Reviews (page 6 of 8)
Yeah, it's alright 4/10
Last two tracks are a little more melodic and tolerable, but generally hated this and it made me feel angry and agitated.
Some cool compositions that build in interesting ways but at the end of the day it is just some thumping techno.
It’s fine
Meh
Bleh that sucked
Wow. That was a lot of boring, repetitive, and annoying sounds. They get half a star for not being the absolute worst and half for being Welsh which bumps them up to 2 stars but I will NEVER want to sit down and just listen to this album again.
is it just me or does all electronic music just sound the same?? so many over-dubbed loop tracks, sounds, sampled with maybe a few (lame) vocals dropped in here & there.
No electronica album should ever be in a top albums ever list never
Not the style of music I like.
The first song was so long, monotonous, and repetitive that I was thining of giving up on this album. The second one was just as long, monotonous, and repetitive, but at least it wasn't too bad from an annoying point of view. At some point, I completely forgot I was listening to this, it sounded like a background soundtrack to either a loading screen in a game, or one of those installers that have music. Overall, pretty meh.
Intro: Not sure this is going to be my vibe! But i normally listen to my album while working so this may actually boost some productivity I enjoyed listening to this record more than I expected! Not really my style but something I could potentially circle back to while working or needing an energy boost. Appreciate the art!
I'm getting pretty tired of all the techno albums. Again, this one's fine for background music but doesn't do much for me.
Not mad about this, took me three sittings to get through this electronic album.
Could not find my way into this record if my life depended on it.
Not worth your time
Not for me
She’s overstimulated
bleh. wasn't bothered by this at all. don't even recall anything from it.
This was tough to get through. Not the worst electronica on this list, but far from the best. The first song was terrible, and most of the songs are too long. The lyrics are ridiculous, and the beats are annoying. I’d rate this a 1.5 if I could but I didn’t quite hate it as much as the others I’ve rated 1 stars. Also the last couple tracks aren’t terrible.
Surely this is for dancing, not listening? I mean, no one sits down to listen to this, right? Right? 2/5
Only 774 albums to go to get through this list and get to the user picks, where I hope we will get some more interesting albums.
Mid
Just from an album sequencing perspective why couldn’t they have split up the 15 minute songs instead of putting them back to back? I thought the song Stagger was quite interesting, but I had to wade through an hour of music before it to get there. Pearl’s Girl is pretty good too.
I'm out on the continuous stream of techno and fusion instrumental pieces on this list.
Doll
bosh bosh boom clap
Second toughest 90s British electronica album to listen to
Not for me.
Some interesting beats and melodies, but I'm not a big electronica person, so wasn't for me.
More background music
When the first song was 16 minutes long I knew I was in for some trouble. This band, I assume, came from a time when techno was becoming a thing. Hate to tell you this hoss, but it was never a thing for me. I didn’t hate it, but I didn’t love it.
så lang men ikke det værste vi har haft af den her slags
Like 90s Europe
Every song is 12 minutes. Idk it was cool and all and I don’t hate electronic. I’m torn between 2 and 3. Like I truly have no desire to listen to ts again. It’s very YouTube compilation coded but it’s like needlessly long. I don’t think I ever felt it and towards the middle I was itching for it to be over. I had a debate with myself over what degree I have to listen to all this shit for. Idk man, 2.
I’m just so not the demographic for this. It’s fine I guess but 15-minute electronic songs are just not interesting enough for me to listen to 7 of them in a row and enjoy them
This is #day458 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and… ah, '90s techno. I get the influence and all that, but it's hard to make myself enjoy something this repetitive. Maybe I'm not that into techno, after all. The whole thing is just way too long to boot. Had "Born Slippy. NUXX" been on the original tracklist, I might've gone with a 3. Otherwise, this is a 2 out of 5. Looking forward to #day459.
Overall Album Review: •8 songs •1 hour and 13 minutes •Fav song - Pearl’s Girl •One sentence review - The songs could be quite groovy at times but i would lose interest quickly as the songs were too long. Album rating: A High 2
Very monotonous.
Cerebral dance music? I don't know about that. I felt like the songs overstayed their welcome.
Better than DarkDancer, but not really into this that much.
Relatively benign and clubby chill, and certainly not the most soulless electronica one's ever heard. It's possible that this might be more subtle than one realizes, given one's disinclination to give such synthetic and borderline tedious beatfests much time when it comes to attentive listening. Net-net, though, is that one struggles to see how this would in any way prepare one's soul for the afterlife (assuming there is one). As such, this can be regarded as non-essential, pre-demise listening. They got their 15 minutes with Trainspotting OST so don't really need (or deserve) much more love than that.
Mind numbingly repetitive but I'm feeling generous.
I have heard of Underworld so that’s a good start. So far all I’m hearing now is light techno beats that don’t hit like they should to be. This album just doesn’t take off. Like, ever. It’s like the final production was forgotten. Could it be remixed. Hell ya. Maybe that’s the point. But this, this as it stands it just mediocre. Start to finish.
I liked it at the beginning but it got boring fast. And the voices annoyed me
Beep boop 90s spy video game music.
