Reviews (page 4 of 8)
I’ve never heard of Goldie before, but I see that this is yet another nineties electronica (okay, specifically drum and bass, for all the taxonomy sticklers out there) album from the UK. Also, much to my dismay, I see that this album clocks in at just under two hours. I’m definitely too mature to be stewing over that fact as I type this. I don’t hate listening to stuff like this on principle, but like jazz music, I feel I have no frame of reference other than “okay, that was fine to listen to, and it was definitely music.” Maybe Timeless will be the album that finally breaks through to me. Timeless wasn’t really my speed. I didn’t think this was necessarily a bad album, and I didn’t find anything grating about the music, but it was just tough to get into, and then get through. The title track was a slog to me. There were some distinct segments to it, but those segments that broke away from the main flow of the music just weren’t interesting to me, and when the main flow of the song came back, my ears couldn’t discern anything that had changed or evolved with the melodies. Diane Charlemagne’s vocals were really nice though, and they definitely added a distinctly nineties feeling to the songs that she was featured on. I enjoyed the next song, “Saint Angel” a bit more, but like the opening track, it just didn’t justify its run time to me. I did like “State of Mind” more than the first two tracks. I liked the gentler melody that wasn’t as reliant on rapid fire drum machines, and Diane Charlemagne’s vocals were very welcome again. “State of Mind” is when I started to get more into this album and finding more things about it that I enjoyed. “Sea of Tears” was probably my favorite song on the album. I liked the way that the song developed (which, at twelve minutes long, was a welcome thing to hear), and each different segment of the song felt like it was building on the previous segment, and adding more emotions to the sound. I really enjoyed the bass sounds on “A Sense of Rage.” I felt like this was one of the more unique songs on the album, especially with how the bass was utilized. “Angel” was really nice too, mostly due to more of Diane Charlemagne’s singing. All the other songs that I didn’t mention were fine, but they just didn’t bring anything to the table that I found noteworthy. This isn’t the type of album that I’d sit down and actively listen to again, but I wouldn’t mind having it on in the background while I take care of some tedious computer work.
State of mind is a tremendous song. Uplifting, beautifully sang with a heartfelt message. Inner city life is a near as possible a distillation of panic and calm in the same record. Those 2 songs are 2 of the best released in the 1990s. The rest of this album is ok but one for the drum and base heads really. It meanders a bit to put it politely.
Sprawling Drum & Bass odyssey of an album. It's pretty good too. But of course the 21 minute title track pretty much overshadows everything else, almost rendering the other songs unnecessary. Key tracks: Timeless
73/100. An album that definitely takes you on a journey. Has that classic 90s sound of deep, dark underground electronic music, with heavy drum and bass textures. It manages to feel both intense and calming at the same time. The runtime might be a bit much, but the quality make it worth sticking with.
Did not enjoy this. Boring and repetitive. I turned it off.
Kinda like its own version of Muzak but w a beat and chants. Waaay too long for what it is.
This all feels like free to use for ambiance or background in films. A bit bland.
Good music to code to but not really that great to sit and really listen too.
metalheadZ!!
I can't believe that a two hour long album which starts with a 21 minute long track is supposed to be the record he made *before* his head disappeared up his arse in search of a bag he'd stashed there. I don't have time for this, so I'll assume I don't like it and listen tomorrow.
pretty spacey but cool sounds. Sci fi music to cruise through space to (or; what Paul Atreides listened to in his room). Kind of morphs into songs from The Matrix which I like less.
Odd for something to sound so futuristic yet nostalgic at the same time. Drum' N bass mixed with smooth R&B vocals is so sick, it's music for people with awful attention spans. Now, the album being almost 2 hours long does make this a bit of a drag to listen to and does bring down the experience, but I got lost in some of these 10-minute-long songs. This sounds like I'm watching Adult Swim and Toonami as a kid again, and for that I'll give it a 3.5/5. (Also, INNER CITY LIFE was from this album! I've heard this song since I was a kid and never knew who TF made it till hearing this album finally, for that alone I'll bump it to a 4)
Decent techno/electronica, just not to my taste exactly. Some samples I had heard used in other, later songs.
This was way too long for me.
I like the drum and bass genre in general, but a fair amount of can be somewhat annoying. This I quite liked, although I can’t quite put my finger on why. Longer than it needed to be. 3.5 rounded up.
Am I going to play this again? No. But do I think listening to it on my headphones, sober, while doing legal research, is the optimal setting to give it a fair shake? Obviously not. Goldie didn’t write this while simultaneously blue-booking; how can I expect to enjoy it when I am?
I enjoyed this album listen! I generally like lofi techno/electronic music. This album felt a little long and repetitive to me but it was nice music to have on in the background while I was working on various tasks. Overall, I liked this album fine but would probably only listen to it again if I needed some chill lofi music to have on in the background while I was working or doing other tasks.
This is ok. A little rough in places
90s drum n’ bass. Groundbreaking for electronica. Loong, repetitive songs, but that’s the genre.
Literally could not finish this. Atrocious. I checked in on the progress because I was starting to get annoyed only to find there was still nine minutes left in the FIRST SONG. Please no more 2 hour electronica albums I'm at my limit. If I could give this zero stars I would
I typically enjoy this genre, but this was quite the cacophony
Opens with a 21 minute song that sounds like I'm having schizophrenia while surfing the web in the 90s
Buena grabación en el estudio y gracias a las voces femeninas resulta soportable. vale para escuchar de fondo.
DNF, sorry. I truly didn't expect this to get better. I don't think it's completely artistically lacking if you're into Y2K British dance music but I am very much NOT so, you know, life is too short. It really does sound like the kind of thing Jez from Peep Show would love, that's actually becoming a common vibe when albums from this genre and this era appear on the list. You had to be there, I suppose.
Thoughts before listening: Is this an album cover or the menu on a PS1 first person shooter? This is going to be some sort of weird, 90s industrial techno or something isn't it? Not excited for this one. Review: This sounds like the music playing in the bar scene of some 90s sci-fi thriller movie set in a dystopian future. Think Strange Days or eXistenZ. In the way that those movies haven't (((YET))) reflected our reality (description for eXistenZ: "The movie eXistenZ is set in the year 2030. In the film's world, bio-ports are surgically inserted into people's spines to connect them to "UmbiCords," which are part of organic video game pods that have replaced older electronic systems.") the music that was supposed to be in our future hasn't quite manifested itself either. Sure there are still people listening to drum n bass techno, but its cultural relevance is mostly contained to music festivals and late night raves. Just like in the 90s. This isn't for me, and this album is more annoying than anything. 2-stars Oh man, I thought I was on like track 4 when I wrote the above...nope, still on track 1, all 20 minutes of it. This album is 2 hours long? I'm out. I'll still stick with the 2-star rating though cause even though I don't like this style of music, I'm sure its influential for those who do.
feels like a panic attack
I tried but not really my thing
zweiti hälfti besser
ok i get it. drum and bass is a genre that don't have much appeal. and its british. and honestly i like drum and bass but i hate this. i hate it when the "drrr-drrr-drr-dum dum dum dum deh deh deh deh deh" and stuff don't start in the first 3 seconds. 3/5
Ma question: qui veut écouter ça de son propre gré?
"Musique" scandaleuse de technocrates sur l'Adderall. En terme de ressenti, l'AI peut sûrement faire mieux aujourd'hui. J'ai ragequit après 2 tounes. Il est où le bouton 0 étoile ?
C’est rough. Je peux comprendre que c’est un album important pour le développement du Drum and Bass, mais j’aime pas le Drum And Bass. Clairement de la musique pour écouter sur le dancefloor, endroit où je n’étais pas hier. Je me sentais agressé par le beat constant et répétitif. Même les chansons plus « pop » genre State of Mind sonnaient un peu ringardes. En plus, juste pour le cover hideux j’enlèverais une autre étoile.
