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Okay dance music, I guess. I find the music to be very formulaic. Start out with a synth line for one measure, add a bass line in the next measure, add symbols then drums in subsequent measures. Different lines, lyrics and sometimes different tempos so the songs don’t sound alike. Ho hum. Not impressed.
I was hoping to like this more, as Groove Is In The Heart is such a great 90's bop, but overall I kind of found this album pretty bland and boring.
Groove is in the heart indeed
Okay. I have a head full of a cold, not slept well. It's possible I'm just not in the mood for this. I can't see myself returning to it. It's slightly irritating, but is obviously performed well. I'm not a fan of the vocals - too showy.
Generically 90s. Replace this required listening with a Now That’s What I Call Music 90’s and you’ll be fine
Not my cup of tea
Has my favorite karaoke song on the album, and a few other songs that sound like they paid more than $5 to produce.
dance music doesn't work for albums. as a compilation of decent danceable songs, this is fine, but it is not really an album - there's no theme, concept or link other than house music
Very lite stuff and I recognize a big hit.
Not much here. 1 good song
corny
Not bad, but not into hearing dancehall music outside the dance hall. At the very least, I’m just not really in the mood for this kind of music right now, especially outside of a club setting. That might change if everything aligned correctly, but not being in the mood and everything else, I grew tired of the sound after track one.
Yeah, this is not for me - too poppy in spirit, and the music sounds pretty clunkily dated, to boot. Was thinking it would scrape a 3 but the second listen really felt like a chore, so down to 2 it goes. Fave track - "Groove is in the Heart" is obviously pretty iconic, and does seem to have an energy most of the other tracks lack. "Deee-Lite Theme" actually piqued my interest pretty hard on first listen - it has a moodiness I'd liked to have seen more of in the rest of the album... "Who Was That" was ok, I suppose.
Groove is in the Heart is the only highlight. The rest seems like a parody of house music. It sucks
Generic 90s dance album, altogether not very dee-liteful. 2/5
The combination of Herbie Hancock bass lines and house synths actually has some merit, but it only rarely hits the spot on the debut from Deee-Lite (three “e”s in Deee baby). It also does not help that Lady Miss Kier (not her real name) sounds exactly like Hanson cirka 1997.
eh, not my vibe, can’t fathom why i needed to hear this before i die lmao
Feels like they put all the effort into Groove and let the work experience kid compile the rest of the album.
Not my kind of music and kinda blurred together for me. 2/5
Repetitive dance/electonica. Yawn.
++: Try Me on... I'm Very You, Groove Is in the Heart, Deep-Ending +: Deee-Lite Theme, Good Beat, Power of Love, World Clique, Who Was That? +-: Smile On, E.S.P., Build the Bridge -: What Is Love? 6,0/10
Pretty inoffensive, pretty uninteresting
Whew I was in such a good mood this morning and I still thought this was garbage. It’s one of those that makes me embarrassed the creator listened to this and thought it belonged. The songs go on forever without going anywhere new. Just put the groove in the heart single on here and you’ve heard all you need Rating: 2.3
One uber-single, which largely represents the 90s, rescues this collection of the worst songs of the 90s from the deepest place in cultural history. It should be on the list of 1001 singles to listen to before dying, but not the whole album.
Played out after 3 tracks, nothing wrong I guess if you’re into this type of thing , personally I find it dull and repetitive . Enough with the electro beats already
Easily forgettable
Album 488 of 1001 Deee-Lite - World Clique Rating : 2.25 / 5 A notch above Electronica, though it is classified as such. If you aren't careful, you may find yourself dancing around a bit during these tunes but that doesn't mean they are memorable.
Groove is in the heart on onneksi campein mitä levyltä löytyy. Yllättävän tyylikäs mutta ei liian tosissaan. Kuuntelemisen arvoinen. Melkein tylsistyin kyllä instrumentaaleissa, vähän liian cooleina oltiin niissä. Lähellä kolmosta mut jotenkin en pysty… sen verran paljon b-puolella halusin, että levy jo loppuu
He ovat kehittäneet Hyvän Biitin. Ihan ok hitin myös. Heidän musiikkinsa digitaalinen poksahtelevuus ei kuitenkaan puhuttele minua. Vähän jopa hiertää.
Started off well but by the halfway mark I was ready for it to be over, by the end it was torture. Even Groove is in the Heart couldn't redeem it.
“Groove is in the heart” is the only one I was familiar with prior to this listening. Everything else…meh
A few nice electronic pieces like on "Groove Is In The Heart" but definitely nothing to come back for me.
It's not so much bad or boring as just very uninteresting. Groove Is In The Heart is an absolute corker though, so it's not one star.
sampleable pero lowkey boring. No me gustó el mixing, 4/10.