It’s just a bit too repetitive and rough for my taste. While there are cool beats that might work in a club setting, it fails to hold my attention for long.
Didn't really understand why this made the list.
This electronic techno sound is not my jam, and I will not lie when I say I didn't care much for Second Toughest in the Infants. At the very least, I found it interesting. The first track was extremely repetitive, but that aspect improved for the rest of the album. Underworld created an album with every song sounding different--I don't think I need to explain that this doesn't happen often in electronic albums. A lot of electronic albums are more ambient-sounding, and I liked that Underworld didn't fall into that common trap. The vocals were rare, and I always felt they added nothing of substance to the song.
I honestly didn't find this album noteworthy, especially not for this project. It wasn't bad, but it was pretty unspectacular. Each song had its own vibe, which was nice, but each song vibe just repeated itself over the course of several minutes.
Really just whattt???? 1.5/5
I'm struggling to really see the importance of this album or how it can be held in a high regard. I suppose it doesn't pretend to be anything it's not, but I can't really understand how someone could relate to this in a meaningful way. There isn't even much quality musicianship on show. Some of the really techno sounds reminded me of Ross 'Finding his sound' in Friends, lol. Maybe at 3am in a nightclub I'd feel differently?
The best thing about this album is the title. It's sixth form poetry mumbled above boring beats. Occaisonally it becomes more interesting, but that's probably because some of the tracks have multiple parts so if you throw enough shit at the wall, some of it will stick. Best Tracks: Juanita/Kiteless/To Dream of Love; Banstyle/Sappy's Curry; Pearl's Girl
hypnotic beats I was going on a bike ride and this pulled me through. As a stand alone it seemed a little dated a good beat behind it but not much else at times . I expected more not for me
Headache stuff
Sorta boilerplate edm , I like the early parts that get me moving
'Juanita' shapes up to be late-night rave-club fayre, until that guitar hook comes in and transforms it into a club-culture anthem. The vocal pattern is almost Born Slippy, albeit roboticised. It's not the only one - 'Pearl's Girl' takes a further step - it basically _is_ Born Slippy, but with the ambient piano chords taken out with the industrial beats remaining. 'Rowla' has more incessant banging than Stevie Wonder's little toe. The only variation here is loud and soft. It's too often shades of grey with this album; there's no drama between light and shade, interesting layers, melodies - it's ad infinitum beats without something additional to spark them into life.
Listened Before? N Nope. This is not my thing. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Rowla
Perhaps this was innovative when it came out, but this was my first listen and I wasn't impressed. There were a few minutes of interesting ideas (particularly one that kind of reminded me of Peter Gabriel) but the rest I thought was generic noisy electronic music.
Electronic music is one of the weaker genres for me. I don’t gravitate toward it and don’t know much about it. With that said, this album started off strong for me. The instrumentation and vocals on the first three tracks were quite interesting and pleasing to my ear. I found myself entranced; hyped yet mellow. This feeling unfortunately morphed into a sort of anxiety and annoyance with the intense and repetitive nature of tracks 4-6. I found the beats to be tedious and unimaginative at times. The album recovered a bit for me with the final two tracks, as I loved their melodies and more mellow vibes. Overall, this was just a so-so album that I probably won’t revisit.
Drags a lot, nothing special
#708. I suppose this kind of music has its place, but on a list of essential albums to listen to is not that place. 2/5: meh
2 out of 5. Nothing stood out to me but I also don't hate this album.
2.5 some songs were good but way too long for those I didn't like
Stupid electronic shit
3.38
The incessant electronic beats are just too much. I can’t with this.
Not terrible, just not what I like.
Were the 90s worse than the 80s?!
Video game music
Not the worst thing ive ever heard but a solid contender for most boring
Close but no
Electronic - not enough variation and the songs lasted way too long. Especially for the songs that sound alike.
2.5 - Meh
2.5
Fine constructed electronic music. Nothing else.
Garbo
First two songs way too long. The second half of this had some great songs.
Not really for me. Not terrible though.
This was pretty boring.
Another 90s electronic. Surely one of these mattered more than others
I thought I was getting close to the end of the album and then I realized I’m only 3 songs in.
26/07/2025 I just couldn't connect with this.
Man, I loved 73 minutes of ANOTHER bri'ish techno noise album.
Some real C.S.I. test tube and beaker shit. If you like the first 30 seconds of a particular song, you're in luck, because it won't change. No bridge, no chorus, no key change, just the same thing all the way through. The final track switches it up a bit, but too little, tool ate(I'm leaving the typo because Tool eats this shit alive). If you don't immediately like the song, save some time and go ahead and skip to the next.
A bit of a nightmare scenario for techno/electronic. Repetitive and long. The sounds and beats are good, they just go on far too long with little change.
What am I supposed to do to this? It's not enough to dance to, but it's definitely not enough to think about. Maybe the boots and cats works, but it doesn't believe in it. I'm not sure it believes in anything.
Some of it was alright. Some of it wasn’t. I love (mostly vocal-free) beats to listen to while I work but this wasn’t it for me.
