Reviews (page 7 of 8)
Pff
I don’t get it.
Ugh
not for me
aso die erste zwei songs sind etz zwor nöd bsunders spannend aber au irgendwie no cool und schono ✨vibey✨. sie liebed mega churze delay mit mega viel repeats und resonator. schono cool i agree. chli nervig wenns so prominent isch. he wnl langsam wirds langwilig. de portishead remix song het e huere geili kick aber das macht etz de song nöd spannend. wilmot isch biitz reggaeton. no cooli bassline. aber scho au viel afoch grüüsch. heee tow truck het en gitar!! wowoo! aso finds echt no cool sochli aggressivere techno. alte aber es isch ewig s glich. eeendlich en neue teil mit orgle desch cool. hasses. hasses. ballad of nicky mcguire sind afoch nassi sounds mann fuck baby yeah. ich hasses.
ohh nei electronic music group vode uk und fast nüt uf wikipedia...UND 76 MINUTE das wird ich am zuekunftssevi uufbürde guete morgee luca bubble and slide I hani na cool gfunde au wenn ichmer chli perkussion gwünscht hett und denn part II isch schrecklich hahahaha nach es paar minute chunnt wenigstens nochli BIZELI öppis aber das würkt meh wienes 2 min interlude und definitiv nöd wie es 7 min lied WISO HET ALLES SO VILL HALL hmm es techno konzept album tönt na spannend wennmer meh infos dezue hetti hahahah the duke of earslfield het wenigstens na e cooli bassline NO WAY ORIENTALISM he jz hani echt langsam müeh, vorher hanis na chönne toleriere aber es isch au eifach LANGWILIG jz auno james bond?? wnl theme hani na cool gfunde, es het würkli wie filmmusig oder so tönt bro das gaht EWIG haunted dancehall isch na lustig gsi wenns halb so lang gsi wär hets vlt es 2 geh, wills mengisch scho au lustigi sache gha het
Some of these tracks would be cool background to a gathering or behind poetry, but as a stand alone album, it doesn’t feel worthy of a straight listen, let alone an inclusion on this list. But I would have given two stars until the second to last track came on and was just absolutely grating. 2/10
The thing with this type of experimental music is that any twat can make it. I should know, I've done it myself. It takes zero talent, zero ability, zero creativity. I'll concede that there's effort involved on the production side of things, but to take something like this and make it interesting, make it worthwhile, make it anything more than a bit of a joke for the person making it - that's the tricky part. This fails in that regard, in most regards, utterly.
Wow, This one befuddles me. As much as I disliked Missy Elliot's Under Construction, I at least could understand why it was part of this collection. You cannot convince me, however, that this has ever been viewed as good. I was probably looking forward to the end of this album roughly a third of the way in, and I don't think I'll ever listen to anything from it ever again. I don't think I've ever been as tempted to say "it's just noise" about an album as I have been here.
Before I die? Really?
I’m sorry but I cannot
Discount bin dancehall
Well it wasn’t good but it didn’t make me want to pierce my eardrums so that’s something
Meh, not very good
No no no no made it through 2 songs - far too much.
The oversaturated electronic music of today may have desensitized my ears but this is boring as shit. There's not a single banger on the album, there's no rise, no fall; it just is. I was hoping the Portishead remix would save me but alas you can't remix nothing.
A hard listen. Nothing "bad" per se, but every song felt like it was just one idea - and even then it might not be all that different to the others. There is far better electronic music out there, and I really hope to find some on this list.
Some things you just can’t unhear
1.5 - Bad
?? ———————————— My non-musician scoring system. 5 - Love it. Would play anytime, buy, see live… 4 - Good music. 3 - Average playlist. Depends on time and setting. 2 - I can’t listen to whole songs…skipped all of them 1 - No.
First thought was that I could be covering period 3 music lesson.....there are some people from 1994 who had there yr7 music projects stolen
The best thing about this album is that I've finished listening to it and I don't have to listen to it again
This one sucked!
Esto no es para mí. No perdí 1 hora y 20 de mi vofa
Like, this shit is DEVOID of substance, bro First album I’ve encountered where I genuinely can’t understand why ANYONE would believe it belongs on this list. I don’t even know if I can say that I hated it because it wasn’t even interesting enough to hate. But I definitely can say that every tedious second all of these dull repetitive thudding/scraping/gurgling/beeping sounds played for was a second I spent being keenly aware that I was never going to get to have that time back to spend on listening to music that feels like it might actually speak to someone’s human emotional experience. Not a pleasant way to spend an hour and seventeen minutes (!!!) of my afternoon. One star experience, in fact. Sorry
Utter dross
This album is about as vanilla as it gets. Electronica without soul. Music from the Hearts of Space stuff. Pleasant, but lacking any jam.
my calculator made better noises during high school calc
When I say I don't like electronic music - this is what I mean. Tracks you only need to listen to a few second of and then you know the entire track already, but it still drags on for another 7 minutes, looping with minor variations, introduced at a glacial pace. The beat is annoying, the repetition even more so.
Poopy
This wasn’t as exciting as the title suggested. Bad
haunted is right
Designed to be background music.
