Reviews (page 6 of 8)
Never heard of this group before and they will probably stay obscure to me. The “songs” are seemingly just random noises shuffled together. Not a fan, too experimental for my tastes.
The instruments of Wilmot, Tow Truck, Ballad of Nicky McGuire (idc about Nicky) I was sorry to hear this.
Very boring, Wilmot is the only reason this isn't a 1.
Couple of interesting tracks (wilmot, tow truck)
la vie comme un film de sciene fiction
Quelques moments m'ont accroché, mais généralement je n'ai pas vraiment aimé. On dirait plus de la musique d'halloween moche que vraiment un album musical. Les samples de vocalise sont particulièrement moches. La production et le mixing sont super solides, mais j'ai un peu de la misère à comprendre l'attrait de cet album. 3/10
Highlights: "Duke of Earlsfield," "Tow Truck," "Jacob Street 7 am" I think electronic music forces me to ask a question that I should also be asking with electric music: is it the user or the tool that's breaking new ground? And here I think it's neither. What I hear characterizing this album is fast envelope/LFO movement and really intense resonance/flanging, both for percussive effect, some super fast trem bordering on ring, and panning of complementary rhythmic delays. These would have been available for a long time, and I have to believe there would have been some 70s Moog people doing the same things. "Chapel Street Market 9 am" sounds extremely Mort Garson to me with the exception that it replaces a bonky ringmod bossa nova beat with hissing uptempo straight beat like Tangerine Dream had done. It's combining these with dub that might be new, or at least fashionable. "Theme" is very much 90s action movie swagger. But it could be more cohesive then, and it just feels like one thing after another. And if you go back just one year to stuff like Orbital and μ-Ziq's releases, it really dashes any good faith left for Haunted Dancehall. Electronic music back then wasn't all this stiff and spare. You can actually have fun with it. Just not this one.
Didnt listen to much of it but wasnt very good
I had never heard of The Sabres of Paradise before. Apple Music has this listed as Alternative, so I didn't expect to hear what I heard. I just don't know what I'm supposed to feel while listening to it. I'm not much into soundscapes, which is how I'd describe this. Many of the songs are long and repeat the same beat throughout and don't change much, and the novelty of hearing some unique sounds wears off quickly, but a couple of them weren't bad. "Duke of Earlsfield" was probably the best of the bunch.
Somewhat Interesting dance music. One I had never heard of. 2.5/5
This was a pretty unremarkable album to me. I only give it an extra star because it sounds like the artists were trying something new.
Mostly obscure, noisy, unpleasant electronic music, but there are glimpses of tasteful bass lines and synth plucks
This is all rhythm and sound design. Techno, but not as bass heavy and entrancing as rave techno. The vibe is more similar to Aphex Twin and maybe Nine Inch Nails. I appreciate the creativity, but I don't like the music very much. Favorite song: theme 4
Haunted Dancehall seems pretty spot on for what this album is. It's a lot of jangly eccentric tones strung together with just enough rhythm to sound like music. But it's overall just kinda bizarre and almost eerie at times.
I didn’t hate it but I did want it to end.
Älskar elektronisk musik men det här var sådär. Har kompisar som gör bättre elektronisk musik. Låten Wilmot var dock fantastisk.
A lot of blipping and blopping and synthesized wankery. This was a very long and not very inspiring album. Apparently groundbreaking for techno, which is like being groundbreaking for greasy hamburgers - perhaps only good if you are young, intoxicated and don't value your health.
Rare selection on this list whre I gave up on it unfinished. Not actually offensive, but couldn't really see the point. I found nothing in particular to distinguish any of it.
This wasn’t doesn’t work for me. However, it’s got a Portishead remix halfway through the album, which is interesting because listened to Portishead yesterday. Experimental techno all the way through. 2.
This is a genre of music I've never really known what to do with.
Aikamoista kilistelyä. Yli tunti?? Lähti kyllä hyvin ja ilahduttavasti, varmaan monipuolinen albumi jos jaksaa kuunnella kunnolla ja loppuun
Kehittyvää primitivismiä. Voisi toteuttaa tarkoitustaan, jos olisin humalassa.
The first 5 songs (almost half an hour of the album) is genuinely some of the worst music I've ever heard in my life. I'm convinced that I could make a better song than "Bubble and Slide" and I can barely play "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" on a piano. After this half an hour of the worst shit my ears have ever heard and me debating whether I should smash my head through a brick wall, the album suddenly realizes that "Wait, we're supposed to be doing music here" and chases away the sneaky goblins pressing random buttons on a synthesizer out of the recording room. Listening to the four songs starting from "Wilmot" and ending with "Theme 4" felt like divine intervention. My ears couldn't believe that they were actually being stimulated in a good way. It was like the musical equivalent of having a pizza after being stranded on an island eating nothing but bugs for a month. Sadly this "actual music" streak didn't last very long and with "Return to Planet D", the goblins returned (with a bubble gun or something? What the fuck is that instrument?) They go out with a bang in what I genuinely think is the worst song I have ever heard in my entire life ("Chapel Street Market 9am") and then let my sleep paralysis demon finish the album off with whatever that final track was. My overall opinion on this album is a 2/5 - I'm pretty glad I got to hear this, even if a significant part of it was about as listenable as "Woodpecker No. 1" by Merzbow (check that out if you haven't heard of it before - I promise it'll kill you instantly). Sorry for writing an entire college essay about this, but this album is a fascinating mess.
Not bad, just boring
no
Listened, didn't get. Would give it another go but I'm not sure I enjoyed it. Kinda dancey but not in a way that made me want to dance. Interesting but not in a way that made me want to listen. I dunno. Two stars?
2/5. An interesting electronic album that feels a little too long for its own good. Some okay songs but nothing too lasting. Not bad background music though.
1001 early 90s UK electronic albums to hear before you die.
Het heeft een uur aangestaan tijdens het werk maar ik kan me er werkelijk niks meer van herinneren.
Mijn eerste indruk was positief, dat veranderde helaas snel toen het een soort xylofoon-house werd.
Good for working to so will pro ably listen more to. Who knew?!