Sinceramente empezó y me dio paja, no toy para este trance
I had no idea Goldie thought he was a musician.
Music to chill to. I liked it.
Timeless — дебютный студийный альбом британского электронного музыканта Goldie. Он был выпущен 7 августа 1995 года на лейбле FFRR Records. Альбом считается революционным в истории драм-н-бэйс. Тот альбом, который определённо нужно слушать целиком, а не треки по отдельности. Электронно, слегка кислотно. Выделяется на фоне остальных прослушанных здесь альбомов, которые в основном в жанре рок. Очень нравится, но это альбом не для ежедневного прослушивания, а именно что для впечатлений.
I read a comment that it was perfect music for coding - I would agree. I also don't code.
These selections are a book called 1,001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. In no way did I need to to hear almost two hours of sonic jumble and la-di -da, somehow combining smooth jazz and lite techno in an indulgent creator’s ramble that must have pleased Goldie very much, but bored the hell out of me. Do better, 1AYMHBYD. Do better.
Booooo!!!!
1. Never heard of Goldie in my life, but apparently he’s a very prominent EDM figure? 2. Wtf, the first song is 21min… this is going to be a long listen 3. Ah ok, you can already tell 5min into the first song that he’s a D&B artist 4. Timeless sounds like multiple songs/ideas/beats spliced together, dude just needs to stick with one or split into multiple tracks 5. This is the exact music I imagine was played at the 90s rave clubs 6. Ok, State of Mind has some more jazzy funk to it, maybe it won’t all be the same D&B rave music 7. Sea of Tears has weird as hell background sounds 8. Adrift is very vibe-y, liking it a lot 9. Why does every song have to be more than like 6min… 10. I can see why Inner City Life is his most popular song, it’s definitely the most easy listening and good bops 11. I’m a huge EDM fan, but D&B tends to be one of my least preferred genre of it. The album overall is good, but it has the same negatives I have from most D&B in that it feels like the songs blend together a lot and there’s not much variety overall
I feel this genre doesn't really do it for me... Jungle, drum and bass but some tracks still hit. So it's good for a genre I'm not that into.
00's vibes. Reminds me of toonami/adult swim BGM.
You know what? I do like it. It's way too long and there's way too much of this sort of thing on this list, but Goldie gets a thumbs up from me.
Good music to have on in the background, which is to say I didn’t enjoy it but wasn’t aggravated by it either. It’s an almost-two-hour collection of (I can only assume) well-constructed drum and bass and it doesn’t do anything for me. Box checked, horizons expanded, moving on, thank god.
I have a plush doll named Goldie. I got her while on vacation. I don't remember the country where I got her, but it was probably in {Honduras, Grenada, Costa Rica, Mexico}. Originally, her name was Goldielocks. However, one time, when I was playing with her while being babysat, I swung her by her hair, and her hair got detached. Granted, you cannot be called Goldielocks without any locks, so now, her name is just Goldie. I still have her braids, and I've tried making my other plushies wear her hair. Goldie is my adorable bald princess. Anyway, her favourite colour is orange, her favourite activity is sleeping, and she is quite friendly. This album is a drag, by the way. 1.5/10.
interesting, but not my style
Ironic for an album called Timeless, that this has a sound that so clearly dates it to that particular time
# Album Name: Timeless # Artist: Goldie # Rating: 1/5 # Comments: Timeless? more like endless! This thing goes on and on and on and then on some more. WTF. Nearly 2 hours of this shit is unbearable. The songs are stupidly long for the sake of being long. Theres definitely a time and a place for this. Im sure its in the basement of a london hangout somewhere off yer tits on mandy. # Top Tunes: State of mind # Would I listen to it again? No
Ganska tråkigt att lyssna på, men bra bakgrundsmusik. Trea
Maybe if I had a head full of MDMA...
Used this album as background noise to block out distracting noises. It worked perfectly for that, but whenever I paid attention, the album sounded a bit boring.
Never really sure how to rate music clearly made for clubs/raves. If I was zonked out of my mind and at a club this may have been a 5 star banger but for listening sober while I'm working in my office it was not a great listening experience. I don't think it was bad but really no idea how to judge it so giving it 3 stars.
Cool that I learned the Flight of the Conchords reference on Timeless. But let's be honest, I'm never going to listen to this again. For me, Goldie will mostly be known as the henchmen in The World Is Not Enough.
Drum and bass is not my thing.
Mescalin must have been so fun in the 90's.
That is very good. I don't recall hearing it before, which is a shame because I can D&B all day long. High 3s but imagine it will grow to a four with repeats.
Kind of dull and repeating. A 2 hour edm album that doesn't go to interesting places was a herculean task.
Ironic that an album called 'Timeless' manages to take almost 2 hours to play. I didn't hate it, but I will probably never play it again. Background music, repetitive background music.
Timeless, as in time becomes meaningless? I actually didn't hate this in the background, but I also don't think I REALLY listened to it, it was just there as constant noise, much like existential dread that you know is there, but don't want to examine too closely, so you just learn to live with it and mostly just ignore - you know?
Only recently discovered bass and drum as a result of this project. I like it, but I'm still not sure I get it. Perhaps it is a think in this space, but this album seemed overly long and repetitive. Like the intent of most songs was extending the thread until it became tiresome and therefore just there (and for ADD me becoming more forgettable). I'm neutral here. Perhaps I'll try again, but my wife hated it and it is two hours...so, probably not.
This album had it moments, but after a while it was all the same.
I enjoyed it, more complicated and involved I would have figured but entirely way too long.
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Not bad but all these jungle/breakbeat trip hop style electronics need to let me be in the right mood for them. There's enough variety on here though to keep it interesting.
Nothing timeless about another space aged instrumental.
I cannot listen to an album this long, simply don’t have the time. I imagine this is the case for a lot of people- as an artist I think it is an interesting choice to make. Either way, there were parts of this I liked but couldn’t stick around long enough to find them all. Generally drones on and on though so that’s the reason for my low score. Could have been tighter
Sure. This is decent for this type of music, but how many of these electronica albums are going to be a part of this project?
I guess this is what the future sounded like in the mid-90s. This hasn't aged as well as something like New Forms, which still sounds fresh. But it feels like Goldie was aiming for broader appeal here - it sounds too polished, too produced, and ultimately, a little soulless. Of its time. And very long.
BALLS to Britpop. The real soundtrack for the summer of '95.
Bliepjes, flitsjes, schuivertjes, beatjes en een boel andere geluidjes. Op zich leuk, maar helaas niet boeiend genoeg. Bij meerdere keren draaien wordt het een soort achtergrondmuziek. De grootste attentiewaarde is eigenlijk dat de maker een paar jaar later een klein rolletje had als handlanger van een James Bond-schurk. 'Tijdloos' kan ik het niet noemen...
Eerder noemde ik de D&B van eind jaren ‘90’s uitwisselbaar. Ik word nu wat op mijn plaats gezet. De schijf van Goldie doet zijn best om het wat interessanter te maken. En het is zelfs wat ouder dan het eerder voorgeschotelde Roni Size of het door mij aangehaalde Aphrodity. Het album start met het nummer Timeless wat een soort mix van nummers is gedreven op de hit Inner City Life. De D&B klanken van het begin worden versterkt door een zangeres. Het geeft het nummer mede door de lange lettergrepen een Eurodance-achtige klank. De lage langzame bassdrums op de achtergrond versterkt ook de snelle drums. Bij elkaar is het geheel sterker dan de optelsom van de losse delen. Hierna volgt een kaler (deel van het) nummer, waarin ook de korte stilte als muzikaal element wordt meegenomen. Dit eerste nummer van 20 nummer geeft een duidelijk beeld van de rest van het album. Het zoekt steeds wat voor die tijd vernieuwende elementen. Over het algemeen geldt dat op verschillende manieren rust en snelheid mooi samengebracht worden. Af en toe is er een uitstapje. Zo biedt het tweede nummer rave-achtige geluiden. En zijn de beatloze toeters met het ge-lalala van Adrift een belachelijk intermezzo op een rare plek op het album. Ik kom er wel overheen. Wel skip ik een paar van dit soort dingen als ik het een tweede keer opzet. Maar dat ik een dubbelalbum gelijk nog eens aanzet, geeft wel aan dat ik dit prima kan waarderen.