3 / 10 - I feel like I needed to be 4 keys deep to like this album. Sadly I was 0 keys deep and bored on an afternoon, so didnt really hit the spot
In the flow
In a nutshell: instant 90’s rave music. The same duo who brought you the iconic closing track to Trainspotting- “Born Slippy .NUXX” (which only appears on the reissues). It’s kinda like interval training but for electronic music. You have the techno/breakbeat stages to dance to then you have the ambient/downtempo stages to cool down to. Overall: 4/10
This just isn't my thing.
This first half of the first song was great, then it kept going and going. That’s pretty much how I felt about the entire album…it just kept going and going. Excessively repetitive.
This is some fantastic background music. Unfortunately background music is not what I'm looking for here.
muy electrónico, en plan tecno cantado así os cirilo y tétrico, por lo menos me da esa sensación la primera canción, la segunda no da esas vibes pero mantiene lo electronico canciones mu largas
Uninspired and repetitive.
I don't totally hate this, but it's so incredibly long. Like, entirely too long. I am writing this during the 4th track. There is no need for these tracks to be this long at all, or there is no need for music like this to be considered albums. They are great dance tracks. But they don't fit the album aesthetic and have very little applicability to any listening scenario besides dancing
It’s probably quality on pills but I’m middle aged and boring.
Electronic shit from a butt
Not for me.
I don't know. It makes sense that the album cover looks like a Jackson Pollock. It felt like someone exploring audio in the same way. Composition is most important. There were some fun bits. I just don't think I would ever tell someone that they need to listen to this.
More EDM. Some parts got my attention more than other parts, and some of those attention getting parts got it in a positive way.
Another electronic album. Still can't convince me this style of music is good for anything but being at a club. Kind of stale. 2/5 Won't listen again
This is get-shit-done music. Turn on the drone techno and just get in the flow. That said, it's not something that I find myself thinking I'll seek out when I want to actively listen to something. And if I'm really wanting some vibe driving background tracks, there's a lot of other stuff I'd put on first.
Any sort of techno album is always going to rank low on my list. I can't tolerate a whole album of it, no matter how well the record fits the genre.
Outside of daft punk EDM is not my thing
yawn
Not a fan of EDM. Repetitive and uninvolving.
Only in electronic music can you get away with song titles like “air towel” and “sappy curry” and be considered essential listening. It’s rare for dance music to keep me interested and this never came close.
Background techno. Too long, too boring. It didn't stand out. This album has their biggest hit added with the deluxe edition, but I didn't listen to the deluxe edition. I hope the electronic music on this list doesn't only consist of British artist. But I'm afraid it will be....
Album 777 of 1089 Underworld - Second Toughest In The Infants (1996) Rating : 1.5 / 5 More electronica I don't really care for. I will say that this was some decent background music for some deep excel work. Keeps the pace up.
Also ewige Wiederholung macht die Musik nicht unbedingt besser - obwohl es auch was meditatives hat.
Boring in that everything blends together.
Doesn't do much forme
damn so tough
This isn’t an album, it’s a fucking endurance test. It starts with two 15-minute tracks, like it's daring you to keep going. I don’t care how cool it might sound in the background of a hacker movie or while grinding in a JRPG - this isn’t something I’d ever press play on with intention. There’s mood, but it goes nowhere. Great for ambient distraction. Terrible for active listening. Spins: 1 Playlist Additions: - Pearl's Girl - Blueski
What are the odds I get two straight electronic albums? Got a couple of marathon songs to start, which is always fun. Some good jams/ambient beats here, but as is the case with most electronic albums, things tend to meander after a bit. My attention was elsewhere after a while.
Sigh... British electronica... Can you tell I'm over 900 albums in? At least it's better than Mylo.
Just ok.
I gave up on this halfway through. I was feeling bored and a little irritated listening to this, so I checked to see how much was left. When I raised I'd only heard 4 of 8 tracks, I just couldn't continue. To me, this music is boring to the point of tedious.
I’ve tried a few times now to understand and appreciate the appeal of this genre and musical style. It’s just not jiving for me. Moreover, I’m not sure how one selects “the best” from this electronic-techno genre. I simply don’t hear the difference in the music. I suppose this one is as good as any, which is to say, not very.
Este disco es inseparable de la película Trainspotting, y sobre todo de Born Slippy, que no estaba en el disco pero por razones obvias se ha venido incluyendo en las reediciones. Su mejor tema y el más conocido. El disco, cuarto de la banda aunque realmente el segundo con Darren Emerson, se ha quedado algo encasillado a una época (mediados finales de los 90) muy concreta, pero tiene momento aún disfrutables. No es un disco para incluir en los 1000 mejores de la historia, para eso tenemos a The Prodigy en lugar de Underworld, e incluso Dubnobasswithmyheadman o A hundred days off. Born Slippy .NUXX y Rez.
Fine but can't justify the length
Pretty solid background music with one or two interesting moments. Way too long. Best song: Banstyle / Sappys Curry
2,5
Boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants... for 73 minutes. Also, Nine Inch Nails called, they want their album cover back.
A little strange, a lot repetitive. Not for me.
Overstimulating.
