Destroy Rock & Roll

There's no chance of this destroying rock & roll. It doesn't have the energy for that. It's just going to sit on the couch, baked out of its mind, and talk shit about rock & roll instead.

Sometimes I think more closely about the idea behind "you have to hear this album before you die". I think it's a pretty crazy premise to say ANY album could be capable of such importance in the grand scheme of things. Is your life wasted because you didn't get a chance to hear a certain record some people deem important? No of course not. On the other hand, there really are records that carry such an impact that it truly would be a shame to go your whole life not hearing it at least once. I think of records like Dark Side, Abbey Road, Song in the Key of Life, Kind of Blue, Thriller etc. Really do need to be heard by everyone. However, after those handful of truly legendary records, things start to get a little bit silly. Case in point, this record by Mylo. I don't believe there could be a single soul alive that would put this music up there with the truly legendary albums to listen to before you die. If someone told me: "Before you go - you are required to listen to this last piece of music before you shuffle off from this mortal coil", and then began playing fuckin' DROP THE PRESSURE from Mylo - there would be two people dying that day. I had more constructive critiques of this album written. But it was mostly pointless and boring. Just like this record. Maybe on a good day I would have given this a 2. But today is not a good day (I blame this record).

“Destroy Rock & Roll” by Mylo (2004) First time for this album & artist. Music to listen to while on hold. Music to listen to while on hold. Music to listen to while on hold. Music to listen to while on hold. Music to listen to while on hold. 2/5

Definitely did not need to hear this before I die, because I have a feeling this is what will be playing in hell and I’ll hear plenty of it then. Also, decidedly false advertising in the title there, Mr. Mylo.

In spots, it’s a bit like if Air and The Avalanches had a very uninteresting child. In others, it’s a fairly pedestrian house record that borders on being an outright tedious listening experience (the title track, in particular). Again, The Rule (TM) holds true: If you haven’t heard anyone talking about an album on this list in 20 years, you don’t need to hear it before you die.

It was like boring remixes of wii music. Yawn

Rating reflect that this is forever the sountrack to sunny days on the grass at university sitting with my first love having fun. Sunny, light music, with an excellent religious nutjob sample.

Fucking DJs, my god, is there anything more vapid and talentless than a DJ trying to pass themselves off as an actual artist? Listening to this is an exercise in futility. I can’t and I won’t ever find enjoyment here.

This album did not even come close to destroying rock & roll.

I kinda love this. Funky, heavy beat, alternately relaxing and hype-up music...it's like smooth jazz had sex with a keyboard and I am all about it.

Brilliant. I've loved a lot of these songs for a while but never realised it was this album.

Endlessly repetitive looping, briefly interrupted by the sound of me skipping to the next track.

It’s a really cuck move to name a song Destroy Rock and Roll and then sample a bloke naming a load of artists who are all cooler and better remembered than yourself. Fuck me was this tedious. Poor Kim Carnes

MASTA PEECE MUAH MUAH DELECTABLE MM YEAS UNDERRATED AS FUCK

Really mellow tunes, a mix of club house and detroit techno?

Good electronic music

Alright why has the world conspired to keep "Valley of the Dolls" hidden from me. In fact, why has the world conspired to keep this whole album from me? You all know I cant resist sample-based music thats made more colorful by the use of a phaser/flanger. That blissful Daft Punk phaser texture hits the dopamine receptors just right. I didnt realize it, but "Drop the Pressure is responsible for a very often-used vocal sample in house music! This song specifically has that early Calvin Harris vibe, you can hear the beginnings of blog house sprouting up. But my highlight on here (and it isnt even close) is the blissed-out "In My Arms". This one is special. I know that there will be very few times that this list produces a song that so perfectly aligns with my exact hopes for what any song can be, while also doing so utilizing my very favorite production methods. A house tempo song with a super happy, super fuzzy, phased vocal loop in a major key. A repetitive, simple bassline. A nice little bridge/chopped up middle section that ramps back up to an even more outright happy and shiny second half, with just a little extra glittery synth at the end to bring it home. I replayed it twice before I could move on through the album! The only comp I have for this song is Pete Heller's Big Love, which wouldnt surprise me to hear it was a reference track for "In My Arms". Genuinely, this song couldve been surrounded by ten layers of shit, and this album wouldve still been worth it for that euphoric little nugget. Luckily, this album isnt layers of shit at all! Now, it's no opus of dance music. But it's good! A tasteful (i hate using that adjective) amount of sampling and chopping, like on "Rikki". Some more easy listening cuts that venture into almost trip-hop territory like "Sunworshipper" or "Need You Tonight". I'm gonna guess the common gripe about this album is that theres not much substance to grab and hang onto, not much in the way of hooks or sticky musical motifs - and that's fair. To that, I'd say that maybe those things aren't always needed. Maybe this album could find its place while doing chores on a lazy sunday or on a nice walk, or just for laying around in the sun. A nice, happy, hazy little musical companion. Soft 4/5.

