops with an occasional subpar "rap." Oh and the James Bond song. This is right on the cusp of 1 star for me. 3/10 (1.5/5)

Some interesting stuff here, and very listenable. Probably not something I'll choose to listen to again though.

Very varied, not just 'clubby' just a tad too long. Did love it.

Poc: eres un grafitero que e huye de la policía por las calles de Manhattan. Está interesante, parece la banda sonora de un videojuego de estética urbana. He de decir que no es mucho mi estilo y que me ha costado escuchar lo que he escuchado. No me lo he podido escuchar entero, porque es increíblemente largo para mi gusto (la mayoría de canciones son de 5 mins parriba). Pero bueno, recomiendo concretamente la canción My mate Paul, que es super divertida

4.0/5.0: Great

long album of decent background music. some odd skits on here that break up the momentum and make the album feel longer than it needs to be. there are a few cool grooves on here, especially toward the end

This is the 160th album I’m rating. I don't even know what to think. The cover, the title, and the artist isn't telling me anything. Adding to my Playlist - My Mate Paul, Gritty Shaker, Head Rush on Lafayette, and Radio 7. Not Adding to my Playlist - Listen, Let's get Killed, Rodney Yates, The Parcus & Madder Show, Slashers Revenge, Freaknik, Caddell Returns, Don't Die just yet, and For You. My Mate Paul - Usually I don't like super repetitive stuff but I might be in a repetitive mood today or David Holmes is really really good. All in all I liked 4/13 songs. Surprisingly good for such a repetitive album.

My cat dies AND I get stuck with this pointless turd of an album? What a shit day.

Look, I'm already pot committed to completing this project, but goodness, some of the curation is absolutely baffling.

This was my 3 electronic-ish music album in a row, and it’s hard not to compare it with those. It works okay as something of a movie soundtrack (sounds like Holmes is well regarded in soundtrack development), and has interesting moments. I liked the focus on depravity in NYC, but it’s not an album I feel like revisiting much.

Too long for what it gave 🥴 it's giving budget, 80s spy movie and I got bored. Nothing really stood out either.

Not worth a listen

Let’s get Killed? Yes please, if it means I never have to listen to this crap again. This album is so boring I wish I could rate it 0 stars. This guy really created four bars of melody per song and hit repeat. The only upside is that the album is so boring that have already forgotten what the songs sound like This is the first album I have truely struggled to listen to, I was painfully aware of how long the songs were and I was literally counting down the seconds till the songs finished. Fave songs: Listen (it’s the shortest), For You (finally the album ends)

This sort of grew on me as the album progressed. From first 10 mins I doubt it would have got as high as 2, but by the time it was half way through I was quite enjoying it. Think I'm going to end up giving it a 3.

I was so bored for so long listening to this. But I persevered as I was driving for ages so thought ‘why not’. Was it me, or did it get better in the 2nd half of the record? After the James Bondy one things seemed more interesting and listenable. But nothing outstanding.

A surprising thing happened while listening to this. I thought it sounded like something id heard before, as it there are layers to this music. Turns out David Holmes wasnt the gnarly old Baker I used to work with, but the bloke from Sabres of Paradise. It all made sense then.'Rodney Yates' is a banger.

This was a good flashback to the mid to late 90s electronic scene. This album is very much a product of its time, built mostly around breakbeats, with clear influences from acid jazz, trip hop, and hip hop. There’s even an electronic remake of the James Bond theme, which fits the album’s cinematic vibe. It’s a pretty solid listen from start to finish, but honestly, I’m personally a bit burnt out on this sound in general. It’s well done, but not something I see myself ever coming back too.

Sounds like something Apple would have used in an iPod ad, or, PlayStation demo disc menu music. Fine, but not for me.

It sounds more like the soundtrack to a film than something that stands on its own, and it's ultimately a boring listen. There are just way more interesting things happening in this genre of music at this time.

Really liked it

there was some cool stuff here and there but overall didn’t connect with this. epitome of a low 3

Why? The UK bias on this list is actually wild. It's not that it's bad. In fact, I'd rather listen to something bad/different. It's just that it's a pretty mediocre example of the genre.

I liked a few of the more experimental moments but generally this fell mostly flat for me. The vocal snippets were hit or miss. 2/5

- 2.5, rounding down. -

It was fine background music. But nothing interesting. Standout song: Gritty Shaker

3/5 Interesting slice of life that takes you to the NY EDM dance scene of the late 90s. Very reminiscent of fat boy slim and chemical brothers. It makes for bice background music but it's not going to be something that is the sole focus of my attention

This was fun, and overall I dug it quite a bit. There were some tracks (eg. Freaknik) that were a little long-winded in the spoken-word/sketch bits, but the music was infectious and vibrant and I enjoyed listening. Four stars.

