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Overall: 2/10 I really don't like this type of music. The repetitiveness is annoying and the same constant drum beat really sucks. Fav Song: Railing Least Fav Song: Heroes
Not sure what this is intended to be. It is neither lyrical or melodic. Perhaps the driving beat works well as background music.
Roni, what? My God, an absolutely useless record. You can't even stick the cover on the wall because it's absolutely creepy. Hey, that ruined my entire morning. And the music, the sounds, are terrible.
CAN'T LISTEN - DON'T LIKE IT - another album in my 1001 albums to avoid before you die list.
I can’t take it anymore. It’s awful and it JUST NEVER ENDS.
Only liked one song, but I’m down for more junglists.
I tried this album out and it was not for me. 1.5/10
Diese Art von Musikalbum ist wie die ungeputzte Bahnhofstoilette - Man hat sie nicht gesehen und ist bislang gut durch sein Leben gekommen, als man den Deckel öffnet möchte man nur noch kotzen. 1 Stern
Can’t listen to this x
I hate this. 1/5
0.5
фу
I usually love instrumentals, I like electronica, this just sounds grating. Maybe I’m just in a mood and not in the mood to hear this rn, but I don’t like this.
That sounds much older than 20 years. Boring. Not good.
I'm going to have to disagree with Nick Hexum and say Roni Size does not come full range. I don't listen to a whole lot of Drum & Bass, but it felt like almost every song had the same beat. Maybe things ended up changing on the back half, but I had to tap out on this one.
Listened to it with my dad. At song 3, he asked when is this over. We were both done by then.
HATED IT. Got through a song and a half and bailed. This shit was Terrible. The only Techno I like is Techno Destructo. Let’s get some GWAR on this list already 🤘🏻🤘🏻
The Apple Music version of this album is almost 6 hours long. I assume the first “disc” is the original which is already too damned long at 80 some minutes. Nobody needs this much repetitive garbage. Maybe instead of remixing your tracks work on making something interesting and listenable.
I did not like this
I just don't see the point. 1.5
Not my thing… 🤷🏻♂️
Worse than fat boy slim, repetitive drum beat 1/5
If you plug your earphones into a bag of cocaine you can listen to the extended version of this album
I have never been a fan of drum and bass, mainly because it's just the same repetitive beat on a loop. This has not changed my opinion. This is too long to be on here who has got over 2 hours to listen to this shit.
This record is way too long filled with the same stuff. It's all inoffensive but it isn't super interesting. 1.5.
Stinky album, felt like the entire thing was the same repetitive drum loop obtained by pressing demo on a keyboard, all the songs felt pretty much the exact same, not a single one on here I found enjoyable other than maybe the first one which was ok at best, the only album I’ve struggled to finish as well. overall 💩/10
Yeah I just don't like this genre. Every song is too long. The drums are too high in the mix and very thin, to the point where their sound is annoying to me. I didn't even want to finish this.
Ugh, another of these fin de sicle electronica CDs. This whole genre aged like milk. They should cut every one of these for the next edition. This isn't even one of the better ones from among that set. Just remarkably unpleasant to listen to. The only bits that are somewhat tolerable is when it gets really quiet, in which case it's just a blended-average of crap and silence.
I don't need this in my music repertoire, and definitely not this much of it.
I hate this album for how it won the Mercury prize over OK Computer. It is astonishingly terrible. What possessed the judges?
I enjoy EDM, but so far I'm 0 for 3 in understanding the EDM picks I've had to review for this list. I'm guessing these have been either influential in the genre or critically acclaimed. That's all fine and dandy, but also meaningless to me. I want the EDM that has been influential on the music industry at large. If that means we get more Moby and less Roni Size then so be it. I get that my ignorance of the genre likely means I'm being unduly harsh on this album. But, my God, it was so repetitive, so boring, and the vocals were part of the problem. Maybe this just didn't age well. I don't know. Drum + bass + vocal track + loop = yawn
Just not a big fan of electronic music.
Getting this album so soon after listening to Sincere by MJ Cole in full feels like a cruel joke. And that one was better. The rhythmic drumming here put me to sleep.
One hour and three minutes of jittery drum loops. There, saved you an hour of your life.
Repetitive and very long
just another insanely long Drum and Bass album. Fast paced beats on repeat over and over and over and over and over.
A genre I don't understand or particularly like. Basically it's music for brainless people who have no imagination or curiosity in the large world in front of their eyes. If this is an exceptionally good example of Drum and Bass then I dread to think how bad the shit stuff is.
I came here to find new music and rediscover old favorites. While it has been a mixed bag, this is the first album I couldn't sit and listen to, it sounds like you are stuck in someone's fever dream or the racing mind of Jessie Pinkman on ice. Definitely not a must hear album. I came back to it multiple times but I couldn't take the assault on my ears.
I’m glad there’s music for everyone.. this is not for me. This was terrible and I can’t believe I listened to the whole thing.
