Reviews (page 3 of 8)
Never heard of this person or band or even genre before. Started off interesting and mellow enough for me to work to, but it became too much too fast, or maybe too little too fast. The overall music did not vary greatly, but I found it very difficult to focus on the subtle differences. Maybe I need another listen
4/10 rounding up to
ok, but not for me
Made me feel like grinding my teeth. So basically not for me. Appreciate the skill required to create this music but I'm the wrong listener for this.
Didn’t really leave an impact on me. But was alright to work to so 3 stars
Desperately not our vibe and we actually skipped through a few of these. Really did not enjoy - the songs felt endless and repetitive and, honestly, quite unpleasant.
To me, who listens to the 1001 albums while working, this is the best kind of focus music. It keeps me on task while providing a beat that makes me bob my head. Definitely my style but I totally get the bad reviews. It's looooong.
2.5 Stars. I'm a little surprised I made it all the way through this one. It's not at all my style, but there were just enough parts that kept me interested long enough to not move on with my life. I especially like the last couple minutes of the first track (about when Diane Charlemagne starts signing) and the last track (another one from Charlemagne) on the album. Everything in between is pretty much a pass for me.
Who? Man, this list has some weird turns and some really questionable inclusions. This is definitely one that doesn't belong. A 21 minute first song? It's the movie soundtrack as they pan across the barren planet and see unusual creatures migrating and bird-like beasts soaring nearby. Then it picks up pace at the 11 minute mark and then goes AWOL 5 minutes later with dated drums and anxiety creating beats. It only got worse from there. This is so dated and sounds like a couple kids jamming in mom's basement making cool noises n' shit. If you can sit through all 7 mins of "Saint Angel" or "Jah The Seventh Seal" you are impervious to pain or deaf. "State Of Mind" is a jazzy meandering and that's the #2 song on the album at 1.4M listens. "This Is Bad" was bad, just a drum machine for 6 minutes! "Angel" had 1.8M listens, why?! Almost 2 full hours long?! Not good, not relaxing, not innovative, no hits, not smooth but just the opposite, hugely dated sound, no hooks and no song structure. Purest form of shit I've heard on here in a few months. 1 star because I can't go lower.
Need drugs tot finish...
440/1089 - I kinda like when it gets dissonant because of the planar harmony creating chord progressions which don't really interact with the longer lines, creating these minor ninths and out of key harmonies that eventually resolve. I'm guessing it wasn't intentional but it makes it a more intriguing listen for me. The tracks flow in a way where they remain interesting despite the length. I'd personally prefer some more distorted drum breaks and possibly some slower songs here and there to add even more variety and finesse.
2/10
Call me tarzan the way I love jungle
album #23 DnB is not really my thing, but i like the vibes throughout this album. does the title song need to be 20 minutes? absolutely not, but i do respect it! i think a lot of the people who give this a low rating and call it slop, drivel, or for low-iqs are simply overly pretentious people who think they are better than dnb. probably classist too lol! you are not better than people because you like to huff lou reed's farts <3 it's easy to see the lasting influence this had on dnb in general, even as someone who isn't a huge fan. a lot of the synth injections were super atmospheric, which i liked! i wouldn't listen to the whole thing again, but definitely 1 or 2 songs to keep :) it deserves it's place on the list because of how it essentially brought jungle to the uk dnb scene. very cool. ꩜ favourite track(s): saint angel, sea of tears ꩜ least favourite track(s): adrift ꩜ album rating: ★★★☆☆ ꩜ number of albums left to review: 1,066 ꩜ number of albums from the list that i agree with being on the list: 10 (+1 Timeless) ꩜ albums from the list that I would consider on my list: 3 ꩜ albums from the list I won't include on my list: 19
This album was kind of like edging but for music - all of the songs developed pretty cool beats that I started to get into, but after 1:53 of just beats, boy does it get boring. I was waiting for some face-melting synth solo, or something like that, and I didn't get anything. So, what this album became was something far too long, anti-climactic, and boring. Memorable, maybe. But not for good reasons. If this album was 30% the length, this may be a different conversation.
I enjoyed this more than I expected. I had expected to appreciate it technically, but for drum and bass to just not be my sound. However, this is a very chill album with the soulful vocals of early 90s house music, but with more complex beats that have helped it age better. This would've made really good background music in my studying days.
experimental, matrix-future -esque
Tedious. It’s one of those albums you hear people playing too loud in cars with lowered suspension.
“This is a Bad” on track 4 accurately describes this album. At its best, which is the beginning of every track, it sounds like video game menu music. Then these drums kick in and they do absolutely nothing for you because the music behind it is soulless. If someone told me this was created by AI, I’d damn near believe them. Timeless piece of a company’s holding music or a hotel’s elevator music.
Some generic Drum and Bass stuff, the sound of Dancehalls in the 90s :D I guess I am too sober to enjoy this.
Gear: DCA ÆON 2 Noire Artwork: 💀🎃🤮 Production: 🛢️🥾🫨 Music: 🔨💥🤤 Rating: ⏳(⌛)/5
ok ich check nonig. aah drum n bass. ou isch das fast 2 stund?? fick. inner city life inner city pressure i guess hä. jo gspüri scho z züri. hert. s hetmer gad gest öper gseit züri seg ihm z gross und ich ha nöd gwüsst was demit afange. isch züri gross? chan ich relate zu dem song? ischs würkli so en rave song so zum tanze und so? s isch meh sochli prog eig. bin bi sea of tears und finds immerno agnehm zum lose aber nöd würklich meh. meh als es zwei chani nöd geh aber oft mega lreativi sache wie d samples igsetzt werded. nonie crashes ghört wo nochenand tüfer tunet werded. dasch cool. aber ich finds seeeeehr gloomy. hüt pissts und isch grau und chalt und s macht gad nöd esoo spass zum das debi lose.
hahaha ui s albumcover gseh heavy uus WIEDER DNB OMG WAS ES GAHT SO FUCKING LANG okee es bildet sich e atmosphäre he jo so die übergrifend atmosphäre isch na cool bi timeless aber legitimiert jz nöd grad es 21 minute lied saint angel insanoarsch state of mind isch na cool I guess? klangtepoich gfalltmer vlt wird ich langsam warm demit, aber sea of tears hani na easy gfunde? SYKE ICH HAN GMEINT ES SEG FERTIG ABER ES GAHT 12 MIN poah jah the seventh seal het crazy stereo effects gha, han eimal müsse ufd siite luege willi denkt han, es chömmi vo det a sense of rage het reecht en coole aaaaaaaaahhhhhaaaahaaaaaaa im hindergrund wiso isches scho wieder wichtig gsi? hmm okay ganz genau isches nöd beschriebe aber sin approach zu dnb mit so vill atmosphäre hets dete nanig geh? das isch au das wo mier grundsätzlich na gfallt, die schichte vo sphärische melodie. ich find eifach denn zum de song gsamthaft lose funktionierts iwie eifach nöd so recht für mich. PLUS öppe 50% vom album (bis jz) findi jz nöd megaaaa danceable? aber vlt liit das au draa dassi am schaffe gsi bin hahahah und längi mussmer glaub gar nöd ahspreche oder omg ich bin langsam würkli so DONE ADRIFT FUCKRD MICH AB ich chegg s konzept und s hett au voll schön chönne sii aber nach 90 min vo dem album und mit dem tacky ass saxophon pack ichs schier nöd
I refuse to listen to another 20 minute song
mal
really not for me.
