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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
timeless indeed
interesting not my style
Good atmospheric feel, would’ve jammed it a bunch back in college for study music if I was aware of it back then.
Lots of iconic drum loops. Seems to be the forefront of sampling. Not necessarily my style. Gets tiring after a while of the same repetitiveness. But I hear a lot of the electronic iconic stuff within this album. Makes me think of the Freestylers. This makes me want to be in my car with the sub.
No.
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.
Genre defining one. And the one i spent my final school years listening to. Unforgettable.
ZzzzzzZzzzZzz...
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
Repetitive and boring. I guess this genre isn’t for me.
Drum n bass
No es mi tipo de música favorita pero es buena
No me ha gustado
Listened Before? N Interesting and vibe-y at first, but gets old quick. Not sure why this is here. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Angel
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.
Went in completely blind to this project and did not expect what I was going to hear. Not a fan of long albums so my interest wasn’t sustained. It put me to sleep - which isn’t necessarily a criticism.
Omg another record of hot smelly garbage. Just a complete waste of my time.
I felt this album was a pretty 'meh' experience. I get how it 'totally changed the face of drum and bass' but sounds pretty dated now. Also as a 2 hour album it massively drags.
Really felt like the soundtrack to a 80's techno thriller. As a standalone album, didn't grab me.
Steady selection of drum and bass!!
I don't really know about this type of music to give an opinion.
Not for me
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 :@
This a great drum and bass album. But being a drum and bass album limits it a little. It could be the greatest drum and bass album ever (and it's probably at least top 10), and it would still struggle to get 5 stars. 4 stars. Also, as good as the title track is, 21 minutes is too long. I'm not looking for a short track, but it would be better at 12-15 minutes. It drags a little 2/3rds of the way in.
Between harmony and noise.
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.
HOW FUCKING LONG WAS IT??
Sikkert revolutionerende for drum n bass - men simpelthen for langt og for kedeligt
Very good
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.
Fucking classic, when the bass drops 5 minutes into the opener is just epic. Long time DnB fan, gotta give this top rating since it may be the only one of the genre on this list.
It was a nice background listen but be prepared that you're in for almost 2 hours.
...oh.
21 minutos dura la primera canción. Innecesario.
Just too long. Not repetitive enough to put on a background working music. Not interesting enough to just listen to. It may be a clinic of drum and bass music but that doesn't make it enjoyable
Can we please stop with the drum n bass?
It’s fine I guess? Very repetitive and most of the songs sound like all the other songs. I lost track.
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.
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
Interesting electronica..... wouldn't say that any track stood out or made me want to hit repeat, good background, non-intrusive
Goed geheel, moeilijk om te zeggen of het heel vernieuwend was, paar slechte nummers, veel goede.
Très long. C'est électronique et ça bouge mais à part ça c'est moyen comme album même pour ce type. 2.75
There are no individual songs that I specifically hate. The drum and bass genre is just way too repetitive for my liking. Especially for an album that falls just shy of 2 hours. It feels like there's a ton of fat that should have been trimmed off this album. I would've enjoyed my time listening to it a lot more if it was like 30 mins long.
Could have been about half as long. Sounds to me like the EDM version of a jam band.
meh
Can’t believe the dude from snatch is a DJ
21 minutos dura la primera canción. Innecesario.
Fuck yes, this is an absolute banger. Goldie smashing it to bits with a heavy chunk of drum n bass junglist meat
Guðdómleg plata, lagið Sea of Tears var sérstaklega dásamlegt. Eina sem þessi plata vantaði var fleiri fuglahljóð.
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
90 min of electronic music is not my thing
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
- I would be lying if I said I listened to all 1 hour and 53 minutes of this thing - It's great background music - The songs were completely okay but it's nothing I could sit down and deeply listen to - 2.5, rounding down cuz nothing needs to be this long
- OG DnB album? - it’s interesting - not really anything that I enjoy listening to
Was fine but so long
This thing is called “Timeless” because once you finish listening to all two hours of it, you’ll have less time to do the things that actually interest you.
Really enjoyed
Not bad as background music, but not really my thing. I can't see myself listening to this again on purpose.
