Reviews (page 7 of 7)
One of the only albums I didn't manage to push through. -5
Couple of decent songs, but not enough to save this album. it's a no for me.
Sadly terrible.
Just no.
Never heard about this artist before the book, but it's rap so maybe it's because I just don't inhabit those circles. However, after a quick search, it seems this album and artist are only ever discussed in the context of the 1001 albums book. This type of artsy hip-hop can either be very cool and engaging and result in the best records the genre has to offer, or it can be aimless and a slog to get through. This one is the latter. Such a random inclusion.
Meh
Wack
I really, really dont think this is even in the list of 1001 rap albums you need to hear before you die
A shitty hip hop album. 1*
Wonder if they were high when they made this. Might be better if you're high when listening to it. :/
Seems like an album that was in the first edition of the book but should be removed now.
There's so many great hip hop artists around the world, and this shit is what the author thinks we need to listen too. Honestly, they should be embarrassed with themselves. Maybe in the next edition of the book replace this with Bliss n Esso.
Random collection of noises and some shouty rap
This was awful. Wish I could give zero stars.
Terrible
I didn't need to listen to this. Top 3 worst albums on this list so far? Don't tell me this was experimental, this is just throwing shit at the wall and seeing if it stops stinking. Still stinks.
I honestly listened to it while doing other things, and nothing profound stuck out for me to even comment on. Already completely forgotten the next day.
Listened to the first few tracks, and it wasn’t my thing. Really didn’t see too much artistry in this.
Not really something I want to listen to again. 1/5
Not for me sorry.
Reminds me of dad
I don't usually like hip-hop. There have been some great albums on this list that challenged that notion and convinced me by being fantastic enough to transcend genre preferences. This is not one of those albums. I don't know why this one would deserve to be on this list and I stopped listening after a couple tracks.
Album 883 of 1089 Mike Ladd - Welcome to the Afterfuture (200) Rating : 1.5 / 5 This one just didn’t connect with me at all. I always try to find something positive to take away from each listen, but in this case, nothing really landed. It’s not the worst I’ve heard by any means, but it also did absolutely nothing for me. Sometimes albums just miss their mark, and for me, this was one of them.
Utter utter utter utter utter utter utter utter utter utter utter rubbish. That's an hour of my life totally wasted
Mir zu abstrakt, ohne grosse Linie.
Too weird
If this is the afterfuture, I'd rather stay in the present. 0.0
Wow, how the hell does this belong to the list? Now, I'm not into hip hop but I'm not even sure you'll have to, to appreciate this album. I don't. Totally unlistenable. 20.000 plays on Spotify says it all. 1/1
mehhh
When this started I quite enjoyed the lofi beats, I was hopefully... But then it carried on. Gah, the lofi never stopped and just got more boring and monotonous. His rapping sounded like someone who was convinced of their own genius and just trying to show everyone how clever he was, look at all the long words I know. There was one song that I guess was trying to be sexy in a futuristic way, but the wording came across like the sort of people who call women "females". And then it just went on. Every so often there was a cool riff but it wasn't enough. It went on again. Why do people make these long albums. Even the most boring sounds can be tolerable for 25-40 mins, but for an hour, no way.
This was a frustrating listen. The lad(d) seems like a thoughtful lyricist, attempting to do something a bit innovative, and there’s enough interesting production going on (at times) that my cursor should be nowhere near the one star button. And yet, particularly from the 10-minute instrumental track onwards, the album seems to lose all focus and often descends into maddeningly repetitive loops or ambient lift music. 1.5
Not for me. 1/5
ha die erste 3 songs glost und finds mad nervig eigentli. tönt noch production wo meh id 80er passt für hiphop als i die früene 2000er. boah find ich das nervig. aso so planet 10? im ernst? takes more than 41 ischer afoch am falsch singe. bladerunners coole kontrabass i guess? aber vo was reeeedet de siech. was meint er mit to the moons contractor? sochli en gran turismo beat und so. hä. ich ha würklich keei spass. titletrack beidruckendi reimketti und so cool. okay hiphop album glost wo sehr bitter und so tönt woni nöd d energie gha han zum uf de text lose.
No. Just no.
говно
Super boring hip hop crap, guy can’t rap for shit, almost fell asleep
Boring beats, minimal skill, and excessive bloat combine to make a bad album.
Pretty uninspiring. I like new experimental things but I don't really get what was trying to be achieved here. Will never revisit and would never recommend this. 1/5.
Pretty flat sounding with raunchy lyrics. Tracks to Track: 5000 Miles West of the Future
There's probably a reason I've never heard of him before....