Never have I ever chosen to listen to a whole trance, dub, or jungle album on my own...that said...I was stunned that this was going to be a two hour ordeal. Then, I looked down while working and had happily just rolled right through the whole thing and onto a slightly different LTJ Bukem track. It was pretty good and made great work accompaniment.
This was like pulling teeth. 2 hours of 7+ minute tracks that go absolutely fucking nowhere.
My god, that’s a lot of Drum n Bass.
Can we please review the definition of "album" we're using? Almost 2 hours with a 20+ minute opening track is really not what I'd call an "album" in the traditional, widely understood sense. Timeless was okay, but far too long. Good as background music and not much else. Sorry if that's harsh, but my patience for it has started to run out over the course of nearly 2 hours of listening. There's a reason the advice is "leave them wanting more". Goldie has not done that. Goldie has erred on the side of way too much music for one album, regardless of quality.
Its the 2000s and i play ssx and hit a sick grind. The xbox logo pops up and the dopamine hits while need for speed boots up. Wow what a nostalga hit was this album.
I can't say I've thoughtfully listened to every minute of this record, but that is not really the point. I can imagine myself completely escaping the banality of life in a underground rave listening to this. Having said that, it is a little bit too slow and sometimes repetitive for me to truly dig. But is sounds fresh even though it is old. Solid record innit. 7.5/10
It is a cool album as it is the start of an entire genre. And I do like drum and bass every now and then. As an album it is alright I'd say. You can still hear some things that the genre will figure out later how to improve upon. Also 2 hours is very long, and I found myself kinda losing interest in the music after 30 minutes. Drum and bass also often works well cause it creates this soothing and focussing rythme, but in this album it could get distracting with the over use of stereo and certain sounds.
Has its moments, like the atmosphere, but pretty monotonous in the long run.
It was okay, I liked that it used dolphin noises in the Sea of Tears track
Absolutely exhausting. Maybe a great listen at a 2am rave in 1997, but not 9:30am while I'm sipping coffee and sifting through TPS reports in 2026.
Not a genre I'm that familiar with - but will accept that it owns its place here as an EDM milestone. I didn't mind it, but can't see myself coming back to it
perfect while walking through the city
Ah dangit, I didnt expect this here even tho I should. I listened to this few months ago. Absolutely great stuff. But I would like a new one.
Līdz galam nenoklausījos, nav gluži mans žanrs, bet vispār patika.
A brilliant and influential album
Very cool drum and bass! Definitely see this as ahead of its time.
No
Timeless is considered an important and influential release in the history of drum and bass, but it didn’t really connect with me on a personal level. Without the context, I found it difficult to fully appreciate its significance.
Pass
I kept waiting for this to start, but alas it was just breakbeats, feedback and weird gutteral noises.
I'm sure it's great but 20 minute track is too inaccessible
Avant garde. Ngl it just sound like a whole bunch of TikToks bunched up together.
essential drum and bass 90s vibes. so reminds me of vintage clothing and r
Sure, it's considered 'groundbreaking', but throwing it on the ground and breaking it at the end of the 105 minute run time is not what that means.
I mean, I was hoping to hear something like Aphex Twin or whatever, but thats just plain boring, maybe that was good for its time, or for the genre, but I can't really listen to that now
Tykkään junnaavasta jumputuksesta, oli myös aika laidasta laitaan erilaista tavaraa levyllä. Arvosanaksi vahva 3
Pitkä levy. Drummandbeissii on hyvääkin, mutta tämä oli tylsää.
Oli levyllinen taattua aivan mukavasti junnaavaa konemusaa, levyn pituus vaan puudutti - ei ehkä aktiiviseen kuunteluun vaan taustalle voi olla ookoo. Ei itelle mieluisinta genreä konemusasta, mutta toimi sen aikaa ku toimi
It can work as background music
A word to the wise: when you’re trying to convince your wife and children that they need to listen to a random album per day on their holiday, over an hour of jungle music isn’t a great way to make your case
Not my favorite and not exactly sure why it’s on this list?
Entiendo su valor histórico y pionero en el género y probablemente en otras circunstancias habría entrado mejor, pero yo ayer no tenía el día para enchufarme dos horas de drum and bass voladísimo. La casco un 6 de compromiso y ya volveremos a él en otro momento.
Not as unbearable as I thought two hours of drum ‘n’ bass or whatever the fuck this style of music is called. However I’m not a consumer of whatever drugs necessitate imbibing this quantity of mostly uptempo freneticism. When there is singing, the voice used is unpleasant and, to my ear, flat as hell.
This genre falls into what I call disposable music: some of it is nice, but most of it is too repetitive. This isn’t music that was meant to be enjoyed with careful listening, although there are certainly some cool beats going on here and there. I just kept losing focus because of sameness of each track. Pad washes, bits of gnarly drums, some girl singing about nothing, rinse, repeat.
"This is Bad"
As background noise during gaming, this album is incredible. Perfectly engaging and yet spacey enough to warrant it falling behind my focus. As a general focused listen, it's frustrating. Dance and electronic music, in most cases for me, needs to be related to something physical; working out, actually dancing, going for a run, just SOMETHING. But when I'm listening to these records either on my phone in bed, or at my computer, or in my car due to a lack of ability to currently do otherwise, their purpose is ultimately thrown out the window. Also for the record I listened to the full 105-minute version of this album. It does not need to be that long.
Classic
I remember much of this from my university days, sharing as I did, an house full of folk who weren’t averse to drum and bass. I’m not a huge fan of Deb but this isn’t bad in places. Despite its title however, it’s not Timeless but rather of a time and to an extent sounds a bit dated now
Not my type of music at all. Would not listen again
I mean some of it was OK, but I honestly did not listen to the entire album because it's rather repetitive and not really my thing.
Not my vibe
no
Pre-Millennial Hipster Nightclub Background Music.
The algorithm really pumping out the "you weren't cool enough to listen to this then it came out" albums. I have to be honest, I don't LOVE it, but can fully appreciate the impact it had on the UK music scene.
I found myself tapping my foot a couple times, but this is at best background music for a dated video game. The music is not interesting, especially given the long runtime of some of the tracks. At times, the clunky drum machine sounds are downright jarring.
once youve heard one song youve heard them all. no need to listen to the full two hours
Good album 4/5
jesus, the editor of this list was a big time raver in the UK in the 90s. And it shows
This is the soundtrack to an early 2000s extreme sports video game (snowboarding, skateboarding, etc.). It's not really bad, it's just annoying and not good.
one of these songs sounded like a dolphin. so. that was cool. album not really my vibe though lol
So much later Db influence 3.7
Love the jungle drums all through this, and the vocals make the long opening track the quick first love. A lot to take in, I'll be back on repeat.
I wasn't expecting Goldie to be in this list. I've listened to this one before, but it was nice revisiting it! I think I enjoyed it more this time around, and I also learned more about the album. My favourite track is probably "Sea Of Tears," mostly because of the guitar, but also because live drumming from Mel Gaynor of Simple Minds. I'm going to listen to the 25 Year Anniversary version the next time I listen through this album – there are a few differences and I really like the original version of "Sensual" included on it.
I liked it but it went on for awhile
I've never really liked drum and bass music so I unsurprisingly didn't love this. There were some moments throughout that didn't have a relentless dnb beat and were more reminiscent of r&b/soul, like in State of Mind and Adrift, so I did enjoy those parts of the album.
