Reviews (page 7 of 8)
First listen Saved 3/14 Top track: Sunworshipper
meh...
I’d be inclined to go 3 here but the title song was so bad. I needed to subtract a point. It’s kind of middling electronic music.
Listen and forget. All of the songs lack energy, I don't know. Even Drop The Pressure - highlight compare to other tracks here feels like a wasted potential to kick with more power. And of course title track Destroy Rock & Roll. Man. That. Sucks. Balls. I haven't heard such a shit song in a while.
Meh.
Musical junk food; enjoyable but devoid of nutritional content.
I couldn’t even finish it. I tried but this is definitely not my style.
Objective achieved
This album is okay, but means absolutely nothing musically because it came out in 2004. This is not breaking any new ground, and is frankly not very interesting to listen to after the first song. It's fine for pop electronica, but I absolutely could have live my entire life and died peacefully without ever hearing this album 2/5
I thought this album started off okay, but it lost my interest before it was halfway through. Not bad, but didn't really stand out. I didn't need to hear this before dying.
4/10. Blah. Not bad, but not my jam
Definitely got harsher over the years. This was fine and would previously been a 3 but I'm never going to listen to it again so 2.
Starts well, then quickly turns into a generic house album by being annoying and/or repetitive and/or bland
Seems better suited to the "1,001 pieces of sonic wallpaper you must hear before you die" book, with the hearing most likely be in an elevator or other places where Muzak formerly reigned. Utterly forgettable.
Von schlecht bis langweilig.
Estuvo interesante, un agradable cambio respecto de los discos previos, pero me pasa igual que con los discos de rap o hiphop: me aburre al poco rato.
It's a House album that doesn't make you want to dance, except Ottos's Journey which is an honest to god banger. If you like Trance or are rolling the album is probably for you. A lot of it is more similar to "lofi beats you can study to" than a House album. That being said there's some good sampling and not bad in the background. 2/5
Decent techno album, not the greatest or memorable though.
Fraco, Since I Left You é bem melhor
I'm not even done listening to this yet (but, I'll finish it - don't worry). Still, I don't like it. I will probably never understand the over-hyped elevator music genre.
"Thou shall not make repetitive generic music." As usual with DJs. Good ideas and cool grooves wasted by boring repetition.
First 2 songs were alright
Un autre album dont je questionne l'inclusion. Ce n'est pas particulièrement mauvais, il y a quelques bangers, mais j'ai trouvé ça inconsistant et ça oscille beaucoup entre bonnes chansons et d'autres oubliables. 4/10
A nice album, saved a few songs into playlists but it's background at best. Instead of destroying rock and roll it's shown me why rock has a soul and this wouldn't be out of place in an elevator or hold music for a telco company.
Not really my thing
El generico. Again, if you're doing electronica, do something that makes me feel, not that makes me think I'm in a lobby waiting for something or someone more interesting.
In My Arms is the best song on this, and much of the rest is either a smidge too repetitive (and therefore irritating) or a bit beige. It's low-fi, chilled dance music, and that doesn't really do it for me unless it's really catchy, which most of this isn't. 2/5, not my jam.
I remember this album being a really big deal when it came out. Listening again, it's hard to see why.
3-
Maybe it's just the mood I'm in, but I did not care for this. Nothing here struck a chord with me, and it just felt boring. I really have nothing to say other than that this is a light two.
Not bad but not really my thing. Was interested at the beginning, the second track is pretty sweet, but my interest faded by the halfway point.
In contrast to my esteemed colleague MG I rather disliked this album, as I found it monotonous, repetitive and derivative. I've never been a big fan of DJs remixing old tunes with a dance beat. I think bands like Daft Punk just do this way better.
Just... I like house, but not like this.
Mostly forgettable with a few bangers
It’s all the same really, the first track was okay, but it just spiraled down afterwards.
Ol’Mylo here won’t be destroying much Rock and Roll with this limp wristed effort.
can't say anything other than "nice, I guess". For an album to make such a bold claim and then be just meh marks it down. Hold music with swearing. 2
Weird... UK House on this list? Who would have expected? For a second there I was like "ok... I work with this." But after about 6 tracks I had to duck out. Just not my cup of tea
Most dance music is just dance music. This is like most dance music.
I remember in my arms but yeah nothing special. Destroy mylo.
I recognise 'Drop The Pressure'. I recognise the sample from 'In My Arms' but I can't place the original. This should be on the '1001 Albums You Must Put On In The Background And Completely Forget About' list, to be honest. 'Doctor Pressure' is a banger though. Utterly forgettable. 2 / 5 stars.
It's ok to make math to. I can concentrate while listening to the album. A big 2
To be fair, I liked it more than I thought I would. Some stand outs and interesting sampling, but most was just monotonous and boring.
Some of it was okaaay as background music.
Meh. Why the fuck is this on this list? Oh right, its UK pop shit. 2/5
Not into it. Not terrible. Just not my kind of music. 4/10
Maybe if I was in a club on the beach in Ibiza. But I’m not! Maybe if I was on hold to IT services. But I’m not! Maybe if I was in an elevator in a shopping mall. But I’m not! This does not have the chops to destroy rock ‘n’ roll. I’m not even sure it could fight its way out of a paper bag.
Boy there's a lot of EDM and house music on this list. This album didn't annoy me, though I did lose patience when he felt the need to fall back into EDM tropes where he'd take a phrase and repeat it ad nauseum. But thankfully he didn't do that very often. Some cool sounds and vibes, though, but not enough for a 3. More like a 2.5.
