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Creatively, this album was consistent and intriguing. However, this is not my style of music. Electronic music tends to blend together if I'm not paying attention actively (which is made harder when the music is boring imo), and this album fell into that.
This was almost too repetitive and wasn’t good working music because of the repetition of lyrics.
Rock and roll remains safe
Aufgewärmter alter Kram, Hintergrundgedudel
Спочатку думав що зовсім не моє, але тут присутні свої, так би мовити, моменти. Пісня де перераховуються різні виконавці, хітові In My Arms Paris або Four Hundred. Не те щоб прям моє, але 2.5 поставлю.
Maybe fits more into a club? But for me nothing but background music. Except "Musclecar (Reform Reprise)" much too lame to destroys anything!
No thanks
I like it that Mylo grew up on the Isle of Skye (Scotland), and that this album is kind of an homage to the 70s/80s soft rock that he listened to as a kid on the lone radio station you could hear on the island (Ireland's Atlantic 252). I also like it that he managed to sample the screed in "Destroy rock & roll" from a BBC interview when he was temping for the BBC. I'm not sure there's much else to like on this album, despite the "1001 Albums" entry for this album boldly stating "Everybody loves Mylo". (Maybe the reviewer actually meant that delicious chocolate beverage Milo?) It's not even bad, really, just incredibly forgettable and repetitive and uninspired. Even the supposedly massive hit of 2003 ("Drop the pressure") is neither familiar-sounding nor all that memorable, except perhaps as a much weaker version of a Daft Punk tune. Sorry, Mylo.
Hipster shop music, nothing special.
2 out of 5. This can't even dent rock n' roll.
Fine as this genre goes, but not really for me.
Nah.
Destroy boring electronica
Too repetitive.
jag vill gilla detta för det verkar finnas en tydlig koppling till soft rock från 70-talet som jag gillar. men det här liksom bara pågår och ja det är lite trevligt i början men det pågår för länge.
Not bad for dance/electronic. Still just ok.
Mission accomplished. Add this to the first time last time listen pile.
I see what they mean by "destroy". When it's not irritating, it's dull. I'll give it a star for the update to Betty Davis' Eyes. 2/5
Rating: 5/10 some decent inessential house tunes
Whoa we're halfway there. This record is like when your a senior in highschool and you spent the between period time doing as much of the homework as possible. But you only got about half of it done. If you got everything spot on the best you can get is a 50%. Thats how I feel about this record. Its 10 or so half songs. The beat and background is what they give me. And its just not enough. Alot of these have the potential to be part of a good song. But none of them have the legs to stand on their own. Its just not enough in any regard. The few songs with lyrics get a little closer but most of those are just lists. Pretty much the ABC's in terms of substance. Its just not worth my time at all. But again it could be part of an actual good song so its not all bad. Just mostly
There's more interesting people out there doing this more interestingly.
Far to repetitive for me, and a bit too dancy. Didn't enjoy.
I don't have high hopes for this one looking at the cover + album info.. More forgettable UK 00s music? Let's find out. Two tracks in this is basically "downtempo beats to study to" which is perfect since I'm working right now Went downhill after the first few tracks. I find the repetition of the spoken word samples very annoying. Had to skip the title track, ugh. I even like this kind of music, but this was a dud compared to most albums on this list. Turns out my first impression was correct. 2.4/5
I found it cohesive, but boring
In the 'Destroy rock and roll track' he names a lot of legends. Is that why it ended up in the iconic albums list? I feel like there's too much repitition in every song.
The sound of robots fucking... I didn't hate this like I hate Fatboy Slim. It's, at times, listenable. But man, I just don't like electronic and that's my failing, not the music's. Listenable.
++: Muscle Cars, In My Arms, Guilty of Love, Rikki, Otto's Journey, Zenophile +: Drop the Pressure, Destroy Rock & Roll, Musclecar (Reform Reprise) +-: Valley of the Dolls, Sunworshipper, Paris Four Hundred, Need You Tonite, Emotion 98.6 5,5/10
could not finish it LMAO
Mkey
Mostly boring electronic music. There are some good ideas in here, but the second he finds one, he loops it into submission until you hate it. A few sparks, no real fire. The kind of album that reminds you repetition can be hypnotic… or just irritating. Mostly, it’s the latter.
well alright techno, really destroyed rock n roll there
Kinda bland. This style of music is done better by so many other people.
First time I listened to this album, my attention drifted off, and I didn't even realize that the album was finished. Maybe its just me, but there wasn't anything in the songs which really captured my attention. I did hear brief snippets from popular songs which I recognized, but on the whole, I found the album bland.
First 2000s album and its euro techno supreme. I do like some electronic music and while I did like the overarching chill vibe with a lot of the album, there were still parts I didn’t like. I wanted to like “sunworshipper”, but the constant snippet of dialogue was annoying when I was just trying to chill, and the title track had the same vibe with just naming 80s musicians that the speaker wanted to ban. I also didn’t like the cut stop/start sound in “Rikki” and “in my arms” And while I did enjoy a few tracks (Muscle Cars, guilty of love and need you tonite) I everything else was just very average or forgettable track to be played in a club quickly forgotten. Decent album, but not a whole lot too it 2/5
I liked a lot of the music, but I don't think a single vocal sample worked for me, each pulling me out of the song instead of working with it—the worst offender being the dumb bike monologue in "Sunworshipper"—and a lot of the tracks quickly got repetitive, especially the ones with the jarring stop-start stuff like "In My Arms" and "Rikki," which evoked nothing so much as a CD Walkman skipping on a bumpy ride. The title track was funny, but never reached the hilarity a more contemporary stupid statement dance mix might. Best: "Otto's Journey" Worst: "Sunworshipper"
I really like the club sounding beats on Destroy Rock & Roll, but I cannot forgive the DJ style samples Mylo uses. I'm sure it makes for great showman-ship in person, but listening to a recording it does not help. I either dislike the sample altogether, or if I do like it, it massively overstays its welcome (looking at you "Destroy Rock & Roll").
Pop, electr., Dance, 2004 -> 2
if this genre isn’t my least favourite, it’s definitely up there. ridiculously redundant.