“This sounds like a drum and bass album” It makes you do this (proceeds to demonstrate someone looking like they have a brain injury)” “Is this still the same album?!?” - Kerri Personally I think it’s cool hearing some of the early days of drum and bass. Knowing that as a sub-genre it expanded into multiple other branches of EDM today. There was some familiar aspects that I think I only know because it’s mixed into some of those branches of music today.
Lucky for me, I'm a big Drum n Bass fan alongside Jungle. This was some tight Jungle DnB, have listened to many 1 hour playlists similar to this. Cool to hear one of the first jungle albums ever made. Cool jazz influence throughout, as well as some fun piano riffs here n there. Didn't realize how polarizing DnB is, this music just scratches an itch for me, especially if I'm getting some work done, or doing some animation. Picks up the pace of things, helps with focus and speed. 8/10 I will be returning to this for sure.
Never seen this album in the book before, though I kinda dig the cover. Early 3D renders have always been charming to me. The combination of heavy shadows and lustrous surfaces makes for a unique look. I feel like this album could be one of many things. Either a mid-90s alt rock album (likely grunge), nu metal, a dated electronic album or something which blindsides me completely. At the very least, I know it isn't hip-hop since I've cleared out all of those albums. I'm hedging my bets on an electronic album. It makes the most sense to me given that it's the most digital of the genres listed. Here goes. Two fucking hours. Fortunately, I'm into drum and bass music and I was correct in my prediction, so this album caught me in a good mood. This was pretty cool. A lot of good effects and electronic sounds are packed in here, both of which are very difficult for me to adequately describe. The drum breaks are snappy as always and are usually my favoured half of DnB, but I think the bass and backing instruments beat it out on this occasion. Like I said, there are plenty of cool effects and atmospheric embellishments in here which the album segues between pretty effectively. DnB is good for getting into a flow state, and as such I was never really disengaged while listening to this album. The title track is the crowning jewel of such an accomplishment. Its 20-minute runtime never once weighed down on me and it features much of the album's best material. If I had one major criticism, it would be that some of the production is a little dated. The MIDI-sounding keyboard on a handful of these tracks is perhaps the biggest tell of such, but it honestly has its own charm. It's reminiscent of the rave/DnB music that was present in a lot of racing games from the time. Disc two of the album also drops the heavy drum breaks and leans into a more atmospheric, electronic sound, which I didn't find to be as effective as the first half. Overall, yeah. I liked it. It's tragic that this album is insanely long and will likely never be something that I seek out on my own, but what's here is good. A rare bit of praise coming from a miserable, overly-critical freak such as myself. Book time. "Before Timeless, jungle or drum 'n' bass was the defiantly underground sound of the UK in the early 1990s." Goldie is a unique character, apparently. "Timeless was one of the first drum 'n' bass albums produced, and the first to be embraced by the mainstream." "Some of Timeless sounds dated today, but few dance producers have come close to realizing such an ambitious artistic vision. It is the sound of future jazz from a distant planet, set to the sharpest beats." Wikipedia verifies that this album was a frontrunner in DnB music and performed pretty well on the UK charts, with some modest success in Sweden and New Zealand. Yeah. I liked this, it's earned its stripes in music history and I don't recall coming across another DnB album prior to this one. I cosign this inclusion - good pick.
entirely forgettable.
Over 100 minutes of music, and there's maybe like one track that I find 'okay'. This was so damn dull. This album is dated, from the awful album art, to the sound, to the WAY too long run time. And even taking that into account, this album gave me nothing to want to go back to. What a slog.
Not really for me. Sounds like something club people might listen to when the rave is winding down. I kinda liked "State Of Mind" but it did go on too long. That super fast snare/hat thing gets old after about 17 seconds, it's on every damn track.
Lots of moaning in the reviews. Fuck’em. This isn’t a perfect album by any stretch of the imagination; it’s too long for one, and being really critical, is more of a collection of tracks. But you know what, it’s still a magnificent piece of work and an album that helped drum n bass move from being a local British music scene to a global one. It is an album that is writ large with Goldie’s passion, dedication and creative spark and was a needed antidote to the stifling hype of Britpop in the 90s.
Endless
This just confirms my hate for the drum machine. I'm not a fan of "music" made by programming computers or where no actual instruments are played. I couldn't finish this one.
couldn't get through it
Fun!
Dont ever recommended this to me again
****a good instrumental with few vocals.
its ok but its drum and bass. I can enjoy it as background as its not too demanding 2.5
Good tracks, bit long though so tended to zone out for large periods.
Dnb with interesting layers.
I guess it was probably influential within its genre but its a hard no from me. Nevermind "Timeless" it just felt endless!
Не ну это же просто пиздец. 3/10, чисто за старания
Those digital synths absolutely do it for me. Absolute time capsule, even if it's not that good.
boring
Massive BANGER!
I liked the first song, Timeless, but the rest of the album was long and terrible to me.
Endless
Never heard of Goldie before. Well, besides my childhood dog of the same name. He was a good boy! The description says it's groundbreaking for its "drum and bass" music, so I have turned up the bass for this. The first song, Timeless, goes for over 20 minutes. Lots of electronica has long runtimes, but like this is such a generic tune that to go for 20+ minutes it feels egregious and repetitive. I guess this is supposed to be mixed into other EDM music? That makes it hard to rate as a standalone album. I feel like I have heard Timeless but as parts of other songs. I think I can only rate it on what is presented here, although that feels inadequate it's the best I can do. I feel like I have heard the opening to Saint Angel before- was that sampled by Puretone for Addicted to Bass maybe? See I enjoyed that song when I heard it, but Saint Angel feels barebones. And i'm not really even sure about the link. Yeah album isn't good in any case.
This is Timeless. It’s a State of Mind.
i wish i was on shrooms listening to this. it also sounds like their songs would be in the powerpuff girls show
Es un sonido muy avanzado para su año. Me suena a cosas más de finales de los noventa. Con todo, no es una música que nadie pueda disfrutar sobrio. Es otro entretenimiento con maquinitas.
And the Euro-centric '90s techno 2* album. At least a dozen artists did the same thing better. This is another 2* album. Because I've had Moby, Fatboy Slim, and The Prodigy on the list, it should be replaced by the Chemical Brothers' Surrender, which would be a 4*.