A mix between songs that are fun but a bit corny and ones that are straight up too corny
I'm sure it's great, but not my style of music
This sounds like music you would hear in a crappy 2000s racing game you downloaded from a freeware site. I can almost hear the stock engine sound effects in the background while listening to this. It's not bad, but this is at least 5 parsecs away from being an essential listen. Nobody has ever laid on their death bed with their final words being: "I just wish I got to hear that Mylo album from 2004 titled "Destroy Rock an-(FLAT LINE)
Not for me today. Maybe later.
Meh
Kinda trash album w no chance of actually destroying rock n roll. Having said that ‘In My Arms’ was a pog song
Well made, and it would be fine as background music. Electronic beats with little to no lyrics just isn't my thing
Didn’t love the sampling. And felt like other people do this genre better. Was confused why this one made the list
There are some fun samples but otherwise didn't really click for me.
Some of the middle tunes are quite nice, but the dance music part is deracinated and the sequence of tracks can't decide what it wants to do. I gradually got on board as the music proved that it could preexist and converse with rock music, but that preexistence is wispy. "Nice", in several senses.
4/10
It's OK. It's alright. Probably wouldn't listen to many more times.
Pleasant enough background music, seems a little dated now. Enjoyed a few of the "hits" but not memorable. I've listened to better background music, probably won't listen again.
"Drop the Pressure" was the highlight. Otherwise I found it a fairly forgettable album of background house music.
Une autre genre de copie de Daft Punk.
This whole album felt like I left a PS2 snowboarding game on the lobby screen for 55 minutes. It wasn't as grading as some electronic music but it's still the lowest form of music....
First couple tracks are excellent focus music. After that the album switches gears into some forgettable house music. Sometimes repeats samples too many times in irritating ways
Ehhh... for such a lofty title it's got a lot of lifting to do although the title refers to the track that just lists rock and roll bands that are damned to hell (which is my favourite track). The problem I find with a lot of electronica / house / techno / EDM on this list is that since I am an active house dancer and club goer, I hear really fucking good EDM all the time which blows this crap outta the water. 2.5/5
Electronica/house just sounds so unimportant. If a DJ dropped a beat in a forest would anyone give a shit? Mylo has some skill in making his mash-ups not sound like complete garbage, and as a music & trivia fan I like trying to figure out what songs are being sampled when he does a good job of rethinking them. But mostly I'm bored. Finally found a beat worth paying attention to in song 3 (Musclecars, sounded like Situation by Yaz) and the next one (Drop the Pressure) was probably the best on the album (I was bopping along). In My Arms was an okay mash-up and Guilty of Love was worse. Paris Four Hundred had a decent beat. And then it got bad again. The title track was just stupid and Rikki was super annoying with its skipping sound. Otto's Journey wasn't bad (just repetitive) but I was mostly bored again for the final five tracks. I was thinking maybe a 3 but the second half of the album was almost entirely forgettable.
So far this book hasn’t done a good job at picking electronic music that I need to hear before I die. I read the wiki stuff about this album and I’m assuming that this was picked because it was Mylo’s debut album, and it was all written on his computer at home. Some of the tracks were okay. I liked “Valley of the Dolls”, “Paris Four Hundred” Most of this stuff was so repetitive that there was a point where I thought my CD was skipping but then I remembered that I was listening on Spotify. I don’t think this album succeeded in it’s attempt at destroying rock & roll, but it certainly hurt electronic music. This came out the same year as Squarepusher’s Ultravisitor album. One of the best electronic albums ever made and neither that album nor any of Squarepusher’s albums are on the list. Go figure. This gets a 2 since I was just waiting for it to end through most of my listen.
Moyen album, je cinprend pas le buzz pour cette liste.. 2.5
Mostly forgettable. The parts that weren’t forgettable were annoying. Could almost be decent background music but then the annoying parts kick in. 2.5 stars
I listen to them and try but it's hard to take another hour plus album of electronica. I have no doubt that it reaches some. Just not me
This is far from destroying Rock and Roll, it's just a string of repetitive sounds that kind of counts as music. I would say it's a pretty average electronic album.
Pleasant but not challenging. This has been done better before (Daft Punk and Chemical Bros) so do we need to listen to it all again? This Mylo is SUPER clever so why he decided to devote himelf to being a DJ is beyond me.
If this was the opening attacking then rock & roll has nothing to worry about. Sub-standard EDM that thinks it's more intelligent than it is. Just listen to Daft Punk and LCD Soundsystem. Best Tracks: Drop the Pressure; In My Arms; Otto's Journey
Not the worse electronic music I've had on here, but not an enjoyable listen either. "Destroy Rock & Rock" was the most memorable track and not in a good way.
Not my favorite type of music. Listenable but very repetitive and not super interesting. 2 stars.
Indifferent on this one. Nothing struck me as interesting or catchy about it.
ekki ég, en ekkert alveg vonlaust
Mja, dat Drop The Pressure kende ik wel maar voor de rest boeide het me niet zo.
The worst sort of one finger synth drag-and-drop pop. All the best bits have been sampled from other songs. Rock & Roll is safe.
