Reviews (page 4 of 8)
Don’t let the album title fool you, this pioneering drum and bass effort is very much a hermetically-sealed capsule of the time and place in which it was recorded.
a couple good tracks...but, man this is a long album! 3/5
It was alright, too long though.
It's the soundtrack you would put in a movie when the main character is confused in some warehouse rave where everyone is looking at him like he doesn't belong and the camera is a fish-eye lens.
It just became blended noise after the first two tracks. Seems good but I’m not sophisticated enough to know why
There was lots that I actually enjoyed about this, but it is way too long. I also don't think that the setting I played it in was the best - this isn't a sitting at your desk working album. Could've been much higher rated with some editing though
It worked really well as an album while I was doing some monotonous work, the drums keep it ticking along. On a more focused listen, it's not my favortie but I don't have the best ear for all the intricate differences in the drum beat song-to-song. My favorite here was Inner City Life (Baby Boy's edit).
Brilliant. Loved it
This album goes on forever. One pretty good song, honestly, I forget which one it was. The rest is great background music. 3/5
I would need more time with this. Not good morning music for Ders
Very nice, not my favorite genre but I still loved the vocal mix on timeless, and the quirky, high end synths scattered throughout. Can see the influence on modern techno/breaks. Reminds me of a lot of eris drew.
Some pretty solid drum n' bass, all things considered. Perhaps a bit boring and overlong to some, but I found some enjoyment. Very well-produced on the whole.
Some decent DnB. At least it's more coherent than Logical Progression.
I went away to college and came home one break to discover a friend got into drum and bass during his first semester. We were rock and rap fans, so when I first heard musicians like Goldie and LTJ Bukem I was lost. Now all these years later these late 90s drum and bass albums make me nostalgic for that time, and I have a better understanding of the genre.
Good atmospheric feel, would’ve jammed it a bunch back in college for study music if I was aware of it back then.
Not exactly my thing, nor would I seek it out, but it was enjoyable. I thought a lot of the components were cool even though I wasn’t in love with the overall songs.
Not as good as it could be.
Maybe i was just in the right frame of mind but I kinda got it this time. In the past I haven’t liked music like this but I enjoyed it well enough today
No es mi tipo de música favorita pero es buena
Steady selection of drum and bass!!
Between harmony and noise.
It’s a child of its time.
3.5
A very long album. Listen to the title track and decide if you want some more because the album doesn't get much better than its intro.
It was a nice background listen but be prepared that you're in for almost 2 hours.
21 minutos dura la primera canción. Innecesario.
This is a fundamental drum and bass album. It varies in texture and is more atmospheric in parts and more dance oriented in others. It works well for me as a background album but it is not something I get much out of with a focused listening. Furthermore, this album is just too long and the fatigue sets in fairly quickly.
Interesting electronica..... wouldn't say that any track stood out or made me want to hit repeat, good background, non-intrusive
21 minutos dura la primera canción. Innecesario.
Byrjar vel og skemmtilegt að hlusta á og sjá nýbreytnina mv aldur plötunnar hvað þetta hefur haft mikil áhrif víðar en fór síðan of langt í sumu sem varð langdregið og þreytandi á köflum
Þetta er legendary plata. Svakalegt sound miðað við hvað þetta er early. Fínasta vinnutónlist. Lifir vel og hljómar enn bara mjög vel. Auðvitað átti Dn'B eftir að toppa en það er ekkert endilega mikill gæðamunur á þeirri þróun IMO. Svo var hann að deita Björk kringum 1996 þannig við eigum smá í Gulla.
Mikill áhrifavaldur í drum and bass tónlistinni. Má enn heyra í teknó- og danstónlist dagsins í dag.
Great to have for background music
Not bad as background music, but not really my thing. I can't see myself listening to this again on purpose.
Estilos drumm n'bass. Temas parecidos entre sí. Alguna vocalización, femenina sobre todo. Con ritmo. No termina de enganchar, aunque para mantener como fondo no es mala opción. Me hubiese gustado algo más de variedad
Een van de allereerste drum and base artiesten, heel ziek om te zien dat old-school jungle gerepresenteerd is. MAAR PLZ GEEN 2 UUR DURENDE ALBUMS
Het was een goed album maar erg druk. Hierom moeilijk om in een keer doorheen te komen. Als je het is stukjes luistert is het goed te doen.
