Music Has The Right To Children

If I ran a restaurant with a certain vibe, I could see this album being on in the background.

2.3 Didnt keep my interest very much

Not sure I got it. Spraint is a real word, like holt--they have the right to appear in a song. The techno trip hop okay for background. But that's all I can give it. (Especially now that the trade war has made Canadian boards so expensive Go! MAGA!!)

This was fine, I guess. But by the fourth song I realized I wanted to listen to something (anything) else. So I did.

ehhhh. this was okayyy. i don’t know. i agree with elanor it was very eery and not very fun. some of the sounds were cool, but we can do better chat

Not bad but hell. This broke the streak.

Bit dull

70 minutes of nothing remarkable. Just electronic background music. 1,5

Well, it’s not terrible but it is quite repetitive and dull, and a lot of the tracks don’t really develop into anything. It really reminds me of menu background music from a sci-fi video game.

Eh alright background noise, nothing special, didn't particularly enjoy it.

The Temu-version of DJ Shadow

The faceless humans on the cover indicate a lack of identity, which is a problem this albums also suffers from. And 1h11min wtf.

Chill enough. But a tad too minimal for my taste.

Not great

Not really my thing. At times kind of a lo-fi sound and sometimes more of a hip hop beat. Not necessarily bad, just not for me. 2/5 Won’t listen again

Kinda haunted and creepy. And taken with the cover and title, I feel like the children will be the music’s meal.

Cool beats, I guess.

I know this is a legendary album but I really did not care for a single song. I typically dig ambient, droney, or slower stuff but this felt frankly sluggish.

Meh. A little too atmospheric for my taste, but I recognize the first song.

se eu quero ouvir música assim, eu passo o dia no elevador ou numa clinica médica

Not my taste.. too weird somehow

There are some fascinating sounds, voices, and more throughout this album. It reminds me of autumn and leaves rustling in the background.

Interesting, I suppose. Glad to find out the final track was "bonus" track and free myself from listening to it

never heard of this duo and i don’t think i needed to. a 2 based on not hating life listening to it but halfway through i realized it was on still and was like “is this still going?” could i write poetry to this? n

Not a fan of this style of music. Most of the instruments want to be in meditation music to be played at a spa, but the drums and bass want to be bopping at the club. In what setting is this enjoyable?

Never heard of them. Not bad music. Alternative/Eleectronic

beats and bleeps

A better album title would have been Robot Sounds Rejected by X-Files. A little bit ambient, slightly techno, mostly weird in a “hey, join our cult” way.

Boring. 2.5/5

Album 652 of 1001 Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children (1998) Rating : 2 / 5 More of the electronica I just don't really care for. Much of this is pretty calming and quite serene but doesn't get the musical juices flowing.

Elektronisk, hypnosemusik, lidt for repetitivt

Not bad. Electronic music is not usually my thing. This provided a nice calm background noise for my days work. As an employee who walked in and heard it playing said, "It sounds like the music on a video game menu scree." Pretty acurate.

A second day in a row of electronic music, terrific. This one just wasn’t doing it for me.

Pleasantly weird but ultimately boring beep boop sounds.

I imagine that AI music will end up sounding a bit like this, broken and disjointed, as it increasingly learns from other AI songs in an incestuous downward spiral. I highly doubt that it would manage to have the ambience and consistent tonal quality to hold it all together that this album does though. Does that make this album decades ahead of the curve? Only time will tell. If only some of the people on the cover had six fingers. This album is unique in it's own way, sounding simultaneously ethereal, creepy, melancholic and psychedelic. Unfortunately I didn't really enjoy this album, although I can see why others would.

Good ambient background music. That being said, not noteworthy in any way.

Long and fairly annoying.

This has good moments, but is way too long to the point where I lost interest in the good parts as they arose throughout the back half of the album.

i like a lot of chill electronica, but I did not like this!

Instantly forgettable

Weird. Sounds could be background for sci-fi movie. Counting to sounds is NOT music.

By 1998 I expect more from electronic music

I have tried to get into Boards of Canada for over a decade now and it's never clicked with me. Maybe I just don't like ambient music or whatever it is but it always comes off as boring elevator background music with repetitive beats. This didn't click with me either. If you do like downtempo or ambient electronic music I would suggest Tipper, especially his album Broken Soul Jamboree. It's phenomenal and I can't imagine that any of his music is on this list, despite him being British.

This is alright, if I were huffing airduster in a cool-off tent at a rave. Nothing really inspiring about this low-fi trip-hop, just good background stuff. I'll give this a 2.

This one brings back memories of editing digital maps for hours at a time. It's good music to listen to while doing a more mundane repetitive task. At the same time though I remember Boards being lower in my ranking of this type of music. I have them paired up with the likes of Tycho, Washed Out, FM Attack and Com Truise. Not a bad album but also not the most interesting.

