Smokers Delight

Literally the musical equivalent of content. I feel like I should’ve been charged $8 for my coffee while listening to this.

An alright album, I liked Me And You and Cruise (Don't Stop).

Really like it, might just be hitting my mood but good background chill music. I won't listen to any of these on the regular, but really enjoying listening to it while working.

Great interlude to some of the more intense albums on the list.. Really chill and nicely composed.

This one brings back fond memories

Hip hit to focus... Or to trip.

Incredibly boring! Not offensive enough for a 1 I suppose. But man

Another UK embarrassment.

Started off really enjoying this, enough for 4 or 5 stars even, but it went on for too long and got progressively more boring. Can imagine it would sound good in a dark, quiet room on some good headphones.

What my college self wouldn't give to know about this album in the early '00s

66/100. A chill blend of trip-hop, soul, funk, and downtempo electronica. While it doesn’t always push boundaries, it nails the atmosphere it sets out to create.

Good for background music but when trying to really listen to it it just feels too long

I like the trip hop vibe of Smokers Delight. However, the songs become too repetitive. They would have gone really well with a snowboarding video game.

Es isch en schöne Juni-Tag im 2016, de Young-T - grad so zwüsched Militär und de erste grosse Asie-Reis - Entdeckt You Wish vo Nightmares On Wax (so wie wahrschindli vieli zu dere Ziit) und het s gfühl de Triphop wird siis Lebe verändere. Plot Twist: Hets nöd. Und am schöne Oktober Tag im 2025 findets de nüm-ganz-so-young-T au bizli langwilig. scho schöni und gmüetlichi Hintergrundmusik aber es ganzes Album devo bruchi nüm. wege Nostalgie gits trotzdem drü puffs, aber ganz knappi

Okaaaay gmüetlich und nöd nervig aber au nöd geil. Han da es biiig reggae album erwarted aber sehr minimalistisch usecho. 3 splifs gege albträum

ach isch das geil gsi! genau de lounge sound woni vo nightmares on wax erwartet han und genau das wo ich am dunschtig für min start in tag brucht han… will's aber halt trotzdem chli hintergrundmusig isch gids da nume 4 doobies, 24/7 straight blazin brothers, light up the spliff, gids eine?

This was really great music to have on in the background.

So good

Given the over 1.5 hour runtime, this got two songs.

Also not great in a digital format.

****A great easy listening album.

nice background music

# Album Name: Smokers Delight # Artist: Nightmares On Wax # Rating: 2/5 # Comments: Honestly, its a bit like the EDM albums you find on here, im sure a lot of them are great but you really have to be high AF to enjoy this. Its decent background music but clearly created to smoke weed with. Look, thats fair enough. I get that. Theres plenty of music catered to drug use. But sadly, this did not hit home, it was quite repetitive, im actually sober AF at 10am in the morning and its long as hell. # Top Tunes: Who knows man. # Would I listen to it again? Not unless i was having some good weed.

Very pleasant trip hop. Background music at best though

Will always remind me of smoking bongs and playing pool at my mates. Looking back it feels like a lifetime ago, and the album is still chill.

I suppose there's a miniscule chance that this might be bearable if you're off your tits. I'm not. So it isn't.

Pretty good solid stuff.

not my type of music all the songs were instrumentals I like some instrumentals but it's rare for me to like one let alone 16

Ok - 3.0

Instrumental 80's video game music.

I’d listen to it again, won’t seek it out though

Cool grooves throughout. Definitely an artist who influenced people like Paul Oakenfeld, Fatboy Slim, and Moby. Cool listen, if not my jam.

Pretty solid and good flow.

Had this on as background music mostly but it was solid

i like stoners, they're just good people ... and they move real slow you never gotta worry about them

Nah. 1.4

Æ vet ikke ka æ hadde sett for mæ, men ekstremt chill instrumentalmusikk va på ingen måte feil, så det fungerte fint, det!

Stick this on a date night. Not for me for every day listening but yeah I could see this being great if I was high af

Meh. Bet it would sound badass in an NYC cocktail bar after several martinis, though.

This started off okay but was way too long and repetitive.

Didn't like this very much. Don’t even know what to say really. Unique sounding at least!

Never heard of Nightmares on Wax before being presented with this album! By track three I reckoned the album was likely to outstay its welcome at 72 minutes of underwhelming noodling. While I dare say there's a place for it, I doubt this makes it a great album.

Pretty cool atmospheric album. I think it’s about 5 tracks too long, though.

It's an album used for beats, most notably used by The Pharcyde's "Passin' Me By." It's a chill album, but very barebones.

I thought the drum beats were fun, but otherwise nothing really struck me on this album. It's definitely one of the albums I've listened to.

It’s chill, I got lost in the music to the point that it turned into background music. But it’s fantastic background music.

great background music

Truly not bad but not feeling this today. 2.5

Lovely lovely background music Not sure the cover or the title reflects the music inside Far far too long, but good

did not know this. Easy to listen to, but more of a background sound to me. Actually pretty boring, I kept skipping through songs as they are very repetitive. My attention span cannot deal with it. Some of it sounds familiar, I probably heard it somewhere at some point.

ok trip hop/electronica is my least favorite genre and this is just ok.

May be worth another listen but generally funky jazzy electronic music. Maybe a bit like fat boy slim but less rapping

I was initially really enjoying the album, but about 45 minutes in I kind of got bored with it. Then I realized there was still about 30 minutes of album left. Just too long for what this is.

It's a difficult one to rate. It's good, the beats are smooth and it's cohesive, but it's not something that I'd put on to listen to. It's more like something you'd have in the background of a vintage clothes shop.