I'm not OK with this Gil Scott-Heron wannabe
Gear: Sennheiser MOMENTUM TW 4 Artwork: 🚧👨🔧⚡ Production: 👊😎👍 Music: 💡🔮🔜 Rating: ️🚀(🚀)/5
snoozer
Suena a Gorillaz pero si fuese tremendamente aburrido
man i really don't know what to do with this one. sometimes the tracks are really mediocre. sounds amateurish. sometimes it is genuinely unlistenable. awful to listen to. and then, there are moments where it hits pretty well (my favorite moment is 'red eye to jupiter' which is really great production-wise and flow wise). just a really confusing album when the vast majority of it is really not great at best, and genuinely awful to listen to at worst.
Good god, what an awful album. I swear to god every track was cobbled together with basic Garageband loops, and whenever he does throw in something original, I found myself wondering if he was actually tone deaf. Added to that, his rapping just has nothing interesting or charasmatic about it, and on some tracks it sounds like he was half asleep while recording vocals. It's boring as hell at best and borderline unlistenable at worst, i absolutely hated it.
An album that aims to be futuristic and intellectual but ends up feeling monotonous, directionless, and frankly boring. Mike Ladd delivers his lyrics in a droning, spoken-word style that quickly wears thin, and the abstract beats never really take off or provide any sense of cohesion. There are clearly big ideas at play, sci-fi themes, political undertones, and experimental soundscapes, but they remain more theoretical than impactful. The album lacks emotional depth, energy, and melodic variation. It quickly becomes a slog to get through, and while some might call it “visionary,” it doesn’t leave much of an impression unless you’re already tuned in to its frequency. 1/5
I get where Mike was going sonically- abstract, spoken word, hip-hop soundscapes. The execution sounded disjointed and amateurish to me. Where is the flow? Overall: 1/10
nope, didn't need to hear a lyrical miracle. strong 1/5, won't ever listen to any of this again
Started off OK By track 4 I'm thinking why am I listening to this shit Persevere for long enough and there are some interesting tracks but not enough to redeem this as an album
Hip hop. Really not my jam. Not bad for what it is but not for me at all. 1 star.
I wanna know how much he paid to be in this
Не самый ужасный хип-хоп альбом, но слишком долгий. А сначала неплохо идёт фоном. 2 из 10. Если бы рэп-альбомов было в 3 раза меньше, на качестве сборки "1001 альбом..." это оказало бы самое наилучшее действие.
No interest in this.
Really truly quite bad
Oh boy, I have never heard of this album or the artist. Yeah not digging this.
1 - Más Basura de Hip Hop
Not a fan
While Mike Ladd can certainly write good lyrics, and can create very ambitious and moving music (To the moon's contractor), the album wasn't really that enjoyable. I get the experimental spirit, but the production felt lacking to me. The flows of Ladd also weren't my cup of tea, and there slightly off tune singing moments felt so jarring (Takes more than 41) that I just couldn't really get into the album. The best track for me is Airwave Hysteria, with ambitious but tight production, great verses from Ladd and just enough experimentation to push the genre but at the same time create a good song. EDIT: Over time, I've reflected on my initial review, and frankly, this record is a one star. There's very little that's salvageable here and with time it's just gotten worse. To add insult to injury, I've become aware that while this album is included, "Madvillainy" is not, which feels criminal to say the least. To be honest, off the top of my head I can think of 20 Hip Hop albums better than Mike Ladd's. I therefore retroactively adhere to the french theory: "Mike Ladd est le fils de Robert Dimery".
1. future - 1 2. hyzteria - 1.5 3. planet - 0 4. more - 1 5. blade - 1 6. no 1 - 0 7. moonz - 1 8. feel - 0 9. animizt - 1 10. red - 1 11. after - 1.5 12. uuave - 1.5 13. february - 1
Kun räppi lähtee käyntiin, se lähtee käyntiin. Muuten tämä on kai "progressiivista" - ja sen kuuloista, että miksaajana olisi ollut koksupäinen Iggy Pop. Hyvät hetket eivät korvaa laahustamista. 1+
jesus christ what the fuck is this garbage
The best hip-hop has a lot going on while sounding simple and effortless. This is the opposite. It feels crowded and badly processed. No space for any character to come through at all. Too much head and not enough heart. Oh and it’s at least twice as long as it needs to be. Wasting such cool samples should be a crime. Just nah.
I don’t think I really like most hip hop
I'd never heard of Mike Ladd and I'll be happy if I never hear of him again.
I can’t give it any time with those chipmunk voices all over it Shame Sounds were interesting but genuinely were ruined
It did nothing for me.
Lame and stupid
This started okay. Some potential. But very quickly just got boring and repetitive.
