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DNF. I got bored and couldn't get through it.
No
While I admire the craft, from my perspective, this is a load of techniques and production gimmicks in search of a song. Repetitive, dull and overlong - I guess I just don't get it... Sorry.
A 2 hour album that should have been a 2 minute song
Besides video game and sci fi movie soundtracks not sure who this is for...what a slog.
Bloated piece of garbage. I don’t care if it was influential, it sounds dated and it sucks even as a background noise for coding.
Really bad elevator music
C'est horrible cette musique ces voix non ?
Never heard of album or band. Not ready for a 2 hour album but here we go. First song is funky. Sounds almost like electric jazz, sounds thrown together. Apple Music says this is one of the most popular songs, I’m not making it all the way if that’s the case. Lots of different sounds but not much cohesion. Still not even halfway through the song. Needs to be done by now. It’s like one of those painting that looks like it’s just lines and colors in no particular order but for some reason it’s really famous. I was making beats like this as a 13 year old and they were just as bad. Second half are we fucking kidding. Very 90s/goofy. Stupid as alarms and phone rings. I can’t believe how much I hate this song. And they made it 20 mins. After minute 15 sounds like a horror film score. Not sure if the vocals were repeated enough (sarcasm). With all of this being said I like the outro minus the vocals. I like saint angel better, actually works together but should’ve ended after 3.5 minutes. I like state of mind, that piano is really good. First one that actually sounds like a real song. Pharrell vibes. Doesn’t even credit the vocalist which is the best part of the song, that’s crazy. 4 minutes too long once again. I like the baseline a lot. First minute of this is a bad was good, then it just gets weird. Sea of tears is kind of fun. Don’t need the guitar. Would like lyrics. Base at 340 is a great addition. Should’ve ended at 430. All of these songs are Extremly long for no reason. Especially considering there’s a lack of cohesion so you could just split them into two songs with a cool fade bridge from one to the next. There are some really good 30 sec-1min parts of all of these songs, but that means nothing when their 12 minutes long. Nah the seventh seal sounds like “futuristic” video game background music. Drums are pretty good. Back half sucks. Over produced. Beeps are annoying/way too loud. Bass line on sense of rage is sick, interested to see how it gets ruined. Called it, don’t know why they switched it up. Excess Beeps are much needed (not). This doesn’t seem like music that you could dance too. Still life is more of the same. Just not my style but I’m going to tough it out. Good working music because there’s nothing to get distracted by. Similar to the one minute thing I mentioned earlier, a lot of these songs have good elements just too much in top of it. Great vocals on angel. They need more of that. Back half is awesome. This is the best song on the album by FAR. Adrift sounds like an intro song, should’ve put it at the start. More of the same. Not really a fan. Whole album is the type of song that you’d play around your boys and they’d all say “what is his shit?” But in the worst way. None of these songs go together in the way I’d hope from a cohesive album. Maybe in cohesiveness is the theme and I’m not smart enough to get that. With that being said anyone who tries to tell you this is good is lying to themselves and probably sniffs their own farts. Is this what Europeans listened to in the 90s while America had jay z and mj and prince and Whitney Houston etc? They were missing out if so. Up until now I don’t have any worse than a two stars. This is getting a .5 just so it shows up as 1 star but I would not recommend to anyone. Half the time and I’d call it an average music production. It’s two hours of nothingness that my ears won’t get back. I hope this is number 1001 of the 1001 most influential. I can’t believe there’s still 4 songs left. Drums are super fast on kemistry. Did this type of music create the need for Molly or did Molly create this music? Either way both are bad for you. Cool outro on kemistry. First minute seconds of you and me 🔥🔥🔥. Next 5 is more overproduced bullshit. Piano is good. Admittedly I haven’t listened to much electronic, but comparing this to something like skrillex or avicii makes it sound like trash non sense. Inner city life baby boy edition is good. Actually sounds like a real song. Wish I didn’t have to wait an hour and half for it. Sick bass line. Normal length too. Rabbits version is worse. Didn’t need that. Like I said before, this album is getting a .5. I want my 2 hours back. Don’t waste your time.
I don't like this kinda electronic music, where it's just repetitive. It's probably cool to listen to at a club, while on substances, but at home sitting down, its boring.
Did not enjoy this. Boring and repetitive. I turned it off.
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
feels like a panic attack
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
Booooo!!!!
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.
# 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
Maybe if I had a head full of MDMA...
