Let's Get Killed

Go ahead Dave,I'll catch up later

Oh look! It's another British DJ. Another. After another. How many is there on this list? It's just some electronic music. 1.5/5.

It has a few moments that aren't too bad but ultimately I found myself hating this.

Why is this on the list? Why should it be anywhere? "Let's Get Killed"? Sure, David, I would rather go ahead and try to do that before I listen to some of your music ever again.

What an absolutely brutal stretch we've been on. I couldn’t even finish this.

its not even music, its pure garbage

Absolute trash. 1/5

Not sure about this one.

Nah. Trying way to hard to be edgy. Shit is repetitive and boring.

Nope.

More like Let's Get Bored.

Paused listening!!! I'm starting Back today!!!!

Biitti soi. Välissä pölistään jotain.

No Thanks

Sounds like the interstitials that play between ads on Tubi. Somehow the use of “on the street” recordings of black folks in NYC by this little British white boy feels exploitative to me. Absolutely no reason to be here.

"Let's Get Killed" is remarkably self-indulgent

Very basic

Horrible

Not for me. Don't see the point.

Boring

Like a bad score from a crappy video game circa 2002.

No music, just noise

Knob twiddling - not my thing

"Cause, if you can't dance, can't release - This energy!" If by this energy you mean soulless, bland, boring noise, yeah you right then. I would love to hear someone attempt to justfiy this albums placement in a list of 1001 albums you MUST hear before you die. If you like this, that's dope. But how can it be on this list? Fav songs: - Don't Die Just Yet

Painfully stupid

Oh, great, more electronica. The title of this album is apt because my first thought was, fucking kill me. "Gritty Shaker" sounds like it should be a Tracy Morgan sketch. Did the dude spitting bars on "Head Rush on Lafayette" get paid for it? Cause David Holmes being credited as the "lyricist" on all these tracks for recording random people is ridiculous. The Bond song remix, Radio 7, started out with some promise, and then around 2:30 they had to ruin it with obnoxious feedback sounds. It also didn't need to be almost 6 minutes long. Don't Die Just Yet was actually kind of cool. It was an actual song. I couldn't really pay attention to the rest. Boring. 1/5

really did not like.

I have no idea what this is. It's boring and pointless.

This was fine. Inoffensive. If you’d told me it was the soundtrack to a B+ early Noughties thriller, I’d have believed you. It passed the time while I did a bit of work admin. Gritty Shaker, Rodney Yates and Don’t Die Just Yet, mainly because they draw on music I like for influences, 70s soul, funk and lounge music. This feels like his version of the weird deep cuts he curated on Come Get It… but watered down. It occasionally wanders into bland or shamelessly derivative territory, but Radio 7 gave me proximity mines in the complex nostalgia, so I largely forgave it. Reading about it, though well received at the time, it didn’t top any polls in dance music magazines, I don’t feel like it’s grown in stature, so why is it here? An odd choice, but not one that annoyed me.

I remember some of these being big hits at the time. On the whole it doesn't sound very groundbreaking or unique compared to other similar artists at the time like Fatboy Slim, Moby, Basement Jaxx, etc.

Someone might light monotonous techno music. It’s not me.

It’s fine, I guess. It was very much background music and I have a difficult time rationalizing how this is on a list of essential recordings.

Very chill and quite nice

RØVkedeligt og monotont! En af de værste vi har haft. Extremt uessentielt at have den på listen

Nah.

Got through 3 songs & quit.

Yea, I'm never going to excited see an Electronica album. I listened through but couldn't make it through a follow up listen . Just not for me. Thought was OK at times, but that's just because it's better than sitting in silence. 1.5

Very far background for me.... guess I need more musical value these days. I got very bored in no time. Could've been at any mall for all I could tell. Speak to me, David.... or at least sing a little.....

Some what of a fitting title, as 20 mins into it, I was wishing someone would kill me. I don't think it's the worst thing I've listened to on this list, but it's top 5. Electronic waffle, which has the same beat playing for 8 mins. It's really terrible, and I turned it off after 30 mins as that was all I could endure

Woah, two one stars in a row. This is so boring I forgot about once in the morning when I turned it off and forgot it was on and once when I had to finish it in the afternoon and forgot I had it until I went on Spotify to do something else. Also, as other reviews have said, it’s really bad how the guy is Irish but there’s a ton of New Yorkers talking about his street cred. Also, the guy screaming about not being able to release his energy before a song that you wouldn’t be able to release energy to even if you were dancing because of how slow it was was just kind of pitiful.

Terrible and boring

How the hell did this album make it on this list? Sounds like a soundtrack to a shitty 90s action movie. Really hard to get through and mostly boring.

what was the point of that? overlong rambling vocals followed by looped samples. Actively annoyed me.

A little bit long winded, not so much exiting, could be anyone.

I guess this type of electronic music is more prominent than I thought, but I still don't get the appeal. It's so repetitive and all I could do is just zone out

Techno just is not my thing.

I can't get behind these electronica albums

No thanks. I don't want to listen to this. I read the reviews before calling it quits... based on that I skipped ahead to Freaknik (seems to be a love/hate track). I found that I was relieved to finally hear a person in what otherwise feels like a desert of monotonous machine beeps, but otherwise it continues with monotony and so I called it quits.

excruciating

Mundane, unimaginative, boring, repetitive beats. Nothing redeeming whatsoever.

While this is technically an album, and the contents of this album can technically be categorized as music, it is certainly not the type of music one listens to, much less needs to listen to. At best it's the type of music that plays in the background of a shitty racing game. Bland, boring, generic beats interspersed with pointless conversation samples. Having this on the list is a massive insult to all the great music that was left off.