Yeah, I think rock and roll is safe. Fave tracks: Drop the Pressure
Ensikuuntelun alkuvaiheilla tämä vaikutti aika lupaavalta tanssilevyltä. Hieman samaa tyyliä kuin aiemmin listalla olleilla Chemical Brothersilla ja Daft Punkilla, mutta vähemmän rasittavan kuuloisena. Valitettavasti alkuhuuma oli kuitenkin ohimenevää ja negatiiviset fiiliset alkoivat hiipimään takavasemmalta. Lopulta taso valahti sinne peruskakkosen maastoon.
It was okay, a couple of 'classics'
9th September 2021 Listened in the gym and in the evening had a surprise birthday at rowan's. Perfectly timed listening to this in the gym by sheer accident. Got some old school bangers on it and got the body pumping!
I had high hopes for this but found it kind of boring
Another mostly instrumental house album. Most notable are the few tracks that wouldn't be out of place in a chiptune game soundtrack, and inexplicable lists for lyrics (rockers, cars).
Is this lo-fi to improve my focus during the work/study routine from Youtube? It's nice to listen to these things that are the origins of the modern trending, but it's still not my style of music. 2 or 3 songs are nice to listen to.
I would be happy dying before listening to this album. I don't know why it was included and while I'm not much into electronic, I've heard plenty that would fit perfectly on a list of albums to listen to before I die. Bonus, if I'm ever asked for recommendations on music to play while on hold with customer service, this will surely come to mind.
L'elettronica di Mylo mi è sembrata di quelle accessibili a tutti, ballabili. Non mi è dispiaciuto, ma ho come l'impressione che questo album non dovrebbe far parte di questa lista.
Not my jam, but it's well done I guess.
Creo que es el primer disco de todos los que llevamos que no habia escuchado. Si bien el disco no me parece MALO, siento que peca de ser un producto parecido a todos los que salian en los post 2000. Ese genero electrosynthpop de cafetería que fué mutando hasta terminar en canciones que le ponen a la nena esa que no termina nunca el trabajo practivo y le ponen "lo-fi music to armar un partido y ganar las elecciones to". El disco en su propio merito está bien, aunque no lo volvería a escuchar. Todo va donde tiene que ir y no se arriesga a nada. Es mas, el primer tema es tan blando y generico que se parece a una intro de un sketch de Les Luthiers. Despues va mejorando y peakea en Drop the Preassure que es como el tema que todos tenemos escuchado y no sabiamos de donde venia. Es el tipico disco de playa que escuchaste un verano y te olvidaste que existia. Que se yo... Está en la misma lista que discos de Nina Simone o Led Zeppelin, durisimo. Es un premio consuelo.
In conclusione: Non conoscevo neanche il pezzo più famoso. Mi ha fatto abbastanza da sottofondo ma non mi ha detto nulla di particolare, l'ho trovato un po' anonimo. Devo dire che i pezzi che mi sono piaciuti di più sono stati gli ultimi comunque in particolare le 05' Version ma magari è una coincidenza, dovrei sentire gli originali.
il povero mylo ha fatto un disco prendendo un pò tutti i trend di quel periodo e ne esce un disco senza personalità e noioso. Questa è la colonna perfetta per un negozio di vestiti a porta di roma.
The title says it all. Inoffensive at the outset and then became frankly insidious.
Meh.
fun and vibe not quite my thing tho
Ahhh por isso que nao existe album bom de Rock depois de 2004, incrivel! Drop the Pressure eh legal.
Try as he might, Mykonos cannot and did not destroy rock and roll with this album. I’m glad I waited until today to listen to it, had I listened yesterday, when I was hungover, it might’ve killed me. This wasn’t bad. Pretty good actually, lots of nice upbeat, poppy, major cord loops. Just found it repetitive, like most electronic music, which isn’t my bag. That hook has to be sooo good, Daft Punk or Prodigy level good, for me to buy in. This was just okay. Faded into the background for me. The song with the repeated list of musicians was the final nail in the coffin for me, and then there was 10 more songs.
Very reminiscent of my brother's criminally brief foray into techno. He produced one album under the moniker Captain Chad, which charted at #1 on mp3.com in the late 90s. Predictable, simple, but I keep finding my butt cheeks dancing to the beat in my seat. Feels surprising to me that this made the list, but it's still better than Anthrax.
Sounds like a FIFA soundtrack
Muy electrónico. No.
At least we're not getting the shit albums at the weekend at the moment.
I like that rock and roll one.
Some pretty interesting samples thrown in but not what I’d really listen to
Ok but nothing astonishing
This was pretty nice electronic dance music, it made for good study background noise. It did sound very dated to me. While it was pleasant to listen to, I wasn't particularly attached to it overall.
Couldn’t get into this at all?
tepid
1001 Albums I need to listen to before I die But here's the problem We've all been in an elevator before and heard the Muzak playing there So why do you need to put more of that sh*t on a list that targets fans of actual music? Now I'm starting me day all pissed off because of this nonsense Do not this again!
Not my thing. Had to skip at least one song due to how annoying it was. 1.5/5
Gibt mir nix. Gar nix.
Heftig langweilig.
Garbage is too kind of a word to describe this uninspired mess. Who is the idiot who thought it was a good idea to include this shit?
This just sucks, man. At least try a little.
