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Not really a genre suited to album listening. Overly long and repetitive tracks (and irritating vocal samples), plus none of the bangers they had on some of their later albums.
good music for maintaining tension in the scene where they plan/execute breaking into a building and hacking the mainframe
Ok. Gav mig många härliga nostalgi-vibbar till FIFA 99 och Fatboy Slims The Rockefeller Skank. Vissa låtar blir för repetitiva, men då är jag inte heller något technohead. Men föredrar 90-talets techno före dagens!! Bästa låt: Leave Home. Alive Alone också bra.
Meh.
Just not my thing
Not a big electronic music fan, this was pretty good but not really my mood today.
This somehow had more going on through its repetitive beats and samples than LCD Soundsystem (my only other real point of reference for this; it’s not my thing, really). I couldn’t tell you why - it felt a little more handcrafted perhaps? A little more longing darkness? But still, this kind of fare does nothing much for me. Giving it 2 because I think that’s what I gave LCD Soundsystem and I preferred this.
No me gusta mucho la música electrónica, así que ñe
2/5
I can appreciate this for what it is, but it's simply not my cup of java. It's a big sounding record, a kitchen sink approach to the arrangements (preferable to electro minimalism in my opinion) but doesn't float my boat
There was a part that sounded like fart noises
Interesting.
This sounds like a soundtrack from the Matrix and similar to that series it hasn’t aged very well and sounds dated. The beats and loops are incessantly driving and propulsive but there simply isn’t enough variety in tempo or mood. Kraftwerk and Aphex Twin did it much better. Apparently they mix it up near the end of the album but I fell asleep by song 6, too little too late for me.
Somewhere between eminem and black sabbath.
Idk these all sound like 90s pump up jams. "Chico's Groove" was really the only one that caught my ear.
I recognize how important this album is, and I finished it. I don't like electronic music.
The Chemical Brothers did not have any hits in The Netherlands as far as I know. Althoug I like electronical music this album was not for me. Only the number Alive Alone had something.
Not my favorite
electronic?
Not my cup of tea so my opinion might not be 100% relevant. Some nice stuff, not amazed but also not dissappointed. I'll try to listen to it few more times in following weeks.
Not bad but not really my cup of tea either
1995: Leave Home, Life Is Sweet
I don't really like electronic music. There are a few exceptions, like girl talk, so I'm interested to give this album a listen. Nope, 3 songs in and I am already developing a headache. Ooof I made it 4 songs. This is so repetitive and annoying, I'm done, 0 stars.
O.k. it is trip hop but within the "Song To The Siren" I was done with this album.
Nah
One reviewer described this album as walking down the aisle of the supermarket that has dog food and baby food and I can't stop thinking about how true that is except I'm a judgmental cunt about it
A bunch of noise like this cannot be in the category of good music.
Terrible electronic
Not a big fan...
Unknown band for me. It is so typical for electronic music to be repetitive and after a while it got on my nerve. Hard to listen to. A bad album.
full instrumental, musica de fondo 1/5
This just went on and on. Jeez....most of these songs just went nowhere. I liked the beats sometimes and then nothing happened. This wasn't good. Liked Songs: "Three Little Birdies Down Beats" and "Chemical Beats"
I get why it's here I guess, but didn't enjoy it
Didn’t get through it pretty weird not in a way that pulled me in
I want my 49 minutes back
medzina
Hvorfor
TERRIBLE
I kind of hated this. Mindless and repetitive
Big beat and breakbeat techno built on heavy loops, distorted samples, pounding beats, and sparse vocal snippets hammers forward with relentless intensity. Listening feels like being trapped in a warehouse with the same bassline drilling into your ears over and over. The result is energetic and immersive at first, but quickly becomes straining and overly repetitive.