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
I love this kind of music when I need to focus
Not my genre but cool
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
I'm more an idm guy. Bit to repetitive but not bad to listen to but wouldn't again. Need to review at the time I can never remember. 4/10
Hypnotic. 2.9
Drum and bass not my cuppa tea!
Too. Long.
No. .75
I might have tolerated this more if it wasn’t so needlessly long.
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.
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.
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.
Timeless. A good description in a way, as time did seem to pass less quickly than normal during this mammoth trip through drum and bass-land. I guess it's quite impressive, on its own merits, but it's not fun to actually have to sit down and listen to. A bit like Orbital earlier in The Project, I feel harsh judging this after I'd listened to it during the working afternoon, rather than at 2am in a warehouse somewhere (which for the record, I'd hate).
Not for me
Meh kind of mediocre and doesn’t seem to ever go anywhere, it is just repetitive.
I understand the inclusion of something like this, but a nearly 2 hour long album is a bit much. This is just also not for me and feels like maybe a candidate to drop for this thing.
Very ... alternative. The first song being over 20min long didn't make me excited in the first place, but the whole album is like that. It's not really a coherent song list as well, other than all of them having a focus on instrumentals and are extremely long. I could see this album working as background music for a film, but nothing I'd listen to for the sole purpose of listening.
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.
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
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?
Gotta love a bit of the junglist stuff. Loved D'n'B in the 90s
Anything but. A title like this begs the question: does the music sound dated? And the answer is: very much so. And from the very first notes, too, those skittering synthy-drum machiney beats which woulda been very au courant and an essential underground-y sound for at least 15 minutes in 1995, but not much longer and just serve to make listeners jittery, whether or no they are appropriately intoxicated. Maybe it was ahead of its time then; now it just sounds like then. Drum-and-bass vibes dominate, ultimately falling to a level that is just above background music – and annoying background music at that. Vocals add very little and also mire in sheer '90s-ness, this style of singing having gone the way of chokers, crop tops and bucket hats. Re "Sea of Tears" – one personally weeps at a much lower BPM. The record has ample ambition and aims for a wide scale/scope; and there are a few moments of interest (the quite pleasant "Adrift," as apt as a song title as the album title is inaccurate), but not enough to make up for its being utterly bereft of soul, which is what makes music reach across generations and eras to become, you know, timeless and which so much of club-oriented synth music so glaringly lacks.
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.
Un nouvel album de castor-beat caractérisé par des boucles interminables et répétitives. Goldie a d'abord utilisé ses incisives pour tailler des sillons dans un tronc d'arbre, créant ainsi un vinyle fait maison. Il a ensuite enregistré les pistes en utilisant des instruments rudimentaires qu'il a fabriqués à partir de branches et de cailloux. Pour la voix, il a invité d'autres animaux à participer en utilisant leurs sons naturels, parmi lesquels des pets. Le résultat est un enregistrement singulier, mais réservé au monde des castors.
On en peut plus, ceci est un appel à l'aide
Not really my jam here…to me much of this sounds like noise, frankly. State of Mind is solid, really liked it. Something about the fast drum beats paired with the slow melodies makes me uncomfortable. I like off signature times but not in this context
Started good, then got repetitive and boring.
Bog standard BGM. Sea of Tears was not sad, nor did A Sense of Rage inspire any rage. Put this on if you need some non-distracting study music or something, but don't expect it to keep you awake.
Inaudible. Autant la techno je peux encore, mais là franchement non.
Certainly was a DnB album
Makes me feel like I'm playing a space shootey Playstation 1 game
Defo not up my street 😤
Didn't enjoy it at all
Warehouse 90s techno
Goldie be like: 'I am going to make an album that is so long' Like seriously, there's some genuinely good stuff in here, but Jesus CHRIST why did this have to be 110 minuets long, like holy shit. This is clearly an absolute trip of a producers ego and I won't be revisiting it any time soon lol.
I like it.
Welcome to the jungle
I wasn’t rolling on E while listening to this so I hated it
Good drill n bass. Feels like a precursor to Aphex Twin
not my vibe
Not horrible, but very 90s.