An ok album
Surprised to see this on the list. Surprised they had a full album given that their one song was everywhere but nothing else ever got played. Was it good? Maybe? It was groovy and I suppose it’s good if you like that sort of thing, which I don’t.
Mixed for clubs - booming drums - some sly grooves but mostly four on the floor. Groove Is In The Heart is a timeless gem, the rest not so much
Groove is in The Heart is fun the rest just left me numb.
I did not care for this one bit. This sounds like it was made on one of those keyboards they give to children that make animal noises
I would compare this to chocolate-flavoured Angel Delight, it's ok, but everybody would be happier if it were the butterscotch flavour
I state off finding it interesting but it didn’t go anywhere for me which is a shame
I'm not a dance/disco guy. But I did find this album interesting. Its post-disco beats point to the future of sampling and sounds often like proto-house. At other times its listenable funky dance. 2.4
Slightly funky house music. The one standout track is groovy but doesn't make the heart of an epic album.
🎧Not without its charms, but a lot of repetitive and cheesy bits. Probably one of the most 90s cultural artifacts in existence.
I’m not sure I’m sold on this. Even Groove Is In The Heart grates on me a little bit. It’s easily listenable but I could happily never hear this again and be no worse off.
Álbum bem sem-sal. As músicas não são ruins, mas também não tem nada demais de modo geral. Alguns instrumentais interessantes mas que não chegam em nada demais também.
fine, decent dance groove. Probably won't listen again.
It had two hits that are classics by now but the rest was not that very interesting. But I can understand that it was influential 30 years ago.
okay but not for me
Dated, AF
Feel bad but it is what it is
It was okay
Groove Is In The Heart is great but not nearly enough to save this album
I don’t like dance music. It’s simply not for me. That said, this wasn’t too terrible. I enjoyed E.S.P and Groove is in the Heart.
Makes me happy I didn't grow up in the nineties
Klinkt als een goede studentenband met een drumcomputer, matig dus
Once you've heard 'Groove is in the heart', you've heard all you ever need to hear. It has wormed its way into the national psyche via adverts and TV. It's very good for what it is, but it's not for me, thanks.
Me: What kind of music do you like listening to? Person: 90s dance. I especially love Deee-Lite! Me: That's great. Love that for you. Person: Have you ever listened to Deee-Lite? Me, hurrying away: I sure have!
Groove is in Herbie Hancock.
one groove, no heart
I really just don't like dance music. I can see the appeal of this and it's not a bad album, but it's not for me.
of course, i knew the big song off of this album before listening, but i kind of wish the whole song was as fun as it. 'groove is in the heart' is so infectious, catchy, and upbeat, it makes the entire rest of the album feel kind of lethargic and uninteresting in comparison. the sampling and production here is cool and i think the vocal performance from lady miss kier is pretty good but the sum of the parts here is just kind of blah. i really was hoping i would like this more.
Never knew who did Groove is in the Heart. Still not enough to make me care about this one.
Groove Is In The Heart is great! The resr not so much.
Groove is in the Heart sticks out like a sore thumb
A little weird, like spacey Devo - not really my style, but bad for what it is. "Groove is in the Heart" is a fun and recognizable song.
Interesting, but not going on my playlist
This wasn't great, but it was interesting. It sounds like a early precursor to something like C+C Music Factory, but without a catchy beat, and it looks like this actually came out the same year. I enjoyed the second half of this album quite a bit more, liking E.S.P., Groove is in the Heart, and Build the Bridge. The synth tick in 'Who Was That?' is familiar and I wonder if someone sampled it 10-15 years later. I can't place the song, but I'm thinking Gwen Stefani, Nelly Furtado, or something like that. This is not an album I'll be returning to, but I'll add the few tracks I mentioned to some playlists.
Maybe this is fine for a disco album...but the second Spotify switched to another artist on auto-play I said "thank god that's over." I feel like I've reserved 1-star ratings for music that is objectively bad rather than just subjectively, so this gets a 1.5 from me.
It was fine, just not my jam.
No one would have ever heard of this if Bootsy Collins didn’t join them for a song.
A lot of very repetitive songs, but this album is meant to be danced to, not listened to, so I can forgive it slightly. Groove Is in The Heart is by far the best song on the album. It’s the only one that has a nice thick bass tone
I kept wondering why this was on here until it finally got to *that* song. Dance albums are largely pointless though, they're intended to be singles by nature
I enjoyed it for a bit before getting pretty bored of the sound
Besides Groove is in the Heart there just isn't much there.