Variety: 0 Adequacy: 3 Listenability: 1 Uniqueness: 1 Emotionality: 0 = 1.0 "Hear the voices in my head/ I swear to God it sounds like they're snoring" INTRO This is another one I probably heard some of this on MTV and maybe some compilations or playlists, but could not name you one track. Part of the problem I guess with having a largely faceless media presence I guess. Also the first time an act has gotten a second album int the list for us to look at. Seeing as I gave their most popular ( I think?) album a measley 2 stars, I don't have much hope for this one. THE TRACKS "Leave Home" - First track does not ring ay bells for me. I can see that this came out before Dig Your Own Hole, but to my ears it doesn't sound as dated as some of the stuff on that, while still being squarely in the 90s. Maybe it's the relative simplicity of the thing. Didn't do much for me. It blends right into... "In Dust We Trust" ... which starts off with more of the same, bass register electronic rumble underneath some possibly sampled beats. This one has a lot more effects and quirky bits mixed in, some muffled yelling, along with those wet sounding electronic high hat beats. We find ourselves once again very much in the late 90s action movie realm. I can picture the frenetically edited hacking scene now. Can't imagine anyone throwing this on to either relax to or dance to. So who is it for then? "Song to the Siren" - Grating opening to this track sets the mood perfectly, and hey look at that it continues to repeat under the bog standard beat for a good minute. After that it settles into something a bit more listenable, but just feels like I'm waiting for someone's awful vintage cell phone ring tone to go off the whole time. "Three Little Birdies Down Beats" - And we flow once again into the next track. Can't say the one continuous album length track gimmick is going to earn them any points as it feels more like a tactic to exhaust and confuse to my old man ears than some sort of call to "keep dancing y'all!". Maybe this is a hell of s lot more interesting with some mind altering chemicals flowing through your brain. The inly thing I'm feeling is impatience. "Fuck Up Beats" - This one became pure background noise and I didn't even notice it was over. "Chemical Beats" - This isn't going to get any more interesting is it? How many tracks are left? Jesus... "Chico's Groove" - Some variation finally. Way more chill, and not so aggressively generic. Nothing great but it's different at least. "One Too Many Mornings" - Staying in chill mode here for another unoffensive track. Little too new agey for me though. "Life Is Sweet" - This is promising. Solid building beat that develops into something approaching Dig Your Own Hole era material. Then the vocals drop in and it loses me. Decent bit of variation as well, but wears out its welcome after about 4 minutes in. "Playground for a Wedgeless Firm" - By far the most interesting track so far. The stuttering electronic bit doesn't last long enough to be grating, and the beat is hypnotic in a non-terrible way. "Alive Alone" - Only example of successful vocals on the album. Beth Orton rarely fails to be anything less than interesting, and she performs an admirable job of rescuing this one. HIGHLIGHTS MIDLIGHTS - "Chico's Groove" - "One Too Many Mornings" - "Life Is Sweet" - "Playground for a Wedgeless Firm" - "Alive Alone" LOWLIGHTS - "Leave Home" - "In Dust We Trust" - "Song to the Siren" - "Three Little Birdies Down Beats" - "Fuck Up Beats" - "Chemical Beats" FINAL THOUGHTS Very boring stuff for me this go around. This one didn't even have a "Block Rockin Beats" or "Setting Sun" to give it a little life and interrupt the sameyness. I can't imagine a world where I'd want to hear any of these tracks again. At least something like Barry Adamson's "Moss Side Story" ( which I also gave a low rating to) has some variety, and attempted to interest the listener. Maybe that's the purpose of this record though - mindless noise, for mindless dehydrated zombies to grind their teeth too whist flopping around in an epileptic's nightmare of flashing lights and being splashed with the sweat of strangers ( if you can't tell I'm not a very big fan of clubbing). If the hole thing had shown the variation of the last 4th, this thing could have maybe pulled a 2.4. PLAYLIST ALTERATIONS - Happy to forget this one altogether
Hard pass, just noise
Nah
1/5 this is just not for me.
Snore. I know there are folks who love the genre, and Chemical Brothers are probably the top of the genre, but i really hate the genre. This record doesn’t do anything to change my opinion. 2/10
As an only child, I neither know nor care for brothers. Chemical, or otherwise
So incredibly boring and repetitive.