Their second album. Electronica. Hmmm, interesting. Ambient Electronica? Rhythmic and maybe even primal at times. The production is crispy clear. Duke Of Earlsfield - This is a track that is almost nine minutes long and goes absolutely nowhere which is endemic of the entire album. One hour and fourteen minutes and you go nowhere, there's no journey here. As I write this 23/4/2025 this is the eighteenth worst album on the list. Seventeen others must be pretty stinky.
Абсолютно не моє
This absolutely has no right being on this list. Its repetitive and not at all groundbreaking.
meh
First impression is that electronic music is perhaps not for me. I like music that I can sing to, dance to, or maybe that will help me focus. This didn’t do that for me, but I can appreciate the experimental feeling, the combination of sounds, the creativity. It was unique for me. I’m interested in learning more about its history. I’m relieved to go back to my own music after this, though.
Didn´t like it. it´s not for me, not my style.
Je m'attendais à un truc nul, mais aussi nul que ça quand même pas.
Highlight: Bubble and Slide. In a nutshell: "empty dancehall" According to Sean Cooper of All Music Review, this is “the first techno concept album”. I’m confused how one creates a techno concept album as the genre is predominantly sans vocals. Plunderphonics, yes. But techno? It helps to have good headphones while listening. Personally the loops, bleeps and bloops took longer than necessary to build up tension or lead somewhere. To me, it sounds like a CD the trio sent to the Wachowski’s for consideration for the first Matrix soundtrack. And was rejected. If someone can explain to me why this is important to the genre beyond making it to a NME’s Best Album of 1994 list, I’m all ears. Overall: 2/10
Ambiente Dub, assim está definido o som dos Sabres of Paradise. A maior parte do disco é composta de ruídos experimentais, sem nenhuma atratividade. Alguma melodia, nada muito interessante, em "Wilmot", sons de guitarras de trilha de James Bond em "Tow Truck" e referências a Kraftwerk em "Ballad of Nicky McGuire", de resto, descartável e desnecessário.
OK, alright — is this a joke? Is someone taking the mick? I want answers, dammit. This is another album in the backlog I've been accumulating since June, and like WHAT'S THAT SOUND? before it I figure it'd be one of the last I'd get to. And unlike WHAT'S THAT SOUND?, where I was just judging a book by its poorly drawn cover, this time my hesitation had some more proof backing it up. A fellow group member had reviewed it and given it a 2, calling it an annoying cacophony of bass, drums and bothersome repetition. And this is the group member who's often the kindest to this sort of electronic music! So if it can't even win **them** over... Whooof. And they are not wrong. Within the two tracks I was already sick of this album. Legit, I was, like, five minutes in and I was wondering when the thing was actually going to start. And that's just its problem, front to back! None of these songs ever fuckin' **start**! It's like they found one drum beat they liked, decided "Yeah, that's good enough," and just looped it until they got bored. Sure, they occasionally throw in some stuff on top of it, but it's always so random and there's never any sense of progression. Again, seriously, you could jump into these songs at any point and I promise you you will not have missed a thing. Y'know, I've talked about Daft Punk's HOMEWORK. That's an album i've seen some people rag on for its repetition, but you gotta understand: Daft Punk know what the hell they're doing. They aren't just looping "AROUND THE WORLD" 86 times for the hell of it. There's permutations, changes, variations, movements... It's always keeping itself fresh by adding and removing parts, or switching them up. You can jump around "Around The World", or any song from HOMEWORK, and you'll hear that all of the parts sound different from each other — and, sure, it's rawer than I like from Daft Punk (I prefer the polish on DISCOVERY), but it sure as hell beats the snot out of this. I'm not gonna call this album absolutely incompetent; there's a couple of parts here that sound alright, but this is otherwise complete amateur hour. I haven't felt this bored by an electronic album since we got those couple of drum n' bass albums And I don't think I was as bored by this album as I was by them, but I was certainly more frustrated to make up for it! Not since Red Snapper! There's just such an arrogance I feel coming out of this album. Just this pretension that they think they're **so damn** good at this. "Oh, we're so leftfield and so fuckin' minimalist and we've got such good breaks — the people at the club will just **love** this!" And maybe they did! But I'm not at the club! I'm sitting at home wondering why in the hell this album is **76 minutes**. They really couldn't have cut **anything**? It **all** had to be here? Talk about your 90's CD bloat, oh my goodness. I've seen YouTube videos where people chop down Daft Punk's DISCOVERY, but if **any album** needs it...! Like it'd salvage the project, yeah, but still, it wouldn't have hurt. And, y'know, I feel like I get what they're trying to do here. They're doin' all this stuff to prove that "techno can be more than just bleeps and bloops," as the review on AllMusic put it. But maybe there should have been better message bearers, because these guys just ain't it, man. I started writing this review before I finished listening to the album. That's honestly common practice for most of my reviews — though a bad one, I'll admit. But at least with most every album I've reviewed, I've been able to add stuff once the record's done, and change stuff around once I actually have the full picture in mind. Here, though? Yeah, if I'd let this album finish proper, I doubt I'd have anything more to add. And, yeah, I didn't finish it: I stopped with just three tracks remaining. I tapped out. And that's **really** bad form, I understand. But seriously: what would I honestly have heard in these that I didn't hear from the rest of this slog? You tell me. It's just a frustrating bore of an album. I can see how it would be hypnotic to some, but to me? I mean, this is a **haunted** dancehall, I'd hate to see one that **isn't**! Seriously, it's only for the best I decided to just yeet this one out of my backlog as soon as possible instead of waiting, goodness me...