Foundational to modern jungle/liquid/dnb, but I didn't love it on its own merits.
Nice atmospheric, almost hypnotic drum and bass record. Pretty repetitive, but then that's this genre for you. Favourite tracks: Timeless, State of Mind, Jah the Seventh Seal, A Sense of Rage, You & Me.
Meh kind of mediocre and doesn’t seem to ever go anywhere, it is just repetitive.
The drums are quite interesting. A very early 2000 vibe. Bass & drums is strong in this one. Super atmospheric. Reminds me of video game music Not the biggest fan tho.
Really really really long but pleasant. Drum and bass is not a genre I have a lot of fondness for but it’s good zone out music.
Well I've certainly spent 2 hours of my life in worse ways. Mostly (and I mean like 99%) background music that I was barely paying any attention to, but it beats having to listen to the thoughts in my head. Has some really cool moments. The 21-minutes long opening track was fantastic. So was "Angel". I don't get why "Inner City Life" is on here a whopping three times. Haha what, this guy played in James Bond?
Certainly was a DnB album
Not horrible, but very 90s.
Always believe in your soulie
Track one has very cool drum lines. This would be a good album for a long boring drive.
Decent background music, but I wouldn't sit around and actively focus on it
I can see why this is in the list due to its significance in the Drum and bass genre, being one of the earliest mainstream albums within the genre. Can't lie the first song got a bit boring at 20mins long but I actually kind of enjoyed some of this album surprisingly.
Favourite tracks: timeless; sea of tears
I feel bad. They must have thought this was the future of music; turns out it was the future of PS1 character select menus.
Nothing really exceptional here
some fun beats, but the songs are super repetitive.
I guess it was okay for background music. Wow, it was long. Maybe 2.5
Re D &B in general, I don’t know much about the nuances of this genre let alone the D&B sub-genres but, because some friends were into it, I went through a stretch where I listened to part of a local radio D&B hour once a week so got to like it. I was always impressed by the speed of the drumming although after reading up I understand this was sometimes achieved by increasing the recorded tape speed. Oh well, it still sounds good. I liked this but I couldn’t get through a double album of it.
Not what I was expecting Wasn’t in the mood But still enjoyed it
Even though it was too long, I hated this less than the others of it's ilk, so rounding up
Good, but too long. Mellow almost ambient d&b. Ok.
I didn't mind this at all. For driving to it was perfectly decent and I imagine it'd be pretty good background music for most things. I do kind of like the ambient nature and the sight trance sort of feel to it. If I needed two hours of backing tracks for doing something else then this might be OK. Maybe it's a favourite in prep kitchens or something. But it is awfully long. I suspect that the single CD version of this would be a better listen - and that's still over 70 minutes. And the length loses it a star - I want to given this 4, and I'd listen to individual tracks again; but the whole thing is just too much.
A significant album in the drum and bass subgenre. When it’s good, it’s incredibly atmospheric; when it isn’t, it drags.
Disco alrguísimo que tiene ideas muy interesantes, parecido a un poco más estlo rave de lo que actualmente hace fred again again en sus live shows, por lo que aprecio. No entiendo si cataloga como ambient music o es directamente electrónica, pero no suena mal. El problema, reitero, es que es demasiado largo y tedioso, realmente se hace muy pesado. A pesar de todo esto si me ponen todo el disco en una fiesta voy a seguir moviendo la cabeza probablemente asi qeu le voy a dejar su ganado 6/10.
It was interesting enough
Very nineties, almost timeless.
Eh, kinda cool, kinda boring, kinda all the same. Very long 7/10
Face warping drum and bass, doomy ketty jungle, it smells like the footwell of my uncles car - petrol, socks, old grinders and meal-deal packets. This is to music what the boost bar, red bull and half a spliff are to breakfasts
The cover art through me off. Looked like something I wouldn't like, but I do. Not quite timeless, but enjoyable enough. 3.5
Enjoyable for studying. Felt like some GrooveSalad fm back in 2009.
He wasn't the best D and B artist of the 90s, but a bit like the Damned he was the first to get his stuff out there and into the mainstream. Soft spot for anyone from Wolverhampton. This has some great peaks but it's a bit compromised by trying to make a home listening album out of club music. Not the first person to get caught here.