There are some big, well-known/popular songs on here so I'm sure there are many people who enjoyed this. It's just not for me though
I actually liked the album but the album title was so misleading, Elisa said it might be bc they’re killing the harsher sounds of the genre to emphasize soft rock samples. Idk about all that. It might be the album on this list with the least amount of accolades and makes me wonder what albums this might have won out against? Esp with non-English music i dunno
Very tame electronic music. Good for listening to in the background while working. Felt a little misled by the title of destroy rock and roll thought it would have more bite
Background music. Fine.
After some really questionable suggestions, this album forced me to take a break from this site. I genuinely enjoy the concept of this project but I cannot for the life of me understand how some of the albums made this list. I'll take this opportunity to generally voice my grievance with the 1001 book itself. Many artists that are suggested here were either showered with tons of popular awards or are just so engrained in pop culture that they don't provide a new insight. It just feels fairly predictable after hearing so many records which were commercially successful but rather short-lived in the grant scheme of things. Sure, the site features some absolute classics that definitely deserve their place but the selection of records does seem obtuse or stems from personal anecdotes. Destroy Rock & Roll certainly seems like the type of album that seemed influential for someone in their formative years when they got fucked up on coke in some shitty club while getting a handjob in a dirty bathroom stall. It's all fine as every list will be utterly subjective in the end and we all resonate with different music. Is this album awful? Not really, it has some good enjoyable easy listening tracks but there isn't anything special about it. The history blurb of the artist is more engaging than the album itself. I don't have much to say about this to be frank. I'll probably not revisit this in the future.
This album absolutely does not need to appear on this list. It's not exactly garbage, but there is nothing remarkable about it at all. I had a fine time listening to it in the bkgd while I crushed out some computer work. I would never put it on again for this purpose or any other. 2/5
I didn't need this. 2.
The only bonus these 00s UK dance albums get is that they remind me of the show Spaced, which is a masterpiece. None of these albums are though. The song where he just lists off rock stars was particularly insufferable.
missing persons duran duran
Album sounds like it was made with Fruityloops, which ... no judgement but the voices used seem very out of the box and Itis distracting to me. Like the whole album is an included demo track.
Did not expect to recognise 'Drop the Pressure'. Makes me feel old. It's a very 2000s electro album. The endless repetition of sound bites and beats is not for me though. 2.5?
There were a couple to a few decent songs on here but holy fuck, what a chore. I got a slight bias towards sampling (shit rocks) but this was for the most part subpar. Like when the sample just loops with nothing new happening and it isn't a good loop. Disappointing. 2.55/5
The sampling of a fundamentalist preacher railing against David Booie and Cyndi Looper amused, beyond that it didn't leave a major impression either way
I can see what the guy was trying to do here (imitate The Avalanches) but I found the results wholly unsatisfying and to be honest, mediocre.
Fancy. Kind of reminded me of daft punk?
Ganz interessante Beats dabei, aber holt mich irgendwie nicht wirklich ab. 1-2
Interesting in a good way. I liked this album. Right in my wheelhouse.
I’v hear better DJ/EDM albums
DJ's aren't artists. They just slap a bunch of stuff other people have made together and call it their own music. This album was so incredibly boring and repetitive (like most electronica) and was stupidly long. Mylo you ain't got nothing on rock don't act like this accomplished anything. This was a dumb album I'm actually kinda pissed I had to listen to it.
uuuuugh. so repetitive & boring. sounds like what you hear while you're on hold, or waiting for a Fun Run to start. and Destroy Rock & Roll was awful. 1.5 stars
Literally content music. Nothing bold. Nothing groundbreaking. This is the stuff an influencer has in the background of a recipe video.
Never heard of him. A bit videogamey. Tracks 6, 10, 11 were ok.
2 Interesting, kind of early techno
It almost got there but it just didn’t quite do it for me. I’d give it a 2.5.
So much repetition
Generally I can be lenient with electronic music because I enjoy it. And parts of this are fine in a "tune out and do something else" kind of way. But no way does it deserve a spot on the list.
Was vibing to this, it is electronic music from 2005. A 2.7. Not sure when I would play this in my own life though.
I don't like this.
I hated the cover of this album when it came out, i saw it in hmv and thought "but why would you want to destroy rock and roll?" now I listen to it, its just drop the pressure right?
At first glance album seemed to be extremely non-interesting and pale. I've been tried to persuate myself the quality and value of these songs. The album was played 5-6 times. It became more joyful, couple of songs were added to playlist. But at the end there is mo neaning for me to consider Mylo's album greater than an average good semi-dance playlist.
1. dollz - 2 2. zun - 2 3. carz - 1 4. Pressure - 1 5. Arms - 1.5 6. Guilty - 0 7. Paris - 1 8. Destroy - 0 9. Rikki - 1.5 10. Otto - 1.5 11. Muscle - 1 12. Zenophile - 2 13. Tonite - 1 14. Emotion - 1.5
Very boring. Not chill enough to get into the flow of, not uptempo enough to dance to.
This album, nor the title track, will destroy Rock 'N Roll, nor anything else. It's fine for music in the background of a nightclub, or when you're driving, but it mainly relies on several samples of much more talented artists. Favorite Track: "Destroy Rock And Roll".
In My Arms turned the album around. Mostly I was asking myself, "Where's the weather forecast on the 8's?"
Not a fan of electronic house music. but I respect this album because the songs don't go on forever. Enjoyed the sampling of 80s songs.
Not a fan. Sounds like a pretty bland and repetitive version of an Air record. Fave(?) song on this listen: Drop the Pressure
I assume this is on this list solely because of Drop the Pressure, because honestly this isn't very special. Even it's best tracks just take the good bits out of better songs. I'm being generous with 2 Stars.
This was pretty repetitive and in a terrible way. I wish I knew what the line was. Daft Punk, Justice, etc do the repetitive thing but I guess they're not using a hammer. All in all, not sure why this is on the list.
OK.
It just...is. Some beats and noodling, but is my life any better for having listened to it. Doesn't even get by via virtue of its creaiton, its position in a larger discograpy.... And has the audicity (even ironically) to namecheck a load of better artists. You better be good to invoke Bowie et al!
Eh, not really my style.
This is not an album I think you need to hear before you die. It's a great album to listen to while writing or coding or doing something like that, but I'm not sure it's something I'd want to just listen to by itself. Also, another case of Spotify artist biography hyperbole: "Heralded as the saviour of dance music by everyone from NME to Elton John..."