Got tired of it after a couple of tracks
Not for me. It was like being stuck in an endless computer game that I'm shit at.. or something Jeremy Usbourne made in his bedroom after getting laid off from JLB. The only saving grace is I suppose that Roni Size had to walk (through audial dog shit) so Danny Dyers Chocolate Homunculus, Mamas Cumquat and Russell Orgazoid could run (again through audial dog shit)
This is what Tyres from Spaced would have on his Mp3 player. Perpetual state of menu music from an offbeat video game in the late 90s. I didn’t like it, which surprised me because I enjoy some Roni Size, mostly from In The Mode. New Forms was initially interesting, but started to remind me of Lefteye’s verse on Never Be The Same Again (if it went on forever). Watching Windows and Heroes were my favourites, they at least had some ideas and textures intertwining and weren’t entirely unbearable. In summary, it sounds like something the less capable kids from my college would upload to Soundcloud when it first came out.
Rating this on the part I listened too. Shouldn’t need a 2.5 hr studio album
Not sure why this would be considered essential to anyone. Guess it’s just not for me.
Not an ounce of musical value to be found
Nope.
I only listened to the 1 disc version linked on Spotify, not the double disc one. Even this was too repetitive and bored me though. Not my kind of thing at all
Not my thing. Terrible
Fine for background music. But I'm not really a big drum and bass guy. The tempo is too frantic for my already frantic brain.
This would be a 2 but two albums of THIS? It's a 1.
Nope. Tried to give it a try. Nope.
Hardbass is Better
Shit the bed, this was bad. Couldn’t finish it.
This album was way too long. Each song overstayed it's welcome, and didn't really go anywhere after six minutes. I will say,some of the jazzier stuff was cool, the double bass in some songs especially. Heros was also good. But it was still not it.
0.5
1.15
This album is a bit over two hours, but thankfully the music makes it feel like it's only three.
One of the few albums I couldn't listen through, even with the last two tracks unavailable. Just mindless DnB, alright for some people but really not for me.
Not a single track I would ever want to have to endure listening to again.
This sounds like something Ali G would put out.
why
Na dit album en dat van gisteren verdien ik morgen Abbey Road ofzo 1.2
Boring, repetitive and same-sounding. (And I only sampled the first 5 songs.) Seriously, who is going to sit and listen to 2-1/2 hours of this?! I didn't enjoy anything about it.
Meh
Today I discovered a genre I don't need to listen to ever again. Oh, but "Let's Get it On" oddly reminds me of the bee boo-boo bop song from SpongeBob.
Si fuese musica de un juego de arcade, estaria barbaro. Lamentablemente no vine a buscar eso. Además es larguísimo
Wow...even a lot worse than the M.I.A thing. And I thought that is bad.
Trash
Roni Size & Resprazent - New Forms (79 min) Not as bad as I was expecting (4.01) ★★ Roni Size & Resprazent - New Forms (full 140 min original release) Oh God, kill me now! (3.25) ★½
I don't like drum and bass, and the extremely long run time didn't help either!
Fait rarissime : je n'ai pas réussi à écouter l'album en entier. Pas même un titre. Comme je suis têtue j'ai même laissé filé quelques mois pour y revenir avant de noter. Rien n'y fait, ça m'agresse. Pourtant bien des groupes que j'aime comptent la Drum&Bass dans leurs inspirations, mais il faut croire que le pionnier du genre ne me séduit pas du tout...! L'impression d'écouter la même chose oppressante en boucle. Non, vraiment non.
uhgfd
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Couldn’t get past 3 songs. All sounded the same
Not for me I’m afraid. Only got 1 song in but could tell it wasn’t for me. Springs no surprises
Not a fan. Felt very repetitive and uninteresting. The Matrix soundtrack at home.
Drum and bass songs are a remix of the same tune
Oh great! An album full of 7 minute + long songs that have the same 6 seconds on a loop. There are almost none of these on this list. UGH. How could this or any of the other electronic albums on this list ever be considered a must listen. Yet another 2 hours 20 mins of bullshit.
Ridiculous to call this essential with a straight face unless you are currently living through 1997 UK DJ culture.
I couldn't get through it. Just not my thing
ok writing this as I'm listening to song number 2 "brown paper bag" which is supposedly the big hit off this album...hm. I can't say I am enjoying this at all there is no chance I'm going to listen to 2 hours of it. It's both boring and stressful at the same time. sorryyyyy I am just not into this genre at all. I dislike "new forms" and "heroes" less I think because they have words so it's slightly less boring. obviously music doesn't need to have words in it to be good but I think it needs more than just drum machines and bass.
Please explain to me how this is considered an "essential" album, anywhere, anyway, anyhow? At first I was like "ok, sure, not my fave but let's go" but by the end it was so repetitive and draining (not to mention every song is 7 minutes too long). This isn't doing anything monumental, there's nothing interesting, there's no redeeming quality. I don't even hate drum n' bass but this had me hating. You Brits can keep Roni Size.