Kind of mid but some cool stuff. I liked hearing the Ocean's 11 song out of nowhere. Was an easy listen but not required listening

Meh... one decent track.

Surprisingly good. Some tracks run a bit long and can be redundant but I enjoyed it overall. Reminiscent of montage sequences in late 90s action/heist movies.

Giving lcd sound systems vibes

This is the first album thrown up by the generator and I'm familiar with David Holmes and a lot of his work without really listening to many albums. I enjoyed this, right up my street with 'Gritty Shaker' a song I already knew coming into this thanks to the Ocean's 11 soundtrack. At nearly an hour long, the runtime is a touch long but much to like here, contrary to many of the reviews. 'Don't Die Just Yet' is the highlight for me.

Chill electronica with sampled conversations and street noise. A bit trip-hop, a bit spy movie soundtrack. Makes sense that he does Soderbergh movie scores. This is nighttime music. I put it on as background music as I did chores during the day, and it was pretty forgettable. But then I put it on at night while knitting, and suddenly it was a vibe. I liked the strings on Don’t Die Just Yet.

That was a lot of instrumental dance music... trip-hop maybe? I swear at one point they were remixing the James Bond theme song? Overall... it was cool. It pleasant on the ears. Easy to work to. Maybe it would hit way harder on a dance floor in the 90s on MDMA? But turning my kitchen into a dance floor and doing some MDMA on a Wednesday just didn't seem feasible, so i remain underwhelmed, but positive. It's a solid 2.5 for me. But i'll give it a 3 because it's a good work album.

Very much of its time. On a bad say, this would trend towards 1/5 for me, but it's been an okay day, so... 2/5.

Album 814 of 1089 David Holmes - Let's Get Killed (1997) Rating : 1.5 / 5 Irish electronica just didn't do it for me.

Wiki info: Holmes used the recordings he made in New York City of conversations and other street-level noise as samples on the album. These snippets of conversation were often spoken by people from New York's cultural underbelly, including prostitutes, pimps and drug-dealers. The samples were used in between the tracks on the album, and in some cases in the tracks themselves. The record contains a wide variety of styles within the electronica spectrum, including techno, breakbeats, trip hop and drum 'n' bass.[7] David Holmes has produced many film scores, and it has often been said that his studio albums have a cinematic feel to them.

I think it's pretty hard to make something really compelling in this genre of breakbeats sans vocals. The format really doesn't let you go too far. You can skip.

Overall: 3/10 Not the most abysmal electronica I've heard so far but still not great. I've realized that it's not necessarily the repetitiveness of the genre I don't like (I listen to lots of punk after all), but it's that what's being repeated just isn't all that interesting to me. Something nice to dance to in a party setting but not enjoyable otherwise. Fav Song: Let's Get Killed Least Fav Song: Head Rush on Lafayette

Reading some reviews I expected to hate it, but it's a really fun record. Perfect for background music. Plus, there's a great remix of the James Bond theme (Radio 7).

I can see how this collection of grooves got David Holmes the Out of Sight scoring gig. However, the vocal snippets tend to be more interesting than the music which I think is a bit of an own goal.

Good beats, unique especially for that time

Eh. Has it's moments at times

Ok

Både monotont og masete. Høres ut som jeg er på Suburban-sjappa i GTAV.

Un intero album da DJ... Non ce la posso fare

This was the musical equivalent of a toothy blowjob

I don't know why this gets so much hate in the reviews. It's perfectly fine mid to late 90's euro electronic music. It's the score to a film never made (which seems more obvious when you look at Holmes's discography), and that doesn't detract from the actual tunes. It's 90's euro lounge, mixed with classic spy movie (I mean aside from the Bond theme remix which was pretty unnecessary, I think) and random snippets from interviewing people in New York. It goes through trip hop, breakbeat, maybe even a bit of jungle? It's all the fun genres of electronic music you don't really hear much of anymore. I don't think it's groundbreaking or anything but I liked it! It's a great example of the mix of genres electronic music was going through at the time this was released. Maybe you had to be there, I don't know. This doesn't deserve the shitty rating it's got. Also, what a great album title, c'mon.

Great album name. I've 100% said that. An interesting bunch of songs but nothing that wants me to revisit it.

this was crazy?

DNF

I'm not the target audience for this album.

