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Techno to put people to sleep. Honorable mention to the Star Trek TNG reference, but not enough to get this one out of the sewers.
Didn’t find enjoyable at all. Felt like someone a got a computer with garage band like software and just started to experiment with sounds to see what would annoy the roommates the most.
Repetitive and annoying. It was tough to stick it out to the end. I wanted it to be over halfway through the second song. Apparently this is 90’s rave music. The only way I can remotely think this might be enjoyable is with some strong drugs. Repetitive and annoying. Repetitive and annoying. Repetitive and annoying.
ew
Some interesting sounds but not my thing at all. Not terrible just can't imagine ever wanting to sit down and listen to this or have it on in the background. Fave tracks:
DNF. the only bits that didn’t bore me annoyed me and the majority made me feel a mix of both emotions. not great
Dogshit
Nope. I'm noping out of this. Not for me.
0.5
This album is pure F'kin' torture! It's a crime against humanity. It should be against the Geneva Convention to even have to listen to this. Call it Audioboarding. (1.2) ½★
If the 1001 albums project has taught me one thing, it's how much I do not like 90s electronica. This album filled me with dread from the get-go with a song that's just a looped bit of Star Trek dialogue. While I like Commander Worf as much as anyone, this wasn't his best work. Overall, I just found this album (and style of music) too repetitive overall. Which is sort of the point for music designed for clubs, but when listening at home, it doesn't work so well. Sorry, but not for me. 1.5 stars.
Musik från en klädbutik i england på 90-talet
My favorite so far from the “Nintendo 64 snowboarding game choose your character music” album. Even still, total shite and why is this here?
is this a fucking joke?
shite
To quote one of my past reviews, I hate electronica and no album is going to change my mind on that.
I could make a better album with a sample of the demo mode song from the 1980s Casio keyboard using garage band on your iPhone during an airport layover … this is just utter nonsense. And, I literally have no words for all you asshats that have given this a 4 or a 5. Are you serious? What the fuck are you even doing here? Go back to your room and let the adults do the talking from now on.
I have never hated an album more.
This is certainly unique and different, that's for sure. Was not a fan
Not gonna lie, this just sounded like sound effects to me
I’m thankful they let me know from the opening song this was an album intent on annoying listeners. Also thankful cds only had 80 minutes of space. A child could make more interesting music.
Sleepy boring music
Well, I was due for something to be my first 1 rating. I just did not enjoy this at all. Electronica is already a genre I really don't gravitate towards, and these songs felt incredibly repetitive and boring. The only reprieve I had during the album, was when one song ended and a new one began, because there'd at least be some kind of new musical component to be a breath of fresh air. However, as with each song preceding it, that breath of fresh air turns stale rather fast when it's repeated in the exact same unending way for the following 5 to 10 minutes. I'm sure these songs were great in the club/rave scene in the 90s, but it's just not my jam.
Tostón. Solo se salvan los tres primeros minutos de Halcyon.
I enjoyed the didjiradoo by of Walk now but very little else. Orbital perfectly capture a genre i dont like. The music makes me feel anxious not exhilarated. The looping jokes on the opening tracks also wear thin very quickly.
Starting off a record with a clip of Worf from Star Trek should really appeal to me, as I am a nerd. But my goodness that opening track was annoying. And then it was followed up with 9 minutes of "Withnail and I" plus an incessant beat. By about a quarter of the way through, I was considering allowing myself a DNF, but the completest in me decided to stick it out. Suffice to say, I suspect being completely off your tits on amphetamines in a field is probably the optimum way to experience this album. I however, was completely sober making leek and potato soup. By the time the didgeridoo appeared I had well and truly had enough. This album was basically my idea of hell. 1/5
Im at album 600+ and I everytime I hear some crap like this I double guess the ability of the "curators" or "editors" of this list that they are clueless. There is no space in a top anything list for electronica. It just sucks. I imagine the dj of this group engenieering the first song and feeling like that was going ti be a mindblowing intro when in fact I almost blew my brains not to keep listening to that crap. Id give this album a 0 stars
Snore-bital Poo
I appreciate that it takes all kinds of music to make the world go round, but this was utter garbage! Didn’t make it past Where Time Becomes a Loop, over and over again!
479/1001 🌗🌑🌑🌑🌑
Not my genre
The one thing I dislike more than concept albums is bullshit electronica records
I did not like this album. Repetitive and annoying at parts. Feels like something a 10 year old could have made with a mixing app.