There isn't really an occasion for me to listen to this actively. Will I listen to again: 0%
A bit cringe but not that much. Quite dated. Some good moments too tho
Kinda feel this could have been good but is swamped in 90s mediocrity. There’s little parts of songs that start out interesting then just turn to bland. It all just sounds a fraction too slow and unfinished. Some of the keyboard bits are so basic they sound like when I have a go at my daughters kids keyboard. Groove is in the Heart obviously fantastic, and I dont get why the rest of the record isnt as complete and thought out as this song. It sticks out. Sounds like it was from a different band. An extra bit credit for that album cover.
Actually listened to this a couple of days ago and thought I'd already rated it, guess I lost interest halfway through the review, very apt. The introduction song was pretty good, thought we might get a genuine mix of jazz and hip hop. It was actually just a lot of 90s house music. Groove in the heart is okay, pretty iconic, wouldn't touch the rest.
Not really for me this. +1 for Groove is in the Heart.
Has a very 90s sound and it was okay in the background but this isn't my kind of music.
I know "groove is in the heart" but nothing else by Deee-lite. It used to be on mtv2 all the time so it's quite nostalgic in a way. It's by far the best thing here. I guess this sounds how I expected it to. No surprises. I don't dislike it, it was ok in the background but not quite my thing. 2.5
The hits are good, the rest are a lil samey
If only it could all be as good as "Groove is in the Heart"...
Deee-lightfully OK
Groove is in the heart ainoa hyvä biisi.
Sometimes you can tell when an older album on this list has one song on it that’s way bigger than all the others because it’s mixed 10x better and like twice as loud
Groove is in the heart is just about the only thing noteworthy on this album, and apparently in this artists career
Es war nicht ganz so wild, wie das AlbumCover es angekündigt hat.. Irgendwie aber doch passend:D Besonders der coole "Run-Dancer" auf der linken holt mich ab. Es geht hier aber ja nicht um das Cover sondern die Musik. Dazu möchte ich aber gar nicht so viel sagen.. Erfrischend, werde ich aber nie wieder hören..
- witzige Erfahrung, auch wenn ich es zumindest proaktiv nieee wieder hören werde - von dance, über funk bis hin zu hiphop elementen habe ich mich irgendwie gefragt: Was ist eigentlich deren musikalische Mission? - Ist schon alle ok, was die machen, wirkte aber etwas wahllos. 2,5/5
Isn't this supposed to be 1001 ALBUMS You Must Hear Before You Die? Because judging by this choice it sure looks like it's 1001 One Hit Wonders You Must Hear Before You Die.
Dancefloor house from the beginning 90's.
Not sure why I had to hear this before I die. Just dance music, not bad, but not really anything that makes it stand out from any other club type music (maybe a touch of funk)
This album is very mid. Okay to have on in the background while ai do other tasks. Forgettable mix of ok tracks that gets worse as it goes. 2
As the retro machine recycled flower power for a new generation high on ecstasy and the end of the Cold War, it unleashed some of the most insanely upbeat and joyfully naive music of all time in the early 90s to spiritually balance out the dourness of grunge. There's one idea and it's not that good, but they pursue it to its logical conclusion and its hard to be too curmudgeonly about such a goofy album, all they want is a good beat after all, and they have more than a couple to share. I was wondering where the groove was, now I know: it's in the heart!
Behoorlijk Goofy jaren 90 dit
This album starts with promise, but the same sound with little variety overstays it's welcome.
Vanaf de eerste noten zit je er gelijk in. Het is dansbaar en funky, met die typische doffige breakbeat van de early 90s, een zich continu herhalend dance pianootje en allerlei samples overal vandaan getoverd. Tegelijkertijd klinkt het daarmee ook enorm gedateerd, echt iets dat alleen in de early 90s gemaakt kan zijn. Ik ben elk moment bang dat de grootste oorwurm uit die periode voorbij komt: CeCe Peniston met Finally. Wat een verschrikking is dat. Joni Mitchell is daarbij als fluweel, een zacht snorrend poesje ipv een krijsende kat. Lady Miss Kier Kirby kirt er op dit album ook iets te vrolijk op los naar mijn zin. Het heeft niet de kwaliteit van de triphop, dance en house albums die we eerder voorbij hebben horen komen uit deze periode. Gelukkig krijgen we af en toe een nummer als Try Me On, waarbij de nadruk meer op het funky baslijntje ligt dan op het irritante pianootje. Als dat pianootje erin zit en die zangeres gaat er net niet helemaal zuiver doorheen zingen, dan is het gewoon same old slechte 90s shit, en hoor ik bijna net zo lief Frans Bauer (1.5 ster). Als het funky is, met een goed beatje en eventueel met samples versierd, dan is het hele dikke prima. En kan ik het ook best een voldoende geven (3+). Maar wat geeft nu de doorslag? Ter vergelijking zo maar even 2 Unlimited opzetten, uit onze eigen NL-snoblijst.