Wat moet ik hier nu helemaal van vinden? Het is drum n bass, af en toe met een aardige sample of wat zang er doorheen. Het is niet slecht ofzo, maar het duurt maar en het duurt maar. En ik verveel me gewoon de tering bij deze muziek, zelfs als ik aan het werk ben. Ik heb het na 4 tracks afgezet, toen had ik er al meer tijd op zitten dan het gemiddelde 1001-album duurt. Ik zal het op 2 sterren houden, omdat er muziek die nog saaier of slechter is.
Una odisea electrónica con Drum&Bass voces soul jungle y todo lo que se quiera llamar pero tanto este como el posterior Saturnz Return son excelentes influyentes y disfritables. Aquí destacan la titular y sobre todo State of mind. Sea of tears te da un breve respiro hacia Jah the seventh seal que es d&b del bueno. Angel es otro buen tema, como Kesmistry, pero Adrift es aun mucho mejor. De lo mejorcito del lote. Esta e Inner life pueden ser las que mejor reflejen el sentimiento del álbum
I love Drum & Bass. Like, I LOOOOOVE Drum & Bass. Just need to make that absolutely clear. THAT SAID, I can't say I'm crazy about this album. Actually, I straight-up DON'T like this album. Metalheadz is huge and vitally important, representing a standard in Drum & Bass that still endures. There are many, many classic as fuck tracks and artists under the Metalheadz banner. The Metalheadz logo is itself iconic and has long represented the sound and feel of Drum and Bass. What we have here is that mid-90s era where beats are a bit slower than where they'd end up by the end of the 90s. That's okay, but the play time on these tracks is excessive. Like the track "Timeless" is over 20 mins long when it could have been 10 and would still be a long-ass song. This album is close to 2 hours long. I absolutely appreciate what is done with 90s electronic music production given much of the limitations imposed, particularly with regard to limited sampling capacity. And this album obviously seeks to take it's time and create immersive soundscapes. The synths and atmospherics on this are often great. The drums are mid. I feel this way about most of Goldie's work, that the sound and atmospherics are great, but the drums aren't ever fully doing it. "State of Mind" is very adult contemporary jazz. Feels weird listening to it. Hard to get through. "This Is a Bad" is aptly-titled and could also be named "This Is a Mess" 'cause the the drums are seriously all over the place and not in a good way. This sounds like it shouldn't have been pressed, but rather the file should have been deleted. Holy shit. Sounds like no one wanted to tell Goldie that it's fucked up. "Sea of Tears" sounds like a home studio buff who started dabbling in breakbeats, with a lot of guitar on top and a baseline that's too loud in the mix. Song is fuckin' 12 minutes long. This album is a hard listen. I try to stay committed to keeping other activities limited when listening to an album off the list, but I had to get up and do shit while this played. Fuck man. It's conflicting giving it 1 star 'cause I do like a lot of the sounds here. Like I would love to have access to the samples and synths used 'cause they could be turned out proper. But I don't ever want to listen to this again. Shouldn't be on this list. I know critics never pull the best Drum & Bass to represent the era, and I know that this album is a piece within the whole Drum & Bass story, but fuck. I would hate for this to be someone's intro to the genre. This is so boring. Sooo boring.
It's 1995. You've got your crappy, just a step above terrible, walkman headphones on. You've been banging on the Alesis drum machine you got for Christmas for hours. You somehow cobbled together enough money to pick up some sounds you can use on your "masterpiece" of an album. You think it sounds pretty good. Your mom barges in to tell at you to clean your room and then go touch grass just as your putting on the final touches. "I will, mom, gawd!"
This is 1 hr 52 min too long.
A bit on the long side. Might have received an extra half star if it was half the length. I'll say 3/5
There's a lot of blastbeat drums in this, damn. I thought this was gonna be some kind of "golden oldie" Nanci Griffith type album and was not expecting the jungle clinic.
This album should be called not timeless because it's fucking long! Some interesting beats but wayyyy too long, I didn't even finish it.
I thought this album was of infinite length but it does in fact end eventually
Nope
“Inner City Life”, along with “Block Rockin’ Beats” by the Chemical Brothers opened my mind to EDM in high school. I’ve loved it ever since!
Truth to be told, there were some gems buried under this monstrous album, though most of the tracks -- especially the vocal-focused ones -- were lacklustre.
Garbage
Loved this, super flowy and smooth. Got me through a work day. Also love seeing lots of irate boomer reviews for this one.
90s drum and bass perfection 🤌🏻
timeless indeed!
sounds well produced, hard to rate fairly when not experiencing it as it should be played
This is just not good either. I could have gone my whole life without listening to this. The songs go on for FAR too long and go NOWHERE. They are so repetitive and boring. I gave this .5 stars on Musicboard. Liked Songs: "State of Mind" and "Jah the Seventh Seal"
I thought for maybe 3 minutes that this would be interesting. It wasn't. 1.25
Electronic beats, dragged on for a while
Wasn’t going to listen to this, but glad I did, really liked it.
Not for me
Boring electronica…next…
Blind album and artist. I prefer big beat i think over drum n bass. This was just too much for me and too long it felt. Maybe it was the over repetition.
The Good: We can listen to this anytime… The Bad: Finding out it is EDM… The Ugly: The looks I get when calling this EDM, as it seems to be D&B… I hate EDM, most electronical music, and gangsta rap… It seems that I don’t hate Goldie, go figure. It was an enjoyable listen, it serves great as background music when you are trying to get shit done… I don’t have too much else to say, except that I will give this a 4*...
Cool electronic beats
Actively listening to this album, esp a 20+ minute opener, is a big ask. We should be hearing 30 seconds of this in the underground warehouse club scene of a cop procedural, caged go-go dancer looking on as a guy in eyeliner is shook down for information. Or on the apartment stereo of a person who is taking too long to sell you these drugs. What I'm saying: this is situational music, and the laptop in my office is not the situation.
I really like this. It blends drum & bass breakbeats with generous helpings of soulful vocals, ambient atmospheres and jazz guitar, lending it a kind of sci-fi feel. You can dance to it, but it also has an after-hours vibe, and it’s chill enough to put you in a frame of mind to bear down and focus on work. Full of drama, tension and release, it’s proof that music made with electronic machines can absolutely be expressive and human.
I like this but if this comes at the expense of Amon Tobin I'm going to be pissssssssssed.
Deep and soulful vocal + breakbeats is a winning combination for me, every time. 4.5 stars TBH.
There are only some artists with so much to say that their debut should be a double LP or CD. This is not one of them. Fine as background but I dont need 100+ minutes of it.
Oh! Something I know nothing about. I've never heard of Goldie before. And wow...105:47 run time!? Fun album. Got my D&B fix for a while.
I don't like Electronica. But this did not have high pitched tones that I tend to find irritating. That being said, this grew tedious.
Not bad. Has some good atmosphere and drum and bass lines but the songs and album as a whole goes on and on and on. The vibe is on point though.