NOPE
First album in this challenge I have not been able to listen all the way through 😵💫
Well. It's an album. Did it deserve inclusion? Nope. But, the author thought otherwise, so there we go. A thoroughly unenjoyable listening experience.
Just not my jam. Some of it was catchy but it was too repetitive to be interesting.
Where tolerance becomes a loop Where tolerance becomes a loop Where tolerance becomes a loop Where tolerance becomes a loop Where… Input translation: tolerance not achieved…
Yeaaaaaah, that’s a no for me dawg.
👎
Almost had a panic attack listening to “Where Time Becomes a Loop” on the subway to work this morning. Like yes work is stupid and repetitive and maybe I just shouldn’t go anymore? Anyway, after that it became the soundtrack to a future Blade Runner remake set in India.
Electronic garbage.
Wow, this is incredibly repetitive and unbearably boring. I can usually find something worthwhile in every album, but I had a hard time finishing this one.
I don't get starting and ending your record with annoying repetition. Yeah, let's rate this sandwich filling when it's on the stalest of wonder bread. I didn't know wonder bread could even get that stale. As for the filling, I still don't know what I'm supposed to do with a techno album. Am I supposed to have a dance party at home? Am I supposed to do drugs to it by myself? Or is it just a promo for a show? If so, who buys this? Is this background music for people? Does anybody actively listen to this by themselves? I get raving to some of these tracks. I don't get putting this in a CD player and consuming it end to end. Maybe I don't do enough drugs or go to enough house parties.
I just couldn't get through more than one track on this one. Each attempt to do more was met with a skip button or my headphones coming off in frustration.
I think the title "Halcyon + ON + ON" describes this album perfectly. You're happy for about 20 seconds then the song manages to drag on for another 5 minutes. Orbital is a sick band name. Too bad this is terrible. The music isn't even really all that danceable so why is it considered a great dance album?
Spécial… pas sûre d’apprécier
I’d rather listen to AI slop, garbage music, than this.
Anaemic techno made only a year after The Prodigy dropped their seminal debut Experience, which may be an unfair comparison, but as far as electronic music goes that record was light years ahead and tons more interesting. This just feels super light-weight and bereft of ideas.
No
Hated it
Honestly I struggle to justify either a 1 or 5 rating generally, but I just don't get this one. Every song sounds the same and there's such little variation. This is background music in a store.
Nothing on the album stood out to me. I believe the 90s rave music has its place, but it's not for me. Mostly it bothered me that some tracks had to have the volume all the way max to even hear them. I can recognize that Orbital was likely influential in their genre, but didn't enjoy this one.
Nmg
Next time I’ll just put a stethoscope against an outdoor transformer
I guess I have a hard time believing anyone would actually listen to this album. It might work as rave music, or as background music, but other than that? Definitely an album I won't listen to again.
Listened to the first track. Couldn’t take it…
Have am ens done commercial flop in my life and I will be
No. 1.4.
I’ve never really dabbled in recreational drugs. Whilst I think recreational drugs would have made this album much more enjoyable I think the come down of realising I enjoyed this hot pile of shit would be worse than the high.
sounds like 90's 2D videogame music. The songs are way too long
wtf
Nope. Really didn't like this. So tired of electronic music. It's so repetitive and boring.
*1993 English electronic album. *Good for coffee shop background music, but that's about it. *Just sounded like a DJ practicing. No real ebbs or flows - just the same sound on each track. RATING - 3/10
Just a bunch of noise
There’s a time and place for a rave, today wasn’t one. I might get with this on 1 of any given 5 days.
Not a big fan of the electronic sounds, too basic
Enough with this electronic bogus!!! I don’t want to do it anymore!!
Nope. Do not dig this.
Can’t say I liked this one very much. The whole album was a too conceptual, abstract, and repetitive for my taste but that doesn’t make it bad. The band was certainly doing something different from what was popular and, based on the little I know about electronic music, doing it pretty well. It was a weird album to start this journey with.
Für mich nur irgendwelche Geräusche. Konnte dem Ganzen nichts abgewinnen.
Bad. Bad, not good. OH that's where they got the name from.
What in the actual fuck is this??? They can Orbit around deez nutz!
I saw the cover and immediately knew it was going to be more random Brit-electro dance music that was on in the background of annoying dance clubs in the '90's. How do these albums keep getting added to this list? Side note, was this sort of cover art and font the stock for albums in the '90's? I feel like it was used a lot.
