Reviews (page 7 of 8)
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.
blah
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
If really lame clubs and raves are your thing....
Maybe there was a time that this didn't feel dated and cliche, but all I can think is that any of these songs could have been on a surge soft drink commercial.
Day 45 - September 17th, 2024 They put the shame in The Shamen. If I had poppers and LSD, I think this album would not be boring. 1/5
Not really my jam…
First time listening. Highlights: none
0/5
What the absolute fuck. This did not age well. It's like going to a rave with Madonna in 1990 and taking the latest designer drug. It's like the shitty opening band for the Pet Shop Boys. It's like being drunk on tequila shooters after using fake ID to get into a club and having a drunk girl get her fingers caught in your overly moussed and hairsprayed hair as you dance on the speakers. It's like all of the memories inwant to forget. More positively, I laughed so much while listening to this. I know the artists intended their lyrics to be profound and impactive, but they sounded like a virgin on mushrooms hanging off of your sleeve trying to convince you that they've found wisdom. The pure and perfect comedy of unselfconscious and innocent profundity. And then I cried because this is going to irreparably fuck up my spotify algorithm....
If I was on e in Manchester 35 years ago I might have loved this album. But listening to this as a middle aged man sitting in traffic in new Minas did nothing for me.
Embarrassingly awful.
1 decent track and its the first one, feels bad listening to this for an hour
Wow it's like someone heard a rave from 5 miles away and was like "what if I press record??"
This is just a pretty mediocre ripoff of Pet Shop Boys/New Order
...two impressions : 1. This sounds like stock music for a BBC doc about the early Rave scene. 2. Soup Dragons and Gaye Bikers apparently had dirtier X, and thus made better music.
Recognised the first track, it was ok. The rest of album has had such an effect on me, that I can't even remember what the first one was now. Not my cup of tea.
1.5
I hate this. This is an example of the cheesiest late 80s/early 90s electronic dance that just really sucks.
Nah
I’m going to try to avoid expletives here, this was just awful. It’s akin to a caricature of electronic music, Ross’ “The Sound” if you will. More or less nothing for me. I even looked it up it for some background, begging to award it some sort of pedigree, and have come to the inevitable conclusion that its only achievement seems to be making it onto this list. A genuine zero.
Not even close to my thing.
This was a lovely trip down memory lane but unfortunately another one which has not worn well.
What makes this one a notable album? Definitely not for me.
This sounds like what Sarah Connor heard so TECH-NOIR the night she met the Arnold-nator! Ugh, tinny, shallow, disco-esque, not my cuppa tea. 1star
shit
Soleless electronic nonsense Why is this on the list? Just awful
{my ears are no longer} en-tact
Not good
Many of these songs feel are grating to me. I just don't think I'll ever enjoy this type of music.
Absolute dogshit.
guys what are we doing here 1/10
Like the Pet Shop Boys but somehow worse
- Fand ich ausnahmslos langweilig, repetitiv und uninspiriert. - Paar Melodien waren gut komponiert. - Werde ich nie wieder hören 1,5/5
- Fand ich sehr nervig
I hated this
I barely got through this. I try to keep an open mind but I have no idea why this is on here.
More garbage. Described as rock, but just atmospheric electronics that are repetitive and yes, overly long.
Misschien ging ik er met verkeerde verwachtingen in. Ik ken ze vooral van hun hits Ebeneezar Goode, LSI en Move Any Mountain. Helaas staat alleen dat laatste nummer op dit album. De rest vind ik te mellow, om niet te zeggen: behoorlijk saai 🙁
1/2
My first 1 star, very boring
Mijn god wat ben ik moe na het luisteren van dit album.. en het zou je juist energie moeten opleveren. Heel heel heel misschien wil je dit horen op een festival. Maar, eigenlijk ook gewoon niet. Geen highlights Rating: 1/10
Zou deze geselecteerd zijn vanwege het Eurovisie-Songfestival? Het klinkt namelijk echt als een sci-fi versie van Eurodance, met stip het grootste gezwel van de elektronische genre-explosie van de jaren 90. Ik zie die Joost het openingsnummer van deze plaat wel uitvoeren, in een pakje van die robot uit Futurama. Er zitten echt wel momentjes in waar je even denkt naar een Orbital te luisteren, of zelfs een Underworld, maar de cheesy vocalen en goedkope robotstemmetjes zijn nooit ver weg. Ik kan hier werkelijk geen ene moer mee. 3,5/10
Do not like
just not my cup of tea
No
This sounds like generic 90s techno, but not as fun as euro pop. Default tracks on a yamaha keyboard. Lyrics are bad (I CAN MOVE ANY MOUNTAIN). Why is this here? I would give this 2* for not being complete garbage, but I just gave a much more decent reggae album 2*, so this gets 1.