EDM is just not my thing.
Maso
Haunted Dancehall by The Sabres of Paradise was a tough listen. To be honest, I found it monotonous and directionless—more noise than music. I'm genuinely surprised it made the list. The album struggled to hold my attention from start to finish. The tracks blur together with little variation or structure, making it hard to distinguish where one ends and the next begins. It felt more like an endurance test than a musical experience. Favourite track: If I had to choose one, Tow Truck stood out slightly—though that's faint praise. Least favourite: Honestly, it's hard to single out just one track. The entire album felt aimless and repetitive. Album artwork: The cover is probably the most interesting part of the release—visually striking and nicely in line with its 90s aesthetic.
Not for me. Bubble and Slide II sounded all right. Everything else is no. Kind of unsettling
Don’t have time to listen
This gave me a headache.
The Sabres of Paradise- Haunted Dancehall- Never heard of this band, never heard of this album- at no point in my life, did I ever listen to electronic music- heck I barely ever listened to dance music, other than mainstream R&B. But this has been an interesting listen. I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again- this is why the list exists- I probably won’t ever listen to it again, but I’m glad I have heard it. Bubble and Slide- woof this wasn’t very good Bubble and Slide 2 this was considerably better Duke of Earlsfield- not being an electronica fan, I guess this is what it is Flight Path Estate- honestly, I don’t know where the cuts are (that could be my fault for listening on Youtube)- but ugh, I really don’t understand it Planet D (Portishead Remix)- this is the remix? Thank goodness they threw away the original Wilmot- now that I know Limp Bizkit made this list (missed the album and will have to give it one honest listen, but I’m 44, I’m aware) it will be hard to give anything a score lower than that, but what if I get something I will never listen to again, and actively resent listening to? Tow Truck- hey! Is that a hook? This might be the first thing on the album that doesn’t sound like the backing tracks to a 90s sci-fi movie Theme Theme 4- I suppose there was a Theme 2 and 3, but I’m not upset that I missed them Return to Planet D- some albums I come back to over multiple days- I listen to them over and over to immerse myself in the music. This album? I took multiple days just to get through it once Ballad of Nicky McGuire- not terrible- kind of a bouncy funk feeling, an Ennio Morricone feel at the end Jacob Street 7am- Chapel Street Market 9am Haunted Dancehall- I just couldn't get into it. I gave it multiple chances, and nothing grooved at all.
i'm sure there's more to the artistry here but this genuinely just sounds like a guy fucking around with garageband for an hour. there is nothing interesting here. at best it's the most barely-middling electronic music you've ever heard, but at worst it's the most boring, sparce beats with a bunch of reverb. a lot of these are barely songs. quite frankly, at times, it feels like it's barely music. is this a joke?
Слушать это невозможно
En serio esto se considera indispensable de escuchar antes de morir?
Álbum de un niño pequeño que acaba de descubrir lo que es SoundCloud y decide empezar a mezclar
Okay look, I typically really enjoy electronic music, even some of the ones that most of the users on this site tend to hate on a lot (En-tact by The Shamen and Remedy by Basement Jaxx to name two) but when it comes to Haunted Dancehall, i just can't defend it, this album is genuinely garbage. There are points of this album that feel like they have potential with their compositions but squander that by using the most irritating sounds possible. And even when they aren't irritating, they can still get incredibly repetitive especially when you consider just how long this album is. I typically disagree with a lot of the hate many of these electronic albums but this, i genuinely see why you all hate it so much. Best Song: Planet D (Portishead Remix) Worst Song: Bubble and Slide
Actually awful. I just can never get into purely electronic dance music. Its beating a dead horse the genre. Maybe they hit the horse in the ass for a second but its still the same garbage. I have this friend who sends me edm tracks every day and ive only told him this 1000 plus times I hate this music but I still get em. Maybe im just a bastard man. That first song sounds like diarrhea. I hate it very much. And after that its an hour or the same thing over and over again. Terrible. Truly terrible
Nope, under no amount of drgs
This is the 155th album I’m rating. I haven't listened to much techno but what techno I have heard was pretty cool. Adding to my Playlist - Nothing. Not Adding to my Playlist - Bubble and Slide, Bubble and Slide II, Duke of Earlsfield, Flight Path Estate, Planet D (Portishead Remix), Wilmot, Tow Truck, Theme, Theme 4, Return to Planet D, Ballad of Nicky McGuire, Jacob Street 7AM, Chapel Street Market 9AM, and Haunted Dancehall. All in all I liked 0/14 songs. 77 minutes of straight ass.
DNF
WTF?!!
Nah.
not my cup of tea
This was not for me. It's so experimental, but also not taking too many risks. I struggled to get into it and was happy to be out of it.
I couldn’t stand this for very long. I tried.
Listening to the first 30 seconds, someone said this album sounds like a toilet. I proceeded to laugh hysterically until the album ended.
My spaceship, my music. Don't like it? Get out and float It starts to resemble music closer to the end but I'd probably get ejected before it
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Fuck this noise.
Rough listen, not my vibe. 1.5
I had to skip one of the last songs because it just sounded like an alarm going off and I couldn’t do that for 6 minutes straight.