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.
Nothing timeless about another space aged instrumental.
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.
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.
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
Garbage
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
Not for me
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.
This kind of music genuinely stresses me out
Ain't nobody got time for that. Album art 1/5
Nope.
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
Definitely not. 1/5
Syntetisaattori musiikkia pahimmasta päästä
This made me feel like I was in a 90s commerical in all the wrong ways
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
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
Not for me. Imagine drum and bass made on a Casio keyboard in the 90s
I dont think I like EDM or whatever this is.
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.
Meh
No one needs to hear this. Ever. Right at the top of the worst case this list.
No
Oh my gawd, this was terrible. No reason to be on this list. An hour and fifty three minutes of garbage
Ohne Drogenkonsum nicht hörbar!
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.
Fuck off.
Weird
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.
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.
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.
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
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
Just another electronic mixture of soundeffects and loops.
Single beat. Ok background noise almost puts you to sleep though. British Inner city life was fine
Inte nog med att det var skitdåligt så var skivan skitlång.
q coño es esto dos horas de ruiditos
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.
no Best Song: N/A Rating: 1/10 (DNF) Stars: 1/5
So my thing genre-wise, but just couldn't connect with this one - gave up fairly quick.
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.
Fuck you this did not need to be two hours.
Is this an everybody gets a trophy kind of project? Seriously, how is this album on this list. It seems that there was an effort to include every genre, even if that genre generally sucks. This album objectively sucks.
Not for me
this is some truly evil shit, the only two possible explanations for this album's existence or presence on this list is that it's either a test from god or a punishment of the devil's. either way it's settled thousands of years of spirited theological debate
If you’ve ever wondered what two hours of a washing machine having a nervous breakdown sounds like, look no further.
come on man
This was the toughest listen so far for sure. So so long and a 21 minute long song to start like come on. Even if it was a good beat all the way through it would have been more bearable. But it has minute long sections in songs with no beat and what sounds like a bloody Nokia ringtone. Painful. Some songs could be good to run to or something though I guess. Specific rating- 0.4 Fav song- this is a bad Least fav- adrift
It's called timeless because it feels like it will never end. Favourite song: State of Mind Least: Saint Angel
Seems to be quite a bit of electronica on this list. I don't get the appeal, much of this just seemed like noise. It seemed to keep dragging on and it was a struggle to get as far as I did.
Knew going in the runtime would be long, but I ended up stopping at what felt like an hour. I paused it in the middle of Sea Of Tears, saw how many songs were left, and decided I had enough of this repetitive shit. Not my cup of tea. 1 star.
One of the most unremarkable things I've ever heard. Two hours of my life I'll never get back
Not for me either
not a fan at all
Inte oljud men för jävla långt
It finally happened I committed to myself when I started this project that I would listen to every album in its entirety, no matter how much I hated it. This album is making me break my promise. I will not listen to 2 hours of a drum machine. I made it halfway through the 6th track and I just fucking cant go on anymore. This is fucking awful
Bro wanted to see how many sounds his synthesizer could make
One of the worst on the list
Uuh... One of rare albums that I couldn't listen through.
Felt like pure background music — and far too long.
Did not finish, I couldn’t sit through it. Maybe in a trance I might be able to finish it but not interesting
Teils etwas zu unruhig für mich.
It did not age well
Really leaned into the rapid electronic drum beats. So repetitive though. Not for me at all. State of mind was pretty good. Overall, really not my taste at all. The songs were so long too. If you've heard one song on this album, you've basically heard the whole album.
Fuck no
No song gets to be 21 minutes without having earned it. Which means there can be only one 21 minute song and that's The Odyssey by Symphony X, obviously. "This is a bad", indeed. Understatement much.
Complete garbage!
Simply not my thing. Tried to engage with the ethereal nature but just heard disparate noises. B Hated listening to this. 1/5
I'm sorry, i don't get it. Nothing that I enjoy about music is on this album that I can latch onto. It's going to have to be a 1.
I haven’t spent an hour and fifty-three minutes in close proximity to so much shit since I came down with dysentery in the Atlas Mountains.
Oh yeah, Goldie. I saw them open for Jane's Addiction in 1997 and was bored out of my mind after about 5 minutes. And here's an album that's almost 2 hours long. Greeeeaaaat. I tried. I did. I thought I was on the second song, checked in on it, and discovered I was only halfway through the first one, which still had about 10 minutes to go. Couldn't make myself go any further. This should be called Endless, because that's how it feels.