Strong 2.
Listenable and forgettable.
The biggest flaw is the name. The second is that it overestimates how long it should run for. This genuinely feels like material a dj would prepare before they start to mix it up on stage, it feels unfinished.
title track made me wish i was listening to losing my edge instead
Saw Mylo while at Benicassim one year and he caught the same flight back as us. Was expecting him to launch into "Mfers Gonna drop the pressure" during descent but alas not. This is very plodding but still think Pressure holds up and I liked the couple of religious monologues mixed in. This was a period in my life where I would still occasionally have it large on the dancefloor but my heart wasn't as into it and much of the soul use left the music, as demonstrated here.
I can tell that it's well done. I just hate it.
Поп-хаус для кебаб-ресторана в пятницу вечером, когда очень захотелось покушать. Лучшая песня - Drop The Pressure.
There is no chance of this destroying rock & roll it barely has the energy to scuff its shoes. For an album with such a provocative title, it’s surprisingly tame, coasting on polite, mid-tempo electronic grooves that feel more suited to a trendy furniture store than a musical revolution. Tracks like “Drop the Pressure” have a certain laid-back charm, but charm alone will not topple decades of riffs and rebellion. The production is clean, the beats are smooth, and nothing here offends the ears, but nothing really grabs you either. Even the title track, which should be the knockout punch, lands more like a gentle nudge. It is pleasant background music, which is fine, but if you are going to claim you can destroy rock & roll, you might want to at least raise your voice. This is more “mildly inconvenience rock & roll” than anything close to its demise.
I was hoping with the album name we would get something a little meaner sounding. This just sounds like rejected tracks for a Persona game. Its not the worst or anything but it felt really lacking and uninspired. If you need some background beats this works well enough. If I had to pick a track I'd say In My Arms.
Boring forgettable beats to chill and study to
Underwhelming background music
Not bad as a background music
I’d never heard of Mylo before listening to this album and I can promise you this was not what I was expecting. Especially with a name like Destroy Rock & Roll. I expected metal, I got what I assume is the earliest version of lo -fi. It’s not bad, some of it gets repetitive however and I don’t particularly love non-lyrical music as much as the opposite. I really didn’t enjoy muscle cars, I found myself liking it less and less as the album went on. It couldn’t keep my interest and I was waning on wanting to listen to elevated elevator music. It reminds me of music an electrical company would play while they have you on hold. This is supposedly a dance album and I would hate dancing to any of these. They’re so repetitive and honestly annoying. The vocal samples are overused to a nauseating degree. Daft punk lite. The last couple songs were BETTER but I’m still not a major fan!
whatever. i just kinda don’t care. but i always like making fun of christian fundamentalists so it’s alright in my book for that alone.
Honestly struggled to get into it and didn’t finish. Seemed very generic
For such a bold album title, the utter benevolence of this album leaves me flummoxed. On that I would give it 1/5 for delivery. On the other hand, I'll prob spin this again, so 1 point for replayability. 2/5
Pretty forgettable techno. Rock & Roll is probably safe.
An artist rents out a space during some sort of community art night. You walk in, the lights are very bright there is art on the walls similar to the album cover. This album is playing on a portable stereo. Next to the stereo are simple white business cards with bold Arial text 'MYLO'. You can hear the floor creak as you do a walk around while feigning intrest. Before you leave, you give a closed mouth smile and a nod to the person standing at the door. You continue down the street. You pass a lady selling some crocheted items and friendship bracelets. You forget what you just experienced by the time you enter the next very similar brightly lit space.
Hmm, I want rock & roll to exist.
Naast Drop the Pressure (dat ook vooral een nostalgisch tripje is naar de StuBru jaren uit de jaren 00 en 10), is er niet veel te beleven op dit album naast wat opvulmuziek. 1.5
Yet another album of copy-and-paste-and-paste-and-paste electronica. C'mon y'all, repeating a 2- or 4-bar loop with minor variations for 3 minutes does not a song make. (The track "Destroy Rock & Roll" is good for a laugh though, so Mylo gets a bonus point for that even though the preacher sample is doing all of the heavy lifting.)
The Good: We know that this album is going to blow something up! The Bad: That it did not blow itself up after roughly song #3… The Ugly: Getting all excited about “need you tonight” thinking it would be an INXS remix… fucking Mylo… On a positive, I really do like the album art! About the album… well, take into consideration that Mylo never published another album, we know that these 55 minutes and 5 seconds are all that there is to convince us of the need to NOT have to listen to this again. I will give Mylo 2 stars for the effort on the first couple of tracks, and the fact that he made this all on a computer when most people didn’t know you could do that… he should have stuck to Academia though…
Highly repetitive, mostly uninteresting electronica that's not too unpleasant, and has a few fun samples, but not really worth the time. OK for background noise while working.
As far as Electronica goes I didn’t hate it.
Meh...meh techno. 2/5
Songs are not necessarily bad it just lacks dynamics.
With so much electronic music on this list, I'm genuinely curious what qualifies any of it as mandatory listening. In the case of this album, there's genuinely nothing special about it to my ears. Generic pop hooks repeated over and over to the point they become tiresome. Even when there's something interesting, it too gets repeated so much that it loses it's intrigue.
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Well, that's about it. I actually quite like electronica. I've probably heard Mylo in this context before. At least I knew one track from the album. Overall, however, I didn't particularly like the music. 2/5
Not a Fan of this one
I find this sort of stuff soulless and forgettable. But, you know, different strokes for different folks and all.
Good electronic artist.
I'm pleased this album has popped up on the list. I listened to it a lot when it was first released, yet have no memory of it. I keep on seeing it for sale in charity shop cheapo bins, but I never take a punt. My reservation was right. Moby-lite.
It's not the worst thing I've heard but it's pretty lame.
This isn’t the weapon they think it is. Couple of the songs are really cool, the rest are equally annoying.
This contained more electronic / sampled / programmed stuff than I had initially expected. It was a palatable but bland melange.
Would have been more enjoyable baked out of my mind.
great, inoffensive fillers - but the mainstream tracks made it for a reason.
Responsive, not necessarily original or distinct. Perhaps they were the first and all others were copies.
Not a fan of electronica
Didn’t hate it. Actually great for zoning out.
1,8/5
A total waste of time. I don't understand the inclusion of this album on this list.