Honestly, not my first nightmares on wax album. I would go to most likely comes in third behind carboot soul and the one with the speakers on the cover. But either way, I guess this gets a point for nostalgic reasons.And because it isn't bad, it's just a little long and repetitive

Lo fi beats to just be high to. The anime girl is just staring straight forward with red glassy eyes. I dont listen to that crap and I dont listen to this kinda crap either. Its just so boring. It all blends together. Its music that I would like if its in the background of something else. I dont know in a dumb game or something. It would be acceptable but im not listening to it intently. Its just there kinda vibe. It just all blends together and I cant tell the different between any of the tracks. I bearly know when one ends and when another begins. Its just not for me dude. The bass and island vibes are decent but nothing to drag the rest of the project out of the muck.

6/10 - this was a decent album if I was more in the mood for it.

An hour plus of bland nothingness. This shit feels like AI generated hotel lobby music, not something I'd want to listen to while stoned

5/10

Great trip-hop. Chill beats.

I had never heard this before and am fine never listening to it again. It droned on and on and on.

THis was a STRUGGLE but not technically bad so I soldiered on. Reminded me a bit of the 'Selected Ambient Works 85-92' Aphex Twin album, but much more dull.

Forgot it was on, but in the odd moment it was on, I quite enjoyed it. Might have to give it a proper listen with headphones on my own sometime. Potential to be my kind of album.

Not my thing

Nice to work to but fully Wii channel background music

Some of the songs were too long and kind of repetitive, cool music but would have been better if it was a little shorter

Instrumental, no muy de mi estilo

Sometimes there are some weird vocals, but overall this was a nice, relaxing and a little funky album. It does its job!

Ljómandi fín bakgrunnsmúsík meðan ég elda en vantar samt allan persónuleika og meira bara eins og playlisti á spotify heldur en albúm

Meh, fínt í bakgrunni.

I really enjoyed this album! Reminds me a bit of when I first discovered the Afro Celt sound system. More than just background music. VERY chill!

I enjoyed this more than I thought I would given the type on the cover and the name of the album! Solid music for getting shit done to.

I love electronic music but this was so boring.

talk about an album that has basically nothing for me. the most generic sounding beats for an hour and a quarter. there's nothing interesting here. it is just beats. for a group called 'nightmares on wax' i was expecting something a little more nightmarish. i guess the true nightmare is listening to hold music for 77 minutes

good focus music. very nice.

Tecno should have one, two maybe three albums on this list just to acknowledge it is a kind of music. But I think I have had at least 10. Way to much bad stuff

Surprisingly good for electronic music!

Kind of okay for background music, but overall pretty disappointing. I don't see actively seeking this out again.

I was listening to and enjoying a lot of similar stuff when this came out. However this completely passed me by! Pretty good but more background that sit up and pay attention.

This was boring as fuck

Samsung notification sound, lalla dog, In a Hood Near You, and many more audio pareidolia examples!

Actually very sex. It probably isnt an actual 5 but I feel no reason to downgrade it

Didn’t stand out to me

An hour and fifteen minutes of drum-machine diarrhea and soulless lite-jazz noodling for your next Eurotrash cocktail party or late night chill sesh that you really really wish you didn't have to be at.

Never heard of him before but honestly found this album pretty delightful. Kind of meditative, yet also propulsive.

Okay enough as background noise, but so incredibly boring to sit and listen to. Maybe is more engaging when you're high, but there is so much better music for that too. Entirely skippable

I could name 1001 more albums not on this list that are more essential than this. Just background music really I don't know what else to say.

I really could not get into this. It’s an instrumental album and it feels like each song is only 4 bars long repeating for 3-5 minutes.

Another one that took me by surprise. I was expecting some kind of stoner who let the dogs out 90s rap. Great instrumentals, great basslines, just a solid album to groove to. I’d listen to this - it’s great background music. I’d never say man I am dying to hear that smokers delight album. That said I’m pleasantly surprised so that bumps it to 4 stars.

I hate 80s synth, but I don't think I'll ever hate a sound as much as 90s synth and drum machines. Vaguely new age, sounds like muzak I would hear piped in in a shop where they sell a lot of incense, crystals with healing powers, and "herb grinders". Awful, a true test of endurance to listen to this for an hour and a quarter. Like the music of the band Gong, this album is one of the strongest arguments against marijuana I can imagine.

Det er fint men man skal være i humør til instrumentalt musik

Schon gut aber als Album sehr lange 3/5

- lembra alguns gêneros que tangenciam o hip hop, por ex trip hop, jazz rap, mas com uma pegada bem caribenha - achei inovador, por utilizar técnicas convencionais de corte e sampling, mas de uma perspectiva de música jamaicana - interessante que ele foi lançado pelo selo Warp, um dos mais importantes de música eletrônica inglesa

Instrumental, didn’t really give it a chance. Be great for background music cooking or reading.

Repetitive. Not a top 1000 album.

I'm wondering if Dimery was friends with the DJ? Odd choice for 1001 albums. It was calming.

Good musing to play while concentrating on something to keep the energy going but not be too distracting.

Very good 90s downtempo/chill. I'd love to give this thing a 3.5. I think there are probably better albums from this era that showcase the sound and vibe a bit better, but overall this is a very good listen.

The same sounds over and over again on repeat for over an hour. Ugh!! So bad!!

Dull, bland and undistinguised - should not be on this list

Solid grooves and a chill vibe overall, but very much sounds like hold/loading screen music from the late 90s/early 00s and not that exciting.

Three songs in until we get to lyrics and they are are just a repeated phrase. I don't hate it, but I'm not sure this qualifies as one of the best 1000 albums or the best 4200 albums.

I forgot I was listening to this almost immediately after I put it on so make of that what you will.

This was better than expected (but my expectations were very low). Smooth background music for a cocktail lounge or party. The songs that had vocal parts were not improved by them at all. It was long and started to get boring. Could have been 20 minutes shorter with no ill effect.

This was boring. Meh. Lowfi beats to study to

I'm not sure what to make of this one. It's probably an excellent instance of (checks Wikipedia) Trip hop/jazzstep/breakbeat/chill-out/electronica/downtempo. Which leaves open the question of whether I liked it. Maybe I'm being too generous with my 4s.

Zuhause, Heidenheim, Deutschland. Beschissene Loungemusik.