Laser tag
Did not like. Long and mostly electronic boredom.
This album definitely felt timeless. Didn’t see an end in sight. Although I do like Drum and Bass, I can only take it in small doses. I think this would probably be considered a “Musicians album” rather than an album that everyone needs to listen to. I think this much drum and bass only appeals to a small niche of the music community and to people who pretend to like it. I do appreciate the production of the drums, but that’s about it. I think I picked up some parts of the album that have been sampled in more recent tracks. I don’t think that this album should be considered an album that everyone needs to listen to. You need to be on an uppers for this album.
The pros: Guinea pig noises on kemistry around 2:30, proto-wubs on the last song Cons: 2 hours long, sounds like AI music, and the singing is bad
So there's a tendency in electronic music to praise early three hour long albums that invented the genre as genius instead of what they are, which is jingling keys for people doing meth. Goddamn this album is interminable, listening to it is like getting pranked by a friend who sets a song you're listening to on loop without telling you. No wonder the guy from Pendulum thought this guy was a fuck. Got through like half of half of the songs, fuckin hell 1 out of 5 this bores me to hell and back.
Absolutely fucking not. I hated this. FUCK. THIS. ALBUM. 1/5
Sounds like what bongwater smells like.
Timeless had quite the varied vibe; it could be trippy or ambient. It wasn't like most electronic music of the time because of its variance and ambiance. *But*. *However*. *Regardless*. This album was incredibly repetitive. Why were the songs so long? Why were the lyrics inconsequential? Why did they include lyrics at all? Why was this album so long when the songs kept repeating the same 3 beats over and over?! This album could have gotten a generous 3 if it had been shortened dramatically, but it sure wasn't. I guess it was groundbreaking for the electronic scene, but I find I don't care.
This album was an absolute slog. It was very ambient and very repetitive and not at all engaging. And DEFINITELY way too long. It quickly drifted into background noise for me. I just got no pleasure from this album, unfortunately. It's been a while since I've dished out a 1, but this album definitely earned it.
1.12
Stop giving me your toughest battles
Listening to this feels like your dog taking a shit in your mouth while you're sleeping.
Painful. Laborious.
This project has only revealed to me that drum and bass my be my least favorite genre. It's just way too repetitive for way too long. And I've gotten so many of them and they are all exactly the same
Preferred him in EastEnders Duff Duff......
Pointless, repetitive orchestra synth swooshes making up Drum and Bass.
I have detested drum-and-bass since it emerged. This album did nothing to change my mind. But then, even Bowie couldn’t.
не
Didn't listen all the way through because it made me ill. 1/5. I'm not into techno.
Jesus Christ this may be the most shit record I've ever heard. 2 hours of generic, relative 808s while a woman sings nothing words off key. Fuck everything about this Euro trash shit pile of a record.
Couldn’t listen if I weren’t occupied with something else.
Wish I could vote zero stars.
Quite awful. I don’t get this at all.
Filth
Why is this on the fucking list To top it off I got mixed up and thought it was Blondie I was gonna hear.
Awful
C'est comme si on avait loop une transition pre-drop dans une chanson moyenne de Prodigy, pendant 2h, et sans drop. Terrible.
Pretty mind numbingly bad. I can’t wait for the day that I finally get an album that’s not electronic. Definitely not an album to choose when you just want to sit down and enjoy some music. Liked the beginning groovy sounds of A Sense of Rage but then of course it immediately got ruined by the ear searing repetitive nature of the album. At first liked State of Mind but then I saw that it was 7 min long, just unnecessary, like the majority of the album. Maybe I could handle this album if it was half the time and no songs were longer than 3 minutes.
yeah, i'm not listening to all that, i got about 8 minutes into the first song and I was just done with it. this isnt music, this is drivel made by a dude sitting infront of a computer all day. 1/5 never ever listening again
Not listening to two whole hours of this. Did not finish.
2/10 Same thing over and over again Favourite Song=None Least Favourite Song=Nome
This is the sort of music that plays loud in crime series on TV, in shabby warehouses where the drug gangs are hanging out between cooking sessions. Because the series producers want to create the absolute most nerve wracking atmosphere so that we are all super happy when the first shots fall, the electricity drops out and all you hear is just shouting and guns. Which is an improvement over this music (thanks, cops). This music may be functional in crime series but I don't need it in my living room or in my too short life. There is something about it, mostly the breakbeat, that instantly makes me want to throw something through the window (and I am normally a very peaceful guy). The rest of the music is just very dull and unimaginative, with some cheap "orchestration". A hard 1 for me and definitely on my "1001 Albums you must avoid until you die (but may hear after if you believe in Hell)" list. Haven't been able to finish this, can't imagine listening to this without some form of sedation.