New Forms is a Too Long Album hall of fame entry. Even if a few of the initial songs were somewhat cool this was completely washed out by the fact that it is 2 hours of nearly the same thing over and over and over (and over again). Most of the songs are 6+ minutes long with a redundant beat and similar structure. If you were to take any of the singles in a vacuum they aren't bad I guess. Early on I was considering throwing one of the singles into my "Like Songs" list, but by the end I don't really want anything to do with this album. I'm not sure I mind drum & bass as a genre, but I'd rather stick to electronica, trance, dubstep, or any other EDM genre. Play 2 minutes of this in a club somewhere when trying to get some energy in a room then pull the ripcord and move on to something catchier. Or better yet just skip it altogether and play a crowd pleaser. I'm sure there is an application for this but I'm scratching my head as to when anyone would need 2 hours of this (not to mention the 5 hours Deluxe edition). Unfortunately I have to give this album a bad review because by the end of it I really was suffering through it. Cut this in half and its still too long. Give me a quarter of this album and I might have left a mediocre review because the overall music didn't bother me but otherwise this was basically a 140 minute slog. .45 stars
How can a drum n bass album be so boring??
So random, so long…
I can get why this album is on the list, as I can see it was influential in the development of this type of music. That is a bit like recognising that the human experimentation carried by the Nazis and Japanese during WWII was vital in medical breakthroughs that came after as they carried out atrocities without consideration of ethics or humanity. The twentieth anniversary release of this shit is over 5 hours long. Fuck right off, you repetitive prick.
Genuinely didn’t get this one Can’t dance to this Is this the type of music they play at berghain? How am I supposed to enjoy this?
FFS.
Torture
Absolutely not.
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Electronic music and rave culture colonized my world in college as unwelcome guests, but I tried to get along with them as best I could. I even tried the food and didn't hate it entirely. Generally I found it overly repetitive and unemotional. Looking back, this music seems like the early stepping stones that led us to infuse better drum programming, stem chopping, and looping into more popular music, like Madonna's "Ray Of Light" at the time, Radiohead's "Kid A" and "Amnesiac," or Taylor Swift's "1989" decades later. I recall BT and Roni Size were the Christopher Columbuses of the time, hailed for forcing this new adventure upon the indigenous peoples and handing out blankets that would infect the world forevermore. I attempt to listen anew, but even as I type, I'm in a repetitive drum and bass groove that goes on for **checks notes** 9 minutes. Oh, there are two more songs approaching the 9 minute mark. Let's hold out hope there will be some variety in those. I can appreciate tracks where someone is rapping/scatting/talking over them which adds variety and changes in the rhyme patterns. It's a bit more like spoken word to a beat at that point. The frantic pulse adds momentum to any environment. Play this at a work, and your day goes by faster without distracting you with melody or purpose. Turn down the TV and put anything on, and the beat lines up and adds anticipation to whatever is going to happen next. Play this at a funeral, and the mourners can't help but bob their heads while collectively blowing their noses in random syncopation. And that's what this is to me: background music that gets one through the day and doesn't draw you in by having you sing along or contemplate the meaning too hard. It's also a breakbeat sampler. "You like DJing? Grab this hot mess and mix and match anywhere in your set!!" Most likely, this a showcase as to what this producer can do. Much like Skrillex went on to produce Justin Beiber's "Where Are Ü Now", perhaps Roni was showing his chops in hopes to eventually sell them to or collaborate with others. I kept my mind open this entire journey, but even with more education on the genre I will--in a nod to the stylings of New Forms--repeat everything I've already said ad nausea since the beginning: this is repetitive and unemotional, a foundation waiting for more to flesh it out.
A conglomerate of different noises on each track, some ok, some pleasant, (to me) most were annoying. An ok album
Rubbish. Repetative and dull.
Why
This was an insane thing to listen to.
Roni Size repartiendo breaks en tono Jungle y Drum and Bass durante más de dos horas en un disco aclamado y que funcionó muy bien. Los temas más conocidos fureon todos con la participación de Onallee (que coescribió algunas de estas y otras del disco) en la parte vocal: "Brown Paper Bag", "Heroes", "Share the Fall" y "Watching Windows". En mi opinión las mejores canciones son aquellas en las que hay parte vocal y baja un poco las revoluciones fusionadose con un toque Funk-Soul que a día de hoy sigue funcionando como el primer día: New Forms y los comentados Heroes, Share the fall y Watching windows. El resto del álbum, si eres fan de este estilo pues perfecto, sino se hace algo largo. Otros discos de un impresionante 1997: Radiohead: OK Computer, Spiritualized: Ladies And Gentlemen We’re Floating In Space, The Prodigy: The fat of the land, The Verve: Urban Hymns, Cornershop: When I Was Born For The 7th Time, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Boatman’s Call, Erykah Badu: Baduizm, Wilco: Being There, Portishead: Portishead, Primal Scream: Vanishing Point, Tindersticks: Curtains, Björk: Homogenic, Bob Dylan: Time Out Of Mind, Yo La Tengo: I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One, The Chemical Brothers: Dig Your Own Hole, Belle And Sebastian: If You’re Feeling Sinister, Teenage Fanclub: Songs From Northern Britain, Mogwai: Young Team, Daft Punk: Homework, Stereolab: Doots And Loops The Make-Up: Sound Verite, Eels: Beautiful Freak, Erykah Badu: Baduizm, Echo & The Bunnymen: Evergreen, Prefab Sprout: Andromeda heights, Dinoasaur Jr.: Hand It Over, Blur: Blur, Buenavista Social Club: Buenavista Social Club, Elliott Smith: Either, Or, Janet Jackson: The velvet rope, Smog; Red apple falls, Built to Spill: Perfecto from now on, The Jayhwaks: Sound of lies, Kent: Isola, Ocean Colour Scene: Marchin' already, Paul Weller: Heavy soul, Cotton Maher: Kontiki, Luna: Pup Tent, Foo Fighters: The colour and the shape... y también: Spice Girls: Spiceworld, U2: Pop, Aqua: aquarium...