I've never listened to this album (16). Cool trip-hop, dub instrumentals. Not the kind of music I listen to regularly, but really well made.

Some cool beats, but far, far, far too long. If this album was half as long it would be four stars, but as it stands this is quite disappointing. 2.0/5.0: Disappointing

not what i expected based on the artist name, album name and cover art. some cool beats most of which dont really progress over the runtime of the tracks which make for a very unenjoyable experience. i really thought i was going to have to take a break from listening halfway through so i wouldnt fall asleep.

Groove St. solidifies the 3.

Middle of the road trip-hop/downtempo chill music. Definitely has its place in my rotation. But barely...still, it's not horrid, completely.

#119/1001. Not counting DJ Shadow earlier I think this is the first instrumental album on this list for me, which makes me think does good music need lyrics? And if the answer is yes, how come they are 98% in English? Well, the album is full of good music, but perhaps it becomes a bit too mellow and chill and background since there are no singing melodies to listen to. I typically don't care too much about lyrics, but, well, we've learned music by singing, right? Something is missing kinda feeling, which doesn't happen with all instrumental music out there. But diggin the grooves and the retro lounge sleazefilm sounds, man... 2 and a half?

Was not expecting this hotel lobby elevator music to be on here. Wasn't bad but I won't find myself coming back to it

Note for self: Some songs are blocked on YouTube Music, presumably because of copyright garbage. Great album with nice and relaxing music that is very suitable for listening to in the background when working on something. Some songs are pretty weird though. Actually, let me rethink that. The further along you get into the album, the weirder the songs get. Maybe not so nice for listenting to in the background in its whole. Still great, though!

POSTSCRIPT: I wrote the below review after 1 1/2 songs. There was more than an hour to go. This might be worse than Kid Rock. Legitimately. A record you turn on, play on a phone, in another room, where you are not, and then do anything else. Just absolutely pointless. PRESCRIPT This is the blandest, flavorless trip hop I’ve ever heard in my life. There is almost nothing to redeem this utterly boring music. I’d gotten to enjoy some of NOW’s music but this just makes me want to run away. Commits the cardinal sin of being so uninteresting as to be unlistenable, and thats saying something given that Kid Rock is on this list.

mind-numbingly dull

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Soo boring

I'd never heard this album before, but it sounds like something I would have liked in the 1990s, when I was going through a bit of a chill-out/trip-hop phase, and then not listened to in 20 years. Then it would have come up on the generator and I'd be like "Blimey, Nightmares on Wax is on this list? I can see why I was into it at the time, I'm just surprised someone considered it one of the best albums ever made."

Incredibly boring! No offensive enough for a 2 I suppose. But man

Made decent background music, but way too long

I'm a non-smoker, so this wasn't a delight for me. Each song becomes very repetitive very quickly. The whole thing is too long. Whoever put this forward to make this list must have been a smoker or bribed.

Pretty unremarkable

Good easy listening. Nothing earth shattering with the beats and music.

Not my bag. Also, surprisingly, I was completely unfamiliar with this artist. Weird.

Should be 1001 albums sometimes that will speed you towards your death.

Fine

Chill vibes with a nice rhythm that would make for great background music when Lofi Hip-hop Beats to Study/Relax to is offline, but nothing particularly unique or engaging. 2.5/5

Always fun, even if I can't really find a place for it in my library any more

Music to fall asleep to. Which isn’t an insult. I’m always looking for something new (to me) that I can wind down to

Ok

This mostly instrumental album was rather interesting. Sometimes the tone was mellow, yacht rock-esque or smooth jazz, or contain eastern influences. I can confidently report Smokers Delight was not boring. Trip hop can be hit or miss with me because I never do well with repetition. But I didn't hear many repetitive noises, and I really like that Nightmares On Wax didn't rely on the same boring sounds played over and over again.

This was an intriguing listen! Somewhere between jazz and trip hop, this album provided a unique soundscape that was easy to wrap the mind around and honestly pretty relaxing.

At the start this was inoffensive, and then it became hella boring.

chill beats to study to

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pa okej je ovo za pozadinu, al nije me baš ničime zaintrigiralo :/

OG lo-fi

Ok I guess

Something about this just missed the mark for me. But it was nice.

I liked it

Chill lounge vibe. I liked it.

Currently listening to this album on my best headphones sat outside enjoying the late August sunshine, and I already feel more relaxed. This is music for lazy days and cool evenings, effortlessly mixing classic beats and trip hop rhythms with aplomb. Unreserved five stars for this one.

It's refreshing to listen to something else than 60s to 80s English rock to be honest. But what would be awesome is to listen to something different AND a tad more interesting. I can appreciate chill electronic music, but it's a bit too chill and once I was done, I could barely remember a thing from the record.

This sounded like glorified phone hold music. It sounded fine but there has to be better albums that could be in this list.

I feel and think I am a bit baffled by this is on the list because it isn’t in the top 1000

Was pleasant enough to listen to but my goodness was it boring and repetitive. Just the same sounds looped over, and over, and over again. Nothing original or special about this. Also it was just too long.

WHY is this on the list??? it's total background music. What is the rationale for taking up a spot on this list???

Chill but boring and repetitive

Very pleasant lofi chill beats

Loved the album art and some of the beats .... but not really my kinda music.

What are we doing here? It makes me want the book in order to read the blurb about this album. What could they possibly have said about this background music? Is it a bit to be called Nightmares on Wax and name this video game loading screen music Smokers Delight? Goldeneye’s pause screen has a bigger banger.

3.5. Приємний альбом, є дуже стильні композиції, непогана робота з семплами, чудовий бас майже скрізь. З мінусів: відверті філери, задовгий. Поставлю 4 щоб трохи підтягнути загальний рейтинг альбому)

Really enjoyed this, flew by despite a considerable length.

Did not listen to whole album front to back. It was nice though boring. Good for lobby music or to set a vibe in the background without being distracting.