It's fine - I don't have anything against it, necessarily, I just don't have anything for it, either. I'm not a big electronica devotee, so not really my jam.
I have two conflicting thoughts here. On the one hand, I did not want to finish this album and was sick of it very fast. On the other hand, there was some interesting stuff towards the tail end of the album. I went from laughing thinking of someone who clogged the toilet at their friends house and not knowing what to do about it in the first song, to bobbing my head along with some of them by the end of it all. Because I didn’t expect to like it, it gets extra points. This is a 2, but it could have been a 3 under different circumstances.
I suppose somebody will like this, just not me. Find something to give a rhythic base and then play a sparse keyboard arrangement over that. Repeat 14 times.
It has maybe 2 songs that saves it a bit Just not my kind of cup of tea i guess
Utterly disposable rave soundtrack.
I like electronic music but this wasn’t it
Disappointing and highly forgettable
Uninteresting techno. Too much echo effect. A couple tracks have a catchy hook, but not enough to make me want to keep listening. Definitely not for me.
When I was a junior in college, I studied abroad in England. On the weekends, we would take trips and several times we went to London. On one of those London excursions, our professor took us to the Tate museum, which is London's modern art museum. Now, I'm not opposed to modern art, I quite enjoy a lot of it. But, when I walked into this museum and the first exhibit was a TV with a loop of a guy inhaling and exhaling a cigarette, I thought to myself, "Well that's not really something, is it?" Later in the museum, we came to an exhibit that was simply a toilet seat hanging on a wall. "Ok," I told myself, "this is definitely not art museum worthy. What gives?" Thus began a long debate with my professor and some other classmates about what defines art. My concern wasn't so much "what is art?" ...of course, hanging a toilet seat on a wall can be considered "art", my concern was "why does this belong in a museum?" The same can be said about The Sabres of Paradise Haunted Dancehall album. There are moments where the melody is interest, the beat moves, and the song has rhythm. But much of the album is empty, repetitive noise. And still, there are tracks that sound like someone sat in a big empty room with concrete walls and played around with one of those old toy Casio keyboards we all had in the 80s, using the pre-recorded beats and banging away on the keys to make "music" This isn't horrible as other reviewers might suggest, but why, why why, would anyone think this is a noteworthy album, among a mere 1001, that everyone should hear during their lifetime?
Overall pretty boring. Was hoping to hear something more moody or more atmospheric but it never happen.
Edit every song down to 3 minutes and maybe it’s a better record.
This was interesting for a song or two. Then it went on for 70 minutes.
Not for me. Just pretty boring overall.
I had no idea what I was in for when I saw this album pop up this morning. 90's electronica from the UK. I had reservations because the last British electronica band I listened to in this generator was Orbital, and my God were they ever awful. I was pleased to find out though that these guys are much better than Orbital. Still not my favourite type of music, but it didn't irritate me like Orbital's stuff did. These guys had a few exploratory songs which were irritating, but they also tended to be shorter. When they were experimenting, the band tended to enjoy metallic tings and bangs which was annoying (Theme 4, Bubble and Slide, Bubble and Slide II) One thing these guys did do well is explore the stereo channels, making you (the listener) feel like you were standing still, and the music was moving around you, which was cool. The flow of different sound bytes, noises, and beats was by times so soothing and repetitive that it almost put me to sleep a few times. The one thing I don't get about electronica is the mostly lack of a bass line (it's there, but subtle, unlike techno or house music). Electronica has a beat which is perceived through the repetition of noises and it just doesn't hold my interest the same way a sternum rattling bass does. If this kind of music was played in a club, I can picture zombie like listeners just shuffling about and standing there staring at the wall, lulled into a trance by the music. Overall, this wasn't a terrible album. I can't see myself ever listening to it again, just because it isn't my genre of music, but I didn't mind the listen today. Favourite songs: Planet D (Portishead Remix), Theme, Tow Truck, Wilmot, Ballad of Nicky McGuire Least favourite songs: Theme 4, Bubble and Slide, Bubble and Slide II, Flight Path Estate, Jacob Street 7am, Return to Planet D 2/5
I know this isn’t a great album. It’s basically just a bunch of repetitive beats and noise. …However….I did listen to it while on a road biking exercise ride, and I have to admit, it served a good purpose. It was not distracting, no vocals to draw my attention, and the music had a good pace and cadence to it that helped me just get into a zen zone and just pedal away. So it has its place.
It's music and you can dance to it if you have no shame.
4/10 did not need to hear this before I die
4/10. I don't see why I have to listen to this before I die, I don't see why it was so long, and moreover I just didn't care for it much.
I expected this to be terrible based on other comments. And it wasn't! It was not great either though. The title is massively misleading. This is mostly okay ambient electronic music for chores or focus time on your IT job with some parts that I can only assume are random clicks on sound effect board. I am unable to estimate how original this was back in it's day but now it's as generic as self-made youtuber music for their video to not have copyright issues.
Not for me, Clive. Well, at least not sober at 10am on a Wednesday.
I don’t get it.
OK. I was expecting something a tad more eery. 2.5/5
Ça fait de la musique de fond, ça vieilli plutôt mal, c’est pas super intéressant. C’est pas très profond comme album.
J'ai l'impression qu'il me faudrait plusieurs écoutes pour me familiariser. Ça ne m'emballe pas dès le départ.
cool sound scape but not very exciting
Not the vibe for my day today. Merits, maybe.
Wasn't much of a fan
It has a few peaks but its not particularly interesting
Favourite track(s): Duke of Earlsfield; Theme Music like this makes you think about what you may base your review scores on. I would probably never listen to these tracks again just sitting down on my sofa. But for certain situations, some of these tracks may be the perfect vibe. Still, the album feels, in part, more like a collection of beat ideas than an album telling a story from start to finish.
One more beat tape. Sounds like some video game music. Platformer sounds
Meh
When I saw that cover art and title I thought maybe I was going to get some psychobilly or horror punk, maybe even some demented ska simular to Choking Victim What I got instead was a bunch of bleeps and bloops that rarely went anywhere. Some of the bleeps and bloops aren't too bad. The Portishead remix was especially solid. However more often that not it this album missed and I would be waiting for the song to end.