Nein, Drum&Bass verstehe ich nicht.
Told myself I was going to listen to every album on this list in full, and this one really tested my patience. Painfully boring and painfully long.
For the first couple of tracks I was thinking ‘as far as background music goes, I don’t mind this’. But over the next hour my patience wore thin, and I struggle to square the idea that, even within the drum & bass game (admittedly not my forte, though I do like it sometimes), it was particularly revolutionary or at least the best example of its genre. Maybe I’m wrong? The list of nominees it beat to the Mercury Prize is hilariously impressive. 1.5
Super long and boring. Not finishing.
This list has ruined my enjoyment of discovering new bands from my teenage years that I've never heard of. It's always something that was only popular in the UK, and of dubious quality. This is way beyond my worst expectations. It's boring, bland, repetitive crap. I'm not sure what drug was popular in the UK back then, but you need to be on it to enjoy this.
Not for me
Bloody hell that's awful, I'm almost at a lost for words, abysmal.
The version of this album that comes up on Amazon Music is the 20th Anniversary Edition and it’s 53 songs and five hours and 14 minutes long. And so I thought to myself, “wow it must have taken them forever to make that much music” but then on listening to it, I realized they could have knocked this out in an afternoon. “Uncha uncha uncha uncha”. Track one done. “Bloop bloop uncha uncha bloop bloop”. There’s track two. Have we got someone who has no understanding of what rapping is supposed to sound like to “rap”? Great, add that to track two and the sound of a dial-up internet connection and there’s track three. Rinse and repeat until you’ve got a super long and super shitty album. I’m embarrassed this album (1) made this list, (2) won a mercury prize, (3) is remembered by anyone almost thirty years later, (3) is something to which I have now listened, (4) exists. There is no more value to this collection of drum machine beats and electronic noises than there is to ones generated at random. The worst part was thinking, “man, that has got to be the 50th time they repeated that bit” and then seeing that I’m only three something minutes into a six something-minute-long song. And I can look and see how long the song has been playing and how long it has left because I’m listening to this shit in my car on my way to work, and not in a warehouse at 3am in late-90’s London while high on ecstasy, which I imagine is the only time this music would sound good. The fact that whether music sounds good to you is so dependent on context - including place and time and activity you’re engaging in and substances you’ve consumed - really makes me feel like doing this project of listening to the albums on this list is pointless. Or maybe it’s just that listening to this album makes me feel life itself is pointless.
Anstrengend hektischer Drum and Bass on four CDs.
Not music just random sounds
Hm. No.
Mind-numbing tripe
This is so 90's hahahahaha. The same drum line used in every song. The quieter moments remind me of music used at a salon that's trying to be upscale.
Not a fan
My jungle days have passed me by
D Railing 2 Brown Paper Bag 1 New Forms 2 Lets Get It On 2 Digital 2 Matter Of Fact 1 Mad Cat 1 Heroes 2 Share The Fall (Full Vocal Mix) 2 Watching Windows 2 Beatbox 1 Morse Code 1 Destination 1 Intro 1 Hi-potent 1 Trust Me 1 Change My Life 1 Share The Fall 1 Down 1 Jazz 1 Hot Stuff 1 Ballet Dance 2 This isn't music.
interesting but not my type
I tried, but I can't listen to this!
You’re telling me this wasn’t the background music for oceans 11/12/13. Wow that would’ve made it slightly redeeming. Oh well another electronic album that gets the British nod but is still relatively boring and lame. 2.8/10
I realise I'm not a drum & bass fan, that same incessant beat drives you crazy after a while.
This is entirely too long. No one needs a two disc album over 2 hours long of Electronica, drums and base music. Songs were skipped and didn't really finish it. Is some of it decent? Yes. Does each song need to be 10 minutes long? Absolutely not. Did it influence other music, who cares. Do you need to listen to it, nope. It is better than other 1albums on this list but everything drones on and is way too long.
Couldn't finish this slow burn garbage fire
This may be the single worst album I've ever heard. Maybe if it was a 20 minute sample of each 4 bar loop, but almost 3 hours of the same repetitive drum beat? Legitimately embarrassing that this was released, much less got a 20th anniversary edition. Even more appalling that it's in this list
Boring
I have literally watched more than 1,500 feature length films with a shorter runtime than New Forms. I preferred all of them to this. Now, it's not really trash, but just how much of a megalomaniac do you have to be in order to think that a +2 hour runtime was the best option here?