Electronic/techno stuff takes more energy for me to ingest, and even more to appreciate. As I encounter more from those genres, I'm realizing the challenge may be the repetition. When this album is repetitive it's just so boring/dull for me (Confusion The Waitress), but when it zags, when there's diversity in the sound (Banstyle) it's enjoyable. Grateful for those breaks. On another note, the title of this album is wonderful 🙂
EDM is definitely not for me. Few good parts but mostly uninteresting
2+ Stars (6/15)
Stressing me out
This has some promising moments and nice builds, but doesn't really do much in the end. Also half the songs are ruined by the awful vocals like so much EDM of this era.
pretty annoying. theres this one episode of how I met your mother where they r in some club and nobody can hear anyone bc the music is loud and Marshall does drugs in the bathroom on accident for his toothache and this reminds me of that. I dont like this.
4/10 - idk it was electronica but not the way I liked for some reason.
Another British electronica album that is way too long and doesn’t really do anything unique or interesting
Again, not my jam
3 electronic albums in a row, they do keep getting better, but none of them are spectacular. Modern electronic music just really outshines it by my standard. Just another meh.
Not for me.
I don't mind born slippy, think it definitely has something that no other dance track has, I think it's the huge change between the ambient bits and the drumming bits. This album didn't really get anywhere close and had all the tropes of 90s dance that get on my nerves. Repetitive without any progression, just play the same bits over and over without changing or building to anything. A dedication to keeping things middle of the road that feels intentional. Wasn't completely unlistenable but at no point was it any good. 1.5.
Boring
I need to meditate more on why I have a hard time with electronic music like this. one thought is, if you look at what timescales the melody/harmony repeats, most of the variance in the song is explained by these loud, repetitive, short cycles, and very little changes between cycles. Im also sometimes willing to give bands like this a pass if their sound design is unusual or interesting. I found most of the synths here grating.
Shit
I have some 90s electronic / techno albums on vinyl and they tend to either be very repetitive or have tracks with large chunks of uninspiring drum loops, so I went in to this album, saw how long some of the tracks were and had similar expectations. Don't get me wrong there was still a lot of repetition (Rowla, Air Towel for example) but that is the genre, and the tracks on this album just had a lot more going on and were more complex, with some interesting vocals and layers(?) that kept me just about interested throughout. Pretty enjoyable and listen-to-able as background music as I work. Hard album for me to decide a rating for, sort of like watching an athlete in a sport you don't care about, you can still admire the talent - I think this album is an excellent example of the 90s techno/electro genre but I don't often find myself in the mood for it. If I was to rate this album in the genre that it's in(?) I'd probably give it 4 or 5 stars, Fav song: Pearl's Girl
Not so bad as far as electronic music goes, but still has the over repetitiveness that is endemic in electronic music. Not for me.
I thought I didn’t recognise Underworld, and didn’t recognise anything on this album, but then Rach told me that Born Slippy was by them. So yeah, I do know that one. This album isn’t really what I what usually seek out, as I don’t really tend to gravitate towards techno (with a few exceptions). I didn’t mind this album, but I personally found the highlight to be the slower and less intense final track. The rest all mushed together a little too much. Writing this a few hours after listening, it’s only Stagger that’s stayed with me.
DNF techno
I like a lot of electronic music. Not this though, it's too glitchy and not melodic enough. Fine if you are drugged out of your mind in a club, but I'm not.
The very first track set the tone for how much I was going to be uninterested in this album. Then either track 2 or 3 showed possible potential… I wish I could remember which, but the album, and songs themselves, were so long I couldn’t tell where most tracks began or ended. But halfway through I had already given up. Nothing came of the album, it was only at the end of track 4 and I think I was already 30 minutes into the album. Just dull mindless noise at that point.
Some chill trance vibes, but mostly felt like Ross playing his keyboard on Friends.
I thought it would be worse, but it’s just not my thing.
No me va
ambient music to work by.
I love how unpredictable techno is. Like, is it going to go “uncha uncha uncha uncha” or “uncha uncha uncha unch”?! The possibilities are . . . those two.
The great thing about this list is the endless 90s Electronic music that you've never heard and can go on living without hearing again. 2.5/5
Why is this album so long?!? I started it on Sunday afternoon. Now it's Monday and it's still playing. Have I even finished a single track? Is there any rhyme or reason to anything? I don't even know where I am anymore. Is that a dwarf standing in the corner? Am I trapped in the album? Is this Hell? But also it's got a beat I can dance to. Two stars.
5/10
It’s music that belongs in clubs or in the background.
Like just about all electronica from decades prior, this has aged poorly. In fact, thanks to this 1001 album thing, I've found that the worst aging music has always been electronica; almost seems fad-like. 4/10.
