Let's Get Killed

Non-essential listening. Empty beats and pandering tracks. Would not recommend. 2/10

Another one I struggled through rather than enjoyed

609/1089 - Rave music for people who use ambien instead of ecstasy.

Usually dislike electronic music: repetitive aesthetically and expressively narrow so I wasn’t excited by today’s draw. The lounge-y soundtrack-y sound felt a bit gimmicky at first. It felt like a Bond movie sound track, so I chuckled a bit when that 007 theme reworking came up. Of course. But, honestly, I was enjoying it by that point. The beats are genuinely interesting, it’s not repetitive like I tend to expect from all the big beat stuff that I’ve already been served up from the list. It’s still party music, but a chill vibe not so desperate to hype up a crowd of high af dancers. Not on my list, but yeah I liked it.

Strangely enough I'm enjoying it!! Better than all of those flat toned dreary albums in the list!

Really dull. Did my work to it tho so can't complain too much. Friggin James Bond tho?

Solid electronic album. Don’t know what else to say. I like the transition between the first two tracks though

Eh

Nao consigo captar muito essa estética de trip-hop.. uma mistureba de sons experimentais, alguns até legais, mas no final acaba sendo algo muito genérico. As vezes trilha sonora de filme, as vezes música de comercial. Gênero extremamente nichado. Não é pra mim.

Pretty interesting

It had moments, especially the james bond one, but there are more interesting electronic projects on this

Talking about NYC to ambient beats. Weak.

Perfectly fine, filler-for-the-ears work music. Doesn’t remotely belong on this list.

This is a nice change. Not what I expected but it’s mid tempo electronic music with properly inserted samples. Not chaotic like the Prodigy, not sell out like Moby. Not dancey like Daft Punk. Just somewhere in between them all. I look forward to the next song while still not hearing one to knock my socks off.

makes so much sense that this guy does soundtracks now i can hear it in this

Not a fan. All over the place and background dialogue had no purpose and was annoying.

Fine

Es ist einfach nicht wirklich interessant

A classic of the genre.

Yeah... right. sure. it's funky and enjoyable electronic psychedelic sort of vibes. that's it

One thousand albums is simultaneously a lot of albums, and not very many. It is a vanishingly small amount of the recorded music over our history, and simultaneously a tremendous feat for a limited group of people to come up with. There are times where Robert Dimery rises to the occasion and gives us something that, without a doubt, is among the greatest things ever recorded. Other times, it is just a middling release that got some airtime in the UK, and Dimery or someone else personally thought something of it. If we extend the size of the list by an order of magnitude, or two, this might be somewhere at the bottom; it is not an affront to music itself. But I cannot see how Let's Get Killed satisfies any of the metrics to be among the top thousand most important recorded works of music. I wish there was something bad about this album I could dig into because it is supremely unsatisfying to talk about negatives, but Let's Get Killed is characterized by an all-encompassing lack. There is no heritage, no future, no ingenuity, no sonic gravity. It just is, like a fallen leaf beneath one's foot on a sidewalk. A crunch and it is forgotten.

First half's fine. The second half slaps

Bloody awful. Couldn't finish it

this was so effng sick. even if I got bored it still sounded good. this was awesome

I liked the original songs that were sampled more than the beats that Holmes produced.

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The important part of songs on a beat tape is knowing when to end them and David Holmes is content with every song staying far past its welcome. A beat has to do a lot more than just repeat endlessly to grab my attention when it’s an hour long of this mess. 10 beat tapes that are better and more list-worthy than this one: J Dilla - Donuts Kenny Beats - Leonard Knxwledge - Hud Dreems The Alchemist - The Food Villain Madlib - Sound Ancestors DJ Shadow - Endtroducing... 9th Wonder - Tutankhamen Jaylib - Champion Sound Conductor Williams - Listen To Your Body. Talk To Plants. Ignore People. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma

If you say so. I don't really mind this and caught a few vibes but can't fathom ever wanting to sit down and throw it on. It's background music and was very inoffensive and unobtrusive during my work day today. Would go well with the green-tinted urban vampire 90s movie that me and Tipton were gonna make after we listened to Tricky.

(2/7) wasn't in the mood for this

C’est pas mauvais en soit, juste du beat golri mais les sons se ressemblent beaucoup… y’a quand même des sons intéressants et même si c’est peut-être bizarre pour faire bizarre je respecte le hustle

I’m not sure why this is on the list.

I enjoyed this much more than anticipated.

I was really hesitant listening to this at first. I don't think I was in the right headspace to listen to all of this. and this guy did do the Ocean's 11 soundtrack. because that's what played right after it. I was really vibing to the latter half of the albumn. I was going ot give it a 2 at first. but this bumped up to a 3 for me. Don't die just yet had some cool instrumentation that I liked.

The album felt like watching one of those movies that gets rave reviews, but you have no idea what’s going on. 3.1

Chill vibes were had. Made me want to watch Oceans Eleven. But it overstayed its welcome. I was done with it after a few tracks. I also genuinely think the back half was more boring than the first half, which is too bad. 5/10 Decent

Some pretty good songs, and some pretty bad songs.