Interesting. I probably will never return to this album though – nothing really latched onto me. It's hard for me to pin the influence of this album.
Not my thing, made me want to pee :c
The sound is too repetitive. It doesn't build quickly enough, which leaves me feeling frustrated. There isn't much complexity. I like all the individual components of each song, but they just go on for too long, and I get bored. Planet D is enjoyable. Wilmot stands out and is also notably the most played song on the album. The title song, Haunted Dancehall was fun. I'd listen to a few of these songs again but probably not the band or album overall.
Mitähän vittua tämäkin levy tekee näillä listoilla? Vois taas toimia sienien kanssa, mahdollisesti oluen kanssa, mutta ei missään tapauksessa koronassa. VMP!
Joutu lopettaa kesken ku ei toiminu sopivasti hetkeen. Biisien käynnistyttyä diggailin, mut tykkään vähän nopeemmasta menosta asiaan. Tän sortin genressä paljon parempiakin
2/5 naaaah
It's not bad but it really isn't more than that. It's a re-listen because I've heard the album before in the 90's. Even then I had the same feeling. It's not bad, but it never stands out. The single version of Wilmot was a lot more interesting than the version they put on the album.
Oh boy…. Another one of these faux music albums…. It isn’t horrible, but seriously…did I really need to hear THIS before I die? 2/5.
Not really for me
This was weird
I don't know why this was on the list.
I suppose if I was high enough...
Nice beats to have in the background
Noisy.
Is this music? Meh.
Mostly haunted and not really dancehall
Sounds like an annoying, repetitive, overlong version of a kraftwerk album. Also first song sounded like diarrhea
There's a little bit of nice ambience on here, but it wasn't worth an hour and a quarter of my listening time to get to.
Of all the great stuff Warp Records released they decided to include this in this list? Why? It does get slightly better at the end though
I am beginning to question this entire list because of albums like this
Boring
90's dance. Being on drugs and in a dimly lit field on a cold night in March with the smell of cow shit in the air would probably help with the enjoyment. Best Tracks: Duke of Earlsfield; Wilmot; Theme
seemed like a relatively primitive use of computers/synthesizers in electronic music production. may have been groundbreaking in its day but lacks impact in a modern listening environment
Trafilo gatunek ktory nie jestem w stanie zrozumiec jak zyje, inteligentna muzyka taneczna lub IDM z anglinskiego, haunted dancehall to drugi krazek z roku 94 wyspiarskiej bandy the sabres of paradise,, ktorej trzech czlonkow spolodzilo ten albumik, 14 songow i godzina 16 minut odsluchu, to jak na moje uszy stanowczo zbyt wiele, wiec ten inteligento taneczny krazek jest wystarczajaco dlugi zeby przemycic jeszcze kilka innych gatunkow muzycznych, wsrod ktorych z pewnscia znadzje sie ambient, moze same noisy, no i dub, wiec jak dla mnie traki pomiedzy planet d a theme 4 brzmialy najprzystepnie i najbardziej murzynsko, w sensie brzmia bardziej jak gotowe bity na ktore mozna sie wbic, a nie blizej nieokreslone halasowo manipulacje, wiec jesli mialbym kroic plyte, to wlasnie te czesc bym zabral dla siebie, na plejke leci planet d, podobno mial to byc jeden z pierwszych koncept albumow w gatunku techniany, ale wizja nawiedzonego dancehallu jakos nie przebiegla mi pzez mysl, ze kawalki opowiadaja jakas historie, bo nie moge tego uslyszec a jednak tak jest, moze cos sie uda ogarnac zeby zalagodzic sprawe, ale to pewno trzeba ladnie po kablach ladowac
Background music
Too dated and weird
Sorta alright, not great
Too experimental, not enough character
Bij het begin van het album dacht ik: "Dit hou ik nooit vol". Maar bleek uiteindelijk wel mee te vallen. Al denk ik het niet opnieuw op te rakelen om nog eens te beluisteren
Gets a low 2 cause I don't think it deserves the same space as the other 1s on this list, but still a chore for me to get through, especially at the start. Picked up some and the closing track is definitely the highlight, but I'm comfortable in saying electronic is just not for me lmao Saved: Wilmot, Haunted Dancehall*
Ok bedre end Orbital. Men stadigvæk langt fra rigtigt fedt. Meget lange acid house numre og alt for mange af dem.
This is fine. Not unpleasant to listen to but nothing particularly stands out.
Started strong but with little variety soon turns to tedium.
2/5 - this was probably way ahead of its time but now it’s just… old
First Listen. Really hard to like. There is not much here. A lot of sounds and drums don't make a great album. I'll give it a chance..but I think 2/5 is the best this will ever get.
A few standout songs with industrial sounds, but this is the first album I considered turning off several times. It falls into all the Traps early electronic can fall into, being too long, monotonous, and not having any vocals to break up the monotony.
i was fuming about this album because it doesn't do anything so i went to look at the electronic albums released in 1994 to see why this was the one chosen. it turns out once you skip past portishead- Dummy, prodigy - music for the jilted, massive attack - protection and orbital - dubnobass that 1994 was the year that electronic music was basically all eno inspired ambient chill out stuff. who fucking knew that? good dub track in the middle, wilmot. the rest was all just a load of nothing.
This album came out whilst I was transitioning from a top class English footballer to a run of the mill rent boy. It reminds me of those hedonistic afternoons spent plodding round the football pitch, still kidding myself that I could compete with the likes of Jamie Redknapp and Peter Ndlovu, then doing my make up and preparingmy bum for a poudning. Yes, the only place I could really compete with the likes of Redknapp was in the homes of eccentric millionaires, when we'd go round and suck their balls for pocket money. I wish I had the money the players earn now, but sadly for me it was 90 minutes of pain followed by a further 90 minutes of pain as I got bummed within an inch of my life by a grotesque, fat rich man. Of course Redknapp left that life behind, married a popstar and made obvious observations about Dele Alli on TV. I was not as fortunate. Oh to be young again.