I think that this is not for me. It’s too scientific and repetitive. It’s like annoying and irritating.
Good as background music or if you want to find sleep.
I hate this type of electronic music.
More electronic garbage sausage.
That was a hard one. Samples are weird, and it’s missing dynamics. I now know what wa a the use of the special sound effects vinyls found during crate digging… he used the car horn section generously on one of them songs. I laughed!
ABURRRRIIIDOOOOO
Why is this on this list?
Shitty rave music.
Does this guy get paid something every time he recommends an electronica album? How many more of these shi**y albums must we try to endure?
Couldn't do the entire album. If any genre is susceptible to becoming obsolete its electronica/techno. These synth they're using just sound fucking awful. Its also not old enough to justify IMO. They definitely had access to better shit and just chose these cheap sounds and made boring songs with them.
Didn’t do much for me. I poked around on their other top songs. It’s actually a pretty nice listen - Belfast, Chime - but an hour of this is kind of brutal. Give us more BANDS.
Lol! Yes! Mortal Kombat! Oh that took me back. Well besides that little surprise, this was a total grind. It's been a while since I gave a 1, it was just a matter of time. No disrespect electronica but not my thing.
I had an ex girlfriend who had a saying, that was maybe sort of mean but she thought it was nice, which was "Cute for someone" meaning hey this person is not attractive to me but I'm sure could be for someone. That's kind of how I feel about Orbital 2. It's a 5 for someone!
Techno for the sake of techno. As the album drives on and one “song” blends into the next I find myself as fatigued as I would be if I were dancing to this music in a dark club and my energy were waning. By the final tracks I’m just wondering if we can skip ahead to the part where we eat shitty food and go home.
Awful
hate this (but the album's cover's cool ig?)
Electronica is just tough for me. This was a long and difficult album to get through. Started to give me a headache. No more electronica.
1.5 My first listen to this album came right on the heels of a massive Spotify outage, so when I initially heard the first song, I assumed there must be something still wrong with the platform. Nope, as it turns out, it really is just two minutes of a dude repeating “Where time becomes a loop”. Somehow, the album doesn’t get much better from there. I genuinely try to keep an open mind with every new entry on this list, but as someone who isn’t really into club techno, this gave me nothing new to appreciate about the genre at all. Most of these songs are annoying, too long, and just assaulting on the senses, and not in a fun, punk rock kind of way that gets you amped up - pissed off maybe, but not in a way that I think was intended. I was constantly having to throttle the volume down on this while listening, not just for my benefit, but also my neighbors', and as a result, I was over this pretty quickly. There’s one bright spot on this album, if you can even call it that (“dimly lit” may be more accurate), and that’s Halcyon + On + On. It’s certainly not great by any means, but it’s by far the most tolerable track, and I’d even go as far as to admit that it has a bit of an angelic, ethereal quality that might work for me at the right time and place - however, today was not that. Appropriately, this album is also commonly referred to as “The Brown Album”, presumably because it’s shit. Maybe it’s fun if you’re in the club and on molly, but I don’t see this becoming a part of my Wednesday musical rotation anytime soon. Also, wtf is on the album cover? Are those kidneys??
Just a big bag of NOPE
I cannot express how annoying the intro and outro songs of this album were to me. And I did not care for the rest either.
Shit
Very few albums of this genre stand up to listening as a whole because it's, by it's nature, repetitive and better suited to dance to than to listen to on the commute into work. This is not one of those few albums. It's a long old 65 minutes, with only a couple of tracks standing out as worthwhile listens now (and even they are too long). Maybe this was revolutionary at the time, but somehow by 1993 I doubt it.
Such run of the mill electronic music. Sounds like bad video game music. How is this on this list? Makes me question the value of this list.
I’m 72 albums in and this is the first one where I seriously considered not seeing it through to the bitter end. It just bored me.
Lol. The only thing worse than the hip hop albums on this list is the electronica
Repetitive. Unimaginative. Boring.
Far too repetitive to be anything but annoying. I’m not on MDMA, so this was not enjoyable at all.
It sounds like 2 computers competing
I'm always impressed by how bad an album can be. This one is absolute crap. There's really nothing more to say.
Awful. Need to be super high to tolerate this
Boring
Oh look, another electro album that is boring and puts me to sleep. That's like 3 this week. When will it end? I've had like 1 jazz album can we please put something new on here? 2/10
Like a screensaver from a 1990s PC came to life and became a DJ. The repetition is too much for me.