Electronic music. Not my go-to. Would probably be nice for some back-ground, easy listening, white-noise type of music, but on my commute, it was putting me to sleep.

Yuck

Bit twee and not my cup of tea

mmmmmmmm

Some moments that don’t require drugs to appreciate. But not many.

I really don't like this kind of music. Although it has its value, it doesn't really tell me anything.

Ick

Decent album, not my kind of music, but nice and chill. I could use this music to fall Asleep.

nope

Bored of Canada

i kind of like parts of it . The tracks with more vocal samples work better , and the others feel like unfinished sketches/ demos. 2.5

Pointless muzak.

Good but weird.

Escuché un par de temas. Debo admitir que no me dieron muchas ganss de seguirlo, demasiado experimental

Instrumental

Great tunes if you want to fall asleep while driving!

Well that was incredibly boring.

would trip tf out if I listened to this any type of inebriated. additionally, this has zero business being over 70 minutes long

Quite dull

There isn’t really anything wrong with it, it’s just boring as hell

..

Fine as background music, but not really my thing to listen to on its own.

Synth enormi, ricerca dei suoni davvero interessante. Poi per il resto vanno capiti, come gran parte dell'elettronica. Io non li capisco bene.

Was always curious about this one but was left cold

There are times when you come across a piece of art and think to yourself "I just don't get it". This was one of those times for me. Might be nice background music for reading.

Meh.

My immediate thought on rolling it was "oh no, not another one of these." But this is considerably better than the Fatboy Slim kind of stuff earlier in the list. It's still too ambient and light for my taste, but I got through it and didn't mind listening to it. You can hear the influence some places, like I can especially hear it in Radiohead. It sounds a lot like early-2000s Radiohead, although pretty much just the songs that I don't like that much. At the same time, I'd just as soon listen to some mid-tier dungeon synth.

Viel versucht, wenig erreicht

Rating: 5/10 Meh. Choice cut: Roygbiv

I started out curious, but that faded to disinterest by about track 2. Gets better (less objectionable) in the second half. Passable as ambient background sound, but others do it better. Music to drown out office noise.

More like bored of Canada. Inoffensive background music

Euhm, wie heeft hem op repeat gezet? Of nee wacht, het zijn toch echt achttien afzonderlijke nummers, maar niet dat je daar enig verschil tussen hoort. Wel een aardig trippy klankbeeld, maar erg weinig afwisseling.

Why are all electronic albums so boring. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Wacky muziek

They’re not bad per se, just incredibly dull

2/5 - Just…nah.

It’s good electronic music. I don’t know if I’d listen again though.

Background music that isn't really my sound.

I guess there’s a time and place for everything, but this album being included in the list is just silly. Sound loops and samples. No real structure to songs. And way too long.

Definitely didn’t feel the need to get through all of this one. Sorta got the point right away. No idea what makes this so special

More background music. Can set a mood but as long as you don’t notice it or pay too much attention, it’s fine. To me that doesn’t mean a great album and I just can’t rate any of these above a 2. I did recognize Roygbiv…so there’s that. 1.5

I’m sure this is a totally fine album in the beep/boop music genre. Just not my cup of tea. Too long and little variety. I found myself skipping tracks out of boredom. 2/5

Great music to put in the background at a nice low volume. And by low volume I mean 0

This mostly just sounded like noises but it was a pleasant car album

Nope, Music Has The Right To Children is not for me. Half of it sounds like the sort of interlude nonsense nu-metal bands chucked onto their 2000s albums to pad it out, and the other half sounds like what happens when robots have orgasms. Rescue from this run of disappointing 2s; this one's lucky to get a 2 at all.

Yeah, I don't get this either. Ambient stuff, nothing particularly different from other ambient stuff we've had except this one grabbed me even less. Have heard it a couple of times through, and am now listening to Oxygene again because that does what this does so much better. 2/5.

From the UK? Check! Some kind of electronic music? Check! Put it on the list! I remember hearing about these guys in name only, having worked somewhere that I was introduced to all the 90s and early 2000s hipster favorites by my lovably hip colleagues. I'm sure I listened to Boards of Canada some back then but they never left an impression, apparently. Still don't.

trippy

No.

These guys have listened to a lot of Kraftwerk and decided to do their own. With mixed results. Doesn't really stand on its own feet, and the bits that are not obviously Kraftwerk-esque aren't that convincing, really. Kosmischer Läufer does a better job of emulating Kraftwerk while still being more than just an hommage.

I get what they were trying to do here, and it was an impressively ambitious undertaking, but it was a swing and a miss for me. I didn’t feel like I was listening to music - more like a string of noise, and I just couldn’t get into it. Fascinating to hear though

Monotonous and not very tuneful. The music is strange enough to work as background music for something like Adult Swim's Off the Air or a similar show, but as for straight up listening to it, no thanks.

