Reviews (page 6 of 7)
not my typa thing but is alreet
this album hasn't aged that well, very dated to its time period. sort of enjoying it though, move any mountain was quite good enjoying it less halfway through overall this album wasnt that good, this genre just isnt my sort of stuff and can easily get repetitive and boring, but it wasnt as bad as i expected when i saw it was at the bottom 20
A surprising choice given that Boss Drum was the big hit album. Only remembered Move Any Mountain. Rest of the album is of a similar flavour. Competent dance music with some good moments but an act like the Prodigy has done the same kind of music better.
Really forgettable
didn't even finish it
I’m not quite sure how this album ended up on this list. It’s just standard dance music and I can’t find a single thing unique or special enough about it to warrant it as one of 1001 important albums.
Never had much of an interest in stuff like this, but there's certainly a place for it. Just not really for me.
Wasn't really vibing with this one. Maybe I'm just not a fan of this type of music. Not bad overall, just not very memorable.
I think this one might have some potential but after a first listen I can only give it 2.5/5. I may eventually come back to it.
Fun at the time but that was a long, long time ago.
Maybe it's dated, but thought Move Any Mountain was more punchier than it was. None of the other tracks piqued my interest. 1.5
Not for me. 👎 I imagine it was pretty popular for coked up teens back in the day though.
Gets better later in the album but overall it was not a good album
the british figuring out how to rap w.o. sounding obnoxious was a long and arduous process
I like electronic music, but unfortunately some old electronic albums just don't age well compared to what has come since. I'm sure this was a groundbreaking sound in 1990 but I'm just not a huge fan of that TR909 sound or whatever it is that's so prevalent in 90s electronic. Also why do choruses from electronic songs in the 90s sound like they are written by moms and dads who listen to rap and try to imitate it? Not going to knock the album too hard, just not for me.
Apparently this is a very influential and important electronic dance album. 2 🌟
Bog UK techno, went forever. 2/5.
Meh.
I liked the Shamen in the 90s. Can't say this has aged well. Still enjoyable but not a great album.
One of those albums where you go to Wikipedia to see the accolades that landed it on this list, but the only notoriety it has is being on this list
Eh, this was fine but not my style at all. It was way too repeaty. 2/5
Mehhhh D -
Now that is some 90s techno bullshit. Too bloated to actually enjoy with a sober mind.
Most, but not all, dance music is shallow. Sadly, this one aligns with the majority. Nothing terribly wrong here, just the definition of "nothing special".
Aparte de la primera canción que la conocía, no tengo recuerdos de este grupo más allá de su nombre. El disco me ha parecido un latazo y me recuerda a lo más machacón de la época de la época de la música electrónica de baile. Le voy a dar 2 estrellas por "Move any mountain".
Fine background music for working in the afternoon. Keeps some energy in the room. Not a single I would go back and listen to though.
Mais ils nous emmerdent ceux-là
L'obstacle The Shamen fut très difficile à franchir. Pourtant, la jambe droite venait assez aisément passer au-dessus de la barrière, mais au moment de répéter l'opération avec la jambe gauche, une douleur vive vient nous heurter le crâne, rendant ce dernier mouvement extrêmement long et pénible.
Generic 90s dance music. I couldn't even find one track to catch my interest. It hasn't agend well. 1.5/5
eh Prefs: Human Nrg (Massey), Evil Is Even (Edit), 666 Edit Moins pref: Hear Me (O My People) (Edit)
I feel this is one of those albums where the sum isn't better then its parts. It has some good songs like Move Any Mountain, and there weren't any unlistenable albums. As a whole though, it was tough to sit through as I got fed up before the halfway point.
Psykedelisk dance, rytmisk, alternativt
Muy diferente comparado con lo escuchado hasta ahora. Oxygen restriction está aburrida, casi me quedo dormido, pero las canciones anteriores lo logran bastante bien. A partir de Oxygen, el resto de las canciones me suenan a relleno.
Empezó como con ganas de quedar bien y poder cambiar mi percepción de esta música… pero luego se volvió largo y sin sorpresas y ya al final solo quería que acabara.
Production quality seems high, but it's boring. Low effort techno
Chato.
Well this has come out of nowhere. The fucking shame? Mad. I was hoping this would make me wish I was born 15 years earlier so I could have lived the second summer of love in person in a warehouse somewhere in Blackburn. It didn't. Sadly a pretty listless album that didn't make me want to chew my face off.
That’s a lot of beats! I find it rather repetitive but have to say Make it Mine is a bumper.
Not my style.
I'm really disappointed I didn't connect with this more. It has everything I want from a record of this kind but I just didn't feel it and after while I was just waiting for it to end. I can definitely hear songs on here that inspired artists like David Bowie in his mid to late 90s period. It's alright.
Probably a little too electronic for my tastes, I really liked the first song but it faded after that.
It’s dance music. I don’t like ‘90s music. NEXT!
Overblijfselen uit de 80s zijn nog weerzinwekkender dan dat verloren decennium zelf. Behalve 'Move any mountain' want die levert me nog een zuchtje jeugdsentiment op. Oef!
Welgeteld 5 nummers volgehouden en toen was ik er wel klaar mee.
#boring
This music makes little sense without drugs.
Not my cup of tea
Trance når det er værst. Den genre er bare irriterende.
Ok, so they aren’t one hit wonders. (Boss Drum is a miracle of the electronic age). But this is just a long cliche looking for a beach to happen.
