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How is this possibly on the top 1001? It’s so long and boring.
Starting off and I thought it was the theme to the Powerpuff Girls lol but continuing on with the album, what the actual FUCK is this? Super repetitive and unsettling. I have to sit with this for over an hour? Kill me now. Update: only tolerable song was 'Heroes' but even with that I don't want to listen to it again.
I seek exposure to musical artists, not computer programmers. Computer programming doesn’t move me.
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I interrupted my listening of The Fall Off to get whatever tf this is over with. I’m sorry Cole for wasting an hour and 14 minutes on this…. Some sick beats tho
Skipped most tracks, unfortunate automatic 1 star
Didn’t listen
2026.01.28.-01.29.
Bland vanilla electronic music that sometimes accidentally picks up a vibe. Much better stuff coming out at the time. Not worth another listen.
Maybe I just don’t get this kind of music. No thanks.
Not my thing at all.
this won awards???
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I try not to be genrephobic but I don't know how many more of these crappy electro albums I can take. 2/10
Given that this list is UK-rooted, I guess I can see why this makes the list. But what started as kind of fun and interesting frenetic looped beats with some trappings, quickly devolved into a tedious slog.
Dreck
Weißt du noch, Vitali. Als wir in den 90ern Boxer waren und die Musik so seltsam war - Mhm - Die Texte hatten keine Bedeutung und die Beats waren repetitv und kamen vom Band - Mhm - Das war grauenhaft - Mhm
Terrible. Funniest part of listening to this was finding out there's a 20th anniversary edition with 5 hours of this nightmare
No and No again. This list has become tedious and full of fringe albums that were big in Bristol & Manchester but nowhere else. This whole album does not sound good today, it's dated with it's awful frenetic drum machines and robotic instrumentation. I'm starting to think Brits listen to shit music most of the time. If "Brown Paper Bag" is the crown jewel of this album (11M listens) then there's no reason I should have to endure this entire album before I die. I need a joint to calm my mind down after that scramble of hyperactive noise. This is the lowest point in modern music, I'd rather endure an entire Britney Spears LP than hear this a second time. Total crap album and the repetitiveness of it all is mind boggling. 9 minutes of "Digital" was the final straw for me. There was a Disc 2 added for the 20th Anniversary. Congrats to the 4 people who bought that~! 1 star - unlistenable, no hits, no rhythm, no warmth, no good vocals, no actual instruments, no soul, no nothing for me.
I found myself much too bored with this album. Its electronic style has a bit of hip hop, which makes for a different sound, but that's all I can say when it was so repetitive. In fact, there is no reason for an album to be this long. I've watched Bollywood movies shorter than this album!
I really hated every minute of this. This is far from essential listening. It was just repetitive beats for over 2 hours, and even then, by the time I had finally finished it, it felt like it had been at least 6 hours.
This just isn't for me. The beats were ok in places, but felt repetitive with no variation at all. I also could not stand the vocals for the life of me. This felt like some weird combo of an electronic rap beat with some of the worst rapping I have ever heard. I get that this was an important album in the drum and bass genre, but it is not something I will come back to, 78 minutes is far too long even for a good album, and I was waiting for it to end. Sorry, but 1/5.
Oh it's drum and bass run though a mixer. Great for movie soundtracks, trailers and commercials. Lame for an entire album.
No
Not a fan
Do not waste your time.
fascinating that this is the album that people cite as what made the public take drum and bass seriously as a genre when to me this album feels like a parody of itself. perhaps it's partially a measure of distance and development in the edm space, but i can't imagine ever wanting to listen to this when breakcore exists ngl. even tracks like "hi-potent" that have Something going on drastically overstay their welcome without expansion. unserious vocals across the album as well. the sampling of YMO's "lotus love" in "digital" for instance just made me want to go listen to that instead, but it's a great cut. i can't place the horns in "destination" but it's the same thing where there are glimpses of other (and better) records interwoven into The Same Generic Bassline for over 2 hours. "trust me" as an example feels like unchanging purgatory. i could've watched an a movie in the time spent listening to this instead of getting pranked by garbage. complete joke of an album. DNF in full.
This is awful. There is no other way to describe what I've listened to. Some songs are not "that" bad but, overall, it's a very uninteresting, repetitive and bad album. I'm not into this music, and I honestly can't understand the love to drum and bass and this kind of electronic music, but I guess it could be less painful. I mean, the album gets really boring by the second track, and it doesn't get any better at any time (and it's more than an hour long!). Maybe this kind of music is made for listening while being on a disco or something... I don't really know, but consciously, with all my attention, it actually is based on very long songs that are all the time following the same structures and rhythms. What may I find interesting here? Is there anything I'm missing? Because, honestly, electronic music can be interesting, all the layers and textures in the songs but, with this album, I can't even enjoy it, if there is anything to enjoy here more than jumping to it, and that is something I didn't do and that I'm not going to do – one listen has been enough. Next!