I was pleasently surprised. Might have to do with the fact that it is perfect background music while working.

good background music

Ok never mind now that's two releases I've never heard of even in the slightest but I will chock it up to the fact that both acts are from the UK and this is a UK centralized list. So far I'm digging this. Not sure I'll be likely come back to it though. Probably the album which I have the very least to say about so far. Well, as a final note I'll say that detractors of this album seem to compare it to muzak and I don't find the description fair.

Smokers Delight by Nightmares On Wax was a completely new listen for me, as I’d never heard of the artist or the album before. Unfortunately, it didn’t win me over. The opener, Nights Introlude, genuinely sounds like the template for phone hold music — I honestly felt like I was on the line to HSBC. Things do improve slightly after that, but not by much. The record settles firmly into background music territory: nothing really grabs your attention, and nothing feels particularly memorable. At 16 tracks, it drags on far too long, and overall it felt rather pointless. I won’t be coming back to this one. Favourite track: If I had to pick, Bless My Soul stood out a little, but only just. Least favourite track: Nights Introlude — an awful start. Album artwork: A chaotic, messy cover with far too much going on. Not for me.

It’s very bloated

Chilled out but never filled out, Smokers Delight hardly approaches its shroomy album art, which has the fecund aspect of psychedelia gone right. Instead, this is the blunt hit that propels you from a steady high to a looped nightmare, the groove that stops grooving and's got you panicking b/c you want some color and fullness back in your life. It's not that I can't get down w/ music that's better in the background, it's that this is more like tasteless food for thought: I prefer my highs to unstick my brain rather than imprison it in savorless inertia. Some of the tracks succeed on their own, like 'Wait a Minute / Praying For A Jeepbeat,' 'Groove St.,' and 'Bless My Soul,' but this is a failure of a complete record, a thin clutter of boomeranging lethargy.

This could be menu music from Gran Turismo if it leaned more towards jazz. That's a good thing. 3.5?

It's quite a nice mellow album, the songs flow into each other really well. I actually had to go back to make sure I wasn't listening to the same song, but surprisingly every single one sounds really different. At the end of the album I was a bit done with the album though.

Not what I expected form the name of the the album. Super chill. I’m giving this album 3*s. The album itself is ok for background music while doing other things. But I ended up listening to the associated songs Spotify played for about 3 hours after the album ended. I will be searching for more music like this.

Wow, what a landmark album. So important it charted at number 26 in Scotland.

The album felt like listening to elevator music. The music got very repetitive and the album was veryong at 1hr and 14 mins

fantastic jams

Coming at you live from the coolest elevator you've ever been in. Before lofi beats to study to there was this. It's nice but mainly for chores around the house.

Love the vibes, easy to listen to

Cool background stuff.

It’s fine for background muzack but I don’t understand why it would be singled out as anything special

"It's not the yellow curtains. Nor curtain rings. Nor is it bran... Heidegger suggests that "Nothing nothings" - a calm sensible idea with which Sarte, among others, disagrees. (What Heidegger thinks about nothings is not nothing.) Heidegger points us toward dread. Having borrowed a cup of dread from Kierkegaard, he spills it, and in the spreading stain he finds (like a tea-leaf reader) Nothing. And it is not the yellow curtains behind which fauns and astronauts embrace, behind which flesh crawls in all directions and flickertail squirrels fall upward into the trees. And death is not nothing and the cheering sections of consciousness ("Do not go gentle into that good night") are not nothing nor are holders of the contrary view... Put it on the list." Nothing: A Preliminary Account,Donald Barthelme I'm no expert on nothing, but Mr. Barthleme may want to turn his attention to Smokers Delight. 0 Nightmares on Wax here set out to conduct a noble experiment to answer a question that has surely troubled many a listener: is Rap Music better when you take away all the rapping? The answer is, disappointingly, that it makes no difference. I am awarding a half point, however, for the fluent trolling, over an hour in, in immediately following ‘Rise’ with ‘Rise (Reprise)’. Classic mischief. 0.5/5

Very chill music, ideal for background!

It is pretty chill. Something that i can relax and listen to. Something that I can listen to while doing my work or cooking, but not something I am necessarily going to reach for when I am wanting to listen to music. If I owned it I would probably play it in the background while doing something else. It is pleasant enough and therefore gets the standard 3 stars.

I like Electronica. Part of it is repetition, usually combined with progression. In some cases, the progression is missing or not noticeable enough, and then this stuff gets boring pretty quickly. Like in this case.

Entediante, acho essa a palavra certa. Uma pena pois, eu gosto de música instrumental, gosto de downtempo, gosto de trip hop, gosto de acentos de Reggae, e etc. Mas simplesmente não consegui tirar um proveito grande deste disco. As canções são bem monótonas, o que é de se esperar, mas nada aqui chama muita atenção. Algo que você vai ver muitas pessoas falando é que esse disco é música de fundo, e realmente, ele vira música de fundo bem rapidamente enquanto você o ouve. Além disso, sua duração é bem mais longa do que precisava ser, pelo o que ele é. Foi bem laborioso terminar o álbum inteiro. Mas, não vou dar uma nota tão baixa assim porque, apesar do tédio, eu ainda gostei das canções, de forma geral. Não salvei nenhuma, e nem vejo porquê faria isso, mas nenhuma delas ativamente me ofendeu ou me desagradou. Por mais básicas e esquecíveis, elas são agradáveis o suficiente pra você não querer tirar o disco. Na verdade, se você tem o costume de ouvir música enquanto trabalha ou estuda, acho que seria uma boa idéia colocar esse álbum na sua rotação, então devo dar créditos a isso. 2.5/5