There are some obvious things to like about New Forms. Unfortunately there’s also one truly unforgivable thing wrong with New Forms. How did anyone ever agree to release it as one album? It’s unlistenable in its entirety. Even the things I like gets lost in the 87 (I think?) 6+ minutes track. I could’ve learned a valuable skill in the time it took me to get through this.
This album was hard to get through. It's a double album that's way too long. Songs seemed to run into others, I had no idea where I was on the album at times.
I wasn't into techno, jungle, d&b in the 90s. I'm much less into it now.
No, i did not like it. Will not listen again
👀 Pega pero no es para todos los públicos
zzzzzzzzzzzzz..... første album på listen jeg oprigtig talt har haft svært ved at komme igennem. DnB fans er sikkert glade for at den er på listen men jeg behøvede den ikke!!
Har svært ved at se/høre hvordan det her er et essentielt album.. Jeg tror ikke at der er mange andre end dem der var fyldt med Ecstasy, da det her kom ud, som synes at den er vigtigt.
the next boring noise album. I'm concerned about the health of the 1001 author.
It's more than 2 fucking hours long!!!
Meh
Could not finish...
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Fuuuuuuuckin dull. Each track sounds like it isn't finished and is just the same repetitive "bsst ta bsst ta tick tack tick ah tick ah tack" over and over again, with lack luster base and the shite synthesis usually found in a year 7 class room. 1 out of 5, would recommend to a teen with ADHD on speed, driving his lowered to its arse Corsa.
Wow this isn't for me. Struggled to get through
I can't do it. I know this kind of music has it's fans, but this is just not for me. I'm not really sure why you would listen to this outside of just having it on in the background or at a dance club. I listened to the first 7 tracks. Each track started and I'd think "ok, this is a cool groove, there's some cool samples and sounds and things going on." and then it would repeat over and over and over for 4+ minutes, without enough being introduced or changing throughout the song to keep it interesting. Brown Paper Bag is over 9 minutes long and it's more or less the same thing through the whole song. Oh, and there's 24 tracks on this thing for some reason. 7 was more than enough. No thanks.
Demasiado, no lo escuche entero
Too repetitive and non melodic for me!
not my style of music
I think this album is clearly really important in the history of 90s British music. But its just not for me. I didn't really enjoy it, i wouldn't ever listen to it again and was just waiting for it to end it wasn't actively bad, it was okay, just not my thing, and far far far far far far far too long. Sometimes with albums like this, or the Goldie album on the list, i think why the need to make the songs last 9 mins, when there arent massive changes in the songs throughout. Just seems like hearing the same thing over and over and over and over. tidy it up, 5 mins a song and bingo bango, we are in for something great instead it just keeps going and going high 1 for this
No way I was going to listen to over two hours of this.
Starting to think I don't like techno or EDM. People say Brown Paper Bag was the best track and it was initially interesting but went on a long time without doing anything else to develop. And it has no soul or funkiness. Chalk this one up as British in a bad way.
Proof that Drugs m N Bass is not a genre that works in album form. One or two of these songs are OK, but this is a double album. I owned this and I think I listen to it one time when I first bought this time to weed this one out of the collection I think.
I recognize Railing from somewhere. Not necessarily good work music, feels like I'm on coke. Giving me restless leg syndrome. The songs are a bit too long each. Kinda got bored before finishing.
Oh great, another 90s d&b album… bottom of the barrel, folks. I feel like I woke up to a dvd menu that has been repeating for 6 hours. I simultaneously learned what the Mercury Prize is and that it’s worthless. If this won over OK Computer and Klaxons won over Amy Winehouse, there’s no justifying it being an award. For fucks sake
Is this the soundtrack to the new Letterkenny season? I get that this may be cutting edge. But again this is a "wash, rinse, repeat" style of music that makes my mind numb. I like music that has innuendo, intrigue, and variety. Unfortunately this album fails to deliver on all levels.
Why?
This album is what happens when a teenager in the 90s wants to make a spy movie but they have no money so they recruit their 13 year old brother who got a soundboard for Christmas to make the soundtrack
More UK dogshit
Silence is more compelling and far less annoying.
Ei nyt oikeen... siinähän säksättelee levyn läpi. Ei ees mieleenpainuvia melodioita tai vokaaleja. Tyylipuhdas vissiin vain tavoitteena.
Drum and bass not my cuppa tea!
There's nothing like realizing that an album isn't for me ~2 minutes into the second track, then seeing that this is a double album with a 5 hour long anniversary edition. I got through the double album, barely, and I didn't manage to start the anniversary content. Someday when I'm looking for another repetitive, looping bass and drum track that gives me a low-level headache maybe I'll return.
Repetitive and stressful. Fans of this kind of music swear there is nuance and skill to appreciate. This album verifies my suspicion that the emperor has no clothes.
This won the Mercury Prize over OK Computer? I could barely finish disc 1.
not good
While it may have been pioneering, cutting edge and the like almost two decades ago, it has lost most of that allure and does not stand up to the test of time. I found it boring and repetitive. Most of the songs where several minutes too long and would've been better received as a much shorter iteration. Electronic music is not usually my go to however, so I'm probably biased. That said, I couldn't really say I found any stand out tracks on this one. I really like the upright bass on Brown Paper Bag. Outside of that I can guarantee I'd never willingly listen to this album ever again.