I was excited to see this one at first because I owned this CD when I was young and was looking forward to the nostalgia. But oof, this was a flop. I didn’t know it then, but I know it now.
This should have been a delight, but they made it lite. Like a cheap diet food. It did not satisfy.
Fun. I bet it. But not for me.
Its like destiny's child meets sugar ray set to the sound of 90's euro house. Kinda of a cool musical experiment with almost no substance. An album best left in 1990 where it broke rules and genres but in 2024 its very niche and dated.
Sounds like the time it's made for sure. It's a nice background noise for when you're doing something fun already.
It was alright there was a bit of repetition, and if you have to drive back home quickly to go to the bathroom then you will have a better view on it.
really not my style of music at all. kinda unsure how this even made it onto this list......
Of course I knew Groove is in the heart. Based on that song I expected more of a P-funk or disco sound, but it sounds more like the British house music of that era. The album has one stand-out track: Groove is in the heart, which is really a great song. The other songs are nothing special and not my taste.
2 decent songs = 2 ⭐️
This gives me flashbacks. Fun yet the songs aren't very different from each other. One sound.
This has great energy, I can bop to it, but ultimately this type of music isn't for me. My favorite tracks are "What is Love?" and "Groove Is in the Heart. I like the grooviness and wobbliness, long delays on vocal samples Nice use of Slide whistle on "Groove Is in the Heart". I hadn't previously heard a single song off this album besides "Groove in the Heart". Q-Tip's rap in "Groove Is in the Hear" alone almost brings this from a 2 to a 3 Star Rating for me.
another dnf but more because i ran out of time. not really my style but i knew some of the huge hits
Not for me
I was wondering why this album would have been on anybody's radar until "Groove is in the Heart" played.
One hit wonder with a bunch of unsa, unsa, unsa beats.
Sounds a bit too much like disco for my liking
This one hit wonder shouldn’t be on this list
It's not my thing, but there are elements I appreciate on it. I actually very much dig the opening track. 2/5
1. "Deee-Lite Theme" - Funky. Nice opening dorian sax motif. 2. "Good Beat" - very of it's time - Pump Up the Jam/Volume etc. 3. "Power of Love" Everyone's got to have one. Bit more Madonna- esque this one. 4. "Try Me on... I'm Very You" - filler. 5. "Smile On" - bit too slow for dancing, not enough interest for listening. Filler. 6. "What Is Love?" - Bit more Orbital, like it. 7. "World Clique" - meh. 8. "E.S.P." Nice house dance track. 9. "Groove Is in the Heart" - I've always supported the song philosophically, but it's never been on my playlist. 10. "Who Was That?" Nope. 11. "Deep-Ending" Deep house, 'sokay. 12. "Build the Bridge" - Axel F's annoying little sister.
Needs a drummer, an analog piano, and a better beat samplist. Or at least a better drum programmer.
Well, dogamn, this album sucks. Back in the day, all the dudes had a boner for Lady Keir and checking out some of her zany photos from the the 90s you can still see the allure. Unfortunately all those crappy rave chemicals she was eating, snorting and shoving up her tooter haven't been kind to her. Or, any of us for that matter. Do you expect that eating handfuls of truck-stop ephedrine and snorting 'herbal ecstacy' isn't gonna affect you long-term? Yep, time moves on, and mock beehive hairdos that were a stretch then, are straight-up ridiculously sad now. Just. Like. This. Album. :( But Groove Is in the Heart is, and will always be in my heart. Whenever I hear that track, I fall right back into those times. Full Cheshire. Cheek-to-cheek, ear-to-ear, full-toothy smiles...
C+C Music Factory was robbed! If the one-hit wonder of Deee-Lite makes the list, why not the two-hit wonder “Gonna Make You Sweat” as well? In truth, I’d rather neither made the list, though boy do they capture the vibe of 1990. But it’s a vibe that didn’t survive the early 90s. It all feels pretty cheesy and cringy looking back. “Groove Is In The Heart” is not enough to carry this unspectacular house party.
What Is Love is the height of this album. It’s got a nice, gritty trance feel. The rest of this album is overwhelmingly vapid. When they stay in house electronica mode, it’s the most tolerable. The couple songs where they try to sing verses, it’s insufferable.
Sadly one good single doesn't make an album great
Groove Is in the Heart is still a favourite. Digg! I vaguely recall listening to this album a few years ago and being disappointed, and I still am.
Groove Is In The Heart does all the heavy lifting on this snoozefest of an album.
Was ok ish for the era
Quite fun. Who Was That is delightfully odd!
2.16 average per track.
Fun for about a minute. And that minute was decades ago. One would say "one-hit wonder" but there's a real deficit of wondrousness despite all maximalists layering. If only all the world was merely a night in a club ... with club kids ...