Sweet! Some trip hop. I’m down for a little R&R. I’ve been put through the wringer by these albums quite a few times recently. Trip hop is a genre I like to think I know decent bit about, and it’s for this reason that I feel like I can confidently call it the musical equivalent of cotton candy. I enjoy listening to it from time to time, though I usually need to pair with something more sumptuous or else I’ll burn out quickly. Still. For what it is, it’s near-impossible to get trip-hop wrong, which is perhaps its most admirable characteristic. Yeah, I enjoyed hearing this one. It’s admittedly on the lower-tier of trip-hop albums with how dated the sound is, though it accomplishes the mission statement of being a relaxing listen from start to finish. For this, I shall spare Smokers Delight from my pedantic bitching about album lengths. That being said, there are quite a few moments in here where I lost interest. “Dreddoverboard” has a nice spacy ambience going for it, and I appreciate the guitar loop. Very catchy. “Pipes Honour” is a good follow up. The dead silence around the middle of the song is very gratifying, and I quite like the lead guitar. I’m picking up a little bit of a Jamaican influence on this album, which is surprisingly appropriate for trip-hop and pretty unique. “Tha Journey” is the next good track. I like the heavy percussion. “Rise” and its reprise are sweet late album tracks. I dig the rhythm of it, and I like the jingly sounds that appear near the end of the track are a good way of closing out the track. Book time. “...instrumental electronica laced with down-tempo hip-hop beats and samples from classic soul and R&B”. This album doesn’t seem to be all that popular and I can think of quite a few better trip-hop nominations, but I won’t quibble. Been a good while since I last listened to an oddball pick, and I always enjoy the sensation of cracking these kinds of albums open.

Like the XX’s first album, a deceptively electric opener paves the way for somewhat more generic fare.

chill instrumental beats to study to Tracks to Track: Nights Introlude

Not a smoker.

Not at all what I was expecting from the band name, or the album title, or the album cover. In some ways, that made this album more palatable. But at best it is passable GTA loading screen music.

I like a groove track, I do. But I want them to at least pretend there's a stronger concept than "I'm gonna make music that's for smoking weeeeed bro". That said, it's alright , nothing special

Pretty cool vibes album, nothing earth shattering but better than the cover and name would have u believe

Was hoping this would be atrocious so I could say something like that “what’s this guy smoking, oregano??” But it’s fine I guess, not really a huge fan of grooves or smoking weed tho

never been as relaxed as while listening to this album on the beach 4-/5 🍃

Ambient music for trendy lounge bars... I guess if you bore people enough they’ll order more drinks ? Seriously, I didn’t *hate it*, it was kind of all right as background music while I was working. It does indeed set a relaxed mood. But that shit is just soooo repetitive... even Brian Eno’s "Music for Airports" required more attention and brainpower to process. I’ll give it a 2* because I didn’t detest it, but I don’t understand why it’s on this list. It’s super generic, any semi-competent DJ can reproduce this.

This was pretty boring. This type of music is pretty popular now as background noise on playlists with names like 'Deep Focus' or 'Music to Study To'. Maybe this was interesting in 1995, and I will say it's a step above and more thoughtful than a lot of what you'll find on those playlists, but I still don't know if there is anything exceptional about it. unless these are the first people to ever make music to study to?

Mellifluous meandering, mostly monumentally mundane. Honestly, I remember loving Carboot Soul, so I was poised to be giving this four stars. But was sad to find it chronically boring. Other than track one, can barely remember any if it

This album is from an artist that I had very high hopes for, since I already had - without really realising it - a few of their songs added to my playlists. Overall this album was very suitable as relaxing background music. However, I can't give it more than 3 stars since it was quite repetitive and I did feel the urge to skip some songs. I would rate it a 5/10 if I could. Fav songs: Nights Interlude, stars, bless my soul, rise.

Surprisingly delightful. Well named. 😉

Booooring snoozefest

Didn’t absolutely hate it, but won’t listen again

Full disclosure didn’t listen to the full album…but I made it halfway through and plan to finish. Generally liked it more than the other instrumental albums we’ve had

Mildly interesting

Tem a seu favor a virtude de apresentar sons bastante “naturais”, em se tratando de um disco de música eletrônica, mas é bastante cansativo, apesar de um bom começo. De regular para fraco!

Very solid vibes. Unfortunately not really engaging enough for me to really consider listening again, and it's pretty lengthy... but I enjoyed my brief time in smokers delight.

I had a good time with this but it definitely over-stayed its welcome a fair bit. Not bad music to work to though!

Excellent vibes - I love this sort of dub-inflected downtempo music. However, an hour and fifteen minutes of it was a bit much for me. Probably would've fared better as background music with a fat doob - as is, my sober mind was satisfied much earlier.

A bit repetitive, a bit long, but I didn’t mind those things. Some chill ass jams. Enjoyed it.

Absolutely brilliant set of funky and hypnotic beats, full of texture, and consistently engaging, even in the longer tracks. The basslines are phenomenal. This could be a 5 on production alone! What holds it back slightly is that it doesn’t reach for much beyond being a great collection of beats, though it's absolutely entering my regular rotation. Just great music to vibe out to, and does great justice to the title. Standouts: Nights Introlude • Pipes Honour • Rise • Rise (Reprise)

Bumped to a 3 after consideration. I really don't find his thing to be very interesting but it did grow on me when I started listening again. I didnt even feel like it needed a second listen all the way through. It does feel like I am on the character select screen in a 90s Sega game. I have to put respect on it for being the foundation of some of my favorite albums.

Music for an anime girl to study endlessly to.

No thanks, not my jam

Pleasant trip hop, good to work to

Ok I guess, just a vibe and a decent one at that.

This was pretty meh. I sort of just didn’t really notice it

Never has a band name less matched the style of music. Lo-fi study beats to be put on in the background and ignored.

Pretty cool. I wonder if breakbeats lay the foundation for this kind of music

Trip hop is a blend of styles in itself - including styles I usually don't like. As such, my opinion on trip hop varies wildly. Sometimes I absolutely love it (Portishead and Massive Attack both got 5 stars from me earlier), sometimes I kind of hate it. In this case... it's utterly unremarkable. Now, I'm veeeery far from being an expert on electronica. But if you told me this was made by a teenager using open source sampling software on an old laptop, I wouldn't be surprised. For background music at work, this is pleasant enough. But what else? No clue. 2.5 stars rounded down because half an hour from now, I won't remember this one.