Вщ не выкупил
Fairly heinous stuff. Actively sounds as if it’s trying to be headache inducing. At least I’ve never heard of this album or the artist, which means the masses have forgotten its existence. Swear to god, whoever made this list has a special hard on for electronic music. I think it’s actually impossible to defend this album without seeming pretentious. A quote from the second track strikes me as ironic. “Even a stopped clock gives the right time twice a day”. Makes me think of whoever made this. Even someone just fucking around (and I really mean fucking around) in the studio can create something that resembles a song. These things on this ‘album’ resemble songs, but, reader, do not be fooled. They are actually experiments in sound. What’s the difference, you may or may not be wondering? A song is music. This is annoying. And another thing. If you’re going to fuck around in the studio and make ‘songs’ (experiments in sound), at least have the courtesy of keeping it short. This is over an hour. This is a one star for me. Pretty easy one star. 1/5
1/5
edm early 2000’s - seemed simple,
Pants
Techno I know I can't stand
Mortal Kombat music for gym bros.
Electronic music. Predominantly instrumental.
Not my thing.
Starts out nowhere and then quickly does more of the same. Someone should tell them that having a drum machine, synthesizer and a computer doesn't mean you're a musician. Brian Eno proved years ago that you can make brilliant music this way. But obviously it isn't a given.
Well it's certainly electronic music. I'm sure I'd enjoy hearing the songs at a rave individually, but as a whole album listen, it's hard to not get bored.
Бля ну это какая то космическая шелуха
Meh
Trash
The deeper I get into this project, I understand that I'm a closed minded prick and I love it...
Not terrible... but definitely not a genre I can sit and listen to a whole album in one go. Bored to tears.
Mayonnaise music
I was trying to give this album the benefit of the doubt thinking that it just hasn't aged well but really I think this was bad when it first came out. The first track just sets the tone, "time becomes a loop" just looped... I mean really?! I love electronic music but this is just hot doo doo.
Horrible techno. Almost unlistenable at times. Didn’t finish the album.
Not a lot going on with this one
Not as bad as snivilization. Still unlistenable!
This gave me vertigo 1/5
Very typical techno, call me a snob but I don't hear much musicality going on. It's a pretty awful listening experience actually, especially in the cold light of day. Maybe you had to "be there" in every sense.
The incessant use of soundbite loops got very irritating. By the time the album got interesting I was already too disinterested.
Fuck off - Kevin and Perry Go Large without the jokes
Where shit becomes poop.
do not understand how anyone can listen to this thru the whole album
As bad as this is it's just more of a waste of time.
Aaaaaaaand done.
Reminiscent of a 90s video game soundtrack. Only made it halfway through the album before giving up. Why is this significant enough to be on the list?
Not my scene, just background musak. nothing here to get me interested.
not for me
I have seen a comment saying that Orbital belongs to the big trio of electronic music, together with The Prodigy. I hope that was the first an last time, that someone put those two bands together in one sentence. Orbital orbits the wrong star, I'm afraid.
How is this on this list. Just a bunch of random sounds on an obnoxious drum beat.
Just noise how can anyone like this would give 0 stars if I could
The first and final songs were torturous. It felt like something they would subject prisoners to in Guantanamo Bay. All the 'songs' inbetween were a collection of irritating and repetitive noises. How could anyone enjoy this?
la electrónica debe ser lo peor que nos pasó como sociedad
Elevator music
This is straight dog water
I think I just don't really like electronica
This is a waste of time.
Beep Boop Beep Boop
Music like this is so boring, utterly forgettable
nope
these fucking guys again!?
Annoying, simply horrible, grating on my nerves.
I like electronica/tech/beats in general and dislike this specifically. Whole album just blurs into one, the kind of background music at a bar/club in a vampire movie.
Got pissed off with this quite quickly. Not as clever as it thinks it is.
This hurt my head.
Ya I could set up a sequencer and record an album of 💩 like this, but I have mercy.
Zzzzzzz
A very strange album. Did not notice and music, just noise
Why do I get stuff like this the day after a 5 star album? This? Dread. Detest. Abhor. Hate. Despise. Confirms that I HATE electronica.
Electronic music in the 90s really had some brutal stages. This was quite awful as an album to sit through. Time is a loop. Yikes. The only thing this album would be good for is listening while trying to zone out or play video games. But to listen to. No thanks. 2.4/10
der elektr. Kram ist nix für mich
Repetitive electronica crap.