Have you ever danced with the devil in the rave’s black light?
Album 700! Which means there is just over a year of this left, I think. Unfortunately it was dull as bricks and almost two hours long. Knew within 5 min of the 20 min opening track that this was going to be a 1. I don't think there's been a single dnb album on this list that I've found enjoyable in the slightest.
Truly awful.
Pffft. Starting with a 20 minute extended play of Inner City Life is certainly a statement. Sadly, it gets worse as you progress through the album. By the end you’ll need a lie down in a darkened room. Awful.
Let's dig into some possible explanations for the title of this album: Possible storyline: The shitness of this album breaks the space-time continuum, breaking the laws of physics and time as we know it. All that remains is this album echoing throughout the ruins of the universe. Timeless. Alternate suggestion: naming it Endless instead of Timeless, cause it's so long and terrible it seems like it never ends. I couldn't finish it.
No thanks.
Just can’t do it when the first song is 20 minutes long.
Honestly couldn’t even get through this.
Time to bump off this list and throw this one away…
More like time’s up. Gimme 30-45 minutes of this, then maybe. But 2 hours? Nope.
This sucks!
Whatever I prob would have rounded up if it wasn’t nearly two hours long. Self-indulgent much? 1.5/5
2 hours of electronica?!? I'm exhausted already. This is incredibly boring. A 21 minute song to kick things off is not an auspicious start. These dance albums have to be the least listened to albums, start to finish, ever. No one just puts on a Goldie record and lets it play and listens to the music. This is background music at an overpriced salon or in a restaurant that has uncomfortable chairs and $16 drinks. The first song is hard to endure and there is another hour and a half of music to go. This music must only be good on E. This is "boots and pants" music. This is more a trail of endurance than an evaluation of an album. This album is terrible, one of the worst so far. The ambient waves and one of the most annoying electronic seagull noises imaginable in Sea of Tears makes this a rival for one of the worst songs I've listened to so far. This is all so repetitive, every song, every minute, just boring beats. 7 minutes at the end are remixes from the US release, not the initial release so that is great news. Every song is exactly as bad as every other one in it's own special way. The only thing that makes one better than another is the length (shorter is better). Still 27 minutes left and I cannot wait for this to be over. I will continue to listen but the Kenny G sax in Adrift is the end of my observations. This isn't dance music, it's not jazz, it's just awful. This is like music from a dream sequence in a porno movie. I'm not sure if I like the fake jazz songs less than the dance songs. In any case, they are both awful.
You know that scene in the matrix 2? Where they have the rave orgy? Or in Blade where they gave the rave with blood spraying in them? This record reminded me of that. Except instead of a rave orgy being sprayed with blood, your subjected to this God awful record. Nothing about this record is good. Absolutely nothing. If you think otherwise, you don't have good taste in music. You like background noise. Background noise that is repetitive and soulless. Even when the songs with vocals come in... They are absolutely trash! Sweaty matrix orgy trash.
Track 4 says it all. "This is a Bad."
More boring techno. Snore.
Too much of the same thing. It gets boring very quickly. And oh my God! why does the album have to be so long?
Meh.
Timeless?! More like Timefull! It's so long! Way too long for songs that don't really go anywhere and are repetitive. Still prefer this over Daft Punk though
Idk what context I’m missing to understand this one. The drum/rhythm seemed the exact same on every single track. It sounds like there are only two speeds these tracks alternate between and it gets tiring quick. The length of this album is an extra fuck you. Rating: 1.2
1 stars are back
Couldn't get past the first 20 min track. Listened to bits and pieces of the other tracks, and Goldie seems very talented, but just not my jam...Too repetitive and aimless sounding.
Ah yes, another electronic album that reinvented the genre from the 90's. You may not believe this but Goldie is British. Yes, the book with the hard British lean includes an artist from Britain that was groundbreaking. What's most groundbreaking is this album starts off with a 21 minute song. Most artists want to capture your attention immediately, but Goldie prefers to lure his audience to sleep as that may be the only way to get a person to listen to the whole thing. Plus, if the listener is asleep then perhaps another Goldie album will come on and receive more plays as well. The drum and bass genre is clearly not for me. Either that or songs with excessive run-time and repeated beats over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over doesn't speak to me if I am not on drugs that would help blunt the true experience.
