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LOVE this. Excellent ambiance.
❤️ jungle Hope more junglists made this list.
Upon looking this up to listen to I saw the picture of Goldie and almost thought this was a side project of the singer from Letlive. until I saw the date, lol. This was not for me. I skimmed through some of the songs but didn't want to listen to anything in full.
Vet ikke hvorfor jeg følte jeg var med i et bilspill hele tiden?
I would enjoy this one in a fancy rooftop cocktail bar on a Saturday evening.
A phenomenal, legendary first track, the rest is sadly slightly weaker and even sluggish at times. Very atmospheric and creative, but it's obviously way too much to absorb in a single sitting, I'd recommend listening to this album in a couple of segments. The nature of the challenge is a bit unfair to the genre, it really isn't designed to be listened in such a linear fashion. Overall, an album that very much deserves its title, considering its importance in Drum N Bass history. Favourite track: Timeless
Drum n bases panic attack in musical form!
Three is a positive review at 60%. I would’ve listened to this all day long 10 years ago when I was in college, but those days might be behind me. I can still appreciate DnB, but don’t know that I needed two hours of it.
Pretty good drum and bass electronica.
Awful, each song is far too long and far too dull and the whole thing comes to almost two hours. Drum and bass all sounds the same, if this is a pioneering work in the genre perhaps the drug addled minds who heard this went forth and made more of it. The artwork matches the music perfectly, once futuristic seeming, now terribly dated. 1/5, really 1.5/5 but I have to balance out all those who vaguely remember this as the sound of their presumably narcotic soaked youth. Usually getting to the end of something difficult and long leaves me with a sense of achievement, like after finishing a marathon etc. but I just feel empty after this. Tomorrow has to be better than this.
Unbelievably boring.
Nope
1 extra star because I normally can't tell where 1 song ends and another begins with these so I appreciated that the first song was 20 minutes. However, 2 hours of this is pure rubbish. Minus 1 star for that.
It’s cool, but not something I’ll dial up on purpose. Some of the best stuff I’ve heard from this genre. Still a 3.
Tuneless.
I got this album sandwiched between the Dolly Parton record the day she passed, Rumours, Let it Bleed, and the White Album. Kind of hard to even be partial or fair due to that. Didn’t like.
OK; so it is somehow historically important on the context of drum and base. But still insufferable, unless perhaps if you're high. 2/10
Drum and Bass? It definitely helped me lock in for some work. Very cool beats, atmospheric, well put together. I don't know much about the samples or the history of drum and bass, but some of these songs were very well arranged, with a lot of width and some nice bass hits. I think it's worth a checking out if you've never heard drum and bass before. Probably somewhere around a 3.5-4 stars. Will round up.
Congrats, you made one beat.
I like EDM even and this was bad, man.
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Was annoyed at 1st, but eventually got in the groove.
This album is probably good eating if you're into house/electronica stuff. For everyone else, this album is a slog. That seems to be a common theme with these DJs, brevity is not in their catalog and the albums suffer for it. The length of this album makes it so unapproachable. You also know exactly what it's gonna sound like before you even turn it on. It's just not good enough or engaging enough. It's not for me in any way, shape, or form. It took me several days to get through this beast. It's for sure one of the 1/5s of all time.
More electronica..
I mighty have enjoyed this if the album was only the first track.
Definitely sounds like the 90’s but man oh man was that horrible.
Overindulgent Jungle DnB album. Jungle should never have been made into a symphony vehicle, it should have stayed club music. When you stretch it out too long, it loses it's purpose and ventures into noodling. Tighter music and album decisions would have made this wonderful, but by the end you're just so tired of it you want it to be over. The only saving grace was the two remixes at the end, which showed how good it COULD have been. My Rating: 2/5
Que mal viaje. ni en mi momento más oscuro del tecnoatrapé me gustó el drum&bass y con esto confirmo por qué…y además dura 2 horas!
This album feels like you had to experience it in real time to appreciate it. Computerized drum beats, while novel at the time, feel cheap now. It got that hypnotic vibe but if you play a 5+ minute long drum beat with female vocal, I think it's just a matter of construction. The weird ocean song was different. It wasn't bad but not something I will revisit. 2 out of 5.
"Timeless" is the second DnB album on the list that lasts an eternity. There's a track that lasts 21 minutes; good thing it's one of the best ones. When I reached the 1-hour mark, I felt "Timeless" had gone on for too long. At the end of "Timeless", I was rewarded with a pair of remixes of "Inner City Life" that contributed nothing to the album at all. There's a single CD version for those who want it to be over with quickly. 3 stars for "Timeless".
Ambient gym noise.
Actually, this is the kind of music I really like. I don't have a problem with repetition or the length of the songs. Here, though, the drum machines quickly started to get on my nerves. At some point, I couldn't stand the singer's voice anymore either. I was glad when I could switch back to other music. 2/5
Lightly fun and pleasant. ★★★
1995 Electronica, UK rave Los inicios de las canciones ofrecen algo interesante pero pasa a ser música repetitiva de rave en 20 sec.
Not quite sure if I'd call it "timeless", but I quite enjoyed it. Long as fuck though.
1,7/5
I’m seeing Goldie in two days time but god damn will I not be relistening to this I’m sorry but it’s the longest album on this generator so far please just let me listen to other albums my whole backlog is because of you Goldie you had better blow my mind come Saturday.