If this is essential electronic music, I want nothing to do with electronic music.
This could have been a shorter album and still achieve the same (or better) vibe.
Way too much of the same same but not different
I understand their importance as producers, but I couldn’t finish this.
That was a hard listen. I get why people rate this album - it was probably way ahead of its time in terms of sampling and is a very influential house/acid/techno album. The problem is that I bloody hate this kind of music, which makes this album hard to rate very highly. I found it just gave me a headache and I found the repetition of each motif about 16 times extremely irritating. In fairness, I did at times enjoy the less screechy tracks (there weren’t many). Sorry chemical brothers - plus you stole Jez and Super Hans’ sound 1.5/10
Projekt me baš kažnjava ovaj tjedan. 1/5, 1/10
With all respect to the artists, but I couldn’t finish this album. Techno stuff is not my cup of tea by any means.
Exit Planet Dust I’m still not sure why dance acts put out full albums. White label singles, sure - they’re for the club. But CD albums, bringing the club into the home? It is like getting intimate in the bedroom and then suggesting “why don’t we take this to the utility room.” It may work for some people. 1 This would bore a goldfish. 1/5
very techno. i can appreciate this would be amazing for someone and i do think they’re good, just really not my vibe
Nope
I’m just going to keep recycling the same review every time we get an electronic music album…I hate electronica and no album is going to change my mind on that.
this was not for me.
It's annoying and repetitive, and hard to even tell where one song ends and the next one begins. Pass. Best song: Alive Alone
Trash, this isn’t music it’s pressing buttons.
Terrible repetitive noise.
cute album cover
Sinceramente, no tengo ya paciencia para estas trituradoras mentales.
This is an album I didn't need to listen to before I die. Dated, repetitive and failed to interest me in any way shape or form. I can usually find some kind of redeeming quality to art however came up empty with this one. Sounds like music that would be playing at the beginning of Blade. 1/5 stars
I was not high enough on ecstasy to enjoy this. I can see why it's good rave music, but that doesn't make it good music. In fact, it may make it bad music.
Not for me
It could be used for background noise but it is so boring even for that.
Felt like one continuous track. Raving was not my jam.
DNF
there's nothing left to say about this kind of dull vacuous electronic music so instead I'll give my review for The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014): not very good, a lot of the dialogue is very poorly written but there's some decent spooky images and you could probably do worse for a group horror movie watch but you could certainly do a lot better
Weird techno shit that all sounded the same - in fact, exactly the same sound as a trash compactor crushing a stereo playing Nick Cave!
Yawn.... Why was this album added to this list?
Not my cup of tea. It felt repetitive and very high energy. I was exhausted by the midpoint of the album
Noise
Wow those songs were repetitive, wow those songs were repetitive, wow those songs were repetitive.. I was tempted to repay myself 25+ times like song #3 musical phrase which then changed one aspect of the riff and repeated that at least a dozen times. Then to mix it up, it layered the first phrase and the second phase and repeated that! Ok maybe for the dance floor it makes some sense for repetition but even then this was overkill. For listening to an entire album of this not on a dance floor this was beyond painful.
Club "music" sucks donkey farts. This is one stinky donkey. 0 starts if I could.
"Hey, Tom, listen. I've made my laptop make this 4 second loop of a drum beat." "Brilliant, Ed, let's just repeat that exact same thing for 3 and a half minutes and call it a song."
I do t understand people who just listen to EDM and go to EDM concerts. I get it in like the context of video games and such, but like, it’s painful just to listen to.
I just can’t understand why anyone would want this from their music.
Just as I thought I was starting to get into electronic music of all times I get this served up. Sounds amateurish. Soundtrack to some shitty 90s movie about computer hackers probably.