Fine, fun background music. Though to listen to a straight hour of electronic dance music does eventually wear on the nerves...would have probably like it better in smaller doses
I felt like I was either in a European nightclub in 1990 or a Benetton. Regardless, the album seemed like one giant song that was never going to end which could mean the album works seamlessly together or it’s redundant. I say redundant.
eh.
Eh
1h10 c’ est un peu long mais ca semble etre la norme pour ce genre de disque.j’aime mîeux plusieurs albums dans cette liste de ce style que celui ci . Trop intense a omn gout . 2.75
Not horrible bad taste, but not amazing neither.
Not great
Except for one track ("Move Any Mountain"), this was new music and a new band for me. This album sounded like a bridge between music from the 80s to early 90s. I heard elements that reminded me of Yazoo (Yaz) and Eurasure, but hints of EMF and Jesus Jones. The music seemed to fit in a little pocket in between EMF, Jesus Jones, Soup Dragons and Hudu Gurus on one side, and Yazoo (Yaz) and Eurasure on the other side (with C&C Music Factory and Information Society stopping in to say hello). I liked the album okay at first, but then the music started wearing on me. Did I not enjoy this album? OR Did I dislike the album? I think there were too many tracks that I would want to skip if someone played the full album for me again.
Only for Move Any Mountain this album deserves at least 2 stars.
This album sounds exactly like 1991 dance, but I failed to hear its grandeur. Guess there are better dance albums off '91 out there, dunno.
Not bad, not my favorite.
Thought it would be cheesy Ebenezer Goode stuff but it was ok for what it is. Probably better if you're full of class As
cool but drags quite a bit 5/10
maybe it's good for electronica things? it wasn't offensive
2/5. Couple of good songs. The rest didn't do it for me.
2.5
Kinda fun, but not my style of music.
Some good songs/beats
No the worst background music, but wouldn't be putting this on to actively listen. Must be another one of those super influential albums because it sounds like any other electro music I've heard.
Nothing special, nice dynamics tough
The album starts and ends and in between there is some electronic music that sounds indistinctive and generic.
First track not my bag, sounds like some soundtrack off a drag show 😂 very Canal Street. 80s sounding disco synth pop stuff. 3rd track better, sounds a bit more like chilled ibiza type stuff. Got early The Prodigy vibes too though, but far more chill. I wanna like this cos its Prodigy-esque but I just can't get into it. If prob appreciate it way more if I gave it some more listens, or if I'd had a few drinks 😂 Gotta be a 2.
This kind of electro thing isn't bad and I didn't mind vibing out to it whilst working but generally, it's not my thing. This may sound a little 'amateur' but a lot of it is repeated, random sound effects and it's just not for me. That being said, I don't hate it and I wouldn't mind it being on at a house party, I'd probably quite like it.
Jaa-a, muutamia kiinnostavia kulkuja, mutta ei oikein isommin innostanut. Oxygen restriction jäi kertakuuntelulta parhaiten mieleen.
Not for me
Album dosc nietypowy, bo jest to muzyka elektroniczna, o ktorej praktycznie nic nie wiem, a jedynym punktem odniesienia jest juno reactor, bo gatunkowo tez elektronika, style w jakich utrzymany jest album to techno, synth-pop, acid house i progressive house, nie bede z tym handlowal, bo nie wiem jak, kilka trakow ma wstawki wokalne, human NRG i progen 91 z zakonczenia plyty, czas grania to godzina 7 minut, niektore kawalki meczyly dosc szybkim tempem, ale niektorych moglbym sluchac na loopie o wiele dluzej niz przepisowe odsluchanie, tak jak w przypadku light span soundwave czy progena, ktore leca na plejliste
2/5
Skotsk electronic dance music fra 1990. Nå har jeg hørt det også.
Not really my brand but I can appreciate it's appeal
Rave rock what?
I find it very difficult to put this album into context. It certainly sounds like an early 90s techno album, but it's hard for me to know if it is groundbreaking in some way that makes all the similar sounding music that I've heard derivative rather than merely similar. Some of the lyrics are very cheezy, but again, I don't know how they would have been perceived at the time. Some of the songs are good (Make it Mine), but I've also never delayed finishing an album for this long before. At certain points, this album becomes the embodiment of toxic hippie positivity. 2/5
Not good
90s electronic music all sounds the same. God awful
no thank you
It is not awful by any means but there is no world where this album could be considered essential. I have heard much lower lows in other albums but I am not seeing any worthy high. 6/10 [DROP]
Normally, I can tolerate a bit of dance but honestly, I end up skipping most tracks cause it just annoyed me
nah
mid mid mid skip skip...
- Not my thing, troppo dance, mal riuscito per giunta, uscito nei 90 ma (debolmente) anni 80-sulla via del tramonto :/ - Move any mountian ok, se proprio devo sceglierne una. Un album ripetitivo. Non lo riascolterei per niente al mondo. - Non so che aggiungere questo sound o lo balli in discoteca (forse) dopo essere entrato in una macchina del tempo, oppure non so, io mi stufo di ascoltarlo dopo poco… effetto nausea!
Is this is PS1 demo disc? It was probably ahead of its time in fairness, but we're on PS5 now and demo discs have long ceased to exist. Has not stood the test of time. I was expecting something more intense for rave. This would even be quite naff on 90s dance pills honestly. Es are good, this isn't.
Oh no this is bad
No thank you.