into it
Very much need to be in the mood for this and I am simply not😬 // That said, I listened the next day and it was surprisingly effective work music, just have zero interest in ever listening again
Is it bad? Not necessarily. Definitely not my usual thing, but it was fine background music while I was working. Don't think I would enjoy it as much if I was paying more attention. The length especially would have been on my nerves. 2.5/5
these songs are cool.. but very long.. and cool in the way that i don't actually like them but i can understand that they are cool
It’s fine, whatever
"It's that apartment over there." The shabbily dressed building manager points to a door emblazoned with "1A" before handing the keys over to a young officer. The police had received a mysterious call describing a smell coming from the apartment about 15 minutes prior. The call ended with a maniacal laugh and what sounded like the drop of a payphone. The use of a voice modulator and the sinister tinge of the call told the veteran cop everything he needed to know. This wasn't going to be a fun night. Once the door was cracked, the mosaic of violence unfurled in a sickening swell to the unfortunate souls paid to bear witness to such atrocity. A fresh-faced private wretched involuntarily and turned his head from the gore. The detective held a rag over his nose and mouth, eyes watering, but mind dimmed to the horrors before him. Years in this job turns the depths of depravity into another day at the office, but even he was struggling to maintain his composure at the sight of the decimated body splayed before him. The corpse was once a pudgy young man. What was left of his face appeared to be rosy-cheeked and eagerly smiling. His expression frozen, gazing towards his skipping record player. Upon his bloodsoaked head, a playful, yet tasteful propeller hat. He wore a tattered shirt with a phrase. Through the tearing and plasma stains it read "GEE WHIZ I CAN'T WAIT TO LEARN ABOUT MUSIC." In his one remaining hand, he was gripping an oversized lollipop. "He was so ready to learn about music" choked one of the uniform police. He was clearly devastated by this scene and thought back to a time where he almost read "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die." It was open and shut. This had all the hallmarks of the 1001. Goldie skipping on the turntable, the mangled music enjoyer, the abject horror of the scene. The detective raised up on his knee, grunting with years of detective work clearly paining his face. "I've seen so many come to an end at Goldie. Why does this guy love drum and bass so much?? It's done more harm than good." "TWO HOURS? DAMMIT." The detective punted a novelty mug featuring a picture of cartoon cat Garfield drawn more rotund than usual. "The author did this. As sure as I am that you don't need 5 Bruce Springsteen albums in the most influential 1001 ever, that son of a bitch did this." The uniforms were clearly confused by this train of thought. "Well if we know who the guy is, why haven't we stopped him?" The detective chuckled, which against the backdrop of the horror around them, seemed almost cruel, "there's no law against recommending horrible music." They all shuddered and gazed inward to absorb what their jaded mentor just said. "I bet this poor cherubic son of a bitch was blown to smithereens halfway through "Sea of Tears." "I don't even want to know what that is" shuddered the rookie. The captain shook his head and snuffed out the cigarette he absent-mindedly lit a few minutes earlier. "One day our laws will catch up, and this shit will be back behind garage doors in Walsall. "Amen cap. whatever the fuck that means." "I guess this really is one of the albums you hear... before you die." YEEEEEEAAAHHH - a billion HIGHLIGHTS: Boots & Cats (The boots are made out of still screaming cats)
Loved it 60s/70s vibes but from 2001 (pre 9-11) you could tell there was no pain in their heart from the way they were tapping and strumming along. they didn't know the pain of terrorism or of financial crises.
not bad, just not my thing. felt like it ran long
fucked really hard with this one. i love drum n bass.
I try to be objective when things aren't my cup of tea, but this was endured rather than enjoyed, and I'm now too exhausted to wax lyrical about whether it's a fine example of the genre, was ground-breaking, etc. There were some nice swooshy and orchestral moments; jazzy ones too. I like a dance. But I'd have to be absolutely trollied to be tempted to move around to this, and even then, I think it would make me enter the drunk-crying stage really fast. Actually I did quite like State of Mind and Inner City Life, but found most of the other slower tracks to be a bit meandering. Not enough moments that grabbed me, or connected musically to me at all, tbh, to earn more than two stars.
I actually like this. But it’s too long. It starts to grate. But as two albums it would be a 4. 3 Boolean: True
This what happens when you give your kid a drum machine for Christmas, along with a bag of cocaine.
Hadn't heard that before, and it's great, thanks!
I like a bit of drum & bass but a 2 hour assault on the ears was a bit much for me.
Too much
tålmodig som dalai lama at komme igennem den og mere godhjertet end jesus at give den mere end 1 på trods af længden
Sniger sig næsten op på en 3er fordi jeg synes det startede rigtig cool men GUD hvor er den lang
Feels like an 8-year-olds take on Aphex Twins Selected Ambient Works... Not sure if I have to mention it, but it was faaaaaar too long. Was already bored halfway through.
I just don't get it... but it worked well for background noise while I read my book!
Una catedral insuperable del drum and bass y la música electrónica que ha envejecido bien como un manifiesto de arquitectura sónica futurista. En el plano de diseño formal, la impecable ingeniería de micro-edición construye un buen entretejido que da claridad a la masa rítmica, permitiendo que la velocidad de los breakbeats a más de 160 BPM conviva en armonía con capas sintéticas etéreas y líneas de bajo abismales. La integración vocal de Diane Charlemagne y la visión de Goldie dotan a la máquina de una fuerza y calidez que transmiten autenticidad pura, otorgando al trabajo una autoridad superior dentro del género. Pasajes monumentales como la suite de 21 minutos "Timeless" (Inner City Life) y la tensión de "Angel" —que evocan por momentos la complejidad sónica de Aphex Twin— configuran un testimonio conmovedor, crudo y real que funciona como un sutil llamado a la conciencia sobre la prisa, la alienación y la búsqueda de redención en la urbe contemporánea. Un trabajo de cadencia envolvente cuya constante sensación de paz y fluidez lo vuelve extraordinariamente versátil para múltiples usos, siendo un motor excepcional para el ejercicio, la conducción o potenciar el trabajo creativo.
Hmmm, drum & bass. Fine. Long album though. A few bits that make your ears perk up. I can see why this caught on.
Favorite track(s): Timeless, State of Mind, Sea of Tears, A Sense of Rage (Sensual V.I.P. Mix)
A bit samey at times but quite enjoyable all the same - 3 stars
think this is shit that im supposed to put on to help me sleep
1 for my taste but 2 cuz it's not awfully performed or anything.
2 hours D&B uff. Dunno, it is not terrible, just repetitive and kinda stale. I could draw some resemblance to Massive Attack, but I dont know if I want to. Defo not in the same league or close for that matter. I dont think it is unlistenable, so it gets 2 stars.