#718. There is entirely too much of this kind of electronica from this book. Honestly this is one of the better ones, but still I have very little desire to sit through this entire thing. 2/5: meh
It was ok
This kind of music genuinely stresses me out
If this list has taught me anything, it's that I really should put more thought into trying LSD or Ecstasy at some point. It's very clear that I'm not the target demographic for a lot of the albums on this list because I've been sober for 19 of the 19 years I've been alive. That being said, it's a pretty good album. The parts that deviate from the DnB/Jungle kind of style especially stand out. The actual DnB songs are pretty good, too. I like the really high energy that the style brings, and I especially like what the singer does with it. To reference my favorite review I've seen on this website so far, this album is full of tippy tappy plinky plonky noises that go round and round for 113 minutes, and it's great.
Ain't nobody got time for that. Album art 1/5
some parts are ok most parts are way too long and boring
Nice drum and bass album that I wasn't expecting. It was nice to hear something different today with this really good album. I have not heard of him before today but his story is interesting and the music is really good, if you like d&b. It reminds me of listening to edm in the basement of my friends house smoking weed when I was in my early 20s. Good times.
It sounds like someone who likes 90s music used GarageBand for the first time. Fav- Kemistry
Bueno igual, me gustó.
JUST MAKE THEM SHORTER!!!!
If you really like drum and bass, this album has a lot of that for you. If you don't, well... Some tracks fade into the background nicely, I guess.
I was dreading that the hour and a half ish length would be a complete turn off but listening to it while working on something it turned out to be a great companion for just working on my stuff. Its atmosphere is more laid back than I imagined, more new agey and also more RnB inspired. Again, it makes for a pleasant experience when you just want to have something in the background that isn't just ambient music. So yeah, pretty good I think
Nope.
angel is such a good song
Timeless: Inner City Life/Pressure/Jah 2 Saint Angel 0.4 State of Mind 2.2 This Is a Bad 0.5 Sea of Tears 0.2 Jah the Seventh Seal 0.1 A Sense of Rage (Sensual V.I.P. mix) 0.2 Still Life 0.1 Angel 0.2 Adrift 0.3 Kemistry 0.1 You & Me 0.2 Score: 0.541666667
drum & bass
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Alright
Cacophonous and long. 2.
If you're a fan of Jungle and break, this will by far be your favorite album on this entire list. A behemoth of an album, spanning nearly two hours, it's practically non-stop with possibly the best Drums and Bass you can ask for. Being a run time of almost 2 hours however has its consequences. Some songs may feel like they run on for way too long without really developing into something worthwhile, like A Sense of Rage, which ends up dampening the experience quite a bit. This is an album you've gotta listen in multiple segments to truly appreciate. Going through it all is like a marathon that will absolutely leave you high and dry. In fact, while the flow is absolutely incredible between songs, this album arguably works better if you listen to each song individually rather than a collective group. The title track is a work of art with how atmospheric it can be, and it may be the big reason why I'll be revisiting this album far more in the near future. You & Me is probably my current favorite if you don't include the Bonus Tracks, in which case Inner City Life (Baby Boy's Edit) may be my favorite. They're both far more digestible to my mind, which is something I believe makes it stand out in an album full of jaw dropping songs.
A pretty good album, I liked the two versions of Inner City Life the most.
This is a 3-disc album that could have been a solid .5 discs. Started great, but got repetitive quickly.
Definitely not. 1/5
It's Goldie, it's timeless, it's jungle
Syntetisaattori musiikkia pahimmasta päästä
Al tercer corte ya me olía por dónde iba la cosa, y no, no iba bien. Este disco de drum and bass con pretension ambient tiene una pulcra producción y una calidez inusual a otras músicas de este estilo que es lo que para mí se salva. ¿Es escuchable? Sí. De hecho me lo he tragado enterito mientras hacía ejercicio, no es mal acompañante. ¿Me emociona? No. Me es difícil rescatar algún tema que sobresalga.
This made me feel like I was in a 90s commerical in all the wrong ways
I actually don't hate drum and bass music- I definitely don't particularly like it but the irritability alot of people express when confronted with this type of music doesn't really hit me. That being said, I thought this album was mostly pretty boring to listen to. Super repetitive, not particularly impressive and way too long.
This was not an album I needed to hear before I died. There were elements I liked, but they were repeated ad nauseam. Every single song went on several minutes too long and they used the same beat in every song. It literally just reminds me of the music that the goth kids in Letterkenny dance to.
fun, if a bit overlong
AN HOUR AND 53 MINUTES?!?????!??????? Starting an album with a very unnecessary 20 minute track should be met with a sentence to the guillotine. To sum it up, this is basically just “electronic” babble.
Generally a fan of the genre, but this stuff is derivative and uninspired. I'll give it two stars because the instrumentation is good, I just don't think they have anything terribly interesting to say. Best guess is another UK act that no one really cares about other than the author.
Appreciate the concept and liked the more ambient tracks but not a dnb guy
I just couldn’t find much to be excited about with this album. It was fine as background music, but that’s about it.
Oh hell no. There are house and big beat acts that I like, I'm not against edm/dance music. BUT, this is so dull, so boringly repetitive and WAY too long. Seriously, too long, and that's from someone who isn't afraid of a 20 minute jam. Hard no from me.
Definitely not my jam, I am more of a fan of Massive Attack / Tricky and sometimes Lords of Acid electronic music and beats. This was just kinda boring.
I’m sorry, Goldie, I don’t even technically think you’re the worst British electronica album I’ve gotten - but, I just can’t TAKE any more! It’s the most overrepresented genre on this list, it’s truly insane. They’re all well over an hour long (this one is TWO HOURS), mostly forgettable, and have had minimal to no influence on music that came afterwards. This genre was hot for a minute, a flash in the pan, and then the mainstream moved on. Like, I’m sure the guy who made this list had a great time tripping to this music at raves in the late 90s, but that is no excuse for the absolute PROLIFERATION of these albums on this list. Have some fucking objectivity, dude.
Langweilig
very long and very repetitive
There are these moments, that are pretty energetic and make me want to move, but also some, that are baffling in their annoyance. Doesn’t work in most situations, but walking home last night in the rain, it was definitely a mood.
Really good music to listen to while working! It was my first time hearing of either this artist or album, so a pleasant surprise! Despite its length, it didn't feel too bloated to me, and I can hear how this album might have been influential to other artists/genres that I listen to.
Hated. Annoying. I shut off before completed.
Я загалом поважаю d&b та джангл 90х в UK. Не дуже часто слухаю, але є іноді є настрій. Ось ця варіація цих жанрів взагалі не моє. Цей дрімі ембієнт розтягує треки на якийсь неадекватний хронометраж. Є класні моменти, але в цілому трохи нудьгуав поки слухав. Ну і дуже довжелезний альбом.
Послухав перший трек, не дуже моя музика, тому буду скіпати.
uk garage!! give me more of this!! трішки простенька на мій смак, але дуже добро зроблена робота. все одно є оце нашарування текстур, які лоскочуть твій мозок. є ця електронна атмосфера дев'яностих, яку не можна передати інакше, коли технології ще вважались чимось загадковим та крутим, а сприйняття світу ще не було перезавантажено інформацією зі всіх сторін (це дуже відчувається в музиці, більш повільний ритм, більш лаунджевий вайб). це поки найкраще, що я чула тут, бо не тільки є просто дійсно якісною музикою, але і найбільш підходить під мої жанрові смаки.
D&B, oddly familiar sounding
Almost 2 hours I wish I could get back.
Interesting, ambient - I quite enjoyed it for a change. I don't think I'd seek it out again if I were in the mood for ambient-y things though.
An almost two hour long drum'n'bass album from the mid-90s. I can see why it was influential, but to me it was too repetititve and long without many interesting melodies and songs, only a couple of them were more memorable and enjoyable.
Wipeout: the album. Makes me want to play Wipeout.
not a big fan of this music but it sounds ok
Not really for me, but a couple bits I enjoyed. Would benefit from a reduced run-time.