This might be the most egregious electronic music album pick of them all. This might be a favorite of a very specific subgroup of a subgroup of a bygone demographic of listeners who have hopefully aged out of the circumstances that made them think this was the peak of dance music. Euro-centric shallow spiritualism mixed with harsh, on-the-nose production. It’s an Orbital album, but bad, with the mystic qualities of a Shpongle album, but bad. Shpongle, by the way, is made to sound like tactful geniuses of experimental electronic spiritual music in the face of this project. How corny do you have to be to make Shpongle seem subtle and “tasteful”. “Evil Is Even” shows one minute of promise but then seems content to not do anything else at all for the rest of its runtime, almost rending its status as a noteable track null. 90’s electronic music albums that use similar sounds but are way more worth your time: LP - Antiloop Anything by The Prodigy Furious Angels - Rob Dougan The Gathering - Infected Mushroom Anything by Aphex Twin Aforementioned Orbital. 1/5, the music is what it is but it’s the idea of including this album in such a list is what draws my ire. Album art is way cooler than any of its musical substance
God as my witness I tried. But just couldn't. This was like unironic Flight Of The Concords.
Here’s what I’ll say about this: it ain’t good.
After 4 attempts of turning the album on and then switching it off to listen to something else I think I'm calling it about halfway through this hour+ album. It's dated. It's boring. The vocals are forgettable at best. The beats are uninteresting to say the least. Just one big nothingburger.
Awful. I hate house music so much. The soundtrack to a vapid club where you can’t hear anything including the people around you and are way drunker than you want to be and it smells like beer rotting the floor and cologne and it’s already way too late and you know your mind isn’t going to be right for the next 2-3 days just based on how late it is
(18/100)
im so tired of it
Maybe this album sounded good whilst high on a Friday night in a club in 1990. It didn’t sound good whilst eating my Weetabix on a Wednesday morning in the kitchen in 2026.
I like to watch pro wrestling and I’m generally unashamed. But every once in a while I’m watching and there’s something going on that makes me think “I would be embarrassed if someone walked in and I had to explain what I’m watching”. That’s how I felt the entire time I listened to En-Tact by the Shamen
Dreadful. If this was hold music, I'd hang up.
AI will probably eventually destroy all art, but this came out over 35 years ago and is just as creative. I guess it set the stage for people becoming ok with soulless music that sounds like it was made by a robot. I don't know if this broke new ground. Maybe this was the first dance album to use a certain synth patch. Maybe it was the first one to start the trend of meaningless new-agey repetitions lyrics in club music. But this is basically the Dick and Jane primer of electronic music. It is trite, it is uninteresting, it is wildly dated, nothing happens, and I presume it was created for belabored learners. There's a lot of bad music out there, but this is just so unforgivably boring. 1*
Another day wasted at a local Aeropostale waiting for someone trying on clothes.
Nah
The 90s were such a mistake, man
Elektronisch, Langweilig
Boring.
This list has more than it's fair share of garbage. In a big pile of garbage, this gets put into the garbage pile of the garbage. I have come to the conclusion that the author of the book is deaf. Looked up a list of albums and wrote a book as a spoof to see how many people would try it. Well congrats on a successful psychological operation on the masses. 0.00 The only worthwhile use of this I can think of is to torture spies into giving up information.
I like to think that when I see a low score there is a 99% chance that I'm going to like the band. I mean when I look at the 20 Lowest Rated Albums 12 of them have gotten or will get a five star rating because I know the bands and I love their music. This, is not that this is a low score because it's shit. I normally like electro music, one of my favorite bands is Kraftwerk, but this is like some idiots found a drum machine turned it on and said the same things over and over and over again. Noped out after the 2nd song which I knew was going to be bad when I realized that Human NRG was Human Energy. I was trying to figure out what acronym NRG was. I'm now going to go listen to Converge to purge this from my ears.
Not my thing. It isn’t objectively bad, it’s just not for me. It sounds like cheesy club music from the 90’s, and it is… but if that’s your thing you’ll love this.
Oh no, this it shit. Track 1, yeah nah, 1 hour and 7 minutes of this is gonna be tough. Track 2 amplified this feeling, shitty 80s/90's dance music with shitty beats and shitty synths.
Worst album I've had yet, although I'm yet to get any of the real bad ones. It just keeps dragging on. Do not listen to this if you're not doing something else at the same time.
What a waste of time. Rating: 1.3
I used to be scared of the staticy rave stations that came through on the radio on Saturday nights. The music was insistent, directionless, and repetitive and the effect was like that of a number station: a broadcast to activate or deactivate Manchurian candidates. Even if Move Every Mountain now sets off a nostalgic quadrant in my brain, my overwhelming feeling of an entity searching for something in me that isn't there. 1.5 There are people who have been taken enough with EDM/House that they have written books on the genre. These days I have trouble enough getting through books about things I am interested in, so I shall not bother with the likes of Sean Bibber‘s ‚Pump Up the Volume: A History of House Music‘ or Matthew Collin and John Godfrey‘s ‚Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House‘. I am curious, all the same, how these authors write about the music itself when it comes to it; what sort of observations can identify and differentiate the work of a given House artist? I find I haven’t an honest analytical word to say about this tk-a-tk-a-tk-a-tk-a BoomBoomBoomBoom shit. I dare say you had to be there. Even if you were, it might still be an absurdity to be sitting in your living room listening, sober and inquiring, to this stuff in 2026. 1/5
I know it's April Fools Day but still. Band had one shitty single that was popular in Manchester clubs for about 8 minutes on an album two years after this. I tried to listen to as much as I could, but even for its time this is a very sub-average album. I assume the follow up will be on this list as well then as it has that one song on it some people once knew. So I guess I have that to look forward to.