This English electronica on this list hasn’t been doing this for me. There were a few occasional cool ideas on here but it was SO long and bloated, I couldn’t keep into it. The vast majority was boring and didn’t even really create any kind of vibe. I think the issue might be with me, because most of this formative Drum And Bass kind of stuff just isn’t doing it.
Rough. Overstayed its welcome by 2 hours. A few cool elements but I can’t justify two stars when the album was 140 minutes long
This isn't for me. Couldn't make it through 3 songs
Drum and bass, the soundtrack to my own personal hell. I cannot emphasize enough how much I hate this inane drivel.
For the most part I really enjoy electronic music of this era, but this one is 100% NOT one of those. Nothing but rapid drums beats for a LONG time. 1/5
i think this is my first rating of one.. the songs have no reason to all be like 5+ minutes and like the instrumentals are fine but like i just can't i dont like this one sorry
Do you like repetitive somewhat mysterious music that thinks it sounds revolutionary, this is for you. I had to call it quits halfway through.
Got bored of it very quickly
Couldn't listen to it for more than 8 seconds. Horrific
I’m no stranger to weird and experimental music, and I’m definitely more open-minded to music that I would’ve written off as bad in the past. Nonetheless I found this album dull and soulless. Obviously it’s very repetitive. That’s not always a bad thing inherently (for example there are a few ambient/drone albums I can dig), but here it just feels lifeless and sterile. I do love interesting percussive textures, but something about how sampled EDM/electronica beats sound usually turns me off: they don’t scratch the same itch as a talented drummer on a real drum set. Overall I struggled to find much artistic value in it. And that’s saying a lot, since I found value even in the Einsturzende Neubauten album and the Residents album, both of which everyone here seems to hate. Those albums are considered bad because they’re so unorthodox. This album isn’t like that; it’s just bad because it’s bland and uninspired. It’s not notable in a good OR a bad way, it just lives in the gray in-between zone of mediocrity
I started listening to this near the end of work and then during the commute home. The Spotify album is like 4.5 hours long so I checked when I got home what tracks were actually part of the album and realized somehow I was only on track 5 of a million. Not finishing which according to my rules is ONE
Was that just one long track!? Made me feel anxious.
I can't even count the ways that I don't like Drum N' Bass. Simply "all of them". The frenetic jazzy artificial beats with some occasional weird voiceovers. Entirely unnecessary and i seriously can't imagine a mood or a time when this is what you would want to put on.... it isn't danceable, it's not good for relaxing, unless you know the twists and turns of the music it is just jarring and unpleasant. Just why?
Uninteresting.
Nope.
I always imagined I wouldn’t like this I was right
Bekende naam uit de 90s, toen vond ik het niks, nu nog steeds niet. Zenuwachtig gedoe.
Ik kan echt helemaal niks met drum 'n bass
I just couldn’t do it, it just seemed like electronica to me
Makes me panic.
85% of the tracks on this album aren't songs. They're just beats. Repetitive, empty pieces of songs that never do anything. The other 15% of tracks are garbage. No redeeming qualities. Full fail.
this is just background music, i dont find this engaging or anything just some nice loops that go for way to long songs dont need to be all 6-9 minutes
List is getting pretty tedious
Christ, I don't know. I don't necessarily *want* to give this a one-star, since it wasn't particularly offensive. I already know I'm more of a casual DnB fan: if it's on, whatever, but I don't actively seek it out. However, this thing is getting close to two and a half hours long and that's... too much. I got distracted and, after giving it an earnest attempt, stopped trying. I feel like I understood it after the first three tracks. I like electronic music, but I also like it when it's a bit more... varied than this.
Even worse than Leftism (2 star electronica album from two days ago)
I had never even heard of this artist/group. Just couldn’t get into this album at all. Boring 90s techno(?). Made it a few songs and Spotify showed the (remastered) album being 5 hours…?! Jeesh.
Oh jeez. As I write this, I'm maybe half an hour into my listen, with almost another two dreaded hours ahead of me. I think it's safe to say that this will be the first album I will not finish of the 165 that have been generated for me. I'm sure this album is very influential to the drum & bass genre, but I think this is showing me that drum & bass is not for me. It just loops ad infinitum. You just heard a decent 5-second hook? Get ready to hear it for the next 8 minutes! Did I mention this album is like 140 minutes long? I was able to get into some of the grooves for a few seconds, but they just weren't interesting enough to go on as long as they did. And the vocals are pretty bad. I feel as though I'm going insane reading all of the 4- and 5-star reviews this album has received on this site as I listen to this. To my ears, this is clearly background music, but I would need A LOT of external stimuli to ever consider having this album play in the background. I really don't ever need to hear this again, unless I find myself at a rave on a number of illicit substances. What a snoozefest. I can only pray that one day I find out what I'm missing here.
Only listened once but it didnt go down well.
29th May 2023 Listened mainly on Tuesday as Monday we were travelling to Italy with Jen’s fam. Another for the live experience, wouldn’t sit and listen to an album of it.