Ehhh, not for me really. Some parts were cool with headphones but it was a bit of an endurance test to get through it all.
not for me, but not unpleasant
It was fine. Nothing too special
I tried. I just don't like tecno. The first song was 22 minutes of the same thing over and over and over and over... I high school music nurd with a keyboard could make this. The other songs were different titles, but the same thing in a faster or slower tempo.
The 21 minute intro song is great but the rest of the album is pretty hit or miss I'm not generally into jungle music though. 6/10 Favourite: Timeless Least Favourite: Adrift
Dad- 6 Mom- 5 Mike- NA Lori- 5 Michael- NA Miles- NA Cole- NA Avg- 5.33
I actually enjoy drum and bass music and considering this is considered a "groundbreaking release in the history" of the genre I was excited. But I don't know. Maybe these albums aren't meant to be listened to this way. Meaning, as one complete experience rather than different tracks by different artists mixed together by a talented dj. It was a painful one to get through.
The title track is pretty good, the rest is dross. If you get this album on the list, listen only to the first track.
Protobreakcore. Pretty fun and good electronica.
Tough listen - it’s very long and each track seems to go on forever. Hard to pick any stand out tracks as they all kind of sound the same in the end!
It's the Sonic the Hedgehog video game soundtrack ... Not really ... but same vibe
Back in the dayz i was really into Dnb.This album was the first that i bought and it really blew me away until this very day.The soundscapes along with the drum programming and the lush vocals is what made this album really timeless like its title and emblematic.Inner city life is a hymn.
Nice drum ‘n’ bass with a mix of samples. The album actually takes some moments to breathe too. It’s not just wall-to-wall breakbeats. There are some mellower intros and outros and the occasional softer track that changes up the formula. I actually could have skipped those bits — I’d rather maintain the high energy. But I enjoyed this overall.
There's something really impressive about an album that starts with a 21 minute track. I love that kind of boldness... not all of the time, but with this kind of album I definitely did. I blinked and this album finished. It was amazing though, I really thoroughly enjoyed it. I listened to it while in a flow state hammering out some interface designs at work for an all-day work event and it was a perfect thing to listen to while being so focused. I really felt like this album breathed and that's unusual for this sound.
Two hours?! Why are D&B albums always so flipping long? It's not some operatic concept album, it's a drum machine having a frantic wank
I love DnB and I know Goldie is so influential, but having experienced so much since that era that's much more interesting, I can't rate this very high. The album just gets boring as it goes on, never really keeps me engaged.
Not for me. Imagine drum and bass made on a Casio keyboard in the 90s
Good ol' 90s Electronic music. Drum 'n Bass was a staple for me around this time, while attending raves for breakdancing and other things. The music is upbeat, drums are fast, incorporating airy sounds and harmonizing female vocals. Reminds me of my youth, but not something I would listen to regularly.
I dont think I like EDM or whatever this is.
good good good but why so long
There's a lot of good in this album, and it is a vibe at times, but man is it too long. I can live with a 20 minute drum and bass track: at least it's interesting, but 2 hours is just too long to be in 90's Drum and bass land
different
What in the Peepshow is this all about? State Of Mind wasn’t a bad tune but the rest….not for me. Meh.
This is Melon Collie levels of long, and I don’t have that much time nor the attention span to listen to it. DNF/5.
Reading the reviews on here I thought I was in for a bad ride. This is actually pretty good. Not sure what these people are smoking. It may not be Dark side of the moon or the Abbey road but its definitely a must listen.
Jungle is massive - it's nearly 2 hours long. There are some beautiful textures though. It's much more mature and definitive than I expected.
Meh
It's dreamy, it's percussive... it's a little too long (see almost any 90s album, including the classics), but it's good. Would probably kill as a DJ set, I almost get a sense of FOMO from trying to be more attentive than it likely is seeking from a listener.
So this is the beginning of drum and bass. It's a pretty sonically suave album that doesn't really have some of the hard edge that a lot of this genre later came to adopt. The fast drum beats are kind of subdued for the most part, just playing background to the atmospheric samples and keyboard work that dominates most of the sound here. It's a very listenable album--although I remember hearing some of these tracks back in the day at raves or clubs, I'd never sat down to get through the whole album. 4/5, and would likely be higher if I was more of a D&B fanboy.
Ugh boring 90’s Edm.
No one needs to hear this. Ever. Right at the top of the worst case this list.
Better than Coldplay
drum and bass
jungle? drum and bass?! i'm about to gobble up this album like it's a damn all-you-can-eat buffet. this album is educational material, kiddies... a pivotal and historical album for the genre i would say. this album is a raw blueprint for the breakin' junglist and electronic sounds, wide spacious pads and chord stabs, repeating vocal chops and soulful quips, uber-fancy drum beats ... even after 30 or so years, this album sounds very futuristic... and oddly sexy. this little cd here is the textbook definition of 1990s uk club culture. buss di stylish sound straight inna yuh eardrum, mek di music tek control! budda deng deng, di deng deng deng di deng deng!! give me more, give me more.
No
Really good
this whole genre of music is supaboring and useless
What a wild ride this was.
I'm not the biggest fan of 90s electronic. I do love a lot of electronic music but something about 90s electronic drives me nuts. A lot of the times I think it's the vocals or I just find it kind of boring. This record is actually pretty decent though. I still don't love the vocals or the drums but they do some pretty cool psych stuff which I really vibe with.
This is vibey ear porn. One of those that I don't gravitate towards, but when its on, its easy to get sucked into it. Its trancelike and flowy. Easy to vibe to. The drum machine sounds like 90s, which is slightly annoying, but the cool bass lines and synths keep this going.
For me was 1995 one of the best years in music, but Trip Hop was not my fist choice. Some tracks sounds still very fresh
Oh my gawd, this was terrible. No reason to be on this list. An hour and fifty three minutes of garbage
mis primeros pasos en DnB
This one seems to be polarizing for some reason? I was way into it. '90s jungle/drum and bass rules, definitely something I want to get more into.
Ohne Drogenkonsum nicht hörbar!
Apsolutno remek djelo. Dan danas mi je svjež ko krajem devedesetih kad sam ga prvi put čuo
I just don’t like drum & bass/electronic. I can handle it for a while but then, as the title of track seven helpfully puts it, it gives me ‘A Sense of Rage’. Like I think the sound of the genre at large literally makes me feel anxious. I didn’t mind the tracks with vocals/lyrics as much. But just never gonna be for me. And it feels like it never ends.
It's a neg for me. I love a good drum and bass album, but rather than any driving beat or sense of urgency, this felt like bobbing up and down gently in a river but not actually going anywhere. In fact it reminded me, dare I say it, of jazz.
Its long, but Goldie probably envisioned people would be listening to this in a derelict council estate with a totally filfthy sound system and outrageous pingers. Adjusting for that, I actually really enjoyed this. It takes you to some trippy and unusual places and if you embrace the length you end up under a sort of hypnosis for the whole thing. High 3.
Gruelling, and tortuous when I was actively listening to it. Perfectly OK background music when I tuned out at work. I deeply disapprove. 💫
The purpose of this musical style is to create a mood and in my case, the mood it creates is probably not what the artist intended. Listening to this brings to mind the soundtrack of a video game that quite literally gives me a headache within 10 minutes.
Can’t anyone replicate this with a quality 80’s synthesizer? Says something that there are three versions of this album, ranging from 45 to 105 minutes. Thank goodness the vinyl was the shortest!
It's OK, I guess?
I quite like this album when it’s firing on all cylinders: there are some really great hypnotic grooves on here. But that runtime is just ridiculous and a lot of the album is also quite boring (Adrift 😴 😴). Therefore, not something I’ll ever return to.
Fuck off.
God damn. When I saw this long-ass album runtime I was already dreading it, but it won me over like instantly. It is some really good groovin drum n bass in here. My only real issue with it is that I wouldn't listen to it or its tracks very much on account of their length, but damn. It's real good otherwise.