Long and boring
Nope.
This is a breakthrough album...it almost broke through to a negative rating.
Listened to all 20 minutes of the first track. I am not listening to another 80 minutes of this shit
What a waste of everyone's time. This is utter shit. Drum and bass is just repetitive noise. Why do people like this? If you want to get a headache, listen to this, or you could run straight into a wall. The outcome will be the same, but at least you'll save yourself over an hour and a half. If I wanted to describe the album positively, I would say track 4 sums it up.
I felt like I was held hostage by this long ass album. 1.
I have yet to find a good 20 minute song. And that's because they don't exist.
why?
27/08 Ik had gehoopt op een Oasis album voor vandaag, maar in plaats daarvan krijg ik dit miskraam. 1.4
i really do try to go into every album with an open mind but man, i am so sorry, this was like mind-numbingly boring to me. overly long electronic tracks that don't really go anywhere. it's just tedious. it's like i'm trapped in the menus of a playstation 1 racing game. help me! get me out!
Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu. That's bad. If the first song had been 10 minutes or a little longer it would have been perfect, but you have to be sophisticated and make it 20 minutes long.
Soundscapy things leave me cold. I'm trying, but hard to get past the sweeping dramatics. Then it gets all EDMy. Not for me.
Frankly embarrassing that someone could turn the same drum beat and occasional bassey sound effect into 2 hours worth of "music". Unoriginal, boring, and not worth anyone's time. The only "timeless" aspect of this album is that there will always be people who eat up anything record companies try to pass off
The album is called \"Timeless\", but at nearly 2 hours long, this album has overstayed it's welcome. Sure music changes and evolves all the time, but ironically, this album sounds very dated and I'm convinced the author put this album on the list because they owed someone a favor. Most of the songs are over 6 minutes of dragged out, bloated 90s drum and bass. 1/5
1.0 - My god....torture For me there is so much to dislike with this album. The songs are just so boring and don't go anywhere. Scene music, riding on the coat tails of nostalgia. There are worse albums I've come across on this list so far, but this really just annoyed me
Timeless? More like TimeMORE! On account of how long the opening track is! [or] Timeless? More like 1995! Haha we like to laugh, but seriously, good god. I think it’s really important to hold the idea that most all kinds of art have an artfulness to them even if I don’t understand it. On the other hand, when I was a boy I had a PS1 demo disk that included a demo for a game called MTV Music Generator. It was basically a crude looping station, with built in samples. This album sounds indistinguishable from something a 12 year old me would have made on there, and again… I only had the demo, with a limited set of samples. And it was the PS1! That game probably came out less than 3 years after this album did. Come on! A guy does not need to hear this before he dies.
WTF was that? A beautiful voice devolving into a mess of electronic noise. What a waste.
I don't do drugs.
Skip
No es mi género
not my thing at all. too long and soulless. uninterested
I can't listen to this.
Having just had a drum and bass album with Roni Size a couple of weeks ago, this enraged me that it was on the list. I didn't enjoy that one, and this one, being far less interesting, just made me super super annoyed that I was expected to endure two hours of it. Where's Linda Ronstadt in this project for fuck's sake?
i actually dont think i needed to listen to this before i die. why the fuck is the first song 21 minutes long 1/5
I dunno about this one. Just seems like it's overly long for the sake of it. I can see this as backing music in a club or movie or something. On it's own I can pass. Will I listen to again: 0%
Overstayed its welcome before the end of the first 20 minute track
Wow, noise!
Très (trop) répétitif Beaucoup trop long
I tried, but I couldn't even get through half of it. The vocals are terrible (luckily they aren't always present), and the absolute excessive runtime for a drum and bass album is tough to swallow. It's not that the individual songs are bad, it just that the album as presented doesn't need to exist.
I'm now less some time I can't ever get back after listening to this garbage.
I cant tell these types of albums apart. Drum and bass and UK Electronica both sound lazy and repetitive to me but I recognize I just dont have the ear for it. This one in particular just drags. More than once I would tune out and tune back in and wonder if it was the same song or something new.