As far as drum and bass goes, this is really excellent. Songs are way too long! But there’s some great stuff happening, good beats, fun instrumentation. Glad I read up on it before saying it wasn’t for me.
Did not finish but it was a great vibe
I found this album tough to rate. Taken on it's own, it sounds like generic drum n' bass with nothing that makes it particularly interesting. However, something can only sound generic once a trope has been established, and this album seems to have been critical in establishing many of the tropes of drum n' bass, especially the use of ethereal female vocals (though this had been done in other electronic genres previously). Overall, I don't find this album that interesting to listen to, but it's got clear significance in the development of the genre 3/5
Alright... nothing more
Its fine but the first song is 22 min long 2.5
Prima Drum & Bass, maar niks aparts
Very insane album! Not bad at all! Really just sounds but very wild to say the least
Is this album Timeless? Not sure. I'm not really a DnB guy so I really can't say much about where this sits among the rest. According to the internet this thing was released in the early early stages of DnB which I think says something about the album considering the fact that I was like "oh yeah this is pretty much what I know about what the genre sounds like" vs. something like that Grandmaster Flash record "The Message" giving us a very very early look at where hip hop humbly began. I dig the jazz tracks on this album. "Adrift" was a very interesting stand-out to me but I think it stood out because most DnB kind of blends together in the background. Not that that is a bad thing at all! The breaks were sick, there were cool moments of the loungey jazzy nature, that first track was a little out of place but that kind of made me think of Christoph de Babalon's "If You're Into It, I'm Out of It" in that there are tracks scattered throughout that seem out of place but fit into the grand scheme of the record somehow. All in all, solid listen that had me focused on my work and made me feel way more productive. My only gripe is its length. Holy cow it felt like I was listening to this thing for the entire day.
Damn I forgot to take my daily dose of MDMA so I couldn't enjoy this to its full potential. This feels like an exercise in how many different was you can work in a breakbeat into a song. The first few songs could've used some changes of pace that the end of the record brings since the constant barrage of breakbeat with heavy bass riffs and soft vocals gets old pretty quick. 5/10
3rd day in a row of 'off the beaten path' albums. Might be a bit of fatigue but really couldn't get in to this.
Big songs. I can see why it’s on the list. Seemed like he was experimenting a lot and just trying to figure it all out.
Kyllähän hyvä junkka aina putoaa siinä missä just rumpubasso alkaa pidemmän päälle puuduttaa. 3/5
Tää sai nyt olla enimmäkseen taustamusana lumimyrskystä selviytymiselle. Mut ihan kivoja jazzahtavia hetkiä siellä täällä, vaikka sit taas välillä vähän bulkkia junkkaa. Kaks on liian vähän, eli 3.
After listening to (a low rated) album of the day yesterday I mentioned that sometimes you just need a different concept of the song. It doesn't necessarily need to stray too far outside of the bounds of tradition, but it also shouldn't cloyingly cling to it either. This record is almost an expression of something else, but still hews a bit too close. At least it was a welcome relief of sorts. Today's rating might be some kind of relative recency bias based off of reacting to yesterday. But what does that tell anyone about what this even sounds like? The album is a mix of soundscapes colored in an industrial palette all cut with drum and bass beats. The record is a little overlong with some tracks feeling aimless at times, but more enjoyable than I would've thought at first glance.
Good but not really a DNB fan.
Pretty nice background music
Nice surprise. Never know what to expect with these kind of albums but I enjoyed the drum & bass. Made for a nice workday.
This is such a difficult album to review. First of all - at 100 minutes, it's too long. The runtime of most tracks is excessive and I could have done without songs like "Adrift". On the other hand... I just might have listened to this under the right circumstances. I listened to the title track at home and felt that it was, of course, too long but I was drawn in by the atmosphere and Diane Charlemagne's vocal. The rest of the album I listened to while driving on the freeway at night during a light rain. And then everything just made kind of sense. I mean it's excessive and too ambitious and some of the choices I can not defend. But I think I enjoyed this way more than I expected too.
At the end of the day I think the EDM, the Drum and Bass, the Trance and House and Jungle is mostly not for me, at least not as a standalone thing at length. I just don’t get it. Lots of bits I liked here, but then these long stretches of what are, to me, just relentless repetition and monotony.