This did nothing for me

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.

As background beats to work to, this was actually pretty good. Just super repetitive and mostly boring. Nowhere near deserving of being on this list

Not sure about this one. On one hand, it wasn't necessarily bad, but it was pretty boring and went on too long. Didn't really love any of it and don't need to revisit

No standouts

New discovery for me, love the 90s vibe

It was all right I suppose. Not sure if I'd consider it essential.

Eh

This reminds me of 1990s movie soundtrack music. Not really a fan except perhaps to listen when I need repetitive music to lock in to focus and get some work projects done.(2)

An interesting assemblage of sounds - in theory. Glad that we already had Serge Gainsbourg since Don't Die Just Yet was my favorite song.

Not a big fan of the "let's use some audio cut from a movie"... if you don't know the movie, it's hard to know the context and I didn't really enjoy the cuts. The music around it wasn't engaging.

Relentlessly boring. Would maybe be cool as a soundtrack to a video game, but as a listening experience it is dull as hell. I really haven’t been impressed by the UK/ Euro techno that this list has been forcing on to me.

Another tolerable electronic album. Enjoyed the premise. Fine background music for work.

Favorite Track: Radio 7

I listened through it and it was... fine. Maybe the percussion was interesting at times. But the whole thing felt like it was a soundtrack for a movie which does not exist. I don't think you're supposed to do that. "Yes, this would sound good in a movie." At one point I was pleasantly surprised by a song and it turned out to be Spotify's "keep listening" feature after listening to the whole album, so not even from the same artist...

It's doing the whole "soundtrack for a movie that doesn't exist" thing, then throws in the Bond theme to remind you that you could be listening to a better soundtrack for a movie that has been made.

On paper I should like this. Trip hop, D'n'B, breakbeat, check. Samples of Bob James and Serge Gainsbourg, check. Artist has a film score background, neat. But I didn't. Let's Get Killed was the only track I really liked. Don't Die Just Yet was ok. The rest you can keep. The sound bites of random people talking was very tedious.

Wouldn't get into my top 10,001 albums to listen to before you die. Spare bedroom sampling.

Album #286 David Holmes: Let’s Get Killed If I get one more boring, long, shitty, 90s electronic/trip-hop/down-tempo/idm/whatever the fuck album from this list, I might just take this album’s advice. Best Song: Rodney Yates Worst Song: Freaknik Score out of 10: 3

A whole lotta meh here. Nothing really catches my attention at all, though I did find myself straining to hear the story dialogue on some of the tracks, so I guess there's that.

I understand the criticism of other reviewers. True, it sounds like movie soundtrack without a movie, it's too long, even the (in principle) interesting real-life recordings of late 80s NYC become rather tedious towards the end. I wouldn't throw it all away though: some tunes and ideas are pretty cool and still sound great 30 years later.

I really enjoyed this album. Great beats and sounds. I wasn't the biggest fan of all the recorded conversations from NYC citizens. I found it distracting. I think it meets the concept of the album really well but it wasn't my cup of tea. I'd give this album a solid 3.5 stars.

Interesting Breakcore elements here and there, but not catchy enough to make my head bump

Rodney Yates is the only track I thoroughly enjoyed. Mostly I schlepped through the rest of the album (Okay, "Don't Die Just Yet" woke me up...great groove that.) 2 "great songs don't an album make" stars.

Let's stay alive and jam out to Holmes.

Unnecessary. Stilly at times.

A trippy, trancy album of background chill, ruined in places by the pointless inter-track clips of incomprehensible city chatter. The Bond-theme-inspired track was particularly dreadful — mainly because the whole 007 thing had already been done to death — but the rest worked reasonably well as general background music. I can’t imagine this was genuinely pioneering for the genre, which does make me wonder why it’s here. Overall, it’s OK if you skip the skits.

The second part is better than the first but the commentary is annoying throughout.

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This all kind of blended together, though it was a vaguely pleasant sound throughout. 6/10 for me.

This was fine. Nothing really stood out and it all sort of sounded the same after a while. But decent

In theory, this has all the elements of an album i should like, but it never coalesced for me. It feels a bit like Endtroducing, which is one of my favorites, but it's lacking something. I thought the James Bond sample was awesome, but the album never approaches anything like that again. It's not bad, but it was a letdown.

Well that was truly awful in everyway possible. Just keep playing the same few notes over and over as you build to an anti climax Amazed I stuck the hour

Literally have no recollection of this album which says it all

Big fan of David Holmes - the Ocean's soundtracks and Out of Sight are really excellent. Really enjoyed this - would love to get a few tracks without the voiceover/NYC talking bits, but I know that's just part of the "charm" of the album.

Lame and boring. 👎👎 This list is getting tiresome- could be distilled down to 100 - and 99 of those I’d already would have listened to before starting this dumb ass list.

A couple ok tracks. Mostly boring.