I’m really starting to think I don’t have a way into Drum and Bass. I’ve tried and tried but I just can’t stand it. If you dig it then I envy you because this list is FULL of albums that sound exactly like this to me. Bleh Also 2 hours?!? Come on man I gave up about 50 minutes in a listened to the album “Supervision” by La Roux instead. Way better use of my time and yours
Smash bros loading menu ass music
way too long
Repetitive beats. Singer has a nice voice, but lord those "beats."
Sucks
Sair álbum eletrônica nesse negócio pelo visto é minha sina
Damn, not enjoyable at all to listen to
The last album was dumb. This album was dumber. Jim Carey would be proud.
1.5 This album was boring and way too long, but got a .5 bump cause it didn’t physically hurt my ears
I don't really know how to listen to this music. It is cinematic at times, club/house music at times, theatrical at times... listenable but doesn't fit into my life in any way. I couldn't get past the fourth track; it makes my brain feel like I have shaken baby syndrome.
No. Plomo.
Ross Geller accompanied by an 8th grade drummer from the local marching band. Dreck.
This is utterly boring to me. I can't stand it even as background noise. Hard pass.
When I approached this album, I thought there might be a place for it given that it was revolutionary in it genre at the time. But screw that. I just tortured myself with nearly 2 hours of the exact same drum beat an empty nonsense. This was a terrible experience, would not recommend. .
I can't stand most electronic music. This is no exception.
If this was half the length I wouldn't have minded. But at close to two hours I need more than these beats. I saw one review that said this was the type of music Jez and Super Hans were making on Peep Show which cracked me up. Peep Show has some funny moments.
Hot ass. Maybe this is cheating but I skipped half the songs like halfway through.my mom asked for the news again. Ca->pa rating #7
Nothing here. Better EDM out for sure.
Y’know, once in a while an album comes along that just changes the way you look at life, changes your mentality, your outlook and your soul. This is not one of them. To think that people listen to this for pleasure quite frankly bamboozles me to the point of not knowing my own name any more. I’d rather have sex with two cheese graters tied together, dip my dick in a packet of McCoys Salt ‘n’ Vinegar, jump in a bath of TCP and then shave my own eyeballs rather than have to listen to this again. *disclaimer - the above may not all be true. I wouldn’t shave my eyeballs.
Well, at least I learned something: genre to avoid: Drum & Base with "ethereal" singing. 0/5 if it would be possible
At 40-45 minutes this album could have been merely unappealing, two stars. Instead, it is an excruciating, repetitive 113 minutes. The name is ironic given how intensely aware it made me of the length of an hour. One star.
My inner 18 year old 1998 trance/house fanatic legally prevents me from enjoying Drum and Base. Paul Oakenfold FTW.
Not so much.
I’m on vacation. I’m still trying to listen to my albums. But this was not my cup of tea at all. And, oof, so long. I stopped listening after the third song.
I looked at his bio on Spotify because I wanted to know what type of music this was. It seems to be EDM-y in some spots and then a bit jazzy (?) in others especially with some of the vocals. It appeared he made some sort of breakout and that makes sense because this is like nothing I’ve ever heard before.
First one I've tapped out of. Life is short. Didn't even have the decency to fade into the background.
All sounded the same And that was junk
Good god for something called Timeless it sure took up a lot of my time. This isn’t music, it’s background noise, and listening to two hours of it was not doing any justice. Genuinely such a long drawn out boring album.
I like drum and bass breaks. For about 8 measures. Not 21 minutes. In the first track. Slightly exaggerating here, but only slightly. I like a bit of trance music - it has a definite place in terms of either working/studying/concentration on something. Take out the very very distracting and monolithic drum assault and it's nearly indistinguishable from many space station videos I'll put on to relax to. In the background. The harsh and repetitive drum breaks sound interesting for a bit - yeah, 8 measures or so - until they completely reverse gears and are just irritating at best - devoid of dynamics, utter chaos in their glitchy breakdowns. Come on. I'm not going to encroach on any "this isn't music" diatribe because it most certainly is, but it really is confined to a narrow focus and honestly I don't get the hype - even if I *do* occasionally listen to music LIKE this on the fringes. It's more a testament to the dedication of "Goldie" (not their real name you're not fooling anyone *Clifford*....) on assembling all these pieces (although I'm not sure how it was done in 1995). Good on ya. Yay. But it all comes across as excessively self-indulgent without any sense of awareness at all. This genre was gonna be dicey anyways but this particular album is not even close to enjoyable at all and frankly mostly terrible - also not advised for those who drift towards the occasional migraine. 2/10 1 star.