"Timeless" as in the artist lost track of time and put out a two hour drum'n'bass album? Absolutely "Timeless" as in this album doesn't sound dated at all? Nah, not so much It's fine, but it doesn't tickle my fancy 2.0
way too long and not interesting
G honnetement pas écouté en entier ct méga long mais a réécouter / finir parce que ca avait l'air bien quand même. c'est plutot le genre de musique que je mettrai en fond d'une discussion
Ali G/ Skate music
At a runtime of nearly two hours and with very little deviance or new ideas to be found, this album is an endurance test in the worst way. Probably the worst possible way to introduce someone to drum and bass is with this long of a project. Time wasted.
DNF’d this. First song was cool, would have been great for doing hw. But maaaan it got old quick.
Started off well with some nice ambient tones. Thought the majority of other reviewers had got it wrong. Lesson learnt to never underestimate the power and knowledge of the 1001’ers. August 2026 not going well. Third 1 star in a row. 1/5 3/8/26
Eh. Kinda fun
I don’t know if this was the first album to really nail fluid, atmospheric drum and bass, but it’s definitely one of the defining albums of the genre. I honestly can’t remember if I’ve ever listened to it straight through from front to back, but almost every track on here feels familiar from years of being around the rave and club scene. Listening to this album took me straight back to my teenage years when in the mid 90s, when I used to hang out at underground, independent clothing stores in downtown Denver that sold DJ mixtapes, and sometimes vinyl for DJs. I remember hearing music like this playing in the background and asking the owners what style of techno it was, back when I was still learning all the different genres. Because of that, this album carries a heavy sense of nostalgia for me, and these tracks will always feel like comfort music whenever I hear them.
I thought to myself, “this has been a neat listen, I bet I’m a couple tracks away from the end” and I looked and I was on track 5. Pretty cool. Too long.
I might have given it 4 stars but it was far too long, there’s no need for 2 hours of this. It became a bore by the end.
Hypnotically boring
noooooooooooooooo. 2hrs of techno.
Listening at work: 3 Listening at the club (on drugs…hypothetically): 4 Listening at the club (sober): 2 Listening any other time: 1 Fortunately I listened at work
18 minutes for track one seemed a bit excessive. Not that it was bad mind you, but it wasn't 20 minutes long good. That's pretty much the theme of the album for me. Couple of tracks I might go back to for racing games
Not my bag baby. Very little variation between songs. Some cool stuff but struggled getting through it.
DnB, var inte så mycket jag uppskattade på den här. Funkar okej som arbetsmusik men kommer nog inte spela den igen. 2/5
8 / 10
Okay to have in the background while working on a computer.
So many haters on here man wow. It definitely is good background music at least, probably gets better the more you listen. 3/5 Top tracks: Inner City Life - Baby Boy's Edit
For a genre like DnB, the monumental founders are important to look at, but basically every subsequent musician will build on it and make something better than this.
could've had a 5 if it didn't have one completely not dnb song?? anyways it was pretty groovy, would probably listen too when high on weed
1) Saint Angel 2) See of tears 3) Still life Least Favourite: Adrift
Straight 2 hours of album. As músicas são muito boas sim, inacreditável pensar que um álbum de 2h possui apenas 15 músicas. O álbum em si é de eletrônica e bem gostosinho de ouvir, mas fica enjoativo depois de 45 minutos de música com a "mesma receita".
I get why it's on the list but not my thing at all
This was kind of strange, like spaceship music.
1/5
Goldie is a master of the soundscape here but the songs just don’t evolve enough for me. We spend way too long floating around the EXACT same idea without expansion on a lot of these tracks. He was a pioneer of the sound but ultimately it’s a symptom of the time that it ends up coming across as a little slow.
Extremely long and repetitive. Had to skip through quite a bit. Does change up the sounds but drags on and on. 2/5
Listening to this felt like time had ceased to exist. Really horrible to sit through- if it hadn't been so long I'd give it a two, but really...
I generally want to learn more about influential early electronic music, 90s and such. DnB I can bop to live for sure. As a studio album listening experience it felt a little background-musicky to me
Long but golden. 5/5
Really atmospaeric D&B with some nice female vocals
Starts out as background music and progresses to become noise. 1 star or F+.
Har ikke tid.
This is an album I thought I would love but it didn't hit the right spots for me.
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Ceaseless
These songs were moderately interesting for the first 2-3 minutes each. The problem is they went on for another 5-20 minutes.
Tooo long
It’s not so much 1001 albums I should listen to, it’s when should I listen to them? This one was just a background heartbeat from my subwoofer throughout my house while I did chores.
Мои нервы такого не выдержат. Ладно бы нормальная длительность треков была, но с таким таймингом эта музыка годится только для пыток.
"Timeless" by Goldie is the great "drum and bass" genre album. I think Goldie did justice to this album in the context of genre. I would also like to appreciate the vocal performance from the vocalists with wonderful piano sounds, and upbeat Jazzy chords that changes into ambient chorus. The album starts with great opening "Timeless" which is highlight from the album and longest song. And it has been consistent on delivering the performance. But I feel like the tracks are repetitive due to lengthiness of the tracks sometimes I feel the instrumental are same like previous songs. There are some fillers in the songs that I don't prefer "Jah the Seventh Seal", "Still Life", "Adrift" and "Kemistry". These tracks feel like forcefully included in the album to make it longer. Whole album is like about 1 hour and 50 minutes which I think is an double album. I don't think this album deserves that much album length. This make sometimes the album feel boring and feel like to listen the rest of the part in later hours. Overall good album but it feel like one time experience due to album lengthiness and repetitive tracks and instruments.
Almost two hours of the same thing. Rapid fire electric drum beats with some lady singing once in a while. Boring but they tried. This was stupid bloated.
Some really good flow state music
Retro video game background music
It says “Timeless,” but Spotify said it was almost two hours. For what seems like moderately enjoyable background music. I can’t fault the album for that, but I can fault the inclusion on this list.
Not sure what this was
Meh. Not my cup of tea.
Let’s sample d’n’b drums with some orchestral samples, add some off-key vocals and add a few beeps and boops. Like trip hop but trip stop it mate.