I’m okay
sounds vvvv intense at first listen. Its got a lot of techno. may not make it through it. has a curious sort of vibing with my anxiety though
Interesting?
Generic techno.
This album was probably decent when it came out. Give me a couple hours and a laptop and I could probably make something similar today...
While the opening track resembles the sound of a man flushing a thousand toilets at once, I can appreciate the tight production and minimalist beats on the majority of this record. It's a shame the record as a whole has very little substance otherwise, 2/5.
Painfully uninteresting
I like 1990s techno and IDM. I like Warp Records. Somehow I never checked out this duo's music. I was pretty excited to find a new gem from this scene. Sadly, that's not what I got. Firstly, it's mostly downtempo with some ambient - so not quite what I thought (I have seen it referred to as a techno record in multiple places). But that's okay. More problematically, I find it completely half-baked. Lots of lovely sounds, but the tracks mostly feel like unfinished sketches. It's more than an hour and fifteen minutes long, and it just feels like a rough draft of ideas that needed more work. I really don't want all my mini-reviews to be "my favourite album is better than this favourite album", but let's put this in perspective. In 1994 alone, Autechre and µ-Ziq released their sophomore albums (but I assume both artists are represented elsewhere on the list, so we'll let that slide). Also in 1994: Robert Hood - Internal Empire (1994) / Plastikman - Musik (1994) / Alter Ego - Alter Ego (1994). Also in 1994, Atom™ released a DOZEN albums, and every one I've heard is more coherent than this one. There's so much to choose from, it just seems bizarre that this record made the cut.
Some decent moments but not my thing.
Barely above background computer game music.
Sort of soundtrack for movies style. Not my thing to listen to without images to pair with.
Pls more Dancehall less Halloween. Only one dancehall track. Lots of minimal spooky business. Not the sonic pallete I'm looking for unless happen to be exploring a tunnel underneath London, looking for reggae-techno-Slimer. C+
Was this the first dub/drum and bass album or something? Did it set the stage for acts like Left Field? Did it inspire the X Files intro? It mostly sounds like the score of a B-Movie set at a carnival. Weird sound effects and rhythm section. Not great, even the album cover is bad. There are some droning synth grooves near the end that aren’t bad. C-
Was this when they had first started to use a computer to make music? I thought at the time of release in 1994 maybe this album was really groundbreaking but I googled and it peaked at 57 in the uk album charts being beaten by albums including “the hit list” by cliff Richard, “Seal II” by Seal and “Alive in hell” by meatloaf.
ambient music, needs vocals
4
Not my cup of tea really
well ... it’s definitely different. it went from bad to okay to bad again. I wouldn’t choose to listen to this. best track = “Wilmot”
Old school, synthy electronic.
It was fine. I don't know. I liked a couple songs but it was boring. Would never listen again.
It was pretty good to work to but a little odd/ jarrring in places.
Vooral heel weird, opzich wel toffaar niet voor vaked
huh..
Meh. Loses a star because its not on Spotify.
DNF - I could make this, and, that is not a good thing
Bleep bloop album. Kinda mindblowing that this was worthy of a remaster. It's not the worst bleep bloop album on here, but like, why 1*
Just a bunch of noise
I think I nope’d out of this one faster than any other album so far. 745 albums in and still being served up utter garbage. There are reasons some of these albums are obscure. Because they suck.
Even if I liked Sabres of Paradise, I think I'd argue they don't need to be on this list. I love me a bit of ambient trance, but this is just garageband nonsense. I used to teach 6 year old kids in primary school how to make music on apps like remix live. And I'd challenge them if they used too many repetitive loops. I'd be having words with SoP if they submitted this as their final work. Edit update: I think even if I were sabres of paradise, I'd argue this shouldn't be on the list.
couldn’t find on Spotify
No. Just no.
After the music didn’t give me much to write about, and having a little bit of time on my hands tonight, I went down a little rabbit hole on this band and album. There’s actually a book called The Sabres of Paradise about a Muslim resistance leader in the Caucasus region during the 19th century wars between the Russian Empire and the mountain people of that region. It’s been said that the band named themselves after this book. The name of this album is Haunted Dancehall. The band presented it as a concept album paired with excerpts from a novel of the same name. Each song had a corresponding passage from the novel printed on the inner sleeve credited to an author named James Woodbourne. But the thing is, there is no James Woodbourne and there is no Haunted Dancehall novel. So basically, this is the soundtrack to a book that doesn’t exist. I like the book theme. Does it have anything to do with reviewing the album? Nope, but I only wasted about 30 seconds of your time and not an hour and 17 minutes like the album did. You’re welcome.
They say there is a time and a place for everything. They have never listened to this.
The best part of the album was the Big E ad that ran at the start of the video.
Diarrhea disco!!!!
01) Bubble and Slide - 5,5 02) Bubble and Slide II - 5,5 03) Duke of Earlsfield - 5,5 04) Flight Path Estate - 5,0 05) Planet D (Portishead Remix) - 6,0 06) Wilmot - 6,0 07) Tow Truck - 5,0 08) Theme - 5,5 09) Theme 4 - 5,0 10) Return to Planet D - 4,5 11) Ballad of Nicky McGuire - 4,5 12) Jacob Street 7AM - 4,5 13) Chapel Street Market 9AM - 4,0 14) Haunted Dancehall - 4,0 TOTAL: 5,04 (50/100) Current ranking: 948/1018
2/10
This is awful. Sounds like someone just screwing around in the studio, making noises. I really can't imagine how someone decided this is something people need to hear before they die. Looking forward to looking at the book tonight to see if there's an explanation that makes sense. This album being 76 minutes long makes me feel like I'm being punished for something.
Meh didnt love. Instrumental electronica should be a top anything
I think this might be the worst album I've listened to to date. It's so bad that it isn't available on Spotify and I had to listen on Youtube Music.
Sounds like a bunch of high school kids on a fancy keyboard. Can’t imagine seeking this out and listening to it with all of the better music that is out there.