The OG lo-fi radio to study to + some chill electronica

This is an enjoyable, bouncy, electric instrumental listen, and really good for productivity. Definitely rolling this into my rotation.

From the first track, I loved the sound. Wild smooth samples and if you like lo: fi Hiphop / Trip hop, House, delicious solos, nostalgic beats and electronic music from the beginning 2000, then this album is one you must hear. You probably know Drop the pressure, but this album can do a lot more than that.

So. I notoriously don’t like electronic music. Bro. This was pretty great. Pounding synthesizers. Pulsing 808s and odd samples make up a record that sound like Daft Punk throwing a straight rager!

Better than I'd expected.

Never heard of this - sounds like a 2nd-rate Nightmares On Wax album. I assume the title is ironic. Maybe captured a point in time but it bored me to tears

Be honest Mylo, how much did you pay to get on this list.

Bedroomy thinlayered mash-up electronica which provokes nothing except for being pointless background.

Easy 5! Cool, quirky little dance album and 00s classic from the Scottish Daft Punk. Probably the best thing to come out of the Isle Of Skye other than whiskey. Lots of fun, funky beats, smooth 80s keyboards and cool samples from Rikkie Lee Jones, Bette Davis Eyes and Boy Meets Girl and serious heavy bangers with Drop The Pressure and the title track. Also some really pretty, chilled out stuff towards the end with Zenophile and Need You Tonight so a good mix of pop, club, ambient and chill out. Mylo apparently got tinnitus afterwards and lost all his money because of all the royalties he had to payout for the samples but it was worth it because this is a very good album.

Absolute gem of an album.

A fantastic dance album. I can see why it got so much acclaim, especially given that it was so different to what else was popular at the time. A bit like how Scissor Sisters’ début was adored for the same reason. It’s a shame he never followed this up.

I didn't know this album except for the Drop the Pressure track but I loved it. Right up my street, reminded me of Mr Scruff in places and very much the enjoyable electronic music that I like to listen to.

For only having recorded one album, Mylo did a bang up job. He creates an atmosphere straight of the bat with Valley Of The Dolls and Sunworshipper that I want to breathe in. I’m obsessed with the beat on Paris Four Hundred. I enjoy the preacher’s sermon used on Destroy Rock & Roll. It’s actually frightening and hilarious that a religious leader felt it prudent to complain about, and want to destroy, the music culture. It’s a story as old as time, but what a fucking idiot. Maybe spend some time addressing real societal ills. I find his missteps with artists’ names funny: David BOO-wie, JACK Cougar Mellencamp, Weird Al Yanko-VICH, and Cyndi LOOP-er Really a A-, but I’m rounding up because I listened 4 times and I’m looking forward to the next time I revisit.

What an absolute fucking ripper. Have heard Drop the Pressure 1,000,000 times before on dance floors but so good to hear it in the context of its album. Has all the best elements of Sneaky Sound System, Pnau and Groove Armada. Improved my mood a lot after listening.