Nou sorry maar het is praktisch allemaal hetzelfde, maakt me nerveus
Not quite sure how this can be called music. As bad as throbbing gristle 2/10
id kill myself if i had to listen to this whole album.
Trash
shit
Pleasant enough mechanised background music, but there was nothing to latch in to here. I suspect it makes more sense in a chemically-enhanced state, but it is veering into library music by the time you get to 'Monday'. It lacks soul.
Nah.
No!
Hier val ik dus echt bij in slaap. Tracks van tien minuten zonder enige vorm van variatie, waarom? Als het dan toch zo achterlijk lang moet duren, heb ik liever George Harrison en Eric Clapton die staan te improviseren of zo. Niet dit soort beresaai gehakketak.
A skipping record…wonderful.
I am soooo not impressed. It’s just not good.
What a silly album. Just fun noise. Glad they are popular somewhere, but this is not one of the best 1000 albums made.
Couldn't do it
More of this electronic bullshit…
I walk into a club. I hear this music. I walk out
No thank you.
I legitimately never thought I'd find a genre that I dislike more than country, and then this project showed me EDM. Maybe I'd like it more if every song was 2 minutes instead of 8+? Monumental waste of time and incredibly boring
NO.
Didn’t finish. I think drugs are needed to enjoy this
Nope
Thank for the headache.
This is not music
Terrible.
what the fuck was this
They get another 1 just for Snivilation
I cannot listen to this. Skipped every song. For me, this is bullshit. 0/5
I absolutely didn't like this one. I'm not really into electronic music, but I like some things. But this... it may work on a rave or something like that, a live setting. But on a record, it just doesn't work. Like some other albums I really don't understand, why this one is included on this list.
30 minutes in and it feels like I'm listening to the same song over and over again. Not for me. 1.5 stars
This felt like I was inside someone else’s acid trip and not in a good way
The Brown Album. Shit is brown. I know why we must listen to this, because there isn't a word that explains something that is too dull to be boring. So we need a literal example. Why did this dull duo get TWO albums in this list?
Nope. Video game background music. Not an album. I’d give it a zero if I could.
Don’t like electronic
This is the worst genre, and the worst album in the genre (so far anyway). I actually hated it. 0 stars
Terrible
Awful. Way too much EDM on here anyway, but this was the absolute worst. Generic repetitive nonsense. I get why some EDM is here but not this. There is no way this was groundbreaking or unique. Complete ass.
Yeah this wasn't my cup of tea really at all. It's aight, kinda just sounds like someone's unfinished beats they decided to publish.
🤨
This must have blown those Gen Xers minds
i hate it
Some electric music hit, and some misses. This one, today, missed. It felt too crisp and perfect.
Meh
Let's see what the project serves me today: mid 90's band/album I've never heard of. OK... Genre is "Electronica", average rating is 2.74... uh-oh. Skim some reviews, found this: "this is a huge throwback for me. My pacifier and glowsticks, oversized pants, pigtails, pumas and DANCING!"... Double Uh-Oh. But, the point is to listen, so let's listen! pause Listening to this, I’m reminded of an old joke about Grateful Dead music. “Q: What does a deadhead say when the music stops? A: Wow, this music sucks!” Maybe Orbital would be awesome if I was at a Rave, doing whatever drugs you do at a Rave. But I’m not, never was, never will be. So this is NOT awesome. And it is very, Very, VERY repetitive. I guess this is ok for what it is: background sounds for a mid 90’s party. Not really intended for you to pay much attention to, or sit and listen to. I thought about giving this a 2, and I might have, if didn’t just keep on going and going and going…. By the 50th minute, the irritation level had ramped up to max and I only listened to 1/2 of the last 3 songs. 1/5
Orbital 2, this time... more orbital? Didn't like the first Orbital album we had. Like this one only *slightly* more. I'm not really understanding the significance of Orbital, or why this is on the list. Maybe because, as other reviewers say, it's about as "album-y" as techno albums get? I mean, techno is so, so much farther along as a genre compared to this. This feels... very dated still. Not a terribly un-fun listen, I just emphatically believe it doesn't belong on this list, let alone two Orbital albums. 1/5.
Ist das Musik, oder kann das weg? Nein, diese Ansammlung von Geräuschen mag vielleicht als Soundtrack für ein Spiel taugen, aber das tue ich mir nicht freiwillig an!