Peace of shit
One of the few albums on the 1001 albums to hear before you die list to not be on Spotify happens to be The Sabres of Paradise's Haunted Dancehall album from 1994. This album was made during one of the earliest periods for Warp records as a whole as they were huge pioneers of the IDM genre and getting it started, yet I don't think this album is a very good representation of the genre or of one of the early Warp records projects in the IDM genre as a whole. This project feels very cheap and flimsy and doesn't ever stick to a sound, but instead tries jumping around songs until The Sabres of Paradise finds something stable to land on for a song or two before moving on. This project feels like a house of cards in the wind and it is about to blow over. I wish this album was more structured and concise, but for being in the very beginning years of IDM I can't even be too mad there was a miss or two with a lot of Warp Record's hot new sound.
Fun music, but songs without lyrics aren’t for me.
uh this is bizarre. I felt like I was the kid I was playing with a beat pad on a Ipad on some tracks, but on other ones it was just extremely confusing. I tried being open-minded with album with its unusual sounds, but I realized that I was just trying make sense of things that don't have any.
This was a challenge to get through.
Honestly this sounds almost exactly like something I would make with my little Korg drum machines in my free time. Maybe quite innovative for it's time, but knowing this was '94 I highly highly doubt it. Really quite boring stuff, 2 stars if I am feeling generous.
Not available to listen to on Spotify unfortunately.
No Blue Album. No Neutral Milk Hotel. No TOOL. This. Robert needs an intervention.
Kind of like watching the opening of Doctor Who for an hour straight. Who would dance to this? That said, it's on the stronger side of edm for me. Maybe a 1.5, but dropping because why listen to an entire album of this.
Maybe two stars if it was shorter but ahhhhhh
Not the worst album on here but couldn’t finish and no need to revisit. Another one I don’t need to hear before I die. This list is shit.
This is my first 1 out of 5. Bland slow tempo electronic music. My question is actually who is this for? Certainly not me
It took about 10 minutes for this to start getting boring. Unfortunately that was with an hour of this interminable crap left to go.
i was pretty tuned into music in 1994 and have never heard of this. gonna take a pass here.
Lmaooooo no
Not available to stream
Ross con el piano 2.0
“Haunted Dancehall” - oh, really? To me, that sounds more like perfectly ordinary dancehall without any distinctive features or highlights. Or was that perhaps exactly what they meant by “haunted”? Hmm, let’s try to figure this out: “The Sabres of Paradise” clearly refers to the razor on the cover - so “Dancehall” here probably refers to the barbershop, which is also paradise. OK, and it’s haunted - by boring electronic music? Or is that a metaphor for the (presumably dull) knife - or rather, its improper use? And what’s the deal with that disturbingly precise claim that this is the 47th best album of 1994? I mean, how many relevant albums were released in 1994? Were there more than 47? Maybe even fewer? So many questions - depending on the context, either oral sex should follow now or a cut to a very serious-looking man behind a desk talking about something completely different... I can’t take this anymore.
I could play this in my backyard... actually, I think I already played this in my backyard when I was a kid :-(
Another useless album that only people that enjoy electronic albums should listen to. Also no reason for this to be over a hour! 0.5/5
did not like it
This was intriguing, interesting, repetitive and then boring. I reached this conclusion by the end of the first 10 minutes. Another 66 remained. Of these, maybe 15 were spent well listened. The rest got very good at outstaying its welcome.
I genuinely dont know what to make of it.
...Ugh. Why did I sign up for this project again? To expose my ears to brash, echoey percussion that persists relentlessly until said ears have fallen decrepit, been violently laid to waste, been left abandoned in a dank dilapidated sewage tunnel? That's certainly what this album feels like. The best part of the album was when I accidentally caused Mardy Bum (Arctic Monkeys) to start playing on Spotify alongside Bubble and Slide II on YouTube, and immediately thought, "wow, this part of Bubble and Slide sounds kind of decent." Not available on Spotify – which isn't the be-all-end-all of poor music, but there must be a strong correlation. I assume any Sabres Of Paradise fans would flock to the YouTube version, but that only has 12,000 views. I can definitely understand why this record was given the prestigious accolade "47th best album of 1994". Duke of Earlsfield... You can't tell me with a straight face that that repeated percussion on beat 4 is genuinely strong. Genuinely bullshit, more like. A callback to the 80s when nobody was looking for it. The whole album is a bit like that. Many of these songs lack texturing, and very often we only get one or two instruments/textures to pay attention to. Because we also lack vocals for the most part, the go-to reaction is to do more interesting things like tune into an Achievement Hunter reunion stream, or launch the Flow Free app, or review a paper on temporal relativity. All of these are things I did while listening to Haunted Dancehall, and all of them enhanced the listening experience. The track Tow Truck is a little bit better in terms of ratcheting up the musical complexity. Those alarm-like synths are admittedly pretty cool, and the drumming gets slightly interesting. The track Theme is pretty decent too, I guess – if only because it sounds like the right ear of the stereo mix of some James Bond theme. Shoutout to Ballad of Nicky McGuire, too, for having a cool melody on the synth. Chapel Street Market 9am is surprisingly good at the beginning but then goes absolutely nowhere for 7 minutes. One big positive is that the music genuinely enhances the overall experience of watching a R.E.P.O. gaming stream. But by itself? It just ain't enjoyable, man! 1/5 Key tracks: I Wanna Be Yours
Ummm…no
I had to stop listening.. that was annoying wtf is this
1.4/5
Nope.
Pretty forgettable electronic music, I thought the first couple were actively boring, the middle was fine, and the end was too long. Wilmot is the best here by a mile, but I'm done with this one, and will probably forget about them tomorrow.
Doesn't really say anything of value, interest, or meaning, and isn't enjoyable to listen to while it pretends to do so.
If only I could give minus points. How the feck did this album make it to this list? Apparently whoever curated this list is a fun of leaky pipes in a basement? Who listens to this for fun? You surely can’t listen to this to feel anything as it is devoid of any striking remarkable characteristics. At 1 hour 17 minutes and having to listen to this pile of mouldy rags on YouTube because (understandably) this shit isn’t on Spotify, there was not one second that I thought, ah, now it’s gotten interesting. NOT ONE DAMN SECOND. I’m not surprised that I’m only like the 500th listener of some of these songs according to the YouTube views. The other 499 are probably people on this list who have also been forced to succumb to a bizarre listening experience. That, or our beloved curator really loves listening to leaky pipes and has done so hundreds of times. Leave this in the abyss, never to be found again.