The idea of this album intrigues me a lot, especially as a general fan of electronic music. In practice, though, I’m quite literally not high enough to enjoy it. If I’m going to be forced to listen to IDM, I’d prefer Burial, Aphex Twin, or Autechre — people who don’t become germophobes the second they’re around an actual beat. And while Music Has the Right to Children does have a few fleeting moments where Boards of Canada back into an actual groove, it’s never fully developed. I also just don’t care for Lo-Fi Beats to Chill and Study To, no matter how cool it may be that they’re using a bunch of vintage synths and tape machines. Influential as it may be, this is really not my vibe.

I think it's lo-fi but it's not my kind

There are some redeeming qualities, but not many.

Très musique d'ambiance.

I usually like Electronica, but this was too "flat" for me, nothing outstanding or notable. Maybe ok as background music, but that's it.

It was ok as background music but less so for a car trip - perhaps suitable for a different kind of trip?!

At first it annoyed me but it grew on me by the end. Still on the negative side of my enjoyment scale.

Ugh. Is it just me, or is there too much electronica on this list?

I don't typically find this style of music very engaging and this wasn't an exception.

On paper a cool idea and album, but fell flat unfortunately. Off to a terrible start with extremely repetitive and boring songs. Somewhere in the middle it became decent, with the album high of 'Roygbiv' which was a really cool song that I will listen more to, and some other nice tracks that followed. But the end was also pretty weak if I recall correctly, so overall pretty bad experience.

A bit of a boring slog of an album. Sure it's chill to leave on in the background but nothing really stood out. The start was pretty bad but I think it found its groove towards the middle. A few fun songs here and there (eg. "Turquoise Hexagon Sun" and "Roygbiv") but as a whole not too impressed.

Good nap album

‘The Color of Fire’ was a bit eerie. Not really my vibe but not bad

che fatica arrivare alle fine aiutooo, nel complesso però non malissimissimo

Sarebbe 2.5 ma non l’ho trovato abbastanza interessante

Nothing grabbed my attention. Just felt like nice inoffensive background music you’d play at a mall or something

Not bad as background music

Första låten kunde jag över huvud taget inte lyssna på. Jag är en enkel människa så det här är för svårt för mig. Jag gillar Moby. Han har säkert inspirerats av boards of canada. Tyvärr skar de höga tonerna sönder min hjärna och hur enkel min hjärna än är så vill jag gärna behålla den så intakt som det går. Låt 3 lytet lite men vente. Blev inte jättebra det här. Kanske gjorde Roygbiv det lite bättre.

Nja. Lite för trist. Gillar ju elektronisk musik. Men detta var för "stämningsfullt" på ett dåligt sätt.

Too long. It works as background tunes, but to sit down and invest in it was too much for me to follow.

You may be fooled into thinking this band hails from North America and what with the author(s) penchant for shoving mediocre UK electronic brit pop down your throat you'd be surprised. Well, nice try. This Scottish duo snuck onto the list, but their little art-house experiment in electronic music didn't sway me. I don't know how we ended up here, but I blame Daft Punk and Kraftwerk for influencing these people to think they could do something. But don't let the fact that Boards of Canada are the product of the 'everybody wins' generation. If their parents hadn't told them how great their little drum loop expansion kits were we wouldn't be subjected to this trite electronic nuisance. 2/5

Bored of Canada. like most ambient, just repetitive beats from a machine. I guess I should have listened at a lower volume to truly make it ambient, maybe would have gotten a higher score.

Bleeps and boops and clicks and whistles from the chill out tent. I feel like I like this album more in concept than in practice.

was about to turn off the album after two randomly selected songs because I truly didn't hear a second that was a "must-listen" or just generally in any way creative or interesting. luckily for boards of canada, I clicked on Roygbiv in an attempt to give this album one last chance and it turned out to be a pretty cool tune that I've actually heard before. this elevates the album to 1.5 stars – without Roygbiv, it would've certainly been a 1.

Nada ofensivo, mas absolutamente chato e desinteressante. Não tenho nada contra música instrumental, mas isso aqui é pura e simplesmente música ambiente, com raras exceções de ideias que se destacam Fav tracks: An Eagle In Your Mind, Roygbiv, Pete Standing Alone Least fav track: Smokes Quantity

spooky techno. kind of meh and creepy

I like electronic music. However, this album was way too long and seemed quite monotonous in many places. Added sound effects/voices really did not add much to this as they were too repetitive(grated on my nerves to hear over and over)

Not the most exciting or interesting electronic music if i'm honest. Nothing really stood out to me, however it was a nice album to listen to on the plane while i was reading a book.

Meh.

Not really into this.

If "chill beats to work/study to" was an album (and that's exactly what I did while listening to it, but it didn't help my enjoyment).

Maybe it was revolutionary when it came out, but for electronic music, I found it underwhelming.