Why???
Only electronic I like is Daft Punk.
Nonsense
1993. Interesting electronic music but stressful for ambient noise. Appreciate it but not my thing.
- uff - nein danke - 0 / 5
Was not a fan, kept expecting Lamar from Revenge of the Nerds to start singing. It's not the genre that's the problem, because I love The Prodigy.
Having suffered through The Shamen earlier in the month, I decided after the first two tracks of this one that I wasn't going to put my ears through it again....time becomes a loop....time becomes a loop....time becomes a loop....
Not for me.
Prob best listened to on mind altering drugs
Did not like this album. I only liked one song, “Halcyon and On and On”. The songs sounded the same and they just dragged on. I’m sure it sounded new and exciting when it first came out but there are so many other electronic albums that are better.
Listened Before? N I wish I could use an eye roll emoji on here. Apparently the person who made this list LOVES electronic music. We have a tiny representation of several genres (country, blues, soul to name a few) and 9632 British electronic albums. This stuff isn't awesome. All the songs are 9+ minutes long. Halcyon was pleasant to listen to because of the female vocalist. That's all I can say. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Halcyon and On and On
Aside from Worf’s inclusion in the beginning, a big “no”.
More shit
Not for me
No
Just plain boring and extremely repetitive. Seems to be a common trend among these "top albums". If I was fucked up on acid, I would probably enjoy it, but Im pretty sure I would enjoy 99% of all things in the world, so thats not a high accolade. The songs are too long, they dont progress and evolve the idea, its just really fucking boring.
It was a lot of the same noises over and over again on each track. I didn't like anything about it.
Pretty much what I expected. Repetetive electronic and/or sample loops. They were amongst the first to do this and have a lot to answer for. It is possible to make electronic music, without it being mind numbingly dull, but Orbital fail completely in this regrard.
Offensively boring. I don't understand how anyone can like this type of music.
Dull, repetitive, derivative.
mid glitches.
As a star trek fan, I loved the bizarre choice to open this album with a sample of Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf from The Next Generation explaining a mobius strip. As a fan of interesting music, my enthusiasm dipped after the first 20 seconds and didn't pick back up again - I will acknowledge I'm not a big fan of this type of minimalist semi industrial electronica to begin with though. I think if I had this on in the background while doing things I may have jived more with it, but in this case active listening just got aggravated as it went on. This sort of thing just doesn't stimulate me. Even with a track like Impact (The Earth is Burning) or Halcyon and On and On where a lot more things are happening, it still didn't really justify the length of those tracks. I imagine this is what some of you feel listening to some of these jazz albums we've had. And if that's the case I think you're more than generous. This is my first 1. It may have merit for others but I genuinely didnt enjoy the vast majority of my listening experience. That ending is excruciating.
A long, boring and repetitive record. Maybe ok in a dance club, but horrible to actually listen to. Had to stop -- it was giving me a headache
Another electronic music album that did not make me feel anything. I honestly don’t know who this is for I had it on in the background and totally forgot about it until the verbal track at the end. That sucked too.
A waste of time. It was built from boring, unimaginative, hackneyed panels. They didn't even manage to make a citizen's puff.
Techno globalement très pénible. Peut être Halcyon and on and on dans un trip assez new age nature et découverte tetris effect. Le reste est juste casse tête et très dispensable.
Wow, not good
Electronic music. I could produce this album in an hour with Ableton Live.
Pretentious rubbish that thinks it's clever. I clearly haven't taken enough drugs to appreciate dance music.
Very not into electronic, so i didn't like it.
Vituttaa, että jatkossa spotifyn suosittelualgoritmi ottaa tän levyn huomioon mun musamaussa.
What are we even doing?
Not into techno music so this is a no for me.
Just don't get it.
There were some elements that I would like other bands to use and incorporate in their actual good music. I found this to be quite irritating. I don't think I was able to listen to one song in its entirety.
It's like Depeche mode had a weird little incest baby with jazz on acid. I dont think I like it very much
Not for me
The only time this rose above the level of background music is when it went for the plinky, annoying synth leads. Suffice to say I was not a fan
This is the first album on my list that I did not feel compelled to completely listen to. I'm guessing this is one of the first industrial/techno digital sampled albums, judging by its age. I'll bet it was highly influential at the time, but now it just sounds like the rejected tracks from the first Matrix soundtrack.