Je réessaierai
0.5
*Haunted Dancehall* Wow this as a whole was absolute torture. Not saying all of it was bad... I liked "Tow Truck" which has a demented James Bond score feel. But even that overstays it's welcome. Best I can say about this is it sounds like podsafe music for a horror, mystery, or real crime podcast. But since this isn't Podsafe... This is pretty useless. A very very long album of uselessness. (0.95) ⊘
Lacking in melodicism and energy. Boring!!! 1 star
I'm gonna go with a cool 1.5 stars for this. I thought it might be way lower after the first couple tracks, but "Tow Truck" and "Theme" were alright and saved it.
I cant listen it
Couldn't find it, so no listen.
i str8 up cant lisn 2 this 1, evry single track is unavailable. ok so 2 days l8r i searched it up on yt, lisn 4 like a min a few dif songs, wth
I didn't can listen the album, I don't know the cause, but not worked via spotify, appear the error "This content not available".
slcuhalam fragmentamk tylko nie bylo asluchane ale czulam ske jakbym sluchalq jakis sprezyn i garnkow
This reminds me of music that you'd hear in the lobby of a hotel that's trying to be trendy. Because this album wasn't available on Spotify, I had to listen to it on YouTube. Funnily enough, when ads came on I could not distinguish between the music and the ads and the music of the album! Very boring
Wilmot
This kind of noise will turn any dancehall into a ghost town. Too much nonsense.
The first song reminds me of music to make you poop
No thanks.
lowk hard to listen to for me 😭
Ass
Just some glirps glorps and all that bullshit
The tracks for this are not available on Spotify lmao. So I went to YouTube and listened to the first song and…absolutely not. Cannot believe this is on this list
Kul att typ lyssna på, förstår Primal Screams elektroniska vägval och samplingar när man hoppas ner i deras värld. Bra? Rakt igenom hemskt album.
”NME named Haunted Dancehall the 47th best album of 1994”. Ibland är den här listan en mycket dålig sketch. Förutsättningarna var piss direkt när man behövde lyssna på albumet via youtube. Sämre blev det av att det var till 90 procent andefattigt. Någon av de första låtarna och nån i slutet hade NÅT, ett par njutbara minuter. Resten hade jag klarat mig ett helt, och långt, liv utan att ens ha hört talas om. Idag var det 10 år sen Prince dog, så dagens höjdpunkt var istället att lyssna på hans lite utskällda ”graffiti bridge” från (den ljuvligt usla) filmen med samma namn. Bättre än sitt rykte!
This was pretty dull. There’s got to be better choices than this
it is haunted indeed
Not on Spotify
Electronic dance music that did not succeed in making me want to dance.
Who even added this into the list
niet beschikbaar in NL
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Sounds like a 5 year old playing with garage band
Don’t know what to say…sounds like background music of a low budget movie.
This was an electronic album. For me, that typically means overlong songs that usually have ~30 good seconds stretched out beyond comprehension in unenjoyable ways, and overlong albums that never seem to end. This album had both of those things in spades! It sounded a lot thinner musically than other electronic, so this was ultimately a below-average entry in a genre I do not like.
I can’t with this. Spooky techno with bad samples and worse loops.
Nah
Very monotonous
567/1001 🌕🌑🌑🌑🌑
The band the album cover and the album title give me low expectations. With that being said it looks like it’s electronic as opposed to “alt/indie” which is the vibes I got from the title and band. 5 seconds in and I hate it. Not made for headphones. Hurts my head. Will not be finishing if this is what it’s like all the way through. Sounds like a bad movie score. II is better because there’s at least some type of rythm. Still sucks tho. I made these beats on imusic by accident. 7 minute song with no lyrics is insane. Duke is a lot better (not). More of the same. Bulshit sounds. Don’t really work. Who published this. And then who agreed to waste even more money on a remaster. Beat that starts in the middle of flight bath I actually like. The original beat that plays throughout ruins it tho. Drum beat on planet d is cool. Everything else is unnecessary and waters it down. Beginning of Wilmot is unique in the sense that they used new instruments/slunds. But it’s more uncohesive bullshit. Back half is the same as every other song. Bass line is pretty good I will say. Can’t believe how long these songs are considering it’s the same riff over and over and over and over again. Every good element on any of these songs last for a bit then they go back to the dumbness. I like the guitar riff a lot on tow truck. I hate what’s in the background. Last minute and a half is cool. Theme is another movie score. It’s not bad but it’s the same thing where it’s one riff constantly repeating. Guitar is good. I have a meeting in 2 mins with 5 songs to go. I don’t think I’ll be picking it back up when I’m out of my meeting. This is up their for worst I’ve heard so far from this list. Especially when comparing the the electronic album I got LY that was only a few years older that I thought was wayyyyy better. Don’t waste your time. .5 stars for tryin.
Schrottplatz - next level!
Crap BDS band with no songs on Spotify. Therefore, unheard 1/5.
bruh what the hell bruh It’s like you keep waiting for something interesting to happen. Didn’t finish
no me deja escucharlo lol
It's so bad it's not even on Spotify. It's just a bunch of sounds that go on for 1 hour and 16 minutes. Wasted spot on this list. 1 / 10
every time one of these electronic albums pops up I do my best to come in open minded and tell myself that it's possible I'll actually quite enjoy it and every time... I don't. I tried, I swear but other then a few occasions I don't get it. 2/10
Completely shitty listening experience. The soundscapes sound unfinished, haphazard, hollow, and murky. So little care seems to have been taken to distribute the repetition effectively which results in each song getting mind-numbingly grating by minute 2.
0.5 - this was not good. Normally, even if it’s an album I don’t like, I can understand why someone would listen to it. This album is a mystery to me as to why anyone would decide to put this on
This comes across as someone that had a big idea to experiment with computer music, but didn't really have musical intent to put something together that was actually enjoyable or interesting. It relies heavily on futuristic computer effects to carry the load. In 2026 it's just not that interesting. The result is pretty boring and really hard to engage with.