My review after 2 seconds: Ah, fuck. This is gonna be a long day. I made it about halfway through before I had to turn it off. I honestly have no idea if this is good house/dance/electronica music or not; I'm simply not capable of enjoying this album. Pretty much every jazz album on this list gets a lower rating from me than it deserves for the same reason. It's not you; it's me. (But also you get one star because that's the rule for albums I don't finish. Sorry.)
<checks notes> shite.wlrst album on the list so far... And I've had that German industrial thing
Man this was not my tune. I cannot happily sit through an hour of electronic VGM/Commercial music. 1.5/5
Would give it -10 if I could
Oh my God I'm so sick of this shit, like really? Does anyone *need * to hear this many crappy 90s progressive electronic albums? They are all exactly the same and they are all as awful as each other, just a full hour (or even longer in many cases) of pointless meandering crap. I'm really getting to the point where over 800 albums in, whenever I get one like this or just any overrepresented era or subgenre, I just don't even feel the need to actually review these anymore. I've said everything I need to say in the many other reviews I've done for albums like this one, and so now I'm just using this an an opportunity to complain about the album choices in the book since this album is simply nowhere near interesting enough to actually give a full review.
não é ruim, mas é bem ruim...
I don't like EDM, to be fair?
Ne Langen zit...
Some classics, but the album isn't great as a whole
Some of the most repetitive banal bullshit. I imagine it’s more painful listening to this than it is just staying home from the rave and snorting pixy stix in silence.
No thanks.
I've never attended a rave and this album confirms I made the right choice. 1.5/5
Música de discoteca de los primeros noventa... Pues sí, estaría muy bien en su contexto, pero es absolutamente irrelevante en general.
Sounds like it was made in someone's bedroom, and not in a good way.
I absolutely judged this album by its cover. Had never heard of it but when I saw it I thought, "This is gonna be some techno bullshit." Alas and alack, I was right! This might have been tolerable if it was purely instrumental. I wouldn't have *liked* it, but it certainly wouldn't have been so actively off-putting. I could've put it on in the background and been bored by it, but instead I'm distracted by the dumb lyrics: "Omega Amigo/For you/I always have tiiiiiiiiime..."?! Fuck outta here. And enough with the computerized voices. Kraftwerk did it first, and it wasn't even interesting then. Why is this so long? Is it because it's really actually quite easy to just keep looping the same beat over and over? I don't care! I hate it!
I have no clue why this is on the list. Is it culturally relevant and I have missed a huge part of the world? It's just not a good album and I made it a bit more than halfway before I turned it off. Instead I listened to Aretha Franklin. Did a pretty good deep dive on her and enjoyed every second of it. Vocal blues at its best right there. She got the range and power in her voice that make you believe. When she's singing freedom you KNOW she ain't going back to that man. Such a great string of songs. Made my commute full of me ruining her vocals as I sang along. Good music. So yeah skip this one and go listen to Aretha. It's a far better experience.
Doesn’t take much to qualify for this list apparently.
Dafaq is this shit?!? Garbage
Я стойко прослушал всё до конца. Но этом хватит.
I was in some sort of 90s-rave-hellscape while enduring this undanceable trash. No more please
Oh my god, was the motive behind the back half of this album to make the listeners ears bleed?
The Shamen will always hold a special place in my heart. As a twelve year old watching the Daily Mail class getting foamed up over Ebeneezer Goode was Very Funny™ Alas there's not enough chemicals in the world to get me to enjoy this album : (
Halfway through the first song, yeah this is gonna be a struggle today. This is 100% not an album that everyone needs to hear. And it's hilarious to me that the same people will shit on this album and praise Daft Punk to no end. 1/5
What the hell was this?
Other than Move Any Mountain, which wasn’t even on the original release, this album is everything I hated about 90s dance music. Call me a fool but i dont see the appeal of music that sounds like there’s a car alarm permanently going off in the background. At best this is music to lose yourself to whilst high in a club, but not to listen to otherwise.
Just not for me.
Uh oh I don't want to listen to this I'll give it three tracks Okay on second thought this seems like completely reasonable background working music to me so long as I'm not paying attention to it too hard. I have no idea why this would be considered an especially good album, but it's fine? Oop had to abandon ship the 666 song sucked and I did not recover
Technical advances make it really hard for electronic music from the 90s to age well. Adding in lots of white guy rap with zero flow makes it even harder.
"I can move any mountain" no you can't. More like Sha-meh
It just did nothing for me. I've been to a rave and I tried imagining dancing to this there and it felt depressing. The music is kinda interestingly layered every once in a while, but the album as a whole made me bounce back and forth between feeling annoyed and apathetic.
nah
this reminds me of the techno music they would play in Winx club when they go to the club where the guys have purple hair and they get attacked. also feels like it would be used in the sound track of a forensic show like in the background when they work
I've never heard of this artist. Almost immediately, I felt pretty confident that this was not going to be an enjoyable listen. This style of electronic music just doesn't appeal to me. I find it boring. And this specific album was like listening to over an hour of static. There's just nothing interesting in here for me.
I want this hour back. I am into electronica/dance music, but can someone explain how this is important or influential?
Just boring, uninspired, monotonous electronic dance music. Amongst the worst included on this list.
Fururistic sound. Psychedelic- rave scene In the right house this would sound really good and mysterious. You could probably rethink life really good on an acid trip in a rich persons house. But I dont care for it so 2/5
If the Scottish youth found a Casio Keyboard and thought he could both sing and rap. This is god awful. 1 star is a gift
Banal
1/5 only because 0/5 isn't an option. That was an absolutely brutal listen. Just the most generic sounding dance music possible. Nothing stood out.