Music to torrent a cracked edition of the Sims 2 to There were some cool ideas here, but overall I found it overstayed its welcome and didn't leave a strong enough impression on me for me to ever want to return to it.
Extremely nice atmospheric drum and bass; really captures the urban spirit of the scene. I wouldn't listen to all 105 minutes of it at once most of the time, but at least a disc or even a few tracks would be solid.
This was cool as hell and I liked it a lot more than I thought I would. Neat to see something that essentially started a genre. The only reason I’m docking points is because no normal album needs to be nearly 2 hours long.
I thought, “No way I'm listening to two hours of DnB, I’ll stop when the remixes and bonus tracks start.” Well, goddamn. When the album “ended”, I was still craving for more. This genre has a hypnotic quality that has you fully locking in to whatever you’re doing while listening, so it's straight up perfect background music -- but Timeless goes well beyond that, because it's also properly structured as an album. Tracks flow well, stay pretty varied, and offer cinematic moments like on "Sea of Tears", where we're transported to the oceanside for a little breather in-between drum and bass barrages. It just does an excellent job at keeping the sound fresh and bangin the whole way through. If you're looking for a tight and focused album experience, stop at Jah the Seventh Seal and it's peak. If you're hungry for *more* restless drums and funky bass by then, Goldie's got you! Keep listening for 2x the runtime of exactly that. It's got bangers. It's got atmosphere. It's got structure. If it accomplishes everything a DnB album strives to do... how can it *not* be a 5-star? Standouts: Timeless • Sea Of Tears
Good album but these artists need to check their ego at the door. Disc one is excellent and totally sufficient. Hard pressed to think of a band that really has me wanting to listen to two solid hours of their content at once.
Weird
2+ Stars (6/15)
There's no reason for this to be two hours. I understand it's from the CD era, far predating streaming audio and the variety of options for DJs to post full sets. But it's so long and so repetitious. And to make a point that's surely belabored by now, that this is called Timeless is funny, considering it sounds so very '90s. It's very much a time capsule of breakbeat electronic music of that era, which is neat...but way overstays its welcome.
Nice music to listen to while working. Reminds me of the YouTube lofi music craze of today. Has some R&B vibes and obviously electronica. Reminded of some Radiohead productions. Inner City Life makes me think of Flight of the Conchords. Notable songs include Saint Angel, State of Mind, This Is A Bad, Sea Of Tears, A Sense Of Rage, Adrift, You And Me.
Curioso. No conocía a Goldie. Se me hizo largo, pero es es curioso.
Les passages avec la voix féminine m'ont fait penser à Massive Attack. Certaines pièces ne manquent pas d'intérêt, mais dans l'ensemble trop long et complaisant.
7/10
Пионер драм н бейса - титул, который определенно надо заслужить, но хвастаться им не стоит)
Started okay and slowly got worse and worse to the point the last few tracks were painful to get through.
Jesus tap dancing Christ. No. Just, no. Dogshit. Never again
Nope. Hate this. Voice and vocalizations annoy the shit outta me, the techno-jazz melding is a dud imo. Moving on from this one, that's almost 2 hours of my life wasted on this garbage.
Not really the vibe, good for a long flight to discover a new music genre
Ok let’s get the praise out of the way. Apparently this album pioneered the drums n bass sub genre of electronic music. Very epic. Also, State of Mind and Adrift are okay. I like the jazzy instrumentation on Adrift… yeah that’s it… So what don’t I like about this album? Well, it’s too long. Like way too long. Like you don’t need a 21 minute opener long. Like every song doesn’t need to be an average of 8 minutes long. Like WHY IS IT 2 HOURS long. This was a pain to get through. I wish I could’ve fallen asleep to it (I don’t know what else this album would be for) but that goddamn whistling and whining and distractingly terrible lyricism filled me with a desire to get out of bed and jump into the setting sun. Yeah. This album isn’t great. Can’t remember a single moment that really stood out. Sea of Tears is coincidentally what I was in by the time that 5th track came on. A Sense of Rage for track 7 as well. This album really got me going through the stages of grief.
Listening to “Timeless” without a huge sound system gentrifies it. The lengthy, synth-heavy opening abets this defanging, palming the audience opera glasses. This is the most ambitious among its peers in serving two, possibly incongruent, experiences: dance with trouser-flapping amplification, or listen on headphones, extreme frequencies muted, chin in hand? I bought it on release after reading a Melody Maker article comparing it to Coltrane’s “Giant Steps”. I hadn’t heard that either, so got it first: pretty good. “Timeless” mystified me, dauntingly long and alien, but seemingly sparse on the wallop I’d caught from what little jungle I’d heard on the radio. Listened to it compulsively for a few months, a little like how I read “Naked Lunch”, never to return until today. A few years later I strolled into a tiny club’s basement in Hackney where I found myself joining a few dozen grungy pixies in a cybernetic hoedown to piledriving jungle and realised the anarchic, raver utopia I’d expected. Thirty years have made this comprehensible and strangely fiercer: the breakbeats and patterns are more aggressive than I’d remembered, and the wobbly, slippery helicopter-like runs are psychedelic, modern, regrettably lost to the era. The jazzier, softer tracks, incongruous back then, make sense; digital soul in the ‘90s was proudly omnivorous, Massive Attack most prominently. “Adrift” doesn’t stir me, “Sea of Tears” still confuses me with proffered daiquiris, but I’m glad for them. Goldie’s an interesting guy and he put it all out there on this record, his first thirty years as electric cataract. The fleet, sometimes duelling rhythms still hold futurist promise, tempo shifts and blurred drum stutter like twisting and drifting F-Zero race ships. The last two remixes should’ve been dropped, though at least they’re brief. Expected a bore, this album has bubbled up out of deep memory a future-nostalgia for the optimistic thrill that came with this outpouring. To those interested, the remastered “Black Secret Technology” by A Guy Called Gerald is an adjacent masterpiece. Requiscat, Diane Charlemagne, “Timeless”’s main voice.
This has aged quite well, sounding better to me today than when I pretended to like it in 1995. Way too long, of course, but not in an irritating or distracting way; indeed, the endless drum'n'bass repetition is quite propulsive, assisting in the completion of everyday tasks. Goldie is also a top geezer by all accounts.
Eu até que tava gostando no início, a mistura de jungle com drum n bass funcionou bem, mas acho que o disco é longo demais e falta um pouco de foco, as músicas mais agressivas me perderam um pouco
30 seconds in and I hate it. The vocals against the music are dated. There is absolutely no need for the first song to be 20 minutes long. I’d like to think I’m open-minded about trying new things, but I had to give up listening at the 4th track. I can’t believe this album goes on for nearly 2 hours. I guess it could be tolerable if you plan to do drugs to it.
This album has some highs and some lows. Some tracks have some deep instrumentation you can hear with good headphones. Where it lacks though is the progression. Many tracks run LOOOOONG and don't progress into anything more than the first 120 seconds give you. There's some good stuff here but it would have been more impactful at half the length.
I swear to god this is trolling, it’s the same drum track looped over whimsical tunes that would not be out of place in a nature doco, this would fit perfectly as hold music for a big corporation. I skipped basically all the tracks and couldn’t finish it
Didn't get through it all, so can't give it a 1, but this isn't my vibe.
Not for me.
Kinda long
Bit long and samey
Too long. Too repetitive. That seems to always be the case with electronic music.
Good background work music
Dude, this is interesting! I'd never heard of this. But it's like 90's drum and bass. Digging it! I like it it is very ethereal, the cover art fits the vibe of the music perfectly. I'm not a huge drum and bass guy. But I did like the 90s feel. I'll give this 3 stars. Okay 4
Drum n Bass stalwart.