I don't even like Drop the Pressure, really. I mean, it all bounced along nicely enough but nearly an hour of this made me feel like I probably had better things to do
I wonder if the title is meant to be ironic. What always strikes me about the electronic music that gets attention is how unimaginative it is. Most of it that I hear is just computer simulations of very simplistic rock and roll cliches: a straight four beat; a repeated bass line made to move your hips; and a rhythmic tone generator looping endlessly through two or three chords (or arpeggios) in Ionian or Aeolian mode. I always think to myself - you lazy motherfuckers aren't having to woodshed on an instrument so you should have plenty of time to experiment with alternatives to the simplistic tropes that defined a genre that became popular because it expressed urgency, passion, and stood for rebellion. But it seems that what people are listening to in electronica is the worst of both worlds: simplistic musical ideas performed entirely by machines that aren't expressive, passionate, or rebellious. (Nice tones; but the performances are lifeless and the music trite.)
by 2004 pretending that rock & roll is under any kind of threat by religious fundamentalism is a deeply uncool idea. making of fundamentalist album burning is already an old boring joke. by 2004 there's barely any distinction between traditional pop and electronic sample-based pop. it all gets filed under Rock & Pop in the bargain CD bin. maybe in a way it makes the argument that somebody should give destroying rock & roll a real go, just by being so dull.
It’s not that I think destroying Rock & Roll is an insurmountable task. I just think you’d need a better plan of attack than buddy over here had.
This was hard for me to get through. I want to be open to different types of music, but this just annoyed me. Obviously, this appeals to a lot of people. I'm not one of those people. All I hear is mindless, boring repetition.
Mission accomplished.
Complete shite. And major apologies to Kim Carnes.
Destroy this album by Eric. 1.5/5
Precursor to awful lo-fi.
Man what the hell is this. No thanks.
Shite
Please stop making me listen to this kind of music
Video game menu music
it was a bit shit. Well a lot really
Big ol’ bored and disgruntled sigh.
dance music should have pace and a soul and this has neither
The title of the album is so wrong. I didn't believe for a minute that this is the type of music that would destroy Rock & Roll. A bad album
Nope
Music for a chiropractor's office
There's some bad albums on this list but this the first one I couldn't finish listening to It's just bad, embarrassingly so.
The music wasn’t as exciting as it tried to be. The tracks with lyrics gave me a headache.
my rating is probably overly critical because this isn’t a bad album buts its so generic i couldnt stand to listen
For me this was a mildly relaxing mix of tedium and music for robots with some infuriating repetition sprinkled in. Good background music at best, and a chore to get through at worst. -1 star for the name of the album.
Well, this was the first album that made me go look up the criteria for how the albums for this project were selected. It's interesting to see that this got a ton of critical acclaim. This is fucking BORING. This is the kind of thing I put on when I'm reading and want something that is barely sound, just to have a little noise meandering in the background. While I admit that my knowledge of DJ work is not the deepest, this doesn't seem any more remarkable than any of the laid-back electronic stuff that had come out the decade prior. I just don't get it. I'd give it a 1.5 if I could, but since I can't, a 1.0 it is.
Elevator music
Maybe quite new at the time but can't seat at the table with the same era "French Touch"
This must be who Apple hires to make the hacking music to the autogenerated video montages of AI’d photo albums created in the Photos app
An hour of crappy synth music and shitty repetitive lyrics. Like, the title track is just a list of musicians’ names. This absolutely did NOT destroy rock & roll.
Drop the pressure I know well (though never knew the artist) but overall this is just not for me. i feel bad for leaving bad reviews because i’m sure there’s people who enjoy this and i’m very happy they get to listen to this but i had to turn it off with 4 songs to go
Imagine hearing this and Daft Punk’s Discovery then picking this one as the ‘must hear before you die’ album. Give your head a wobble, Robert Dimery.
Overall: 2/10 Oh god. Enough of this type of music, please. If it's not Daft Punk or The Prodigy then I tend not to enjoy these repetitive electronic dance albums. It's just not my thing at all. This one actually upset me a lot for some reason lol Fav Song: Drop the Pressure
What is the point of this album, and why was it included?
Not sure how this generic bullshit is essential listening but ok
Nope
I'm too sober for this
DID NOT LISTEN
Не зайшов альбом. Нічим не виразний електрохаус
I have no idea why this is rated as highly as it is. There is great electronic music. This is not that.
Ok… so… this album, largely a snoozefest. None of the songs particularly stand out. It’s mostly techno with a few low-fi tracks mixed in, but as I said none of the songs stand out. Like at all. The title track is possibly the worst cut on the album, as it’s just a satanic panic preacher listing off the top names in pop/rock from the 60s through the 90s while the techno beat drones on in the background. As an album on it’s own, 2 stars. Its inexplicable inclusion on this list lands it at a 1. With the last few 2 star albums I’ve had, Metallica, Circle Jerks, ZZ Top, I at least found some redemption in seeing the artist’s and album’s place in musical history. Each album largely had a stand out single, or in not at least a song that stood out. This album had basically no redeeming qualities. As a fan of Lo-Fi, there are artists who did it much better, and as someone who basically has no interest in techno, I know there is better out there. Really not sure why this made the list, at all.
BYD, A8 Augsburg - München, Deutschland. Gottlos beschissen.
not even worth giving it a try
Did not enjoy.
Absolute garbage
No, I've never heard of them either. Supposed to be House / ElectroPop, but more Pop than House. Boring ElectroPap.
Didn't like it at all
a lot of noise, no good music
Hold music.