Did not like, weird
Are you fucking serious. This was rubbish didn’t finish it. ‘Ebeneezer Goode’ is honestly not that bad of a song maybe if it was that album I might have disliked it less.
So much effort to listen to this album. Which made it even more annoying that it’s just a bit rubbish.
What in the BigFishLittleFishCardboardBox-hell is this album doing on this list. Get in the bin.
It feels like Philomena Cunk is going to jump in any second and make a joke.
1/5 why is this on the list best: -
escutei às 10h da manhã do dia 21/01 tdah bateu forte, talvez com uma balinha seria diferente achei insuportável ouvi dnv às 18:33, achei uma merda msm
Not enjoyable. Forced myself to listen. Sounds like the soundtrack to an unknown video game from the 90s
If you like to hear every song at roughly the same tempo, then this is the album for you. If you like to hear an album that R2-D2 & C-3PO would dance to, then this is the album for you. Give me real musicians playing instruments over this any day. This is uninspiring, repetitive, drivel.
One "hit" song does not secure you a spot in the Top1001 albums of all time. "Move Any Mountain" is an ok song for 1990, but unless you own it, when was the last time you heard it on the radio, an ad or a movie? The listener counts are embarrassing. Under 100K for most songs, over 30+ years, not impressed. If this is your favorite album, you need to get out more. I wasn't about to suffer thru 15 songs, come on. One-hit-wonder, generic sound for the time, repetitive everything, no soul, drum machines, this was another England-only entry that has NO business on this list. 2 stars only because it's better than Jazz.
Завжди дивувало, що люди свідомо обирали йти в клуб щоб порухатись під щось схоже на En-Tact. Танцювальна сцена в UK на межі 80х-90х дарувала цікаві моменти, але Шамени не з них)
This type of 90s electronic music really is not for me
IDK man, I don't like being a hater but... I have never really been much into the rave scene so maybe I just don't appreciate the art. The rap portions sound like something kids from my high school would make for the talent show. There are few moments later in the album that I can appreciate. Emphasis on a few. I am sure I would appreciate them more with a little ecstasy or molly...
I couldn't get through this album in one go. I had to take a break at one point early on because I just felt like I was struggling with it a bit. Came back to it a bit later and listened for a while before realising it was actually inducing an anxiety attack. I'm not sure why, something about the particular sounds in it and the repetitive nature just triggered a panic and had me overwhelmed. I do have an anxiety disorder, so this isn't completely out of the blue, but I've never really had it triggered by music like this before. (at least not music that isn't designed to be frightening) I took another break, and came back later on in the day to finish the last few tracks, so I did listen to the whole thing eventually. I already wasn't finding the music enjoyable before all this happened, so for it to also provoke that response in me makes the rating pretty easy unfortunately. I'm sorry to The Shamen, I'm sure there are people who love your music - I'm just not one of them. Needless to say, I definitely won't listen to this ever again. Music is often my coping mechanism, and I feel like today it betrayed me.
Another artist I never really listened to in my youth, I think the few tracks of theirs I knew had the effect of putting me off listening to more. For once this approach paid off. I couldn't make it all the way through this album. It just doesn't sound right to me.
Dude
Made it through Make It Minimal and I'm afraid that's all the time we have for this untz-untz-untz
This felt like a joke
0 added to my favorites. Would avoid listening again.
we get it Robert dimery, you did a lot of MDMA in the 90s
Yeah i don't wanna be a hater but this ain't it. Its fun on its own thinking about the music changing over from 1989 to 1990.
Urgh. I disliked the Shamen in the 90s. I dislike them still. Utter shite!
That was rough.
I cannot believe that The Shamen, a mid-tier band from a low-tier decade, have been deemed one of the most important 1001 albums of all time. A poor man's Prodigy. I can only assume that I would have to be on massive doses of ecstacy to enjoy this. And this doesn't even include Ebenezer Goode. Instead we have Omega Amigo, a title a half-wit would probably think is clever. I did like the "lyrics" on Hear Me, but only because it's a great and powerful message, the actual musical backing was garbage.
Had I thought of this book, I too would have put in some of the worst shit imaginable as a prank.
My finger is sore from hitting the 'next' button so much.
Poop
What did I gain from this? What did I learn? Did I grow, did I hear, did I feel something new? Did I dream? Did I laugh? Did I cry? No. I sat in Chicago traffic for an hour listening to a fucking Logic preset. I don't even think this was pioneering work according to anyone that matters. Don't get me wrong, this was perfectly listenable. But what the fuck are we doing here?
The short review: You had to be there at the time. And be on drugs. The long review: When I reflect on my music listening life, I sometimes have a twinge of regret that I missed out on the rave scene of the 90s. I had friends into it at the time so I was aware of it in the era when it was underground where the location was only revealed when you showed up to the meeting point. At that time I was going to punk and hardcore shows held at community centres, and if it wasn’t hard and fast and guitar-based, I wasn’t interested. As I’ve gotten older and as my musical horizons have broadened, I realize that I missed something that was interesting and unique, and that really only existed for a short period of time. When you’re young you think things as they exist will carry on forever, not aware of how fleeting it all is. And not that it was all good, because I remember friends feeling absolutely rotten on post-rave Mondays at school coming down from their weekend intake of ecstasy or ketamine. And listening to this, assuming that this album made the list because it’s some sort of classic of the genre, I don’t seem to have missed anything musically either. I understand that music written explicitly to dance to in an unoccupied warehouse isn’t necessarily going to work in the context of listening in your car on your morning commute, but it’s just so lacklustre. Uninteresting drum programming, limp bass lines, blah synths. The hippy dippy rave culture lyrics are what they are, times have changed. I like electronic music, but this sounds lazy, like it’s a parody of the genre. Maybe I’d feel differently if I was high off my tits in some sketchy warehouse or field somewhere, but in the sober light of morning this is absolutely dreadful.
soort kruising tussen New Beat en Pet Shop Boys... zelfs een kruising tussen Florence Foster Jenkins en Malinda Jackson Parker is zelfs beter
Beyond shite
nah
If you told me this was AI-generated, I'd believe it. It's that soulless.