If there was an album that would date this list it's this album. Came out to a flurry of critical acclaim, just not that great in hindsight 2.5*
Some entertaining sounds for sure, particularly towards the end, but ultimately not good music.
I was pretty bored by this one. Hard to finish.
First album in this list that I did not enjoy. The issue with electronic music is that they're made and structured in a way that would make it easier if a DJ to create a mix. In most cases a good DJ would be able to pick the right track at the right time to keep the audience engaged. As an album it's boring and if I were to judge the tracks separately as a DJ most of them don't really stand up on their own. Drop the Pressure is a banger. That's why I'm giving it another star.
Rather this record is to be destroyed! Housy repetitive children bontempi boredom.
Kind of groovy, but would I listen to it again? No.
Gotta respect how it was created and its status as a genre-defining album, but just a bit too much bedroom noodling for my taste.
Was fine
Drop The Pressure was quite nice. I remember it from when I was little and went camping with my parents.. The rest is generic BS
He wants to be James Murphy so bad, and he simply is not. This is usually pleasant enough that it's not a one-star album - though there are some one-star songs, like the atrocious Drop the Pressure - but it is completely disposable. Of course Pitchfork gave it BNM in 2006.
Never heard of this artist before. I'm sure most of the reviewers are pissy about this album title too. It all moves along somewhat nicely, but doesn't really go too "hard" if that makes any sense. Some recognizable samples of 70's/80's soft rock/pop are used all throughout. I didn't care for the tracks that sampled speeches or sermons on repeat, however. The title track was somewhat weak and tedious in that regard. Everything felt a little subdued, I was expecting more as I knew this was a house album coming in, and thus wasn't as memorable as a result.
Very very dull.
Its 2006. You walk into a new sushi restaurant in the trendy shopping district. The decor is wall to wall stainless steel with retro anime accents..Voltron images, Street Fighter characters... The roll list is 275 items long and has the punniest names you ever saw. At least 8 contain truffle oil for some reason. The cocktail list is a combination of enormous fishbowl drinks and sake/fruit martini fusions. 6 cocktails involve dropping a shot glass into another glass. No one that works at the restaurant is Japanese, except the resident DJ. That DJ plays this album on a loop. Your friend orders the truffled scorpion unagi roll with pickled scotch bonnet as your Blackberry vibrates. You really don't like anything about your surroundings, but you are content.
It took me a few tries to get through this one because I got busy, and maybe that has me biased against it, since I kept listening from the beginning whenever I came back to it. It's ok. Despite maybe coming back to it four times, I can't seem to recall any songs
I couldn't wait for it to be over. Nothing against it, tho. Just not for me. 3
Never got out of second gear. Just when I thought it would go up a notch, it just listed lazily. Kind of disappointing and no it will not destroy rock & roll.
yeah we aren't destroying rock and roll with this one. it's like right in between good dj music and lofi and i just don't ever see a scenario where i'd listen to this again other than being on hold while i'm trying to get a new debit card
5/10 “Ketchup is Spicy” EDM TPAB of H&M Music Stems and Seeds House Royalty Free Bangers Best Of Old Navy Soundtrack Songs to Eat Mushy Peas To One of the Greatest Cultural Exports of British Dance Music
No. This is getting increasingly irritating. Just not my vibe.
Not my thing. Listenable but not moving to me. My life is not any better that I have now listened to this album. Beyond me how this is a must listen before you die.
Ik weet niet wat het is, maar in albumvorm is het nog geen enkel EDM-project gelukt om mij in te pakken. Een nummertje vind ik leuk, een setje vind ik heerlijk, maar in een album gebeurt gewoon echt te weinig. Saai.
Ajme a tek je ovo blast from the past 😃
I didn’t hate it, but it’s just a ripoff of better artists.
I don't know how anyone listens to this actively.... The banal nothingness I think I've ever heard. It's like listening to the color taupe. (4.2) ★★
This isn't bad, but it's not something I'd actively listen to either. It's like the music that's playing in the background if you're at a trendy shop or cafe/bar. Definitely not essential. 2.5 stars.
2.5
Boring
Electronic enhanced music.
Eh
I was ready to bestow the much-appreciated "rest album" moniker on to this album, though I'm not so sure whether it qualifies. It lacks both a relaxed and emotional component for me to truly feel rested after listening to it. I thought it was pretty alright, though this kind of dance music is very tough for me to engage with. It's flat and sterile, but not in the cool, aesthetic, minimalist way that I usually get down with. It's very mild and my opinion of it is worsened by how lengthy it is. I think this is the longest album that I have listened to so far. It may very well be the longest album on the list outside of The Beatles' White Album. Getting to the title track and hearing a few artist names that I've listened to as a result of this list was pretty cool. I kind of wish I got recommended this one later into the list so that I could see how how big that figure would be. Out of the 58 artists mentioned in the song, I've listened to 8 as a result of this list and 10 in total. I am 13.8% more cultured on music as a result of going through this list, a figure that means absolutely nothing outisde of this one random ass song. Y'know what? Fuck it. I've got time to kill while I wait out the rest of this album. If this were the last album I was recommended on this website, I would be able to say that I have listened to 27 of the artists on this list, or 46.6% of the total list... That's... a much weaker figure than I was expecting. Better to knock this one out of the way sooner rather than later, I guess.
If you want to destroy rock and roll, I think you need to go at it with something stronger than this. I don’t go to clubs, so I don’t have a frame of reference for this music style aside from mall stores. And waiting an hour for my wife to get out of an Old Navy changing room is not the greatest feeling you want music to invoke.
The tactic here seems to be to bore rock to death, which they put into practice throughout the long album. I’m not sure, but I think they played a couple of “songs” a second time.
semi catchy elevator music nothing more
Elevator music with street cred. Unobjectionable, but not sure what the point of it is.
Uninspiring chillout.
I wasn't particularly enjoying this, but got more into it halfway through when the energy picked up. I didn't love it, but can imagine it would sound good in the summer. Some good beats. Truthfully though, in my opinion he didn't improve any of the originals that I recognised (Utah Saints are better at that; can we have their album please? And actual Kim Carnes and Judi Tzuke?) His own creations were... okay.
There is absolutely nothing notable or special about this album. It is fine. Maybe OK as background music.