I was skim reading a reference book throughout listening to the album and it worked nicely as unobtrusive background music. Only slightly feeling like it was dragging a bit by the end.

This was a nice listen, I don't think I'd heard of them before, but this would be something I'd put on when I'm walking about and not in a hurry. Laid back, chilled. Strong 3

I am going strong 3 for this. I could happily put together a playlist for Nightmares on Wax that is a strong 4. But over the course of 70 mins this album is slightly too relaxed for my tastes. I full understand that they are making trip hop albums that are very deliberately lounge - but I prefer the tracks that focus on hip hop elements to ambient jazz

It's the coolest and most sophisticated background music, but that's all it is. Luckily I have a very high tolerance for repetitive music that has no sense of development.

I have a bit of history with Nightmares on Wax. I saw him perform in 2016 and was blown away. I’d go as far as to say it was one of the best gigs I’d ever been to, certainly the best DJ set. A couple of years later I listened to his 2018 album and was surprised that it lacked any of the drive or pulse that I’d experienced that night - it’s just not what he’s going for. I thought his 1995 effort, his most popular work, might be the thing that makes my overall experience of his music make sense. At its best, this is vibey, chilled out stoner music with a patchwork of different textures and fragments of melody. Its the excellent music that I remember from that gig. It is music that is about the journey, rather than the destination. While there are definite highs across this release its mammoth 74 minutes sees diminishing returns, getting increasingly aimless and tedious. Some of the closing tracks simply should not have been featured.

The clue is in the name of today’s album, this is for chilling out. Not great for a cycle to work, not great for actually getting work done, but a solid 3 raising to a 4 with the right circumstances

Groovy and chill

I like trip-hop. This was overlong and uninspired.

Long running length and very repetitive, down tempo hip hop with jazz elements. Just too long at 78 minutes

3.5 this album was at least 30 minutes too long. I enjoyed the songs but every single one went on way too long

Pleasant background music, but gets a bit dull by the end. Three stars.

Some groovy Electronica. Gets overly repetitive for too long in some tracks.

The opening track kind of sets the tone for the whole of the album really - very mid-90s trip-hop, lightly funky... Promises so much but then just drifts by without ever really going anywhere interesting at all. All the hallmarks of the era and the genre, but devoid if personality and charm. Doesn't hit the spot for me, I'm afraid - no grit, no balls, no hooks, just a pointless style-workout.

Fine. I like some trip hop well enough, but this didn't have much that really stood out.

As far as background chill vibe music you might hear while boarding a Virgin Airlines flight in the mid-2000s goes, this is solid.

If you're having a doob with a mate, this is great, chilled out background music. In almost any other context though, it's way too one note, not something I'd ever just choose to listen to. Can't complain though, that's obviously what the album was made for, does it's job perfectly.

The cover makes this look like stoner rap or Bob Marley knockoff, when in reality it’s a tapestry for some kid’s dorm room. Literally an album meant to be listened to whilst smoking weed. In a weird way, a precursor to LoFi Girl.

Incredibly boring and unnecessarily long

this was so cool. Dont think I’ve listened to a 90 minute album without getting bored as well as this one. OG of jazz house

Groovy, but highly repetitive. Not a smoker, so maybe that is why I did not find it as delightful.

I dug it, but I’llprobably never pick it back up.

increíble

Rambly grooves, not many vocals

Very groovy

Idk it’s quite nothing, doesn’t go as hard or feel as atmospheric as some trio hop stuff, and isn’t fast enough to be cool jungle stuff. Some of the samples are cool and also the synth bits, but it’s just really repetitive generally speaking. Favourite songs: stars, blessings my soul and probably some more I missed Overall around 5/10

01) Nights Introlude - 7,0 02) Dreddoverboard - 6,5 03) Pipes Honour - 7,0 04) Me + You - / 05) Stars - 6,5 06) Wait a Minute/Praying for a Jeepbeat - 6,0 07) Groove St. - 6,5 08) Time (To Listen) - / 09) (Man) Tha Journey - 6,5 10) Bless My Soul - 7,0 11) Cruise (Don't Stop) - 6,5 12) Mission Venice - 7,5 13) What I'm Feelin (Good) - 6,0 14) Rise - 6,5 15) Rise (Reprise) - 6,0 16) Gambia Via Vagator Beach - 5,5 TOTAL: 6,50 (65/100) Current ranking: 425/606

Kinda ok, but a low 3.

⭐️⭐️/5. Too much like elevator music/Muzak for me, but it’s a cool electronic album. Not for everyday listening.

Good background music but def not a must hear album

Do people pay to get on this list or something? Lame.

I thought I was almost to the end of the album. I looked and was only on track 3.