Hard to overstate the importance of this record. Superb
Superb, and timeless 4.5/5
Early dnb and jungle inspiration
alright
"Timeless" is the debut studio album by British electronic musician Goldie. The genres are jungle (dance music with rapid backbeats) and drum and bass (similar description to jungle). It is considered a groundbreaking release in the history of drum and bass music. The album incorporated lots of sampling (I think it would have taken me a week to find all the samples). The production was by Goldie and Rob Playford who also did the programming. Commercially, the album reached #7 in the UK. The 21- minute "Timeless: Inner City Life/Pressure/Jah" opens the album. Dreamy and ambient synths and a soothing women's voice begin the journey. Multiple rapid beats kick in (Ah, this must be the jungle and drum and bass). Random synth noises come in. The song goes back to ambiance and back and forth with the rapid beats. Remember they've got 21 minutes. Quite epic and never boring. "Saint Angel" takes it straight to industrial with heavy guitar samples. More rapid drum beats throughout. A sample of the Commodores "Kiss the Sky." Hmmm, never thought a Commodore sample and industrial would work but it does. "Sea of Tears" starts off with ambient synths and a jazzy guitar. Similar to a few of the previous songs, the rapid beats are added. Given the song title, why not add wave and seagull sounds. More soothing female vocals. By the way, "Sea of Joy" is my favorite Blind Faith song...no similarities here though. "A Sense of of Rage" begins the second half. A combination of ambient and more ominous-sounding synths. Sci-fi noises which I started to hear at the end of the first half. The drum beats are heavy, deeper, bassier. I like the change of pace. Ambient synths and light bird noises begin "Angel." Dual and layered female vocals. The rapid drumbeat is more dance. The song switches between the ambiance and dance. And they bring in the sci-fi syth midway through. Ah, things are coming together. The album ends with two edited versions of "Inner City Life." The "Baby Boy's" edit has slower beat and more bass. The "Rabbit's Short Attention Span" edit is more aggressive with the beat and random noises. The beat almost Caribbean. Both have the female vocals and ambient vibe. There are three different versions of this album: 2CD's , casetter/CD and vinyl. I listened to the 2CD version clocking in at nearly two hours. A long listen but worth it. They threw in a lot of variety with jazz, ambient, industrial, soothing female vocals and various synth sounds. It is a creative mixture of musical styles and sampling along with the rapid beats either in the background or forefront. I don't know anything about the jungle or drum and bass genres but if this is a prime example, I'm a fan.
Classic release of the jungle genre, so this 100% deserves to be here. It does occasionally feel a bit dated but most of it still hits as hard now as ever.
Not in the right headspace for this at the moment, verging on bad trip territory
L I Q U I D
It's fair to say that given the choice between listening to this record by Goldie or ramming 15 pork pies up my ass so hard, I piss blood for the next 3 months, I'd listen to the music. That's not to say I don't love being chock-full of pie, but the music of Goldie is simply perfect.
Always believe in your soulie
Lacked spark. Maybe I just needed some more snap.
Ehh. Some good drum and bass - for a genre album it’s really good - but it feels dated - and over long at many points - more than it needs to be. But it’s still a good Drum and Bass album. It’s niche saves it.
Au, va
this is the most boring ahh album, i need to be in a club for this to be good
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.
Track one has very cool drum lines. This would be a good album for a long boring drive.
Solid double album--lots of great tracks. Love the drum & bass.
Decent background music, but I wouldn't sit around and actively focus on it
Some of these songs are entirely too long and drag WAY on
Not my thing
Not my taste, but nothing egregious. It was fine as background music, but I wouldn't seek this out myself.
Nope
Ok...but WAY too long. I am a decently large EDM type music fan, especially from this era, but Drum N Bass was never really my thing. 2/5
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.
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
Award for the most ironic name goes to: Goldie. It’s not Timeless at all but in fact extremely dated. But it’s also pretty iconic. I think it’s a bit of a disservice to have it on a list like this, next to The Undertones one day and Elton John the next. This is dance music and it’s not really designed to listen to as an album (I don’t think so anyway). Is it an important album? Yes. Is it a pioneering album? Yes. Do I want to listen to it all? No. Maybe one isolated track, in the mix, while on drugs, in a sweaty club, but not for 2 hours in the kitchen while I cook tea.
