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Boring and forgettable
Shit delight
My god
Not available in my country
Fell asleep whilst listening, dreamt I was stuck in a lift.
Visst, skönt i hissen, men... gjort av AI?
Feels like background music for a restaurant inside a shopping mall at nighttime or something
(1/7) maybe it sounds better if you're stoned?
Pointlessly long and repetitive.
No Notable Textzeile (Obwohl es ein paar Samples gibt) Hat mich sehr schläfrig gemacht, nicht auf eine gute Art. Ist weniger hart nervig als absolut repetitiv und überflüssig. Schade um ein weiteres interessantes Album dass keine Platz auf der Liste hatte wegen diesem und anderem Kram.
1/10
Completely unremarkable
Eh
Having listened to a number of DJ-as-musical-artists throughout my time doing the challenge, one thing has become clear: the music they turn out is purely functional. That function might be dancing, or getting high, or doing the horizontal bop, but what this music is *not* designed for is close listening on earbuds. In that context, it becomes readily apparent that there's no meat to any of this, no heart to it at all. Unlike the music of Motown (for example) which was danceable *and* had deep emotional pull, this stuff is hollow and dull.
Album #41 Nightmares on Wax: Smoker's Delight Four Kings Casinos and Slots ass music. There really is no reason for this album to go on as long as it does, without offering anything captivating. I guess that the point is to zone out and smoke to the album, but if that is the intended purpose, then why even include it on this list? Much like the Sabres of Paradise album I got earlier, I either just don’t like 90s techno, or the curator is making some very curious selections. Because, from what I gathe,r neither album seems to be particularly well-received. Either way, I guess this album is a must listen if you are a stoner in the mid-90s who is repulsed by the idea of substance in art. Overall, just painfully boring and unnecessary. Best Tracks: Nights Introlude, Stars, Mission Venica Worst Track: Pipes Honour Score out of 10: 3
Wie schafft es Fahrstuhlmusik für Headshops in diese Liste?
Not my style, found this boring and not musical
Fine, I guess. Until I realized I was only 6 songs in and had over half way to go of just background vibes
Nightmares is right
Bo-Ring!
1⭐️ I am such a lyric/sing-a-long kinda gal, so this album did not do it for me; not my style at all. I tried really hard not to skip through songs.. but some of them I just found to be boring and long (one was 9 mins!) songs I already knew: n/a fave new song(s): me and you
Ends this whole shabang with an absolute dog turd. What a ride it has been though. Realised I like hip hop and dad rock.
Basic beats. Kinda boring honestly.
I genuinely don’t think anything really deserves a one on this list. Maybe this is the Mona Lisa of elevator music and there are people who are really into that. Criminal with this album cover and name that this isn’t reggae or ska. Just what a colossal waste of time for me musically. Nothing about this inspires creativity in me or a desire to make art. 30 minutes after listening to this and I couldn’t hum you back a single thing that happened in this album. It’s not devoid of value, it is probably the best thing in the world for someone specifically craving this, but that’s not me.
Sorry but this is a waste of time. You have to be really high to enjoy this. Smokers Delight if you will...
I'm starting to realise there is quite a lot of bring shite on this list. This is one such album...1 hour and 15 minutes of the same boring beat. Why is this essential?
Musique que je qualifierais d'ascenseur.
I don't get it. More blend than this, you get soup.
Hab mich bei denen schon immer gefragt, was der Hype soll. Das Album machts nicht besser … ungefähr so spannend wie die Demoversion von hip-hop-ejay 4 🐻
Sucks
Not high, don’t need background music for it.
Oh god sooooooo borrrrrringgggggggg
Elevator music if it was somehow less boring. Snoozzzzze
Another UK embarrassment.
Given the over 1.5 hour runtime, this got two songs.
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.
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
Nah. 1.4
I had never heard this before and am fine never listening to it again. It droned on and on and on.
Instrumental, no muy de mi estilo
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
Kind of okay for background music, but overall pretty disappointing. I don't see actively seeking this out again.
This was boring as fuck
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.
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 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.
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
Zuhause, Heidenheim, Deutschland. Beschissene Loungemusik.
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
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.
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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.
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 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
No thanks, not my jam
Long running length and very repetitive, down tempo hip hop with jazz elements. Just too long at 78 minutes
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.
