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.

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.

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

MASTA PEECE MUAH MUAH DELECTABLE MM YEAS UNDERRATED AS FUCK

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

Good electronic music

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Likte låtane her veldig godt. Repetitive lydar og vokalar.

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.

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

Loved it

damn det godt

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

Would listen again

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

Awesome, but we knew that already

Really excellent! ❤️

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

AMAZING!!!

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.

easily one of the best electronica albums I've heard

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.

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.

Hype AF

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

I remember seeing the CD of this album a lot as a child, it was often in rotation for the car. It is in fact an album my mother loves. There's one song I know on here well, but as I listened, I realised I have varying memories of all the other songs on here. It's my sort of album, I may not always be in the mood for something like this, but the simplistic synthetic rhythms are something I enjoy - it provides a nice background atmosphere. Some of the songs are much chiller that others, and I tend to prefer the higher energy ones, but honestly they're all super easy to listen to.

Loved it

Dance Music. First? 3,5/5 Again? 4/5

Surprising for an EDM album to grab me, but this is good, clean fun. It's not rocket science and it doesn't claim to be. Pretty varied approach too. Far from the normal stuff I listen to.

I'm so glad this wasn't trashy 2000s radio EDM, even thought I have heard the more popular songs before. Some songs feel kinda like Aquarius by boards of canada, which is awesome, but some of the songs where there's just a beat and then a standard looped vocal for the whole song are a bit rubbish. Favourite songs: first 2, drop the pressure, in my arms, Rikki, otto's journey and the last one. Overall around 7/10

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.