Gonna dig into this more but this is the kinda shit I can listen to so easily. Highlight: My Mate Paul (Could be any track really)

My opinion on techno is not new: it’s hard to judge when most of it sounds the same. Though there are elements here, this was unique. David Holmes created a version that was street smart and jazzy, with a touch of ‘70s blackspliotation mixed in. It’s like Curtis Mayfield and Skrillex had a love child. I can see how this helped move the genre from techno to trance and eventually dubstep. I swear I used to hear this at a martini bar I used to go to the early part of the century (aka, the Funky Buddha). I don’t know if I would look for it but I didn’t dislike the listen. Now I want a lemon drop martini…

Random thoughts: * This was interesting. Sort of a mash up of 90s DJ music and the Beastie Boys minus any rap. * I enjoyed the random conversations in the music. It really gave the album a feel of time and place. * I might add this to some instrumental playlists I have going for when I just want some tunes without much else going on.

Not bad EDM, but too much talking in the intros

Sopivan psyke

Kind of a funky electronic album. Might go back and listen to this. Still not quite a 4 but maybe a higher 3/5. Never heard of this guy in the 90s.

Fanns någon enstaka låt som hade något. Resten var inte så kul.

Wow people are so down this, I had never heard of the guy, but found it an interesting and chilled listen. Much better than the Malcolm McLaren let's steal black music and claim we made it popular. Similar to DJ Shadow

This has not aged well - capturing spoken word and trying to capture the spirit of New York streets by laying it over lazy beats, no thanks. OK for a soundtrack to a drug trip I'd suppose. Not worth a spot in the 1001.

calming and nice. If I were like a english fella in the 90s I would be insufferable listening to this.

WTF

a cool soundtrack

Not for me.

I mean this was okay, but I don’t see myself returning to this quickly. Maybe when I’m studying. I liked Radio 7 and Don’t Die Just Yet the most.

I really liked his work on the Ocean's Eleven soundtrack, and this felt very much the same.

My favourite was Rodney Yates. I didn't like the interludes and the intro very much, but they don't take up a lot of space. Decent album.

Never-ending monotonous beats

Kids these days are still chasing this sound it sounds great, just not for me. It sounded like the OST for some early 2000's game

Did I need to hear this before I died? No. Did I like it? Yes.

This entire album is literally just an endless cycle of introducing a cool idea, but then repeating it in the same way over and over again, then moving on to the next idea before the previous idea even had the chance to become anything worth listening to.

Some pretty cool tracks i def hear some samples

Electronica...

This was pretty dang cool.

REALLY starting to wonder about this list. There seems to be so much throwaway electronic dance music from the UK on here. There is nothing timeless or special about any of it. This is a perfect example here. It's not terrible, but it's just boring. It's background music for when you don't want to be distracted by anything challenging. Impossible to get excited about any of it because it's like window dressing. The more of this I hear the more I hate the entire style. For fuck's sake, please team up with someone who can write rhymes and has some flow and just be a hip-hop project instead of this monotonous drivel.

Ja ok. Känns som vi haft flera av denna typ av rytmiska elektroniska musik. Det är sisådär. Personligen älskar jag ju Tollstorpa "no guitar", med "techno"-esqu musik. Den här elektroniska musiken fyller mig inte med samma känsla. Det känns fattigare på nåt sätt. Svårt att sätta fingret på. Jag pendlar faktiskt mellan två och tre. Men jag gillar det nog i de flesta fallen lite mer än tvärtom. Tror jag. Svårt. Hellre fria än fälla.

Helt okej platta men bitvis för trumfokuserat, vilket blir lite trist att en timme. Skulle behövts lite mer, bättre och större variation i samplingarna (t ex som på Rodney Yates) för att kunna bli ett högre betyg.

A lot of cool grooves and interesting ideas here, the voice clips give the record a lot more character.

8/10 pretty good electronica I can see why Soderbergh wanted him to score a bunch of his movies

Terrible, boring, sounded like background music for a bad action movie.

Hezkej triphop

Not my style

🎧Mostly pretty boring/background music. BUT it’s also got songs like Rodney Yates and the title track which were used in Ocean’s Eleven (2001), one of my favorite movies of all time. So it gets an extra star.

This was a surprise. I missed it at the time but it fits nicely into that mowax/dj shadow area. Nice grooves and a really jazzy feel to the use of breaks. A nice summer afternoon album. Very strong 4.

i had never heard of this album or david holmes before - WOW i will be listening again and again!! 5/5, so grimy and groovy and i love the spoken samples. just learned that he did the oceans 11 soundtrack which makes sense

Pretty exceptional on this list, a film score artist

Sounds like a lazy hip hop without the vocals. I am not sure if I like it more or less because of it. Probably more

every song sounds like the first 10 seconds start of a rap song where they're kinda just introducing the beat..... but it then doesn't go anywhere :(

Watched Oceans 11 to cap off the day - boosting the stars for how glad I am to know about this dude now

Only listened to the first 3 songs and that was more than enough

Another terrible Electronica album

Seek professional help.

crazy boring electronic music holy balls had to skip

p804. 1997. 1 star. Tedious background music/samples with no redeeming features. WTF is this even doing on the list?