Rock, Dance, Trance, 1996 -> 2
15 min track… i guess that was the one you put on when you desperately needed to take a dump during a DJ set. i guess it's just a pre mix. maybe they should just have made the whole album 1 mixed track instead. I like Electronic dance music but the problem is that it is dance music. This is made for a club not for a listen at home. Very few albums are good to put on at home (some Daft punk and Apex twin albums probably work)
Obviously pioneers in their field but too much techno all at once for me
Not for me, at all
An inoffensive techno beat tape, and not much more than that
Nah. It's fine generic electronic mumbo jumbo. Seriously why is there so god damn much of this on this list? It's so long and so boringggg 2.5/5
Very techno, good for running. Also the second song sounded like travis scott so i liked that
weird
More warehouse bumps and jumps
I don’t think I was on enough drugs to truly appreciate this
Electronic dancey techno music that failed to have much impact on me. Some moments pulling from more atmospheric/ambient sounds. I didn’t dislike it, but I barely remember specifics enough to describe it. Feels like something I would need more than a day with (or the proper setting), but I’ll most likely just forget about it.
This is what you hear blasting out of the spin class at your local globo gym as you walk to the water fountain.
Not a great album...
I'm pretty picky about the electronic music I like. Back to back 15+ minute songs were not the way to win me over. Works okay as background music, but it's pretty generic techno music.
Air towel -biisin kohdalla päästään vauhtiin! Muuten menee vain taustakilinäksi. Ei huonoksi sellaiseksi, kuulen kyllä ideoita ja nyansseja ja sanomaa. Eli varmasti hieno levy, jos jaksaa kuunnella.
Didn't care for this one. I listened to this for another list. 2/5
C-
Weird electronic and mostly no words. Not for me.
2.5 fine electronica still to long
2.5
It was okay
It's largely not to my liking, but there are a few elements that really catch my ear. Track 2 in particular - "Banstyle / Sappys Curry" - is pretty interesting. But my god, is it long and repetitive. It may even be closer to 1 star than 2, but I can't in good conscience give this the same score on this website as Limp Bizkit. 1.5/5
It isn't anything wild, just some trance
Albums from this month I own on CD/vinyl: The Wall, Thriller, Sgt. Peppers, GREY Area, & whatever this is (I found it in a Cdn thrift store for two bucks :0) It sure is a lot of techno all at once. Wikipedia needs to cite their sources when it comes to "anthemic melodies", as this is by no means a melodic album. "Blueski" sounds like it's about to become the electro/acoustic bop of the summer, and then it just... ends. There are quite a few overlong albums I adore (Speakerboxx/The Love Below, Tusk, hell even Logical Progression if we’re talking electronica). Second Toughest is shorter than all 3 but I *felt* the length. I didn't love it, but it's certainly worth working out to. (Of course, that would require one to work out.) 2.5 HL: "Juanita : Kiteless : To Dream of Love", "Banstyle/Sappy's Curry", "Stagger", "Born Slippy" (bonus) August 30, 2024
I understand, that British electronic music has to be somewhat darker. I have to be in a real mood to listen to it. The mood happens rarely. In any other day (like today) it feels like I'm traumatizing myself with noise. I can't sing it, can't dance to this, can't have much positive thoughts about the whole performance. I know that's the point of their music, but it does not speak to me. It's not what music should be.
The first song sounded like a soundtrack to a movie of people dancing high on drugs. Overall I liked most of the songs. The vocals didn't add much. One song got to be annoying
OK let's get 1 thing straight right off the bat; this is Electronica, some of which could be called House; This is NOT Prog. While their maybe be bands you could argue do both, the terms are NOT interchangeable. As an album to listen to, I found it mildly interesting at times. I can even see it in the list as an example of such "music." Originally, I was going to say it was like a tour of a science museum but I really like science museums too much to make that analogy. It could be soundtrack music to the next Matrix movie. It was actually quite good for working (physically working) to. It was very bad for listening to while sitting in traffic.
I'm not really sure how to approach this. It wasn't bad, but it was long. Each song was an experience. Let's examine each experience. The first track had me starting off certain the fire sprinklers were going to start raining blood and I best get moving with some garlic and wooden stakes, but by the end, a chipmunk was reading me a paint-by-number picture, and I was no longer afraid of vampires. Track 2 was one of the more enjoyable songs I've heard while on hold for 15+ minutes on the phone. Track 3, I think I was given a drug that made me hyper-focused though unable to move as fast as my brain currently runs. She promised a lot here, whoever she is. Track 4, the vampires are back. Track 5. I think I just woke up floating in a salt water sensory deprivation tank. Then maybe I went to Morocco. I'm really not sure. If this were a movie soundtrack, I'd definitely watch the movie. But I wouldnt buy the soundtrack. Track 6. This is called "Air Towel" and feels like the background music for a video attempting to sell me a newly designed hand dryer. Just tell me the price already. Track 7. This is actually a really cool eastern sounding thing, and it isnt 8 years long. It sort of never builds to anything, but it's good. I wish more of these songs just sort of faded away sooner. Track 8. The album was already long enough. Should have lopped this one off. It kind of progressed and closes out nicely, which was a welcome change. Maybe that's why it was there.
Although "Pearl's Girl" was a minor club hit, this album does not contain the only Underworld song that really matters. No "Born Slippy", no extra stars.
Lidt halvkedelig 90 techno
Inoffensive but overly long and boring. Would have given it 3 stars but two hours of this is unbearable.
Lemppari: Juanita: Kiteless: To Dream Of Love, mutta vaan vikat 3min Vähiten lemppari: Rowla
Songs were way too long and just basic ass techno. 1.5/5
Club dance music, no thanks.