7/10
Eerste nummer duurt 20(!!!!) minuten ahhaha Ok dan, nu is het wel elektronische muziek en heb ik daar altijd wel een zwak voor, maar toch. Drum n bass/jungle is niet helemaal mijn genre, al vond ik Burial wel een heel vet album, maar dat is meer dubstep. Ben wel benieuwd hiernaar, dit schijnt het begin van DnB/Jungle te zijn en een goede jungle tune op zn tijd kan ik wel waarderen. Ik hoef niet te raden wat de boomers van deze site hiervan vinden, er staan namelijk geen gitaren op dit album. Pfoe, ik was al niet de aller aller aller grootste DnB Jungle fan, maar bijna 2 uur lang is voor mij echt ff te lang. Ik heb het album wel opgebroken in kleinere stukken en het is prima achtergrondmuziek, maar het is verdomde lastig om hier nu een goede review over te schrijven. De muziek is dikke prima, ik irriteer me niet er aan maar het komt gewoon ook niet echt binnen. Denk dat dat een beetje de conclusie is. Als je zin hebt in spacey Drum n Bass dan heb ik in elk geval bijna 2 uur aan muziek die je kan luistere, dat is in elk geval iets wat ik hieraan over houd. Poe, ja, ik heb me hier soms toch een beetje doorheen moeten worstelen. Lastig om elektronische albums te reviewen, maar er zit hier een hoop op wat heel goed werkt. Dit is denk ik het eerste pure DnB album dat ik heb geluisterd en qua spaciness enzo is het een fantastische intro in het genre. Ik vond en vind het heel vet, maar het is wel echt te lang. De eerste nummers en de laatste remixes van nummers zijn mijn favorieten, zal het niet snel nog een keer aanzetten maar dit is best wel lekkere afterparty muziek zeg maar. FAVO: Timeless(Ja de volle 20 mins, fucking vette spacey plaat is dat), State of mind,
p772. 1995. 1 star. Drum and bass is the musical equivalent of a panda, an evolutionary dead end, but without the cuteness. This is fucking awful - nearly two hours of badly dated drum machines and samples, multiple 6+ minute tracks and a prog-rock worthy opening abomination that is over 20 minutes long. Life is too short to waste on shit like this.
I am very confused by this album because i did not like the first song at all and wanted to turned it off but then i heard State Of Mind and loved it. And then again I was so bored but Sea of Tears was great. And then AGAIN i was so so bored. Anyway I don't get why those songs are on the same album they don't match and it's too long anyway. Maybe it would be a 2 because of the few good songs but this felt like a chore and i did not enjoy so 1.
I’ve experienced some wonderful success overcoming some significant challenges, and getting through this album was one of them. Not that it was bad, or even necessarily too long given what it was. It is just somethjng that resisted any kind of close attention being paid to it. In the end I probably enjoyed it way more in retrospect than I did while it was happening. I was thinking 2 throughout, and now I’m giving it 3.
Didn’t hate this by any means, but I’m too old to listen to two hours of drummo. It’s world music and jazz for me from here on in. Sweet, sweet world music and jazz.
I'm a bit conflicted. On the one hand it's a pretty good album overall. Good compositions and production. On the other hand it was a slog to get through. It's almost 2 fucking hours! I don't have the patience for that.
Candidly, I was expecting to hate this. I have very little familiarity with the genre, and after being introduced to it via the DJ Shadow record on this very list I was not optimistic going in. But it ended up being a pleasant surprise, with even the very long tunes like the title track managing to create a trance-like vibe. The record is overly long, and I suspect it works better as a series of individual pieces rather than collected as an album. But the combination of hypnotic grooves, jazzy melodies, and trip-hop adjacent vocals all work for me. Highlight for me is "Sea of Tears"
Electronic dance music is admittedly not my thing. This album is really, really long and it just sounds very repetitive to me. I had a lot of busy work at my desk today, so it was fine to just play it in the background while I was doing other things, but I wouldn't seek this one out to listen to again. Not bad in any way, but just not something I would listen to.
Not bad, per se, but I really don't get this genre. I certainly don't get listening to it for two hours straight. It works as background noise, I guess.
2026.02.19.
Ik ga natuurlijk niet 2 uur naar Goldie zitten luisteren. Een nummer vind ik al heel wat. Ik snap dat er ook dit soort dingen tussen moeten staan, maar heb het zelf niet zo met de d&b/jungle type muziek
Long and irritating
There were drums. There was bass. It was not timeless.
Well, what can I fucking say. I didn't much like it and it went on and on and on and on and on.
Saved? ❌ Would listen again? ❌ Would recommend to anyone? ❌ Would buy on Vinyl? ❌
I can’t believe I made it all the way to the end of this.
As a whole, this was an interesting listen. Each song changed so much in sound it was hard to delineate what was what to pick faves, but that kept it interesting. I preferred the heavier drum and bass tracks I could imagine at a club over her vocals and the softer, new age, jazzier tunes. Liked St Angel and Sense of Rage.
I liked it more than I thought I would
2/17/26 - Just so weird. Listened throughout the entire day because the album is so long. I didn't hate it but I would never listen to it again. Feels like something that plays at the dentist. And I actually do think some of the songs are played at my dentist. Top Song - Inner City Light
The Rabbit could never make it to its remix
3.5
Album #1,044 Time stands still. Seems like that same beat over and over. Music too wild and erratic to get into a groove. Not something to just sit and listen to. And way too long.
Push these sounds back underground.
als ik een heel album naar boem boem tsjik wil luisteren zet ik Einsturzende Neubauten wel op... die kunnen dat perfect
You could say this is album is “Timeless”.
Good just too long. I like the style and ambient vibe. But I skipped through songs at the end as I was getting bored. No standouts. They sounded very similar to me. 02-12-2026
Just a heads up, gang. "Good but only if you don't actually listen to it" =/= "good". Maybe he confused the words 'timeless' and 'interminable'.
Wow, the first album I couldn’t finish and I’ve done the 3hr Ella Fitzgerald one. Somehow even though it mostly is instrumental and I was studying, I still couldn’t bear it. This album affirms my belief that rave music isn’t good; you need to be some level of fucked up by drugs or alcohol or other stuff to actually want to listen to it.
prut
I know the title says timeless, but for me this was the opposite. It has good ideas but gets on your nerves really quick
This made me feel insane, not in a fun way.
Nature-influenced, industrial, electro trance. Weird. Maybe more of a 2.5.
We should all be so lucky to experience a song like “Timeless”. What an opus! It’s so sharp and eerie. For Goldie to make something with such a delicate touch, something that evolves in so many intricate ways — WOW. Jungle/DnB in the mid 90’s was exploding, but with the genre’s explosion came a lot of repetition & stale sounds which quickly became dated; that’s not the case for “Timeless”. Genuinely one of the best songs I’ll hear on this entire list. The way Goldie upends the idea of music made for raving with this one song will forever floor me. As for the rest of the album? It’s impossible to live up to the astronomical standard the opener set. But there’s still lots of quality material. Your patience will frequently be rewarded, that stays true through most of this long journey. Some of it is more intentionally disruptive, frenetic, and ravey for lack of a better term. Some of it is a bit likes to takes it’s time with the ambient passages that front most of the songs. A downtempo mixup here in “State Of Mind”, a few different more positive sounding cuts there (“Sea Of Tears” is a personal favorite for the ocean shore sounds). If you’re looking for the most traditional tripping in the warehouse song, I’d say “Kemistry” has all the markings of traditional jungle. There’s the wobbly sub-bass, lots of hi-hat tics, and some hazy synth pads to boot. “You & Me” closes the originals out with those eternal piano chord stabs that turn into a more bright companion to “Timeless”, imo. I’m a huge fan of the pulsing 4-on-the-floor take for “Inner City Life”, but wouldn’t be bothered of the final two songs on this current release iteration were left to their own remix EP. If the genre or length of most songs is a nonstarter for you, I’m not sure I can change your mind. I agree that there’s some excess on this record, “Jah The Seventh Seal” is just a stripped down version of most every other song on here, and it’s somehow less meditative. And by the time you get to about “Still Life” in the tracklisting, you kinda know what you’re gonna get for the whole of this project. But please go on a walk or drive at night and play the opening track as loud as you can. That’s the least you can do to experience this one at its best. A loving 4/5 on this one. Goldie is a fascinating guy and a great interview. I highly recommend this video on the story of “Inner City Life”. https://youtu.be/-CkRvpZijaw?si=b8optcOar-4hTz5L
Cool beats
Alright but some of the songs are longer then they need to be
As an adult nearing 50, I got an ear infection at the beginning of the year for the first time since I was 7 years old. My ear canal swelled up, it was painful, and I had fluid discharging from my ear for a while. My hearing was muffled and I had to see a doctor for medication. It went on for a few weeks and was kinda scary and concerning. The whole experience was so much better than listening to this pathetic excuse of an album of so called “music”.