Favourite tracks: timeless; sea of tears
Inner city lyyyyyfe Inner city Pressure Pressure Pressure Indistinguishable from the parodies which came after.
Nearly gave up on this. I get that this is a pioneering album for the genre but it sounded badly mixed and dated. The first track being 20 mins was a joke. There were a couple of enjoyable parts but it mostly dragged on.
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.
25 years on and I still have no idea.
I feel bad. They must have thought this was the future of music; turns out it was the future of PS1 character select menus.
Kind of boring.
I play drums but not a fan of drum n bass. Going to England in a few days so might change soon.
Nothing really exceptional here
Are the sudden endings a signature or symbol of some formal structure? The former's suggested by the ending of the album, where bonus tracks function as that while punctuating the second half. A less varied second half, mind you, which somehow picks up the pace of the interminable. DnB has a very particular function, and here artistry coexists with a deliberate antipathy for those who leave the path. Works as long as one can maintain sponge roleplay.
Nope
with enough green stuff, maybe. At work, probably best to avoid for TP employees.
some fun beats, but the songs are super repetitive.
I guess it was okay for background music. Wow, it was long. Maybe 2.5
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.
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.
It took a while, but 1001 finally sent us a second Drum & Bass LP. It would have been nice if we received only two LPs in the Grunge category. :) I remember Goldie as being more jungle/hardcore and less melodic than Ronnie Size, the other D&B guy we were sent, and therefore, wasn't looking forward to the 21-minute opener. But it turns out the back and forth between the symphonic bits, Diane Charlemagne’s beautiful vocals and the percussion works well. “Songs like Angel” & “Inner City Life” (again with Charlemagne on vocals) are very nice.
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.
Favourites: • Timeless: I. Inner City Life II. Pressure III. Jah • Still Life
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.
28th July 2023 Listened throughout the day on Friday. Went to watch Oppenheimer then out to dinner in Cheltenham. Live yes. Listening as a full album no.
Not what I was expecting Wasn’t in the mood But still enjoyed it
"Timeless?" More like "Endless."
very good electronic album, very creative and distinctive.
Just not my thing, has it's merits for the genre, but it's one of the few genres I can't stand.
Living in the city, you know you have to survive. Living in the city, you've got to keep the dream alive.
Way too long, kind of repetitive, but I didn’t completely hate it.
Even though it was too long, I hated this less than the others of it's ilk, so rounding up
It was too long.
As the title says timeless. Although this blew the scene up was and is a great album
Great chilled music to have onin the background, yet with enough interesting changes to hold my attention. Impressive.
Fantastic work. I love this album.
It was fine to have on in the background, wasn't terrible, wasn't great either, just felt long, so so long! 2.5
Why does everyone hate this album so much? It’s a good drum and bass experience. I know it’s not the most accessible of genres, but 2.57? Really? Anyway this is good. Not really ‘timeless’, but good. Reminds me of Aphex Twin in some parts, specifically Drukqs. Good electronic album. I guess I kind of like this type of music too much, though.
Too heavy for me
Enjoyed getting back into this one. Has aged well I reckon!
kind of spacey and futuristic. Very produced and engineered. Nah
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)
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.
Its very zeitgeist. A bit of a splash in its time but you wouldnt choose it nowadays. Also, it was always way too long
A significant album in the drum and bass subgenre. When it’s good, it’s incredibly atmospheric; when it isn’t, it drags.
I don't know. There's a lot of energy in this for the specific place, specific time, specific shroom. I'm not in that place right now, and most likely won't be in the foreseeable future.
I was definitely looking forward to this one being over. It is LONG. And the music is interesting when you're just dissecting the various pieces and layers; there is a lot going on. However, the music is like jazz electronica, it's all over the place and as a listener there is no groove or easy rhythm to attach to. It's actually stressful to listen to. Not my cup of tea.
I’ve tried listening to this one twice, it’s just not my thing.