Another f-ing electronica album?!! No one needs to hear this going nowhere, heard-one, heard 'em all crap!
In the cold light of the listen at home while you work it takes a lot for this genre to break out and be moving without chemical assistance. This just doesn't have it. Were it a CD it would have been shredded.
Dull and dated
1/5. They all sound the same.
Egads - Why should I listen to this crap before I die; it has no value beyond a rave or for video game music. 1 star at best
Each song begins with new hope that it isn’t like the previous song, but, alas, it’s not meant to be. If you listen as if it’s Bloodhound Gang or Lonely Island, i.e. parody, it’s not an absolutely terrible listen. But, they are serious. 1 star.
i think this project is actually radicalizing me against electronic music. i like to think i have an open mind, and then i get presented with over an hour of the most mind-numbing static beats with barely anything else going on. this sounds like the soundtrack to an abercrombie and fitch 25 years ago. there's a reason i never shopped at abercrombie.
Album # 47
So dated I felt like they were gonna do the Macarena. No clue why this is considered essential listening, I just found it really boring to sit through.
Just not worth my time
Human NRG sounds a little like video game music, so I wanted to like it, but the overall vibe of the album is just not for me.
una vergue
It's pretty tough to figure out why this one is on the list. Hasn't aged well.
1.5
Meh... Electronica. Nothing earth shattering.
I’d have given it another star if it was half as long.
Porn music, bad advert tunes, may have been influential I don’t know but not my thing.
ancient electronic music no one cares about. and no one should NNN
Halfway through song three and I feel like I’m having a bad shrooms trip that won’t end. Why is this on this list??!!
I hated this. It was 1990 in the worst way. If this was on somewhere, I wouldn't just ignore it. I would actively look for a way to turn it off. ONE STAR.
Not a fan.
IS 2 Unlimited not British? Because I'm sure they would be on this list instead of The Shamen if they are. So sick of mediocre and bland British music and I'm starting to hate a lot of these albums.
only listened to one song. Felt like an early 90s European raver This vote is uninformed, someone let me know if I’m way off base
That was an awful experience. The best way I can describe the sound is like an old bargain-bin PlayStation game's background music mixed in with an '80s pop singer repeating the same five lines for the entirety of the song.
Did not find this very intersting at all. Recognised the first song but gave up just over half way through
Meme tier
Electronica is not my thing. I'd give it zero stars but I can't figure out how to do that.
Voðalega leiðinlegt - move any mountain er kunnuglegt
If you like EDM or acid house, put on this album, turn off the lights, indulge in substance of choice and let the high take you away. It's not my jam, however I can see why this album made the book. Overall: 2/10.
Where do I start with this? Probably "THE SHAMEN!? WTF!". Having this album pop up has taught me a few things. Chiefly, this was The Shamen's fourth studio album! Before discovering acid house and ecstasy they were a Glaswegian psych rock band. Judging by this album, the whole breakthrough rave act thing seems to have happened quickly, and by accident. And has a lot to do with them meeting Mr C. Most of the band were in their 30s when they hit fame. You have 'Move any Mountain'. That was on 'Smash Hits 91', so I know it very well. Even on a annual pop compilation that I had mainly bought for 'Do the Bartman' (aged 11) it was a bit naff. I had never known it was part of an actual album. For a good reason, the album is awful. Loads of electronic noodlings that sound like late 80s pastiches of other acts like MARRS and Coldcut, but much worse. There are no less than three different version of 'Move any Mountain' on the version I listened to. With all the other interesting stuff that was going with electronic music at that time, somehow this half boiled tripe is on the 1001 list. There better be something more representative.