Herregud
Eh was ok but not great it sounded like someone got ahold of a tape recorder and like re-recording it out of phase.
Pretty sure this album was the inspiration for the jellyfish jam from SpongeBob--that's not meant to be a compliment either. I couldn't finish a single song. Started skipping songs after a few seconds after Lush 3-2 and stopped entirely after Remind. Not worth the headache today
The album starts with Worf talking about a time loop, and in one ear it's a certain speed while it's slightly faster in the other, so that it eventually loops around and catches the first one. Wow, congrats on your successful extra credit assignment in sound engineering class, but don't subject the rest of us to it. That's no way to treat a Son of Mogh. The only thing worse than a repetitive electronica album is a repetitive electronica album made by people who think they're being clever. Best track: The sweet, sweet silence at the end
It’s interesting I suppose but it makes me feel nothing
Well, that first track really set the tone in an unfortunate way. "You know what we should do? Annoy the shit out of anyone who listens our album right away. That'll show them for spending money on our garbage." Simply calling this repetitive is almost insultingly reductive. It's not JUST repetitive. It's also mostly bad. And they only repeated the bad parts. Why are these tracks so long?! There's nothing actually HAPPENING in these tracks that justifies their insane length. It's just noise. Mind-numbingly repetitive noise.
Not for me
Vaikka tunnustan tämän hyvät puolet, en innostu lainkaan. Kaltaiseni kuulija tarvitsisi jonkinlaista... ömm... koukkua.
Absolute trash. Nothing but noise and repetitive droning. Literally the title track just repeats "time becomes a loop" over and over for like two minutes and most other songs include extremely repetitive vocalizations and/or beats. Honestly starting to question the sanity and musical tastes of whoever wrote the book these recommendations come from. The only good thing about listening to this album is that I've been able to teach YouTube Music to avoid trash like it by thumbing down every track.
Every Night when I go to bed, I play brown noise to help me fall asleep. After the 3rd song, I just switched to my brown noise playlist. This album is shit.
this was not good.
not my thing
Nope
No nope and no
I dislike music like this heavily.
Three Words: what. the. fuck.
Early 90s British dance/electronica with sitars and didgeridoos and shit. Woo fun. I swear this list was made by a bunch of 50-something Brits who came of age listening to this garbage.
Gar nicht meins.
\"That's not music. That's EDM.\"
Yeah, not my thing.
I played this on my stereo and couldn't hear anything, so I listened to it on my earphones instead. Sad to say but I would've had a better opinion of this album if I COULDN'T hear anything. Repetitive noises that drone on and on for 10 minutes does not make for good music, I'm afraid.
Perhaps valuable in its own right, but not my thing and very odd.
Impossible escoltar-lo sencer a casa posant-hi atenció. M'avorreix.
I always get Orbital confused with The Orb and William Orbit. Not just for the obvious reason - that their names are so similar but also because their brand of electronic trance music all sounds painfully the same. I present Exhibit one - this album by Orbital. Maybe if I was at a rave taking ecstasy it might be more interesting, but I am sitting in my living room utterly bored.
Very early 90s. Very shit
This site has taught me that I just don’t like electronic music 🤷♂️
Just feels very empty. Don’t care for techno music and definitely not a fan of 1 hour straight. Just as you finish a song you think it’s q gonna get better; it always remains the same boring level which I’m not about.
The album opens with a weird intro track where the line “when time becomes a loop” is repeated for a whole minute it’s a great use of sampling but it really drags on the theme of time is carried on in the next song planet of the shapes with the line “even a stopped clock gives the right time twice a day” then the words just stop for most of the track and honestly it’s quite boring most of the tracks are either lyric-less or just have one repeating sample throughout the album is mindnumpingly boring. 1/5
I recall the practice session my old band had when our keys player Brittany discovered the effect he uses on "Remind". On her keyboard the setting was called "Solar Flare". Everyone thought it was awesome and we briefly contemplated building an entire song around it but quickly decided this would be much too thin a concept for an entire song. Mssr. Orbital has concluded differently. I have no way of judging this on its own terms, and while it's pleasant enough to put on as background music, it's not that interesting and I wouldn't have picked it for myself. Just a two things to note. One, the CD takes 4 minutes to even get rolling - why did they think it would improve the listening experience to have you sit around listening to nonsense noise for 4 minutes before playing some music? Two, it's very monotonous - I think the artist may have been going for that, but on an hour-long CD it really wears on you.