Meh
First record that I'm not listening. I don't deserve 78 mins of dnb at 34 years old, sorry.
I had to listen to this garbage in the last two hours of a road trip. It was absolute torture. This is music you make for yourself and don’t share with anyone else. I know no one forced me to listen to it, but for respect of this project, I had to listen. Good news: I still have my hearing by some miracle. But my mind is gone.
I'm going to create a new genre where I whisper in a small Styrofoam cup while stomping out a beat. I'll get my wooden clogs on, grab my favorite one-use dixie drinking receptacle, and go to the local studio to record a 139 minute album. Folks won't get it at first, but years from now it will be known as one of the pioneering albums of stomp 'n' hushcup. I'm being facetious, and I typically like off the wall music, but honestly who would go out of their way to listen to nearly 140 minutes of drum and bass!? And not just that, the fact that it won so many prizes?? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. I listened to this years ago and thought i liked it, but in retrospect I made it through maybe half of disc 1. I'm sorry Roni Size, but I was just begging the album to be over by the 30 minute mark. I'll give an extra .4 for the craftsmanship. 1.4/5 -> 1/5
Crikey, this one's over two hours long! And it gets worse - the version on Qobuz comes in at 5h14m11s over four CDs. I'll give this a go, but... I played this album for about 1h45m and I thought it remarkably dull and unvarying.
I had a better review written up about this album but it got wiped away in a browser refresh. I'm not going to waste my time rewriting what a waste of time this 2 hour+ album is. My only thing I would stress is the nerve it must take for the glowing reviews of this album while people complain about the Ella Fitzgerald album. 1/5
I gave this a good go but life really is too short. Never got it and never will
No drum and base no matter how good should be in any list with the beatles and zepplin. Its ok repetitive and boring
Brutally repetitive.
11/7/25. Not really my genre so can't grade this fairly, repetitive to my ears. Rating reflects how I feel about it now, but could change if I revisit in the future.
Nope. I make my own, homemade, artisanal anxiety. I don't need yours.
131/1001 :: Roni Size - New Forms Heard before? ❌ Would I revisit? ❌ Rating: 1 Listen before you die: No File this under: Ain’t nobody got time for this.
This is bad, okay it is pretty bad, but more than that it’s just lame #musicansshouldntbeallowedtomakelamemusic
The sound isn't unlistenable – it's just a plain, average level of bad. In the first track, there isn't a single instrument that's worth paying attention to. The singing, if you can call it that, is monotonous, bland, unidimensional. The percussive beat is fast, and I guess it would be impressive if it were played live, but of course it's all electronically looped. The synths are strange and unappealing – not to mention they're not at all impressive for the year 1997. Brown Paper Bag is a slight improvement, featuring various acoustic instruments that present some melodic ideas to ponder over. (I'm guessing this is what appealed to masses the most, judging by streaming numbers.) The problem is, the melodies are quite bad (at least on a first listen), but the double bass one is pounded relentlessly into your skull for almost the entire 9 minutes. As the tracks continue, their quality is dubious at best. I guess the only consistently commendable attribute is the song transitions, which are (sometimes) swift and clean. Definitely gives incentive to run back the whole album rather than individual tracks/singles. But the singing continues to be terrible (Let's Get It On, Digital, and so on... it's just hoarse, drunken, and, well, bland). Mad Cat is the first non-vocal track after a long streak of suffering, and it's almost a blessing. Not a full blessing, of course, because it's not very good. The bassline is passable but gets old quickly, and the MJ Thriller narration ending is nothing special. Heroes has the most bearable version of Size(?)'s voice, plus a great bass part and atmosphere, so it gets a pass (which is apparently difficult to come by!). Morse Code doesn't get a pass, however. I don't know whose idea it was to have a loop of a woman rhythmically moaning with an irritating beep in the background. But it's a terrible idea. 1/5 Key tracks: Brown Paper Bag, Heroes, Share The Fall
Ugh....
Unbelievably boring. I managed to stomach Disk 1 but no fucking way in hell am I listening to over FIVE HOURS of this shit
This was horrible. It was the first time that I quit an album halfway through. I listened to the whole first disc which was over an hour. There was no way I was listening to another hour of this. It was repetitive electronic music. Ugh!!
Dreadful
One of the rare albums I did not finish, but in my defense the 20th anniversary edition is 5hrs long. All of these songs are bad. Who enjoys listening to this?