Sucked
I don't like it...
16/100 Based on this scale: 1 star - 0 to 19 2 stars - 20 to 39 3 stars - 40 to 59 4 stars - 60 to 79 5 stars - 80 to 100 All right, you've convinced me. Electronic music must be garbage, because every bit of it in this list has been garbage. Stop. Nobody needs to hear this abomination. When I heard the first track, I thought it could only get better from there. Surely, the bottom of the suck barrel had been reached and broken. I was wrong. It got much worse from there. For a second, I thought Make It Mine may break from the cycle of suck, but it did not.
Punishingly boring
This album perfectly embodies everything I hate about 80s pop-electro-synth music and it's from 1990.
Nope
can't finish it, bad
Hahaha. But no, seriously, what’s my album for today?
Wasn't into it. Too electronica / disco. A 1
got like 3 songs in and couldn’t be bothered
Edm style I don't like combined with hippie pseudoreligion happy place bullshit. It's like a nightmare come to life
Gear: Moondrop Variations Mische: 🙄 Mugge: 🙄 Wertung: 1/5
Sure, the lyrics might be dumb as shit, and the music might be simplistic, and it might be the most drum machine-y percussion in human history, but at least every song has maybe 6 bars of actual music that repeats over and over for 3-5 minutes. It was a testament to my belief in this project that I was able to listen to every song all the way to the end.
This music sounds really familiar. If you isolate the individual drumbeats from the first song and arrange them in a circle, it unlocks a cheat mode that allows you to pass through solid surfaces at will. This album has a BPM of 125, the same as the heartbeat of a cat at rest. It serves as the inspiration for the iconic Belgian techno anthem \"Pump Up the Jam\" by Technotronic. Other musical acts whose names begin with 'T' include The Cure, The Isley Brothers, and The Velvet Underground.
Not the record for me…not my style and few of the songs were catchy enough to interest me. Seems like their earlier stuff is more up my alley
I suffered through this entire thing hoping to find something, anything positive to keep it from being my first 1. I try to be objective when it comes to stuff outside of my taste, but this is just a complete dumpster fire of awful. Boring, tedious, awful sounding and relentlessly repetitive.
Man, I just can’t get the dance music. Maybe the list curators know something I don’t. But I don’t think there’s anything very interesting here. 5/5 on ecstasy, I’m sure.
1 hit wonder. Wrong list
This album was one long brown note. Maybe I would have enjoyed it if it was a 90s London Warehouse rave and I was high
I'm not gonna like this one... Yea fuck this 1
Got a headache halfway through, couldnt finish
Not my style
Scottish disco dance hall. No.
Treball d'electrònica repetitiu i desmillorat amb el temps. Avorrit, intrascendent. Totalment evitable. Zero essencial
Starts off with a total faceplant of a first track. Downright shudder inducing - particularly when you get to the MC. Definitely feels like a collection of tracks vs. an actual album. They weren't even sequenced in an interesting way. No flow at all. There are more impressive electronic albums from the year 1990. I'd swap this one out for Meat Beat Manifesto's "99%." Just because The Shamen are a time capsule of the more embarrassing cliches of electronica's awkward adolescent phase in the early 90s, this doesn't necessarily qualify them for a place on the list.
Poperô repetitivo.
Bad techno blended with mediocre new romantic. Not for me.
Wow this aged like tuna salad in the sun.
This guy shouldn't be rapping. Generic rave music with annoying vocals.
Very meh. Starts off not strong, then the guy raps at one point? I didn't like this one at all. More UK stuff from the book that doesn't translate to the rest of the world.
Awful. If a shitty IT company had music for when you would be put on hold; that would be it.
I remember the hits fondly enough, but even then could recognise them as vaguely cheesy, acid house tinged pop. Why would I listen to the album in 2023? I did so anyway. So it's less of the pop rave silliness and more of a housey sound, but it's still generic, I'm mostly bored. By Make it Mine I was actively annoyed to be still listening. Thoughts and prayers to Americans listening to this now in mystified silence.
this sucks balls
White noise is more appetising than this.
