Reviews (page 6 of 8)
Trying to be Pet Shop Boys but without the talent and versatility. 1-1/2 stars
I still can't convince myself that an album like this takes any real talent to create. All this album did was inspire other people to make equally stupid albums.
The first track might have been the quickest I went from "3 trending towards 4" to "2 trending towards 1" as soon as I heard the vocals. It doesn't really recover from that. The vocals are uniformly terrible on this album and some otherwise fun grooves are marred by some ugly, dated tones. This just makes me want to listen to Front 242 instead.
Honestly a few bangers here ("Move Any Mountain", which I guess was only in the later US release so that probably can't be counted here, and "Make It Mine") but mostly everything else wasn't really close to rave-worthy. Slightly too long too. This isn't to say that I hate electronic music, though. In fact, I'm hoping that some 80/90s house music appears during the continuation of my journey through this list (only about 50 albums in at this point).
Funny but the first thing I saw was the thumbnail of The Shamen on Spotify where they look like a members of a Nazi rave gay club. Album itself isn't worth your time. If you think otherwise I guess you are gonna get invited to annual club meeting.
Pretty run-of-the-mill for ‘90s electronica.
It exists
I feel like I played some terrible computer game...way too much...way back in the day, and this was the sound track.
I was about three seconds in and I had a vibe that I was going to be hard in one direction on where this went. This first song is some real Dennis Reynolds shit. I listened to this on a run that felt hard. I went into a fugue state and a tiny bit of this made sense. That saved it from a 1.
Decent music to do a bunch of highway driving to, but it's a little corny. It's an album.
This might have been important as one of the influences on the huge dance/electronic acts of the 90's, but now it's sounding quite basic and anemic in comparison. I doubt this album deserves to be in the top 1001.
A couple good tracks but largely forgettable imo
Not top 1000 in my book
Not for me. Kind of lamely saccharine and doesn't get me in the mood for dancing. Two and a half. Fave track: Make it Minimal
In the right mood I could have gotten really into this, but today just found this a frustrating listen. As soon as I began to get hooked by a song, I’d be sick of it a minute later. Maybe another listen will provide better results. Fave track: Human NRG (Massey)
Below average Electronica...albums like this really seem of a certain time and place and if you weren't there is just doesn't seem as relevant. 2/5
Just not my thing.
The entire sound and vibe of this band and album just reminds me so much of "Planet of the Bass" that it almost makes it hard to take them seriously.
Los primeros 90 adiós a los 80
It’s not very good. It’s really kind of poppy and random. It’s like what you would hear at a kids dance party.
1-2
me dieron ganas de tomar merca
Weak start. Not my jam off the bat. HOWEVER, considering the age it’s decentish production and I found it pretty decent to drive to actually. In a tune-it-out-and-think kind of way. Thinking it’s a 3/5 just for that. Otherwise 1-2. Nope. Second half was shit.
Not bad as background music
Bah
Varmaan huonoin albumi mitä tälä sivustolta tullut vastaan heh.. mutta hyvä bussimatka musiikki oli... Repetitive.. uninteresting ja kaikki muut hyvät asiat mitä olisinkaan voinut toivoa tältä hetkeltä.. En halunnut tähdittää tätä hetkeä.. Halusin vain hetken.. Tämä oli albumi siihen... Eräs sample: "mOoove any MountAain.. " Aika inspiring heh.. Toinen sample: "We know, we know, that we will have to pay And get squashed, and the struggle is long and hard And through each part, the price is high but the end is near Do not be scared, do not do wrong Do not betray our faith, do not betray our children Do not betray our fathers, do not betray our mothers Do not betray our vision Do not betray the justice we are fighting for Do not betray the lands we will see that will rise up Out of the ashes of this country And apartheid will crumble" Margariinin kevyt...
Nope, drum machine music
This album was not bad but just not my type of genre.