Meh
It's fine, I guess. I definitely didn't hate it but felt that there was not enough going on. Looking at the cover, I was expecting a sci-fi/cyberpunk sort of vibe, but at the end, I didn’t really get what the atmosphere was supposed to be. The songs didn’t really convey anything in particular atmosphere-wise. If the songs had leaned into trying to represent some sort of visuals, it would’ve been a lot better. A feature-length sci-fi-themed drum and bass epic would’ve slapped, but this is not it, unfortunately. This album had a lot of potential, in my opinion, but turned to be kind of disappointing.
thog dont caare
First impression pre listen: I am not listening to a 2 hour long DNB album without doing something else on the side. I'll be completely honest. This seems beyond boring. Gonna listen to this while playing some games. I think that's the only way I'll get through it. Will write down notes along the way. This is not my favourite genre in the first place. Hoping it can at least function as background music, even if I'm quite certain I'm not gonna enjoy it. Hoping to have my mind changed, though my expectations going into this remain low. Also that album cover is hideous. Individual track notes: Timeless Starting of with a 21 minute track, great... The intro is boring and goes on forever. Don't love the vocals, generic and inoffensive. Feels aimless and without purpose, like someone just mashed a bunch of ideas together and called it a day. There are definitely cool patterns here and there, but it never really goes anywhere too interesting and honestly it's mostly just mildly irritating. Drags the ending out way too much. Never ends. Don't feel too strongly against it, but I got to dock it points for its ridiculous length and unstructured feel. Dislike. 2/5 Saint Angel Unpleasant buildup. Repetitive and abrasive sounding, reminds me of construction work. Inaccesibile and harsh sounding. The synths are really annoying. Shifts between boring and unlistenable. Strongly dislike. 1.5/5 State of Mind The piano intro isn't terrible. Sort of brings a different sound to the album. Hate the bass. Generic lyrics. Monotone. Repetitive. Very forgettable track with little going for it. Nothing really to say about it. Dislike. 2/5 This Is a Bad Mario Kart opening. Generic sounding DnB beat. Sounds very dated. Generally just unpleasant. Extremely repetitive and mindnumbing. Sharp and annoying drums. Awful. 1/5 Sea of Tears The intro has a hint of psychedelia. Kinda gets ear piercing after a while. Let's find the most annoying sound ever created by humankind and put a generic DnB beat ontop of it. Great idea! Dolphin noises??? They never stop and are super obnoxious. At one point the spoken word vocals start moaning slightly which is kinda horrible to listen to. The song ends up stressing me out and boring me at the same time. Awful. 1/5 Jah the Seventh Seal Loud synth, much louder than the rest of the mix. Sounds horrible. AWFUL panning effect. Genuinely unlistenable. Awful. 1/5 A Sense of Rage Why is every song on here so long? So far none of them have justified that length. Honestly not unlistenable. Just kinda bland, which is high praise when it comes to this album. Dislike. 2/5. Still Life A bit tedious. Never ends. A repetitive slog that is genuinely difficult to sit through. Mindnumbingly boring. I can't think of anything else to say. Points docked for the excessive length. Awful. 1/5 Angel The vocal sample is okay I guess. Didn't even notice it ended. Guess I completely checked out oops. Dislike 2/5 Adrift Okay a bit of a different vibe going on, it's about time. Get on with it. What the fuck even is this... An absolute fever dream. Distincly unpleasant. Awful 1/5 Kemistry How has he been able to consistently pull off the most annoying combinations of sounds possible on multiple tracks on this album is beyond my understand. Beside the annoying part in the beginning this song just kinda ended up fading into the background for me. Dislike. 2/5 You & Me One of the less horrible tracks on here, I like the keys, and I think the vocals are very fitting this cloudy ethereal style. Still way too long. The DnB parts remain generic, but at least it's listenable. Nvm the whistling is horrible. Dislike. 2/5 Final review: I have nothing positive or constructive to say about this experience, so I'd rather just leave you with a warning: If it doesn't click for you somewhere during the first song it will never click. Don't waste your time listening to all of it. Almost lost my mind out of pure stubbornness. It is not worth it. 1/5
I thought I was 4-5 tracks in before realizing it was still the first track. I would probably take this off most of the time. It's not terrible, it's just that I don't need this much drum and bass in my life at this point. It's really really really long and doesn't really change. 1.5.
Just another electronic mixture of soundeffects and loops.
I had never heard this before. It's great for when you are working and need something in the background. I don't think I will ever listen to this again, but glad I heard it.
Timeless? I've never been so aware of time's passage. This album is crazy long, with 50% too many tracks, but also every song on it is itself about 50% too long. They also all sound the same, have no melody, and are boring as hell. This was not "actively bad" so I won't give it 1 star, but I was real glad when it was over
I don’t think this music is intended as work-from-home background music played from an iPhone (is any music?), but it functions nicely for that purpose. I only knew the first track going in, but the radio edit lol. It’s long, it’s repetitive, I probably wouldn’t have put this on otherwise. But I liked it fine.
I really don't think this is how this music was meant to be consumed. I bet no one even sat through this album in full in it's heyday. Instead you heard tracks from this thing mixed into a DJ set while you're at a rave in Norfolk in 1995, high as fuck and dancing your face off while dressed like a character from Trainspotting as god intended. And i bet that's how Goldie intended it too. He did not intend for me to listen to all 2 hours of this thing while putzing around my kitchen, sober as fuck, not dancing in 2025. It's just not the right way to consume this music... so it's hard to give it a fair rating. I also think having the tracks cut and mixed in with other 90s dance tracks would do a lot to improve the experience. There is a lot of long tracks that are very similar. I bet in a good DJ set these 10 minute tracks get cut down to short 3 minute bursts before transitioning to other songs. I could see how this could be a 5 star experience in the right context... again high as fuck in '95, dancing your face off. But right now... it my current state it's more of a 2 star experience. There are some cool tracks on this thing. The driving break beats are good. It's a good album to work to and sort of get lost in. I do think it's at its best with minimal vocals. There was one track near the start that had a ton of female vocals and i fuckin' hated it... but it was all up from there. It does blur together though... which is fine? The best I can say is after hearing this album I am interested in going to a 90s British rave night. I think that would be a good time. Side note: hideous album cover. 0/5 stars. What were they thinking?
On paper this should be a solid 5 star album for me. I love DnB and particularly adore breakbeat, but there's something that causes this album to fail to click with me. Maybe it's the vocals, or the fact that every track is just too slow? There's moments where I expect everything to start kicking off, but it just slows down and then fades away without ever really hitting whatever it is I'm expecting here. It's possible that I also might be slightly put off by Goldie himself, seeing as he's always come over as a bit of a dick, with a big chip on his shoulders for never making it big. Maybe this is an album made for other producers? I have a similar problem with other "golden age of DnB" artists, like Roni Size , it's all a bit ambient and tame compared to what was coming just around the corner in the late 90s and early 00s.
It works as generic corporate background music from the mid 90s. This album makes James Taylor and Jack Johnson edgy.
this is a generous two. this album sounds cheesy, dated, weirdly toneless, and it's about an hour and a half too long. drum & bass... more like DUMB & ASS!!!!!!!!!
well, i went into this THINKING i liked drum n bass... this isn't the worst album i could imagine and has cool parts here and there, but overall is just such a slog to actively pay attention to. for my 21 minutes, i'd rather listen to 2112 or rime of the ancient mariner one and a half times. this is just rough. also why are all the song titles so similar and nondescript? giving it two stars because the album cover makes me think it's a sickass computer game from 1994 favorites: angel, inner city life - baby boy's edit
20 minute song is preposterous but its ok because its good saint angel is goated. the wheelback at 4 minutes is aura the bass on state of mind is so annoying
"Timeless" is a perfect description for the album, it encapsulates a particular style of music and would be the go to example for anyone interested or wasn't familiar with drum and bass. I think I'll need to revisit to fully appreciate, but overall a good listen.