No thanks.
New Forms by Roni Size is an album that unfortunately falls flat in nearly every aspect. Released in 1997, it is often hailed as a pioneering record in the drum and bass genre. However, as someone who has listened to it and found it to be lacking, I can confidently give it a rating of 1 out of 5. One of the major issues with New Forms is its lack of cohesion and direction. The album seems to jump haphazardly between different styles and sounds, never fully committing to a consistent sonic landscape. While experimentation can be commendable, in this case, it results in a disjointed listening experience that fails to engage the listener. Furthermore, the production on this album leaves much to be desired. The mixing feels muddled and muddy, making it difficult to appreciate the individual elements of the music. The beats lack punch, the basslines sound weak, and the overall sound quality feels lackluster. It's a shame because a genre like drum and bass thrives on crisp, dynamic production, but that is sorely lacking here. In terms of songwriting, New Forms falls short as well. The tracks often lack memorable melodies or hooks, making them forgettable and indistinguishable from one another. The repetitive nature of the beats and lack of compelling musical ideas make the album feel monotonous and tedious to listen to. Additionally, the album suffers from an overreliance on repetitive vocal samples and uninspired lyrics. Rather than adding depth or enhancing the songs, these elements feel like filler and fail to contribute anything meaningful to the overall experience. It's disappointing to say, but New Forms by Roni Size fails to deliver on its promise of groundbreaking drum and bass. With its lack of cohesion, subpar production, and uninspired songwriting, it is an album that ultimately falls short of leaving a lasting impression. I would strongly discourage anyone seeking a satisfying drum and bass experience from investing their time in this particular release.
Pour ceux qui n'auraient pas vu passer l'info, Robert est actuellement en dépression, ce qui explique la série abominable qu'il est en train de nous proposer. Je l'ai appelé ce matin dans la matinée pour lui demander de prendre un rail de coke ou deux histoire de se changer les idées. Je vous tiendrai informés.
I know you're fucking lying with this 140 minute run time...oh you're not? Is it at least actual music or just techno sounds? Oh, of course it is the latter. 177 albums in, and I am finally viscerally angry at the mere existence of an album, let alone its selection for this exercise. Thank God I didn't get this album early on, or I would have quit on the spot.
ikke for meg i det hele tatt
Why on earth would anyone put THIS on the list?!? It may have it's fans, but this is not a collection of the 1001 best Drum'N'Bass albums. I just don't see - or hear - the significance.... 1/5
The trouble with drum & bass albums is you listen to them for an hour but the Powerpuff Girls episode never starts.
What the hell was that? I feel like someone got Ross from Friends to make an album.
Mmmm brown paper bag
It should clearly belong to the list '1001 Albums You Should Not Hear Before You Die'
This was so bad I blocked this artist on Spotify.
I think this was the first electronic release with high potential for me to enjoy it a little more since it has some recognizable instruments behind the whole electronic stuff. However, it has 2 HOURS!!!!! I guess it's impossible to enjoy anything for 2 hours in 2023; I'm sorry.
I had to Google to see if this was the world record holder for longest album. Honestly, even for a record meant for the club... It's just 3x too long. It's a 3 star album dropped to a 1 star because of the length.
Maybe it's a marvel for drum & bass. Maybe this album redefined the genere. Maybe 9/11 unified the US.
There are lots of jokes about drummers and bass players. This is what happens when they decide to bring those jokes to life. Words can't express how disturbed I am that these people actually get paid for this.
Not my genre but there was one cool beatbox song
Just not for me. Feels relentless but not in a good way.
Not good. 1997 might be the worst year in music history.
What are we doing? Really? Easy to ignore, for the most part, so props for that. Repetitive 💩
A few decent beats, pretty repetitive but I guess thats the point. People on molly maybe would enjoy this. Not list worthy, didn't finish
Not for me
Didn't finish. Too experimental to enjoy without being high or drunk.
This wasn't terrible, but every song felt like the last.
Just... no.
pass
A slightly more modern album today - although saying that, it’s still 25 years old so it’s not exactly new. Most music I’ve been listening to recently is from 60s-70s, and variety is the spice of life. Songs I already knew: none Favourite after listening: none Overall: 1/10 Unfortunately, I just don’t get it. Possibly if I was blitzed off my face on a cocktail of party drugs it might be more enjoyable, but sitting at my desk with my headphones on does not make for an enjoyable experience. This is also the kind of album where after you’ve heard the first song, you’ve basically heard them all. It is extremely repetitive, and it’s around 140 minutes long. I expect this would be exhausting even for the diehard fans. I’ll be honest and say I didn’t listen to the whole thing, but it was exhausting and I wasn’t getting any enjoyment from it - putting myself through the whole album get like a waste of my time and my sanity.
1,5/5 Best song: Brown paper bag
Oh jeez thus was just brutal. It's too damn long for one thing. This could be less than half of its length. Its also just not very interesting to me. Maybe people that like this kind of thing see it as a classic. Perhaps it's highly influential (the wikipedia page does seem to indicate this) but I can't say that I enjoyed any of it at all. I was bored from the get go and it just went on and in and on and on. Listening to this, for me, must be like all the people hearing Scum and giving it a 1. At least Napalm Death has the courtesy to be brief.