(4,9/6) Nope
#48, the first electronic music album. There aren't a whole lot of those, it seems? And I don't know how and why this one took one of the spots. I'm couple of tracks in and I'm sitting motionless. Dance music, huh? This is acceptable as a historical artifact but listening to it feels like playing Test Drive (1987, Amiga, C64, DOS) when there's Forza Horizon. Maybe not even playing Test Drive but watching a rhombohedron fly through a checkered torus, in a swirly CG sky! State Of The Art! Even the good moments - and sounds, there are some - just make me want to listen to En-Tact's contemporaries from, like, The Orb/-ital or so, which may give me a similar experience, listening in 2024, but at least there would be none of the Eurodance rapping. I reserve my 1s for utter shite with no redeeming features - this album is not quite *that* but damn close.
It’s like hip-hop infused electronic dance pop. Extremely early 90s sounding. I guess the progenitor of a lot of stuff of the time that sounded the same. I don’t hate it but would not choose to listen to it on my own. Though ironically I probably like it more now than I would have if I had heard it in the 90s despite how dated it sounds.
Early 90’s techno / trance album
Felt like I was in a club in 1991 and there was no escape
Probably of some note at the time - that dance/acid house movement of the Uk but it’s not aged well. One song and a lot of not very much.
Aerobics class music? What people in the 90s thought "futuristic" sounded like? Background tracks for an off brand racing video game in a hotel arcade? Some combo of these things. Not my fav
I had high hopes after the first song bc I actually really enjoyed it, but the album went downhill quickly and I ended up turning it off after like 3 songs.
Kinda trance music, wasn’t my fav
Seemed like old school edm. Only listened to first couple which were quite repetitive but did still enjoy the first one a bit. Not too sad to not have listened to the rest.
yeah no
Not just a product of its time, also a product of its place and culture. I started listening to this without knowing anything about it and it was quickly apparent that this was 90's UK rave. I must admit that it was a little earlier than I expected at 1990, so I guess it's on the list for being trailblazing or something. Ultimately this just isn't my thing. I found it annoying a lot of the time and it seemed overly long.
Eh. Idk Bro. Move any mountian isch no s beste lied vom album imo aber isch da echt bewusst en typo im Titel? Biz zu quirky für mich. Chan genrell mit em rest vom album au nid sonderlich viel afange. 2.3/5
Hm isch ned so mis tbh. Finds ned schlecht, aber au ned wük guet… aso ich chönt mer das ned on a daily geh? Oder überhaupt so ih minere freiziit, aber finds au ned mega schlimm….
oye mate oye ya twat. bri'ish move any mountain isch huuuere catchy. d rapteil sind nöd sooo geil. Human NRG hahaha. bip bup bap. da träuflet hetz sochli vor sich hii. Possible worlds isch etz sochli industrial sound techno time da boppt no. aber s tönt scho noch schottland i gseh nie sunne depression. Omega Amigo isch en funny titel. boah aber ich chum chalt über bi dene sounds. Evil is Even. mmmh bummbumm. hyperreal orbit het wenigstens die dance-reso sounds. zu dem chöntmer etz no banking fraud begoh. oder sust öpper usraube. Lightspan isch au meh chli video game pause musig. make it mine het gitarre???? bibi bunu dudududu 666 edit isch chli vorgänger vo darude. und mues sege für 1990 isch da album chrank modern. aber huere nervig. lightspan soundwave isch nöd soo cool. progen samplet glaub en fueball chant? denn macheds wieder move any mountain time.
nach zwei lieder: funnyyy beats aber gsang nöd mega min fall mega tanzmusig und fas findi scho sehr cool aso mier gfallts recht, au wenn ichs gfühl han, dass s album kei grossi überraschige wird büte momentan wechslet sich ahstrengendi mit mega geile parts immer chli ab hyperreaaaal feeling mega geil jaa jz ab de hälfti wirds langsam ahstrengend und s fangt ah alles chli glich töne? 666 edit hani müsse überspringe brudeer hey ich schätze was sie gmacht hend und am ahfamg hanis recht gfühlt aber als ALBUM ultra ahstrengend
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The album was meh at first, then it kind of got a little bit better, and then it started getting super annoying because everything was the same 10 seconds repeated for a few minutes. When I listen to this, I imagine empty clubs with maybe 5-6 people here and there. I didn't find this album that great.
I dont care for that type of music
Interesting stuff, but nothing I'd spend a lot of time listening to. Since I'm not one to take drugs and go dancing I'll pass. Creating the tracks must have been fun though.