6/10 This is a bit of a funny album. To start with, I was really enjoying it, but I did feel it started to drift after the first few tracks. It’s very ronseal, in that it’s kind of the perfect music for the chill out room at a rave, a relaxed DJ set or an after party. Smokers delight indeed. I would happily have this album on now and then as background accompaniment, but I did have to keep skipping back while doing my song-by-song, because it frequently failed to cling onto my full attention. Some of the tracks really didn’t have enough variety to keep my mind fully engaged. Perhaps that’s partly the way my brain works, as I did have a similar complaint about overly repetitive motifs in Boy In Da Corner when we listened to that one. I suppose I’ll likely never stick this album on to just listen to it, and there are trip-hop albums that I certainly would do that with, but I can definitely see its place and it’s a very good album when placed in the right environment. A little hard to pick a rating for this one, but I think shooting somewhere down the middle is probably fair, and it’s getting 6 rather than 5 for that touch of nostalgia. Nights Introlude - A great little groove of a track that really sets the tone for the record. A good deal of this is sampled from Summer In The City by Quincy Jones, but NOW translates the vibe into something fresh. And the pads and strings that swell through sections are so 90s electronica. Dreaddoverboard - I used to run an electronica night at uni and played this one a lot. This has edges of dub, but sits firmly in the Trip-Hop wheelhouse (although NOW would disagree). The sections ebb and flow nicely, but there’s a nice drive that keeps the flow going throughout. Pipes Honour - A sparser arrangement here and a groove largely lifted from The Soul of a Black Man by Maceo Parker (legend). This is so chill and groovy. Me And You - Nice little interlude. Nothing special. Stars - Back to something more dub edged. This one’s a little too repetitive for me in places. The electric piano is a bit relentless. Wait A Minute / Praying For A Jeepbeat - Bit of a weird one. Just a sort of cluster of bits and pieces really. Groove Street - This is ok. A bit too repetitive and long, so got a bit boring. Time (To Listen) - Another interlude (Man) Tha Journey - This one’s definitely got more drive to it, but there are sections where I wanted it to throw in a bit more variety as it was getting a bit samey. Bless My Soul - A nice chilled groove. It’s not the most interesting, but it’s ok. Cruise (Don’t Stop) - A bit more variety and interest here. A nice bouncy beat and some of the samples add some nice lilt to the groove. Mission Venice - A nice, shorter track, The idea is decent, but it’s just very samey throughout, despite the dub mixing of the different parts. What I’m Feelin (Good) - This was better. Another short one, but it felt like there was just more variety to keep the momentum up. Rise - Another nice one. Not the most interesting of tunes, but a decent, relaxing little number. Rise (Reprise) - Not sure why we needed to have another 1:46 of the same track really. Gambia Via Vagator Beach - This just doesn’t really go anywhere. Too much like a hippy drumming circle in the park for me.

Schöner 90er Sound

Not a bad album.

Synth with nice harmonies are plenty enough to get me to enjoy something, and this record is no exception. In fact, I was a little worried looking at the artist's name, album length, and presence of several interludes that this would be yet another bland 90s hip-hop record – but I was immediately and pleasantly surprised. Nights Introlude is smooth as heck, making itself a contender for strongest track right out the gate. The tracks are all in the tried-and-true form of "introduce an idea and repeat it relentlessly, adding and removing textural elements as you go". For the first half of the album, it works pretty well. But all good things must come to an end. Around the point of Bless My Soul, the tracks *really* start to drag. There's no intra-track progression, no sense of adventure, just one idea repeated for six or seven minutes with the occasional "yeah" or "uh" slapped in to give the passing appearance of an engaging track. ("These artificial disembodied are grooving to the song? I guess the song must be groovy!") Cruise (Don't Stop), apart from having Terraria-soundtrack-esque arpeggio synths at the beginning, falls victim to the same problem. There's just not enough interesting content. Give me a key change, a rhythm change, some song structure, anything! Mission Venice is a great change of pace towards the album's tail end – at just under 3 minutes, its clear-cut melody only gets a little repetitive, and there are multiple well-defined song sections. Definitely a top-3 track. Love the softer breakdown in the middle. Big fan of Rise and its reprise too; those chords are yummy (even if they're heavily looped). These two tracks should have closed the album instead of the almost objectively less interesting Gambia Via Vagator Beach. 3/5 Key tracks: Nights Introlude, Stars, Mission Venice

Chill

Not for me.

It's good if you want chillout music, but that makes it by design extremely background and just generally kind of fine.

So laid back I lost track of it. OK I suppose.

Lo-fi beats to zone out to It's fine, it's good background music, but any time i try to engage with it i just slip off of it like I physically can't pay attention - I've listened to it several times now and if you put a gun to my head i wouldn't be able to tell you how the tracks go

Not as dislikeable as I thought it might be, fairly pleasant in the background, but not really my groove.

And the mediocrity is back, I got a moment of greatness in the form of Disintegration and now I’m back to this. I really didn’t care for this, I mean it was fairly inoffensive as sounds but trying to like “listen” to the music is boring as hell. It’s also while not that bad also not that good sounding. It’s not the worst so I am going to give it a 2/5

Cool grooves, cut by the master of trip hop. It is indeed a delight for Smokers and others

Una hora con quince minutos de una especie de medio jazz ligerón pero que se siente tremendamente repetitivo. Para el tercer track ya me había hartado y todavía me faltaba una hora. Lo mismo una y otra vez. Nada fan.

Pretty interesting stuff.

Good background music but certainly nothing groundbreaking or innovative. Dino need to listen to this before I die? No.

Overly long and repetitive, yet surprisingly listenable compared to other EDM records on this list.

Chill listen

It was like hold music but better. It got a little repetitive, but I enjoyed it in the beginning.

I like this 1995 album more than the 2002 album I had in my collection, the only other thing I knew from NOW. Trip hop that just flows through the room. Doesn't grab you and hold your riveted, but just mellows over you and lets you focus in and focus out as it lingers.

There is nothing appealing about this album. It's much too repetitive, the tempo never changes and it's completely boring and monotonous. The most interesting thing about this album is questioning why it's on this list.

This isn't an album you listen to. You just put it on in the background for noise. Granted, this isn't horrible, there are a couple (which isn't a lot on such a long album) great tracks, but fuck was this boring as hell. I really don't see the appeal because every song lasts for fucking ever and there isn't much interesting going on

1995 was a solid year for chill out, exploratory electronic music and Nightmare on Wax's Smokers Delight is no exception. Rather than attempt to live up to his name and deliver the kind of bone-chilling, goosebumps inducing music for turntables, George Evelyn keeps his focus on good vibes and there is an abundance here that very much lives up to the album's name. Don't be put off by the length and allow Smoker's Delight to wrap itself all over. Favorites: Nights Introlude, Dreddoverboard, Pipes Honour, Wait a Minute/Praying for a Jeepbeat, Groove St., (Man) Tha Journey, Bless My Soul, Cruise (Don't Stop), What I'm Feeling (Good), Rise, Rise (Reprise).