Incredibly boring and unnecessarily long
Do people pay to get on this list or something? Lame.
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
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??
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
Nope. Junior Jazz.
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
1.5
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.
Absolutely disposable, background music for pret-a-porter store :-(
Haven't heard of this before. Nothingburger 1/5
Really blank and uninspiring
Surely already heard in the afternoon or evening, at some rooftop or beach bar, somewhere. Wouldn’t even make the cut for my elevator if I had one.
DJ music is not really my thing. It’s fine to have in the background but to listen to on its own, imo, is boring. This album doesn’t break that mold for me.
It was okay
I originally hated it, but then it actually became somewhat okay background music. Then I disliked it again when I managed to tune back into it. Anyways, this is just hold/background music from a place you don’t want to be. Or maybe the Weather Channel? 1 star for the bongos I guess.
No
Bastard's hung up....... Polymath
So long... so repetitive... I came in with doubts, was a bit hopeful in the beginning, and no just waiting for it to end. Sorry for everyone involved, but I just don't find anything in here. It is boring to me, but worse- it feels like no one made it. No human touch at all. So fucking sad when I think about it now. Ps........ Just yesterday I wrote here that the streak of albums generated to me was good. This one was a reminder why I quit my previous 50 album streak. IT'S A WASTE OF TIME I have music to listen to. Don't throw shit albums here. It's so fucking annoying. I hope for better ones soon because I want to get to 100 before I take another brake.
DNF-bad started boring, got increasingly worse as it went on somehow sounds more dated than albums way older than it i’m not the biggest electronic music person but i can appreciate the good stuff—this ain’t it chief, especially right after the DJ Shadow record
Helt fint at lytte til når man venter på at komme igennem til forsikringsselskabet, meget at lytte til i 60+ minutter frivilligt. Navnet trækker yderligere ned, vildledende markedsføring
Boring experience. This isn't my smoking music...
Inoffensive lounge music. For uninspired swingers.
Languid and spiritless.
я не понимаю прикола, в чем кайф слушать ебучий постный инструментал 70 блядских минут, 1/5
Background music idk I’m not feeling well today so it could be that but I didn’t make it through this one. I was listening to it under ideal circumstances in that I was just sort of mindlessly scrolling but eh.
Torturous elevator to hell music. Just why?
Had never heard of this band. Not a genre I typically listen to. The sound of this record is good but after a while it was boring.
More like, "Pleasant Slumbers on Wax" Pre: Oh this is going to be an ICP or Kottonmouth Kings knockoff band (wasn't looking forward to that either) Post: I was really able to concentrate on my work today, almost like I didn't have any music on at all. Geez. Let me suggest two other albums to listen to instead: "The Anomaly" by DJ Logic and "Endtroducing" by DJ Shadow
Trip Hop is such a good genre of music but this isn’t that. It’s a lazy boring set of one idea songs. Just the same four bar repeat in each song and nothing happening. Maybe it passed for innovation in the 90s but it’s day one of playing with a DAW in the 2020s. Music can be this bland but it isn’t worth it.
This has the same problem every electronic kind of music has in that it gets so repetitive without going anywhere. Nothing seemed to build up to anything which is just annoying to me. 1.5/5
I assumed I would fancy this but not. Plain boring.
p754. 1995. 1 star. Music for hipster elevators. Once heard, immediately forgotten.
Too much EDM and DJ albums on this list. I'm tired of them.
There is just so much English trip hop a guy must hear before he dies eh
As one of the global reviews said, it was like being on hold for an hour and a quarter. That will do, not worth the effort of original thoughts.
Ermüdende Monotonie.
Started out nice, but oh my god will it ever end feels like I’ve been listening to it for hours
Just really boring
Nope. That's a waste of my life.
Nah, this is a bit boring. I suspect you probably have to be stoned to appreciate this one. It was so tedious that I didn't quite manage to get to the end.
Maybe I just don't get 90s electronic music, but this just sounds like the same boring background music for over an hour to me
Why is a collection of royalty free hotel lobby music on here?
Completely boring
I can almost hear a b-tier video game producer say "that sounds like something I shouldn't have to pay for." Use it for the menu screen.