4/10 – Weak
I hate the art for this record. It makes sense though: it's 1995, a pretty exotic electronic genre called jungle is being pushed to a futuristic sound we're gonna be recognizing as drum and bass. We portray this as metals in fancy colors out together by early wonky versions of Adobe Illustrator. Add a skull and we're talking bad boy goes steampunk. The record itself is wonderful. It's like a sativa, you're accelerated but it's a peaceful trip. This one has some quality stereo mixing that works beautifully in the comfort of your headphones, but I felt myself appreciating it more through a good set of speakers. You need to feel how the bass interacts with your body on a physical plane before you can really judge this. It's not gonna be my favorite release the genre has, I'm partial to Pendulum's Hold Your Colour for emotional reasons, but it's definitely getting replayed. All this texture of sound from a graffiti artist, it has a time and a place but this is the good stuff. As a visual artist, I'm inspired. Brand new Goldie fan. 4/5
this album may be called “timeless”, but it sure felt like time stopped while listening to it. boring and repetitive.
Way too long and way too repetitive.
cool
Electronic music. Repetitive and boring.
The title is missing the word ‘not’ at the start.
Fine??
Great beats, some absolutely dreamy vocals scattered throughout, honestly I'm not a massive Jungle listener but I have to respect Goldie on this.
I didn't have enough X to make this listenable. And 2 albums? Nope.
This was cool but it dragged in the second half. This album was ahead of its time, some of it is dated but some of it still sounds fresh. The first 45 minutes or so was going to get a 4 but it just kept going too long and the last few songs were to similar sounding to be necessary. Cut a few songs and this is an easy 4 but as it is, it’s a 3 for me.
Like the vibe, will listen to it again.
I liked this a lot
Feels like a great, pioneering version of a type of music that I'm just a bit too stressed out by to fully enjoy. Love those Playstation graphics though.
An important, groundbreaking, influential piece of music with some great iconic sounds but as an album doesn’t flow terribly well. Dos the album title track really have to be 20 minutes long? Having said that would I be right in saying it was when jungle music became drum and bass and arguably then taken seriously as a musical genre?
I don't see the why this gets so much hate. This was a very influential record from the mid-Nineties that has a LOT of great songs on it. Sea of tears is an absolute banger! I'm so glad that I got to listen to this cold and dreary day. It brightened up my mood and made me work faster.
I will not include the bonus edits of "Inner City Life" in this review. I can't say I've heard of Goldie before. From what I gather, he started as a graffiti artist until his girlfriend at the time introduced him to British breakbeat music. From there, he began DJing himself, going on to become a pioneer in the jungle, drum-and-bass, and breakbeat hardcore genres. His debut record, Timeless, took the breakbeats and basslines common in jungle music with orchestral textures and the vocal delivery of soul singer Diane Charlemagne. As a result, it's an album that is equal parts sprawling and hypnotic. Take, for example, the opening title track, a 21-minute epic of three movements seemingly blended into one, complete with whirling breakbeats, airy swells of strings and flutes, and Diane's sultry vocals. It's the type of easy-listening, atmospheric piece that reveals more layers over time and maintains listener engagement. Similar sentiments can be made for other tracks like the buzzing synths and rhythm shuffling of "Saint Angel", the piano-driven sway of "State of Mind", the soft guitar line over the fast-paced breakbeats and seagull call sampling on "Sea of Tears" that felt evocative of a trip to the beach, and the more introspective cascade of electronic hisses on "Still Life". It's the sort of record that would have worked in the club or as a thoughtful listen while sitting down. That said, I do not consider Timeless to be a perfect record. It is a long one, clocking in at over an hour and 40 minutes. There is an alternate version of this record as a single-disc, removing some of the lesser-quality tracks like "This is a Bad" and "Jah the Seventh Seal", but I reckon it was the standard two-disc version that got all the notoriety. Also, the album title is admittedly ironic, considering how weirdly some of the experimentation has aged. While I imagine Goldie was trying to be forward-thinking with combining jungle with orchestral textures, the former genre is largely relegated to the early 1990s, with very few notable acts reintroducing it in underground scenes. Still, I had a good time listening to Timeless, and can recognize Goldie's thinking in bringing ambience and atmosphere to a sound rooted in energy and dance.
Perfect for focus at work
Overstayed it's welcome
Nice deep R&Bish
Long but the length wasn't an issue but wasn't super enthralling either
Listened previously. Expectations: Mid - Verdict: Alright - I like atmospheric DnB more than the big festival banger style but this drags on a bit more me to rate it as anything more than good.
Crappie
This was an amazing listening experience, got through almost the entire thing, some incredible electronic sound here even if it could feel a tad repetitive at times
A super mid electronica/DnB album, made even worse by it’s almost 2 hour run time. When I saw the run time after hitting play, I gave the album about 45 minutes, and I couldn’t go on any further. There was a song I was really enjoying, then it just kept on going and I eventually stopped caring.
2 hours I’m not going to get back
Got 15 minutes in and gave up. Not my jam.
This sounds nothing like I imagined it would... and is honestly kind of rad?
21 minute opening track, dont pmo. Every song thereafter was like 7 mins long. I'd never sit down and listen to this intentionally but I'd put it on in the background. Ps2 instrumentals were cool
I have a few notes before I give my rating. 1. Knowing that the main two audiences for this platform are from the US and the UK, I think there are genres from both sides that the other generally underrates. For the Brits, they tend to dislike hip-hop and country- I think that they don't really get why rap and hip-hop is important, but that's fine. For Americans, however, they really do not like DnB and British electronic music. That's a real shame. I love this stuff! I think it's one of the best exports to ever come out of the British Isles. 2. That being said. This album is waaaaay too long and has too many disparate parts. There are some things on here I quite like, but they're buried between mountains of mediocre music, none of which really relates to other parts. It just seems like a DnB compilation album of music that wasn't good enough to make it on the first compilation. I did really enjoy some songs, but a 20 minute opening track? Let's be serious. Don't know why this is on the list.
Oh no, not more drum 'n' bass... Even for an electronic music album this was surprisingly uneventful and repetitive. I found the chord progression in many songs weird which made me question whether they were in key at all. Not that they NEED to be, just sounded... bad. 'State of Mind' is an example. I overall found many of the melodies very dissonant and jarring as well. Then add the typical drum n bass drums on top of that... me no like. I understand that much of my criticism might potentially be invalid if this was one of the first defining drum n bass albums, but looking at it from today's standpoint it doesn't hold up to me. I enjoyed 'A Sense Of Rage', mostly because the sample from the original song I can't remember the name of. The rest was not to my liking.
There is a guy at my gym who puts on this type of music every time he’s there. He also wears barefoot running shoes for some reason. Drum N base is not good to work out to, but this album is ok to work at the computer while listening to. It doesn’t really get my blood pumping though. It’s the smooth jazz of the electronic world. Inoffensive, good to have in the background but never is the center of attention. Did it need to be 2 hours long? Absolutely not.