Believe me when I say that the majority of this album sounds like if a not-at-all musically-inclined space alien were forced to make songs using only the components of its broken spaceship. It does not contain any of the atmospheric complexity you might expect in an ambient electronica album, nor does it pulse with any of the energizing rhythms of a typical 90s dancehall album. The easiest way I can describe most of the songs is a low quality imitation of a Depeche Mode beat, although some songs lack even the fundamentals of what I'd even consider to make a "beat". I'm not sure what the producers of this record were attempting to accomplish with this strange assemblage of dissonant foolishness, but I do not like it. I think that perhaps they forgot to make music and instead attempted to make a compilation of cheap sci-fi sound effects. I would implore anyone to not waste their time listening to this.
track 1 sounds like they took samples from a toilet lol
This is what happens when you have a group of men who have never once in their lives been told “no” before. Someone should have put a stop to this.
Feels like if I was tripping hard the music here would no doubt take me on some crazy journey. However at the time of listening to this I'm not tripping (sadly) therefore it's a 1. Lifeless repetition which when listened to in the context of "listening to music" not just background noise, just doesn't tick any boxes for songwriting, song progression, or hooks.
Boring and dragged on and on. Bubble and Slide II beat was weirdly and coincidentally nostalgic since I used to beatbox that exact beat as a child, despite never having heard this record until now
Weak
Not for me. Liked some stuff on Wilmot and Tow Truck but all of the songs could be half the length they are. 1.5/5
so not for me.
We need to stop calling electronica, music. I can't even say is was decent background noise. I have a feeling that when I die and end up in Hell, electronica stuff will be played on a constant loop. Maybe this is a sign and I should start to embrace some sort of religion? What would Prince do?
1.5 Historically, I haven’t given ambient electronic music good scores (or really any ambient stuff for that matter), and this is no different. In fact, I think this was one of the worst instances I’ve heard on this list so far. The word “grating” feels a bit strong, but the amount of siren-like noises on this was too damn high - your album is not likely to put me in a good mood if I have to constantly lean over to turn it down. Outside of that, there are some moments of mild enjoyability, but for the most part, this thing was incredibly one-note and uninteresting, despite the sort of “spooky, scary skeletons” ambience they were clearly going for here. I don’t like to throw around the phrase “every song sounded the same” lightly, as I think it often comes from a place of willful ignorance, but this genuinely sounds more or less like the same song on a loop over and over for an already above-average length album. While there’s a hint of Kraftwerk influence to be found that I had an ounce of appreciation for, this feels more like a diminished, diluted version of their sound, with much worse production - despite being around 20 years newer than most of their work. Well, maybe reading the Wiki will help add to my appr- wtf this was hailed as the first concept album in techno? Just because it sounds like something that could be heard at a theoretical haunted dancehall? I feel like we’re stretching the term here, but okay. If there’s supposed to be some sort of arc here, it certainly missed me. Maybe they just assumed the dancehall was haunted because everybody abruptly got tf outta there after having to listen to this.
The first song sounded like a toilet flushing fed through a robotic voice filter. The rest wasn’t much better.
Could not listen to this without taking drugs and having disco lighting. Please make it stop.
not my typa
I waited 80 mins fot for 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 and it never came.
Perhaps the best yet of the albums I don’t like. Very solid 1.
It was crap! Just a noise that as the album went on it got more and more on my nerves
Sadly not on Spotify where I am. Labeled as techno, but I'm not sure I agree. But that term has changed meaning over the years, so fine. The start of the album is quite horrible to be frank, with 'Bubble and Slide' being harsh and dissonant. Most tracks felt more ambient and less musical than what I'd like an album to be as well. It's definitely an experimental album, and reminds me a bit of Selected Ambient Works by Aphex Twin. Only this doesn't quite have that musical quality to it that he has. The songs felt a bit all over the place in general, with some sounding like electronic and industrial salsa/samba ('Wilmot', 'Tow Truck'). Then we had 'Theme' and 'Ballad of Nicky McGuire' which sounded like songs fit for a soundtrack. And some darker more mellow songs like 'Planed D (Portishead Remix)' and 'Theme 4'. It was hard to get a cohesive picture of what the album was, apart from dissonant and atonal. In the end this wasn't for me at all. It lacked musical elements to make it joyful to listen to. It was just a bit too weird. Strong 1.
Did not have a playlist on Spotify
couldnt listen to it bc it wasnt on spotify
Too tricky to listen too
no
Not my jam
Seriously? How many fucking horrible, lackluster albums are we going to have to be subjected to during this project? Nothing here but down tempo techno, "Tow Truck" and "Theme" were catchy at least. Otherwise, horrible dreck that I'm not ever going to listen to again.
Hab Probleme gehabt das ganze Album zu finden aber was ich gehört hab war mid. Maybe war des revolutionär für die Techno scene
Just dreadful. The faceless, by-the-numbers techno on this record is devoid of any real substance. (Or you may need to be on substances to enjoy it.)
Yikes. A struggle to listen to. At least there were some beats… Any of the tracks over 90s were too long by however many seconds over 90s they were.
No thank you
This album is not good. Half the tracks meander for a lifespan doing little-to-nothing and I died like ten times listening to this, and then I don't know if this is because I had to listen on YouTube but the wavy cutting pad on the last track felt like live ear surgery (possibly the easiest access to my brain so they could resurrect me) It got sorta fun but my conscience won't let me push it over a 1/5
A little too simple, repetitive and discordant in places for my liking.
1 I love Electronica and really enjoyed this when this album ENDED.
apparently doesn’t exist anymore 🤷🏻♀️
Really?
The Daily Double! Boring and disgusting. Synthesized garbage.