Drum and Bass and Jungle are very much uncharted genres for me. But this record really impressed me! The big opening track with beautiful vocal accompaniment and orchestral sweeps. Even the songs that are more hard hitting. This is going to be one of the records throughout this journey I enjoyed most to discover! 9 out of 10
20min biisillä alkaa...hyvä...mutta liian nopea. yhtäkkiä jotain rumpuilemaan.. drum and bass heh tätä odotellut...40min biisi olisi sopivampi..hyvä albumiu..varmaan vitun paska keskiratinki en jaksa edes katsoa masentuu vaan:( ok katoin oli 2.5 :( ja one-liner yksitähtinen ekana :( timeles...still sounds like its from the nineties.....beautiful.. tuntiviiskyt on kyllä liikavenyttämisen puolella mutta noh... ROHKEATA... sea of tears
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.
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.
tried to listen to this like 3 times, always failed so...
Why would someone decide to make music only to create two hours of this?
It was interesting enough
Non stop epic
Two hours of drum and bass that ruined my Friday.
I dont have anything against Drum&Bass but this is a drag. The songs feel aimless and meandering. I will concede that it is possibly quote well suited as background noise but that is hardly a compliment about its quality. For a conscious listen however, life is just too short.
Very nineties, almost timeless.
I don’t have a clue how to rate this. I’m listening to this on the train to New York and it’s the first time that I’ve felt like I had to do something else (e.g., reading) while listening. I didn’t not like it though, it’s just music that to me is typically background noise and not a standalone thing to listen to. It also clocks in at 113 minutes which is really really long. The first song alone is 21 minutes. It seems like this was pretty critical for early electronic drums & bass type music. It’s just a little too up tempo and intense at a lot of points for it to be really strong to me for background music purposes, and it’s not interesting enough to stand out otherwise. Favorite song: Sea of Tears Other: Adrift
I don’t have familiarity with drum and bass enough to comment with confidence on this album. I had to read up on Goldie, and Timeless, to understand the impact this album has had, but I still don’t have a frame of reference for exactly how it influenced other musicians. The only thing I kept thinking was “this sounds like generic drum and bass that you’d hear in the background of a movie or video game”. And that’s valid, because Goldie apparently set the soundscape for others. Maybe other drum and bass bands aren’t very creative and are just sticking to imitation, maybe I haven't found a band that is creative and unique yet (likely), or maybe I just don’t like drum and bass.
This was another roadblock album for me, just couldn’t get through it. I am fine with some beeps and boops but not 2 hours worth, sorry
For a record called Timeless this sure sounds like a playstation 1 racing game
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
Come on man, this was just garbage. 3/10.
Enjoyable for studying. Felt like some GrooveSalad fm back in 2009.
Drum 'n Bass, my favourtive.
It feels like I’ve already listened to this one twice over before thru this project alone. This style of electronic is definitely more easily digestible than say Prodigy but it lacks the energy I really want from this genre, it should make me at least want to dance a bit? I guess it’s chill wave electronic? I made it; it’s done. 2 stars
2.5 stars. Groundbreaking electronic album that feels dated. The fast beats are good at times but nearly 2 hours of this drops the rating for me. I appreciate something that moved forward the EDM genre but probably won't go back and listen to any of it.
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.
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.
It's the guy from Snatch! I didn't know he's a musician. First of all, the length of the album which is 1h 53m is discouraging. Secondly the genre jungle and drum and bass. I like Pendulum a lot but that's about it. I haven't found many other in the genre that I like. After listening to this the length was indeed an issue. I was waiting for it to be over and it doesn't have to be this long. I also didn't like this type of drum and bass. It felt very bloated and repetitive. I can't give this a 1 as I've heard a lot worse on the 1001 album list.
It has been an interesting listen. In my early twenty's I had a lot of friends listening to GOA trance and Drum 'n' Bass. So I was aware how influential this album was. It doesn't mean it's a really good album though.
It was a bit of a chore to get through this one. It's very much of its time and also very much in need of some serious editing. There's nothing on here that justifies the length. I get the significance of this to its genre and can't knock it for that, but it was hard to stay engaged with this one. Diane Charlemagne's vocals help warm up the sound considerably where she appears. But much of this is forgettable. Fave Songs: This Is a Bad, A Sense of Rage, State of Mind, Angel
I want to throw up
Did not finish but it was a great vibe
better than i thought it would be.