1.mountain - 1.5 2. human -0 3. deep - 1.5 4. amigo - 1 5. evil - 1 6. orbit - 1.5 7. Light - 1.5 8. Mine- 1.5 9. Oxygen - 1 10. Hear - 1 11. Edit - 1 12. Minimal - 1 13. Selector - 1 14. Wave - 1.5 15. Progen - 1.5
This is not for me. I do not enjoy the majority of electronic music and this sounds very very dated. It is like C & C Music Factory but less catchy and with the cat from the Paula Abdul video "Opposites Attract" singing. One of my least favorite experiences 222 albums into this list.
Horrible
Weird music for normies. It sucks so much that it’ll be the first album I did not finish listening to. Made it 82 albums but this shit knocked me out. Listening to Structures from Silence as a pallet cleanser.
This is horrible. Please make it stop!!!!!!
Like listening to Kurtis Blow and the Sugarhill Gang, I feel obligated to find things to like in this because there's breadcrumbs of Underworld and The Prodigy and other bands I love. But it just wasn't very good, or at least it's aged so poorly that it now feels like a parody of something. I could probaly give it a two-star pass, but the lyrics are so cringey that I couldn't make it through the whole thing.
I do not like this. Not at all. Not a little. No likes here.
Absolutely dreadful. Just the complete opposite of what I like. Boring and repetitive instrumentals, awful 90s production, and lazy vocals. I really tried to find the redeeming quality in this, but this is the worst album I’ve heard on this list so far.
Donc apparemment, il y a deux sortes de genre de musique : ceux qui, dès leur inception, produisent des classiques qui marquent l'histoire, et ceux qui ont besoin de pondre des kilomètres de trucs merdiques avant d'arriver à quelque chose d'audible. Si j'en crois cette liste, l'électro est clairement dans la deuxième catégorie.
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Complete dogshit. Electronica is bad enough, but this is the nonsensical shit that played over yogurt commercials from 1991-1996. The vocals they used seemed like joke takes they were so grating. Extremely dated and nothing special at all; does not belong on this list. It's like a parody of rave music. 1/5
666 Edit
Day 44 Probably something I’d have enjoyed a lot more back when I spent my weekends chemically enhanced, chewing my face off. I’m old and boring now so it’s a 2/10 Highlight Move any Mountain
Maybe this was good back in the day, to rave to, on pills. It's definitely not an album I will sit down, listen to, and enjoy. Not great songs and they sound very dated. Quite annoying, didn't make the whole album. I wanted to give it a 2 but can't really come up with a reason.
Eh, it’s whatever.
Couple of songs had some promising hooks/samples. Otherwise, pretty plain pipe rack "techno" stuff. Nothing I'd want to hear again. Go find some old school Detroit house music or Fatboy Slim's "Better Living Through Chemistry" instead.
No thanks, this was just bland bog standard rave music coupled with stock lyrics and "rapping" at times.......Would much rather listen to Lords of Acid!
so dated, so bad, like the worst music from my childhood hahaha. i'm sure it was innovative in it's time. :)
3/10 Favs: None :(
Why does any of my likes leads this website to believe I want to listen to this garbage?
Nothing great about it.
Nah. DNF.
This album REAKS of the 90's even though it was released in 1990 so most of the work done on it was in the 80's
Nah. I know it has it's place, but the only way I could ever see myself listening to it again is if someone slipped me some acid.
I almost DNF’d this. It started off as bad 80s music, then quickly slipped into bad techno/house music. I’m sure this was a landmark album in the Dance world but all the people that it influenced ended up making music that I enjoyed. Paul Oakenfold mixed a couple of tracks! I’d forgotten about him as easily as I’ll forget about this album tomorrow.
Did not age well.
couldn’t get through it sorey not sorry 😬
not for me, kinda boring tbh
How does this make a top 1000 list?
Based on the description I was expecting to like this album- I most definitely did not.
PS1 racing game music.
Not a fan and way too long
I made it to song 4. Someone take the Casio keyboard away.
It’s not something I would usually listen too, like at all, but it COULD be someone’s vibe. The only song I liked was Omega Amigo and I wouldn’t even choose to listen to it. rest were just kinda…. off. And I like a lot of music but not this. So this was not for me
There is a show called Look Around You which is a parody of Tomorrow's World. They have a competition where musicians are trying to make futuristic music that they think will be the sound of 2025 or something like that. It's terrible music but funny. The Shamen is like that, but without being funny. Atrocious
Full disclosure, after the first track I only listened to the first minute of each song before skipping. I think I would genuinely give suicide a serious consideration rather than listen to anymore of this crap. Seems like being a rave musician is a lot like being a cook at an old people’s home; you can feed them any old slop, their brains are too addled to actually remember anyway.