Naaa
Thought I would enjoy it more but it was honestly pretty mid. Groove is in the Heart still slaps
This album is like a 2/5 for me. Groove is in the heart is a banger though.
who was that is the only song on this album
2.8 This is a 90s time capsule. Fun listen but prob wouldn’t put this on on my own
Album was alright but kind of passed me by to be honest. Obviously the well known "Grove Is in the Heart" was a good listen, interesting to listen to the full album.
Really? This is very lightweight. Groove is in the heart saturated Sydney bars in the early 90s
It is groovy but this era of vocals are boring and cliche for me.
The first half of the album was really uneven, and hard to get into because it bounced between faster and slower songs. It started getting more consistent starting at track 8, but then it was over. Groove Is In the Heart was good, as always. 2.5/5
Album definitely wasn't my taste. Can't say there was anything in the album that would make me want to listen again.
Was alright
nah
A couple catchy songs but overall it’s a no from me. I wouldn’t dance to this. But I wouldn’t dance to anything. Beta length.
annoying. the reason I thought I didn't like electronic music.
Deee-snuts
Eh
Groove is in the heart❤
It was fine. Didn't really get into it though.
got bored
Was okay - nothing special.
Kind of a novelty album
Today, I did not dance.
This was pretty much everything about the 90s that kind of sucked and is now laughable. This was some Disney produced funky love music that doesn’t deserve this much praise. Besides the most comical album cover this album was just bland and your typical everything’s alright stuff but with a dated 90s sound. Delighted to be done. 4.2/10
one single, rest is boring
Very 90s. Not for me
A couple of catchy songs, but it took me probably 8 attempts to make it through the full album. Physically impossible to listen to while sober.
What the hell is this 😭 This is almost a 1 because I'm almost certain I will never touch this again, but yknow what, they're vibing, they're grooving. Groove is in the heart Best song: Good Beat
Nice effort
Yeah alright, but one of those 4/4 disco beats album that stays the same throughout
I wish they would scrap all the one hit wonders from this 1001 albums list and I wonder how many albums would be left. This one is just like listening to the same boring song over and over again, except for Groove is in the Heart which is actually good. But do I really need to have heard this before I die? Even with the one okay song on the album, I very much don't think so.
Gedateerd, maar minder gedateerd dan je na het zien van de hoes zou verwachten. Positief beginnen: Best funky, wat oude disco/jonge house, her en der wat hiphop invloeden. 'What is Love' en 'Deep Ending' hebben wat Dr Lektroluv-achtigs. Maar dan negatief: Qua zang klinkt het regelmatig nogal dissonant en ook de harmoniën die ze proberen te maken zijn regelmatig echt lelijk. Ook bij de grootste hit heb ik daar last van. 2 sterren.
We don't need to assess the short career of Deee-Lite. We're all here for the one eternal classic. The one song that has them on the list. Lightning in a bottle, the "Groove Is In The Heart" is. One of the all-time great dance songs. There's just not much else to work with here.
It would be cool if it wasn't the same thing over and over again.
2.5 Deee-Liteful.
Albums by one hit wonders usually explain why they were one hit wonders and this is unfortunately not an exception. Not terrible and not unlistenable, just not very good.
This album is so 1990. Obviously, Groove is in Your Heart is a jam. Build the Bridge is cool too. This album just doesn't hold up well over time. Still a fun throwback though. 5/10.
There's an absolute banger on here but outside this, the album has a delightful vibe but seems a bit amateurish otherwise
Nicht mehr als zwei Sterne.
What a disappointment. I love the lead single from this album and was kind of expecting to hear some similar (but slightly inferior) tracks and cruise in for an easy 4. But no. “Funky” piano house. I hate it. “I just wanna hear a good beat” - are they being ironic here? Such potential. I hope this hasn’t sullied my enjoyment for one of my favourite dance floor, cross genre hits.
not bad, not my fav
The music is good, don't get me wrong. But as an album, I'm honestly very underwhelmed.
Nah. Those 80's/90's synthetic beats always give me the shits. Add on corny lyrics, and mostly tuneless singing. Sheesh.
Cet album m'a tapé sur les nerfs dès les premières secondes. Si ce n'était de Groove Is in the Heart (que je dois aimer par la force de l'usure), j'aurais simplement détesté. Les rythmes étaient répétitifs et les sons, agressants
Eh.
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2.5/5. This is different. The album cover is really something too. The only song on here I actually liked was Groove is in the Heart. I guess, at the end of the day, it's not bad.
Groove Is in the Heart is a great song, but the rest of the album is filler material.
Groove is an absolute brain worm
peppy. happy. didnt finish the album.
Corny 90s dance music. The one hit song was great, the rest was kinda boring and had too many weird keyboard sounds.