Long boring. Horrible listen.
Best Song: Inner City life - Baby Boy's Edit. The best vocal sample in the album. Worst Song: This is a Bad. To be fair, the title did try to warn me. Overall: It is okay, but that okay is stretched over such a long runtime that it starts to become bad. I find that the constant stutter-stepping became obnoxious, making the album unsuited even for background music as it would never promote getting into the "flow" of things.
Kinda long but still good
I liked state of mind :)
I liked a few songs and the overall vibe of the album, but not many things i would have in my normal rotation
very cool, easy to get lost in which i really liked. inner city life is great
i love drum and bass music!! this gets a bit tiring as a full album play but there’s some cool stuff in here!!
Beautiful, sounds like cyberpunk racing games for the N64 / PS1, it stays varied enough that it's easy to take even as an album but almost all the tracks are great individually I think.
It's not bad isn't something I would choose to listen to.
Another super atmospheric album that all sounds the same to me. I’m guessing there’s a lot more to this than I realize or there wouldn’t be so many of these albums on this list, I just don’t get it.
Timeless - 2/5 Saint Angel - 2/5 State of Mind - 2.5/5 This Is a Bad - 2/5 Sea of Tears - 1.5/5 Jah the Seventh Seal - 2/5 A Sense of Rage - Sensual Vip Mix - 2/5 Still Life - 2/5 Angel - 2/5 Adrift - 2/5 Kemistry - 2/5 You & Me - 1.5/5 Inner City Life - Baby Boy's Edit - 1.5/5 Inner City Life - Rabbit's Short Attention Span Edit - 1/5
Music slop. Never heard it before, never will listen to it again. It's way too long, and it's mostly just shitty sounds that don't sound good to me. Hard skip. 1 / 10 - would give less than 1 star if I could.
Music too weird for me.
Técnicamente no lo había escuchado en mi vida. Y al mismo tiempo suena igual que la música que ponen en los festivales a las 7 de la mañana.
Too long and repetitive
Album cover looks like something I might have made in Bryce in highschool. Thankfully the Dnb is better. Even so, I'm not much of a DnB fan and while this is less annoyingly "heavy" than most DnB, which felt like it went in a alpha male I like to beat all the heart out of my music direction as a genre, I still don't understand why it's on this list. I was debating between 2 and 3 for this, until I realized on only just made it to track 2--the opening track is an unnecessary 20+ minutes.
"Solid DnB fairly ruled by annoying vocals" is a reaction I have frequently to these sort of records. Do you want to make music, or do you want to be the soundtrack in a shoe store?
pretty good. Very Everything But The Girl
a ono... zzz... predugo i postane zamorno jbg
I'm rating this as 1 before even listening. Nearly 2 hours? Go fuck yourself
Not bad, but a bit samey after a while.
This is great, flew by.
Favorite Track: Jah the Seventh Seal
Ok, fine. But 2 hours??
Bad reviews say it sucks. Good reviews say it's best enjoyed tuning out. That's all you need to know.
Its all familiar and maybe feels like its been copied so much that it's generic but i did enjoy it. Didn't get all the wya through because it is vv long!
Nice. But tracks were too long for me
Chill lowkey D&B Neuro type music. Great for studying or have something in the background, thats not to distractong but you start to move your head
that was in fact Timeless. it was emotional, had cinematic elements. not much to dislike here
++: Saint Angel, Sea of Tears, A Sense of Rage, Adrift, Kemistry +: This Is a Bad, Nah the Seventh Seal +-: Timeless, State of Mind, Still Life, Angel, You & Me 6,7/10
Loooooong and like 1 banger
A two hour album featuring uncredited whales and seagulls and random appearances by what I must assume is a moonlighting Chewbacca? Sign me up. 1.0/5.0: Embarrassing
actually enjoyed this for the most part. the length and the random seagull sounds are my only real complaints.
очень необычное и запоминающее звучание. ощущаешь себя погруженной в инди игру нулевых. треки на фон зайдут еще как
I remember that Goldie fella. He's the one with the teeth, right? I don't remember hearing much of his music but do remember dismissing what I heard as crap, given the fact that it was. But it has been many years since then and perhaps now the music is good, given the fact Goldie probably no longer has teeth. This has some fleeting moments of goodness and the production is strong. I give credit for trying to make something epic and it was certainly influential. However, it's too long. Most songs are too long, there's too many songs, and most of each song is a repetition of the previous twenty seconds. I recognise that is a flaw with this type of music, music designed for the dancefloor and nowhere else, and it wouldn't matter if any song was two minutes long or twenty. The length doesn't impact the quality, just the experience. It's safe to say this isn't my kind of music, but people who like this genre seem to love this.
To była jedna z gorszych i bardziej męczacych płyt jakie w życiu musiałam przesłuchać. Nudna. Powtarzalna. Mechaniczna. I STRASZNIE DŁUGA. Wszystko czego nie lubię w elekrtonice. Lobotomia mózgu w kilku dźwiękach. 2.5/10 równane w górę, nawet nie wiem czemu.
So repetitive I had to fight to stay awake
An absolute textbook for classic Drum n Bass / Jungle.
savrseno
I'm not into two hours of whatever this is.
"Boss, you're alive! I'm so glad to see you!" "Me too" *shoots*
Meh
Cringeworthy album art + uninspired sonic slop.
Loved the first part, then got really bored.
An absolute masterpiece of the genre. Still sounds as modern as 30 years ago. Truly Timeless.
This gets an extra star from me just because I like drum and bass. This is probably an important work in that genre zone, I don't know if it would be a fit on a list of music to hear before one dies in general.
1 out of 5, DNF. I tried but this album got too repetitive. There was one nice moment but I forgot what track it was.
Familiar with Goldie the actor, not the musician. I’d like to keep it that way after listening to this album.
Excessively self-serving.
Long
I now know where Flight of the Conchords got Inner City Pressure.
I was far from excited when I was assigned to review this album, I’d never heard of the artist or the record before. I started listening and actually enjoyed the opening track for the first few minutes, but then it dragged on for a full 20 minutes. When I realized the entire album clocked in at almost two hours of essentially the same repetitive sound, with no discernible difference between tracks, my enthusiasm quickly faded. This might be more enjoyable under the influence, but sober, it felt like an endurance test.
Very well constructed. There's always a repetitive part, but something new changes in the background or moves to the front and becomes the repetitive part before it gets boring and then the motif comes back later on. There's a lot going on in general, but it all fits together well. That being said, it should have been 2 albums. It's way too long. Disc 1 would have been 4 star. And it does get boring eventually. Favorite song: sea of tears
Fine as background I suppose - but I'm not really interested in a full 2 hours of pretty anodyne dance/trance/jungle.
This sucked for me. The first song is 21 minutes and it's very background/video game soundtrack/drum and bass and becomes just noise. Pretty much "Letter Kenney Skids" music. Not for me.
Should be named Time I can't get back
Only listened to half but I really liked it except idk if songs need to ever be 15 minutes but who am I to say
This has been my favorite of the electronic albums so far. It’s truly cinematic, with lots of sweeping movement and soundscapes. That said, it was still a relief when it was over, not because I didn’t enjoy it but because I drove from LA to San Diego and still didn’t finish it and I can only take so much!