There was one goodish song in this album, it was the on with El-P. Otherwise I didn't like.
Boring yet somehow annoying at the same time
This album was a challenging listen. It felt like staring at a modern art piece, unsure of how to interpret it. On-top of the unconventional musical choices, the lowfi production adds another layer of bewilderment.
Nee. Gewoon nee.
not my style of music ... however, not as bad as some albums of this type I have been served
Didn’t really like it at all, interesting concept but struggled to get through it
I almost fell asleep.
This album sounds like the soundtrack to an edgy tech thriller from 2000/
Some albums are bad, and then there’s Welcome to the Afterfuture, which isn’t necessarily bad—just aggressively, relentlessly annoying. The production alone might have scraped a 2/5—some half-decent beats, a few atmospheric moments—but the second Mike Ladd starts rapping, it’s like being trapped in a explicit lecture from someone reading out the urban dictionary and these lyrics are a hastily thrown together word salad and pointless swearing that feels less rebellious and more like filler because he ran out of things to say. The worst part is it never lets up. Every track is another round of forced edginess, scattered thoughts, and clunky delivery, all stretched over beats that deserve better. The only truly listenable track is “To the Moon’s Contractor”—an instrumental, because of course the best moment on the album is the one where Mike Ladd shuts up. And yet, somehow, despite having no lyrics, it’s still rated Explicit. Without the rapping, this could maybe be a tolerable 2/5, but with it, I’m struggling to even call it a 1. Less an album, more an endurance test. Still better than some of that Steely Dan I had to listen to, though.
Not my kind
Lipstick on a pig.
It's (c)rap. That's a form that I do not understand or appreciate. It may be really good in terms of its genre. I have no benchmark to judge it by. I'm scoring on whether I like something or not, consequently this gets 1/5.
Dog shit
Shit 1001 album worthy: No - 37/64
Nothing to see here…….move along….
Unlustiges Rappen ohne Sinn und Verstand.
not interested
Didn’t care for this one
Not my cup of tea. Didn't make it through the whole album.
Müll!
My goodness, I appreciate people's hard work and everything, but this is one of the top 1000 albums? By whose metrics?
I'm sure one of the tracks featured fart noises, which is very appropriate as the entire album is shit. One star!
While some of the beats were great this is not an album I enjoyed at all. Maybe I'm not in to hip-hop enough but I need something more when listening to the genre.
# Album Name: Welcome to the AfterFuture # Artist: Mike Ladd # Rating: 1/5 # Comments: Mike ladd? Who is that?! sounds like the local hard case from the council estate. Thats who. Anyway, im not a rap fan so the only thing worse than that to me is alternative rap. Which this album apparently is. Theres some interesting sounds. I'll give it that. Almost feels experimental to me. But it just isnt my thing. ANother album which doesnt deserve to be on the list imo. # Top Tunes: None # Would I listen to it again? no.
Nah
Didn't click with me, maybe if I dug into the lyrics more it would improve but I don't have a desire to
Not a fan
Yeah, no
Day263 - lyrics are corny, the concept doesn’t work and just because you can use samples doesn’t mean you have to
Vad är skillnaden mellan den här plattan och bajs? Egentligen ingen skillnad alls mer än att jag hellre trampar i bajs än lyssnar på den här skiten.
The first hip hop album that I didn’t like in the slightest.
The trouble I have with hip hop music is that it's JUST the beat. There's no riffs, licks, instrumental sections, solos, fills, nothing. So if that main beat that will repeat throughout the whole song is weak then you only have the rapping to save the song. And if the rapping is weak, or in this album's case, doesn't appear that often, then you aren't left with a lot to like. I do like that it sounds slightly experimental, like you're in a trance in space a lot of the time - 'To The Moon's Contractor' and 'Airwave Hysteria' are the best examples - but it can't save this album. The beats aren't that interesting, the rapping isn't that good and overall it's a bit all over the place.
scuffeddd
This sounds like someone wanted to make a hip hop record, but didn't have a bakers fuck of an idea how.... It's apparently experimental hip hop, so it experiments with trip hop by times, but not in a good way. Super juvinile, and super lame. Definately not required listening Favourite songs: Bladerunners Least favourite songs: Planet 10, To the Moon's Contractor, Feb. 4 '99 (For All Those Killed By Cops) 1/5
Welcome to the Afterfuture is a studio album from Mike Ladd. The album is a strange mix, from not-so-danceable hip hop, like "Airwave Hysteria," to near ambient, like "Planet 10," then dissonant electronic, "I feel like $100," to spoken word, "Feb 4, 99." This isn't an album of any particular genre. The majority of the track are rap, and they're not noteworthy. There are a few tracks that seem to be responses to pop samples, like "5000 West of the Future," that have a melodic hook. Here, the lyrics fail in a few verses; he has a decent chorus, but doesn't go anywhere with it.