Endless timeless mediocrity
Whatever this albums niche may be, I’m not sure it’s one that you MUST hear before you die…
Unfortunate that others don’t really get drum n bass. Took me a while to get into when I started listening to electronic music. I’ve noticed any electronic album just has bad reviews here. This is the first full length concept album for the genre when all that was being released was club singles. Fun journey through ambient soundscapes, jazzy beats and space. Interesting to see where the genre started and what it is today.
Litt kjedelig.
1/1
It grew on me as it went on.
why does every electronica album have to be like 2 hours long?
Again, an electronic album that isn’t remarkable like others out here, but I can't hate because there might be specific times like driving at night or something where I can just shut down and listen to this. Also it kind of reminded me of the matrix so its cool
1001 and similar lists give short shrift to electronic music and then when they do include a few albums people trash them. So I really want to go against the grain, but this album definitely suffers from the same problem MOST double albums do of being really padded out. I think it’s just more noticeable because of the genre. I suspect this is also another one of those albums that is on the list due to being influential, but has long been outshined by what came after it.
Look, just because an artist titles an album “Timeless“ it doesn’t mean that it is timeless. If I recorded my cat throwing up and called it “Double Platinum Perfection“ would it too make the list? Probably. I don’t know what the point of this is. People listen to it on purpose? Crazy.
A Sense Of Rage - Sensual Vip Mix
Не для меня)
Interesting sounds! Mostly relaxing and reminds me of the pure mood albums I’ve listened to in the past Happy listening all!!
like a dvd menu for a dvd that makes you feel rather unwell
Jesus, there really is a lot of mediocre electronic music on this list, isn't there.
Makes me wanna dance
Wasn't as bad as the runtime would suggest, but it was mostly uninteresting, with most songs being stretched out way longer than need be.
until now, my only experience with goldie was in his role as gary oldman's henchman in "the fifth element". i knew of goldie, and i think he may have done some work with björk (or maybe they dated?)? both? regardless, this is astoundedly good. not at all what i expected. even the stuff that is clearly drum 'n bass doesn't sound like it. there's even a jazzy, stevie wonder-esque track that still kind of blows my mind. this album will enter my listening rotation
Like weird soundtrack tunes. 2 hours of it
No private session used. Put the drum machine on a four second loop, occasionally throw in some keyboards and whacky sounds and you get this crap. If they wouldn't have made it so repetitive they wouldn't have gotten 1hour 53 minutes out of it.
Hmm, it's all fairly coffee table really. It's called timeless but it's absolutely of its time. Nothing here to go back to really
90s techno will save us.
Yep, another album that you can just tell is going to suck from one glance at the cover.
same as all the other music like this so that's fine. i enjoyed it but nothing special to me -- not sure I can tell the different in what's innovative among all these electronic albums. Fav Tracks: State of Mind
good
Background music TM
The sound, the album cover, the time period, it's all a nearly lost aesthetic. It's a perfect Drum & Bass album and Goldie basically invented the genre as we know it today. You think of raving in the 90s and Goldie is involved in some way. 8/10, I'll definitely be revisiting.
This is interminably long. And not much of any interest happens. Lots of ridiculously fast breakbeats over relatively chill synths and singing. I actually didn’t mind the first track (which goes for more than 20mins) but by about the 1 hour mark I was bored out of my brain. Maybe I would have fared better with the single CD version but couldn’t be bothered figuring out the track listing to reproduce it.
lol, “THIS IS OUTRAAAAGEOOOUUUSSSS”. I love Jez and Superhans as much as the next guy who watched Peep Show, but their band sucked…and this sounds just like that, except without the comedy element. This just sucks. 1.5/10
Generally it was ok. Some decent music, however, there were beats that were obnoxious after a bit.
I just zoned out for a huge part of the album in the trance that is Really Cool Drum And Bass. I didn't even notie that the home internet had gone out until *Adrift* kicked me out of it, by being just so... Not Right. Sadly the album also ends on a couple stinkers - Adrift is just not DnB, and the vocals in You & Me made my skin crawl, but beyond that, its a supremely solid album to trance out to. Would I listen to Again: I'm not really sure.. The first 75% of it, perhaps. What goes on the playlist: I have no idea. I blanked out for most of it and just zones. I just finished listening to it and I couldn't tell you what any specific track was. Overall Score: 7/10 (4 stars) If it weren't for the couple tracks at the end, this would be fantastic.
I liked this, but listening to it was quite the trip. The electronic noises are fun, but occasionally off-putting. Sea of Tears, and State of Mind are two extremely beautiful tracks, I loved them both. Jah the 7th seal has a really fun effect, playing with the audio channels. The computer I was listening on crashed during one of the sci fi sounding sections, which really freaked me out too. Good fun, but I'll give my computer a break for now!
I’ve never heard this album before. I know that for 100% certain. So why does it feel so familiar…? --- I was today years old when I discovered that my first real exposure to DnB music was Ape Escape. OK, that probably requires explanation. I first encountered electronica as a genre as a teenager, trying out random stuff at the local indie CD store. Jeez, I miss that place; they had all sorts of random stuff, priced without any particular rhyme or reason. I got imported versions of multiple CDs at well below the domestic cost from that place. OK, I know why they went out of business, doing that. Anyways. I came into electronica by way of the House, Trance, and Ambient subgenres. I had encountered other genres through the Wipeout XL soundtrack, but not really enough to dig into; however, with that as a starting point, I wound up with my small CD collection including Crystal Method, The Orb, Future Sound of London, and Apollo Four Forty. Before any of that, though, I got exposed to a lot of this through video games. Wipeout, yes, but also Ape Escape, with its Jungle/DnB/House soundtrack by Soichi Terada. And… I never knew that was the genre there, until today. So, what to say about this? Well, for one, ‘Jah The Seventh Seal’ is the first music I’ve ever been made dizzy by. I know playing with stereo channels does some wild stuff, but that was something else. OK, more seriously, I enjoy this. It’s some solid 90s beats, hitting me right in the nostalgia, even though I’ve never encountered this album before, other than a vague memory of seeing the cover at the CD store. It’s the kind of music I can jam to, for sure, and I can see why this was the album to break the DnB genre into the mainstream. Going to go with a 9.5/10 on this. It just makes me happy to listen to.