1/5
Mich berührt diese Musik nicht, für mich ist es ein Hintergrundgeräusch, eher nervig, trotzdem besser als das letzte Album, das ich von denen hatte. 1 1/2
Not that good
I just can’t get into this stuff, too repetitive
Initially thought I was being pleasantly surprised by a genre I rarely give the time if day, but after almost half an hour of the same droning beat carrying over multiple tracks, I was reminded of why that is. Leave Home (7/10) In Dust We Trust (5/10) Song to the Siren (2/10) Three Little Birdies Down Beats (5/10) Fuck Up Beats (N/A) Chemical Beats (3/10) Chico’s Groove (7/10) One Too Many Mornings (6/10) Life Is Sweet (5/10) Playground For a Wedgeless Firm (1/10) Alive Alone (5/10)
My two least favorite genres are "shoe gaze" followed closely by "acid house". Exit Planet Dust is rhythm forward, high energy but repetitive within each song and from song-to-song. I don't see the point (probably because I am not currently not stoned).
One of the most boring albums I've listened to on this list and that's saying something
I don't know whether to give this a 1 or a 5. First, I really liked it. I was surprised at how enjoyable it was. But then, it was just the same thing again and again, and it began to tire me. Then, it was something different again and great. Then it was more and more repetition. It became like nails on a chalkboard. I tried so hard to like it. After the first track I wanted to give it a 5. But then it just wore me down to the point where it was just painful. 1.
I get it. Chemical Brothers because you have to be on drugs to enjoy it
not for me
Not into it.
I guess I needed chemicals to enjoy
Album 668 of 1001 The Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust (1995) Rating : 1 / 5 More of the Electronica I don't care for. Not much to offer musically. Wouldn't be a bad choice for the bedroom, though.
Siis nää tälläset electronicat ei ikinä kuulll8sta ibterestkbg vaikka hyvää bassoa muytamassa kappeleessa olisikinnii h jolh tuota ei saa xtra tähtiä..
Boring af. Doesn’t take advantage of electronic music production to do anything interesting at all.
дорогой дневник, мне не подобрать слов чтобы описать боль и унижение которые я испытал сегодня, моя жизнь поломана навсегда
I never orbited Planet Dust. More like Planet Crap. Only brainless drones listen to this crap.
Groupe inconnu. Et rapidement détesté. Les morceaux sont trop longs et terriblement répétitifs. Aucun intérêt musical pour moi. Finalement je ne regrette pas l'erreur de note que j'ai faite sur l'album précédent de la liste (je lui ai collé 2 au lieu de 1, note réservée pour les albums que je n'arrive pas à terminer) et qui était, lui, musicalement très travaillé. =>1/5
I listened to this as it was intended to be listened to: through my speakerphone speaker while drafting a letter in my office.
Ok
I don't know what kind of chemicals the're on but it clearly rotted their memory as repeating the same sentence over and over and over and over is not exactly a sign of an excellent memory (or talent).
This slipped by without my even noticing. Very bland indeed.
Not for me.
Ikke det direkte dårligste vi har hørt, men bare ikke lige MIN laser lyd.
I fought through this shit
Absolutely forgettable.
I wasn’t sure until the middle if it’s an album or just one 50-minute track? To be fair, it gets a bit better after Chemical Beats, the last track, Alive Alone is quite okay actually. I can imagine this debut sounding like something really cool in 1995, but no, this doesn’t really match my taste at all.
Nicht meine Richtung
One star for the album cover
would not choose this ever.
Dig your own hole Is far superior
Klingt wie eine Demoplatte für die Bewerbung bei einem Filmmusikproduzenten. Und ich bilde mir ein, dass ich das eine oder andere Elektro-Gebritzel schon mal gehört habe.
Crap
not for me
Just a bunch of thrumping noise.
First listen Saved 2/11 Top track: Leave Home
I once accidentally stood on Ed Chemical Brother's foot in the Brixton Academy toilets during a Charlatans gig.
Nope
boring
terrible. Great value fatboy slim
SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP
No thanks, not my taste.