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
A lot to appreciate here, but also... A LOT. It's far too much for a single album, the bloatness makes it a challenge to appreciate it's best parts. Speaking of best, the opening track "timeless", running for more than 20 minutes, is absolutely fantastic, and the highest point in the album, which is almost two hours long.
I was pretty bored by this. Couldn't make it through. 2/5
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
Its fine but the first song is 22 min long 2.5
eh
Prima Drum & Bass, maar niks aparts
If you want to get people into DnB or jungle, this is the one. A collection of fantastic tracks that made Goldie a seminal dnb artist, adding long atmospheric effects and beautiful RnB vocals, justifying the artistic significance of harder breakbeat music that broke off from "happier" techno and house music. DnB is still one of the largest subgenres of electronic music. Here in Boston, Phoenix Landing still has a DnB night every Thursday, in the year 2023. And this might not be the case if not for the mainstream appeal of this album showing people what DnB is capable of. And with almost 2 hours of content, there's plenty of to be impressed by here. I can understand why most people who come across this will overlook it. It's 2 hours of hard breakbeat music, of course it's going to seem repetitive and overdrawn without any context or appeal. Even I start to struggle half way through and is better ingested in chunks. But every few minutes, there's always some really cool and trippy effects that catch my attention. Reminds me a bit of the high experimental value of certain trance artists like Sphongle. The track ordering is as good as I'd say it could be. We get out of the way the epic "Timeless" to showcase what the genre and Goldie are capable of. And for newcomers, I feel they should stop here and digest what they listened to before getting further. "Saint Angel" showcases the more experimental effects with incredibly hard beats to appeal to both dance crowds and fans of the more sophisticated methods of acid house or techno. Next track "State of Mind" is an incredibly pop-oriented track that stands side-by-side with trip hop artists and can pull in any more hesitant stragglers. From there, you what this album can show you as you look forward to revisiting your favorite components presented in new ways. Yes, it does repeat itself a bit, and I can't see anyone getting through the whole record without leaving it in the background to do other things, and there are a few tracks (especially in the latter half) that fail to justify their existence, but it's a marvelous DnB record with plenty to enjoy.
Not really my thing
Yea No
"Timeless" was aimless and pointless.
Timeless by Goldie..... Should be called Talent-less. This is just a drum machine on loop, with sampling, and other garbage thrown in for good measure. All with Diane Charlemagne's pitchy lyrics laid overtop. This goes on for 2 HOURS!!! The song Sea of Tears includes a looped track of someone crying for 2 minutes!! Why?!? It also features looped whale noises and waves throughout. Do you know what an annoying noise is after about 30 seconds? WHALE NOISES!! People who like this music have no fucking idea what music is. This is just garbled trash that any person with a modest understanding of computers could recreate in their living room. Electronica has in no way helped shape the future of GOOD music at all, it is shit music for simple minded people who are high as fuck on Molly. The first song on this record was 21 minutes long for some reason. Nothing happened. I spent the whole time waiting for a bass drop or change of some kind, but nothing. The same looped shit for 21 minutes, with the addition of pitchy moaning from time to time. Whoever put this garbage on this list needs their head examined. Utter trash. Favourite song: Inner City Life (Baby Boy's Edit) simply because it is the shortest song on the album. Still trash, but only 3:30 worth instead of the average 7 minute helping... Least favourite songs: The entire dumpster fire of an album 1/5 because I can't give negative stars. To paraphrase Billy Madison: "This is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point, in this rambling, incoherent noise, were they even close to anything that could be considered music. Everyone in this generator is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
One song sounds like somebody playing a ps1 game with all the weird random sfx, the other has a phone vibrating in the background for the entire duration (7 minutes). At some point I lost it and started laughing uncontrollably because of how absurd the noises are. I guess it's the type of music you shouldn't pay attention to while listening. Not for me. The second half sounds more normal and almost makes you forget how bad the first half is.
too long kinda meh Sea of Tears was alright
I hate drum and bass
Very insane album! Not bad at all! Really just sounds but very wild to say the least
Takes me back to some PS1 games where I’m driving a jet ski off of ramps and catching big air, while the high tempo drumns n bass are blasting me into a futuristic state where nothing else matters except the water and waves. Therefore, younger me would probably give this a higher rating considering it also reminds me of the original Killer Instinct soundtrack, which I absolutely loved as a 7 year. So merely for the nostalgic kick I will treat this album a little more fairly.