Wow, loved this so much. Barely noticed that the first track was 20 minutes long. Easy 5 stars.
This is album 964 and if I’m given another shit EDM record it will be too soon.
Weird vibe, but enjoyable.
RATING: 6.5/10 HIGHLIGHT: Timeless LOWLIGHT: Kemistry
mja in het begin vond ik het wel groovy maar het album is echt wel een uur te lang om zo monotoon te blijven
nyt en ihan tästä saanut kiinni töissä kun tuli kuunneltua
Meneehän tuo työnteon taustamusiikkina, mutta ei juuri muuna.
Rajua.
Mä en oikein tämmösestä musasta saa kiinni. Junnaavaa ja tylsää kautta linjan. Ei nyt mitään ihan luokatonta kuraa silti, niin mennään kakkosella.
Turns out I don't need a handful of drugs to enjoy drum and bass. Nice.
I could not get into this long, meandering mess.
a kid banging on pans with a wooden spoon and someone straining for a poo. It was utter bilge.
Sounds of 90s video games, compiled but not arranged. It's like Wipeout and Ecco the Dolphin had a baby that survived an abortion. The drum beat is the Stock, Aiken and Waterman of this genre. Why doesn't it change?! Prrrrrrt p p p prrrrrt p p. MDMA had a lot to answer for, didn't it? This is to the 90s what LSD and Trout Mask Replica is to the 70s.
There's something about drum and bass rhythms that does it for me. If anything its just not dirty or bassy enough. Admittedly it is a very long album with long tracks, but I enjoyed it throughout.
I found it pretty boring and unenjoyable. The runtime was insane. Not for me.
This is 90's British Rave Music. That context matters. At a 90's Rave, I can see how this might be the perfect music. Always floating at roughly the same energy level to enjoy being in a crowd of people while on mind-altering substances. Although, I suspect it would actually be better mixed live by DJ who can feel and shape the energy of a crowd in the moment. Divorced from that context... it doesn't work. It's not interesting to listen to while on a run or driving to work by myself.
No standouts
Not my jam
don’t like 90s drum and bass
Landmark drum n bass, still sounds good today.
Too modern for me!
Not my genre
Someone once tried to explain Drum n Bass to me at a rave, they said I need to listen to the complex layers, and so I did... still sounds like crap. Very much a UK thing (as bad taste as the food) The only Drum and Bass I want to hear is Death From Above 1979.
I enjoyed this to an extent, but it is way too long
Det kan være en moderne klassiker så mye det vil, men to timer e for langt.
Too long 2 hours long. It’s a slog, it’s like Aphex except he uses pan flute, asynchronous breakbeats 🥱, dolphin noises, and that 90s thing of a guy with voice augmentation going “YA-ya” over and over and over
Felt like time stood still during this slog of a record. Not in a good way either.
It's alright - nothing particularly groundbreaking or innovative. Standout tracks - Saint Angle, and Jah the Seventh Seal
I’m a deadhead, 20 minute songs don’t scare me. This one was complete bullshit. Who asked for an entire album of 1989 answering machine sounds and video game noises?
It's a lengthy drum'n'bass album and even if I quite like the genre it doesn't make the cut for me. Maybe another day.
Just a littttleeee bit too long. No need for such length when you’re not going to make anything out of it.
Fine
First time listening to this genere, I loved it.
generous title... yeesh more brit garbo. that's some rough electronica
Oh man, I can't wait to listen to repetitive nothingness for 2 hours. If I was absolutely high out of my mind, I think I'd really enjoy this. That's about the only scenario where I would actually enjoy it, though. It's just way too repetitive which makes it really boring. There are moments that I actually like, but they're buried in 20-minute songs or surrounded by musical choices that I think suck. Things like really poor/off-key singing, electronic sounds that are really grating, or just the musical idea never changing for about 7 minutes. There were two remixes at the end of the album that I did not listen to, otherwise I would have (unfortunately) finished the album. Favorite Song(s): -
Uyyyy. Solo para conocedores...
3/10 The dullest thing. Adrift nearly pushed me over the edge with it's La La Las. I don't want to hear singing exercises, thing you very much. It is all so boring. Goldie supplied the musical ideas!? Wow, how long did that take? Dated, soulless, terrible. The only thing good to say about it is that 80% of the time it sat in the background and didn't catch my notice enough to offend me.
Not a fan of drum and bass but can appreciate the musicianship of this album
The good news about this album being too long is that you don’t really need to listen to anything after the first track in order to hear all this album has to offer. I understand this is foundational for the genre so I’ll be nice and give it a 3.
what the hell
First song is 21 minutes long and I don't feel like it
Just to be clear we were all daydreaming and doing other shit while listening to this right
8/7 no se, sentimientos encontrados. Album raro me recuerda a shaking the habitual, bloated diría algún amigo gringo
Nice drum and base
I mean its Drum & Bass. If that's your thing then I am sure you will love it. Unfortunately I do not.
Time wasted
Well, glad I checked the runtime of this album earlier in the day this time. As Timeless is a 20 minute track, we’re going to just have dot points of my thoughts - Interesting sci-fi instrumental - Pretty good vocals - Great drumming I thought the end was alight, but my overall feelings on this track were that it belonged more on a sci fi soundtrack instead of on an album. The singer was great. On to Saint Angel. I liked how this one was slightly more upbeat. State on mind again had a nice vocalist, I didn’t like the vocal “ahhhhhh”s (I don’t know the word for it), but the actual lyrics were alright. This is a bad: the weird echoing vocal bit was weird and echoey. Sea of tears was alright musically, but very similar drum-wise to the rest. I understand that’s the genre, but it’s still a lot, especially when there’s 2h of this. The ocean sounds were quite lovely though, but that has more to do with the fact that ocean sounds are lovely anyways. As an aside, the crying sounds at around the 8 minute mark were awful and I hated them. Jah the seventh seal had those really annoying sound effects throughout. A sense of rage was alright, but we have heard it all at this point. Still life, fine, but the same. I got some more enjoyment out of Angel, but maybe that’s because it was shorter. Adrift was weird and I believe out of tune. You and mes music was pretty, but again it was incredibly repetitive. The inner city life remixes were ok, but it’s what I’d heard 2h ago. 2.5/5 ⭐️, it has good ideas! It’s just it’s way too long and those ideas are driven into the ground until there’s nothing left. 153/1089
I grew up with Goldie the UK pop culture icon, without ever listening to Goldie the musician. This is nice, if a bit long. Classic drum & bass sound that feels quite nostalgic to me, despite never listening to it as a youngster.