This album was way too long. It coulda been an email
This album, which I could barely get through 2 songs of, won the mercury prize in 1997. Other nominated albums included OK Computer and The Fat of the Land. Absolutely shocking decision.
Dafuq is this mess and why is it on the list? When the album couldn’t get more annoying, they hit us with Morse Code in a pitch that would only be heard by dogs if it was any more ear piercing.
Had this on CD as it was heavily promoted back in the day. Found it boring then and equally as boring now.
Why is this 5 hours on Spotify? I could barely listen to the singles who could possibly listen to 5 hours of thus
I’m going to be honest, I didn’t even make it a quarter of the way through this album. It’s just not my jam first of all, but second of all (and maybe more importantly) this album is LOOOONG. And I mean long…like it’s well over 2 1/2 hours long. It just drones on and on, and everything sounds pretty much the same in not a good way. I will say, it’s not bad per se. It’s just the same two or three techno beats over and over again. To be fair, I didn’t give it much of a chance since I didn’t listen to the entire thing. But I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. It wasn’t nearly good enough to justify that kind of time commitment. There’s way too much stuff out there to listen to that I actually do enjoy.
I hate drum and bass
Album was repetitive and WAY too long.
Extremely long, very repetitive, and brutally annoying. Nothing good came out of listening to this. 90% of it was the same beat. And not a good beat. And the vocals were just god awful (on the few songs that actually HAD vocals). Never touching this album again.
Vocals sound very cheap. I hate everything.
Something went wrong today. Wrote notes about this album but when I was presented rating screen I saw that my notes were gone and replaced by the notes I had written for my previous album. Not going to write review again but suffice to say crap music and much too long 1/5 2/9/25
Hard no
Really did not like this. Too long and droning, only listened to the first disc. Very uninspiring
Yay, another house album... The hip hop addition to some of these songs make it feel less monotonous than the others but only barely. Most of these songs significantly overstay their welcome and only serve to make the album tiresome as a whole.
I always thought drum and bass wasn't for me, now I Know it. Awful stuff.
Not only is this not my type of music but the album is like 2 hours long. Absolutely unlistenable
Not enough drugs to enjoy this.
Holder seg like godt som Amanda Bynes
Not in my edition of the book! 1997. 1 star. No-one needs multiple 5+ minute drum and bass tracks, including a 9+ minute monstrosity. Fucking awful. Who decided this was essential listening, and can we beat them to death?
This was terrible. There was about a minute or so early on that delved into some jazz type stuff but that was the only part I enjoyed on the whole thing.
No thanks
Not my Coconut of milk
It's crazy thinking anyone would be into this and I've listened to some weird and actual good stuff in the same genre. Thise critics are mad for choosing this album but hey ho
I just dont understand the target audience for this album, or what im supposed to be doing while listening... Gaming? Eating? Dancing? Sex? Exploring? Gym? Everything just seems worse with it playing, it was repetitive and unoriginal, nothing made me stop and admire the talent...
I just don't get it, who the fuck is this even for? It's just two straight hours of drumb and bass. Like why would anyone ever listen to this, or in what setting? One or two songs at a time while you're at a rave sure, but an entire two fucking hour album is just the most pointless and meaningless thing ever.
Two words: S**t sandwich. I can’t express how much I hated this album. Maybe because I’m an old man, but I believe I’d have hated it when it came out in the '90s. It’s a lot of samples, drum machine, and nonsense. If it’s your favorite album and you enjoy it, God bless you. As for me and mine, we say blech. And I like a bit of dance or electronic music. Maybe I needed to be in a rave on drugs to really get this album, but sitting in my chair trying to relax, it did the opposite. I started getting annoyed and anxious. I won't listen to this again and regret having done so this time.
ehh más ruidos?
I listen to albums while working out at the gym. Today, the gym soundtrack must have been titled “The Very Best of the Very Best Soul, Funk, and R&B” because they were playing double shots of Curtis Mayfield, Gladys Knight, Chaka Khan, Sly, Aretha, Ray Charles… it just kept going. Meanwhile, I’m listening to this electronica album. I don’t know whether to say it was a little ok, or a lot not good, but I could not ignore the comparison with the gym playlist… 😬 I took at as a sign and just stopped listening to this album after 3 tracks. Sorry Roni Size… thank you for playing. It’s a 1.