Oh man… this was pretty bad. Like, someone playing with a synth.
OMG. Get me a double espresso stat! OR hit me over the head with a huge rock so I can just forget I listened to this all the way through lol. Ugh. Can't keep my eyes open. It's probably unfair for me to rate this album because this is SO not my thing. While I'm so wide open to all kinds of music, this was a bit brutal. Other than Otto's Journey which actually felt like some time was taken into producing it and I think Zenophile was the other one - this album did absolutely nothing for me. Otto had some decent added instruments and was actually structured like a song I thought. My brain was confused. I was stuck between a bad night on too much ecstasy at a rave at 4am with a shitty DJ or I was listening to the soundtrack of ANY big bush 70's porn movie (yes they had music back then and it was JUST like this). I did not enjoy this. I'm giving it a 2 because while I do not enjoy this type of music, I 'can' appreciate that this guy was a little ahead of his time. I don't think that many were producing stuff like this at the time and he was a bit ahead of the wave. So I'll give him that. I can only hope that the one of U2's grandchildren who are still receiving 50% of the rights for using tracks on this have enough money to go and get a McDonald's happy meal. Not my cup of tea.
I can appreciate the impact I’m sure this album had on the EDM world but this was also not my cup of tea. I given other songs and artists I’ve listened to in this area, this wasn’t something I would go back and listen to again. Honestly if I ever took ecstasy in my life and wanted to sober up, I think I know what album I’m turning to. Just a few notes on a few of the songs. “Rikki” made me feel like I was having a stroke (there’s needs to be a strobe light warning on the song because the effect it had on my ears was the auditory equivalent of epilepsy). Sunworshipper was lowkey my favorite and the sample on it kinda makes me want to drop out of college and go find a new way of life on my bicycle.
Inoffensive but not necessarily good
Each song quickly wears out its welcome
Repetitive. Couldn't finish it. Repetitive.
First time listening to Mylo. The album cover and title made me expect something a little more exciting, but that's not what I got. If this is your thing I can respect it but to me this is just one step up from copyright-free YouTube music.. Favorite track: Drop the Pressure 2.5/5
I knew Drop The Pressure and In Your Arms, as they were both on compilation albums I had when I was a kid. The other tracks were all much of a muchness though. Not my bag, a bit like The Avalanches really.
Amazon music is telling me that Mylo “achieved success in the mid-noughties.” Is that what we’re calling the 2000s now? Really?? I want to talk about that more than I want to talk about this boring album.
Rock and roll found alive in a ditch… pretty corny, typically sleazy 2000s type of stuff in some parts imo, but listenable.
As much as I love electronic music, it just... doesn't stand up for itself in any meaningful way.
Some weird ones on here
lol this ain't gonna destroy anything except any interest in a second listen. repetitive and uninspired. are the listmakers intentionally choosing boring electronic music because they hate the genre?
Nah, Rock & Roll's gonna get killed by SOAD a year later Mr book author didn't know that 1001 was a big number and when he ran out of albums that you could at least pretend were important enough, it was time for the middest albums he could recall
Vitsi olikin lopulta ihan hauska. Pari muutakin toimivaa raitaa erityisesti loppupuolella.
Destroy this album. Inoffensive and un-innovative (is that a word?) house dj stuff that would have sounded passe even by the time of its 2004 release. It was an ok listen, satisfying background music, but in no way does this belong on the list.
Proto-lo-fi/EDM with tinges of drugs and psychedelia. Unremarkable, but pleasant enough. The piano-bass interaction in Sunworshipper is worth mentioning – it's smooth, dynamic, and manages to pull off what's essentially a two-chord track. The electronically-pitched vocals in Drop the Pressure is pretty darn sick, and significantly niftier than any other form of autotune I've heard. As with most electronic music, more acoustic percussion in all tracks (including that one) would be a significant improvement. Drum loops only get you so far, and when you're mixing them up and down, they're bound to stand out (in a bad way). Guilty of Love – or at least the string part of it – reminds me of Frank Zappa's music. I would've liked to see more commitment to rapid strings with weird harmonies, but unfortunately they only really appear in this track and the album opener, Valley of the Dolls. Overall, Destroy Rock & Roll is fine. It's just part of a genre that doesn't appeal to me. The title track is also a ridiculously low point in an album packed with "medium" points, and that's unforgivable. 2/5 Key tracks: Sunworshipper, Drop the Pressure, Guilty of Love
its got a couple decent ones but overall isnt that great
Kivaa vaihtelua levy ehdotuksiin. Aluksi ensimmäisen kappaleen jälkeen uskalsin toivoa levyltä paljon, mutta mitä pidemmälle levy eteni sitä vähemmän se lopulta kiinnosti. Sinäänsä ei mitään erityisen väärin mutteinsen puolesta paljoa kyllä tapahtunutkaan.
2 - It's certainly not the most boring two star I've ever listened to. There are some interesting things going on here. My issue with the album was that, when I did find a track to be more interesting than usual on here, it either got boring over the course of the song or there was a part that annoyed me. A lot of the tracks were just boring or not notable to me.
Redundant & monotonous
2.5/5
Having an EDM/dance selection pop up was exciting, but this wasn’t an exciting album. Generic dance beats, which were fine for background music, but it was nothing I could really get in to. Listen again:nah Purchase for my collection: no Favourite Song: all blended together
Eh.
I knew this was going go be a struggle when I thought the opening track had gone on for too long, checked the runtime, and it was only just about to reach two minutes. Good god. The repetition makes me feel like I'm trapped in a vocoder. It's chill at times, I'll give it that. The chill feeling goes after two minutes of the same neverending sound. Ok, sometimes the songs have a different sound thrown into the middle, but then it goes back to normal. Finally, the bits I did sort of enjoy were the obvious samples from other songs. I think I'd rather just listen to the sampled songs.
Ok house music. A couple nice tracks, but mostly not something I will revisit.
Very much a product of its time, and I'm sure I bopped to some of these tunes in the dance halls, but there was far better music around at this time: Layo & Bushwacka's "Night Works" is more experimental and musically literate, while Etienne de Crecy's "Super Discount 2" turbocharged the French touch. "Destroy Rock & Roll" probably sold more copies than both of them put together, but that doesn't mean it's the better record.