? Nur reinghört. Sagt mir nichts. C
Such boring electronic music, about a step up from Muzak, occasionally accompanied by inane and/or repetitive speaking. The music is at best two stars but that talking is annoying enough for me to drop a star. Sincerely hope this gets replaced in future editions.
The 2000s and era where music was cool and going to concerts and discovering new artists gave you cred. Showcase festivals, music conferences and music blogs. What a time to be alive. But what if you don't actually like music and just want to appear to like it, so you can hang with the cool kids? Enter Mylo and this atrocity of an album. Music for people to look sexy and cool to at the club and/or art gallery. Mind you - an art gallery that exhibits turds like this album cover - art for people who couldn't give a shit about art, but want other people to think you do, so you can invite the sexy and cool Mylo listeners to your opening.
This was about as far from an album i need to hear before i die as possible. I remember this first time around and it was generic then and its completely inappropriate now.
So boring. Couldn’t get through it.
Just kinda sounds like songs a starter would make? All songs are very repetitive and boring half way through.
Very drab, very of its time. Also, this is a genre that's designed to sort of blend nicely into the background while you sip your cocktail at the Café del Mar. And this album blends into that whole soundscape. So an album that doesn't stand out in any way in a genre that doesn't stand out at all, either.
This was really terrible
Very ordinary electronica
said ot once and Ill say it once again. There is no space for an electronic music album in any top list. Its jazz smooth relaxing but thats it. Its a fancy bar background noise. A few cool songs to dance and sone good sampling but...
I have no words to describe this because I just didn’t care about it at all.
Really didn't enjoy this just some really drab house music that doesn't go anywhere and has absolutely no substance. I feel like the title is supposed to be some sort of revolutionary title but when this is the sort of music your making it doesn't really work 1/10 Favourite: None Least Favourite: Musclecar Reform Reprise
This album was not my thing. A lot of it sounded like a parody of electronic music. I listened to on a long road trip and it somehow made the drive longer. 1.5/5
Wasn't for me. Tried really hard to like this, but just couldn't get down.
Very boring and bland. Why are so many albums like this on this list? Where the good music at?
Electronic music is maybe number one on the list of genres that I am unfamiliar with as until a year ago or so I had never listened to an entire electronic album. Despite that I can say that at least in my opinion this album is not really interesting. It may be "good" if you are super into this kind of music and can differentiate this from other electronic music. To me the songs on this album sounded like they could be from the loading screen on a video game and were more or less undistinguishable from one another and other music of this type.
Größenwahnsinniger Titel und dann … Supermarktgedudel!
Destroy Mylo by Rock and Roll?
They advertised exactly what they are doing. Rick and roll is destroyed.
My hate for electronic music continues to prove to be the correct emotion for this genre. It sounds like the inside of a department store.
Very mediocre
Album 850 of 1089 Mylo - Destroy Rock & Roll (2004) Rating : 1 / 5 This one didn’t work for me. It felt like the most straightforward and basic example of electronica I’ve encountered so far—repetitive, minimalist, and lacking much to grab onto. I didn’t find any real enjoyment here, but I recognize that fans of the genre may see something in its simplicity that I just don’t. I gave it a fair listen, but it’s not one I’ll be revisiting.
Meh
Pretty much complete shite. Glad he had one album for his future, but I didn't need to contribute to his "success."
Well that was interesting, not really my thing. It feels very dated.
No private session used for Spotify, but with regrets. Mylo - go to hell if you think you are going to destroy rock & roll and replace it with this synth heavy, electronic, music for robots on their break from the sprocket factory.
Good grief. It's like musak from a mall clothing store. Of course I assumed from the title that I would hate it.
The title song offers a comprehensive list of things I'd rather be listening to.
That destroys rock n roll. I listened to about half. Pretty awful. But congrats fer followin yer dream.
Audacious title. Boring record.
wtf. "savior of dance" my ass. This should not be on this list.
Electronic. Nope
Oh dear. Simply shouldn’t be on the list.
Wtf. How is this too 1001?!
Drop the Pressure
Det eneste gode ved det her album er når man genkender et sample fra et 40 år gammelt nummer
Stor 1er men overhovedet ikke særlig essentielt og bliver ret ensformigt, hård plade at have back-to-back med 808 State
1001 ALBUMS- # 29 Destroy This Mix! A one off ‘Album’ of pure DJ sampling makes the 1001 cut?? Oh wait he’s from the UK, now it makes perfect sense 🤣. While I do appreciate surprises in this project and not just the expected classics, I’m confounded by the inclusion of a record that is so unoriginal, so uninspired and so tedious that it genuinely just fills space as background white noise. Created by a non-musician, something literally anyone could mesh together using modern technology, however those more accomplished with the house-dance original songwriting have executed it brilliantly in contrast to what’s here (Fatboy Slim, Daft Punk, Chemical Brothers, Air). However these tunes are lifeless, the album art is hideous and the title is just plain offensive to any self-respecting music fan. I am sorry to say Mylo but you are a talentless hack, or at least play up the DJ stereotype ad nauseam. ‘Destroy Rock & Roll’ puuuuuuuuhlease 🙄 What did I do to deserve getting this to listen to right after an Animal Collective release?? My electronica patience has run out… Hit the Thumbs Up icon below if you enjoyed my hot take on the album :)
Couldn’t be arsed
1.5
Crap
Bland and boring. Rinse and repeat.