Having a 7 minute song where you add a random sound onse every 2 minutes but don't do anything else to make it interesting does not qualify as good music to me. A song like Roygbiv is still enjoyable, mostly because it is short and doesn't drag on into eternity like the rest. Still not great though.

Interesting sounds but feels hollow to me. I don’t connect well with the melodies, I guess. Seems like it was a pioneer for this sound, and I love that.

Feels like the album to listen to at 30k feet looking out the window at a sunrise, but I was in the car and lost interest

A friend once recommended this band/album and raved about it, but I failed to see what all the fuss was about - still don't

Music has a right to nothing... got bored

never heard of this album or duo before. there was one song i didn’t mind (“the color of the fire”), some i absolutely hated (those unfortunately happened to be the longer ones), and the rest were so boring and sounded the same

Boring. Skippable. Periodically annoying. Hard pass.

Dated, yes. Boring and sophomoric in nature. Kraftwerk, a German group had it right two decades earlier.

Lo-fi is not my cup of tea

Blind album and artist. A weird techno acid trip is what this felt like and I am not a huge fan of it.

Das experimentelle an dieser Musik gefällt mir. Ein ziemlich intensives Hörerlebnis. 4.3/10

a unique mix of IDM with a lot of ambience and a lot of psychedelia. a couple of tracks i quite like with more accessible electronic elements. however I found the rest a little eerie and weird for my liking. not gold the whole way through like all of kraftwerk's discography, my preferred electronic music.

Speciaal, heel ambient zoals verwacht. Niet mijn ding

musique d'ambiance. très dur de juger réellement. pas horrible mais très forgettable. la mauvaise note est plus basée sur le coté forgettable que la qualité 4.5/10

Without any interesting sounds or emotionally evoking parts, electronic music will be boring, no matter how atmospheric it is.

meh sort of Chill/house music. Nothing to really write home about.

Blah boring floaty mish mash

electronic? music percussion gets annoying

Based on the first couple tracks, I wanted it to be more ambient and natural than it ended up being. It ended up more industrial and percussive, which created a cool experience on a night drive but began feeling too drawn out. I ending up thinking of music I would rather have to listened to (The Avalanches, Polo & Pan). I was wondering though how groundbreaking of an album it was upon release. 3.5/10

A few nice moments (e.g., Open The Light) save this from getting only 1 star, but it is mostly a boring slog.

To me, this album is like when you try and listen to someone explain a concept to you several times but you just cant grasp it. This went way over my head, also the genre just isnt for me. Felt really meandering and repetetive.

If you’re looking to space out for almost 90 minutes because every song sounds the same… brother have I got the album for you!

Not very memorable, works as a background music

not interesting

I think some of the tracks towards the end were alright, but overall just didn’t vibe with it.

It’s like not unpleasant waiting room music at a dentist that you don’t mind seeing because she uses lots of nitrous oxide.

Kinda feel like I need to listen to this whilst on something. Not really my jam at all tbh.

i was so excited by the first two tracks and the wonderfully enticing tracklist before this fizzled out into ambient experimental electronica. not much substance, i thought. my quest for that perfect misty forest in early october record drives on.

I'm sure this is good for someone who enjoys this genre of music, but alas...I just don't get it!

I’ve listened to similar things. This is just not as good.

Bleep bleep. Laid back electronica, but it's not Kraftwerk!

4/10. Could've been a pleasant, if dull little album, but noooo they had to add in sounds of seagulls and some guy saying "orange"

Roygbiv is the only interesting song in the bunch

This feels like a couple of guys went in to the studio, got REALLY baked, and 10 or 11 hours later came up with this. Sure, it was a lot of editing to bring it down to this, but I'm sure if you take 10-11 hours of that kind of noodling you could find an hour's worth that's good. Or at least listenable, maybe? Songs that have them calling out colors ("Orange!") like in 'Aquarius', and other stuff like 'Happy Cycling' was annoying. The songs that were 2 minutes long were all "What the heck was THAT?" And the songs that were over 6 minutes long were all "Why didn't this end 2 minutes ago?" It's not the worst thing I've ever heard. Maybe my weed just isn't strong enough. I don't know.

This definitely wasn’t for me. I’m not too well-versed in electronic music but I felt this was nice background music and not much else. Very minimalistic and repetitive, the songs don’t seem to evolve at all and some are way too long for how little they accomplish.

This is one of the trippiest albums I've heard here so far. Feel this album stumbled barefoot through a field of legos so Kid A from Radiohead could run. 2

I've heard this raved about, but it doesn't resonate with me. 1 - bad 2 - average 3 - good 4 - great 5 - outstanding

Well produced album but not really my thing.

Þessi náði mér ekki alveg. Það vantar eitthvað úmpf í þetta.