La voz simplemente no me gustó, en lo absoluto, las partes que no tienen son tolerables, pero en cuanto empieza el "canto" siento algo que solo puedo describir como una tortura a mis oídos. Y no es malo del tipo "no sabe cantar", sino que es tan motona que, después de un rato, se vuelve insoportable Me gusta un poco el ambiente que genera y cómo juega con la percusión, pero, fuera de eso, no hay nada que me guste de él
Trash. Don’t waste our time with these albums.
The seemingly 100th electronic subgenre album which also doesn't convince me to ever see this genre as anything one should listen to as leisure. Due to its ridiculous runtime, probably the album which I skipped ahead the most so far
Sorry not a fan!
This is the second album I did not finish during my listening journey. I managed to listen for just over an hour. But when I saw I was only on the sixth song and there was still ANOTHER hour to go, I decided to stop. If I was on molly during midnight rave in an abandoned warehouse circa 1995, I would love this album. Or, maybe if I was hacking into the Matrix. While I appreciate that Goldie was a product of the electonica scene at the time, I can't help but feel pioneers like The Prodigy did it so, so, so much better. I want to give this 2 stars because it's not talentless, but I have to give it 1 star because I can't ever see myself listening to this again.
J'imagine que je peux comprendre comment cet album a pu avoir un impact majeur sur la scène électro, mais je l'ai trouvé inutilement trop long. Les beats sont bons, la production est intéressante, le côté atmosphérique est bien, mais certains passages sont en boucle pour pour beaucoup trop de temps. D'une pièce à l'autre c'est beaucoup trop similaire. Généralement super long et monotone. Ça sonne plus comme une musique d'ambiance pour avoir en background. 4/10
i mean i’m sure it’s good for what it is but it’s a 2 hour long techno album. i’m not gonna enjoy just sitting down listening to it
Yeeeew. Rolling drum and bass perfection. There was the occasional one that didn't fire for me, but overall, fantastic.
This list far far far over values the significance of 90s electronic. So many of these sound so similar without offering anything new or groundbreaking to the genre. Album isn't as bad as this rating, but it's just too much of the same on this list
Amazing album, I wasnt sure if I would like it from the first 5min of the opening track, but it sounded stellar. My parents listened to Goldie a lot growing up so i knew what to expect, it still impressed me. its a kind of genre I termed myself called trackmania music. Felt like I was floating with the stars
I noped out of listening to the whole album. Once again, an album that should not be listened to at 5am after a really good night’s sleep.
You wouldnt steal a car. Piracy is a Crime. Jeg skjønner at dette albumet er historisk fordi det er det første i en sjanger, men det stopper der
This album was fine, but the length really started to bother me after a couple songs. Electronica is almost always way too long, which sucks if the song sounds good. I probably should have given some of my other 90's electronica albums a 2 as well. Anyway, my favourite song was probably Timeless, but it is long-winded.
Þetta drum'n'bass dæmi úr mið-níunni er eitthvað svo déskoti gott! Er samt með hausverk eftir svona langan drumbeat-concert á tennurnar á mér.
Okay
Yeah, so this made me realize I'm not a jungle fan. This became more listenable as it went, but it's overly long and not my style. 1 - bad 2 - average 3 - good 4 - great 5 - outstanding
Nope can't do this.
I have been enjoying some of the electronic music on the list, but this is too repetitive for me. It lacks enough musicla ideas to sustain 20+ minute track lengths
Wallpaper music. That just goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on.
Klapper, schepper, klapp. Gähn. Nicht ganz furchtbar, kann ich aber nicht durchhören.
Really interesting album - some excellent sounds.
Nope.
Feels like it had a lot of good ideas and then overstayed it's welcome by an hour fifteen at least. Production is rad especially for it's time but maybe I just wasn't stoned enough to appreciate things like pretty much the same drum break for 20 minutes on the opening track
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.