Impressive ambience in sporadic and fleeting bursts but there’s hardly any album which can justify such a gargantuan run time (which I’m completely sick of by this point). Will return to this fascinating record at some point.
Really good spacey drum-and-bass.
Later versions of this sound appeal to me more.
Moody and cinematic but unnecessarily long to the point of being almost absurd. Appreciate the dense rhythms but some of the synth tones are cringey.
I read the artist as Blondie at first and was absolutely shocked, then I reread it and came back down to earth. Overall some pretty fun jungle DnB-style stuff. Never my favorite genre of EDM, but I think this is better casual listening than techno is. However I'd rather dance to techno than Jungle. Shits intense yo.
Not timeless by any measure, this is very 90’s. I like it but it is loooong and very repetitive
I like this kind of music typically, but this was a little weird. The song with the dolphins was over the topo.
I have always enjoyed the jungle EDM subgenre. It's blend of drum-n-bass, trance and house plays right around the edges of something you can dance to and something you can chill to. Unfortunately, as time has gone on the monotony of the compositions have stood out more and more to the point where I think I'm almost over it. While this album had similar moments (i.e. I definitely didn't need to hear the same dolphin chirps looped for 9 minutes on 'Sea of Tears'), it also did well to keep tracks varied enough to keep songs from feeling too stuck in a rut. I could see digging this album back out for workday focus, or for playing in the background.
I haven’t listened to a lot of this kind of drum and bass music, but I will say it was great music to work in the office to. Not to distracting but also kept my foot taping through most of it.
Musically this is pretty nice, if a touch boring. The sort of thing you might put on if you wanted to slip in and out of consciousness while still being able to wake up and be alert when you needed to. Say, on a long train ride.
Definitely of an “era”. Noticed a sampled snare rhythm that I’ve heard before. The album seemed repetitious in its motifs, it seemed they were quite excited about being revolutionary!
If you’re into electronic house music
A seminal release as one of the first *albums released in the genre of drum and bass and certainly one of my early major exposures. Not the best of its field - IMO other Metalheadz artists surpass this but did a lot for exposure of the genre in the wider media. Goldie claims a lot of credit for this but Rob Playford is probably more important, probably illustrated by Goldie's subsequent releases being fairly weak. TLDR, an important album and a decent one but overrated.
I'm probably being generous here because mostly I found this repetitive and a bit, well, too drum 'n' bassy. But i can see the artistry and the effort shinign through.
Nice
Sorry guys… ja lyssna halva å sen så ble ja mighty sick å ja ha int haft krafter att lyssna klart… min review kommer i chatten pr pr
Goldie was able to create an expansive atmosphere, coupled with ethereal vocals and a litany of stringed instruments. Timeless is truly a timeless album that will always take you back to the mid 90s house/trance scene. Best: Timeless Worst: Adrift
I guess you had to be there. I came around to some of these sounds through the Asian Underground. I think I wasn't young enough for this scene.
Not really my kind of thing, but interesting. Many of the songs last much too long, but I guess that works in the clubs and/or makes it easier to create remixes. Inner City Life (part of the 20 minutes opening medley) was the big breakthrough hit, and probably the best "song". Plenty of other enjoyable music though, just not much that is as catchy or memorable
This is not really my kind of music ig
i love my (atmospheric) drum and bass
I saw Goldie live in 1997. I didn’t realise that this album was so legendary, but I guess someone had to kickstart drum and bass. It’s a good listen, yeah, and so layered, but it does feel well dated.
Dnb
good background music
en vérité j'apprécie vraiment la drum and bass, mais sur une courte durée (e.g. le quart d'heure de marche rapide pour ne pas être en retard chez le docteur)
Break-beats. Ik houd hier wel van. Maar niet boven gemiddeld. Mijn favorieten zijn "State of Mind" en "Inner City Life". ***
I just couldn't get into it
Rating: 6/10
Not my preferred flavor of electronic music, but it felt very mid-90s and nostalgic
This was better than I expected, but then I didn't expect much.
I grunden gillar jag sån här musik men det faktum att första låten är 21 minuter lång visar att han har samma problem som jag när jag satt hemma med med eJay på slutet av 90talet och det är att komma på hur man avslutar en låt 😄. Lyssnade bara på två låtar dock
Good ambient album.
Not really my thing, and also super long.