Honestly nothing intrigued me besides the groove is in the heart but not bad music by any means. Won’t be relistening anytime soon or looking for any more of their music.
One fantastic song, the others just merged into one and I lost interest
As an admirer of utterly horny women greased up and chained to a radiator, I could really feel myself getting a right lob on for this...until it started. I found myself being so enraged that i ran next door and stole the newborn baby of my neighbours. I sold him on the black market for £60 and a copy of the first series of The IT Crowd on dvd. Quite the day.
Groove is in the Heart is a great song, full of life and musically diverse. The rest of the album is the opposite of this; moribund, repetitive, and completely absent of ideas. It's forgivable as the genre was still finding its feet, but I don't think this album should be on the list.
Just another one hit wonder band/album that should not be on this list.
Not my thing.
90's American dance music... well it is OK...ish. some nice bass lines and some interesting vocals from "The Lady Miss Keir Kirby. Liked "Groove Is In The Heart" "Power Of Love" but really don't see this in my top 1001 Albums.
Never had much use for this sort of thing at the time, don't have much use for it now, and this album didn't change my mind.
Expected to like this one more.
This is exactly the style of 90s pop dance music I remember from listening to GWR FM in my Dad's car and watching the Chart Show on a Saturday morning in the early 90s. It's a nostalgic and not entirely unpleasant sound, but also quite dated and not very interesting. 2/5
Not so bad, just not for me
Not for me, but can understand why people would like it though.
Groove is in the Heart - top banger. The rest kind of blurred into one.
these guys' label had an office, for some reason, in the tiny town i grew up in. one day in 1990 they came in to do some kinda bidness, and were widely spotted cruising around town in their painted-up vw microbus. that evening, i was cruising on my trusty skateboard, with my trusty punk-rock leather jacket, when they came past, honking their vw microbus horn in some sort of 90s alt-kid celebration or whatever. i gave them the finger - actually, both fingers - and kept skating. i didn't care then whether they touched themselves (i know, i know, but they might as well have been the same group), or where the goddamn groove was: to a late-80s/early-90s punk rocker, their presence on mtv was enough for me to not care about them...their actual music just made it easier to give them the finger. so now we're...what, 35 years later? i still don't care about them, and having listened, for the first time, to this entire album, i still don't care about it, either.
Not really my scene.
Groove is in the Heart is great, but the rest seemed like generic dance music to me. The music is fine, but I'm downgrading my rating because it's basically a one-hit wonder.
sounds like En Vogue
Hipster in 1990. The three members look like the worst kind of douches you'd want to meet. Bad retro funk dance. Best Tracks: Try Me On ... I'm Very You; Smile On; Groove Is In The Heart
Fin blæs. Men det er kun fint
Welcome to the 90s my dudes! Wow! If any album I've ever heard said 90s it's this one. Dancey beats. Synth keyboards, random horns this album is a slap in your face telling you "HEY!!! THE 80S ARE DONE, IT'S THE 90S NOW MFERS!!" lots of "HEEEEYYYYYYYSSS" lots of "OHHHHHHHHHHHSSS" The cover even says "this is the 90s biatches!!!!" Anyways cool nostalgia for me and I could see how this would be influential at the time but I don't find vibe resonates with me know. Would probably give a 2.5 for the cool horns and the wahs plus the nostalgia factor. Probably wouldn't listen to it again
Not really a house music guy. The single was enough for me.
Enjoyable enough but only really here for Groove Is in the Heart Saved: Groove Is in the Heart*
njae, jag gillar det inte
Meh.
That one song was a tune. The rest, not so much.
Groove is in the Heart is 5 star, the rest of the album is sub par
This album is just straight up weird. Not for me.
I don't want to be all "It's nice but I wouldn't want it on my bedroom wall about this" but that's how I'm feeling. It's not particularly unpleasant, I just can't think of any circumstance where I'd want to listen to this and I certainly do not want it on my bedroom wall. There's no progression or movement aside from the endless jogging on the spot feeling it gives you.
Meh
What you want: more imaginative, witty and hip-hop/funk influenced dance tracks like Groove is in the Heart. What you get: pedestrian, dull and unimaginative house music (albeit with a great vocalist in Lady Miss Kier).
Not my music at all, but even then I found the album to be very repetitive and boring
Some fun vocal manips and beats here but not enough to justify the runtime
Very average sound.
Funky. Most every song has a good beat that catches you. The album really shines with 'Groove is in the Heart', and the rest unfortunately suffers a bit because of the strength of the one song. Nothing really has the same complexity and vibrancy as that one song.
Not my type of music but def talented.
One great song
those are some outfits xd songs sound alright i guess nothing im super into though. done with the third song and im kinda done with this album already lol. wait i recognize What is love, or at least the beginning reminds me of "she's homeless". Groove in the heart is the hit! It feels so much more like a fully realized song than anything else so far. But I still dont love it or anything lol.