I didn't really like this one. It falls in the uncanny valley of electronic music history where it starting to move forward from that very characteristic early House sound and it still sounds too rudimentary to stand against more modern sounding releases, and not even that modern, just a couple of years. Key tracks: Move Any Mountain
Groupe inconnu. Aucun intérêt: répétitif et trop long. Je ne suis pas allé au bout. =>1/5
Lame and boo and snore the entire way through.
Removing one star just for spelling "Energy" as "NRG". For the album, I was only able to find the later issue, so it's not a complete match. It's standard boilerplate EDM. Nothing special. The last song "Progen 91" had a fun little rap in it and wasn't too bad so that'll go on the 1001 playlist. I have no idea how it compares to the "Progen" version that was on the original release, and I don't care to go find it. Would have been a 2 star record, but "NRG" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Listens: 1 Standout tracks: Nope Oh boy. I'm not down with this at all, and that's being extremely polite. I'm going to have to break my rule of listening to each album twice. I can't even begin to listen to this album a second time. I don't even want to continue a first time after hearing the first few songs. How and why is this album an hour long!? Cut each song in half and maybe this would amount to a slightly less tolerable fusion of Fat Boy Slim meets MJ Cole with a dash of new age hippy bullshit. A PG version of The Prodigy. Anyways, there's a growing theme here for me. I do not like dance music. Particularly so if I'm not dancing.
This is like a remix of Pet Shop Boys and Kraftwerk, but much, much less interesting/refined than either.
"Move Any Mountain" I'm familiar with, but I never much cared for the song. 90's dance music was never a genre that resonated with me at all, and this record, I can already tell, is not going to be the one to make me rethink that position. I won't be finishing this one.
No thanks.
In what world is this fused with psychedelic rock at all. Will I listen to again: 0%
Cheesy, dated and bad.
I’m not sure how this made the list. A weird combo of late 80s style pop tracks with acid house. When Shamen stop singing and just focus on instrumental songs it improves. Even then - just as you reach an ambient state the bubble bursts again as somebody whispers something daft. I would be more kind on this album and its importance to this era if there was some editorial control. Does it need 3 versions of move any mountain? I lost faith in this one by the end.
Not good
Milli Vanili meets New Order meets The KLF. But nowhere as good as that sounds. I wasn’t here for this first time round, so it feels like there is a bit of a nostalgia factor at play in people’s enjoyment of this which I won’t pooh-pooh but it just sounds boring and annoying to me. Multiple songs sound like parody music. I hope this isn’t what they were playing at the Hacienda!
Seger deserves reparations. Zero stars.
Sounds like music Jez from Peepshow would make.
Some bands give the vibe of deliberately writing music for car ads. This band, however, feels like it's writing music for montages in episodes of Charmed.
Not for me
It might have been listenable otherwise, were it not for the 'MC'. Surely you could have found a better acid house album to put on here?
Boring. And omg why is almost every song 5 minutes?? It makes basically every song drag like crazy. 3/10
1,3/5
What lovely childhood memories I have. Going down the Shay at 3pm on a Saturday to watch my heroes Halifax Town play the likes of Accrington Stanley in the old English fourth division. Singing songs like “We Hate Chelsea” “Who’s That Copper With The Big Black Hat (on the beat all day, on the wife all night)” and of course “Shaymen, Shaymen, Shaymen” So it was with eager excitement I scanned the track list of this album so I could one again relive those moments……bugger! Shamen 1 Shaymen 5 9/5/25
I can't really take this music seriously. It sounds like the music they play in the menus of 90s computer games. A big part of why you'd always go straight to the sound menu to turn them off. My sister liked this sort of stuff before she grew up. Thankfully we can talk to each other now. It's like when you're in the keyboard lab at school and you press dance01 and get these terrible incessant hi hats then you just play the same repetitive thing over them for 15 minutes to avoid having to talk to whoever it is they paired you up with that week. There is an element of nostalgia, but that is a dangerous thing. Lots of people these days pretend things were good as they have memories of them from being a kid. Maybe their childhood was just awful.
Awful. Just awful.
More shitty 90s club music. Yay!
This was over an hour long and sounded like music they play in high end clothing stores with dark lighting in the mall. I hated it.
neither influential, nor popular, nor very good. Puzzling why it's on this list.
Gud så kjedelig dette ble! Sangene står bare stille med de samme lydene opp igjen og opp igjen. Sangeren er gørrkjedelig å høre på. Produksjonen er så utdatert at det er som å finne mygla kremost i kjøleskapet. Jeg skulle gjerne gitt en ekstra stjerne men dette albumet varer i en time og sju forbaska minutter.
It sounds like really dated cheesy rave/drum n bass First track gave me streets of rage vibes for about 30 seconds. Later on felt like a ps1 driving game
the scottish board of tourism should do their best to bury this album at the bottom of the sea and replace all images of this band with cut out faces of members of the proclaimers and runrig
Jesus. After the first song, and the most popular song on the record, I knew the rest of this album was going to be hot garbage (currently on song 2). Not only does this album sound dated today, but in 1990, it must've sounded dated then. There is no doubt in my mind that I could make this on garageband in middle school. In less than 24 hours, I'm going to forget that this album ever existed. It would take me longer to write out the songs that I don't like on this album, but just assume it's almost all of them. The sounds and tones are uninteresting besides a couple beeps and boops here and there. Lyrics are bad at best, and nonexistent in most songs. I'm leaving 1 or 2 but will make that call tomorrow.
We were due for another boring UK electronic album
The problem with these 90s electronica albums is that they're absolutely interminable. For the first, like, 4 songs I was feeling a three, its not bad rave and the world elements are definitely neat. Unfortunately, there's 15 songs on here and they get worse and worse as the album goes. Tapped out at Hear Me, just didn't need to hear any more from it.