Ya, no.
Bad. Why is this on the list?
Kind of liked the first track, then yikes. Incredibly uneven and incoherent in its terribleness.
Who? Why are there so many hip-hop albums in the list? Hip-Hop meets dystopia - depressing.
Didn’t even make it through 2 songs. Not my jam
Gotta love how most of the worst albums stretch to near or over the one-hour mark just to extend your suffering for as long as possible.
More rap/hip hop
Horrifically boring and, more damning for the legitimacy of this list, horrifically inessential. 1/5
Not for me
Feels like being forced to listen to the bad but original musical release of a friend's friend on SoundCloud
Bad trip hop with bad rapping. Over an hour long.
.NO
garbage
Idk if it’s bc I’m tired or bc there’s so much going on but I’m having trouble paying attention. That was exceptionally boring.
Oh come on now you're just taking the piss.
shit
What a truly awful album
sounds like beat poetry over bad beats. the rhymes don't really match with the music.
I found nothing I can latch on to here. This is simply music that does not resonate with me.
I don’t think I’ve heard of Mike Ladd before. I’m not the most clued up person with hip hop in general so it isn’t really much of a surprise. I find a lot of it is very hit and miss with me. I cringe every time it gets over sexual because it just feels so lazy. Let’s listen! Songs I already knew: none Favourites: 5000 Miles West From The Future This started off promising, but then jumped into the cringey hyper sexual hip hop that I just can’t deal with. I ended up rolling my eyes so much that I was seeing into the Afterfuture myself. I can get how you’d enjoy this if that lyrical content didn’t bother you, but this did nothing for me. Let’s hope tomorrow brings something better.
Stringing together rhyming couplets doesn’t equate to hip hop, the lyrics still need to say something. These songs go no where, and except for the occasional almost accidental string, most of the song’s lyrics are pointless excuses to cram in references to genitalia
Nope
Not for me. Its electronic with rap and, nah. No tunes. Not intereted in listening to the lyrics. Gavit about 4 songs.
Never heard of this artist. Hoped it had stayed that way.
Nah
Not my style.
Gefällt mir nicht.
Not for me.
not for me. appreciate it but not great
not for me.
Bufffffffff 3/10
No es mi gusto pero igualmente gracias por el servicio.
Had to tap out 4 tracks in, the production is poor, the vocals are subpar, the lyrics aren’t interesting, felt like I was in a free range prison the way there were no bars.
what the fuck man i would rather hear yoko ono
ups parte dos
Everybody likes what they like. Spoken word events are not necessarily my thing. That’s the entire record except for “Wipe Out on the Wave of Armageddon”. That song is actually beautifully melodic. Unfortunately, the key to that one is there are no angry words. I do appreciate the album, though. Without albums like this, we wouldn’t appreciate the good stuff.
Nah
Nicht meins
Got tired of it especially when the pussy references started. Why waste my time.
Soms heb je van die albums waarvan je niet had verwacht dat ze nice zijn, en dan denk je “wow, dit album is best goed!” Dat was niet dit album, dit album was equivalent aan een oorschelpcarcinoom
I was unfamiliar with this artist. The first track grabbed me, and I was looking forward to the rest of the album. Sadly, it was relatively disappointing after that.
im a spiritual lyrical miracle spiritual lyrical miracle individual im a lyrical spiritual miracle spiritual lyrical miracle individual
Oh this was terrible
Just couldn't get into it, I'm sure there is something there, maybe the beat, but was a struggle to get through Best song(?) - airwave hysteria
The beat to “5000 Miles West of the Future” sounded just like the Brittney Spears song that has “Oh Baby, Baby”. I definitely sang that every time I heard that beat. “Planet 10” sounded like a meme. I immediately tuned out after that. But listened again when “Feb. 4 ‘99” came on because you can hear the passion from his message. Then it ended. 2/10
The background beats were too repetitive and not interesting. His flow was almost exactly the same on every song, just changed up the lyrics. You could take one verse from one song and put in into another and it would be unnoticeable. I did like Bladerunners since there were other people rapping other than Mike Ladd. To the Moon’s Contractor had a great section of instrumental beats and a nice break from having to listen to Mike Ladd. He used Skywalker to rhyme with Streetwalker multiple times in different songs. These are truly the drunk almost incoherent ramblings of a homeless man that happens to rhyme sometimes. The last song he evolved into an end of the world street preacher. Overall pretty unpleasant experience that I struggled to keep focused on due to wanting it to just end. 2/10
One of the worst things I've ever heard. Sounds like a 14 year old first attempt at a mixtape.