Most of this sounds like all the club trash from the mid-90s, but then it was released in 1990. I'm afraid being an innovator doesn't help when that trash got played to death for years. Groove Is In The Heart is always fun to hear though, and there are some cool samples throughout.
Groove Is in the Heart is amazing indeed, but rest of the record is just generic house pop, nothing special...
Música para loja de roupas em shopping centers!
House coñazo.
Never listened to their record, beyond just their biggest hit. Fun house grooves, but I don't think this is that important :shrug:
una canción me gusta. El resto insufribles
mah..
Joa passt
No wonder they are one hit wonders. Uninspired, repetitive funk album with only Groove is in the Heart holding it up. And even that song is repetitive.
Funy album. Good to have as backgroundmusic. But could not realy intrest me.
Not for me.
Bad
The blandness of this record is incredibly tiring. This album should make you want to dance, or at least move... instead of just wondering why the songs feel eternal and so insipid, repetitive and uninteresting. The songs are very predictable, and so basic... and yet so hard to connect with. They are just reiterating collections of sounds, some more interesting than others, and then those house synths and pianos that have been repeated until boredom. And the drums... feel just the same in every single song. Sure, it was something back in the day... but this music has aged so poorly. Even production-wise it feels poor. I cannot find any interest in music that just tries to be fun and insubstantial and that cannot even be that. Well, it is insubstantial, but to an extent that it is just noise and moans. "What Is Love?" is the only song that can be a little interesting or enjoyable. The rest just goes from bad to worse.
Well. ‘Groove Is In The Heart’ is the song I hate most in this world. I can not stand it, really winds me up, so my heart sank when this came on. There were actually some much better and interesting bits on the album which means this doesn’t go straight to the bottom of my list, but it’s close. 1 star.
A cash in album on one half good song, this, even by your own idiosyncratic standards, is a curious choice for inclusion RGP… One star. Tom.
Woulda been good if you heard it on the right combo of drugs in the club back in the day
This sucks. It's dated and cheesy.
inoffensive and forgettable. definitely something to listen to before you die.
At the best of times this isn't my thing at all, but this even less so. This feels quite a lot more annoying than any other disco I've been exposed to, and of course there just had to be one song on here that's overplayed as hell. I will say that within the album I think that Groove Is In The Heart doesn't sound out of place, even with it being the only song I knew prior to hearing this. But that doesn't change the fact that this just sounds super dated and cheesy to me.
Suspected it was included just on the basis of Groove is in the Heart… First track made me hopeful that would not be the case… Subsequent tracks made me think my original suspicion was correct… Overall, this has aged very badly and it may not have been very good in the first place. Also, anything that includes eating noises automatically loses a star. Though when it was probably going to get 1 anyway that is rendered pointless…
Álbum chato, no tiene sentido que sea parte de este recopilatorio
no me gusta
Its ok dance/club music. Not an everyday listen for me
Very cheesy
No. Just ... no.
FTL: I might just not understand this record. Would I die listening to this again… no. But wouldn’t do it voluntarily either.
Annoying
Overall kinda boring... apart from Groove is in the Heart, which remains a banger
This type of music is exactly what I think of when someone says 90's music.
The fact that this album is a part of the 1001 albums is an abomination, and truly reduces my trust in whoever chooses these albums. Truly trash. Groove is in the heart… or whatever, is a one hit wonder.
Bad
Nope
They get one star for groove is in the heart, everything else sucks. It’s just uninspired 90s dance, and they can’t even sing. I’d rather put on Haddaway or C & C Music Factory.
What in the fresh hell was that? This album sounded like some middle schooler messing around with their first music program on their desktop. Some tracks sounded like the soundtrack off an SNES game. Other tracks were weird vocal repetitions with an electronic rock backing. In retrospect, this album sounds EXACTLY like you'd expect from looking at that cover art. A horrid electronica album that's one of the worst yet, Deee-Lite will enter the Hall of Shame as my ninth 1/5.
one good song?
O soño da diversión produce monstros (#10 dos 1.001 discos que escoitar antes de morrer: 1/5)
Not for me. 1/5
I really tried to like it :(
Nothin to run tell my mom about even if she in the heavens
Dear list, Why? Seriously? Are you fucking with me? Love, Me Alright so party music has a time and place. I'm sure someone famous loved this and used the mix in something. It could be a song I enjoy. This album as a whole... No. Just no... I know why it's on the list now! I got to Groove is in the Heart! That fucking song was everywhere for some reason. Oh good it's a one hit wonder album! I thought the list maker was just messing with us like with Throbbing Gristle....