This album is inoffensively pleasant, but that's actually the problem; as a result it's soulless and boring.

Electronica feel

No me imaginaba en absoluto que tuviera este sonido basándome en la portada y el nombre. Realmente es iba música que me agrada mucho y que suena muy actual.

Sir, sir. Please. I've been on hold for over an hour. I just want to cancel my gym memebership.

Electronic ambient music

Nothing special

Han eigentli meh Reggae Musig erwartet.

okay seeeehr uf chillo de sound. uuultra tüüfe dubby bass. bi dreddoverboard findi die 808 cowbell eaasy nervig aber s gsangssample isch no geil. pipes honour seeehr cooli gitarre. find etz alles eeeehner lame? aber zum teil no interessanti sache. so d keys töned no nice. he finds insane langwilig kei ahnig. jo okay da isch etz uhuere langwilig gsi git e 1??

WER HET JE NACH EXPANDED EDITION ALBE GFRÖGT BRÖDER jaa 1h14min, das isch hoffentlich guet! ahh chillout macht sinn hä ich lieb de triangel mann ich glaub, das wird sich zieh ich chan nöd mega vill degege sege aber finds eifch chli langwilig? jaa mengisch findi ischs nöd s guet galteret OHHHMEINGOTTTT ES GSHT NA SO LAAANGGGGG leider gsehn ich uf wikipedia au nöd, wiso dass es es speziells album sött sii, da wär s buech halt schomal hilfriich hahaha LANGWIIIILIIIIG HAAALLLOOOOOOO

load of shite

Not my thing. Definitvely not a smoking weed album. Too loud and busy not relaxing at all. This is NOT ever a top 1,000

Awesome and smooth and dangerous - the ambience of a dimly lit place where mystery women and men hang out 3.9

So, as soon as this album started, it immediately became background music so I half paid attention to it. It's... fine? Nothing mind-blowing, probably won't listen to it again.

safa

I got the tropical vibes from this trip-hop record, generally very good but It made me snooze a little, didn't keep me engaged and would listen to it again, if I were to fall asleep to it.

fun stuff

Nights Introlude // Pipes Honour // Stars //

Really good

음 시대를 앞서간 앨범인가? 내귀엔 그냥..

Nope. Junior Jazz.

I'll need to remember this album when I need to have background music on, but don't want to be distracted by it. I'm not sure "easy to forget it is even playing" is a ringing endorsement, but I didn't hate it.

Absolutely not for me. I’ve never listened to electronica and now I’m sure I’ve not been missing anything. Couldn’t have had a worse choice for the first of my 1001 albums

i like the beat

One of the better chill electronica albums I've heard in a long time. It was a pleasant treat to listen to on this rainy Monday morning.

Solid chill vibes on this motherfucker. I enjoyed it immensely.

Very atmospheric and groovy. However I don't take drugs anymore...

1.5

1.5

2/5. It’s just not music I can identify with.

Just too repetitive. I don’t mind instrumental music, but I don’t want to hear the same sounds over and over.

This is *very much* my type of record, and that’s exactly why I’m a bit let down by it. On paper, a chill, slowly paced downtempo electronic record with a huge hip-hop influence is right up my alley. I’ve historically been known to listen to Boiler Room sets, DJ mixtapes, and Lo-Fi Beats To Chill & Study To while I’m writing, working, or studying. While I don’t habitually partake in Ms. Mary’s activities more than 2 times per month on a bad month, I’m down with the general vibes associated with her practice. And like, Smokers Delight provides; it’s very well-crafted, has all the right touchstones, is a slow burn with detailed production quality, and is the perfect background ✨vibe✨ record, clearly being a huge influence on the Lo-Fi Beats to Study To™️ genre. Frankly, there’s nothing wrong here at all. It’s fine. But also, that’s kinda the thing…it’s only fine, there’s nothing here that really stands out and amazes you, it’s just exactly what you expect, nothing more. And like, that’s totally chill when you’re just flipping through records and need something new that isn’t too far off from your normal downtempo nighttime listens. If you’re putting together a catalog, this is a solid addition. But it’s farrrrr from the first thing I’d think of purchasing, and I would not say you should rush to find a copy. Everything on here has been done before, and better. I’m not saying I need innovation, but I do need a little substance and style. Smokers Delight has none of the former, and a skin-deep understanding of the latter that fills up the entire glass. That doesn’t mean it’s bad, and clearly, C’s get degrees and record deals. But this is like, a third-tier Warped release, a fourth-tier downtempo release, and a fifth-tier electronic music essential. That said, what I immediately picked up on was that Nightmares on Wax probably is a phenomenal DJ. And the old London Boiler Room makes that obvious. That’s because a good DJ can be more of a curator with little innovation, substance, or style of their own, as long as their set shows they appreciate those qualities in others. Smokers Delight doesn’t get the opportunity to showcase those skills. Instead, it’s a vibe, and maybe important to a specific electronic niche, but there are better versions of this that stick in my brain way more. But maybe I’m harsher on this because I knew what it could’ve been and was only met with what was the bare minimum for passing. Listen to his DJ sets instead.

Inte så pjåkigt faktiskt. Jag är förvånad själv. Jag trodde jag bara skulle rapa.

I really like this album cover. The music, less so. I love electronic music so at worst, I still like the stuff I wouldn't choose to listen to it again. This was just a little too one-note for me.

Warp Records is my favourite label, but for some reason this album has never really made an impression on me (apart from the wonderful 1st track). Possibly because it's a bit too polite for Warp. It's ideal background music, but nothing really sticks out apart from "Nights..."

sometimes i wonder if the dude who wrote this book actually listened to any of these records

Didn't know what to expect but this turned out to be really good. Good electronica of r changer )most have been crap no.564/1001

Bad Chill-Out. While chilled at first it soon gets boring and repetitive more like being on hold to the customer service helpline for an hour and a quarter. It gets repetitive mostly cause it's loop based, sequenced, time stretched, processed (even the "solos") to the point of being predictable.