I kept waiting for some revelation as to why this was included because it started so weak, but it started weak and if possible, got worse
Too experimental for me 8 min tracks too long without much diversity. I can see why some people like it and there are the odd sample mix that sounds good but overall not my thing.
Dumb. Noise.
I’ve heard some awful shit on this list, but this takes the cake. This is audible torture, and there is no dancehall to be found by the time I hit stop. It’s less haunted, and more cursed.
2/10 Originally I thought this album sounded fun and I had it at two starts, but the more and more I listened the more I realized I’d probably never come back to this disaster. While I can appreciate what the artist(s) were going for with the “haunted” and eerie vibe of this album, it ends up just sounding like an old shitty flash game soundtrack that I’m listening to on loop for hours trying to find the most obscure solution. Just a bunch of weird background noise.
I think my life did not require me listening to 77 minutes of this
Couldn't deal with the repetitive circumstances noises.
Why is this on the list? I really need to look into the criteria of making the 1001 List. I did not need to listen to this before I die.
Couple songs in middle I could listen to, otherwise connected with nothing. Couldn’t listen to every song all the way through.
A couple minutes of this might be okay - and, yeah, the title track at the end would be fine to pipe out to the front porch for trick-or-treaters on Halloween - but 77 minutes of this at any other time of the year? Absofuckinglutely not.
weird
I tried, but it really just sounded like random noises from around the house, repeating over and over. It was pure torture to make it through this album.
Very impressed that they get a record deal!
I try my best not to be overly hateful of electronic music, but this list makes it really hard to do so.
Holy shit was this irritating!!!!!!!!!
I did not enjoy this at all.
There are a small number of tracks on here that are a little more interesting than the others (for example, "Wilmot"), but mostly I don't appreciate this.
There are some interesting rhythms and melodies scattered through the album, but it all feels incredibly slow and plodding. It was a real chore to finish the whole album. Just like the other electronic albums on here, I have no idea what situation or mood would lead to someone wanting to listen to this.
I usually like experimental shit but this one is kinda ass and i struggle to cope with it- DNF'd after 4 tracks.
While there are a couple of Interesting tunes here and there, most of it is boring as hell
I.... don't like this and I fucking listen to aggressive hyperpop with people named Femtanyl and PUSSY RIOT....
*gif of Ron Swanson throwing pc into trash* Babys first bandcamp song, all daft with no punk, as bland as their country's food, I would take my morning drive again if it meant I got to listen to something else I don't care that it's experimental, it still has to sound good
Much like getting kicked in the nuts. Unless you’re into that sort of thing, it’s just best to avoid it.
just sounds like two pots being smacked together
I never finished an album out of spite before. This is crappy piece of music was not going to break my soul. This album should be used by the police to make criminals that barricaded themselves with hostages to leave the building. That is the only purpose for this piece of garbage.
whatever..
Long, boring, repetitive Standout song: Tow Truck
Dull dull dull
müll
Schlimm
More than noise, but not quite music.
Was never gonna get through the whole thing
Pero...es broma?, si la respuesta es NO, ingiero que esto es BASURA. No usaré mi tiempo para ese disparate
This sounded like licking a battery. An initial thrill followed by a metallic aftertaste and then nothing. If this was on the list to represent warp records and this genre then its done a very bad job.
I almost gave it a 2 just so I didn't seem like an asshole, but I just can't with this genre. I guess it's a "me, not you" thing.
Felt like I was at one of those glow stick goths under a bridge conventions, dancing around in New Rocks.
I don't get it
dnf i'm just not doing this
Too robotic. Not for me
Noise.
I’ll admit, I punted on this maybe 20 minutes into a 76-minute album. 30-year-old, spare repetitive techno really didn’t do it for me today.
Gross
... What the hell did I just listen to? Nope. No. I don't know what it was trying to be. But I think I just experienced what it feels like going through a very bad acid trip. Or maybe now I can relate better to people who chronically grind their teeth. I felt all the things, and I hated it.
"Boy, yesterday was a mediocre electronica album. Wonder what today will bring!" "Oh." This one had the benefit of being slightly more grating than the last one. So good job, I suppose!
The only edge here is the razor on the album cover. The sound never builds to anything and most of these tracks run for way longer than needed to get the point across. There's good electronic music out there but this ain't it.
Nah
Garbage
why
It sounded like a soundtrack to a bad Megadrive game
Just an hours worth of noise and not even groovey noise
Stupendously bad, so bad you'll be wishing that straight razor on the album cover was in your hands instead
Acid techno...stuff
Pointless, repetitive noise
This sounds like my ass after I've had too much taco bell. None of these songs are interesting enough to listen to for 45 seconds, let alone for 8 minutes. I feel like this site is punishing me for giving me some actual good music last week. Proof that not everything was good in the 90s.
"Hey, look, I've learnt how to make these really cool beats with the computer and I can add all sorts of samples and effects on top of it!" "Sounds interesting, did you write any songs or use it for any creative purposes?" "Well, I guess not, but I did it with a computer, so it's innovative..." "I'll take 76 minutes worth!"
Didnt listen
Brutal listen. Not sure how this one is considered a paragon of music.