0/10
I opened this up, didn't recognize the album, and looked at the year - 1995 is a year I should know. I figured I'd start playing the music and realize that I do know it, just not in its proper context. Nope. This is still drawing a blank for me. But more than that, I HATE IT. So clearly there is a reason I don't know the album -- this is the kind of music that makes me anxious and jittery. The first half is hard core dance music, the second half is a ramped-down version of similar beats, but the same paranoia runs throughout. I don't know how anyone can sit and listen to it for fun - there's nothing redeeming about it, unless you're a teenage boy trying to piss off your parents. The whole thing reminds me of a scene in ER when some doctor gets stabbed and then is left for dead on a bathroom floor - Noah Wyle, I think. For some reason that particular scene stayed with me for years, I think because of the techno beat that played over the stabbing scene. There was something particularly gruesome and haunting about the pairing of the visuals and the music. This music isn't that music, but it's just as unpleasant. I'd give this a zero if I could, but that's not how Likert scales work so I'm stuck pretending I like it a little. I gave LZI a one-star review as well, but I'd listen to that any day over this. Thumbs up for the album cover though.
There's a line somewhere that allows me to like Moby, but not care at all about this type of electronic music. This did nothing for me at all. There wan't any hook that pulled me into any particular track.
Blerg. More electronic garbage. I didn’t like that one track from The Chemical Brothers that made it onto the Much Music Big Shiny Tunes 2 compilation in 1997, and I see nothing has changed the further into their world I go. They suck through and through.
What I like to call "PS2 music". 49 minutes of the background music to me picking out what snowmobile I wanna race down the mountain.
Definitely not my kind of music. The repetitiveness of it triggers my misophonia so a lot of the music is anxiety-inducing to me. It sounds like they create a beat and have a contest to see who can layer more stuff onto it. A perfect example is Chico's groove, which has a good beat but then gets ruined by a bunch of zaps and noises dumped on top of it. Tracks I didn't completely hate: Chico's Groove One Too Many Mornings
Cool beats, I don't like instrumental albums. Brain needs lyrics sorry Favorite Tracks: Leave Home
I think I've gotten all the good albums and it's just scraping the barrel by now. My last review of a Chemical Brothers album just says: You wouldn't download a car. And that really sums up it's whole vibe. I derive a very weird sense of pleasure from this music. But I will rate it 1/5 nontheless cause these 90s feels like a mistake.
listened to 2 tracks 1 star
can't stand it, headache inducing
I was out the second I saw that three of the songs had “beats” in the title.
Great for action movie background music?
Nope.
Banish this to the 8th or 9th Circle of Hell.
Was not into this one. Alright album to work to at least(on a Good Friday!?!?). In Dust We Trust made me feel like I was in a montage during a heist movie. I really didn't like the three "Beats" songs, soo repetitive and boring. It's weird but this album makes me kind of anxious? Not what I want to be feeling while listening to music, generally.
boring, almost fell asleep.
Repetitive beats, was annoying
Ahhhhhhhhh I feel like I'm going insane. I can't. No. Just no. No times the brothers gonna work it out equals no.
Weird, just noise really
It’s a “No” from me.
I can't say that my feelings have changed much from week 2, when 'Dig your Own Hole' came up. Honorable mention for 'One Too Many Mornings' dub/ambient vibe that manages to at least mask the repetition in an airy and moody soundscape that feels like floating on a musical cloud. Dishonorable mentions for the tracks 'Alive Alone' and 'Life Is Sweet', which both manage to combine a series of disinteresting loops and rubbish vocals to make something that is synergistically bad.
I hated this. With a passion. Hard to express how much. I think maybe it reminds me too much of a different time in my life. Or maybe I just really dislike this type of music.
did not like this
Why are there two of these on the list? Is this one better than the other one? Maybe, who cares? 1.1
I just kept turning this lower and lower. I have to say somehow this is better than the last one we listened to.