I wouldn't listen to this a whole lot but it's a unique experience I didn't exactly know I wanted

A decent electronic album that has some interesting grooves

At least not fucking folk

This wasn't bad, it showed some interesting variations in melody and sonic texture. In a way it is fitting I get this while in a ski-area in Austria. What goes for dance music here are crimes against humanity. Mylo is a reminder to those peddlers of bass boosted summer of 69 to up their game or even better: pack it in, there's standards that won't be achieved with cow noises.

easily one of the best electronica albums I've heard

WOW! An electronic album I actually like. It’s smooth and playful and never annoying. A real treat!

Did I enjoy it? Yes. Was it a welcome change from the rest of the week’s offerings? Yes. Should it be on this list? Not sure.

Straight to Spotify saved, started good but some songs aren’t incredible. Barely makes it to a 4

I don’t know if I just got this album on the right day or what, but I loved giving this a listen. I wouldn’t say it’s incredible, but I think Mylo did a great job with this album. I love the old school samples used throughout the album, it helped to create a very chill atmosphere. First half of the album was probably better than the second half, but the ending in excellent.

As much as I love electronic, it can never destroy rock & roll. Second half of the album was much better than the first.

I thought this was quite fun. Good to write thesis to.

Enjoyed this

I actually quite enjoyed this one which really surprised me! Also ended up knowing one song that I'd not heard in years. Would listen again. Kinda chill 4⭐️

What a pleasant surprise! Really enjoyed the production and overall vibe of this one. I think this has been the most surprising discovery so far on my 250 and something album journey.

This was good fun actually! I knew several of these songs but had no idea who the artist was. Not sure why really. Really fun dance stuff

No. 276/1001 … Valley of the Dolls 4/5 Sunworshipper 4/5 Muscle Cars 5/5 Drop the Pressure 4/5 In My Arms 5/5 Guilty of Love 3/5 Paris Four Hundred 4/5 Destroy Rock & Roll 3/5 Rikki 4/5 Otto's Journey 5/5 Musclecar 4/5 Zenophile 4/5 Need You Tonite 4/5 Emotion 98.6 4/5 Average: 4,07 This was really awesome. I'm not the biggest electronic music fan, but this album just clicked for me.

A great house album. Wish there was a bit more energy behind it (and maybe some more drums, but what else is new?), but it's a great album to put on while working.

Drop the Pressure is the stand-out of course, but there are a few other good 'uns that make this a good listening experience.

If I wanted to listen to Daft Punk, I’d listen to Daft Punk.

Electronic isn't really my jam.

It's quite telling that I was listening to this while working, and at one point a track came on that I thought "oooh, now this is -good-!" I checked it out and Youtube had just skipped over to Daft Punk on auto play. The entire time, however, there was no track that stood out except for 'Drop the Pressure.' If you're going to Destroy Rock & Roll, you gotta do better than this, folks.

One of those days where I keep flipping back to my player to see how many songs are left. This is probably ok in small doses. "Destroy Rock & Roll", apparently by reciting the names of other artists. Maybe death by association? I'm not sure what these folks are trying to do here, but whatever it is it's beyond my ability to see.

I thought this was completely new to me since I didn't recognize Mylo at all. Then I got to "Drop The Pressure" and was taken back to my teens. This album is great. It has a few songs that sound very generic to me but this is definitely something I would have playing in the background while playing games, cooking, or just going about life.

Rather destroy this than rock n roll.

Softy irony in the title, I listened to much of this in Walmart while on an evening emergency shopping expedition, finding it comforting and cute. I’m unlikely to return. Dance music albums are near oxymorons; they can get stranded outside a club.

I consumed approximately 17lbs of cocaine while clubbing to "Drop The Pressure" in the bloghaus era, and even as someone who looks back on this music incredibly fondly, having to listen to a whole ass Mylo album is a torture I wouldn't inflict on my worst enemy

It being 2004 is no excuse for being repetitive and generic.

To call this album monotonous is being generous. Why anyone needs to listen to this album is a mystery to me.

I had never heard of Mylo before now, but this album was just immensely awesome. So many catchy grooves and melodies that really grabbed my ear and just made me happy. Perfectly recorded/produced and just so, so good. I listened to it twice. Five stars, hands down.