1/10
The Good: Music in a dancehall… The Bad: seems the dancehall is haunted… The Ugly: figuring out that the sabers of paradise are there to aid in ending one’s life!!! I recall hearing “trance” music the first time; it put me in a trance, for sure… Then I made the decision that trance was not for me, and now I’ve been forced to listen to it again. So, get 4 babies to bang on some pots while you record the sound, then head into your basement, or attic, and load those sounds into your garageband software, then just create a short sequence, repeat it a thousand times, and you have 1 song, which, as fate will have it, sounds almost identical to all the other 13 songs on this here record. 1*
Not my thing. Sorry.
It would get zero stars if possible. Was not feeling this album
Using a term Robert Dimery and this band would better understand, this album is "shite". It's probably one of Yoko Ono's favorite albums to yowl to.
another shitty electronic album that goes on for far too long
Nonsense.
Not great
I'm glad that at the time of release there was no stream available! Who knows - the album probably would not only use the full capcity of a CD but the full capacity of a server?! It constantly varies between something that I mostly would describe as noise and something that could become music and back to noise. Simply not my jam! 1,5
Feels like a gimmick album to me. Not really a fan.
This shit sounds like the soundtrack to a mediocre Playstation racing game from 1995
Bad
Electronica album. Eclectic. Would not recommend without drugs or hallucinogens.
Too long, too repetitive. You have the whole world of electronic music production at your fingertips and this is what you make? Such a waste.
This was terrible
This was totally new for me - didn't really leave me feeling anything. Wouldn't return, but it was fine in the background.
Industrial/Techno is not my thing.
Much worse than the Beatles.
Just no.
Big no, I'm usually more tolerant to different things but I couldn't listen to this album it made my head hurt. Bad
I'm thankful for this list for showing me all the different flavors of annoying you can get from british electronic music
That's one of the most boring things I've ever listen... hell of a way to end the year, huh?
I don’t think I needed to listen to this.
Ah yes I yearn for the days when in I played the colander, Glynn on the spoons, Brian on a bit of corrugated roofing and Gwyneth on vocals. How great we sounded or so I thought. This album reminds me of those days and I wonder if only we had persevered then maybe we might have produced an album worthy of an entry on the 1001 albums you must hear before death. But we didn’t and this lot of wannabes (The Sabres of Paradise - really???) stole out rightful place. If only they had come to me for some musical advice and guidance. Their loss and sadly because of this crock of excrement also anybody else misguided to listen. It’s Christmas Eve and I really did want to show some Christmas goodwill but this album brings out the Scrooge bah humbug in me. I wonder if tonight I will be visited by the musical spirits -Music (Selling England By The Pound) past, Music (Songs Of A Lost World) present, Music (Next album by Steven Wilson) future then tomorrow on Christmas morn I shall rejoice at that days 1001 choice. 1/5 24/12/24
Not for me
Without value.
Now was this boring or WHAT. This sounded like a backtrack that was given to someone who’d never heard music before or something and just kept going for ever. BORING and gave nothing.
Don’t love a lot of instrumental music, but this was so annoying to get through chapel street market at 9AM made me feel like I was on a 7 minute torturous loop
Toilet beats
Day341 - i fully expected to hate this album and boy did i ever
Groupe/artiste inconnu. Répétitions sans intérêt, je ne suis pas allé au bout. =>1/5
Not a fan of this. Really simple and boring, and a lot of the patches sounded annoying with the amount of comb filtering or resonance added. I can't even imagine people really dancing to this.
Super boring 1/5
Ok. I have never heard of a concept album for techno. I always thought techno was all conceptual. Who knew?
Nope
This sounded like computer game menu music. I did not enjoy it very much but it was not unlistenable.
More video game music
Honestly could not distinguish any of the songs from one another
In Friends, there is a scene where Ross performs a 'song' in Central Perk on his keyboard and I honestly think that would fit more on here than this shit. 0.0
There were some interesting bits, but every track was way way too long, most of the time wasn’t even sure when a track started or stopped.
Someone was taking the piss with this one, right? Firstly in making the thing cause it sounds like someone discovered a drum machine and just made a record using all the sounds it makes. And secondly for putting this album on this list. Piss being taken left, right and centre.
Ay no por qué me hacen escuchar esto
Another electronica album that despite some inkling of variety still bores the shit out of me. I am 420 albums in and have heard 36 electronica albums vs 18 country albums… something is very biased about this list. I hope in the future there is some Pantha du Prince ion here instead of more of this terrible rave electronica.
Couldn't get through this
I couldn't even with this album. It put me to mind of this toy I got for my partner a few years ago--the Orba 2, which you could play with to make little electronic songs/loops/beats and use as a MIDI controller. My partner made more coherent and interesting songs in the 10-15 minutes playing with it than I found on this album. I don't even know how they got Portishead involved--I had high hopes for that, but they were cruelly dashed upon the shores of this \"album.\" It's the sonic equivalent of a page of a middle schooler's notebook filled with doodles.
horrid.
shite
Just noise…not very musical
not a fan. good for focusing and playing as background music for repetitive tasks.
Terrible. Monotonous
Life is too short. DNF
Te trippy
Heyrið, þetta er leiðinlegt. Hér er eiginlega ekkert nema samansafn umhverfishljóða. Wilmot og Chapel Stree Market 9 am eru skást, en eru ekki 7-8 mínútur af þeim of mikið líka?