That was so fucking weird
No
Songs way too long and repetitive
Entendo que á xente lle poida gustar, pero mima que coñazo non me gustou nadiña...
Track one alone is just so not for me 1/5
That was the longest two hours of my life
Passed this one. It is very, very not my taste. Just nah... Way too trippy from the start.
i can't do drum and bass.
Only made it 4 minutes in.
Boring, boring and once again boring.
Wow. This was a tough one to listen through. 2 hours of a genre that I do not really like. But: I tried! I sat through it. Don't judge it by its shitty cover I said to myself. But it didn't catch me at all. I found it rather boring and uninspired. Plus, extra annoying, the unnecessary long tracks. It actually did feel like torture after a while. At least parts of it could be played in an elevator, which is not a compliment. Might be important for the genre but it just isn't good in my opinion, sorry.
I can't believe I spent almost 2 hours of my life listening to this.
Buncha cheesy 90s dance music.
Well there's two hours of my life I'll never get back.
On this seminal drum and bass album, Goldie sincerely tries to elevate the genre to new heights. Unfortunately, it's still nearly 2 hours of drum and bass
interesting not my style
No.
Repetitive and boring. I guess this genre isn’t for me.
No me ha gustado
I’m going to have to take this music genre’s fans’ word for it that this album was groundbreaking at the time. It really doesn’t do anything for me. I’ll admit that my ignorance of this genre means I have no context for what is so innovative about this album, but I just found it to be dull and loooooong. There are some really cool drumbeats and I guess that’s part of the point, but this sounds dated to me.
Omg another record of hot smelly garbage. Just a complete waste of my time.
I don't really know about this type of music to give an opinion.
God this was absolutely awful. I always thought I disliked house music but this made me realize I hate it. It wouldn’t be so bad if the songs were a reasonable length but when they are all 6+ minutes and some 10, 12 or 21 minutes it makes me want to rage. Don’t even know why I wasted my time after the second song. I knew what I was getting for the rest of the album and looked and saw the song lengths for the rest. I should have just quit this one. It effectively made me stop doing this Album A Day journey for about 2 weeks because I was dreading continuing this garbage for another hour and a half.
MICHAEL BARLOW :@
Terrible.
First album I couldn’t finish. 2h DnB? Not when it sounds this annoying and generic. This shit was dated back in 97 already.
Sikkert revolutionerende for drum n bass - men simpelthen for langt og for kedeligt
...oh.
Can we please stop with the drum n bass?
This was possibly one of the worst musical experiences I've had the displeasure to endure. So boring and repetitive, almost put me to sleep behind the wheel.
Nearly 2 hours of Muzak with occasional repetitive and annoying sound effects/vocals
Boring.
Why are electronic drum and bass albums so damn long? This one neared two hours, and I was tired of it before the twenty minute mark. But I still held out and listened to the whole thing, which is better than I did on the list's last drum and bass album. Still it left me cold. Drawn out and boring, and didn't age particularly well (unless you love the 90's aesthetic). Background music, that's all it sounds like to me. Not my thing, and I don't think it ever will be.
Puh ist mir ein bisschen zu stressig der Drum and Bass.. hab es nebenbei gehört und dann hat es mich irgendwann gestört. Die Frauenvocals drin fand ich nicht so schlecht
It is not bad, good background music, but I don’t think it should be on the list. After listening to 850+ albums, when I die I couldn’t care less about this album.
Too long. Not interesting enough, not for me. Worst dance record so far. 1/5
Drum and bass not my cuppa tea!
No. .75
I might have tolerated this more if it wasn’t so needlessly long.
What is the purpose of this? It is almost 2 hours long. I made it to about 70 minutes and gave up. It wasn't necessarily horrible music but it was repetitive and completely unnoteworthy. There are definitely worse albums on this list. This album definitely has no business being on the list. I am rounding down.
1. timelezz - 1.5 2. zaint angel - 1 3. ztate of mind - 1 4. thiz iz a bad - 1 5. zea of tearz - 1.5 6. jah the zevent zeal - 1 7. a zenze of rage - 1 8. ztill life - 1 9. angel - 1 10. adrift - 1 11. kemiztry - 1 12. you and me - 1 13. inner city life - 1.5
This is the opposite of timeless. Its sounds dated to exactly its era, and it has not held up. Sounds like the meanderings of a kid who just got Garageband on his mac. Or the soundtrack to shopping in a shitty clothes store at the mall. Over-hyped drums, no song structure. It's Fat Boy Slim but without the hooks and catchy parts.