No idea what score to give. As sound, it's excellent. As music, it kinda sucks. It sounded nice I suppose, but just kind of became ambient background noise. It's like ambient music done so well your brain just ignores it, making it almost pointless from a music perspective. Might return for studying, but nothing musically gripping worth returning to.

I dated a guy who made music like this on his Nintendo.

Too repetitive and mundane to go anywhere, yet another peculiar choice of an album for this list.

This is a trip album If you’re making a road trip from LA to Vegas, straight across the desert, this will work You’re on a Trans Canadian rail trip, turn this on Or if you’re just tripping, put on the headphones

This is a great base layer for something more…hmmm…animated. There’s almost nothing here exciting though. Roygbiv has a little spark. And the song after it, Rue The World, is boring as fuck. Most of the album resembles Rue The World rather than Roygbiv.

I don't mind Electronica, but this ain't great

Did you know Canadian bacon is just ham? Wild.

I prefer the broads of Canada

Ambient and odd, but again started something new

Background music for the birth of the universe presentation at the planetarium. Not horrible, but like the vast expanse of outer space, there was a lot of endless nothingness here.

Completely unbearable. Found it incredibly difficult to finish. I don’t like purely instrumental music and this album is a wonderful example why. 2/5

Nope.

Not for me

I recently watched "Beyond the Black Rainbow" and "Mandy" by filmmaker Panos Cosmatos after seeing the trippy "Cabinet of Curiosities" episode, "The Viewing." They've all got a synth-heavy, late-'70s/early '80s vibe, and much of this album would fit remarkably well in any of them—so well that I was compelled to investigate whether anyone in the band was involved with those projects (they weren't). Sadly, what works for eerie, moody films doesn't work so well for general listening. There's some interesting stuff in here, especially if you want to zonk out and pretend you're back in 1980, but overall this didn't do much for me.

This put me to sleep to be honest.

Another electronica album. There's been too many already for my tastes. This one isn't completely terrible but I really could've lived without it. This is probably great for fans if the genre but I'll pass.

It's a pretty nice electronic album, but this is also not one of my favorites. I don't think I will listen to it again or anything, but I didn't hate it. Highlight: 10.

The album cover is kind of interesting....and that's the best thing I can say about this 2 stars

Not a fan of the electronica album. Didn’t dislike it, but found it to be nothing more than background music

interesting

perhaps one of the most interesting albums (so far) on this list! i definitely see how influential this album was for electronic music. it was nice, but i began listening when i felt a little sleepy--not my smartest move. there were some times where the distortion was just a little too weird? i respect the art but it was just okay in the end.

Aangezet en niet meer over nagedacht. Meer behang dan muziek, niet irritant of interessant, het was gewoon daar.

Ik ken mensen die hier mee weglopen, maar ik niet. Ook niet afgeluisterd.

Ik kan electronische muziek vaak waarderen, maar dit schoot niet op!

I like a concept album but I do also like lyrics

i have no idea what this is 2/5

not for me

I’m not much of a listener of ambient music but can still appreciate this on some level - the biggest issue for me was the runtime, I was just really bored by the end

bem meia boca sonzinho monótono

Kind of boring, maybe I need more time grting to know this one.

BWOAH! Olihan ihan saatanan pitkäveteinen levy. Olis kyllä kiva kuulla mitä levy-yhtiö ja artisti on aikoinaan tuosta funtsinut. Ei kuitenkaan likimainkaan kuninkuusluokkapaskaa...

Todella tilanteen ja hetken vaativa

hørte festspillene utenfor, og da va egentlig mykje bedre

Da e nåken bra sanga her og der, men litt for masse plagsomme ting til at eg vil legga da til i jobbelistene mine

Didn't hate it. Made for fine background music, but I definitely thought it started stronger than it finished. After about 5 tracks or so it all just fades into the air, which is kinda what I want from something like this. Works for me when I'm writing to have things like this playing - enough of a beat to be heard, but nothing so distinguishing about it that it really distracts me from what I'm doing. BUT... I feel like there was potential for this to be so much more than just background music. That creepy sample of a kid saying, "I love you!" in "The Color of the Fire" is the type of thing I wish ran through the entire album. Reminds me of that album from The Avalanches in this regard. You win or lose me with your creepy, funny, weird samples. And there are never enough. Who out there has made an album that is nothing but a collage of weird samples? That's what I'm looking for on this list.

This was a bit like the album cover, a bit eerie and other worldly. It didn’t hurt my ears but I wasn’t keen. 2*

Over an hour worth of beats and electronic music. The real surprise is that I did not skip any songs.

Vocals sound like subliminal messages

Yeah, that's a no for me dawg.

That was...ambient. necessary? Nah.

It sounds like music that's in the background of an art exhibition.

melatonin waiting room mildly gritty low energy indie electronica. the sound of sleepily looking at a grimy aquarium while idly picking at sand in your shoes.