Some tunes would be nice
The title is by far the best thing about this tedious techno album. The tracks don’t build or develop at all and it’s just so painfully long at nearly 80 minutes. At its best it sounds like music for a PS2 spy game, and at its worst it doesn’t even register as intentional sound, let alone music
this feels like taking drugs inside the brain of your grandma.
This is #day63 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and... how about a shload of bleep-blah-bloo techno? When I give an album the lowest score, I have two reasons in mind: 1) I'm convinced that this album should have never made it to the list because of little to no historical, esthetic, or other value in it (there could be other grounds for that as well), and 2) The music itself doesn't strike a cord in me. Haunted Dancehall is a case in point of both. The good news is that one track was blocked on Spotify, so I didn't have to sit through the whole thing. But anyway, that was arduous. It's been the third album this week scoring a 1 out of 5 from me, and it's only Friday. Looking forward to #day64.
Excuse me sir, but I think I'm in the wrong challenge? I was supposed to do that 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die experience but I think I'm doing the 1001 Albums That Are a Chore to Go Through instead.
Seriously? What the hell is this?
This is one of the worst album I've ever heard, and considering the shit we've been through with this list, it's really saying something!
Terrible!
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What a load of piss. This is as bad as it gets.
Leider habe ich abgebrochen. Es war mir zu nervig das Geräuschkulissengeklimper . Tut mir leid
This never went anywhere.
This Alternative band was not slapping for me. Hate that there’s no singing. I like some of the beats though Cool that it’s experimental techno. <<planet D, ballad of Nicky McGuire
Talentless Dance music posing as art. 1/5
I can only speculate about what drugs makes this sound good. Definitely none of the ones I'm taking!
This was less "Haunted Dancehall", and more "My Car Broke Down" or "Bad Night at Taco Bell". ZERO stars.
Suckage.
Game over music for a forgotten bad videogame.
I was so intrigued by the title of this album. Imagine my disappointment to find out it’s yet another bland, uninspired electronic album. The only thing worth listening to on here is the song “Theme” because it reminds me of Oceans 11 or Catch Me If You Can.
wHaT!?!?!?!
Nothing to really dislike but then it's not at all groundbreaking or innovative. It's just pretty average tunes from the 90s. No way should this be on the chart.
Terrible.
oh my god Bubble and Slide II is so boring. This is true shit 90's electronic.
The first song sounded like a wonky toilet, and the second song sounded like they were saying rat terrier. This was terrible.
Unlistenable.
When you're making repetitive generic shit, it's easy to make a lot of it.
Not in my edition of the book! 1994. 1 star. Tedious Brit electro music that wants to be Vangelis when it grows up. No-one needs multiple meandering tracks >5 minutes long. Why is this even on the list?
Repetitive noises. Same riff for SO long. Zero enjoyment attained.
didnt listen
Album 477 of 1001 The Sabres Of Paradise - Haunted Dancehall Rating : 1 / 5 Electronica. No, thanks. This is just bad background sounds, in my opinion.
Is this what people listen to when high on drugs? I couldn’t get into it, it was just noise! Not for me.
i struggle to give this album a 1 because there were bits and pieces that i enjoyed or were cool. unfortunately it was about 3 minutes of that in a 70 minute album. the rest was just uninspired, boring slop. such a shame that the album title is the best thing about this
reproducí una canción y fue suficiente para sacar el álbum, la vida es muy corta para malgastarla en mala música así un librito me diga que hay que escucharlo antes de morir.
Yuck, no bueno.
Why is this album on this list? I don't get it... there are many more electronic records to choose from that belong here, even from 1994, and you chose this? Not worth listening.
Hey, why don’t you queue up another shitty British electronic album that no one listened to when it was released and deserves to be shot into space and lost for eternity. This dreck, just like this list, is garbage.
The sounds aren't even interesting; and that's literally all it is - a collection of sounds.
WHY DO I HAVE TO LISTEN TO THIS
Couldn’t finish. Nauseating and made my tummy hurt it sucked
OMG - I can't believe someone was able to f*ck up EDM! This just drones.. tried real hard to listen through it start to end... nothing memorable
Absolutely not
Torture, could not go trough
poo
Trash
What a terrible waste of time. Why are the worst albums the longest?
Too experimental. 1/5
Apparently BBC Radio 1 had at one point said that "Haunted Dancehall" was the song they were going to play when the news broke that the Queen died. This is about the only interesting thing about this album. They did not play the song when she died. Kudos to them naming the album though, this is exactly what I imagine would be playing at an actual haunted dancehall. Favorite song: Haunted Dancehall 5/4/24
I hated this.
more like an album you must die before you listen to
I remember giving this a listen when it came out , and taped around three of the tracks (!) , returned the LP the next day . listening to it now, it's of its time, bit too long.
What junk. Losing faith with the list this week. 2 unlistenable
ZERO. GTFO WITH THIS TRASH.
What exactly is the purpose of this album?
Why is this on here?
