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.

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.

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.

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.

It was like boring remixes of wii music. Yawn

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

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.

Good electronic music

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

MASTA PEECE MUAH MUAH DELECTABLE MM YEAS UNDERRATED AS FUCK

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.

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

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

Better than I'd expected.

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!

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

It's now been almost two months since the last 5 I've given in the list. I've been bombarded with some very forgetful music since (not all of it of course) so I wasn't expecting much from this one but it has stopped me on my tracks. This is awesome music, I can't believe I've never listened to it. I mean, I know why, I was very into indie at the time of its release but after that I think I should have run into it but certainly didn't. What a shame. This takes heavily from Homework and YCALGB without being derivative. I think it should be a 4 but dammit, after all those dreadful records the algorithm has given me, it’s going off with a 5.

AMAZING!!!

This scratches a very particular itch. How have I never heard this. An absolute gem of electronic songs. I love it.

Really excellent! ❤️

Awesome, but we knew that already

I don't listen to dance much, but this album was solid! "Destroy Rock & Roll" was the best on here.

Would listen again

Really really liked this! This is the kind of flavorful lo-fi music that I am frequently looking to listen to (usually during work)

damn det godt

Loved it

Классный альбом. Не ожидал, что до сих пор такую электронную музыку пишут и звучит здорово.

Absolutely fantastic - I have his 2005 essential mix which I still play to death... and yet, somehow never actually listened to this brilliant album. Which I have since ordered.

Likte låtane her veldig godt. Repetitive lydar og vokalar.

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

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

Liked it a lot, very synthy

This was a fun album. I really enjoyed it.

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

Strangely wonderful.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 want more of this!

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

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!

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

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.

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.

Epic

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.

great not rock disc!

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.

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

Such a good album. Reminds me of highschool

Cool beats. Mellow but nice.

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

Something we may feel cheesy now but innovative back then.

enjoyable dance music, not pop

Dance classic. Brings back memories of being off my face at Reading festival

Great techno, some cool chill tracks on there as well.

Really good electronic

solid album

good electronic album. Would definitely listen again.

Brings back memories of an Irish girl. Lots of beeping.

I very much enjoyed this album. It kept me groovin' through the workday, and it had a lot of interesting sounds.

cool & electrick Best Track = “Destroy Rock & Roll”

Dope house album, a few bops, great theme overall 4.1/5

Fun. Nice chill album

would listen 2 again

Very nice

I didn't anticipate this sound from the title. Very mellow and listened to this while in a very dark place. It helped with optimism a little.

Very good

Surprisingly fun and listenable, a lot of good stuff but nothing big that wowed me. Waffling between and 3 and a 4 here.

Kinda electronic dance. Not all tracks tho. Dr Pressure a classic. 2nd track was cool chill down tempo. In My Arms another big tube. Had no idea who this guy was or that he was responsible for these tunes. Some Chemical Brothers electronic battle weapon vibes. really enjoyed it. 4/5

I really felt this album. A+ minus a few duds.

Quite good background electronic-y music.

Some lo-fi, some electronic instrumental. Worth another listen

Great tunes. Shame he only ever did one!

I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Smooth synth-pop but with enough edge to keep it interesting.

Me gustó mucho. Algunos temas me hicieron acordar a Royksopp y la voz digitalizada de "Drop the pressure" me hizo acordar a Daft Punk. Este es el tipo de album que usaría para programar: es fácil de escuchar, no distrae mucho y está bueno. Es muy difícil lograr ese balance: que sea una canción que pueda quedar de fondo y que no aburra al mismo tiempo. Voy a escuchar este album seguido. Bienvenido Mylo a mi vida. 4/5

El primer género musical que escuché en mi vida es "la marcha" jajajaja nótese la edad. La música electrónica en cualquiera de sus derivados y géneros me parece espectacular y siempre la voy a armar. Este disco es simplemente precioso. Drop the Pressure es mega conocida, más allá de los obvios 13M de reproducciones que indica Spotify pero in "My Arms" también es espectacular. Tiene el sample del tema "Bette Davis Eyes" de Kim Carnes muy a la vista y es precioso. Lo escucharé nuevamente. 8,5/10 ludomatics.

Nostalgia

Un álbum de electro house adictivo. El ligero pero solido debut de Mylo no decepciona. Desde los momentos más downtempo hasta los más funky nos encontramos con tracks memorables pero por sobre todo atractivos, lo que lo hace de este un álbum de electrónica muy accesible para cualquiera. Para mí un sólido 7/10