Reviews (page 8 of 8)
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 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.
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.
I hate drum and bass
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.
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
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
Nope can't do this.
Long, boring, and repetitive with no standouts. I usually give this kind of music some leeway but this was just rude.
Nothing hit for me. Felt very generic electronic. I did enjoy the vocals, but other than that really nothing special here at all.
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 don't know how people listen to this. I don't know what it is. Is it music? I guess someone thought so.
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.
Apart from the occasional nice parts, I felt like this album wasted almost two hours of my time.
Midway through This is A Bad I thought "This is bad". I saw no reason to put myself through more of it.
I guess shitty electronics cliches have to come from somewhere
Did not finish I am a bad listener
Nearly 300 albums in and I think this has been the first one I didn't finish? It's not a great look when it feels like the record is running ideas and there's still *checks time* ten minutes left of the opening song I bailed after track two
wasn't even halfway done when i started wanting this to end already
Enough of this overly repetitive, trash genre
could not make it through till the end
Waste of 2 hour of my life
very long and bland, while there certainly were a few noteworthy ideas, they should have been condensed, instead I get almost 2 hours of repetitiveness (and I am actually quite fond of long-structured songs!)
NO MORE EDM PLEASEE
Couldn't even make it through the first song.
While this album is probably a good version of whatever it is supposed to be, it’s just not for me. I had it on in the background while I worked and forgot it was on most of the time. This is not a good thing.
Ik vond dit een heel saai album. Ieder nummer klonk voor mij hetzelfde, en dan duurt het nog eens zo lang
Not a fan of dnb so I’m trying to be as unbiased as possible but I’m just not seeing how this could be considered good. Maybe it’s like the first of its kind or something so it’s historically good but it’s just so plain and nothing. I’m ngl I skipped through some parts of the songs cause it was just so boring.
The worst type of background music.
So very long
Life's too short for this album. It was never going to be a favorite, but I didn't expect to hate it. There are moments where I'll enjoy a few seconds of something interesting happening, but they are buried in these songs that do not earn their length.
There are barely words to express how awful this is. It is also unendingly long. Almost 2 hours of noise without any hint of emotion, melody, musicality or artistic merit. Listening to it genuinely felt like a punishment. A godawful album cover too. I understand that people have different tastes and opinions, and that is all part of the rich tapestry of humanity that keeps life interesting. However, I would seriously question the intellect and character of anyone who likes this. Rating: 1/5 Playlist track: Inner City Life - Baby Boy's Edit Date listened: 18/05/22
To me this was pretty boring and felt like background noise. Basic elements of techno 90s music. The album was long and didn’t have any exact moments of highs or lows. 2.7/10
04/20/2022 This begins with a 21-minute long track. Really tells you a lot about what you're getting into. Had some nice things to say! Then it kept going. And going... And going. Lots of noise.
Are you fucking kidding me?
Absolutely dire, this. Not a massive fan of this kind of music, and for it to work it needs to have a lot more energy than it does. Also, almost two hours long???
nope not me
I just can't.