No chance I was listening to this shit a second time
Nope
You know what I love? Deeply intricate electronic music. Especially that of which there is clear evidence that love and care was put into it. Long songs are common in the genre. And the best ones often warrant that length. But you know what I hate? Electronic music that just acts as mindless slop. It’s already a genre that receives enough criticism as is because people believe it genuinely lacks no substance. Show them this album and their brains might just explode. I need to sit down and have a chat with the author of this book. Because where does he find these dumpster fires? If someone recommended that he include this, they need to be slapped upside the head. This is just simply the most painstaking, boring and bland “IDM” I’ve ever heard. Fuck that genre label by the way. If you are trying to convince me this is “more intelligent” than other, better, dance music, you are an idiot. If the best song on your electronic record is a Portishead remix, and even that is still lackluster at best, you’ve got a big problem. My biggest issue is that nearly all of these songs long overstay their welcome. Even the slightly more interesting ones are still too long. The first four songs are barely even music. More just like noises. You can’t put reverb and delay on everything and call it a day. And then everything after that is just painfully boring. At least those songs tried something interesting, even if it still sucked. This just wants to be Kraftwerk so badly. And it fails miserably at even getting close to their level. Don’t listen to this. It’s utterly pointless. Rating: 2/10
Look. My criteria for my album ratings is somewhat complex. I'm not going to explain the whole thing right now, but I have something to say. My criteria for giving an album a 1/5 is that if I am upset that I listened to a given album, that album gets a 1/5. I don't mean that in a "This album is sad" kind of way, I mean that in a "This project would be better without this album" kind of way. It is the simplest rating criteria that I have. I am upset that I listened to this album. How can you have so many albums from 1994 on this list (This is my 9th!) with some of them being worthless, culturally insignificant trash like this, and yet the Weezer blue album is nowhere to be seen?! WHY?! That album is awesome! This? I hate it. The sound itself is fine, I guess, but it leaves no lasting impact on me. There are some great instrumental albums out there with enough impact to warrant an inclusion on this list. This is not one of them. I've probably written reviews for this site that are longer than the wikipedia articles for this album and its band combined before! But you wanna know the biggest issue with this album. It does not fucking end. It lasts for 76 whole minutes, with there being multiple songs that go for 8 minutes each! On top of that, the songs are kind of repetitive. I'm pissed off. I genuinely question what logic there was behind this album being included. Wikipedia says that this was the first techno concept album. First of all, I don't believe that for one second. There had to have been something before this. Second of all, what is the concept for this album? Being shit? If so, good job "Sabres of Paradise," you succeeded! Now get out of my sight. 1/5.
Supposedly this was the first techno concept album. What is the concept, might I ask? Boredom in space? Or boredom inside a sweaty nightclub during a rave?
fuck off
1. bubble and zlide - 0 2. zlide 2 - 0 3. duke - 0 4. flight path - 0 5. planet d - 1 6. touu truck - 0 7. theme - 0 8. theme 4 - 0 9. planet d - 0 10. maguire - 1 11. jacob ztreet - 0 12 chapel ztreet - 0 13. haunted dancehall - 1
wilmot is kinda nice, the whole album kinda noise
The description says that this was a wildly popular techno band in the UK, and I am not going to believe that at all. Overall, it seemed like a clownish and amateur effort that yielded a truly painful to hear album. Really a disappointment to me.
Really awful
I absolutely did not need to hear this before I die. They cleverly started with two songs so bad that the rest of the album seemed like a big improvement, and therefore perhaps worthy of more than a single star. But it was all terrible, the opening tracks just impressively reaching another level of shit. It was background music at best, though I'm not sure what for. I could maybe imagine it being played in the background during a Worms game, which is actually quite a compliment, but it should have no place on this list. ⭐️
Sounds very robotic, which isn't a good thing. Every track does nothing new or exciting after the first 20 seconds, which get boring real quick, especially on an 8 minute track. They got the first word of this album right. The album will be haunting my dreams tonight, and possibly the next week. Another hour of my life wasted listening to rubbish music
This is not why I signed up for the album generator.
Repetitive noise with an ok beat.
This is less an album, more a test of patience. Wilmot (despite being too long) is the best track; not sure how much of the rest was needed. 0.4 stars for Wilmot.
Random noise the album. I don't understand how you could justify the inclusion of this album on the list. Highlights: Theme
Come on now, is there really justification for this to be on this list? Even if electronica was my favourite genre of music, I cannot imagine that this is a particularly good example of it? Suppose I didn't hate it, and it was pretty chilled, but I don't think I can give it anything but 1. Too many weird strange noise effects
This is the kind of album that makes you question the judgement of the makers of this list. Absolutely terrible. I can’t imagine that the 47th best album of 1994 is essential listening, even with how stacked 1994 is for great releases. There is the beginnings of something here, but none of the tracks go anywhere. It’s just a loop of sounds on every track. Who knows how they decided each track should be.
I have no clue who this is for, I can only think people on the brink of ODing from LSD would enjoy this. I've made the joke that this sounds like someone smashing their face into a cassio keyboard while all the settings are cycling, but this really does sound like that, it's shit I don't understand why it's here and people who like it scare me.