Bit too ambient for my tastes. Kind of dull

A load of beeps and boops.

Seemed a bit bland?

Its lofi which is cool but really blended into the background for me at the beginning

Ambient electronica. I think I recognized one of the songs from a soundtrack or something. The rest is not worth mentioning or thinking about again. Best track: Roygbiv

Jura mi pustio neku pjesmu koja nije s tog albuma i ODLIČNA. No ovo se slušalo dok su se peglali 🐛 i ne ide. Navučena dvojka

1.5

2/5 nope

Aquarius was okay. Rest of the album was pretty boring filler music.

Children have the right to avoid this album.

Ambient electronics....of its time

Not bad but not my kind of music. Too much ambience and nonsense.

Kann ich fast nichts mit anfangen. Viel überflüssiges Elektro-Geplänkel. Gähn. Außerdem VIEL zu lang. 2. Hälfte hat mir insgesamt besser gefallen. Keine 3 Sterne.

I like electronic music, but this was tough to listen to.

It's fine, just not really my thing. I know EDM/IDM takes a certain production talent and it's certainly not bad music, it just isn't something I would listen to recreationally. It makes for great computer work/study music, but it goes on for far too long and the loops hardly do anything interesting. It's much more of a situation vibe/atmospheric record which is something I can appreciate. I will say that the back half of the album, starting at Bocuma, is the most interesting. The first half did little to entice me. Favorite Song: Roygbiv Least Favorite: The Color of the Fire

Really don’t care for electronica.

This is different - ambient electronica. Listened to most of it, but didn't take any account of track boundaries or anything like that. Quite like it, but doesn't do that much for me either. Sometimes a bit like beepy-easy-listening.

Interesting sound. Their ephemeral coloring is pretty recognizable, and it’s not unpleasant to listen to. Personally, I don’t find it very pleasant either.

Sort of went by without me really noticing.

Never heard of Boards of Canada before, this was interesting but not my favourite. Preferred the songs with no words.

I enjoyed this more than I thought I would, and it went up in my estimations once I learnt it came out in 1998. But some of the smaller 'interlude' type songs spoiled it a bit for me and hampered my enjoyment

I thought the first track was relatively promising, a genre unlike anything we’ve tackled so far. Relatively ambient, soothing. Though as the thing progressed I wondered what place this music has in the world. Strangely clubby but too slow for the club. The naffo electric snares did it for me. I’ll go elsewhere for my ambience thank you. And that elsewhere is the kingdom of Japan where their single greatest export is AMBIENCE.

I actually don’t hate this. I go through phases of liking some electronic music with no words, and I give myself niche-music knowledge credentials by actually having heard of them thanks to their remix of a Clouddead song. The question remains though - why is this on this list? What does it add? Who listens to it? Who has it influenced (apart from a series of even more niche Scottish electronic music artists, creating ever more minimalist tracks until the sound is distilled to 564 tracks of the same single blip)? Why?

I was honestly under the impression I thought Boards of Canada were really good but this was fairly tedious.

Weird...

I tried to get into it but not my style. I could have it on the background while working for a bit but some tracks made their self known too much

Bit boring,

Mjuzika ma prawo do dzieciarni, mocny stejtment od desek kanady, czyli duetu tworzacego szeroka pojeta muzyke elektroniczna, nazwa zwodnicza bo chopaki sa ze szkocji a nie kanady, a co to za muzyka elektroniczna, jesli mialbym podac gatunek ktory najbardziej mi pasuje do tej plyty, to strzelalbym w down tempo zmiaszane z trip hopem, ale oczywiscie jakas mondra glowa powie, ze to przeciez ambientowa muzyka na trakach gdzie snery i kiki nie sa tak mordowane, a jeszcze inny okresli to akronimem IDM, czyli inteligentna dancowa mjuzika, nazwa dziwna, a jeszcze dziwniejsza jej definicja, wiec nie bede jest przytaczal, jak na moje wysublimowane gusta elektronicznego zjadacza mjuziki dobrze weszly elementy tri hopowe, ktore by same w sobie mogly robic za dobre bity pod jakiegos murzyna, ale jednoczesnie wymeczyla ambientowa czesc albumu, traki jak olson czy kolor ognia pomimo tego ze jedynie 2 minutowe stanowily dosc zamulajace przerywniki, calosc sklada sie z 18 trakow, co jak na godzine i jedenascie minut materialu nie jest az tak wielkim countem, nawet jesli doliczyc do tego pojawiajce sie liczne skity, ktore sa ala przerywniki njusowe jakiejs babeczki, wiec album ktory bym musial pokroic zeby dobrze zjesc, zrecznie odsuwajac na bok talerza ambientowosc plyty, na plejaka dorzuce rue the whril i roygbiv jako reprezentantow tri hopu, turkusowe szesciokat sloneczny jako taki czilowy loficzowy numer

4

Esa es la esencia que transmiten con este disco, la nostalgia. Algunas canciones tienen un ambiente claustrofóbico (Sixtyten o Turquoise Hexagon Sun) mientras que otras son mucho más relajadas (Aquarius o Smokes Quantity), sin dejar de lado los ritmos hip hop muy latentes en canciones como Rue the Whirl. El disco termina con Happy Cycling, una canción larga mestizada con jazz, música clásica y trip hop.