If you toss an album at me with a title like "Destroy Rock and Roll". You better come at me. Especially since I just listened to Nevermind 15 minutes before. This is a repetitive sampling mess. The fact I am not a fan of techno/EDM certainly doesn't help its cause
Rock & Roll will never be destroyed, but I guess it can be bored to death.
absolutely dreadful, incessant and grating. the kind of music you put on to teach someone a lesson. mylo should have seen jail time for sunworshipper
Absolutely listen to this album before you die if you need to feel bored
Just kill me
It did not destroy rock n roll
Ugh... What the hell, did I really need to listen to this one in particular?
bleeeeeeh
My interest level in this album is a negative number but the lowest I can rate it is 1 star or F-.
1.5
I do feel like this is music while on hold. And repetitively annoying. Or annoyingly repetitive.
p899. 2004. 1 star. Tedious background music for hipster bars. It speaks volumes that the best track on it is samples from the hits of two other artists.
As I've hit the home stretch of this 1001 album endeavor, the generator has resorted to spewing forth all of the shitty, generic British electronica albums that I've largely been spared thus far. Majority of them are mostly bland and fade into the background. But THIS, THIS alternates between bland background music, and highly irritating spoken word passages that make me want to pull my hair out. Under no circumstances does anything by Mylo need to be listened to before you die. If this was a list of 1,000,001 albums you needed to hear, and there were a total of 1,000,000 albums in existence, THIS would still need to be left off the list.
Odd that someone born on the Isle of Skye is eventually responsible for music like this. I would have thought that somewhere along the line he would have been influenced by the Gaelic music which typifies that part of Scotland but there is precious little evidence of that. Maybe this is a straight rejection of that type of music which I would have thought was hard to escape from in his formative years. I cannot think of any other type’s of music so diametrically opposed to than this and the organic sounds produced at the local ceilidh. I’m sure that Mylo would be able to explain to me this chasm but I don’t think he would be able to convince me that this album is of any value to my life and that it is imperative I must listen before I snuff it. Indeed when I hear what he has done to Judy Tzuke’s beautiful song it would have been better for my ignorance of this record to have continued. As penance for this rubbish entering my earholes and to cleanse them I’m off to listen to some true Gaelic tunes courtesy of Julie Fowlis and others. 1/5 17/2/25
Annoying, repetitive, uninspiring.
Pata pasar un rato
From his Wikipedia bio, Mylo seems like an interesting chap. But I found this album dreary dull stuff. Not something I'd be keen to play in the future.
Day359 - there’s 58 minutes i’ll never get back
Artiste inconnu. Titre très prétentieux, c'est plutôt cet album qui a été détruit, et pas le Rock & Roll. Rien d'intéressant musicalement, c'est très répétitif. Il vaut mieux écouter les versions originales que ces bouts de samples qui n'apportent absolument rien ... Je n'ai as été au bout, j'ai arrêté après le massacre de "Bette Davis Eyes". =>1/5
Ei anna minulle mitään, en kuule mitään tunteita.
A bad version of daft punk. I had to turn it off in the middle of the song that was repeating the names of rock musicians
Nahhhh. This ain't it. Welcome to the exclusive club of albums I couldn't force myself to finish.
Didn't really care for it and there were a few tracks that I had to skip.
Skipped it all
Girl Talk for grandmas
It doesn’t (destroy) and you don’t (need to hear it) Google “free loop pack” - it’ll take less time
A DJ, who's only album is built around his love of 70s and 80s soft rock. 'Nuff said.
Destroy rock & roll? Not with this bollocks. Besides, Oasis are already doing a grand job.
This literally sounded like the same song over and over with the same beat over and over.
I found this album incredibly annoying. It might have been a wrong fit for my state of mind, but I just couldn't handle the repetitive sampling and music. At times it feels like this is specifically calibrated to drive somebody insane. The final track is pretty nice, though (at least for the first couple of minutes before that also repeats itself to the point of making you insane)
Meeget kedelig EDM. Så meget det samme, gentager sig selv. Du ved det bliver røvsygt når det her er hvad de spiller på floor. Måske også lidt provokeret af pladens titel, for hvis dette skulle erstatte rock er det virkelig en nederen musikverden der er tilbage
This was such an annoying album.
для лифтов, ТЦ и модных забегалок - хороший музон. я вот пока работал тоже слушал без напряга. ну а в целом тут ребята хз. хотел 2 поставить, но дафт панк единица, поэтому из солидарности тоже опрокину
I was almost along for the ride, but by track 2 I had become actively hostile against the album. Track 2 featured this small sample of a guy talking about giving up his material wealth and getting on a bicycle to look for a new path and it just repeated the sample SO MANY TIMES that I finally had to skip the song. After that my attitude never recovered. The album just strikes me as an amateur fiddling with knobs in his DAW and thinking a filter sweep counts as a composition. There have been other albums on this list I didn't get but still recognized were important to other people. This one I formally object to. There's no way this is important to anyone except the person that made it, and I hope they've moved on to more inspiring songs. By the time the title track came on and a spoken word sample started playing and then it started REPEATING I said enough, I hate this, and I found something else to listen to. I hated this.
Elevator Muzak
Not the style of techno I like.
If Mylo really did want to destroy rock and roll, this mediocre GarageBand crap didn’t do much to help the cause.