WTF. Rando euro trash dance. Thing is dance music is just not made for the album format. It’s not album music. You don’t need to listen to it before you die and anyway as far as dance music goes this isn’t that good. One star only because you can’t assign zero stars.
really bad, but somewhat enjoyable 2,5/10
Horrendous
This was absolutely not one of the 1001 albums I needed to listen to before I died.
Shoulda kept 90% of that groove in their heart.
Electronica, 45eme album =>1/5 Le premier morceau fait illusion, mais dès le second tout les travers de la Dance Music ré-apparaissent (répétitions, à la fois de la musique et du chant, rythmes basiques).
Really not good.
In an earlier review I asked how bad an album that Bootsy Collins contributed to could possibly be. I have to admit that this question is no longer rhetorical and the answer is 'far worse than I thought'. "World Clique" may have been innovative in its day but from today's view it is the cheesy starting point for one of the worst music genres ever - 90s dance floor. Not everything on this album is disgusting but if for some reason you get the chance to travel back in time to prevent it - go for it.
Мёртвый дэнс
These early 90’s dance music isn’t my style. I remember hearing “groove is in the heart” out in a bar/club
I feel like I’m in the Bronx playing basketball with a backwards floppy hat in 1990. Considering the list, I’m just wondering how much important house and dance records miss the cut to give this one space here. Especially by black house artists in NY/detroit/Chicago etc. The last track is actually incredible. Otherwise it’s quite a miss for me.
This music was not made for me.
Maybe a 2
Credit goes to the person who created the track listing for this album. This album could have been a dud with its repetitive beats and general lowlights on the album. Groove is in the heart is clearly a banger of a track. Overall, didn't enjoy myself listening to the album
Oh yeah that's annoying
Urgh
Okay, did not expect them to appear here. It's trash.
eu entendo por que ele fez sucesso nos anos 90 nas boates de ny, mas nossa, não faz meu estilo. não consegui ouvir o album todo e pulei pra música mais famosa deles "Groove is in the heart" o que me teletransportou para algum filme dessa época em ny com alguma menina andando (acho que não é nenhum específico, é a caracterização dos personagens). e é isso, não faz meu estilo.
Meh
This should have been kept in the 90s toybox where it belongs.
Awful, awful, awful. This styling of music is too busy and deranged for my liking. I’m trying to think of other reasons to justify such a low score, but I think it simply comes down to the fact that I find much of these songs just flat out annoying. 💫
Fuck this album. God damn fuck this record.
A total turn-off
Trifft nicht meinen Geschmack und finde ich jetzt auch nicht besonders wegweisend.
Really dislike this one
Old drag queen music.
Highlight: Groove Is In The Heart The lead single is great (which I discovered on the Charlie's Angels soundtrack when I was a teen. Forever a bop). It's *made* for the dance floor. The remaining tracks are forgettable. It's better suited for the 1001 Songs list. Overall: 1/10
I was waiting for Marky Mark to start rapping, and never got it. 0/10
Old drag queen music.
1. dee lite - 1 2. beat - 1.5 3. love - 1 4. try - 1.5 5. zmile - 1 6. uuhat - 1 7. clique - 1 8. ezp - 0 9. groove - 2 10. uuho - 1 11. deep - 1 12. bridge - 0
Not my pint of pickle juice
Gear: Sennheiser MOMENTUM TW 4 Artwork: 🪐💅🏵️ Production: 🎧😒👎 Music: 🎛️🖍️🤦🏼♂️ Rating: ️🛸(️🛸)/5
This is seriously boring and mindless dance music feom start to finish. 1 star or F.
Unfortunately for this album, I have enjoyed the splendors of being born in 2004 and peaking with the peak of EDM music as it has come to be known. Compared to what I have heard and seen life, this album is just taxing on the soul. I can see why it must have been important for EDM as a genre, but I don't see myself ever returning to these tracks. 2/10
One good song, one star
Not a Dance music person
why is their a god damn bloody woman on my album cover. get this god damn foid off my screen!!!
One hit wonder band
mehhh 1/5
I'm glad that "[They] like it", because nobody else does. "What is love?" Love is skipping this album. "I couldn't ask for another" Brother, I didn't ask for one of this in the first place. It's incredibly disrespectful of this website to make me listen to Kraftwerk yesterday, foundational early Electronica that holds up astoundingly well, and then to make this the next album. It's a spit in the face to Kraftwerk, really. Oh, thank God it's done. I thought Grove Is in the Heart would be decent, but it was barely better than the rest of the trash on the album. No favorite song for me on this one.
Does anyone actually listen to this? I tried really hard, but it just annoys the crap out of me...
Only one song that I know, not exactly what I would listen to.
It sounds really silly to me.
Boring TBH
Schon wieder nichts für mich!