Doesn't do much for me at all. I know this is / was a thing... but is this the best example that I need to listen to before I die?
Fun but repetitive at some point. 3 bangers 3 songs that sample move any mountain… Lotta schmooving, not lotta feelin
I feel like this was the blueprint for the nineties electronic dance that followed. If that interests you, here you go!
No me creo que estos sean todos los álbumes que hay que escuchar antes de morirse. Son una tremenda basura. A pesar de todo, este álbum me ha gustado. Música alternativa disco. Es entretenida. Se parece a Daft Punk.
MNYEEEH
Never really got on with this. Always reminded me of the stuff my mates would make on their Amiga music programs.
I listened to half of it, made sure I was okay, then went back for the second half. Don't know what's in these albums.Finding it very dated and of a specific time (1990) and place (Yeovil Aerodrome). Didn't know they were from Aberdeen
2.5/5
Background noise
just what the hell is going on ? electronic, new wave, hip hop beat with a rapper from time to time. then that you changed of style towards the end. 4/10
Oh my mid 2.5/5
Had 2 good songs Move any Mountain and Make it Mine. Otherwise very mediocre good length though at just over an hour. 2/5
Overall pretty ok dance record, not offensive but if I wanted to listen to 90s dance/electronic music I would listen to literally anything else. A lot of these songs don't really do anything interesting and don't use the genre's repetitive nature to their advantage. Also some of the songs such as 'possible worlds' are just straight up annoying to listen to. Just put on Lcd soundsystem at this point
Upbeat, fun, some songs were too intense for me
You know, that irritated me a little less than I thought it was going to. I could just leave it on in the background and pretend I was on hold to the motivational poster factory.
Opens strong and then, what on earth is the rest of it?
It went from being “Okay, I can bop my head a little to this” to “How much more of this do I have to listen to?” Not the worst I’ve ever heard but definitely forgettable. I would’ve preferred to hear their psychedelic rock that supposedly came before this garbage.
Run of the mill Euro-dance that went nowhere
Started off fine enough, but I'm not sure if just got more annoying as it went along, or I just got bored with it.
It's old school Shamen. Starts off quite well but runs out of ideas
As a time capsule it's interesting - a confluence of rock, acid house and techno that drew from Kraftwerk, New Wave and hip-hop; alongside acts like Pop Will Eat Itself, the KLF and even perhaps World of Twist, the Shamen illuminated many roads. Would the Prodigy or Pendulum be the acts we know them to be in the present without this movement? Worth considering. As a listening experience it falls short. Endlessly repetitive and lacking any real melodic appeal or harmonic invention, this gets by on texture, tone and intensity. Perhaps in a certain setting it works - and even then in nibbles. A whole album? Man, I was ready to tap out halfway through. Also, Mr C is criminally underused. He brought a sense of anarchic, geezerish irreverence to proceedings. He's great on 'Move Any Mountain' - a song that acts as a harbinger for their biggest track a couple of years down the line...
Felt no substance and definitely not my cup of tea. [0097/1001]
This album felt they took the synth-based dance pop of the 80s and really tried to push it to new heights. Though I would have definitely enjoyed this more if it was just an instrumental album; the vocal samples and what singing there is really took a lot away from the pretty snazzy beats. I could so easily see this being the soundtrack to a Mini-Golf video game set in space, circa the early 2000s.
The 90s club scene in its awkward glory. Indie, electronic and hip hop smashed together in sweaty rave where no one listens and everyone dances to their own blend of drugs.
Net iets te repetitief. Niet zo gek van dit album
Why is this on the list? It’s pretty lame, tbh. I don’t think I would’ve enjoyed this even when a was in a phase of listening to all kinds of uninspired EDM. Two stars because some of the tracks felt nostalgic. Some were straight-up annoying (Human NRG, etc.).
This album shows a group at the crossroads of psychedelia and electronic. At least that what it seems at first before the album descends into acid house beats that just don't feel very alive. The beats themselves don't have very much presence, but they're also not minimal enough to be considered atmospheric. This leaves them in a weird in between place where they just can't sustain an album that's over an hour long. Nothing here feels very groundbreaking but rather rudimentary.