A few bops, not my cuppa tea as a wholes

Did not feel I needed to listen to this for any reason before I died. Incredibly Dull, no redeeming qualities in my opinion. Can't wait for the next terrible 90's electronica album I can give 1 Star.

If I had a physical copy of this album, I think I could sell the plastic of the CD and the booklet sheets to buy a useful plastic bag.

I'm pretty sick of electronic on here. Maybe I don't take enough party drugs to get it.

1997. Pretty cool electric atmospheric club music of the late 90s without many vocals.

Why is there so much wannabe film music on this list. At least put an actual film score like Lord of the rings on it rather than this slop. Annoyingly bad.

Nice music, many songs make me unable to sit still in my office chair

Incredible electronics, not perfect but close for the genre

Interesting

This album felt like listening to the soundtrack of an experimental indie movie, but not the good kind. Or waiting way too long on the Grand Theft Auto San Andreas or IV loading screen. None of the samples were interesting and the whole atmosphere felt off.

I am not a music expert and this one I review just with my feelings. I didn't like it that much. It's nice, perhaps technically good or even for the time relevant and very new. Good as soundtrack, maybe to learn or focus, but not the complete album. The three first Songs were for me a bit too boring or disturbing. I don't need to listen this album one more time.l, but it was nice to know who is David Holmes.

i saw a comment on this being like "The NYC vibe album", and I GOTTA agree, there's a beautiful mixture of the different elements of the new york scene in the 90's. one song reminded me so much of the main theme of the incredibles haha. plus afterwards it autoplayed a song off of oceans eleven which he composed which was pretty nice as well :p

Pretty neat club album, appreciated the different samples and it led to cool stuff. Radio 7 being a James Bond cover is bloody sick as.

This did not land for me. Just felt like it went nowhere and took forever to get there. Really repetitive. James Bond song was kinda cool

generic dance music

Cool electronica. Once the songs fall into a groove though, most don’t develop much from there. Nice mix of loungy and dancey tracks with a hint of jazz here and there. The James Bond remix was a fun surprise.

This is a cool fever dream~ish sort of album. I often felt like I was stuck in a song however, and wanted more development or a piece to go somewhere else but it didn't happen enough. The James Bond song cover/recreation was a cool surprise. I wasn't sure if it was going to just be a sample or a full fledged reproduction but I had fun! Cool album cover. Straight to the point with that title.

Relatively boring.

Off the wall, but I really vibed with this.

Here is a copy/paste of my rant from the last 90's UK electronica album: "About 200 albums ago I had 2 straight months of 70's folk music and I kept ranting about how it is over represented in this list. Since then I have only gotten one here and there, so I guess I just got really unlucky. Now, I feel like the real genre that is over represented in this list is UK EDM/Electronica/Dance. Is the UK electronic scene really that important? I like to think I know more than the average person about music history, and I am involved in various music discourse, and no one has EVER brought up any of these artists. To be fair I don't follow much electronic music though. I feel like 1 or 2 UK albums on this list would be fine, but it feels like there are 30-40, and they always are the same. Some UK guy no one has heard of in the last 20 years that had one decently successful album in the 90's (usually a debut), all the songs have 100,000 streams, and then it is over an hour of some of the most average electronic music ever." I feel like this rant still mostly applies here, however this album has more of a Trip-hop feel and it is surprisingly his sophomore album, one song almost has 8 million streams, and it is 35 seconds shy of an hour. The album itself is fine, but not interesting enough to warrant the long runtime. Even the song lengths don't feel earned. They are fine songs and have some interesting arrangements, but nothing really happens or changes for 6+ minutes. Most of these songs could have been 2:30 and then the album could have been 30 minutes and I would move on and not really care. However, this album just drags on, and it really gets ruin by the runtime. Which is a bummer because I love triphop and this album has some potential, but it really wastes it with meandering songs that go nowhere for too long. Overall this just feels like a more boring version of Endtroducing or Oedipus Schmoedipus. Low 3.

Fine but I’m not sure about essential.

This is a good album with some bangers and it wasn't a surprise to see David Holmes moving into soundtrack work afterwards. I was, however, surprised to see it in the 1001.