If this was leaner I might be more inclined to give a better review.
a medida que iba escuchando el disco iba cambiando como me iba sintiendo. la verdad que como album una verga. tiene buenos temas, pero el album es ETERNO tiene muuuuuy malos temas, mediocres, y muy buenos. la bateria en su tottalidad una joya la verdad. pero no me es suficiente. (sientoq eu estoy escuchando el disco hace 3 meses)
I mean, fijner dan die eerdere dnb plaat, maar nog steeds zo veels te lang. Een naar boven afgeronde 3
Prettig dat dit soort platen altijd komen als ik nakijkwerk heb. Goede nakijkplaat.
292 Struggled to get through this, even in my younger chemically enhanced days I disliked DnB but I find it pretty much unlistenable now
Made it through. Very repetitive but it was not the worst thing I have heard. Looking at you frank zappa. 5/10 Top song Angel (because it was the shortest track)
I'm sure this is someone's cup of tea. I couldn't take it.
No reason for this to be on this list. I don't believe there's anyone who sits around and listens to this.
Tortura auditiva
6/10 - I do like some drum and bass but this is just too long, but not objectively bad though
You don't measure up to the expectation / When you're unemployed there's no vacation / No one cares, no one sympathizes / You just stay at home and play synthesizers / (Inner city pressure)
I actually really enjoyed this, but once again it was enjoyed over a period of three days. I can't imagine digesting this in one sitting. I'd feel so fatigued. Great house music, especially with the addition of the female vocals. I can only take house music in small doses and this album is far too long. 2.5
Leading with a 20+ minute track is pretty bold. Maybe this was cool in the 90s. Not so much now.
Really cool, sort of production/sample heavy house, seems like it'd be good for studying etc
It was interesting but became redundant rather fast.
Enjoyed it more than I was expecting from D&B music
Thumbs down lol
Longer than bitches brew and it’s this type of lame music??? Yeah I think that’s a skip for Eli.
Ooh, a portal back to some terrible Sydney nightclub in 2001, at 2 in the morning, with no responsibilities and a head full of something or other. Also really good focused work music!
The best album Goldie was responsible for is Bjork's Homogenic, though mostly that's due to her basically using their breakup to inspire her work. How Scandinavian of her. But yeah, I guess this was influential in the drum and bass world? I don't really know what would make something influential in the drum and bass world, so my gut says it's two things: first, it's that big side-long intro/title track. Compositions that big and sprawling are always the sorts of overindulgent experiments that are gonna be critical darlings. Secondly though, it could be a matter of making drum and bass that feels like it's moving. That same epic of a track is absolutely bloated, but it has movements to it that a lot of club music does not. It feels more trip-hop than classic club music, insofar as classic club music only feels like it goes on for 20 minutes because nothing happens. Once that ends, though, all bets are off. It's not all propulsive, and even other tracks with frenetic drum loops still feel more listless than active (Sea of Tears is where I realized I was suddenly unable to pay attention). It's just too long of an album to be so largely one note. There may have been a statement being made in that singular title track, but even narrowing this down to one disc would have made it tighter. Cutting it just to a single LP? Even better. 2* as it exists now, though
Pleasant enough. Is it must listen? It’s a good example of drum and bass. So maybe. 3 stars.
Two listens, I don't get it.
"Inner City Pressure" indeed (https://youtu.be/WUAcN9UCnbU?si=HuLwtHsM6rXNq9Rs&t=51) I did own Goldie's Saturn Rising album (his follow-up to Timeless) back in the day. I tried to get into it, but it never clicked for me. This album isn't really that different to Saturn-- smooth and languorous jazz-inflected vocals and atmospheric keys juxtaposed against the frenetic drum programming creates a cognitive dissonance. Which is the point, I guess, but it doesn't float my boat. I find the tracks all way too long (the 20-minute title track is the most egregious example) adding up to an album that is probably three times the length it really should be. If you were into this type of thing, I sure it would be hypnotic and the time would fly by, but for a casual listener like me it seems to go on FOREVER. Diane Charlemagne and Lorna Harris are great vocalists, but I find the lyrics empty and clumsy. The digital sheen on the production was never really to my taste and hasn't dated well. While I can admire the commitment of the drum 'n' bass genre to an innovative aesthetic and sound design, it makes me anxious. It's like chugging too much coffee. As with Roni Size's New Forms, I think if I listened to the whole thing, I would never sleep again.
Goes on too long
Never been into drum and bass and it was listenable.
I would have enjoyed it more if the songs were half the length, maybe more
Unique and well produced, although it should definitely be shorter
Repetitive
Fine, I guess. I understand how this became the progenitor of all D&B but I still don't actually care for this kind of music too much. At least sober and in the light of day
Some songs I enjoyed but not really my thing
Should have called it “anything but timeless”. Opening your album with a 21 minute song is nothing short of masturbatory, especially when it’s sparse and terribly repetitive drum and bass. And this is coming from someone who likes drum step and DmB normally. Overwrought underwritten self indulgent garbage. Couldn’t finish. ⭐️
Oh yeah, drum'n'bass. What all the posh kids at uni were listening to in '95. Dated and hard to listen to now. It was two stars to begin with, but lost another as it went on for so long.
thought, surely I must be done with the album, but I was still on the first track
okay.
Timeless? More like “Endless”.