Single beat. Ok background noise almost puts you to sleep though. British Inner city life was fine
Really good. Probably 4 stars. I gave it 5 because I am a low-IQ individual.
Another one from the CD collection - double jewel case - purchased the week it was released.... Have to admit it was a bit dusty as not listened to it for along time. Its a great CD to put on and work to although does sound a little dated and lacking real stand out moments.
Timeless I listened to the 2 CD version first, and then I made a playlist of the 8 track single CD version for repeat listens. It’s a perfect album for working to, if you need to focus. It is long though, whichever version you listen to, but despite an inevitable similarity across the tracks I didn’t find it boring at all, or inert in the way the MJ Cole album was. The synths, keyboards and occasional guitars give it a great brooding atmosphere, with elements of ambient, and the vocals by Dianne Charlemagne have a lovely soulfulness, a little Soul II Soul, a little Massive Attack. The title track is great, the ‘Inner City Life, Inner City Pressure’ hook and the flutes are excellent. and Sea Of Tears is great. But it's the overall mood and feel I liked, for an album based around a specific rhythmic pattern and with very little vocalism and lyrics I did find it very expressive, little bit of anger, little bits of sadness, little bits of beauty. It's on the cusp of 3 and 4 - I'll definitely listen again when I need to focus or am in the mood but does that make it a 4? The length is definitely an issue, but it is a very good album nonetheless. Think it just edges a 4 ⌛⌛⌛⌛ Playlist submission: Sea of Tears
It's one hell of a long album. Listening critically rather than passively takes a mammoth effort, only rivalled so far by Bitches Brew. 'State of Mind', a nice little bass hook and pleasant enough soul melody, is strung out for over 7 minutes when 3 will do. 'Sea of Tears' has a pleasingly ambient 6 minutes, then segueing into a more beat-heavy 6 minutes. It becomes a repeating soundscape after a while, with minimal variations on a theme. Dropping in a soul melody here and there, the ever present synth swell, the unrelenting jungle beats. Certain moments, such as the heavily jazz-leaning firebreak of 'Adrift', or the well constructed build of 'Kemistry', or the Prodigy-similar 'You and Me' give further interest - but otherwise this album is to be treated as an atmospheric companion rather than an album to actively enjoy.
It really wasn't a drum and bass morning, and honestly this album is three times longer than it needed to be
Inte nog med att det var skitdåligt så var skivan skitlång.
q coño es esto dos horas de ruiditos
Not for me
Not my jam
Нормальный днб, который в целом звучит как вся музыка жанра второй половины нулевых и далее. Судя по всему, именно этот альбом и популяризировал жанр изначально. Важный. Лучшая песня - Inner City Life.
I don't think i have ever gotten so tired after listening to an album but i think Timeless managed to do just that. I only ever knew of this guy because of his connection with Bjork so i had no expectations going in but man, this album really got tiring. This album was just so unbelievably long and repetitive that even while having some good beats and decent ambiance, My enjoyment of this album did feel incredibly hindered by it's long and repetitive nature. I can't in good conscience give this album a 1 due to it having the beats and ambiance that i liked but i still don't think this album is very good. This isn't a bad but i don't think its timeless either. Best Song: Sea Of Tears Worst Song: Adrift
Possibly one of the least exciting albums that I have gotten on here - yes, it may have been cool in 1995 when it came out because people would take drugs and this would play in the background and they would just chill there, but I don't know.. it's just not really that great. Pretty much all of the songs are basically the same thing and there is nothing really going on. The most upsetting thing was when I found out that I was playing the first song after about 15 minutes and thought that I had listened to the whole album, but as the whole thing is almost 2 hours, I realised that I was still on the first song and I already wanted to stop listening to the album. It's a good thing I was doing other stuff, so this was playing in the background, so that I was kept distracted.
Drum n bass is not my go-to, but as far as this genre is concerned, this album is decent. I wouldn't pick it but I don't mind it. There's enough "color" (vocals, strings, etc) beyond the underlying drum-n-bass to keep it interesting.
I know that Goldie helped lay the groundwork for his particular subgenre of music, but maybe he was a victem of his own success, because nothing about this sounds particularly interesting or different from dozens of other drum and bass artists. Not bad, just sort of generic, and I feel like I've heard a million variations of these sounds before.
Sometimes this would give DJ Shadow vibes, but it also occasionally sounded solidly 1990s. & Despite a few re-starts, it largely blended into the background. Not bad, but nothing noteworthy.
Classic World Market music. Not bad, just unremarkable to my ears.
dnf. not my speed but i can see the appeal
Goldie is a bit of an oddity. He looks (and acts) all 'ardcore. But then drops this, nearly 2 hours of contemplative, slow-reveal, jazzy d n' b rollers. There are quite a few sublime moments on here for sure but by jings it's overlong. Would like to hear an edit where someone from the record label stepped in and made a tight mixdown under 50 minutes. I remember buying this (on cassette) the week it came out and being a bit flummoxed by some of it. Probably still the case today, though definitely worth a listen.
Okay album but not my thing. One of the definitions that I came across for timeless is "Having no end; interminable; unending". That's how this album felt to me. Like it would never end. It's just too long. +1 for the artist to be able to maintain focus long enough to cobble together an album that runs for nearly 2 hours. I could listen to 4 to 5 Ramones albums in that time. Sheesh.
keuken werd nog nooit zo schoon
no Best Song: N/A Rating: 1/10 (DNF) Stars: 1/5
Good for what it is. Not my style. Ahead of its time.
not bad but not for me
Vraiment cool. Du rock un peu expérimental qui m’a fait ressentir des choses. À réécouter ! 4,5/5
So my thing genre-wise, but just couldn't connect with this one - gave up fairly quick.
In fact it's not timeless, it's very much of its time, and that time has long since gone... But it takes balls to release a double album as your first, and have the opening song be 21 minutes long. I was never a fan of the jungle/drum and bass genre before but after 21 minutes of "Inner City Life/Pressure" I'm absolutely still not.
I started this, and asked myself "Please don't tell me I have to listen to one hour and fifty three minutes of this rubbish." Well, one hour and fifty three minutes later, I'm asking myself "What in the name of the FSM possessed me to listen to one hour and fifty three minutes of this rubbish?" I'm sorry I committed to listening to every album here all the way through.
Junglist massive!
it has its good moments, but the album doesn't know what it want to be - -dance? Funk? sort of has some good tunes but not what I expected.
I can't in good consciousness say I enjoyed this marathon of an album, but I have respect for the impact it had on the Drum & Bass genre and it didn't sound awful. 2/5
All electronic starts to sound the same to me and this one fits right in there. Sounds like a teenage clothing store in the 90's that was trying to tell me it was too cool for me. Nothing is inherently bad, just all starts to go together and sound the same. If I was sitting outside looking at the clouds and maybe a little high this might be great, but this is just not my world so I don't connect with it.
This is not very creative.
When I was part of the late 90s/early 00s rave scene, I never really felt like I fit in. Mainly because I wasn't sure of myself enough back then to let loose and dance (plus the clothing style was NOT me lol). I felt more like a spectator than a participant. I enjoyed the music and the lights and the people watching though, especially when My Dear Miss Annie was around. Drum and bass, however, was my least favorite sub-genre at the time, and that seems to still hold true today. Today's version of me would totally let loose and dance, but not to this. This music isn't terrible, but it's incredibly repetitive and it's very easy to forget you're even listening to it. Plus this album is painfully long.
I really love EDM and electronic music but this was not my favorite, I'm not the biggest fan of drum and bass but I can see why this was a big deal in that community, again it was a little too long and just wasn't for me
Cool stuff
Loved!! Great OG drum and bass
HOLY FUCK
I see the appeal but it's just too damn long. Shame though, lots of cool moments and ideas but there's just so much pointless meandering.