It's electronic music. I do not mind it but I don't seek it out and I don't need to listen to an entire album. I am sure it impacted EDM but doesn't need to be on the list. I will generously round up
Tråkigt men helt ok
Slightly more clubby hold music. Maybe if I had glowsticks to twirl I'd give it a higher rating. Rating 2.2 stars.
From the description, I thought I'd love this. But feels too much like pillhead music.
Not for me
This did nothing for me. I didn't expect it to either. I want to say something insightful about rave culture and the mainstream but I really CBA.
I can imagine being in a club in the early 90s and tripping out while dancing to this music, but it's just not my cup of tea.
Was expecting this to suck and it did not disappoint. 3/10
Some pleasing moments, but more forgettable than danceable.
This must have been such a new sound when it hit the club scene where it hit. I had trouble finding my way into it and had to try and appreciate it for what it must have been in the moment.
Are the ShaMEN a response to the Spice GIRLS? It's hard for me to relate to this since I have good teeth and didn't grow up in England in the 90's. I feel like C+C Music Factory, Marky Mark and a pair Calvin Klein undies might jump outta my Spotify. Word up. Word to your moms.
This album may have busted through some barriers during its time. I don’t know there is not much to go on. Regardless, it sounds very dated now. Some of the beats hold up but for the most part it sounds like it’s well past it’s expiration date.
Lightweight pop dance crossover with a lot of half-arsed filler. Underwhelming.
The title kind of says it all. To me, this is nothing more than some below average acid house/dance music. I'm not really sure why this album is in the list, because this doesn't seem like essential listening to me. There are far better records released in the same genre. None of the tracks do anything super interesting. They are all very average, and don't sound like they were produced by people who know how to make very good house music. Where the real problem lies is the song lengths. These songs are just way too long. The album is over an hour long, and it does not do anything to justify being that long. The only song I will give any credit to is Omega Amigo, since it is slightly less boring than the rest of the album.
Classic electronic dance music from the early 90s. Long rhythmic tracks and repetitive beats and choral collages of language, sometimes sung, sometimes rapped, sometimes sampled. This is quintessential club music to keep people on dark dance floors awash with pulsing, moving colored lights. Most tracks are uptempo with driving drum machines and ambient synthesized sequences. Good, just not great.
This kind of went on and on and on...a bit too repetitious to be interesting and it felt like a never-ending rave gone bad. Started off okay, it kept my interest, but I really wanted to turn it off about halfway through. Too electronic, drum machine-y and house-y for my liking.
An album can be a milestone and also too dated to go back to. I don't know if it's the former. It's definitely the latter.
Pretty tame stuff. Like I say in every EDM one, I dance to this kinda music and hear way better shit by DJs and teachers who have really good tunes. Too tame. Too lame.
It's not terrible as background music. Not very good to actively listen to. Obviously made for dancing, but I don't think anyone would dance if you played it at a party these days. It sounds very outdated. Way too long. Favorite song: Move any mountain. (it's on the US version)
Somewhat listenable but ultimately forgettable early 90s electronic music. The Shamen managed to capture everything that's tedious about this genre without conveying any of the fun and energy. The sampled bits were fine, but this album would have been much better without vocals. Fave Songs: Possible Worlds: Deep PSI, Lightspan, Make It Mine, Hear Me O My People, Move Any Mountain
A little bonus for nostalgia but practically unlistenable
Mediocre dance pop. This sounds like garage band loops, but published. I can't understand its inclusion on the 1000 albums you must hear list
really not good
Becomes fairly monotonous over the course of an hour plus. Not sure how this sounded when it came out, but now it sounds quaint - excitable 90's dance grooves. Did not particularly enjoy it. I think I could appreciate it in the right mood, but I was not in that mood.
This is kinda dumb rave music. I gave up on it.
Boss Drum is already on here, right? Yeah, it’s kind of ridiculous that The Shamen have two albums on here. Not an awful album but does not deserve to be on this list.
For some reason I can no longer fathom, I owned this album. The most plausible explanation is that there was a girl involved. I forgive myself for having once had the CD aim my possession.