This morning, I felt bad reading some of the harsher one star reviews for "Timeless": jungle and drum'n'bass are fairly niche genres, so it's understandable that a listener dipping into it on a merry-go-round of 1001 albums may not get a lot from it. But then I listened to it, and now I'm becoming one of those people. It's all on account of my vanilla preferences, but I guess I'm going to have to join that slew of one star reviews. I've never heard any Goldie before, and I must admit my knowledge of drum'n'bass or jungle goes about as far as "that stuff David Bowie tried in 1997". So I approached this as a cautious outsider to the genre, putting it on whilst working and unsure how much it would stick. The first hint that "Timeless" doesn't live up to its name is given by its garish album cover. The absolute confirmation comes about three minutes in to its opening 21 minute track, when it becomes clear the piece isn't going to develop much further than intermittent breakbeats and some ethereal pads and vocals. It may be a landmark album in drum'n'bass, but it's just a genre I don't care for too much personally and having to sit through ~2 hours of it is tooth-pulling. I don't want to dismiss it all completely: there were a few moments that were enough to make me sit up and pay a bit of attention. In truth, it's more melodic than I expected: there's a nice focus on atmosphere and more dynamic shifts than I thought there would be. I enjoyed the female vocals on many of these tracks, adding a touch of soul and warmth that it's hard to achieve with electronic drum samples. "State of Mind", for example, has verses, a solid refrain, and a sense of rise and fall. It's garnished with tinkling piano lines, a fretless bass hook and washes of cinematic synth strings. It's the clear high point of an album like this, and gave me slightly more respect for it. Unfortunately, most of that was then undone by the follow-up, "This Is A Bad", which was back to the formulaic loops and electronics- didn't do anything for me. Tracks like "This Is A Bad", "Saint Angel" and numerous others I won't go through in detail are much more similar to what I expected the album to be. They rarely let up from their breakbeat loops for about ten minutes, and don't go to anywhere near enough places to deserve being listened to for so long. If this had been about a third of its length (a whopping 105 minutes) then it could have boosted my star rating to at least a 3. But as it is, I'm going to stick with one star just because I don't even have the energy to listen again and articulate my thoughts on the rest of it.
On dirait la soundtrack d'un jeu flash tah jeux.fr en 2010
Musicn't to my ears.
Waste of time. Drivel.
Couldn't get to the end of the first track. Started OK with lush strings, then female voice but soon descended into mad, intrusive drumbeats so the music was lost. Also stops and starts and isn't cohesive at all. I think it's supposed to be dance music, though the constant stop start must make it very difficult to dance to. It got slowly worse. Not really music.
Repetitive, boring, and outright annoying. This may have been clubbers' delight, especially during its decade, but it also helps us understand why said clubbers were always high on drugs - they had to deal with this music.
Not really my thing but I did listen to it!
Timeless indeed, this guy needs a watch. I pity any pour soul who dare sit through the three hour anniversary version of this. Apparently it was revolutionary for drum n bass, or something called "jungle," but while real jungles teem with life at every level, this feels vacant and lifeless throughout. I can't say it's bad on any technical level, but every song is long to the point of boredom for me, so the album was tough to sit through. I'm usually down for some electronic/dance type albums, but this one was pretty painful. Extremely dated, and not in a way that's fun (like the Prodigy for example). Not my style, wouldn't recommend it to anyone, and I'd personally axe it from the list. Favorite tracks: State of Mind. Album art: A cool cover that looks like it was designed by a 12 year old as his first project in a graphic design class. Edgier than the music, that's for sure. 1.5/5
Två timmar långt album... kom igen. Dålig musik också.
Ew
Nope
Generic nothing.
2/10 Weird Noises and snare drums.
Nope. It'll take you less time to read Goldie's Wikipedia page and click on the page's links than it will for you to suffer listening to the entirety of just the opening track. I'm guessing this album is one of the first to get bumped from a future edition of the list.
Awful.
Grauenhaft. Anstrengend. Unhörbar. Eintöniges, hecktisches, nichtssagendes Machwerk.
so bad
Tja, toch maar wat gelezen over deze Goldie. Schijnt toch wel een beetje een echte baas te zijn in dit genre...
Nah
ugh not my music
Ew. I made it 12 minutes into this nearly 2 hour (!?!) album. Very dated sounding.
Yikes
I've learned I do not care that much for DnB/Jungle
90s stuff
REPETATIVE. I dont like jungle, and even though this is the first jungle album. Its so long, andd the first song is the same thing over and over and over agin
Did not like
Nah.
repetitive electronic... would be ok in the right mindset. But also, almost 2 hrs!
You're kidding, right?
Not my style
electronic. not great. sounds worse than a b-rate hackers soundtrack.
Sensacional. Já salvei aqui pra ouvir novamente depois, me lembrou demais as músicas do Ridge Racer 4. Alem de ser descrito como jazz futurista, tem vários elementos de drum n bass, e uma pegadinha de música eletrônica. Já garantiu um espacinho no meu coração.