En-Tact

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)

This aint it

Pushing play on the pre-made Casio loop shouldn't get you onto this list. Best track: I think Oxygen Restriction is the one I thought wasn't terrible, but I don't want to feed this to the algorithm, so I'm not going to confirm

Total crap, even duplicating the same crappy song three times.

Irritating to listen to.

Edm is not for me

Early 90s techno. Had to turn this off because it was starting to give me a headache.

2 tracks in a shut it off, not good.

The perfect mix of 80's synth and 90's bad pop. Marky Mark clearly stole good vibration from the first track. At one time the even said new vibration. Nope.

Decent electronic album, not bad as background noise I suppose. Just not an album for me.

Early 90s electronic dance music. It's ok, nothing I want to listen to again

Not for me

The first song is good and that’s about all I enjoyed. Another techno album that doesn’t interest me. 2.6/10

A couple of synth notes and the same words over and over again.

Lol nope

Amateurish. Aimless.

i genuinely didnt like this

I believe that I have never listened to so much electronic music as the last year following this list. After so many electronic albums I can confirm each time that it's not my cup of tea! Absolutely! It's not the worst genre, I kinda like a few songs, but these artists insist on these 1-hour long releases with almost the same thing that even at a party will be boring for everyone.

This makes me disappointed to be Scottish. Scottish Electronic music just should not be a thing. I just can't get behind most electronic music in general, but this is another level of painful. There were individual "instruments" on songs that I liked the sound of. The one song I actually somewhat enjoyed was "Possible Worlds". I'm selective about what I give a 1 to in these ratings...I do not feel bad about this one at all. I am in pain, but I somehow made it to the end without turning it off.

I have no problem declaring this to be the worst album I've listened to so far. In an effort to provide a solution to the list's problem of removing this album from the list, I'm offering a replacement album: "Girlfriend" by Matthew Sweet. I'm a bit stunned it isn't on the list, and almost take that personally. It's more than a suitable replacement, since Girlfriend is a solid 5.

Nope. Just the dregs of the 80's/early 90's fascination with Electronica and keyboards. Soulless stuff. Gross.

Aarrrrrgh no

Managed to be simultaneously noisy and sleepy-making. Did have a nap.

Not for me a bit too noisy and I struggled to follow along

Maybe I just wasn't in the right mood, but I didn't enjoy this at all. It was just repetitive and not pleasant to listen to, and a lot of the synths and drum machines sounded pretty bad (I get that it was relatively early for EDM and the sound developed a lot throughout the 90s, but one song sounded like a Rick Astley instrumental)

wtf is this ??

Had niet eens door dat ik nog muziek aan had staan..

Echt totaal niet mijn ding, zal dit nooit zelf aanzetten

Just Say No

Sounds like the music they play at The Gap.

E's are good. But this album is not. 1/5

Not my thing. Some good beats but wouldn't choose to play this myself. Defo wouldn't recommend to other people.

Not for me at all. 1/5 stars.

No thanks.

Move Any Mountain is still enjoyable enough but the rest is not.

One track album. Twice.

Avoimin mielin yritin kuunnella läpi, mutta puolivälin jälkeen tuli keskeytys.

Oli aika mitäänsanomatonta tavaraa. Osa kappaleista vois toimia saksalaisen poliisisarjan taustamusana.

Tikutakutikutaku bliip bliip bliip. Ei toimi. Ei loppuun. Ei jatkoon.

Tää ei osunut ollenkaan. Ainoana juttuna levystä jäi mieleen Make It Minimal -kappaleen, Skrillexmäiset efektiäänet. Lähinnä tuli odoteltua, että joskohan tämä levy joskus loppuisi. :D

Another odd techno electric 90’s album, that feels like what I imagine being in an early 90’s club would be like, and I am thankful I did not have to live through that.

1

Too much electronics

Pop electrònic amb un to proper a la rave, que em recorda una mica els EMF. El primer tall és un temazo escoltat mil cops a discos i afters, però la resta de l'àlbum es fa pesat, atabala.

Jeg tror dette albumet er på lista som en vennetjeneste

Early electronic music. Its not really my thing, but the first song is pretty good. Some of the songs are real weird. En-Tact is an album by The Shamen, released in 1990. It was the first Shamen album to feature Mr C, and the last to feature Will Sinnott (who died on 23 May 1991). It fused the band's past psychedelic rock sounds with the rave act it became, developing a style that represented multicultural dance music.

I really hated this. Too much synth.

My ears are bleeding. What the bell is this 💩?

Turrible

Kiinnostaisi tietää mikä kulttuurihistoriallinen merkitys on nostanut tämän pökäleen listalle. Samantyppistä musiikkia on tehty ainakin vuosikymmen ennen tätä ja vieläpä paljon paremmin.

The single stand out (but is dated). The rest is generic DJ mixtape from the early 90s forgettable content. Not great

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Meh, beat is usually a little too repetative. Not a huge fan of this house style. Spongle is a far superior psycadelic band.