As much as I like an electro-departure here and there on this list, this album was mostly really boring. I swear it's like the guy who made this list heard one electronic song and thought "Wow, gee whiz, now ain't that something! The whole album must be a trip, worth hearing before I die!" and then, well, it aged a bit like milk and just doesn't feel essential. Next please. Favorite tracks: Human NRG. Album art: I don't even know if the picture I have on Apple Music is the right one, it's just the name, some runic symbols, and a background that feels like a 3rd generation Pokemon box wallpaper. No comment. 2/5
I liked “Move Any Mountain”, though I’m not sure why it’s misspelt on Spotify. I listened to the 1991 US version because that’s what was on Spotify. The rest was not for me.
Wooow what a trippy thing, omega amigo! What can I tell you? After listening to this album, I feel like I was in a 5-day rave that took place in a warehouse located on a rural area nearby Copenhagen in 1988: exhausted, dizzy, thirsty, and with a jell-o brain. Mr Shamen, I don’t think you needed to release a 1 hour+ album to show the world your magic when only three songs could explain it perfectly.
This is way too long I don’t hate it but none of it is really good 2/5
I didn't mind this, but it didn't really grab me either. A Thursday morning work shift is probably not the ideal setting for listening to this, either. Lots of dance tropes in here - the Hip Hoppy bits; the repeated samples on various tracks; the cutting up of the track for dynamic effect. The only bit that stood out was the 'move any mountain' refrain, and that was due to a) familiarity and b) the repetition throughout this album.
This was interesting as a document of early 90s rave culture, but of little value elsewhere. You wouldn't sit down of an evening, light up the log fire and say HEY! I know what: Let's play The Shamen's En-Tact on vinyl whilst we wind down for the day. I always thought it was quite a leap of faith from their psych prog early output to the dance crossover. En-Tact sounds like a step too far. It's the soundtrack for walking around Camden Market in 1993 and having a headache.
not as terrible as other electronica albums. Mainly because it isn't as repetitive as for example Darkdancer or Exit Planet Dust but it does not reach the highs of for example Kraftworks TEE. 2/5
Reminded me of 808 State, the singing of XTC. Sounds like THE party music of the 90s/Y2K. Not really something I would personally put on, but I wouldn't mind it playing at a venue. The song I remember the most would be "Make It Mine".
Na rave może dobre, na pisanie kodu 2/10
Meh
Ok, nothing I’d listen to again.
Average Dance album. A few good tracks but mostly forgettable and gets a bit boring. Highlights: Move any Mountain
A consistent problem with dance records is the length. They wanted to use every bit of data available on CDs, eh? Unfortunately dated. The drums just scream "90's dance" with no real unique identity. The Shamen do their best to add atmosphere to each track, but I would argue that the drums are the most important part of any dance song. Some tracks are more interesting than others, with 666 Edit grabbing me with it's rapid fire rave synths. It's alright, yeah.
I wanna say that it is the futuristic album, but it's really not. It was made in 1990 and there were music like this, way before 90's. Besides that I can't hear anyhting for my personal taste.
House! Reminds of Smart Bar
Overall meh techno
Alkupuoliskolla tykkäsin popimmasta meiningistä, new wave -kaikuja. Sitten meni vähän turhan ysärireiveiksi, että olisi jaksanut keskittyä
Lahjakas duo iskee aidosti sävelletyt pätkänsä levyn kärkeen ja jättää loput junnaamaan omillaan.
Very repetitive and extremely dull
this feels very of its time. a few good songs but probably wouldn't listen again
Really? 15 tracks of intense, ear bleeding, nippy techno? Fuck no.
Hey, you know how electronic music started getting really popular and edgy in the 90s and all of these great groups came out and represented the genre really well? How about we select a group that nobody has heard of and hasn't done much for the genre, but they're from the British Isles, so fuck everybody's opinions, right? - The authors probably 2/5.
About the dreariest rave ever. A disappointing record.