Too long Ok
Very long chill music
Not a fan of this type of music. 2/5
Look my complaints about this are kinda unfair, because of course it's robotic and repetitive and kinda lifeless to me, it's techno. But I didn't like it really and it's fucking long. Parts get the brain tickle I guess.
Was expecting to hate this but didn't. However in the end it was just too repetitive to be enjoyable.
I was able to tolerate this as background music while I worked, but this would have been a real struggle after the first few songs if I didn't have something else to concentrate on. It's fine. Reminded me a lot of the Daft Punk album on the list where much of it sounded like it should be the soundtrack to the Mass Effect video game. I didn't dislike it, and I've gotten to the point with techno where I can understand why people who are into the genre would like this album, but I'll never revisit this. 2.4
For the correct audience this is surely a banger. I am not that audience.
A little rave-ish
Did not like this
I legitimately don't remember anything from this album and I just listened to it. Very forgettable background noise, and that's coming from somebody who enjoys this kind of music.
Það kemur mér á óvart að ég einhvern veginn bæði elska svona tónlist og hata hana. Sum lögin koma mér í algjört stuð á meðan önnur eru algjör kvöl og pína að hlusta á. Þannig að ég rokka alveg á milli en mun aldrei setja þetta aftur á þótt inn á milli séu lög sem mér fannst mjög skemmtileg.
Some interesting ideas here, but overall just didn't do anything for me
Middling techno but fine for background music.
Just keeps on going and never ends, far too long and repetitive for my liking.
Meh. Some ok stuff here but don’t need to listen to before I die.
I might really enjoy this if I had a good buzz and was surrounded by a ton of people dancing our asses off. But just to listen to it is grating after a while. 2
Not my type of music.
do people actually enjoy this stuff with no acid? bleep boop bleep. 28/100
Eh... I didn't hate it, but the length definitely hurts this album. There are some fun ideas here and there, but they all get dragged out so long that I lost interest. This would make fine background music if you like this type of music. high 2.
The same garbage, generic, 10 minute song 7 times in a row.
Did not give a shit about this at all. Made me weirdly nervy. Passed me by and was just willing it to be done
I just didn't get it.
Vibey, idk what to say?
Rough listen. Didn't like this. 2 stars
Not very impressive and forgettable
May be good for who it’s for. But it’s not for me. Just not my vibe.
Favorite Track: Stagger
im going to forger all of this immediatley 2/5
C- Juanita : Kiteless : To Dream Of Love 2 Banstyle/Sappys Curry 2 Confusion The Waitress 2 Rowla 2 Pearls Girl 2 Air Towel 2 Blueski 2 Stagger 2 Quite rubbish.
Get the Fuck up out my House. i’m so tired of trying to get through this.
Not for me, but would make for some good background music!
absolutely no idea what to expect from this from the title and cover, ive never heard of this band or album lol my first guess was metal and not electronic stuff haha background music that tickles my brain stopped tickling my brain after like 5 minutes and tbh i got bored and stopped listening like less than halfway through, i dont think today was the mood for this kinda album
The first 15 min might be heard at a rave. Good for its intended purpose. The rest was not bad chill music. I liked it more than I thought I would as background music. 2.25/5
Techno, very repetitive
a little boring
Rapid fire house beats Droning on robotically Can’t find the dance here
Forgettable
English electronica and techno. I do not need to listen to this much techno.
Eh.
First listen Saved 2/8 Top track: Stagger
Not my jam
This had the sound of a soundtrack for an N64 or PS1 racing game throughout the album. I felt like I had to clear a bunch of checkpoints during my hour long drive home. Why this is on a list of top 1001 albums is beyond me.
Fatboy Slim this is not. But last few tracks weren't terrible.
Pretty fast-paced electronic music. It is what it is, not really my thing but I get there could be a place for this. It's not quite as annoying to me as a lot of other electronic music, that's the high praise I'm willing to write. It's really long too (73 minutes for 8 songs, so they're all pretty long). Favorite song: Blueski Other: Pearl's Girl 2/24/24
Decent electronic music, but not something I’ll go back to
Listened to a few songs. Industrial, early drum and bass.
N/A
It's techno, which is not really my thing. Interesting that I slightly prefer some of the non-popular tracks like Blueski. Banstyle is ok too.
It made me tap my foot along
Super techno, which is not my cup of tea. Too much beat and not enough music for my tastes.
Opening track seemed promising but it all quickly got boring and repetitive. As background music, it's ok but there's nothing special here.
Me gusta lo electrónico. Este mas o menos. Hay mejores.
Not really my cup of tea, but it wasn't awful.
Not my style but have listened to worst. Was bopping along to “Confusion the Waitress”. Did not add to my playlist
House music isn’t really revolutionary
For this to come out in 1996 kind of blows my expectations of music timeline? Andy loves these 15 minute songs but didn’t like Fela Kuti…. Hmm…. I’d love this in a bar. I liked Stagger a lot.
Cooler Beginn mit schnellem Beat. Hinten etwas lahme Balladen. Habe dann noch die Single Born Slippy (Nuxx) gehört, die gefällt mir besser.