This was just a bad album I think. It was very annoying to listen to and it felt like it was really trying hard to be difficult but painfully failed. It felt urban but still stuck in some old ways that just couldn’t click.
Each time I thought this might be a little bit catchy it inevitably would soon devolve into a typically uninteresting repetitive part over and over....and at times was just straight up annoying. The satanic panic song could have been a funny idea but is lazy.... just unimaginatively playing this preacher's speech endlessly which ended up having the effect of me wanting to agree with the lunatic just so the music would stop ... I didn't even get a nostalgic pang for some of the recognizable 80s samples. it just felt like audio engineering class project pandering. I like when electronica freaks me out, transports me, or soothes me. this did none of the above. ...how is this something I need to hear?? 3/10 2 stars. barely.
Not for me
Elton John said it's good so it must be heard before you die? I don't agree that this is in this list. I forgot most of it the moment the album ended, only the feeling of wanting it to end is remembered.
No one can destroy r-n-r. If that was the intention, this album falls flat on its face. Electronic music is not meant to be listened to. It’s unbearable. However, you turn it up as loud as it will go and dance, then that’s a different story. But not if you have any taste whatsoever.
Tedious
I’ll admit I’m a bit ignorant when it comes to this style of music, but how can this be an essential album in any way? Especially given the many other electronica albums on the list from this same era.
Pretty repetitive overall. I guess some of the beats were cool, but it wasn't anything amazing...Someone might sample his beats which sample other people's beats, but they could also sample the original and probably do it just as good or better. He turned it into music you would hear playing in a hipster hotel lobby or hipster department store.
I guess his thing is that he samples stuff, which I am all for, but he doesn’t do it very well. His samples are just way too repetitive.
This would be fine when you are at a bar and they have it going on. I do not believe I needed to hear this before I died.
this was just uninteresting daft punk. had 1 or 2 fun moments but for the most part fell short for something that made its way onto this list.. maybe i don’t get it idk but i have definitely heard more exciting things! seemed to just fade into the background. some of this record would also be good as the the soundtrack to an online platformer game from 2005
This definitely isn't my thing. I could see how it would be good cleaning/work flow music, but nothing I would deliberately put on. Seems like the person making it had fun.
Safe, smooth and easy to listen to electronica, that is to say boring. There are way better examples of this era of electronic music. 3/10 Pointless and dull
I’ve never been a big fan of dance music but this album did provide a few toe-tapping moments, probably to the songs with samples where I recognised some of the original tunes. After a while the repetitiveness of it all got me close to turning the sound down as the album reached its latter stages. The last couple of songs redeemed the situation slightly. At least it didn’t require much attention so in a way not the worse background music to work along to. Wife walked in and heard 2 songs and hated it.
I am sure the Rock & Roll establishment were quaking in their boots when this seminal album was dropped and set to destroy their world. I am assuming the title is ironic, but I am also sure the DJ who produced this guff is not interested in what a middle aged man 20 years later thinks of it! I mean it is not awful, it is pretty chilled and has hints of Daft Punk, but I keep expecting someone to interrupt each song by announcing that my call is important to them and that someone will answer as soon as possible. Pretty dull.
Is it just me or was this just run of the mill electro pop?
Initial impressions quite favourable but slowly changed to boredom. Don't remember it at the time and forgotten it already. This never happened.
Meh
This is absolutely my style of music, but that doesn't mean this album is good.
I can only think that Robert Dimery had this as a massive earworm in 2006 and thought, "Oh, I'll pop it in the book." It's not like anyone has heard of Mylo or he's had a massive productive influential ouevre.
Although I found myself head bopping throughout this; and I liked Drop The Pressure; the In My Arms sampling remix one was weird; Destroy Rock & Roll started off amusing... "David BOO-wie, Cyndi LOOP-er", but went on far too long. The rest of the tracks all seemed to blur together in an EDM soup.
House techno was a great mood builder to martini bars in the mid-00s but I walked away from this album and forgot it was on. That wasn’t a good sign. It’s listenable but not memorable for me.
Some electronic shit... Music is very flat and uninspiring.
I liked the first song, but then when lyrics get repeated over and over it irks me.
Really not for me. Not a fan of techno/house or whatever this is called. Not great, but just about tolerable.
# Album Name: Destroy Rock n Roll # Artist: Mylo # Rating: 2/5 # Comments: Pretty generic electronic album from the 00's. Cant say it was particularly rememberable. It would make good background music but as an album, its way too long. I remember doctor pressure and in my arms. Both songs were quite big hits at the time of release. A 2.5 would be fair for this album. Its simply too long for me and not enough good tracks to maintain the length. Overall, im pretty dissapointed with the electronic albums on the list so far. There were tons of great electronic tracks in the 90s which were massive. Surely theres a decent album in there somewhere. # Top Tunes: doctor pressure, in my arms # Would I listen to it again? Nope. Maybe as background music but that would be it.
Fine but a bit boring
I find it remarkable how trash all of the electronica is on this 1001 list despite there being a plethora of great electronic music elsewhere. Maybe this was just before it started getting really good but it's astounding how hard it is to listen to this stuff at times. 4/10.
Not what I expected (in my head this was always more like a drop-heavy EDM album). It's not very good, lost at how this was so well regarded. Close to 1*
He destroyed rock and roll by making a terrible, uninteresting song and naming rock artists over it, ooooh so edgy The fact that this kinda did destroy rock and roll is a perfect summary as to why I hate modern music
Not great but decent background music to do mindless work to.
I will give this album credit for being incredibly well sequenced with the energy going from low to high to low again, as well as for being so emblematic of its time: you can hear the album sitting at the exact midpoint of artists like the Avalanches, Röyksopp, and the Avalanches (sorry but I could not stop thinking about how much this guy was clearly influenced by The Avalanches lol) in the first and last tracks and the bigger electro house that was right on the verge of blowing up in the middle. Unfortunately, though, for as many times as I've heard the "Doctor Pressure" mashup I really, really wish I liked this more than I did.
album sounds kind of like someone who wanted to make music but only listened to music from the Super Nintendo game Top Gear. the title track is unlistenable. I don't hate it necessarily, but this is best for background music at a "hip" dentist's office.
Destroy Rock & Roll - not a fucking chance. If Mylo destroys Rock & Roll in a dream he better wake up and apologise.