Me gusta el D&B pero este se me hizo demasiado repetitivo. No acabe de escuchar el disco.
really interesting to have a glimpse into this time capsule from the 90s! who listens to this today?
Boas referências de música eletrônica
First track of the album is 21 minutes long... The album is about 2 hours long in total. A lot of the tracks has some really nice parts and is very inspiring, but in total it seems like there could have been some darlings that got killed. Good Drum'n'Bass and Jungle, but the vocals not so much.
Interessante en met tijd en wijlen spannende muziek van naar wat ik las ern van de eerste drum 'n bass acts. Vond het toch een iets te lange zit en was ik datzelfde ritme steeds wel beu.
De zangeres hadden ze thuis mogen laten. Verder leuk om een keertje Drum ‘N bass voorgeschoteld te krijgen.
Nice background and driving vibes, but felt the pace stayed the same a lot of the time
Ну слишком несвязанно
Probably just 3 stars... Kinda weird.
Yeah. Bit of me. love this and fuckin underworld for a whole thing
Enjoyed.
Eh, idk, just a little too out there for me to really enjoy.
Computers are cool
Välistä ihan tempaavaa biittiä, mutta oma maku on enemmän melodisen kuin bassolla pelaavan mmmtsin puolella. Kagonen ala- ja kolme yläkanttiin
Não é meu estilo favorito, mas é de produção de muita qualidade.
Sea of tears e Inner City Life.
Is not the kind of music i like, some parts of some musics are interesint, psicodelic...but the rapid parts are not the kind of EDM music i like it. However, i must say that the production of the album is quite good.
Too long!
Litt kjedelig.
why does every electronica album have to be like 2 hours long?
Wasn't as bad as the runtime would suggest, but it was mostly uninteresting, with most songs being stretched out way longer than need be.
Hmm, it's all fairly coffee table really. It's called timeless but it's absolutely of its time. Nothing here to go back to really
Yep, another album that you can just tell is going to suck from one glance at the cover.
Background music TM
This is interminably long. And not much of any interest happens. Lots of ridiculously fast breakbeats over relatively chill synths and singing. I actually didn’t mind the first track (which goes for more than 20mins) but by about the 1 hour mark I was bored out of my brain. Maybe I would have fared better with the single CD version but couldn’t be bothered figuring out the track listing to reproduce it.
mja in het begin vond ik het wel groovy maar het album is echt wel een uur te lang om zo monotoon te blijven
nyt en ihan tästä saanut kiinni töissä kun tuli kuunneltua
Meneehän tuo työnteon taustamusiikkina, mutta ei juuri muuna.
Mä en oikein tämmösestä musasta saa kiinni. Junnaavaa ja tylsää kautta linjan. Ei nyt mitään ihan luokatonta kuraa silti, niin mennään kakkosella.
I could not get into this long, meandering mess.
Too modern for me!
Felt like time stood still during this slog of a record. Not in a good way either.
I’m a deadhead, 20 minute songs don’t scare me. This one was complete bullshit. Who asked for an entire album of 1989 answering machine sounds and video game noises?
It's a lengthy drum'n'bass album and even if I quite like the genre it doesn't make the cut for me. Maybe another day.
Uyyyy. Solo para conocedores...
3/10 The dullest thing. Adrift nearly pushed me over the edge with it's La La Las. I don't want to hear singing exercises, thing you very much. It is all so boring. Goldie supplied the musical ideas!? Wow, how long did that take? Dated, soulless, terrible. The only thing good to say about it is that 80% of the time it sat in the background and didn't catch my notice enough to offend me.