Rather dull electronica

It's ok, but basically just sounds like background or new age music. 2 stars.

Não guentei terminar

It 's ok but not exactly my kind of electronic. Not enough lofi hiphop vibes.

a bit of a spooky, eerie, and melodic electronic ambient music. Has a few good songs, but just come off as weird and eerie for the most part

Was familiar with this already, Rob really likes them. Super chill and ambient. Would most likely put me in a trance if I was driving but fine for work.

I like the ambient stuff and some of the synth / moog sounds are dope... there’s a Pete Rock type joint that I liked... but overall this album was hellla slow and honestly I got kinda bored of it.

Ok whatever, background only for me.

Pretty shitty. Repetitive chill/electro.

This website’s obsession with shite 90s trip-hop will be the death of me.

This music gave me anxiety I had to turn it off

Are you fucking kidding me I'm just over all the electronica bullshit. I was already agitated coming into this one and instead of soothing me like I think was the goal it just made me more agitated instead. Someone smarter or maybe more patient or something could probably tell me what I'm missing but as it stands this was just a big waste of time for me. 1/10 this is about to be my worst reviewed month if the last few days doesn't pick it up. If I get another electronica album in that time I'm going to scream.

Tuskastuttavan tylsää taustahälyä. Tunnin kesto tuntui ankaralta.

Listened to 1 and half songs and couldn't carry on.

this is music for the dead

This made me loathe the sound of children’s laughter. It is genuinely, thoroughly, pointless. It only serves to steal your time.

Over an hour of pure torture. I hate electronic music. It all sounded the same. No lyrics. It sucked.

No fav song

Chamber pop and orchestral pop built from lush strings, brass, piano, and Neil Hannon's rich baritone feels completely subdued to me, like being submerged underwater, where the surface noise is muffled into silence at first, then I struggle to breathe as my lungs slowly fill with water, until eventually I stop fighting, go limp, and surrender to the darkness. The album's elegant arrangements and romantic grandeur never gave me a sense of release but instead left me feeling almost physically drained.

I have heard this album a million times. When I’m on hold with the bank, the insurance company, anyone with shitty music playing while you wait to talk to a real person. Considering how YouTube has impacted society it makes sense that I would need to listen to shitty royalty free music that plays while someone makes something. Why there are multiple boards of Canada albums on this list will remain a mystery to me.

Watching paint dry is more entertaining

It’s all just a bit too boring. Tracks like ‘Kaini Industries’ and ‘Bocuma’ dont even develop beyond the initial opening. Just an album of background music

It made me fall asleep, which I suppose proves just how boring it was.

Can't really rate fairly. I listen to very little instrumental electronic music, and what I do listen to is more song oriented than atmospheric.

Es klingt hier wie ein endloses, verwaschenes Kinderzimmer‑Flimmern: nostalgisch gemeint, aber am Ende nur dumpfes Gejaule im Nebel.

2/10 Not my thinb

Oh man I don’t think I paid even a bit of mind to this album. There is nothing to it.

Boring

To call it boring would be giving it too much credit.

Bad did not like

This wasn’t it. Most songs feel like a 30 second loop stretched out to 6 minutes with child voices randomly interspersed. Much better electronic albums out there

I feel like i'm not sophisticated enough to enjoy this, music for pretentious pseudo-intellectuals with incredible attentions spans. 2/10 with 1 star from me.

Boring

My streaming sevice didn't offer yesterday's Funkadelic album. But they do have this album available? Time for me to rethink my choices. I'm old enough to remember 1998 and I can tell you it wasn't a 'must hear' back then either. Who or what is music like thismade for? People who WANT to be bored?

Listened Before? N Blehhhhhhh... More wordless electronic music. This one sounds like the soundtrack to a rainy 7th day of a festival when everyone is exhausted and stinky. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Wildlife Analysis (because it's short)

Rubbish

p839. 1998. 1 star. Tedious, meandering and pointless 90s electronic noise that sounds like the rejected background music for a failed computer game. This is dreadful stuff. WTF is this doing on the list?

Ambient is ambient. There's a bit of scratching going on but really the answer to this always is Brian Eno. Although I've realised that the second track is a maker or breaker with records, the second track here was a horror story.

DNF

I'm relieved that this band is not Canadian. I was dismayed that the country that gave us Joni Mitchell and Neil Young would also give us this drivel.

Weird but not in an enjoyable way, just kinda boring weird.