If beige was an electronic music album. Bland as can be 2.4
Well it had one thing I knew and lots of other samples I could recognise. But in the end it's just the same thing on repeat on every song. I imagine it as useful stock music for "TV Montages" but really, would you listen to it?
The thing about "house" music was it was designed to be enjoyed while under the influence of brain chemistry altering chemicals. With the absence of those, this style of music gets incredibly repetitive and boring within 2 loops of a drum machine.
drop the pressure (nostalgy)
This is hipster Muzak. It has now changed to a video game score. It's interesting to think that this album was potentially influenced by earlier video game scores and in turn has influenced later video game scores. EDM is another one of those genres that I think I just don't get. Guilty of Love could be music from the game soundtrack from Sugar Rush from Wreck-It Ralph. It sounds like he sampled MarioKart and put some base and Prince grunts from Kiss in the background. The title track is terrible, a list of bands from an old news clip over dance beats. This is like if LCD Soundsystem didn't make songs, just beats. All of the skipping on the tracks keeps making me think there's something wrong with Spotify. This is like crappy RJD2. Need You Tonite is by far the best song on the album. Emotion 98.6 sounds like the backing track for David Gray's Babylon remixed, still better than comedy cartoon video game music.
Mylo's debut is pleasant but shallow, with promising grooves left unexplored. The album's best tracks are buried, and awkward spoken word samples and dated vocoder hooks hinder its impact. Its inclusion in the 1001 Albums list is baffling.
Not that bad, but mostly background music. Also, rock & roll will never die, no matter how hard everyone tries.
Not terrible but very forgettable with the benefit of 20 years of hindsight. Inclusion on this list can only be explained by the list being completed around the time this was new.
Nice ambient hold music
Bad
If Daft Punk had bad taste.
dois mango
Oh dear, very uninspiring electronica.
Pish, but Scottish, so the lowest it can score is 2. There's barely a germ of a decent song in the whole thing, and this should be nowhere near the list. 2 it is!
+1 for the Boy Meets Girl / Kim Carnes throwback
Unimpressive
A poor man's Kraftwerk.
2004 electronic music - no vocals. Fine, but when would I listen to this?
Some interesting tunes. Mostly very generic and forgettable. Drop the pressure is a banger though
While this isn’t unpleasant, I can think of multiple bands (Air, The Acalanches, Brock Berrigan) who do it better
Unlike it's contemporaries in the electronica field, say, the avalanches or boards of Canada, it forgets the most important aspect - to have a heart.
There were a few decent beats in here and it was kind of a fun record if you like to do some freestyle hip-hop. Otherwise, the sound got a little bit old and it was good for background music if you like that 2.5/5.
Maybe 2 songs hit properly. The rest is a miss for me. Another British electronica album, another disappointment. 2.5/5.
The only thing this album is destroying is my ambition to finish it. Man oh man. Some of the songs were funky and were easy to bop around to but the songs that were bad were pretty awful. The repetition in most of this was super annoying. Definitely a good chance to destroy rock and roll. Yep almost there. 3.7/10
Bleep, bloop, blancmange. Enjoyable ephemera, lingering barely longer than it takes to hit Next.
You’ve heard of hard rock, but have you heard of hard ambience?!? Anyone can lay soft beats down on a track, but can anyone lay down soft beats with repetitive quotes over it? Probably, but most don’t! Except, this guy!
1,6
There were a few good tracks, but a lot of it felt very uninspired and a bit pretentious. Perhaps that's just because I've heard more recent works that sit in the same genre.
Started out fine enough as background music, but by the time it got to the title track with its constant repetitiveness, it got to be more distracting and annoying than anything.
I was listening to this on my phone while getting ready in the morning. It felt as though I was on hold with the bank. Perhaps if each song were only 20 seconds long, the album would be okay. But they went on and on, repeating endlessly. In My Arms and Rikki weren’t bad, Musclecar made me giggle with cringe, and Destroy Rock and Roll just listed a bunch of artists I’d rather listen to and whose albums I’m waiting for.
Good background music for a workout at the gym But that’s not the highest recommendation
Some of this was better than expected, but I was straight up cringing during other parts. Nah...
House has never been my choice of EDM, too repetitive imo. I wanted so hard to like this but there are only so many times I can hear about someone finding a new way of life and taking off on their bicycle.
"Dance music". Maroon 5 is more danceable than this. Some songs did have a nice groove, but some songs were straight up unlistenable.
This was fine but not too memorable.
Good album. Decent album to relax to. Feel like there are better options to represent the genre out there though.
Elevator music at its finest
Ok 2/5
2.42 per track. Maybe. its. just. me. but. every. vocal. is. just. a. list. of. things.
this house album was clearly made in 2004
Horen we dit te kennen? Wie is Mylo?? Een album vol nummers die hier en daar een beetje daft punkerig aanvoelen, maar gemaakt door een daft punk dat een bloedprop in de hersenen heeft en het funky, ingenieuze gedeelte van het brein afgekneld heeft. Maar toch moet er wat inzitten toch? Waarom zou je dit album in hemelsnaam moeten luisteren voordat je sterft? Het antwoord is denk ik samples. Het begon te dagen toen Bette Davis Eyes overduidelijk teruggehoord kon worden in ‘In my Arms’. Ook Steely Dan’s ‘Aja’ wordt gesampled in het nummer met dezelfde titel als het album. Een geinige sample, mag gezegd worden. Daarnaast zijn er nog wel wat meer terug te vinden, maar zijn ze bij lange na niet de moeite waard om allemaal te belichten. Het idee is er: de kunst van het samplen is belangrijk en een te vaak onderbelicht onderdeel van de moderne muziek. Dit moet natuurlijk verwerkt worden in 1 van de 1001 albums die je gehoord moet hebben voordat je de pijp uit gaat. Maar doe dat dan alsje-alsjeblieft gewoon met een vet hiphop album vol samples. Iets geproduceerd door DJ Premier, J-Dilla. Iets uitgevoerd door The Tribe, Erik b & Rakim, Biggie. Waarom dan dit. Teleurstellend. Geen echte highlights. Rating: 4/10
Для 2005 очень странный альбом. Электронная музыка в нулевые уже во всю разрывала в поп жанре, где тут прорыв я не понял
oddly satisfying on the right strain
Interesting and chill but just alright
Окей, мыло против рок-н-ролла образца 2004 года. Я не фан рокнролла, мне нравится металл больше. Но послушаем, разберёмся... Как бы заголовок альбома немного misleading, innit? Какие-то пэды и припевания на фоне драм-машины это вообще не то чего я ожидал. Дэнс музыка, никаким убийством рокнрола тут не пахнет, очень ритмично и репетативно. Эдакая жвачка на бэкграунд как по мне. вон и в ревью пишут music to listen when on hold. Всё так, мы скоро вам ответим, вы всего лишь десятый в очереди, время ожидания -- один альбом.