Not my cup of tea. I felt like this album went on forever. Not to say that it is bad, but I am not flying on the same level as this album. Every song is extremely repetitive and drones on and on; I can appreciate the beat in each song being created, but only for so long. There are some cool new wave vibes happening on the opening track. Fave tracks: Move Any Mountain
Not a fan of electronica
Not as bad as I was worried it would be, as I didn't mind most of the songs that had words, but an hour of this was too much. Was considering a 3 at the beginning, but I stopped caring a few songs in. Better than some electronica I've had to listen to, but I'd still never willingly listen to it. My favourite song was Possible Worlds
hmmm, ikke rigtigt noget jeg er så vild med.
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Not awful to have on in the background in a mall salon, but really not compelling at all.
Nope, I disagree. I didn't need to hear that before I died. It's not at all clear to me what is so unique about it - just another "uh tiss" album. Apparently it was supposed to be a fusion of psychedelic rock and rave but I rarely heard the former. Maybe because I listened to the US reissue, with even more remixing. It was like wandering through an electronica wasteland from about track 4 to track 12 (opening track Move Any Mountain not bad, next two ok, and then...ugh except maybe for track 8 Make it Mine). I went out and found the original UK version on youtube. Not better.
A stupid and unnecessary inclusion. Uneventful dance tracks.
Apart from the two successful singles, Make It Mine and ProGen-Move Any Mountain, this is a boring album from the rave-era. Adamski, Orb, Orbital and Prodigy did this far better around the same period and would be worthy of listening to before you die. I could only listen to the US version, but I’m sure the first 10 or 11 tracks are similar enough to the original UK release. Disappointing.
Electrónica.
chill music, nothing more nothing less, acid dance for cleaning the house
The sound of the 90’s started off well but after a full album i was a bit sick of this.
No thanks. I don't even know if this is good or not. I try to at least make it all the way through each album once, but I couldn't do it here. Over an hour is way too much of this for me. It's not horrible, but there's just nothing I'm interested in hearing. Move Any Mountain sounded familiar, but that didn't redeem it. I'm confident the second half of the album wasn't going to change my mind.
Track 1: Move Any Mountian I like the beat but the vocals are boring and uninteresting. I like the rap from the guy I. The second verse. Track 2: Human NRG (Massey) Once again, the beat is nice. A bit trancey. There are some beep boops here and there. Not much singing from the vocalist. Track 3: Possible Worlds: Deep PSI Beat sounds good. There’s a silly little synth that comes in and there some reverb or a sort of vocal effect. I think it sounds cool. Mostly the same thing the whole way thru Track 4: Omega Amigo This is ok. I like the guys vocals. Track 5: Evil Is Even Too much going on here Track 6: Hyperreal Orbit I like this beat a lot. Track 7: Lightspan This is plain. Has a little piano. Track 8: Make It Mine I don’t like these guitars at all💀 also the vocalist sounds so awkward as if he wasn’t prepared to sing. This song tries to add a rock element to this album but it fails horribly. It just sounds out of place and cheesy. Track 9: Oxygen Restriction I don’t like this whispering. Sounds kinda eerie. I like that part of the song. Track 10: Hear Me Okay beat. I’m just bored Track 11: 666 Edit I like this one. Production is very cool sounding and the progression is nice. I like the vocal effects. Gets annoying after a while with the production tho Track 12: Make It Minimal Boring Track 13: Hyperreal Selector Nice beat. Track 14: Lightspan Soundwave There’s a little slide whistle sounding noise that is the most annoying thing I have ever heard. I don’t like it just for that. Track 15: Progen 91 (In The Land Of Oz) The vocalist talks again about moving mountains and this song is like all the other songs. Every song blends together and none of them have their own unique sound.
I listened to enough to know I don't like it.