David you're not Godspeed You Black Emperor, no one cares about your shitty street interviews

What an utter pile of faff and tosh. Be better Dave, this bored the bleeding pants off me.

Ik snap dat dit hoogstens goede muziek kan zijn om je op te concentreren, maar dat kun je ook met rechtenvrije loungemuziek, of zelfs AI-generated shit. Wat dit dan op een lijst als deze doet is mij een raadsel. Het heeft niks, echt niks. Normaal geef ik alleen 1 sterren aan onluisterbare dingen en dat is dit niet, maar bij gebrek aan andere selling points krijgt dit gewoon een 1.

Ik apprecieer de vibe, maar de meeste liedjes komen minder goed binnen Gritty shaker wel Hiphop influences wel leuk Het James bond nummer is cringe Sleept toch wel te lang aan, dit ga ik niet meer het beluisteren 1 ster

Title is apt because I am dead (of boredom)

Just a bunch of noise with long songs.

Vaag

This is a pretty dull album in my opinion. Only track that I kind of liked was Don't Die Just Yet.

Did not like

My idea of hell. Repetitive sounds made by machines with little artistic merit. Anyone with a synth/sampler and drum machine could do this. Four bar repeats with nothing, but nothing happening. Make this stop

Meh

Nope! I thought I’d gotten the end of shitty electronic music purgatory with this project but apparently not. This sucks and I hate it.

Cuando escuché el segundo tema pensé que me iba a gustar. No es lo mío.

So fucking boring

1 whatever

Not sure what I listened to here, reminded me of the music behind the bits in heist films where they explain how they'll nick the stuff, or the music on the home screen when you first turn on a hotel telly. Basically music designed to be in the background and make the atmosphere vaguely positive. Which is fine but not really essential listening. The bond theme thing was also pointless. Not for me.

Barely listenable. It sounds incredibly amateur and scattered. Too many ideas, and very poor execution. A real trial to listen to, I have to admit I listened to the first minute or so of each song before giving my opinion. Dismal.

I did not like this album, felt quite monotonous and just doesn't go anywhere interesting. I particularly disliked Let's Get Killed that goes on forever with some stupid talking about beating some guy up. However Freaknik tops this with some guy shouting about releasing energy and then the worst electronic music ever follows it. "Radio 7" sampling the James Bond theme starts well but he doesn't do anything remotely compelling with it. Giving this 1 star feels to generous.

By the time I gave up on this album just over halfway through I wished I was, in fact, killed. I couldnt even make it through the title track and only survived past the weird James Bond cover because of the sorta okay Rodney yates song. This is the kind of electronica I despise.

If boredom could kill

Oh good another boring electronica album. Why does this list have so much electronica in it?

This is the worst album on this list. 1 star for the excellent use of bad language at the start of every track.

Even by monotonous DJ standards this is bad. Most of the time I understand why people would listen to it and that its just not my genre. But this was another level of boring. The songs have no escalation or build. They don't change at all. It's literally a 30 second song then play it on loop for 5-7 minutes. If that 30 second loop is a bop then maybe you can pull it off but David was unable to do that

Listened to this about 3 hours ago, already forgot almost everything. Just a completely forgettable and boring album.

Repetitive trash Electronica

Nope. Sorry. I just can't get my work week started with this.

1/5

Det är inte riktigt den koppen av te jag njuter mest av. Direkt när jag slår igång och albumets 40 sekunders långa introspår glider över till den första låten reagerar jag på två saker: 1. En magkänsla av att det kommer vara ett svårtuggat album. 2. Det känns som om jag hört detta förut? Jag tror nämligen att jag gjort ett försök på Let's Get Killed tidigare men att jag avslutat innan jag hade tagit mig över mållinjen. Det låter heller inte helt osannolikt med tanke på att samma känsla kom över mig i slutet av tredje låten denna gång. Det kommer nog ta några etapper för mig att komma igenom detta.... Jag tog mig vidare. Denna session av albumet var inte alls så ansträngande som den första, det ska sägas. Men det var fortfarande mer en känsla av att jag inte störde mig på det, än att jag gick igång på det. Vilket måste anses som ett relativt svagt betyg och det kommer förmodligen inte lyssnas särskilt intensivt på David Holmes i framtiden. Bäst: Andra sittningen av lyssning.

I feel nothing 1/5

I had absolutely 0 investment in this very 90's electronica record. 'Radio 7' piqued my interest, but that's probably only because I adore the James Bond theme. I don't know, I guess I like my electronica either more melodically or danceable than this. Maybe it works better as a soundtrack - I enjoyed Holmes' work on the 'Hunger' film.

There’s electronica that’s for me. Then there’s electronica I don’t care for. And then there’s this. Am I simply not fashionable enough to understand this? I almost skipped “My Mate Paul” when I checked the playtime for the third time and realized I still had 2 minutes 30 to go. As background music at a trendy NYC club this would probably be fire. But at home this gets really tedious, really fast. Put it in a movie and count me in.

I did like this one better than the Fatboy Slim record. The best track is the James Bond remix. That song works because (a) it adds drums to James Bond, and drums almost always make things without them better (b) anyone who knows the song already knows what it's building up to, so there's the pleasure of anticipation. Mr. Holmes just deserves very little of the credit for that track relative to the composer of the Bond theme.

Too long and boring.

No edm

Terrible

Muito chato.

This was decidedly not for me. Entirely too long and nothing really impressed me

I listened to this while on a walk and it actually worked well for that with the steady and repetitive rhythms. But nothing about this stood out to me nor impressed me.

90's house music... ugh

usch vilket mög

elendigt

könnte irgendwie soundtrack für an 90er jahre Sci-Fi Film sein - einen billigen. Is wurscht.

No

bad

Nope nope nope.

A fine Trip Hop album.