Uhm
not for me
I don't mind electronic music. But an entire album is too much in one sitting 2/5
Early 2000s mash up electronica, in the vein of the Avalanches. Quite enjoyable as background music, but far from essential listening. Rating: 2/5 Playlist track: Drop the Pressure Date listened: 13/02/24
Not terrible, but certainly not something I needed to listen to before I die.
If you're into sonic soundscapes of electronica and endless repetition, repetition, repetition...then this music is for you. Never been of fan of DJ-driven beats, sound bits and sampling, so I never got the appeal of DJs. At times, this got so annoying I had to advance to the next song. While some tracks were pleasant to listen to, this is all background music to me, I just wish it would stayed in the background. The title track, Destroy Rock & Roll got soooooo f*cking irrating! Yeah, I can list off as many artists and bands as he can...Cindy Looper, Cindy Looper, Cindy Looper...Missing Persons Duran Duran, Missing Persons Duran Duran, Missing Persons Duran Duran, Missing Persons Duran Duran, Missing Persons Duran Duran, Missing Persons Duran Duran, Missing Persons Duran Duran, Missing Persons Duran Duran, Missing Persons Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran, DuranDuran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran, Duran Duran, ...Oh, how I miss rock & roll!
Not as bad as I was prepared for it to be, but ultimately it’s just nice background music. With that in mind, I have a hard time justifying it’s relevance on this list.
Ett par spår som var okej men i övrigt håller inte plattan.
Difficult one this, there were some tracks that I really liked but others that I really didn’t. Simpsons reference: No
Enjoyed some of the songs. Good background music. Destroy Rock & Roll was very annoying.
Do like some of the samples, and Im not sure if some of these songs have appeared in some sporting games over the years. Though my speakers were broken on multiple songs especially Rikki Got bored with all the names being listed in destroy rock and roll. Also, there is lots of speaking rather than siging. The last song wanged on for far too long the album as a whole is pretty bland, not sure i would ever go back and listen to this. And in a weeks time I'll probably forget who Mylo is.
The opening track dragged for me so I can only imagine how LG felt about it. Some songs I enjoyed, Drop the Pressure I got half way through and realised I knew. In my arms was alright. I wanted to like Guilty of Love but it just felt a bit self indulgent. Most songs seemed to outstay their welcome. Need you tonight was cool.
I had some emails to answer and this was the kind of uninteresting background music perfect for the task, Thanks! Good sounding but not many ideas in evidence. Made me wish I had some ecstasy so I could mindlessly give it a 3 or 4.
The kind of songs that'll play in the background of Always Sunny in Philadelphia while the characters do the most depraved shit ever
Radiopop. Tut nicht weh. 2.
#104. This album might have been good if I were on lots of drugs. Or at least I might not have noticed it was shit if I were on lots of drugs. Unfortunately, while listening to this I was not on lots of drugs. 2/5: this gets a nope out of ten from me, dawg.
Very dated EDM. Can see how it may have inspired future artists but by todays standard is very basic.
Not the biggest fan of electronic or dance. And this felt like a bad version of both. A couple of the songs were alright, but others made me want to rip off my headphones because of how obnoxious they were.
weird techno stuff not that into it
Bad. Only first two songs are kind of worthy of my time wasted. Mylo? More like Gaylo.
Review of Bathory- Nordland I One of the root reasons I like Nordland is that it reminds me of my teenage years in Pittsburgh during the dead of winter. Specifically when I moved to a new house and got these delicious chicken salad wraps from a gas station called sheetz. This was the album I was listening to. Then, after repeat listens throughout the years I developed a taste for Bathory's unique sound. Maybe Mylo is that artist for you, it's not for me. Other than the song "call from the grave" I don't really like the true black metal albums of bathory, just the viking ones hammerheart, nordland I, and blood fire death. 5/5
I did not need to hear this.
It will not and did not destroy rock and roll. Hearing I was thinking BeeGees all the way.
i bet this is really groundbreaking
An early predecessor to EDM, "Destroy Rock & Roll" has a dated sound which may have been relevant in the early 2000s but has since been forgotten.
Most decidedly did not destroy rock & roll. Boring
4.5/10
Pretty bad Daft Punk dupe.
Another middling house album that barely even touches lo-fi beats level, providing a few decent tunes but not really reaching for anything beyond background music. It’s clear the editors haven’t dipped their toes into modern electronica given how the most recent albums in the genre stop around the early 2000s, which is disappointing given how electronic music, instrumentation, and the artist scene has flourished and evolved in the two decades since. I get space on the list is coveted, but could we at least boot LPs like this + 1-2 Dylan albums to give someone deserving their due?
Nice at first but the patterns get repetitive and the song structure starts to feel a bit pedestrian
It is marginally more interest than a lot of electronic on this list. Don’t know why I’d ever want to sit down and listen to an album of this.
Sillä on aikaa ja yhdessä albumissa se ei tapahdu. Se kuullostaa 2004:ltä ja se on aikansa tuotos. Se ei ymmärrä omaa nerouttaan ja jalon ideansa merkitystä minulle. Tuhoa Rock ja roll.. Se jatkaa aikajatkumoa rockin tuhoon. Jokainen. Vähäpätöinen. Kappale. Kerrallaan. Need you tonitessa kuuluu ja näkyy miten edelliset 12 kappaletta näitä tuhon siemeniä ovat itäneet. Kiire on olematon. Kappale soi ja mikä tahansa fade-out käy. Emotion. Samaa paskaa kuin edelliset 13 kappaletta. Vielä rauhallisempi kuin Need you tonite. Hidas kuolema.... Pidän tästä liikaa..
Keywords: Early EDM Notable song: Sunworshipper
On par with the Creative Commons music some small shops play in order to avoid royalty fees