Best Track - "Wilmot"
Buns with a side of ass
Started but could not finish. To me it was just a collection of experimental sounds than music
No thanks! Trance nonsense, super annoying listen to be honest. “Best” Track: Jacob Street 7am
garbage
Ugh this was not good and I could not wait for this to end. Wayyyyy too long. Actual rating...1.5. Liked Songs: "Duke of Earlsfield" , "Wilmot" , "Tow Truck" , "Jacob Street 7am" , "Haunted Dancehall"
Stupid and dumb 1
Album #15 The Sabres of Paradise: Haunted Dancehall Honestly, the name and cover of the album seemed intriguing, along with the fact that it was an obscure 90s album I’d never heard of, I was hoping to be pleasantly surprised. But the album is just not for me, I don’t ever really put on music just to zone out, and I can’t imagine ever actively listening to over an hour of repetitive, sonically uninteresting noises. There were a few parts near the end that I started to enjoy, but for the most part, I just couldn’t even stay focused on the music. I don’t know much about IDM, but I’d be pretty disappointed if this is the pinnacle of the genre. Best Tracks: Chapel Street Market 9 am, Haunted Dancehall, Wilmot Worst Track: Bubble and Slide (sounded like a wet fart) Score out of 10: 3.5
I absolutely hate this. This is just grating noises set to a beat. It sucks.
Bara konstigt. Kunde inte lyssna klart. Etta
The strangest, most uncomfortable combination of sounds I've heard in a long time... it wasn't even playable on Spotify, and now that I know what this is, I think I can see why......
Another day, another boring 1h+ long electronica record
wtf is ts
Too minimalist and groove-devoid for me. Way better towards the end than the beginning, but at no point did I feel like I was listening to music…
Actually fuck this. Too long. Too repetitive. Annoying. There's definitely better electronica on this list, especially representing this particular brand of it. Started skipping through parts of songs near the end because it just wouldn't end. Sounded like noises made from a Casio keyboard and AOL dial up sounds. Total slog.
this list is making it harder to listen to electronic music without dismissing it at first glance that is the haunting, of the dancehall in my heart music: hated. (⌐■_■)
If someone invited me to a haunted dancehall I would be so excited. If I showed up and this is what was playing I would feel betrayed.
Holy shit this was bad. I hated almost every track on here. There was 1 song that was sort of ok. Tow Truck didn't totally suck.
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When will this end
An album of noise. And not the kind you want to hear.
This is an atrocity
⭐️ i'd give it half a star if i could. i'll say it as many times as i have to, even though the author will never read this: STOP adding slop albums to the list just because they're british!!! is the bar for decent music really so low across the pond? either the author of this list has some questionable taste in music or his bri'ish bias is so strong that he added some nothing-ass albums to the list out of pride. plenty of great music from the UK, anyone can agree, but this ain't it
Huh. I like ambient but this was just dull dredge. Simultaneously boring and painful to endure. Now that I’ve heard it before I die, I will endeavor to do good works, hopefully avoiding being tortured by this album in the afterlife. Haunted Dancehall approaches the horror of a Kid Rock album. Don’t worry Kid, you are still at the bottom of the list, but The Sabres of Paradise are right there in your rear view mirror.
Hat der Author dieses Buches einfach noch am Ende Platz gehabt und "Techno Dreck aus den 90ern" gegooglet? Ich kann nicht nachvollziehen wie dieses Erbrochene von Tönen einen Platz in diesem Buch verdient haben soll.
Simply very boring. Dance music not meant for anything else than dancing.
No idea what I just listened to but okay.
This sucks, might actually be 1 star
ummmm i don’t really know how i feel about this one… 1 star feels a bit low because there were moments on here that i liked, but i ended up having to skip a few songs towards the end because i just couldn’t get through them. 1.5
It was very weird and I am not sure why it was recommended for a listen. Definitely a once and done for me.
WTF. How many of these noisy pieces of “art” are on the list? This one doesn’t provide value in any way I can identify.
The first song sounds like a toilet. That's all you need to know.
If I was a ghost in this dancehall I'd be fucking pissed.
un ascolto difficile che infatti ho appeso dopo poco
Veramente difficile da ascoltare. Non fa proprio per me e non capisco come possa rientrare nei 1001 album ds sentire almeno una volta nella vita
What the hell was that?!?!
Plinky plonk noises
I don’t have the energy to give an in depth review of this album. It was weird, hard to listen to and the worst sin of all, it was boring.
Nei.
DNF, fuck off Best Song: N/A Rating: 1/10 Stars: 1
17th from bottom on 1001 global stat list.
Not too sure if it's because of the amount of long albums I've been getting recently or if just this albums fault, but does this seriously need 76 minutes worth of songs - when most songs are heavily repetitive - to convey its emotion. It just repeats ad nauseam, like goodness gracious me! I'm not sure what is with some electronic musicians and 80 minutes albums with the same few bars, going over and over. And I don't even reckon you could dance to a lot these songs; as some electronic music gets the point across better in a live setting rather than the studio. The only track that amounted to anything is Tow Truck. Which has this menacing surf-like riff in it. Bubble and Slide sounds like they played the song in a toilet bowl and sounds like someone is pissing, like genuinely what were they trying with that song? 0.01/5.00 song, absolutely god awful.
Can't find this online anymore
Not sure why this album is in this list.
This was terrible. Worse than jazz. It was over an hour of electronic torture.
Please no more of this.
I'm 600 albums in now, I fel qualified to say this list has no idea what it's talking about when it comes to picking electronic music. Aphex Twin, Burial, and Daft Punk (though, not Discovery) are on here only because it's idiot-proof to omit those. I try to hard to fly the flag for electronic music on this list, then my hand is forced to review this, or that wildly-out-of-nowhere Les Rythymes Digitales album, with honesty. I could spend some time tearing this album apart in the context of it's inclusion on this list. I will instead list a handful of electronic albums that should be on this list, mostly from the onset of EDM hitting big in the states, as this list basically overlooks that entire musical phenomena: Damage Control - Mat Zo Clarity - Zedd Random Album Title - deadmau5 Nurture - Porter Robinson If It Were You, We'd Never Leave - Andrew Bayer Welcome Reality - Nero True - Avicii Immunity - Jon Hopkins The Ineffible Truth - G Jones
DNF, just couldn’t do it.
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