Fuck me, the guy who complied this list must have been drinking. No better hip hop albums than this?
I tried... but this was awful. Occasionally laugh out loud awful ('If I was an Catholic my name would be...Chris').
Did I listen to the right album? Sounded like a lot of low-fi mumblings. Picked up in places, still didn't like it.
Just can’t stand this sort of music.
God this was so fucking awful. I try to listen to every album in full, but that was a difficult task here. I ended up skipping about half the songs after I got halfway through them. Just fucking bad, repetitive, stupid lyrics, overly long. Ugh. How did anyone think this was worth listening to?
This album just felt overly complicated. Uninspiring beats, very poor flow. Really wanting you desiring more but given the other hip hop that was out at the time, it's very hard to see why this would even be considered for this 1001 list. 2/10.
Låter jättedåligt
Dit album laat me volkomen koud. Minpuntje erbij voor het gescheld en we zijn weer op het vertrouwde aantal sterren voor dit soort artiesten.
Hip-Hop 1/5
This sounds like a half-rate EL-P album you’d find in the $1 CD bin (EL-P even features on the album, and I’m not sure if that helps). Never heard of Mike Ladd before, now I know why.
Weird: So your telling me I sat here for 1h2m and heard hardly any music in that time. If you want to sit there and listen to I'd say 50 mins of random quite noises and another 10 of sub-par rapping then this is your album. I get that the tracks hold meaning with the last song being in reference to a significant event (not sure what) and making some commentary on what happened, I understand that's important but that album from a musical perspective is just plain bad and I won't be listening to it again any time soon.
Not for me, or for many others judging by the number of streams the tracks have, most of which are likely to be the people doing this online activity
Absolutely awful. Painful to listen.
D 5000 Miles West of the Future - 2 Airwave Hysteria - 1 Planet 10 - 2 Takes More Than 41 - 2 Bladerunners - 1 No. 1 St. — 2 To the Moon’s Contractor - 1 I Feel Like $100 - 2 The Animist - 1 Red Eye to Jupiter - 1 Welcome to the Afterfuture - 1 Wipe Out on the Wave of Armageddon- 2 Feb. 4 ’99 - 1 When woofmeow taught me that Mike Ladd went to Hampshire College, I felt so grateful. She left out one thing though: he's white. Bet you didn't see that one coming. One of those classic Elvis moments.
No thanks - it's just rap and weird noises - not of any interest to me at all.
Not really interesting in 2023. Maybe in 2000 when most were afraid of the millennium scarecrow.
Absolute garbage. Shame I can't give it 0 stars.
Não tem no deezer, assim não me pareceu um disco que valesse a pena dar a chance para a provável monotonia de um disco de hip-hop.
It insists upon itself.
Not for me
Awefull
Well, I listened to it.
Album unavailable on Amazon Music.
The beginning was really bad. Didn't like that at all. Going further into the album, it got a bit better, but didn't convince me to vote more than 1 star.
Way to experimental, spoken word
Takes More Than 41 me hizo revisar la duración del disco. 1h 2 min. Esto no pinta nada bien. Las primeras 3 muy equis. Las instrumentales no me gustaron. En general siento que es un disco aburrido, aunque tiene partes interesantes pero no son lo suficiente para tener una buena impresión del disco. 1.5 que bajo a 1.
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Not available on Spotify. From other reviews it sounds like I dodged a poor album. Cover art 4/5
Usually a sucker for a bit of protest hip hop, bu this is dead milk. Nothing catchy, lackluster vocals, and poorly produced
couldnt listen to it so it gets a 1
Not available
Mike Ladd gave me monkeypox on the train back from Luton Airport last week. He can go fuck himself.
Not really for me.
Listened Before? N Seems like this guy put a lot of effort in here. I hope he mad lots of money. I won't be listening again, I did not enjoy it.
While I understand the experimental aspect of this album, the album still felt unpolished or unfinished. I enjoyed the overall electronic additions found here. There were also several nods to Indian music, which was fun to hear. Otherwise, this was pretty forgettable for me.
Nope
Just never got me. Kept hoping the next song would get me going but never did.
Hier kon ik echt helemaal niets mee.
There’s nothing about this that even remotely interests me musically.
I didn’t much care for this one. I don’t think I’d listen again.
Some of the strangest I're ever heard. Like a freaked out 70's hippie who came up with an idea to make music.
Not very good
Wtf did I listen to
Really could not get into it after a few songs
Mierda hip hop