Just to be clear we were all daydreaming and doing other shit while listening to this right
Well, glad I checked the runtime of this album earlier in the day this time. As Timeless is a 20 minute track, we’re going to just have dot points of my thoughts - Interesting sci-fi instrumental - Pretty good vocals - Great drumming I thought the end was alight, but my overall feelings on this track were that it belonged more on a sci fi soundtrack instead of on an album. The singer was great. On to Saint Angel. I liked how this one was slightly more upbeat. State on mind again had a nice vocalist, I didn’t like the vocal “ahhhhhh”s (I don’t know the word for it), but the actual lyrics were alright. This is a bad: the weird echoing vocal bit was weird and echoey. Sea of tears was alright musically, but very similar drum-wise to the rest. I understand that’s the genre, but it’s still a lot, especially when there’s 2h of this. The ocean sounds were quite lovely though, but that has more to do with the fact that ocean sounds are lovely anyways. As an aside, the crying sounds at around the 8 minute mark were awful and I hated them. Jah the seventh seal had those really annoying sound effects throughout. A sense of rage was alright, but we have heard it all at this point. Still life, fine, but the same. I got some more enjoyment out of Angel, but maybe that’s because it was shorter. Adrift was weird and I believe out of tune. You and mes music was pretty, but again it was incredibly repetitive. The inner city life remixes were ok, but it’s what I’d heard 2h ago. 2.5/5 ⭐️, it has good ideas! It’s just it’s way too long and those ideas are driven into the ground until there’s nothing left. 153/1089
I grew up with Goldie the UK pop culture icon, without ever listening to Goldie the musician. This is nice, if a bit long. Classic drum & bass sound that feels quite nostalgic to me, despite never listening to it as a youngster.
a medida que iba escuchando el disco iba cambiando como me iba sintiendo. la verdad que como album una verga. tiene buenos temas, pero el album es ETERNO tiene muuuuuy malos temas, mediocres, y muy buenos. la bateria en su tottalidad una joya la verdad. pero no me es suficiente. (sientoq eu estoy escuchando el disco hace 3 meses)
Made it through. Very repetitive but it was not the worst thing I have heard. Looking at you frank zappa. 5/10 Top song Angel (because it was the shortest track)
I'm sure this is someone's cup of tea. I couldn't take it.
You don't measure up to the expectation / When you're unemployed there's no vacation / No one cares, no one sympathizes / You just stay at home and play synthesizers / (Inner city pressure)
Leading with a 20+ minute track is pretty bold. Maybe this was cool in the 90s. Not so much now.
The best album Goldie was responsible for is Bjork's Homogenic, though mostly that's due to her basically using their breakup to inspire her work. How Scandinavian of her. But yeah, I guess this was influential in the drum and bass world? I don't really know what would make something influential in the drum and bass world, so my gut says it's two things: first, it's that big side-long intro/title track. Compositions that big and sprawling are always the sorts of overindulgent experiments that are gonna be critical darlings. Secondly though, it could be a matter of making drum and bass that feels like it's moving. That same epic of a track is absolutely bloated, but it has movements to it that a lot of club music does not. It feels more trip-hop than classic club music, insofar as classic club music only feels like it goes on for 20 minutes because nothing happens. Once that ends, though, all bets are off. It's not all propulsive, and even other tracks with frenetic drum loops still feel more listless than active (Sea of Tears is where I realized I was suddenly unable to pay attention). It's just too long of an album to be so largely one note. There may have been a statement being made in that singular title track, but even narrowing this down to one disc would have made it tighter. Cutting it just to a single LP? Even better. 2* as it exists now, though
Never been into drum and bass and it was listenable.
Repetitive
Some songs I enjoyed but not really my thing
thought, surely I must be done with the album, but I was still on the first track
okay.
Not bad? Nothing stuck but good for a passive listen.
A genre that basically only works if you're doing something else while listening is problematic to start with. Makes it even worse that all the key albums seem committed to the more is more approach, that undermines some potentially OK tracks and the album overall. The best I can say is that individual parts of some tracks are fine, but it's far too long and just not that good
too much for my brain
Well that was long. I guess some of the songs would certainly be good to listen to while just trying to chill out and do something else. But not all of them, which kinda ruins the album.
Still no on this type of music. Some of the songs were OK and beats cool, but this is waaaaaay to edm coded and waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too long for me.
Experimental, no es muy mi estilo
So much mediocre boring 90's British electronic music. It's 2 hours long.
Too repetitive and too damn long. Honestly, I'd probably have enjoyed it more if it had been a reasonable length, but the second I saw a 21 minute opener I knew it was going to be a slog to get through this entire thing.