The Good: We get something NEW!!!! The Bad: The forms are illegible… The Ugly: It seems we have to fill them out a million times, all identically… Imagine you have a cousin who always stutters for about 3 minutes when he needs to say the words “one” or “nine”. Now imagine that you have 2 options: listen to him count to 1000 and receive a million bucks, or you can opt to clean the bathroom and get a cheese sandwich as a reward… I’d pick the bathroom and cheese sandwich before I’d ever have to listen to this album again… because this album is like listening to that cousin count to 1000… It’s not that I have a problem with drum and bass, except for the simple fact that, like most EDM related music, I hate it and would only be able to enjoy it if I were in a different state of mind—booze or drugs induced—it’s more that I don’t understand why I need to listen to an album that lasts about 1 hour too long… I am getting the serious suspicion that Dimery is really a sadist trully enjoying putting us through this fucking ordeal! Not my cup of tea… 1 1/2*
Not bad, but one of the most boring albums I had to endure.
2/10 Not so offensive to my ears but I couldn’t get through it
Zero Points! Crap in my ears
Not my style
At first I was thinking it was fine for the background, but God it's SO long and SO tedious. No one needs 90 minutes of quick high hats and snares. It's like a soundtrack to a 1990s technothriller chase scene except the scene just keeps going and you're watching some computer nerd ride a bike REAL FAST for an hour and a half. Ugh.
nah man, lifetime in the dungeon for this one Will I listen to again: 0%
Too weird. 1/5
gives anxiety
It’s not a genre I’m super familiar with, but I am pretty open minded (unless we are talking about shoegaze) that said, this album was pretty repetitive and boring. I think I would have been alright to not listen to this one before I die. I will never play this again.
Started out promising and went steadily downhill from there. Which is such a shame because I would love this list to mix up the genres a bit more, we haven't heard enough electronica in this challenge so far. This is scraping the barrel though, there are heaps better drum and bass albums.
Just terrible all around. Felt like a distraught cacophony of sounds
If I had 30 minutes left to live and I wanted it to feel like 2 hours then I might listen to this again. I have no grasp on the genre to really get anything out of it. Rating: 1.2
I actually like Drum and Bass, but this is quite annoying.
< the Beatles Why is English electronic music so bad and why is this album on here at all
What is this shit?
whenever I would just listen to the opening of couple of the songs I would whisper "smack my bitch up" and it would fit perfect, but then the actual song would start and dash my enjoyment. Drum and Bass just sucks and this whole experience did too. Thats all.
Regardless of how the songs start… if you jump to the middle of the song… 9 times out of 10 they are identical. “Watching Windows” was okay but otherwise this was NOT an album for me
As a lyrics-focused listener, this is not my bag.
1 stern
Nah
Damn this is some boring repetitive ass shit
Zuhause, Heidenheim, Deutschland. 78min. meines Lebens verschwendet.
I got a shitty Drum and Base album 2 days in a row wtf is this Best Song: N/A Rating: 2/10 (DNF) Stars: 1/5
No.
I could not get into this album. I tried it a few times, but just never got very far. Not for me.
Total load of crap
why
Okay so you know the latter half of the opening theme song for the Powerpuff Girls, the one with the little drum breakdown before the main motif starts playing? This entire album, and I mean ENTIRE album sounded like all the rough drafts to that mini little drum interlude. This album is not for those who get anxious from repeating sounds/noises, because there's about 8-9 noises in totality and they get slightly rearranged from track to track.
Not my style, and it wore out its welcome with an hour and a half left. Were it a bit shorter I might could justify a second star, but as is I just really, really did not care for this listening experience.
NEXT
Ugh….I think every British album has made this list! Good and bad! This one is bad!
This is the 94th album I've ranked (I did a few out of order). It's the first one I couldn't get through the whole thing. It was painful to listen to. I fell bad ranking an album without listening to it in its entirety. That sort of defeats the purpose. But this was unlistenable.
You know what, I’m glad I’ve been able to listen to an entire DnB album so I can really form an opinion on it. Having said that I never want to hear this drawn out drum back track ever again.
I could not tell when the songs started or ended because it all just sounded the same.
This won the Mercury prize??? Just awful. I really tried, but it's just relentless nothingness to my ears
Nope
this provoked in me the same feeling as when jazz makes me feel like my atoms are in the wrong place
1/5. Look, I can appreciate a good drum and bass album, and being presented with 10+ on this list was more than I was expecting. It's not necessarily groundbreaking, and it goes on the "Mercury Prize winners that are not great albums" list once again. Are we sure the people deciding the Mercury winners have ears? It's hard to tell at this point. Like sure, maybe good uses for some sample in a future rap song, but right now it feels like a lot of unfinished ideas into 2+ hours of music. I don't even remember the difference between the songs honestly. Even if it was just the first CD, it's a little much honestly. Best Song: I don't remember, I'll just choose Railing cause it's kind of short and had promise
Terrible and boring
Ugh…enough with the electronica.
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
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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.
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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.