Иногда жизнь слишком коротка чтобы тратить ее на некоторые альбомы Ну да да, вау, брейк-бит Я не употребляю поэтому шарма в этой музыке не вижу И в 1995 мне было 8 лет, так что и ностальгия не уколола
i’m sure it was good to some people…i just found it repetitive and not beautiful
Fidgety electro which doesn’t get me going for another ride
Very bad. Had to stop listening halfway through
Boring edm
En ole salilla käymisen suuri ystävä - siihen tämä voisi toimia.
Too much! Help!
Couldn't even finish it.
It’s like a bunch of asshole 14 year olds ran into a McGuire store and hit random on 3 of the 36 Casios and I can’t find which ones to shut off. Gross
Is it telling that the first track has nearly double the number of streams that any other track on the album has? At five and a half minutes the track is six minutes too long. To be honest I gave it two and a half minutes before skipping to the next track - which was the same only worse. Out of a sense of duty I gave each track at least one minute, none lasted more than a few seconds beyond that and at times it felt like an eternity. To answer my own question - yes it is telling, as by the time you have heard a minute of the first track you have heard everything this album has to offer. I can't complain about the quality of the singing as there just isn't any until the last track, by which time my senses were completely destroyed. I am not sure if it worse than The Smiths or The Slits, but it definately is worth less than 1 star
Wake me up when the party ends. 1 or 2 songs are salvageable, and nothing more to see here. Let's go to the next.
Not my kind of music.
Not the worst electronic album I’ve heard however it’s still an electronic album. I found the album to feel like it dragged a little as the beats are unique but somewhat monotonous. The album did flow together well and some of the songs were a bit easy going and grooved well but I just can’t find myself listening to this again. 3.0/10
Sounds like the soundtrack to a snowboard game on PS1. Whatever this is, I hated it.
Past "Leave Home" I just did not enjoy this album. I just cannot get into Electronica or House music.
After the first 90 seconds of listening to this tripe, I felt like I was in a training montage of a 90s-00s sci-fi, action and/or thriller flick. I hated this shit at the time, and it seriously hasn't aged well. Had to turn it off after 8 minutes. Absolute garbage.
Got a headache by track 3.
Bit noisy. Not my thing.
Did not like it much. Too much "wall of sound", and I didn't notice any nuance or musicallity.
The album starts off weak. I don't know why people think that just repeating the same lyrics over and over makes for interesting or fun listening, but it doesn't. Maybe I'm just not in the mood for an electronic dance album, but none of the beats stood out to me in a way that made me excited.
Not my style of electronic music at all. I could've tossed a 2 it's way for being competently made and whatnot, but God did it annoy me before it's run time was up.
This kind of music only exists to provide a rhythm for people at a club to dance to. Just listening to it is obviously going to be very boring.
Not my vibe
Meh - sounds dated - I’m bored - I’m not on drugs - bla bla
Not for me.
Miserable
Didn't even attempt to finish this one. Sounds like the music that opens an edgier-than-average turn-of-the-millennium romcom. Dreadful.
Super stressful
Too harsh for me, I recognize that it's not terrible music, but I absolutely could not get through it.
Cool trailer music I guess. Not for me. "One Too Many Mornings" is good.
Não curto eletrônica, achei que ia ser uma tortura ouvir o álbum inteiro pq tava tudo repetitivo e boring pra mim Mas eu acabei gostando da Chico's Groove, e depois disso ficou um pouco mais enjoyable Mas prefiro Cazuza ou barão vermelho
batidao tchurupuipupupupuuu 200% chato pra caralho fiquei com tanta dor de cabeça que a minha dor de cabeça teve uma dor de cabeça vai toma no cu de quem sugeriu essa merda
Fuck off Chemical Brothers
Techno smells
This didn't do anything for me at all. Probably a product of its time.
1 star. Didn't like at all.
Is this the fast and furious soundtrack? Only listened to two songs but I think I got the idea
Not good, I did not like this.
Could not finish it, which makes it an automatic 1 in my book. Its not irredeemable, which I guess places it on the higher side of 1, but its still a 1 for me. DJ Shadows Endtroducing has a similiar vibe, but is easily 20x better.