Meh
I understand going to the club and dancing the night away to techno music, but I wouldn't choose this genre for everyday listening. I don't listen to enough of this style to know if this album was good or not.
Total club techno music. A couple songs were good, most were mindless two-note repetition.
Vampire make out music made before Garage Band made this drag and drop.
Hm. Not my thing. I'll concede that it sounds well-produced and certainly interesting. But this is really one of those genres where I'm not even sure what I'm listening for -- it's not catchy, hooky, nor particularly heavy-hitting or melodic either. Kinda sounds like what you'd hear on the soundtrack if a movie were trying to portray a grungy 90s nightclub.
I will never understand the immense praise that Underworld continues to receive from critics and audiences. I guess you had to be there in the 90's. And the drugs. Don't forget the drugs.
Just wasn’t for me. Couldn’t get into the 15 min songs
Juanita:Kiteness:To Dream Of Love - This feels like it's perfect for a long Blade Fight Scene... or MDMA. Banstyle/Sappys Curry - Like the little drum and bass intro and the ending is really cool. Both songs above don't need to be this long though. Confusion The Waitress - Eh... didn't love it. Rowla - This is energetic as heck, repetitive though. Pearl's Girl - I do like how all of the tracks separate themselves from each other. You aren't getting the same electronic or IDM sound. This one isn't bad either. Air Towel - This is kind of nostalgic in a way because it reminds me of Electric Circus being on MuchMusic in the 90's as a kid and man, it's not my thing but to whoever likes this style of electronic music, this must be their shit. The layering is fucking cool, I will say. Blueski - A nice sombre moment to breathe, I actually liked this. Stagger - This feels like a completely different band, wth hahaha. It's good though. Especially when 4:20 hits. hehehe.
I figured this album had a chance to be something a bit more special when I noticed the use of whisper-y, trip-hop-esque vocals mixed with something obviously influenced by the Britpop wave of vocal inflections. However, with the tracks being so long and hardly doing enough to earn that length, it lost my interest quick, and turning into your generic, PlayStation 1 era racing game music about halfway through rubs yet even more salt into the wound. I think there is something here that could be good, especially with more vocals to make actual songs rather than just sleepy rave tracks could benefit this album a lot, but as it is, you can just throw it in with the dozens of other generic UK downtempo techno records.
First of all, it would have been better if it was an instrumental records. Dude's voice is painfully mediocre and his lyrics are even worst. I'm not a fan of 90's techno in general but I have to say that this has some nice passages here and there. Not enough to make me want to listen to it ever again though.
If I didn't know better, this list would lead me to the conclusion that electronic music sucks.
Well... The first half of this album was annoying to death, boringly repetitive and meaningless. AND SO LONG. The last 4 songs contained nice synth tones, cool beats, cinematic moods and more feelings. Those songs will save the album from a 1 star rating.
As far as EDM goes, Underworld is one of the better groups out there. I appreciate that they throw in a bit of prog and experimentation into their mixes and you don’t get pulverized by an aggressive incessant beat like with some other groups.
not for me
I like electronic music but this moves too far into dance music. I'm not sure what I dislike about it but the bass-y-ness of it and the... sound is a little bland. Not my vibe.
Born Slippy is on the re-release so that'll probably be considered my fave
I loved this at the time, but now it just feels a little empty and mechanical. I should like all of the elements: pumping beats and atmospheric electronics but it all just feels a bit too mannered and over-thought. It needs more soul. You probably had to be there - and I was - but it's all bit too knowing for me all these years later.
This was great wfh music, and not the full on 90's clubbing experience I had feared. It's a rarity for EDM to sound better at home than in a club. There wasn't much else in there to draw me back. Pleasant, but not life changing.
I’m not really a club-going guy, which I feel like is a detriment to listening to this album. In fact, I’ll argue that there’s probably no good way to listen to this album without being in a club. I was in a car driving to Maine for Thanksgiving. Here’s what ultimately leads me to a 2/5 rating. It’s not that the album is bad, but I zoned out to the extent that I was thinking about (and hearing in my head) other music! That feels like an indictment against this. And, when taking into consideration that this came out around the same time as Daft Punk and Air were making their (superior) debuts, I can’t help but feel that this album lacks imagination.
panaches n grpnuts
playstation 1 racing game music (derogatory) this album definitely hits a lot of problems i have with the electronic music i've experienced so far in this project. the really upbeat stuff is very repetitive. the "slow stuff" is very... nonchalant and subdued. like i feel like the music should be more energetic? and it's not downbeat, but it just feels like... a lethargic upbeat. if that makes sense. anyways, the ceiling here for me is "mid background music" and the floor is "really boring music played in the dressing room of the clothing store your mom dragged you to in middle school" - either way, i was quite uninterested by this.
Daft Punk is way better
The repetitive loop-based electronic music present on this album is the kind of thing that makes me feel like I'm losing my mind. The songs that actually have lyrics and some sort of musical progression are pretty alright, but 3 minutes of the exact same loop with minimal changes are really not my bag.