Any song on its own is just ok for a short time, but it's so repetitive and such a long album that I just couldn't wait to move onto something else by the end. 2/5
I listened to this for another list and really didn't care for it. I didn't hate it, but was very ready for it to be over by the end. 2/5
It went on too long
They didn't have to put the same track twice as album closer. Still I enjoyed this alot as the meditative work music this is supposed to be. 1001 album generator listeners just can't enjoy albums >67 mins.
Hard to believe this was released in 1995. I guess you could consider “Timeless” a pretty apt name in that case. The thing with these early drum and bass releases though, are that they tend to feel a bit bloated and often run on. Good for putting your head down and multitasking I guess. There are elements I enjoyed and I can agree that this paved the way for the jungle/drum and bass genre that would only grow from here. In addition to what I mentioned above, the “but” here is that the album probably could’ve ended after the third track.
No me lo escuché entero, la verdad, pero bastante guay. Un dnb atmosférico bastante guapo del 95. Me mola bastante el liquid así que me ha molado escucharme esto como papá del liquid. Eso sí, temas muy largos y el disco muy largo en general, de ahí que en el día de hoy no me lo haya terminado. Pero bueno buena mierda y ya le daré más estos días cuando le encuentre un uso más adecuado que me pida dnb. Feliz Navidad
Couldn’t make it very far. Not my taste.
Very dated. Sounds like the default track you used to get with any 'music maker' app for windows 95. Wait, this is 2hrs long! hard pass.
So far this one sounds soft and majestic with great ambience. I appreciate the harmonic movements and the great singing. Some interesting electronic sounds here. I’m digging the ominous vibes and experimental sounds. I think I’m listening to the 2cd version and I’m starting to find it a bit long and exhausting to listen to in one sitting. This is a great discovery nonetheless because of how creatively experimental it is.
113 minutes is too long for an album. There's nothing explicitly bad going on, musically, besides the sheer volume of music on offer and the utter repetitiveness of that volume. Averaged out and cut to 40 minutes, this might be a 2 or (at a stretch) a 3, but there's so much wasted runtime that I can't in good conscience give anything other than a 1. Yes, the first track is just 20 minutes of cosmic drummy synthy stuff, but at points it's surprisingly enjoyable. I'll give it a pass in isolation, but only because it's so early on the album. If I was 93 minutes into any album and I saw this sucker come on, I'd be launching my phone into the stratosphere. Saint Angel is much worse, being seven minutes of the exact same mildly annoying drum beat with synths quaintly throbbing in and out like guests at an open house. The first genuinely really good track here is State of Mind, which is defined by its piano, standard funk-soul-disco singing, and string section. You can't deny that this one is feel-good even if it's fairly clichéd. The looped electronic drums are also *not* a focal point here, which is invariably a highlight. After this point the tracks blend together, which (as an enjoyer of variety) I dislike. Every odd-numbered track is slightly better than their even-numbered counterparts, at least until Angel, which is a direct lift from the far superior State of Mind but without the gorgeous piano to justify it. Others, like Jah the Seventh Seal and Still Life, are plain, boring cyber-utopias (I didn't even know that was possible). Adrift is something that wouldn't be out of place on side 2 of Bowie's Low, but it overstays its welcome by a fair bit. Exotic airy music with a decent vocalist and no tempo. But it doesn't pick up steam for all 8 minutes, which is poor song design. You & Me is the only strong track in the album's latter half. It reminds me of Marble Blast Platinum. And if I had a nickel for how many albums I've compared to Marble Blast soundtracks in the last two days, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice. The two versions of Inner City Life are solid closers to an otherwise unforgivably lacklustre album. 1/5 Key tracks: State of Mind, You & Me, Inner City Life
truly the drums and bass of all time
I thought the music was decent. There were some nice beats in there, and the vocals on State of Mind were good too. If it wasn't so long, I'd give it a three, but with that runtime, it just gets boring half way through.
- I like d&b, but this didn’t really hit the spot for me. I wondered why I hadn’t gotten into Goldie given that I like d&b, but now I know… it wasn’t melodic enough for what I like (it was way too ambient). - I really don’t like the vocals…. they mostly feel like they're in a different key than the music/instrumentals and out of tune. And that’s coming from someone who really enjoys “pretty jungle” with women singing. - There are some interesting musical ideas (e.g., the nice baseline and guitar riffs in Sea of Tears, and general ambient noises). - This album is way too long.
Songs are just to long and there isn't enough variety within them to justify it, I like them just not 7-10 minutes of them
I’d don’t know man. Some of its good
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.
Fav: This is bad I danced my desk off. So influential: the jazzy sound of DnB and Jungle in the 90ies, paving the way to an entire new galaxy of genres.
I'm going to assume this is one of the seminal albums of DnB and Jungle as genres and that's why it's on the list. I can respect that. It's also incredibly repetitive drum loops and someone screwing around with every button on their electric keyboard. I guess you need to be in a dark club dancing at 1am and not doing your Christmas shopping at 2pm to enjoy it a bit. Or at all. Also good god it's long. At least 3 times too long.
Enjoyed working to this, put me in the zone
Ugh. Today’s going to be a short one because this album was a double album and right at two hours long. I made it through about five songs before I was just annoyed. I don’t need to be annoyed at Christmas time. I already feel like Charlie Brown up in this piece without some sort of electronic snare beaten into my brainpan. However, I did discover one thing about myself during this listening: I hate drum and bass music. Or, I may just loathe breakbeats. It took me a while to like them in metal, well, except for the most extreme cases. If you like drum and bass or electronic music and have never heard this album, according to Wikipedia, it’s like the gold standard. As for me and my house, we are not supporting this kind of trash.
Forced myself through listening to just half of this. Couldn't finish listening to the rest.
idt i can rate d&b but i thoroughly enjoyed it
Not bad, but basically all the same. Two hours is too much, stopped part way through because I don’t need videogame background music today.
Trance-inducing and atmospheric. Great beats interleaved with powerful vocals. I also find it cold and a bit sterile. Here's some English electronic music from 1995. I think it's probably good and you should listen to it. I wanted to stop at several points, though. It feels like my anxious, compulsive mind getting stuck on a few bars of music and cycling for hours. 3.5/5
DNF. I got bored and couldn't get through it.
Actually managed to get a couple of hours over Christmas to listen to some list albums but ended up spending the entirety of it on this. Don't mind bits of drum and bass and there were a lot of parts to this that I enjoyed but it's designed to be played in a club where you aren't paying full attention. A lot of repetition without building towards anything which is the issue I have with a lot of dance music. Not really one to properly listen to. There was inner city pressure which I spent most of thinking about flight of the conchords, a track with seagulls in and another 90 mins of misc. The right album for the right person but not me.
Competent stuff, but very much stuck in the 90s.
Every time we have some vaguely drum n bass type artist I always think the same. There is probably a time and place where I would quite enjoy this, but I would never choose to listen to it outside of that time and place. I didn't hate this by any means and perhaps it was groundbreaking at the time, but didn't feel that interesting in 2025. I'm going to say 2
No
Groovy sounds of 90s London, innit Bruv.
While I admire the craft, from my perspective, this is a load of techniques and production gimmicks in search of a song. Repetitive, dull and overlong - I guess I just don't get it... Sorry.