Not the strongest offering of breakbeats/electronica from this list, but still pretty good stuff overall. Made for a solid album to zone in on whilst driving across the interstate

Hmm. Many tracks are not just repetitive but lack any development, so not good to listen to, or to dance to. But I didn’t mind the title track, which has mildly pleasant variety in its DnB-type rhythms. On the other hand, this album gets a big penalty for drawing on Histoire de Melody Nelson (and not in a critique way), that is a very bad album to reflect. (I also note some poor tossers give credit to Holmes for the lifted orchestration, could be considered cheating.). Also, what’s with calling an instrumental track Rodney Yates, I think that’s pathetic coat-tailing on the real case of Yates Rodney. So it’s Really Poor, 2/10.

The tracks that are songs and not sketches are pretty good, if mostly as background-type music. The talking adds nothing of interest.

It's good

Very interesting. Loved how he used everyday sounds from NY, and how the album was centered around it. Like the soundtrack for the peoples life's of 90's NY.

Well… since I have no idea I guess the usual questions are in order: Is it British ✔️ Does it belong on the list 〰️ very hard to say. I think I was glad I heard this 🤷‍♀️ My feelings 🤷‍♀️ I dig the beats, actually. But the samples? And the NY thing? Yeah, no. And I’m not sure this is strong enough to carry its own weight. Maybe it’s a 2. But… I do like the beats. 3 Boolean: 🤷‍♀️

Nice stuff. David Holmes passed me by a bit but the filmic, the drum and bass, the dubby all ticks my boxes

Quite pleasant as far as electronica goes. Nothing really grabbed me, but nothing repulsed me, either. 2.5 stars, rounding down per my policy.

Welp, that was annoyingly boring.

Favourite Songs: Gritty Shaker Rodney Yates

Nothing much to say. Sounded good, nice background music, but nothing stood out. It’s music I enjoy having on but never pay close attention to

I’m not a big fan of electronic music so that didn’t help. These songs were also all twice as long as they needed to be. I often started a song believing that it sounded interesting but then it would just drag on forever…

James Murphy's archnemesis!

“Many of the tracks featured Brazilians dancing in the streets of New York City, recorded by Holmes using a minidisc recorder.” — sick

It's not terrible, but I'm not a big expert on this kind of music. It is quite nice at times, and it definitely sounds ok for a soundtrack or as some backgroun music. However, I'm not very excited. For instance, I like the sound of "Gritty Shaker"..The problem is that the song lasts almost 7 minutes while being very repetitive. So, I guess this is ok for a dance session. However, it works less when trying to listen to the whole album in its entirety. In any case, some songs I found pretty interesting: "Let's Get Killed", "My Mate Paul" (probably my favourite; although, again, too long for my taste), or "Slashers Revenge". It's between 2 and 3 stars for me. In order to decide, I wanted to listen what he had to do with the James Bond theme (in "Radio 7"), and with the Serge Gaingsbourg's themes (in "Don't Die Just Yet"). Radio 7 is ok after about 4 min, but I was expecting something more. As for "Don't Die Just Yet", it's ok but, again, not terribly interesting. So, overall, it is pretty average. Two stars for me.

UTTERLY DISPOSABLE

3/10 Best songs: Don't Die Just Yet Every song follows a very specific formula: first a quote or conversation about some random topic such as hip-hop, New York City, or fighting. Next a sample from some random song (such as the James Bond theme). Next layer on a few beats and continue this for what feels like forever but is actually only 5 minutes or so. Rinse, wash, repeat. I get the point of this album - it's an early example of sampling done in a more "modern" way, combined with triphop/electronica - but it's boring and repetitive as hell. It just doesn't hold up.

David Holmes' second album, "Let's Get Killed", proves to be a largely dull effort punctuated by a few bright spots. A special mention should go to the ill-advised take on the James Bond theme that drains the original of all its inherent tension, dynamics and thrills. Two stars. 1 "Listen" (2/5) 2 "My Mate Paul" (2/5) 3 "Let's Get Killed" (2/5) 4 "Gritty Shaker" (3/5) 5 "Head Rush on Lafayette" (2/5) 6 "Rodney Yates" (2/5) 7 "Radio 7" (1/5) 8 "The Parcus & Madder Show" (1/5) 9 "Slashers Revenge" (2/5) 10 "Freaknik" (2/5) 11 "Caddell Returns" (1/5) 12 "Don't Die Just Yet" (3/5) 13 "For You" (2/5) Total - 25 Average - 1.9 423/1001 223/423 albums reviewed were new to me.

Actually pretty fun

It was done well but it's not very interesting. I don't dislike movie soundtracks by default, however, I don't listen to the either.

This album was ok. The beats were not over the top, but not all the memorable either.

The spoken words and street noises push this album down a star.

Really cool record with some great electronic sequencing. Reminds me of Amon Tobin in parts with the dark, upbeat drums in parts. I like the mysterious vibes this one gives. Solid record.

Boring

Nope.

The beats were great. The random new york background sounds didn't add or subtract anything to me, I wanted to get back to the music.