Repetitive background music with occasional bad rap.
Techno
Nope. Just annoying.
The music grooves, great beats - could dance to the at a club as much today as in 1990. On the other hand, this album has some of the most asinine lyrics ever recorded. "Human energy overcome the enemy". Yikes. If this were an instrumental record I'd easily give it 5 starts.
Muy aburrido
Нууууу 0/10 Музыка для вхождения в транс. Очень несуразная, мне совсем не нравится ее слушать. Послушала первые пять треков. Скучно однообразно и некрасиво.
sounds like the music that plays for the montage of a rave in a straight to dvd movie could i write poetry to this? n
Made it to the second song and had to turn off.
I find this wholly unmoving. Except for the "vocals"; which make me cringe. Stripping the beats and vocals (Evil is Eden) makes it better, but nowhere near good.
How does an album like this make it onto a list of a thousand albums that you must hear? Serious question.
Everything drones or rides too long here. Even the fade out on one of the tracks lasts way too long. I liked the first song enough I think but I just can't do a full album of this. They even looped the vocals from Move Any Mountain into two other tracks.
This makes the worst Disco albums seem like 5 stars. 1 star or F-.
Quite atrocious. Sounds like the music Jeremy from Peep Show makes. 1.4/5
This didn't age well. But then it propably wasn't awesome when it was brand new either.
painful, excruciating even
Overall: 2/10 I genuinely can't find the UK version anywhere so I'm comprimising by listening to the US version. It doesn't really matter though because I'm realizing after two repetitive electronic dance albums in a row that it's not a style of music that resonates with me. Apparently these guys used to be psychedelic rock? I might check out that version of the band instead. Fav Song: Omega Amigo Least Fav Song:
Awful! Well done to them for catching the zeitgeist of 1990 and making the most of their 30 seconds of fame....but this would have sounded dated and infantile even a couple of years later.
I think that any album that straight up gives you a headache while listening to it is not that great of an album.
Might be my first 1 Ages poorly across the board
With a name like The Shamen, they have no business being this terrible.
It's dance music, not music for critical listening.
1/5
Uff hip Hop and House? Not my kind of music… I could only stand the first half of it.
a tiring listen - computerised, quantised, made from standard synthesised sounds - and, like many albums from this era of CDs, needlessly extended to make up one hour and seven minutes, just because the capacity was there. not much in the way of a song, no grooves, and full of sounds that are hard on the ears.
Abgebrochen, nicht meins.
Ran out of steam about 20 minutes in, which made the rest of it a real chore to get through. The beats are okay but don’t really work as songs in and of themselves. The songs are almost like they were samples given out to rappers instead of meant to be listened to by themselves.
So bad! I felt like I was at a bad rave in Barcelona without the coolness of being in Barcelona. Ugh. That was rough.
Horrible. Worst yet on this adventure, and I listened to The Associates and Henry Neilsson so that is saying something! Put it this way - if I gave this album to my sworn enemy I would end up in gitmo on terrorist charges for cruel and unusual punishment against a fellow man. Also - who did this influence? One song has 22k listens on spotify. Total! Through all time. Let's just drop the "en" from the artist name and call them "The Sham" shall we? Because this album aint it and is a damn sham.
En-Tact is a bit crap really, it's very very generic 90s house/rave stuff without a proper impact, doesn't have the one song that everyone knows them for, and is a really hard listen as it goes on far too long without variety or depth. Can't give it more than a 1.
so glad I didn’t rave in the early 90s. just pretty boring.
'90s electronica is absolutely not for me.
Too EDM for me.
Definitely not for me.
Wack
- ...... why? -
I really disliked this a lot more than I though I would. I was actually thinking I might enjoy this, due to the first single of this album. But I really really didn't
No idea why this album is on here, listen to kraftwerk
Like toast but with nothing else, just lukewarm, stale bread
1.5 boring electrónica
Pure shite.
Move Any Mountain was definitely all over pop radio when I was a kid. I don't think Jock Jams existed when this album came out so I don't think the intentionally created a song that would inevitably become one. Human NRG (Massey) is one of the dumbest titles of a song ever...it's like the tagline for an actual energy company's commercial. Electronica has come a long way, this album makes me want to positively reevaluate any electronic music I've previously rated. The robot filtered vocals are even worse than the music. This is the music you would have heard in an overly hip hair salon in the 90s. It's not possible that anyone not in a club or hosting a lame house party would just put this album on and hit play. It's a long album too. This is terrible. I thought the music was on shuffle because the lyrics of Lightspan are just "energy" over and over again. Hear Me's lyrics are a speech from an Indian politician, I can't identify who, but it is misplaced over techno music. 666 Edit is the best track on the album so far and is the most "techno" of them all. And then they add the Move Any Mountain lyrics and ruin it. This album never ends. The tuning noise on Lightspan Soundwave is one of the most annoying noises in a song I've ever heard. Three songs with the beat or lyrics to Move Any Mountain...this is an absolutely awful album. THis was apparently early rave music further solidifying the fact that rave music doesn't have to be good to have a bunch of high and horny kids listen to it.
Nightclub drum machine poppycock. Best case scenario you get a track that sounds like a rough draft of a New Order song
Oof
Yea, I'm about halfway through and I will finish, but I just don't get this stuff. Makes me think of the line, "dropped acid, blue oyster cult concert,14 years old and I thought them lasers were a spider chasing me." Yea, I don't know why either, but this shit is the worst.
Absolutely crap