A 2 hour album that should have been a 2 minute song
meh... back in the day I liked Goldie, he represented sthg different & daring - and was dating Björk, but now this music sounds SO REPETITIVE - and this is the 3rd album in a row w/o any real vocals, which didn't help..I remember his relevence 30 yrs ago, but not feeling it now - test of time? Part of the musical fabric of the time? Sure, but ..
Too darn long. I just can’t get through it all. Not to mention electronica is too sterile for me. I just can’t see myself listening to this again in any context.
This is how I would imagine it sounds as molecules crash, converge, and create a zygote into a baby. It's peaceful and soft, then chaotic and manic and everything inbetween. A world inside a world.
Yeah. No. Love the ironic title though - very 90s.
10/12/2025 Can't say I was mightily impressed. It was long and boring. Spotify listeners: 202.6k
This album could’ve been great, but it got so repetitive after like first 2 minutes of every song that I just got tired of it very quickly
Another meh British electronica album.
Its fine, and I dont mind sticking it on whilst I work. But it doesnt feel fresh or novel any more and is way too long. 5/10
This jumps between stretches of spacey synths and bursts of rapid percussion - an odd combo given engaging dance albums and slow burns usually take different mindsets to enjoy. Every synth lead-in finds me wishing the exciting part would start. "Sea of Tears" is a good example of a song where the drums and bass really come together for a moment, but the ambient portions go on for far longer. Any variations in the atmospheric bits are fairly subtle, and while the percussion is also all pretty similar to the untrained ear that's less noticeable because those parts are a joy to listen to. The vocals don't help make the slower bits more interesting and (like on most dance albums in my opinion) could have been cut. Lacking many memorable melodies or hooks, the 2 hour runtime here is a slog unless you like spacey synths.
Honestly felt a bit trancey, very 90's
Besides video game and sci fi movie soundtracks not sure who this is for...what a slog.
precursore al drum and bass, ma più chill
Some gems in here, but a lot of very long songs that don't make much of an impact. Great study/work album though. 3/5
Bloated piece of garbage. I don’t care if it was influential, it sounds dated and it sucks even as a background noise for coding.
More boring electronic.
boring
Jungle’s grand maximalist statement arrives with all the subtlety of an air-raid siren and roughly the same listening stamina requirements. At 90-plus minutes—including a 20-minute opener that mistakes length for significance—Goldie’s breakthrough is less “timeless” than “endless,” a metallic swirl of breakbeats and diva vapor that’s impressive in theory and exhausting in practice. When he dials back the self-importance, you can hear the album he might’ve made: “State of Mind” floats a jazzy piano line and a humane vocal that briefly clears the fog, and “Adrift” hints at a classic torch song before the circuitry elbows its way back in. But taken whole, this is electronic grandeur as endurance test—innovative, sure, but only in the sense that it took me four days to get through it.
Really bad elevator music
Timeless? More like too much time, am I right? At an 1:53 this is about 1:45 more drum and bass than anyone could ever really need. I see 14 songs listed in the track listing, I have to believe it cause it just sounded like an endless drone. Every song sounds the same, boring as shit.
Fuck me, another two hour long drum and bass album. It sounds fine, and I kinda actually enjoy it, but again, two goddamn hours of music that all sounds the same. Take your 3 and leave me alone.
C'est horrible cette musique ces voix non ?
Eletronic English drum and bass...cool but a little enjoative
The album has some cool beats, it’s something that I could just have on in the background . 2.5 stars
Never heard of album or band. Not ready for a 2 hour album but here we go. First song is funky. Sounds almost like electric jazz, sounds thrown together. Apple Music says this is one of the most popular songs, I’m not making it all the way if that’s the case. Lots of different sounds but not much cohesion. Still not even halfway through the song. Needs to be done by now. It’s like one of those painting that looks like it’s just lines and colors in no particular order but for some reason it’s really famous. I was making beats like this as a 13 year old and they were just as bad. Second half are we fucking kidding. Very 90s/goofy. Stupid as alarms and phone rings. I can’t believe how much I hate this song. And they made it 20 mins. After minute 15 sounds like a horror film score. Not sure if the vocals were repeated enough (sarcasm). With all of this being said I like the outro minus the vocals. I like saint angel better, actually works together but should’ve ended after 3.5 minutes. I like state of mind, that piano is really good. First one that actually sounds like a real song. Pharrell vibes. Doesn’t even credit the vocalist which is the best part of the song, that’s crazy. 4 minutes too long once again. I like the baseline a lot. First minute of this is a bad was good, then it just gets weird. Sea of tears is kind of fun. Don’t need the guitar. Would like lyrics. Base at 340 is a great addition. Should’ve ended at 430. All of these songs are Extremly long for no reason. Especially considering there’s a lack of cohesion so you could just split them into two songs with a cool fade bridge from one to the next. There are some really good 30 sec-1min parts of all of these songs, but that means nothing when their 12 minutes long. Nah the seventh seal sounds like “futuristic” video game background music. Drums are pretty good. Back half sucks. Over produced. Beeps are annoying/way too loud. Bass line on sense of rage is sick, interested to see how it gets ruined. Called it, don’t know why they switched it up. Excess Beeps are much needed (not). This doesn’t seem like music that you could dance too. Still life is more of the same. Just not my style but I’m going to tough it out. Good working music because there’s nothing to get distracted by. Similar to the one minute thing I mentioned earlier, a lot of these songs have good elements just too much in top of it. Great vocals on angel. They need more of that. Back half is awesome. This is the best song on the album by FAR. Adrift sounds like an intro song, should’ve put it at the start. More of the same. Not really a fan. Whole album is the type of song that you’d play around your boys and they’d all say “what is his shit?” But in the worst way. None of these songs go together in the way I’d hope from a cohesive album. Maybe in cohesiveness is the theme and I’m not smart enough to get that. With that being said anyone who tries to tell you this is good is lying to themselves and probably sniffs their own farts. Is this what Europeans listened to in the 90s while America had jay z and mj and prince and Whitney Houston etc? They were missing out if so. Up until now I don’t have any worse than a two stars. This is getting a .5 just so it shows up as 1 star but I would not recommend to anyone. Half the time and I’d call it an average music production. It’s two hours of nothingness that my ears won’t get back. I hope this is number 1001 of the 1001 most influential. I can’t believe there’s still 4 songs left. Drums are super fast on kemistry. Did this type of music create the need for Molly or did Molly create this music? Either way both are bad for you. Cool outro on kemistry. First minute seconds of you and me 🔥🔥🔥. Next 5 is more overproduced bullshit. Piano is good. Admittedly I haven’t listened to much electronic, but comparing this to something like skrillex or avicii makes it sound like trash non sense. Inner city life baby boy edition is good. Actually sounds like a real song. Wish I didn’t have to wait an hour and half for it. Sick bass line. Normal length too. Rabbits version is worse. Didn’t need that. Like I said before, this album is getting a .5. I want my 2 hours back. Don’t waste your time.
Songs desperately in need of a running time limit/editorial control.
Listened while working and was good for productivity.
This is a really long album of dance/electronic music. It was okay.
Not so timeless anymore. Groundbreaking at its time.
Really long songs. It was fine.
I don't like this kinda electronic music, where it's just repetitive. It's probably cool to listen to at a club, while on substances, but at home sitting down, its boring.
Unsurprisingly the opening track didn’t need to be 20 mins long. A bit meandering
This is bad and sense of rage are standouts