Great album. Don't think I've ever listened to Mylo before. Very groovy. No stand out song

No täähän taas yllätti, en ihan tämmöistä house levyä odottanut tältä listalta. Onko tää parasta housea mitä oon kuullut ja yhtä tärkeä kuin muut klassikot tällä listalla? Ei välttämättä, mutta hyvin nautittavaa silti. Mullehan elektroninen musa aina maistuu jos se on hyvin tehty. Ja tämähän on. Parhaat: In My Arms, Rikki, Otto's Journey

Yeah, this was phenomenal. I cannot believe I didn't hear about this when it first came out. I would've loved this as a kid. I've never had 55 minutes pass by so fast and blissfully. Stellar album. I need to find this on CD.

I love this album. Its been in my top 10 for many years, the samples are great. I felt blessed to share this with my friend who is a music nerd and he never heard it but like it.

Great

The myth was amazing

Y'know, I feel like the title "DESTROY ROCK & ROLL" might set people up with the wrong expectations. Certainly, it set me up with a neat zinger if it turned out this album was bad actually: "DESTROY ROCK & ROLL? How are you gonna do that when you can't even kill a beat?" Har-de-harr. For me, an album calling itself "DESTROY ROCK & ROLL" sounds like it should be setting itself up for some hard hitting stuff. Real "bangers," so the kids call 'em. And while I do think this album has those, they also tend to be a little... "Boppish," as well? I mean, I wasn't expecting this album to be adjacent to IDM or harder genres of electronica like that, but... Yeah, no, this is actually electropop. Mostly sampled from radio-friendly soft rock, as it happens. I'm not sure if I'd call it terribly special, nor something I **needed** to listen to before I died, but unlike a lot of reviews I see that amend that thought to their 1/5's... Hey, I think it's a fun piece of background music. And as I stress when I praise something for being background music: there's nothing wrong with. It has as much right to exist as everything else. Sure, it doesn't go anything good for the album's longevity unless the artist who made it is just **that** notable (see Brian Eno's ambient album). For what it is, though, I feel like I have hardly anything to complain about. In fact, I actually enjoy how a lot of it is sampled from soft rock. For the record, too, by the way, it turns out the title "DESTROY ROCK & ROLL" comes from a Chrisitian fundamentalist sermon sampled on the title track, which mispronounces several artists names, including "Weird Al" Yankovich[sic]. So, really, I can only assume, then, that the use of "destroy rock and roll" is supposed to be ironic — that "rock and roll" is meant to refer to all music, really, and that the album is in favor of **not** doing that. So it's nice to know we're on the same side here. All in all... Y'know, honestly, I am kinda feeling a 5 on this. Part of me was hesitant to do so, since I have been wondering lately if I've been too generous in handing those out.... But honestly, "Emotion 98.6" did actually convince me to go all the way. I really did the track, and the end of it specifically, just that much. Unlike other albums I give 5's, I'm not sure if I'm gonna come back to it too frequently, if at all, but for the time I had with it... Yeah, it turns out this guy can actually kill a beat after all. Go figure.

Wasn't really sure what this album was gonna sound like before listening, but it being some fucking stellar electronic tunes certainly was a surprise in my book. Solid 5 Stars.

Very surprising. Fantastic house album.

That album was awesome. Another one of those ones where I had zero expectations going in and it just absolutely blew my socks off. The combination of trippiness and really cool electronic beats is right up my alley. There were a lot of parts where I was fully engaged and could not worked and others where I was totally lost in the music. Sounded a lot like Justice which I am all about. That song In My Arms absolutely ruled. The repetitive speaking in a couple of songs lunched me out but in a great way. Especially when he just kept repeating band names, I thought I was going crazy. Really wish I could have done drugs and listen to this album, but instead I was working. I think this one gets a bump all the way up to a 5 because of the unexpected uniqueness and the amount of absolute jamming I was doing in my office. I also want this to be on a relisten which will be easy to find if it is a 5

enjoyable dance music, not pop

Something we may feel cheesy now but innovative back then.