I don’t mind a bit of electro, and ambient music has its place. However… this appears to be ambient electro but written in the most annoying way possible. Repetitive, irritating samples. Out of time and off kilter beats. I don’t get the appeal at all. This was not a relaxing commute.

How in the world is this on this list.

What even is this. Sounds like the soundtrack to a psychological horror film. And what does that title even mean?

I just can't phantom under what circumstances someone would want to listen to this. Not suitable for the car, the gym, a party, or listening alone at home. Maybe serviceable as background noise while studying or performing chores.

What the hell is this album doing on this list? It ain't just Canada that's board! Utter drivel. It's like the big bang theory cast got keyboards from Argos during lock down and this is what they came up with.

Repetitive, weird and boring. A bad album.

Что можно ожидать от альбома, где треки называются "Урок Телефазии", "ШестьдесятДесять", "Бирюзовое Шестиугольное Солнце" и "Пит Стоит Один" (примеч. автора — наверное, Пит стоит "очень угрожающе")? Вероятно, что угодно, но я точно, бля, не ожидал услышать "настоящую музыку" только к 32ой минуте. Альбом первопроходцев IDM (интеллектуальной танцевальной музыки, т.е. когда ты дрыгаешься под эмбиент с редкой ударкой, попивая безалкогольное вино в берете) на бОльшую часть состоит из беспорядочного бибикания расстроенных синтезаторов, сэмплов рандомных фраз (особенно позабавил счёт вразнобой случайных цифр, перемежающийся постоянно проигрываемым словом "orange!", в треке Aquarius) и общей атмосферы заунывной шизофрении. Есть и прикольные треки вроде качественного абстрактного хип-хоп бита на Rue The Whirl и достаточно светлой и "музыкальной" композиции Roygbiv, но их можно посчитать по пальцам одной руки токаря из глубокой глуши Алабамы, где практикуется кровосмешение. Хер знает, что прорывного было в этом альбоме, если Aphex Twin уже был на хайпе к 1998ому году и делал вполне себе безумную экспериментальную электронику, но в которой одновременно был скилл, прикол и структурность. Лучше уж Selected Ambient Works послушать в который раз, чем шизеть, напряжённо вслушиваясь в предтечу саундтрека главного меню Spore. Главный вывод: похоже, я всё же бидла... Поставлю 3/10 по количеству треков, с которых можно не сойти с ума на этом релизе.

More like Bored of Canada. This repetitive go-nowhere music did nothing for me.

No, this just feels lazy and pretentious and didn’t need to be recorded. I don’t understand why anybody would sit down and listen to this unless they were dead already.

Just not my type of music, I tried but there’s just nothing here that particularly interested me. I thought Roygbqpgv was going to be alright when it started but it just sort of fizzled into nothing 1.5

Tedious

Boards or bored? Didn't like this at all. Nothing different or exciting.

Noise pollution

This is one of the most disturbing albums I’ve ever listened to. It sounds what I imagine a bad acid trip would feel like.

Boring music combined with pretentious titles. This is what AI generated music aspires to move away from

Like actually in what world did I have to hear this album? Is this a joke?

More electronic. Yay. This list heavely favors European bullshit and dance/electronic music. As you can tell I have low expectations. First sign is not really a song it’s just sounds. A eagle is a Classic 6 minute electronic song that’s about 3 mins too long. The color of fire sucks. Better production on telephasic, but it has the classic bullshit vocals for no reason at all. Also 2 mins too long again. Triangles and rhombuses wasnt bad. Maybe the beta so far. Pretty normal. Just not a good or necessary sample on sixtyten. Again 2 mins too long. This is another album where it sounds like it was made by a 7th grader who was introduced to Apple Music for the first time. At best this album was getting a 2.5 because it missing half of what make a perfect album right of the bat (singing). But the production is nowhere near perfect so it ain’t getting a 2.5 either. Extremly simple beats. Bad samples/vocals. I don’t understand how this album made this list. Not even halfway over and I’m ready to quit. The best songs are the one minuters. Bocuma is very relaxing. Nothing more to say abt that. Actually really like the production on roygbiv. Hate the vocals. Just no reason to add that. I actually don’t mind rue the whirl as well. Another one that is twice as long as it needs to be but good beat. Back to bullshit with Aquarius. Classic song for this album, way longer than it needs to be and bullshit vocals/samples. Why are the beta songs 1 minute long. And after hearing what feels like the exact same song for the 6th time I’m all set with this album. Maybe it’s good if you like electronic. To me it was very unimpressive, lacked uniqueness from song to song, and left me feeling like I wasted so much time. Don’t waste your time, there’s no way in hell this is a top 1000 album of all time. .7/5.

Not to be shallow right but I think this is dogshit.

Saved? ❌ Would listen again? 🤔 Would recommend to anyone? ❌ Would buy on Vinyl? ❌