When I first heard about 1,001 albums to hear before you die I thought, man over 1,000 albums seems like a lot but I bet there is still a ton of great music that will be left out, especially considering new music is made every year that would end up displacing other albums on the list. After listening to Haunted Dancehall, it appears to me that maybe the number of truly revered albums throughout history is smaller than I thought. I was flabbergasted listening to track after track of this wondering who would possibly think this is worth recommendation. I know people say things like this all the time and after often overstating their own abilities, but I could legitimately make the songs from this album myself with little effort if I had the right equipment. This honestly sounds like it was made on a 13 year olds iMac using the garage band app with its preprogrammed sounds solely for their StarCraft Twitch stream. I cannot fathom any other setting that this Music would be suitable for. Not for waiting rooms or elevators. Certainly not for parties or listening on your commute. This barely goes above the threshold for corporate phone line hold music. In fact I think I’d prefer to hear the Cisco hold jingle on repeat for the length of this album before listening to it again. I considered rating this 2 stars because if this is truly a recommendation of an album I have to hear before I die then somehow there might possibly be something worse out there, but ultimately there is no way this deserves anything but the lowest mark. I hope future album recommendations do not sink this low or it’s going to be very difficult to get through these on a daily basis.
The Sabres of Paradise - Haunted Dancehall Ambient, electronic music. Could be the score to any late 90s or early 2000s generic action flick. Once again not sure why this is one of the 1001 albums I need to hear before I die. 1/5
Mr. Krabs did it better
Not surprised I don’t like yet another British electronic album that I’ve never heard of. Seriously, if going to a number as high as 1001 means I have to listen to this before I die, maybe shorten the list by however many British techno albums you were planning on including. Or at least give me some Aphex Twin (I know he’s Welsh) or Four Tet. For fucksake
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Blind album and artist. Big snooze fest in my mind and I do not see how this is special. Tech os first concept album? What's the concept??
By the time it got to the 7th track, I knew I wouldn’t endure it for its 1 hour 16 minutes length. Not totally bad but over stated and quite forgettable. Minus 1 star for being too long
People music! I like it
Clown music
Why is this on the list? I enjoy ambient but this is not worthy
Dogshit
The inclusion of this album makes me not feel bad for not contributing monetarily to this project.
meh
Did not like this at All… grated on my nerves and created anxiety
Not for my tastes. Also, the over compressed, digital samples are just grating on the ears...
One and a quarter hours of almost nothing. A near nonentity of a record. Rating: 1.5/5 Playlist track: Wilmot Date listened: 07/01/24
I'm sorry, this is just noise. The very few moments where something grabs your attention are massively outweighed by the rubbish. Like I've said before, if I want instrumental stuff, give me euphoric trance, or something that makes me feel something. This is neither of those things.
I could go through life without listening to this and be just fine. It suffers the problem of a lot of electronica. Slow to start and oppressively repetitive.
I find that half the time, an electronic album is amazing, one of the best I’ve ever heard, and the other half, you get the worst thing you’ve ever heard. This is one of the latter. So hard to put myself through. Didn’t even listen to the last song. Giving it a 2/10, just because there were some songs where I couldn’t help but tap along. I didn’t enjoy this at all. 2/10 Top 1: 1. Wilmot
I was so excited when it ended
Bad
Not for me, thanks.
It got a bunch of 1s for a reason
2/10 generally like experimental-ish music but this mostly sounded like it should have a voice interrupting every five minutes saying "Please continue to stay on the line. We thank you for your patience."
Totally uninspiring
What sh@t is this? Not music, just sounds and crap ones!
bonne grosse daube. ça ne devrait même pas être dans les 1000001 album generator
Wine bar / design studio music.
Ugggh really? Electronic gibberish on Halloween?? That sucks. This sucks. Although I will say, this is a striking album cover! I do like it quite a lot. It had me geared up in antici pation, for some Rocky Horror like good times spooky tunes. Quite a letdown on what it actually holds inside. I'm going back to my friend's haunted halloween playlist which kicks way more ass than this. It's Def.Con.One... Big Mac, fries to go... Big mac, fries to go... Get me Big Mac, fries to go... Get me Big mac, get me fries to go!
Bad orbital...
I thought this would be spooky but it wasn't
Four bar repeats of basic riffs. Art has to be something I can't do. Anyone can do this. Set the drum machine to 4/4 choose a BPM and write a short bass line. Make some sounds over it. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Utter rubbish.
Not good
I think I spend the whole album wondering how much more of this I had to endure, sounds like someone gave a kid a keyboard to play around with
Nah, not my thing in the slightest
What a load of noise
My ears hurt.
This album belongs on another list called 1 album that sucks ass
boring noises.
Hated every second of this. All 4609 of them.
Horrible album made worse by the fact that it’s nearly an hour and a fucking half.
No.
I’ve never heard of Sabres Of Paradise before, but that seems like a strong band name! I can easily imagine power/glam metal bands being called this, so I sit here hopefully. Apple Music silly lists it as “alternative” so it’s hard to know how this will sound. Songs I already knew: none Favourites: none I’ve never been quite so let down by an album before. This was abysmal. I can’t fathom how anybody could ever see this as an essential album. I’d earnestly love to sit with someone who loves this, and just hear why that is. It sounds like the soundtrack to a bad detective game with no funding behind it. I truly cannot see any appeal to this. Even when I don’t like an album, I can usually at least try to understand any appeal others might see, but I’m at a loss here.
This album sucks. It’s glorified background music.
I tried. I even gave it the benefit of the doubt because I liked the second track, but the rest just wasn’t good. DNF and I don’t plan too.
Man, this sucked. I'm normally a fan of electronic music but on a lot of these tracks it felt like they were pressing random buttons on a soundboard. Almost felt comical at times. I could probably name 1001 electronic albums better than this one.
Fucking awful