Didn't care for this much. The entire album felt like the same song playing over and over again. Quite the slog to get through.
By the 9th track I felt like I’ve been listening to this for an entire lifetime. What an empty and purposeless life
Wow, I'm really not a fan of this one. I can't really comprehend why it was included on this list. Sounds stuck in the 80s rather than something more inventive for the time. I can't stand the production style, it sounds so hollow and plastic. Also, the lyrics I could understand were insufferable. I don't do this too often but I just had to start skipping through songs at a certain point because I couldn't listen to over an hour of this music. The songs aren't dynamic either, they just sit in one groove and repeat for way too long. They could have at least made the songs shorter since they just retread the same theme. Standout Tracks: N/A
i like this era of dance music but this sucks straight up
Over an hour of tacky synths, generic, repetitive beats, and tuneless, pseudo-spiritual vocals? It shouldn’t work. And it doesn’t. Yeah, I grooved along at points, but that’s on me. The music is undeniably naff. 1.5 stars
13th June 2023 Listened across 2 days - working from home and painting, out with Cox, Dan and Ben in the evening at the Woolpack. Bit of a chore. Not in the right headspace, but not my bag. Electro albums are good for background focus music or getting nailed in a field.
The hour was a hilarious and historical experience, but this entry deserves some kind of warning up front. The material is inversely radioactive: All the heft of trance but delivered straight and somehow joylessly. There are a few good melodies, seemingly singles, and they get brought back again and again and again. It's an entertaining gimmick, and exposes how thin the interstitial songs are.
Wow, this is pretty bland. Inoffensive but ultimately meaningless pop. I guess it's counted as being high on the list in it's genre?
I'd rate it lower than 1 if that was possible, nowhere near essential or anything that I ever need to hear. Just horrible repetitive "beats" with junior high-level lyrics.
I don’t want to think about this somethingless noise anymore. I want to move on and never again think of this uninspired album again.
If I were doing ecstasy in a warehouse maybe I'd be into this; but I was at work, so anytime they started going into talking about moving mountains I was not feeling it at all
It's not my thing.
"You must hear this before you die". I can only imagine a serial killer saying this to his victim, setting this album to play while he's off to prepare a murder weapon
Maybe if you were on Molly for them first time and have never heard electronica before.
Just horrible
Ugh embarrassing.
Dross
No thanks. Turned it off after a couple songs to avoid it giving me a headache.
It's technically music? On paper, this album is completely up my alley. I love music that has electronic elements to it, so despite the negative user reviews, I thought I would enjoy this. Each song started off with a lot of promise, but none of them really went anywhere beyond cycling the opening parts over and over again. No song really stood out to me, and I'll probably forget about this album by tomorrow. I'm really miffed as to how this made the 1001 albums list, but the show goes on.
I mean... no. It's not good. In fact, it's actively bad. I don't know why almost every Scottish band on this list sounds like they're 5-10 years behind the times in terms of music trends but The Shamen are no exception. Maybe it just takes that long for modernization to penetrate the Scottish culture. Whatever the reason, the crappy, blippy-bloopy synths, bad drum machines, and overly dramatic vocals are... well, they're not good. I tried but was unable to find anything redeeming about this one. Sorry, Scotland.
An "elevator music" version of house/techno that's only bearable if you're going up one floor. Only seven people in here gave a 5/5 grade to this turd (and twenty-six gave it a 4/5 mark). Everyone else went to 3/5 or lower. And this clear lack in popularity is not because The Shamen made challenging or "difficult" music. On the contrary, it's because most listeners rightly assessed that this album was blatantly cheesy and commercial at the time--and that it has now aged horribly. I thus count thirty-three users of this app who just have appalling tastes in music, and so badly need to "educate" their ears a little. Interestingly, given the dates of their reviews and the number of records they went through, most of those listeners seem to have given up using the app pretty quick anyway. Good riddance, I'd say. Number of albums left to review: 708 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 146 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 70 Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more important): 82 (including this one, obviously)