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
British DJ Music?! WHAT?!?! HUH?!?! Ah man, it's like I'm there! Grooving with my birds and blokes in Sutton-upon-Chesham in the garage (gare-ahge) to the unifying beats of the mighty Shamen! Heck yeah! One tribe! Lets not unpack the problematic use of that word in the works of pseudo-spiritual chalk-white grifters, and lets just feel the V I B E. That V I B E is M E D I O C R E electronica played by another vapid Brit in an obnoxious hat. The dance floor opens into a yawning chasm alight with a demonic glow. Towering stalagmites impale pasty party-goers, showering the remaining souls with gore. Scalding hail bombards the falling souls, tearing through skulls with crippling velocity. You whir past half-corpses with faces twisted into rictus smiles as you feel your own body torn apart by the messengers of hell. All the while, The Shamen play on, louder, stronger, as if their hackneyed techno is the very call that was heeded on this hellish day. Gaze to the sky and know there is nothing but hell itself. Bound to infinite suffering. Great stuff! -666 HIGHLIGHTS: Oh yeah, you've got to check it out, it's a broom closet in an abandoned high school and a pudgy white guy tries out presets on his keyboard. It's in the east-end of south-end Shroppingham.
front man of The Shamen Mr C once said that the C stands for C**t, which is exactly what I feel like having listening to this album, monumentally bad.
Nope didn’t like. Just noise for no reason
Why is this on the list? I listened once through then I just listened to Skrillex. Frankly, I’m still mad that he chose not to put skrillex any early dubstep on this list. considering how huge that is today. My rating of this album reflects my anger.
Thought it might be ok, then he started rapping on the first track and it never left that spot
This was weak. There were a few moments of catchiness throughout, but the whole thing was too long and very boring. It’s a House record with nothing interesting and no real redeeming qualities. I’m sad to award this my first 1 star of the 1001 Album generator.
Shitttttttt
The amazing artists that missed out on the list in favour of this dog shite is a crime against humanity. Go pour bleach down your ear holes instead.
Piss
That was a struggle to get through, too in your face and jarring. This kind of music is only enjoyable in a club or field off your face on pills.
*sigh*
Wow, who would have thought you could make an entire album of stuff that is literally the incidental music to Mindcraft. I suddenly had an urge to get a Pepsi Max, some pop tarts and a joy stick. I just listened to entire album of The Shamen. I'm a little bit proud of myself, I am.
I’d choose dental surgery over hearing this album again.
Could not have injested anything that I disliked more yesterday
Never heard of this band or album so not sure what to expect. Just listened to the first song think i’m prolly going to hate this not glad that is a hour long album. Very repetitive and uninteresting really bad album
Давно не ставил единиц
Nice to hear they found a synthesizer. The whole time I listened to this, I saw visions of a dark place full of evil happenings.
The review that said this feels like being at a rave with the lights on was right.
1.4 i didnt like that much, wouldnt listen again. Didnt have anything for me tbh
Generic 90s dance pop that has aged like milk. Cringy pseudo philosophical lyrics for tracks that all sound the same and are too long.
Mostly just annoying and abrasive. Also, mildly annoying. No chance I'll listen to this again.
I cannot endure 1 hour and 7 minutes of this. Please, algorithm, I beg of you: give me something enjoyable.
My last experience with vocal electronic music was, ahem, not great. So I don't exactly have high hopes for this one. It turned out to literally just be mind-numbingly boring background music. Nothing particularly interesting is going on here. Lyrics aren't really of much interest to me, like the rest of the album. I do think the length is excessive, especially for an album that is mediocrity in sonic form. I will occasionally vibe to electronic music, but this doesn't feel like a particularly good example of the genre. It would get a 2, but it's way too long, so it's a 1. This album is the lowest ranked album of 1990 globally. Other 1990 albums rated by me: People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm(2/22)-5 Heaven or Las Vegas(3/22)-4 Bossanova(4/22)-5 Fear of a Black Planet(5/22)-5 Shake Your Money Maker(6/22)-2 I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got(7/22)-4 The La's(12/22)-3
See the way this started it seemed like a Black Box album and I got psyched. Then it just nosedived into straight beepin' and boopin' trash garbage.
Awful, the equivalent of being sober at a party of people on mushrooms. Just shut up my man
dont like.
Life's too short; skip this rave-bait.
I swear they only chose the corniest mid-ass electronic music for this list. DNF
Review - what a pile of wank. Hate this early '90s psychedelic big beat shite. Jez off Peep Show tier music, yuck. Score - 3/10 Need to listen? NO
This just missed the mark for me unfortunately.
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]
You have to be in a certain mood for music like this and I tried to find a reason why I should hear this before I died but I failed to find one. Not for me but if you're into this type of music maybe it could be.
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.