I enjoyed it while it was on but I’m not coming back
2.5
Today is the release date for the new Ed Stasium mix of the classic Replacements album Tim (called the Let it Bleed edition). I've had this day marked on the calendar for weeks in anticipation. So all I was hoping for today was a quick album, hopefully something good, that I could get through before diving into the 3+ hours of new, glorious Replacements music. And what do I get, but a 1.25 hour electronic music album, basically the antithesis of everything the Replacements stood for. Not cool. 2 stars. The new Replacements album on the other hand? 5 stars.
Not my thing really. Some interesting sounds but I’m not interested in that “four on the floor” type of electronic music
Aparte del famoso "Born Slippy" les escuché de pasada en su época y no me convencieron no sé ahora si años más tarde y sin el hype de esa época del techno me dirá algo el disco. Ese tema en realidad se añadió a este disco posteriormente pero no está incluido en la versión enlazada desde aquí. Me ha aburrido con la excepción del single me ha recordado a los temas menos interesantes de The Prodigy.
The fear I feel when I read 90’s British electronic music… I gave it a fair chance, I did. The problem is, though, that it was just what I expected it to be and then he even sang about licking Colonel Sanders’ fingers.
in general, i am very fond of underworld. their music, an integral part of the cult classic Hackers, was one of the first to open my eyes to electronic music in my youth. however, this is just mostly boring.
Context: I only know 1 track by Underworld. Listens: 1 (Barely) This album is the pure spirit of 90's dance music and the way that tracks are built are really impressive and way beyond it's time. Saying that although I can appreciate this is a fantastic album, this didn't really hit for me.
This album demands you are either are in a club dancing away, or cleaning or working out or racing a car.... you gotta move to endure this... made it to the 1st track of the 2nd side of the album... but that's it... is it horrible? No... Just simply not for me... maybe in small bites sizes or one track. If you can survive the 1st track which si 16 minutes long then you might make it half way or til the end...
Would love to listen to this while rolling on molly in some German boiler room. At my 9-5 office job though? Not a big fan. The music isn't bad, its actually pretty high quality techno, I guess I just don't see its greater utility or reason for why it should be important.
It's really good dance music that absolutely hits a level deeper than similar groups around the mid-90's playing this style. It's a bit longwinded for me and difficult to listen to all of the way through, but it would be better in a different setting is my guess. May warrant a relisten to try to highlight and understand some of the subtleties
just boring et répétitif. drum n bass clearly not my thing 4/10
Not a favourite example of the genre. Too generic, doesn't dig into a particular area and really deliver something compelling or interesting; it doesn't tug at the emotions, it doesn't set you soaring, it doesn't make me feel. Music for elevators.
First 10 minutes were a dreadful mistake on my part. As an album to listen to anywhere near active-listening - e.g. in the car - this is absolutely disastrous. Literally about 8 minutes into track one which centers (drones) completely around one single chord/note was nearly literally driving me to madness. When I realized I was halfway done with track 1 I self-corrected into waiting until I could put headphones on and have this as background. And most definitely works as such - this is the album you want if you're working for 75 minutes at your computer, which... :) It's odd how an album like this actually makes me concentrate on my job/task at hand even better. Question: does that mean I actually *like* it? Maybe not. It's specialized to be sure as there's no way I could put this on for many other things other than work - it's like an audio tuning-out landscape. Hard to rate because I like the vibe it provides but it's almost like when i turn my attention back to the "songs" I don't like it at all - ends up sounding like cold repetitive nonsense. So while it serves a definitive purpose for me...Is that 3-worthy? It's like an appliance. Useful. It almost feels like I'd be giving an oven or a Roomba a 3. Can't do it, even if I might "use" this album again. 5/10 2 stars.
Pointless cyclic electronic posturing. Must need ecstasy to "enjoy" this sound.
This music was everywhere at the time, but today I find I'm so over it... The senses of freshness and originality are gone, and we're just stuck with the repetitiveness.
This did not draw me in.
Dave is floating.
It's electronic music and it is entirely way too long.
Probably blew minds in 1996.
En el seu moment àlgid de glòria, fent bandera d'una época i un moviment. Jo estava a l'altre extrem estètic i actitudinal, així que mai van ser sant de la meva devoció
Weaponized printer music. Crazy how this is probably the shortest techno album I've had so far. It starts out pretty interesting and ends up on a cool note (that final song sounds a whole lot like Depeche Mode), but the middle is like an hour and a half of weird forgettable beep boops. Not for me, sorry.
I don’t like techno
The thing I like about techno is that it doesn't change. The thing I don't like about techno is that it doesn't change...
I listened to this album this morning and I’ve already forgotten the specific things I had to say about it. Just some lame electronica that was really long I guess.
I’m not a huge fan of electronic music but after listening to the first track, I thought this one had potential. But after that, everything went down hill and the music lost all cohesion. The beats were awful.
There was actually some neat ambient stuff happening in the background of some of these songs, but the whole thing was so bloated and overdone. It was like what you might get if you asked David Foster Wallace to write a book report for a second grader. Another artist that either didn't have a producer to rein them in or didn't listen to them. Best track: Pearl's Girl