Reminds me of an old friend who I haven’t seen in a long time. The most positive thing I can say here. Not my thing.
This was not for me
Perfect for when you're craving a hangover but don't want the empty calories that come from drinking 15 Jack & Cokes.
trash
Not a fan of dnb, gives me a headache
2 hours long
Way too long. I don't like the sounds on this one. Maybe I'm just used to a better version of this genre.
I knew I'd been served a shit sandwich 3 seconds in. Made it a handful of songs in but the repetitive clicks and pops were giving me a headache so I had to give up.
Shit
VERY repetitive. While I’m not huge into electronic music, I’ve been exposed to and enjoyed plenty of it. This was 3 hours of the same beeps and boops over and over and is the FIRST album through 568 reviewed so far that I could not finish. Miss me with that nearly 3 hour run time holy fuck, learn to shorten your shit.
You can't be serious. 2 hours and 19 minutes? I can't actually listen to this album to judge it in its entirety. Maybe if it was a quality album, but just from the time I listened, it felt outdated. Eh. Some of the beats were okay, but man was it repetitive. Good on the people who made it and got a Mercury Prize! But that doesn't necessarily translate to quality listening today. Clearly.
It's a no from me. So long... Some nice beats, but I didn't enjoy this album.
I went into "New Forms" fully expecting not to like it. Goldie's oh-so-ironically named "Timeless" had done nothing for me a few months back, and drum n' bass is really not my jam. But to give it a little credit, once I tried to zone out from the interminable length, it seemed there would be enough to like in "New Forms". "Brown Paper Bag", the most famous track, boasts an addictive fretless bass refrain and a frenetic beat. It's a freak-out, a riot, and it's fun. The same bass crops up in various tracks across the record and gives a unique, fluid kind of texture. But outside of that, there was a lot of repetition in the first disc alone. "Matter of Fact" is totally needless noodling around with sound effects, different synth lines over a stuttering fractured beat. "Morse Code" and "Destination" were more of the same- I wanted to like them but I just wasn't picking up on many intricacies or shape to them. I couldn't escape the nagging feeling that it was all a waste of time. I struggled my way to the end of the album listed on Spotify, realised it was only part 1 and there was another hour to go, and then put off going near the rest of it for several months. By the time I eventually got through the whole thing (23 tracks, 2 hours 20 minutes!) it hadn't changed my mind on the genre. It's marginally better than some of the other drum and bass albums I've heard (I liked a lot of the instrumentation and the vocal features) but it torpedoes itself with its length. I can't go too in-depth because I'd have to put myself through it all again and I'm going to have to go with my first impression. Some of the individual tracks may have been far better in a shorter album, but as it is I'm unlikely to ever listen to the whole thing again. That makes a one star in my book. I'd go back to: "Brown Paper Bag", "Heroes", "Watching Windows", "Electricks".
The genre isn’t for me. Didn’t enjoy any of these songs.
Gross. I know my music tastes are quite narrow, hence why I’m going through the list. But I don’t understand why this one is on here. 1
This was my first and last listen of this album. I listened to all 2+ hours of both discs. The 20th anniversary version on Spotify has additional content bringing the total time to over 5 hours. There's not enough MDMA in the world. I genuinely gave this a true listen through a good sound system and tried to keep an open mind throughout. I was in a state of discomfort by the time I was a few tracks in, but by the end I was internally screaming. I am clearly not the intended audience here, but wow I hated this. 0 stars.
Started listening to this while doing my taxes. I have to admit that I was occasionally bobbing my head while I was focused on entering 1099s into Turbotax... but that's about all this is good for. Background music while you do something else. Otherwise, it's boring and incessantly repetitive. Why are so many of these songs 7+ minutes?! Life is too short to spend your time listening to this album. Couldn't make it all the way through.
Oh I struggled on this one
I found this quite boring.
This is my 439th album and the first one I haven't finished. After 7.5 tracks, I know what they're going for. I don't need to listen to 14.5 more of the same thing. They broke my spirit. It's drum and bass with unimaginative lyrics and mediocre vocals. Best track: N/A
This is the late 90s distilled into one album. It's hard to think of it as new or interesting in any way--it's so repetitive and dated D:
Drums and bass for over an hour. This is some form of cruel torture.
1.5
Dit album is mij te ‘minimal’. Er zit voor mij onvoldoende melodie en harmonie.
No drum n bass for me.
So boring, especially with The Prodigy having been up recently. It’s like Mark Rebillet started off a jam and then just left it going while he went out to buy groceries
Drum and bass isn't typically my vibe so I didn't get a lot from this album.
Nope, not enjoyable at all. Way to repetitive.
horrible.
No thanks.
Ik zit vier nummers ver en heb nog niets goed gehoord. Precies één eentonig nummer.
I didn't like it.
I do not see its value
Do ears exist for a reason? No? Why do I have them?
Not a DnB fan, apparently.
0.6
Not my thing.