Just a tough listen, I can see the appeal but it’s the worst kind of experimental electronic music. At its best it’s confusing and at it’s worst it’s impenetrably antithetical to what music is meant to be.
Space jam(2)
One word: Bad!!
Time becomes- a loop. Love the worf sample Planet of the Shapes - I don’t have much to say tbh.. Lush 3-1 - I was hiccuping which I think adds to the long Lush 3.2 - this is literally the same thing Gave up on individual songs, all blend into one. I could not just sit and not do anything except listen to this album. Ultimate background music. DO people still dance to this? 1/5
Maybe it's because I'm not into dancing or dropping acid and staring at strobe lights but electronic music doesn't speak to me. It's too repetitive and I find it uninteresting. Some of the sounds these artists create from the use of technology is cool and innovative but that's about it.
What the hell? I gave up…
Boring
No
Not my kind of music.
fart*
What is this???? I don't understand this at all. I disliked the repetition of words in the first track and that put me off the rest of the album. I'm not a stranger to eletronica but this is too out of left field for me.
Repetitive garbage
A bit more musical than some other electronic albums I've heard, and not just annoying noise. Expect the intro and outro which are so annoying, don't understand why you would want to annoy the listener at the start and end of an album, which makes it a 1 star not 2 for me.
booring
Thought I would like this. But I didn't, I think I'd need to a lot of eccys to appreciate it. So repetitive.
Just noise
Horrendous
Really dull with repetitive samples looped for 6 minutes and called a song. Maybe worked in the clubs back in the day but pointless as a home listen
Dawno tak nie pokaralo gatunkiem z gatunku tych najtrudniej przyswajalnych, czyli chodzi o odmiane elektroniki zwana powszechnie techniawa, orbital 2 jak sama nazwa wskazuje bedzie drugim albumem studyjnym grupy o nazwie orbital, ktora jest duetem braci Hartnoll, ich imiona to Phil i Paul, jak przystalo na standardy listy orbitale musza byc oczywiscie rezydentami wyspiarskimi, bo jakze inaczej moze byc, nie jest to pierwszy i pewnie nie ostatni album elektroniczny podczas tego forsowania listy, ale jest to jeden z tych pickow od ktorego zupelnie sie odbilem podczas odsluchu, techniawa, ale nie wiksiarska, tylko inteligentniusia techniawa, dla wysublimowanych gustow koneserow muzyki elektroniczej, ktorej nie potrafie zrozumiec, cecha charakterystyczna brzmienia duetu na tym materiale bedzie bogaty sampling, juz pierwszy trak rozpoczyna sie sampelem z star treka time becomes a loop, ktory oczywiscie jest zlupowany przez prawie dwie minuty z letkim jego opoznieniem przy loopie, takie przesuniecie sampla w czasie okresia sie jakp phasing, z tego zabiegu kompozycyjnego mocno czerpia braciszkowie, przez co juz po pierwszych 5 minutach odsluchu mialem dosc, a nie jest to dobry omen, gdy plyta ma godzine i piec minut dlugosci i 10 trakow, kawalki lushowe kojarza mi sie z trancowym klimatem, ktory kontynuuje swa obecnosc na nastepne piosenki, bo kawalki wydaja sie byc ze soba zespawane tak jakby orbital drugi byl jednym wielkim songiem, ktory jest do konsumpcji w calosci, na co trzeba miec mocny zoladek muzyczny, cale szczescie, ze to juz ponad 250 piczek, wiec zahartowanie pozwolilo dosluchac albumu do konca i z czystym sumieniem jestem w stanie stwierdzic, ze nadal nie rozumiem tego gatunku, a rzadkie przepadki, jak z juno reactor, nie objawily sie jeszcze na liscie, songiem ktory najmniej mnie zabolal byl impact, ktory jest takze najdluzszym utworem plyty, a sample sa calkowicie niezrozumiale i niezbyt obszerne przez co nie tak odczuwalne, wiec leci na plejke lofikowych, zeby jakis slad po tym orginalnym elektronicznym projekcie orbitalowym nie zaginal, okladka faktycznie wyglada jak cos co mogloby byc orbitalowe
This is barely music.
Vile.
Qué aburrido y largo y hasta molesto. Y nada chistosos sus Tracks con las frases repitiéndose. En algunos puntos me sonó a cuando bajamos FrootLoops y jugábamos a hacer rolas de electrónica.
shid