Um… not sure why this is here? I mean just listening to it is actually hard. It’s good background, bad foreground music. But certainly not an album I needed to hear before I die. So… 3 cause I did like it in the background. Boolean: No, really no. Something else from 95 really could go here instead
This album feels like a meditative trance, but somehow it never becomes monotonous. It’s absolutely not my kind of thing, and at first it can even feel a bit exhausting. But ultimately, I appreciate how pioneering it was. 4/10
I think this might be my first one-star review! Yay! I would love to find someone who gave this a close listen all of the way through stone cold sober. I would bet even Goldie hasn't done that. I feel like the drum and bass style lasted for like one summer's worth of raves and no one ever thought about it ever again. And certainly, absolutely, it was never intended for the album format. The only things that make drum and bass tolerable at all are a vast quantity of crystal meth and a vast desert mesa filled with people wearing glow sticks for necklaces.
I remember at some point in the later 90s buying a Goldie album (not this one), curious about all the critics' hype about the esoteric aspects of drum-n-bass, and feeling more than vaguely disappointed that it didn't really conform to my idea of what makes music interesting to listen to. I was a little hopeful when I saw that we got a Goldie album for today, imagining his apparently acclaimed debut album might have a little more variety than the later one I bought, but also fairly resigned that this could cover a lot of familiar territory. I guess it falls somewhere in between all of that, as the epic title track does indeed have a bit more variety at times, and Diane Charlamagne's voice continues to break up the too-precise and mathematical-feeling drum beats, but it's also nearly two hours' worth of fairly similar-sounding music that seems remarkably impersonal. The other tracks that seemed somewhat distinctive were "State of mind" and "Adrift".
enjoyed having this in the background as I worked but didn't do a lot for me otherwise
Not bad? Nothing stuck but good for a passive listen.
A genre that basically only works if you're doing something else while listening is problematic to start with. Makes it even worse that all the key albums seem committed to the more is more approach, that undermines some potentially OK tracks and the album overall. The best I can say is that individual parts of some tracks are fine, but it's far too long and just not that good
Heard Before? Yup. Notes: - front-runner for "Most Ironic Album Title" - forgot what a snooze this is. - there are certainly some interesting ideas, but you can see them coming from a mile away and then they get driven into the ground. Verdict: This dead horse has been flogged enough. Listen Again? Obviously not, but it did give me a desire to listen to actually exciting electronic releases from the same year. Iaora Tahiti, here I come.
Just under two hours of repetitive electronic sounds made on a computer by a nerd with input from a future reality TV and soap opera star. If you were on whatever drugs rave kids were doing in the 90's, or if you have nostalgia for when you first listened to this while you were on said drugs, I suppose listening to Timeless might be enjoyable. But I found it to be an interminable slog. Also, I can't look at the album cover without feeling secondhand embarrassment. Awful.
Doesn't quite escape the feeling that it's background music for a hipster clothing store. And there are moments in its 2 hour length where you find it yourself thinking "Well, this could have been an email." But as background music that iutstays its welcome it's okay.
It’s always the bad albums that have obnoxiously long opening tracks. This was just noise
too much for my brain
On comprend l'influence, l'album est un peu trop long et s'essouffle sur la fin.
Didn't like it at all. Really weird and really long songs
Well that was long. I guess some of the songs would certainly be good to listen to while just trying to chill out and do something else. But not all of them, which kinda ruins the album.
did not finish this. couldn't muster up the strength.
This album makes me feel like a hacker in an action movie from the late ‘90s. And I mean that in a good way. (bad way is Linkin Park (don’t look up when their first album came out)).
This list might be doing something to me because there were moments I genuinely enjoyed on this one. They overstayed their welcome and were surrounded by moments I wasn’t a fan of but I was still surprised.
Still no on this type of music. Some of the songs were OK and beats cool, but this is waaaaaay to edm coded and waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too long for me.
There is no word in the English language for how bad this is.
Welllllll, after seeing the album runtime of nearly 2 hours and the genre, I'm feeling pretty confident that I won't get through the whole thing. Let's see! Did I turn it off early? Press 1 for yes, 2 for no.
Experimental, no es muy mi estilo
inoffensive turntable
So much mediocre boring 90's British electronic music. It's 2 hours long.
Aight
Listened to on my Apple AirPods Max, Apple EarPods, and my 7.1 surround set up. I am very familiar with drum n' bass, a subgenre of electronic music that walks a thin line in my head, in terms of inspired creative expression. For as automatically my brain becomes activated to a track when I hear a breakbeat in the background, I too disregard if it seems to be just another DnB track, with lazy samples over swelling, expected synths and the boldest steps into track identity seem to be adding a spattering of hyper-fast stutters to the samples. If I sound too harsh on DnB, know that it comes from a place of love, for there is something about this genre that satisfies this obtuse yin yang in my brain, where a track is simultaneously bursting with energy and calming enough to put me into a nap. Perhaps that's just my ADHD speaking. Goldie's Timeless, I'm happy to report, is a worthy DnB effort, an album that doesn't exceed my expectations of what DnB can mean, but it so consistent and expertly crafted that it creates a great listen. For a nearly two-hour piece of music, I never quite found myself getting tired of what was being played. Beyond the effective moments of repreive from serene chaos found in moments like the jazzy "Adrift", with it's spacey sax and smooth vocals running eschewed of drums all together, or the constant little flourishes to tracks to keep things interesting, like the breakbeat programmed to the 808 in "Still Life", there is an expert management of tension and flow, whether it be from track to track or within some of these mammoth sized tracks (the self-titled opener running at 21 minutes!). I think this is where the heart of the album lies, the idea that it isn't enough to create great tracks of DnB, but to find balance within the album experience, much like a DJ has to balance their set at a club to ensure the crowd stays engaged. It's why my method of listening was changing throughout, because whether I was completing some chores around the house (AirPods Max), readying for a task outside the house (EarPods), or just sitting back and letting the sounds wash over me (7.1 surround set-up), the album was ready for me, offering varying states of this balanced, controlled, serene chaos.
the album cover concerns me. 21 minutes for one song? bonkers, you are not pink floyd. Would I listen again: i like a little bit of drum and bass. not this much Deserves to be on this list: why the hell is it here 2.5
Too repetitive and too damn long. Honestly, I'd probably have enjoyed it more if it had been a reasonable length, but the second I saw a 21 minute opener I knew it was going to be a slog to get through this entire thing.