What in the world was this. I didn’t like this at all. Lower than average.
a nearly 2-hour long album, and it has a 21-minute track to start?? i wanna cry. this better be good Timeless - 2/5 Saint Angel - 4/5 State of Mind - 3/5 This Is a Bad - 1/5 Sea of Tears - 3/5 Jah the Seventh Seal - 3/5 A Sense of Rage (Sensual V.I.P. Mix) - 3/5 Still Life - 3/5 Angel - 2/5 Adrift - 3/5 Kemistry - 1/5 You & Me - 2/5 Inner City Life (Baby Boy's Edit) - 3/5 Inner City Life (Rabbit's Short Attention Span Edit) - 2/5 Average score: 2.5/5 ⭐️⭐️ i don't mind drum & bass, but i personally don't think this is something i "had" to listen to, especially given it's length. the album is okay at best i suppose, but absolutely not worth the 2 hours of my life i sunk into listening to it in my opinion
I sure do like Electronica, DnB, and Jungle, but this was way too much and boring. Too repetitive, no real progression or structure.
This album did absolutely nothing for me. I am not the target audience for this,I went in open minded and left this experience with mixed feelings. The sounds were uninspired and bland. The beats were meh.
Could have made their point in 30 minutes rather than 2 hours. This drags so badly.
Duurde me te lang. Al van 'tzelfde
An occasional drum-and-bass hit
I didn't finish this one. I decided after the 21 minute opener that the rest wasn't for me.
More like “endless”
Couldn’t cut the 3hr+ but think it was all good. In part due to us only listening to rock and this was a nice change of pace. Underrated
I appreciate this is an important album, but I find it incredibly wrong to listen to dance music in any setting other than a club. Even then it's not generally my cup of tea. I just found myself getting a bit bored. Important but not interesting to me.
This is #day616 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and… yikes, how about an almost 2-hour dubstep record? This whole scene passed me by back in the day. As a kid of the '90s and early '00s, I was into trance, hard trance, house, and some jungle, aside from rock music. It was a fun time when electronic and rock walked hand in hand, and you could have, say, Prodigy and Metallica on the same mixtape. That said, I can see how this record helped shape its corner of electronic music, but it's just not what I'm after. It ended up as an endless background, without going anywhere in particular. Halfway through I didn't feel like continuing. This is a 2 out of 5. Looking forward to #day617.
Weirdo lo-fi music from a 90s comic movie ⭐️⭐️/5 Highlights: "Timeless"
I enjoyed one or two tracks near the beginning as ambient music. By the end, I found it annoying.
This album is waaaay toooo long. It is decent background music I guess.
I almost gave up on this due to length
This started out with an interesting sound (good vocals) BUT WAS JUST ENTIRELY TOO LONG. After the 1st track (over 20 minutes), I was done.
I have said this for several electronica albums on this list. It is good at what it is trying to be, I just don't care for what it is trying to be. Too long and repetitive.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Some generic Drum and Bass stuff, the sound of Dancehalls in the 90s :D I guess I am too sober to enjoy this.
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.
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.
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.
No
Avant garde. Ngl it just sound like a whole bunch of TikToks bunched up together.
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.
Pitkä levy. Drummandbeissii on hyvääkin, mutta tämä oli tylsää.
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 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.
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
Pre-Millennial Hipster Nightclub Background Music.
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.
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.
entirely forgettable.
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.
Endless
Не ну это же просто пиздец. 3/10, чисто за старания
boring
I liked the first song, Timeless, but the rest of the album was long and terrible to me.
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*.
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.
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
There were drums. There was bass. It was not timeless.
Saved? ❌ Would listen again? ❌ Would recommend to anyone? ❌ Would buy on Vinyl? ❌
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.
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
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.
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'.
I know the title says timeless, but for me this was the opposite. It has good ideas but gets on your nerves really quick
Nature-influenced, industrial, electro trance. Weird. Maybe more of a 2.5.
4/10 – Weak
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.
Fine??
I didn't have enough X to make this listenable. And 2 albums? Nope.
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.
Overstayed it's welcome
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.
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.
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.
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.
I liked a few songs and the overall vibe of the album, but not many things i would have in my normal rotation
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.
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.
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.
a ono... zzz... predugo i postane zamorno jbg
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.
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.
I'm not into two hours of whatever this is.
Meh
Cringeworthy album art + uninspired sonic slop.
Excessively self-serving.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
Eletronic English drum and bass...cool but a little enjoative
Songs desperately in need of a running time limit/editorial control.
Not so timeless anymore. Groundbreaking at its time.
Unsurprisingly the opening track didn’t need to be 20 mins long. A bit meandering
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.
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.
This was way too long for me.
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?
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.