Inaudible. Autant la techno je peux encore, mais là franchement non.
Defo not up my street 😤
Didn't enjoy it at all
I wasn’t rolling on E while listening to this so I hated it
Au, va
Quick test. Play three or four random sections of each track and you will notice that they sound pretty much the same. For almost two hours.
Not my thing
Nope
This was painful.
Timeless- 3.1/5 Saint Angel- 2.5/5 State of Mind- 3.5/5 This Is a Bad- 2.4/5 Sea of Tears- 1.3/5 Jah the Seventh Seal- 1.4/5 A Sense of Rage [Sensual V.I.P. Mix]- 1.5/5 Still Life- 0.1/5 Angel- 1.5/5 Adrift- 1.6/5 Kemistry- 1/5 You & Me- 1.3/5 Total- 1.8/5
Not my genre. Not my vibe. An absolute struggle to get through. I ended up listening to just parts of the songs in the end because I wanted it to be over, but it just kept going.
I play drums but not a fan of drum n bass. Going to England in a few days so might change soon.
Nope
I wasn’t expecting to love this as 90s dance music, in its various forms, is quite often not my thing. But I know Goldie is a respected and pioneering figure in the scene so I thought there might be something here to enjoy anyway. I was wrong. ‘Timeless’ it ain’t. Except in the sense that it goes on so long, it seems to exist outside of time itself.
Olihan tällä hetkensä, mutta... taas sama ysärielektrokomppi joka biisissä. Vähän mielikuvitusta lisää vision lisäksi, pyydän. Puuduttavaa kuunnella melkein kolmatta tuntia.
Kansi näytti hirveältä, välttelin tämän kuuntelua päiväkausien ajan, kuuntelin pienen osan, ja siksi voinkin esittää objektiivisen arvioni, jonka mukaan tämä on parhaimmillaan huomaamattoman rytmikästä ja huonoimmillaan melodisen karseaa.
Yes this was one of the first big Drum and Bass records, but it’s a crap genre so that becomes a dubious honour. The female vocalist’s voice is fine, the backing instruments are fine, but it all goes to shit when that godawful drum and bass kicks in. It’s just boring, monotonous and way too much.
I skipped and scanned my way through this album. 2 hours of drum & bass is simply way too much for me. The repetitiveness within each track makes me question my sanity. Won't be coming back to this. Fave tracks: State of Mind
This is just boring. Also the singing is bad. Guess it did not live up to the title.
"Timeless?" More like "Endless."
State of Mind, This Is a Bad (album and listening experience) Offensive length. 🗑️
this isn't timeless. it's 2 hours of boring. listen to "summoning redemption" by morbid angel instead. That song has a great respect for my time. Favorite song: Summoning Redemption by Morbid Angel
This is a Bad (Album)
I’m apprehensive about this album today. Almost two hours of drum and bass is quite a lot, especially for somebody like me who rarely likes the genre (with a few exceptions). Fingers crossed, and hopefully this won’t be a slog. Songs I already knew: none Favourites: State of Mind This felt like a prime example of the law of diminishing returns. The very first track is 20 minutes long and wasn’t TOO bad, but definitely too long. The next few songs were decent, but by the time I got to the 35-40 minute mark, I couldn’t take it any more. I can appreciate the beats to a degree, but it’s less easy to get really into drum and bass when sober. I didn’t finish this album. It was just too damn long, and too much of the same thing.
tried to listen to this like 3 times, always failed so...
Album 37 of 1001 Goldie - Timeless Favorite Track : Rating : 1 / 5 Somewhere in the world there is someone who considers this their favorite album just as somewhere in the world there is someone who considers head cheese to be their go-to snack.
I want to throw up
mais um álbum que levei alguns dias para terminar. só achei ruim mesmo, é pra ser meio eletrônico, dance mas não curti.
Definitely not timeless. Too much time. All two hours of it.
Let me tell you I listened to the entirety of this 2 hour album man and guess what it’s a fuckin beat tape. I listened to the whole thing so I could say yes this is exactly what I expected it to be and nothing else
Yea No
"Timeless" was aimless and pointless.