What in the world was this. I didn’t like this at all. Lower than average.
a nearly 2-hour long album, and it has a 21-minute track to start?? i wanna cry. this better be good Timeless - 2/5 Saint Angel - 4/5 State of Mind - 3/5 This Is a Bad - 1/5 Sea of Tears - 3/5 Jah the Seventh Seal - 3/5 A Sense of Rage (Sensual V.I.P. Mix) - 3/5 Still Life - 3/5 Angel - 2/5 Adrift - 3/5 Kemistry - 1/5 You & Me - 2/5 Inner City Life (Baby Boy's Edit) - 3/5 Inner City Life (Rabbit's Short Attention Span Edit) - 2/5 Average score: 2.5/5 ⭐️⭐️ i don't mind drum & bass, but i personally don't think this is something i "had" to listen to, especially given it's length. the album is okay at best i suppose, but absolutely not worth the 2 hours of my life i sunk into listening to it in my opinion
I sure do like Electronica, DnB, and Jungle, but this was way too much and boring. Too repetitive, no real progression or structure.
This album did absolutely nothing for me. I am not the target audience for this,I went in open minded and left this experience with mixed feelings. The sounds were uninspired and bland. The beats were meh.
Goldie’s landmark debut is widely praised for putting drum and bass on the map, but actually sitting through it is a massive chore. While the title track has its moments, the incredibly long runtimes and endless, repetitive breakbeats make the listening experience highly tedious. It may be historically important, but it is deeply exhausting to hear today.
Could have made their point in 30 minutes rather than 2 hours. This drags so badly.
This was cool but it sure is way too long
Cerramos semana corta con un artista que no ubico para nada, lo cual me agrada. Reflexivo, introspectivo. Algunas canciones como "Sea of Tears" me hacen acordar a proyectos actuales como DOMi & JD Beck. Me gustó de a ratos. Me resultó repetitivo y en un punto me agotó. Hasta el lunes, gente
Duurde me te lang. Al van 'tzelfde
An occasional drum-and-bass hit
Can’t stand this what the he k
Don't love but I understand Goldie is the man to jungleists
I usually hate these British electronic albums, but I didn't hate this one. By no means does it mean it is good or belongs to be on this list. The biggest problem as everyone knows is the length. This made fine background music while I worked (until the song with monkey noises came on). Is this album bad? No. Is this album good? No. Would I listen to this again? No. Low 3.
- why is one song 20 MINUTES LONG? I skipped that song along with any of the other songs over 5 minutes - the very second song, Saint Angel, is just this repetitive loop played over and over again. - State of mind, however, I liked. It had actual lyrics and had a nice beat/melody. I didnt like that constant phone buzzing beat playing the whole song tho. - I could only listen to a couple songs before turning this off. it's just the same repeated beat over and over with no good lyrics.
More interesting than other drum and bass music I’ve heard, but ultimately still grates after a while. This album is nearly two hours long as well (the double album, they did release a single version).
Nah, not going for a 2 hour drum and bass ride.
I didn't finish this one. I decided after the 21 minute opener that the rest wasn't for me.
This album was a bit too long and unremarkable for my taste. I wouldn’t go out of my way to listen to it again.
Started as pleasently surprising frutiger aero + amen break ahh drums. Jungle. No monke though. Album ended with my thoughts about it ending. Dreams, even.
Great album to put on in the background. Timeless.
Not bad. A decent easy-listening drum and bass album
More like “endless”
I think I just kinda hate drum and bass
Couldn’t cut the 3hr+ but think it was all good. In part due to us only listening to rock and this was a nice change of pace. Underrated
Industriele sci fi geluiden 2 uur lang
2.5/10 I feel empty
I appreciate this is an important album, but I find it incredibly wrong to listen to dance music in any setting other than a club. Even then it's not generally my cup of tea. I just found myself getting a bit bored. Important but not interesting to me.
That was way too long. 21 minutes of random noise. That's just the opening track? Great. Now there's wailing. This Is A Bad. Yes, yes it is. 2 hours of this crap? I'm done.
This is #day616 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and… yikes, how about an almost 2-hour dubstep record? This whole scene passed me by back in the day. As a kid of the '90s and early '00s, I was into trance, hard trance, house, and some jungle, aside from rock music. It was a fun time when electronic and rock walked hand in hand, and you could have, say, Prodigy and Metallica on the same mixtape. That said, I can see how this record helped shape its corner of electronic music, but it's just not what I'm after. It ended up as an endless background, without going anywhere in particular. Halfway through I didn't feel like continuing. This is a 2 out of 5. Looking forward to #day617.
Did enjoy the Flight of the Conchords tie-in.
It was alright. Nothing special.
Weirdo lo-fi music from a 90s comic movie ⭐️⭐️/5 Highlights: "Timeless"
I enjoyed one or two tracks near the beginning as ambient music. By the end, I found it annoying.
This album is waaaay toooo long. It is decent background music I guess.
I almost gave up on this due to length
This was atrocious. I cannot adequately put into words how much I hated this. Why is it 2 hours long? Why does it all sound the same? Why is it just the same noises on loop for 8 minutes for every track? Why is this on the list? Why am I still wasting words on this album?
This started out with an interesting sound (good vocals) BUT WAS JUST ENTIRELY TOO LONG. After the 1st track (over 20 minutes), I was done.
I didn't get through it....
I liked the energy of this album! It was upbeat and motivating
such an interesting album - some songs i really resonated with and others i didn’t. the soundscapes/sampling was lovely and i would return to this album when i’m in the mood to zone out and vibe out
Honestly some really great music just way too damn long
I have said this for several electronica albums on this list. It is good at what it is trying to be, I just don't care for what it is trying to be. Too long and repetitive.
It’s always so interesting listening to early DnB/Jungle/whatever you want to call it. Incredibly influential and a genuinely fun listen. There’s lots of variety, from quite challenging breakbeats to some melodic, jazz-influenced stuff. The effort that went into sourcing all these samples in a time before splice or YouTube to mp3 converters is actually quite amazing.