An album that got worse, the more I listened to it. Seriously impressive feat. The first 5 minutes, I had my jaw dropped… what is this symphonic, atonal, music, how are these drums hitting so hard? It was really a treat. It felt like the overture to an extremely enticing sci-fi film. But then the first track went on for 22 minutes. And it got worse! As in, repetitive worse. As a dance track, yes it makes sense. But then the album stopped impressing me. Its charm wore off by around track 3 or 4. Insanely interesting ideas at first, just lackluster execution that left me confused. 2/5
Long, boring, and repetitive with no standouts. I usually give this kind of music some leeway but this was just rude.
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
Not for me.
Standard DNB. Pretty boring.
Nothing hit for me. Felt very generic electronic. I did enjoy the vocals, but other than that really nothing special here at all.
One of my favourite teenage albums
Not Timeless at all, however an important album in moving Jungle/DnB to the mainstream. Again scoring based on how much I actually enjoyed listening to this album right now and that surprisingly was quite a bit - almost more of a Pink Floyd album than a DnB mix with beautiful vocals against some sounds taking you on a trip.
8/10 there’s some really good stuff here but it starts to feel a bit repetitive considering this album is 2 hours I would definitely consider myself a fan of DnB but I prefer more modern examples of the genre like sewerslvt
Seems ok. 2.5
Greatness
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.
Background music
Hard to give this one a fair rating when it's being presented so far outside its intended context. If this was on at a club while I was out on the floor, then sure, I wouldn't mind the vibes. As a solo listening experience, however, it's way overlong, repetitive, and annoying - but again, I don't think it's /intended/ to be listened to on its own! Times like these are when I wish I had the 1001 blurb on hand to understand why exactly an LP like this made it onto the list.
Unbearable. I'm not a big fan of the genre and this is the absolute worst representation I can think of. Uninteresting music that is criminally over long. I seriously don't understand why anyone would like this. I hate it. One of the worst albums I've drawn to this point.
I went to check how far along I was in the album and I was still on the first track! Holy fuck a 21-minute opening track. This is definitely not my style, but I'm sure somebody out there loves this drum/bass stuff. I loved going to raves but never liked D&B. I'm not on enough acid to want to revisit this.
The single CD version of this album is better than the 2 hour beast that is linked here, but it's still over long and a bit underdeveloped. Inner City Life is good and moody, but the rest is just 90s background muzak.
Pas mal, mais pas écouté au complet.
Classic EDM album. I definitely dig atmospheric/liquid D&B, and this is the daddy of all of that stuff. It's a bit over long for sure, but it's perfect music for focusing/work, which I use it for regularly. A very solid 4, almost 4.5.
How do the vocals not match the music so badly background kinda slaps but Jesus Charli XCX takes inspo from this The song called “this is bad” u were right Only good for 3am when u leave ur body
Wow, one of these ridiculously long and bloated 90's electronic albums was actually... good?
So, it is a DnB album, which means it is gonna have bloat. But honestly? Some of the stuff in here was unique enough to actually push it to a high 4 with me, especially Sea of Tears.
Not really my kind of music. I tried listening through it but it all sounds the same. And while I felt there were some songs I liked in the first part they were all wayyy too long and would just go downhill in the second part. so I gave up in the first half of the album Saved songs: State of Mind, Sea of Tears
Was ok at times, but too damn long
I don't know how people listen to this. I don't know what it is. Is it music? I guess someone thought so.
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.
Underwhelming. An artefact from a specific moment in time – of historical interest/significant alone. An analogy: compare Dizzee Rascal and Goldie. Rascal was a Grime pioneer. He earned the right to 'Bonkers' (which is a cool song, btw. But, you know, cred and all that.) Goldie had been in the D n' B trenches. But much more a water-carrier. An enthusiastic water-carrier, but still. Enthusiasm just meant that everyone was hydrated. it doesn't change the course of wars or anything.
Not sure I'll be able to finish this one. I mean - good God it's so long. It seems like there's either nothing going on and it's putting me to sleep, or there's too much going on and it's annoying.
Kyllähän hyvä junkka aina putoaa siinä missä just rumpubasso alkaa pidemmän päälle puuduttaa. 3/5