This is one of the blandest albums that has appeared on this list so far. It sounds like one of those youtube playlists made of AI generated music titled something like "ez listen ur workday away 2024 ~~stress free~~ :p :p :p". There are no interesting mix-ins or lead-ups to any instrumental or vocal quips. They come in over the original beat, play for 40 seconds, fade-out and then the next one comes in, fades-out, then song ends. Each time I was able to apply any amount of focus to the music I was almost repulsed by the predictability and simplicity of what I was listening to. Ironically contrasting my previous comment, the only reason I was able to finish this album was because I had it on in the background while working; which sure, maybe this is meant to be background music, but not really what I expect from a 'best-of all time' exclusive list.
I just really don't enjoy this style of music. Just kind of goes and goes and goes.
This is just genetic trash
New lows for the 'need to hear'
Didn’t really get into this one. Too repetitive
Just one and done for Mylo? Produced his magnum opus right out of the gate and called it a day? Shocking. No doubt being featured on this list has generated more revenue for old Mylo than anything he ever did on his own.
Not enough energy to destroy rock and roll
I think my issue is that I simply cannot vibe with dance music. It does not move me in any way.
Nope. I really hated everything about this album.
Garbage drum and synth machines. Droll. Repetitive. Awful
Drop The Pressure
Dance dance dance. Not me, brother.
Drop the pressure is a hit In my arms it's boring but at least it's catchy The title track Destroy Rock and Roll has a nice rhythmic vocals that reminds me of "Salvini che elenca cose low fi" (and no, it's not a compliment) The rest of the album is boring as hell I think Mylo never wanted to introduce variation in the loops and in hindsight it's a mistake (see Music for the Jilted Generation or The Fat of the Land by Prodigy for comparison, actually this album makes me appreciate those two I mentioned more because it shows that it's really hard to mix very good loops) Definitely not a must listen album
Like being stuck in a dressing room at a tragically hip clothing store at the mall in the early 2000s. Pass.
Now here's an album that provides a great deal of food for thought. Mainly, who the hell thought it was a good idea to greenlight this album? Unless you're a fan of generic, public domain music anyone can use, run away. Rock and Roll may one day be destroyed, but it's demise will have nothing to do with this album.
Not familiar with at all.
It's a no for me. Didn't make it through this one ... why is it on the list?
Seriously?!? This is ass sweat. It smells interesting, but really, you just shouldn't do it. And what is up with the Scottish fetish in this list?
hard to listen to... why does it sound like there's a skip?
Immediately put me to sleep, but I was trying to work. The second track, Sunworshipper, almost made me turn this off. Hearing about that guy getting on his bike one more time.... Track 5 really wants me to know that motherfuckers gonna drop the pressure. The title track, Destroy Rock & Roll, features a wing nut reading a list of all the rock artists that he can identify over a single musical phrase that modulates between two chords for four minutes and four seconds. FOUR PEOPLE HAVE A WRITING CREDIT FOR THIS TRACK! I'm done. That's the problem here, I think. There's this idea that obscurity is the same as depth, and if you just repeat some obscure clip enough times, people will assume that you are deeper than a puddle. This album is not deeper than a puddle. This is the sonic equivalent of that one "painting" hanging in every budget hotel room. Corporate music. I fail to understand how this is worth my time.
Not really into this sort of stuff. Would never really want to hear this unless I am on the md
I am really tired of the number of boring white boy EDM albums on this list. This one while being more varied is somehow worse than other electronic vibe albums I’ve been tossed. It lacks a humanity and just pummels away… how do you make dance music boring and not fun.
Brother, the only thing that your album destroyed is my will to live.
Elektronische muziek is voor mij soms echt een dikke hit, een home-run, maar het is minstens net zo vaak een gênante miss. Heb te weinig affiniteit met het palet aan hedendaagse elektronische stijlen, waardoor ik het lastig vind om aan te wijzen waar op het spectrum het voor mij volledig de afgrond in kiepert. Na het beluisteren van dit album ben ik er wel volledig van overtuigd dat Mylo zich nabij dit kantelpunt bevindt, en ik vrees aan de verkeerde kant daarvan. Dat zijn positie niet ver verwijderd is van dit omslagpunt valt te verwijten aan een paar fases van de plaat die ik toch associeerde met elektronische acts die ik wél kan waarderen. Het eerste en vooral het tweede nummer channeled de chille down-tempo muziek van Air. 