Totally unexpected and fantastic! Really fun and creative :) made me miss making this kind of music

Cool beats. Mellow but nice.

Such a good album. Reminds me of highschool

I was surprised that I liked this so much. I found myself moving to the beats, so it must be good. Liked songs added: - Valley Of The Dolls - Sunworshipper - Drop The Pressure - Guilty Of Love - '05 Version

I remember hearing many of this album's songs on the radio as a kid. It's got a very nostalgic aura for me. Amazing discovery.

great not rock disc!

Discordant sounds and randomly assembled patterns turned into delightfully unique music and melodies. This was a really fun listen, not at all what I expected.

Epic

Fijn om ook dit geluid vertegenwoordigd te zien in de lijst. Het draait om beats en samples, maar op een manier dat het heel gemakkelijk in het gehoor ligt. Het kan prima op standje 40, maar hoeft niet per se op vol volume geluisterd. Het zit wat in de buurt wat rustige Daft Punk nummers. De titel zal verwijzen naar de gesamplede klassiekers. Toch doet Myla zichzelf tekort. Hij doet de oude muziek geen schade aan. Hij gebruikt het om een heel nieuw geluid mee te maken. Ik zal niet snel een los nummer van het album opzetten. De kwaliteit ligt vooral in het geheel. Toch weer één van de weinige platen, waarbij het totaal groter is dan de optelsom van de losse delen. Tijdens het typen staat de plaat voor de tweede keer aan en ik dein weer lekker mee. Word er een beetje vrolijker van.

Albums like this are why I enjoy this site, a great listen that was funky and different and enjoyable from beginning to end. Add to that the mystery of not knowing anything about the artist when I started the album, I want all my albums to be just as fun as this one.

I was happy the whole time listening to this today. It's a quite wonderful mashup of lots of things I love.

This was a case where I was drawn in to reading the Wikipedia article before listening to any of this. It made me eager to hear it as it was sounding like it might be right up my alley! I started listening to this and realized that I knew some of these songs. “Sunworshipper” and “In My Arms” were songs I had listened to a while ago, probably close to when this was released. Another case where I neglected to pursue an album after finding some songs from a group I like rectified by 1001. This manages to be peppy and yet a little mellow too - very listenable. Really enjoyed this!

Maybe I was just in the right mood, but this was excellent. Hints of Daft Punk, but mellower.

I want more of this!

First album that I thought I'd hate but it was actually a banger. Had more rhythm and melody than most edm music I've heard. Sampled songs added a nice touch, gave some vocals on top of the synths and other electronics

I wasn’t expecting to like an EDM album but holy fuck, I would throw this on any time. I have never heard of this artist and do not usually like EDM too much but this is exactly my speed

Loved this album, rock and roll is dead. Long live electronic music

Wow. What an unexpected treasure. Very smooth and low-key. A fantastic album using old samples to make a unique and modern sound. Listened to the album 3 times in total and will listen again in future.

Is this the start of low-fi? It's amazing! It starts that way but then hypes up. This is the dance electronica fusion we needed.

Holy crap this is good! And contemporary! I can’t believe this came out in 2004! Destroy Rock & Roll followed by Rikki is a killer combo. Maybe I’m just a sucker for bands spoken in a pretentious music head way, but the song just slaps. Thinking back to 2004, I’m sure this was insanely refreshing, paving the way for LCD Soundsystem, and the other 2010s “idm” (ugh) acts. Super killer and the whole album has been added to my list.

Really nice chilled out tracks, the house music is strong with this one so it's right up my alley.

A propulsively funky and fantastic house album. Great use of samples.

Strangely wonderful.

Rating: 9/10 Best songs: Valley of the dolls, Sunworshipper, Drop the pressure, Destroy rock and roll, In my arms, Paris four hundred, Rikki, Need tou tonite

This was a fun album. I really enjoyed it.

Liked it a lot, very synthy

Wow, I forgot how much I dig Drop the Pressure. Danced and danced some more.

Probably pretty radical at the time. Good production (use of sampling/synths). I can see how it influenced people. Why did they remaster it the year after it was made