Nicht meine Richtung
i really appreciate the restraint they showed in keeping this to a brisk, mind numbing 75 minutes
This album sucks. I'm sorry, but it's boring and I don't care for it at all. I never get what this sort of album is going for. I guess it's like listening to a movie soundtrack for a movie that doesn't exist? I dunno, but it's too repeaty and this mfer is 72 minutes long. 1/5
>looking for a new album >ask the 1001 albums guy if his album is actually good or just british >he doesn't understand |>pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is good and what is british >he laughs and says "it's a good album sir" >listen to the album >it's british
I had to stop 30 minutes in. I feel like I could create this (today), if you could lock me in a room and give me a couple of days with Garage Band. This music reminds me of that Friends episode when Ross rediscovers that he can play keyboard. At the end of each sound effect laden song, he would hold up a finger as if to say, "Wait for it..." and then the song would end with an explosion sound effect. In fact, one song on this album actually ended with an explosion! Yikes.
Not my cup of tea
Pretty bland fare...
One of the most boring listens I've had so far. This album goes nowhere. Some of the grooves are nice, but then they drag on for long and lose any of the impact they really had. Elevator music for stoners.
Aha, das ist Trip-Hop... nichts für mich
terrible. could not finish.
sometimes it sounded like there wasn't anything playing at all
Got bored 3 songs in and there was still over an hour left. Painful.
No
Unlistenable.
I do not understand why so many of these background music electronic albums are on this list. When the album finished, I didn't even notice that the music had stopped.
Nightmare is right. This is horrid.
Boredom On Wax would be a more apt name for this band. This thing is something worse than a snooze.
Good background album. The less I actively listen to it the more I like it to just chill to while I work. If it was on in a coffee shop or some kind of lobby I'd probably think it's a cool place. Not sure why it's on this list.
Canned and uninspired
Too repetitive and long, couldn't get myself to finish.
Tästä en saa yhtään mitään irti enkä ymmärrä, miksi mun pitäisi kuunnella tämä. Joo ihan kivat instrumentaalit, mutta ne ei ”puhu” mulle mitään
Nope
andy warhol
DNF. My first DNF and probably not my last. There's just nothing for me here.
tfw ur kept on hold for 74 minutes straight
Meh. I see no point in releasing this album. It went absolutely nowhere.
Waste of time
Not sure what this is doing on the list.
I almost liked the first 2 songs, but after more than 1 hour, I realized it was annoying, and that is it.
Not only could I not finish it, I could barely even start it.
Why?
nope
pass
couldnt listen all the way extremely bland and long
Music for a hip dentist’s office.
Yeah, sip your Chardonnay, watch the sunset, order the salad, listen to this album and fuck off.
meh not my thing
break
Not my favourite
Holiday hotel smaltz
Heard it before?: No Enjoy it?: not at all, it just isn’t my taste at all really Favourite song: didn’t have one
2 I just don't think this would make my high any better. The worst about being high is when you're tired, I need some energetic music or at least something grander. Ok this is a 1
Just a load of noise.
Ok, dat was saai. Maria vroeg na 2 nummers al "hoe lang duurt dit nog?"
This sounds like the menu screen music on a video game. This is a nope from me.
I want my time back
The best song was Pipes Honour, because it was a good groove. But even than felt like background music that deserved to be sampled or built upon. The whole album feels like something you should take as a base and create on top of. A 1 star in my eyes not for being bad, but for not being what it could be.
Background music
Some of these loops… fuck, by about minute 4 I’ve had enough and I’m just angry.
Wtf is this?
I'd like to say that I enjoyed this because I was stoned... but sadly, I was not.
Dogshit.
Ridiculous. Why is this on the list? It's just muzak.
Faut pas se foutre de ma gueule non plus
Very boring. I couldn’t even make it half way through.
Faaaaaaaahrstuuuuuuuhl… Tut nicht weh, hat hier aber nicht viel verloren, da nix zu melden Slow music to buy fast Fashion 1.2
Crap
Bunch of casual beats which is great if you’re in a video game or high given the albums name. Not my type of music. 2/10
Bias: nog niet begonnen en ik zie 74 minuten --> slecht gaan Ik voel hem niet, achtergrond album maar.. nop. geen must listen IMO
Shit and boring; at one point my phone alarm went off and I didn't even realize the music had changed. 5.7/10
Not good
Otro disco insustancial
These instrumentals are just not for me.
What a generic heap of crap. Uninspired from start to finish, and so repetitive. Maybe I'm just hungry, but I did not enjoy this...
not for me