'Drop the Pressure' ruikt naar Daft Punk, en heeft an sich een aanstekelijk beat. Maar mijn hemel, wat zijn een hoop vocalen op dit album gewoon regelrechte cringe. ''Motherfuckers Gonna Drop The Pressure'', kom op zeg. En dat nummer over muscle cars, waanzinnig kut. Naast de tenenkrommende vocalen is de selectie aan samples nog een issue die mij ervan gaat weerhouden ooit nog in de buurt te komen van dit album. Het beheersen van verscheidene sample technieken en het hebben van een fundamentele kennis van de muziekhistorie stond aan de wieg van de subtiele kunst van het fabriceren van unieke sounds op basis van uiteenlopende genres. Sampling is één van mijn favoriete aspecten van moderne muziek, en als het goed wordt gedaan dan creëert het echt een venster waarmee je terug kan kijken naar vervlogen tijden. Deze techniek bevestigt dan echt dat Westerse muziek één verbonden continuüm is. Het indiscreet overnemen van één van de bekendste synths uit de jaren 80, zoals Mylo Garrix dat doet met Bette Davis Eyes van Kim Carnes in het nummer 'In My Arms', sluit niet aan bij mijn romantische idee van sampling. Dit gebeurde helaas nog een paar keer, en is tekenend voor de algehele zielloze sfeer op dit album. De titelsong krijgt het daarnaast voor elkaar om ongeveer alle artiesten waar ik de vlektyfus van krijg op te noemen, een soort Losing My Edge van LCD uit een hels parallel universum. Skip forward door een hoop meuk en we komen uit bij de afsluiter 'Emotion 98.6', waar hij z'n muzikale vernuft toch nog even laat doorschijnen. Puike melodie en de Orbital-achtige breakbeat zorgen toch nog voor een positieve noot op een ladder vol ongeïnspireerde tonen. Wat ik Mylo moet meegeven is dat hij ook had kunnen kiezen voor een album vol cheesy nu-disco zoals in 'Into My Arms' en tot zeker hoogte 'Drop the Pressure', maar dat deed hij niet. Hij hielt het in ieder geval nog wel interessant door allerlei elektronische stijlen te implementeren. Het was daardoor niet perse een saai album, maar wel zo kil als een EDM afterparty op Ibiza. 5/10 Highlight: Emotion 98.6
Ik zie absoluut niet hoe Mylo met deze plaat Rock&Roll zou destroyen. Het is een vals voorwendsel en zit me de hele plaat dwars. Het idee is leuk. Samples van rock songs en er een eigentijdse plaat van maken die het (hopelijk) goed doet in het clubcircuit. Maar maat, maak er dan wel iets interessants van. 'Music to listen while on hold' las ik in de reviews en dat deel ik wel. Achtergrondmuziekje, prima. Maar ik had dit ook niet hoeven horen vóór mijn doet. Doet me bijzonder weinig, snel door. 3/10 Highlights Zenophile
Not sure how this could be considered an album anyone must listen to before they die. Just an odd choice for the list
It's soulless, it sucks.
Tiresome
Pero qué mierda es ésta?????
Never heard of them, not really interested in this style
Definitely could have missed that one before I die.
Für mich ist das irgendwas zwischen Lo-Fi und 80er Synthie-Pop. Aber in langweilig. Ausnahme: Drop the Pressure geht gut ins Tanzbein.
Nah, probably one of those albums where you had to be there at the time.
wow this blows
Someone compared this with Sneaky Sound System and Pnau, another mentioned The Avalanches. All three of those acts are solid 1-star acts that manage to mix tedium and irritation. I'm about to listen to this so I'll let you know whether tedium or irritation won. Boring intro followed by trap beat followed by aimless vocalisation. Tedium is well in front. WAIT! There's an interlude. It's fucking dull! Back to the vocalisation. Skip time. Second verse (song)! Same as the first. (Actually even duller) Do people dance to this shit? It's so dull. Final score: Tedium easily won. Rock and roll didn't feel any pain at all.
So boringk. Presumably danceable but only cause so simple. Would make me embarrassed to be British.
Blind album and artist. This album did the opposite of destroy rock and roll. It made the genre look way better compared to whatever this album is.
AJ: Good luck
Nah
Never heard of this, vaguely heard the name but thought he was a rapper. Only know what's on Wikipedia as it's not in the book, and first impressions are this will be inessential at best. As it goes, we've just learned that I'm prepared to give Weather Report 2 stars, so let's see. Oh I see, this is pure background music, which was very much the thing those days, stuff to stick on in at parties that absolutely noone would pay attention to and just provided a general hazy mood. Right Mylo, you just ruined the mood, what is this Dr Beat bullshit you are doing? This is gym music for arseholes. Oh I have actually heard In My Arms. My opinion is unchanged. In fact if anything it's reinforced. Far too many intrusive samples which are just people listing things throughout the whole track. This is trash, really. Glad he only made one album. Spotify tried to start playing something by "Layo and Bushwacka!" after this ended, whatever they are, which probably tells you everything you need to know about this record.
Why? It is bad album. I don't need a full album of DJ music and it wasn't even good mixed music. Skip it.
Not a dance music guy
Sunworshipper is a poor use of spoken word to music. The songs on this album are pretty skippable and by skippable, I mean annoying and overstaying their welcome. Also, if you're going to use a bunch of names in your songs... at least bother learning how to pronounce them.
did nothing for me, thought it was pretty bland and lazy
Dreadful repetetive durge. I could only take half the album. I know it takes all sorts, but this was absolutely awful.
Not for me at all, looping dance music that feels like each song could easily be 30 long instead of 4-5 minutes
Boring
I ALREADY RATED THIS YOU IDIOTS
Spoiler alert: that extremely mid album didn't destroy rock & roll.
What was that? Did they leave their mentally disabled cousin alone with the list?
55 minutes where I totally blacked out and didn't feel anything else than pure nothingness. I almost liked 2 songs, what a deal!
Bad. Amateur level. Sounds like I made it....
While I do feel bad giving albums on this list a 1, the bar set by “albums to hear before you die” is pretty high. With that in mind, I would never casually listen to this album again. It had a couple decent tracks, but more often than not I was just annoyed by it. The name drops on the title track did give me some ideas on other artists I’d rather be listening to other than Mylo.
Obnoxious, repetitive and irritating.
Elevator music at its worst.
Annoying
If I could give it zero I would. Who decided to put so much electronic on this list. Enough.
Vanilla electronica for people who lived in Clapham, London between 2004 and 2006.
only giving this a 1 because 0 isnt an option